Chapter 979

After helping Tai Bai Yun Sheng pass his tribulation, Fang Yuan settles into patient development, refining dream path mortal Gu, collecting spring dream fruit, and expanding his guts Gu and eerie fire dragon python trades. His monthly profits greatly exceed his previous life’s, at over two thousand. This time his experience lets him find buyers quickly, and his hairy men freely refine guts Gu instead of star thought Gu that brought no income. He also has no urgent need yet to relocate Star Form blessed land, given his new alliance with Hei Lou Lan’s side. He still holds back most of his tens of thousands of feathermen, testing their use, planning to grow their numbers for a future slave trade, since feathermen sell below hairy men but above rockmen. ^{ch. 979}

Lang Ya blessed land comes under attack again. Its land spirit sends emergency letters to Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Fang Yuan’s planning this time spares Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s immortal aperture serious losses, and the two travel to Lang Ya blessed land. There a thick fog is the twelve wave cloud confusion formation, and the land spirit conjures images of the invaders: Qin Bai Sheng, Jiang Yu, Hei Cheng, Xue Song Zi, He Lang Zi, Hui Feng Zi, and a mysterious black-robed immortal zombie. ^{ch. 979}

Fang Yuan calls these people extremely strong and tells the land spirit that Qin Bai Sheng, though only rank seven, can fight a rank eight Gu Immortal. He adds that Jiang Yu carries dark limit Immortal Gu, and that Hei Cheng is a Hei tribe supreme elder with his own Immortal Gu House. Xue Song Zi, only rank six, belongs to Snowy Mountain blessed land and has the rank eight Old Ancestor Xue Hu behind him. He names He Lang Zi a transformation path Gu Immortal who once rejected Old Ancestor Xue Hu’s recruitment, and Hui Feng Zi a wind path expert who has escaped many rank eight Gu Immortals. The land spirit grows grimmer with each name. ^{ch. 979}

Asked about the black-robed stranger, Fang Yuan pretends uncertainty, then names him an immortal zombie of the Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance Physique, one of the ten extreme physiques. The land spirit, thinking this his first deduction, is startled at its speed. Tai Bai Yun Sheng remarks that this is natural, since Fang Yuan is a wisdom path grandmaster, and the shocked land spirit reassesses Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 979}

The land spirit says he can capture any enemy no matter how strong if they persevere. He challenges Fang Yuan to deduce that source himself, and Fang Yuan, knowing it is the rank eight Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron, feigns effort and admits failure. This satisfies the land spirit, since no rank six Gu Immortal should be able to breach Refinement Cauldron’s defenses. Success would only deepen suspicion of him. As Long Hair Ancestor’s obsession, the land spirit knows a wisdom path grandmaster’s reach from an old friendship with the Gu Immortal who made the Prophecy of Three Venerables. Fang Yuan has only gotten this close through a Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable inheritance and the agreement obliging the land spirit to refine Gu for him three times. ^{ch. 979}

Matters unfold as in his previous life. Fang Yuan is assigned to guard a cloud building. He suggests bringing in Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng backs him, but the land spirit refuses. Fang Yuan fights Xue Song Zi openly this time and disengages once Shadow Sect’s reinforcements arrive. Killing Xue Song Zi would gain nothing, since his Immortal Gu and lifespan Gu cannot be taken, and he is better left alive to face the Central Continent Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 979}

Fang Yuan considers warning the land spirit early, then rejects it. Tipping him off could let Refinement Cauldron ambush the Shadow Sect group. Qin Bai Sheng is too strong for him to risk, and Shadow Sect’s ties to Zombie Alliance hide more than they show. Even a win would profit him nothing, since the land spirit would keep the spoils and Luo Po valley would only pass to the Central Continent Gu Immortals. He also needs Northern Plains’ Shadow Sect alive to hold off those Central Continent Gu Immortals hunting him. He suspects Shadow Sect masterminds the coming battle of Yi Tian Mountain through the Blazing Glory zombie, and killing them now could throw that battle into disorder. Fang Yuan decides to go with the flow and let the defense of Lang Ya blessed land play out unaltered. ^{ch. 979}