Chapter 911

Fang Yuan tallies his haul as he flies on through the fragment world. He estimates roughly six hundred thousand ordinary dragonfish and one desolate beast dragonfish, though many ordinary dragonfish died in the desolate beast dragonfish’s rampage. Combat Immortal Sect had already looted Starry Sky grotto-heaven repeatedly, so very few of its resources still interest him. He must still hand over two-thirds of this trip’s gains to Immortal Crane Sect, keeping only one-third for himself. Unlimited primeval essence, countless investigative mortal killer moves and a newly obtained investigative immortal killer move, Star Premonition, leave him confident he will miss no worthwhile find on the way. Within the contest’s seven days and seven nights he resolves to seize only the desolate beast dragonfish, the hidden essence turtle and the nether grass, and to spend most of his time hunting the dream realm. ^{ch. 911}

That dream realm belongs to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, and since it touches Great Dream Immortal Venerable’s prophecy the ten great ancient sects, all sharing Heavenly Court’s origin, have already begun researching dream realms. Feng Jin Huang’s dream wings Immortal Gu leads that research for Spirit Affinity House. Immortal Crane Sect’s dream realm research may trail completely behind, but seizing this dream realm would check Spirit Affinity House’s momentum and buy leverage to bargain with them. Before Fang Yuan left, He Feng Yang urged him to occupy the central region early, and Fang Yuan reckons the other nine sects’ resistance has already put his own entry far behind theirs. Only Fang Yuan knows he holds an edge no one suspects: a wisdom path Immortal Gu, Unravel Mystery, and the killer move built from it, unravel dream. ^{ch. 911}

At the dream realm, Fang Yuan finds Feng Jin Huang already waiting with four of Spirit Affinity House’s Gu Masters guarding it. Under the ten sects’ rule, Spirit Affinity House can completely occupy the area only by winning two of the three challenges other sects bring. Feng Jin Huang admits her Immortal Gu and the immortal essence her mother placed on her cannot defeat Fang Yuan, so she offers a trade instead. Fang Yuan reminds her she scammed him heavily once already, at the Refinement Path Convention, when the method she gave him for shedding his immortal zombie status turned out to be an ascension of the ten extreme physiques. She promises this trade benefits them both. ^{ch. 911}

Fang Yuan confirms her offer differs from what he owns, then agrees. Feng Jin Huang gives him a completely new method for shedding the immortal zombie state. It calls for cultivating transformation path, using a transformation path killer move to become an ordinary Gu Immortal, then fixing that form permanently with everlasting Immortal Gu. In exchange, Fang Yuan holds occupation of the dream realm’s site while Feng Jin Huang keeps three days to explore its external manifestation before she must leave. ^{ch. 911}

Lacking dream wings Immortal Gu, she taunts, he may never explore a dream realm. She privately hopes he might die inside Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s dream realm, though she judges it unlikely since Immortal Crane Sect would have warned him of its dangers. Unlike dream travel Immortal Gu, dream wings Immortal Gu needs no immortal essence to activate, which suits her since she is not yet a Gu Immortal. She still cannot completely enter the dream realm herself, stopping about twenty steps short before sitting down to let dream wings Immortal Gu carry her soul inside. Her four Gu Masters guard her sleeping body, but she does not rely on them completely, trusting instead the Immortal Gu and immortal essence her mother, Fairy Bai Qing, placed on her. ^{ch. 911}

Fang Yuan considers killing her for dream wings Immortal Gu but rejects it. Seizing an Immortal Gu outright is extremely difficult, and killing Feng Jin Huang is no easier, since she certainly carries many life protection methods. The situation has not turned critical, so he judges killing her now would be a huge mistake. He reads her as maturing: she ceded him control as a shield against other sects while she alone explores and profits, and withheld any warning hoping he would embarrass himself, unaware he holds unravel dream. Fang Yuan releases the desolate beast shark fin wolf he had already subdued, warning the four Gu Masters it will eat them if they overstay three days, then flies off. ^{ch. 911}