Chapter 986

Blazing Heaven Demoness brings Fang Yuan, disguised as Wisdom Star Chen Dao, to Ascending Heaven Plain to test his wisdom path methods before she trusts him to attack Yu Lu blessed land. Fang Yuan understands why. He reads her as still suspicious that he only relays Purple Mountain True Monarch’s deductions, since everything he deduced before was a settled matter he could have prepared. The plain is a secluded domain of heaven and earth, filled with space path dao marks that follow no pattern and keep rearranging. After Ren Zu’s children wrecked many of the immemorial heavens, the plain was swept up, and it now hides deadly traps beneath a calm surface. Song clan, Cai clan and Ruo Lai clan send Song Kun, Cai Xiong and Ruo Lai Gui Yi to watch him walk toward Old Eccentric Tian Nan’s Immortal Gu House. ^{ch. 986}

Song Yi Shi recognizes the name Wisdom Star Chen Dao and tells her clan that this Chen Dao cracked the first few battlefield killer moves guarding Yu Lu blessed land for Shark Demon. She adds that he stopped helping Shark Demon recently for reasons she does not know, and that he had once exposed a secret Shark Demon asked Song Jia Dan to protect. In his previous life, Fang Yuan wore the aged Xing Xiang Zi’s face. This time he uses attitude Gu and familiar face to look young and disarming. Hearing that Chen Dao broke Song Jia Dan’s own protective method, Song clan’s Gu Immortals change expression and look at him anew. Fang Yuan expects this trip to make the name Wisdom Star renowned across Eastern Sea. ^{ch. 986}

The shifting dao marks leave no trace to follow. Fang Yuan advances by deducing a fresh path at every stop. With star thought Immortal Gu his mind stays full of star thoughts, which gives him the confidence to press deeper. He overtakes many of the Gu Immortals on the ground and becomes one of the closest. He halts a hundred and eight steps from the Immortal Gu House, because claiming the inheritance would trap him among the three clans waiting to pounce. Within eighty steps he would need a wisdom path immortal killer move specialized for deduction, which he lacks, and the light of wisdom that would put him fifty steps out cannot be shown to anyone. Cai Xiong mutters his name while Ruo Lai Gui Yi grits his teeth and puts him at wisdom path grandmaster or above. ^{ch. 986}

Blazing Heaven Demoness is very pleased, crediting his newly shown strength path, wisdom path and enslavement path skill to his master, Purple Mountain True Monarch. The showing is enough to qualify him for the attack on Yu Lu blessed land, even in the vast Eastern Sea. She knows leaving without a fight would invite suspicion. When their rank eight Gu Immortals confront her, she offers to fight rather than back down. The four immortals fight unseen above white heaven, and Blazing Heaven Demoness leaves laughing with Fang Yuan afterward. The three rank eights she fought judge that only two of them working together can resist her, and put her fire path attainment at great grandmaster. They recall that she destroyed a fragment world of the immemorial nine heavens in Northern Plains, and agree to guard against her. ^{ch. 986}