Chapter 851: Land Spirit's Master, Second Blessed Land
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After obtaining the severed arm, Fang Yuan carefully kept it in his immortal aperture.
Soon after, he cleaned up the area and removed all his traces.
Returning to Hu Immortal blessed land, he did not rest, he started working on the severed arm, spending four days and three nights to turn it into Song Zi Xing's head.
Next, he used Fixed Immortal Travel and went to Earth Abyss.
"Star Form land spirit, I brought Song Zi Xing's head!" In the eerie and dark underground world, he shouted.
A speck of starlight first appeared, before light burst out like water from a fountain.
A breath of time later, a huge squarish door made of starlight appeared. The half transparent door was floating in the air, at the top, there were four words written on the plaque — Star Form blessed land!
Fang Yuan squinted as he looked at it.
Ordinary blessed lands and grotto-heavens had entrances. Because the entrance represented interaction, and with interaction, they could take in heaven and earth qi to strengthen the small world.
Thus, Infallible blessed land was very unique, because it did not have entrances, it was a very strange exception.
As Fang Yuan waited, a small slit opened in the starlight door.
"It's you? You really brought Song Zi Xing's head?" A voice came from behind the slit, Star Form land spirit did not appear, he was quite wary.
Fang Yuan chuckled as he tossed the head over.
Actions speak louder than words!
The slit opened a bit more, a suction force moved the head over to it.
"It really is Song Zi Xing's head!" A joyful and surprised voice came from behind the door.
Boom!
The door opened completely, starlight opened up a path for Fang Yuan, as Star Form land spirit stood at the door, saying to Fang Yuan with cheerful submission: "Star Form land spirit greets master."
"Mm." Fang Yuan nodded, his expression was calm, he took huge steps and walked onto the starlight path, entering into Star Form blessed land.
The moment he stepped in, starlight overwhelmed Fang Yuan's vision.
But in the blink of an eye, the starlight faded, and Star Form blessed land's unique terrain appeared before him.
The whole of Star Form blessed land resembled a giant bowl.
Like a bowl, the edges were interconnected mountain ranges, they formed a tight circle that resembled city walls.
And within the bowl, they were slanted slopes that converged towards the center.
Darkness enshrouded this world, Fang Yuan raised his head and looked at the sky, there was nearly complete darkness, only a few starlight specks were shining weakly in the sky.
Like how Hu Immortal blessed land only had days without nights, Star Form blessed land only had nights without days. Normally, blessed lands would not have changes between day and night. Only after becoming a grotto-heaven or becoming close to a grotto-heaven would they start having such transformations between night and day.
This was not the first time Fang Yuan was here.
In fact, he was the one who placed down this blessed land.
Last time, the stars were shining in the sky, it was very bright and dazzling, the ground was very bright due to all of the starlight. But now, it was quite dim, it showed that Star Form land spirit was not having an easy time managing the place.
This was to be expected.
Without a Gu Immortal, the blessed land could not produce immortal essence, the land spirit and the blessed land were interlinked, it had to protect itself and manage the blessed land.
But how could land spirits have the strength and wisdom of Gu Immortals?
Thus, most land spirits would find a master to help themselves. Survival was the most basic instinct in all living beings, the only difference was the difficulty in getting the land spirit to acknowledge a new master.
Fang Yuan's gaze swept across the area, before it landed on Star Form land spirit.
"Bring me around to inspect the blessed land." Fang Yuan ordered.
Star Form land spirit looked like a little boy, he was floating in the air. He was wearing pinkish blue clothes wrapped around his chest and stomach, his small arms and legs were tender white like lotus roots, looking delicate like jade, he appeared very cute.
After acknowledging Fang Yuan, Star Form land spirit looked towards Fang Yuan with a clear gaze filled with admiration and warmth.
Hearing Fang Yuan's words, Star Form land spirit nodded: "Master, follow me."
This attitude was completely the opposite of previously.
A lump of starlight gathered on Fang Yuan, as his body flew up rapidly.
This speed was extremely fast, even Song Zi Xing's blood rainbow flash could not match it.
Fang Yuan felt his vision blurring, all he saw was starlight around him, he could only catch occasional fuzzy images from the quickly moving scenery.
The starlight stopped moving, and the scene in his vision had already changed.
"Master, you are at the southeast side of the blessed land now. This is the arrow bamboo forest. The biggest plantation area in the entire blessed land." Star Form land spirit introduced.
Fang Yuan looked over, only to see that this arrow bamboo forest was huge, it extended beyond Fang Yuan's field of vision.
The arrow bamboos were straight, they resembled green spear bamboo from Qing Mao Mountain, but they were not jade in color, instead, the bamboo shoots were black and did not have any leaves growing on them, only branches. At each segment of the arrow bamboo, there would be around three branches growing on it. These branches were sharp and long, resembling arrows.
Below the arrow bamboo forest were large numbers of star cave rocks, countless dark fragrance mushrooms and a field of white shadow grass.
Fang Yuan nodded his head internally, the arrangement of this habitat could not be done any better.
"If I am not wrong, this should be the production area of star dart Gu?" Fang Yuan asked.
"Master is correct." Star Form land spirit answered immediately.
Star dart Gu was a rank one mortal Gu, it was transformed from ordinary insects. This was different from the production of starlight firefly Gu.
Starlight firefly Gu were a part of the starlight firefly group, produced after they transformed and mutated.
Star dart Gu could be produced from any type of insect which entered deep sleep inside a star cave rock that was filled with holes on the surface. After a total of forty-nine days, a portion of the slumbering insects would undergo a change and become star dart Gu.
The food of star dart Gu was the bamboo juice of the arrow bamboo forest.
The arrow bamboo forest was hot and humid, the bamboos themselves would produce bamboo juice that dripped out.
"In the past, the bamboo juices produced would form into a thick blue fog, it was a top quality place to raise star dart Gu. Unfortunately, I have not obtained any good watering liquids, thus it became like this." Star Form land spirit said with a longing tone.
"It seems I have to buy moon well water in batches." Fang Yuan muttered, he was very knowledgeable, he knew what water the arrow bamboo forest needed.
"Master is knowledgeable." Star Form land spirit added, his expression becoming excited.
Even though Star Lord Wan Xiang left behind quite a bit of immortal essence, there were few immortal essence stones. And because Star Form land spirit was worrying over his finances, he could not buy goods from treasure yellow heaven casually.
Compared to watering the arrow bamboo forest, there were other areas which needed the financial support more urgently.
Afterwards, under the guidance of the land spirit, Fang Yuan went to the north area of the blessed land, inspecting the meteorite pits, this was the place to raise stellar fire Gu and produce falling meteor Gu.
Next, he went to the center of the blessed land, this was a lake with ripples and reflecting light, it was huge and was called broken star lake. This was also the place to rear Gu worms, it produced star river Gu.
Next, he went to several grassy fields, they were all full of star fragment grass, a vast number of them. They were planted on black soil, the blades of grass were plump and shiny, they were much higher in quality compared to the ones that were planted in Hu Immortal blessed land!
"Arrow bamboo forest, meteorite pit, broken star lake, star fragment grass field." Fang Yuan floated in the air, looking at the lake, he showed a satisfied expression.
The four areas mentioned were Star Lord Wan Xiang's four main sources of revenue.
Star Lord Wan Xiang was quite decent in his development, he mainly sold star dart Gu, stellar fire Gu, falling meteor Gu, star river Gu, and starlight firefly Gu.
While Fang Yuan was still searching desperately for four sources of revenue, he already had them. At the moment, Fang Yuan only had guts Gu and regretful spider trades. The other two, eerie fire dragon pythons and dragonfish, were still not sold in the market yet.
Star Lord Wan Xiang had rank six cultivation level with one heavenly tribulation passed. He was also a lone cultivator, but he was higher in cultivation level than Hu Immortal.
According to his status and foundation, it would normally be impossible for him to develop his blessed land to this extent.
But he had his fortuitous encounter.
That was Starry Sky grotto-heaven. The owner of Starry Sky grotto-heaven, Seven Star Child, became an immortal zombie in order to prolong his life, while exploring Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm, he fell into deep slumber.
Star Lord Wan Xiang had by chance discovered that Starry Sky grotto-heaven connected to a spatial crack in the outside world of Central Continent. Every year, at a certain time, this crack would open.
Thus, Star Lord Wan Xiang would go in every year to scavenge for resources to strengthen himself. Even though he had limited time on each occasion, he entered many times.
Star Lord Wan Xiang thus had decent development, his immortal aperture was smoothly growing in value with each passing day, he surpassed most lone cultivator Gu Immortals. Even Shi Lei praised his blessed land inwardly when he saw it, this Star Lord Wan Xiang's foundation was already on par with typical rank six Gu Immortals in the ten great ancient sects.
But it was a pity that Star Lord Wan Xiang was heavily injured by Song Zi Xing, and because his tribulation was impending, he had to take a risk. He invited Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei to explore Starry Sky grotto-heaven. In the end, at the eighth star hall, he fell into Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm, his soul was destroyed and only his body was left.
Fang Yuan took the body and placed the blessed land in Earth Abyss.
This led to the development of future events, like Star Form land spirit's requirement for becoming the new owner.
"With these four sources of revenue, my financial power will double! I will be swimming in profits, I will really be drowning in immortal essence stones!" Fang Yuan was overjoyed.
Star Lord Wan Xiang had operated his blessed land for a long time, he had already slotted himself into the market and had his own share of the economy in treasure yellow heaven. Fang Yuan inherited his blessed land, he had also gotten over the difficult initial stage of entering the market, he took over Star Lord Wan Xiang's businesses directly, it saved him lots of trouble!
Ordinary resources like star dart Gu and stellar fire Gu were usually sold in bulk quantities, they were very competitive in the market. It was not easy to carve out a share for oneself in the market, they would be collaborated against, facing price wars, or some Gu Immortals might even threaten to kill them.
As the saying goes, ruining a person's wealth is akin to killing their parents.
The Gu Immortal world was very cruel, if you want to do business, you need to show your strength. Without strength, no matter how flourishing your business was, you would get killed and plundered!
Thus, Fang Yuan was always very careful with the dragonfish and eerie fire dragon pythons that he had. He wanted to make use of Xiao clan's transaction token to enter Western Desert's market. That could avoid much trouble, and allow him to earn more profits.
Of course, for monopoly businesses like guts Gu, you could sell them as you wish. Others could not even compete in this, they could only watch in envy.
After inspecting the blessed land, Fang Yuan was very pleased, but there was still something that he was highly anticipating.
"Land spirit, bring me to see those Immortal Gu in the blessed land!" At the next moment, he instructed the land spirit.
Chapter 852: Three Immortal Gu, All Are Useful
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The whole of Star Form blessed land was like a giant bowl, and its center was also the location which was at the bottom of the terrain.
There was a lake here that spanned as far as the eye could see, its name was broken star lake. And the place where Star Lord Wan Xiang normally cultivated was also set at the bottom of broken star lake.
Reaching the bottom of the lake, Fang Yuan discovered a crystal palace, it was not large, and only had one main hall along with two normal halls.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's Immortal Gu were kept in the main hall.
Under the guidance of Star Form land spirit, Fang Yuan smoothly entered the main hall.
The moment he entered the main hall, he saw an Immortal Gu flying around.
This Immortal Gu resembled a centipede, it was thin and long, like an arm, and black like iron. It was flying around in a zigzag fashion inside the main hall, the short horizontal segments on its body lit up like blue fireflies every now and then.
"This is a rank six Immortal Gu, Star Mark, it can temporarily add six hundred star path dao marks onto master's body." Star Form land spirit aptly introduced.
"Six hundred dao marks?" Fang Yuan was startled.
Even the strength path dao marks on his body numbered no more than two hundred. This was the case after he had been using eat strength Immortal Gu recently to add over forty.
However, this star mark Immortal Gu could actually cause an increase of six hundred star dao marks at once, it could be said to be an outstanding ability.
"Two hundred dao marks can increase power by twenty percent. Six hundred would mean a sixty percent increase. Unfortunately, they are star path dao marks, and I am not a star path Gu Immortal."
There was no doubt this star mark Immortal Gu was a high quality support type Immortal Gu!
Fang Yuan was a strength path Gu Immortal and his body carried strength path dao marks, but once he activated star mark Immortal Gu, his body would be temporarily covered in a layer of star path dao marks, letting him disguise himself as a star path Gu Immortal!
Besides Star Mark, there were two other Immortal Gu in the main hall.
One was like a prismatic crystal, the size of a fist. It was quietly lying on a desk, without any movement.
Another was like a tender white bean sprout, filled with an air of vitality.
Through Star Form land spirit's introductions, Fang Yuan knew the crystal-like Immortal Gu was starlight Immortal Gu, while the bean sprout-like Immortal Gu was known as Star Shoot.
Fang Yuan could not help feeling joyous.
Fortune had arrived!
These two Immortal Gu had much more use to Fang Yuan than star mark Immortal Gu.
Because starlight mortal Gu was a necessary Gu material for the production of the wisdom path star thought Gu.
Now that he had starlight Immortal Gu, he could completely imitate the use of strength qi Immortal Gu in refining airsac Gu, to refine star thought Gu much faster and on a much larger scale.
The starlight Immortal Gu removed the troublesome step of purchasing starlight mortal Gu.
At the same time, with Immortal Gu as the foundation, there would be a much lower failure probability in refining mortal star thought Gu. The risk involved would also be greatly mitigated, reducing the deaths of hairy men by a large degree.
There were two issues created by this, however.
The first problem was, to use starlight Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan would have to modify the recipe of star thought Gu.
The second issue was that using starlight Immortal Gu would consume immortal essence.
With wisdom Gu and the complete star thought Gu recipe, Fang Yuan would have no problems in modifying the Gu recipe, it was just a matter of time.
As for the second issue, it would have indeed been a problem for Fang Yuan in the past. But now, Fang Yuan was Star Form blessed land's owner, he had six sources of revenue and it would even increase to eight in the future, his immortal essence stone earnings would quadruple! Such an amount of immortal essence stones made Fang Yuan have the confidence to spend immortal essence constantly in activating starlight Immortal Gu.
Starlight Immortal Gu increased the accumulation of star thought Gu by a large extent, which was of enormous assistance. And star shoot Immortal Gu was also very useful.
Fang Yuan had once purchased a mortal killer move from Star Lord Wan Xiang, called spring star rain.
This move irrigated the land, providing nutrition to vegetation and increasing their productivity. Ever since he got this move, Fang Yuan had been using it again and again.
The grassland in the sky of Hu Immortal blessed land was able to maintain its current scale, it largely could be attributed to this mortal killer move.
Frequent activation of Spring Star Rain consumed large numbers of star shoot mortal Gu.
Star shoot Gu were only sold by Star Lord Wan Xiang.
Fang Yuan had once thought of freeing himself from Star Lord Wan Xiang's control by researching the refinement recipe of star shoot Gu. But even with wisdom Gu's help, as Fang Yuan's star path attainment was only ordinary, he could not get what he wished.
At this point, Fang Yuan had star shoot Immortal Gu, and from now on, he would be able to use spring star rain to his heart's desire. He could also raise spring star rain to the level of an immortal killer move and use star shoot Immortal Gu as the core to further increase the yield of star fragment grass.
But Fang Yuan learned from Star Form land spirit: Star Lord Wan Xiang did possess the immortal killer move spring star rain.
In fact, the mortal killer move, spring star rain, which Star Lord Wan Xiang sold was a simplified version of his original spring star rain. The star shoot Gu that Star Lord Wan Xiang sold were also refined by using star shoot Immortal Gu.
This was the reason why Fang Yuan found it difficult to reverse-deduce the Gu recipe from star shoot Gu.
The reason was that Star Lord Wan Xiang's Gu refinement method was done from top to bottom.
Star Mark, Starlight and Star Shoot; these three Immortal Gu were all the Immortal Gu left in the blessed land.
Star Lord Wan Xiang had a total of four Immortal Gu. Unfortunately, the fourth Immortal Gu was destroyed in his battle with Song Zi Xing.
Fang Yuan was thus able to obtain only three.
And he was already very satisfied with this.
Generally speaking, in the entirety of the five regions, there were few rank six Gu Immortals in possession of Immortal Gu. Most of them were still using mortal Gu and mortal killer moves.
Only the elites among rank six would be in possession of rank six Immortal Gu. For instance, rank six Gu Immortals of Central Continent's ten great ancient sects, and another example would be lone cultivators like Star Lord Wan Xiang who had fortuitous encounters.
Northern Plains' situation, however, was special. Because of the collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the rate of Gu Immortals possessing Immortal Gu far surpassed the other four regions.
In fact, Central Continent was actually in last place among the five regions in regards to the ownership rate of Immortal Gu. It couldn't be helped, they had the most Gu Immortals after all.
Fang Yuan's situation was even more special.
Not counting these three Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan already had fourteen Immortal Gu. No one would believe it if such a number was told to them. Not to mention, among these was rank nine wisdom Gu!
Generally, even if one killed an enemy Gu Immortal, it was hard for them to get Immortal Gu as spoils of battle.
When Fang Yuan attacked Dong Fang Chang Fan, he had a huge advantage and had captured even Dong Fang Chang Fan's soul alive. But Dong Fang Chang Fan had made all the Immortal Gu self-detonate with a thought, and Fang Yuan could not even grasp even one of them.
Star Lord Wan Xiang was an exception.
Because he strayed into Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm, he died unexpectedly without making any reactions. Thus his Immortal Gu were left behind and benefited Fang Yuan in the end.
These three Immortal Gu still had Star Lord Wan Xiang's will, but with Star Form land spirit's assistance, it would not be a big problem to subdue them.
"Master, this is the immortal inheritance held in the blessed land, please have a look." The land spirit handed an inheritance to Fang Yuan.
It turned out that this was Star Lord Wan Xiang's first fortuitous encounter.
A Gu Immortal inheritance regarding star path.
It was this inheritance that guided the lone cultivator, Star Lord Wan Xiang, on his path of cultivation to become a rank six Gu Immortal.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's second fortuitous encounter was discovering the entrance of Starry Sky grotto-heaven from where he plundered many resources.
His luck was actually quite good.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's main cultivation was star path and Starry Sky grotto-heaven was also a star path grotto-heaven, thus, they were both very compatible in terms of resources.
Unlike Fang Yuan, who was a strength path Gu Immortal, while Hu Immortal blessed land was of enslavement path and the guts Gu produced by Dang Hun mountain were of soul path, these multiple aspects were not too compatible with each other.
Unfortunately, Star Lord Wan Xiang still died in the end, and everything he had was now Fang Yuan's.
Fang Yuan stayed for a whole day in Star Form blessed land. He inspected a small tribe of rockmen in the blessed land as well as the three desolate beast level spinefin star dragonfish.
While he was alive, Star Lord Wan Xiang had used every possible effort to bring in this small group of rockmen. He did not have guts Gu and Star Form blessed land was also not a suitable environment for the survival of rockmen, as a result, many rockmen had died. It was not easy for him to maintain this small group.
The three spinefin star dragonfishes were captured from Starry Sky grotto-heaven, there was no shortage of desolate beasts inside there.
The reason he spent such large amounts of effort and capital was because star mark Immortal Gu's food was the fresh meat of spinefin star dragonfish.
And starlight Immortal Gu fed upon the bodies of rockmen.
As for star shoot Immortal Gu, its food was large quantities of dark star kelps. This type of kelp grew in great amounts in broken star lake.
This was the orthodox situation of Gu Immortals.
Whatever path they cultivated, their Immortal Gu would be of that path and their immortal aperture would mostly have dao marks of that path. In this way, they could bear the burden of feeding Immortal Gu by raising the required food themselves.
Unlike Fang Yuan, whose strength path immortal aperture was dead, Hu Immortal blessed land was an enslavement path immortal aperture, and the Immortal Gu on him were of strength path, wisdom path, soul path, luck path and other various paths. He had to get help from the outside world to feed these Immortal Gu. Every time, he had to rack his brains and the situation was unstable. In fact, cleanse soul Immortal Gu had yet to be fed properly to this day. Whether it was Hu Immortal blessed land or his strength path immortal aperture, they both had sparse soul path dao marks and thus even if he wanted to, it was not possible for Fang Yuan to raise white lotus giant silkworm Gu.
By becoming the owner of Star Form blessed land, Fang Yuan's strength had doubled!
Three star path Immortal Gu, four economic pillars, a complete star path inheritance, Fang Yuan would need a lot of time to absorb them fully.
He also made Star Form land spirit keep up the request of recognizing the blessed land's owner in treasure yellow heaven, to fabricate an image of Star Form blessed land still not having an owner.
And he also did not plan on telling the truth to Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng for a while.
The longer he could conceal it, the longer he would conceal it.
Hu Immortal blessed land was already exposed, Star Form blessed land was also in a partially exposed state, but only Hei Lou Lan knew this location. If, in the future, he became a fugitive, this base would be extremely important.
Regarding Dang Hun Mountain and the resources inside Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan did not plan to move them away for the moment.
The resources had been arranged just recently and large amounts of capital were invested, if he moved them to Star Form blessed land, with how astute Hei Lou Lan was, wouldn't she realize it?
The following day, Fang Yuan went to participate in the Refinement Path Convention.
With the huge influence from the large-scale competition, Central Continent was facing a surge of popularity in Gu refinement among all the people.
The news of the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent collaborating to ambush Song Zi Xing and failing had yet to be spread, knowledge of this was limited to Gu Immortal level higher ups.
The ten great ancient sects had lost much face, there was still no news about Song Zi Xing, making it appear to be a joke to other sects or lone cultivator Gu Immortals. Many Gu Immortals moved one after another, searching for any traces left behind by Song Zi Xing in True Yang mountain range.
But how could they find anything?
In Fang Yuan's previous life, Central Continent's ten great ancient sects searched for over a hundred years to maintain their reputation, but were still not able to find him. Song Zi Xing's hiding ability was simply divine, even Fang Yuan could not match him in this.
Thus, Fang Yuan had no thoughts of chasing after Song Zi Xing from the very beginning.
Finally, the agreed upon date arrived, the day of the duel between Fang Yuan and Feng Jin Huang.
Although it was not a competition, it attracted quite a large audience.
"Feng Jin Huang, you want to duel, but first let me see the wager, if the wager is too low, this duel will not begin." Fang Yuan spoke in full view of everyone.
Whether they duelled or not, what Fang Yuan wanted was only to be in the top six places for the Infallible inheritance.
Moreover, losing in the duel would not eliminate either side or influence their rankings.
Feng Jin Huang had already made preparations, secretly transmitting her voice: "My wager will definitely interest you deeply. Fang Yuan, you are an immortal zombie and certainly know the pain of immortal zombies. What I have with me is a method which can let you revive!"
Chapter 853: Dueling Feng Jin Huang (1/4)
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"A revival method?" Fang Yuan's eyes narrowed, a clear change appeared in his expression.
Spirit Affinity House was truly worthy of being one of the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent, its foundation was deep beyond imagination.
Fang Yuan had painstakingly searched for a way to get rid of his immortal zombie status and revive, and Spirit Affinity House actually had a way.
At this moment, when Feng Jin Huang placed this method as the wager, it directly touched upon Fang Yuan's core interests, making him unable to refuse!
"Hehehe." Fang Yuan laughed, restraining his agitated mood as he looked at Feng Jin Huang, "Tell me, this method would not be Immortal Crane Sect's possession technique, right?"
"Of course not." Feng Jin Huang smiled indifferently.
"I am indeed interested in your wager. But this wager is still far from matching my Hu Immortal blessed land."
"The value of all things vary. Fang Yuan, if you were given the choice of either Hu Immortal blessed land or revival, which would you choose?"
'Of course it would be reviving!' Fang Yuan chose with no hesitation inwardly, while also speaking with no hesitation: "Of course it would be Hu Immortal blessed land. This is my biggest foundation, even though I have become an immortal zombie, I can maintain a good living by relying on it."
Feng Jin Huang's lips twitched as she shook her head, softening her tone: "Fang Yuan, you are not likely to be such a short-sighted person. But, I know you won't put Hu Immortal blessed land as your wager, and I also cannot forcibly demand you to do so. Let's talk about something more practical. If I lose, I will tell you the method of revival. You can rest assured that this method already has a successful precedent. But if you lose, we can undergo transactions."
Fang Yuan looked at Feng Jin Huang's slight smile and confident appearance, he narrowed his eyes and asked: "Hmm? What transactions?"
Feng Jin Huang replied: "If you lose, you need to make a deal with Spirit Affinity House to supply guts Gu for the long term. The price can be discussed as long as it doesn't overstep the limit. But you must deliver them in time and in adequate quantity! If you lack souls, Spirit Affinity House will sell them to you, and the price will even be thirty percent lower than the market price. These transactions must take precedence, even over those of Immortal Crane Sect. No matter how many guts Gu you have, you must first supply them to Spirit Affinity House before selling to other places."
Hearing this, Fang Yuan could not help but look at Feng Jin Huang in a different light again, having a completely new opinion in regards to this young girl in front of him.
He had not expected her to mature to this degree in just this period of time.
As expected of a genius.
No, rather than that, it should be said that she has capable people behind her and was educated well.
Feng Jin Huang's demand, as far as Fang Yuan was concerned, was truly lenient and could even be said to be too generous.
But guts Gu, to Feng Jin Huang, was an urgent need.
The reason?
Feng Jin Huang could explore dream realms with dream wings Immortal Gu. Even with the help of the Immortal Gu, her soul would still feel weakened and could be injured. Guts Gu was among the highest quality soul strengthening method in the whole world, even Spectral Soul Demon Venerable had praised it.
Feng Jin Huang had originally challenged Fang Yuan out of juvenile temperament, it was an action taken in a fit of anger.
But right now, the discussion about wagers with Fang Yuan was based on the present situation, it was practical and also concerned benefits. This was a mature action.
If Feng Jin Huang had asked Fang Yuan to put Hu Immortal blessed land or Dang Hun mountain as the wager, Fang Yuan definitely would not agree.
And although Fang Yuan was using Immortal Crane Sect's name, the relation between him and Immortal Crane Sect was well-known by all the ten great ancient sects.
Fang Yuan absolutely had no qualms in regards to Immortal Crane Sect's reputation and would definitely agree to Feng Jin Huang's duel with this.
Thus, Feng Jin Huang made this request.
To Fang Yuan, selling guts Gu to Spirit Affinity House naturally had its benefits.
The first benefit was he could increase the sales volume, earning much more immortal essence stones. Who would not like having more immortal essence stones?
The second benefit was that Fang Yuan would have a connection to Spirit Affinity House. If one day, he fell out with Immortal Crane Sect, he would have an alternative path.
In fact, Fang Yuan's original intention in accepting Feng Jin Huang's challenge had been to cooperate with Spirit Affinity House.
As Feng Jin Huang explored the dream realm multiple times, she realized the value of guts Gu and wanted to obtain some of the benefits from Immortal Crane Sect. And Fang Yuan was also willing to do this, if he truly reached a deal with Spirit Affinity House, it would also be extremely helpful to him in managing his relationship with Immortal Crane Sect.
'Regardless of victory or loss, this duel is beneficial to me. Anyway, the result of the duel has nothing to do with the competition. Eh? Something is wrong, her request is also to lower my will to fight."
Fang Yuan suddenly had a realization and understood another layer of intention behind this move from Feng Jin Huang.
"Let's start then, the final winner of this contest will be me!" Fang Yuan's eyes shined brightly as he laughed heartily.
Feng Jin Huang's gaze flashed: "That is not for certain."
The wagers were set, both sides began to discuss of the contents of this duel.
Feng Jin Huang suggested refining river wave trace Gu as the task. River wave trace Gu was a rank five water path Gu worm, and formed a series with rank three water trace Gu, rank four wave trace Gu and rank six worldly wave trace Immortal Gu.
Fang Yuan immediately refused.
Spirit Affinity House specialized in cultivating and using water path Gu worms, this could be seen from the Immortal Gu House, Water Pavilion.
If the task was set to refine river wave trace Gu, Feng Jin Huang's advantage would be too big.
Fang Yuan suggested refining blood steps Gu.
This was a rank three blood path movement type Gu worm.
Feng Jin Huang also refused outright. What a joke, who did not know Fang Yuan was proficient in blood path refinement techniques, and Feng Jin Huang did not have confidence in refining blood path Gu.
The two discussed for a while before finally settling on a rank five fire path Gu worm, five orifices fire pagoda Gu, and it would be done in a martial duel.
The duel would not be private, but be a completely open contest like the Refinement Path Convention.
Soon, similar materials appeared in front of the two sides. To maintain fairness, both sides were provided with the same Gu recipe.
The winner would be the side that could successfully refine five orifices fire pagoda Gu first.
Unlike the previous contests, because it was in the martial duel format, whenever they reached a specific stage, both refiners would have a chance to attack each other once.
Under everyone's gaze, Fang Yuan and Feng Jin Huang sat opposite each other, each occupying an end of the stage with a gap of around two hundred and sixty steps between them.
The duel began, Fang Yuan immediately inspected the refinement materials.
He needed to have a complete understanding of every material. If some materials were defective, it would greatly influence the Gu refinement.
Fang Yuan checked very carefully, sometimes the task organizers would intentionally supply some defective materials and even tamper with them so the defects are hidden, causing the Gu Master to not be able to easily detect them.
If they were truly deceived, it would cause quite a problem when refining the Gu.
This arrangement had practical significance.
Usually, when refining Gu, Gu Masters would not always be able to gather perfect refinement materials. Sometimes, there would be some damage because the materials might have been stored for too long, or perhaps damaged when being transported or seized in battles. Or there might be substandard refinement materials sold in the market, which would have to be distinguished by the Gu Master themselves.
Thus, inspecting Gu refinement materials was a part of refinement path attainment.
In this duel of refining five orifices fire pagoda Gu, the convention supplied as many as a thousand types of materials. There was not a single Gu worm, they were all grass, flowers, stones, bones and so on.
Fang Yuan inspected all the materials, using an entire hour.
Afterwards, he inspected the Gu recipe provided by the convention.
There were altogether five Gu recipes, rank one – single aperture charcoal Gu, rank two – double orifice stove Gu, rank three – three orifices fire hut Gu, rank four – four orifices fire tower Gu, as well as rank five – five orifices fire pagoda Gu.
These five Gu worms were a series, sharing the same origin.
The first step in refining five orifices fire pagoda Gu was to refine large numbers of rank one single orifice charcoal Gu. Then, using the single orifice charcoal Gu as the main materials to refine double orifice stove Gu. From rank one to rank two, rank two to rank three, rank three to rank four, and then from rank four to rank five, finally refining five orifices fire pagoda Gu.
It was because there were many steps and the process was cumbersome, both sides were provided with a thousand types of Gu refinement materials.
With Fang Yuan's wisdom path methods, he could modify the Gu recipe and cut down on some steps of the Gu refinement process. He could even directly refine five orifices fire pagoda Gu with the materials provided.
However, after some thought, Fang Yuan gave up on the idea and decided to move step by step.
There were many reasons. First, he was unable to rely on wisdom Gu here. Second, modifying Gu recipes took a lot of time, and there would only be more losses than gains. Moreover, this was a martial duel, both sides could attack five times in total to disturb the Gu refinement. If a Gu recipe to refine it directly was used, once the process was disturbed, the previous efforts would be wasted. It was more stable to move step by step.
While Fang Yuan was inspecting the Gu refinement materials, Feng Jin Huang was checking the Gu recipes. While Fang Yuan was inspecting the Gu recipes, Feng Jin Huang meticulously checked the refinement materials.
The order was different, but when they started the Gu refinement, it was almost at the same time.
"They have finally begun."
"They used up over an hour to inspect the materials and the Gu recipes, they are really patient."
"This contest concerns the face of Immortal Crane Sect and Spirit Affinity House, it is a battle of reputation of two of the ancient sects!"
The spectators started talking.
Some were in favor of Feng Jin Huang while some thought highly of Fang Yuan.
There were also two factions that had formed in the audience, the numerically greater disciples of Spirit Affinity House were in a mutual showdown of glaring with Immortal Crane Sect's disciples. The elders leading Immortal Crane Sect's group had ugly expressions. Fang Yuan had placed guts Gu as the wager without reporting to the higher ups of Immortal Crane Sect, and they were not feeling good about this.
At first, Fang Yuan and Feng Jin Huang's refinement techniques were the same.
During this process, Fang Yuan used his skilled refinement techniques to gradually surpass Feng Jin Huang, progressing faster and slowly obtaining a slight lead.
After all, Fang Yuan had the practical experience of his previous life, while even though Feng Jin Huang used Immortal Gu to explore the dream realm and improve her refinement path attainment quickly, she still lacked tempering in putting them to practice.
To catch up to Fang Yuan, Feng Jin Huang used a refinement path killer move.
Double action!
Her hands trembled, and the lump of fire she was maintaining, suddenly split into two, forming two fire lumps.
Refinement path killer move — small wishful hand!
Two small and compact hands flew out of Feng Jin Huang's mind, completely formed from will, emitting a jade luster.
Feng Jin Huang's two hands constantly regulated and controlled the intensity and the temperature of the two fire lumps, while the two small wishful hands grabbed materials and threw them into the fire.
"Wonderful!"
"Using two killer moves consecutively."
"Feng Jin Huang is well prepared, now her speed is much faster than that of Fang Yuan."
Clamorous discussions were being exchanged between the spectators.
Chapter 854: Dueling Feng Jin Huang (2/4)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Using two immortal killer moves consecutively…"
Under the mask, Fang Yuan's gaze was sharp as a knife.
But he immediately turned his gaze towards the fire in his hands.
"Phew, that was close!" Outside the stage, a female disciple of Spirit Affinity House breathed out a sigh of relief.
"Senior sister Qin Juan, what was close? I clearly saw first senior sister Jin Huang use two refinement path killer moves in a row, catching up immediately." Another female disciple of Spirit Affinity House was sitting beside Qin Juan, she had a chubby face, her name was Sun Yao and she asked this curiously.
"Junior sister Sun Yao, you need to understand that this duel is different from what we've seen before, this is a martial duel! In martial duels, the refiners can attack to disturb the other side's refinement." Qin Juan explained patiently.
"Ah, they can do that? It is already so hard for me to refine Gu normally, but if I were to be disturbed on top of that. Heavens…" Sun Yao pursed her lips, revealing an expression showing that she did not even dare to imagine such a thing: "This martial duel format is clearly meant to make one suffer, whoever thought of this is really strict."
"No." Qin Juan, however, had an expression of approval, "Being able to resist disturbances is one of the most important aspects of refinement path. In our cultivation journeys, perhaps one day we would suffer a sneak attack when we are refining Gu. In fact, many times when we leave the sect to complete the sect missions outside, because of all sorts of damage that may occur to Gu worms, we often have to refine new Gu in the wild."
"Using the same logic, when we are facing a strong enemy and discover the enemy refining Gu, we would also choose to sneak attack and take the enemy by surprise, turning the situation in battle in our favor. This is the practical significance of the martial duel format. Junior sister Sun Yao, you also know Gu Masters have to use all their concentration during the refinement process, because slight carelessness can result in failure and backlash. But, when you refine Gu outside, you also need to pay some attention to your surroundings."
"First senior sister Jin Huang used two refinement path killer moves in a row just earlier, that was a risky move. Because the moment she activated the killer move, the entirety of her attention was naturally focused on the Gu worms forming the killer move. If it were an ordinary Gu Master, they might have already lost control over the flames and failed in Gu refinement if they had to divert their attention in activating the killer move. If at this moment, Fang Yuan, that demon, had attacked first senior sister Jin Huang, it might have caused significant trouble to her."
Hearing Qin Juan's explanation, Sun Yao came to a realization: "So it was like that, then that truly was dangerous. Fortunately, that demon Fang Yuan did not attack."
Because Fang Yuan had, time and time again, used blood path refinement techniques at crucial moments, disciples of Spirit Affinity House who disliked him privately called him a demon.
However, there were, in fact, many demons in the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent.
For instance, the third supreme elder of Immortal Crane Sect, Lord Tiger Demon, was a demonic path Gu Immortal in his early years before he was recruited by Immortal Crane Sect.
The sect that exhibited this the most was actually Spirit Affinity House itself.
The late Sword Immortal Bo Qing was a person of the demonic path with an extremely murderous nature, but was reformed through love with Spirit Affinity House's Fairy Mo Yao, in the end, Bo Qing was recruited into Spirit Affinity House.
At present, the story of Fairy Bai Qing and Feng Jiu Ge was widely spread, and Feng Jiu Ge was formerly of the demonic path as well.
Central Continent was so large and was famous for producing outstanding champions. Once in a while, there would be some astonishing demonic cultivators and lone cultivators that would shake the world.
To maintain control of the overall situation and to protect their interests, the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent would recruit these people, it was the best method to effectively retain their authority.
'He did not attack? That's a pity…' Feng Jin Huang inwardly sighed, out of the two lumps of fire burning in front of her, one suddenly extinguished.
"What's going on?" People in the audience involuntarily exclaimed.
"Don't tell me that demon, Fang Yuan, had already attacked and disturbed first senior sister, causing half the Gu refinement to fail? This demon is too cunning, what attack did he use, we did not even see it." Sun Yao anxiously cried out, her tone filled with loathing towards Fang Yuan.
"No, that's not right. The elder hosting this duel did not say anything, this means that demon, Fang Yuan, did not attack. So it was like that!" Qin Juan's eyes brightened as she suddenly came to a realization, "Originally, first senior sister had put up a facade of using two killer moves, it was a trap meant to entice Fang Yuan to attack her. If Fang Yuan attacked, his mind would be focused on his attack at that instant, which would expose a weak point. First senior sister would then have a higher chance of successfully counter attacking."
"My goodness, was that actually the case?" Sun Yao's small, chubby mouth opened wide in shock at the battle of wits behind this contest.
Qin Juan had a serious expression: "I was also deceived just now. The truth of the matter is first senior sister set up a trap, but that demon Fang Yuan saw through it and was not fooled… junior sister Sun Yao, watch closely, this contest is going to be extremely splendid. The contest between these two is absolutely the best of this generation."
"Okay!" Sun Yao nodded, her eyes staring at the stage without blinking.
The ten great ancient sects of Central Continent had always fiercely competed, not only did their Gu Immortals compete, the disciples also had a similar type of competition.
There was no doubt that Feng Jin Huang was the best of this generation within the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent.
However, in the contest for Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan suddenly appeared and kicked Feng Jin Huang down the mountain. As for the events behind the scenes, they were not explained to disciples like Sun Yao and Qin Juan, and even Immortal Crane Sect's own disciples and most of their elders thought Fang Yuan was a genius disciple, secretly nurtured by the sect.
In the previous round, Feng Jin Huang was defeated, and this duel, in which Feng Jin Huang wanted to reclaim her prestige, involved a contest between the best disciples of the ten great ancient sects. It was a hidden clash between Spirit Affinity House and Immortal Crane Sect.
Thus, almost all of the audience was asking a question — who was the best Gu Master among the younger generation?
What they did not know was: Fang Yuan had already become a Gu Immortal, although he was only an immortal zombie, he was already someone they could no longer decipher. Meanwhile, Feng Jin Huang possessed dream wings Immortal Gu, and had already activated it, gaining enormous benefits.
Bystanders could only see such surface details, but both competitors did not see much importance in the reputation aspect. Feng Jin Huang had already matured a lot and realized what benefits meant, while Fang Yuan was way beyond her maturity.
The competition continued.
Fang Yuan had seen through Feng Jin Huang's trap, but between Feng Jin Huang's two killer moves, small wishful hand was real. It was unlike 'double action', that had only been a facade.
With the help of the two small hands made of will, Feng Jin Huang's refinement speed was slightly above that of Fang Yuan. And as time passed, the gap between the two gradually increased.
However, this gap was not obvious.
Fang Yuan maintained his rhythm, and using solely Gu refinement techniques without any killer moves, he maintained the fire and was now almost finished processing the materials.
He used Gu refinement techniques and not refinement path killer moves. Techniques were the summation of purely skills and experience. They were the foundation of Gu refinement.
"Very skilled! Even though he is the enemy, I cannot help but admit this demon, Fang Yuan, has a very solid foundation in Gu refinement. Even some elders from our sect do not have as solid of a foundation as him." Qin Juan suddenly sighed, after having watched fixedly for a long while.
"He has a grasp of so many Gu refinement techniques, he has used at least thirty types by now. But I feel our first senior sister is still the more amazing one. She fell back a little at the start, but quickly caught up later. Now, no matter how that demon Fang Yuan pursues, he won't be able to catch up. This small wishful hand killer move is truly convenient!" Sun Yao said, admiringly.
"No." Qin Juan shook her head: "First senior sister's lead might not necessarily be a good thing. Maintaining a killer move requires primeval essence and also is taxing upon the mind. On the contrary, that demon Fang Yuan has only been using basic Gu refinement techniques, which do not have as much of a burden on the mind. As this continues over time, his mind will be less taxed than first senior sister's, which will be of great help in the later stages of Gu refinement."
"Ah, it is like this! Then, isn't first senior sister in danger? Senior sister Qin Juan, you are saying first senior sister gained a lead from using a refinement path killer move, but is instead in a disadvantage? Although your words sound reasonable, how could it be like that?" Sun Yao felt a headache.
"Hehe, junior sister Sun Yao, this is the brilliance of the Refinement Path Convention. You have just begun your cultivation journey and have yet to come in contact with many things, you will slowly understand them in future." Qin Juan smiled, but she was feeling heavy internally.
'This demon, Fang Yuan, is too skilled. He is keeping pace with first senior sister just by repeatedly using Gu refinement techniques. Even though first senior sister used a refinement path killer move, she is not able to create a large lead! It can't go on like this…'
Feng Jin Huang was feeling some mental exhaustion.
It had not been long since the competition began, and both sides were still at the stage of refining rank one single orifice charcoal Gu.
According to logic, Feng Jin Huang's should still have plentiful mental energy, and not be in a state of exhaustion.
However, estimates was one thing, the actual competition could be completely different.
Feng Jin Huang could disregard the gazes from outside the stage, her talents were outstanding and with Gu Immortals as parents, she had been the center of attention since she was young, she was already used to it.
The pressure on Feng Jin Huang mainly came from Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan displayed an incomparably solid foundation, and was relying on just Gu refinement techniques to maintain pace with Feng Jin Huang, while even though she had used a refinement path killer move, she was not able to surpass him greatly in progress.
Fang Yuan's extraordinary performance and formidable achievements made the world overrate his attainment level, Feng Jin Huang had already been feeling pressure before the duel.
After the duel started, Fang Yuan was in pursuit with a stable speed, which further increased the pressure on Feng Jin Huang.
This pressure was greatly wearing down on Feng Jin Huang's mind. She was slowly starting to feel exhausted and uneasy internally.
"It seems my refinement path quasi-grandmaster attainment cannot match Fang Yuan's refinement path attainment. What should I do?" Feng Jin Huang began to think and plan quickly, while refining the Gu.
"I have used a refinement path killer move, my mind is also being worn down rapidly. The duel has only just begun, and as time goes on, Fang Yuan's advantage will become even more clear. But if I stop using the killer move and compete with just Gu refinement techniques, I still cannot match Fang Yuan. My greatest advantage is the large numbers of refinement path killer moves that I carefully prepared!"
Chapter 855: Dueling Feng Jin Huang (3/4)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The duel stipulated they could only use the materials provided by the convention. Although they could launch attacks and use refinement path killer moves, any methods affecting the soul or mind, like refreshing the mind or strengthening the soul, were completely prohibited.
Feng Jin Huang was the one who set this rule, it was to prevent Fang Yuan from using guts Gu to strengthen his soul during the duel.
The soul and mind were closely connected. Feng Jin Huang made this move to limit Fang Yuan's advantage in this aspect, but she had not expected she would be the first to suffer a drawback from this rule.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, Feng Jin Huang flicked her pinky finger, shooting out a speck of golden light.
The golden light was extremely fast, reaching Fang Yuan in the blink of an eye, targeting the refinement flames in Fang Yuan's hands.
If the golden light hit the fire, even with Fang Yuan's ability, the refinement would fail, he would have to bear the backlash and start over.
However.
How could a person as cautious as Fang Yuan not pay attention to the defense of such an important area?
Ding!
A crisp sound echoed, the golden light was three inches from the fire when it clashed into a formless barrier and was blocked.
Fang Yuan's gaze was calm, the fire in his hands was not affected in the slightest.
Feng Jin Huang's attack was blocked by Fang Yuan without batting an eyelid.
Only after this attack had been defended did the Gu Masters outside the stage react.
"Spirit Affinity House's Feng Jin Huang was the first to initiate an attack!"
"But the attack was blocked by Immortal Crane Sect's Fang Yuan."
"What was that attack just now, it was so fast!"
"Feng Jin Huang made an error in her choice, how could Fang Yuan not defend such an important area? It might have been better to attack Fang Yuan directly instead and injure him."
"Hmm? Look, Feng Jin Huang is using a refinement path killer move again!"
There was a clamor outside the stage, but in the stage, the scene was quiet, isolated from all the sounds outside.
'Attacking the enemy's vital points, then using this moment of relative safety to use another refinement path killer move?' Fang Yuan glanced at Feng Jin Huang, coldly smiling inwardly, 'It seems you are using all your strength. Worthy of being Feng Jin Huang, even in your youth, you are deeply aware of your own strengths and weaknesses. I have to say this is a sensible choice.'
Fang Yuan praised her in his mind, but he continued to be unmoved, still refining Gu in the same way as before.
Feng Jin Huang used up a precious chance to make a move to attack Fang Yuan's refinement flames, and also took this opportunity to use a second refinement path killer move.
With the help of two killer moves, her refinement speed increased sharply, and gradually Fang Yuan was thrown behind.
Without the pressure from Fang Yuan, Feng Jin Huang immediately felt slightly relaxed, a layer of tension inside her loosened, and her refinement speed further increased a little.
In this duel, Fang Yuan and Feng Jin Huang each had five chances to attack.
Because it was only a duel, not a life and death battle, the power they could use every time they attacked was limited to a certain level.
The first time, they were only allowed to use rank one Gu. The second time, they could use rank two Gu. And so on, until the fifth time, where they could use rank five Gu.
It was the same with defense, they could only use Gu worms of corresponding rank.
This was another limitation to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was an immortal zombie after all, with an immortal killer move. If she was attacked by giant hand, it would be difficult for Feng Jin Huang to resist it. Of course, Feng Jin Huang had Gu Immortal parents, so she would naturally have immortal essence in her body along with Immortal Gu and the will or emotion of Gu Immortals. There was not a high likelihood of Fang Yuan truly killing her.
"This time, she is using two refinement path killer moves at once to gain a lead!" Outside the stage, Sun Yao excitedly shouted.
"Yes, it is a pity she used one of the five chances to attack. But this is also a classic tactic, we still have to see the result of the refinement to determine the outcome." Qin Juan pondered as she gazed at the stage.
Time continued to pass. Fang Yuan fell further and further behind Feng Jin Huang, but the strange part was that he was not the least bit hurried, seemingly having no intention to overtake Feng Jin Huang.
Fang Yuan was still using Gu refinement techniques, refining single orifice charcoal Gu step by step.
While Feng Jin Huang had already begun refining the rank two double orifice stove Gu.
Soon, praises and sighs could be heard outside the stage.
Feng Jin Huang had used a third refinement path killer move, increasing her speed once again.
A hour later, Feng Jin Huang attacked Fang Yuan and took the chance when Fang Yuan defended, she used a fourth refinement path killer move.
Four killer moves were used together, there were six lumps of fire floating in front of Feng Jin Huang, each lump was accompanied by a small wishful hand that constantly grabbed materials and threw them into the fire.
With the help of the small wishful hands, the exact amount of the Gu refinement materials thrown into the flames was extremely precise.
From the help of four killer moves, Feng Jin Huang's refinement speed had long since surpassed that of Fang Yuan, and soon she started on three orifices fire hut Gu.
While Fang Yuan had just now begun refining double orifice stove Gu.
Looking at Feng Jin Huang advancing triumphantly, throwing Fang Yuan far behind, many were having doubts: What was Fang Yuan playing at?
Sun Yao grinned: "First senior sister's victory is guaranteed!"
Qin Juan was also a refinement path genius whom Spirit Affinity House paid great attention to, it was just that she had yet to mature. She was also in support of Sun Yao's words: "If the situation continues like this, first senior sister has a high chance of victory."
"With my ability, my maximum limit is maintaining five refinement path killer moves. But this is the martial duel format, I must leave some energy behind to deal with Fang Yuan's attacks. Of the five chances to attack, I have already used two, while Fang Yuan has only been defending. Could it be my conditions were too alluring that he is forfeiting?"
Feng Jin Huang could not understand Fang Yuan's behavior and felt some doubts for a moment.
Fifteen minutes passed, Feng Jin Huang had made good progress in refining three orifices fire hut Gu, she was past the halfway mark.
Right now, Feng Jin Huang's dominance was extremely obvious, leading Fang Yuan by a huge distance!
'Mm… it is time to attack.' Fang Yuan's gaze was clear, and as he sensed that the time was ripe, he sent out a Gu worm from his immortal aperture.
"I am attacking." He suddenly spoke softly.
"Uh." Feng Jin Huang's attention was immediately attracted, her bright and beautiful eyes gazed at Fang Yuan, while continuing with her Gu refinement.
'Finally attacking? But what is the reason for warning me beforehand?' Feng Jin Huang was extremely cautious.
Fang Yuan chuckled: "Feng Jin Huang, be careful. This Gu is the rank one ghost fire Gu."
Feng Jin Huang narrowed her eyes, a vigilant look flashed past her eyes as she began to think rapidly: 'It is certain to be rank one Gu, this is Fang Yuan's first attack, so he can only use rank one methods. But it might not necessarily be ghost fire Gu, maybe he showed that Gu to mislead me? After all, a Gu worm's external appearance can be disguised. I need to be extremely careful!'
While she was thinking, Fang Yuan activated the Gu worm in his hand.
The moment this Gu activated, it transformed into a small lump of eerie ghost fire, which then slowly moved towards Feng Jin Huang.
'It is really ghost fire Gu?' Feng Jin Huang was slightly stunned.
Right at this time, the ghost fire Gu suddenly sped up and shot towards Feng Jin Huang!
'Come! Just a mere rank one ghost fire Gu…' Feng Jin Huang's eyes shined sharply with confidence. She had already prepared sufficiently and could easily block a rank one ghost fire Gu.
When the ghost fire Gu charged over, she even had the time to think of the possibility of Fang Yuan making continuous attacks!
However, the ghost fire suddenly came to a halt, stopping near Feng Jin Huang.
Afterwards, the ghost fire slowly circled Feng Jin Huang, swaying around either side of her.
'What?' Feng Jin Huang was startled internally: 'Fang Yuan, what is the meaning of this?!'
The next moment, her expression sank as realization dawned upon her.
In this duel, the Gu Master could only defend in the range of a meter. The ghost fire Gu did not encroach the range of a meter around Feng Jin Huang, making her unable to defend. The ghost fire floating around could only be considered as part of the process of Fang Yuan's attack.
'He is using rank one ghost fire to pressure me, to divert my attention!' Feng Jin Huang was astute and was soon able to understand the intent behind this move.
"So sinister!" Many people, outside the stage, exclaimed as they realized his plan.
Sun Yao was filled with righteous indignation: "That demon Fang Yuan is using a loophole in the rules. With a ghost fire floating in front of you, who can concentrate on refining Gu? Does nobody care about this? He is too shameless."
Qin Juan shook her head, saying solemnly: "The rules of the duel were set by both sides. This pending offensive is also a classic battle tactic in the martial duel format, it can't be considered shameless."
'Damn it!' Cold sweat began to seep out of Feng Jin Huang's forehead, 'Ghost fires can injure the soul. I have used up a lot of my mental energy, if I am really affected by it, I will definitely slip up. But if I just blindly defend, my mind will be tied down in observing the movement of the ghost fire, and my Gu refinement speed will decrease.'
There was still a way, Feng Jin Huang could initiate an attack and destroy this ghost fire.
But this was not worthwhile.
Because this would be her third attack, which meant a rank three method. Using a rank three method to cancel Fang Yuan's rank one ghost fire Gu, no matter what, it would be her loss!
'Maybe this is his intention, he wants to lure me into using up a precious chance of attacking!' Feng Jin Huang gritted her teeth as she looked at Fang Yuan.
Controlling a ghost fire also expended one's mental energy. But Fang Yuan had only been using Gu refinement techniques and not refinement path killer moves, it could be said his mental energy was at full capacity, it was more than sufficient to control a ghost fire.
"Oh? Not destroying my ghost fire? Hehehe, you are really patient." Fang Yuan suddenly laughed, "Then, how about another ghost fire?"
Under everyone's gazes, Fang Yuan took out a second ghost fire Gu.
"Feng Jin Huang, look closely, this is rank two ghost fire Gu." Fang Yuan calmly spoke, unlike Feng Jin Huang's sneak attacks, he openly announced his methods.
The style of Fang Yuan's attacks was the completely opposite of Feng Jin Huang.
Feng Jin Huang's two attacks were quick, accurate and relentless, attacking the enemy's vital points and forcing Fang Yuan into defense, while she took the chance to use refinement path killer moves.
However, Fang Yuan's methods could be described with one word — slow.
The second ghost fire floated slowly towards Feng Jin Huang, stopping a meter in front of her.
This ghost fire was created from rank two ghost fire Gu, it was double the size of the first ghost fire.
The two ghost fires circled around Feng Jin Huang, the pressure on Feng Jin Huang swiftly doubled!
Chapter 856: Dueling Feng Jin Huang (4/4)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Gu Zhen Ren
The two ghost fires moved about here and there, they went far and near, with no set pattern, Feng Jin Huang had to be vigilant of these two flames, while also paying attention to refining Gu.
Feng Jin Huang was soon unable to bear it.
Bang.
A soft explosion resounded as one of the Gu refinement fires she controlled was extinguished, the Gu worm inside the flame had already been refined to an incomplete form, but it was a pity, everything was lost!
"First, first senior sister slipped up. So unfortunate, that Gu worm only had the final three steps remaining!" Sun Yao stamped her foot in anger.
Qin Juan also had a heavy expression: "This is the first mistake since the duel began, although first senior sister has a deep foundation, surely enough, dividing her attention to handle so many things was too forceful."
"What should she do now?" Sun Yao gazed over, seemingly asking for advice.
Qin Juan mumbled: "If it were me, I would dispel a refinement path killer move right now. Because the lead is great, as long as I can maintain this lead and make no more mistakes, the one in a hurry would be the other side. But dispelling a killer move is similar to activating it, because in order to produce a change in the situation, one needs to focus their attention, which can generate a moment of weakness."
At this moment, on the stage, Feng Jin Huang also had a similar thought: 'Should I dispel a refinement path killer move? Is this Fang Yuan's intention?'
'No, I still have a way. I can use my third chance to send out a sonic wave, and destroy these two ghost fires at once!' Geniuses like Feng Jin Huang had pride carved in their very bones, and would not be willing to admit defeat.
Feng Jin Huang's eyes brightened at this thought, but when she cast her gaze towards Fang Yuan, her heart instantly chilled.
Fang Yuan was wearing a malevolent mask, his piercingly cold eyes protruded from behind the holes of the mask, behind it, there seemed to be a smiling expression with a hint of ridicule.
'No!' Feng Jin Huang's mind trembled at this gaze, 'This is Fang Yuan's trap. He is already waiting for it! The moment I use my third attack, Fang Yuan will grasp this chance to immediately attack. At that time, my mind would be taxed to the limit and it will be very difficult for me to deal with the attack, I might not even be able to defend and be struck by his attack!'
'Damn…' Feng Jin Huang gritted her teeth, a drop of cold sweat slid down from her forehead to her eyebrow and down her cheek.
'It can't go on like this, I need to find a way, what should I do? Think carefully, think quickly!'
Bang.
While she was in the process of thinking, another lump of fire she was controlling exploded.
This explosion was much more severe than the first one.
Other lumps of fire were also affected, Feng Jin Huang quickly dispelled her disorganized thoughts and did her best to stabilize the other fire lumps.
"Ahh! First senior sister made a mistake again, how could this be? Not good, first senior sister is injured!" Sun Yao cried out with her head in her hands.
"The demon Fang Yuan brought her too much pressure, first senior sister should have been trying to think of an urgent countermeasure, and this decreased her attention towards the Gu refinement, causing a slip up. A failure in Gu refinement means there will be backlash, fortunately her injuries are not severe." Qin Juan's tone revealed her nervousness, she let out a breath of cloudy air and continued: "But, this is also a good thing."
Sun Yao did not understand, and grumbled in anger: "Senior sister Qin Juan, what are you saying? First senior sister failed in Gu refinement, and also suffered injuries, why is this a good thing?"
"She has lost two lumps of fire, but her mind is instead partially freed up. She now has the spare energy to cope with the present situation." Qin Juan analyzed.
Sun Yao patted her chest as she suddenly realized this: "Right!"
"Hehehe." Fang Yuan laughed again.
Feng Jin Huang's heart immediately sank when she heard Fang Yuan's laughter.
She raised her head and sure enough, Fang Yuan took out a third Gu worm. Fang Yuan spoke just like earlier: "Look closely, this is a rank three ghost fire Gu."
The next moment, three ghost fires were flying around Feng Jin Huang.
"Damn it, damn it!" Sun Yao stamped her foot in anger, "This demon is too shameless, first senior sister has just been able to catch a breather, and now he sends another ghost fire. He is still thinking of forcing first senior sister to make a mistake!"
"That's right." Qin Juan had a grave expression, "Like this, the pressure on first senior sister has increased sharply. She probably has to use all her remaining attention on defending."
Sun Yao clenched her teeth, subconsciously waving her fist: "This demon is not concentrating on refining his Gu, instead he is spending his mental energy on the ghost fires, this is a classic case of neglecting the proper task! He is truly terrible, I really want to give him a few punches!"
"Damn it, how can this be…" Feng Jin Huang fell into a great predicament, she was clearly in the lead, but when Fang Yuan made a move, she was forced into a passive state.
Feng Jin Huang knew the situation was far from good, the tempo of the duel had already fallen into Fang Yuan's grasp. She wanted to counterattack, but she did not have enough ability.
The three ghost fires floated around her, sometimes they would even breach the one meter distance before retreating immediately, they were clearly being manipulated to tease Feng Jin Huang.
Feng Jin Huang was only a young girl after all, she was filled with fury towards Fang Yuan's teasing, but was not able to vent them.
She would have to take a risk if she wanted to get rid of the three hateful ghost fires!
But reason told Feng Jin Huang that she might not necessarily need to take the risk.
Because even after she slipped up twice, she still had a large lead over Fang Yuan.
As long as she maintained this dominance, victory would be hers.
However, when Feng Jin Huang began refining four orifices fire tower Gu, a short while later, Fang Yuan also began refining four orifices fire tower Gu.
This discovery immediately startled Feng Jin Huang: "When was it that he actually closed in the gap between us? Impossible, he has clearly not used even one refinement path killer move yet!"
But the fact was that Fang Yuan had relied on just Gu refinement techniques, using purely basic skills to close the gap bit by bit, and unknowingly, he had caught up to Feng Jin Huang!
The Gu Masters outside the stage also discovered this.
"Unbelievable, this demon actually caught up!" Spirit Affinity House's female disciples cried out in shock.
"Actually relying on just Gu refinement techniques to overcome refinement path killer moves… Fang Yuan's ability far surpasses Feng Jin Huang." The people who overrated Fang Yuan, continued to overrate him.
"How is this possible? Fang Yuan definitely cheated, everyone knows the power of refinement path killer moves, he did not use a single killer move but caught up? Impossible!" Sun Yao was dissatisfied: "What kind of eyes does the hosting elder have, why is he not stopping the duel and investigating this demon Fang Yuan?"
Qin Juan, however, heaved a deep sigh: "Keep quiet, junior sister! Gu refinement techniques naturally cannot match refinement path killer moves, but in this duel, they can overcome killer moves."
"Ah, senior sister, what do you mean?"
"Because the crucial factor for victory is not the means, but the two Gu Masters themselves. At the moment, the refinement has already reached the middle to later stages. Fang Yuan's mind is still fresh, while first senior sister has been exerting her mind since the start, the moment she could relax, Fang Yuan used the threat of ghost fire Gu to overwhelm her. First senior sister is already tired, without ample energy in her mind, any powerful refinement path killer moves will only play a secondary role, thus her Gu refinement speed will naturally slow down."
Qin Juan sighed, before continuing: "This is all Fang Yuan's plan. When first senior sister mentioned refining five orifices fire pagoda Gu as the task, he agreed directly. But the Gu recipes and the refinement materials were all put forward by him. The moment this battle of attrition began, he let himself fall behind, preserving his mental energy. At the middle stages, he finally attacked, and although he was behind, he was able to grasp the initiative. Because of her dominance, first senior sister did not want to take a risk, thus she kept delaying dealing with them. However, she did not know that this was Fang Yuan's sinister plan. Now at the later stages, first senior sister is too tired, her speed is getting slower and will soon be overtaken by Fang Yuan."
"What?!" Sun Yao worriedly gazed towards the stage.
Soon, her worry turned into reality.
Fang Yuan slowly progressed to being level with Feng Jin Huang, and slowly overtook her.
"Is… is first senior sister going to lose?" Sun Yao's eyes reddened and tears streamed out, "First senior sister clearly put in so much effort to arrive at the end, she even got injured, but this despicable demon is going to win? I am not willing to accept this!"
"I also feel discontent." Qin Juan sighed, "But first senior sister still has a chance."
"There is still a chance?" Sun Yao turned her head and looked happily at her senior sister Qin Juan.
Qin Juan nodded: "Right, don't forget first senior sister still has three chances to attack. One rank three attack, one rank four attack and one rank five attack. Every attack will be stronger than the previous one, this is the way to make a comeback! This contest has yet to end, there is still hope."
"Right, we still have hope! First senior sister, you can do it!" Sun Yao's eyes brightened as she suddenly shouted loudly.
Her voice attracted the gazes of the people nearby.
The intense sense of honor to the sect and feeling of belonging made the hundreds of disciples of Spirit Affinity House shout together to boost Feng Jin Huang's morale.
Although their voices could not transmit to the stage, Feng Jin Huang was able to sense it.
"These guys… I cannot lose, I will win! It is time to use my trump card. Refinement path killer move — Ink Transformation!"
Feng Jin Huang shouted in her mind, and simultaneously made three attacks in a row towards Fang Yuan.
Feng Jin Huang staked everything on this, using all her remaining chances to attack!
"Paltry trick." Fang Yuan blocked all these attacks, while sending out the three ghost fires to interfere with her as much as possible.
The interference did not bring much result, Feng Jin Huang destroyed these three ghost fires. Her refinement path killer move was already close to completion.
"Hmph, revealing light Gu, go." Fang Yuan sneered inwardly as he flicked out a rank four Gu worm.
At the same time, he also used a rank five attack which arrived in front of Feng Jin Huang first.
Feng Jin Huang was already prepared, blocking the rank five attack, but revealing light Gu, which had neared her, suddenly self-detonated.
The explosion was not intense, but the radiance was extremely dazzling.
'How? How does he know the weakness of ink transformation?!' Under Feng Jin Huang's incredulous gaze, the killer move, ink transformation, was interrupted and forcefully stopped.
The killer move did not successfully activate, the severe backlash from it immediately caused Feng Jin Huang's organs to be damaged, causing large amounts of blood to flow out of her body!
Her body trembled from the intense pain, and she was no longer able to maintain her control over the lumps of fire. The whole Gu refinement failed, and bursts of enormous backlash assaulted her.
Feng Jin Huang spat out fresh blood as she opened her mouth widely, before falling down to the ground shortly, losing consciousness.
Chaos erupted outside the stage.
Spirit Affinity House's disciples wanted to go up the stage, but were blocked by the Gu formation.
"Don't make disturbances, all violators will be punished!" The hosting elder shouted. After stabilizing the situation, he gazed towards Fang Yuan.
For a moment, almost everyone outside the stage looked towards Fang Yuan.
Feng Jin Huang was already unconscious, even if she woke up and tried to refine the Gu again, the materials were far from enough.
Right now, Fang Yuan could not lose, as long as he slowly refined five orifices fire pagoda Gu, he would be the victor.
However, right when Fang Yuan was about to succeed, the incomplete form of the Gu worm in his hand suddenly detonated.
Fang Yuan was startled: "This?!"
Chapter 857: Fang Zheng's Death
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Gu Zhen Ren
Fang Yuan and Feng Jin Huang's duel attracted the attentions of countless people, but the result was one that nobody anticipated.
The process of the duel was very splendid, it was full of ups and downs.
Eventually, even though Fang Yuan had absolute advantage, he met with the failure rate of a rank five Gu refinement, and his efforts went down the drain.
He did not have enough Gu refinement materials for a second attempt, while Feng Jin Huang already had fainted and also did not have enough materials.
Thus, this duel ended in a draw.
Feng Jin Huang was sent for treatment immediately after the duel ended.
After learning about the results, Feng Jin Huang looked at Fang Yuan with deep meaning.
Since it was a draw, according to the duel rules, both parties had two options. One was to take back their wagers, the other was to trade the wagers that they had put in.
As Fang Yuan had expected, Feng Jin Huang chose the second option.
Fang Yuan thought about it for a moment before agreeing.
Feng Jin Huang first passed one information path Gu worm over to Fang Yuan personally. The method of an immortal zombie reviving was recorded inside the Gu.
After that, both parties created an agreement, in the capacity of a subsidiary force of Immortal Crane Sect, the owner of Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan, agreed to undergo guts Gu transactions with Spirit Affinity House. In the future, Fang Yuan would give priority to Spirit Affinity House when selling guts Gu, even Immortal Crane Sect was behind them in the priority list.
"Lord Fang Yuan, our sect's Lord He Feng Yang would like to speak with you." After the duel ended, an Immortal Crane Sect elder came to Fang Yuan, he spoke in a humble manner.
"Oh?" Fang Yuan said with surprise: "Lead the way."
On a mountain peak with no one else around, he met He Feng Yang again.
He Feng Yang still had the appearance of a youth, he wore a white robe with a black belt, the winds were blowing his sleeves as they fluttered in the air, his green eyebrows extended to his waist as they swayed with the wind as well.
"It was not easy to get a draw in this duel, was it?" He Feng Yang's gaze was profound, he looked at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan smiled: "It can't be helped, I encountered the natural rate of failure, there was nothing I could do."
His words carried no flaws.
He Feng Yang sized up Fang Yuan as he said in a serious tone: "It is a pity that you became a zombie despite such talent in refinement path. Actually, if you want to find a way to revive, you do not need to approach others. Immortal Crane Sect has an excellent method that can ensure that you will get rid of your zombie status."
Fang Yuan heard this and felt a bit strange, why did he feel like He Feng Yang was showing an intention of recruiting him?
But thinking about it, even if Fang Yuan and Immortal Crane Sect had been on opposing sides, or he had a mysterious background, or some other reasons, ignoring all these, just Fang Yuan's current display of his Gu refinement attainment was enough to move Immortal Crane Sect.
Fang Yuan naturally knew the excellent method that He Feng Yang was talking about.
What else could it be?
It was obviously the possession technique.
He Feng Yang would not be able to guess that Fang Yuan had already made preparations in this aspect.
"If I would lose my freedom, I would rather remain as a zombie." Fang Yuan said.
He Feng Yang shook his head: "I invited you here not to discuss the matter of freedom. Let's talk about important matters, you captured your brother, you have to hand him over, otherwise, the consequences are not something you can endure."
"Oh? Is this a threat?" Fang Yuan's tone became deeper.
Fang Zheng was a secondary option to regain life, even if he did not need him for this, Fang Zheng was still the best choice to create a blood deity. How could Fang Yuan hand him over?
He Feng Yang nodded: "You can think of this as a threat, but I would rather explain it as a warning. I'll speak the truth, eliminating Fang Zheng is Heavenly Court's orders. You might not know the extent of Heavenly Court's authority, but you just need to know one thing, there is no force in Central Continent that can defy Heavenly Court."
How could Fang Yuan not know the power of Heavenly Court?
He had his previous life's memories, he was even more aware of Heavenly Court's strength and power than He Feng Yang.
"Of course I know about Heavenly Court. But why would they have any interest in Fang Zheng? They are actually so serious about eliminating a mortal? Isn't your excuse too unrealistic? He Feng Yang, how can you convince me?" Fang Yuan spread his arms out.
He Feng Yang sighed: "I do not need to convince you. As long as you keep Fang Zheng's life, in the end, Hu Immortal blessed land will be taken down and absorbed by Heavenly Court. That is not something Immortal Crane Sect wants to see. You can consider this freely, but there is little time. If you can accept it, three days from now, give Fang Zheng to me."
Fang Yuan frowned deeply, this unexpected news caught him off guard, he did not know about the matter involving fate Gu, it was hard for him to link Heavenly Court and Fang Zheng together.
He placed his gaze on He Feng Yang's face, he tried to find a flaw from his expression: "Do you take me for a fool? Handing Fang Zheng to you is like placing the key to Hu Immortal blessed land into your hands!"
"Hehehe." He Feng Yang raised his head and laughed: "Fang Yuan, despite being an immortal zombie, you are truly scheming! No need to test me, the truth is, you have already started believing me. I am actually more curious than you about this! But we should curb our own curiosity regarding matters relating to Heavenly Court. Three days later, I will execute Fang Zheng in front of you, but in exchange, you have to bring me Lord Sky Crane's soul intact. You should know that he is one of my subordinates, and is a rather capable one."
Fang Yuan became silent.
He Feng Yang did not stay, a light flashed and he vanished on the spot.
Since He Feng Yang left, Fang Yuan had no reason to stay, he decided to use Fixed Immortal Travel to return to Hu Immortal blessed land.
He had temporarily set aside the matter regarding Fang Zheng.
Fang Yuan's first priority now was to research the method that Feng Jin Huang gave him.
"Fairy Lian Xiang?" What was unexpected to Fang Yuan was that this method to revive was connected to a fairy of Spirit Affinity House from a previous generation.
Fairy Lian Xiang was a past generation fairy of Spirit Affinity House, her status was similar to Mo Yao.
According to Feng Jin Huang: When Fairy Lian Xiang was rank five, she was ambushed by an enemy and became a zombie. But she had one of the ten extreme physiques, the Desolate Ancient Moon physique. Through a fortunate opportunity, she succeeded in her immortal ascension. Her zombie body was purified by the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, it was as though she was reborn.
The last bit of content was deduced by many of Spirit Affinity House's Gu Immortals — to get rid of the zombie body, a way to revive was to undergo immortal ascension as one of the ten extreme physiques!
"Immortal ascension of the ten extreme physiques?" Fang Yuan was a little disappointed.
This method was not impossible to him.
He had blood skull Gu, he could raise a Gu Master's aptitude. First gen Gu Yue was an example which Fang Yuan could learn from.
But blood skull Gu was only a mortal Gu, even if Fang Yuan had many descendants and killed them, it could not raise the aptitude of an immortal zombie like Fang Yuan.
"However, if I can advance blood skull Gu to an Immortal Gu, it will work on me. I can use blood skull Immortal Gu to elevate my first aperture into the Desolate Ancient Moon aperture, if I undergo immortal ascension after that, I would likely revive. But to raise blood skull Gu into an Immortal Gu, I would need blood skull Gu's Immortal Gu recipe, it would expend a lot of time and effort to attempt this. Even if I can raise my aptitude to the level of the ten extreme physiques, the tribulation would likely be extremely dangerous."
According to Feng Jin Huang's information, when Fairy Lian Xiang underwent immortal ascension, it was a terrifying event. It was almost equivalent to the grand tribulation of a rank seven Gu Immortal!
Most likely, the immortal ascension of a zombie was too heaven defying, it attracted the rage of heaven.
Back then, if not for the help of several Gu Immortals from Spirit Affinity House, Fairy Lian Xiang would have been reduced to ashes by the grand tribulation.
The immortal ascension of one of the ten extreme physiques was already very terrifying. Fang Yuan had witnessed Hei Lou Lan's ascension, she even lost an Immortal Gu due to it.
After a person of the ten extreme physiques becomes a zombie, and attempts to become an immortal, the tribulation would be even fiercer, its intensity would rise by over a dozen times!
Fang Yuan concluded that this method not only required huge amounts of preparation, it would also expend a lot of time and energy, as well as carry great risks. Without help from others, with Fang Yuan's strength, even if he included the assistance of Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Hei Lou Lan, and Fairy Li Shan, it would not succeed.
Weighing the costs and benefits, Fang Yuan could only place this method aside.
He entered the prison cell of Dang Hun palace, he saw Fang Zheng who was locked inside.
"Fang Yuan, what are you trying to do?" Seeing his brother, Fang Zheng screamed, his gaze filled with hatred.
Fang Yuan said: "Why, are you still denying it?"
Fang Zheng shouted: "Even if Immortal Crane Sect and master are responsible, you are still the biggest culprit, you are the person who slaughtered uncle and aunt! I will never forgive you, I will never let you off! Kill me, or else we will always be enemies."
"Oh? My beloved brother, you are really stubborn. In that case…" Fang Yuan's gaze shined, he stretched out his arm towards Fang Zheng.
Soul search!
Fang Zheng's body shook, he could not move anymore, he wanted to shout, but he felt like his throat was stuck, he showed an anguished expression on his face.
Fang Yuan searched Fang Zheng's soul multiple times, but he did not find anything of value.
"Fang Zheng is such an ordinary Gu Master, why is Heavenly Court sending orders to eliminate him specifically?" Fang Yuan fell into deep thought. Even though there was no evidence, he felt inclined to believe that He Feng Yang was speaking the truth.
Fang Yuan did not know that Heavenly Court had fate Immortal Gu. Even though he had his previous life's memories, he was restricted by his status, he could not know everything. Especially when the strongest organization in the five regions, Heavenly Court, was involved.
"Did someone do something to Fang Zheng's soul?"
Fang Yuan shook his head immediately after.
That was very unlikely, but he could not deny the slim possibility of it.
"Should I hand over Fang Zheng or not?" This was the question.
Fang Yuan was not afraid of He Feng Yang, but he was wary of Immortal Crane Sect, and was worried about Heavenly Court. If any of the rank eight Gu Immortals in Heavenly Court attacked, killing him would be as easy as killing an ant.
Of course, that was if they battled.
Fang Yuan was not so foolish to get into one, he could escape and run away beforehand. Fixed Immortal Travel was an excellent method to do so.
Three days later, Fang Yuan handed over Fang Zheng and the spirit incubating flea, within it was Lord Sky Crane's soul.
Fang Zheng had evidently been tortured, he went through lots of terrifying punishment, not only was his skin torn and flesh exposed, he even had many deep wounds that revealed his bones.
In fact, one of his arms was cut off and replaced with a dog's limb. Even so, Fang Zheng could feel the dog limb and even manipulate it to move.
Such cruel treatment could make someone collapse mentally!
But He Feng Yang only took a glance without saying anything, he said to Fang Yuan: "You made a wise choice."
"Now, hold up your end of the agreement." Fang Yuan's gaze was shining.
"Watch closely!" He Feng Yang struck, under Fang Yuan's supervision, he killed Fang Zheng on the spot, fire burned until not a single trace of him was left.
"Lord He Feng Yang, why? You promised me!" Lord Sky Crane's voice came from the spirit incubating flea.
"This is an order from Heavenly Court. Immortal Crane Sect needs Fang Zheng's sacrifice! Sky Crane, this is your destiny. You wanted to possess Fang Zheng at first, but you relented and were willing to accompany him and teach him how to cultivate. Now, he is dead, not a trace of his soul is left. As compensation for going back on my words, I will find a good body for you to revive." He Feng Yang said slowly.
"Lord…" Lord Sky Crane's crying voice could be heard.
He Feng Yang waved his sleeves, he sucked the spirit incubating flea into his sleeve, as he took a look at Fang Yuan before leaving: "When you are free, you can come to Fei He mountain and have a look."
Chapter 858: Second Place
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Right now, I can confirm that He Feng Yang is expressing goodwill to me." Fang Yuan had a realization.
He Feng Yang invited Fang Yuan personally to take a look at Fei He mountain.
What was Fei He mountain?
It was the base of Immortal Crane Sect, even though it was somewhat symbolic, the meaning he was trying to express was clear.
After returning to Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan thought about He Feng Yang's change in attitude and smiled silently.
The duel with Feng Jin Huang allowed Fang Yuan and Spirit Affinity House to establish contact for trade. The transactions of guts Gu with Spirit Affinity House were higher in priority than Immortal Crane Sect.
But because it took advantage of the setup of Central Continent's Refinement Path Convention everyone bore witness to it, Immortal Crane Sect could not make up any excuses or complaints to stop these important transactions.
Hu Immortal blessed land and Spirit Affinity House had made contact, this made Immortal Crane Sect feel a strong sense of threat.
In history, among the ten sects, Spirit Affinity House had the highest rate of recruiting demonic path Gu Immortals. Bo Qing and Feng Jiu Ge were examples that were etched into people's hearts.
Not long ago, they had failed to take back Hu Immortal blessed land, now that Fang Yuan was showing strong attainment in refinement path, Immortal Crane Sect finally decided to persuade Fang Yuan in a more gentle way.
Thus, He Feng Yang's attitude towards Fang Yuan changed drastically.
The matter of Fang Zheng should be real. He Feng Yang's action was a sign of goodwill to Fang Yuan. He even tried to entice Fang Yuan using the possession technique.
To him, if Fang Yuan continued to keep Fang Zheng in captivity, Heavenly Court would take down Hu Immortal blessed land. Dang Hun mountain would definitely be taken by them in that case if Fang Yuan did not destroy it in advance. Hu Immortal blessed land could not be moved, and Heavenly Court was not interested in it anyway, one of the ten great ancient sects might get to inherit it.
But it would depend on internal competition between the sects under Heavenly Court to determine which one obtained it.
Evidently, the Gu Immortals from Immortal Crane Sect that were in Heavenly Court were weaker in power compared to the others, it was unlikely that they could take back Hu Immortal blessed land.
Even if they took it back, without Dang Hun mountain, Hu Immortal blessed land's value would be greatly diminished.
No matter how they looked at it, this went against He Feng Yang and Immortal Crane Sect's benefits.
Thus, He Feng Yang informed Fang Yuan of this matter, it was a way to defend his own benefits.
"Right now, I am a subsidiary force of Immortal Crane Sect on paper, but I am actually placing myself between Spirit Affinity House and Immortal Crane Sect. This has allowed my external pressure to reduce by more than half."
Fang Yuan heaved a sigh to himself.
In truth, Fang Yuan had been planning for such a situation.
He ignored Feng Jin Huang's challenge earlier, but he later sent a message and agreed to the duel, why was that?
It was because he wanted to make use of Spirit Affinity House to resist the pressure from Immortal Crane Sect.
Fang Yuan had achieved his intended outcome, but the crucial factor was not him. It was the allure of guts Gu itself!
Fang Yuan seized Hu Immortal blessed land, it greatly incited Feng Jin Huang and caused her to find out dream wings Immortal Gu's true ability in advance. Because Feng Jin Huang used Dream Wings, she obtained many benefits and placed greater importance on guts Gu. If not for that, why would Spirit Affinity House allow Fang Yuan to make use of them?
They were not fools!
Indeed, Fang Yuan purposely made the duel a draw. He wanted to show an agreeable attitude to Spirit Affinity House.
To Fang Yuan, this duel changed his circumstances in Central Continent, it greatly reduced his pressure and gave him more time and energy to make bigger plans.
Of course, once the secret that Fang Yuan was the culprit of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's collapse gets exposed, Central Continent would definitely be stirred up, Fang Yuan would be wanted by everyone, he would need to escape for his life.
From Feng Jin Huang's perspective, even though she was injured and did not win in the duel, she was the biggest winner.
With guts Gu's help from now on, she would be able to use dream wings Immortal Gu and improve drastically, her speed would surpass practically all Gu Immortals, she would grow rapidly.
"In my previous life, I killed Feng Jin Huang, but now, it seems that I am aiding her." Towards this, Fang Yuan felt deeply moved, but there was no point expressing this to others.
"Fang Yuan, the matter has been settled, if there is nothing else, I will leave first." Tai Bai Yun Sheng came to say his goodbyes.
These last days, he had been moving around Northern Plains, finding a suitable location to place his blessed land.
He had found a location already, and was about to place it down, but at the crucial moment, Fang Yuan asked him to return.
"Thank you for your help just now, you chose a good location, go ahead and blend your heaven and earth qi. When the calamity comes, I will lend you a hand." Fang Yuan said to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded, he went to Northern Plains using a stargate.
After obtaining Star Form blessed land, Fang Yuan received a huge stock of starlight firefly Gu, he no longer had to save up on the number of times stargates were used.
Fang Yuan came to the prison cell and saw Gu Yue Fang Zheng again.
Wasn't Gu Yue Fang Zheng killed by He Feng Yang already? Why was he alive here?
As it turns out, this was just a show by Fang Yuan.
He purposely cut off an arm from Gu Yue Fang Zheng, fitting a dog limb onto it, he was trying to create a false appearance of abuse and humiliation.
In truth, he kept the severed limb here, when He Feng Yang killed Fang Zheng, Fang Yuan asked Tai Bai Yun Sheng to use man as before Immortal Gu, expending a considerable amount of immortal essence on the severed arm, reviving Fang Zheng.
He Feng Yang did not suspect anything, he had limited knowledge, he did not know that an Immortal Gu like Man as Before existed.
From his perspective, Fang Zheng's body and soul were destroyed in front of him, thus Fang Zheng was definitely dead.
Any other Gu Immortal would think the same.
This was common sense.
But the world was huge, there were bound to be rare and strange Immortal Gu, or immortal killer moves, like Man as Before. Nobody could know them all, because humans had limited knowledge, even immortals were no exception.
Omnipotence and omniscience, even rank nine Gu Immortals or Ren Zu could not achieve that. To reach that stage, maybe only one grand existence could achieve it, that was the world!
Fang Yuan tossed an information path Gu worm to Fang Zheng, he showed a mocking expression as he said: "Take a good look, this is the Immortal Crane Sect that you are so grateful towards, and that kind hearted master of yours, if it were not for me, you would be dead already."
"Impossible! I won't believe your lies!" Fang Zheng screamed, but he still held this information path Gu worm in his hands.
In this Gu worm, the video of He Feng Yang killing Fang Zheng as well as his conversation with Lord Sky Crane's soul were recorded.
After looking at it, Fang Zheng broke the information path Gu worm into pieces, he fell into immeasurable rage. He raised his head and screamed, his expression contorted as he pointed at Fang Yuan, shouting: "Impossible! This is all fake, you made this up. I will not believe it, I will never believe it! You lied to me, you are lying! Unless I see it for myself, hear it for myself, and get master's reply!"
"You will witness it all. But… now is not the time yet." Fang Yuan turned around, leaving the room.
He shut the cell as the room went into complete darkness, Fang Zheng was still screaming in the darkness, he ran around in the tiny room and punched and kicked the walls, venting his emotions.
After settling the matter regarding Fang Zheng, Fang Yuan progressed smoothly in the Refinement Path Convention without any problems.
Since he eliminated some of the truly skilled Gu refinement experts early, it made the later rounds much easier for him.
Eventually, Feng Jin Huang got sixth place, while Fang Yuan reached the finals.
He faced the strongest competitor in this competition — Yu Mu Chun.
In this battle, Fang Yuan lost completely.
Even though the task was still the same as his previous life, and Fang Yuan had a huge advantage of knowing it in advance.
But his opponent — Yu Mu Chun — was a true refinement path quasi-great grandmaster.
This level was terrifying.
Even though Feng Jin Huang had dream wings Immortal Gu, she could not reach this stage easily. The higher the level of attainment went in each path, the more difficulty one would face in trying to raise it.
In history, only the Three Olds of refinement path could reach the highest point.
Right now in Northern Plains, there were only four people who were publicly known to match or surpass him, they were the four refinement path experts of Northern Plains.
Fang Yuan knew deeply, even if he had the advantage of knowing the task, he could not defeat Yu Mu Chun. This was the difference in level.
Speaking of which, Yu Mu Chun wore nearly the same thing as Fang Yuan, he wore a black robe that covered his entire body, as well as a mask on his face.
In Fang Yuan's previous life, he got first place. There were no surprises, his ability was truly unfathomable.
Fang Yuan forfeited without competing, many people were unhappy and blamed him. After all, refinement path attainment level was hard to assess, even though Yu Mu Chun was very strong, Fang Yuan was also an extremely favored contestant.
Forfeiting without a fight, the spectators who were looking forward to the final round felt unhappy, they were complaining and claiming that Fang Yuan's forfeiture was rigged!
But no matter what, Fang Yuan, who reached second place, obtained his original goal, he obtained a success dao mark.
After that, the representatives from Immortal Crane Sect and the other nine great ancient sects came to Fang Yuan, attempting to buy his dao mark.
This success dao mark could not be traded or given away. Even though Heavenly Court tried many times, they had never succeeded. The ten great ancient sects naturally did not have any intention to seize it, they only tried to make a deal with him.
After all, with Fang Yuan's incredible Gu refinement techniques (an over-evaluation on everyone's part), asking him to refine a rank six Immortal Gu would use up this success dao mark, in exchange for no failure rate.
No matter how high of a price the ten sects of Central Continent offered, Fang Yuan rejected them all.
Returning to Hu Immortal blessed land, he started preparing for the refinement of change form Immortal Gu.
Ever since Fang Yuan started the plan of refining change form Immortal Gu, he had been gathering the materials for it.
Because he had the success dao mark, he only needed one set of Gu refinement materials, this greatly reduced the cost that he had to bear.
Even so, after Fang Yuan collected all of the ingredients, he had already sold or traded most of the immortal materials that he had obtained from the Northern Plains auction. If not for the Refinement Path Convention filling up the gap in materials, he would still be lacking in some of them.
The difficulty of refining an Immortal Gu could be easily seen.
Fang Yuan only had to prepare one set of materials, but it expended almost all of his current accumulated resources.
If not for the guts Gu trade and success dao mark, Fang Yuan would not take a risk and undergo such a gamble.
Chapter 859: Refining Immortal Gu
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Central Continent, True Yang mountain range.
The setting sun was like blood, shining down on the uneven mountain range.
On a dangerous mountain peak here, a hairy man was climbing enthusiastically.
"Master, master! Wait for me!" The hairy man climbed as he shouted.
Unlike most other hairy men, this hairy man had a different sort of intelligence in his eyes, he spoke just like ordinary humans.
He was chasing after Yu Mu Chun along the mountain range, during the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention, this young hairy man had been taking notice of Yu Mu Chun.
When the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention ended, Yu Mu Chun got first place and the hairy man had been following after him, all along to this place.
This hairy man was strong and muscular, but he could not catch up to Yu Mu Chun.
Yu Mu Chun had entered True Yang mountain range after the Convention ended. The hairy man followed behind him, shouting and chasing. Along the way, he suffered a lot and was covered in dust and injuries.
"Master, wait for me!" The hairy man climbed onto the mountain peak, but he stared blankly: "How can this be? Master was still at the mountain peak earlier, how could he be at the base of the mountain so quickly? What Gu worm did he use?"
Seeing that the distance he had desperately shrunken had extended, the hairy man was anxious, he quickly went down the mountain, but he missed a step and lost his footing, rolling down the mountain slope.
Thankfully, there were thick branches that broke his fall.
Even so, he was crying and screaming as he rolled down until partway down the mountain, his body was bleeding and he suffered fractures everywhere.
The pain in his body was far less than the pain in his heart.
"If I miss this opportunity, it will be hard to find master again…"
The hairy man was crying, he struggled to get up, but he could not.
He raised his head in desperation: "Master, please take pity on this junior and come back! Boo hoo hoo…"
His voice was very weak, after his soft pleas, he starting sobbing profusely.
But when his tears flowed out, his body shook.
He saw that out of nowhere, a pair of legs were in front of him.
He looked up along the legs, joyfully seeing that Yu Mu Chun had turned back and was standing in front of him, observing him.
The hairy man quickly knelt down: "Master, master, you finally meet me!"
Yu Mu Chun sighed, his voice was deep and grave as he said: "Ben Duo Yi. Years ago, I only gave you a few pointers casually, you and I are not fated to be master and disciple."
The hairy man, Ben Duo Yi, heard this and cried out. He gathered strength from nowhere and jumped, hugging Yu Mu Chun's leg: "Master, oh master! Even if you are unwilling to admit you are my master, but from your instructions, I was enlightened, escaping from ignorance, I broke through my limits and my refinement attainment reached an unforeseen level. Even though you only said a few words, this gratitude is deeper than the sea, you changed my fate, thus in my heart, you are forever my master!"
Yu Mu Chun stretched out his arm, he rubbed the hairy man named Ben Duo Yi's head: "Hehehe, back then, i only gave you pointers because I saw that you were wiser than normal hairy men, you had greater cognitive abilities. But it is for your sake that I am not making you my disciple. I am a person who has escaped from fate, being associated with me will only bring you harm. From now on, you are not allowed to tell others that I had once given you pointers, otherwise, you will definitely die a terrible death. Remember this, you have to remember this."
"Disciple understands!" Ben Duo Yi nodded his head quickly.
Yu Mu Chun snorted: "Eh?"
Ben Duo Yi quickly changed his words: "I remember it, I remember it. Master Yu Mu Chun, please take me in. I am not qualified to be your disciple, but I can be your follower or slave. I am very diligent and witty, you praised me before. I will be very loyal, and serve you with all my heart."
Yu Mu Chun shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Oh you, oh you."
"Forget it, you have traveled through thirty mountains and encountered much hardship in pursuing me, it is very rare to see such determination and perseverance. Ben Duo Yi, remember this, your most outstanding merit is that you have unique intelligence. Man is the spirit of all beings, but even as a hairy man, your intelligence is not inferior to humans. But you cannot rely on this excessively, after all, a swimmer can always drown if he is careless, you must remember your own sincerity and perseverance, get up."
"Master, if you do not agree, I will not get up!" Ben Duo Yi shouted: "Ah!"
Suddenly, his arms grabbed air, even though they were holding onto Yu Mu Chun's legs earlier, a formless force was repelling him, he could only watch as Yu Mu Chun floated into the air, moving up towards the sky.
"Ben Duo Yi, our relationship, formed by fortuitous chance, ends here, today is the last day we will ever meet. Now, I will give you your final lesson, it is a parting gift, watch closely."
In the air, Yu Mu Chun's voice could be heard.
Ben Duo Yi looked up quickly, he watched with anticipation…
Central Continent, Earth Abyss, inside Star Form blessed land.
The night sky was gentle, a cool wind was blowing, Fang Yuan looked at the stars in the sky of the blessed land, they were giving off dim starlight.
It was complete silence.
Fang Yuan looked down slowly, retracting his gaze from the vast sky, onto the huge turtle shell in front of him.
This was not an ordinary turtle shell, it was the shell of a desolate beast turtle.
At this moment, the shell was upside down, like a bowl, with the shell being full of poisonous blood.
The poisonous blood was collected from Hu Immortal blessed land's earthly calamity. Now, in order to refine change form Immortal Gu, they could be used.
"I can finally start refining change form Immortal Gu." Fang Yuan let out a breath of foggy air.
The matter of refining change form Immortal Gu was top secret, Fang Yuan did not tell a single person. Even Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Hei Lou Lan, and Fairy Li Shan were kept in the dark, they had no idea.
As for Star Form blessed land, it had been closed long ago, because the blessed land was inside Earth Abyss, during this time period, nobody came here, it was a safe place.
Safety was very important.
Refining Immortal Gu was not easy to begin with, it could be said to be filled with difficulties. There were too many external influences that could affect the Immortal Gu refinement process, if he made even a single mistake, the extremely valuable immortal materials would be wasted, along with all his hard work.
Thus, he needed a quiet and safe environment to refine Immortal Gu!
Even though Fang Yuan had a success dao mark and could reduce the natural rate of failure when refining a rank six Immortal Gu to zero.
What if during the process of refinement, Fang Yuan made a technical error?
It was incredible important to find an environment like Star Form blessed land which could be relied upon to be undisturbed.
Otherwise, if Fang Yuan failed the refinement, he would have no one else to blame but himself!
Even though he was going to start, Fang Yuan still took half a day to condition his mind and body before starting.
When he felt his soul was replenished and at its peak condition, unable to become any better, he finally started.
His eyes shined with a brilliant light, countless ghost fires burned under the turtle shell.
At once, the surroundings burned with eerie fire, the temperature of an enormous area around him fell rapidly.
Inside the turtle shell, the poisonous blood had no reactions.
Central Continent, True Yang mountain range.
Ben Duo Yi was just raising his head to look, but he got stunned.
At this moment, his eyes widened to a ridiculous size.
He had thought that Yu Mu Chun's final lesson was to impart him some unique Gu refinement techniques or some strong refinement path killer moves.
But he did not think that Yu Mu Chun would stand in the air, waving his hand as he scattered some dazzling specks of light.
These specks of light were pure and bright, Ben Duo Yi's eyes were tearing up.
Just as he felt dizzy, he heard Yu Mu Chun's words: "Ben Duo Yi, this is the final lesson, open your eyes and watch, learn as much as you can. Alright, I am going to refine an Immortal Gu now!"
Immortal Gu!
Ben Duo Yi's heart shuddered, he opened his mouth, his jaws were opened so wide they almost dislocated.
"Refine, refine Immortal Gu?" He stammered, he could not understand what was going on, he was uncertain.
Why was Master Yu Mu Chun taking such a huge risk?
Even though Ben Duo Yi was not a Gu refinement expert, he knew that it was hard to refine Immortal Gu. Before refining the Immortal Gu, one needed to condition their body and mind, to get themselves into peak condition, while clearing their mind and being extremely aware of the Gu refinement procedures.
But Yu Mu Chun did not do that.
After the Refinement Path Convention ended, he entered True Yang mountain range, moving along the area and did not rest once.
And he was refining Gu in this place?!
True Yang mountain range was a very dangerous place.
The environment that you refined Gu in was very important, even a three year old knew that.
Right now, Ben Duo Yi was very worried: If they attracted desolate beasts during the Gu refinement, or even ancient desolate beasts, what would they do?
And this was not the most troublesome part.
In comparison to desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts, Gu Immortals were the biggest threats.
Because of Song Zi Xing, True Yang mountain range had many Gu Immortals now, they were searching and trying to locate Song Zi Xing. On one hand, they could beat him while he was down, while also completing the secret missions of their respective sects for great rewards.
Yu Mu Chun did not pay attention to Ben Duo Yi's thoughts, how worried or nervous he was.
He had a composed and grand attitude, he moved his hands gracefully.
At once, light shone up to a few hundred meters in height, clouds were gathering and forming layers in the sky.
Winds blew, the grass on the mountain swayed, beautiful flowers gave off the fragrant scents of nature.
…
Central Continent, Star Form blessed land.
An hour passed.
In the huge turtle shell, the poisonous blood was boiling, it gave off bubbling noises.
In the sky above the poisonous blood, a huge wave of poisonous gas was moving around, forming a thick and black poisonous fog.
As Fang Yuan increased the heat, the poisonous fog started to spread, it corroded the surrounding grass and flowers, causing them to die.
Fang Yuan did not care about this.
He had prepared meticulously, there were layers of Gu formations in the surroundings, the poisonous gas could not spread far, they were limited to this area.
"A thousand year bitter shell." Fang Yuan looked at the boiling poisonous blood as he stretched out a monstrous arm in request.
"Here, master!" At the next moment, Star Form land spirit appeared with the thousand year bitter shell, handing it to Fang Yuan.
In order to refine change form Immortal Gu, Star Form land spirit had turned into free labor for Fang Yuan.
During the entire process, he was Fang Yuan's assistant.
Chapter 860: Nature Gu Refinement Technique
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Bitter shells lived in deep waters.
Taking in the sand and rocks in the water, they could melt the sediments and turn them into bitter water. If someone opened the shell and obtained this bitter water, using it to brew wine, they would get bitter shell wine. Its taste is very unique, bitter and fragrant.
Fang Yuan had once obtained a bitter shell, he opened it and used the bitter water to create bitter wine, before using that to refine the liquor worm.
Bitter shells were quite rare already, but thousand year bitter shells were even rarer, it was a good material to refine Immortal Gu.
Fang Yuan's bitter shell was a thousand year bitter shell, it was black and had circular loops of white markings, like tree rings. The alternating black and white color was very eye-catching.
Fang Yuan looked at the fire below the turtle shell, as for the thousand year bitter shell in his hand, he threw it in without looking.
Refining Immortal Gu was very important, all of the immortal materials had to be checked.
Fang Yuan had already checked them many times, the ingredients had no problems.
Thus, when Fang Yuan was refining Gu, he did not need to distract himself and inspect the immortal materials, he only needed to check the flame's intensity.
After tossing in the thousand year bitter shell, the poisonous blood no longer boiled, but the poisonous gas was still rumbling, like there was a black python coiling around inside.
An intense, foul odor was created.
Fang Yuan did not move, he was engulfed in the foul odor, sniffing it attentively.
Although he was an immortal zombie and did not have any sense of smell, he had investigative killer moves to help him smell things.
This odor was hard to describe, it was absolutely disgusting, Fang Yuan wanted to vomit, his head was dizzy from smelling it.
But Fang Yuan had to persevere, because this odor was one of the signs of whether the Gu refinement was successful, whether the thousand year bitter shell melted perfectly into it.
Soon, the thousand year bitter shell that Fang Yuan tossed in completely melted, the black poisonous fog stopped rumbling, while the poisonous blood boiled again.
Fang Yuan tossed in a second, then a third thousand year bitter shell one by one…
After a total of twelve bitter shells were melted, the poisonous fog was extremely thick, the intense foul odor started to smell fragrant.
Fang Yuan's expression became more serious and stern.
…
"Twin ice heart!"A hairy man, Ben Duo Yi, shouted.
Even though he was only a rank five Gu Master, he had an extraordinary refinement path attainment level. Thus, he had broad vision and could recognize the immortal material that Yu Mu Chun took out.
Ben Duo Yi had an expression of shock.
A thumb sized ice heart was already an immortal material, but the ice heart that Yu Mu Chun took out was as large as a basin!
Not only was it big, the crucial thing was that this ice heart had a special appearance, within it were two conjoined pieces of heart shaped ice.
This was a twin ice heart, it was a hundred times rarer than ordinary ice hearts!
Ordinary ice hearts were rank six immortal materials, they could create rank six Immortal Gu. Meanwhile, twin ice hearts were immortal materials that could refine rank seven Immortal Gu.
'Such a valuable immortal material, he actually took it out first. Evidently, the twin ice heart is not the main material for this Gu, it is only a supplementary material. Master is really amazing, I have no idea what Gu he is trying to refine.' Ben Duo Yi had a look of admiration and adoration.
At the same time, he finally relaxed.
Such a precious material was used, it seemed that Master Yu Mu Chun was prepared, he was not casually refining this Gu.
But Ben Duo Yi thought: Yu Mu Chun was here in the middle of nowhere refining a precious Immortal Gu in the open. Was this because Yu Mu Chun was stupid? Or was he extremely daring and fearless from his skill?
Ben Duo Yi could not come to a conclusion.
The surrounding winds were getting stronger, soon, the winds gathered into a tornado.
The tornadoes were separated by a certain distance, they did not crash into one another, it resembled a scene of a forest of tornadoes.
Yu Mu Chun floated in the air, in between the tornado forest, the winds were wild, as his bronze mask was blown away, revealing an aged face which was full of hair.
Yu Mu Chun laughed loudly, his body shook as the black robe on him tore, the pieces of fabric flew away, showing Yu Mu Chun's muscular body, his entire body was covered in brown hair.
It turned out that his real identity was like that of Ben Duo Yi, he was a hairy man.
No wonder he gave Ben Duo Yi pointers.
Hairy men were variant humans, they were different from humans. More specifically, they were two different races.
Not even Fang Yuan knew about Yu Mu Chun's true identity.
As if he understood Ben Duo Yi's worries, Yu Mu Chun, while paying close attention to his work, said: "You fool! Why do we hairy men have talent for Gu refinement? It is because hairy men are born with refinement path dao marks on our bodies. In fact, refinement path originated from hairy men. In terms of the history of Gu refinement, we have been doing it for eons, our accumulated foundations dozens of times deeper than that of humans! But humans have achieved superiority, they wiped out many hairy men, causing countless pieces of precious refinement path knowledge to be lost. Right now, the Gu refinement techniques of humans are influencing hairy men, this is a huge error."
Yu Mu Chun continued: "For example, when humans refine Gu, they need a quiet environment that is isolated from the outside world. This allows them to refine Gu safely, they have a higher chance of succeeding. But this is only focusing on short term gains, they are not planning ahead for the future."
"Gu Masters nurture, use, and refine, nurturing Gu is being familiar with materials and their connection to Gu worms, why do we feed certain kinds of food to a particular Gu worm? Looking at the Gu worm and its food, countless Gu recipes can be discovered. Using Gu is using and understanding the dao marks on the Gu worm. Refining Gu is even more crucial, it is the handling of dao marks. When refining Gu, one should be surrounded by nature! Because the world itself has an endless number of dao marks. It is like a baby in a mother's womb, the world itself is the best place to refine Gu. If we can make use of the dao marks of the world, in a way, the world itself is helping us refine Gu!"
"Borrowing the power of the world to refine Gu?!" Ben Duo Yi stared with wide opened eyes, he was tongue-tied.
Yu Mu Chun's words were shocking, this was the first time Ben Duo Yi had heard this theory, it was a huge inspiration and expanded his vision.
Yu Mu Chun laughed heartily, his eyes shined with brilliance: "Ben Duo Yi, you have learned the Gu refinement techniques of humans, even though they are effective, you have taken the wrong path. Learning from others can improve oneself, but the ways of humans is not suited for us. If you want to improve further and become a refinement path great grandmaster, you will need to go back to your origins, and use the Gu refinement methods of us hairy men."
"I am willing! I am willing! Master Yu Mu Chun, please be magnanimous and teach me the Gu refinement techniques of us hairy men!" Ben Duo Yi shouted excitedly, he kowtowed non stop.
Yu Mu Chun laughed heartily: "Don't be eager to make a decision, there is a huge risk in this, you might not improve, it could potentially harm you instead. I started feeding Gu worms at three years old, I touched and was in close contact with Gu worms at ten years old, without any instructors, I knew what food foreign Gu worms needed to eat, and how to feed them. At sixteen, I used human Gu refinement techniques to refine rank five Gu with a ninety percent success rate. But this was a wrong path, when I was twenty-two, I realized this point, I decided to start all over again, refining Gu in nature. When I was a hundred and thirty-eight years old, my nature Gu refinement techniques had finally reached a state of minor success. Now that I am two hundred and forty-six years old, my nature Gu refinement techniques has reached great success. I can comprehend nature and learn about astrology and earth veins, I can choose the most suitable area, making use of hidden dao marks in heaven and earth to assist me in my Gu refinement. Right now, I have a forty percent success rate in refining rank six Immortal Gu, and a five percent success rate in refining rank seven Immortal Gu. As for rank eight Immortal Gu, limited by my cultivation level, I have not tried them yet."
Such words shook Ben Duo Yi.
Yu Mu Chun's success rate in refining Gu was too high.
Ordinarily, the success rate of refining rank six Immortal Gu was less than one percent.
For rank seven, the success rate was one-tenth of a percent, and for rank eight, it was one-hundredth of a percent.
As for Yu Mu Chun, he could refine rank six Immortal Gu with a forty percent success rate. That was four in ten attempts. And for rank seven Immortal Gu, he could succeed once in every twenty attempts.
Such a success rate would shock the world if it was exposed!
This was the brilliance of nature Gu refinement techniques.
And Ben Duo Yi also realized.
To learn these incredible technique, one needed ample talent and aptitude. Yu Mu Chun had incredible talent, he fed Gu worms at three years old, he was in close contact with Gu worms at ten, learning what they ate. By that age, he had already learned that Gu worms carried the traces of dao marks, they were connected to all beings in this world.
When Yu Mu Chun was sixteen, he could refine rank five Gu using human techniques. When he was twenty-two, he realized this was not the way for him, and he gave up his achievements, restarting from scratch.
From this point, one could see that Yu Mu Chun not only had talent, he also had ambition and aspiration.
Furthermore, to learn nature Gu refinement techniques, one needed huge amounts of time and resources.
When Yu Mu Chun was a hundred and thirty-eight years old, he achieved minor success. When he was two hundred and forty-six years old, he attained great success.
Along the way, he must have spent an immense amount of wealth and time to practice, it was unthinkable.
Aside from his talent, just the point about expending resources was unrealistic for Ben Duo Yi because he was a lone cultivator.
When Gu Immortals cultivate, they needed resources. This was even more the case for refinement path Gu Masters. Without lots of practice, without enough resources, even Gu Immortals could learn nothing.
Most Gu Immortals were flying masters, but only a small number were refinement path masters.
Fang Yuan did not have higher achievements in refinement path, he only had become a refinement path quasi-grandmaster. Other than his limited talent and that his efforts were not focused on this path, it was also because he was limited by resources.
Yu Mu Chun saw that the tornadoes were calming down, he started to refine Gu.
He stood in the air, his hair was swaying as he took out immortal materials one after another from his immortal aperture.
He tossed these immortal materials into each of the tornadoes after careful selection.
The tornadoes were like sharp blades, the immortal materials were grinded into powder quickly.
Ben Duo Yi was dumbfounded.
Ordinarily speaking, when refining Gu, the sets of immortal materials had to be measured properly, the timing in which they were used was precise, and the heat used to handle the immortal materials had to be managed.
But Yu Mu Chun was very casual, leaving aside the forest of tornadoes, his technique in handling the immortal materials was very crude, he did not pay attention to the quantity of each material. He was like a terrible chef, randomly tossing in oil and other condiments into the dish according to his urges.
If anyone else tried this method, Ben Duo Yi would scoff in disdain.
But when Yu Mu Chun did it, there was an unspeakably smooth flow and natural feeling.
His every moment was very ordinary, but there was an indescribable beauty, as if perfectly suited to nature, deep and profound meaning was hidden in his actions.
At once, Ben Duo Yi had frozen in place, his eyes were staring without blinking.
He was completely dazed!
Chapter 861: Successful Refinement
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Star Form blessed land.
Poisonous fog was spreading, poisonous blood was boiling, three layers of Gu formations were already destroyed by corrosion, the surrounding land turned into a thin layer of poisonous swampland.
Fang Yuan's face was stern.
"Next is the most troublesome and difficult to process immortal material, earthly limit astral qi."
He took out an immortal material and held it in his hands.
This Gu refinement material was very peculiar, it was made up of soil and qi. They gathered into a lump.
At the top was light azure colored astral qi, below was black soil.
Astral qi was the heaven qi found up in the nine heavens. Outside the immemorial nine heavens was a thick wall of astral qi. If a Gu Immortal wants to explore the nine heavens, he would need to break through the astral qi wall.
Meanwhile, the black soil was made up of the essence of earth qi condensed from the ten depths.
Heaven and earth qi could not coexist, but at this moment, this earthly limit astral qi was joined together in harmony. Not only were they existing peacefully, they were converting into one another constantly. Black soil turned into astral qi while astral qi turned into black soil.
Fang Yuan's shook it by moving his hands rapidly, as this lump of earthly limit astral qi melted, fusing with the black soil and becoming a lump of fog.
But after shaking, after a dozen breaths, the black soil sank while the astral qi stayed on top. Black and white was separated again, the two were rotating, it was a mystical sight.
"Processing such an immortal material is most troublesome. Ordinary refinement path killer moves cannot deal with it perfectly. Only the four publicly recognized strongest immortal killer moves to deal with immortal materials — slumbering lightning python, reflect snow, muffled thunder stone drum, and wind grind, could complete this step instantly. Unfortunately, I do not have any of these four immortal killer moves, to process the earthly limit astral qi, I can only put in much time and effort."
Fang Yuan's thoughts flashed as he moved his feet, his huge body shot into the air, he leaped and jumped into the turtle shell, into the poisonous blood.
Boom!
Fang Yuan flashed his sharp nails, causing injuries on his six monstrous arms, he next slashed at his chest, back, and other areas, creating openings on his skin.
Blood refinement killer move — Blood Trace Travel.
From these injuries, traces of blood appeared.
The blood traces quickly fused into the dark purple poisonous blood, the poisonous blood in the turtle shell was drawn away, it moved into Fang Yuan's wounds.
Intense pain assaulted him, Fang Yuan snorted.
Immortal zombies did not have a sense of pain, Fang Yuan could feel pain because he used Gu worm methods. He needed to feel pain so that he could know what step the immortal materials were at.
Fang Yuan's blood and the poisonous blood in the turtle shell acting as a pot continued to fuse and circulate, they were entering and exiting Fang Yuan's body.
After this process stabilized, Fang Yuan took out the earthly limit astral qi and swallowed it.
Gulp, the earthly limit astral qi entered his stomach.
This was his own original method, created in his previous life, an abnormal technique using blood path to refine Gu. He called this the flesh body blood refinement technique.
The earthly limit astral qi entered his body, it was engulfed by the blood and slowly melted into the blood.
Blood flowed out of Fang Yuan's body through the wounds, into the turtle shell pot, and sank to the bottom.
At the same time, the other poisonous blood in the pot flowed into Fang Yuan's body through the wounds, engulfing the earthly limit astral qi again.
Such circulation made the earthly limit astral qi melt at an extremely slow speed.
At a mountain peak on True Yang mountain range, winds were blowing wildly.
The hairy man Gu Immortal, Yu Mu Chun, stretched out a finger.
Where his finger pointed, five or six tornadoes slowly approached. When they got close to a certain extent, they gathered into one, forming a huge tornado that howled loudly.
Yu Mu Chun's hand turned, a pearl-like immortal material was flicked out by his finger, entering the huge tornado.
Although this pearl was small and inconspicuous, after it entered the tornado, it emitted a shrill noise.
The winds of the tornado became weaker, it spin slower. It was like a strong man who was stuffed from eating.
But as time passed, the tornado became faster and faster, it was rapidly 'digesting' the pearl.
Fifteen minutes later, the tornado completely absorbed the pearl, the entire 'pillar' was dyed in black and white, interchanging between the two colors.
"Earthly limit astral qi pearl?" Ben Duo Yi saw this and had a thought, he cried out.
Yu Mu Chun was a bit surprised, he praised: "Mm, you have quite some knowledge, lad. To process the earthly limit astral qi pearl, a small tornado would not work, only a large tornado could do it."
Ben Duo Yi suppressed the shaking of his heart.
Earthly limit astral qi was a very hard to process immortal material. Ben Duo Yi knew deeply that even if he exerted himself, he would need to spend several years to melt a lump of earthly limit astral qi, so that it could be used in Gu refinement.
He was a mortal Gu Master, to process immortal materials, he would usually need to spend years on it.
As for the earthly limit astral qi pearl?
It was made from a huge amount of earthly limit astral qi, squeezed together and gathered into a pure pearl. One pearl was equivalent to a hundred portions of earthly limit astral qi.
Earthly limit astral qi pearls were extremely firm, they were hard to process. Even Gu Immortals needed to spend months or even years to melt one pearl.
But Master Yu Mu Chun spent such a short time to process an earthly limit astral qi pearl?
Ben Duo Yi thought of something, his voice trembled as he asked: "Don't tell me… Master Yu Mu Chun, the refinement path killer move that you used is the legendary wind grind? That has to be it, only one of the four legendary refinement path immortal killer moves can process immortal materials at such a speed!"
"That's right, it is wind grind." Yu Mu Chun replied.
Ben Duo Yi's eyes were shining brightly, this was one of the best methods to process immortal materials. Even if he was not a Gu Immortal, and could not use an immortal killer move, but right now, he was filled with admiration, he dreamed that one day, he would be able to use wind grind to perfectly process immortal materials, that would be incredible!
After dealing with the earthly limit astral qi pearl, Yu Mu Chun started to throw immortal essence stones into the tornadoes.
One after another, immortal essence stones were tossed into the tornadoes, these stones were not as tough as the earthly limit astral qi pearl, they were grinded to dust in an instant by blades of wind, they gave off a dazzling light.
Right now, heaven and earth was resonating, the surrounding mountains were shaking, the sky was filled with dark clouds, thunder was booming.
"What is going on?" Ben Duo Yi was scared and shocked, he looked around and realized that the mound of the mountain that he was on had lights floating around him.
These lights were dao marks.
There were some red fire path dao marks, some blue water path dao marks, these two dao marks were quite fragmented. There were also earth path and wood path dao marks, they were slightly more intact. But mostly, there was a type of silver light dao mark flickering.
Rule path dao marks!
These dao marks were very high in numbers, but they were not arranged in an orderly way. Some were entangled together, densely compacted, while others were scattered around randomly.
Ben Duo Yi realized that the place where Yu Mu Chun chose to refine Gu had the highest number of rule path dao marks.
"This mound seems ordinary, but it is very extraordinary, no wonder Master Yu chose to refine Gu here! Strange, ordinary mounds would not have so many dao marks." The more Ben Duo Yi observed, the more questions popped up in his head.
He felt pressure internally, because the shaking of the mountain was getting stronger, the clouds in the sky were getting darker.
A thunderstorm was approaching, a calamity was striking!
Even those tornadoes were weakening, they shrunk in size.
Yu Mu Chun raised his head in the sky, laughing loudly as his voice was filled with confidence and grandness.
At this moment, his Immortal Gu refinement had reached its most crucial step.
"Come." He pointed one finger at the sky, and another finger at the ground.
In the sky, lightning bolts flashed as they gathered together, forming a huge dragon-like lightning python.
Lightning was yang, python was yin, the lightning python contained yin and yang, not only was the wild nature of the lightning curbed, it even showed some gentleness.
This was slumbering lightning python!
One of the four refinement path immortal killer moves!
Meanwhile, on the ground, countless tornadoes were gathering, forming into a gigantic tornado wind pillar.
The wind pillar was tall, almost connecting the sky and ground. The slumbering lightning python slowly moved, descending slowly and coiling around the wind pillar.
The lightning was not dazzling, but the scene of the huge python coiling around the pillar had an indescribable beauty that shook the soul.
At this moment, heaven and earth qi burst out.
An intense sense of danger assaulted Ben Duo Yi's heart.
"Master Yu, what, what is going on, why is this situation resembling the tribulation of a Gu Immortal?" Ben Duo Yi shouted.
"Ah, you guessed right. This is a small problem." Yu Mu Chun said casually.
"A small problem?!" Ben Duo Yi's eyes were wide open, his mouth was dry.
Star Form blessed land.
Fang Yuan was covered in wounds, the pain made his face distorted, his eight monstrous arms were inserted into the poisonous blood, his fangs were exposed and his eyes were red, he was breathing heavily like an ox.
After spending a total of three days and three nights, he had finally processed all of the earthly limit astral qi, fusing them into the poisonous blood.
The poisonous blood filled the entire pot earlier, but now less than half was left.
"The most difficult step is over, land spirit, bring those captives here." Fang Yuan shouted.
Star Form land spirit quickly responded.
At once, large numbers of living beings, like horses, bulls, dogs, or boars were all tossed into the poisonous blood.
Screaming, growling, and crying could be heard, they blended together.
The poisonous blood was extremely thick, like a swamp. After these living beings were tossed in, their intense struggle only made them sink faster.
Their blood, flesh, and bones were all being dissolved.
Soon, the poisonous blood in the turtle shell was slowly rising in depth.
"Not enough, not enough." Fang Yuan urged, his red eyes flashed with excitement and cruelty.
Land spirits did not care for kindness or evil, they only had obsession and loyalty.
Star Form land spirit started to toss in large numbers of variant humans. These included hairy men, rockmen, snowmen, inkmen, eggmen, feathermen, and mermen…
The poisonous blood rose in level, but Fang Yuan was not satisfied, he calculated the time as he shouted again: "More, add more of them."
At this point, the human captives that he had specially prepared were also tossed into the pot.
"Ah, spare my life!"
"So painful, the pain is killing me!"
"I will not let you off even as a ghost!"
Fang Yuan was unmoved, he only focused on the Gu refinement progress. An elderly Gu Master was coincidentally tossed to the side of him, he struggled to survive.
Fang Yuan raised his leg and kicked this elderly man into a deep part of the poisonous blood, the old man struggled intensely for a few moments, but eventually, only his hand was left on the surface of the poisonous blood, his fingers were like hooks grabbing at the sky, it was like the protest of the weak against heaven and earth, against destiny, carrying intense curses and grudges towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan laughed loudly, during this period, the poisonous blood had regained its original volume, it was at the rim of the turtle shell.
He began to throw in large numbers of immortal essence stones into the poisonous blood.
One hundred, two hundred pieces… he threw them in without hesitation.
Countless vengeful spirits were flying on top of the poisonous blood, the poisonous fog was rumbling as the level of poisonous blood declined again.
Seven days later, the poisonous blood was almost completely dried up, there was only a small puddle left in the shell, it could not even reach Fang Yuan's ankle.
Fang Yuan lowered his body and picked up a Gu from this poisonous blood.
Change form Immortal Gu, completed!
Central Continent, True Yang mountain range.
Ben Duo Yi sat on the ground, muttering: "The tribulation is finally over…"
The mountain range was partly destroyed, it was like a ravaged battlefield.
Be it the tornado wind pillar or the slumbering lightning python, they had disappeared.
Rain poured as Ben Duo Yi was drenched completely.
Yu Mu Chun collected the refined Immortal Gu as he threw an information path Gu worm to Ben Duo Yi.
"Lad, this is my refinement path inheritance, I am leaving it to you. You can learn about nature Gu refinement techniques, but if you do not become a Gu Immortal, you cannot use this method to refine Gu. Because this method attracts heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities."
Saying so, Yu Mu Chun stepped on the air and flew into the sky.
Ben Duo Yi's body shuddered, he knelt down as his eyes shined with a brilliant light, he shouted: "Master, don't worry, I will not waste this inheritance!"
Chapter 862: After Refining Gu
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Central Continent, Hu Immortal blessed land.
Starlight Immortal Gu!
Fang Yuan stood on top of a Fang Yuan stone nest, at his will, he activated starlight Immortal Gu.
Immediately, a starlight pillar burst out, shooting into the stone nest.
Under Fang Yuan's control, the starlight did not harm anyone, it was very mild.
Inside this stone nest, there were many arrangements of Gu formations. Once the starlight pillar shot in, it was dissolved into traces of blue starlight rays, drawn into the first room of every level.
The hairy man in the first room activated his Gu worm skillfully, absorbing the starlight trace and processing it.
The partly-done product was sent into the second room, for the second step.
Going through a total of seven rooms, star thought Gu were refined one after another.
These star thought Gu moved along the tunnels, sliding towards the deepest storage area of the stone nest.
Each time Fang Yuan activated starlight Immortal Gu, the amount produced was enough for these hairy men to work for eight to nine days without any rest!
After using starlight Immortal Gu, there would be a huge quantity of starlight, Fang Yuan did not need to purchase starlight Gu like before and refine star thought Gu using the mortal starlight Gu as material. This saved a lot of trouble, and his costs reduced slightly as well.
Even though using starlight Immortal Gu required immortal essence, if he purchased a vast number of mortal starlight Gu, he would still need to pay quite a sum, the cost of acquiring them was high.
The modified star thought Gu recipe was safer as well. Refining Gu was a risky thing to do, it was like battling, that was why a lot of hairy men got injured in the process, or even died.
After producing the starlight, Fang Yuan did not leave, he observed them for a while.
A while later, he nodded slightly, feeling pleased internally.
The current star thought Gu recipe was already modified by him, the number of hairy man deaths had greatly reduced in comparison to before. Most importantly, the production of star thought Gu did not fall in numbers.
'But the modification has reached its limits, unless my star path attainment level rises, or if I find a better star thought Gu recipe.'
Fang Yuan knew clearly that he was not a star path cultivator. His star path attainment level might stay at this level forever. Or perhaps, when he explores a dream realm in the future, his star path attainment level might rise.
But who could be certain of events in the future?
"It is a pity, sixty percent of rooms in this stone nest are empty. If I have enough hairy men, the production of star thought Gu can double!"
Fang Yuan felt it was a pity.
Just now, to refine change form Immortal Gu, he not only used up the success dao mark from the Infallible inheritance, he even used up almost all of his immortal materials and immortal essence stones.
The result was that Fang Yuan was currently broke.
Thus, the problem of a hairy man shortage could not be solved now.
Even if he caught and captured wild hairy men, he would need to spend lots of effort and time to train them, until they were proper slaves that could be useful in refining Gu.
Fang Yuan did not know how to train wild hairy men into proper slaves.
The fastest way was to buy hairy man slaves from other Gu Immortals. Regrettably, Fang Yuan did not have the spare cash for that.
Even his immortal essence storage was very low now, he had around ten beads, he needed to use them wisely.
One could say that Fang Yuan was in an extremely weak condition now. Even though he had the killer move myriad self, three new star path Immortal Gu, and multiple star path immortal killer moves of Star Lord Wan Xiang, without enough immortal essence, he could not use any of the killer moves.
As the saying goes, there is no need for worry if one has ample resources.
To Gu Immortals, resources referred to immortal essence stones and immortal essence mainly.
Thus, the most important thing for Fang Yuan was to accumulate immortal essence now.
After leaving this stone nest, Fang Yuan went to inspect the other two stone nests.
During this period, these two stone nests were handled by Hei Lou Lan.
She activated strength qi Immortal Gu, providing the Gu refinement materials for countless hairy men, large numbers of airsac Gu were created, they contained guts Gu as they were sold to the different forces of Central Continent, or in treasure yellow heaven.
In these two stone nests, each room had a hairy man.
The risk of refining airsac Gu was much higher than refining star thought Gu. Why was the stone nest still at full capacity, that was because Fang Yuan reassigned the hairy men in the third stone nest to fill up these two stone nests.
Fang Yuan's current focus was on expanding the guts Gu trade.
During the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention, Fang Yuan dueled Feng Jin Huang and made an agreement in public. From now on, he was going to sell a large number of guts Gu to Spirit Affinity House.
Thus, the demand for guts Gu increased, Fang Yuan had to increase its production.
Inside a stone nest, Fang Yuan met up with Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan was browsing the information about Central Continent.
"Central Continent's ten great sects are secretly trying to capture Song Zi Xing, have you heard about it?" Once they met, Hei Lou Lan asked this to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan smiled lightly: "Of course I did. This matter can be kept from mortals, but it cannot be hidden from Gu Immortals. Even though Central Continent's ten great ancient sects are concealing their tracks, the other Gu Immortals in Central Continent would not want to keep this a secret, right now, they are looking forward to seeing some drama in the ten great ancient sects."
"Sigh!" Hei Lou Lan sighed deeply: "Such a prime opportunity, but we missed it. If we could kill Song Zi Xing during this period, we might be able to obtain Star Form blessed land."
Fang Yuan was silent briefly, before saying: "Hei Lou Lan, you're simplifying the matter too much. Central Continent is not Northern Plains, we are both Northern Plains Gu Immortals, if our aura leaks, others will find out. The consequences of exposing our identities are too severe, we cannot handle it. Song Zi Xing is also very crafty, he is skilled at escaping, while we have mediocre investigative methods. Even the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent cannot find him in True Yang mountain range, how can we find him?"
"You are right." Hei Lou Lan sighed, she replied gloomily.
Ever since she was 'awakened' by Fang Yuan, she realized her own shortcomings.
These last days, she had been thinking daily about how to manage her blessed land, how could she earn resources and sustain her own cultivation, how could she become more independent.
But reality was cruel, it was not easy to start a business.
Hei Lou Lan was starting from scratch, she needed to spend a huge amount of time and face many setbacks to set up her revenue sources.
Even if her plan worked, she would face fierce competition in the market, how much profit she would get would depend entirely on the situation.
Hei Lou Lan thought about it for a while, she went to Fairy Li Shan for advice, she learned that to start a business from scratch, she would make great losses initially, the process would be filled with difficulty, and in the end, whether she earned much or not was uncertain, she might be slowing her own progress.
There was no helping it, she had a ten extreme immortal aperture, the flow of time in it was extremely fast, her heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities were also much stronger.
Hei Lou Lan investigated and realized: What was best suitable were unique businesses like guts Gu, a monopoly market that could be solely hers. Or she could be like Fang Yuan, taking several sources of revenue from Dong Fang tribe. For example, the eerie fire dragon pythons, regretful spiders, dragonfish and others, these were originally taken good care of by Dong Fang tribe, Fang Yuan was only taking over and changing where he sold them.
After discovering this, Hei Lou Lan was even more attracted to Star Form blessed land.
As long as she obtained it, Hei Lou Lan would have a stable foundation! Inheriting Star Lord Wan Xiang's businesses, she would be self sufficient, it would be enough to aid her in her cultivation.
Fang Yuan did not tell Hei Lou Lan that he was the owner of Star Form blessed land.
He liked to keep his cards hidden.
The Snowy Mountain Alliance would expire eventually, it was uncertain if Hei Lou Lan would remain an ally or become a foe.
Of course, if Hei Lou Lan noticed something and asked Fang Yuan, because of the alliance, he could not lie, even though he could remain silent, that would just act as simple confirmation for Hei Lou Lan.
He would hide this for as long as he could.
That was Fang Yuan's plan.
…
After Yu Mu Chun refined the Immortal Gu, he traveled deep into True Yang mountain range.
Ever since he separated from Ben Duo Yi, he had used an immortal killer move to conceal his tracks.
On this afternoon, he stopped in front of a small, ordinary looking valley.
He took out an information path Gu worm and tossed it in front of him.
The Gu worm vanished, like a rock entering water, there were ripples in the air, they expanded and an opening appeared, filled with blood red light inside.
Yu Mu Chun did not hesitate, he took a large step forward and entered the spatial crack.
At the next moment, he was inside a strange area.
The crack behind him closed tightly, Yu Mu Chun's vision was filled with blood red light, there was a dark and eerie poisonous swamp, large numbers of skeletons were inside the mud.
An intense bloody smell assaulted him, Yu Mu Chun frowned unconsciously as he said: "Using so many blood sacrifices, it seems your injuries were severe, Song Zi Xing."
"Cough cough, I had no choice, it was quite fortunate that I escaped with my life. Come in." At a deep part of the swamp, Song Zi Xing's voice could be heard.
Looking at this situation, the hairy man Gu Immortal, Yu Mu Chun, was actually acquainted with a top tier demonic path Gu Immortal of Central Continent, Song Zi Xing, they seemed to be quite familiar with each other, they had a close relationship!
Yu Mu Chun moved in familiar fashion towards a deep part of the swamp. This was not the first time he was in this place, he was familiar with the terrain.
Eventually, in the blood pool at the center of the swamp, he saw Song Zi Xing.
Song Zi Xing only had a head and over half his chest left, the entirety of his body was submerged in the blood pool for healing, only after Yu Mu Chun came did his head emerge from the pool.
Seeing Song Zi Xing, Yu Mu Chun's expression turned grave: "With your injuries, it will be hard to take part in the upcoming crucial plan."
"Hehe, I will just be giving up my life and cultivation, that's all." Song Zi Xing's expression was calm, he spoke in a carefree manner, he changed the subject afterwards: "Did you refine that rule path Immortal Gu?"
"Mm, using the success dao mark from the Infallible inheritance, combined with my nature Gu refinement techniques, success was certain. But it is a pity, if given more time, I would be able to learn some useful things from this success dao mark. The success dao marks in the Infallible inheritance are different from ordinary success dao marks, they are very closely related to refinement path. If I could research upon it, I would be able to create my own Infallible inheritance!"
Yu Mu Chun shook his head as he sighed.
Chapter 863: Elevating All-Out Effort Gu
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Hearing Yu Mu Chun's sigh, Song Zi Xing sighed as well: "The crucial thing is time. If I have time, I can heal and recover my battle strength as well. Unfortunately, time is too tight, it was estimated that we had ten years left, to think that we need to start now!"
"We have made many preparations these last years, but plans cannot keep up with changes, and fate Immortal Gu was not completely destroyed, isn't it normal to have such accidents occurring?" Yu Mu Chun asked.
Even Fang Yuan, who had been reborn from five hundred years in the future, did not know about the existence of Fate. In contrast, Yu Mu Chun actually knew, and Song Zi Xing's expression also showed no surprise.
"Oh right." Yu Mu Chun thought about something and said: "Earlier, before coming here, I met with a talented hairy man junior and passed him my refinement path inheritance already."
Inheritances were a cultural symbol of the Gu Master world.
Like how during ancient times in China, there was a need to acknowledge one's roots and ancestors. Grand heroes would want to leave their name in history. After people died, huge amounts of jewelry and gold would be buried with them, even servants or wives were buried alongside. During Japan's Sengoku Period, warriors would wear glorious armor into battle, they did not care about the dangers of attracting the enemy's attention.
As for Rome and Egypt, since ancient times until the present, they also had such cultural developments, even though they were all different, there was one common point among them — that was to prove that one existed.
Proving to the world, proving to others, I had once existed and lived. Even if I died, in the world, this person had once lived!
As such, biographies were not hard to understand. Some people wrote their biographies when they were alive, some allowed their descendants to write them after they died. There were some who did not have descendants, their enemies wrote it for them! Biographies written in such situations could often be more factual, they could contain much more detailed descriptions. As the saying goes, often, an enemy knows you better than your family. Biographies written by your enemies would not contain flattery, they could become classics.
Inheritances were the same.
Biographies detailed a person's life experiences. But inheritances contained the foundation of the strength that a person in order to live in this world. It was their understanding towards nature, their thoughts about the world, and their conclusion of the truth.
Like in ancient China, every craftsman would not want to leave behind regrets before dying, they will try all ways to find a successor, they would not want the skills that had been passed down for generations to be lost.
Skills, inheritances, these were acknowledgements of one's value, they were the records of one's success in life. After leaving behind an inheritance, even if one died, they can leave behind a mark in the world.
Yu Mu Chun left behind his inheritance, there was an ominous sensation of him being prepared to die.
Who would leave behind inheritances?
Nobody who was living a great life and had good future prospects would leave behind an inheritance.
Under normal circumstances, who would leave an inheritance behind? Teaching everything to a pupil would result in a starving master, it was hard to know the intentions of others, if one was careless, they would gain a competitor.
Usually, only when one was at the end of their life, when they knew that death was coming, would they leave an inheritance.
For example, Flower Wine Monk, Blood Sea Ancestor, and Dong Fang Chang Fan.
Yu Mu Chun left behind an inheritance, it was evident that in the crucial plan he was taking part in, he had no confidence in surviving it.
What grand plan would make this unfathomable refinement path Gu Immortal expert feel that he could not survive? What kind of motivation was driving him, making him willing to sacrifice himself?
Even Song Zi Xing, he had just escaped and survived, top tier in Central Continent's demonic path, for this grand plan, he was willing to sacrifice himself!
Furthermore, Yu Mu Chun actually told Song Zi Xing personally that he had chosen an inheritor for his inheritance. This was abnormal!
If Song Zi Xing had any ill intentions and secretly went to find the inheritor, he could easily obtain Yu Mu Chun's inheritance and strengthen himself.
As for Yu Mu Chun, if his foundation was exposed, he would be easily dealt with and suppressed by Song Zi Xing.
Yu Mu Chun actually told Song Zi Xing about this precious information regarding his inheritance, it was obvious that he trusted him.
Such a level of trust was truly unparalleled!
Song Zi Xing betrayed Myriad Dragon Dock, he had a vile reputation, but he could obtain Yu Mu Chun's trust to this degree? Was it because of his charisma, or were there other reasons?
"Yes, we should make some preparations." Hearing that Yu Mu Chun had left an inheritance, Song Zi Xing was emotionless, he did not have any intentions to seize it.
"I'll show you something too." Song Zi Xing smiled mysteriously.
At the next moment, there was a commotion in the blood pool as a blood fetus floated up from under the blood.
The blood fetus was the size of a foal, within the fetus, one could see a human shaped figure, curled up like a baby, sleeping.
Yu Mu Chun saw this blood fetus and his pupils shrunk, he said with some disbelief: "This, this… you actually developed blood demon body separation to this extent?"
Song Zi Xing smiled, he showed a proud expression: "Even though I did not obtain a complete blood deity Immortal Gu recipe, I had collected some Blood Deity remnant recipes, I made this blood fetus according to the Blood Deity remnant recipes, with the blood path technique from Northern Plains along with my immortal killer move, blood demon body separation, this was formed."
"The fake body created by blood demon body separation expends immortal essence to maintain, it has a time limit. But the body that this blood fetus makes does not consume immortal essence, it can be sustained for at least two to three hundred years. It can cultivate independently and has its own consciousness, it can get stronger by cultivating and become an immortal. In terms of appearance, it will look exactly like me."
"You are planning to?" Yu Mu Chun showed a look of understanding.
"That's right, it is not a problem if I die, as long as the plan succeeds. But if the plan fails, there will need a countermeasure for it. Song Zi Xing needs to live. Even if I am sacrificed, the blood fetus will produce a second Song Zi Xing."
Yu Mu Chun looked at the blood fetus as he showed an expression of interest: "Can I conduct research on this blood fetus? I have just gotten a new inspiration!"
"Of course, go ahead and research. But be careful, the blood fetus cannot leave this blood pool, not even for a moment."
"Mm, I understand, don't worry."
Central Continent, Hu Immortal blessed land.
Looking at the hole earth Gu in front of him, Fang Yuan let out a breath of turbid air.
This was the second hole earth Gu in Hu Immortal blessed land, the first one was connected to Immortal Crane Sect, while this one was connected to Spirit Affinity House.
Just earlier, he had done the first transaction with Spirit Affinity House. Large numbers of airsac Gu carrying guts Gu were sent over to Spirit Affinity House. Fang Yuan obtained a hundred and eighty immortal essence stones, it solved his immediate problem for now.
Speaking of which, after Fang Yuan and Feng Jin Huang's duel, the truly valuable thing was not the zombie revival technique that Feng Jin Huang gave him, it was the cooperation with Spirit Affinity House.
The reason why Feng Jin Huang took out this method as the wager was because although Fang Yuan was an immortal zombie, he could not make use of this technique.
But she did not know that Fang Yuan still had his first mortal aperture. She did not manage to complete stump Fang Yuan.
With these one hundred and eighty immortal essence stones, Fang Yuan did not hesitate in converting half of them over to green grape immortal essence. Like this, he was out of his weak state, he regained his battle strength.
A day later, he transacted with Immortal Crane Sect again, gained a favorable sum of immortal essence stones.
Immortal Crane Sect attitude was much gentler than before.
Evidently, they had understood: If they were too overbearing towards Fang Yuan, he might lean towards Spirit Affinity House instead.
At the same time, Immortal Crane Sect wanted to buy the success dao mark from Fang Yuan, they offered a huge price, asking him to refine a rank six Immortal Gu. They would provide the Immortal Gu recipe to Fang Yuan for free, and the immortal materials would all be provided by them.
Even the ten great ancient sects in Central Continent had an unceasing demand regarding Immortal Gu.
Towards this request, Fang Yuan evaded it as much as possible, he did not say that he had already used it, he only said that he needed more time for consideration.
Immortal Crane Sect was asking something from Fang Yuan, thus their attitude was obviously nicer than usual.
After making these two deals, Fang Yuan used the immortal essence stones in his possession to buy some hairy man slaves from treasure yellow heaven, replenishing the ones that had died from refining Gu.
The price of hairy man slaves was not cheap.
Fang Yuan's immortal essence stones had just been replenished, but after this, they were all gone again.
Thankfully, Fang Yuan had quite a bit of green grape immortal essence now, he was much safer than before.
Even though he bought the hairy man slaves, Fang Yuan was only replenishing his earlier losses, he could not expand the scale of the stone nests.
Because of the deal with Spirit Affinity House, the guts Gu trade had increased in quantity.
Using two stone nests, Fang Yuan could not accommodate the demand of the market. He planned to accumulate a portion of immortal essence stones and build a fourth stone nest, as well as getting enough hairy man slaves to fill them up.
The lack of funds was quite serious, Fang Yuan's third stone nest was built using the funds that Hei Lou Lan provided.
But with Star Form blessed land's assistance, and Star Lord Wan Xiang's many businesses of Gu insect transactions, Fang Yuan managed to save quite a sum of immortal essence stones.
This caused the time that Fang Yuan needed to accumulate funds to shrink.
Fang Yuan accumulated immortal essence stones as he used the light of wisdom to undergo deductions.
A month later in Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan successfully fused change form Immortal Gu into vaguely familiar face. Using the attainment level of a strength path grandmaster, Fang Yuan successfully deduced the rank five recipe of all-out effort Gu.
Unlike an ancient Gu recipe, Fang Yuan's deduction made use of Gu refinement materials that could be easily found in the world at present.
All-out effort Gu was the vital Gu of Fang Yuan's immortal second aperture, all along it had been rank four, its rank was much lower than Fang Yuan himself.
With this Gu recipe, Fang Yuan had a new task, that was to refine all-out effort Gu.
After failing once, all-out effort Gu reached rank five.
"If I can raise all-out effort Gu into rank six, then the boost to myriad self's power would be huge, it would only be inferior to that of self strength Immortal Gu. Unfortunately, such a thing is beyond my capabilities."
After this successful attempt, Fang Yuan tried to deduce the Gu recipe of small family qi Gu.
The result was utter failure!
Fang Yuan's qi path attainment was only at ordinary level, he was not even a quasi-master, this was a very understandable result.
Chapter 864: Sacred Feather City's Shocking Change
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The sky was slightly green, the wind that would not stop in all four seasons was blowing gently.
In this small world, a huge city was floating in the sky.
This was a home for feathermen, it was known as the city in the sky to others, but these feathermen called it Sacred Feather City.
At this moment, rainbow flags were hanging in Sacred Feather City, cheers and shouts could be heard everywhere.
Most of the feathermen in the city had gathered around the battle arena in the city, they were watching an important match.
The featherman king had passed away, according to their customs, it was time to select the new featherman king through battles.
Of course, to be a candidate in fighting for the position, one needed to be acknowledged by most of the feathermen in the city.
The feathermen did not want a fierce or tyrannical ruler, they wanted a compassionate hero.
Thus, the feathermen who were fighting for the position of king had great reputation, they were people who had done good deeds or made immense contributions to Sacred Feather City.
In most cases, the evaluation of the citizens was accurate. In the history of Sacred Feather City, very few evil and cruel feathermen were chosen to be king.
Even if they were cruel and ruthless, there were three featherman supreme elders in Sacred Feather City, they were Gu Immortals who could control the situation.
In the huge battle arena, tens of thousands of spectators were watching.
The cheering was extremely loud, at the center of the arena, two youngsters were battling it out.
"Yu Fei, give up. I am the prince of Sacred Feather City, I will inherit the throne and defend the honor of our Dan surname!" A tall and burly featherman youngster with golden hair sent his opponent flying time after time.
This was the final match.
The victor would become the new king of the feathermen.
From the current situation, one could see that the handsome featherman prince had the advantage. He was flying in the sky, with rank five cultivation level, he used his Gu worms and attacked from a long range.
His opponent was a young featherman with short black hair, he was thin and sprinted on the ground, he rolled around at times to evade the featherman prince's attacks.
"Dan Yu! Dan Yu!" The spectators were shouting the featherman prince's name, their cheers were in unison as they became louder and louder.
The situation was very obvious now.
Prince Dan Yu had a huge advantage, while his opponent, the poor lad Yu Fei, was taking a beating without any way to fight back.
Yu Fei's body was covered in dirt, he looked pathetic, like a rat jumping around on the arena.
Meanwhile, Dan Yu was high and mighty, his attacks were very tactical and grand, it was more in line with the expectations of the people towards their king.
"You want me to admit defeat, that is impossible! I, Yu Fei, am the man destined to become king!" Suddenly, Yu Fei shouted, he burst forth with strength. His legs launched from the ground as he flew up like an arrow, towards Dan Yu.
"What? You still had strength left!" Dan Yu retreated anxiously.
Yu Fei jumped into the air, seeing that he was about to get close to Dan Yu, he had no choice but to descend as Dan Yu quickly flew back in vigilance.
"Yu Fei, your wings were broken by me, you still want to resist?" Dan Yu looked at Yu Fei who was falling down, he laughed coldly and mocked with some lingering fear.
But Yu Fei raised his head, his eyes were shining brightly: "It is not over yet, look at my killer move — Inflated Balloon!"
At the next instant, Yu Fei opened his mouth, sucking in a huge amount of air.
Almost instantly, lots of air was sucked into his stomach, his body inflated and became a fat balloon.
Yu Fei started to float up like a balloon.
The audience was silent for a few breaths of time, before bursting into laughter.
Yu Fei's balloon mode was simply too funny.
Even Dan Yu was stunned before relaxing: "This is truly your style, Yu Fei. But being a clown will not allow you to become the featherman king! It is time to lose, killer move — Blade Wind Strong Slash!"
Dan Yu's eyes were sharp, his arms were raised up as he made a cutting motion with them in the sky, two translucent blades that resembled wind blades flew towards Yu Fei at an extremely fast speed.
Yu Fei was still slowly ascending.
Much of the audience shouted in surprise, they knew the power of blade wind strong slash after watching the battle for so long, if this hit landed, Yu Fei would definitely be heavily injured or dead, his stomach would be sliced apart.
But at this moment, Yu Fei, who was in danger, had a brilliant light shining in his eyes, he had found a chance to overturn the situation!
He suddenly opened his mouth, a strong current blew out of his mouth as he gained some thrust.
Yu Fei's speed rose rapidly, he shot towards Dan Yu.
"This is?" Dan Yu was shocked.
Yu Fei's body quickly shrunk, he narrowly dodged the two blades from blade wind strong slash agilely.
Dan Yu wanted to retreat, but his speed was inferior.
"Where are you trying to go? If you are a man, fight me with your fists, we will engage in a physical fight!" Yu Fei shouted, his body spun around in the air, eventually, his legs grabbed onto Dan Yu.
Killer move — Coiling Tree Vines!
Yu Fei shouted internally, his legs turned soft, like old tree vines, he coiled around Dan Yu's waist.
Dan Yu could not break free, he activated his defensive Gu worm out of reflex.
Killer move — Crane Crossing Neck!
Yu Fei's head suddenly turned into a crane's head, his long neck coiled around Dan Yu's neck like a long chain, he gripped tightly as his beak stabbed at Dan Yu.
Ding!
The bird beak hit Dan Yu's head, there was some sparks like he had hit strong steel.
Although Dan Yu was not injured, this heavy blow was hard to endure, he was feeling dizzy.
Killer move — Six-nine Great Windmill!
Yu Fei saw a chance and his head turned back to normal, making use of this, he leaned back exaggeratedly and his head was buried in between Dan Yu's two legs, the two bodies spun around in the sky.
The two bodies were tangled together, like a windmill, they rapidly approached the ground.
The feathermen spectators shouted in shock.
But the victim, Dan Yu, was hit with the killer move, he felt the world spinning as his mind was in chaos, he felt very dizzy and disoriented, he could not react.
As they approached the ground, Yu Fei suddenly retreated.
Only Dan Yu was left, crashing onto the ground.
With a loud bang, he hit the ground head first, the brick floor broke and shards flew as his head was inserted into the ground, he lost consciousness.
The entire arena was silent.
They were all shocked by this unexpected result, nobody could say anything.
There was only Yu Fei's panting that could be heard.
After a while, the hosting featherman elder gulped, he announced loudly: "The winner is Yu Fei, he is the new king of our clan!"
"Yes! I am finally the featherman king, I succeeded!" Yu Fei raised his arms in the air, shouting excitedly.
The audience finally reacted, they cheered loudly and applauded, someone shouted: "Yu Fei! Yu Fei!"
The shouting of Yu Fei's name became louder and louder, more and more people joined in.
Soon, in the entire arena, no, in the entirety of Sacred Feather City, chants of "Yu Fei, Yu Fei" could be heard.
"Hahahaha, hahahahahaha…" The young Yu Fei placed his arms on his waist as he laughed with his head held high, he was very happy.
But suddenly, he grimaced as he touched his wings with the back of his hand: "So painful, so painful."
At the other end, Dan Yu, who had fainted, was dug up from the ground by the healing Gu Masters, he was given medical swiftly.
Deep within Sacred Feather City, three featherman Gu Immortals were half-asleep, they communicated with their drowsy divine senses.
"This generation's featherman king is quite unique, he is quite different from the other kings."
"Hehehe, he is an interesting fellow."
"It seems that he has quite the ambition, he wants to expand the territory of us feathermen. But after he becomes the featherman king, he should become more mature."
The three Gu Immortals conversed casually.
According to past situations, after the new featherman king was chosen, he would bring much life and innovation to the peaceful Sacred Feather City.
If there were no mishaps, Yu Fei would rule the feathermen in Sacred Feather City for hundreds of years.
But at the next moment, before any of the feathermen could react, a huge mishap occurred.
Boom!
An astonishing explosive sound shook the entirety of Sacred Feather City.
The feathermen in the city screamed, they quickly flew up.
"Painful, painful, painful!" Yu Fei was caught off guard, he lost his balance and crashed onto the ground, rolling around in the process.
"Quickly look, this, this is?!" The feathermen at the front saw something amiss, they pointed at the sky and stammered in fear, they could not speak.
Immediately after, most of the feathermen raised their heads, they were shocked to find out that above them, in the green sky, there was a huge crack!
From the crack, several figures descended like demonic gods.
The three featherman Gu Immortals in Sacred Feather City had already reacted, they were startled to awareness as they flew towards the sky.
They appeared to face the invading enemies while shouting to their feathermen citizens.
"Be careful, there is a strong enemy attacking!"
"Quick, sound the alarms, defend our homeland!"
"Gu Masters assemble, go to the formation cores and activate the defenses of Sacred Feather City!"
The entire city was in chaos, fear was spreading.
Sacred Feather City had been peaceful for too long, they had no competition with the outside world, it was like life inside a utopia. This caused their defenses to be very lax, and with the crowning of a new king, the non-militarized feathermen could not respond properly.
"All of you, why are you here without any invitations?"
"Please leave."
"We feathermen love peace and do not like conflict, but we are not powerless!"
The three featherman Gu Immortals had solemn expressions as they warned the strong invading foes.
The invaders did not speak, most of their attentions were focused on their leader.
This leading Gu Immortal was an old and skinny man, he was barefooted in the sky. There was a white cloth on his head, there were also white bandages on his forearms and legs.
The elderly Gu Immortal's gaze was deep as he stared at the three featherman Gu Immortals, he next sent his gaze behind them, towards Sacred Feather City.
"Attack now." The elderly Gu Immortal said plainly.
"Yes, Lord White Sea Shatuo!" The other Gu Immortals responded together.
Battle erupted.
There were three featherman Gu Immortals, one rank seven, and two rank sixes, even though they were strong, they could not match up against their enemies.
The intense battle lasted for three days and two nights, one of the featherman Gu Immortals died while two were injured, they could only use Sacred Feather City to defend themselves.
Sacred Feather City was a huge Immortal Gu House!
Using the power of the Immortal Gu House, they could resist the attacks of White Sea Shatuo and the others.
Chapter 865: Heavenly Wish
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Rumble…
The explosions had been ongoing for three days and two nights.
White Sea Shatuo's group did not stop attacking for even a moment.
Countless mortal killer moves, mixed in with some immortal killer moves, slammed onto the Immortal Gu House, Sacred Feather City.
Sacred Feather City shook intensely, more than half of its troops had already died, despair was spreading.
"Our loss is imminent, we should try and break out of their siege!" A Featherman Gu Immortal, Zhou Zhong, suggested.
"Sacred Feather City has already been immobilized by their methods, without this Immortal Gu House, how can we break out?" The other featherman Gu Immortal, Zheng Ling, asked in return.
There were three Gu Immortals in Sacred Feather City, one had already died, only the rank seven Gu Immortal, Zheng Ling, and the rank six Zhou Zhong were left.
"Lord Zheng Ling, the situation is critical, I will be frank." Zhou Zhong's expression was solemn: "Earlier, Sacred Feather City became encircled because you were not willing to give up this area, that was why the enemy had time to set up their arrangements. Now, if lord still refuses to cut our losses short and be decisive, we might lose our lives here! I am not afraid of dying, but there are countless innocent citizens in the city, they will perish too. Even if these enemies spare them, they will train them to become slaves, and they will have to serve those humans for life!"
Zheng Ling heard these words and finally had a realization.
He looked at Zhou Zhong, tears shined in his eyes as he said: "You are right, I was muddleheaded!"
Zhou Zhong urged him: "Lord, I can understand your decision. Right now, the world is ruled by humans, we variant humans have no place to live in. This world is a fragment world of green heaven among the immemorial nine heavens, it is isolated from the outside world and is a paradise, we should not give up on it easily. But right now, we have no choice but to abandon it."
Zheng Ling frowned: "Right now, Sacred Feather City is being restricted, if we want to escape with our citizens, there is only one way."
Zhou Zhong agreed immediately: "That is right, we have to use the immortal killer move, heavenly wish!"
Thus, an hour later, the remaining feathermen were summoned, gathering around the arena.
"I wish — my clan's feathermen, survive!"
"I wish — my clan's feathermen, gain freedom!"
"I wish — my clan's feathermen, have a place to live in the world!"
Tens of thousands of feathermen shouted, under the guidance of Zhou Zhong and Zheng Ling, the entirety of Sacred Feather City started to shine in a pure white light.
The light was a few meters tall initially, but it soon grew and reached dozens of meters.
"Lord White Sea Shatuo, the other party is making a move, aren't we doing anything to disrupt them?" A female Gu Immortal, Tang Yang Ran, asked.
"No need to worry, I had predicted this situation already. What I want is this Immortal Gu House, they cannot take it away." White Sea Shatuo explained as he ordered the rest of them: "Don't stop attacking, just maintain the status quo, don't interrupt them, let them escape."
Northern Plains, Tai Bai blessed land.
The sky was clear like crystal, the ground was desolate.
Accompanied by Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Fang Yuan went on a tour of this high grade blessed land.
This was not the first time Fang Yuan had come to Tai Bai blessed land, but this was the first time he came alongside Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Only after a Gu Immortal placed their immortal apertures down, would they be able to enter it themselves and manipulate it personally.
Ordinarily, the immortal aperture was hidden within the Gu Immortal's body. But when they placed the immortal aperture outside in the main world, the Gu Immortal would be inside the immortal aperture instead.
Gu Immortals and their immortal apertures were a single entity. When the immortal aperture is placed outside, the Gu Immortal cannot leave the immortal aperture and move outside.
Tai Bai blessed land was a high grade blessed land, it has a huge landmass of about four thousand seven hundred square kilometers. It had a lot of time path resources, one day in the outside world was thirty-three days inside.
Of course, after Tai Bai blessed land was placed to absorb the heaven and earth qi of the outside world, it was connected to Northern Plains. The time flow had slowed down to twelve days.
Tai Bai blessed land was well managed by Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Disregarding the float ball tea in the sky, or the jade peak bird group, there were large numbers of sky chief clouds that had flowers growing on them in the sky, sparrowhawks were flying around them.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng had already started building his third source of revenue.
His first source of revenue was Landscape as Before. Repairing blessed lands for Gu Immortals, and repairing the landscape of the five regions, this was Tai Bai Yun Sheng's greatest source of income, not only could it raise his wealth, he could also build relationships. It was essentially comparable with Fairy Li Shan's mountain pledge Gu.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's second source of revenue was the float ball tea. Each season, Tai Bai blessed land would produce a huge quantity of float ball tea grass.
This tea grass could be sold to the market in Eastern Sea. With the help of Zombie Alliance's Shark Demon immortal zombie, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had already entered their market. But this business had a competitive market, there was little profit. Each season's gains was less than what Tai Bai Yun Sheng earned from helping other Gu Immortals repair their immortal apertures.
"I plan to use luck path mortal Gu as my third income source. There are more than a hundred thousand sparrowhawks that migrated here, they have wild insects on them, and large numbers of cloud path mortal Gu would be produced from these insects. But all this will depend on my upcoming earthly calamity, if I pass it successfully, and my blessed land gains cloud path dao marks, that would be best."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng described his goals and expectations to Fang Yuan.
Precisely because of this, he did not move the resources in his blessed land outside.
It was to 'draw out' the corresponding earthly calamity, so that after the earthly calamity, Tai Bai blessed land could gain a number of cloud path dao marks.
Fortune and disaster coexist.
Earlier, when Fang Yuan helped Hu Immortal blessed land undergo the tribulation, he moved out almost all of the precious resources. In the end, he faced a blood path earthly calamity, and Hu Immortal blessed land gained blood path dao marks.
If Fang Yuan did not move these resources away, there might have been a change, and other earthly calamities might have showed up. For example, fire path dao marks that suited the eerie fire dragon pythons, wisdom path dao marks that suited the regretful spiders, or water path dao marks that suited the dragonfish.
The addition of these dao marks was very helpful for resources related to them.
But there was a flaw in this.
When the earthly calamity strikes, these precious resources would suffer great losses.
In other words, loss now was for the benefit of the future, they were trying to gain long term profits.
Of course, heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities did not always go as one wished. This was only a possibility. There was a chance that even if Fang Yuan kept these resources, the blood poison kerria flower earthly calamity would still come, in that case, his losses would be huge.
After all, heaven's will was unfathomable.
Right now, Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not move the resources away, he was trying to lure out the cloud path earthly calamity.
Whether he could succeed or not was unknown, Fang Yuan was unsure as well, but he consoled him: "I had already used the killer move, time assist luck, on you before the earthly calamity, who knows, you might get what you wished for."
Speaking of which, the immortal killer move time assist luck had been modified during this period by Fang Yuan using the light of wisdom.
Right now, Fang Yuan was gradually understanding what great use wisdom Gu truly had.
Even though he could only use the light of wisdom, just that alone could push his cultivation journey ahead greatly.
"Eh?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt something, his expression changed: "The earthly calamity is here."
The entirety of Tai Bai blessed land started to shake, large amounts of earth qi burst out from the ground, while small quantities of heaven qi drooped down from the sky.
There was a burst of mystical light, as from within the profound light, the wishes and prayers of countless living beings could be heard.
"I wish — my clan's feathermen, survive!"
"I wish — my clan's feathermen, gain freedom!"
"I wish — my clan's feathermen, have a place to live in the world!"
The mystical light disappeared, at the western part of the blessed land, there were tens of thousands of feathermen.
"What earthly calamity is this?" Immediately, even Fang Yuan was shocked, he had never seen such a peculiar earthly calamity!
Tai Bai Yun Sheng fell into deep contemplation.
"What place is this?" A featherman Gu Immortal, Zhou Zhong, looked around with an expression of vigilance.
After using the immortal killer move heavenly wish, a strong force teleported all of the feathermen in Sacred Feather City away.
An empty Sacred Feather City was left, White Sea Shatuo had great foresight, he obtained this Immortal Gu House without wasting much effort.
Seeing that Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were flying over, the featherman Gu Immortal Zheng Ling's expression changed: "Oh no! This is a certain human Gu Immortal's blessed land! We were treated as an earthly calamity and were teleported here."
Zhou Zhong showed an expression of shock: "How can this be? Wouldn't our enemies still be Gu Immortals?"
"We are facing two rank six Gu Immortals, and one is an immortal zombie with bottom tier cultivation level. What are you afraid of?" Zheng Ling laughed loudly: "Kill them and we can obtain this small world. Just like what we wished, even though this place is inferior to the green heaven fragment world, it is enough for our tribe to live. Strike!"
Zheng Ling said this as he flew out, when he was thousands of steps away from Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fang Yuan, he pushed with his hands.
Whoosh!
Wind blew, a solid wind wall was formed, it pushed towards Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng with an imposing aura.
This was an immortal killer move that Zheng Ling poured all his frustrations into. He was unable to do anything to White Sea Shatuo, he vented all of his frustrations towards Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Seeing the wind wall pressing at them, Fang Yuan pulled Tai Bai Yun Sheng behind him and snorted with disdain: "A pitiful trick."
Myriad Self First Style — Giant Hand!
Rumble!
The strength path giant hand pushed forth and destroyed the wind wall, then, with its remaining force, it slammed towards Zheng Ling.
Zhou Zhong and Zheng Ling's expressions changed, they looked at Fang Yuan's giant hand like they were seeing a ghost.
"What?"
"Merely a bottom tier rank six immortal zombie, he actually has rank seven battle strength!"
The two featherman Gu Immortals knew that they were facing a tough foe, Zheng Ling's expression was very bitter. If this were to be normal times, he would not be afraid of Fang Yuan.
But after an intense battle with White Sea Shatuo and the others, his battle strength had decreased by a lot.
The rank six Zhou Zhong was in an even worse condition.
"Hold on, we can talk this out. I was rash earlier and attacked, please forgive me for offending you!" Zheng Ling shouted: "We have our difficulties, we had no choice but to enter your blessed land."
He asked them to hold on, but Fang Yuan responded at lightning speed.
Not only this, he summoned five strength path giant hands and encircled them.
"Since you are here, don't think of leaving." Fang Yuan raised his head and laughed.
Chapter 866: Scheming Against The Feathermen, Yu Fei's Helplessness
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Featherman Gu Immortal Zheng Ling had an ugly expression: "Sir, do you think we are fish on the chopping block? Why must you force us like this. It must have been tough for you to develop this blessed land, if we destroy all of these resources in battle, would it not be a waste?"
"Are you threatening us?" Fang Yuan's red eyes shined with a ruthless light.
"Of course it is not a threat, but what we are saying is the truth, no?" Gu Immortal Zhou Zhong said.
Fang Yuan laughed internally.
If other Gu Immortals were threatened like this, they might be wary and fearful, these two featherman Gu Immortals might get their way, but they met Tai Bai Yun Sheng of all people.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's Immortal Gu, Landscape as Before, was the perfect solution against their threat.
The two featherman Gu Immortals did not know about the existence of landscape as before Immortal Gu, thus they said such words.
According to Fang Yuan's intentions, they should kill these two featherman Gu Immortals. But this was Tai Bai Yun Sheng's tribulation, Fang Yuan alone could not make the decision. And Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a kind old man, his nature was quite gentle and merciful.
Thus, Fang Yuan did not speak, he looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
The two featherman Gu Immortals also looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng, waiting for the person in question to respond.
The mortal feathermen gazed at the sky with looks of awe, towards the four figures in the sky.
Earlier, these mortal feathermen had heard the conversation between Fang Yuan and the featherman Gu Immortals clearly.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's decision was going to influence the fate of these tens of thousands of feathermen.
Some feathermen were already praying internally, some were gritting their teeth, some were grimacing in pain.
Yu Fei, who had just become the featherman king, clenched his fists, he stared at the sky fixedly. He was originally a commoner, he was not like Prince Dan Yu who knew a lot of secrets, this was the first time he had seen a Gu Immortal, he felt shock and at the same time, a deep sense of helplessness.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng had been deep in consideration since the feathermen appeared.
A featherman calamity was something Tai Bai Yun Sheng had not expected.
These were intelligent living beings that could talk. If Tai Bai Yun Sheng let these feathermen go, this earthly calamity would be over. If he did not, they would fight inside his immortal aperture, he might be able to recruit these feathermen, but there was a huge risk of losing resources if they fought, he could not weigh the pros and cons easily.
But no matter what he chose, it was a huge decision.
Just as Fang Yuan expected, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was quite wishy-washy, even though this was a critical moment, he could not decide.
Seeing Fang Yuan gaze over, he also turned his head, seeking Fang Yuan's opinion with his inquiring gaze.
"Of course we will battle!" Fang Yuan immediately transmitted, replying firmly.
"You have Immortal Gu Landscape as Before, you do not need to fear your immortal aperture suffering damage. The only losses are your float ball tea, sky chief clouds and other resources, these things cannot be restored using landscape as before Immortal Gu."
"But for this tribulation, you did not move these resources out, you were prepared to suffer losses anyway."
"Your main source of revenue is landscape as before Immortal Gu, these resources earn little profit, even if you lose them, you can start over again."
"These feathermen number in tens of thousands, they can be turned into slaves. Feathermen are born with cloud path dao marks, they are skilled at flying, all of the feathermen elites are flying masters! But these two featherman Gu Immortals cannot be allowed to live. Even if they do not primarily cultivate cloud path, killing them would get you a good number of cloud path dao marks, they can be added to your blessed land. Isn't that what you want?"
This was an extremely rare opportunity!
The two featherman Gu Immortals were injured, they had no ways to escape from this place.
As long as Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not open the doors, these feathermen were birds trapped in a cage.
Once he killed the two featherman Gu Immortals, their immortal apertures would fall into Tai Bai blessed land. This was an extremely rare situation.
When a Gu Immortal dies and leaves behind their immortal aperture, the immortal aperture would become an isolated blessed land and absorb heaven and earth qi from the world.
Just like earlier, after Fang Yuan took Star Lord Wan Xiang's corpse, he purposely went into a deep part of Earth Abyss to place it down. The result was, after placing it down, the blessed land took in a huge amount of earth qi, but very little heaven qi, because of the drawing in of earth qi, it resulted in an intense tremor in Earth Abyss.
If the featherman Gu Immortals died, their immortal apertures would fall into Tai Bai blessed land, they would take in heaven and earth qi.
But Tai Bai blessed land was different from the five regions, this place was completely under Tai Bai Yun Sheng's control, the heaven and earth qi could not be extracted without his permission.
If the immortal aperture could not turn into a separate blessed land, what would happen?
There were records of this, in such situations, the immortal aperture would be destroyed, all of the resources inside the immortal aperture would be decimated with it.
But all of the dao marks inside the immortal aperture would be left behind, fusing into the outside world.
And this outside world was Tai Bai blessed land.
As has been mentioned before, dao marks were extremely precious, because there was a huge cost to obtain them.
Even if the entire blessed land was wrecked, if Tai Bai Yun Sheng could obtain all of the dao marks of the two featherman Gu Immortals, this would definitely be a huge profit for him no matter what!
Fang Yuan secretly transmitted, adding another sentence: "Old Bai, is your kindness acting up again, you want to pass up on such a great opportunity?"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression became firmer, he made up his mind, he transmitted: "Don't worry! Feathermen are variant humans, they are not humans like us. Since that is the case, and we're on opposing sides, let's battle and kill them! As for these featherman captives, I will treat them kindly."
After making up his mind, he was about to strike, but Fang Yuan secretly told him to stop: "Hold on, this is a great opportunity, how can we fight just like this? Let's probe them first."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng knew about Fang Yuan's craftiness, he replied: "Then I will have to trouble you."
The conversation between these two only lasted for a moment in the real world.
Fang Yuan looked at the featherman Gu Immortals, he started his deception: "It is not that we cannot let you go, but you have to leave behind these mortal feathermen, they will become our slaves!"
The two sides spoke openly without concealing anything, Fang Yuan's words immediately attracted an intense commotion from the tens of thousands of feathermen.
"What? He wants us to become their slaves?"
"Losing freedom is like losing our wings!"
"No, even if I die, I will not become a slave of humans!"
"Don't worry, we have our Gu Immortal ancestors, they will not give up on us."
"That is impossible!" The two featherman Gu Immortals had a determined expression, they immediately denied it.
Fang Yuan was not surprised.
Groups of variant humans were more united than humans. Dong Fang Chang Fan schemed against his own tribesmen for his own sake, this would be much more unlikely with variant humans.
Man is the spirit of all livings beings, they have the highest intelligence, as well as complex thoughts. Variant humans however, have lower intelligence and purer minds, they were not as wicked and scheming as humans.
Of course, this had much to do with the situation of the different races now.
Right now, humans ruled the five regions, they were the strongest. It was hard for variant humans to survive, they were ostracized and suppressed by humans, there were few variant human groups that had precious resources.
No matter which region it was, variant human slaves were sold in the market.
Among the races, humans held absolute dominance, while variant humans were definitely the weaker side.
As the weaker side, if they wanted to survive, they needed to stay united and help each other, that was the only way to withstand external pressure.
Thus, the two Gu Immortals were unwilling to give up the mortal feathermen, they had a firm attitude, this was within Fang Yuan's expectations, he could tell that they were very determined!
Fang Yuan quickly made a transmission, Tai Bai Yun Sheng showed an expression of feeling angered and offended, he repeated the words Fang Yuan transmitted to him: "Hmph! You feathermen barged into my blessed land for no reason, this is an invasion! Not only did you invade my blessed land, you attacked us and threatened us, now you want to leave? How can you not pay a price for this? Of course, you can fight your way out with these feathermen. If you are strong enough, I will treat this as my bad luck! But if that is not the case, I will make sure to take good care of you all!"
How could the two featherman Gu Immortals have such strength left?
If they did, why would they bother using words to converse with Fang Yuan?
Even though they could still use the immortal killer move heavenly wish.
But without the protection of the Immortal Gu House, Sacred Feather City, not only did heavenly wish need a huge amount of immortal essence, it also needed a lot of time to activate.
Under such a situation, it was basically impossible to replicate their act of escaping earlier.
Seeing that Fang Yuan was unwilling to relent, Gu Immortal Zhou Zhong had no choice but to emphasize on the importance of the immortal aperture again. If they really fought, both sides would lose out.
"If we avoid direct combat and focus on dealing damage to your blessed land, at some point, the blessed land would face destruction and attract the winds of assimilation, that would be a bad ending for all of us." Zhou Zhong said with a threatening tone.
They did not know about the existence of Landscape as Before.
With Landscape as Before, wherever the blessed land got damaged, it could be fixed. It would never reach a point where the winds of assimilation are summoned.
Under Fang Yuan's guidance, Tai Bai Yun Sheng flew into a rage: "You dare threaten me? Battle it shall be! What am I afraid of? You think I am a coward? I can take you down anytime!" He showed the demeanor of a battle maniac that could not keep his cool.
Fang Yuan showed a wary expression, but refused to relent, he wanted to negotiate more.
His actions gave the two featherman Gu Immortals hope that they could leave peacefully.
After the two sides negotiated for a long time, Zheng Ling was the first to relent, he suggested that Fang Yuan's side could be compensated with a huge sum of immortal essence stones.
Among the two of them, Zhou Zhong was acting as the aggressive party, while Zheng Ling was acting as the peaceful party, they cooperated with much coordination.
Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng, as Tai Bai Yun Sheng got the hint and rolled his eyes: How could this amount of immortal essence stones compare to tens of thousands of feathermen? Fight, fight, they could win at any time!
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng had coordination that was not inferior to the other two.
On the ground, the feathermen were in a chaotic state. They were angered and yet helpless and anguished, this was a cruel world, this was the misery of the weak.
Yu Fei shouted at the sky: "Enough! Even if we die, we will not become lowly slaves!"
The feeling of being treated as livestock while they were used as bargaining chips in a negotiation was horrible.
"Shut up! Don't go and antagonize existences like Gu Immortals. You are the new featherman king, you have to think of the clan first. By taunting the Gu Immortals like this, are you trying to drive our clan into the abyss?" Dan Yu scolded.
"Damn it, damn it!" Yu Fei gritted his teeth, his fists were clenched as his veins surfaced, he listened to Dan Yu's words and fell into silence.
To Yu Fei, the change in circumstances happened too quickly, and too suddenly.
He who aspired to become the featherman king had achieved his goal. But this high and mighty position that he had dreamed of, was so tiny and weak at this moment.
Gu Immortals were really too powerful compared to mortals.
No matter how hot-blooded he was, no matter how he risked his life, that gap in battle strength could not be breached.
Chapter 867: Squashing a Rank Seven Gu Immortal
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Zheng Ling suggested compensating with immortal essence stones, though Tai Bai Yun Sheng rejected him, Fang Yuan pretended to think about it: "We want featherman slaves, but you are only offering immortal essence stones. This conflict cannot be resolved. How about this, let's take a step back and decide with our strength."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's attitude was firm, he showed the attitude of a battle maniac. During the conversation, he had been taunting them by saying 'I can take you down at any time' several times.
If Shark Demon and the others who were familiar with Tai Bai Yun Sheng were here, they would think that this Tai Bai Yun Sheng was an imposter.
Zhou Zhong and Zheng Ling exchanged glances.
It was hard to talk to the battle maniac Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but it seemed like the immortal zombie, Fang Yuan, was in charge of the decision making.
This was not strange to the featherman Gu Immortals, after all, Fang Yuan showed rank seven battle strength earlier.
The two communicated secretly, they both felt that: Fang Yuan was much easier to talk to than Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he was more reasonable.
"The other party is an immortal zombie, his immortal aperture cannot produce immortal essence, that's why he has a careful nature. We have to make use of this trait. But this blessed land belongs that that damned old man."
"This old man has quite a fiery temper at this age, it seems his battle strength cannot be underestimated, be vigilant!"
"Forget it, the situation is in their favor now, let's listen to what the immortal zombie has to suggest."
The two featherman Gu Immortals analyzed this situation, it seemed to them that it was a reasonable understanding of it.
But what they did not know was that they had fallen into the trap that Fang Yuan had specially made for them.
"Please speak." After discussing, Zhou Zhong said to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan spoke: "In the world of Gu Immortals, benefits are the most important thing, it is decided by battle strength. We will hold ten duels, for every duel we win, you will split ten percent of the feathermen to us, but for each that we lose, we will accept only a sum of immortal essence stones as compensation."
Zhou Zhong was unwilling, he shouted: "Be it winning or losing, you are benefiting from it!"
Fang Yuan smiled lightly and did not reply.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng started howling: "Why are you complaining? If you don't want this, let's fight! My fists are itching to hit something, I can take you down at any time! If you dare to destroy my immortal aperture, I will slaughter these mortal feathermen first, in the worst case, we go down together, who is afraid of who?"
He showed the perfect example of a brainless battle maniac.
Zhou Zhong and Zheng Ling ignored him completely, showing an expression of not wanting to stoop to his level of intelligence.
The two started to discuss their decisions using transmissions.
Fang Yuan pressured them at the right timing: "If you do not agree to this, we will have to battle."
These words made the the hearts of these two feathermen immortals jump.
They understood clearly that in the current situation, sacrifice was unavoidable, the most logical decision was to minimize their losses.
Eventually, Zheng Ling nodded, agreeing to the duels. But he had a precondition, they had to use the information path immortal killer move that they had to form an agreement, similar to mountain pledge Gu, as the restriction on both parties.
Regardless of the result, after ten duels, Fang Yuan's side was not to cause problems for the feathermen, they had to open the door and let everyone else leave, without any form of obstruction.
The feathermen actually had such an information path killer move, their foundation was quite deep, Fang Yuan was fairly surprised.
To start things off, the Gu Immortal Zhou Zhong entered the stage for the first duel.
On Fang Yuan's side, Tai Bai Yun Sheng went to battle, he was oozing with battle intent as he showed a bloodthirsty expression, he shouted: "Come, I will take you down in just a moment!"
Zhou Zhong really was fooled by his demeanor, after all, he was only a variant human, their intelligence was inferior to humans.
Most importantly, Zhou Zhong had his reservations, he did not want to sacrifice his clansmen.
He did not want any feathermen to lose their freedom and become the slaves of humans. Thus, he chose his specialty for the duel.
"What, you want to compete in flying speed alone?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was shocked.
"According to the agreement, we are the first to decide what type of duel it is, are you going back on your words?"
"Hmph, I will let you decide this time!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng showed an upset and irritated expression.
The result of this duel was obvious.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng only had a mortal killer move for flying. The other party not only had wings, they even had an immortal killer move specially used for movement.
After seeing the results, the feathermen on the ground erupted into loud cheers.
After all, their freedom was at stake, they could have became slaves, they were very nervous when they watched the duel.
"Here are your immortal essence stones." Zhou Zhong laughed loudly, he handed the dozen immortal essence stones to Tai Bai Yun Sheng in a proud manner.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng received them with a gloomy expression, but he was filled with admiration towards Fang Yuan: "Fang Yuan is truly good at scheming. The other party paid immortal essence stones but they are acting like this was a huge victory for them. I am inferior to him!"
In the first duel, Fang Yuan lost.
Fang Yuan went for the second duel, because he had rank seven battle strength, the featherman Gu Immortals did not dare to be careless, they sent the stronger Gu Immortal Zheng Ling to duel him.
Fang Yuan suggested: "We will compete using speed."
Zheng Ling's expression froze for a second before he agreed.
Fang Yuan lost this duel very quickly as well.
Zheng Ling also had an immortal killer move, his speed was twice as fast as that of Zhou Zhong.
Meanwhile, Fang Yuan had three pairs of true solid bat wings, they were all desolate beast wings. But in this duel, he did not manage to activate the iron crown eagle strength Immortal Gu at all, thus he had no hopes of winning.
Third duel, fourth duel, fifth duel…
Duels after duels, Fang Yuan's side had no victories, while the featherman Gu Immortals were winning with zero losses, the results were one-sided.
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression became uglier in the process.
The two featherman Gu Immortals had confident and lax expressions. They were starting to realize that their enemies were all bark and no bite, they were just putting up a front.
For example, the immortal zombie Fang Yuan was only rank seven in terms of attack. He only had mortal killer moves for defense, along with his immortal zombie body's defense. In terms of healing, he only had the basic recovery ability of an immortal zombie. As for movement and investigative methods, he did not have immortal killer moves.
Meanwhile, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was very rash and haughty, but in terms of battle strength, he was a mess. He only used mortal killer moves.
The two featherman Gu Immortals felt like they had been scammed!
"It turns out that these two are so weak, if we had known this, we would've fought from the start."
"Sigh, humans are the most skilled at scheming. We have already used the information path immortal killer move and restricted ourselves, we can only leave this place and cannot attack."
"Thinking about it, we were too stunned by the earlier human Gu Immortal invaders. Due to the foundation of our Sacred Feather City, we are superior to most human Gu Immortals. The two of them are quite impressive, but they are not our match at all."
Like this, the two featherman Gu Immortals won nine rounds, only the last duel was left.
No matter what happened in this duel, after it ended, Fang Yuan's side would not be able to obstruct the feathermen due to the agreement, he had to let them leave.
On the ground, cheers of victory were already resounding.
The new featherman king, Yu Fei, had a better expression now. His eyes were shining brightly as he looked at the two Gu Immortals of the featherman clan, he had another grand ambition now.
"I've decided! As long as I become a Gu Immortal, I would become a true man. I must become a Gu Immortal, even if I need to give up being king, I will become a Gu Immortal!"
Fang Yuan took a step forward as his voice turned very cold: "This is the final duel, all four of us will fight in a battle of attack and defense. I will attack and you will defend for the first round, and you will attack while I defend for the following round. Our partner can only use healing methods, when one side is unable to continue, they will lose."
Zhou Zhong and Zheng Ling exchanged glances, they frowned as they realized something amiss.
Fang Yuan was making the dueling rules to complete display their advantage. Meanwhile, Zheng Ling and Zhou Zhong could not object to this duel request, they could only accept it.
"In this case, the tenth duel is the hardest one of all."
"This is the final round, after we win, we will be able to protect all of the feathermen and leave safely!"
The two Gu Immortal conversed mentally as they went forth to battle.
"Sir, please attack." Zheng Ling took a step forward, saying.
Fang Yuan did not speak, he was a thousand steps away from Zheng Ling, he grabbed towards the other party.
Rumble!
A strength path giant hand tore through space and grabbed at Zheng Ling fiercely.
Zheng Ling suppressed his instinct to dodge, he activated his defensive killer move as a suit of armor made of light appeared on his body.
The armor looked very real, it blocked the strength path giant hand.
Fang Yuan's expression did not change, he had already seen this armor made of light in the fourth duel, it was a light path defensive immortal killer move.
"Blocked!" Zhou Zhong shouted happily: "It is time for us to strike!"
Fang Yuan scoffed: "Sir, are you forming a conclusion so quickly? My attack is not an instantaneous type, but a sustained attack, I have not ended my attack yet."
"It is okay, sir can continue attacking." Zheng Ling said in a low voice. In the duels earlier, Fang Yuan had attacked as well, Zheng Ling felt that he could block myriad self giant hand completely.
But at the next moment, Fang Yuan showed a ruthless smile as Zheng Ling's expression changed.
Earlier, Fang Yuan had been hiding his strength, only using one core Immortal Gu. Now, he used all of his core Immortal Gu at once.
The strength path giant hand was breaking the light path defensive method, as creaking sounds could be heard.
"Oh no, at this rate, Lord Zheng Ling will become meat paste." Zhou Zhong was shocked.
"Zheng Ling, consider it well, my giant hand is only an attack, it cannot restrict your movement. But if you break out of it now, you will be breaking our agreement. In that case, you will be violating our earlier agreement, and the duels will be voided." Fang Yuan scoffed.
"Damn it! I'll go all out!" Zheng Ling shouted angrily, he activated another defensive killer move, it was an immortal killer move!
Two immortal killer moves stacked together, blocking the strength path giant hand.
At this point, both parties fell into a deadlock again.
"Indeed, he is just a rank six immortal zombie, how can he fight a drawn out battle with Lord Zheng Ling?" Zhou Zhong calmed down.
But a moment later, Fang Yuan was still full of vigor, while Zheng Ling was starting to get anxious, he was unable to hold on.
"Oh no! The other party must be using our immortal essence stones and converting it into immortal essence! In contrast, we have lost a lot of our foundation after an intense battle, so we are the first to run out of immortal essence!"
Realizing the reason, Zhou Zhong felt an immense anger and melancholy, it was hard to describe with words.
At the same time, he started to fluster: "What shall we do now? If I want to help him, I can only use healing methods, otherwise, we would be violating the duel agreement, and the earlier duels would be voided!"
He was there physically, but he felt like he was miles away, Zhou Zhong was helpless. The trap that Fang Yuan had created painstakingly was taking effect.
At times, your former achievements would be the greatest obstacle for you to achieve greater success!
If they won this round, they would obtain complete victory!
They would save all of the feathermen and bring them to safety!
They were one duel away, just one duel. If they violated the rules, all of it would be nullified.
This mentality made Zheng Ling choose to continue holding on, and Zhou Zhong was full of sweat and worried, but he could not interfere.
"It is over." Fang Yuan laughed loudly, seven other strength path giant hands flew out.
The strength path giant hands slammed at the feathermen on the ground with overwhelming force.
"What are you doing?!" Zhou Zhong howled, he was like a furious dragon whose scales were plucked.
"Don't fall into his trap, he is trying to lure you into attacking so that you will break the rules. The other part is at his wits' end, we need to continue enduring." Zheng Ling shouted.
Zhou Zhong was stunned, his gaze towards Fang Yuan changed: "Aren't immortal zombie slow in cognition? Why is this guy so scheming!"
While he was stunned, Fang Yuan approached Zheng Ling and spat at him.
Immortal killer move — Poison Spit!
This was a modified immortal killer move that originated from harboring malicious heart, using woman's heart Immortal Gu as the core. Since Fang Yuan had obtained it, he had been keeping it secret, this was the first time he was using it.
Zheng Ling was caught off guard, he was poisoned by this immediately.
He had a method to heal himself, of course, but at this moment, his mind was distracted and he reacted a moment more slowly, by the time he was going to detoxify himself, the poison was already very deep.
The moment of life and death was often decided in an instant.
"Unscrupulous…" Zheng Ling stared at Fang Yuan fixedly, this was his last word.
With a loud thud, he lost control and was squashed into meat paste by the strength path giant hands.
"Lord Zheng Ling!" Zhou Zhong screamed in fury.
Everything happened too quickly, by the time Zhou Zhong reacted, it was too late. He did not have an Immortal Gu like Man as Before.
Fang Yuan attacked Zhou Zhong with his other strength path giant hands.
"You cannot defend, attack or dodge. Don't forget, according to this duel's rules, you can only use healing methods." Fang Yuan shouted.
Zhou Zhong heard this and his eyes almost popped out, he was going to spit out blood from anger!
How would he fight like that?!
He would have to retaliate, dodge, or defend himself, but all those violated the rules, it would nullify all of their past wins!
On his side, the one in charge of attacking and defending, Zheng Ling, was dead, he could only use healing methods now.
But once the strength path giant hands grabbed him, he would be killed on the spot, no healing techniques were going to save him.
Even if Fang Yuan could not kill him and he could heal himself, he could not retaliate, that was against the rules, Fang Yuan was assured to win!
This was truly bullying the feathermen!
At this moment, looking at Zhou Zhong's dazed expression, even Tai Bai Yun Sheng showed a look of pity and sympathy.
Chapter 868: Gu Immortal Slave
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
At the moment between life and death, the remaining Gu Immortal, Zhou Zhong, had a burst of inspiration, he realized the most direct way to change the current situation.
"I admit defeat!" He shouted.
Fang Yuan's attacks came to a stop.
Zhou Zhong was breathing roughly, in just a moment, he was drenched in sweat.
The tens of thousands of feathermen on the ground reacted after a while, they shouted in shock.
In just moments, the rank seven Gu Immortal of the feathermen died, and Zhou Zhong had no choice but to admit defeat!
Fang Yuan's meticulous plotting showed its ruthless effect, the feathermen paired a heavy price, they lost terribly.
This was a completely different situation from earlier, the difference was like of heaven and earth, it was no wonder that the feathermen were shocked.
Zhou Zhong's expression was pale, he felt some trepidation internally as he spoke: "I lost, according to the agreement, the ten duels are over, we are going to leave this place."
His gaze towards Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng was filled with deep hatred and anger.
The other party killed the featherman Gu Immortal Zheng Ling, but now, Zhou Zhong had insufficient strength, he could not exact revenge.
How could he take revenge?
If Zheng Ling was still alive, if he collaborated with Zhou Zhong, they would definitely suppress Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
This was the truth.
Zheng Ling and Zhou Zhong had very deep foundations, out of Fang Yuan's expectations. They might not have many Immortal Gu, but they had deduced many immortal killer moves. These immortal killer moves encompassed attack, defense, movement, healing, and investigation, they did not have any apparent shortfalls.
In contrast, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng used mostly mortal killer moves. If they really fought, it would be hard for them to gain any advantage as they would be inferior in these aspects.
Of course, this was Tai Bai blessed land, Fang Yuan's side had the territorial advantage.
But do not forget, blessed lands could not restrict Immortal Gu and immortal killer moves.
Thus, Zhou Zhong could only suppress his anger as well as the desire to take revenge, he decided to not settle the score with Fang Yuan for now, the urgent matter now was to escape and find a new place to live with his clansmen.
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng could not stop him from making that request.
The reason was simple.
They had used the information path immortal killer move earlier.
Once Fang Yuan's side did something that violates the agreement, they would face a harsh backlash, they would die on the spot.
Fang Yuan was not like Fairy Li Shan, he did not have a time path killer move like 'delay' with him.
Thus, he could not break the agreement.
In fact, Zhou Zhong was very conscious of this, he was hoping that Fang Yuan would violate the agreement.
If that happens, the enemies would be wiped out, and this blessed land would become the feathermen's property. Regarding the condition for ownership from Tai Bai land spirit, that would be something to think about later.
Of course, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng could not attack, they also could not summon outsiders like Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan to interfere.
Even though the feathermen did not have the intelligence of humans, such an obvious loophole would still be handled.
If Fang Yuan summoned reinforcements, he would be violating the agreement, he would die.
"Indeed, the ten duels have ended, according to our earlier agreement, we have to open the doors and let the remaining feathermen leave." Fang Yuan nodded, saying to Zhou Zhong: "Don't worry, we won't go back on our words."
"Good." Zhou Zhong let out a breath of cloudy air, he felt much regret towards Fang Yuan's act of keeping his word.
"But…" Fang Yuan's words shifted.
"But what?" Zhou Zhong looked at him nervously.
Fang Yuan laughed lightly: "We won the tenth duel, according to the rules, I can choose slaves from among the feathermen on the ground, and the rest will be allowed to leave."
Zhou Zhong sighed, he looked at the clansmen on the ground, feeling very complicated, his fingers were stabbing into his flesh.
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng descended as they started picking slaves from among these feathermen.
The feathermen were flustered, they were afraid of getting chosen.
"Don't move, let me choose properly." Fang Yuan purposely shouted.
The feathermen were even more fearful now, they were like chicks in front of an eagle.
"Mm, this girl is not bad." Fang Yuan pretended to think about it, he beckoned with his finger as a young girl was restrained by a formless force, pulled towards him from the featherman group.
"No, I don't want to!" The featherman girl's eyes oozed with tears of helplessness.
"Let go of my fiancée!" A young featherman charged up before any of the feathermen could stop him.
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with a ruthless light, he snorted: "Courting death."
He did not make any evident movements, but the featherman youngster, who was merely a rank two Gu Master, froze in the air as he was flying, his face distorted as his body went into spasms.
At the next moment, he fell onto the ground.
Even though he was caught by the surrounding feathermen, blood was running rampant in his entire body, his seven orifices were bursting with blood, he was going to die.
"What did you do?!" Zhou Zhong was furious, he landed on the ground and pressed on the featherman youngster's chest, healing him personally.
The featherman youngster was hit by Fang Yuan's blood path methods, his blood ran wild and spurt outside.
But with Zhou Zhong's suppression, the attack was resolved and the featherman youngster's life was saved.
Zhou Zhong raised his head and looked at Fang Yuan, his expression was dark: "Sir, you attacked a mortal, that is insulting to the status of a Gu Immortal. And I remember that in the agreement, you are not to freely attack or kill our feathermen!"
Fang Yuan shrugged: "Gu Immortals have their status, but even more than that, their authority is not to be offended. I did not violate the agreement, he was the one who had intentions to attack me. It is stated in the agreement clearly that if the mortal feathermen attempt to attack me, I have the rights to kill them. Isn't that right?"
Zhou Zhong could not reply to this.
In terms of playing around rules, Fang Yuan was much stronger than him.
Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Don't worry, I will not violate the agreement."
Zhou Zhong gritted his teeth, his eyes were spewing fire.
"Then I will choose you as my next slave, Zhou Zhong." Suddenly, Fang Yuan pointed at Zhou Zhong, he showed a smile, like his scheme had succeeded.
"What, what did you say?!" At this moment, Zhou Zhong almost thought that he was hearing things.
He wanted a Gu Immortal to become his slave?
How could this be possible?!
Zhou Zhong looked at Fang Yuan in disbelief, did the other party go crazy?
Fang Yuan said with a smile: "Zhou Zhong, did you forget? Our agreement was, as long as my side wins, I can choose a portion of these feathermen on the ground and make them into my slaves."
Fang Yuan placed an emphasis on the words 'on the ground'.
Zhou Zhong felt like a thunderbolt had struck him, he was stunned on the spot, not moving at all.
The surrounding feathermen were no longer flustered and jumping around, they were frozen like statues, staring at their Gu Immortal, staring at his feet.
Zhou Zhong was stepping on the ground!
At this moment, Zhou Zhong's expression was very interesting, it turned from pale as paper to dark and solemn.
His wings fluttered subconsciously, he wanted to raise his legs as if the floor was lava, it was burning his legs.
"Hehehe." Fang Yuan laughed in a monstrous manner, a crafty light was shining in his red eyes: "The moment you stepped on the ground, you became my slave. Zhou Zhong, even if you fly now, it is too late!"
Zhou Zhong shouted at Fang Yuan: "This is a trap! This is an evil plot!"
Fang Yuan laughed heartily, he showed a look of smugness and shamelessness: "That is right, this is a trap, this is an evil plot. Unfortunately, you fell for it."
Beside him, Tai Bai Yun Sheng sighed: "You can only blame yourselves for neglecting your own bodies. Indeed, the authority of Gu Immortals cannot be offended, it is rare for slaves to be Gu Immortals. When we set the agreement, you were both flying in the air, away from the ground, thus you did not notice this trap. Of course, if you realized it and did not step on the ground, there was also nothing we could do. But you had a guilty conscience, you wanted to sacrifice a portion of the feathermen and let them become slaves so as to obtain freedom for you and the rest of the feathermen."
"Cough, cough." Fang Yuan coughed: "Old Bai, even if he did not land on the ground, I still have my ways. We can pick our slaves slowly, we can take a year or two and directly cripple the feathermen. They need food and water to survive, but Tai Bai blessed land is yours, due to the agreement, they cannot inflict any damage on the blessed land, as long as we do not pick our slaves, they will be prisoners inside the blessed land."
This time, even Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at Fang Yuan with shock.
Zhou Zhong opened his mouth wide, at this moment, he felt that he was simply too foolish and naive!
Chapter 869: Freedom of the Feathermen
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The whole area was covered in deathly silence.
Sorrow, fear and loss shrouded the hearts of all the feathermen.
Zhou Zhong was the only Gu Immortal remaining among the feathermen. If even he was no longer there, and became a slave of humans, how would these remaining feathermen survive?
The current five regions, or rather, the whole world, could be said to belong to humans.
The space for variant humans to survive was very small, and this already small space continued to shrink.
Zhou Zhong's mouth, wide open from shock, slowly closed. He looked up at Fang Yuan, as if he was looking at a monster, and asked: "Is your immortal zombie appearance fake? How can an immortal zombie scheme all this?"
Fang Yuan was slightly dazed, not having expected Zhou Zhong to suddenly calm down.
He immediately had a bad feeling.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was beside him, spoke with compassion: "Give up, Zhou Zhong. Even if you become a slave, I can promise that you will never be treated unfairly, I will also not limit your freedom during normal times. I will only ask for your service during critical times. Let these feathermen behind you live in my blessed land from now on. Rest assured, I will not be harsh on them or maltreat them. I will also pay corresponding rewards for their work. Sigh…"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng heaved a sigh, his benevolent nature had emerged again.
However, Zhou Zhong shook his head slightly three times.
The smile on the corners of Fang Yuan's lips disappeared as his expression turned grave.
Afterwards, he saw that the Gu Immortal Zhou Zhong suddenly turned around towards the large group of feathermen, and gave a deep bow.
"Everyone." Zhou Zhong's tone was extremely calm, but it revealed a decisive intent. His voice was not loud, but it resounded in everyone's ears.
"I have done all of you a disservice, this world only has the Gu Immortal Zhou Zhong, the featherman Zhou Zhong, but there will absolutely not be a slave Zhou Zhong. It was truly a shame that I could not protect you all. Goodbye!"
He then suddenly spread his wings.
The wings of feathermen were not wide like eagle wings or thick like vulture wings, but were slender and exquisite.
"Zhou Zhong, what is the point of this? Stop quickly!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was shocked, and wanted to stop him.
But how could he stop a Gu Immortal who was seeking death of his own accord?
Zhou Zhong suddenly flapped his wings and flew towards the sky!
While flying towards the sky, he shouted: "I, Zhou Zhong!"
"Am a featherman!"
"I will not become a slave!"
At this moment, everyone's gazes were gathered on him.
He violated the agreement.
He stepped on the ground and was successfully trapped by Fang Yuan, becoming a slave.
However, Zhou Zhong was not willing and went against the agreement on his own initiative.
The information path immortal killer move on him erupted, the intense backlash that he could not endure assaulted Zhou Zhong's entire body.
The more Zhou Zhong flew, the slower he became, his two wings were also becoming difficult to move.
Right now, his appearance of flying in the sky was like that of an old man who was approaching death and stumbling on his legs but still kept on climbing towards a precipitous peak.
His whole body started crystallizing rapidly, and soon he turned into a transparent glass crystal statue.
His two wings turned into crystal glass like objects, moving no longer.
However, his eyes were still gazing at the blue sky, not even sparing a glance at Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, the gaze carrying endless bravery and decisiveness.
He then started to slowly fall down to the ground.
His whole body started to crumble apart while falling.
First his head, then his chest, his wings, stomach, then his legs.
Before landing on the ground, he had already turned into a sheet of broken glass, and crystal fragments.
There was no wind in Tai Bai blessed land.
These crystal glass fragments, however, seemed to flutter, the more they fluttered, the more they crumbled, they continued to break apart until they disintegrated in the air.
"Zhou Zhong…" Tai Bai Yun Sheng mumbled in a daze.
"Indeed… this guy." Fang Yuan's expression was dark.
He did not make Tai Bai Yun Sheng revive Zhou Zhong. One who was not afraid of even death and was not willing to be a slave, simply had no value.
Moreover, Zhou Zhong was a Gu Immortal, the immortal essence needed to revive him would not be low.
Even if he was revived, his Immortal Gu were already gone, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng also would not be able to absorb his immortal aperture. On the contrary, it was better to let him die. His immortal aperture would be unable to absorb heaven and earth qi, the blessed land would break apart. After breaking up, all the dao marks of Zhou Zhong in the immortal aperture would be added to Tai Bai blessed land.
Zhou Zhong's death caused all the feathermen to fall into silence.
The silence only lasted for a while, before the new featherman king, Yu Fei, shouted loudly: "I, Yu Fei, also am not willing to be a slave. Everybody, have you still not realized it? These two human Gu Immortals are demons, they had already planned to catch us all. They absolutely won't let us go. All of you, choose a new featherman king. I will follow old ancestor Zhou Zhong and take my leave first! "
After saying that, he suicided on the spot!
"Our king!" The feathermen roused, shouting in such fury that their voices shook the surrounding areas.
"Right, there are no slave feathermen in this world, there are only free feathermen."
"Even if I die, I am free."
"As long as our hearts beat for freedom, there will not be any slave feathermen."
"Take our corpses as your slaves."
The feathermen shouted, howled, muttered or ridiculed. Zhou Zhong and Yu Fei's actions inspired the feathermen, unexpectedly, they all chose to suicide!
"Damn it, are you still not stopping them? A bunch of mortals, hmph! Tai Bai Yun Sheng, quickly use Man as Before, we cannot forgo this wealth. We will make them unable to die even if they want to." Fang Yuan snorted.
However, Tai Bai Yun Sheng showed no signs of movement.
"Tai Bai Yun Sheng, what are you doing?" Fang Yuan turned around, and was immediately shocked.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's face was filled with struggle and hesitation, he said to Fang Yuan with difficulty: "Fang Yuan, there are two voices shouting in my head right now. One voice tells me to be logical and raise these feathermen as slaves. The other voice, however, is shouting loudly for me to give up, these feathermen are true feathermen, they cannot be disgraced, even feeling sympathy for them is a humiliation towards them!"
As he said this, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes were unexpectedly glistening with tears!
"Damn it!" An eerie light imperceptibly flashed past Fang Yuan's eyes without anyone noticing.
If these feathermen were raised as slaves, it would be a great help to Fang Yuan's plans in Western Desert as well. But at this crucial moment, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart actually softened.
Fang Yuan could not help but shout furiously in his mind: 'This fool, I can't scheme with him!'
As he said this internally, he suddenly grabbed Tai Bai Yun Sheng's shoulder with his monstrous arm.
The words that came from his mouth, however, were very different: "Let it be, Old Bai, you are correct. These feathermen are the true feathermen from The Legends of Ren Zu, you don't need to hesitate, you can let them die for freedom."
"Fang Yuan…" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression immediately relaxed as he looked gratefully at the immortal zombie before him, and said with some shame: "It was not easy for you to think of this plan, but in the end, because of me…"
Fang Yuan interrupted him: "Don't mention it. Everyone has their own principles. Although I don't approve of it, I can understand it. I will support you."
"Fang Yuan!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's voice was choked with emotions, and he almost teared up.
Fang Yuan spoke in a profound voice: "Do you know why those two featherman Gu Immortals fell to my scheme? Hehe, do you remember that I obtained the wisdom path inheritance from Dong Fang Chang Fan?"
"You mean?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng stared blankly.
Fang Yuan sighed: "Wisdom path methods are indeed incredibly hard to defend against effectively. Fortunately, there have always been very few wisdom path Gu Immortals. I now have a complete wisdom path inheritance, we must not fail to take measures against such methods. Old Bai, although you passed the earthly calamity, don't be in a hurry to go to Eastern Sea. I will use some wisdom path methods on you to deal with other wisdom path Gu Immortals."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was extremely moved, bowing at Fang Yuan: "Then I shall trouble you!"
"Haha, we are family, there is no need for thanks." Fang Yuan dismissed it indifferently, his gaze once again landing on the ground.
In just a few moments, all the feathermen on the ground had suicided, there was not even one who wanted to remain alive!
Fang Yuan momentarily showed a slightly moved expression.
The feathermen seeking death of their own accord made him recall a person in the depths of his memories.
In fact, this person was also a featherman.
When Fang Yuan was still a mortal Gu Master in his previous life, this featherman, who was an assassin, tried to kill Fang Yuan multiple times.
One who understands you even more than friends is often your enemy.
Fang Yuan remembered that one time during a difficult battle, he had discovered the secret of this strong assassin who repeatedly tried to kill him. This assassin was not a human, but a featherman!
"You are a featherman? Your wings have been cut off? That is so sad." Fang Yuan used a verbal attack.
"Hehehe, I myself cut off this pair of wings." The featherman assassin laughed sinisterly: "Do you want to know why?"
Fang Yuan's expression slightly changed: "Why?"
"Hmm, because the featherman village's chief always praised me, saying I am a featherman genius that came by once in a hundred years, the pillar of the featherman village, a flying quasi-grandmaster and what not. It was truly annoying! The chief always warned me that I am a featherman and I am part of the village. I wanted to leave the village to see the world, not only did the chief dissuade me, even all the feathermen in the village stopped me. Hmph, I know they were afraid I would reveal the location of the village and attract human slave hunters. So, one day, I could not withstand it any longer and cut off my wings. Then on that very day, I killed all the feathermen in the village." As he said this, this featherman assassin's expression was one of pride, he smiled lightly.
"What?!" Fang Yuan was shocked.
The featherman assassin shrugged indifferently: "You have read The Legends of Ren Zu, right? Feathermen believe in freedom. My heart for freedom only happened to be dozens of times more vigorous than ordinary feathermen. My featherman identity bound me, so I cut off my wings. The village I grew up in and the villagers constrained me, so I killed them. Because in this world, no one can restrict my freedom."
Fang Yuan's expression immediately turned heavy and he was on full alert. Back then, he had yet to tread on the demonic path, immediately he shouted: "You lunatic!"
"Hahaha." The featherman assassin laughed loudly: "Thanks for the compliment!"
He added: "Actually, you and I are of the same kind."
"Who the hell is the same kind as you?!" Fang Yuan's young face showed a furious expression, as he shouted and pounced forward to fight.
Chapter 870: Freedom Gu
states, Ren Zu walked on his own road of life. After separating with the hairy man leader, he encountered feathermen in green heaven.
Ren Zu was extremely happy when he saw these feathermen.
Because feathermen had wings on their back, and since the feathermen could understand Ren Zu's words, both sides could communicate.
Ren Zu requested the feathermen: "Feathermen, please help me. My daughter is in ordinary abyss and cannot come out. Please fly down and rescue my daughter, let us father and daughter reunite."
The feathermen laughed loudly: "Human, how can you order us. Us feathermen are the most free living beings in the world, no one can order us or bind us. You want us to listen to your request and follow your wish, that is impossible."
Ren Zu kept on persuading, and even pleaded with them, but the feathermen simply kept on flying in the air, enjoying the pleasure of freedom.
Ren Zu's mouth had already dried, but the feathermen only treated him as a clown, ridiculing Ren Zu as if they were looking at a joke.
"Oh look, such a pitiful human."
"So what if he is the life form with the most intelligence in the world?"
"He doesn't have wings and can only walk on the ground, he is so pitiful. Fortunately, I am not a human, but a featherman. See how vigorously I can fly."
…
In Ren Zu's heart of loneliness, self Gu started getting angrier as it heard these words, finally it could not hold the anger back and jumped out.
"All of you, come down." Self Gu displayed its might, capturing all the feathermen in the sky at once.
Ren Zu could not help but become greatly startled at this: "Self Gu, when did you become so strong?"
Self Gu said proudly: "It is only natural. I took a bite out of strength Gu, now that I have my own strength, I possess immense might. Moreover, there is no need to pay any price to use this strength. Human, you need to know: what is most reliable is your own strength. And without strength, freedom is just an illusion."
The feathermen were captured and could no longer fly to the sky, pressed onto the ground without being able to move.
They began to throw curses at Ren Zu and self Gu in anger.
Ren Zu heaved a sigh: "Feathermen, I did not mean to offend you. Please forgive my rudeness. I only want to ask you to save my daughter. When I reunite with her, I will definitely reward you."
"Impossible! We feathermen are the most free!"
"Even if our bodies lose freedom, our hearts are still free."
"Right, right!"
"Cruel human, you can't impose your will on any featherman."
The feathermen kept on shouting without any intention to compromise.
Ren Zu persuaded them for three days and three nights, but it was in vain. Helpless, he could only let go of these feathermen.
Self Gu spoke bitterly: "Human, how could you release them so easily? Don't you want to rescue your fourth child?"
Ren Zu, however, replied confidently: "I have already understood that these feathermen cannot be forced. After these days of contact with the feathermen, I have found these feathermen might be free but they don't have dens to shelter themselves from wind and rain, and they also don't have enough food to fill their stomachs. To make them help, I have to make them do it willingly!"
Thereupon, Ren Zu built a house near the feathermen. Every day, he relied on self Gu to gather a lot of wild fruits and hunt many beasts.
The feathermen soon discovered the safety and warmth of the house. Especially during the days of storms, the feathermen could only hide in groves of trees, shivering and starving. While Ren Zu stayed within his house, enjoying the warmth of a fireplace and sumptuous food.
On one cold night, some feathermen quietly moved under the roof of Ren Zu's house, to evade the wind and snow, while also greedily absorbing the warmth leaking out from the crack in the door.
Ren Zu wore the mask of attitude Gu and opened the door, using an extremely warm attitude to invite these feathermen into the house, and to enjoy the warmth and food with him.
As this repeated several times, more and more feathermen came into Ren Zu's house.
Ren Zu was very hospitable and would entertain the feathermen every day, even giving the area near the fireplace to the feathermen. No matter how much the feathermen ate, he let them eat without restraint.
The feathermen gradually became accustomed to living this way, until one day, Ren Zu saw the timing was ripe and took off attitude Gu, revealing his true, cold expression.
He shut the door of the house and stored all the food as well, no longer supplying them to the feathermen for free.
The feathermen were caught off-guard and were frantic.
They were already used to the safety and warmth of the house, they were used to plentiful food, they rarely flew now and hunted even less. Their stockpile of food was extremely small. Many feathermen were fat to the extent they could not fly.
The feathermen had no way to deal with Ren Zu's behavior. They could not beat Ren Zu, who possessed self Gu.
Soon, all the feathermen reached a situation where they would die from hunger or the cold.
Several days later, many feathermen died.
Ren Zu waited and waited until he became extremely anxious, as the feathermen showed no signs of coming to terms with him.
In the end, when most of the feathermen died, Ren Zu could not help but mention the old matter again: "Feathermen, as long as you move your wings to fly to ordinary abyss and rescue my daughter, I will give you enough food and also warm houses."
However, the remaining feathermen still shook their heads.
Eventually, they all died.
From these feathermen's corpses, many small creatures flew out. They looked like tiny specks of light, shining with all kinds of colors. Ren Zu tried to grab them, but was not able to.
"It is no use." Cognition Gu informed him at this moment: "Wild freedom Gu cannot be caught. These feathermen chased after freedom since their birth, but it is a pity that only after their death could they find freedom."
Central Continent, Hu Immortal blessed land, Dang Hun palace.
Fang Yuan slowly withdrew his monstrous arm, the featherman Gu Immortal Zheng Ling's soul, however, was extremely listless as it weakly floated in the air.
Gu Immortal Zhou Zhong had violated the agreement, thus his soul was already extinguished.
As for Zheng Ling, who had died first, because he had only been attacked by Fang Yuan with poison path and strength path killer moves, only his body had perished and his soul had been preserved.
Fang Yuan had secretly stored his soul into his immortal aperture on the spot.
Since ancient times, soul path, wisdom path and enslavement path were closely related. Since Fang Yuan had obtained Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance, he also gained some comprehension of the other paths, as such his attainment in soul path and enslavement path had also increased by a bit.
Most of all, Fang Yuan had used the light of wisdom to repeatedly improve the immortal killer move myriad self, not only adding a few core Immortal Gu one after another, but also adding many soul path mortal Gu.
This coordination made it so that when the giant hand killed the enemy, the injured soul would be captured by Fang Yuan.
If others did not pay attention, they would think Fang Yuan had destroyed the soul as well.
But in fact, Fang Yuan secretly captured the soul.
Even Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not sense this as he did not have an immortal level investigative killer move.
Fang Yuan also did not inform him.
The value of a Gu Immortal's soul was far higher than a Gu Immortal's will or mortal souls.
Fang Yuan had just ended his first soul search.
From this soul search, he learned the origin of this group of feathermen.
"They are a featherman clan in Western Desert, living for generations in a fragment world of green heaven. No wonder they have such ancient customs, even suiciding rather than lowering their heads to become slaves. A life of peace with plentiful resources, a united clan without any powerful external enemies, this instead corroded the minds of these feathermen."
"White Sea Shatuo… who is this person?"
"He was able to gather so many people to siege Sacred Feather City. Moreover, he was using such superior means that are beyond imagination. They could actually restrict an Immortal Gu House, causing the feathermen to flee in desperation!"
Fang Yuan rummaged through his mind, but could not find any information about White Sea Shatuo.
In the end, Fang Yuan could only sigh: "Western Desert is also a place hiding dragons and tigers."
In conclusion, the benefits from this tribulation in Tai Bai blessed land were huge.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng received all the dao marks of the two featherman Gu Immortals, a rank six and a rank seven, he was the biggest winner.
Fang Yuan's harvests were also not small.
The origin of this group of feathermen was a big deal, and there was also Sacred Feather City, the origins could be traced back to the Late Antiquity Era, the era of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
As the leader of Sacred Feather City, the rank seven Gu Immortal, Zheng Ling, held plenty of secrets, immortal killer moves, immortal Gu recipes and so on. It was likely he even had a complete Gu Immortal inheritance.
The green heaven fragment world was isolated from the outside world for this long, Sacred Feather City could be said to be a paradise for feathermen, this was a huge settlement of feathermen among those remaining in the world.
Because they had very few interactions with the outside world, and the green heaven fragment world had plenty of resources, these featherman Gu Immortals' methods were quaint, having distinctive characteristics of the Late Antiquity Era.
Fang Yuan even had an expectation — if his luck was good, maybe he could get a strength path inheritance from Zheng Ling's soul.
The only pity was those mortal feathermen.
Fang Yuan had been planning to raise those feathermen as slaves to help him penetrate the market in Western Desert, or even establish a caravan.
Feathermen were high quality slaves in Western Desert. Super forces and large forces, all of them had featherman-based caravans.
It was impossible for Fang Yuan to only do business with Xiao clan, in the early stage, he indeed had to rely on Xiao clan as a springboard to stably enter Western Desert's market. But Fang Yuan would suffer losses if he only engaged with Xiao clan on the long term.
But these mortal feathermen were dead already. From their temperament, they were too well pampered and it would be an arduous process to tame them. Instead, it was much more convenient to directly purchase featherman slaves.
Fang Yuan was not someone who dwelled on the past, and soon threw this matter to the back of his mind.
He already possessed change form Immortal Gu and had fused it into the immortal killer move, vaguely familiar face. Fang Yuan originally intended to change into another appearance to go to Northern Plains Zombie Alliance and continue his previous foiled plan.
But after contacting Fairy Li Shan, Fang Yuan analyzed and deduced that the situation was not good.
Ever since Feng Jiu Ge had investigated the identity of Sha Huang, Northern Plains Zombie Alliance was much more strict in examining any unknown immortal zombie that wanted to join the alliance. It was no longer as easy as before for Fang Yuan to infiltrate into Northern Plains Zombie Alliance.
And Feng Jiu Ge, Old Lord Can Yang, and the rest of the group had gone into hiding, which made Fang Yuan feel that a storm was brewing.
Fang Yuan hesitated, was he still going to follow the plan to make his way into Northern Plains Zombie Alliance under this situation?
Chapter 871: Rock Dragon Eye
Northern Plains, Snowy Mountain blessed land.
The sky was covered in clouds, the white snow was like dust. All of the peaks were standing in the snow, as the forests were covered in layers of snow, they were like a vast number of clouds.
A rainbow shot out from the first peak, it flew into the air like a meteor.
The peak owners of Snowy Mountain turned their gazes towards it.
"Old Ancestor has sent an order again."
"I wonder who will receive the order to collect immortal materials this time…"
"Hopefully it isn't me."
The rainbow drew a beautiful arc in the sky, it flew directly into the third peak.
The other peak owners sighed in relief secretly.
Inside the third peak, Fairy Li Shan was dressed in a bright leather dress, it was silver at the bottom, with the images of the grassland in the night sky with the moon on it.
This was clothing in the style of Northern Plains.
Fairy Li Shan wore her precious pearl headband as she shut her eyes, her mind was looking inside her immortal aperture.
In her immortal aperture, there were birds chirping and flowers growing, it was warm like spring, completely the opposite of the icy nature of Snowy Mountain blessed land.
In the lush forests, mountains and greenery were like paintings, there were large numbers of precious materials, a small number of desolate plants, as well as ancient desolate plants.
At the center of the immortal aperture, along a line of waist deep grass, there was a small mountain.
This tiny mountain was more inconspicuous than a small mound at first glance.
But it was Miniscule Mountain, one of the few secluded domains in this world recorded in .
In this Miniscule Mountain, large numbers of minimen were flying in and out.
They were flying in the lush grass, due to their tiny bodies, these blades of grass were like tall trees.
The minimen were working laboriously in the grass like bee groups.
Fairy Li Shan was paying close attention to them, after watching them for a while, she was satisfied.
When she had obtained Miniscule Mountain, the minimen were unwilling to cooperate with her initially, they were wary of her.
But Fairy Li Shan was not an incompetent person, she used the carrot and the stick tactic, she helped a miniman puppet to become their leader, and killed all of the resistance without mercy.
The minimen were not as stubborn as the feathermen, but there were also loyal members.
After Fairy Li Shan killed forty percent of the minimen, she finally subdued the miniman tribe in Miniscule Mountain.
Thereafter, Fairy Li Shan moved Miniscule Mountain into her immortal aperture. With the help of the minimen, the wood path resources in her immortal aperture were produced at a rapid speed!
Hairy men were born with refinement path dao marks, they had Gu refinement talent. Feathermen were born with cloud path dao marks and had wings, they could fly freely in the sky. Minimen were born with wood path dao marks, the places where they lived in would have vegetation growing rapidly. They even had inheritances passed down from many generations before, they were the race that was most skilled at growing plants and flowers.
"Minimen are quite extraordinary! My jade yin grass is a rank seven immortal material. It had been wilting all along, but after these minimen lived here for half a year, this field expanded into a miniature grass field. All the jade yin grass have a lot of vitality, unfortunately, the number of minimen is very small now. The earlier battle caused half of them to die. If I had the previous number of minimen, my pressure would be halved now. Eh? Two letter Gu at the same time?"
Fairy Li Shan willed and sensed two information path Gu worms, one came from the outside world, flying through space, while the other came out of her blessed land using the moving perspective cup Gu.
Fairy Li Shan opened her eyes, she first grabbed one of the letters, holding the rainbow from the sky in her hands.
She glanced at it as she directed her consciousness into the Gu.
As she had expected, it was Old Ancestor Xue Hu's orders for her to collect immortal materials.
"Concealing heaven dust, rock dragon eye, elephant tusk flame… this time, he wants me to gather three immortal materials." Fairy Li Shan frowned deeply.
Among these three immortal materials, rock dragon eye and elephant tusk flame were rank seven immortal materials, while concealing heaven dust was a rank eight immortal material that was very precious.
Elephant tusk flame was a tiny lump of flame that burned in the elephant's tusk after an ancient desolate beast elephant died. This lump of fire was about the size of a pea, once it finished burning the tusk, it would be extinguished upon contact with the outside air.
An ancient desolate beast elephant was an existence equal to rank seven Gu Immortals. After the elephant died, its tusk would not generate the flame every time.
With so many conditions to fulfill, one could see how precious the elephant tusk flame was. Even in the market of the five regions, treasure yellow heaven, it was a rare immortal material.
And compared to the elephant tusk flame, rock dragon eye and concealing heaven dust were much harder to get.
Concealing heaven dust was only found in yellow heaven of the immemorial nine heavens. But because yellow heaven was already destroyed by Ren Zu's children, Fairy Li Shan had to first find a yellow heaven fragment world.
And this fragment world had to be big enough with enough dao marks to allow her to enter and explore it.
After entering the yellow heaven fragment world, Fairy Li Shan would have to prepare special methods to collect the concealing heaven dust. During the process of collecting it, she would face a lot of trouble.
Fairy Li Shan would rather pay a huge price to buy the concealing heaven dust in treasure yellow heaven.
As for the rock dragon eye, it referred to the eyes of the ancient desolate beast rock dragon.
This rock dragon was not an ordinary fierce beast.
In the graveyards of rockman tribes, there would be a lot of buried rockman corpses. As they accumulated over time, one day, they would attract lightning to strike them.
As the thunderbolt strikes the graveyard, a rock dragon would be born.
Similarly to the rockmen, the rock dragon's body was made of rocks.
During the Immemorial Antiquity Era and the Remote Antiquity Era, variant humans were in control of most of the world. Only super forces of rockman tribes or large sized rockman tribes with a long history would have rock dragons in them. Even though there was Ren Zu, his ten children, and even Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, there were very few humans in the world.
The rock dragon was the guardian beast of the rockmen tribe, the rockmen all believe that the rock dragon is the revival of their ancestors. During the wars of the variant humans, the rock dragon had once been in the spotlight, they were among the best beasts of war in the world.
Rock dragons did not have any sense of pain, they had sturdy defenses and were extremely bold. Even if they were hurt, if there were any rockmen willing to sacrifice themselves and go to the rock dragon's area of injury, they would be able to convert themselves into a part of the rock dragon, allowing its wounds to heal instantly.
This was an absurd battle tactic, the other races had a huge headache dealing with it.
But times were different now.
It was extremely hard for Fairy Li Shan to find a rock dragon.
Because rockman tribes were very rare now, most rockmen were the slaves of Gu Immortals.
Even if Fairy Li Shan found a rock dragon, with her battle strength, she would not be able to defeat a rock dragon, a top tier war beast of the Remote Antiquity Era that had extremely high defenses.
Thus, even though the rock dragon eye was a rank seven immortal material, it was harder to obtain than the rank eight immortal material, concealing heaven dust.
"Old Ancestor Xue Hu is giving us peak owners tougher and tougher missions. Out of these three immortal materials, only the elephant tusk flame is slightly simple. Not only is strength a concern in obtaining concealing heaven dust and rock dragon eye, it is extremely dependent on luck. Sigh, if I have good luck, I would be able to just buy it from treasure yellow heaven."
Fairy Li Shan sighed deeply.
Her earlier investment in the miniman and Miniscule Mountain had already started to see effect, she was going to reap the benefits now.
With Hei Lou Lan's determination to become independent, she had rejected any additional funding. Thus, during this period, Fairy Li Shan was accumulating wealth rapidly.
This accumulation was twice as fast as before.
It took too much time and effort to obtain the concealing heaven dust and rock dragon eye. Fairy Li Shan would rather expend her wealth instead of expending time and energy.
After receiving the letter from Old Ancestor Xue Hu, Fairy Li Shan checked the second letter Gu.
There were only a few people who could make the letter appear directly in her immortal aperture.
Fairy Li Shan checked it and saw that the sender of the letter Gu was Fang Yuan.
In this letter, Fang Yuan promised much benefits, as he asked Fairy Li Shan to assist him in killing an immortal zombie from Northern Plains Zombie Alliance.
"Fang Yuan…" Fairy Li Shan muttered, she left her bed and walked around.
She lowered her head and was in deep thought as she slowly paced.
When she got to the window and saw the snowflakes outside, she sneered while staring at the silent peaks.
"This Fang Yuan, earlier he disguised himself as Sha Huang, joining Zombie Alliance. Now, he wants me to help him kill an immortal zombie, he definitely has some motive!"
"Promising me great benefits, he is really affluent. After all, he obtained a lot of resources from Dong Fang tribe, as well as getting Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance. During this period, he must have been developing smoothly and rapidly."
"Right now, the situation in Northern Plains is full of turbulence. The investigation team of Central Continent Gu Immortals is still hiding somewhere. In this situation, Fang Yuan still wants to strike, it seems that the benefit of Zombie Alliance is extremely important to him. Does he want to claim another immortal zombie's contribution points, and obtain the research results of Zombie Alliance in the ways to revive and get rid of the zombie status?"
Thinking of this, Fairy Li Shan squinted her eyes.
Central Continent, Heavenly Court.
White Jade Palace was very bright.
Four Gu Immortals, standing at the north, south, east, and west, were surrounding the rank nine Immortal Gu House, Heaven Overseeing Tower, in the middle.
The old Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord stood at the east, he held his walking stick as a brilliant light flashed in his aged eyes: "Recovery of Fate, begins now!"
The walking stick in his hand was raised in the air, as if it hit a steel rock, it gave off a clear sound.
Immediately, light burst out, countless Gu worms flew about and formed a gigantic Gu formation.
Traces and traces of lights and rainbows merged together, forming a huge formation array that filled the surroundings.
The female Gu Immortal, Bai Cang Shui, who was here for the first time, shouted in shock: "This refinement path Gu formation is a step away from becoming a rank eight Immortal Gu House!"
Immortal Gu Houses were in themselves related to a Gu cultivation path — the utmost materialization of formation path.
"Hehehe, this refinement path Gu formation is quite extraordinary. Fairy Cang Shui, please look down." At the west area, the person with the appearance of a young man in white clothing, Lian Jiu Sheng spoke as he smiled.
Next, he grabbed at the air and threw a huge amount of rock dragon eyes in front of him.
The rock dragon eyes entered the refinement path Gu formation, in just a few breaths of time, they were completely broken up and fused into the wondrous refinement path Gu formation.
"So many rock dragon eyes! And such a speed of processing immortal materials…" Bai Cang Shui was lost for words.
Hu Immortal blessed land, Dang Hun palace.
"Hmph!" Fang Yuan crushed the information path Gu worm in his hand.
He was rejected.
"Still wanting to restrict my development huh… these narrow-minded and petty women." Fang Yuan's expression was gloomy: "Oh?"
At this time, an information path Gu worm appeared in his immortal aperture.
"Did Fairy Li Shan change her mind?" Fang Yuan stared slightly before checking it, he was very surprised afterwards: "This is Lang Ya land spirit's request for reinforcements?!"
Chapter 872: Joining Lang Ya's Defensive Battle
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After Fang Yuan obtained change form Immortal Gu and merged it into immortal killer move vaguely familiar face, he could now take a much greater variety of appearances.
Thus, he wanted to blend into Northern Plains Zombie Alliance again, but the situation was far from good.
Because his Sha Huang identity was exposed, Northern Plains Zombie Alliance was now extremely vigilant, and it was not possible for him to smoothly join Zombie Alliance by repeating his previous method.
Therefore, Fang Yuan got the idea of using other Zombie Alliance members.
As long as he secretly killed one of them and changed into the appearance of this unfortunate fellow, he could infiltrate Northern Plains Zombie Alliance.
Fang Yuan had become an immortal in Northern Plains, his body was filled with Northern Plains' aura. Zombie Alliance's large door could stop Feng Jiu Ge, but it could not obstruct him.
However, this secret assassination would be filled with difficulties and danger.
First of all, the entire process of killing a Zombie Alliance member had to be carried out in secret, without letting any trace of it leak out.
It was difficult to accomplish this.
Fang Yuan currently had rank seven battle strength, it was easy for him to defeat an ordinary immortal zombie, and killing them was also possible.
But to secretly kill them was exceptionally difficult.
Because the commotion during the battle would be huge and could not be controlled. If the immortal zombie wanted to flee, Fang Yuan would have to give chase, but true solid bat wings was not very reliable. If the immortal zombie used information path Gu worms to request for reinforcements, then in the midst of the battle, Fang Yuan would need to have sufficient and accurate means to exterminate these Gu worms.
In summary, Fang Yuan had outstanding power in offense, but was still lacking a lot in other aspects. Most of all, he lacked a battlefield killer move.
Battlefield killer moves could create an independent battlefield environment that was isolated from the world.
Within a battlefield killer move, Gu Immortals were usually unable to use information path Gu worms to request reinforcements. Naturally, this was not absolute, there was no such thing as absolute in this world.
Also, superior battlefield killer moves could limit the space, thus could prevent the enemy from running everywhere.
Immortal battlefield killer moves had another name, they were known as 'quasi blessed lands'. Once they were used, they could temporarily replicate countless dao marks, creating a temporary unique battlefield.
Most Gu Immortals, in fact, did not have immortal battlefield killer moves, only relatively few Gu Immortals were in possession of them.
Fang Yuan did not have an immortal battlefield killer move, it would be very difficult for him to secretly kill a Northern Plains Zombie Alliance member by himself.
Even in his previous life he did not have one, because when he had just obtained his first Immortal Gu, he was besieged and had no choice but to self-detonate.
Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng also did not have one.
They had only recently advanced into Gu Immortals, even if their immortal apertures were of superior grades, they needed to accumulate their foundations for a long time.
However, Fairy Li Shan had one.
Pear orchard was her battlefield killer move.
If they could lure an immortal zombie into pear orchard, then it was very likely they could secretly kill them.
Naturally, even if they succeeded, there were risks.
Fang Yuan did not forget Old Lord Can Yang and rest of the group, they were sure to have wisdom path Gu Immortals amongst them. And the possibility of them deducing Fang Yuan re-entering Zombie Alliance was very likely.
Once the truth was exposed or even a slight trace of it was leaked out, Fang Yuan entering Northern Plains Zombie Alliance would be like entering a tiger's den.
Thus, Fairy Li Shan's help was highly necessary.
However, Fairy Li Shan rejected Fang Yuan's request, and just as Fang Yuan was thinking of other strategies, a request for reinforcements appeared in his immortal aperture.
Ever since Northern Plains' grand auction event ended, Fang Yuan had stopped contacting Lang Ya land spirit frequently.
This time, however, Lang Ya land spirit had taken the initiative to contact Fang Yuan, it was to ask for reinforcements.
This greatly differed from Fang Yuan's expectations.
In Fang Yuan's mind, Lang Ya blessed land had an extremely deep foundation.
In his previous life, Lang Ya blessed land, this ownerless blessed land, had resisted seven entire waves of invading Gu Immortals. Moreover, at the seventh wave, even Feng Jiu Ge had died in Lang Ya blessed land.
Although Lang Ya blessed land only had twelve cloud buildings on the surface, under each cloud building was a desolate beast, that meant twelve desolate beasts.
And as long as one was not an idiot, they would understand these twelve desolate beasts were only the outermost defensive measures, one should not forget Lang Ya blessed land's original owner was Long Hair Ancestor.
He was known as possibly the number one refinement path immortal, he had refined thirty-eight Immortal Gu throughout his life, not lacking rank seven and rank eight among them. This was only the officially recorded number. If his unofficial records were noted, if rumors and so on were taken into consideration, the amount surpassed a hundred!
Thus, Fang Yuan had already surmised that Lang Ya blessed land's true defenses were the vast number of Immortal Gu left behind by Long Hair Ancestor.
It was not the desolate beasts.
Lang Ya blessed land was vastly different from other blessed lands. Even without an owner, Lang Ya land spirit had an unending supply of immortal essence which he could use.
It was because Lang Ya blessed land had the Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus that could produce immortal essence.
And due to the support of Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus, Lang Ya land spirit could boldly activate Immortal Gu, displaying their unique powers.
"Now, Lang Ya land spirit is actually taking the initiative to ask me for reinforcements? In my previous life, he could resist until the seventh wave, and this should only be the fourth wave of attacks. Is it because of me that the structure of Northern Plains' situation has changed to such a large extent? Has it caused Lang Ya blessed land to face a much fiercer attack?"
Fang Yuan's brain worked rapidly.
For Lang Ya land spirit to ask for reinforcements, it could certainly be imagined that the strength of the invaders absolutely surpassed Fang Yuan's individual ability.
But often, precious opportunities were hidden in dangerous situations.
Lang Ya blessed land had a deep accumulation of wealth, and was so rich that even Heavenly Court's greed was incited in Fang Yuan's previous life, forcibly taking down this blessed land. Heavenly Court might have suffered huge losses, but they also benefited a lot even after calculating the loss of Feng Jiu Ge.
Cooperating with Lang Ya land spirit had many benefits.
This was already clear from the past dealings.
Fang Yuan had bluffed and deceived to seize many benefits from Lang Ya land spirit. Lang Ya land spirit had a huge hand in his rapid progress after becoming a Gu Immortal. Especially in transitioning between the early to middle stages, which was a difficult point to make progress.
It was a pity, after the auction in Northern Plains, Fang Yuan's greed and excessive demands led to the land spirit's aversion towards him, which caused the relation between both sides to worsen and reduce to a freezing point.
Fang Yuan had tried to cooperate with the land spirit several times, but was answered with an unyielding attitude by the land spirit, asking Fang Yuan to search for a poisonous flower type immortal material.
"If I can help the land spirit now, our tensed relations will definitely ease up."
"What's more, I have Fixed Immortal Travel and only need three breaths of time to return to Hu Immortal blessed land. Even if the enemies are very strong, I should be able to buy three breaths of time, right?"
Fang Yuan pondered, although Lang Ya land spirit had asked for reinforcements, the situation might not be so bad.
He had always felt that Lang Ya blessed land's foundation was very abundant. In his previous life, it could resist seven waves of attack, even a powerhouse of this generation like Feng Jiu Ge was sacrificed here. This was only the fourth wave of attacks.
As he considered it thoroughly, Fang Yuan decided to help Lang Ya land spirit.
He was not a rash, hot-blooded child like Yu Fei who, when his friends suffered harm, would stand up regardless of gains or losses.
He was Fang Yuan, a demonic path Gu Immortal.
He emphasized profits, coldly calculating gains and losses; allies were used to bring benefits, what was the point of making friends with each other?
As far as Fang Yuan was concerned, allies were only special tools to gain benefits.
Coincidentally, Tai Bai Yun Sheng also came to inquire about the letter.
Lang Ya land spirit had also sent him a letter for reinforcements.
In fact, since Tai Bai Yun Sheng had restored Lang Ya blessed land for the land spirit, his relationship with the land spirit was much better than that of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan informed Tai Bai Yun Sheng of his decision, which Tai Bai Yun Sheng approved of.
Fang Yuan immediately used a stargate to go to Lang Ya blessed land.
Even though Tai Bai Yun Sheng had passed the earthly calamity, he still required some time before he could take back his immortal aperture and move around.
"You're here, Fang Yuan." Lang Ya land spirit appeared in front of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan noticed Lang Ya land spirit did not appear tired and had no injuries on his body, and felt even more certain of his previous guess, he laughed: "This is your attitude to your life saving benefactor?"
"Hmph! You think I am not aware? Rascal, you wouldn't have even thought of helping me without benefits involved! If not for this situation being urgent, I would not have requested help from you." Lang Ya land spirit rolled his eyes.
Although he said this, Lang Ya land spirit's attitude was already much warmer than before.
"I will give you the rank six Immortal Gu recipe for all-out effort Gu as a reward for repelling the enemies!" Lang Ya land spirit continued.
Fang Yuan snickered, shaking his head: "Let's talk about the reward later, after we repel the invading Gu Immortals."
Fang Yuan did not talk about reward and was worried about the invading enemies, not taking advantage to blackmail, this immediately made Lang Ya land spirit very pleased and feel his opinion of Fang Yuan becoming much more pleasant.
"Follow me." Lang Ya land spirit grabbed Fang Yuan's arm, and instantly, they arrived at the highest floor of a cloud building.
It could be seen from this that there were large numbers of space path dao marks in Lang Ya blessed land.
If it were like Star Form blessed land where there were not many space path dao marks, Star Form land spirit could only fly rapidly with no ability to teleport.
Fang Yuan observed the surroundings that had already changed greatly.
Previously, Lang Ya blessed land had a vast area of cloud soil with clear skies, twelve cloud buildings standing adjacent to each other among them. But right now, Fang Yuan's sight was filled with boundless fog, which was so dense one could not even see their hands.
The sky could not be seen above, the ground could not be seen below.
Lang Ya land spirit explained with a serious voice: "This is the Gu formation activated after the blessed land was attacked — Twelve Wave Cloud Confusion Formation. The twelve cloud buildings are all mortal Gu Houses and serve as formation cores of this formation. Look! Those are the invaders."
The land spirit waved his sleeve, several mirrors appeared in front of Fang Yuan.
Each mirror showed a Gu Immortal moving slowly in the vast fog, or charging forward.
'They are!' Fang Yuan's pupils could not help but shrink when he saw these Gu Immortals.
Qin Bai Sheng, Jiang Yu, Hei Cheng, Xue Song Zi and He Lang Zi!
There were also two others, one was a green robed wind path Gu Immortal who was moving forward rapidly, another was a black robed Gu Immortal who was wearing a mask and was very mysterious.
"You recognize them?" Lang Ya land spirit sensed the strange expression on Fang Yuan's face.
Fang Yuan nodded, saying with a serious expression: "These people have extraordinary strength, especially the leader, Qin Bai Sheng, he is a famous rank seven expert in Northern Plains."
"I know. If not for this, most of my twelve wave cloud confusion formation would not have been broken down. Now only five buildings are left, two are already guarded by two of Inkman City's Gu Immortals. You will guard this one, while I will personally guard another one. The remaining one is left for Tai Bai Yun Sheng." Lang Ya land spirit distribution the workload.
Fang Yuan frowned: "The enemies are too strong, the cloud buildings are only mortal Gu Houses, it will be quite difficult to obstruct these people while also protecting the cloud buildings!"
Chapter 873: Quietly Awaiting Foes
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Fang Yuan frowned, he showed a troubled expression.
Qin Bai Sheng, Jiang Yu, He Lang Zi, Xue Song Zi, He Lang Zi, and two mysterious Gu Immortals that he did not know. Among them, only Xue Song Zi and Jiang Yu were rank six Gu Immortals, the rest were rank seven Gu Immortals.
Fang Yuan did not have any idea of who the two mysterious Gu Immortals were.
But among the remaining ones, Qin Bai Sheng, He Lang Zi, and Hei Cheng were all experienced rank sevens.
Hei Cheng was a Gu Immortal of the super force, Hei tribe, although he had a hidden injury and could not use immortal killer moves, causing his battle strength to decline sharply. He was not at his peak condition, but the Immortal Gu Dark Arrow was not to be underestimated.
He Lang Zi was a famous transformation path demonic immortal in Northern Plains, he had a strange upbringing and was ruthless and savage, he had three immortal level desolate wolf transformations, he had high battle strength. He was once offered recruitment by Old Ancestor Xue Hu, but he turned down the offer.
The strongest one was Qin Bai Sheng.
This person had roamed Northern Plains for hundreds of years, as a lone cultivator, he had defeated Liu Hao, Chanyu Xiong, Nu Er Du, killed Bai Chan Zi, Jade Fire Farmer, Mountain Lord Tian Qing, had a draw with Yuan Rang Zun, and managed to escape with his life from Five Elements Grandmaster.
He was a rank seven Gu Immortal, his status in Northern Plains was like Shi Lei's status in Central Continent.
In most people's perspective, he was at the peak of rank seven battle strength, only rank eight Gu Immortals could suppress him. He was considerably stronger than the level of Old Lord Can Yang.
The scarier thing was, not only did he have outstanding battle strength, he was also very capable in planning. He held the Northern Plains auction and was the biggest winner out of it.
Trying to protect the cloud buildings in front of such a person, it was not a strange thing for Fang Yuan to feel very troubled.
But Lang Ya land spirit patted Fang Yuan's shoulder, saying: "I am not asking you to defend the cloud building, you just need to hold him back. I am trying to stall for time. Hmph, these people are too daring, they actually attacked Lang Ya blessed land! As long as you can hold on for thirty minutes, I will be able to make these people suffer the severe consequences!"
Lang Ya land spirit spoke with immense confidence.
Like what Fang Yuan had guessed, Lang Ya land spirit definitely had a trump card that could turn the situation around.
In the earlier three waves of attacks, Lang Ya land spirit had amazing battle results, these twelve desolate beasts would not have been able to accomplish it.
"Then, what is the thing that Lang Ya land spirit is relying on?" Fang Yuan felt a strong sense of curiosity internally.
He did not had any intention to conceal this thought, he asked directly.
But Lang Ya land spirit did not tell him, he only smiled mysteriously.
Afterwards, the land spirit gave Fang Yuan some instructions and gave him a letter Gu before teleporting away.
The letter Gu recorded the technique to manipulate the cloud buildings.
This cloud building was lent to Fang Yuan by Lang Ya land spirit, he could manipulate it freely.
Fang Yuan looked at it two or three times, he memorized the manipulation technique to heart. Next, he practiced it a little and got the hang of it.
The cloud buildings were the formation cores of the twelve wave cloud confusion formation, star thoughts moved in Fang Yuan's mind as he gained much understanding of the twelve wave cloud confusion formation after learning about the cloud buildings.
In other words, this was a fog formation that resembled a maze.
Even though it was not elevated to the level of a battlefield killer move, it was only one step away.
It was not that Lang Ya land spirit did not have battlefield killer moves, but to set up a battlefield killer move, dao marks needed to be carved.
The newly added dao marks would not be perfectly compatible with the dao marks of this world, there would be conflicts and unsuitability. This would cause damage to Lang Ya blessed land itself.
Thus, the land spirit did not do that.
To just stall for time, twelve wave cloud confusion formation was already reaching the limits of a Gu formation.
When a Gu Immortal is inside the formation, their five senses would be messed up and they would not be able to tell the direction, between left or right, or even end up just walking in circles on the spot. Only an investigative immortal killer move would allow the Gu Immortal to navigate their way through the Gu formation.
Only by destroying all twelve cloud buildings would this formation be entirely destroyed.
If they did not have an investigative immortal killer move, then the Gu Immortal could only move about randomly, hoping to see if they could find a cloud building, this was purely up to luck.
Fortunately for them, once the Gu formation was set up, the twelve cloud buildings could not be moved, otherwise, Gu Immortals without an investigative immortal killer move would never be able to find it, not even luck could help.
Fang Yuan sat on the cloud bed as he opened many observation mirrors, checking the surroundings of this cloud building.
His authority was only limited to this cloud building, he could only check the surroundings of this cloud building to an extent.
There was only vast fog in the mirror, not a single Gu Immortal showed up.
Fang Yuan did not lack patience, he waited silently.
A moment later, a Gu Immortal appeared in the mirror.
She was wearing a purple dress, she had a high nose and deep beautiful eyes, her eyebrows were thick and long, her skin was slightly dark as her entire body oozed with an alluring aura.
It was Fairy Jiang Yu!
Fang Yuan was shocked, he immediately thought about her dark limit Immortal Gu.
Hei Lou Lan had the Great Strength True Martial Physique, before becoming an immortal, she had used dark limit Immortal Gu, it had entered Hei Lou Lan's body and circulated through it, concealing the aura of the Great Strength True Martial Physique.
Initially, Hei Lou Lan's plan was to seize her dark limit Immortal Gu, before they were exposed.
But unfortunately, Fairy Jiang Yu's traces were hard to find, before this plan was even put into play, it had failed.
Later, when Hei Lou Lan was chasing after Hei Cheng, this plan was even more impossible.
"Dark limit Immortal Gu, if I can obtain it…" Fang Yuan's gaze shined, he felt somewhat of a pity inside: "Unfortunately, in this current situation, even if I can capture Fairy Jiang Yu alive, I would not obtain dark limit Immortal Gu."
It was very hard to take Immortal Gu, hope was usually very slim.
After all, only a thought was needed to make the Immortal Gu self-detonate.
Just as Fang Yuan thought about this, Fairy Jiang Yu actually turned this way and that, going on a detour around Fang Yuan's territory, heading towards another direction and leaving this place.
Once she was out of Fang Yuan's territory, Fairy Jiang Yu vanished from the mirror.
A while later, a second Gu Immortal entered Fang Yuan's territory.
The mirror clearly showed his image.
It was Qin Bai Sheng!
Fang Yuan's gaze was grave, he watched as Qin Bai Sheng got closer and closer.
Undoubtedly, out of all the Gu Immortal experts here, the one Fang Yuan most wanted to not face was Qin Bai Sheng.
Fang Yuan has not found out that after Qin Bai Sheng fought Feng Jiu Ge, he had already recovered his original strength. But with just Qin Bai Sheng's previous performance, he was already at the level of Central Continent's Shi Lei.
This type of opponent was far too strong. If he really discovered this cloud building, Fang Yuan immediately decided that he would only match a few blows with him before retreating.
Even though he was reinforcing Lang Ya land spirit, this support was only situational.
Fang Yuan had never thought of sacrificing his life for Lang Ya land spirit. In addition, Lang Ya land spirit also had his trump cards, it was not time for Fang Yuan to take a risk.
Qin Bai Sheng got closer and closer to the cloud building, he had an investigative immortal killer move, he walked straight ahead. Fang Yuan controlled this cloud building, he was right beside Qin Bai Sheng's path of advancement, they were about three hundred steps away from each other linearly.
The range of the investigative immortal killer move was definitely more than three hundred steps, but it was hindered by the twelve wave cloud confusion formation.
Once Qin Bai Sheng got to a certain proximity, the cloud building would appear in his investigative range.
That way, Qin Bai Sheng would charge directly to the cloud building, Fang Yuan's first defensive battle would end up as a failure.
But this type of failure was not scary, Fang Yuan had no psychological burden if he failed. To Fang Yuan, no matter how many losses he has, his fighting spirit would not dwindle, it would not change his plans and his mind would not be disrupted.
But soon, a change occurred.
Qin Bai Sheng's expression suddenly changed, he turned towards the north-east direction and flew rapidly.
"Not only is their information path technique immortal level, it is extremely useful against the Gu formation, they can actually transmit information inside the Gu formation." Almost at the same time, Fang Yuan heard Lang Ya land spirit's surprised voice.
Fang Yuan nodded lightly, replying: "Since they attacked us, they definitely came prepared. But from your words, did they not expose this technique last time?"
The land spirit was silent for a moment before answering: "No. Earlier, the cloud buildings were defended by desolate beasts, they were fighting alone and killing the desolate beasts to destroy the cloud buildings. But this time, Mo Tan Sang and the desolate beasts are defending the cloud buildings together, they must have changed their tactics after seeing that there was a defending Gu Immortal, and went to reinforce each other."
Fang Yuan's expression turned grim: "Not good, Mo Tan Sang is the leader of Inkman City, it is already quite generous of him to come and reinforce us, but he would have to conceal his appearance in battle. Once his relationship with you is exposed, Northern Plains' Inkman City would face a huge crisis. If Mo Tan Sang fights under such restraints, against a powerful foe that has the superiority in numbers, he would not be able to protect the cloud building."
The land spirit responded immediately: "This twelve wave cloud confusion formation uses Lang Ya blessed land's own dao marks to divert the enemies and split them up, forcing them to fight individually. In theory, it can isolate rank seven and rank six information path immortal killer moves, preventing enemies from communicating. Even if they have hole earth Gu set up, it is useless. But these people are able to communicate with each other now, it is likely related to the previous few waves!"
"Sigh! I should not have been greedy over the profits of selling Gu Immortal slaves, I should have killed them. Among these people, there should be someone who has quite an impressive wisdom path technique. I had already cleansed all of the memories of the Gu Immortal slaves from their souls."
Lang Ya land spirit analyzed it thoroughly, he felt much regret.
Fang Yuan agreed with Lang Ya land spirit's analysis.
Gu Immortals battle with their wits, they were all brilliant characters. Qin Bai Sheng only did one action of assisting his ally, and he exposed so many details.
Similarly, since the last few waves were related to his intelligence, Lang Ya blessed land also leaked out many secrets as well.
"Can I see the battle scene over there?" Fang Yuan requested.
On the mirror, the scene of the battle was displayed.
Mo Tan Sang was riding on a desolate beast, fighting with Gu Immortal Hei Cheng.
Mo Tan Sang was a rank six Gu Immortal, he was at a disadvantage. He mainly cultivated qi path, but now he was using other methods to fight.
Hei Cheng had a hidden injury, but he was still rank seven, he did not use dark arrow Immortal Gu, but he still had control over the battle.
Most importantly, the reason was that Mo Tan Sang was afraid of exposing his identity, he had his Inkman City to defend, he could not allow it to face danger. Thus, he only rode on the desolate beast, letting it fight primarily, while he used healing and defensive techniques.
The desolate beast was peerless in bravery, but it lacked the wisdom to inspect the battle situation. But with Mo Tan Sang's attentive assistance, even though the desolate beast was at a disadvantage, it was still full of energy, it could hold on for a long time.
But Fang Yuan knew that Qin Bai Sheng was coming soon, the desolate beast would definitely die at that time.
While Fang Yuan was concerned with Mo Tan Sang's situation, a third figure entered close proximity with Fang Yuan.
"Xue Song Zi, he didn't receive any orders to go to that battlefield?" Fang Yuan was perplexed, he had some guesses internally.
A moment later, Xue Song Zi found Fang Yuan's cloud building.
His movement paused for a moment before shooting towards the cloud building at lightning speed.
Fang Yuan stood up too, he had a stern expression.
Battle erupted at once!
Chapter 874: Killed By One Slap!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Among the seven Gu Immortals who were invading Lang Ya blessed land, the one Fang Yuan wanted to face the most was Xue Song Zi.
Because Xue Song Zi was the one with the lowest cultivation level among them, his battle strength was also likely to be the lowest.
At the same time, Fang Yuan had fought Xue Song Zi before, during their previous battle, Xue Song Zi was beaten back by the strength path phantom army, he left in a pitiful state.
In other words, Xue Song Zi had once lost to Fang Yuan, with Fang Yuan's experience, he knew about Xue Song Zi's foundation.
"But I cannot be careless in this battle." Fang Yuan's expression was serious, looking at Xue Song Zi in the mirror, getting closer to the cloud building that he was in, he did not have disdain or arrogance inside.
A lion uses its full strength even when hunting rabbits, Fang Yuan had a vigilant nature.
Furthermore, in this battle, Fang Yuan had many concerns.
His first concern was that this was not a solo battle, it was a huge fight between the invaders and Lang Ya blessed land. If Fang Yuan and Xue Song Zi fought, would the other side send reinforcements? That was very likely to happen!
His second concern was Xue Song Zi's increase in battle strength.
In Lang Ya blessed land, the invaders could not use any mortal Gu, the fact that Xue Song Zi could get this far meant that he had at least one Immortal Gu.
This secret was easily exposed.
Because Xue Song Zi's speed in reaching Fang Yuan was extremely fast, he was using a true immortal killer move.
"It seems that in this battle, I have to plot and sneak attack him, ensuring my advantage. Even if someone reinforces him later, my pressure would be much lower." Malicious thoughts were moving rapidly in Fang Yuan's mind.
When plotting against others, malicious thoughts were most effective. Fang Yuan was very experienced with this.
Xue Song Zi progressed rapidly.
The scene before him was stagnant, all he saw was white fog that filled his entire vision.
As he flew rapidly, the cold winds were blowing on him, but he felt extremely excited.
"This is the difference between Immortal Gu and mortal Gu, it truly is spectacular." Xue Song Zi experienced the joy of flying using an immortal killer move, a portion of his mind was concentrating on his own immortal aperture.
In his immortal aperture, there was an ice path Immortal Gu, it was quite massive. It was around the size of an average horse, the entire Immortal Gu looked like a heart, it was an icy statue that looked very vivid, frost energy was emanating from it.
This was ice heart Immortal Gu.
Ice heart Immortal Gu was not Xue Song Zi's possession, it was lent to him by Shadow Sect's Qin Bai Sheng, in order to boost his strength when invading Lang Ya blessed land.
Not only did Qin Bai Sheng give Xue Song Zi this rank six Immortal Gu, he even gave him several immortal killer moves that used ice heart Immortal Gu as the core, encompassing attack, defense, movement, healing, and others.
Xue Song Zi was originally a snow path Gu Immortal, but snow path and ice path were twins, they were almost indistinguishable and closely related. This ice path Immortal Gu and its killer moves were very suitable for Xue Song Zi.
Ice heart Immortal Gu emitted bone chilling frost energy, but Xue Song Zi's heart was burning with passion!
Qin Bai Sheng has promised Xue Song Zi before moving off for this mission, if they achieved their goal this time, he would give that ice path Immortal Gu to Xue Song Zi as his reward.
Thus, Xue Song Zi was full of motivation, ever since they entered the blessed land, he was working very enthusiastically.
After all, back then he was searching for wooden chicken Immortal Gu, he did not stint on subsidizing Ma tribe in the struggle for the Imperial Court.
Right now there was such a good chance, and ice heart Immortal Gu was much more compatible with him than wooden chicken Immortal Gu, he was definitely moved.
"Cloud building!" Xue Song Zi's figure halted, he shouted in surprise.
In the endless white fog before him, a tall building appeared.
Xue Song Zi soon became overjoyed: "To think that my luck is so good, I actually found a cloud building!"
The mission Qin Bai Sheng gave him was to find the formation cores of the twelve cloud buildings inside the twelve wave cloud confusion formation and destroy them.
"If I can destroy a cloud building alone, that would be a huge merit. According to our earlier agreement for rewards, I will obtain quite a sum. But each cloud building is defended by a desolate beast, I should be careful." Soon after, Xue Song Zi calmed down.
As if it had heard his thoughts, a desolate beast descended from the cloud building, jumping towards him.
This desolate beast was huge like an elephant. It was yellow-brown in color, and thick fur covered more than half of its body.
It was the yellow jade lion desolate beast that Fang Yuan had picked up in Starry Sky grotto-heaven, and had given to Lang Ya land spirit.
The yellow jade lion did not make a sound, it moved like lightning as it charged towards Xue Song Zi.
"Just in time." Xue Song Zi showed an excited expression with much battle intent, but his body retreated backwards instead, he was very vigilant.
The yellow jade lion's attack did not hit, instead, Xue Song Zi increased the distance between them.
The latter waved his sleeve and a huge blizzard blew out.
The blizzard howled as lumps of snow as large as eggs flew towards the yellow jade lion.
This was not a mortal killer move, it was the immortal killer move 'cold condensed snow'. Only an immortal killer move could be used in this situation, mortal killer moves could not even be used in this place.
The yellow jade lion could not open its eyes, cold frost energy was spreading, forming a thick layer of frost on its body.
The yellow jade lion's body shook itself, most of the frost was shrugged off, it continued running towards Xue Song Zi.
Xue Song Zi's gaze was focused on the yellow jade lion's fur, he snorted in disdain.
His immortal killer move had insufficient attacking power, but the frost energy would invade the body and affect the enemy's speed and movement.
The yellow jade lion did not have a large size among desolate beasts, but it had great strength and agility.
Xue Song Zi used this move to weaken the yellow jade lion's speed advantage. But the yellow jade lion was a desolate beast, and it had very thick fur.
If it were another desolate beast, its flesh and blood might have been frozen by the frost energy. But the yellow jade lion had the traits of its species, it resisted this move and only its fur was frozen.
Xue Song Zi was not adept at close combat, he liked to fight at long range.
After seeing the yellow jade lion closing in, he retreated again.
Immortal killer move — Ice Trace!
He faced the yellow jade lion as he flew backwards and retreated. Along the path that he retreated, frost gathered as the ground became an icy path.
The yellow jade lion's frontal assault was slowed greatly when it stepped onto this icy trail.
Xue Song Zi retreated rapidly, after making sure there was a huge distance between them, he laughed: "Beast, take my penetrating ice blade!"
He raised his hand and slashed at the yellow jade lion, which was far away.
Crack.
A huge ice blade formed in the air instantly, the ice blade flew down from above, it was fast and sharp, hitting the yellow jade lion's back harshly.
The yellow jade lion growled in pain, blood splattered, but was quickly frozen and became solid.
The penetrating ice blade shattered like glass, but the frost energy inside directly spread into the yellow jade lion's body, its offensive power came in multiple forms, overwhelming the opponent, it was hard to defend against, this was a vicious and ruthless move.
The yellow jade lion growled at the sky, the sound waves causing ripples in the clouds. Its four claws were glowing with fire, its speed increased and it could dodge with greater flexibility.
The yellow jade lion had large numbers of mortal Gu worms in its body, this was intentionally produced by Lang Ya land spirit.
Because they were on the side defending the blessed land, the yellow jade lion could use all of its mortal Gu worms.
But the frost energy was inside its body, the yellow jade lion's speed fell greatly.
Xue Song Zi had the advantage, he continued to use immortal killer moves to attack the yellow jade lion.
The situation was getting worse for the yellow jade lion, wounds were piling up on its body, it was getting slower. When it coughed blood, what came out was not warm blood, but cold frozen blood.
"Hahaha, great, this feels great!" Xue Song Zi laughed loudly in a carefree manner.
He had used all of the immortal killer moves that Qin Bai Sheng gave to him, he could feel the power of having immortal killer moves. In the past, desolate beasts greatly troubled him, but after getting bombarded by his immortal killer moves, this one could only run around and growl pitifully.
"Next is the final move, ice heart lock… I have to test its power as well!" Xue Song Zi stopped running, he advanced and charged towards the yellow jade lion.
He was extremely fast, like an eagle trying to capture food in the sky.
Before the yellow jade lion reacted, its Gu worms had already felt Xue Song Zi's immense aura and had activated an armor made of light on the yellow jade lion's body.
"Hmph! Child's play!" Xue Song Zi's eyes shined with cruelty, he waved his hand as he used an immortal killer move, penetrating ice blade, again.
Bam!
The ice blade hit the yellow jade lion's back, breaking into pieces.
The armor of light made by mortal Gu did not even last for a moment before it was destroyed by the ice blade effortlessly.
A deep wound that revealed the bone was made on the yellow jade lion's back.
The yellow jade lion cried out in pain, it could not hold on anymore, it sprawled on the ground.
Xue Song Zi stepped on the yellow jade lion's back, he suddenly lied down and placed both hands on the yellow jade lion's body.
Crack crack.
Soft sounds of ice forming could be heard.
First, it was a thin layer of ice growing on the yellow jade lion's back, with Xue Song Zi at the center, the ice rapidly extended over the yellow jade lion's body.
Soon, this thin layer of ice thickened at a rapid speed.
Not only that, on the yellow jade lion's body, a similarly powerful frost energy was gathering and freezing its blood, flesh, bones, and even its intestines.
Xue Song Zi's expression was pale, he thought to himself inwardly: "This ice heart lock is really powerful, it can forcefully freeze even desolate beasts. But this immortal killer move expends way too much immortal essence."
After Xue Song Zi noticed this, he wanted to stop.
But soon, greed grew inside him: "Why don't I capture this yellow jade lion alive. I can freeze it first, and thaw it later when I sell it to someone. A living desolate beast is of huge value even in treasure yellow heaven! Hehehe."
Just as he was dreaming about this beautiful future, there was an explosion from the yellow jade lion below him.
With a loud bang, a strength path giant hand grabbed onto Xue Song Zi, who was unable to escape in time.
Xue Song Zi was flustered: "What is this? Ice armor!"
A thick ice armor appeared on his body, the strength path giant hand grabbed onto the ice armor, as cracks appeared on the armor.
Xue Song Zi's lips curled up, he showed a ruthless smile: "With this, I can test my defensive killer move's other ability. Ice armor, detonate!"
With a loud bang, the ice armor exploded, and huge amounts of frost energy filled the surroundings.
Fang Yuan's strength path giant hand was pushed back by the huge force.
Xue Song Zi used the chance and flew out, but at the next moment, his sinister smile froze.
Above his head, a strength path giant hand was prepared and ready to strike. Xue Song Zi flew into the sky, his ice armor had just broken, he could not activate it immediately again.
This strength path giant hand slapped him like swatting a fly, as it landed on him, Xue Song Zi was beaten into a lump of meat paste!
Chapter 875: One Versus Two
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"You killed an enemy Gu Immortal? Good, good, good!" Fang Yuan had just gotten out of the yellow jade lion's body, when Lang Ya land spirit's voice was heard.
Fang Yuan's first thought was: It seems that this Lang Ya blessed land has lots of sound path dao marks.
Lang Ya land spirit could transmit his voice so easily, Hu Immortal land spirit and Star Form land spirit did not have such an ability. This showed that there were large numbers of sound path dao marks in Lang Ya blessed land.
The land spirit was very surprised that Fang Yuan could kill Xue Song Zi, he said 'good' three times.
This was the first time the other party had lost a member since the start of this attack!
"Fang Yuan, to think that you have such battle strength even though you are already so good at deducing Immortal Gu recipes." At this juncture, Lang Ya land spirit praised as he sighed.
"Hehehe." Fang Yuan laughed too, when he laughed, Xue Song Zi's meat paste had just landed on the floor.
Fang Yuan was satisfied with this battle result.
The yellow jade lion below him was near death, it was used as a pawn by Fang Yuan to deal with Xue Song Zi, it worked really well.
In this battle, Fang Yuan had only used vaguely familiar face and strength path giant hand, he used very few resources to kill Xue Song Zi, while obtaining a huge effect.
By this point, Fang Yuan deeply knew that all kinds of fights were just an extension of economic conflicts.
In other words, wars, battles, they were like business, whatever you put in and gain will all be in the financial aspect.
Why was Fang Yuan quite satisfied? Because he put in a minimal amount of resources into this battle, but had created a huge impact. In the terminology of business, he put in a small sum of capital and earned a huge amount of profits in return!
Xue Song Zi had Immortal Gu with him and a complete set of immortal killer moves, if Fang Yuan fought him head on, he might not have been able to defeat him even after a dozen rounds of moves.
Although Xue Song Zi could only use immortal killer moves here, even though Fang Yuan could use mortal Gu, against the power of immortal killer moves, he had to use immortal killer moves to counter them, right?
Thus, his green grape immortal essence expenditure would be huge.
Expending a huge amount of immortal essence when Xue Song Zi might not even lose, what's more, if he managed to summon more Gu Immortals to help him, Fang Yuan would have to retreat.
Battles between Gu Immortals were not rigid duels where each person exchanged one move at a time, they were filled with schemes and plots.
Fang Yuan had deduced that Xue Song Zi had low battle strength, and as a member of Snowy Mountain blessed land, he was an outsider among the invading Gu Immortals.
He also deduced that Xue Song Zi had Immortal Gu.
Most importantly, Fang Yuan knew what Xue Song Zi had done in the previous Imperial Court contest, Xue Song Zi had a huge desire for Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan knew that. Thus, he easily deduced the reason why Xue Song Zi had an Immortal Gu, as well as his current state of mind.
As the saying goes, know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated.
Xue Song Zi knew nothing about Fang Yuan, and he was also an outsider, it seemed that he did not receive Qin Bai Sheng's warning.
If Qin Bai Sheng had told Xue Song Zi that the cloud buildings had Gu Immortals defending them, Xue Song Zi would not have been so careless.
What was more fatal was that earlier, the invaders had attacked ruthlessly, destroying many cloud building formation cores, while killing many desolate beasts. After every battle, Qin Bai Sheng would send out the information and inform everyone.
Qin Bai Sheng's actions were understandable. Because when Gu Immortals were split up and searching for the formation cores aimlessly, they might feel very uncertain from detecting nothing and experience a drop in morale.
When Xue Song Zi heard the notifications, he felt that his side was having a landslide victory, his morale was high. His loss to Fang Yuan was also because of the same reason that an arrogant army was bound to lose.
In contrast, Fang Yuan was scheming and devious, he had a huge advantage as the hidden party.
Of course, his guesses could have been wrong, after all, they were all estimations.
But in fact, he had a complete understanding of Xue Song Zi's mental state. He even hid inside the yellow jade lion's body deviously.
Xue Song Zi has an investigative immortal killer move, he had scanned the yellow jade lion's body at least three times. But he was afraid that the yellow jade lion might have a wild Immortal Gu on it, if it attacked while he was distracted, he would be in trouble.
Because Xue Song Zi did not find any Immortal Gu, he became even more careless.
Fang Yuan's vaguely familiar face had great importance during this process. If he did not use this killer move to conceal himself, even if he hid inside the yellow jade lion's body, Xue Song Zi would have found him.
Because of all these reasons, such a shocking result occurred.
Gu Immortals were all dragons among men, if Xue Song Zi was not careless, with his current strength, he could totally fight Fang Yuan head on, even if he was slightly weaker, he could definitely drag out the battle for some time.
But it was a pity that his opponent was Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had his previous life's memories, in nice words, they could be called wisdom, but bluntly speaking, they allowed him to scheme deviously, he could use a portion of his strength and unleash it with multiple times the effect.
"Lang Ya land spirit, I killed Xue Song Zi, how will you reward me? Xue Song Zi's immortal aperture was destroyed, everything inside it was destroyed as well, but his dao marks have all gone to this blessed land." Fang Yuan smiled as he asked.
"Hahaha, don't worry, you will be heavily rewarded after the battle. I hope you can defend this cloud building well, Mo Tan Sang is already heavily injured, he barely escaped, his cloud building was destroyed. You have Xue Song Zi's soul, we need to search it and find out these people's details." The land spirit replied.
Fang Yuan's gaze became slightly firmer.
This was not the first time he had captured a Gu Immortal's soul, back then in Tai Bai blessed land, Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not notice it, but here in Lang Ya blessed land, all of it was exposed to Lang Ya land spirit.
As for Mo Tan Sang losing his building, it was very normal, this did not differ from Fang Yuan's expectations.
"Xue Song Zi died." Qin Bai Sheng stood on the rubble of a cloud building, suddenly, his body shook and he spoke.
"What? He has the Immortal Gu you lent him, as well as a complete set of immortal killer moves, how did he die suddenly?" Hei Cheng, who was beside him, felt a great shock.
After Xue Song Zi died, Hei Cheng's pressure amplified.
Among the people in Shadow Sect, even though Hei Cheng was rank seven, his battle strength was quite weak. He was a natural ally of Xue Song Zi.
Hei Cheng's constant worry was not the blessed land, but the mysterious 'allies' around him.
"He fell into their trap." Qin Bai Sheng thought about it for a few moments, his eyes shined brilliantly: "In a frontal fight, unless a rank eight Gu Immortal attacked, Xue Song Zi would have lasted for some time. In Lang Ya blessed land, there are definitely no rank eight Gu Immortals. Thus, the most likely possibility is that Xue Song Zi found a cloud building or something important, in order to get the reward that was promised to him, he did not inform anyone else, and because he got new Immortal Gu, he wanted to test them, this mentality was used by the enemy and they planted a trap. At the appropriate opportunity, they killed Xue Song Zi."
Hei Cheng drew in a breath of cold air: "Then his opponent is not simple, they actually plotted Xue Song Zi's death."
Even though he said that, Hei Cheng was even more wary of Qin Bai Sheng.
This Qin Bai Sheng had both brains and brawn, not only did he have immense battle strength, he could make such a deduction in such a short time with just this much information. In terms of plotting and scheming, they were above his fighting power.
"Perhaps it was because I was too reluctant to waste our limited communication method. A lesson to be learned." Qin Bai Sheng sighed eerily, but he soon smiled: "But we have already dismantled eight cloud buildings, I have understood the formation cores of these cloud buildings, and made a mortal killer move that can allow us to find the remaining cloud buildings. But in here, to use this mortal killer move, we will need to use immortal killer moves to protect it."
"He made a mortal killer move just like this? What attainment level does he have?" Hei Cheng's heart jumped.
Qin Bai Sheng started to transmit to the others, he called the mysterious black robed Gu Immortal to his side, in order to protect him while he used the mortal and immortal killer moves. This showed that Qin Bai Sheng did not trust Hei Cheng at all.
He even ordered Hui Feng Zi and He Lang Zi to rush to the place where Xue Song Zi died.
Qin Bai Sheng lent Xue Song Zi Immortal Gu, but he also took the chance to use his immortal level technique on Xue Song Zi, allowing him to track him.
This matter was not concealed from Xue Song Zi.
When Qin Bai Sheng lent him the Immortal Gu, he said: "If I do not use tracking methods on you, if you run away after borrowing my Immortal Gu, what will I do?"
Based on the promise of giving him the Immortal Gu after the battle, Xue Song Zi relented.
Thus, back then, Xue Song Zi smiled and flattered, willingly allowing Qin Bai Sheng to use the tracking method on him.
With the proper direction, He Lang Zi and Hui Feng Zi quickly got to Xue Song Zi's place of demise.
Seeing the lump of meat paste on the ground, He Lang Zi snorted in disdain: "What a useless fool."
Hui Feng Zi flew down and scouted the place, after seeing no traps, he carefully observed Xue Song Zi's mushed corpse.
Soon, his gaze firmed, he had a discovery: "This is troublesome, the other party has a strength path killer move, Xue Song Zi died from this move, this is a powerful move that has great force!"
Hui Feng Zi's analysis was correct.
Fang Yuan's immortal killer move, myriad self, was no longer like before.
Even though he could not use cleanse soul Immortal Gu, he had self strength Immortal Gu, pulling mountain Immortal Gu, and pulling water Immortal Gu, these three strength path core Gu.
It was uncommon for three strength path Immortal Gu to be perfectly fused into one immortal killer move.
He Lang Zi had some doubts regarding Hui Feng Zi's words, in fact, he had deep wariness towards all human Gu Immortals.
He descended as well, standing beside Xue Song Zi's corpse, his head turned into a wolf's head, as his wolf pupils shined eerily, they shined with a green light as he looked around. At the same time, he sniffed, trying to find some important information.
Soon, He Lang Zi's expression turned ugly, he said solemnly: "Rank seven strength path, it is truly rare, is this Domination Immortal?"
But he continued: "No matter what, let's destroy this cloud building first."
He Lang Zi was like a wild beast, he acted very directly.
Hui Feng Zi nodded, he looked around vigilantly, he was afraid of the rank seven strength path expert, he might be lurking around.
"Hello brothers, you came really quickly. My name is Xing Xiang Zi, I am guarding this cloud building. May I know who both of you are?" Fang Yuan flew out of the cloud building.
"Be careful, this is a star path rank six Gu Immortal." Hui Feng Zi transmitted to He Lang Zi.
He Lang Zi nodded silently.
He understood Hui Feng Zi's words, the other party might have two Gu Immortals with one hiding somewhere. Xue Song Zi might have been schemed into death by them!
Chapter 876: Star Cloud Grindstone, Star Snake Rope
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Hui Feng Zi and He Lang Zi stared at Fang Yuan vigilantly.
Currently, Fang Yuan was wearing a blue robe, traces of starlight was flowing out of his large sleeves at times.
He was no longer burly and brawny, he was thin and tall.
His skin was not green like his zombie appearance, it was tender and white like a baby, radiating with a faintly red hue. His features also became very refined, together with his long and smooth white hair, he looked like an unfettered expert with an immortal's flair.
After obtaining change form Immortal Gu, vaguely familiar face's effect rose greatly, it allowed Fang Yuan to hugely change his appearance.
'Xing Xiang Zi? Never heard of him.' He Lang Zi frowned, ruthless light flickered in his eyes, from the moment he got here, he felt something strange.
"You are a Northern Plains Gu Immortal?" Hui Feng Zi's expression changed, he looked very calm but was secretly on alert that there might be a rank seven strength path Gu Immortal hiding nearby.
Fang Yuan waved his sleeves, laughing heartily: "I am a Northern Plains Gu Immortal, I am an insignificant lone cultivator. Both of you are famous characters in Northern Plains, we cannot be compared."
He knew about He Lang Zi, although he did not recognize Hui Feng Zi, but viewing this situation, He Lang Zi and Hui Feng Zi were moving side by side. According to He Lang Zi's wild nature, he could deduce that Hui Feng Zi had strength that was not inferior to He Lang Zi!
"Since you know about our fame, why are you not retreating? If we really fight, it would be unwise for you to die in my hands." Hui Feng Zi sneered, his gaze was like a dagger piercing towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan smiled bitterly and helplessly: "A promise is a promise, even though I am not good at fighting, I will have to challenge both of you. Please!"
He spoke nonsense with his mouth, but he was quite overjoyed internally.
Vaguely familiar face's effect was quite good.
Both of them were rank seven, the moment Fang Yuan appeared, they must have used their investigative killer moves.
But now it seemed that neither of them had any suspicion towards Fang Yuan's identity.
If they found out about Fang Yuan's immortal zombie status, He Lang Zi would have attacked already. Star path rank six was already lower than his cultivation level, an immortal zombie would be even lower.
Of course, there was a possibility that they had found out, but were just trying to probe the situation.
Hui Feng Zi and He Lang Zi looked at Xing Xiang Zi in front of them, even though he was rank six and had lower cultivation level, he was inviting them to battle. Unconsciously, they thought about the hidden strength path Gu Immortal.
The two demonic path immortals looked at each other, Hui Feng Zi said to He Lang Zi: "Why don't you attack, I will assist you by the side."
He Lang Zi was also very wary of the rank seven strength path Gu Immortal that killed Xue Song Zi.
"Since Hui Feng Zi is keeping watch, if the mysterious rank seven strength path Gu Immortal attacks during battle, there is not much to worry about. I have a really strong feeling that something is amiss, but I don't know what."
He Lang Zi frowned slightly, nodding at Hui Feng Zi.
At the next moment, he growled as he pounced at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan saw that the famous demon of Northern Plains, He Lang Zi, was charging at him, he smiled lightly.
"Let's start." Fang Yuan pushed forward with both hands, using an immortal killer move.
At that instant, starlight shone as a spiral of starlight clouds gathered and formed. In a few breaths of time, it was the size of two or three elephants.
This spiral of star clouds spun rapidly, emitting an suction force towards the outside.
Star path immortal killer move — Star Cloud Grindstone!
This was Star Lord Wan Xiang's defensive killer move, all long range attacks could be sucked in and grinded into pieces by the star cloud grindstone.
In regards to a close range fighter like He Lang Zi, once he enters the star cloud grindstone, he would be restricted in movement and would be crushed slowly by the grindstone.
In other words, this was a defensive killer move with very strong offensive power.
Howl!
He Lang Zi's body shined with a bright light, the light was dazzling and even Fang Yuan had to shut his eyes momentarily.
At the next moment, the light faded and a wolf appeared.
This wolf was not large, it was even smaller than usual wolves. But it emitted a dangerous aura, Fang Yuan's eyelids jumped.
It had no fur on its body, it was like an oiled brown wooden statue, emitting an eerie aura.
On the wolf's head, there was a naturally growing mushroom-like bone, it resembled a black triangular hat.
Below the hat, in the wolf's eyes, there were no shiny pupils, instead, two lumps of green flames were burning quietly.
A rank seven desolate beast that ate soul beasts as food.
Fragrant Sorcerer Yin Statue Wolf!
After He Lang Zi transformed into the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf, his speed was three times that of before! He was like a lump of shadow, flickering before Fang Yuan's eyes.
"Such great speed! My investigative killer move could not capture it!" Fang Yuan's heart jumped.
No matter what fight Gu Immortals were in, speed was always a crucial factor.
Whoever was faster would have the initiative, advancing or retreating could be easily achieved.
The slower one would not be able to hit the other party if they attacked, if they wanted to retreat, they would be obstructed.
He Lang Zi was indeed a famous transformation path demonic immortal of Northern Plains, in his human form, his battle strength could be considered to possibly only be at the level of rank six peak stage.
But the moment he transformed into a fierce beast, his battle strength surged, it proved that he had undeniable strength living up to his reputation!
At this moment, Fang Yuan was at a disadvantage, he lost the initiative but he was not flustered.
Even though he had an incomplete strength path immortal killer move — three pairs of true solid bat wings, he could activate them but he showed no signs of using them at all.
True solid bat wings was a top tier mortal killer move, once the chance of activating iron crown eagle strength Immortal Gu along with it occurred, he would be able to unleash speed equal to an immortal killer move. Thus, it was an incomplete immortal killer move.
But this effect of this movement killer move was too unstable. Moreover, even if he could activate the iron crown eagle strength Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan's speed would still be slower than the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf.
This ancient desolate beast wolf could fight on par with rank seven Gu Immortals, it was well known for speed and agility.
Furthermore, if Fang Yuan used true solid bat wings now, he would be exposing his identity as a strength path Gu Immortal.
This was not a good idea.
Fang Yuan purposely transformed into the appearance of a star path Gu Immortal now, he was using the two strong foes to test his star path techniques, to assess his gains in Hu Immortal blessed land these last days while trying to absorb this new battle style!
The fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf howled intensely, its speed was so fast that Fang Yuan could not sense it, it was faster than lightning, in the blink of an eye, it was right in front of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's expression did not change, he made a move that was out of He Lang Zi's expectations.
He jumped and went into the star cloud grindstone that was activated earlier.
He Lang Zi had wanted to avoid the star cloud grindstone and directly attack Fang Yuan. Thus, both mentally and physically, he was seeking to avoid this star cloud grindstone.
Fang Yuan jumping inside was really out of He Lang Zi's expectations.
Shhh!
With a soft sound, the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf's claws scratched Fang Yuan's back.
The fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf was simply too fast. Even though Fang Yuan wanted to dodge it and escape into the star cloud grindstone, he was still scratched on his back by He Lang Zi.
But this scratch was only a graze, it did not cause much damage to Fang Yuan.
The immortal zombie body in itself had great defense.
Fang Yuan's blue robe was torn, but the injury on his back was only on the surface, his spine and bones were untouched. When blood spewed, the flesh moved as the injury mended quickly, in a few breaths of time, his injury was gone.
But the blood was still in the air, it gradually changed color and revealed its true form — several drops of immortal zombie blood.
"Oh? This is a flaw in vaguely familiar face." Fang Yuan saw the drops of immortal zombie blood, he took note of this mentally.
At the next moment, he waved his sleeves as he drew the immortal zombie blood inside them, he stood in the middle of the star cloud grindstone as he looked at the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf which was outside, he smiled and invited: "Sir He Lang Zi has incredible agility, would you like to fight me inside here?"
Why was star cloud grindstone a defensive killer move and not an offensive killer move, this was the reason!
Fang Yuan was fighting inside now, star cloud grindstone would crush the enemy at all times, while Fang Yuan would be unharmed and unobstructed.
Fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf stared at the star cloud grindstone intently, in its huge empty eyes, a pair of eerie flames were burning, it made Fang Yuan feel a surge of battle intent from He Lang Zi.
He Lang Zi was ready to pounce, as Fang Yuan focused his attention.
But at the next moment, the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf turned around and gave up on the enemy, it pounced at the cloud building.
'Why should I fight with you?'
'My target is to dismantle as many cloud buildings as possible! To destroy this damned twelve wave cloud confusion Gu formation!'
At this moment, He Lang Zi was laughing to himself internally.
He Lang Zi's move was directly targeting Fang Yuan's weakness, he had to make a tough decision now.
The reason why Fang Yuan was here was to defend the cloud building, and try to stall for time.
But now, He Lang Zi was attacking the cloud building and ignoring Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan was forced to make a different move!
If Fang Yuan stood on the spot and did not move, allowing He Lang Zi to destroy the cloud building, they would reach their goal and triumph. if Fang Yuan chased after him, he might get into physical danger. But the problem was, he could not match He Lang Zi's speed after he transformed into the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf.
Passive, Fang Yuan was in a very passive spot now.
Gu Immortals were still Gu Immortals after all, in battle, they were much tougher to deal with than desolate beasts or ancient desolate beasts.
He Lang Zi attacked twice, the first time he got around the star cloud grindstone and attacked Fang Yuan, this time, he ignored Fang Yuan and went for the cloud building, he was truly displaying the spirit of 'Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao 1 '.
'Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao', this was something Fang Yuan had read about in his previous life on Earth, but this Gu Master world was also quite extraordinary, there was a similar type of wisdom here.
Battles between Gu Immortals were full of such wisdom. Not only was there frontal assault based on their strength, there was also the element of planning and scheming against one another.
Seeing that the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf was charging for the cloud building, Fang Yuan, who was inside the star cloud grindstone, was not anxious, instead he smiled lightly.
Immortal killer move — Star Snake Rope!
At the edge of the star cloud grindstone, six ropes flew out. The ropes were thin, they were formed from condensed starlight, the ends of the ropes were shining in blue starlight, forming into the appearances of snake heads.
Six ropes that were like six agile snakes flew forth, they sinuously moved along and coiled around the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf's body.
"Sir He Lang Zi, where are you going? Please come in here and fight." Fang Yuan laughed as he moved the star cloud grindstone, together with the ropes, he dragged the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf into the star cloud grindstone.
"Oh? These two immortal killer moves can coordinate with each other. This is a good battle tactic." At once, even Hui Feng Zi praised as a sharp light flashed in his eyes.
Chapter 877: Six Illusion Star Bodies, Position Star Swap
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
When star snake rope was coordinated with star cloud grindstone, their power would amplify. Even though the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf was an ancient desolate beast, it did not have great strength, and because He Lang Zi was not perfectly transformed into it, he was pulled by the star snake ropes helplessly, his struggles were futile as he was dragged back by Fang Yuan.
He Lang Zi was trapped inside the star cloud grindstone, countless starlight specks assaulted him, grinding against his wolf body, his muscles were tense as he felt increasing pressure.
At the same time, the six star snake ropes were coiling around the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf's body, they tightened and quickly created evident marks on the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf's body.
He Lang Zi could not open his mouth, he only felt an increasing force on him, his bones were starting to creak.
He Lang Zi was not flustered, thoughts flashed in his head rapidly: "This transformation only obtains the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf's speed, I lack defense and strength. This person has a deep foundation in his soul, earlier I used the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf to scratch him, but it was as if nothing happened! Clearly the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf's soul injuring attacks have little effect on him."
In an instant, He Lang Zi had thought it through.
Even though the wolf's mouth was tied up, this did not impede He Lang Zi from using Gu worms, he growled angrily: "Since you are courting death, I will grant it to you!"
As he said that, lightning burst out.
Large amounts of lightning shot out in all directions.
Rumble!
Balls of lightning exploded fiercely.
Fang Yuan's six star snake ropes were drowned in the lightning blast, they first broke apart one by one before becoming decimated.
He Lang Zi regained freedom, his body was bathed in lightning as he growled loudly.
Howl—!
Several breaths of time later, the lightning vanished, and the wolf howl stopped.
What appeared was no longer a fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf, it was a lightning flash giant wolf!
This was also an ancient desolate beast, having rank seven battle strength.
The giant wolf was as large as an elephant, it was covered in blue fur, the tips of the furs were all covered in mysterious blue crystals, they gave off a weak spark.
The fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf was physically weaker, while lightning flash giant wolf was strong and mighty.
"He actually turned his dao marks into lightning path so quickly! Earlier, the flash of lightning must have been some sort of immortal killer move, it actually has such an amazing effect."
Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, he mentally took note of this precious information.
If he fought He Lang Zi in the future, Fang Yuan would attempt to thwart the immortal killer move earlier and prevent He Lang Zi from transforming successfully.
He missed his chance this time.
He Lang Zi would not give Fang Yuan this opportunity.
Furthermore, Fang Yuan knew that this battle was going to be a loss, he only needed to stall for as long as he could.
He was facing two rank seven Gu Immortals, they were both famous experts. They were also from Northern Plains, having superior battle strength as compared to the other four regions.
Meanwhile, Fang Yuan only had rank six star path cultivation now, this time, he was trying to test out vaguely familiar face, as well as the star path killer moves in battle.
A moment later.
Boom!
With a loud bang, a lightning pillar burst into the sky, the star cloud grindstone was on the verge of destruction and could not be maintained anymore.
Fang Yuan's blue robe had many tatters and tears, his body was covered in countless injuries.
Thankfully, this lightning caused the injuries to be charred, no blood spewed out, so Fang Yuan could continue concealing his identity.
The lightning flash giant wolf howled smugly, speaking human words: "Not a battlefield killer move, yet trying to trap me? Hmph, you are too naive, now die!"
Saying this, he opened his mouth and shot out a beam of lightning.
The lightning pillar approached Fang Yuan with incredible might, Fang Yuan's face was reflecting the blue light as his eyes shined with slight brilliance, he still maintained his composure: "Hehe, if you want me dead, that will not be easy."
Saying this, Fang Yuan's body shook, as he turned into six figures and flew out, causing the lightning beam to hit nothing.
Star path immortal killer move — Six Illusion Star Bodies!
"He split into six, which one is the real body?" Hui Feng Zi was observing the battle, as he was wary of the strength path Gu Immortal that was lurking, he did not join the fight.
The six bodies drew an trail of blue starlight behind them in the air as they encircled the lightning flash giant wolf, attacking together.
At once, starlight flew out as countless mortal killer moves were used on the lightning flash giant wolf.
He Lang Zi activated his defenses, enduring the attacks from Fang Yuan as he counterattacked fiercely.
But after he spent a lot of effort to kill one of Fang Yuan's illusion bodies, another one would be created in its place.
He Lang Zi attacked left and right, killing a total of eight illusion bodies of Fang Yuan, this could be said to be easily defeating them, but the illusion bodies regenerated after dying, they were endless!
There were still six Fang Yuans encircling the lightning flash giant wolf as they attacked relentlessly.
He Lang Zi felt a huge headache.
Here, he could only use immortal killer moves to defend himself, he was expending rank seven immortal essence. But his opponent was only using mortal killer moves, he was expending primeval essence.
In this exchange of moves, he was making a huge loss!
But he had to defend himself, his body could not endure such constant attacks.
He displayed his attacking methods, but Fang Yuan's six illusion star bodies were unending, at once, Fang Yuan obtained the initiative for the first time, he gained some control of the situation.
At this time, He Lang Zi's investigative methods were put to test.
"Damn it, this lightning flash giant wolf has great attacking power, but it is not suited for investigation. It has low speed as well, even if I want to attack the cloud building, I would be obstructed by the enemy. Do I need to transform back into the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf?"
He Lang Zi gritted his teeth secretly.
Transformation path Gu cultivators could only transform a certain number of times in a period of time.
This was because their dao marks changed after transforming successfully. When they change into other life forms, the dao marks of the previous transformation would remain, the transformation path Gu Immortal would need to use appropriate Gu worms to cleanse their own body and get rid of those remaining dao marks completely, otherwise, there would be huge harm to themselves.
He Lang Zi was able to transform into the lightning flash giant wolf from the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf earlier so quickly because he had used a lightning path immortal killer move.
This move not only attacked the star snake ropes that restricted him, it also destroyed the soul path dao marks on He Lang Zi's body.
Thus, He Lang Zi was able to transform into the lightning flash giant wolf rapidly.
But if He Lang Zi wanted to transform into the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf from his current lightning flash giant wolf form, he would need a soul path immortal killer move that he did not have.
Immortal killer moves were extremely precious, they were very difficult to deduce.
He Lang Zi was a person with fortuitous encounters, otherwise with just his lone cultivator status, he would not have his current achievements. Unfortunately, the inheritances that he obtained were all incomplete, they were lacking to a huge degree.
He was not like Xue Song Zi who had just died, having obtained a complete snow path inheritance from Qin Bai Sheng, and having a set of immortal killer moves to use in succession.
He was not like Fang Yuan either, having obtained a complete star path inheritance from Star Lord Wan Xiang, star cloud grindstone, star snake rope, six illusion star bodies were all created by using Star Mark, Star Shoot, and Starlight, these three Immortal Gu as the cores, they also smoothly complemented each other.
Hei Lou Lan tried all ways possible to turn the mortal killer move, self strength giant phantom, into an immortal killer move. She had a good foundation already, but she still faced great difficulty.
Even though Fang Yuan had grandmaster attainment in strength path, and the help of the light of wisdom, he did not dare to deduce other strength path immortal killer moves casually. It was not that he was incapable of doing so, but because the time and effort needed was too much.
He Lang Zi did not have any wisdom path foundation, to deduce a suitable immortal killer move for himself, that was immensely more difficult!
Of course, with He Lang Zi's strength, if he wanted to endure Fang Yuan's attacks while getting rid of his lightning path dao marks, it was not impossible. He had a higher cultivation level, Fang Yuan's strength was inferior to his.
But that way, he would drag it out for too long.
While He Lang Zi was hesitant, Hui Feng Zi struck.
Fang Yuan's attacks came to a halt, he was surprised to find out that on his head, there was a green feather.
"When was I hit? What immortal killer move is this, it can actually expose my true body?" Fang Yuan was shocked.
Hui Feng Zi had been using his investigative immortal killer move the moment Fang Yuan used six illusion star bodies, after exposing Fang Yuan's true body, he immediately used another immortal killer move to mark him.
Even though Hui Feng Zi was not engaged in the battle, wary of a lurking strength path Gu Immortal, it did not mean that he could not do anything.
Fang Yuan was fighting two strong enemies alone, and they were both rank seven Gu Immortals, his disadvantage was great.
Once Fang Yuan's true body was exposed, he was attacked by the lightning flash giant wolf with precision.
Left without a choice, Fang Yuan activated star cloud grindstone and placed it in front of him.
But the lightning flash giant wolf was an ancient desolate beast, it shot out fierce lightning and several star cloud grindstones were destroyed one after another.
Fang Yuan quickly moved his other five star bodies to disrupt He Lang Zi.
If He Lang Zi was an ancient desolate beast, he might have gotten distracted. But he had the intelligence and wisdom of a human, he ignored these star bodies and only attacked Fang Yuan's main body.
Fang Yuan was getting into a passive position, in front of him, the star cloud grindstone was being destroyed by the lightning pillar, and behind the lightning pillar, the lightning flash giant wolf was charging at him.
Immortal killer move — Position Star Swap!
Fang Yuan's body shined with starlight, he vanished on the spot and appeared somewhere else, he directly replaced one of the six illusion star bodies.
This was a movement killer move that was recorded in Star Lord Wan Xiang's inheritance, it could allow Fang Yuan to vanish and take the place of one of the star bodies at any point in time.
After replacing it, the original illusion body would disappear, and on the battlefield, other than Fang Yuan's main body, only four illusion bodies would be left.
But soon, Fang Yuan willed and another illusion star body appeared, standing beside him. The number of illusion star bodies on the field reached the maximum capacity again.
At once, the lightning flash giant wolf that He Lang Zi transformed into opened its mouth wide, unable to close it.
He's gaze also froze for a breath's time.
Position star swap and six illusion star bodies were two immortal killer moves that worked together really well, this was a shameless tactic that caused the two experts, Hui Feng Zi and He Lang Zi to become speechless.
Unless they had a method to counter it, or if they could resolve one of the two star path killer moves, Fang Yuan was a very troublesome character to deal with now.
Unfortunately, neither Hui Feng Zi or He Lang Zi had any way to counter this. To unravel an unknown immortal killer move, they would need a strong wisdom path foundation, it could not be done quickly.
However, just as Fang Yuan and He Lang Zi went into a deadlock, Hui Feng Zi made up his mind and struck.
Immortal killer move — Wind Escape!
He turned into a gust of wind, vanishing on the spot.
At the next moment, he appeared outside the cloud building, opening his mouth wide.
Immortal killer move — Death Wind Flying Blade!
A wind blade flew out of Hui Feng Zi's mouth, slashing at the cloud building's top floor.
The cloud building only lasted for a breath's time before it was cut into two by this sharp wind blade!
"Wind escape? A top tier movement killer move in Northern Plains! He is Hui Feng Zi!" At that instant, Fang Yuan realized Hui Feng Zi's identity, he shouted for Lang Ya land spirit.
Lang Ya land spirit appeared immediately, grabbing Fang Yuan's arm as they vanished on the spot with a swoosh.
Chapter 878: Moment of Crisis
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
When Fang Yuan was able to see again, he was already in another cloud building.
Fang Yuan let out a breath of turbid air, it might have been difficult to withdraw without Lang Ya land spirit's help.
After all, one of the enemies was Hui Feng Zi.
This person was known as among the best in movement speed currently in Northern Plains, he could even outrun rank eight Gu Immortals. He had a shocking achievement of having escaped from Yao Huang.
But difficult did not mean impossible.
Fang Yuan had Fixed Immortal Travel and only needed three breaths of time to escape. Even if Hui Feng Zi was very fast, it would be of no help should he have enough time.
"There were only five cloud buildings remaining in the first place, now we have lost two in a row, and we only delayed the enemies for a short time. The enemies are already attacking, this time, the three of us will move together!" Lang Ya land spirit instructed with a serious expression.
When Lang Ya land spirit spoke, Fang Yuan discovered that besides him and the land spirit, there was an inkman Gu Immortal in the cloud building.
Fang Yuan assessed this inkman Gu Immortal.
The inkman Gu Immortal possessed distinct inkman characteristics — black skin and white hair. He also seemed to be rather old judging by the wrinkles all over his face.
'Wasn't it said Inkman City only had one Gu Immortal, the Inkman King Mo Tan Sang? It seems this inkman Gu Immortal is one of the trump cards of Inkman City, kept hidden ordinarily. My intelligence from Fairy Li Shan had no mention of him. He only made his appearance due to the crisis in Lang Ya blessed land.'
Fang Yuan speculated inwardly.
'Inkmen are variant humans, there are very few Gu Immortals among variant human tribes. Inkman City being able to conceal a Gu Immortal should already be their limit. But then again, for Inkman City to send out their two Gu Immortals for Lang Ya blessed land, it could be said to be taking a big risk. This means Mo Tan Sang has a lot of trust in Lang Ya land spirit.'
Fang Yuan was able to understand the wider situation with a small clue, he had only just seen this inkman Gu Immortal, but was able to connect this to many things.
This inkman Gu Immortal nodded at Fang Yuan but did not say anything, as if he did not want to have much interaction with Fang Yuan.
This was expected.
Even if Fang Yuan had changed his appearance greatly, he was still a human Gu Immortal.
Currently in the five regions, or even the entire world, variant humans were suppressed, captured and trained as slaves to be sold.
Almost all variant humans were barely staying alive.
This Inkman City in Northern Plains was already an extremely rare and valuable settlement of variant humans.
This was also because the leaders of Inkman City, from generation to generation, were all Gu Immortals.
How could Inkman City exist without the protection of Gu Immortals? Forces both large and small would have already allied to capture the inkmen as slaves.
It could be said that without a Gu Immortal, the lives of variant humans was similar to that of small and tiny tribes, scattered in nooks and crannies over the world.
It was not that variant humans did not want to group together to form middle scale and large scale tribes, but that if their numbers were large, it would be summoning disaster, attracting countless forces to hunt them down and make them slaves.
This aged inkman Gu Immortal seemed to be very much on alert in regards to humans, he only nodded at Fang Yuan and remained at his spot without any intention to communicate.
Fang Yuan also nodded in reply.
Lang Ya land spirit, who was at the side, was frowning as he anxiously looked outside the window, he suddenly spoke: "They arrived so quickly! They are directly charging towards this cloud building, the situation does not look good, they seem to hold some investigative method that targets my twelve wave cloud confusion formation."
Fang Yuan quickly looked outside, but only saw the vast fog.
He knew his investigative killer moves were not much good, but Lang Ya land spirit's words should be true.
Sure enough, several breaths of time later, wind surged, dispelling the thick fog and revealing a clear space.
Two enemy Gu Immortals were proudly standing in the air.
One was wearing a black robe and was very good looking, but because of some injuries, his expression appeared pale, making one feel that although this person was unfettered and elegant, he did not seem to have much longer to live.
He was Hei Cheng.
The other Gu Immortal was wearing martial attire, he had broad shoulders and a thin waist, and his eyes were emitting sharp light, Fang Yuan was familiar with this person — rank seven Gu Immortal, Qin Bai Sheng!
Fang Yuan immediately put most of his attention on Qin Bai Sheng.
In Fang Yuan's knowledge: This Qin Bai Sheng was extremely strong, an expert at the level of Central Continent's Shi Lei. If they were to openly fight, Fang Yuan knew he was not Qin Bai Sheng's match.
One needed to know their limitations.
One of the reasons Fang Yuan could live so long was because he knew himself well enough.
Even though he had the strength path killer move myriad self, and did not lack immortal essence stones for the moment, and also possessed a set of star path immortal killer moves which made up for a lot of his shortcomings, but if they were to truly battle, he could at best only force a draw with difficulty against experts at the level of Old Lord Can Yang, He Lang Zi, Hui Feng Zi and Unfettered Scholar.
He was able to kill Xue Song Zi before, because his luck was good and his plan had succeeded.
He used star path battle strength to deal with He Lang Zi and was able to turn the situation into a stalemate, but He Lang Zi's third immortal transformation was not forced out. In other words, He Lang Zi still had strength left.
Clearly, the land spirit also knew Qin Bai Sheng's strength, thus was frowning deeply, mumbling: "Damn it, I am so close. If only I had some time, all these tigers would turn into sick cats!"
He seemed to have some powerful method, but it required time to be put to use.
Unfortunately, the enemies did not intend to give any time to Lang Ya land spirit.
The enemies were already closing in on the cloud building, Lang Ya land spirit had no choice but to brace himself to resist.
The next moment, the land spirit turned towards the inkman Gu Immortal in the corner: "Old Mo, you can go first to fight them, try to stall for as much time as possible."
"Yes, Lord Lang Ya.' The inkman Gu Immortal slightly bowed before flying out of the cloud building.
"Fang Yuan, be prepared to move out." Lang Ya land spirit instructed Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan nodded, while thinking inwardly: 'With just my star path methods, I can only deal with one or two enemies at the level of Hui Feng Zi and He Lang Zi. It is impossible to think of victory, but I can still delay for time. However, in facing Qin Bai Sheng, I must use all my strength, it is absolutely out of question to try to make do with just star path cultivation.'
Just as he was thinking, an extremely intense suppression force spread from ahead.
"What is this?!" The terrifying pressure caused Fang Yuan and Lang Ya land spirit to turn pale.
They quickly looked over, brilliant golden light filled their sight.
After the golden light dispersed, they saw Qin Bai Sheng standing proudly in the air, while Hei Cheng was looking at him from behind as if he was a monster.
And in Qin Bai Sheng's hands, was a head.
It was the head of that inkman Gu Immortal!
As for this Gu Immortal's body, it had fallen to the ground.
Qin Bai Sheng had actually killed a rank six Gu Immortal in this breath of time!
What was this speed!
What level of power was this!
This power which could directly kill an extremely vigilant Gu Immortal, even if it was a variant human, was too terrifying!
Even the experienced and knowledgeable Hei Cheng was dumbstruck. Even though he had personally seen Qin Bai Sheng overpowering He Lang Zi in one move.
But overpowering and killing a Gu Immortal were two different concepts.
The inkman Gu Immortal had just flown over and was just about to say something.
Qin Bai Sheng had immediately attacked.
He did not even give a chance for the enemy to speak.
What was that move?
The Gu Immortals present on the scene, as well as the land spirit, did not have any clues.
"Terrifying! This Qin Bai Sheng's battle strength has already surpassed Shi Lei, and is fully at the level of Feng Jiu Ge. Let's retreat!" Fang Yuan bellowed at Lang Ya land spirit.
Lang Ya land spirit also came to his senses, and just as Fang Yuan shouted, he grabbed Fang Yuan's arm and swiftly disappeared from the spot.
"What's going on?" In another cloud building, Mo Tan Sang was standing guard, and was surprised to see Fang Yuan and Lang Ya land spirit appear so suddenly.
Fang Yuan's expression was extremely unsightly, he did not know the secrets of Qin Bai Sheng's background, but that decapitation just now left an extremely deep impression on him.
Lang Ya land spirit was filled with panic as he looked all around: "What should we do?"
His body suddenly shook and he looked towards the northwest direction, his gaze seemingly passing through the cloud building. He was terrified: "They are coming directly towards us. This, what can we do?!"
Mo Tan Sang took a step forward.
He glanced at the 'stranger' Fang Yuan, clearly not recognizing Fang Yuan's appearance.
Mo Tan Sang also did not inquire about Fang Yuan's identity, and instead asked Lang Ya land spirit a question in concern.
Lang Ya land spirit did not reply to him, he was extremely anxious, this was the first time Mo Tan Sang had seen this.
It was instead Fang Yuan who answered Mo Tan Sang, his voice heavy and filled with apprehension: "That inkman Gu Immortal is dead, he could not last even one move… he was decapitated by Qin Bai Sheng! This battle strength is already comparable to rank eight, only with a large gap in strength can there be this kind of crushing battle result!"
"What? Elder Mo is dead?! Killed in one move by Qin Bai Sheng?" Mo Tan Sang's whole body shook, revealing a disbelieving and shocked expression.
Soon, the shock on his face disappeared and his gaze became blank.
The death of the old inkman Gu Immortal was a heavy strike to Mo Tan Sang.
Inkman City had two Gu Immortals altogether, now only Mo Tan Sang was left. The disastrous loss was evident.
"How could Qin Bai Sheng be so strong?" Mo Tan Sang's face was filled with cold sweat as he reacted short after, he was a person of great talent and vision after all, and immediately understood they could only rely on Lang Ya land spirit's unfathomable depths.
He took another step forward and asked Lang Ya land spirit: "Lord Lang Ya land spirit, what should we do? We cannot stall for time! Can't you use your rank eight Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron early to forcibly refine the Immortal Gu of these Gu Immortals?"
Rank eight Immortal Gu House… Refinement Cauldron?
'This is Lang Ya land spirit's hidden trump card? It seems this Immortal Gu House can actually forcibly refine the Immortal Gu of others?' Fang Yuan's heart shook as he heard this secret.
Everything became clear!
It was no wonder that Lang Ya land spirit could resist the invasion of so many Gu Immortals. No wonder Feng Jiu Ge perished here.
With this rank eight Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, as long as a period of time was given, the Immortal Gu of Gu Immortals would be refined by the land spirit. Moreover, the Gu Immortals could only use Immortal Gu and immortal killer moves here.
If their Immortal Gu were refined by others, then the Gu Immortals could only let others trample upon them.
No wonder Lang Ya land spirit could capture so many Gu Immortals alive.
This rank eight Immortal Gu House could refine the Immortal Gu of other Gu Immortals, isolating them from immortal apertures, this power was inconceivably strong!
However, when Fang Yuan thought of it, it was also not strange.
Long Hair Ancestor was the creator of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, it was justifiable for him to be able to create another rank eight Immortal Gu House in Refinement Cauldron.
"If I could forcibly refine the Gu, I would have already done so. What to do? What to do? There is not enough time!" Lang Ya land spirit raved as he paced around the room in panic.
Mo Tan Sang had helped resist two waves of attacks, but he had never seen Lang Ya land spirit in such panic, his heart could not help but sink.
'Don't tell me, not only did I mess up Northern Plains, I even affected Lang Ya blessed land and am causing it to be destroyed earlier?' Fang Yuan's mood was also heavy.
Chapter 879: Long Hair Ancestor's Secret
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Heavenly Court.
Countless halls radiated with dazzling lights.
Inside Heaven Overseeing Tower, there were four rank eight Gu Immortals: Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord, Bai Cang Shui, Lian Jiu Sheng, and Bi Chen Tian, they were at the east, south, west, and north directions respectively.
The huge Gu formation was showing a grand image in the sky.
Countless precious immortal materials were tossed in like they were cheap vegetables found in the market.
In the image formed by the refinement path Gu formation, these immortal materials were processed at a rapid speed.
At this point, they had already expended half of the success dao marks that they had obtained from the Infallible inheritance.
The female Gu Immortal, Bai Cang Shui's eyes shined brightly as she stared at the refinement path Gu formation. This was the first time she was involved in the recovery of fate Gu, this was also the first time she had come across such an incredible refinement path Gu formation.
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord held his walking stick as he captured all of Bai Cang Shui's expressions with his eyes, he spoke: "Fairy Cang Shui, if you want this refinement path Gu formation, you only need to pay thirty thousand contribution points to get it."
Bai Cang Shui's expression changed, she understood Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord's meaning, he was reminding her: Now is the crucial period for repairing fate Immortal Gu, stop staring at the refinement path Gu formation and causing yourself to be distracted.
"I am ashamed." Bai Cang Shui bowed at Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord, sighing: "This Gu formation is really incredible, it has such power. Even if I am not a refinement path Gu Immortal, I can tell that this Gu formation has already touched upon the fundamental meaning of refinement path. But it is like a poem that is only half written, this Gu formation also gives me a sense of being incomplete. It seems that it could be improved further, to become an Immortal Gu House!"
"Hehehe, Fairy Cang Shui is very insightful. But it is impossible to elevate this Gu formation into an Immortal Gu House." Lian Jiu Sheng, who had the appearance of a white haired teenager, laughed as he replied.
"Oh? Why is that the case?" Bai Cang Shui's gaze flickered, she showed curiosity on her face.
"The main reason is that we are lacking the most crucial core Immortal Gu. Fairy Cang Shui, you may not know that this refinement path Gu formation is only a mimicry of Long Hair Ancestor's rank eight Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, by a predecessor of Heavenly Court through countless past records." Lian Jiu Sheng spoke slowly, exposing some secrets: "And this Refinement Cauldron is still inside Lang Ya blessed land, it has all of its core Immortal Gu."
"So that's it." Bai Cang Shui's expression dimmed.
Immortal Gu were unique, Refinement Cauldron was still around now. Thus, it was almost impossible to elevate Heavenly Court's Gu formation.
"Of course, we can make a redesign of Refinement Cauldron and modify this Gu formation, using other Immortal Gu as the core, to achieve a similar effect. But this is very difficult, back then when Long Hair Ancestor created the Immortal Gu Houses, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and Refinement Cauldron, other than the fact that he was a refinement path supreme grandmaster, there was another reason, he had a wisdom path great grandmaster friend — Immortal Yi Yan." Lian Jiu Sheng sighed deeply.
Immortal Yi Yan, he was the creator of the Prophecy of Three Venerables.
He was an actual wisdom path great grandmaster, his predictions were very accurate.
"Immortal Yi Yan, Long Hair Ancestor…" Bai Cang Shui muttered, she suddenly thought of something, she asked: "That's right. Back then, why didn't we recruit Long Hair Ancestor into Heavenly Court? He is a refinement path supreme grandmaster, but he only had rank eight cultivation level, he was not an invincible rank nine Gu Immortal. Even if he was a Northern Plains Gu Immortal, we in Heavenly Court have our methods, we can change his aura from Northern Plains to Central Continent."
"Indeed, there were only three people who were at Long Hair Ancestor's level. Why did Heavenly Court not recruit them?" Lian Jiu Sheng was also uncertain.
Bi Chen Tian was silent.
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord laughed, he said with an arrogant tone: "That is because Long Hair Ancestor was not a human, he was a hairy man! No matter how strong he was, or how great his refinement path attainment was, he could not enter Heavenly Court. Heavenly Court is the sanctuary of us humans, how can we let these lowly variant humans in?"
"Oh? It is actually like this… Long Hair Ancestor was a hairy man?" The other three Gu Immortals looked at each other, this was the first time they had heard of such a secret.
Northern Plains, Lang Ya blessed land.
Out of the original five cloud buildings, three were destroyed, only two were left.
On Qin Bai Sheng's side, Xue Song Zi died.
On Lang Ya land spirit's side, an inkman Gu Immortal died as well.
Qin Bai Sheng showed terrifying battle strength, he was unstoppable, he directly charged towards the cloud building that Lang Ya land spirit, Fang Yuan, and Mo Tan Sang were guarding, Lang Ya land spirit was pacing around in anxiety now.
"What will we do? What will we do!"
"The enemy is too strong, we cannot hold on much longer."
"Even though we have two cloud buildings left, it is already a fact that we are going to lose…"
"Damn it, this is so frustrating!"
"Do I have to let him out?"
"No, if I let him out, I will be locked in. Who knows when I will be able to come out again."
"I arranged this Lang Ya blessed land painstakingly, who knows if that maniac would raise it into a grotto-heaven…"
"That maniac's ambition is too great, he will definitely cause Lang Ya blessed land to be destroyed!"
Lang Ya land spirit was in a panicked state, his muttering was turning into a nonsensical grumble, it was making Fang Yuan and Mo Tan Sang feel a sense of anxiety and frustration.
Fang Yuan was still fine, he had Fixed Immortal Travel.
But Mo Tan Sang was really uneasy now.
The other inkman Gu Immortal was already dead, if he also died here, all of the hundreds of thousands of inkmen in Inkman City would face great danger.
Without a Gu Immortal's protection, with so many inkmen in Inkman City, they would definitely be a huge target, countless hungry and greedy jackals would come and compete to enslave them.
The inkmen citizens would face a terrible fate, they would become slaves and live in danger and suffering.
"Lord land spirit, you have to stay calm! We are all depending on you! Long Hair Ancestor was an esteemed person who could talk on equal terms with a Demon Venerable, think about it carefully, there has to be a way to deal with the enemy!" Mo Tan Sang got closer to Lang Ya land spirit as he urged.
"Don't force me, don't force me!" Lang Ya land spirit was gripping his hair, he shook his head incessantly.
Mo Tan Sang's anxiety became worse, he grabbed the land spirit's arm as he shook the land spirit: "Lang Ya land spirit, you have to regain your clear-mindedness!"
Ah—!
Lang Ya land spirit seemed to have reached his limits, he raised his head and screamed.
Boom!
A huge force burst out from Lang Ya land spirit's body.
Mo Tan Sang was caught off guard, he spat out blood as he was pushed away like a tattered doll. He crashed onto the wall and slowly fell onto the ground.
"You, you are not Lang Ya land spirit?" Mo Tan Sang stared with wide opened eyes, shouting at Lang Ya land spirit in disbelief.
The land spirit originally had white hair and had a sagely demeanor, but now he was different! He was muscular and strong, about the same height as Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body. He had large shoulders and a thick waist, the muscles on his body were bursting with energy, giving off terrifying signals.
Most conspicuously, his entire body was growing with thick hair, the brown hair was almost covering his entire body.
His eyes were bloodshot, fangs were exposed in his mouth as his lips curled up, showing a sinister smile.
In an instant, Lang Ya land spirit had turned from an old human man into a muscular hairy man!
Fang Yuan was also very surprised by Lang Ya land spirit's transformation.
Immediately, he took a few steps back as he looked at Lang Ya land spirit warily.
Lang Ya land spirit slowly raised his head, he looked at Mo Tan Sang who was sitting on the ground, sighing deeply: "How can I not be Lang Ya land spirit? Hehehe, how many years has it been, ever since that myriad tribulation… hmph, because I was weakened severely, that weak fellow took over control."
Lang Ya land spirit said that and shouted loudly, raising his head: "How many years has it been!"
He sucked in a deep breath, he showed an excited and ruthless expression, he clenched his fists, his bulging muscles were thicker than Mo Tan Sang's legs: "I am finally back!"
Fang Yuan was frowning, he had a few questions internally as he retreated again by a few steps.
"Hehehe, you two do not need to be suspicious, I am Lang Ya land spirit, the real deal!" Lang Ya land spirit raised his head, his gaze was like a dagger as he stared right at Fang Yuan and Mo Tan Sang.
"My main body was a hairy man, but after I died, I had two obsessions. There was only one land spirit position, but the two obsessions were equally matched, neither could suppress the other. In the end, we could only combine together and become Lang Ya land spirit. The one you two are familiar with is merely the obsession over space escape Immortal Gu." Lang Ya land spirit snorted, explaining.
"Two obsessions…" Mo Tan Sang's expression froze.
Fang Yuan reacted much quicker than him, he asked: "Then, land spirit, what is your condition for acknowledging a new master?"
The earlier Lang Ya land spirit's condition was to solve the issue of why space escape Immortal Gu could not enter the Space Cave.
Fang Yuan definitely could not fulfill it.
But now, Lang Ya land spirit had changed greatly, according to his words, he had a different obsession. In that case, his condition would definitely be different as well!
"Hmph! To get me to acknowledge a new master, you are not qualified!" The hairy man Lang Ya land spirit stared at Fang Yuan, he had a more arrogant and strong tone than his human form.
"How am I not qualified?" Fang Yuan did not lose his temper, he asked calmly.
Lang Ya land spirit crossed his arms, he laughed arrogantly: "My ambition is to make all of the hairy men in the world become the ones in charge! Any variant human, including you humans, has to cower at the feet of us hairy men. You will all become the slaves of hairy men, begging for survival at our feet, as tiny insignificant ants. Whichever hairy man can achieve this target would become the new master of Lang Ya land spirit. Hahaha…"
Mo Tan Sang was stunned.
Fang Yuan was speechless.
No wonder he was not qualified, because Fang Yuan was not a hairy man! He could not even attempt this.
'Having two obsessions is not impossible in theory.'
'No wonder Long Hair Ancestor was called long hair, his real identity was a hairy man!'
'So this is why Long Hair Ancestor had incredible talent, but in history, there were no records of him ever being recruited by Heavenly Court.'
'No wonder… When I asked Lang Ya land spirit to sell me hairy man slaves in the past, he rejected me directly with a firm stance.'
Fang Yuan started to believe Lang Ya land spirit's words.
After all, from start to finish, he was watching the entire scene. He had confirmed this using dozens of investigative killer moves.
"This means that after Long Hair Ancestor died, he had two obsessions. One was his refinement path obsession, it was concerning space escape Immortal Gu and Great Dream Immortal Venerable. The other obsession was his species obsession, because Long Hair Ancestor was a hairy man, and because hairy men were suppressed by humans, such a strong obsession formed in him!"
Fang Yuan's expression turned grave.
The Lang Ya land spirit in front of him not only had a change in appearance, his personality also changed completely.
Their earlier relationship was useless now. At this moment, what attitude would this Lang Ya land spirit have towards the human Fang Yuan?
Chapter 880: Fearsome! Lang Ya Land Spirit versus Qin Bai Sheng!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Don't be nervous lad, I will not attack you." Lang Ya land spirit stared at Fang Yuan with the eyes of a tiger, he said with a playful tone: "Although you, lad, have taken advantage of me many times."
"All of those deals earlier were fair transactions!" Fang Yuan had a plain expression as he denied the accusations.
"Hmph, you were able to develop to this extent, one reason was that you had obtained quite a lot of resources from that weak fellow. But I do not mind it, we can still cooperate." Lang Ya land spirit said coldly.
Fang Yuan squinted his eyes, he said with seeming disbelief: "Aren't you thinking of toppling humans, and establishing the rulership of hairy men?"
"Of course I am!" Lang Ya land spirit replied without hesitation: "But success is a slow process, we have to walk one step at a time. To fulfill my ambitions, I need to understand reality. Even my main body had to disguise as a human when he was alive. To achieve the hegemony of hairy men, it is a necessity to cooperate with humans."
Surprise flashed across Fang Yuan's eyes.
The new Lang Ya land spirit in front of him, even though his obsession was unrealistic, he acted quite logically, he had a deep and clear understanding towards his environment and the situation around him.
Mo Tan Sang got up slowly while the two of them were talking, he healed his injuries.
"My plan is flawless!" Lang Ya land spirit's eyes shined with brilliance, he said in a profound tone: "First, I will use benefits to rope in a bunch of human Gu Immortals, I will use humans to deal with humans, destroying them from the inside. I will recruit all these human Gu Immortals and make them into the hunting dogs of us hairy men. You are one of my targets, ahaha!"
As he said that, towards the end, he pointed at Fang Yuan and laughed with his head raised up.
Fang Yuan: "…"
Mo Tan Sang: "…"
Land spirit indeed could not lie, he completely exposed all of his schemes and plans!
At the next moment, the land spirit also felt something amiss, he stopped laughing as he stroked his chin, regret flashed across his face as he said: "Ahhh! I got excited and said all of my plans out loud!"
Fang Yuan: "…"
Mo Tan Sang: "…"
"As for you, the inkman Gu Immortal." At this time, Lang Ya land spirit's gaze turned from Fang Yuan to Mo Tan Sang: "I am not that weak fellow, because he was afraid of getting exposed, he rejected many opportunities for cooperation with you. I am very interested in all those proposals you gave me. Especially those that involve toppling human tribes and plotting against human tribes! Speaking of which, the humans are too powerful now, against them, we variant humans are natural allies! Work with us hairy men, your Inkman City will develop even faster, it will grow even stronger!"
Mo Tan Sang's injury was not heavy, he healed quickly.
Hearing Lang Ya land spirit's words, Mo Tan Sang felt a sense of having good times ahead.
He gave Fang Yuan a subtle glance, at this point, he still did not know that this star path Gu Immortal was the Fang Yuan he knew.
"Hahaha." Lang Ya land spirit thought of something brilliant, he laughed again: "These stupid inkmen! That's right, if I want my hairy man race to become the rulers, we will need to make use of these inkmen, feathermen and others. On the day I succeed, I will make all of them slaves, and squeeze out their value. These inkmen in Inkman City could be preferentially treated, of course. After all, they are Immortal Yi Yan's descendants. Mm… I can make their king into a puppet, haha, this plan is too brilliant."
Fang Yuan: "…"
Mo Tan Sang: "…"
Lang Ya land spirit saw their speechless expressions and was slightly stunned, he showed a serious expression as he rubbed his chin: "I accidentally said my thoughts out loud again, huh…"
Fang Yuan finally was relieved, such a person like Lang Ya land spirit, how could he possibly achieve the rulership of hairy men?!
Mo Tan Sang covered his face with his hands, even though he was an inkman and not a hairy man, he felt ashamed for Lang Ya land spirit.
As Qin Bai Sheng got closer, the cloud building was already in his attacking range.
"The land spirit and two Gu Immortals are inside the building." Qin Bai Sheng had quite an impressive investigative immortal killer move, he could see many details of Fang Yuan's side.
Qin Bai Sheng's eyes squinted as he flew slower, his right hand waved in front of him.
Bam!
Golden light burst out, the figure of a huge golden hammer formed instantly and shot out, slamming at the cloud building.
The air currents were fierce as the golden hammer figure had a threatening aura, it was even larger than the cloud building! The relatively large cloud building was shrouded under the golden hammer, it became very weak looking.
Metal path immortal killer move — City Crushing Hammer!
"What audacity!" At the next moment, a figure came out of the cloud building, shouting fiercely.
It was Lang Ya land spirit!
The land spirit did not dodge, he directly faced the giant hammer.
The moment his thick and strong arms interacted with the city crushing hammer, dozens of Gu worms flew out and circled around the land spirit.
Rule path immortal killer move — Cleanse Sky!
In an instant, the giant golden hammer vanished without a trace, like it had never existed previously.
Only the air currents that were created by the hammer were left, they caused strong winds to blow unceasingly.
"Lang Ya land spirit?" Seeing the Lang Ya land spirit that had undergone a transformation, even the mysterious Shadow Sect Vice Envoy, Qin Bai Sheng, showed a peculiar expression, he asked uncertainly.
"It is me, your grandfather!" Lang Ya land spirit shouted, after destroying the hammer, he did not fall back, he charged towards Qin Bai Sheng.
He was indeed different from the previous Lang Ya land spirit, their personalities were two different extremes, this one was bold and filled with battle intent.
Fang Yuan and Mo Tan Sang watched from behind with much apprehension.
The land spirit represented the world, it was the most crucial factor when Gu Immortals attacked a blessed land.
Normally speaking, the land spirit would conceal themselves and use the entire blessed land to deal with the invaders. After all, the land spirit could manipulate the blessed land, if it was caught or destroyed, it would be way easier to take down the blessed land!
But Lang Ya land spirit after transforming into a hairy man's appearance was different, he charged ahead.
Even though Qin Bai Sheng displayed fearsome strength, his terrifying battle strength did not deter Lang Ya land spirit at all!
"Heh." Hei Cheng who was at the side laughed.
He felt that with Qin Bai Sheng's strength, Lang Ya land spirit was simply courting his own doom.
But as the target, Qin Bai Sheng had a serious expression.
Since he had invaded Lang Ya blessed land, this was the first time he stepped back and retreated, unexpectedly.
He mainly cultivated soul path and secondarily metal path, a common technique of his was to use the immortal killer move soul suppression, but it was useless on Lang Ya land spirit.
Soul suppression had a huge advantage because Qin Bai Sheng used his own soul's foundation to suppress his enemies. The difference in soul foundation made the immortal killer move, soul suppression, have an immense effect.
Earlier in Luo Po valley, Qin Bai Sheng used soul suppression and defeated He Lang Zi, who had transformed into a giant wolf, in one move.
Just earlier, Qin Bai Sheng used the soul suppression killer move and immobilized the inkman Gu Immortal, before using a metal path killer move to behead the inkman Gu Immortal!
But against Lang Ya land spirit, soul suppression had no effect.
The reason?
Because Lang Ya land spirit was a special existence, he had no soul!
He was an obsession formed together with heavenly power, a sort of spirit that was neither real nor fake, he did not have a physical body, and did not have a soul.
To make a comparison, it was just like scolding someone.
Qin Bai Sheng had the soul suppression killer move, it was as if he could directly scold someone to death with his words. But Lang Ya land spirit could not understand a word he was saying, no matter what curses he uttered, to Lang Ya land spirit, it was like random noise, because the land spirit could not understand it at all.
Qin Bai Sheng was aware of this, furthermore, Lang Ya land spirit was acting strange, thus he decided to retreat and see what this land spirit was up to!
With Qin Bai Sheng stepping back, Lang Ya land spirit's vigor rose, he did not relent at all.
Immortal killer move — Great Thousand Spears!
Immortal killer move — Triple Desolation!
Immortal killer move — Lightning Chaotic Starfire!
Countless golden spears shot out, they were like a dense forest that shot towards Qin Bai Sheng from all directions.
Qin Bai Sheng quickly defended himself, a huge pillar appeared around him, and around the pillar, there was a five clawed golden dragon coiling around it.
The golden dragon pillar was able to stop the great thousand spears temporarily, but white hair started to appear on Qin Bai Sheng's hair, his lifespan was shortening.
This was the power of the time path killer move triple desolation!
Great thousand spears rained down like a storm, it was powerful and grand. Triple desolation was mysterious and hard to defend against. Mixed in with that were lighting starfires, they were able to sneak into the golden dragon pillar and burn Qin Bai Sheng's flesh as they came into contact.
The land spirit raised his head, the countless Gu worms around his body vanished, and appeared again. After using them, they vanished again.
One after another, Immortal Gu and countless mortal Gu showcased themselves.
Immortal killer move — Yellow Wood Rustling!
Immortal killer move — Ruined Blood Flying Dust!
Immortal killer move — Slaughtering Immortal Guillotine!
The wood path killer move made the leaves in the area fly around. The blade path killer move slashed forward without obstacles, it was a beautiful move. There was also a blood path killer move mixed in, a light smoke that was blood red in color coiled around Qin Bai Sheng's waist.
Qin Bai Sheng was too busy defending himself, he had to retreat again.
The land spirit shouted again, chasing after him.
On his body, countless mortal Gu and Immortal Gu swapped out again like a change of clothes.
Immortal killer move — Shattered Ice Armor!
Immortal killer move — Mixed Hole Drill!
Immortal killer move — Wishful Shadow Sword!
Ice path, space path, and dark path killer moves were used in succession, Qin Bai Sheng defended himself as he retreated once more.
Lang Ya land spirit advanced more and more, his aura was surging as his immortal killer moves struck like a flash flood, Qin Bai Sheng could not do anything but retreat.
The more Qin Bai Sheng moved back, the more passive he was, and the more Lang Ya land spirit fought like a maniac.
The two sides retreated and advanced respectively, until they were tens of li away.
The spectating Hei Cheng, Fang Yuan, and Mo Tan Sang were dumbfounded.
Lang Ya blessed land's foundation was very abundant, it had many Immortal Gu stored up, Long Hair Ancestor did not lack immortal killer moves, and it even had the Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus, it had accumulated an untold amount of immortal essence.
With such a huge foundation, Lang Ya land spirit could attack in such a frenzied manner, he could totally withstand the expenditure.
Even Fang Yuan was starting to suspect that Lang Ya land spirit could keep up such an insane fighting style for three days and three nights unceasingly.
In fact, this was the first time Fang Yuan had seen a land spirit that had such great battle strength and had such a ruthless nature!
Chapter 881: Five Finger Fist Heart Sword
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Bam bam bam!
Countless immortal killer moves were showcased by Lang Ya land spirit.
Wood path, fire path, water path, ice path, time path, space path, all sorts of attacks resembled fireworks in the sky, they were fatal yet extremely beautiful.
Even the strong Qin Bai Sheng could only defend himself, he could not fight back at the moment.
"Is this still a land spirit? He is simply too fierce!" Hei Cheng saw that Qin Bai Sheng was being pushed back as Lang Ya land spirit chased after him relentlessly, feeling dry in his throat.
"Are you done fooling around?!" A moment later, Qin Bai Sheng shouted loudly.
In the air, golden light resembling a sun burst out.
The golden light was simply too bright, everyone could not look at it directly.
A vast amount of radiation accompanied the golden light and burst out, filling the entire world! Temperature rose rapidly, as if the world was getting roasted.
Soul path and metal path — dual immortal killer move — burning soul supreme gold!
Lang Ya land spirit was very unique, he was not afraid of the effect of soul burning, but burning soul supreme gold was an extremely rare immortal killer move that combined both offense and defense.
Once he used this move, Qin Bai Sheng turned into a miniature sun, he shined brightly in this world, it was almost as if he became the ruler of the world!
Lang Ya land spirit's attacks were all disrupted or resisted.
If it were an ordinary opponent, facing the land spirit's insane outburst, there was a possibility of him killing the opponent through mere brute force.
But his opponent was not an ordinary Gu Immortal, he was the Vice Envoy of Shadow Sect, Qin Bai Sheng!
Qin Bai Sheng resisted countless killer moves, he managed to catch a breather as he found a chance to attack.
Once he attacked, Lang Ya land spirit's wave of attacks faltered, as he received an intense counter attack immediately.
Compared to him, even though Lang Ya land spirit had many advantages and a deep foundation, he was not a Gu Immortal, his wisdom in fighting was very low.
For example, when he used these immortal killer moves, even though it was a magnificent sight, none of the moves worked together, they even disrupted each other and caused much of the strength to be wasted.
In this regard, Fang Yuan was much better than him. Be it the coordination between star cloud grindstone and star snake ropes, or six illusion star bodies and position star swap, Lang Ya land spirit had much to learn.
The land spirit was only an obsession left behind after a Gu Immortal died, after all, a special existence formed by fusing obsession with heavenly power.
If the land spirit had Fang Yuan's intelligence, once he had the advantage like earlier, Qin Bai Sheng would not be able to fight back.
But the land spirit was not Fang Yuan, Qin Bai Sheng managed to find a chance to counter attack.
Burning soul supreme gold became the turning point of the battle.
Lang Ya land spirit's attacks were obstructed, as Qin Bai Sheng regained the initiative and did not hand over that initiative again.
The battle situation turned around at this moment.
Lang Ya land spirit was forced to retreat, suppressed by Qin Bai Sheng's attacks.
Qin Bai Sheng attacked with one-tenth of the frequency of Lang Ya land spirit, but each of his attacks, each immortal killer move he used had great coordination with each other, he set layers of traps and caused Lang Ya land spirit to feel deeply restrained, the more he sank, the harder it was for him to turn this around, he had no chances left.
Qin Bai Sheng had rich battle experience, his methods were ruthless and steady, Fang Yuan, Hei Cheng, and Mo Tan Sang were staring with trembling eyelids.
"What do we do? It is guaranteed that the land spirit loses!" Mo Tan Sang looked towards Fang Yuan with an anxious expression.
Fang Yuan did not answer, he was hesitant.
Lang Ya land spirit charged out without saying a word, putting himself in danger, he was simply being stupid!
Land spirits were not afraid of Qin Bai Sheng's soul suppression, but Fang Yuan and Mo Tan Sang were susceptible to this attack.
Unless they had a way to overcome it, or a method that could resist this soul path killer move.
At once, Fang Yuan fell into another situation where he was powerless, when he used six illusion star bodies and position star swap to stall for time with Hui Feng Zi and He Lang Zi.
Mo Tan Sang looked at Fang Yuan, seeing that this unknown Gu Immortal had no intentions of joining the fight, he started to feel anxious.
Even though Lang Ya land spirit was not quite reasonable and had absurd ambitions, wanting to enslave all the inkmen.
But Mo Tan Sang was a formidable person, in Fang Yuan's previous life, he made use of Ma Hong Yun's rise to power and ensured that his inkman tribe grew.
So what if Lang Ya land spirit's intentions were a hundred times as absurd?
To Mo Tan Sang, the new Lang Ya land spirit was much more useful for the benefits of the inkman tribe than the previous land spirit. Working with him had much greater prospects.
Mo Tan Sang was moved.
But Qin Bai Sheng was overly powerful, Mo Tan Sang did not want to die here, but he was wary of Qin Bai Sheng, he wanted to drag Fang Yuan into this.
Fang Yuan was unmoved.
Lang Ya land spirit changed so drastically, for Fang Yuan, this was also an opportunity.
But Fang Yuan was used to being vigilant, he did not want to take an excessive risk.
In the past, he took risks because he had no choice, and the rewards were also too immense. But now, it was an opportunity to save the land spirit, but the risks were too great.
He was different from Mo Tan Sang.
Once the land spirit died, Mo Tan Sang would be trapped here, he had no choice but to fight.
But Fang Yuan had Fixed Immortal Travel, he could leave at any time, thus he decided to sit on the fence and observe the situation!
Boom!
Lang Ya land spirit was hit directly by Qin Bai Sheng's attack, he was like a rubber ball that was tossed away, rapidly crashing into the cloud soil on the thick ground.
The cloud soil was very soft, Lang Ya land spirit sank deep into the soil, creating a huge pit.
He wanted to teleport away, but he found that there was a golden chain coiling around his body.
The land spirit struggled intensely, but he could not move.
"It is over." Qin Bai Sheng's expression was stern, he slowly flew towards the sky above the land spirit, looking down with a cold expression.
Qin Bai Sheng retracted his entire aura, his arms gathered at his chest, his palms placed together, he was like a mediating old monk, at the same time, he slowly shut his eyes and lowered his head.
"He is trying to do something… now is the best time to save the land spirit!" Mo Tan Sang felt something amiss, he shouted loudly.
Fang Yuan ignored him completely, he stared fixedly at Qin Bai Sheng, feeling shock inwardly: "This posture, is this the legendary… that move?"
Earlier during battle, Qin Bai Sheng was as fierce as a tiger out of the mountain, a heavenly dragon ravaging the seas, he was unstoppable as he charged forward.
But right now, his palms were placed together as he lowered his head and shut his eyes, he was like a piece of dead wood, without any life in him.
These two conditions of his formed a clear contrast.
Slowly, Qin Bai Sheng's right hand, which was in contact with his left hand, moved, it was like he was trying to pull out something precious, as his right hand slowly clenched into a fist.
Afterwards, his left hand was still at the original position, but his tightly clenched right fist was lifted, above his chest and shoulder, above his head, until it was fixed right above his head.
Qin Bai Sheng's eyes were shut, there were no emotions on his face, his head was lowered as his aura was completely retracted into his body.
His left hand was open, at the center of his chest, his right hand was clenched into a fist, raised high up in the sky.
Mo Tan Sang did not know why this was happening, but he understood that Qin Bai Sheng would not make such an action unnecessarily, once he attacked, it would be a devastating blow, it would shake the earth!
Lang Ya land spirit could feel an immense sense of danger, he struggled intensely, the golden chains around him started breaking as numerous cracks appeared on them.
But it was too late.
"That's right, it is that move! Sword Immortal Bo Qing's legendary move, widely renowned in Central Continent. Qin Bai Sheng is a Northern Plains Gu Immortal, how can he possess this move?" Fang Yuan gulped as he felt a heavy feeling, he did not dare to save the land spirit.
Sword path immortal killer move — Five Finger Fist Heart Sword!
First finger!
Qin Bai Sheng raised the thumb of his right hand.
From the right fist that he held high in the air, a sword light shot out.
Fast! Fast! Fast!
The speed of the sword light was beyond belief.
The moment it was shot out, it pierced Lang Ya land spirit's forehead.
Lang Ya land spirit, who was struggling intensely, had his skull penetrated by this sword light in an instant.
His movements came to a halt, he was still like a statue as he stared blankly at Qin Bai Sheng, who was in the sky.
At the next moment, Lang Ya land spirit struggled even more intensely like he was jolted by lightning.
If it were Fang Yuan who suffered this blow, even if he was an immortal zombie, he would have died. But Lang Ya land spirit was a special existence, there were no weakness or fatal points on his body.
But this blow did deal severe damage to him. His head, which was originally clear and compact, started to become blurry.
Second finger!
Qin Bai Sheng raised his index finger.
The second sword light shot out from his hand, it was just as fast as before.
The sword light pierced Lang Ya land spirit's right arm, the land spirit shouted in pain as his right arm became blurry and unclear.
Third finger!
The third sword light pierced Lang Ya land spirit's left arm, he cried out in agony as his left arm also started to fade.
"Save him, quick, once the land spirit dies, we are all finished!" Mo Tan Sang saw this situation and shouted in anxiety.
Fang Yuan's gaze was heavy, but his body was still as a mountain, he did not make any attempt to save him.
A lump of star cloud grindstone appeared in front of Fang Yuan.
If the situation did not turn around, Fang Yuan had decided to use Fixed Immortal Travel to escape from Lang Ya blessed land.
Fourth finger!
At this moment, Qin Bai Sheng raised the ring finger of his right hand.
"Save me!" Lang Ya land spirit could not stay calm, he shouted in panic.
"Let's risk it!" Mo Tan Sang shouted at Fang Yuan, charging out and using his killer move, attacking from afar.
But the fourth sword light had already shot out.
Clang!
A sharp noise of collision could be heard from within the pit.
A figure appeared in front of Lang Ya land spirit, blocking the fourth sword light.
"This aura, it is a rank seven Gu Immortal." Fang Yuan was still inside the cloud building, sensing that an unknown aura had appeared, brilliance flashed across his eyes.
This was the change.
As he had expected, Lang Ya blessed land still had trump cards left.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Soon, eight more figures appeared out of nowhere, piercing the air and landing around the pit, protecting Lang Ya land spirit.
Mo Tan Sang quickly stopped in his tracks, he focused and looked, shouting in surprise: "So many hairy man Gu Immortals?!"
The reinforcements were here!
The nine Gu Immortals that came were all hairy men.
The hairy man Gu Immortal that saved Lang Ya land spirit was the only rank seven, the rest of them were all rank six.
Hei Cheng's expression changed, he said in disbelief: "How can this be?"
There were so many hairy man Gu Immortals, the numbers had completely flipped around.
Mo Tan Sang showed joy in his face.
But Fang Yuan frowned.
"To receive the protection of so many hairy man Gu Immortals, it seems this really is Lang Ya land spirit. But he is completely different from the previous land spirit." Qin Bai Sheng slowly opened his eyes, he lowered his arms as he dispelled the five finger fist heart sword. His lips curled into a smile as he showed a confident smile of victory.
From the start, he had no intentions of killing Lang Ya land spirit. What he wanted was for these hairy man Gu Immortals to appear.
"Something's wrong!" Fang Yuan's forehead was wrinkled from his frown.
"The two land spirits are completely different in personality, but the former would not leave such immense battle strength aside and yet request for help from an outsider like me no matter how stupid he was."
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with inspiration, he realized Qin Bai Sheng's motive: "Unless, the enemy's true goal was not Lang Ya blessed land in the first place?!"
Chapter 882: The Real Lang Ya Blessed Land
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Lang Ya blessed land was concealing so many hairy man Gu Immortals, but why did the previous Lang Ya land spirit not take them out even in such a dangerous situation?
Fang Yuan guessed the reason for this was the rank eight Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron!
The Lang Ya land spirit in the form of an elderly human had probably arranged all the hairy man Gu Immortals to be in Refinement Cauldron.
Long Hair Ancestor's true identity was a hairy man, Lang Ya land spirit loved hairy men like they were his own children. In accordance with these thoughts, he did not want to let hairy man Gu Immortals die, thus he arranged them in Refinement Cauldron.
More importantly, the Immortal Gu House also required Gu Immortals to control it, and the more Gu Immortals there were, the more power the Immortal Gu House could unleash.
When Tai Bai Yun Sheng had attacked Yu Lu blessed land and met a predicament, all the Gu Immortals had combined their strengths to activate an Immortal Gu House, Profound Ice House.
This amplified the strength of Profound Ice House, to the extent that it was enough to break through the battlefield killer move and move all the Gu Immortals to safety.
The more hairy man Gu Immortals in Refinement Cauldron, the more powerful it would be and the faster it could refine the Immortal Gu of others.
Fang Yuan was almost certain that in the previous three invading waves, Lang Ya land spirit had arranged the hairy men in there and refined the invading Gu Immortals' Immortal Gu, thus being able to capture them alive.
This was the fourth wave of attack and the enemies were strong beyond expectation, the human form Lang Ya land spirit could not resolve this problem, and had no choice but to let the other obsession take control over the body to resolve the issue.
'However, this hairy man land spirit also has a defect in his mind. Going personally to battle and only at the crucial moment between life and death, he summoned the hairy man Gu Immortals.' Fang Yuan inwardly shook his head before paying attention to the battlefield.
Qin Bai Sheng, Hei Cheng and the hairy man Gu Immortals fell into a stalemate.
Plop.
Suddenly, that rank seven hairy man Gu Immortal who blocked a strike from five finger fist heart sword for Lang Ya land spirit fell to the ground.
"First Hair?"
"First Hair?"
The hairy man Gu Immortals were in a commotion, as they cast concerned gazes while exclaiming in shock.
"First Hair, First Hair, what's wrong with you? First Hair?!" A female hairy man Gu Immortal knelt down beside First Hair, hugging his chest, but she found his body was already filled with sword energy and could not be any more dead.
"First Hair, First Hair, you can't die, First Hair!" The female hairy man Gu Immortal started crying, her mind completely collapsed.
"Second Hair, don't cry."
"Maybe lord land spirit has a way!"
"Second Hair, if you cry, we will also want to cry. Boo hoo hoo…"
Many hairy man Gu Immortals unexpectedly turned away from Qin Bai Sheng, and approached Gu Immortal Second Hair, consoling her in a soft voice.
Some hairy man Gu Immortals also started crying or choked while sobbing.
Fang Yuan and Mo Tan Sang were dazed.
At this moment, they finally understood why Lang Ya land spirit did not send these hairy men to the battle and arranged them in Refinement Cauldron!
Because the ability of these hairy men in battle was simply at the dregs.
Ah, no, calling them dregs would be too flattering!
Faced with mortal enemies, they actually were weakening themselves, crying and letting their minds collapse.
It seemed like these hairy man Gu Immortals were raised as purely refinement assistants by Lang Ya land spirit. It was certain they were experts in refining Gu, and even more certain that they were not specialized in battle!
Lang Ya land spirit's face was ashen, he got rid of the restraint and approached and inspected the dead hairy man Gu Immortal, he heaved a bitter sigh before closing the aggrieved eyelids of the rank seven hairy man Gu Immortal.
"Ahhh, no…!" The female hairy man Gu Immortal, Second Hair, was completely broken. She gave a scream and fell down on First Hair's corpse, her eyes turned as she fainted.
Other hairy man Gu Immortals rushed to treat her.
Even more of them looked at Qin Bai Sheng with innocent tears in their eyes, accusing: "Heavens, why are there cruel and savage Gu Immortals like you? We had no animosity between us, why would you attack us, why would you take an innocent Gu Immortal's life? Isn't peaceful coexistence a good thing?"
Hearing these words, Mo Tan Sang and Fang Yuan completely lost all hope in these hairy men.
These hairy man Gu Immortals seemed to have been raised very protectively by Lang Ya land spirit, like greenhouse flowers, they had not experienced the baptism of the cruelty of the outside world, they had fully been invested into cultivating refinement path while there was a giant hole in their fighting aspects.
"Hand over the Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, and I won't harm you." Qin Bai Sheng sneered.
"Impossible! Don't even think of it!" Lang Ya land spirit furiously stared at Qin Bai Sheng, refusing directly. His attitude was firm with no signs of hesitation.
"Hmph, you want to rely on Refinement Cauldron to forcibly refine our Immortal Gu. Don't expect such naive thoughts to work on me, I simply won't give you the time to use it."
Qin Bai Sheng scoffed before pausing for a moment, as if he sensed something.
He mumbled to himself, then continued: "Oh, did you already prepare, then let's begin! This hindrance, I shall break it first!"
He raised his voice, his gaze directed at the cloud building.
Immortal killer move — City Crushing Hammer!
A giant hammer came crashing down on to the building, Fang Yuan's mind moved rapidly, deciding to move away and not stand out at this moment.
However, Lang Ya land spirit's situation was still not at its extremes, so Fang Yuan did not plan to escape.
Rumble!
The cloud building behind him was crumbled apart, like a translucent screen, by the city crushing hammer.
Fang Yuan flew out in a miserable state, and when he appeared in front of everyone, his appearance had already changed once more.
He had transformed into a hairy man.
Qin Bai Sheng snorted, giving a meaningful look at Fang Yuan before looking elsewhere.
The cloud building was destroyed, the boundless fog immediately dispersed.
This had been the last cloud building, the other one had been found by Hui Feng Zi and was already destroyed.
By now, all the five buildings that had remained when Fang Yuan came as support were already destroyed.
Twelve wave cloud confusion formation was broken!
There was white sky and white ground.
The sky was pure white and the ground was white cloud soil.
Qin Bai Sheng looked around, disdainfully smiling: "A laughable disguise."
The next moment, he looked at the sky with a look of exultation.
He suddenly grabbed at the sky and shouted with a longing tone: "Come, Refinement Cauldron!"
At the same time, in another two locations, the mysterious black robed Gu Immortal and Fairy Jiang Yu also followed the suit, however, they grabbed at the cloud soil on the ground.
Crackle!
The sky erupted with thunder, lightning flashed, clouds surged, and space broke apart.
A loud sound reverberated as if a formless colossal monster was using its sharp claws to tear the cloud soil!
A giant crack appeared on the thick cloud soil like it was cotton.
The crack ran through from east to west, extending to the end of all the immortals' vision.
"This is?!" Mo Tan Sang's pupils contracted.
"So this is the true Lang Ya blessed land… this is a really extravagant set up, everything that I had seen so far was only the surface?" Right now, even Fang Yuan was greatly startled.
The immortals gazed down the giant crack and saw a boundless ocean below the cloud soil.
The ocean actually had three enormous continents!
On these three continents, there were dense forests, steep mountains, vast prairies, foggy swamps…
Countless beings were living on the continents. The sky had birds and giant dragons, the ocean had sea monsters and fish, the earth had ants, tiger-elephants… There were all kinds of living beings forming an unusual food chain on the three continents!
In these three continents, the hairy men were the only rulers, occupying the dominant position.
Countless villages and cities were spread in the mountains, prairies and river banks of the three continents… There were even many hairy men exploring the ocean, their traces all over the many islands in the ocean.
Here, the hairy men got up and worked when the day began and rested when night fell. They refined Gu and competed with each other fairly, living a life where they were the top position in the food chain.
"So the place I had been standing on until now, was no more than the clouds in the sky of the blessed land?" Mo Tan Sang's whole body shook.
"How is this possible? With such a large space, this is still a blessed land? Even ordinary grotto-heavens don't have such a huge space! This Lang Ya blessed land has already surpassed the majority of grotto-heavens!" Hei Cheng was thoroughly shocked.
"How did he achieve this? Lang Ya blessed land… this is simply another world! This far surpasses blessed lands and ordinary grotto-heavens." Fang Yuan was full of doubts.
At this moment, the countless hairy men on the lands below, raised their heads and looked at the cloud layer where Fang Yuan and others were at.
"The cloud covering the continents are changing!"
"This rumored continent in the air seems to have been ripped in half?"
"Quick, report this situation to the elders!"
Millions upon millions of hairy men fell into panic.
When immortals fight, mortals panic.
"This population…" Fang Yuan's eyes opened wide, licking his lips as he shouted inwardly, "How huge of a fortune is this! Breathtaking, truly breathtaking. No wonder Lang Ya land spirit has an ambition to make hairy men dominate the world! This is simply a hairy man empire! No wonder there are so many hairy man Gu Immortals, they should have been chosen from these endless hairy men!"
Rumble!
The thunder in the sky became louder and louder. Countless lightning bolts cut through the sky, forming a net that quickly spread.
Amidst the strong wind, Qin Bai Sheng stood straight and proud like a spear. His clothes fluttered in the wind like a battle flag.
The space ruptured, and Gu worms showed up in the rupture.
They were the constituent parts of Refinement Cauldron.
At this sight, Lang Ya land spirit knew he could not delay any longer and shouted decisively: "Want to seize Refinement Cauldron? Dream on! Assemble the battle formation!"
"Yes, lord land spirit!" The hairy man Gu Immortals replied together.
At the same time, Lang Ya land spirit secretly transmitted his voice: "Mo Tan Sang, Fang Yuan, you guys also enter the formation quickly! Don't count on these hairy man Gu Immortals. The main forces will be us three. As long as we can hold on for a while, these invaders will all die!"
Chapter 883: Ancient Battle Formation, Heavenly Giant Solor
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Hearing Lang Ya land spirit's call, Fang Yuan's gaze flickered, he hesitated inwardly.
But in the end, he still approached the land spirit and the hairy man Gu Immortals.
Mo Tan Sang made the same decision as him.
"Assemble the battle formation — Heavenly Giant Solor!" Lang Ya land spirit shouted, countless Gu worms flickered as they were teleported over by him, all of the hairy man Gu Immortals and the land spirit were covered by the Gu worms entirely.
Soon after, these tens of thousands of Gu worms that suddenly appeared burst out with bright silver light.
The silver light was dazzling, no one could look into it directly.
Mo Tan Sang had a firmer attitude as he went to the land spirit. Seeing this small hill-like silver light, he did not hesitate, he went inside immediately.
Fang Yuan went in after him.
Once they entered the silver light, Fang Yuan was directed by Lang Ya land spirit, towards the centermost area together with Mo Tan Sang.
The land spirit's expression was grim, he nodded at Fang Yuan and Mo Tan Sang.
Mo Tan Sang quickly expressed his loyalty: "Lord land spirit, don't worry, I, Mo Tan Sang, will represent the Northern Plains Inkman City in this battle, I will fight with all my ability, I will stay by your side no matter what!"
Fang Yuan was silent, he only nodded back at Lang Ya land spirit to express his intent.
The other hairy man Gu Immortals were surrounding them.
They did not put much attention on Mo Tan Sang, instead, they were assessing Fang Yuan who was also a 'hairy man Gu Immortal', they sent him curious, kind, and perplexed gazes.
At the crucial moment, Lang Ya land spirit did not criticise Fang Yuan for turning into a hairy man Gu Immortal.
In fact, he felt a bit of joy in his heart.
After all, this meant that Fang Yuan was showing a proactive and positive stance regarding the hairy men.
"There is no time to chit chat, the three of us will be the main fighting force in the battle ahead." Lang Ya land spirit said.
Before his words finished, the silver light around everyone had condensed to its limits, it turned into silvery metal liquid.
Lang Ya land spirit suddenly jumped and danced around, shouting loudly: "Heavenly Giant Solor… Heavenly Giant Solor… Heavenly Giant Solor!"
When he finished shouting it three times, the surrounding silver liquid burst out and created a space with the size of a courtyard.
In the air, straight lines of light of all sizes gathered and formed into a three dimensional giant Gu formation.
All the Gu Immortals were allocated to their positions by Lang Ya land spirit, they were separated at their respective formation cores, each having their own spot in the Gu formation.
At the same time, a faint silvery light glow appeared on Fang Yuan, Mo Tan Sang, the land spirit, and the hairy man Gu Immortals' bodies.
Outside, the Gu Immortal Hei Cheng could only see that Lang Ya land spirit set up the formation extremely quickly, first the silver light shot out, next the silver liquid spouted upwards, moving rapidly on the outside.
Eventually, this silver liquid stopped circulating, becoming solid in an instant, as a metal giant that was tens of meters tall with three heads and six arms appeared with a silvery shiny body.
The giant opened its eyes, it was like the awakening of a demonic god, a formless aura burst out, enveloping the surrounding sky.
"This… is actually an ancient battle formation!" Fang Yuan was in the space created by the silver giant, his vision was synchronized with the giant.
He first saw Hei Cheng's shocked expression, followed by Qin Bai Sheng's slightly surprised face.
Lang Ya land spirit who was at the central formation core laughed smugly, he said proudly: "My Heavenly Giant Solor battle formation was the second strongest battle formation in the world even during the Olden Antiquity Era! It was merely second to Golden Heavenly Saint. Within this formation, all of our strengths are combined, we are one entity. The foundations of our souls are added up, and our immortal essence can be used interchangeably, we can communicate freely with thoughts, everyone else can instantly sense them."
This way, they would not fear Qin Bai Sheng's immortal killer move, soul suppression!
Qin Bai Sheng's soul suppression killer move used his own soul foundation to suppress others.
But now, Fang Yuan and the others were controlling the Heavenly Giant Solor, their souls were all added together. Even if Qin Bai Sheng's soul suppression was still usable, it would no longer have such a decisive effect.
"Interesting, Heavenly Giant Solor, to think that it was in Long Hair Ancestor's hands." Qin Bai Sheng looked at the giant forming and did not strike. His reaction was strange, he stared at the giant as he showed some appreciation in his gaze.
"This is an ancient battle formation, among the pinnacle of formation path, it can allow Gu Immortals to work together and add up their battle strength. But because of historical reasons, these types of battle formations have already been buried within the River of Time! To think that today, I would be able to see it personally." Hei Cheng sighed: "But it is not strange, Long Hair Ancestor was a famous person throughout history, he had the power to collect such an ancient battle formation."
"Stop sighing, go and deal with it." Qin Bai Sheng ordered him after letting out a deep breath.
Hei Cheng's expression froze, he stared at Qin Bai Sheng in disbelief: "You, you want me to block this giant alone? We all know that there are more than ten Gu Immortals working together, creating this giant with their collective power!"
Qin Bai Sheng snorted: "You know this, I am trying to obtain the Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron now, I cannot strike. Now is the time you show your worth. I am not asking you to defeat the giant, just stall it for a while. You have an Immortal Gu House, Dark Prison, with you, this should not be difficult. If we succeed, not only will I heal all your injuries, I will also alleviate your current lifespan crisis, you will regain a huge amount of lifespan!"
Qin Bai Sheng's tone was filled with pressure and threat. At the same time, there was a benefit that Hei Cheng could not resist!
Hei Cheng squinted as his breathing became rougher.
He was very brilliant, he had a deep shrewdness, he knew that Qin Bai Sheng was using him like a pawn.
Towards this, Hei Cheng felt extremely angry, and also helpless.
Because his weakness was currently grasped by Qin Bai Sheng. With such immense benefits, Hei Cheng had to obey him.
"Send your immortal essence into the battle formation." Lang Ya land spirit instructed as he shouted: "Heavenly Giant Solor, attack!"
The huge silver giant moved soundlessly, directly crashing towards Qin Bai Sheng.
Qin Bai Sheng seemed to be unable to move easily, because he was trying to take the rank eight Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron, he stood on the spot.
Seeing that the silver giant was about to hit him, at this time, Hei Cheng appeared in front of Qin Bai Sheng.
Hei Cheng looked at the silver giant with a heavy expression, he waved his hand.
In his hand, there was a black pearl, it was about the size of the base of a rice bowl, black and shiny, like a black crystal. On the surface of this translucent pearl, one could see a boar shaped animal sleeping inside.
The boar was the ancient desolate beast sharp tusk boar, it had the battle strength of a rank seven Gu Immortal. In addition, this black pearl was the rank six Immortal Gu House of Hei tribe — Dark Prison!
Hei Cheng first let out the sharp tusk boar and then entered the Immortal Gu House Dark Prison himself.
Boom!
With a loud bang, the silver giant collided with the sharp tusk boar, the immense force generated caused the air to explode, as a strong air current spread out around the place.
The ancient desolate beast sharp tusk boar cried out, its boar head was full of blood, one of its sharp tusks was broken.
In contrast, the silver giant took a few steps back, there was a dent in its chest. But soon, with the appearance of some fluctuating silver light, the dent was fixed, there were no injuries on it.
Fang Yuan and the other immortals manipulating the silver giant could feel that several beads of immortal essence were expended in the process.
"This damned previous version of myself, he turned all these proper Gu Immortals into idiots. Damn it!" Lang Ya land spirit was unhappy, he scolded 'himself' unhappily.
He was very unhappy with this hit.
Even though the silver giant had the advantage, the consumed immortal essence was too much.
The impact earlier did not display the true power of the silver giant, primarily because these hairy man Gu Immortals were holding them back.
"Mo Tan Sang, you will be the main attacker this time!" Lang Ya land spirit shouted angrily, he instructed in a ruthless tone: "Use your signature killer move!"
"Understood." Mo Tan Sang replied as his expression turned serious, after three breaths of time, he used his attacking method in the formation.
Qi path immortal killer move — Blasting Qi Roar!
In Hei Cheng's vision, he saw the silver giant's neck turning at an angle as one of its heads was aimed at the sharp tusk boar.
The silver giant had three heads and six arms, silvery fluctuations appeared on the right head, in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a black head that was as dark as ink.
On the head, crystals that were sharp as spears grew, frost energy was oozing.
The head's expression also changed. Its brows were standing up as its eyes popped out, it stared at the sharp tusk boar angrily.
Seeing this head, Hei Cheng felt a strong sense of danger rising inside him.
Hei Cheng wanted to recall the sharp tusk boar back to his side, when the black head opened its mouth.
Roar—!
A thunderous sound burst out, the sound reverberated over part of the world.
Air was pushed out as sound waves spread to the surroundings wildly, most of the force was focused on the sharp tusk boar.
Bam.
Blood and flesh flew into the air, broken bones and organs splattered everywhere.
The sharp tusk boar, an ancient desolate beast, having rank seven Gu Immortal battle strength, only lasted three breaths of time under the attack of the sound wave, before exploding and dying a terrible death.
"Such power!" Hei Cheng's expression changed.
Fang Yuan was moved: "An incredible ancient battle formation! It can amplify the power of an immortal killer move to such an extent."
Mo Tan Sang and the hairy man Gu Immortals went into intense joy after the initial shock.
They saw hopes of victory.
Even though this attack used up several beads of their immortal essence again, the result of the attack was very much worth it!
Hei Cheng's heart turned cold, facing this silver giant, even if he used dark arrow Immortal Gu, there would be little effect.
But soon, hatred and determination appeared on his face.
"Even though the sharp tusk boar is dead, I still have the Immortal Gu House Dark Prison!" Hei Cheng growled, he controlled Dark Prison, it flew like a meteor, bursting the air as it crashed towards the silver giant.
An Immortal Gu House had both offense and defense, it was a war fortress, it could not be underestimated.
Immortal killer move — Star Cloud Grindstone.
Immortal killer move — Forceful Mountain Shield.
Immortal killer move — Heavenly Stem Earth Veil.
Inside the silver giant, three Gu Immortals used three defensive immortal killer moves together.
At once, three arms of the silver giant transformed at the same time!
Chapter 884: Fatal Undercover Agents
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Shortly, the Immortal Gu House Dark Prison would be crashing upon the silver giant like a meteor.
At this time, on three arms of the silver giant, a change occurred.
On one of the arms, the hand opened up as a lump of a star cloud spiral appeared on the palm, the spiral became larger and larger, it soon grew to five or six times the size of an ordinary star cloud grindstone, it spun fifty to sixty percent faster than usual.
Another arm was folded in front of its chest, as the forearm changed, conjuring a huge navy blue shield.
This shield was so huge that even with the silver giant's height of several tens of meters, half of it was covered.
The final arm was hanging by its side, it seemed to be grasping onto a translucent light yellow veil, it was less eye-catching than the other two moves.
Immortal Gu House Dark Prison tore through the air, it was right in front of the giant.
The silver giant pushed forward with the star cloud grindstone.
A loud bang erupted from Dark Prison, as it was sucked into the star cloud grindstone.
The star cloud grindstone started to grind and emitted a loud sound, its shape expanded and shrunk at times, after several rounds of movement, it exploded.
The star cloud was destroyed, within the fragments of blue light, Immortal Gu House Dark Prison charged out like a wild bull.
The silver giant used its navy blue shield to block it.
Dark Prison crashed into the shield, after several breaths of time, huge amounts of cracks appeared on the shield at the area where it was in contact with Dark Prison, the shield broke soon after.
But after these two defenses, Dark Prison only had less than thirty percent of its original power.
Eventually, when Dark Prison crashed into the heavenly stem earth veil, it was weak and powerless, it was like an arrow that had used up its energy, it hit the silver giant's chest and only caused inconsequential damage to the latter.
Even though Dark Prison was an Immortal Gu House, Hei Cheng was the only Gu Immortal activating it.
In this aspect, the ancient battle formation, Heavenly Giant Solor, was quite similar to an Immortal Gu House.
The more Gu Immortals were involved in activating them, the more power they could unleash.
But there was a difference between the two.
Immortal Gu Houses did not have any requirements towards the Gu Immortals' paths and cultivation levels. In contrast, a battle formation did.
For example, Heavenly Giant Solor battle formation would work best if all the Gu Immortals inside were from the same path. That would make the silver giant stronger, and it would be more agile when manipulated.
Looking at the battle now, Fang Yuan was star path, Mo Tan Sang was qi path, Lang Ya land spirit was a unique existence, while the remaining hairy man Gu Immortals were refinement path Gu Immortals.
This caused Heavenly Giant Solor to not reach its maximum power. Thankfully, there were a lot of hairy men to set the foundation, otherwise, with so many different paths, the silver giant would not be able to form.
This was only the requirement of Heavenly Giant Solor.
Heavenly Giant Solor was the second most acclaimed battle formation among ancient battle formations, it did not have very strict requirements.
According to historical records, many other battle formations had very strict or strange requirements. Normally speaking, it was hard to fulfill those conditions and create the battle formation.
This weakness of battle formations was also a reason why they had vanished over history.
As a similar pinnacle achievement of formation path, Immortal Gu Houses were much more convenient than battle formations, this was a display of improvements over generations of time.
Throughout history, from ancient times to the present, each era had countless heroes and conquerors, talents and geniuses. The accumulations and wisdom of these people superimposed on one another, forming the current Gu cultivation era of numerous flourishing paths.
Even though many natural materials, treasures, fierce beasts and plants from the Olden Antiquity Era and Remote Antiquity Era were extinct already, generally speaking, the current era surpassed the ancient times, there was continuous progress.
Materials and Gu worms were only the foundation, the wisdom of Gu cultivators was the crucial point.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Qin Bai Sheng placed almost all of his attention on the sky.
His gaze was heated, he raised both hands as he grabbed at the sky time and time again.
Following his actions, thunder resounded in the sky, pieces of the space broke like a mirror, one after another, Gu worms were exposed. Then, under a mysterious and profound force, these Gu worms were pulled down, landing in Qin Bai Sheng's hands.
Qin Bai Sheng showed imposing might, he snatched these Gu worms like they were there for him to take.
At this moment, his demeanor was overwhelming, he looked like a heavenly deity, he was grabbing at the stars and the moon, he gave off a feeling of being invincible and unmatched.
There were two other people collecting Gu worms along with him at different locations, they were the mysterious black robed Gu Immortal and Fairy Jiang Yu.
"They are trying to take my Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, we cannot let them succeed. Otherwise, a huge amount of land in Lang Ya blessed land would collapse!" At the center of the battle formation, Lang Ya land spirit was screaming anxiously.
But it was no use.
Even though the silver giant blocked the charge of the Immortal Gu House Dark Prison, it could not stop Dark Prison from interrupting it.
Many times, the silver giant, under the land spirit's control, tried to get close to Qin Bai Sheng, but Hei Cheng blocked it desperately.
Boom—!
At this time, with a loud bang, lightning flashed in the sky as an Immortal Gu appeared in the broken space for the first time.
"Good!" Qin Bai Sheng saw this and cried out unconsciously, his expression was full of joy.
He stretched his hand to grab it, although in fact, this Immortal Gu belonged to Lang Ya land spirit, but it could not resist as Qin Bai Sheng 'easily' captured it, keeping it in his storage.
Evidently, Qin Bai Sheng possessed some special method to take Immortal Gu from others.
Once this Immortal Gu was lost, a huge impact occurred.
Lang Ya blessed land shook intensely as huge waves appeared on the vast sea, crashing into the three continents.
Far away, at a corner of the world, an intense collapse occurred. Space shrunk as the sea water and living beings in this area were forced towards the center of the sea area.
"Qin Bai Sheng obtained only one Immortal Gu but it caused such a huge change in the blessed land?" Fang Yuan saw this and felt shock, he immediately had a vague guess over this.
"Stop, quickly stop!" Lang Ya land spirit shouted anxiously.
The other hairy man Gu Immortals were also very worried, with the Immortal Gu taken away, there were huge repercussions to Lang Ya blessed land, the lives of the endless hairy men in the three continents were severely threatened!
But Dark Prison blocked the silver giant, Qin Bai Sheng had set up defensive measures around himself and could not be easily disrupted.
As Immortal Gu were taken away by Qin Bai Sheng one after another, Lang Ya blessed land started collapsing everywhere, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, all these natural disasters formed, countless hairy men in the continents died.
This was a classic case of mortals suffering from a fight between immortals.
Fang Yuan saw this and affirmed his guess even more.
Lang Ya blessed land's true space had far exceeded that of a conventional blessed land, it could match an outstanding grotto-heaven. But Lang Ya blessed land was merely a blessed land.
So how did Lang Ya land spirit achieve that?
Fang Yuan already knew that the environment inside an immortal aperture was greatly affected by the dao marks contained in the immortal aperture.
Thus, he naturally thought: "Lang Ya land spirit seems to have a unique method to fuse Immortal Gu into the world of this immortal aperture. This way, the dao mark fragments in the Immortal Gu would become the immortal aperture's, and that would allow the immortal aperture to expand greatly."
"But now that Qin Bai Sheng is forcefully taking the rank eight Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron, when the Immortal Gu were lost, Lang Ya blessed land lost a large amount of dao marks, this caused the environment to change, and the space inside to shrink."
Fang Yuan guessed correctly.
It was due to this Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, being embedded into the world that Lang Ya blessed land could use the ample dao marks inside the Immortal Gu to create a huge space and generate countless resources, having an immensely abundant foundation.
Much credit was to be given to the previous Lang Ya land spirit.
After Refinement Cauldron was fused into the immortal aperture world, it was as if the entire immortal aperture was the inside of Refinement Cauldron, all of the living beings inside the immortal aperture were inside the refinement range of Refinement Cauldron.
It was because of Refinement Cauldron's help that the previous Lang Ya land spirit could nurture a large number of hairy man Gu Immortals.
But doing that had a huge drawback.
Firstly, Refinement Cauldron could not be moved, it was stuck inside the blessed land.
Once it was moved, the environment inside the immortal aperture would shrink drastically, great amounts of losses and deaths were sure to occur.
This was also the reason why Lang Ya land spirit would rather use the ancient battle formation than summon the Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron to battle.
"Get lost!" The silver giant raised its hand and slapped Dark Prison away.
Taking huge strides, the silver giant charged towards Qin Bai Sheng.
But at the next moment, Dark Prison flew back again, crashing into the silver giant's shoulder and making it lose its balance.
Such a thing had already happened more than a dozen times.
Hei Cheng was dragged into this, he could not stay out of this mess anymore, he had to risk it all!
Even though Dark Prison suffered huge losses in the battle and was badly damaged, Hei Cheng had to grit his teeth and endure it.
"It is useless! I can still hold on for a long time! An Immortal Gu House is made from a small number of Immortal Gu and countless mortal Gu, as long as the Immortal Gu remain intact, no matter how many mortal Gu are consumed, I can replenish them! If an Immortal Gu House can be destroyed so easily, can it still be called an Immortal Gu House?" Hei Cheng's screams from inside the Immortal Gu House could be heard.
"You are correct!" Lang Ya land spirit spoke, agreeing with Hei Cheng's words.
Hei Cheng stared blankly, before his expression changed.
He found that in Dark Prison, many Gu worms had been forcefully refined by Lang Ya land spirit, including two Immortal Gu.
Hei Cheng was right — if an Immortal Gu House could be destroyed so easily, could they still be called an Immortal Gu House?
Thus, even though the rank eight Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, lost many Gu worms, and even lost a number of Immortal Gu, as long as the core remained intact, it would only become weaker, the ability to refine Gu worms of others could still be used.
"Hahaha, fifteen minutes is up. You have all lost, you have lost pathetically! My Refinement Cauldron still has two hairy man Gu Immortals, with them standing guard, how can you steal my Immortal Gu House?" Lang Ya land spirit shouted, declaring his victory.
Lang Ya blessed land had a truly deep foundation, after fighting to this extent, there were still hairy man Gu Immortals that had not shown up yet.
But it was reasonable, Refinement Cauldron had great importance, there had to be strength remaining to defend it.
But at this moment, Qin Bai Sheng smiled coldly: "Are you sure about that?"
Before his words were finished, two hairy man Gu Immortals descended from the sky, they paid their respects to Qin Bai Sheng: "Greetings to Lord Vice Envoy."
These two hairy man Gu Immortals that were left behind to guard Refinement Cauldron were actually undercover agents left in Lang Ya blessed land by Shadow Sect!
With their cooperation, attacking from both the inside and outside, it was a foregone conclusion that the rank eight Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, would be lost!
Chapter 885: Anti-climatic Battle of Offense and Defense
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Lang Ya land spirit's expression changed, he stared at this scene in disbelief.
"Twelfth Hair, Thirteenth Hair, what are you doing?" The hairy man Gu Immortals were shocked and furious, one of them shouted loudly.
"As hairy men, you are actually helping the enemy and betraying your kin! This is unforgivable!"
"Impossible. Twelfth Hair and Thirteenth Hair are hairy men that grew up in the blessed land, how could they betray us? This has to be an illusion, everyone, don't be fooled by this!"
Some of the hairy man Gu Immortals refused to believe this.
The attentions of everyone were on those two hairy man Gu Immortals, they had an arrogant attitude as they surrounded Qin Bai Sheng protectively, they showed looks of pride and had no intentions to explain themselves.
Their betrayal was a fatal blow towards Lang Ya land spirit's side.
Especially those hairy man Gu Immortals, their hearts were in chaos, they could not manipulate the battle formation easily.
Hei Cheng obtained a precious chance to catch a breather.
Qin Bai Sheng's speed of gathering the Gu worms became quicker with the cooperation of the hairy man traitors.
Lang Ya land spirit's face was as dark as the bottom of a pan.
He spoke, squeezing his words from between gritted teeth: "Kill, kill them all! Kill these two hairy man traitors! Even if they betrayed us and caused trouble, Refinement Cauldron still has my will, it has not stopped working yet. It can still function! Everyone, Lang Ya blessed land is at a moment between life and death, it will depend on all of you, we have no other way but to fight now, kill!"
Lang Ya land spirit tried his best to spur on morale.
No matter how naive the hairy man Gu Immortals were, they noticed the current desperate situation, and hardened their determination to resist with their full strengths one after another.
The silver giant had an imposing aura as it moved forward again, fighting the Immortal Gu House Dark Prison.
After a few rounds, Dark Prison was defeated repeatedly.
Inside Dark Prison, Hei Cheng's hair was messy and his eyes were bloodshot, he felt dizzy as he had already used Dark Prison to its limits.
In fact, this ancient battle formation had another drawback.
That was, in order to unleash the full power of the battle formation, the Gu Immortals inside needed to have a lot of practice beforehand. However, this was the first time Fang Yuan and the others were working together.
Inside the ancient battle formation Heavenly Giant Solor, even though there were many Gu Immortals, the real attackers were only Fang Yuan, Mo Tan Sang, and Lang Ya land spirit. This was like a person having two fists and yet only using three fingers to fight. The hairy man Gu Immortals were not skilled at fighting, they were holding Fang Yuan and the others back, causing the silver giant to look very clumsy, even though there were many opportunities, it could not use them.
But during the intense fight, the immortals had gotten more familiar with controlling it, they had gained a trace of coordination between themselves.
With this coordination, the silver giant managed to find two opportunities to send Dark Prison flying.
Hei Cheng had to retreat.
The two hairy man Gu Immortals went to guard Qin Bai Sheng.
But the silver giant charged forward, it only stopped for a moment before its gigantic body approached Qin Bai Sheng to slam at him.
Qin Bai Sheng spat out a mouthful of blood as the collection process was interrupted, he had to dodge, his body flew into the air.
"Chase!" Lang Ya land spirit ordered.
The silver giant chased after Qin Bai Sheng, but Dark Prison came again at a quick speed and peculiar angle. The defending hairy man Gu Immortals were caught off guard, they could not react in time and the silver giant was knocked away.
The silver giant attacked fiercely and sent Dark Prison flying again.
But this time, from afar, two figures came to help, they were Hui Feng Zi and He Lang Zi.
And at this moment, the two hairy man Gu Immortals surrounded the massive silver giant like flies, moving quickly and attacking, doing their best to disturb it.
Four Gu Immortals and a rank six Immortal Gu House engaged in fierce battle with the ancient battle formation, Heavenly Giant Solor.
As time passed, the immortals on the land spirit's side became more and more well coordinated. The silver giant's battle strength rose, even though the enemy was attacking it desperately, they could not stop the giant's movement.
Some of the true power of an ancient battle formation was finally released.
Qin Bai Sheng was forced to stop the collection process three times, as he moved away and dodged the silver giant's assaults, his expression was becoming more pale.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Self Giant Hand!
In the fierce battle, Fang Yuan's eyes shined with brilliance, he attacked suddenly.
He had kept a low profile for a while, at this moment, he bared his fangs, using his trump card!
Four arms of the silver giant rose up, slamming down fiercely.
Bam bam bam bam!
A loud sound of an intense explosion occurred, the air burst as four strength path hands slammed at the ground with an immense force.
At this moment, the Gu Immortals in the battle formation expended a hundred beads of immortal essence!
Amplified by the ancient battle formation, strength path giant hand's power reached an unprecedented level.
"Oh no!" Hui Feng Zi immediately used wind escape, desperately fleeing for his life.
He Lang Zi turned into a giant wolf, quickly retreating. The strength path giant hands barely grazed him, but the giant wolf let out a pained growl, the bones in the part of its body that had been in contact with the hand broke completely, the flesh there turned into meat paste.
Hei Cheng hesitated slightly.
Two strength path giant hands clapped together, as if hitting a fly from either side, but instead, it was Dark Prison that was squashed by the palms.
Rumble!
With a loud sound, two strength path giant hands disintegrated.
Immortal Gu House Dark Prison, which resembled a black meteor, swayed and shook as it flew away.
The Immortal Gu House was not a fly, it would not collapse from that. But Dark Prison's current condition made all of the Gu Immortals present suck in a deep breath of cold air.
This Immortal Gu House's appearance changed drastically, the round ball was squeezed from both sides, a huge crack formed around Dark Prison.
Thick smoke emerged from this crack, as lumps of sparks erupted in the black smoke.
"It is that rank seven Gu Immortal who killed Xue Song Zi!" Hui Feng Zi was indeed among the fastest in Northern Plains, after he escaped, he looked back at the battlefield, feeling lingering fear towards the giant hands.
Inside the silver giant, the hairy man Gu Immortals were stunned before erupting into a cheer.
Lang Ya land spirit was at first joyful, but soon, his gaze flashed as he thought of something, looking at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's expression was pale, sweat gathered on his forehead. He was almost unable to stand, his body was shaking and swaying, he showed an expression of facing a fierce backlash after over-exerting himself.
Lang Ya land spirit's suspicions were lifted, he turned his attention towards the main enemy, Qin Bai Sheng.
Qin Bai Sheng was no longer at his original spot, because a strength path giant hand was coming after him, he had to interrupt the Gu collection process and dodge.
Now, his expression did not look good, it seemed like his past injuries had accumulated and achieved a qualitative change.
In Fang Yuan and the others' opinions, Qin Bai Sheng no longer had his previous domineering aura, he was extremely weak now.
"I will stop here today, next time I come, it will not end like this. Hmph!" Qin Bai Sheng spoke a sentence before flying away. He seemed to be heavily injured, he gave up on the remaining parts of Refinement Cauldron as he left the battlefield.
Lang Ya land spirit growled angrily as he chased.
Qin Bai Sheng and the others were adequately prepared, after they gathered together, they tore through space and escaped from Lang Ya blessed land.
Lang Ya land spirit could not fly out of the blessed land, he could only watch with anger and hatred as Qin Bai Sheng and the others flew away with half of Refinement Cauldron.
"Why are we retreating? We have not obtained Refinement Cauldron entirely, this is different from our plans." The group flew rapidly in the sky as Fairy Jiang Yu transmitted to Qin Bai Sheng.
Qin Bai Sheng's expression was grave: "The situation has changed, Luo Po valley is currently under attack. We have to return! That Immortal Gu is still being nurtured, it is soon to be completely formed. If we lose it, there will be huge repercussions in our crucial plan!"
Fairy Jiang Yu's heart shook, she asked: "Then what about Lang Ya blessed land?"
"I would advise that we leave it alone for now, the hairy men inside have huge value." At this time, the two hairy man Gu Immortals joined in the discussions.
"As long as we have the immortal killer move soul replacement, we can go in to undergo possession and lurk, it is not a problem to create a few more undercover agents."
"Unfortunately, there is not enough time, we only managed to accumulate three hairy man Gu Immortal moles. Now that two of us are exposed, if we want to accumulate more undercover agents, we will need at least three hundred years!"
"Even though we did not expose anything, the previous Lang Ya land spirit might have sensed something. He generally only let us Gu Immortals refine Gu, he did not give us the freedom to move about or opportunities to raise our battle strength by duelling."
The two hairy man Gu Immortals spoke one after another.
Qin Bai Sheng thought about it before speaking: "Forget it, even though we still have one mole left, the important matter now is to protect Luo Po valley until that Immortal Gu is formed. This Immortal Gu is crucial to our plans, it cannot be lost! As for the Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, we took over half of it, it can be considered an incomplete Immortal Gu House. Even though we did not reach our goal, we can use Dark Prison to make up for it."
"Alright!"
"When there is a good chance, we will make our move together."
The people from Shadow Sect gave subtle glances towards Hei Cheng, no longer transmitting their thoughts.
"Move, we have to relocate!" At this moment, inside Lang Ya blessed land, Lang Ya land spirit muttered as he made up his mind.
Long Hair Ancestor had died long ago, Lang Ya blessed land was an ownerless blessed land, yet it could actually be moved?
This went against conventional reasoning.
"I have my ways to relocate the entire blessed land. But during the process of movement, heaven and earth qi would be very unstable, the price to pay is huge." Lang Ya land spirit explained to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan sighed inwardly, Long Hair Ancestor's foundation was so deep, he gained a new understanding regarding it.
"This time, we could repel the enemy, the two of you put in much effort, especially you, Fang Yuan!" Lang Ya land spirit said.
Mo Tan Sang stared with wide opened eyes, looking at Fang Yuan in shock, by now, he finally learned that this person in front of him was the Fang Yuan that he was familiar with.
Fang Yuan felt no awkwardness regarding his identity being exposed, he smiled lightly at Mo Tan Sang.
"Oh." Lang Ya land spirit sighed: "It seems that it will be very hard for us hairy men to rise up. The road is filled with difficulties, twists and turns, but the future is bright. If you follow me, it will definitely be the right choice! This time, I am very pleased with your performance, I will reward you greatly!"
Immediately afterwards, he said: "Without proper grass, no horse would move for you. Even a dog needs to be given a bone for it to be enthusiastic. Oh no, why did I say my thoughts out loud again…"
Chapter 886: Crying Miniman
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Northern Plains, in a certain secluded area, Luo Po valley.
Souls were wailing, thunder roared and lightning struck down. The light of fire shined everywhere, and explosions rang out continuously.
A huge, intense battle was ongoing.
The defending side was Shadow Sect, whose members had resolutely abandoned Lang Ya blessed land and came back, Qin Bai Sheng, Fairy Jiang Yu, Hui Feng Zi, He Lang Zi and others.
Immortal killer move — Soul Suppression!
Qin Bai Sheng grunted, stepping forward in the endless light and fire.
Bam bam bam!
Three intense explosions sounded out, Qin Bai Sheng had forced back three invading Gu Immortals with an overwhelming momentum, giving a feeling of an impenetrable fortress.
'I, the grand Chen Zhen Chi, actually lost three times in a row against a single Gu Immortal, and in one move each time?!' The Gu Immortal from Myriad Dragon Dock, Chen Zhen Chi, stabilized himself with difficulty and looked at Qin Bai Sheng with shock and fury.
'Damn it… it was not easy to organize a wave of offense, and it was actually broken by him so easily.' Bu Fei Yan gritted her teeth as blood seeped out of her lips.
'This soul path killer move is really too strong, who could have expected Qin Bai Sheng's true strength to be so strong! Old Oracle's deduction was really correct, this guy is very likely to be the culprit of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's destruction!' Old Man Tian Long thought.
The group that was attacking Luo Po valley was none other than the group of Gu Immortals from Central Continent's ten great ancient sects.
When their objectives could not be achieved in Snowy Mountain blessed land, Feng Jiu Ge was not discouraged and directed them appropriately, finding many secrets and clues.
After going through Old Oracle's deduction, the group of immortals found the location of Luo Po valley and hurried over.
However, Luo Po valley had already been in Shadow Sect's possession for a long time, and had a powerful defensive Gu formation. While Central Continent's Gu Immortals were being delayed by this, Qin Bai Sheng and the others had retreated from Lang Ya blessed land, coming to reinforce immediately.
Thus, the current situation was formed.
Both sides were in a deadlock.
Central Continent's group wanted to invade Luo Po valley, while Shadow Sect's group was defending their base tightly.
Transformation path killer move — Fragrant Sorcerer Yin Statue Wolf Transformation!
Wind path killer move — Death Wind Flying Blade!
He Lang Zi and Hui Feng Zi saw the Central Continent Gu Immortals suffering setbacks, immediately grasping the opportunity to counterattack incisively.
Fairy Ling Mei and Fairy Ao Xue from Heaven's Envy Manor were no match against the intense attacks, and could only retreat without any power to fight back.
Immortal killer move — Green Jade Song!
At the crucial moment, Feng Jiu Ge took action, using an extraordinary sound path killer move.
He Lang Zi and Hui Feng Zi suffered intense damage and fell back.
Hui Feng Zi retreated back to the defensive Gu formation, spitting out over ten mouthfuls of blood in succession. This blood had changed into a deep green jade color.
He Lang Zi's injuries were even more severe, the fragrant sorcerer yin statue wolf he had transformed into had mostly changed into jade stones, he was extremely shocked: "What immortal killer move is this? It seems to restrain transformation path! I am actually not able to change back to human form. It looks like I have to resolve this injury before I can transform again."
"Feng Jiu Ge!" Qin Bai Sheng shouted furiously, his voice spreading over the whole battlefield.
"Qin Bai Sheng, I underestimated you. Previously I was actually deceived by you, I am far beneath you in terms of acting skills. Fortunately, my side has a wisdom path Gu Immortal and without stinting on the expenditure of lifespan, he was able to successfully deduce the location of this Luo Po valley." Feng Jiu Ge was still dressed in a red and white robe.
His posture was straight, like a spear or sword. Right now, he was speaking with a slight smile, his tone was articulate and extremely graceful.
"Successful deduction, my ass! I have no relation with the destruction of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. But since you came, your life will end here." Qin Bai Sheng slowly closed his eyes and lowered his head.
He placed his hands together in front of his chest, then he grabbed his left palm with his right hand and formed a fist, which he raised high above his head.
When they saw this stance, the expressions of the Central Continent Gu Immortals started changing to that of shock and bewilderment, and they started retreating.
Only Feng Jiu Ge stood on the spot, like he was nailed between heaven and earth, and would not move even if a storm battered him.
He looked at Qin Bai Sheng's stance with bright eyes: "This move, could it be Sword Immortal Bo Qing's five finger fist heart sword?"
"Correct." Qin Bai Sheng replied: "Are you prepared to die?"
Feng Jiu Ge laughed heartily, his expression was one of excitement: "Good, good, wonderful. Sword Immortal Bo Qing is my senior in Spirit Affinity House, he failed in his tribulation and his killer move inheritance also mysteriously disappeared. Spirit Affinity House did not obtain it, but it instead landed in a Northern Plains Gu Immortal's hands. But I have read relevant records in the sect, this five finger fist heart sword is extremely powerful and sharp. It is rumored that back then, Lord Sword Immortal Bo Qing felt the majesty of Heaven and Earth, and the difficulty of ascension, thus he created this move to show his courage and pride of resisting heaven and earth by himself."
"So this move's stance is quite peculiar, the person who uses it must confront heaven and earth, lowering their head and closing their eyes. It seems like an admission of defeat, but they are in truth using all their physical and mental strength to produce and unleash the sharpest attack. The fist above their head shows how incomparably bold Sword Immortal Bo Qing was. As the saying goes, I decide my own fate, not heaven, with a sword at my heart, I advance in sword path."
Feng Jiu Ge was not the least bit nervous in facing the legendary killer move, instead he was speaking with confidence.
The Central Continent Gu Immortals behind him were influenced by this, and the fear in their minds gradually dissipated. This made them have even more admiration of Feng Jiu Ge's temperament.
"Hmph, you know quite a lot, it seems you have a premonition of your defeat and death." Qin Bai Sheng sneered.
Feng Jiu Ge shook his head and smiled brightly: "By fortunate coincidence, I have created a sound path killer move, inspired during a certain time period. During my cultivation journey, I've discovered heaven and earth, faced heaven and earth, and revered heaven and earth, I felt the vastness of nature, felt how minute and weak I was. I named this song 'heaven and earth song'! Heaven and earth is so vast, while humans are so insignificant. This song borrows the strength of heaven and earth, using an incomparable might to suppress all resistance!"
On one side was the vast might of heaven and earth, in accordance with the course of nature and with boundless force, while the other side was about defying heaven's will by oneself, with the will of sword path, pressing forward indomitably.
These two moves were complete opposites of each other.
In the end, would it be heaven and earth song or five finger fist heart sword that emerges victorious?
The tempo of the whole battlefield slowed down for a moment.
Everyone's gazes were on Feng Jiu Ge and Qin Bai Sheng.
Even Qin Bai Sheng showed a peculiar look, and while still having his eyes closed, he spoke: "Oh? Then this fight is going to be truly interesting. Take this, first finger!"
…
Light illuminated Heavenly Court.
Eternal and indestructible.
The giant image in the air, formed by the refinement path Gu formation, was no longer dazzling, its radiance was completely restrained.
"Good, the first stage is finished, all the materials have been processed. The second stage is to draw in heaven's will!" Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord said after he inspected it once.
"Draw in heaven's will…" Fairy Cang Shui mumbled.
Lian Jiu Sheng and Bi Chen Tian also bore serious expressions.
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord continued to explain: "Heaven's will is also known as the will of heaven and earth! Humans have will, heaven and earth also has will. Compared to heaven and earth, humans are tiny like ants, lowly like sand, they are basically not worthy of being mentioned. Heaven's will is the most important immortal material to restore fate Gu. Now, it will be an extremely long and arduous process of managing this refinement path Gu formation. Because we need to resist heaven's will, heaven's will is boundless, we cannot let it ruin our minds, otherwise we will suffer extremely severe injuries or even die! Heavenly Court has lost quite a few rank eight Gu Immortals in this process. More preparation may quicken the speed of work, now we will take turns to rest and recover."
"Alright!"
…
Central Continent, Hu Immortal blessed land.
A piece of lamb that was as large as cattle was laid out in front of Fang Yuan, dripping in blood.
Fang Yuan sat on the ground and tore a portion of the meat, and put it in his mouth.
His basin-sized mouth chewed continuously for a moment before swallowing it.
Trickles of blood flowed out from the gaps between his sharp teeth, and seeped out of his lips. Fang Yuan's face, however, showed a satisfied and happy expression.
This lamb was not ordinary meat, but was the meat of a giant horned sheep.
Fang Yuan had captured a live strength path desolate beast, giant horned sheep, previously in Northern Plains, right now he was using eat strength Immortal Gu to devour the meat and increase the strength path dao marks on his body.
"I am a strength path Gu Immortal after all, strength path dao marks are my foundation."
Fang Yuan kept eating while looking back mentally over the defensive battle of Lang Ya blessed land.
In this battle, Fang Yuan had first tested vaguely familiar face, deceiving almost everyone, the effect satisfied him.
Secondly, he used star path killer moves in actual battle.
Star cloud grindstone, star snake rope, six illusion star bodies and position star swap.
Actual battle was vastly different from normal practice. Fang Yuan was able to comprehend an additional layer of understanding regarding these four immortal killer moves through the battle.
Naturally, Star Lord Wan Xiang's star path inheritance did not have just these four killer moves.
However, Fang Yuan could only use these four currently.
Because he only had three star path Immortal Gu – Star Mark, Starlight and Star Shoot. These three Immortal Gu were used in turns as the cores of the four star path killer moves.
Star Lord Wan Xiang had four Immortal Gu but one was destroyed in battle. Thus, only three ended up in Fang Yuan's hands.
"I had thought of using the light of wisdom to deduce some strength path immortal killer moves to make up for my weak points. But these star path killer moves are quite good and can be of use for now, there is no need for me to waste my time and energy."
Through this battle of defense in Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan was able to gain an even more clear understanding of his own battle strength.
"When considering star path killer moves, my battle strength is already firmly at the peak of rank six. Just based on the offensive aspect, with myriad self, my battle strength can match rank seven. But I am still quite far away from being able to fight with veteran rank seven Gu Immortals, and can only try my best to pester and stall them. As for Qin Bai Sheng, I have no hope of matching him, he is a quasi rank eight, an expert like Feng Jiu Ge!"
This battle made Fang Yuan truly recognize the power of Qin Bai Sheng.
Due to this, in the entire battle, Fang Yuan generally did not use his full strength and was basically going with the flow. Only at the last juncture did he display myriad self giant hand.
Under such a situation, being high profile was seeking death.
From start to finish, Fang Yuan had placed some of his attention to controlling Fixed Immortal Travel constantly. Once something went wrong, he was ready to immediately retreat.
"Who is this Qin Bai Sheng? His true strength is actually so great! Hei Cheng, Jiang Yu, Hui Feng Zi, and the others, why are they together? Qin Bai Sheng seems to be their leader, and with Hei Cheng in their group, Hei Lou Lan's revenge is probably hopeless. Now that I think about it, the hidden details regarding Lang Ya blessed land run very deep, there is more than meets the eye."
In the memories of Fang Yuan's previous life, Lang Ya blessed land had resisted seven waves of attacks.
But now, just in this fourth wave, there were signs of not being able to resist.
What was the truth in history? Was it because of influence from Fang Yuan that Lang Ya blessed land's situation had changed?
A thick fog had appeared in front of Fang Yuan.
"Even if I was in perfect condition, when facing Qin Bai Sheng, especially that immortal killer move soul suppression, I simply wouldn't have any strength to strike back. Truly powerless."
Fang Yuan gazed down at his hand, his hand was stained with blood.
Compared to Qin Bai Sheng, Fang Yuan seemed like this giant horned sheep which could only allow itself to be slaughtered by another.
Heaven and earth was vast, nature was boundless. The more one knew, the more they would find out how ignorant they are. The stronger one became, the more they would find how weak they are.
The Legends of Ren Zu had an interesting account.
Boundless Forest Samsara was separated from her father, Ren Zu, and could only stay in ordinary abyss.
She was heartbroken, and did not feel happy eating the fruits anymore.
Every day, she would shed tears and weep incessantly, until she got tired and gradually fell asleep.
In a dream of hers, she vaguely heard some extremely soft voices, and felt something small, like an ant was climbing her body.
Immediately, she woke up and sat up, and saw a miniman was climbing on her body.
Because of Boundless Forest Samsara's movement, this miniman's foothold became unstable and it fell to the ground.
"Who are you? There is actually such a small person like you in the world?" Boundless Forest Samsara saw the miniman that was not even the size of her finger, and felt extremely curious, forgetting to cry for a moment.
The miniman looked at the giant Boundless Forest Samsara with a stupefied look, and after the shock, he raised his head and started crying loudly.
"Hey hey hey, little person, I am not crying, what are you crying for?" Boundless Forest Samsara was puzzled.
The miniman spoke while crying: "I am the tallest in my tribe, and I was brave, arrogant and proud because of this. Today, I intended to climb a mountain, but to think that this mountain was really a person. There are actually such giant people like you in the world, this is the first time I've seen someone like you, so I burst into tears!"
Almost every person who explored and grew up, would have such a mental journey.
The more they saw, the more they realized their weaknesses. Sometimes they would sigh at the vastness of the world, and sometimes they would find how far their goal was and to reach their goal, they had to go through an endless journey which they had not considered before. They would feel loss, bewilderment, discouragement, panic, even hopelessness.
Thus, one could understand the miniman crying when it saw Boundless Forest Samsara.
"Thinking back to my previous life, I also was once perplexed and had 'cried'. There are mountains beyond mountains, and experts beyond experts. There are always stronger existences than me, eternal life is too far away, how could my insignificant self achieve it?"
Fang Yuan gazed at his bloody palm and was lost in thought for a while.
After a long time, he suddenly smiled, revealing his sharp fangs.
"Still too weak. Whether it was my previous life or this life, I am like that miniman that wanted to climb the mountain."
"But… my insignificance won't be an excuse to stop chasing after the grandness."
"Only the cowardly and defeated will look for excuses."
"Even if tears are shed and snot flows out, I will continue to climb the mountain, this is the pleasure of life."
As he thought of this, Fang Yuan ripped apart another portion of bloody meat and bit it.
The sharp teeth ruthlessly chewed at the meat, trickles of fresh blood seeped out of his lips.
Chapter 887: Short Break
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Half a month later.
In Fang Yuan's dead immortal aperture, two wills were in a fierce struggle.
One will was like specks of starlight, flickering brightly. The other will was illusory, suddenly going in and retreating just as suddenly.
They were a star will and a fake will.
These two wills had already fought for seven minutes. The star will was slowly unable to keep up with the fake will, and was showing signs of losing.
However, with a shift of Fang Yuan's mind, a new portion of will descended from the sky and joined the battle like reinforcements, immediately changing the battle situation.
In the end, the fake will was defeated miserably with only a few fragments of it remaining.
"Fang, Fang Yuan, you… will die… a terrible death…" The fake will could not condense into any form, and used all its strength to curse in a stammering voice.
A curse from such a weak being was simply of no importance.
The star will won, it condensed into Fang Yuan's image and sneered while glancing at Mo Yao's fake will, before it flew to the sky and left the dead immortal aperture.
"I have already made large progress in battles of wills. Now, in a one versus one, although I cannot defeat Mo Yao and am defeated every time, Mo Yao's will also doesn't have an easy time, and recently all her victories are achieved with difficulty."
While Fang Yuan was evaluating himself inwardly, the star will entered his mind and the information received this time appeared in his mind.
Fang Yuan originally had no expectations, but the information this time gave him a slight surprise.
"Spring dream fruit tree?" Fang Yuan's mind jolted.
During her travels in the outside world, Mo Yao had once unexpectedly found a spring dream fruit tree near a nameless hamlet.
At that time, the conceptualization of dream path was very minimal and there were no external manifestation of dream realms, even Heavenly Court's exploration of dream realms was extremely shallow.
Mo Yao only felt the tree was somewhat strange, she did not recognize it, so she engraved it in her mind.
She left this spring dream fruit tree in its place and did not move it.
Spring dream fruit tree was not a desolate plant and looked ordinary, normal Gu Immortals would not be able to find anything wrong. It was only because Mo Yao's investigative killer move was rather unique that she discovered some strange points about the spring dream fruit tree.
But she was only slightly curious, it was not an immortal material after all. Later, because of other matters, she did not visit that hamlet again.
That spring dream fruit tree all along had been left there.
Time brings great changes, so many years had gone by, who knew what had happened to that tree.
Perhaps it was already cut down by mortals, maybe it was destroyed by fire or maybe it was still there.
The possibilities were too many, it was anyone's guess.
"This old hag, Mo Yao, is still hard to deal with! She suppressed this memory in the deepest layers, until she could no longer hide it and I found it. But according to this state, almost all the things she knew have been squeezed out by me."
Fang Yuan suppressed the thought to go and take the spring dream fruit tree.
In fact, he had also obtained another valuable clue earlier.
It was in regards to hibiscus stalactites, this was a genuine immortal material.
However, when he had secretly gone to that place, he discovered the main area was already secretly occupied by Spirit Affinity House.
Fang Yuan thought for a while before deciding not to go.
Therefore, Fang Yuan did not hold much hope in regards to the spring dream fruit tree. Moreover, to retrieve the spring dream fruits, he had to use special dream path methods and also make other preparations.
"If there truly are spring dream fruits, they will be of huge help to me in refining dream path mortal Gu. After all, the materials used in refining dream path Gu worms are truly scarce."
Ever since he got the immortal killer move unravel dream, no matter how busy he was, Fang Yuan would spend some time almost every day to refine dream path mortal Gu.
If he had spring dream fruits, it would be of great help in refining these dream path mortal Gu. Even with a conservative estimation, the efficiency of refining the Gu would multiply by at least times!
The extremely weak Mo Yao's will was left in the dead immortal aperture to slowly recover.
Fang Yuan opened his eyes and left his bed, moving to Dang Hun palace's prison.
Gu Yue Fang Zheng was held captive here, he was lying on a stone bed, his eyes vacantly gazing at the ceiling without moving.
Immortal Crane Sect had abandoned him, and this to him was an extremely heavy impact.
After the initial hysterical shouting and wailing, Fang Zheng had turned into this state.
Fang Yuan began to speak.
Even if his voice was filled with ridicule, or belittling and cursing Immortal Crane Sect as well as Lord Sky Crane, Fang Zheng did not respond.
Fang Yuan did not mind and continued to speak for a while before leaving.
Reeducating his little brother required time and could not be done in one step. Fang Yuan had already expected this and also did not lack patience.
Every set interval of time, he would take the initiative to visit Fang Zheng.
In Dang Hun palace, he could completely monitor Fang Zheng's every action from far away. The true intention behind Fang Yuan personally arriving was to let Fang Zheng know he had visited.
Fang Yuan left the area and entered another prison.
Up to this point, Fang Yuan's prisons had already held many prisoners.
Other than Mo Yao's fake will and Gu Yue Fang Zheng, there was Dong Fang Chang Fan's soul, the rank seven featherman Gu Immortal Zheng Ling's soul, and finally, Xue Song Zi's soul, which he had captured in the battle of Lang Ya blessed land.
Dong Fang Chang Fan's soul was already completely searched by Fang Yuan and the only value it had left was the soul itself.
Meanwhile, the souls of Zheng Ling and Xue Song Zi still had great value.
Over these last days after returning from Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan had been constantly soul searching these two.
The gains were considerable, large numbers of mortal Gu recipes, many mortal killer moves, some immortal killer moves, a few Immortal Gu recipes, as well as secret knowledge, many treasure-troves and clues to inheritances.
However, because Zheng Ling was a wind path Gu Immortal and Xue Song Zi was a snow path Gu Immortal, these were not suitable for Fang Yuan's strength path or star path.
Before Fang Yuan got hold of wind path Immortal Gu or snow path Immortal Gu, these things could only increase his accumulation and strengthen his foundation.
One thing worth noting was that Xue Song Zi's soul had been tampered with, and his most recent memories were erased. Thus, Fang Yuan did not know why Xue Song Zi and Hei Cheng were in cahoots with Qin Bai Sheng.
Such a soul path method was extremely profound, making Fang Yuan lost in wonder and unable to do anything.
Naturally, the souls of Zheng Ling and Xue Song Zi were still not completely searched, the future gains were still unknown variables.
As for Lang Ya land spirit's reward, it was indeed extremely bountiful.
Fang Yuan not only received the previously agreed upon rank six Immortal Gu recipe of all-out effort Gu, moreover under Fang Yuan's persistence, Lang Ya land spirit fully imparted the method to relocate a blessed land to Fang Yuan.
These were only two rewards, but they had extremely huge value to Fang Yuan.
There was no need to mention the value of all-out effort Gu's Immortal Gu recipe, speaking instead of the method of relocating a blessed land.
Whether it be Hu Immortal blessed land or Star Form blessed land, both needed to be moved urgently.
But the cost of this method was extraordinary and would inflict huge damage to the blessed land itself, and it required using twelve Immortal Gu at the same time. Lang Ya land spirit had already prepared to relocate Lang Ya blessed land.
After the relocation, he would lend these Immortal Gu to Fang Yuan for Fang Yuan to relocate his blessed lands.
Naturally, the price of borrowing these Gu was very high.
Chapter 888: Entering Eastern Sea
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Two months later.
At a certain place in Eastern Sea.
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng stood quietly on a cloud, waiting for Shark Demon and others.
The sun was setting now, causing a huge area of clouds with a burning red appearance to the west, even the sea underneath them was dyed red.
Waves after waves appeared in the sea, under such elegant turbulence, the last rays of light shone brightly onto these water droplets, they were bright and red. Together with the burning red looking clouds, a beautiful scene was formed.
"Every time I see such a beautiful sight, I will stop and immerse myself in this atmosphere, sighing at the marvels of nature." Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a deep gaze as he sighed: "Right now, I am someone who has succeeded in immortal ascension, but I can feel that this world is still so grand and majestic, it makes one feel like they are an insignificant insect, having a great sense of inferiority. Comparing mankind to heaven, we are really insignificant. Maybe only rank nine Gu Venerables would have the qualifications to contest with heaven and earth, I have no such hope."
Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Brother Tai Bai, don't think too lowly of yourself. Do you remember from The Legends of Ren Zu, that story of the miniman, when we recognize that we are tiny and insignificant, we have to try and get even stronger. We are tiny, but to stop being ignorant and become wise, you will feel pain, because that shows you are growing."
"Xing Xiang Zi, you still have such grand ambitions. Hahaha…" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was stunned for a moment before he laughed as well.
The two were still conversing, when a Gu Immortal emerged from the sea below them.
"Who is this?" Fang Yuan shouted.
"Lords, please calm down, my name is Sha Nan Jiang, I was sent by Lord Shark Demon to invite both of you over." The person smiled as he introduced himself.
Sha Nan Jiang's body rose up, in a few breaths of time, he arrived at Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng's location.
He was a rank six immortal zombie.
His body was strong and muscular, he had a bald head with a copper band on it, he had icy blue eyes and his skin was like old tree bark, his arms and legs were exposed on the outside, his fingers were webbed, his ears looked like fish fins, they were sharp and extended towards the back of his head.
Fang Yuan twiddled his fingers, suddenly asking: "Scenic blue travel immortal zombie body?"
Sha Nan Jiang's mild smile froze, he stared at Fang Yuan as he cupped his fists: "Sir must be the wisdom path Gu Immortal Xing Xiang Zi? Impressive, my scenic blue travel immortal zombie body was self-created, I have just come out of closed cultivation, I have not told anybody. Sir only made a small deduction and actually found out its name."
"Hehehe." Fang Yuan chuckled: "I am not a wisdom path Gu Immortal, I mainly cultivate star path, I only secondarily cultivate wisdom path. Earlier, I was just guessing randomly, I was lucky to have been correct."
Fang Yuan was very humble.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng watched at the side, laughing to himself inwardly.
This was the first time Tai Bai Yun Sheng met this Sha Nan Jiang. Thus, the scene earlier occurred.
Sha Nan Jiang used an immortal killer move to sneak over here, when he reached the sea beneath Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, his traces were exposed by Fang Yuan.
This was the probing of Sha Nan Jiang.
But soon, Fang Yuan retaliated and deduced the name of Sha Nan Jiang's immortal zombie body.
When Gu Immortals interact, their strength was the most important thing. After some mutual probing, they could win each other's respect.
Sha Nan Jiang no longer dared to be careless, he showed a serious expression.
He nodded to Fang Yuan, having a respectful expression, before turning his gaze to Tai Bai Yun Sheng: "Please follow me, Lord Shark Demon and the others are already attacking Yu Lu blessed land."
A moment later, the three of them dived into the seawater and saw a door at the bottom of the sea.
This door was circular and had a light color, it looked like porcelain or jade. Chains of water crystal pearls lined the top of the door as they hung, forming a veil and blocking the entrance.
Fang Yuan's eyes showed a look of curiosity.
He would definitely not think that this door that had suddenly appeared was made of jade.
This was the entrance of Yu Lu blessed land, it only showed its outer appearance, but its true purpose was to act as the connection between Yu Lu blessed land and the outside world.
The entrance was extremely significant to small worlds like blessed lands and grotto-heavens.
Once the entrance was closed, the immortal aperture world would become an enclosed small world, isolated from the outside world. If Gu Immortals from outside the immortal aperture wanted to enter, it would be extremely difficult.
One could say, the entrance was the first difficulty to tackle when invading a blessed land.
Back then, Immortal Crane Sect's He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu worked together to attack Fang Yuan's Hu Immortal blessed land. In order to solve the problem of the entrance, they used Fang Zheng and a blood path method to locate it. Only after locating the blessed land did they enter Hu Immortal blessed land.
Qin Bai Sheng and the others invaded Lang Ya blessed land, they also made use of the souls of the hairy man Gu Immortal undercover agents to locate it and enter Lang Ya blessed land.
Thus, even if Fang Yuan did not capture Fang Zheng to use Blood Deity, he would still need to be concerned about the safety of Hu Immortal blessed land and deal with Fang Zheng. In that case, there would be no way of tracking him. Even if they knew the location of Hu Immortal blessed land precisely, even if they could break the space between the two worlds, they could not connect to the inside of the blessed land.
As the three arrived in front of the light jade door, Sha Nan Jiang activated his Gu worms as the crystal veil of the entrance lifted, and the door opened.
"Sirs, please enter." Sha Nan Jiang invited.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng saw this and smiled: "Your alliance has formidable methods, you can already control the entrance."
Sha Nan Jiang smiled lightly: "Sir Tai Bai might not know, ever since the failure two months ago, Lord Shark Demon returned to the Zombie Alliance headquarters and spend a huge sum of contribution points to request for the help of a rank seven wisdom path immortal zombie. Right now, we have already gotten through the round of vanishing immortal essence dissipation rain, and entered deeper within. This entrance was also completely under our alliance's control since a month ago."
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded, they stepped into Yu Lu blessed land.
After entering the blessed land, they did not see Yu Lu blessed land's true appearance, instead they were inside a frozen world that was completely white.
"This is the third round after vanishing immortal essence dissipation rain, it is a battlefield killer move called freezing rain frozen earth. Every hour, there would be intense freezing rain, as well as attacks from snow monsters. Lord Shark Demon and the rest are just up ahead." Sha Nan Jiang introduced.
"Freezing rain frozen earth…" Fang Yuan muttered lightly, he gazed around, showcasing huge interest regarding this battlefield killer move.
He had already eliminated his earlier weakness after gaining several star path techniques.
Be it attack, defense, movement, investigation, or healing, he had no apparent gaps.
Even in terms of investigation, Fang Yuan had an immortal killer move. Not long ago, Sha Nan Jiang was exposed by Fang Yuan, that was because of a star path investigative immortal killer move.
His current battle strength was firmly at the peak of rank six. If he used myriad self, he would reach rank seven battle strength.
What Fang Yuan lacked now was a battlefield killer move.
If he had a battlefield killer move, he could kill a Northern Plains Zombie Alliance immortal zombie secretly, taking over their identity and infiltrating the place.
For this goal, Fang Yuan sought Fairy Li Shan for help, but she rejected him.
Fang Yuan racked his brains over it, he was an astute person, he found another method to take a step back and make an alternative goal, he decided to get into Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance's headquarters.
Thus, he used the appearance and identity of an ordinary star path Gu Immortal, Xing Xiang Zi, and came to Eastern Sea with Tai Bai Yun Sheng, intentionally getting close to Shark Demon and the others.
"Brother Tai Bai, we meet again. Hahaha!" A moment later, when everyone met, Shark Demon was extremely enthusiastic.
He patted Tai Bai Yun Sheng's shoulder and directed his gaze towards Fang Yuan: "Sir must be brother Tai Bai's best friend, Xing Xiang Zi? Since you are brother Tai Bai's friend, you are also my friend."
"I am but a wandering lone cultivator, I would not dare to." Fang Yuan smiled humbly.
He wore a large blue robe, his hair was white like snow, but his skin was tender like a baby's skin, he had a poised and sagely appearance. In fact, he looked more appealing than Tai Bai Yun Sheng, one could not help but feel some fondness upon seeing him.
Shark Demon's wife, Su Bai Man, asked: "Don't be so humble, Xing Xiang Zi, I heard that sir has quite an impressive wisdom path attainment level, can we have a demonstration?"
Fang Yuan looked towards her.
Su Bai Man was an immortal zombie, but he could see her former beauty and elegance.
As the saying goes, a beautiful woman leads to a hero's grave. It was no wonder that Shark Demon turned himself into a zombie, sacrificing his immense cultivation prospects to accompany Su Bai Man.
Immediately, Fang Yuan replied to her without hesitation: "Then I will give it a try, please do forgive me if I mess up."
"Just go for it, Sir Xing Xiang Zi. Even if you fail, nobody will blame you." Shark Demon replied.
He had a ruthless and fierce nature, he usually looked at people coldly, but this was the first time he was meeting Fang Yuan, yet he was so warm and enthusiastic. Evidently, he was giving Tai Bai Yun Sheng face.
Or rather, he was giving face towards the man as before Immortal Gu that Tai Bai Yun Sheng had.
Fang Yuan raised his head and observed the surroundings.
This world before him was a land of snow and ice. It was completely white, it indeed was a battlefield killer move, they were often known as quasi-blessed lands.
Fang Yuan activated many wisdom path Gu worms within his immortal aperture, he used several wisdom path investigative killer moves in front of everyone.
But he saw no flaws, the entire battlefield was completely unchanged and intact, he could not finding a point of weakness.
But Fang Yuan was not anxious, even though he had studied very hard over the last two months, becoming proficient with many wisdom path techniques, the battlefield killer move in front of him was not simple, it was created by Fairy Yu Lu.
Fairy Yu Lu was a remarkable person.
She had an impressive origin, being a disciple of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. He was the one who left behind the number one battlefield killer move inheritance in the entire history of humanity!
Fairy Yu Lu's battlefield killer move was certain to be extraordinary.
"Impressive! This battlefield killer move is completely fused with Yu Lu blessed land, it seems that it was created using the dao marks in the blessed land. Such methods are much more advanced than Lang Ya blessed land."
Fang Yuan observed for a long time, he gradually found some interesting points.
Lang Ya land spirit did not dare to setup a battlefield killer move in his blessed land to deal with Qin Bai Sheng, he only used the twelve wave cloud confusion Gu formation to deal with them. Lang Ya land spirit was afraid that the temporary dao marks created in setting up a battlefield killer move would harm the blessed land greatly.
In fact, in the current cultivation world, most Gu Immortals would not dare to use a battlefield killer move in their blessed lands or grotto-heavens.
Once the temporary dao marks made by the battlefield killer move clashed with the dao marks in the immortal aperture small world, the battlefield killer move would fail, and the Gu Immortal would face a backlash. In the worst case scenario, the dao marks will conflict with each other, unleashing terrifying strength that could destroy the blessed land and kill the Gu Immortal on the spot.
This had the same principle with the backlash of refining Gu.
But Fairy Yu Lu was indeed a great expert in battlefield killer moves, she directly countered this weakness by using incredible techniques that were out of Fang Yuan's imagination. She even greatly surpassed a fossil like Lang Ya land spirit in this regard.
Fang Yuan was secretly in admiration and anticipation: "It would be great if I can obtain Fairy Yu Lu's inheritance. Even if I get only one battlefield killer move that suits me, it would be a wonderful thing!"
Chapter 889: Freezing Rain Frozen Earth
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Within the battlefield killer move freezing rain frozen earth, Fang Yuan used wisdom path techniques one after another, making continuous deductions.
Freezing rain frozen earth was made using the dao marks inside Yu Lu blessed land, they were not temporary dao marks, this made it very troublesome to deal with.
Shark Demon and the others could not break this battlefield killer move forcefully. If they destroyed it, they would be destroying the dao marks inside Yu Lu blessed land, this would cause irreparable damage to Yu Lu blessed land.
This was the same as saying: Qin Bai Sheng snatched away a portion of the Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, this cased Lang Ya blessed land to lose a large number of dao marks, it was a devastating loss.
Shark Demon and the others attacked Yu Lu blessed land for the inheritance and resources inside. Furthermore, violently destroying a battlefield killer move required a powerful offensive immortal killer move, that in turn meant that they would expend a huge amount of immortal essence.
Thinking about the costs and benefits, Shark Demon and the others could only try to properly unravel the battlefield killer move freezing rain frozen earth.
Thankfully, this Yu Lu blessed land was ownerless, and it was unknown if there was a land spirit. Fang Yuan had many Gu Immortal guards around him, they gave him a lot of freedom to research and decipher the environment.
Fang Yuan squinted his eyes as starlight shot out of his pupils.
At this moment, in his mind, countless star thoughts were moving about, clashing into each other as he deduced rapidly.
Fang Yuan was putting in all his effort now in deducing freezing rain frozen earth!
Firstly, deducing such a high quality battlefield killer move could give Fang Yuan a lot of new knowledge and inspiration.
Even if Fang Yuan could not obtain a battlefield killer move that suited him, with this knowledge and inspiration, he had a firm foundation to create his own battlefield killer move.
Secondly, the plan for Fang Yuan after entering Eastern Sea was to enter the headquarters of Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance.
This was the first time he was meeting Shark Demon, he had to display his worth so that Shark Demon would think highly of him, helping to recommend him into Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance's headquarters.
As he deduced at a rapid rate, time passed quickly as well.
"Time is almost up, the freezing rain is going to start soon, the snow monsters will form and attack us. How much longer does Sir Xing Xiang Zi need?" A Gu Immortal that came along with Shark Demon asked impatiently.
His name was Bo Dan, a Gu Immortal member of Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance.
He was not an immortal zombie, but a living person. But he was in difficult straits, and did not have a high status after joining Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance.
Because he had some wisdom path attainment, he was brought into Yu Lu blessed land by Shark Demon, to join in this invasion.
Before Fang Yuan appeared, Bo Dan was the only pseudo-wisdom path Gu Immortal in the group.
The appearance of Xing Xiang Zi threatened his status and benefits.
If Fang Yuan made a successful deduction, would that not show that Bo Dan was useless?
Seeing that Fang Yuan was not making progress, Bo Dan could not hold it in anymore, he vaguely exerted pressure on Fang Yuan.
The other Gu Immortals were also paying attention to Fang Yuan's performance.
Bo Dan asked the question they had internally.
Fang Yuan laughed lightly, he did not try to protect his face, he said directly: "I am ashamed! This battlefield killer move is very profound, after deducing it for so long, I have only made some minor progress."
This battlefield killer move, freezing rain frozen earth, was indeed worthy of the work of the rank eight great expert, Fairy Yu Lu.
Fang Yuan used many wisdom path techniques in turn, but he made no progress! It was like he was facing a giant barrier, he did not even know where to start.
"Is that so." Su Bai Man sighed, feeling disappointed.
Fang Yuan was unwilling to give up this chance: "Give me a bit more time, I will continue to deduce."
Shark Demon nodded, he said: "Xing Xiang Zi, go ahead and make your deductions, we will block this attack for you."
At the same time, Shark Demon was considering other thoughts internally: "Xing Xiang Zi was highly recommended by Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but now it seems that he is not as amazing as he was said to be. Sigh, last time the battlefield killer move already made me pay a huge price in asking a wisdom path immortal zombie in Zombie Alliance to help. I have already invested a huge sum into Yu Lu blessed land, I need to be thrifty. If this Xing Xiang Zi can really unravel this battlefield killer move, that would be the best outcome."
But now, the other Gu Immortals looked at Fang Yuan with much less expectations.
Bo Dan watched at the side, he laughed to himself internally: "In the previous battlefield killer moves, I could at least find the Gu worms lurking behind it. But this time, I could not even find any clues. I'm curious, how will you find a breakthrough?"
As expected, a moment later, in the sky above this battlefield, a small drizzle of freezing rain started.
These raindrops were like tiny ice needles.
Rather than raining, this was more like the falling of ice needles, piercing the air and shooting towards Fang Yuan and the others.
The Gu Immortals used their defensive techniques.
Bo Dan did not have an Immortal Gu, he was protected by Shark Demon's defensive immortal killer move.
Fang Yuan was also shielded by Shark Demon.
Countless ice needles shot down, but they were blocked by the light barrier, because the needles were moving extremely quickly, they caused sparks to appear on the light barrier.
Fang Yuan willed, using star cloud grindstone and entering it.
He was not going to place his safety in the hands of others.
Seeing Fang Yuan's defensive immortal killer move, the other Gu Immortals' gazes shined, their attitudes changed slightly.
Fang Yuan could use an immortal killer move, he definitely had an Immortal Gu.
A Gu Immortal with Immortal Gu was not to be underestimated in Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world.
Not all Gu Immortals had Immortal Gu. In fact, most rank six Gu Immortals could only use mortal killer moves, they were unable to obtain an Immortal Gu even after much difficulty.
The intensity of the rain increased, as the ice needles slowly turned into stronger ice darts.
The ice darts tore through space, creating shrill and loud sounds.
The Gu Immortals defended together, they placed all their efforts on defense, they were also inwardly counting the expenditure of their immortal essence.
"Eh? This battlefield changed a little after using a new attack, a tiny flaw has appeared and I can make use of it. It is no longer like before when I had no clue at all." Fang Yuan's heart shook, he felt a sense of joy.
He moved quickly, three times as fast as earlier.
At the same time as using mortal killer moves, he also used wisdom path mortal Gu.
These killer moves and mortal Gu hit the air, causing smoke to rise, thunderous explosions, or jade green acid to splatter.
Fang Yuan used all sorts of methods to test this flaw.
But the effect was quite lackluster.
The ice dart rain had turned into an icicle storm.
The Gu Immortals' immortal essence expenditure rose at a rapid speed.
Roar!
With a loud sound, a huge snow monster charged over from the icy rain that filled everyone's vision.
Snow monsters were the prey of snowmen, by eating the flesh and blood of snow monsters, snowmen could breed more rapidly and even gain lifespan.
A thirty feet tall snow monster could battle a rank three Gu Master. Forty feet tall had the strength of a rank four Gu Master. And fifty feet tall had the terrifying power of a rank five Gu Master.
But the snow monster right now was about sixty feet tall.
This was a desolate beast level snow monster, it was not to be underestimated.
"Try not to kill them, even if these snow monsters die in battle, they will revive, they are very persistent." Su Bai Man quickly reminded.
Fang Yuan's heart shook.
"Endlessly reviving snow monsters? How can we fight them like this?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng also had a change in expression.
"Don't worry, once the time is up, these snow monsters will vanish on their own. They will only reappear during the next time the freezing rain appears." Shark Demon explained.
A Gu Immortal to the left of Shark Demon sighed in a worried tone: "This freezing rain frozen earth battlefield killer move already had a hint of resemblance to Reincarnation Battlefield. Fairy Yu Lu was a disciple of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, she might have obtained some insight regarding reincarnation and rebirth."
Grrr!
One after another, snow monsters appeared, they made it very hard for Shark Demon and the others to defend themselves.
The attacks of the snow monsters were very powerful, and they did not lack mobility.
The Gu Immortals did not want to face them directly, they attacked unceasingly, using immortal killer moves to disrupt the charging snow monsters, slowing their speeds and preventing them from getting close.
Fang Yuan's joy intensified.
When the snow monsters appeared, he found out that this battlefield killer move had even more flaws.
"There's hope!" Fang Yuan cheered on himself.
He had only received the wisdom path inheritance for a short amount of time, his wisdom path attainment level was at ordinary level, even though he worked hard without relaxing or slacking off, attainment levels needed accumulation over time.
Calling Fang Yuan a half-baked user was a huge compliment already. He was more like a wisdom path newbie.
But now, this wisdom path newbie was trying to unravel the killer move, freezing rain frozen earth. Using an analogy from Earth, this was like asking an elementary school student to do a senior high school mathematics problem.
Fang Yuan grabbed onto this flaw he found, his hands were moving faster and faster.
Eventually, under his deductions, he found a Gu worm.
This was a mortal Gu, it was coordinated with countless mortal Gu and Immortal Gu to form the battlefield killer move freezing rain frozen earth.
"Go!" Fang Yuan willed and a star snake rope flew out, coiling around this mortal Gu rapidly.
But when Fang Yuan was about to drag this mortal Gu back for research, this mortal Gu self-detonated.
The star snake rope missed its target, it could only return to Fang Yuan's side.
Such movements attracted the attentions of the other Gu Immortals.
Because this mortal Gu was destroyed, the freezing rain became significantly weaker.
"He actually found a flaw?" Bo Dan was shocked, he had once tried to look for flaws during the period of attacking, but he had no gains.
Bo Dan's wisdom path inheritance was too incomplete, it was of low quality and had limited methods.
In contrast, Fang Yuan's inheritance was extremely impressive, it had extraordinary origins. It led to the creation of many powerful wisdom path Gu Immortals, and its last owner was the number one wisdom path Gu Immortal in Northern Plains, Dong Fang Chang Fan.
Even with Fang Yuan's ability, he could find a flaw in the freezing rain frozen earth, this showed how impressive this inheritance truly was.
"Good!" Shark Demon praised.
But just as he said that, the storm above them became three times as fierce!
Swish swish swish!
Rain poured down like a storm, the icicles were sharp and emitted immense pressure on the Gu Immortals who were defending against the attack.
"Xing Xiang Zi, what in the world did you do?" Bo Dan grabbed onto this great opportunity and chided.
Fang Yuan's heart also jumped, he knew that he was too rash. Even if he found a Gu worm that formed the battlefield killer move, he should not have destroyed it at will, otherwise, it would lead to an even stronger resistance and attack.
But soon, Fang Yuan felt joyful again.
After this mortal Gu was destroyed, the battlefield killer move freezing rain frozen earth had two more flaws.
This way, there was more hope in unraveling the battlefield killer move!
Chapter 890: Framing
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Soon, using the star thoughts in his mind to make deductions, Fang Yuan found the location of a few more Gu worms.
Their locations could not be found with investigative methods, of course.
"One, two, three, four, a total of four spots. There are Gu worms hiding there, but they are all mortal Gu. They are really hiding well, even with my star path investigative immortal killer move, I could not find them."
With his earlier experience, Fang Yuan did not try and destroy these mortal Gu again.
He remained unmoved, continuing to observe and deduce.
"So close!" Soon, he sighed internally, finding a point of danger.
The mortal Gu that was hiding at that place formed a crucial spot in the battlefield killer move.
In his initial estimations, Fang Yuan found out that by killing this Gu, he would reduce the power of the freezing rain and snow monsters by fifty to sixty percent.
But after further deductions, Fang Yuan obtained new findings: If he really eliminated the Gu, that would result in problems. Even though the current attack would be weaker, the next attack would happen more quickly, and its power will be three times as great!
The current attacks were already very difficult for Shark Demon and the others to defend against.
The freezing rain continued, it expended quite a lot of immortal essence, the immortal zombies were feeling a big headache.
The sixty feet tall snow monsters came one after another, the Gu Immortals did not dare to be careless.
"If the attack becomes thrice as strong, ancient desolate beast level snow monsters might show up!" Fang Yuan was internally shocked, the risk of unraveling this battlefield killer move was too high, if he lost his concentration even once, he would suffer severe consequences.
And this was only against mortal Gu, the mortal Gu that made up the outer layer. If he was dealing with Gu worms inside the inner layer, if Fang Yuan's methods were incorrect, he would face an even fiercer backlash!
Fang Yuan got past the flaws and continued probing the other areas.
Time passed quickly, but Fang Yuan made no progress.
"This is the fourth wave already. Sigh… how much longer do we have to endure?" An immortal zombie sighed, since joining this invasion, the amount of immortal essence that he had already spent was causing him to feel loss.
"In this current situation, no matter how much immortal essence we use, what would be the point if we don't see any results?" Bo Dan provoked.
Shark Demon and the others were feeling frustrated, their attentions were directed towards Fang Yuan.
This was the first time they had met Xing Xiang Zi, they did not know what ability Fang Yuan had in wisdom path. Bo Dan was already useless, now the heavy burden of dismantling the battlefield killer move fell onto this stranger's hands, could they rely on him or not?
"Lord Xing Xiang Zi, since the start, you have been using mortal techniques to probe it. Look at this, even though the circumstances are not critical yet, it is already a tough situation. Why don't you use immortal level wisdom path techniques? Don't worry, according to the rules, the amount of immortal essence that you consume will be compensated to you later, you do not need to worry about the expenditure." Bo Dan said again.
Fang Yuan frowned.
This Bo Dan had ill intentions, he had tried to sow discord time and time again.
Fang Yuan was well aware of the troubles of being an immortal zombie, immortal essence was hard to obtain, he treasured his supply greatly.
But now, there were huge losses but little progress, even if Shark Demon stayed silent and Su Bai Man remained impassive, he could guess the other immortal zombies' frustrations.
Fang Yuan could understand why Bo Dan was targeting him. But understanding was one thing, his provocative acts were akin to stabbing a dagger into Fang Yuan's back.
Immediately, Fang Yuan gave Bo Dan a deep look as he manipulated moving perspective cup Gu, transmitting to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng cooperated with him, speaking: "Bo Dan, why are you so anxious? Lord Shark Demon has already said it, we will endure this wave of attacks and fight for time for Xing Xiang Zi. Now that were are only halfway through this wave, you want to run away already? Or do you think that you have made immense contributions already?"
Bo Dan's expression changed, he said in a tone of one who was wronged: "Why would I dare to, Lord Tai Bai Yun Sheng, you have misunderstood me!"
He knew deeply that Tai Bai Yun Sheng was Shark Demon's 'hot favorite', everyone knew of the warm attitude that Shark Demon had towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Furthermore, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had an extraordinarily precious Immortal Gu, it was an impressive healing method, he could not be offended.
"Alright, stop arguing." Shark Demon tried to control the situation as he looked at Fang Yuan: "We have already gone through the first three waves, we can afford to keep going through this fourth wave."
Fang Yuan felt Shark Demon's gaze as his heart sank.
It seems that Shark Demon and the others were not confident in him at all.
How could he allow that to happen?
Fang Yuan knew the importance of a first impression, he wanted to join Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance with Shark Demon's recommendation. If he failed the first time he tried, Shark Demon's poor impression of him would make things hard in the future. Even if he showed his worth later, the effect would be far worse than now. In contrast, if he succeeded now, even if he failed in the future, in Shark Demon's perspective, it would be reasonable, after all, who would not fail sometimes?
"Based on Shark Demon's tone, it seems that he will not stay for the fifth wave. After all, the issue of cost is important in attacking a blessed land. Forget it!"
Fang Yuan evaluated inwardly, he made up his mind.
He struck suddenly, attacking the Gu worm from earlier.
With a light sound, a Gu worm broke.
"Another Gu worm! Haha." Tai Bai Yun Sheng cooperated as he laughed loudly.
Shark Demon and the others' expressions turned to joy, their morale rose slightly.
Bo Dan kept quiet.
Following Fang Yuan's instructions, Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not let go of him: "How about that, Bo Dan? Regardless of whether a technique is mortal level or immortal level, the only importance is that it works."
Bo Dan nodded, showing a smile: "Lord Tai Bai Yun Sheng is right, I was too rash earlier."
He understood the reasoning of backing down, he did not retort, he had given in.
Evidently, it was very hard to deal with people like him who could hold in a grudge.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng continued: "The rest of you may not know, but I have known brother Xing Xiang Zi for a long time, I know how impressive his wisdom path techniques are."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's actions were like a friend trying to speak up for his good friend.
At this time, Fang Yuan pretended to have made huge advancements, he continued: "Hehehe, I finally took down one important area. With this discovery, I have a greater confidence in unraveling this battlefield killer move now!"
"Is that so?" Su Bai Man's eyes shone, she believed a portion of his words.
But soon, the truth spoke for itself.
A immortal zombie shouted: "Quickly look, the freezing rain has weakened, many desolate beast snow monsters are disintegrating on their own!"
The immortals were overjoyed, their gaze towards Fang Yuan changed a lot.
They had only taken Tai Bai Yun Sheng's words with a grain of salt, but after seeing and sensing it for themselves, the immortals' attitudes changed drastically.
"Maybe this Xing Xiang Zi can really unravel the battlefield killer move?"
"Earlier, Bo Dan could do nothing, but once he came, he destroyed two Gu and reduced the power of the battlefield killer move by half."
"It seems that his wisdom path attainment is much higher than Bo Dan. I have to admit, this Northern Plains barbarian has quite the skill."
Everyone's hearts became filled with hope.
Bo Dan smiled on his face, but he was feeling very dark and gloomy inside.
The better Fang Yuan performed, the more it pointed out his inability.
Bo Dan was very discontent, he used his wisdom path techniques and observed the battlefield.
Once he observed it, his heart shook, he felt endless joy.
It turned out that after Fang Yuan destroyed two mortal Gu, and after such a long time, with Bo Dan's skill, he could find two flaws as well.
He deduced in secret, this was his intelligence, he did not want to do anything until he had concrete results, he was biding his time for a counterattack.
Fang Yuan retracted his gaze that was observing Bo Dan, he looked at the battlefield killer move again.
After destroying that mortal Gu, it was as if a veil was lifted, six to seven flaws were exposed in the freezing rain frozen earth battlefield killer move.
But Fang Yuan was not happy at all, he felt very gloomy.
The price of obtain these six to seven flaws was simply too high.
For the time being, Shark Demon and the others were still kept in the dark, but when the next wave of attack comes, they would feel the pain.
Fang Yuan continued to deduce, he had used over ten thousand star thoughts already.
The offense of the battlefield became weaker, Shark Demon and the others let out a breath of turbid air, the pressure of defending was very great, now that they were almost through with the fourth wave of attacks, they felt much less pressure, but they did not relax their alertness.
Fang Yuan had good progress, but he did not act.
He did not even use his probing methods from earlier. He sat in the air as he closed his eyes, showing others the impression that he was deducing with all his effort.
In fact, he was thinking: "This battlefield killer move is used to defend the blessed land, there are benefits and demerits. The biggest drawback is that the battlefield killer move forms a temporary world, it is a pseudo-blessed land. In here, all mortal Gu and mortal killer moves can be used, they are not restricted like in a blessed land. But in total, the benefits outweigh the demerits. These battlefield killer moves can slow down the speed of invaders, up until now, Shark Demon and the others still have yet to even see Yu Lu blessed land's true appearance. Even if they could use mortal killer moves, the invading Gu Immortals still have to expend a lot of immortal essence. Because once this battlefield killer move is activated, its power forces the Gu Immortals to defend themselves, or advance and attack using immortal methods."
"If I can obtain some battlefield killer moves in Yu Lu blessed land and use my own blessed land's dao marks to set up layers and layers of battlefield killer moves, that would be most favorable. When I relocate Star Form blessed land, I can use this method to form layers of defense. Hu Immortal blessed land can also make use of this, in case one day, Hu Immortal blessed land gets attacked, these defensive battlefield killer moves can help me stall for time as I relocate the resources within."
Because they were afraid of interrupting Fang Yuan's deductions, Shark Demon and the others remained silent.
Because of Fang Yuan's earlier performance, they gained some patience now.
What they did not know was, Fang Yuan was actually thinking about other things instead of deducing.
In this place, the most anxious person was not Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was worried about Fang Yuan, or even Shark Demon, it was Bo Dan.
Bo Dan was anxious.
He was not resigned to being suppressed by Xing Xiang Zi, earlier, because there were no flaws, so be it, he was helpless. Now that he found some flaws, there was hope, he tried his best to undergo deductions.
Time continued to pass, but Fang Yuan did not do anything, Bo Dan instead found an area with hidden mortal Gu. If he got rid of this mortal Gu, there would be little harm, and there would be progress in breaking the battlefield killer move.
Bo Dan had some ability after all, if not for that, Shark Demon would not have brought him to attack Yu Lu blessed land.
Having this discovery, Bo Dan was overjoyed, he thought to himself: "Bo Dan, you are really amazing!"
He was quite steady, he did not strike yet, instead he was observing Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was still shutting his eyes, he did not make a move.
Bo Dan waited as he lost his patience, his eyes were darting around.
He had wanted to wait for Fang Yuan to be helpless before he struck, giving a hard slap to Fang Yuan's face. But soon, he thought: What if Xing Xiang Zi also finds this flaw, what would I do?
Thus, he decided to act.
"Lord Shark Demon, I have made progress! Look!" Bo Dan suddenly spoke, he said this as he moved his hands, destroying the mortal Gu that was hidden.
Shark Demon nodded at him, Bo Dan was a member of Zombie Alliance after all, compared to an outsider like Xing Xiang Zi, Shark Demon was more willing to see Bo Dan's improvement.
Su Bai Man smiled lightly: "With both of their help, it won't be long before we break the battlefield killer move."
But at this time, Fang Yuan opened his eyes, his expression turned very ugly: "Oh no!"
"What is it?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng asked cooperatively.
Fang Yuan said: "This mortal Gu cannot be destroyed, it is like a trap, after destroying it, the battlefield's offensive power will rise!"
Fang Yuan thumped his chest and stomped his feet, he showed a look of anger and regret, as if he was very upset at the moment.
Chapter 891: Distorting The Truth
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"What?" All the immortal zombies heard Fang Yuan's words and were shocked.
"You, you, you, bullshit!" Bo Dan felt a strong sense of humiliation as he burst into anger.
Shark Demon squinted, he looked at Bo Dan and Fang Yuan, his expression turned dark: "What is going on?"
Bo Dan was gritting his teeth from anger, he said: "Lord Shark Demon, I am willing to use my years of reputation as a guarantee, there are no issues with my action just now."
"This Xing Xiang Zi might look like a gentleman!" Bo Dan pointed at Fang Yuan: "But he is a small-minded scoundrel that is jealous of other people's capabilities. He must have seen my superior performance and decided to slander me. Lord Shark Demon and everyone else, please see the truth."
"I am most clear about brother Xing Xiang's abilities! In my opinion, you are the scoundrel!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was extremely angry, he retorted immediately.
"All of you, shut up!" Seeing that the situation was going out of control, Shark Demon shouted, he turned to Fang Yuan: "Xing Xiang Zi, what do you have to say?"
Fang Yuan smiled bitterly: "I have nothing to say."
Seeing this attitude, Su Bai Man's eyebrows raised.
But Fang Yuan continued: "I have a question however, for Sir Bo Dan."
Fang Yuan was not angry, he had a gentlemanly demeanor, when compared to Bo Dan's hysteric and frenzied state, there was a clear contrast.
Bo Dan saw Fang Yuan's demeanor and felt even more jealousy and hatred, he snorted: "What question do you have?"
Fang Yuan smiled lightly, he stared at Bo Dan as he tried to incite him: "If I ask you, would you dare to answer the truth?"
Bo Dan gritted his teeth, he knew that this was Fang Yuan's trap, but he could no longer back down now, he forced the words out of his throat: "Go ahead and ask!"
Fang Yuan sighed, he showed a look of 'I do not want to have conflict with people, yet people come and find trouble with me', he said: "I will ask you, how many hidden Gu worms are there now in this freezing rain frozen earth battlefield killer move?"
Shark Demon and the others looked tightly at Bo Dan.
Bo Dan's heart jumped, he opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but he only managed to stretch out his tongue and lick his lips.
Fang Yuan's question was like a dagger stabbing directly into Bo Dan's heart!
Bo Dan had only found one spot where there were hidden Gu worms, after deducing, he found that there were no issues and acted to destroy the Gu worm.
Now that this Gu worm was removed, there would definitely be new flaws that were not there before forming.
But if Bo Dan wanted to deduce the location of more hidden Gu worms, he would need time.
Bo Dan had thought of lying, but at the next moment, he denied this stupid idea.
Because this was very easy to verify.
If he said that an area had hidden Gu worms, he could be told to simply attack it to show everyone.
Actions speak louder than words.
Bo Dan was speechless, he clenched his fists subconsciously.
But soon, he understood that he could not lie, he loudly responded: "If you want to seek help from me, I will satisfy you. Give me some time, I will advise you after I finish deducing."
Gu Immortals all had their own shrewdness, after hearing these words, they remained emotionless in appearance, but they were shaking their heads internally.
Bo Dan's pathetic state was imprinted in everyone's minds.
These Gu Immortals were not idiots of course, they understood that Bo Dan spoke without enough confidence. Xing Xiang Zi had exposed Bo Dan simply through a question.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at Bo Dan with some pity, he sighed internally: "With just your ability, you want to compete with Fang Yuan?
Fang Yuan knew that Bo Dan would reply like this, he laughed heartily: "Sir Bo Dan must have deduced only one flaw. But this hidden Gu worm is only a trap. If you continue your deduction and have more patience, you will find more flaws and hidden Gu worms. That way, you might begin to understand how rash your actions were."
"Oh?" Bo Dan's lips twitched, he had thought of a reply, he tried to trouble Fang Yuan: "Then tell everyone how inappropriate my actions were? How did I cause more trouble? What kind of trap was this flaw? Haha, you should answer properly, Lady Su Bai Man has a lie detection method."
This flaw was naturally not a trap.
Fang Yuan could not answer him.
But Fang Yuan had prepared his response as well, he laughed: "My wisdom path inheritance is unique, how can I leak it here? Bo Dan, you made a good scheme, you want to stealthily learn my wisdom path techniques?"
"Utter bullshit!" Bo Dan flew into rage.
Bo Dan spoke rudely, but Fang Yuan was not unhappy, he looked at Shark Demon.
Shark Demon was frowning deeply, he was an observer, watching Fang Yuan and Bo Dan argue their way out.
Fang Yuan understood that Shark Demon was still biased towards Bo Dan from this one glance.
This was nothing strange.
Shark Demon and Bo Dan were members of Zombie Alliance. They had worked together many times and had spent much time together.
As the saying goes, an acquaintance may not sow discord among friends. This was only the first time Fang Yuan had met Shark Demon, he was a stranger. Bo Dan and Shark Demon had a much closer relationship.
Fang Yuan laughed, his expression changed as he looked at Bo Dan with contempt, he said disdainfully: "Foolish clown, I will give you a lesson today. Watch closely!"
Saying so, Fang Yuan's fingers moved like swords, drawing lines in the air.
Starlight flew out of his fingertips, they stopped in the air, being either close or far away from him.
"Here, here, here, and all these other places, they have hidden mortal Gu. If you do not believe me, you can try to attack them yourselves. For example, this point needs a fire path attack to destroy the Gu worm. That point needs an ice path technique to be exposed, before using lightning to destroy the Gu worm. And for this point, if you want to destroy the mortal Gu, you have to wait until the next wave to destroy it."
Fang Yuan spoke quickly as the starlight specks floated in the air, there were eight or nine of them.
The Gu Immortals were all astute, Fang Yuan told them the locations of the hidden Gu worms and the methods to destroy them in detail. He was obviously not afraid of them giving it a try.
Such intense confidence made them believe him without any doubts.
Bo Dan stared with wide opened eyes, he did not know how to rebuke him. He got agitated, he wanted to take action: "I want to see if your words are true."
"Wait!" Fang Yuan held out his hand, stopping Bo Dan.
Bo Dan could not longer back out of this, he showed intense surprise and joy upon hearing that, he showed a cold smile: "Why, Xing Xiang Zi, are you afraid?"
Fang Yuan sighed, giving Bo Dan a glance, he was like an adult looking at a mischievous child, Bo Dan almost jumped in anger.
Fang Yuan spoke: "There are hidden Gu worms here indeed, I am not afraid of anyone probing it. But these areas cannot be damaged. Just like what you did earlier, these are traps that are interconnected, if they are destroyed, it would affect the entire battlefield killer move, not only would my wisdom path deductions become completely obsolete, I would even have to restart from scratch. All these areas that I pointed out have troublesome connections, I am unable to deduce which points are safe and which are not."
After saying that, Fang Yuan turned to the immortal zombie Shark Demon, bowing: "Lord Shark Demon, I am truly sorry, this is because I am not good enough."
Seeing Fang Yuan's humble attitude, it was like a subtle mockery. Bo Dan's eyelids were twitching, he wanted to jump and pull out all of Fang Yuan's white beard, tear his blue robe apart, step on him and grind Fang Yuan's clean, pinkish face into the dirty soil.
But he could not do that, because Shark Demon was returning the bow to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had just spoken and bowed to Shark Demon.
From Shark Demon's perspective, he was the leader of them, he had to have manners.
Furthermore, Xing Xiang Zi was Tai Bai Yun Sheng's good friend, he had introduced the former. Now that Xing Xiang Zi was bowing to Shark Demon, how could Shark Demon not bow back?
Zombie Alliance was in the righteous path, even though the members came from everywhere and a large portion were from the demonic path, once they entered Zombie Alliance, they would have to act like proper members of the righteous path and follow the rules.
Also, after hearing their conversation, Shark Demon had a grasp of the situation.
In his opinion, Xing Xiang Zi's wisdom path attainment was higher than Bo Dan. Such a talent was needed in his future attempts to take down Yu Lu blessed land, he had to bow in return as courtesy.
After that, Shark Demon spoke in a very polite tone: "I am deeply enlightened by Brother Xing Xiang's words, I wonder how we should proceed from here?"
Shark Demon was at rank seven, even though he was an immortal zombie, he was a famous expert in Eastern Sea. He took the initiative to call Xing Xiang Zi 'brother', in everyone's opinion, Shark Demon's attitude was truly very gentle.
Fang Yuan smiled bitterly: "It is all because of my low ability, earlier I had a hint of inspiration and did not want to destroy that Gu worm as it would cause my hard work to go to waste. I was anxious and spoke without consideration. Sigh, the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake, I am just a weak snake, while everyone here are expert dragons."
Bo Dan was so angry he was breathing roughly, his eyes were bloodshot.
Fang Yuan's words were humble, all of his words were 'in consideration' of Bo Dan's face, but he actually slapped Bo Dan loudly countless times.
This time however, Bo Dan did not retort.
He was extremely angry, but he was also feeling uncertain.
His wisdom path inheritance was very incomplete, it was far inferior to Fang Yuan's. Since Fang Yuan could expose so many flaws here, Bo Dan also knew that he could not match Fang Yuan, he just refused to admit the truth.
"Don't tell me, did I really make a mistake? This mortal Gu was really a trap just like what that damned Xing Xiang Zi said?"
Poor Bo Dan, he was framed by Fang Yuan, but even he himself had fallen into self doubt.
Fang Yuan's peripheral vision was on Bo Dan, he observed all his expressions and reactions.
Fang Yuan smiled bitterly and humbly on the outside, but he was laughing coldly internally.
He had wanted to retreat long ago.
The next wave of attacks would be extremely powerful. If they are careless, some of these Gu Immortals might die. Even if they could endure it, their immortal essence expenditure would definitely be severe.
Such severe loss would make the Gu Immortals feel severe distress, but Fang Yuan had no way of dismantling this battlefield killer move.
By then, the Gu Immortals would have wasted so many resources, yet Fang Yuan, who was their hope, would make no progress, it was easy to imagine how unhappy they would be with him.
Thus, Fang Yuan's humbleness was not just to mock Bo Dan on purpose, he was trying to plant a seed in these immortals' minds.
"We have to retreat for sure, but the way we retreat is the question." Fang Yuan, after thinking up to this moment, glanced at Bo Dan, before speaking to Shark Demon: "There is little time until the next wave of attacks, with this change, my earlier efforts have gone to waste. I can only restart and try again, but I will not lie, there is little hope of success, I need even more time than before. Most importantly, this wave of attacks will be extremely powerful, in my opinion, we should retreat now."
The immortals were not willing to give up now, they had already reached this step.
Shark Demon said: "I hope brother Xing Xiang will give it a try."
Thus, Fang Yuan pretended to sit in the air as he shut his eyes.
Soon, the fifth wave of attacks came, the ice needle storm rained down as dozens of snow monsters charged towards the Gu Immortals.
"The wave is much stronger as expected!"
"Let's go! This is just the start, and it is already so tough."
"Bo Dan, I don't know what to say to you."
Bo Dan's expression was dark, he gritted his teeth, his gaze was cold. He could feel the Gu Immortals looking at him, it hurt him more than the ice rain. The Gu Immortals' words were like whips lashing on his soul.
"Xing Xiang Zi! Xing Xiang Zi!" He shouted internally, chanting this name, it was a pity that this was merely a fake name.
After enduring for a while, Shark Demon saw that Fang Yuan was not making progress, his evaluation of the gains and losses this time had completely turned over, he could only squeeze out the word: "Retreat!"
Chapter 892: Alcohol and Food, Fishing for Sharks
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The banquet's atmosphere was very cohesive.
Even though this attack on Yu Lu blessed land caused everyone to end up suffering losses, after they left, Shark Demon still kindly invited Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fang Yuan to his home as guests.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's man as before Immortal Gu was something Shark Demon needed. Fang Yuan, who was under the identity of Xing Xiang Zi, had deep wisdom path attainment, Shark Demon and Su Bai Man saw his value, especially in their attempt to take down Yu Lu blessed land.
Thus, Shark Demon invited Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, it was not a surprise.
Shark Demon stayed in a place called Shark Sea.
This was a huge sea area, being over three million square kilometers, this Shark Sea was of similar size to the South China Sea on Earth.
That was to say, it was as if the entire South China Sea belonged to Shark Demon alone.
Everything inside the sea area, countless types of sharks, seaweed and aquatic plants, the rocks on the seabed, the huge amount of sea water, all of them were Shark Demon's possession.
Like in Northern Plains, where fertile grasslands were split up between people, in Eastern Sea, sea areas that were rich with resources were also distributed among people.
Even though Shark Demon was an immortal zombie, he had immense strength, he had the ability to control this sea area.
His palace was at the bottom of the sea, at the center of this Shark Sea area.
During the banquet, there were all sorts of food from Eastern Sea, they were delicious and filled with the local flavors.
No matter what the intentions of both sides were, on the surface, this was a very effective banquet, there was a harmonious atmosphere.
Shark Demon enjoyed his delicious wine, even though he was an immortal zombie, with the help of Gu worms, he could temporarily regain his sense of taste.
Soon after, he put down his wine cup, at his will, the top of his majestic and beautiful palace turned transparent.
"Everyone, take a look, these are divine spear sharks, these are shattering teeth golden sharks, and over there are silver scale great treasure sharks… these are all pets that I had nurtured with much effort." Shark Demon pointed, not concealing his proud feelings at all.
Fang Yuan raised his head and looked, only to see that the seawater was dark and dim, the palace lights could only shine for ten meters of distance ahead.
The underwater palace was shining in bright lights, if seen from the outside, it was like a huge oddly shaped jewel that was emitting a warm light.
Fang Yuan had his investigative killer moves, the dark seawater could not obstruct him.
He soon saw the sharks that Shark Demon was referring to.
The divine spear sharks moved around alone, they had a peculiar appearance, the tip of their heads were sharp, they were in the shape of long spears. Their bodies were not covered in smooth shark skin, but had a bony texture.
The divine spear sharks swam around in the sea, charging around with no fear. The spear on their heads was very sharp, while not inhibiting their advancement. Everywhere they went, underwater rocks were smashed as pathways was created by them.
As for the shattering teeth golden sharks, they were the most numerous, two to three hundred formed into one group.
These sharks had very small and sharp teeth, when the shattering teeth golden sharks opened their mouths, Fang Yuan could see that in their mouths, both upper and lower jaws, they had six rows of sharp teeth.
Even though these golden sharks were carnivores, they did not prey on large fish, instead they were like whales, they only ate small fish and prawns. The six rows of teeth formed six tight defenses, separating the sand from fish and prawns. No matter how small the fish were, they could not escape from the golden sharks.
Silver scale great treasure sharks were the largest, they would be around the sizes of small whales from Earth.
This type of treasure shark lived in a family of three or four. Usually, they would move about casually, when food appeared, they would move quickly and hunt.
Even though the silver scale great treasure shark had a huge body, its body did not match the incredible speed it could display.
Once it moved, its speed was extremely fast, it would be like a flash of silver lightning in the depths of the sea!
Silver scale great treasure sharks had the most rogue nature, instead of hunting other fish, they ate other sharks as food.
Of course, if it were the stronger sharks like the divine spear sharks or shattering teeth golden sharks, the treasure sharks would not go after them if they had sufficient food.
"How is it, the fish that I am raising, are they alright?" Shark Demon looked at how Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were dazed, he felt incredibly pleased.
"More than alright. These sharks are all lively and energetic, they were raised well. This sea area has all sorts of creatures living in a well balanced habitat, these sharks all have a lot of Gu worms in them, I even saw one or two desolate beast sharks earlier." Fang Yuan said.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng also sighed, he nodded: "No wonder Eastern Sea is the region with the most abundant resources, this sea area already showcases a lot to me."
Shark Demon raised his head slightly as he laughed.
Su Bai Man was beside him, she smiled: "Please do not praise him so much. My husband's hobby is to raise these sharks in his free time, he particularly enjoys hearing the praise of others towards these sharks."
During the banquet, be it Shark Demon or Su Bai Man, they were much more amicable than in Yu Lu blessed land.
These two could differentiate work from social life, during public occasions, they had to control the situation, thus they were stern and serious, without any hint of carelessness. Privately, they were hospitable and warm, by making jokes at times, they could make other people feel much closer to them.
This couple not only had great battle strength, they also had a lot of experience in human interaction. It was no wonder they could obtain such an important mission like attacking Yu Lu blessed land from Zombie Alliance after much competition.
Even though Shark Demon and Su Bai Man had invested a lot into Yu Lu blessed land, having made a huge loss already, losing a lot of their wealth, if Yu Lu blessed land were to be successfully taken down, Shark Demon and Su Bai Man would receive ten times or even dozens of times as much profits!
Most immortal zombies would not undertake such important missions.
Only Su Bai Man and Shark Demon, these veteran experts, had the foundation to support an immense expenditure in the early stages.
Hearing the praise from Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Shark Demon smiled: "You flatter me, hahaha. Actually, this sea area is only ranked forty-sixth among the list of Eastern Sea's sea areas. Above my sea area, there is the elegant splendorous sea area, the flourishing bumpy sea area, and a Song clan Gu Immortal's, Song Yi Shi's poetic emotion sea area."
"Both of you have not been in Eastern Sea for long, you might not have seen the ten great sea areas in Eastern Sea. These ten sea areas are all incredible. Rainbow Island's rainbow sea area, the seawater is beautiful and in all colors, and yet the colors do not smudge. Boundless forest sea area has trees that are thousands of meters tall growing under the sea, the tree crowns can penetrate the water surface, and the huge number of trees form a huge underwater forest. For the mermen sea area, female mermen 1 are extremely amorous, there are countless mermen living there, they have incredible strength, being one of Eastern Sea's top ten super forces."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard all these as his expression froze, he sighed again: "The world is vast, nature is also vast, Eastern Sea has so many precious resources, and countless talents, we can truly feel how insignificant each of us are."
"Mermen…" Fang Yuan's heart moved, he thought of a certain memory in his previous life.
After eating the food, the banquet was reaching its end, Shark Demon said: "Since this is the first time that both of you are here, I have prepared some small gifts, please do accept them."
This was an obvious way to improve their relationship.
Fang Yuan did not reject him, he wanted to get closer to Shark Demon anyway, he showed a look of joy as he cupped his fists: "Then I will thank Lord Shark Demon in advance."
Shark Demon laughed heartily, he clapped: "Good, I like the forthright nature of Northern Plains Gu Immortals. But for the gifts I prepared, you will have to collect them yourselves."
"Oh?" Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at each other with a sense of confusion.
Su Bai Man explained while concealing her smile: "Both of you might not know, my husband does not invite guests here very often. But when he does, he would gift them some sharks. The guest would need to catch the sharks themselves, as for how many and what type of sharks they get, that would be decided by the guest's ability."
"So that's it." Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fang Yuan realized.
"Please start moving. You only have seven minutes, during this period, you need to stay inside the palace, it will be against the rules if you go out." Shark Demon said.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was very interested, these sharks were in top-notch condition, they were very valuable. Even if he could not use them, he could sell them for a huge sum of immortal essence stones.
Moreover, there were sharks that suited him here.
Fang Yuan's was moved, he thought of something: "Isn't this the famous shark fishing banquet from my previous life?"
In his previous life, by the time Fang Yuan came to Eastern Sea, Shark Demon and Su Bai Man had already died, the cause was unknown.
This shark sea became someone else's possession.
The Gu Immortal who occupied this place, Zhu Xing Bo, was very hospitable and had a wide network of friendships. While holding a banquet, he also played this game, allowing his guests to fish for sharks in the palace.
It turned out that the origin of this was Shark Demon, Gu Immortal Zhu Xing Bo was only imitating him.
The fishing had started, they had limited time, Fang Yuan resisted his urge to enter the sea to take a look.
There were many groups of sharks swimming around freely near the underwater palace.
"Among these sharks, the ones with the highest value are those that Shark Demon pointed out earlier: Divine spear shark, shattering teeth golden shark, and silver scale great treasure shark. But these sharks do not suit me."
Fang Yuan thought in his mind.
The ones which suited him were blood fiend sharks and star mark sharks. The former was suitable for Hu Immortal blessed land after the blood calamity, the latter suited Star Form blessed land, they could be raised in the most central lake.
However, the quantity of these two types of sharks was far less than the divine spear shark, shattering teeth golden shark, and silver scale great treasure shark.
It was because the ferocity of the blood fiend shark and star mark shark was inferior to the divine spear shark, shattering teeth golden shark, and silver scale great treasure shark.
This underwater palace was Shark Demon's place of residence. During normal times, when Shark Demon had the time, he would toss fresh food and cause the sharks to fight for them. As time passed, this place became the sanctuary of the sharks, the strongest shark groups would stay here.
It was difficult for Fang Yuan to obtain blood fiend sharks and star mark sharks.
He was inside the underwater palace, he could not travel around and capture sharks in the water.
This was only a game, Shark Demon was not generous enough to let others capture sharks in his sea area casually.
Fang Yuan felt some regret, but he had to give up on the blood fiend sharks and star mark sharks.
As for the divine spear sharks, shattering teeth golden sharks, and silver scale great treasure sharks, he did not want them. After two months of accumulation, he already had five to six hundred immortal essence stones, with such wealth, he did not need such a small amount.
How many divine spear sharks, shattering teeth golden sharks, and silver scale great treasure sharks could be obtained in seven minutes?
Fang Yuan was not skilled in capturing beasts, using an immortal killer move to capture beasts was too wasteful, unless he was trying to capture desolate beasts.
Chapter 893: Song Clan's Song Yi Shi
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Fang Yuan quickly thought, and decided to help Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng wanted to capture cloud line sharks which had a small and exquisite bodies, not only could they move in the sea, they could also fly and survive for a long time, they were suitable for Tai Bai blessed land.
However, cloud line sharks were proficient at hiding, were it not for this, they could not have survived near the sea palace between the three shark groups.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's shark fishing ran into a problem at the very start.
His target was cloud line sharks, but divine spear sharks, shattering teeth golden sharks and silver scale great treasure sharks would not just look on from the side.
Like smoke spreading in the sea, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's methods stirred up these three shark groups.
As far as they were concerned, this sanctuary was their joint territory, and now an anomaly appeared. Like beasts whose territories were invaded, they naturally had to teach these audacious invaders a lesson.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was specialized in healing and was not proficient in fishing, these three shark groups caused great disturbance to him.
After Fang Yuan helped, the disturbances were mostly eliminated. Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt his pressure lifting and immediately sent him a grateful look.
Fang Yuan smiled lightly and nodded to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, not saying anything.
Finally, with Fang Yuan's cooperation, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was able to capture an ideal quantity of cloud line sharks.
"I thank both Lord Shark Demon and Lord Su Bai Man." Tai Bai Yun Sheng had profited, thus he stood up and bowed solemnly to the two.
"You two indeed have a deep relationship." Shark Demon sighed softly.
After chatting for a while, this banquet reached the end, both guests and hosts enjoyed it to the fullest. Shark Demon personally accompanied Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng out of the sea area.
They looked on until the two had shrunk to the size of ants in the horizons. Su Bai Man's gaze flashed as she suddenly spoke: "Dear, what do you think of this Xing Xiang Zi?"
Shark Demon's smile disappeared completely and his gaze turned aloof: "This person seems humble but in fact is arrogant and also has lot of hidden thoughts, he is different from Tai Bai Yun Sheng and is not someone easy to deal with."
He paused for a moment before continuing: "Bo Dan is too useless, he was led around by Xing Xiang Zi from start to finish. Bo Dan is a person on our side, but was embarrassed like that by Xing Xiang Zi. Bo Dan's embarrassment caused me to lose face as well. This Xing Xiang Zi did whatever he wanted since the moment he came, there is ruthlessness behind his gentle appearance, he is no kind person. If I had my previous temperament, I would have already given him a few hard slaps and taught him to be obedient. He would learn that this is Eastern Sea and not Northern Plains!"
Su Bai Man hurriedly consoled: "Dear, calm your anger, this type of person with skill will naturally have arrogance. As for Bo Dan's loss of composure this time, it is also justifiable. Think of it, his private sea area has already been occupied for many years by Blazing Heaven Demoness and she still doesn't have the intention to return it. Bo Dan recently went to beg for it but was instead beaten badly by Blazing Heaven Demoness. Blazing Heaven Demoness is a Northern Plains immortal zombie, thus Bo Dan naturally looks upon Northern Plains Gu Immortals with anger."
"Moreover, he lost his private sea area and is without other means of income, he is in extremely strained circumstances. The reward from attacking Yu Lu blessed land is plentiful and it is his best chance to save himself from poverty. However, Xing Xiang Zi arrived with wisdom path methods better than his, it is unavoidable for Bo Dan to be furious for having his source of income stolen. This is a matter of great importance to him, thus it was also unavoidable for him to lose his usual state of mind."
As he heard this, Shark Demon's eyes brightened, and he looked at Su Bai Man with a smiling expression: "Why are you suddenly speaking about Bo Dan so favorably? Ah… it must be that Bo Dan secretly sent a big gift to you, right?"
Su Bai Man covered her mouth as she laughed: "I cannot hide anything from you. It is not a big gift, just a palm sized medicine ice."
Shark Demon, however, was very surprised: "Although the quantity of this medicine ice is small, it is a genuine rank eight immortal material, where did Bo Dan find this? Heh, he is really spending a lot to protect his role."
Su Bai Man lightly shook her head: "Bo Dan doesn't seem to be eye-catching, but to be able to have this success, he isn't a simple character."
Shark Demon said with a profound voice: "It seems Bo Dan really wants to grasp this opportunity. He might not have much experience in this situation, but even if he is incompetent, he also has some use. Xing Xiang Zi has great capability, but he is an outsider. I definitely want to bring Bo Dan, just to keep this Xing Xiang Zi in check and stop him from being solely dominant in the future. If we let him be proud and insolent because of his talent, what will happen in the future? What if when we are attacking the blessed land, we are trapped by him, what will we do then? We don't understand wisdom path methods, but with Bo Dan, we can make Xing Xiang Zi restrain himself and prevent him from making mischief."
Su Bai Man put her mind at ease, gazing dreamily at this man whom she loved deeply: "My husband really is most capable, Bo Dan and Xing Xiang Zi are playing in your hands, and won't be able to create any trouble."
"Hahaha, dear, don't praise me so much."
Fang Yuan followed Tai Bai Yun Sheng to a nameless island.
This nameless island was the home of Tai Bai Yun Sheng previously.
It was extremely crude, but because of Tai Bai Yun Sheng, it gradually started becoming slightly famous in the circles of Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
In this invasion of Yu Lu blessed land, Shark Demon had to return in defeat after the difficult round.
To carry out another invasion, they needed time to prepare.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng wanted to use this free time to meet the many requests he had received in the past.
One had to say that Landscape as Before, this time path Immortal Gu, was very much sought after.
Something unexpected could happen any time, there would always be some issues appearing from time to time in the sea areas the Gu Immortals managed. Landscape as Before had outstanding effects in this aspect and showed instant results.
"Fang Yuan, how about coming together with me, we can take care of each other on one hand and I can also introduce you to others. With this trip, you can also get familiar with the nearby Gu Immortals." Tai Bai Yun Sheng suggested.
This suggestion was very appropriate, but Fang Yuan already had a plan, as he said to Tai Bai Yun Sheng with a wry smile: "Old Bai, it is better if you don't let others know our relation as much as possible. Because the thing I am about to do might very well implicate you."
"Ah? Wasn't this trip to get a share of Yu Lu blessed land, then join Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt something wrong from Fang Yuan's tone, it seemed like he was going to create trouble.
With regards to Fang Yuan's ability to create trouble, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a deep impression of it.
The set up in Imperial Court blessed land and Eighty-Eight True Yang Building by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was destroyed because of Fang Yuan.
Moreover, this was accomplished when Fang Yuan had still been a mortal. Now, he was an immortal zombie, this ability to create trouble had definitely increased sharply.
"Fang Yuan, you shouldn't act recklessly. What are you planning?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng worriedly looked at Fang Yuan.
"My good senior brother, don't worry, I am doing this to join Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance." Fang Yuan consoled.
"Don't, don't call me senior brother, a skilled person is a teacher, I still don't have enough qualifications to be your senior brother." Tai Bai Yun Sheng hurriedly shook his hand, worriedly inquiring about the details.
Fang Yuan revealed a little: "Old Bai, have you thought about how inappropriate it is for me to join Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance?"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng blinked: "Although you are under the identity of a Northern Plains Gu Immortal, Eastern Sea has had cases of Gu Immortals of other regions joining their local forces. Moreover, this Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance is the main headquarters of the Zombie Alliances over all five regions, it is an enormous force. Other Zombie Alliance branches don't recruit living Gu Immortals, but Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance recruits them. Your identity won't pose a problem."
Fang Yuan shook his head: "Those like Bo Dan who have joined Zombie Alliance are those who are living a miserable life and can barely scrape by. These type of people are at the bottom layer among Gu Immortals. Their positions in Zombie Alliance are even lower than immortal zombies. But I, Xing Xiang Zi, am different. Not mentioning my Immortal Gu, I have strong wisdom path methods which can deduce the battlefield killer move in Yu Lu blessed land. People like me, no matter how we live, we are not likely to join Zombie Alliance. As long as I reveal just a slight intent to do so, I believe other righteous path forces would welcome me warmly."
"Hmm, it is reasonable." Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded: "Joining these forces means losing freedom. Especially to foreign Gu Immortals like us, the monitoring and restrictions are much more strict. Otherwise, why would there be so many lone cultivators?"
"So, for a Gu Immortal like me to join Zombie Alliance, not only should it be my own wish, but it also requires a strong external pressure." Fang Yuan nodded.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes shined brightly, as he asked: "What pressure?"
Fang Yuan smiled before lightly asking a question that made Tai Bai Yun Sheng pale: "Which is the closest super force from here?"
Song clan was a colossus that had occupied Eastern Sea for hundreds of years.
This clan was an existence that was in the top ten even among the many super forces in Eastern Sea.
The official, publicly known number of Gu Immortals in the clan was eighteen. Song clan's first supreme elder, Song Qi Yuan, had already been rank eight for many years, his battle strength was unfathomable.
Song Qi Yuan's son, Song Diao Ling, was a rank seven Gu Immortal with outstanding talent, he was cultured and elegant, and had been publicly recognized as the successor for Song clan's leadership.
But unfortunately, over ten years ago, Song Diao Ling was schemed against and died, leaving behind a daughter.
The daughter's surname was naturally Song and her given name was Yi Shi. She was the only descendant left of Song Qi Yuan's bloodline.
Since a young age, Song Yi Shi was pampered by her grandfather Song Qi Yuan. In any world, some people are naturally born with a silver spoon in their mouths.
In the world where most people were struggling to survive, and most Gu Immortals constantly on their guard, preparing to undergo their next tribulations and calamities, rushing around everywhere to raise their strength and cultivation, Song Yi Shi was just sitting back and enjoying life, all her cultivation resources provided by Song Qi Yuan. She only needed to say the word and her grandfather, Song Qi Yuan, would make sure they were fulfilled.
When Song Yi Shi underwent immortal ascension, Song Qi Yuan personally protected her.
After advancing to a rank six Gu Immortal, Song Qi Yuan sent his granddaughter a big gift — a sea area with an area of four million square kilometers. It was slightly larger than the South China Sea on Earth.
Not only this, this sea area was also extremely rich in resources and was named the poetic emotion sea area. In the rankings of Eastern Sea, it was ranked above Shark Demon's shark sea.
Fang Yuan explored and, in combination with his previous life's memories, made his plan center around this Song Yi Shi.
Chapter 894: Purposely Getting Discovered
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After plotting in secret for half a month, Fang Yuan arrived on a small island.
Eastern Sea had many small islands, there were millions or even tens of millions of the islands that Fang Yuan had arrived at.
Most small islands were uninhabited islands, but this small island actually had humans.
There were three fishing villages on the island, the strongest cultivator was only rank three.
Fang Yuan hid his figure, under the blazing sun, he strolled into a nearby fishing village like it was a normal thing to do.
The surrounding people were mostly ordinary mortals. There was occasionally a Gu Master or two on the scene, they were either rank one or two, and were very well respected by the mortals around them.
Fang Yuan's current methods were much stronger than the time when he was in Southern Border.
He moved through the entire village two or three times, but no one could discover him.
"This should be Li clan village." Fang Yuan observed it for a while, combined with his previous life's memories, he verified that this was the place.
This small fishing village was obviously not Li clan village.
But in his previous life, there was a mystical and interesting Gu Immortal who emerged from this place, he was called Li Xiao Yao.
This fishing village was renamed by him, to Li clan village.
Of course, right now, Li Xiao Yao was yet to be born. According to his previous life's memories, Li Xiao Yao would be born in around two hundred years.
After confirming the status of this fishing village, Fang Yuan left and arrived at a cliff beside the sea.
There were countless nests in the cliff, there were hundreds, thousands of birds resting here, they had a strong territorial awareness. Once a Gu Master, or a large life form comes and makes the birds feel threatened, they would assault the invaders together.
Thus, few people in the village came to this place. Occasionally, there were Gu Masters who came to harvest some medicinal herbs or steal some bird eggs.
These birds were very diverse, they were a congregation of over ten different hundred beast groups, they were not the same types of birds.
On this tiny island, there were human Gu Masters, but they were not at the dominant position in this environment.
"According to the Biography of Li Xiao Yao, when Li Xiao Yao was still a child, he was often bullied by children who were older than him, he had to hide here out of necessity. Here, he found a hidden cave by accident, he treated this cave as his secret base."
This cliff had all sorts of holes and caves, there was a large number of them.
It was obviously very difficult to locate the cave that Li Xiao Yao found.
"However, since there are bird groups here, Li Xiao Yao could not have gone deep inside. His cave should be at the outer periphery."
Fang Yuan was prepared amply, he searched for a while and chose a hundred targets initially.
By the time it was noon, and the sun started to descend towards the west, Fang Yuan found his true target.
This hole was not big, but even with Xing Xiang Zi's current size, he could not enter. Not to mention Fang Yuan's original eight arm immortal zombie body.
Thankfully, he had change form Immortal Gu.
Fang Yuan shrunk his body and squeezed inside.
The cave was moist, by the evening, there was weak lingering sunlight penetrating into it. After moving in the cave for a short while, Fang Yuan came to the deepest part of this cave. The space here was extremely wide.
The sea winds outside the cliff blew into the small holes of the cave, they created a whistling sound of moving wind.
Fang Yuan could not help but think of the Biography of Li Xiao Yao, inside, it wrote about Li Xiao Yao's childhood, when he was often bullied, he would hide inside this cave and sob quietly, as he listened to the whistling sound of the wind.
This situation continued for a long time, until one day, fate changed for him as Li Xiao Yao's legendary tale began.
This change in fate was the small hole in a corner of the cave.
Once when Li Xiao Yao was hiding here, he leaned on a corner as he rested. Suddenly, the cave collapsed as he fell, directly into a deep part of the cliff, and he got swept away by the currents in the sea.
This trip, Fang Yuan was trying to replicate Li Xiao Yao's fortuitous encounter in his previous life.
This cliff was like an ant's den, the inside had numerous tunnels and different caves, as if there was a drill that moved in it.
Six hours later, Fang Yuan found the actual route.
He broke the hole in the cave as he moved into it.
When he entered the interior of the cliff, he fell rapidly.
It was pure darkness and moisture, there were all sorts of small life forms like snakes, the largest animal here was a type of lizard, having the size of a normal cat.
All these could not obstruct Fang Yuan.
He quickly got to the bottom of the cliff, as the sound of waves got louder.
At the bottom of the cliff, there was a huge spiral of seawater.
This was the unique undercurrent phenomenon of Eastern Sea.
The seawater in the spiral moved rapidly, there were abundant water vapor and it resembled a giant monster's mouth.
Fang Yuan willed and several Gu worms flew out, stopping here and leaving a marking.
Next, he dived into the spiral with a loud sound.
Once he was in the spiral, a formless force surrounded his body. Even with Fang Yuan's incredible strength, he felt a sense of helplessness as he was 'captured' by the seawater.
Fang Yuan did not struggle, instead he allowed this undercurrent to carry him elsewhere.
This undercurrent was like a formless dragon or python, it created a tunnel of water at the bottom of the sea. The fish groups at the bottom of the sea would swim away from it. Even seaweed and aquatic plants did not grow in their path.
Because they could not grow, they could not endure the long term dragging force of the undercurrents.
Fang Yuan followed this undercurrent as he moved quickly, his current speed was incredible fast, even ordinary movement immortal killer moves could not match his speed!
This was a specialty of the sea's undercurrents.
In Eastern Sea, there was a type of precious map.
The map did not record the islands, nor the surface of the sea, it included the undercurrents in the sea.
Gushes of undercurrents interweaved under the sea, they formed into a natural route for transportation of goods.
In Eastern Sea, some super forces had underwater caravans. These caravans made use of Gu worms to go deep into the sea and use the undercurrents to move rapidly, in a short time, they could travel for ten thousand li, or even a hundred thousand li, to engage in trade.
After about fifteen minutes, Fang Yuan emerged from the other end of this undercurrent.
The endpoint was just like the starting point, it was also a huge seawater spiral.
Fang Yuan jumped out of the spiral, what he saw was a sea of red.
The intense hot air assaulted him.
This was an underwater volcano.
Fang Yuan was currently partway up this underwater volcano.
In the middle of the volcano, there was no seawater entering it.
At the bottom of the volcano, molten magma gushed out from the deep parts of the sea trench, causing countless lives to perish.
And at the top of the volcano, there was a natural underwater hot spring.
Fang Yuan's objective was the underwater hot spring at the top of the volcano.
But Fang Yuan made an estimation, it was not time yet, he decided to explore the place to spend the time.
The lower he went, the hotter it was.
It was pure red in front of him, a type of fire lizard entered Fang Yuan's detection range.
This lizard had shiny smooth scales, it extended its tongue as it ate flying bugs as food.
This type of flying insect originated from the bottom of the volcano, inside the moving molten magma river.
In the magma river, there were bubbles bursting at times as small insects flew out from within.
The fire lizard sprawled on the side of the magma river, seeing that the flying insects had flown out, its tongue shot out at lightning speed as it captured these bugs, it retracted its tongue and swallowed its food.
Fang Yuan observed such a unique habitat for a long time.
Nature was really mysterious, it was displayed in front of Fang Yuan right now.
Fang Yuan observed the fire lizards for a while before paying his attention to the flying insects.
This type of insect was very unique, it was hatched in the magma river, it could endure extremely high temperatures.
After a long time, Fang Yuan had a new discovery: The fire lizard did not succeed in getting its food every time, it would fail consecutively at times.
A portion of the flying insects seemed to have developed some sort of latent talent from the pressure created by the fire lizard.
These flying insects turned into Gu worms during the process of being captured as food. Their speed increased and they managed to evade the lizard's tongue.
This was a form of advancement.
Like a carp jumping through the dragon's gate, turning from a fish into a dragon, its life had been elevated in the most fundamental sense.
After these flying insects became Gu worms, a portion of them took the initiative to land on the lizard and become its accompanying Gu, living together with the lizard.
But these were all fire path mortal Gu, they did not have much value to Fang Yuan.
For the current Fang Yuan, the only interesting thing was this underwater volcano. With it, he had a source to produce Gu worms, he could produce large numbers of fire path and water path Gu worms for a long time.
Mortal Gu only had value to Gu Immortals when they were large enough in quantity.
And finally, Fang Yuan observed this magma river.
This magma river had other life forms, they were a type of fish.
Fang Yuan did not intend to explore further, he did not want to get into trouble by jumping into the magma river either.
The magma river had a high temperature, if Fang Yuan wanted to enter it, he would need to use a defensive immortal killer move. That meant that he would need to consume precious immortal essence.
Nature was mighty, many places had such dangerous environments that even Gu Immortals could not enter for long.
Fang Yuan had been counting the time, when he felt that it was almost time, he traveled up along the volcano, past the point he was at and towards the peak.
By now, he started becoming careful, concealing his traces on purpose.
The young and beautiful Song Yi Shi was one of the six great beauties among Eastern Sea Gu Immortals
Today, Song Yi Shi was in a bad mood.
She was being harassed again.
All these male Gu Immortals who came from everywhere were like annoying flies, they were all around Song Yi Shi, chattering non-stop, they could not even be chased away.
After shrugging off these irritating pursuers, Song Yi Shi came to her personal sea area.
This sea area was called poetic emotion sea, it produced a type of rank four wisdom path Gu worm, emotion poetry Gu. This Gu worm could store emotions and was extremely precious in the minds of mortal Gu Masters.
Song Yi Shi came to the bottom of the sea, going into her underwater volcano palace.
This underwater volcano was inside poetic emotion sea, it was naturally Song Yi Shi's property.
Song Yi Shi was at the peak of the volcano, she had built a beautiful small palace there. She loved the hot spring inside the palace, once in a while, she would go there and take a bath.
She took off her clothes and revealed her peerless body. Her skin was tender and pale, like a freshly peeled egg, her limbs were slender and long, her lips were red and her eyes were sharp, and she had long hair that extended to her waist.
She entered the hot spring and enjoyed herself after shutting her eyes.
Soon, her mood became better, she started to hum a song.
But she did not know that Fang Yuan was lurking close by, observing her every movement.
"It is almost time." Fang Yuan's gaze was eerie as he calculated, he purposely leaked a trace of his aura.
"Who is there?!" Song Yi Shi's expression turned pale, she shouted as her eyes stared at Fang Yuan's hiding spot with much anger.
Chapter 895: Happy About Being Chased Down
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"Misunderstanding, this is a misunderstanding!" Fang Yuan appeared like he was 'forced to'.
Seeing an old man like Xing Xiang Zi appearing in front of her suddenly, Song Yi Shi immediately shrieked. Right now, she was relaxing in the hot spring, completely naked, it was naturally her most vulnerable moment.
If the one that appeared was a female, so be it, but it happened to be a male Gu Immortal.
There should be prudence between sexes!
Song Yi Shi fell into panic.
"I can explain. All this is a big misunderstanding. Please, you must listen to my explanation." Fang Yuan waved his hand, speaking without stop.
At this moment, Song Yi Shi's panic was already surpassed by an intense anger.
"Perverted thief, die!"
Song Yi Shi hid her body in the hot spring, and pointed a finger at Fang Yuan.
Immortal killer move — Stream Veil!
There was an increase of water vapor in the air, two streams of water that were like long sleeves of dancing women, or like thin veils worn by beauties to cover their face, coiled around Fang Yuan from both sides.
Fang Yuan's heart shook.
Song Yi Shi was a water path Gu Immortal, this stream veil was an immortal killer move and it was an exceptional method to capture enemies.
If Fang Yuan was struck by this move, it would be difficult for him to get free.
Not daring to let this stream veil near him, Fang Yuan quickly retreated, starlight shone around him and star snakes moved in the air, facing the stream veil.
Immortal killer move — Star Snake Rope.
Star snakes entangled the stream veil, but stream veil was like water, drowning the star snakes. In just few breaths of time, the star snakes vanished into nothingness.
The stream veil moved towards Fang Yuan again.
"Star snake rope and stream veil are both capturing methods, I didn't think the gap between them would be so huge." Fang Yuan's heart sank. Fortunately, with this small delay, starlight Immortal Gu in his immortal aperture was completely activated, bright light shot out from the Immortal Gu like a rising sun.
Surrounding the starlight Immortal Gu were countless fire path mortal Gu, like tens of thousands of fireflies.
Star path immortal killer move — Star Fire Escape!
Whoosh.
Fang Yuan's whole body burned with deep blue flames, and he soared to the sky like lightning.
"Where are you going?!" Song Yi Shi yelled in a charming voice, as she used the killer move to obstruct Fang Yuan.
Bam!
A huge explosion erupted at top of underwater volcano.
The seabed shook, torrents rose. The underwater volcano's top part was destroyed for the most part, the natural protective structure was broken, causing endless amounts of seawater to flow inside.
Song Yi Shi was very busy for a while dealing with the flying rocks and the flowing seawater.
She put up a defensive barrier, and quickly wore her clothes, her mind slightly calmed down.
Then without caring about the destruction of the volcano by the seawater, she started flying towards the direction Fang Yuan left in.
"You cannot escape!" Song Yi Shi shouted with clenched teeth.
Fang Yuan's speed, with star fire escape's help, was extremely fast, but because the water was extremely deep, it took a good while to fly out of the sea surface.
In his previous life, the Biography of Li Xiao Yao recorded that Li Xiao Yao fell to the bottom of the cliff and entered the undercurrent which took him to the underwater volcano. The bottom of the volcano was too hot, Li Xiao Yao tried to get away from it by moving to the peak of the volcano where he unexpectedly saw Song Yi Shi who was bathing. Song Yi Shi immediately captured him, but after interrogating him, she was instead very pleased.
She had not known there was an extremely hidden undercurrent in the underwater volcano. At this moment, the sea was besieged by strong enemies, Li Xiao Yao's appearance instead gave Song Yi Shi a hope to escape.
Song Yi Shi used this undercurrent to be free from the predicament. While Li Xiao Yao's life had a great turn from here on, Song Yi Shi took him under her wing and guided him on Gu Master cultivation.
The treatment Fang Yuan received was completely different from Li Xiao Yao's.
"Li Xiao Yao was a handsome young boy. Although I am an immortal and also have taken a good appearance, it is one where I am already in my seventies and eighties. Song Yi Shi is young and Song clan is also a colossal force, it would be strange if she did not get angry and chase me down."
Fang Yuan sighed while secretly observing behind him.
When he found Song Yi Shi was chasing him, he gave a light smile, before charging out of the sea surface.
Gu Immortal Yao Ge Pi was one of Song Yi Shi's pursuers, and right now, he was lurking around the poetic emotion sea area.
He looked young, was handsome and charming, and had rank six cultivation. He was a lone cultivator of Eastern Sea.
"Fairy Yi Shi will go bathe in the hot spring of the underwater volcano every once in a while. None of them know this secret, only I am aware of it at present. I will take this chance to have more contact with Fairy Yi Shi. If I can marry her, would I still have to fear not having enough cultivation resources? Hmm? What is going on?!"
Yao Ge Pi gazed at the source of the sound and saw Fang Yuan flying out of the sea with a miserable appearance; a giant wave rose up in the calm sea.
"Looking at his appearance, he seems to be a thief. Do I chase him?" Yao Ge Pi hesitated.
Right at this time, Song Yi Shi also flew out of the sea surface and looked at Fang Yuan's receding figure in the air, shouting in anger: "Perverted thief, don't run, die!"
"What, perverted thief?!" Yao Ge Pi felt like he had been struck by a lightning, his eyes protruded out till they almost fell off!
"Pervert, perverted thief?"
"What happened to Fairy Yi Shi? That old bastard is actually a daring lecher! Damn it, kill him!"
Yao Ge Pi roared inwardly, killing intent filling his heart.
"Fairy Yi Shi, don't worry, I, Yao Ge Pi, am here!" The next moment, Yao Ge Pi shouted loudly, stepping forward.
Song Yi Shi was dazed, her original provoked and aggressive air also stilled.
She had just attacked with anger and had not thought much when she shouted furiously, but with Yao Ge Pi's appearance, she could not help but feel panic.
Oh heavens, have mercy!
She was still a young lady, and this was the first time she had experienced a situation like this.
Regarding this matter, she naturally wanted to cover it tightly, it was best if she resolved everything herself, kill Fang Yuan and no one else would know of this matter.
If this matter were to be spread, how would she face others in future?
However, another Gu Immortal appeared now.
She recognized this person, he was one those hateful pursuers, his surname seemed to be Yao?
Song Yi Shi was not too sure.
Yao Ge Pi was even more distressed and anguished the moment he saw Song Yi Shi's panicked expression. He then observed Song Yi Shi's flushed face, red like she had just gone through intercourse, the killing intent inside him increased by dozens of times in an instant!
Actually, nothing had happened, but the imagination of humans was endless, moreover, Yao Ge Pi was a man and a crazed pursuer, he easily interpreted the expression in an entirely dark manner.
Right now, Yao Ge Pi was thinking: This old pervert that is escaping with all his strength has definitely taken huge advantage of her! He might have used some dirty tricks to drug Fairy Yi Shi. He must have approached her, no, he likely kissed her and touched her. Who knows how much Fairy Yi Shi was encroached upon, how much humiliation she suffered!
With such thoughts, the fury in Yao Ge Pi's heart burned so high that it seemed to ignite his whole body, he chased furiously while screaming: "You damned old bastard, old lecher, don't run! You dare to desecrate our Fairy Yi Shi, I am going to skin you alive! I will make you regret everything you did to Fairy Yi Shi!"
When Song Yi Shi heard this furious scream, her whole body shook and she almost fell down from the air.
Don't scream so loudly, are you trying to let the whole world know? Isn't it best if we quietly, quickly and secretly kill this damned geezer?
Unfortunately, the furious Yao Ge Pi could not hear Song Yi Shi's thoughts.
And this was the first time Song Yi Shi had encountered such a situation, so she lost her composure, she wanted to transmit her voice to say this to Yao Ge Pi, but she was too young and could not speak up no matter what.
How embarrassing was it if she said it outright!
Among these three, the happiest was instead Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had already calculated Song Yi Shi's reaction. Yao Ge Pi's appearance, however, was an unexpected surprise.
'Good, that's good, scream loudly, yes, a bit louder.' Fang Yuan inwardly cheered Yao Ge Pi.
The two Gu Immortals chasing absolutely would not be imagining the strange thoughts in Fang Yuan's mind at this moment.
Fang Yuan wanted to blow the situation up into a huge matter.
Song Yi Shi was a Gu Immortal of a super force, Song clan, she was the apple of Song Qi Yuan's eye, with many pursuers. After this matter blows up, Fang Yuan would have an external pressure to join Zombie Alliance.
However, this conflict was not from swindling money, murdering someone's parents, or a life and death battle.
At most, Fang Yuan had only taken a glance unintentionally.
Song Yi Shi was a young girl with very few experiences, her thoughts were still conservative, naturally, she would feel wronged and furious at having someone see her body for the first time.
This was the natural mentality of young people.
As they got older and more experienced, no matter who they were, they would gain at least some knowledge on sexual life.
So what if he took a glance? Didn't some women wish others would just keep on looking at them? From a certain perspective, did this not prove one's charm?
Two to three hundred years later, Li Xiao Yao also peeked at but nothing happened to him, instead he was protected and hidden.
One big reason was that Song Yi Shi's mentality had already changed.
Later, Li Xiao Yao would have another fortuitous encounter and become a sword path Gu Immortal, and finally, he and Song Yi Shi would become an immortal couple.
Wasn't Song Yi Shi older than Li Xiao Yao by two to three hundred years, she could be said to be a cradle-robber.
"Of course, there is another reason. Two to three hundred years later, Song Qi Yuan's lifespan had been used up and he died. The rank eight Gu Immortal's fall created an enormous change in Eastern Sea's structure. Song clan began to weaken and the enormous wealth Song Yi Shi had was coveted by others. Not only was there pressure from external sources, there was internal strife in the clan as well. Li Xiao Yao, who was taught by Song Yi Shi and accompanied her throughout his mortal Gu Master stage and shared her sufferings, became the most reassuring individual to Song Yi Shi. Later, Li Xiao Yao inherited Sword Immortal Drunken Green Bull's inheritance, and developed methods bringing in new advancements, and became a powerful sword path Gu Immortal, this caused Song Yi Shi to fall for him. The two became an immortal couple, moving around without a set destination, secretively and freely. In the five regions chaotic war, they appeared and worked together to resist rank eight Gu Immortals, becoming a great pillar in blocking Central Continent's offensive."
Fang Yuan fled while thinking leisurely about all sorts of things.
Chapter 896: Freely Leaving After Killing
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In the sky, a battle of pursuit was unfolding.
Bam bam bam!
Intense explosions occurred one after another.
Song Yi Shi and Yao Ge Pi attacked non-stop, but because of the distance, and because Fang Yuan was slippery like an eel, he could not be caught, he was displaying an incredible flying attainment.
Even though he was ahead, Fang Yuan, who was pretending to be escaping, was actually slowing his speed, allowing the two pursuers to follow him.
He was a demonic path overlord, in his previous life, even though he did not have particularly great achievements, he had rich life experience, he had undergone many battles, it was something that these two young Gu Immortals behind him could not imagine.
Especially Song Yi Shi, she was too young and had little battle experience. Even though she was using an immortal killer move to chase him, she could not catch up no matter what.
Fang Yuan changed directions often, sometimes he went into the water, sometimes he went into the clouds, he was extremely crafty. Song Yi Shi was extremely angry, she felt like she was not chasing him down, but being played with instead.
As for Yao Ge Pi, he was a lone cultivator, even though he had more experience, he did not have a single Immortal Gu, not to mention any immortal killer moves.
He, who could only use mortal killer moves, was doomed in this battle of pursuit from the start.
He was lagging behind, he could only shout loudly, if Fang Yuan was not purposely slowing down for him, he would have been left in the dust already.
The three traveled quickly through the air, they soon left the poetic emotion sea area.
"What is going on? There are Gu Immortals fighting?"
The noise from their travels earned the attentions of two lone cultivator Gu Immortals from a nearby island.
These two were playing chess, they were quite relaxed.
Hearing the commotion, they raised their heads as they used investigative methods.
"It seems to be Song clan's Fairy Yi Shi, and a young male lone cultivator, they are pursuing someone. This person's aura is not that of Eastern Sea, they are a Northern Plains Gu Immortal."
"Less trouble is better than more trouble, Song Yi Shi is the prized gem of Song Qi Yuan, let's not interfere in this."
"You are right, come, let's continue playing chess."
Fang Yuan looked at this island, he frowned slightly as he turned to another direction, continuing to fly.
Not long later, at web eye sea area.
"What? There is such a lecherous and shameless old bastard in this world! Fairy Yi Shi, I, Chen Zhong Yong, will lend you a hand!"
Fang Yuan smiled lightly, he dodged Chen Zhong Yong's attack as he continued escaping.
Thus, there were three people chasing after him now.
After a certain amount of time, at rumbling thunder sea channel.
"Fairy Yi Shi is pure as jade, she was actually tainted! He deserves death, he deserves death!" Bi Qing Tian was anguished, he joined in the chase resolutely.
Fifteen minutes later, the commotion caused by them attracted a battle maniac Gu Immortal.
"You are a Northern Plains Gu Immortal, you dare to lay your lecherous hands on our Eastern Sea Goddess? Do you think that we of Eastern Sea can be bullied?" Lei Hong was furious, he spoke without restraint.
Song Yi Shi was getting more and more furious, seeing that Fang Yuan was still escaping, her mood was getting worse.
He had only taken a glance at her, why were these people spouting more and more ridiculous nonsense, like she had lost her virginity to him?
"Stop shouting! Kill him in secret, I will reward you greatly!" Song Yi Shi could not hold it in anymore, she transmitted to them.
These Gu Immortals were not idiots, after hearing this, they went silent.
"Why are they not shouting anymore?" Fang Yuan did not want that to happen, he wanted this matter to blow up, the bigger the commotion the better.
"Since you are shutting up, I will have to do it myself."
Thus, Fang Yuan shouted, defending himself: "Everyone, this is a misunderstanding, I will clarify this matter. I had accidentally entered the depths of poetic emotion sea area's underwater volcano, everyone can investigate this matter, I am speaking the truth."
"Old lecher, you are bullshitting!" Immediately, a Gu Immortal screamed back.
But Fang Yuan ignored him, he yelled: "I am a Northern Plains Gu Immortal, I have just arrived here and wanted to choose an unknown island to reside in. I picked a small island after looking for a long time. Before setting up some arrangements, I wanted to look around the area, I discovered a hidden undercurrent and moved along it, getting into the underwater volcano."
"Lies, you're continuing to lie to us!"
"You did something so shameless, but you are actually defending yourself, trying to pretend to be a gentleman?! Do you think we are so easy to fool?"
The Gu Immortals screamed.
Fang Yuan called out: "Even if I am lying, I would need to make a better excuse, why would I mention the undercurrent? You can go verify this, I will tell you the location of the island. Before I entered the undercurrent, I did not know it would connect to the underwater volcano, either, after I entered the volcano, I found out…"
"Shut up!" Song Yi Shi shouted, she was worried that Fang Yuan might expose some secretive information, she interrupted him: "If you are innocent, stop running, obediently submit and let us investigate. If you are speaking the truth, I, Song Yi Shi, will not kill an innocent person!"
Song Yi Shi had learned something quickly and grew a little, she actually understood that she needed to coax him.
But her tone was too stiff, anyone could tell that she was full of anger and killing intent.
Song Yi Shi was still too pitiful in her acting skills.
Fang Yuan continued to escape, he shouted continuously: "Do you think I am a fool? If I surrender, I will die. I am innocent, I did not even touch a single hair of yours, after I reached the volcano…"
"Shut the hell up!" Song Yi Shi flew into a rage, her voice was even louder now.
The other male Gu Immortals had furious expressions on the surface, but they were secretly concentrating and were afraid of missing a single word from Fang Yuan's mouth!
Seeing that Fang Yuan was interrupted by Song Yi Shi again, they felt mild regret internally.
But Fang Yuan quickly continued: "The more you do not want me to say it, the more I will say. How can you be so overbearing, I am just a Northern Plains Gu Immortal trying to make a living in Eastern Sea, is it easy for me?! I did not do anything, I only saw a glimpse of you bathing, it was all a misunderstanding!"
Song Yi Shi saw darkness in front of her, she was so angered her heart was going to burst into flames.
She could make the people on her side shut up, but she could not stop Fang Yuan from shouting.
"Hehehe, something so interested has happened." At this time, a lovely laugh could be heard, a female Gu Immortal was approaching.
"It is Seven Seas Snake Woman!" The Gu Immortals that were chasing after Fang Yuan saw this female Gu Immortal and became alert.
Yao Ge Pi was bemoaning internally, everyone else directed their gazes towards Song Yi Shi.
Song Yi Shi's expression was dark, she looked like an ice statue that was emitting immense cold air.
As it turned out, Seven Seas Snake Woman and Song Yi Shi were both publicly known as among the six great beauties among Eastern Sea Gu Immortals. Seven Seas Snake Woman had rank seven cultivation level, she was a demonic path Gu Immortal who had some conflicts with Song Yi Shi, but because of Song Qi Yuan's power, she did not dare to attack Song Yi Shi.
At this moment, she heard such interesting news, she was sure to add in more false details and spread this rumor around!
Song Yi Shi felt like the sky was collapsing.
What was she going to do now? Seven Seas Snake Woman was definitely going to ruin her reputation.
Song Yi Shi felt even more hatred towards Fang Yuan now: "You old lecher, how are you so good at running, even running into Seven Seas Snake Woman?"
What a joke!
This route was specially chosen by Fang Yuan after careful investigation.
The Gu Immortals that they would meet along the way were all found out by Fang Yuan prior to this. Seven Seas Snake Woman was very important in Fang Yuan's current plan.
Even though Seven Seas Snake Woman was a demonic path Gu Immortal, she owned seven sea areas, right now, this sea area was at a crucial moment when a large number of red tide fish were reproducing, she had to stay here to guard it.
Fang Yuan easily obtained this information.
Seven Seas Snake Woman was a beautiful but dangerous woman, she was very ruthless in her actions. The righteous path would often leak details of such people, so that others could be prepared if they were to meet them.
Boom!
With a loud sound, Seven Seas Snake Woman suddenly struck, attacking the pursuers of Fang Yuan.
"Seven Seas Snake Woman, what are you doing?" Lei Hong shouted.
Song Yi Shi and the others were severely interrupted.
"Hehehe, this is such an interesting matter, I definitely have to interfere." Seven Seas Snake Woman had an alluring body, she had a coquettish gaze as she answered.
Lei Hong said solemnly: "I will block Seven Seas Snake Woman, the rest of you continue chasing him."
He had rank seven cultivation level, he was not afraid of Seven Seas Snake Woman, even though his battle strength was lower, he could still stall her for a short time and escape from her.
Seven Seas Snake Woman did not know who Fang Yuan was, she would not exert too much effort. Seeing that Lei Hong was stepping up, she showed a look of disgust as she stopped on the spot: "You again, meddlesome fool, you really like to interfere in people's affairs."
Thus, the other Gu Immortals detoured around Seven Seas Snake Woman, chasing after Fang Yuan again.
Time continued to pass, after a very long time, there were a few more people chasing Fang Yuan, even though he was quite injured, he did not fall into their hands, he was still escaping.
"Damn it!" Song Yi Shi gritted her teeth, she felt fatigue looking at Fang Yuan's energetic body.
Everything had happened too quickly, and too suddenly.
How did it become like this? Song Yi Shi felt a sense of absurdity within her.
A moment ago, she was still enjoying a carefree life, bathing inside her hot spring as she relaxed herself. But now, she was chasing an enemy endlessly with no way of catching up.
And now, almost all the immortals nearby knew about it.
Song Yi Shi felt tired physically, but even more so mentally.
"It is about time." Fang Yuan looked at the pursuers, he smiled faintly. The execution of this plan was much more effective than he had originally planned.
"Now, it is time to leave."
Thinking of this, a ruthless light flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes.
His body shook as he turned into six figures, flying towards six different directions.
Immortal killer move — Six Illusion Star Bodies!
The pursuers shouted out in dismay, they were stunned before splitting up to chase him.
Immortal killer move — Position Star Swap!
Fang Yuan changed his position, appearing in front of Yao Ge Pi.
"Don't think I am afraid of killing!" Fang Yuan called out, using star cloud grindstone.
He had been escaping all this time, why would Yao Ge Pi think that Fang Yuan would act differently and counterattack?
Caught off guard, he was sucked into the star cloud grindstone.
He only had mortal killer moves, how could he defend against the power of Immortal Gu?
When everyone else came to reinforce him and destroyed the star cloud grindstone, Fang Yuan was already holding onto Yao Ge Pi's head!
"Hmph, don't go overboard!" Fang Yuan's ruthlessness was shown, he faced the band of immortals.
The pursuers were only rank six. It was not easy to encounter rank sevens like Lei Hong.
"Yao Ge Pi when all is said and done is a Gu Immortal, he was actually killed in such a short amount of time!"
"Northern Plains barbarians are really exemplary in battle strength."
The immortals were all stunned, they felt a strong sense of wariness internally.
Meanwhile, one of the six illusion star bodies had already flown far away, Fang Yuan used position star swap and changed his true body's position, abruptly and freely leaving!
Chapter 897: Difficult To Own Ge Pi Blessed Land
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Three days later, in the world of Eastern Sea Gu Immortals, there was a rumor that spread widely.
This involved one of the six great beauties of Eastern Sea, Fairy Yi Shi. When she was bathing, she was defiled by an old lecher who shamelessly planned everything.
Song Yi Shi was Song Qi Yuan's precious gem, she had quite a reputation and many suitors. This matter involved Song clan's reputation as well, once information got out, many Gu Immortals' attentions were attracted.
Soon, Xing Xiang Zi's Northern Plains Gu Immortal identity was found out by other Gu Immortals.
Before Song clan even expressed their attitude, Song Yi Shi's suitors were already hunting down Fang Yuan on a large scale with furious emotions.
At a nameless and ownerless sea area with little resources, the sea was deep and dark, there were few fish.
A wooden door that looked like a blessed land's entrance appeared, and opened with a creak.
A figure walked out from within.
It was Fang Yuan, having Xing Xiang Zi's appearance.
Fang Yuan killed Yao Ge Pi on the spot, after that, he carried Yao Ge Pi's corpse away and escaped.
There were two uses for bodies of Gu Immortals. One was to place them down and form a blessed land, the other was to put them into one's own immortal aperture and obtain their dao marks.
Fang Yuan did not have to think it over, he chose the former.
His immortal aperture was dead, if corpses were put inside his dead aperture, not only would he not get any dao marks, it would cause massive destruction to the land, his body would burst and explode.
Such a situation had been experimented with by immortal zombies, but there had never been any cases of success.
Fang Yuan used his wisdom path methods to contain the immortal aperture and stall for some time, after escaping from the pursuers, he used a stargate to return to Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture, before using Fixed Immortal Travel to teleport himself towards the north-eastern extremity of Eastern Sea.
Finally, he dived into the sea, without anyone's notice, he placed Yao Ge Pi's immortal aperture down at the bottom of the sea.
After the immortal aperture formed into a blessed land, it naturally created disturbances in heaven qi and earth qi.
Two whale desolate beasts were drawn over, but Fang Yuan chased them away.
Fang Yuan first turned into another appearance, before entering Yao Ge Pi's blessed land and meeting with the land spirit.
Yao Ge Pi was a wood path Gu Immortal, he owned Ge Pi blessed land, his land spirit was quite peculiar, it was in the form of a tree, planted at the center of the blessed land with no movement ability.
The tree land spirit told Fang Yuan the ownership condition — a hundred thousand immortal essence stones, large amounts of immortal materials, including many rank seven and rank eight materials, it even wanted the fresh blood of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable!
The condition was too immensely difficult, Fang Yuan, of course, could not satisfy it, he could only leave regrettably.
"Yao Ge Pi is a lone cultivator, he had the weakest background among the pursuers, and had no backers, that was why I killed him, to act as deterrence against the others. Indeed, I deterred Song Yi Shi's group and escaped easily."
"Yao Ge Pi's immortal aperture formed into a separate blessed land, but the land spirit's ownership condition has nothing to do with me, the killer. Instead, it is requesting for lots of cultivation resources, it shows that Yao Ge Pi's greatest obsession is towards wealth. But his desire is simply too insatiable."
Fang Yuan had just left, the blessed land's doors closed.
He looked back and saw that the door was completely shut, he frowned slightly.
"If Yao Ge Pi's obsession had to do with me, with my blood path methods, I could easily handle it. But its ownership condition is simply harder than ascending to heaven."
Not mentioning the hundred thousand immortal essence stones, simply the precious immortal materials were hard to gather. Unless Fang Yuan robbed the ten great ancient sects, or stole that huge amount from Heavenly Court's treasury, simply based on his current state, it would take a lot of good luck for him to gather them all, two to three hundred years would be the minimum amount of time he needed.
But most importantly, it was the final condition that the tree land spirit had — Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's fresh blood!
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable was a wood path rank nine Gu Venerable, Yao Ge Pi also cultivated wood path, it was not strange that he desired Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's blood.
But who was Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable? Even if his fresh blood was preserved by Heavenly Lotus Sect, that was a true rank nine immortal material!
This was a precious material that could refine rank nine Immortal Gu, it was definitely heavily guarded, how could Fang Yuan obtain it?
"This Yao Ge Pi must have gone crazy from poverty, his obsession towards wealth is so intense. In this way, to obtain this blessed land, it seems normal methods will not work, I can only attack forcefully!"
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with cold light.
If this land spirit refused to accept a master, he would destroy it and forcefully take over the blessed land!
Not all blessed lands had land spirits. Some Gu Immortals were killed extremely thoroughly and did not leave behind any obsession, after they died, their blessed land would be without a land spirit.
Yao Ge Pi's blessed land had a land spirit, but the conditions were too absurd, Fang Yuan could only find an alternative and attack forcefully. It was like Shark Demon's group invading Yu Lu blessed land.
"If I can obtain this blessed land, I would have a base in Eastern Sea. But now is not the time to settle this blessed land, I should go and regroup with Shark Demon first."
Fang Yuan scattered some mortal Gu, setting up a Gu formation around him.
Next, he activated Fixed Immortal Travel, leaving this place and going to Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture.
Originally, Fixed Immortal Travel's aura was in the sea, but after Fang Yuan's Gu formation activated, it dissipated.
After the work was done, this set of mortal Gu disintegrated on its own.
Unless a very powerful investigation method was used, no one would be able to find out that there was a blessed land in such an ordinary area.
Fang Yuan came out of Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture, the latter had already started moving, he was flying above the vast sea.
The 'senior and junior' brothers conversed along the way, after a few minutes, they arrived at the sky above Yu Lu blessed land.
Here, there was nobody.
The two waited for a while, soon, Shark Demon led a band of Gu Immortals from Zombie Alliance and flew over.
"Brother Xing Xiang, you are quite famous nowadays." Once he saw Fang Yuan, Shark Demon made a joke.
The other Gu Immortals looked at Fang Yuan with curious glances.
These few days, Fang Yuan had become very famous in the world of Eastern Sea Gu Immortals, he had gained quite a reputation.
Fang Yuan smiled bitterly, he replied: "Very unlucky, I was very unlucky, please don't laugh at me. I wanted to find an island to rest in, but I found an undercurrent and wanted to explore it, to think I would encounter such a troublesome affair."
"This is not a troublesome affair, it is quite appropriate to call this a romantic affair." Bo Dan laughed loudly, sarcastically saying.
Earlier, Fang Yuan had humiliated him.
But after that, Bo Dan paid a huge price and gave Su Bai Man an expensive gift, thus he joined the invasion of the blessed land again, and he had a fearless attitude.
Fang Yuan gave him a glance, smiling, he did not bother responding to such a person.
He glanced around and saw that other than Shark Demon, Su Bai Man, and Bo Dan, there was only one familiar immortal zombie, Sha Nan Jiang, there were three less people than before.
But Shark Demon was very confident, it seemed that he had made ample preparations before coming.
Everyone went deep into the sea, opening the entrance of Yu Lu blessed land, entering the battlefield killer move freezing rain frozen earth again.
"This time, Xing Xiang Zi, we will mainly be relying on your deductions, Bo Dan will support you." Shark Demon announced politely.
Last time, Fang Yuan performed well, Shark Demon and the others thought that Xing Xiang Zi had a deeper wisdom path attainment level.
"Lord Shark Demon, please rest assured, I will do my best." Fang Yuan expressed his firm attitude.
Bo Dan snorted internally, even though he was displeased, he knew his own abilities, he crossed his arms and watched with a dark gaze.
Facing freezing rain frozen earth again, Fang Yuan's expression became serious as he deduced.
The battlefield killer move, freezing rain frozen earth, had completely recovered, the damage caused by Fang Yuan and the others had been fixed already.
Fang Yuan was not surprised.
Earlier, when Shark Demon and the others attacked the blessed land, the battlefield killer move could also repair itself.
It was unknown whether this was due to Yu Lu blessed land's land spirit, or the arrangements of Fairy Yu Lu.
Speaking of which, Shark Demon and the others had attacked the blessed land for such a long time, but they had not found the land spirit of Yu Lu blessed land yet. Whether the land spirit existed, this was still a mystery.
With his prior experience, Fang Yuan's progress was fast.
He naturally did not destroy the crucial mortal Gu, thus the battlefield did not become stronger compared to the last time.
The ice needle storm rained down, as Shark Demon stepped forward and used his Immortal Gu.
The Immortal Gu's name was Melt Ice, it was an ice path Immortal Gu and could melt even the firmest ice. This Gu was borrowed by Shark Demon specially to deal with freezing rain frozen earth, he paid a huge amount to a certain member of Zombie Alliance.
With this melt ice Immortal Gu, they greatly resisted the freezing rain frozen earth's power, even the desolate beast level snow monsters were obstructed.
Shark Demon and the others felt less pressure, they even expended far less immortal essence than last time.
There was a counter to everything, the strong freezing rain frozen earth was greatly weakened after encountering the melt ice Immortal Gu.
The Gu Master world was like this.
Everything was in balance, strong and weak was relative. There were no invincible Gu worms, there were only invincible Gu Masters.
With melt ice Immortal Gu, Shark Demon could move freely as well.
Fang Yuan also progressed stably.
Even though he was a wisdom path newbie, he had precious experience from last time, after returning, he had revised his methods and improved a lot, he designed many new methods.
This time, Fang Yuan came prepared.
He had to say, Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance was simply brilliant, using it, Fang Yuan could forcefully find a solution.
The start was the hardest, after Fang Yuan found the first flaw, his progress became faster, he deduced more and more hidden Gu worms.
But during this process, Fang Yuan could feel his lack of experience.
But he was an experienced schemer, he immediately ordered Bo Dan to help.
Even though Bo Dan's wisdom path methods were shallow and few, after Fang Yuan started the deduction, he could also see a portion of the details inside the battlefield killer move, he also had very familiar methods and precise techniques.
Fang Yuan pretended to deduce but he was secretly observing Bo Dan's techniques, he learned a lot of things and his wisdom path attainment was rising.
Eventually, with both of their efforts, freezing rain frozen earth was finally unraveled.
By now, the freezing rain battlefield has unleashed a total of thirty-three attacks, Shark Demon's melt ice Immortal Gu was singlehandedly holding them back.
The huge immortal essence expenditure reduced his joy of passing the difficult round to a great extent.
Chapter 898: Fighting Soul Battlefield
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Freezing rain frozen earth disappeared, the world changed.
The original icy world turned into a dark environment, it was like evening, there were dark clouds looming and the poor weather seemed to be indicating a thunderstorm.
Evidently, this was another battlefield killer move.
"Welcome to fighting soul battlefield." A faint female voice resounded in the battlefield
Everyone who was inside the battlefield heard the voice.
Shark Demon's expression changed, he said: "Oh no, this is the infamous fighting soul battlefield! This is troublesome."
Even before he finished his sentence, a sandstorm started blowing as sand and dust were scattered in the sky, soul beasts appeared one after another, from all directions, encircling the Gu Immortals.
Su Bai Man quickly reminded: "Xing Xiang Zi, Bo Dan, you have to act quickly! The number of soul beasts here are endless, the longer we take, the stronger they become. This fighting soul battlefield was a battlefield killer move created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable after he used one of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's inheritances as a reference. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's other creations had some mercy in them, they would always leave behind a way to survive. But this battlefield killer move is very different, it contains Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's killing nature, it is the most deadly battlefield killer move among Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's creations!"
Fang Yuan and Bo Dan did not dare to take their time, they used their respective methods and tried to unravel the killer move.
Fang Yuan soon discovered: This fighting soul battlefield was very different from freezing rain frozen earth. The latter had no flaws at all when activated, it was very well balanced, giving others a feeling of not knowing where to start. But this fighting soul battlefield exposed several hiding spots of mortal Gu to Fang Yuan from the start easily.
As time passed, Fang Yuan found more and more hidden spots, they were growing into a huge number, there were thousands or even tens of thousands of them!
The number of Gu worms that formed this battlefield killer move was much higher than Fang Yuan's expectations.
Fang Yuan soon found out, there were no traps like the ones that were in the freezing rain frozen earth battlefield killer move. No matter which hidden spot they destroyed, there was no backlash, and Fang Yuan did not need to restart his deductions.
Thus, very soon, Fang Yuan and Bo Dan started to dismantle these hidden spots rapidly.
However, this fighting soul battlefield's offensive power was several times greater than freezing rain frozen earth.
Freezing rain frozen earth attacked in waves, there was a moment of peace in between each wave of attacks, the Gu Immortals could rest for a while each time.
But this fighting soul battlefield did not stop for a moment after activation, the number of soul beasts continued to increase, soon, desolate beast level soul beasts were formed.
A while later, there were more than ten desolate soul beasts, even ancient desolate soul beasts started appearing.
They did not even last for seven minutes before Shark Demon and the others had to use the incomplete Profound Ice House to escape from the place.
"There are simply too many Gu worms used to create the battlefield killer move, I am ashamed, my methods are too simple, I could only dismantle them one by one." Once they got out of the sea, Bo Dan spoke to Shark Demon without concealing any information, he spoke the truth.
Fang Yuan frowned too: "My methods could only dismantle at most five to six hidden spots each time. I suspect that this fighting soul battlefield's difficulty lies here. The faster we can dismantle it, or the longer we can last under the attacks of the soul beasts, the more likely it is that we can unravel this killer move. To unravel it in itself is not the problematic part."
"In that case, Xing Xiang Zi, according to your deduction, how long do both of you need to dismantle this killer move at your current speed?" Shark Demon asked.
Fang Yuan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I am not sure. I did not manage to see the entire battlefield killer move. There are too many hidden spots, they are numerous like the stars in the sky. And even if I manage to find the tens of thousands of hidden spots, to get rid of them, I will need at least thirty minutes."
Sha Nan Jiang was lost for words: "Thirty minutes? We lasted for seven minutes and there were already ancient desolate soul beasts appearing. Thirty minutes… surely, immemorial desolate soul beasts will appear, and there might be more than one!"
Everyone became quiet.
Su Bai Man spoke heavily: "In that case, we can only ask more people to help out next time. These Gu Immortals will need to have enough wisdom path attainment to dismantle the hidden spots."
Saying so, Su Bai Man and Shark Demon looked at each other, they could see the bitterness in each other's eyes.
There were not many Gu Immortals with wisdom path attainment. Asking them to help would incur a huge cost.
Shark Demon thought for a while, he spoke: "Then we will retreat for now. The next time we are attacking is in thirty days, we will decide on the time at a later date, I will inform you all. Xing Xiang Zi, this is my command token, you can use it to stay in Zombie Alliance's headquarters and avoid the trouble you are facing for now."
Fang Yuan smiled lightly: "Thank you for your goodwill, Lord Shark Demon, but I am not willing to waste any time. Merely Song Yi Shi cannot do anything to me. Even though Song clan is a huge force, they cannot control the entirety of Eastern Sea. If I hide and shrink away because of this, I, Xing Xiang Zi, would have cultivated for nothing. Everyone, until next time we meet."
Seeing Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng fly far away, Bo Dan stepped forward and stood beside Shark Demon, he slandered: "This Xing Xiang Zi really does not know what is good for him, he actually refused to accept Lord's goodwill!"
Shark Demon glanced at him, he snorted, saying unhappily: "If you were any more capable, why would I need to treat him like this?"
Bo Dan had a bitter expression: "Oh lord, it was not that I did not put in effort, but my inheritance is too incomplete, there is a limit to what I can do."
Shark Demon waved his hand impatiently.
Bo Dan quickly shut up and lowered his head, leaving.
Su Bai Man got close to Shark Demon, she smiled: "If husband is afraid that Xing Xiang Zi would get into trouble and delay the next invasion, you do not need to worry. Northern Plains Gu Immortals often have higher battle strength than the other four regions, Xing Xiang Zi also has Immortal Gu with him, his battle strength was high enough to kill Yao Ge Pi on the spot, nothing would happen to him."
"Even though he offended Song Yi Shi, the precious gem of Song Qi Yuan, it is precisely because Song clan is a righteous path super force, a large organization with many matters to take care of, that they would not create a huge commotion over such a small matter. But Song clan's reputation was affected, they would definitely want an answer. In a while, Xing Xiang Zi would feel increasing pressure, by then, wouldn't he come to ask us for help?"
"Mm, that is indeed the case, your analysis is very accurate." Shark Demon's expression became calmer, he gently held Su Bai Man's hand.
…
Northern Plains, Luo Po valley.
The battle surrounding Luo Po valley had already been ongoing for over half a month.
Qin Bai Sheng's side had the territorial advantage, Feng Jiu Ge's side was unable to take them down. But Feng Jiu Ge and the others were very determined, they besieged the area without retreating, Qin Bai Sheng's side could only hide inside Luo Po valley for the time being.
"Jiang Yu, how are your injuries?" Qin Bai Sheng went to visit Fairy Jiang Yu.
"In half a day, I will fully recover." Fairy Jiang Yu sat on the bed, shutting her eyes as she healed herself, she replied while multitasking.
Joy flashed across Qin Bai Sheng's face: "That is good. After you recover, we will protect you as you charge out of the encirclement, and go to Northern Plains Zombie Alliance to activate our hidden arrangement."
"What? We are going to use our arrangement in Northern Plains Zombie Alliance? Will it not have a huge impact on the entire crucial plan?" Fairy Jiang Yu was shocked, she asked this.
Qin Bai Sheng said heavily: "It won't. I have already communicated with Old Man Yan Shi, in Shadow Sect's Southern Border headquarters. Sigh… Feng Jiu Ge is really quite the character, his self-created heaven and earth song could match my five finger fist heart sword. My personal reputation is nothing important, but the Immortal Gu that is still being nurtured inside Luo Po valley is important to our crucial plan, it cannot be lost. But now that Luo Po valley is being encircled by these people from Central Continent, we are at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, we can only rely on the ancient soul beasts to defend ourselves. We will eventually fall if this keeps up, we need to regain the initiative!"
These last days, he had fought with Feng Jiu Ge for over dozens of rounds, after exchanging blows countless times, even if they put in all their efforts, they had been unable to determine a winner.
Qin Bai Sheng was concerned about the big picture, he wanted to find a way to get out of this predicament.
But at this time, Feng Jiu Ge's voice came from outside.
Qin Bai Sheng heard it and sneered internally: "After remaining silent for three days, he's finally returned to taunt us again?"
Qin Bai Sheng flew into the air, facing Feng Jiu Ge: "Brother Feng, we have undergone innumerable rounds of battles, we know each other's abilities quite well now. You are an astute person, can't you see that in this current situation, as long as I defend this Luo Po valley, you cannot break in by force!"
Feng Jiu Ge smiled brightly, an intense light of confidence shined in his eyes: "Brother Qin, this time is different. After our countless rounds of battles, I had gained much inspiration. These last three days, I have been in closed cultivation, I used the inspiration to complete an incomplete move that I had created in the past."
"Oh?" Qin Bai Sheng's expression turned serious.
Feng Jiu Ge raised his head slightly, he said loudly: "This time, I would like to ask Brother Qin to critique my submission song!"
Green Jade Song.
Heaven and Earth Song.
Submission Song.
When Feng Jiu Ge sang green jade song, his voice was crisp and sharp, like beads of flawless jade. When he sang heaven and earth song, his voice was grand and magnificent, it made others feel their own insignificance.
But now, Feng Jiu Ge sang submission song, his mouth was closed.
The entire place was silent.
Qin Bai Sheng's expression was both serious and grim, because he 'heard' Feng Jiu Ge's singing voice.
His singing voice was directly resounding in Qin Bai Sheng's mind.
It turns out that this submission song was not heard with one's ears, but in one's mind.
Qin Bai Sheng's heart sank: "This sound path killer move encompasses wisdom path, enslavement path, sound path, and soul path, these four paths, it affects a person's mind. From the moment he closed his mouth, there is already a trace of five finger fist heart sword in it. This Feng Jiu Ge actually obtained this inspiration from me. But it is only at this level, it is not enough to affect my fighting spirit. Eh? Oh no!"
Qin Bai Sheng's reaction was fast, but submission song's effect was even faster.
In Luo Po valley, there were many ancient soul beasts that were guarding the place, under the influence of Feng Jiu Ge's song, they submitted to him, they betrayed Qin Bai Sheng on the spot, becoming the lackeys of the Central Continent Gu Immortals.
Submission song could temporarily cause desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts to change sides, becoming subordinates of the singer!
"Damn it!" He Lang Zi cursed.
They had few people, they needed the ancient soul beasts to bolster their defenses.
But now, most of the ancient soul beasts changed sides, they started attacking Luo Po valley instead, Shadow Sect's side was falling into great danger.
But Qin Bai Sheng was not easy to deal with.
He quickly thought of this and displayed a battlefield killer move.
Feng Jiu Ge and the others, including the ancient soul beasts, were dragged into this battlefield.
There was thick fog in this battlefield, countless souls were flying around.
Dark blue soul beasts gathered and took form, most of them were ordinary soul beasts, but soon, desolate soul beasts appeared, and seemingly before long, ancient soul beasts would appear as well.
The soul beasts that were created in this battlefield fought against the ancient soul beasts that were under Feng Jiu Ge's control.
"Good countermeasure." Feng Jiu Ge stopped singing, he praised: "Using this battlefield killer move to increase your control of the soul beasts and eliminate the advantage of submission song. But your soul taker battlefield is too outdated, even though it was created by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, he made it when he was young. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had once used this killer move to create the even more superior fighting soul battlefield. This soul taker battlefield can only convert the souls of living beings into soul beasts, but fighting soul battlefield can actually produce endless soul beasts."
Feng Jiu Ge was inside the battlefield killer move, but he was not worried, he spoke casually as he critiqued the killer move.
Qin Bai Sheng, however, spoke with a smile: "Future generations enjoy the benefits from the hard work of predecessors. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable could create the superior fighting soul battlefield because he used the foundation created by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, it is only to be expected. But he was too kind of a person, he weakened Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's killing intent, even though it seems superior, it lost all hope of going a step further."
Saying this, the battlefield changed again.
Feng Jiu Ge's expression changed: "So this is not soul taker battlefield, it is a battlefield killer move that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable created in his later years — Hundred Million Slaughterfield!"
Chapter 899: Twin Polar Sea Strait, Song Jia Dan
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Eastern Sea, Song clan's headquarters, Heavy Water blessed land.
"Grandpa, you have to avenge me!" Song Yi Shi charged into the study room, stomping her feet and throwing a tantrum to the rank eight Gu Immortal Song Qi Yuan.
Song Qi Yuan and some rank seven Gu Immortal elders were discussing matters of the clan.
But Song Yi Shi barged in directly like this.
Song Qi Yuan turned around slowly, he showed no anger on his face as he smiled kindly: "My sweet granddaughter, how do you want grandpa to avenge you?"
Song Yi Shi did not find it strange that her grandfather knew about this, in fact, if Song Qi Yuan did not know about it, that would be the strange thing.
Before this young female Gu Immortal came, she had already thought of an answer, she gritted her teeth: "Grandpa, strike directly and capture him alive, I will deal with him after that."
At the same time, she thought inwardly: "I will dig out this old lecher's eyes out first, then I will pull out his tendons and his skin, I will carve out his bones and make his flesh rot, he will be in so much pain, I will make him regret everything that he has done!"
Song Qi Yuan nodded, he did not hesitation, he agreed: "That is a good method, but…"
He dragged his words out, Song Qi Yuan changed the course of the conversation as he showed a difficult expression: "Grandpa has something important to do now, I cannot leave, why don't I get your uncle, Song Xia Qi, to help you?"
Song Yi Shi's eyes shined, she forget her own situation, she thought of something as she asked excitedly: "Grandpa, is it regarding Ascending Heaven Plain?"
Song Qi Yuan did not hide it from her, he admitted: "That's right! Ascending Heaven Plain's exact location has already become an open secret among most Eastern Sea Gu Immortals. In Ascending Heaven Plain, there is Old Eccentric Tian Nan's inheritance. This time, grandpa will lead the clan's Gu Immortals to compete against Cai clan and Ruo Lai clan, to try to obtain Old Eccentric Tian Nan's inheritance."
Old Eccentric Tian Nan, a refinement path supreme grandmaster from the Remote Antiquity Era, he was on par with Old Immortal Kong Jue and Long Hair Ancestor over the course of history.
According to historical records, Old Eccentric Tian Nan had a strange personality, he attempted to refine the immemorial nine heavens and ended up dying after failing.
Even though Song Yi Shi was spoiled since she was young, she understood the bigger picture, she quickly replied: "Go and deal with that, grandpa, make sure you utterly defeat them both! You do not need to worry about my matter, but just uncle Song Xia Qi isn't enough, I want uncle Song Jia Dan to help me once, to deduce the location of that old lecher."
"Haha, my dear granddaughter. Alright, take this token and go to twin polar sea strait, and find your uncle Song Jia Dan." Saying so, Song Qi Yuan tossed a token to her.
Song Yi Shi quickly caught it and showed a joyful expression, she turned around and left, not even saying a word of goodbye.
Twin polar sea strait was covered in a thick layer of fog all year round.
In the air, Song Yi Shi stopped, seeing the fog in front of her, she felt a little troubled, she turned to the middle aged Gu Immortal beside her: "Uncle Xia Qi, how do we get in?"
Song Xia Qi's body was filled with a vigorous aura, he smiled lightly and said: "Didn't your grandfather give you a token? Little Yi Shi, you just need to take out the token and your uncle Jia Dan will sense it."
Song Yi Shi held the token high up in the air.
A moment later, the fog in front of her started to disperse, a small tunnel appeared, it directly connected to the inside of twin polar sea strait.
Song Yi Shi and Song Xia Qi entered the tunnel and stepped into twin polar sea strait, meeting Song Jia Dan.
Song Jia Dan was a wisdom path Gu Immortal that Song clan had specially nurtured.
He stayed on the cliff of twin polar sea strait normally, his upper body was already old and weak, his lower body had been petrified, his legs seemed to have fused with twin polar sea strait.
"Uncle Jia Dan!" Song Yi Shi called out.
Since birth, she had only met the Gu Immortal Song Jia Dan a handful of times, but that did not affect her admiration towards Song Jia Dan.
Song Jia Dan had sacrificed his own freedom for the clan. Ever since he became a wisdom path Gu Immortal, he had sat here, using his special wisdom path inheritance to fuse with the world. Because of this, Song Jia Dan's deductions and schemes were very brilliant. Every time Song clan had important matters, they would ask him to help and deduce their upcoming fortunes.
Right now in the world of Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals, he was publicly recognized as one of the three most capable wisdom path Gu Immortals.
The saying goes: Jia Dan sits in twin polar, Hua An hides in Nan Gong, there is also Dragon Head Tortoise, living inside adversity sea.
Song Jia Dan had already opened his eyes, he looked at Song Yi Shi and Song Xia Qi expressionlessly.
He wanted to smile, but his face was hard like a statue, his muscles were stiff and could show no expression, even if he opened his mouth, he could only speak very slowly and with much difficulty: "Little Shi, cousin Xia Qi, it has been a long time."
"Uncle Jia Dan, I am here to ask you to deduce the location of an enemy. This is his appearance, and the aura that I collected." Song Yi Shi passed two Gu worms to him.
"Let me look at the command token first." Song Jia Dan spoke slowly. Even though he was familiar with Song Yi Shi and Song Xia Qi, he was to be impartial, to make a deduction, he needed to see Song Qi Yuan's command token first.
After checking that the token was authentic, Song Jia Dan opened his mouth, a suction force made both of the Gu worms from Song Yi Shi go into his mouth.
He shut his eyes and started deducing.
A long while later, he opened his eyes, perplexion shined in his eyes: "I could not deduce anything."
"What?" At once, not only Song Xia Qi who was in anticipation, but even Song Yi Shi, who was very confident, showed immense shock.
"Uncle, you are one of the three best wisdom path Gu Immortals in Eastern Sea, how can you fail the deduction?" Song Yi Shi asked.
"Little Shi, don't be anxious." Song Xia Qi's expression turned heavy: "Elder cousin Jia Dan, the other party is only a rank six lone cultivator that came from Northern Plains, with your wisdom path attainment, you could not deduce anything?"
Song Jia Dan was still expressionless, he spoke slowly: "Is it strange that I could not deduce anything? I am merely rank seven, even though I have some fame, that is all flattery by nosy people. In the end, I am but a tiny worm in this vast world, all I can do is to predict some premonitions of impending storms. Compared to the world, I am insignificant like an ant, compared to the grand heroes in this world, I merely control a tiny domain."
Song Xia Qi smiled bitterly: "Cousin, you are still so humble."
Song Jia Dan said: "I am not humble, but as I continue to fuse with this world unceasingly, every time I advance in wisdom path, I can see the glorious view ahead more clearly. The more I learn about the secrets of this world, the more I am aware of my own insignificance. Thus, I am not being humble, I am just being truthful, I am aware of my own status."
Song Yi Shi was discontent: "Even if uncle Jia Dan cannot deduce it, you are still the smartest person, you can surely give a good suggestion."
Song Jia Dan was silent for a while, he said: "There are two possible reasons why I could not deduce it. The first is that the other party is not in Eastern Sea. The second, they have wisdom path techniques that can conceal them from my deductions. Or maybe they could find other wisdom path Gu Immortals to help them evade my deductions."
Song Yi Shi and Song Xia Qi looked at each other.
These two reasons were very far-fetched.
The first reason, if this old lecher Xing Xiang Zi was not in Eastern Sea, where could he be? Right now, the earth tide was over, how could he return to Northern Plains?
The second reason, how could Xing Xiang Zi resist Song Jia Dan's wisdom path attainment? If he had help, this person would need to be at least at Song Jia Dan's level? Was it Nan Gong clan's Gu Immortal Hua An, or Dragon Head Tortoise Immortal in adversity sea who helped him?
"Uncle Jia Dan, deduce it again. Maybe you just happened to fail!" Song Yi Shi requested as she pouted.
Song Jia Dan directly rejected this: "No, the clan has an important mission, we have to obtain Old Eccentric Tian Nan's inheritance. I need to preserve my strength, and prepare my methods, to deduce for this in a few days time."
"Uncle Jia Dan, you did not originally put in all your effort!" Song Yi Shi heard this and said unhappily.
"Alright, you can leave now." Song Jia Dan shut his eyes slowly.
Song Yi Shi was ignored, she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet, helplessly turning around and leaving.
To fight for Ascending Heaven Plain's control, to fight for Old Eccentric Tian Nan's inheritance, it was a project that the clan had been planning for a hundred years. Pursuing Xing Xiang Zi was just her own personal business.
Even though Song Yi Shi was pampered and spoiled, she could see the big picture and cared for the clan's progress, she was not an ignorant fool.
Central Continent, Hu Immortal blessed land, an underground cave.
Fang Yuan was bathed in the light of wisdom, he shut his eyes as the star thoughts in his mind shined, he quietly deduced some important things.
Last time, he used the light of wisdom to deduce the immortal killer moves, star fire escape and projected star thought.
Thus, Fang Yuan currently controlled six star path immortal killer moves in total.
Star cloud grindstone, star snake rope, six illusion star bodies, position star swap, star fire escape and projected star thought.
Among them, star fire escape was a movement killer move, it was used extensively in escaping the chase from Song Yi Shi. As for projected star thought, it was the investigative immortal killer move that Fang Yuan used to expose the immortal zombie Sha Nan Jiang's traces.
These two killer moves were originally incomplete. They were concepts that predecessors of Star Lord Wan Xiang had left behind in the star path inheritance, they had encountered difficulties during the deductions and could not progress to complete the killer moves.
Fang Yuan's star path attainment was only ordinary, normally under such a situation, these incomplete moves would only be useful as reference to him.
But since he had the rank nine wisdom Immortal Gu, he could use the light of wisdom and gain unlimited inspiration, he got over the difficulty of a low star path attainment level, he forcefully completed the killer moves.
"It is a pity, in the short time I had, completing star fire escape and projected star thought was my limit. After all, I have only three star path Immortal Gu now. Of course, most importantly, my star path attainment level is too low. Eh?"
At this time, a moving perspective cup Gu appeared in Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.
The information in the Gu came from Lang Ya land spirit.
"Lang Ya land spirit has finally completed the relocation of Lang Ya blessed land, he can lend that set of Immortal Gu to me now!"
Fang Yuan was overjoyed.
This time, he purposely returned to Central Continent from Eastern Sea, it was to wait for Lang Ya land spirit's news and to relocate Star Form blessed land.
In Fang Yuan's plans, Star Form blessed land was very important.
Once the truth that he was the culprit of the incident in Northern Plains becomes exposed, he would have to escape for his life.
By then, Hu Immortal blessed land would face disaster. If he was still an immortal zombie and could not produce immortal essence, then Star Form blessed land would be his sole secret base.
However, Hei Lou Lan knew about Star Form blessed land's location. If Hei Lou Lan knew, Fairy Li Shan also knew.
Fang Yuan was a vigilant person, now that he was Star Form blessed land's owner, he naturally had to relocate Star Form blessed land to a place that only he knew.
Chapter 900: Borrowing Gu from Lang Ya Land Spirit
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Fang Yuan did not hesitate, he immediately used Fixed Immortal Travel to go to Lang Ya blessed land.
Lang Ya blessed land had already undergone a huge change.
In the vast sea, three continents were facing each other. In the air, there was a fourth continent made from cloud soil.
Because there was an intense battle that destroyed much of the blessed land, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had helped and restored most of it to its original state.
Even though Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not participate in the battle, he helped repair the blessed land after the battle, he earned quite a sum as well.
Of course, because some Immortal Gu that made up Refinement Cauldron were gone, the space in the blessed land shrank. Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not have the power to restore the missing space and everything that was in them.
The twelve cloud buildings had been rebuilt by Lang Ya land spirit, split up across the cloud soil continent. In addition, there were many hairy man Gu Masters surrounding the twelve cloud buildings, reconstructing even more buildings.
"I intend to create twelve cloud cities centered upon the twelve cloud buildings. This cloud soil continent in the sky will become the new living area for elite hairy men." After Lang Ya land spirit saw Fang Yuan, he explained this.
Fang Yuan nodded in agreement.
Because Lang Ya blessed land lost a number of Immortal Gu, the space inside shrunk by a lot. And because there were many hairy men living in the blessed land, they were reaching the limit of the three continents. Thus, in this situation, a new area to allow the hairy men to live and propagate was needed.
But Lang Ya land spirit's next words shocked Fang Yuan.
"Other than this, I have also established Lang Ya Sect! This sect system will use Central Continent as a reference, I will be the sect's first supreme elder, and the hairy man Gu Immortals will be the other supreme elders. My previous self was too foolish, he used these precious Gu Immortals for Gu refinement. Hmph! To fulfill the dominance of hairy men, bloodshed is necessary."
"Next, I will start training these hairy man Gu Immortals, nurturing their battle talents. Once they have sufficient strength to protect themselves, I will send them out of the blessed land, and let them complete all kinds of sect missions."
"Also, under my influence, the three continents in the sea will erupt in war! From among them, three kings will be chosen, and they will create three kingdoms on their respective continents. The kingdoms will fight against each other, and each year, my Lang Ya Sect will pick the most elite hairy men from these three kingdoms, and send the elite hairy men to the continent in the clouds, they will become the foundation of Lang Ya Sect. Furthermore, I will choose a rank five peak stage hairy man Gu Master as the sect leader of Lang Ya Sect!"
The new Lang Ya land spirit was completely different from the previous one, maybe he was affected by the attack of Qin Bai Sheng, but Lang Ya land spirit had decided to undertake a complete reform of Lang Ya blessed land, he used hard-handed methods and had the disposition of a conquering grand emperor.
Different emperors employ different styles of rulership, because of Lang Ya land spirit's change, the hairy men that were living in the lower tiers were undergoing turmoil and difficulties from war, their peaceful and serene lifestyles were not to return.
"Lang Ya land spirit used such a cruel method to choose the most outstanding hairy men. But this method is simply too wasteful."
Fang Yuan felt some pity, there were bound to be large numbers of sacrifices during war.
He felt quite a loss inwardly, he might as well use these hairy men for Gu refinement.
But Fang Yuan would not say these words openly, he could only mutter in his mind.
From Lang Ya land spirit's perspective, hairy men were the most outstanding creatures of all, humans and all other variant humans were underneath them.
Fang Yuan raised hairy men and used them as slaves for Gu refinement. If Lang Ya land spirit knew this, he would not accept it, he might even fall out with Fang Yuan.
Thus, even though Fang Yuan lacked knowledge and experience of raising hairy men, in the previous discussions regarding the compensation of defending Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan did not attempt to request this even though he knew that Lang Ya land spirit had extremely precious knowledge of how to nurture hairy men.
"But at this rate, Lang Ya blessed land would undergo a huge reform, the hairy men would start working hard and their battle strengths will rise drastically. Maybe this happened in my previous life, after such a transformation in Lang Ya blessed land, it managed to endure seven waves of attacks."
"But this Lang Ya blessed land has hidden undercurrents deep beneath the surface, even though two hairy man Gu Immortal traitors were exposed, we can't be sure that there will not be a third or fourth traitor among the rest. The methods of Qin Bai Sheng that can develop traitors to this extent in here are really unimaginable."
Fang Yuan thought about this as he told Lang Ya land spirit his intentions.
Lang Ya land spirit was slightly shocked, he asked again: "Oh? You want to borrow my set of Immortal Gu now and relocate your blessed land? I remember I told you this set of Immortal Gu will not be cheap. Even on the basis that you fought against strong enemies for us, I told you that you will still need to pay two thousand immortal essence stones?"
Fang Yuan took out two thousand immortal essence stones, handing them to the land spirit: "Look, I've prepared them already."
Lang Ya land spirit was greatly shocked, he received the immortal essence stones as he inspected Fang Yuan, his gaze slightly changing.
He knew Fang Yuan's foundation and was very surprised: "This lad only ascended recently, he already has so many immortal essence stones?"
"Back then when he made transactions with my previous self, he had to earn immortal essence stones by deducing Immortal Gu recipes, it showed how poor he was. It seems that these immortal essence stones were mostly borrowed. That is bad if he owes people a huge sum, or even worse, favors."
Lang Ya land spirit shook his head, he did not approve of Fang Yuan's actions.
But he understood why.
He knew that Fang Yuan's crime was simply too absurd. Once it was exposed, he would be in a doomed situation, he would be chased to the ends of the world.
Thus, Fang Yuan had to relocate the blessed land.
But this point was also the main reason why Lang Ya land spirit wanted to gradually take in Fang Yuan and turn him into a lackey.
It was because Fang Yuan was under such a situation, he was faced with enemies everywhere, when he is left without a choice, he would have to join the hairy men, and become a traitor of the humans.
But what Lang Ya land spirit did not know was — he was completely wrong!
These two thousand immortal essence stones were actually Fang Yuan's own savings.
Fang Yuan was rich now, very rich!
He earned one hundred and eighty immortal essence stones from his first transaction of guts Gu with Spirit Affinity House.
After the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention, Fang Yuan displayed formidable Gu refinement talent, He Feng Yang personally invited him to go to Immortal Crane Sect and take a look, this was a change in attitude of Immortal Crane Sect towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan owned Hu Immortal blessed land now, he had room to maneuver between Immortal Crane Sect and Spirit Affinity House.
As his situation became much easier, and as he considered the dangers of being chased down, Fang Yuan decided to increase the production of guts Gu.
Once he made this decision, the profits that he earned from guts Gu each month reached a total of three hundred immortal essence stones!
And don't forget, after Fang Yuan took over Star Form blessed land, he even obtained Star Lord Wan Xiang's four sources of revenue. He even went ahead and established the trade of regretful spiders with Western Desert's Xiao clan.
With a total of six sources of revenue, he earned over a thousand immortal essence stones each month!
There were still the dragonfish and eerie fire dragon pythons that had not entered the market yet. If he included these two, Fang Yuan's initial estimation was that his monthly profit would reach a total of one thousand and five hundred!
Two months had already passed since Fang Yuan became the owner of Star Form blessed land.
He naturally had more than two thousand immortal essence stones in his current possession.
Thinking of back then, when he had just become an immortal, he had to calculate every single stone, looking at prices carefully, he even had to think of how to efficiently use half an immortal essence stone. But now he had over a thousand immortal essence stones of profit a month, he had truly progressed greatly and taken a huge step forward.
He took a really huge step, but Lang Ya land spirit did not know about it, even though he was already thinking highly of Fang Yuan, he was still very wrong.
Even though Fang Yuan was an immortal zombie with the lowest cultivation level, his immortal essence stone profits approached the level of rank seven Gu Immortals.
After paying two thousand immortal essence stones, Fang Yuan and Lang Ya land spirit used an information path immortal killer move to form an agreement.
Eventually, Fang Yuan gave the land spirit two Immortal Gu as collateral before he successfully borrowed a set of Immortal Gu used to relocate blessed lands, there were sixteen of them.
Fang Yuan moved without resting, he used Fixed Immortal Travel and returned to Star Form blessed land.
Star Form blessed land had three desolate beast spinefin star dragonfish, Fang Yuan had already seen them before, he did not hesitate, he chose the strongest one.
He first moved around the spinefin star dragonfish, using methods to inspect the dragonfish's size, bone structure, flesh, blood, and other aspects.
After confirming that the spinefin star dragonfish was in a good state, Fang Yuan sat in the air as he shut his eyes while facing the desolate beast.
The spinefin star dragonfish had been tamed since long ago, it obediently floated in the air without moving. Its fish-like eyes that were large as horse carriages shined with some starlight, showing Fang Yuan's reflection from within.
Fang Yuan's was calm, but he gradually started getting excited in his mind.
Countless star thoughts moved like fireflies filling the endless sky, dancing around in the small area of his mind.
These star thoughts split into two portions.
One portion occupied the right part of his mind, forming a three dimensional image of the spinefin star dragonfish.
The other portion was at the left side, forming the image of Star Form blessed land.
After completing this step, Fang Yuan breathed in deeply as he activated his immortal essence, injecting them into the wisdom path Immortal Gu that he had borrowed, and according to the method that the land spirit gave him, he started deducing.
Two lumps of star thoughts flew rapidly, they collided intensely and created a star cloud storm in his mind.
In the storm, countless star thoughts flashed continuously, some joined together while others disintegrated.
One day, two days, three days… in Star Form blessed land, after a total of seven days and six nights, Fang Yuan, who was extremely exhausted, opened his eyes slowly.
One hundred and sixty thousand star thoughts had been used up in his mind. He even spent sixty-six beads of immortal essence to activate the wisdom path Immortal Gu.
After paying such a huge price, Fang Yuan obtained two sets of Gu formation charts.
Among these two Gu formation charts, one was big and one was small.
The bigger Gu formation chart reflected Star Form blessed land, it had eight formation cores. The smaller Gu formation chart reflected the spinefin star dragonfish, there were four formation cores. Each of the formation cores needed a specific Immortal Gu, in total, both Gu formation charts needed twelve Immortal Gu.