Chapter 948

In Central Continent’s Heavenly Court, four rank eight Gu Immortals hold Heaven Overseeing Tower’s huge Gu formation at its four cores, repairing the rank nine Immortal Gu Fate. The crucial step is drawing in heaven’s will, and the four hold their consciousness whole under its inflow for several hundred days. Fate Immortal Gu’s wound has shrunk thirty percent, now usable at half strength even outside the tower, an effect Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord names as fate itself. Living beings hold a set path that must not change; after Red Lotus Demon Venerable harmed the Gu, the world fell into chaos. Now recovered by half, it already pulls those who strayed back toward their fate. ^{ch. 948}

In Northern Plains, Fang Yuan does not reject the sixth request outright, saying the decision belongs to his master, Purple Mountain True Monarch. Blazing Heaven Demoness accepts, and they set a new alliance agreement. Fang Yuan closes its loopholes with his own experience: even an information path great grandmaster would need at least two to three years, and Fairy Li Shan falls short of that. With his safety assured, he hands self strength Immortal Gu to Hei Lou Lan as promised. ^{ch. 948}

Even having lost the Gu, Fang Yuan counts the exchange fair. Blazing Heaven Demoness touched none of his other holdings, and his own value plus Purple Mountain True Monarch’s backing keep her from striking him now. ^{ch. 948}

Hei Lou Lan quickly refines self strength Immortal Gu once it returns. Three strength path phantoms rise from her, no longer burly men but peerless beauties. She had killed Hei Cheng herself, the phantoms proof she found her true self. She calls Blazing Heaven Demoness elder aunt, offering to help retrieve Hei Fan’s time path inheritance. Blazing Heaven Demoness trembles with excitement, though she knows Hei Lou Lan hates her: without her injury Hei Lou Lan’s mother would never have been exposed inside Hei tribe, which makes her in a way that mother’s killer. ^{ch. 948}

Hei Lou Lan says she will infiltrate Hei tribe and take Hei Fan’s inheritance. Both aunts shout no at once. Su Xian Er died walking that path, and they fear the same tragedy. Hei Lou Lan has planned this long: the four elders will not easily leave their base, Hei tribe’s reputation has sunk with Hei Cheng’s death, and many super forces will soon collaborate against it. A rare chance, she says, to seize its highest authority and give the force a new owner. ^{ch. 948}

Fairy Li Shan calls it too dangerous, and Blazing Heaven Demoness flatly refuses. Hei Lou Lan answers that this is her decision alone; they may refuse to help but not interfere. Both aunts fall silent. Needing their help, she offers assurance and produces a mask giving off an Immortal Gu’s aura. ^{ch. 948}

Fairy Li Shan names it: Attitude Gu. It is an Immortal Gu recorded in The Legends of Ren Zu, the core Immortal Gu behind familiar face, one Fang Yuan has long sought. Fusing it into his modified move, vaguely familiar face, would surely raise his disguise higher. ^{ch. 948}

Blazing Heaven Demoness explains the Gu was once Hei Fan’s, given to his granddaughter Hei Feng Yue. As a mortal she carried it onto the icy plain, where a mysterious Gu Immortal targeted her, and both vanished. Hei Lou Lan says she obtained it from that same icy plain. She went there on purpose during her ascension for clues to it, subduing it only by the tribulation’s heavenly might. ^{ch. 948}

Nobody had known, not even Fairy Li Shan. Hei Lou Lan puts on the mask: from now on she is Fairy Black Moon. With Attitude Gu and the genuine Hei tribe bloodline, Blazing Heaven Demoness says, the plan might very well succeed. Fang Yuan is shocked: Hei Lou Lan is Fairy Black Moon. ^{ch. 948}