Chapter 907

Joining Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance proves far easier than his first joining of Northern Plains Zombie Alliance. Fearing exposure before the rank eight immortal zombies who guard it, Fang Yuan had already fused star mark Immortal Gu into vaguely familiar face, alongside eat strength Immortal Gu and change form Immortal Gu, to make his star path disguise more convincing. But no rank eight Gu Immortal appears at all. Even his identity check is only a formality. He privately guesses that busy rank eight Gu Immortals and Shark Demon’s own standing explain it, and notes that living Gu Immortals never rise to the alliance’s top ranks. ^{ch. 907}

Seven days later at bee sea, Fang Yuan, Shark Demon and the others hold an intense negotiation with Song clan’s Gu Immortals. Song Yi Shi and her clan drop their pursuit of Xing Xiang Zi’s wrongdoing. In exchange he must apologize and pay six hundred immortal essence stones. Paying by installment would cost more, so Fang Yuan borrows the full sum from Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Shark Demon and settles it at once. ^{ch. 907}

Song Yi Shi demands the apology, and Fang Yuan gives it, insisting the hot spring’s mist hid everything from him. She knows this is false, since she had already cleared the mist herself beforehand, but does not contest it, since she must deny he saw anything regardless. The undercurrent that let him look had only formed in recent years, and her failure to inspect the volcano’s base closely left it an open loophole. The price is steep not because of Song Yi Shi herself but because of who stands behind her. Song clan’s first supreme elder Song Qi Yuan backs her, and the clan itself is a super force, held to six hundred only by Shark Demon’s negotiation and the alliance’s greater strength. She warns him never to appear before her again and flies off. ^{ch. 907}

Shark Demon invites him and Tai Bai Yun Sheng back to shark sea, but Fang Yuan declines, saying he wants alliance missions instead to earn back his debt. Reading this as dejection, Shark Demon reassures him the alliance will not restrict his freedom, and believes him a genuine lone cultivator craving it. Fang Yuan does take real deduction missions afterward, working entirely through his mission token and information path mortal Gu, since he still lacks confidence against Undying Kingdom’s rank eight guards. He plans to wait for a mission touching Northern Plains. Entry into that region’s own Zombie Alliance is his real goal. ^{ch. 907}

He returns to Hu Immortal blessed land and parts from Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Using the light of wisdom, he finishes every mission in days rather than a month, and holds them back since the speed would expose too much attainment. He is not worried about the debt, since he could simply skip repaying Tai Bai Yun Sheng and settle with Shark Demon within days. His businesses still clear a thousand immortal essence stones a month. Funding his reforms and Immortal Gu still leaves him short of both money and time. ^{ch. 907}

He keeps watch on the wider world too. Central Continent still feels the Refinement Path Convention’s effect, and Northern Plains looks calm after Old Ancestor Xue Hu’s defeat of Yao Huang and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu. Fang Yuan senses real undercurrents in Northern Plains, knowing Old Lord Can Yang and other Central Continent investigators are present. In Eastern Sea, the news is Song clan fighting other forces over Ascending Heaven Plain. ^{ch. 907}

Days later in Western Desert, disguised, Fang Yuan completes a transaction with Xiao clan’s Gu Immortal, Xiao Shi Rang, known alongside Xiao Hu Chi as the clan’s brains and brawn pair. Xiao Shi Rang inspects the regretful spiders Fang Yuan hands over and pays him. This time the payment also carries a token and an information path mortal Gu: Xiao clan’s own transaction token. ^{ch. 907}