Chapter 965

Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage’s forbidden zone spans thousands of li around Yi Tian Mountain, deadly to enter deeply. Even rank eight Gu Immortals who tried it came back empty handed. Fang Yuan senses a loophole: Immortal Gu still work inside, though weakened, while Gu Immortals cannot enter. Xiao clan’s supreme elder left immortal essence in his bloodline descendant Xiao Shan. Fang Yuan reasons the zone targets immortal apertures. ^{ch. 965}

Fang Yuan has two apertures: Spring Autumn Cicada sealed in his mortal one, and a dead aperture storing most of his Gu worms. Sealing his immortal aperture might let him enter the zone as a mortal again. He lacks the method but means to deduce it with wisdom Gu, aided by his success moving Star Form blessed land. He looks past Blazing Heaven Demoness’ aperture taking method to Old Immortal Kong Jue’s research behind it. ^{ch. 965}

Old Immortal Kong Jue’s inheritance would help Fang Yuan’s deduction greatly. Fang Yuan bets lightly: the contest’s terms allow only a rank three upper stage pawn, ascending after three months. He holds back his ample capital, wary of rank eight attention, though he can raise it later. The Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie matters for his plans, Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage tempts him, and its food path secrets might ease his Gu feeding problem. ^{ch. 965}

Fang Yuan withdraws to Hu Immortal blessed land by Fixed Immortal Travel, watching the battle while deducing the sealing method. His progress is immensely fast at first. ^{ch. 965}

Wu clan sends the first attack: Wu Shen Tong, a rank four peak stage enslavement path elder with three rank four guards, whose beast group engulfs the new Yi Tian Village. Many demonic path Gu Masters die, but Xiao Shan, Sun Pang Hu and Zhou Xing Xing force him to retreat heavily injured, and two righteous path Gu Masters lose their lives. The village still takes a huge blow. Lu Zuan Feng, backed by a demonic path Gu Immortal, arrives with Wu Shen Tong’s head, having killed him by infiltration, ending the first wave. ^{ch. 965}

Wu clan sends a second elder joined by Shang clan’s Yan Tu and Ju Kai Bei; both sides trade wins and losses. Lan Mei He and Fei You Wang, flying masters, join Yi Tian Village and push the righteous path back. Hong Fei Yu alone cannot match them, and is near death when Wei Yang, rank four initial stage after Shang Yan Fei raised his aptitude, saves her. He stalls both until reinforcements force them to retreat. ^{ch. 965}

Both paths accept Wei Yang among Southern Border’s flying masters, now four with him at the top. The deadlock breaks when Second Zombie King enters. His enslavement path might forces the righteous path back again. ^{ch. 965}

Fang Yuan compares this to his previous life. There, Wang Xiao had joined Yi Tian Mountain and killed many righteous path experts. Fang Yuan killed Wang Xiao on San Cha mountain, so he never joins this time, nearly costing the demonic side its edge. ^{ch. 965}

Second Zombie King arrives early and saves their position. He is from the Southern Border Zombie Alliance branch, likely a certain immortal zombie’s pawn, rank five peak stage. His inheritance on Mu Bei Mountain once raised an enslavement path Gu Master, Ding Hao, whom Fang Yuan has already killed this life. Fang Yuan recalls that in his previous life Ding Hao died saving his master. ^{ch. 965}

Fang Yuan’s deduction stalls, needing seventeen or eighteen years without help. Blazing Heaven Demoness’s partial inheritance of Old Immortal Kong Jue can carry him through, but she wants his killer move, vaguely familiar face, in return. ^{ch. 965}

Hei Lou Lan, Fairy Li Shan and Blazing Heaven Demoness want a share, but as Northern Plains Gu Immortals they cannot interfere directly. Southern Border is currently least open to outsiders. Its Gu Immortals would move jointly against any of the three, so all need his face. ^{ch. 965}

Unwilling, since lending a killer move risks its secrets unlike an Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan has no better option and agrees. He lends vaguely familiar face for her partial inheritance. The price is huge, but his stalled deduction rises again at once. ^{ch. 965}