Chapter 954

Spirit Affinity House gathers its Gu Immortals over Feng Jiu Ge’s disappearance. More than half of its fifteen members attend in person, including both rank eight Gu Immortals. First supreme elder’s face stays expressionless beside second supreme elder’s grim one, and the watching immortals have a very bad feeling. ^{ch. 954}

First supreme elder confirms it: Feng Jiu Ge has died in Northern Plains inside the winds of assimilation, leaving nothing but two words written in blood. Fairy Bai Qing feels her head spin as her expression pales. Even mentally prepared, they find it unbelievable, since Gu Immortals weaker than Feng Jiu Ge returned alive while he did not. ^{ch. 954}

Fairy Bai Qing shuts her eyes, her body trembling slightly, intense pain and grief engulfing her like a tsunami. The love between them had been deep on both sides. She does not dare open her eyes, afraid her tears will fall, and tells herself she must stay strong for her daughter’s sake. ^{ch. 954}

The hall turns to Feng Jiu Ge’s final act. Before dying he wrote Bo Qing’s name in blood. The immortals judge the lead very important. Bo Qing, they recall, was a much stronger but very similar man to Feng Jiu Ge, once the peak of Central Continent before he failed to become a sword path Immortal Venerable. Feng Jiu Ge had fought Qin Bai Sheng, who used Bo Qing’s own signature move, though Bo Qing died in tribulation with no ashes left. They deduce Feng Jiu Ge meant Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s fall is tied to Bo Qing. ^{ch. 954}

First supreme elder assigns Fairy Bai Qing to investigate Bo Qing’s matter, her late husband’s final words before dying. Fairy Bai Qing agrees, resolving to give all her effort to find the truth. First supreme elder orders the death concealed, warning that whoever leaks it will be tried as a traitor. She then turns the meeting to the sect’s forces in Central Continent. ^{ch. 954}

Feng Jiu Ge’s death creates many problems for Spirit Affinity House. Its two rank eight Gu Immortals rarely move unless in peril. Rank seven and six Gu Immortals stay the most active across Central Continent and even all five regions instead. The invincible Feng Jiu Ge had let the sect expand to hold countless resource points; with him gone it is much less of a threat. The immortals name three points needing guards they lack: Xuanwu mountain range, the golden sand cave, and Reincarnation Battlefield. Only now do they grasp how huge a deterrent his reputation had been. ^{ch. 954}

Fairy Bai Qing stays silent through the talk of resources, saddened that the sect forgets her husband in an instant. Only Zhao Lian Yun’s name draws her attention, since without Feng Jiu Ge, Zhao Lian Yun has become her daughter Feng Jin Huang’s greatest threat for the next fairy’s seat. Fairy Bai Qing dotes on her daughter. ^{ch. 954}

The immortals discuss Zhao Lian Yun’s two Thieving Heaven inheritances, divine concealment and ghostly concealment, top tier defensive moves that expend no immortal essence and cloak her soul in dao marks resisting deduction. They call the power truly hard to comprehend, like fortune rivalling heaven Gu itself. They know divine concealment hides her from deductions of thought, will and emotion, though ghostly concealment’s effect is still unclear. Zhao Lian Yun has stayed very cooperative throughout, and one immortal feels she knows how to behave and can be nurtured. One notes she only wants to save her lover, but Old Ancestor Xue Hu has already gathered enough materials to begin his refinement soon. ^{ch. 954}

First supreme elder concludes the meeting by ordering continued research and greater efforts to bind Zhao Lian Yun to the sect. In a nameless forest, Seven Star Child uses a mirror to reach a vague elderly figure who tells him every preparation is in place. Heavenly Court has finished repairing fate Gu, so he must act early now. Seven Star Child agrees, and the figure warns Vice Envoy Blue to be careful before the mirror vanishes. He turns and enters deep into the forest without looking back. ^{ch. 954}