Sleeping Lady

While she and the Meng tribe immortals follow planted clues out of the valley, Fang Yuan disguises himself as her with familiar face and plucks every spine. Cold sweat drips down her forehead, she spreads Gu worm auras, and her expression stays impassive while she is inwardly bitter. She demands an explanation from Meng tribe, reveals the matter in treasure yellow heaven, and informs Murong tribe. She cannot move the hedgehog into her immortal aperture, and she treats it as her trump card between the two tribes. Fang Yuan’s first-life memories name her among the experts who resisted Heavenly Court, so he leaves the hedgehog with her to grow a new batch. He then spreads rumors that she kept the needles herself. She spits blood from anxiety and anger when she learns of those rumors. ^{ch. 1568}

During the chaos Fang Yuan stirs around the Refinement Path Convention, Northern Plains’ Sleeping Lady attacks Combat Immortal Sect’s formation and plunders a resource point completely. ^{ch. 1704}

Fang Yuan comes to Divine Needle Valley, sends yama children, and traps her in yama battlefield before she can join up with the hedgehog. She offers the method to control the beast in exchange for her life. When he exposes that act, she roars and shows battle strength unlike the outside world’s evaluation, fighting out of the yama children’s encirclement but not out of the battlefield. Luo Po seal breaks her defenses like thin paper and she dies on the spot. She self-detonates all of her Immortal Gu. Fang Yuan keeps her corpse and immortal aperture, disguises himself as her to store the remaining needles, suppresses the hedgehog, and takes the valley with pulling mountain Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 1752}