Chapter 946

Long before now, a time path injury drove Blazing Heaven Demoness to pin her hopes on Hei Fan’s time path inheritance, so she renamed her third sister Su Xian Er and sent her to win over Hei Cheng inside Hei tribe. The two fell truly in love as a Gu Immortal couple. Su Xian Er’s search for word of the inheritance exposed her, and Hei tribe, uncovering Fairy Li Shan, blamed Snowy Mountain. Su Xian Er never left. Hei Cheng later killed her in secret, to lengthen his own life. ^{ch. 946}

Blazing Heaven Demoness and Fairy Li Shan grieved without limit, and Fairy Li Shan broke off from her sister completely, blaming her for the death. Shame and her own heavy injuries kept Blazing Heaven Demoness from revenge, and she went far off to Eastern Sea, nearly dying at the regional wall. There, fortunate encounters eased her injuries, and Old Immortal Kong Jue’s inheritance left her a way to seize another’s immortal aperture. Raising Hei Lou Lan gradually softened Fairy Li Shan’s hatred. Recently the sisters spoke again, and so Blazing Heaven Demoness learned Xing Xiang Zi’s identity and began to scheme, setting an agreement with Fang Yuan once he needed star thought Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 946}

She used Zombie Alliance’s authority to return to Northern Plains, wanting to make up for the guilt she carried toward Hei Lou Lan. Seeing things through Hei Lou Lan’s eyes, she judged self strength Immortal Gu the thing that mattered most. It suited her Great Strength True Martial Physique and strength path cultivation. It was also Su Xian Er’s own inheritance to her daughter, an extremely important keepsake of her mother. ^{ch. 946}

Reclaiming it was hard: Fang Yuan had refined it and could destroy it with a thought, so only a wisdom path Gu Immortal able to suppress his mind, or a master of theft path, could seize it. Theft path came from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, whose formless hand is widely feared, and outside him few cultivators achieved much with it. Fang Yuan’s own wisdom path attainment made her only more cautious. Learning of his reckless nature, she saw her past self in him, the self that had once destroyed a fragment world of the immemorial nine heavens rather than yield. ^{ch. 946}

She had already agreed to fund his Gu refinement: he would owe her regardless of success, with interest. If he succeeded but left the sum unpaid after a hundred years, she could take any one Immortal Gu as compensation, a clause aimed at self strength Immortal Gu all along. She now demanded it outright, for Little Lan, though her reason was not very justifiable, since Fang Yuan had earned the Gu fairly and had saved Hei Lou Lan’s life in the dream realm. Fang Yuan chose not to raise this. ^{ch. 946}

He knew handing over the Gu was unavoidable, but held three cards. An old alliance against harming allies was worth little, since Fairy Li Shan had already broken it, and that Immortal Gu are hard to plunder gave only middling protection. His greatest trump card was Purple Mountain True Monarch, a master he had invented and once used to deceive Tai Bai Yun Sheng. ^{ch. 946}

Blazing Heaven Demoness took the claim seriously, wary that seizing his disciple could bring trouble from a rank seven or eight master. She judged him extremely resourceful too. Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan stayed completely in the dark, and Blazing Heaven Demoness, drawing her information from them, was deceived as well. ^{ch. 946}

Slightly impatient at his silence, she urged him to speak, and he asked instead whether she had tampered with his refining materials. She admitted it without embarrassment: his fire path attainment had not reached great grandmaster level, so he could not detect the trace of dao marks she had worked into each material, small alone but ruinous together. She had needed this, or she could not coerce him. ^{ch. 946}

Fang Yuan agreed to return self strength Immortal Gu on four conditions: a new safety agreement, his old material debt cleared, freedom from Zombie Alliance, and her best effort to bring him strength path immortal zombie corpses. Blazing Heaven Demoness called the first a must. ^{ch. 946}