A fight on the icy plain around Hei Lou Lan's immortal ascension, joined when Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi find the party there and divide it between them by prior agreement.
Two bright rainbows, one black and one white, pierce the air and come down on the icy plain, and Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi are there. They find Hei Lou Lan still inside the three colored qi cocoon with her human qi not yet absorbed, and Fang Yuan on the ground with a strength path phantom army fighting the earthly calamity. ch. 688
Each side puts a card on the table before a blow lands. Hei Cheng opens his right palm on the rank six time path Immortal Gu Instant Pause, which freezes the time of its target for six moments and means he need not worry about Fang Yuan leaving by Fixed Immortal Travel. Fairy Li Shan stops hiding and reveals the grand aura of a rank seven Gu Immortal, a cultivation level few knew of, since in Northern Plains she always showed rank six, and the ice breaks under her as the battlefield killer move pear orchard grows up around her at the same moment. ch. 688
The division of the enemy is Hei Cheng’s, given as an order: Xue Song Zi is to deal with the immortal zombie and the rank six Gu Immortal, and Hei Cheng will kill Fairy Li Shan, after which the two of them take down Hei Lou Lan. Xue Song Zi accepts it gladly, the toughest foe being taken off his hands, and he has a second reason not to face her at all: Fairy Li Shan is Snowy Mountain blessed land’s third leader, he is a member of the same blessed land, and the alliance rules forbid him to battle her. ch. 688
Xue Song Zi underestimates Fang Yuan on evidence he has. In the first battle with Hei Cheng, Fang Yuan concentrated on escaping and did not reveal his true battle strength, so the two of them concluded that his two movement Immortal Gu were lent to him by other Gu Immortals; wide range killer moves are common, the earthly calamity was already half destroyed, most immortal zombies fight below an ordinary Gu Immortal’s level, and there was a rank six and a rank seven Gu Immortal on Fang Yuan’s side to worry about first. ch. 688
What the two attackers commit on the plain is measured by what it fails against. Xue Song Zi throws three attack killer moves at once, in a display of control the narration remarks on, and answers the myriad self army with a snow domain battlefield and two defensive killer moves; pine trees collapse, ice dragons shatter, the snow domain lasts a moment before breaking apart, and he retreats faster than he came. Hei Cheng fights from inside dark veil, a battlefield of dark liquid oozed out of his black robe, and the exchange over the pear orchard is dark vortexes corroding trees and flowers into huge holes against sunflower king lotus beams tearing openings in the veil, with narration giving Hei Cheng the upper hand quickly. ch. 688
Sealing the dark arrows
Fairy Li Shan holds only a mountain pledge Gu and cannot face an attack type Immortal Gu head on, so what she brought against dark arrow Immortal Gu is three mortal killer moves thought through carefully in advance and built to seal the arrows temporarily. The three are earth flower lotus burial, fading heavenly flower and tree flower sheds tears, and all of them rely on the pear orchard beneath them. Fading heavenly flower turns pear blossoms into light specks that stain a flying dark arrow until hot sparks and white spots appear on it and its speed and power fall. Between the three moves she seals two of the dark arrows. It costs her: her mind is worn out and her head hurts, and even holding the pear orchard she has fallen into a disadvantage against the dark veil, hanging on and praying that Hei Lou Lan’s tribulation will finish. ch. 689
The card Hei Cheng borrowed
Hei Cheng is not Hei tribe’s supreme first elder, and he paid a huge price to borrow Dark Prison from him so that this trip would have no accidents. It is Hei tribe’s rank six Immortal Gu House, a black pearl the size of a rice bowl, translucent, with a boar shaped animal sleeping inside; it is a beast stable, and what is trapped in it is the ancient desolate beast sharp tusk boar. Fairy Li Shan reads the threat as terminal for her position: destroying the pear orchard would be as easy for that beast as stomping on a garden, the three flower moves that rely on the orchard would weaken greatly, and the dark arrows would escape. Hei Cheng shows the pearl and puts it away without releasing the boar. ch. 689
What the army did to both of them
The strength path phantom army numbers over two hundred thousand, a huge mob thicker than the tribulation cloud in the sky. Xue Song Zi carries healing Gu and a fracture is no heavy injury for a Gu Immortal, and the point Hei Cheng takes from the sight of him is that the enemy gave him no time to heal it. Hei Cheng’s own mortal killer moves are activated together and singly against the army and stop nothing, and the pitch black battlefield that occupied half the sky is smashed and taken down until it resembles a beggar’s clothing. Narration states the situation as two Gu Immortals being chased down by Fang Yuan alone. Hei Cheng judges that releasing the sharp tusk boar would not match the immortal killer move either, and that the one route left him is closed: killing Fang Yuan’s main body wants dark arrows, two are trapped, and the remaining one can do nothing to a Fang Yuan holding Immortal Gu Worldly Wave Trace. ch. 689
Outcome
A third dark arrow, shot in secret while the other two combined in the air, covered by several mortal killer moves that took down the defences around her, pierces Fairy Li Shan’s forehead and comes out of the back of her head, and Hei Lou Lan opens her eyes on it. A flash of light returns Fairy Li Shan to the state she was in a moment before, her injuries gone and her skull intact, by Immortal Gu Man as Before, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng says he almost failed to make it. Hei Cheng’s anger goes to Xue Song Zi rather than to the interference, because the two had agreed that he would kill Fairy Li Shan while Xue Song Zi killed Tai Bai Yun Sheng and the immortal zombie who was Fang Yuan. Xue Song Zi comes out of it with a tattered robe, hair cut back until he is almost bald, a bruised and swollen face, a body covered in blood and one arm hanging fractured. Hei Lou Lan finishes digesting the three qi during the fight, transcends mortals into a Gu Immortal, and her body is purified to the point that the heavy injury in her eye sockets heals completely. Everyone gathers into Fang Yuan’s immortal aperture, and three breaths after he uses Fixed Immortal Travel he is gone, back in Snowy Mountain blessed land. Asked whether they are letting him leave, Hei Cheng answers that Instant Pause or no Instant Pause, the defence of those strength path phantoms cannot be broken through, and Xue Song Zi looks at the army still standing on the battlefield and says nothing. ch. 689
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- Fairy Li Shan×3
- Fang Yuan×3
- Hei Cheng×3
- Tai Bai Yun Sheng×3
- Xue Song Zi×3
- Icy plain×2
- Dark Veil×2
- Dark Vortex×2
- Myriad Self×2
- Fading Heavenly Flower×2
- Blessed Land Consolidation
- Hei Lou Lan
- Gu Immortal
- Immortal Gu
- Fixed Immortal Travel
- Instant Pause
- Snowy Mountain
- Northern Plains
- Healing Gu
- Immortal Gu House
- Hei Tribe
- Dark Prison
- Dark Arrow
- Man as Before Immortal Gu
- Mountain Pledge Gu
- Worldly Wave Trace