Chapter 2368: Fang Yuan VS Star Constellation

Fang Yuan's Great Love Alliance's teamwork was akin to a beehive or ant nest. Labor and roles were divided based on the capabilities and skillsets of the workers.

The Fang Clan had transitioned into a clan full of thieves and bandits that roam the Western Dessert stealing Resource points, hence Fang Yuan tasked them to plunder the Grotto Heaven, killing or capturing the inhabitants along the way.

The Wu Clan on the other hand were more scholarly and would therefore do a better job cataloging and obtaining True Inheritances or even True Meaning!

Fang Yuan severely needs a boost in all attainments and, having a stable foundation could never hurt.

The other Venerables could only look on with envy, but they knew the true goal.

Reckless Savage's True Inheritance!

No one knew the specific contents of this Inheritance, but they knew it had to be special for Reckless to raise so many lifeforms and even use the Secluded Domain of Heaven and Earth Upslope Road and Downslope Road.

Although the Legends of Ren Zu never mentioned the specific Paths of any of the Secluded Domain of Heaven and Earth, for the most part, they were guessable.

For example, the Doors of Life and Death touched upon the Dao of Life, Death, and Reincarnation.

But inside the Doors of Life and Death were Soul Path Domains such as Luo Po Valley, Bewitching Lake, and Dang Hun Mountain.

However, there was some Secluded Domain of Heaven and Earth that did not seem to follow a set path, things like Reverse Flow River, and now Upslope Road and Downslope Road had seemingly no connection to any path.

This has puzzled many Gu Cultivators across the world and to this day remains a mystery.

"Last time I came here I could not investigate clearly but even now I still can't discern the true nature of Upslope Road and Downslope Road" Fang Yuan was busy pondering.

Suddenly on the board, a fight was breaking out.

It was between the Fang Clan and one of the Supreme Leaders of the 10 Great Ancient Sects, Chen Ji of Myriad Dragon Dock!

Chen Ji was an old man who looked to be in his late 80s.

His back was slightly hunched, and he held a walking stick in his hand though he could fly.

It was a very peculiar sight to see.

Chen Ji specialized in Qi Path and in his day was considered one of the greatest Qi Path prodigies in a generation.

In his youth, he was recruited by Heavenly Court where he was even given a part of Primordial Origin's true Inheritance!

He dutifully served his years in Heavenly Court and decided that he would return to his Sect to impart his wisdom and leave his own legacy behind for future generations.

The Fang Clan force he encountered only had 5 people, they were all between Rank 6 with the leader being Rank 7.

"Hehehe, I didn't expect to run into prey this easily, I guess my luck is pretty good." The old man's life sent alarms ringing into the ears of the Fang Clan members.

The leader, Fang Pi, was not a very brave man and was intimidated: "Quickly enter the Gu House now!"

Fang Pi then brought the newly advanced Rank 8 Chicken Dog Coop!

Of course, Fang Yuan had invested quite a bit of resource into this operation, namely upgrading all the Gu Houses used by the Fang Clan.

Chicken Dog Coop was originally a Rank 7 Enslavement Path Gu House that only enslave the Desolate Chicken Beast.

But after being upgraded to Rank 8 it now could control Immemorial Desolate Beasts!

Recently because the River of Time was so chaotic there was no longer any specific season of Year Beasts, the River was flooded with many different Year Beasts including the Chicken Year Beast.

With a combination of Luck and brute force, Fang Yuan had managed to capture 13 Chicken Immemorial Year Beasts for the Fang Clan!

This was meant to be a trump card for their escapades in the Western Desert, but the circumstances forced their hand to be shown now.

An Immemorial Chicken Year Beast was released alongside many other Ancient and Desolate Beast.

Chen Ji's face darkened.

If it were an ordinary group of Rank 6s and 7s he would be able to kill them all without even breaking a sweat but with the release of these Chicken Beast, he would have to exert some effort.

Immortal Killer Move --------- Qi Accumulation

The boundless Qi in the air surged onto Chen Ji.

Qi Accumulation allowed the user to draw in the most abundant type of Qi onto oneself.

In the case of Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, it was Strength Qi!

Chen Ji soon grew muscular, and his clothes ripped from his bulging biceps and ripped chest.

The once hunched over 160 cm man had become a hulking 180 cm buff man.

Inside the Chicken Dog Coop.

"What the shit." Fang Pi was sweating.

"Sir, should we release our other method?" A rank 6 asked.

Fang Pi thought about it, but he remembered the commands given: "No stick to the plan, activate the signal, and let's start retreating."

The Gu house had just begun to move when Chen Ji ripped the heads of a large Desolate Chicken as if it was nothing.

"Retreat faster!!!" Fang Pi screamed at the dazed Gu Immortals.

On the Chessboard, the 4 Venerables were paying close attention to the situation as it unfolded.

Since the first battle had begun the Venerables attention was focused after all it was a fight between Fang Yuan and Star Constellation.

"Truly admirable friend Fang Yuan, your subordinates have made great progress in the art of shamelessness," Star Constellation remarked in a friendly manner but all those who heard her voice could tell of her sarcasm.

"To not only stall by sacrificing mobs but to then run and call for backup at the same time, truly a tale of the cautionary man," Star Constellation said as she gave him a slow clap.

"Haha, friend Star Constellation, I had spent my entire life on the run to escape the clutches of those stronger than me, I have been used abused, treated like a tool but look at me now. So, what if you run and lose face and honor but it's better than losing your life."

"Besides I'm sure you know how decisive I can be," Fang Yuan smirk subtle implying to her about the events regarding Qi Sea Ancestor and Primordial Origin.

Star Constellation of course was not fazed by comments at this level.

She merely kept her smile.

At the same time, the fight was growing intense!

As the Fang Clan members were not even a tenth of the distance toward the Great Love Alliance HQ, Chen Ji had just finished killing the Immemorial Chicken Year Beast.

The Blood Covering his face and chest made him look very sinister.

"Come back here," Chen Ji flew at breaking speeds toward their destination.

Unbeknownst to Chen Ji, there were signatures converging on their location from the Chess Board.

One was the other 4 Fang Clan members, all rank 7, this was the group that was given Thieves Den, in addition, they were granted another Gu House to keep Thieves Den safe, Fallen Flowers Hall!

They went in the opposite direction from this group and would arrive in 20 minutes.

The other was Fang Gong!

He was back at HQ and upon receiving the alert he promptly flew out to rescue his Clansman he had also brought some Shen Clan Rank 7s just in case it was an ambush.

Fang Gong would arrive within 30 Minutes.

The other Venerables sighed at the excellent usage of men that Fang Yuan displayed, his HQ was situated near the center of the Grotto Heaven allowing him to never be too far from any of his subordinates.

In addition, his subordinates were always in teams allowing them to make up for their individual weaknesses.

To make matters more troubling they had a Rank 8 Inquiry Dock stationed in there which allowed them to not only easily receive communication from one another but even intercept signals!

This was a big reason why Fang Yuan wanted to obtain more Investigative Path attainments.

'Know the Enemy and Know oneself and you need not fear the results of 100 battles' this famous saying has stuck with Fang Yuan since his days on Earth.

Fang Yuan had a very detailed account of his own strength, he knew the areas he was weak in and was confident in the areas he excelled in, but he was never reliant on just one specialty.

Although the most reliable person is yourself, it is impossible for one man to achieve many things.

Star Constellation was deep in thought, she had long predicted that this encounter would happen in fact, everything was roughly within her plans.

She knew that the enemy would retreat at the sight of an enemy, and she knew they would take the shortest path back to the Great Love Alliance HQ.

She had also anticipated that backup might come from the Great Love Alliance HQ, so she had placed a Bishop near where Fang Gong was approaching.

Once Fang Gong stepped in range, she could choose to activate the move, but she was still unsure about it.

It was currently her turn, after her would-be Spectral Soul's turn and after his move, it would be Fang Yuan, who could easily counter her move with his own.

So, she estimated that she could delay Fang Gong by only an additional 10 minutes at least.

But would it be enough? Would it even be possible for Chen Ji to kill the Fang Clan members?

If she wasted a move for no reason, it would severely put her on the backpedal.

As Fang Gong stepped onto the Bishop Star Constellation chose…

Not to activate it.

The cons outweighed the benefits.

In the best possible scenario, she could think of, only the 5 low-rank Fang Clan members would die, and they may even choose to self-detonate on Chen Ji to injure him.

With Fang Yuan's use of Regret Gu, it was no doubt he could obtain back the Immortal Gu he destroyed.

And it was also a possibility that Chen Ji would lose his life to Fang Gong.

Star Constellation moved her Bishop elsewhere and ended her turn.

Seeing her action Fang Yuan smiled: "Shall we call this encounter a draw then?"

Star Constellation merely ignored his comment, while Fang Yuan continued to smile.

After Spectral Soul moved it was now Fang Yuan's turn.

By this time strangely Fang Yuan's 8 Pawns had all been moved to the Great Love HQ and now 4 of them were missing implying he used them but on what?

"Strange, when did he use them, it couldn't be now so it must have been around or so ago but what could he have used them on?" Star Constellation was busy pondering.

No matter what she could not figure out what Fang Yuan would use four of his Rank 5 moves on.

Fang Yuan moved his Rook a few spaces behind where Chen Ji was.

This greatly shocked all the Venerables on the board, a Rook was a Rank 7 Killer Move! They only had 2 such moves this whole game and Fang Yuan who was already down 4 Pawns was using it his Rook now?

It sent many alarms in the head of the 3 Venerables.

Especially Star Constellation.

"What is the planning," Star Constellation was completely focused on deducing the reasoning behind his moves.

Fang Yuan merely sat back and smirked.

Giant Sun was also stumped at what to do so he used his allocated time to ponder, each Venerable can only spend 10 minutes per turn, after 5 minutes Giant Sun just sighed and made his premeditated move forgoing what Fang Yuan could be planning.

Anyway, it didn't affect him.

As it came to Star Constellation's turn the clock could be heard ticking away as each second became immensely precious.

She had 2 options, move another piece to counter Fang Yuan or let things play out and stall for time.

The Killer Moves can only be activated on that Venerable's turn, knowing Spectral Soul he would probably make his move quickly so that it could become Fang Yuan's turn thus, allowing him to activate his methods.

After all, it was a complete win for Spectral Soul who would have 2 opponents be reduced in strength.

Fang Yuan would lose a Rook and Star Constellation could potentially lose a Rank 8!

With Fang Gong so close, by the time Star Constellation's turn ended, the Fang Clan group will have arrived to back up the other team.

While Fang Gong would merely be 5 minutes away, once Fang Gong arrived Chen Ji's fate was probably doomed if she did not intervene.

2 minutes had passed Star Constellation only had 8 Minutes to make a decision!

Fang Yuan sat across smirking.