Chapter 987

At Twin Polar Sea Strait, Song Jia Dan sits fused into grey stone from the waist down, a price of a wisdom path method that lets him fuse with the world and deduce, often very accurately. When his lifespan ends he will turn to stone completely and lose all life. Song clan’s first supreme elder Song Qi Yuan sends his token, and Song Yi Shi and Song Xia Qi arrive asking him to deduce a path to the Tian Nan inheritance in Ascending Heaven Plain. He cannot travel there himself. Instead he offers them wisdom path Immortal Gu of his own to use. ^{ch. 987}

Song Yi Shi tells him Blazing Heaven Demoness has brought a wisdom path Gu Immortal called Wisdom Star into Ascending Heaven Plain. Wisdom Star is no member of Zombie Alliance, only a friend of Tai Bai Yun Sheng, a Northern Plains Gu Immortal in Eastern Sea for the earth tide, so Song clan can hire him as Zombie Alliance did. Song Yi Shi asks Song Jia Dan to deduce Wisdom Star’s background first, so a rival wisdom path scheme will not cost them face. Song Jia Dan hesitates, wary of making an unprovoked enemy. Because Wisdom Star cracked Song Jia Dan’s own method for Shark Demon and achieved that much on the plain, Song Jia Dan reads him as holding wisdom path Immortal Gu and not attainment alone. He is not the one who decides for the clan, and the two visitors already have the first and second supreme elders’ approval, so he agrees. ^{ch. 987}

Song Jia Dan tries and fails, finding nothing on Wisdom Star. He blames heaven’s unpredictable will, guessing that Wisdom Star’s methods block him or that Wisdom Star was elsewhere at the time, since every immortal aperture is a small world sealed off from deduction. Song Yi Shi and Song Xia Qi are very shocked, since Song Jia Dan is one of Eastern Sea’s three strongest wisdom path Gu Immortals. Song Jia Dan turns instead to Ascending Heaven Plain, ground many covet for its link to white heaven and black heaven, and offers to deduce its defense against lone immortals and demonic cultivators. Song Xia Qi agrees at once. Song Jia Dan promises that his arrangement will beat those lone immortals and demonic cultivators, and can even spend their strength to weaken Ruo Lai clan and Cai clan. ^{ch. 987}

Back in Hu Immortal blessed land in Central Continent, Fang Yuan uses the light of wisdom to modify star fog concealment. The rebuilt move keeps star thought Immortal Gu as one core and replaces the other with unravel mystery Immortal Gu. It blocks only deductions, not fire, wind, water or blows, and a rank seven wisdom path Gu Immortal can break it after a while. But the fog it leaves behind keeps defending without another cast. The fog blocks a deduction against him for a while and warns him, so he can flee into a blessed land with Fixed Immortal Travel, where even a rank eight wisdom path expert cannot find him. With star soul battlefield already made, this move erases two of Fang Yuan’s weaknesses. ^{ch. 987}

In the dream realm inside the Starry Sky grotto-heaven fragment world, Fang Yuan reaches a third layer he never entered in his previous life. His wisdom path and star path attainment levels rise, though both stay at grandmaster. The third layer collapses on its own without granting a boost, and Fang Yuan cannot recall the song Star Constellation Immortal Venerable once sang there. Blazing Heaven Demoness settles Zombie Alliance’s politics as she did in his previous life, using Bo Dan as an excuse to oust Shark Demon and Su Bai Man. Fang Yuan stays out of it, waiting until she moves against Yu Lu blessed land. The battlefield move unmoving troops guards it like an unmanned empty formation, so Fang Yuan spends huge mental energy and immortal essence unraveling its final level and captures Yu Lu blessed land completely. ^{ch. 987}

Afterward, Blazing Heaven Demoness lets him pick two rank six Immortal Gu. One is a strength path Immortal Gu she says is not for him but a gift for Little Lan. The other option, a rank six star path Immortal Gu on the list of top ten mystical Gu, carries immense value, but taking it would use up both of his choices. ^{ch. 987}