Chapter 898

Freezing rain frozen earth vanishes, and a female voice welcomes everyone into fighting soul battlefield. Shark Demon calls it infamous as a sandstorm rises and soul beasts encircle the group. Su Bai Man warns Fang Yuan and Bo Dan to act fast: this move, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s deadliest creation, was made from Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s own inheritance and carries Spectral Soul’s killing nature. Fang Yuan and Bo Dan waste no time. Where freezing rain frozen earth had been flawless, this move exposes hidden mortal Gu spots easily, and the count soon grows into thousands or even tens of thousands, far more than Fang Yuan expected. ^{ch. 898}

Destroying a hidden spot here triggers no backlash, unlike freezing rain frozen earth, so the two men dismantle spots without restarting their deductions. But the battlefield never rests as freezing rain frozen earth had, and its soul beasts keep multiplying past desolate beast level into ancient desolate soul beasts. Inside seven minutes, Shark Demon and the others must escape. They use the incomplete Profound Ice House to do it. Once clear, Bo Dan admits in shame that his methods are too simple to dismantle spots faster than one at a time. Fang Yuan says his own clears at most five or six each time, and suspects the real difficulty is speed and endurance rather than the unraveling. ^{ch. 898}

Fang Yuan tells Shark Demon that clearing all the tens of thousands of hidden spots would take at least thirty minutes. Sha Nan Jiang warns that seven minutes already brought ancient desolate soul beasts, so thirty would surely bring immemorial ones, perhaps more than one. Su Bai Man suggests recruiting more wisdom path Gu Immortals next time. Shark Demon retreats for now, sets the next attempt thirty days out, and offers Fang Yuan his own command token to shelter in Zombie Alliance’s headquarters from Fang Yuan’s trouble. Fang Yuan declines: Song Yi Shi alone cannot touch him, Song clan for all its size cannot control every part of Eastern Sea, and hiding would mean he cultivated for nothing. ^{ch. 898}

Bo Dan complains that Xing Xiang Zi refused Shark Demon’s goodwill, and Shark Demon rebukes him before waving him off. Su Bai Man reassures her husband that Xing Xiang Zi’s Immortal Gu already let him kill Yao Ge Pi outright, so nothing will happen to him. Song clan’s dented reputation, not its actual power, will eventually push the man to ask Shark Demon for help. Shark Demon agrees and, calmer now, holds her hand. ^{ch. 898}

In Northern Plains, the siege of Luo Po Valley has lasted over half a month, Qin Bai Sheng holding territorial advantage while Feng Jiu Ge’s siege keeps him pinned inside. Qin Bai Sheng visits the injured Fairy Jiang Yu, who expects to recover within half a day, and plans to shield her as she charges out to activate their hidden arrangement in Northern Plains Zombie Alliance. Shocked, she asks whether this risks their crucial plan. He reassures her he has consulted Old Man Yan Shi at Shadow Sect’s Southern Border headquarters, since the valley’s Immortal Gu cannot be lost and they must regain the initiative. ^{ch. 898}

Feng Jiu Ge’s voice returns, and Qin Bai Sheng warns that as long as he holds Luo Po Valley, Feng Jiu Ge cannot break in by force. Feng Jiu Ge answers that three days of closed cultivation let him complete an incomplete move, which he asks Qin Bai Sheng to critique as submission song. Sung with his mouth closed, it resounds directly in Qin Bai Sheng’s mind. He recognizes a sound path move carrying a trace of his own five finger fist heart sword, misjudging its strength until too late. Under its effect most of the ancient soul beasts guarding Luo Po Valley submit to Feng Jiu Ge and turn on Qin Bai Sheng. ^{ch. 898}

Qin Bai Sheng answers with his own battlefield killer move, dragging Feng Jiu Ge and the turned beasts into fog where newly formed soul beasts fight them. Feng Jiu Ge praises the countermove but calls it soul taker battlefield, an outdated early move of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. Qin Bai Sheng replies that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was too kind and weakened Spectral Soul’s killing intent, so fighting soul battlefield, seemingly superior, lost hope of advancing further. He changes the battlefield again. Feng Jiu Ge realizes this is not soul taker battlefield, but hundred million slaughterfield, the move Spectral Soul Demon Venerable created in his later years. ^{ch. 898}