Chapter 969

Fang Yuan judges rank seven strength insufficient; only owning Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage gives him hope of escape. His Fixed Immortal Travel sits sealed inside his immortal aperture, and breaking the forbidden zone’s restriction would destroy him before he could activate it. Only Spring Autumn Cicada, sealed separately as his first vital Gu, escapes that trap. Fang Yuan doubts even Fixed Immortal Travel would serve him here. Southern Border’s space path immortals and killer moves achieve nothing, the formation restricting space path too, with no loophole to exploit. ^{ch. 969}

Gu Immortals die under the tribulations, and the four rank eights, already injured, have no choice but to break through together. A black robed immortal, Northern Dark Ice Soul, blocks them with an ice wall; a stronger tribulation lightning punches a huge hole through it, lightly wounding him. They try another direction, where a second black robed immortal, Carefree Wisdom Heart Physique, fights them to a stalemate. Peng Shi Long recognizes him as Shang clan’s Shang Gui Cai, but the immortal sneers that this is only an identity from soul replacement. The four are driven off again. ^{ch. 969}

Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance, Northern Dark Ice Soul, Carefree Wisdom Heart: the immortals suspect, no coincidence, that the formation likely draws its power from them. Whichever immortal lacks such a physique must be its one flaw. They fix on the Gu Immortal Ying Wu Xie, alive yet lacking any of the ten extreme physiques, and charge him. ^{ch. 969}

Wu Xie recalls being born, and Yan Shi naming him Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, the greatest accomplishment of his dream path research. Since Bo Qing was dead, the youth would replace him as their greatest strength. Yan Shi then gave him one immortal killer move. It has no killing power, but is then the pinnacle of dream path achievement in the five regions, ahead even of Heavenly Court. As the four immortals, Berserk Wind Jia Yi leading, close in, he recites it: Lead Soul Into Dream. They slow, but nothing happens, and Peng Shi Long is about to attack him for tricking them. ^{ch. 969}

Right then Jia Yi begins to fall, his heavy layers of defense dissipating, while the formation strikes swiftly at him and the other three block it. He has fallen asleep, put there by this unprecedented dream path move. Ren Hai Yang realizes, grim, that the boy is behind it: a mere rank seven has struck down a rank eight. ^{ch. 969}

A wave of falling star lightning reaches the Southern Border Gu Immortals instantly. Most lose their lives. Even Jia Yi is shredded into countless pieces. The three surviving rank eights despair: Wu Xie was indeed the formation’s flaw, though far stronger than they imagined, and Jia Yi’s death slows their momentum. ^{ch. 969}

Fang Yuan grows anxious. Even as owner of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, his strength alone would struggle to activate so vast an Immortal Gu House. He would need to ally with the Southern Border Gu Immortals, since more immortals inside mean more power; alone, he could never break the formation. ^{ch. 969}

Time passes. The three remaining rank eights grow exhausted while the last rank sevens flee the tribulations. When Ren Hai Yang perishes under the tribulations, the two left despair, and Fang Yuan thinks it is over, resolving to stay hidden. But with only the two rank eights left, Yi Tian Mountain begins to shake. Fang Yuan’s body shakes too, and he has not yet refined the House, so the tremor is neither his doing nor the rank eights’. The ground splits, and the Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie, having broken free of the House’s suppression, flies into the sky. ^{ch. 969}

A cold voice mocks their attempt to escape fate. A beam of light shoots down: the rank nine Immortal Gu House Heaven Overseeing Tower. Heavenly Court’s immortals have arrived. The beam breaks apart the ten extreme formation, exterminating the two remaining Southern Border rank eights. The Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie cannot dodge, and the beam turns him to fine powder. It continues toward Yi Tian Mountain. ^{ch. 969}

Fang Yuan wonders if he is going to die. Against a rank nine Immortal Gu House’s full power, he cannot defend. His only remaining trump card is Spring Autumn Cicada. Fang Yuan self detonates and activates it, but it fails: carrying his will into the river of time, Spring Autumn Cicada crumbles, exploding into countless fragments. Fang Yuan is dead. ^{ch. 969}