Chapter 947

Blazing Heaven Demoness now protects Hei Lou Lan. Fang Yuan can no longer move against her. He still needs many ordinary strength path immortal zombie bodies for a high grade blessed land, and nobody in Northern Plains can gather more than she can. His excuse is that losing self strength Immortal Gu leaves him needing a replacement strength path Gu, whose recipe demands such bodies. The excuse hides his real aim, the life-and-death immortal aperture revival method, and she cannot refuse him either. ^{ch. 947}

She frowns deeply, since agreeing would cost her a huge price. Old Ancestor Xue Hu had just handed her many immortal zombies, and passing strength path bodies to Fang Yuan would greatly cut her own contribution to Zombie Alliance. Immortal zombies guard their corpses jealously after death, their last pride; Xue Hu’s raid on the graveyard once drove the alliance into a vengeful frenzy. ^{ch. 947}

She reasons she can blame Xue Hu for the bodies and warns Fang Yuan she cannot supply them without end if he keeps failing. She asks him to name a number. His figure is too large, so they settle on an amount that far exceeds what a high grade blessed land needs, though he pretends it is barely enough for three attempts. ^{ch. 947}

Talk is pointless, Fang Yuan says; once the new agreement stands, he will return self strength Immortal Gu. Blazing Heaven Demoness stops him: it is her turn now. She offers to fund star thought Immortal Gu again, this time without tampering. Fang Yuan feels no relief, and goes on guard instead. ^{ch. 947}

She then burns in a flame that carries no heat, only warmth, and her whole form shifts from zombie to living woman. Fairy Li Shan warns her to mind her injury. The price is not small, she knows, but Fang Yuan’s intense desire convinces her it is worth it. She lets the flame die and turns back into an immortal zombie. A time path injury, she explains, accelerates her aging hundreds of times and forced her into the immortal zombie body, which Nirvana Fire lets her trade for a living Gu Immortal’s. ^{ch. 947}

Fang Yuan feels a stir of hope. He had thought little of Nirvana Fire, holding the best method already, though his own turns him permanently ordinary, cuts his lifespan, forbids wisdom Gu afterward, and works only once per aperture. Gaining Nirvana Fire’s freedom to switch states would let him use wisdom Gu more fully, and he grows greatly excited. ^{ch. 947}

She adds a mortal Gu, calling it her third request, one he must accept. Even rank nine venerables seek it, since it is a lifespan Gu granting sixty years; once he changes back he will not be old. Fang Yuan sighs to himself, deeply. ^{ch. 947}

Her three conditions read less like terms than bait: funding without tampering, a revival method for switching states, and the lifespan Gu he had long sought. Facing such huge temptation, Fang Yuan feels excited even as his mood turns heavy. He tells her he cannot refuse, and asks her to continue. ^{ch. 947}

Very pleased, she states her six true conditions. She wants his eerie fire dragon pythons, and to enter the guts Gu trade as its largest buyer. Most important, she wants Tai Bai Yun Sheng to use Man as Before and Landscape as Before to try to heal her time path injury. She also wants his Fixed Immortal Travel to reach Eastern Sea, a free yearly deduction, and a meeting with his master, Purple Mountain True Monarch. ^{ch. 947}

Fang Yuan weighs each thoroughly. He can spare the pythons and accept her as a larger buyer. He will approach Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but Man as Before, Landscape as Before, and Fixed Immortal Travel must stay from her hands; at most he will accompany her. He grants the yearly deduction outright. Meeting Purple Mountain True Monarch is impossible regardless, since Fang Yuan invented the man himself. ^{ch. 947}