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If humans staked their all, their danger would naturally increase explosively.
In contrast, the blood path demonic immortal Zhao Pu was not willing to fight to the death, he just needed to delay some time and he could obtain victory.
As such, for a moment, Zhao Pu was instead suppressed by Zhao Lian Yun and Yu Yi Ye Zi.
However, Zhao Pu's battle experience was much greater than these two immortals of Central Continent.
He was extremely slippery, moving around all the time, Zhao Lian Yun and Yu Yi Ye Zi did everything they could but could not catch him at all.
As time passed, the situation inclined towards Zhao Pu.
Yu Yi Ye Zi was the first to weaken in his attacks.
He had been struck much earlier than Zhao Lian Yun and had suffered much greater injuries, now because of the high blood loss, he fell unconscious.
"Your friend might have died from blood loss, you are next. You also don't have much time, why aren't you attacking more frequently?" Zhao Pu laughed.
Zhao Lian Yun was in low spirits. She knew Zhao Pu was intentionally provoking her to disturb her mind, but she was unable to calm her mind and became more and more agitated.
Blood had started flowing out of her eyes, her sight was completely blurry and red.
More terrifyingly, blood was not only pouring out of her seven orifices, but also from the countless pores on her body.
"Damn it... damn it...." An intense dizziness constantly attacked Zhao Lian Yun, her whole body was starting to shake and waver.
Finally, Zhao Pu sent a long ranged attack which sent Zhao Lian Yun flying. She fell to the ground and rolled three times before stopping.
"Damn it!" Zhao Lian Yun pushed the ground with her hands and tried to stand up, but she had lost too much blood and had no strength left in her.
She could not even prop her body up anymore.
"It's over." Zhao Pu folded his arms across his chest, as he walked slowly towards Zhao Lian Yun and looked down at her.
Blood.
It was flowing out continuously from Zhao Lian Yun's body.
Soon, a pool of blood had formed around her.
Zhao Lian Yun had become a blood soaked person in this pool, blood was flowing down from her eyes along with her tears.
"Is it over..."
"This is where I fall."
"Blood... I am not in the least bit afraid this time, Hong Yun."
Zhao Lian Yun recalled a scene of the past.
That was during the fighting for Imperial Court.
Zhao Lian Yun had lost the protection of her father, and was unwillingly turned into a political chip to be married to Wei tribe's young master, and had no choice but to rely on Ma Hong Yun.
During one battle, Zhao Lian Yun was unfortunately shot in the thigh by a falling arrow.
Blood flowed.
"I am going to die, ahhh, so painful! I am going to die!" Zhao Lian Yun was lying inside a carriage, screaming and crying.
"Don't make a fuss, Lady Xiao Yun, you are not going to die. This is only a little injury." Ma Hong Yun proficiently dressed her injury while consoling her.
"Blood, so much blood! Don't you know I get dizzy at the sight of blood?! I have never suffered such a heavy injury." Zhao Lian Yun groaned.
"You, how could you be so squeamish? Injuries are normal for people of Northern Plains. Many times, the scars are a source of glory and symbol of our feats!"
Zhao Lian Yun rolled her eyes: "Do you know how to comfort people? Sigh, how could I be so unlucky..."
"Hahaha." Ma Hong Yun laughed loudly, carelessly using a bit more strength.
Zhao Lian Yun cried out in pain: "Aaahh! Be softer! Also, what are you laughing at. I have suffered such a serious injury and you seem to be very happy."
Ma Hong Yun quickly waved his hand, but was still laughing: "I'm not gloating, it is just that I feel Lady Xiao Yun is truly cute. You normally act like an elder, and fill people with awe. But only now do I truly feel you are a little sister younger than me."
"You are getting truly arrogant..." Zhao Lian Yun was just about to erupt, when suddenly, Ma Hong Yun touched her forehead.
Zhao Lian Yun was dazed. For some reason, she got a feeling of warmth.
Ma Hong Yun ignored her: "There is no fever, this is good. Lady Xiao Yun, you cannot be so squeamish. Suffering some injuries and letting out some blood is nothing. If you scream so loudly again, people will ridicule you."
Her recollection ended here.
"Ridicule?"
"You should not be able to ridicule me now, right?"
"You brat..."
"I really used up all my blood to save you."
"It is truly strange, I actually willingly sent myself to death for someone."
"So, even if I die, I am willing to do this!"
Such thoughts emerged in Zhao Lian Yun's mind.
"Die!" Zhao Pu gave a loud shout and pierced forward with his hand like a sharp knife.
A fatal blow!
If this battle struck true, it would pierce through Zhao Lian Yun's head like tofu.
But right at this time.
An intense radiance burst out from Zhao Lian Yun's body.
The radiance was so glaring that Zhao Pu had no choice but to close his eyes and step back.
"This is..."
"Why is there such a strong light?"
"Impossible! This aura... so powerful!"
"Ahhhhhhh——!"
Zhao Pu let out a miserable cry.
His whole body did not budge in the light. Soon, he was like the melting snow under a hot sun, completely destroyed.
At the crucial moment, love Immortal Gu showed its might once again, directly killing Zhao Pu!
Northern Plains, in the depths of Earth Trench.
"Ying Wu Xie, where will you hide now?!" Fang Yuan's sword dragon form roared in the Earth Trench, his voice, filled with killing intent, resounded everywhere.
Relying on qi luck sensation, Fang Yuan had moved at extreme speed and finally reached here.
From within the darkness, a giant city slowly rose up.
Ying Wu Xie was standing on top of the giant city.
"I have been waiting for quite some time." Ying Wu Xie spoke, his gaze tranquil and his tone indifferent.
"Hmph! Shi Nu is dead, you want to fight me with just you four and this mortal Gu house?" Fang Yuan sneered.
Dark Flow Giant City was huge and looked majestic, but it was only a mortal Gu house, not an Immortal Gu House.
It was not easy to form an Immortal Gu House. Shadow Sect possessed many Immortal Gu, but they also could not casually upgrade Dark Flow Giant City to an Immortal Gu House.
If they had an Immortal Gu House, Fang Yuan would feel a lot of apprehension.
Because the power of an Immortal Gu House increased with the amount of immortal essence expended. Fang Yuan had once used Giant Sun's immortal essence to control Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage and shined in the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain.
But Dark Flow Giant City was only a mortal Gu house, and it was absolutely not enough to put fear in Fang Yuan.
"Then what if you add me?" A second figure appeared on top of Dark Flow Giant City.
This person was only a rank six Gu Immortal, but he was an 'old acquaintance' of Fang Yuan.
It was the spy Shadow Sect had inserted in Lang Ya Sect, refinement path Gu Immortal Sixth Hair!
Fang Yuan's gaze became slightly dark.
Fang Yuan did not think much of Sixth Hair's strength. But Sixth Hair and Fang Yuan were members of Lang Ya Sect, both of them had an information path alliance agreement.
This made it extremely inconvenient for Fang Yuan to go against Sixth Hair, with just slight carelessness, he would suffer the backlash of the information path alliance agreement and be injured.
However, Fang Yuan had mentally prepared for Sixth Hair's appearance.
"Die!" Fang Yuan swung his dragon tail, directly charging forward.
Dark Flow Giant City quickly moved back, and at the same time, a battlefield killer move rose up and large numbers of yaksha octopuses closed in.
"Your status has already made Fang Yuan hesitate. We just need to delay some time and we can use Omni-directional Travel again." Ying Wu Xie patted Sixth Hair's shoulder.
"Lord, you should go take a rest, let me handle this." Sixth Hair said to Ying Wu Xie.
Ying Wu Xie nodded and entered Dark Flow Giant City.
It was a slaughterhouse.
Despite there being large numbers of yaksha octopuses, they were not a match for Fang Yuan.
The ancient sword dragon raised a bloody storm, rampaging around the battlefield.
Dark Flow Giant City was within his sight, but Fang Yuan did not dare to carelessly use dragon breath, it would be bad if he killed Sixth Hair by mistake.
It would be himself who would suffer instead.
He might even be counterattacked by Ying Wu Xie and the rest due to that and lose his life here.
Ying Wu Xie and the others were in a bad situation, but Fang Yuan was not blindly optimistic. He knew he had the upper hand, but was not yet able to turn it into crushing dominance.
Especially when there was Bai Ning Bing, who could turn into the Bai Xiang state, and Ying Wu Xie, who had lead soul into dream. Even though the former only had rank six cultivation and the latter's lead soul into dream was incomplete.
"Information path... when can I be free from its restrictions?"
Fang Yuan was vexed.
Information path was a pain that had repeatedly troubled him.
Fang Yuan had also tried hard, but lacking fortuitous encounters, he had not been able to solve this issue.
Sixth Hair presided over the battle, his strategy was not to win, but to not make any mistakes.
-x-X-x-
After Fang Yuan killed the wave of yaksha octopuses, wall climbing demon apes started to appear. These apes similarly were beasts of Earth Trench, not inferior to yaksha octopus.
After this wave of wall climbing demon apes was eliminated, Fang Yuan was attacked by a large group of red flame snakes.
"These beast groups were probably all controlled by Northern Plains' Zombie Alliance division. For example, yaksha octopuses probably belonged to the rank seven immortal zombie Dragon Commander Ye Cha."
"The Zombie Alliance divisions in other regions were all besieged, only on Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's end did they rely on Earth Trench to remain until now."
"Not only these desolate beasts, looking at Hei Lou Lan's performance earlier, there probably are Immortal Gu as well!"
"If so, I will have to re-evaluate the battle strength of Ying Wu Xie and the others. However, it is not possible to grasp immortal killer moves in a short period of time, with just Immortal Gu, when there is conflict between dao marks..."
Fang Yuan analyzed the situation while fighting.
At this time, a large group of horse desolate beasts galloped towards Fang Yuan.
These horses were extremely strange, they had a pair of sheep horns on their heads, their whole bodies looked like they were burnt charcoal, they were letting out dense smoke from their noses and their tails and limbs were burning with a dull red fire.
"Huh?"
"Dream path desolate beast nightmare demonic colt!"
Fang Yuan was stunned, before recognizing it shortly afterwards.
"So it seems, nightmare demonic colts had already appeared during this time period..."
"Moreover, in such high numbers!"
Fang Yuan was greatly joyous.
Nightmare demonic colts were a dream path desolate beast, this desolate beast was extremely common during his first life of five hundred years. But now at this time, it was extremely rare, Fang Yuan thought this horse had yet to appear.
Times changed, humans were changing and the world was also changing.
Many Gu materials were extinct, leading to the decline of strength path, qi path and other paths. Similarly, many new Gu materials were constantly formed.
Dream path.
This path had just begun to flourish near the end of Fang Yuan's first life. At present, the Gu Immortals were all researching it, although they made some gains, they were extremely small and almost could not be considered anything.
Only after a few hundred years would many dream path Gu materials start to appear, nightmare demonic colts were one of them.
Fang Yuan had thus believed nightmare demonic colts did not exist at this time. But this group of nightmare demonic colts made him realize his estimation was completely wrong!
"Good thing I was wrong! I must get these nightmare demonic colts!" Fang Yuan was extremely happy.
What did dream path desolate beasts signify?
Large amounts of dream path Gu materials!
Why was Fang Yuan painstakingly going deep into his own dreams?
It was to gather dream path materials!
If he had these nightmare demonic colts, Fang Yuan could cut the meat of these desolate horses and refine large numbers of dream path mortal Gu, and even dream path Immortal Gu!
When he was exploring the giant dream realm in Southern Border, why could he not use unravel dream as much as he liked? Why did he have to plan carefully every time he used it?
Simply put, wasn't it because he did not have enough dream path mortal Gu?
The efficiency of refining dream path mortal Gu alone was truly too low.
"These nightmare demonic colts are all mine!"
Fang Yuan started to capture these nightmare demonic colts.
His ancient sword dragon form was extremely fast, maneuvering around these nightmare demonic colts with no obstruction.
Fang Yuan was trying to knock these nightmare demonic colt unconscious, and then raise them in the sovereign immortal aperture.
However, Shadow Sect had clearly prepared for it and had made some arrangements on these nightmare demonic colts.
Fang Yuan tried hard, but finally discovered he could not capture these nightmare demonic colt alive, at most, he could kill them and obtain their corpses.
But even so, Fang Yuan had a huge harvest.
After killing these nightmare demonic colts, Fang Yuan then slaughtered the next few waves of desolate beast groups, among which were ancient desolate beasts as well.
Fang Yuan's battle strength was already at the upper layers of rank seven, whether it be the desolate beast groups or the battlefield killer move, they were not a threat to Fang Yuan.
Dark Flow Giant City did not have an endless supply of desolate beast groups.
After a while, Fang Yuan had killed all the beast groups, and he spent some time in breaking the battlefield killer move, wrecking Dark Flow Giant City.
However, a lot of his time had still been wasted, Ying Wu Xie and the others had already left.
Sixth Hair had remained behind, like Shi Nu, to hold back Fang Yuan.
Sixth Hair's cultivation could not compare to Shi Nu's, but he had a huge advantage.
He looked at Fang Yuan with no fear: "Do you dare to kill me?"
"What use is there in killing you? Wait till I kill Ying Wu Xie and let you fall into despair and suffering." Fang Yuan gave a sinister smile, as his dragon body ascended and flew out of Earth Trench.
The ashen faced Sixth Hair was left behind, along with the ruined Dark Flow city.
Northern Plains was extremely huge, even though they had Omni-directional Travel, Snowy Mountain blessed land was at the extreme north-west.
Omni-directional Travel could not be used continuously, while Ying Wu Xie was hurrying towards Snowy Mountain blessed land, Fang Yuan caught up to them once again.
"Let's see who will help you this time?" The ancient sword dragon rushed over.
Lead soul into dream!
Ying Wu Xie activated his immortal killer move.
Fang Yuan was hit again.
However, this dream realm was unexpectedly deep, he had to use unravel dream to break the dream realm and return to reality.
"What is going on?" Fang Yuan immediately sensed something fishy.
This was somewhat beyond what he had expected, causing him to suffer a minor loss.
Ying Wu Xie laughed: "I sacrificed all those nightmare demonic colts earlier. Do you think these dream path immortal materials can be taken so easily? I will give you advice, don't chase us, if you continue chasing, even if you have the upper extreme heavenly eagle, you will lose your life."
"Hmph, crafty guy!" Fang Yuan snorted.
Regardless of what intention Ying Wu Xie had, whether it was provocation or probing, Fang Yuan decided to give up chasing for now.
The dream realm was constantly pestering him, he had to get through the entirety of the dream realm, only then could he be completely free of worries.
Undoubtedly, lead soul into dream was truly troublesome. Even though Fang Yuan had unravel dream, he could not resolve it in one attempt, and had to pass through all the stages of the dream realm.
Inside the dream.
Southern Border, dawn.
The wet dew and the dense cloud-like mountain fog produced a depressing feeling.
The merchant caravan did not continue moving, moving in this dense fog on the mountain was very likely to create problems.
The young Fang Yuan was sitting beside a simple bed.
Gu Master Big Beard was lying on the bed, and was already on the verge of dying.
"Fang Yuan, thank you for the medicinal herbs." Gu Master Big Beard spoke with an extremely weak voice.
Fang Yuan was feeling extremely stifled, as he sobbed: "Uncle Big Beard, you will get better."
Gu Master Big Beard shook his head: "How could I not be clear of my injuries? Don't cry, child, crying is of no use to us."
"I was once young like you, and had big dreams."
"Unfortunately, my aptitude was too bad, and I finally sank into this current state."
"Hehe."
"This world is too big, while we are too small."
"When I was a child, I wanted to be a grand hero, like those legendary figures of the righteous path. When I was a youngster, I wanted to be a clan leader. When I was an adult, I was satisfied with becoming a clan elder. When I was a middle aged man, I was exiled from the clan, I felt that I could live by myself just as well, I was satisfied with just raising my Gu worms and myself."
"Do you know what I want now?"
Fang Yuan wept softly: "What?"
"I just want to quietly lie down inside a quiet room and slowly recall the past, until death comes to take me." Gu Master Big Beard had a self-mocking expression.
"Then, then should I leave?" Fang Yuan did not know what to do.
"Leave. Let me be here alone, I don't want others to see my dying appearance." Gu Master Big Beard said.
Fang Yuan slowly stood up and hesitantly walked to the door.
At this time, Gu Master Big Beard spoke once again: "You must have read <
"We are all minimen, and we all want to walk out of Ordinary Abyss."
"Oh..."
"You must continue on, Fang Yuan."
"Continue living, continue persevering."
"It is a pity that all my Gu were destroyed in the battle. This is my advice to you, my only gift. To us minor characters, crying is of no use, no one will hear us even if we shout, we can only persevere by ourselves."
"Persevere until you accomplish great feats, become extraordinary. Either that, or embrace death."
-x-X-x-
"Did we win?" Zhao Lian Yun had to use quite some effort to climb out of the blood pool.
Her injuries were severe, and she was blacking out.
Fortunately, Zhao Pu was already dead, and the blood drain immortal killer move on Zhao Lian Yun and Yu Yi Ye Zi also dissipated.
If it did not dissipate, Zhao Lian Yun and Yu Yi Ye Zi would undoubtedly follow Zhao Pu to death.
Huff, huff...
On the other side, Yu Yi Ye Zi was breathing roughly, standing up while leaning on the wall.
When he saw Zhao Lian Yun, this young Gu Immortal was dazed and turned pale: "Lian... Fairy Lian Yun... your face... no... your body..."
Yu Yi Ye Zi's eyes were wide open, and he stuttered, not knowing how to express himself.
Zhao Lian Yun felt strange, transmitting her voice: "What's wrong with me?"
She lowered her head to look at herself, the first thing she saw were her hands.
A pair of old and skinny hands.
Zhao Lian Yun's heart gave a jolt as she found she had unknowingly become an elderly woman!
Her back was bent, wrinkles covered her body, her sight was blurry and her hair had turned white.
"What's happening?" Zhao Lian Yun was shocked.
She grabbed her hair, easily pulling out strands of white hair. Her strong hair roots had degraded and become loose.
Yu Yi Ye Zi spoke with a heavy voice: "It is probably love Gu. Love Gu consumed your lifespan to burst out with the terrifying power that could directly kill Zhao Pu!"
"Is that so?" Zhao Lian Yun was dazed and at a loss.
Anyone who turned from the prime of their youth to an old and frail person the next moment, would definitely receive a huge shock in their mind.
"Yes." Yu Yi Ye Zi nodded, and consoled, "But you don't have to worry, you can restore your youth by using lifespan Gu. Normal Gu Immortals might not be able to gather lifespan Gu, but you are different, you are the current generation fairy of Spirit Affinity House, the sect will definitely provide you lifespan Gu."
Zhao Lian Yun did not reply.
She was feeling complicated emotions. Shock, disappointment, disbelief, dazedness.
She was an otherworldly demon, but even before transmigrating, she had not experienced becoming this old.
After a while of silence, Zhao Lian Yun finally recovered from the shock.
"I will continue going forward!"
"Old age doesn't matter, Hong Yun is still waiting for me."
Zhao Lian Yun gazed at the distant first snowy peak through the window, her gaze becoming resolute once more.
"You cannot continue!!" Yu Yi Ye Zi was shocked, quickly walking over to Zhao Lian Yun and holding her arm.
"Love Immortal Gu is powerful but it is not stable. Maybe it will take your lifespan the next time as well. If so, you will definitely die!" Yu Yi Ye Zi persuaded.
"So what if I die?" The old Zhao Lian Yun looked at the young Yu Yi Ye Zi with a slight smile.
Her smile was not even a little beautiful, but Yu Yi Ye Zi was dazed.
Then, Zhao Lian Yun softly drew back her arm.
She clearly did not use much strength, but Yu Yi Ye Zi felt a formless strength attacking his heart, letting him voluntarily release his hand.
He then quietly stood on the spot, looking at Zhao Lian Yun's hunched back, looking at her walking towards the outside of the hall with heavy and aged steps.
This scene was ordinary and nothing strange, but Yu Yi Ye Zi felt an intense tremor in his heart.
He even subconsciously held his breath, as Zhao Lian Yun's weak receding figure imprinted deeply in him at this moment.
"What kind of spirit is this!"
"For her love, she is willing to make sacrifices, unafraid of death and destruction."
"Zhao Lian Yun, I would have definitely died in Zhao Pu's hands without you."
"Alright, let me follow you, at worst, this life will be paid to you!"
Yu Yi Ye Zi was not old, he was still hot-blooded, and after firming up his mind, he quickly followed Zhao Lian Yun.
There was not much immortal essence left in her phantom aperture, Zhao Lian Yun was also worried that recklessly summoning love Immortal Gu would spend what little remained of her lifespan. As such, she chose to walk down the peak.
Under the effect of the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation, Zhao Lian Yun and Yu Yi Ye Zi separated, and she alone went to another snowy peak.
There was still a large hall at the peak, and the atmosphere was quiet.
"There was a battle here!" Zhao Lian Yun slowly walked to the hall, finding the inside of the hall in ruins, signs of an intense battle were everywhere.
"Fairy Lian Yun?" A voice suddenly transmitted to Zhao Lian Yun's ears.
Zhao Lian Yun was slightly dazed, before shortly recognizing the voice as that water path Gu Immortal, Mu Ling Lan's voice.
"This is the eighth peak of Snowy Mountain blessed land, I fought with the owner of this peak, Xiao Fei Fei, and now, we are both wounded."
"We are both hiding right now, healing our injuries as quickly as possible."
"You need to be careful, don't be hit by her ability. She has an immortal killer move which can cause the target to continuously lose their memories."
Just as he finished speaking, a ray of strange light flew and struck Zhao Lian Yun's forehead.
"No!" Mu Ling Lan quickly called out, "Every time you lose your memory, the related memory will float in your mind. Use Immortal Gu to defend yourself, don't use any immortal killer moves, that would be even more dangerous. If you forget an immortal killer move by any chance, you will suffer the backlash from the immortal killer move. Persevere, wait until I heal my injuries and recover some strength to fight!"
Zhao Lian Yun quickly agreed.
She hid in a corner and used Immortal Gu to protect herself, then waited for the killer move to activate.
"Damn it!" Zhao Lian Yun gradually felt unease. She knew her situation, she had just recently become a Gu Immortal, most of her battles came from during her training time. It would be an extremely huge blow to her if the memories of this period were erased.
Memories began to surface in her mind...
Northern Plains.
Ma tribe was defeated, and surrendered to Hei tribe.
"I didn't think we could still live, Lady Xiao Yun!" Ma Hong Yun held Zhao Lian Yun's hands and spun round and round on the spot, "Hahaha."
"Let me down, you big fool!" Zhao Lian Yun shouted.
...
Imperial Court blessed land.
"You, kid, are truly lucky, you actually became Chang tribe's son-in-law, hahaha." Zhao Lian Yun patted Ma Hong Yun's shoulder.
Ma Hong Yun chuckled while scratching his hair: "Lady Xiao Yun, don't worry, you have helped me so much, I will treat you well."
Zhao Lian Yun gave a sound of acknowledgement and nodded: "Then I will rely on you."
Inside, however, she felt strange: Why do I have some feelings of loss and bitterness?
...
Inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
"To think that you are an otherworldly demon! You are actually lurking by Ma Hong Yun's side! Hehehe, you have such guts, you are really daring. Unfortunately... you met me." Giant Sun's will exuded strong killing intent.
Zhao Lian Yun felt like she had fallen in an ice cave, shouting in her mind: "Damn it, there is still such an obstacle? Transmigrators are otherworldly demons? This world is too big of a trap! Oh no, my death is certain this time!! I am actually going to die here?"
But the next moment, Ma Hong Yun stood in front of Zhao Lian Yun.
He spread open his arms, protecting Zhao Lian Yun behind him.
"Boy, you want to protect an otherworldly demon?" Giant Sun's will sharpened his tone, his expression becoming ice-cold.
"What otherworldly demon! I don't know any otherworldly demon, I only know she is Lady Xiao Yun, without her help, I would likely have been killed already." Ma Hong Yun tried his best to defend Zhao Lian Yun.
Zhao Lian Yun's pupils shrunk as she looked at Ma Hong Yun in a daze.
"Even against Giant Sun's will, this fellow will still stand up for me?"
"Why?"
"I am clearly an otherworldly demon, and not a person of this world!"
"You idiot, you are going to die. By protecting me, you are offending Giant Sun's will, that is your ancestor, you idiot!"
Hei Lou Lan's gaze towards Zhao Lian Yun started showing killing intent.
"No, Lady Xiao Yun is innocent, you must not harm her!" Ma Hong Yun was extremely determined, he wholeheartedly wanted to protect Zhao Lian Yun.
However, Giant Sun's special will did not care about Ma Hong Yun, directly making a move against Zhao Lian Yun.
"No——!" Ma Hong Yun saw the situation going south, he called out in a moment of desperation, extending both his arms and hugging Zhao Lian Yun within his bosom.
During this moment.
Time seemed to have become endlessly slow.
Zhao Lian Yun was curled up in Ma Hong Yun's chest, her heart beginning to beat wildly.
An unprecedented feeling of safety and warmth filled her heart.
Following that came a kind of panic.
This panic was not towards her life hanging by a thread, instead it was a strange feeling that came from the depths of her heart.
Zhao Lian Yun found at this moment that she had hopelessly fallen in love with the stupid Ma Hong Yun.
In this world, there could be guys who would watch the stars with her, accompany her to shout at the valley, heal her and give her flowers. But who would sacrifice their life for her?!
In this world, otherworldly demons were despised by even Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, who would be so stupid to protect her?
Ma Hong Yun.
Ma Hong Yun!
...
The memories surfaced one by one in Zhao Lian Yun's mind.
Then, they started to disappear one by one.
"No, stop it!" Tears filled Zhao Lian Yun's face as she called out with incomparable sorrow.
Xiao Fei Fei's voice transmitted: "Hehehe, when you are struck by my immortal killer move, you will lose your most precious memories. Do you feel pain? It doesn't matter, the more you forget, the more relaxed you will be, maybe you will even smile. Hehehe...."
The memories disappeared, a smile suddenly appeared on Zhao Lian Yun's face.
"Don't smile. This is Xiao Fei Fei's famous sinister killer move, it will kill people while they smile. The longer you smile, the more easily you will lose your life." Mu Ling Lan quickly transmitted his voice to warn her.
However, Zhao Lian Yun seemed to have turned silly, as her smile became increasingly wider.
"Damn it!" Mu Ling Lan knew he had to take action.
He unleashed his killer move after a long period of preparation, creating an incredible effect!
"Ahh! You actually..." Xiao Fei Fei had exposed her location while attacking Zhao Lian Yun, and was struck by the fatal move while unprepared, losing her life miserably.
"Fairy Lian Yun, you need to persevere!" Mu Ling Lan quickly rushed over and helped Zhao Lian Yun.
Zhao Lian Yun still had a smile on her face, but she was no longer in a daze.
Two streams of translucent tears dripped down her face from her eyes.
Her eyes were blurry from age and her hair had turned white, she could only use Gu worms to transmit her voice.
"What should I do?"
"I have forgotten almost everything about him, even his appearance."
"I only remember his name."
"I only remember...."
"That I love him."
-x-X-x-
Northern Plains, Snowy Mountain blessed land, first snowy peak.
"Once more." Lady Wan Shou approached Ma Hong Yun step by step, holding a ball of lightning in her hand.
"Go ahead." Ma Hong Yun nonchalantly rolled his eyes.
Lady Wan Shou snorted, throwing the ball to Ma Hong Yun's chest.
Crackle crackle crackle!
Lightning sparkled all over Ma Hong Yun's body, Ma Hong Yun was clenching his teeth, actually maintaining his consciousness amidst the lightning assault.
When the lightning assault ended, Ma Hong Yun did not faint, but was sweating all over, with a flushed face.
"I failed again!" Lady Wan Shou could not believe it: "What is going on? Something is not right!"
She had already failed who knows how many times in trying to lightning refine Ma Hong Yun.
Even though the success rate of rank eight Immortal Gu was extremely low, there was no reason for being stuck at this one juncture from the start.
Lady Wan Shou felt like vomiting blood.
Especially when she saw that Ma Hong Yun had already advanced to rank five peak stage, moreover, because of the repeated lightning refinement failures, many lightning path dao marks were engraved on his body.
If Ma Hong Yun cultivated lightning path, these dao marks would no doubt give him tremendous help.
"Aren't you tired of always doing this? How about changing to another method, even I am bored." Ma Hong Yun knew his death was certain, so he no longer cared at this point, making fun of Lady Wan Shou.
Lady Wan Shou's eyes shot out cold light that shone on Ma Hong Yun, an incomparable pain immediately attacked his body and mind.
He no longer had the content expression, as he raised his head and cried out miserably, his whole body twitching non-stop.
Lady Wan Shou silently listened to Ma Hong Yun's screams, but the cold light from her eyes did not stop flickering.
Ma Hong Yun yelled himself hoarse, finally, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Lady Wan Shou gave a cold snort, the cold light from her eyes gradually dissipated and revealed her thoughtful expression.
....
"Zhao Lian Yun is already close to dying."
"The number of times love Immortal Gu can show its might has become limited."
"It seems Lady Wan Shou has also noticed something."
Far away in Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, South Desolation Immortal was well aware of the situation in Snowy Mountain blessed land.
Right now, he was also somewhat impatient.
Central Continent's Gu Immortals had still not appeared, what on earth were they planning?
"Capturing love Immortal Gu was preparation Ancestor Giant Sun made in the past, we, his descendants, shall complete this perfectly."
"Black Extremity, prepare to move!"
South Desolation Immortal sent his command to Longevity Heaven through information path methods.
In Longevity Heaven, the Eight Extremities were still controlling Calamity Luck Altar and besieging Five Elements Grandmaster.
As they heard the command, two rank seven Gu Immortals immediately separated from the formation, Black Extremity and Flood Extremity.
"We shall go now." Black Extremity said to the others.
"Come back quickly." Heaven Extremity did not dare to split too much of his attention, without two rank seven Gu Immortals, they were even more helpless against Five Elements Grandmaster, and could only maintain the current situation while they waited for Black Extremity and Flood Extremity to return.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
"Everything is going according to plan, if this continues, love Immortal Gu and Ma Hong Yun will return to Longevity Heaven. Central Continent Gu Immortals, if you still don't make a move, it will be too late." South Desolation Immortal thought to himself.
Rumble!
A loud sound was heard.
The entirety of Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace shook violently and was actually forced to reveal itself.
"Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace! So all of it was your doing!!"
"Destroy this Heavenly Palace, take revenge for our companions!"
Two Immortal Gu Houses were floating in front of Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
One was giving off sounds of hundreds of canaries singing together, extremely agile, it was Canary Pavilion. The other was surrounded by strong winds and stood lofty and tall, it was Wind Sweeping Building!
The two Immortal Gu Houses had imposing air, but cracks could be seen on both of them, clearly, Central Continent's Gu Immortals had to pay a huge price to get out from the spaceless tunnel.
"Hmph, all of you finally appeared?!" South Desolation Immortal gave a cold snort as he quickly controlled Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace to defend themselves.
The two Immortal Gu Houses from Central Continent pincer attacked Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace from in front and behind.
Although there was Giant Sun immortal zombie inside Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, he showed no intention of making a move. He had been sitting here for countless years, only retaining enough strength to make one attack, it was to repay a debt to someone.
Right now, even though Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace was being attacked, he was still sitting cross-legged at the center of the palace, aloof and indifferent.
Soon, sweat started forming on South Desolation Immortal's forehead.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace was strong, but it had one big weakness, it had to stay at this place and could not be moved. The moment it moved, even if it was just a hairsbreadth of distance, it would destroy its three hundred thousand years of effort.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace had spent three hundred thousand years before it was able to influence black heaven and white heaven above Northern Plains. The moment it moved, this effort will be wasted and it would no longer be able to influence black and white heaven.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace was like a huge defensive umbrella that firmly protected Northern Plains. This was the arrangement Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had left behind for his descendants.
How could South Desolation Immortal destroy Ancestor Giant Sun's motives just because he was being attacked? He could only choose to face the attacks head-on.
Central Continent's side had come prepared as they erupted in explosive offenses, actually gaining the upper hand against Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
"Yao Huang, come help me in controlling this Immortal Gu House and fight off the enemies!" South Desolation Immortal spoke.
Yao Huang quickly agreed and moved to help.
With a second rank eight Gu Immortal controlling the Immortal Gu House, there was an immediate effect.
The battle situation stabilized.
South Desolation Immortal's expression was filled with doubts: "Strange, why did these Central Continent Gu Immortals' attacks suddenly fall off? Also, they seem to have met with an accident in the spaceless tunnel. I remember there were clearly three Immortal Gu Houses, where is that strongest one, Edge Link Camp? Was it destroyed in the spaceless tunnel?"
But at the next moment, South Desolation Immortal's eyes opened wide as he received the latest information.
"Edge Link Camp has appeared above Snowy Mountain blessed land!"
Longevity Heaven had already infiltrated Snowy Mountain blessed land, thus South Desolation Immortal was extremely clear of the situation in Snowy Mountain blessed land.
Boom!
A huge explosion resounded, and a continuous and intense tremor spread.
The twelve snowy peaks of Snowy Mountain blessed land were all shaking violently.
Immortal Gu House Edge Link Camp's power was extremely high, after all, this Immortal Gu House had two rank eight Gu Immortals.
One was Wei Ling Yang, the other was Bi Chen Tian.
Myriad Tidal Dragon was controlling Wind Sweeping Building while also using Canary Pavilion, restricting Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
Edge Link Camp had great might, even if it was in Snowy Mountain blessed land, it was contending with the power of the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation, firmly floating in the air like a nail.
"We are saved!"
"Reinforcements have come!!"
"Why is there only Edge Link Camp, what about the other two?"
The five Central Continent Gu Immortals who were at different snowy peaks, simultaneously raised their heads and looked at Edge Link Camp, their spirits greatly lifted.
Edge Link Camp also discovered these five Gu Immortals, especially Zhao Lian Yun who had love Immortal Gu.
Wei Ling Yang and Bi Chen Tian naturally wanted to save them, however, the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation was not for show, Edge Link Camp tried to charge down but was met with a very strong formless force.
"The super Gu formation here is not simple, it actually uses Reverse Flow River!"
"Reverse Flow River is actually in Old Ancestor Xue Hu's hands? But this Gu formation relies on Snowy Mountain blessed land, it is rooted to the blessed land. We cannot deal with the Gu formation, but we can destroy Snowy Mountain blessed land, thus destroying its roots. This Gu formation would then collapse by itself."
Wei Ling Yang and Bi Chen Tian discussed for a moment before deciding on the plan.
Boom boom boom...
Edge Link Camp let out fierce offense, giant horn shadows continuously bombarded at various areas of Snowy Mountain blessed land, causing extremely huge quakes.
Snowy Mountain blessed land turned into an apocalyptic scene.
Avalanches took place at all the snowy peaks, huge rifts opened on the ground, and countless birds and animals fled in panic.
"Husband." Lady Wan Shou had stopped Gu refinement for the moment. She was standing beside Old Ancestor Xue Hu with a worried expression.
"Dear, if we let this Immortal Gu House continue to attack, Snowy Mountain blessed land will be destroyed sooner or later. At that time, this refinement path Gu formation will also be destroyed. But you can relax, what can a mere Immortal Gu House do to me? Let me teach these meddlesome Central Continent Gu Immortals and make them have no way back!" Old Ancestor Xue Hu laughed loudly, as he boldly charged towards Edge Link Camp.
Both sides fought an intense battle in the air.
Edge Link Camp, which was being controlled by two Central Continent's rank eights, was actually suppressed, unable to obtain an advantage.
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Old Ancestor Xue Hu displayed the power that belonged to the strongest of Northern Plains!
In possession of such vast might that shook heaven and earth. His great power would drive off deities and scare off ghosts!
"Old Ancestor Xue Hu is indeed worthy of being called the strongest of Northern Plains!" Bi Chen Tian was not arrogant.
These experts were beyond ordinary. With just a few exchanges of moves, Bi Chen Tian knew he was not Xue Hu's match!
Edge Link Camp was shaking continuously and even looked like it could not bear Old Ancestor Xue Hu's tyrannical offense.
"Unfortunately, Old Ancestor Xue Hu, you are only one person, while we have two rank eight Gu Immortals." Wei Ling Yang sneered, and said to Bi Chen Tian, "I will leave the Immortal Gu House to you."
Bi Chen Tian transmitted his voice in reply: "You can rest assured, I can hold on! If something is wrong, I will call you back."
Wei Ling Yang used his methods to quietly fly out of Edge Link Camp.
He naturally could not resist the strength of the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation by himself, but right now, most of the formation's power was being used to protect Snowy Mountain blessed land, so the pressure on Wei Ling Yang had decreased, and he was confident he could use his methods to go to each snowy peak.
Because he was a rule path Gu Immortal.
Rule path possessed a huge advantage in this aspect.
Old Ancestor Xue Hu was stronger than Wei Ling Yang, but he could not compare in this aspect.
However, Wei Ling Yang had only sneaked half the distance, when he was discovered by Old Ancestor Xue Hu's powerful investigative killer move.
"Where are you going?" Old Ancestor Xue Hu furiously shouted, as he waved his hand.
Immediately, a boundless blizzard rose up from thin air, heaven and earth changed colors, all living beings went silent, Wei Ling Yang was immediately overwhelmed.
Wei Ling Yang was not discouraged by being obstructed, he constantly changed his directions to break through Old Ancestor Xue Hu's obstruction, and with Bi Chen Tian's cooperation, it was a very good tactic of distraction!
Lady Wan Shou was breaking out in cold sweat, she did not have any mood to refine currently and was concentrating on this crucial battle.
If Old Ancestor Xue Hu won, everything would be safe, any danger would also take a turn for the better.
If Old Ancestor Xue Hu lost, then everything was lost, all their efforts would burst like a bubble.
Although Old Ancestor Xue Hu had high battle strength, the other side had two rank eight Gu Immortals and an Immortal Gu House, Edge Link Camp. On the contrary, the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation was of limited help to a rank eight Gu Immortal like Old Ancestor Xue Hu.
Wei Ling Yang wanted to pincer attack, which no doubt attracted a lot of Old Ancestor Xue Hu's attention, causing the latter to find it hard to use his full strength.
"If one of the rank eight Gu Immortals attacks the snowy peaks, the consequences will be unimaginable!" Lady Wan Shou was filled with worries.
Right now, Snowy Mountain blessed land was already in danger that threatened its very existence!
"Lady Wan Shou, I have an idea which can let you resolve this danger." Right at this time, a message arrived in Lady Wan Shou's immortal aperture.
"This is?!" Lady Wan Shou was greatly shocked.
Because the Gu worm that had transmitted the message was one which Lady Wan Shou had all along kept in her immortal aperture and never used.
Many years ago, not long after Lady Wan Shou had underwent immortal ascension.
Inside a cave.
"Senior, so you were already here, this junior will leave, I don't dare disturb senior from taking this true inheritance." Lady Wan Shou's heart palpitated at the surging aura released by this mysterious Gu Immortal.
But who knew this mysterious Gu Immortal would suddenly say: "Little girl, you could become a Gu Immortal at such a young age, and also know your own limits, knowing when to retreat or advance, quite good. I don't have the qualifications to take this true inheritance. I am willing to give this true inheritance to you, but, after you inherit it, you need to tell its contents to me. You will also owe me a favor, if there is a situation in the future, you must help the person who uses this information path Gu worm."
Lady Wan Shou considered for just a moment before agreeing.
She actually had no other choice.
Because if she did not agree, she probably could not leave this place alive with her cultivation level.
If so, it was better to take a bet on this!
"Good. Come, we shall set the agreement." The mysterious Gu Immortal smiled brightly while stroking his beard.
...
This scene of the past quickly flashed in Lady Wan Shou's mind.
She immediately replied: "May I ask if you also have interest in fortune rivalling heaven Gu?"
That Gu worm quickly transmitted the reply: "Haha, Lady Wan Shou, it seems you have genuine feelings towards Old Ancestor Xue Hu. Rest assured, we don't have any ill intention towards you, we only need you to refine a Gu material. If you can do this, we will help you and your husband to force back these Central Continent experts."
"Then I shall welcome you, honored guests." Lady Wan Shou nodded after a bit of pondering.
After a while, a group of four Gu Immortals appeared before Lady Wan Shou.
They were Ying Wu Xie and the others!
"Hei Lou Lan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng!" Lady Wan Shou immediately recognized two of them.
The destruction of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had caused the culprits to be hunted everywhere, Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng had become 'famous' together with Fang Yuan.
Right now, Lady Wan Shou was very surprised to see these two great culprits.
After all, previously, such a huge super force like Hei tribe had taken the blame for Hei Lou Lan, and was besieged by various Huang Jin tribes, before being annexed by Bai Zu tribe in the end.
As for Bai Ning Bing and Ying Wu Xie, Lady Wan Shou naturally did not recognize them.
However, what made her even more surprised was that the leader of these four Gu Immortals was the weakest strength path immortal zombie, Ying Wu Xie.
"Distinguished guests, I wonder how you can help us repel the enemies?" Lady Wan Shou asked.
Ying Wu Xie smiled brightly, and spoke with assurance: "Lady Wan Shou, I know Old Ancestor Xue Hu had invited people to remove the alliance agreement on you from back then. But we indeed came with no ill intent, we both have mutual enemies, these Gu Immortals of Central Continent. We are the best allies you can have."
"At this moment, you let us in, it meant that you still acknowledge the favor from back then and that you realize the dangerous situation you are in. But as long as you help us refine an immortal material first, everything can be solved easily."
"What immortal material, take it out." Lady Wan Shou extended her hands.
However, Ying Wu Xie shook his head, giving a bitter smile: "This immortal material is inside your immortal aperture, Lady Wan Shou."
"Oh?"
"It is that purple gold rock which Old Ancestor Xue Hu took from Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's graveyard in the past." Ying Wu Xie replied.
Lady Wan Shou's pupils shrunk slightly, letting out wisps of sharp light as she took out an immortal material: "This?"
The four immortals looked at it, this rock was only the size of a palm and was shining in purple-gold light.
Ying Wu Xie heaved a sigh: "Yes, it is this rock."
"So you are members of Shadow Sect." Lady Wan Shou exposed the identity of Ying Wu Xie and the group.
Ying Wu Xie was not surprised, admitting frankly: "Fairy, you have great knowledge, I will trouble you."
Lady Wan Shou nodded.
As such, Central Continent's Gu Immortals were indeed enemies of her and these Shadow Sect Gu Immortals.
As the common saying went, the enemy of an enemy is a friend.
Also!
Lady Wan Shou glanced at the battle in the air, before turning her gaze to this purple gold rock: "What kind of immortal material is this? I was not able to identify it and even others did not know. I won't hide it from you, I have already tried to refine this purple gold rock, but I had no results."
Ying Wu Xie smiled brightly, his tone carrying some pride: "That is because this is a special method of my Shadow Sect, Lady Wan Shou, you don't know the correct procedures and methods, I will teach you, you just need to follow them and you will succeed."
....
An ancient sword dragon was flying above the clouds as it finally arrived at Snowy Mountain blessed land.
From the outside world, the scenes inside Snowy Mountain blessed land could not be seen.
Life and death battles were going on in the blessed land, storms and lightning razed the battlefield, but in the outside world, it was sunny and peaceful.
"They entered Snowy Mountain blessed land? Strange!"
Fang Yuan could not help but have some doubts.
He knew Old Ancestor Xue Hu had turned Snowy Mountain blessed land into a danger zone, to refine fortune rivalling heaven Gu.
Ying Wu Xie and the others actually entered it?
Was this true or an illusion?
Would it be like that time in Eastern Sea when Ying Wu Xie and the others made arrangements in the Gu formation, creating a facade and deceiving Fang Yuan's qi luck sensation?
But if it was true...
It signified too many things!
Fang Yuan hesitated.
He had the upper extreme heavenly eagle, but it was not wise to rashly charge in.
He decided to not to charge in for the moment, and simply wait and see.
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"Xue Hu, take this!" Wei Ling Yang softly pointed his right hand towards Old Ancestor Xue Hu, immediately, a grand beam of light shot towards Old Ancestor Xue Hu.
Old Ancestor Xue Hu gave a light snort as he waved his hand, a large wall of ice appeared and blocked the beam of light easily.
Next, Old Ancestor Xue Hu breathed out cold air which flew towards Wei Ling Yang, resembling spiralling hatchets.
Wei Ling Yang's expression immediately changed.
These spiralling ice hatchets were extremely difficult to deal with, he had already suffered from them, the main thing was, he did not have restrictive methods against them.
Helplessly, Wei Ling Yang could only fly back into Edge Link Camp, and use the powerful defensive ability of Edge Link Camp to protect himself.
Boom boom boom.
A series of soft sounds echoed as the ice hatchets followed Wei Ling Yang, and smashed into Edge Link Camp.
Edge Link Camp shook intensely, large amounts of cold air spread over it, instantly freezing many of its mortal Gu to death.
"Quick, repair the Immortal Gu House!"
"Someone is injured, heal them quickly."
"Activate the Immortal Gu House, use offense as defense!!"
The Gu Immortals inside the Immortal Gu House were agitated.
Wei Ling Yang was breathing roughly, his right hand had frozen completely, who knew when it happened.
"When was I hit?" Even Wei Ling Yang himself was surprised at the condition of his right hand.
Old Ancestor Xue Hu's methods were endless, even when they were not very powerful, they were sinister and insidious, making people unable to defend effectively.
Wei Ling Yang had been struck by Old Ancestor Xue Hu's move unknowingly, and was injured.
He tried several methods, but the condition of his right hand showed no signs of improving.
"This injury is so troublesome..." Bi Chen Tian breathed sharply.
"It is not a big problem, I only need to seal my right hand for the moment. I am now worried about Myriad Tidal Dragon's end. He is controlling two Immortal Gu Houses and also has the help of most of the Gu Immortals that came in this expedition, but what he is facing is Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace as well as Longevity Heaven! We must rescue Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun quickly, and join up with Myriad Tidal Dragon, then retreat to Central Continent!"
Wei Ling Yang's gaze flickered continuously.
Central Continent's Gu Immortals naturally had come prepared, although they met with an accident in the spaceless tunnel, Central Continent's accumulation was more than enough, when these Gu Immortals reacted, they quickly and smoothly escaped the danger.
But the current situation was extremely unfavorable to them!
It was already difficult to deal with Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace. Now that they had split their forces, the decision maker, Wei Ling Yang, was facing great mental pressure.
Rumble!
Thunderous explosions occurred endlessly, Edge Link Camp was shaking continuously and was losing ground.
Central Continent's two rank eight Gu Immortals were elites among rank eights and were qualified to be members of Heavenly Court, they were naturally very powerful.
However, Northern Plains excelled in battle strength among the five regions, and Old Ancestor Xue Hu was the strongest expert among the rank eights of the current Northern Plains.
Right now, he displayed such astonishing offense that Central Continent's side was not able to gain the upper hand since the moment they had started fighting him!
"This won't do! Treat your injuries and control the Immortal Gu House. I will go distract Old Ancestor Xue Hu!" Bi Chen Tian said through clenched teeth.
"You must be careful." Wei Ling Yang said to Bi Chen Tian with concern in his voice, as he knew his injuries had yet to recover.
Bi Chen Tian flew out of Edge Link Camp and quickly used his immortal killer move, turning into a green ray of light, and flying down towards the snowy peaks.
Bi Chen Tian intended to destroy the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation.
With its destruction, Edge Link Camp would not be obstructed and could dive down without resistance, directly saving Zhao Lian Yun and perhaps Ma Hong Yun as well.
Old Ancestor Xue Hu might be powerful, but he would not be able to block Edge Link Camp's charge.
"Stop daydreaming." Old Ancestor Xue Hu had already seen through Central Continent's tactics, he activated his immortal killer move, immediately, endless hailstones fell down from the sky.
Each of these hailstones was enormous, the size of a mound. They crashed down with loud sounds, and started turning into snow monsters.
These snow monsters were of at least desolate beast level and among them were ancient desolate beast snow monsters as well.
They stood on the snowy peaks and roared towards the sky.
Old Ancestor Xue Hu suddenly took in a deep breath, two lumps of cold air, so deeply blue that they were to the point of being black, were forming in his breath.
The cold air was emitted, giving rise to a powerful blizzard. The snow monsters were like fish in water in the blizzard, they were even able to soar with the help of the blizzard. Bi Chen Tian, however, was greatly restricted.
"So powerful!"
"Old Ancestor Xue Hu knows he cannot use battlefield killer moves inside the Gu formation, so he actually disassembled his signature battlefield killer move. His ice and snow path attainment is probably already at great grandmaster level!"
Whether it be Bi Chen Tian or Wei Ling Yang, they were both shocked at this scene.
At great grandmaster level, every killer move could be casually disassembled and interchanged at will, their understanding towards the path was already close to the Dao.
"But, what if you add me?" Wei Ling Yang sneered, the next moment, he also charged out of Edge Link Camp, towards the Gu formation.
The injury on his right had already healed completely.
He clearly had very high attainment in the healing aspect.
Old Ancestor Xue Hu's expression slightly changed.
Facing two rank eight Gu Immortals at once, along with an Immortal Gu House, he clearly appeared to be stretched thin and had slightly lost his control over the battle situation.
After all, he was unable to destroy the Immortal Gu House for the moment, and the two rank eight Gu Immortals were also experts, most importantly, Old Ancestor Xue Hu had to protect the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation.
Rank six and rank seven Gu Immortals could not break this formation, but rank eight Gu Immortals were different.
Bi Chen Tian and Wei Ling Yang were attacking the enemy's weak points, gradually turning around their situation and gaining slight initiative. Immortal Gu House Edge Link Camp was controlled by a group of rank seven Gu Immortals and was like a turtle shell in defense, not seeking glory on the battlefield but content with not showing flaws, not allowing Old Ancestor Xue Hu to make a fatal move for some time.
Boom boom boom.
Every now and then, the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation shook and emitted buzzing sounds.
This was the result of a small portion of attacks from Bi Chen Tian or Wei Ling Yang that had escaped Old Ancestor Xue Hu's obstruction, striking Snowy Mountain blessed land.
"Amazing!"
"Hang in there, lords and our comrades of Central Continent!"
Zhao Lian Yun and the group no longer needed to take a risk, they were standing at the top of their respective snowy peaks, and gazing at the battle above.
Similarly, the surviving snowy peak lords were also gazing at the sky.
Their faces were filled with worry.
"The is the power of rank eight Gu Immortals... It is truly astonishing and terrifying!"
"Because of this formation, the aftereffects of the battle have not spread, otherwise we would have died miserably."
"Lord Xue Hu is strong, but the Central Continent invaders are extremely crafty. If this goes on, the formation will be destroyed sooner or later..."
And, on the first snowy peak of Snowy Mountain, the refinement of the purple gold rock immortal material had reached its final stage.
"I didn't expect that I had to use enshrouding fragrance to dissolve the purple gold rock." Lady Wan Shou's horizons had broadened at this moment.
Enshrouding fragrance was also an immortal material.
Using immortal material to refine immortal material, this method was rarely seen, and Lady Wan Shou also found that the essence of this method was food path!
Food path was rare, no wonder Lady Wan Shou had no ideas on how to deal with this purple gold rock.
The last layer of the rock surface was dissolved, and a dazzling purple light soared to the skies, forcing everyone to look away.
Lady Wan Shou narrowed her eyes to a slit, and was barely able to see a figure in the purple light.
This figure was very small, only about the size of an adult's thumb, and it had two thin purple wings on its back.
"Miniman?" Lady Wan Shou was slightly stunned as she recognized this figure's race.
Bathed in the purple light, the miniman slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were a bright and deep purple color.
As he opened his eyes, a powerful aura leaked out of him.
Rank eight Gu Immortal!
In an instant, this aura caused the fierce battle in the air to slow down.
"Why is there another rank eight Gu Immortal? And it... is the aura of Northern Plains!" Bi Chen Tian and Wei Ling Yang looked at each other, both feeling the situation going awry.
"We pay respects to Lord Purple!" Ying Wu Xie had already brought the Gu Immortals with him, to bow towards this rank eight miniman.
Only Bai Ning Bing was still standing upright.
"I have woken up again. Hmm..." The miniman Gu Immortal blinked his eyes, the expression of confusion quickly disappeared from his face, replaced by a cold and indifferent expression.
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The miniman Gu Immortal thought briefly before using an immortal killer move, calling out: "Big, big, big."
Thus, his body rapidly expanded like a balloon, soon, he reached a normal human size.
Furthermore, the wings on his back vanished as well, on the outside, he looked just like a normal human.
Right now, the Gu Immortals present could finally see the appearance of this mysterious rank eight Gu Immortal.
He was an unimpressive old man, even looking a little dishevelled. His only special feature was his purple hair, so messy that he resembled a beggar.
Plop.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng had tears flowing down his face, he knelt down as he shook in excitement, shouting: "Master!"
"Oh? It is you, I remember I gave you a time path true inheritance." The rank eight Gu Immortal smiled, exposing his uneven yellow teeth.
"Even though our sect's plan succeeded, many unexpected mishaps occurred. This was what happened..." Fighting against time, Ying Wu Xie went forward and transmitted many wills and thoughts to the purple haired old man.
In a moment, the purple haired old man understood everything.
"It was a pity, heaven's will won by a margin."
"But all hope is not lost."
"Ying Wu Xie, you did well, it has been hard on you."
"And Tai Bai Yun Sheng, stand up."
"Now, while I am still conscious, we will join with Xue Hu and take down these Central Continent Gu Immortals!"
The situation was dire, the purple haired old man noticed that the rank eight Gu Immortals were the key to this battle.
He did not hesitate, his body turned into a purple light as he flew into the sky, in a moment, he stood beside Old Ancestor Xue Hu.
"Friend, your name is?" Old Ancestor Xue Hu was not surprised, Lady Wan Shou had already used a Gu worm to inform him about everything that happened regarding the group from Shadow Sect.
With the help of the mysterious expert, Old Ancestor Xue Hu felt very excited.
"I have many names, but..." The purple haired old man said this and showed a smile with deep meaning: "Xue Hu, you may call me Purple Mountain True Monarch."
At this point, Old Ancestor Xue Hu and Purple Mountain True Monarch collaborated, dealing with the two rank eights from Central Continent, as well as Edge Link Camp.
Purple Mountain True Monarch had incredible strength, even though he only attacked sparsely, each of his attacks were extremely effective in turning the situation around.
Any ordinary rank eight could already help Old Ancestor Xue Hu turn this around. Not to mention the mysterious and unfathomable Purple Mountain True Monarch!
Wei Ling Yang and Bi Chen Tian fought desperately, they exerted all their efforts, but they could not stop the situation from tilting towards Northern Plains' favor.
After more than ten rounds of fighting, they were forced to return to Edge Link Camp, they could not defend against Old Ancestor Xue Hu and Purple Mountain True Monarch personally.
The peak lords saw this and cheered loudly.
Without Central Continent's Gu Immortals attacking the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation, the result of this battle was obvious.
Zhao Lian Yun and the other four Gu Immortals who were trapped in Snowy Mountain blessed land had pale expressions. The battle had turned for the worse, their hopes of survival were dwindling.
What should they do?
Outside Snowy Mountain blessed land, an ancient sword dragon was hiding among the clouds.
"Shadow Sect actually has connections with Snowy Mountain..."
"Then why did Qin Bai Sheng not request for Snowy Mountain's help when he was fighting against Feng Jiu Ge in Luo Po Valley?"
"Or perhaps their relationship is not as deep as I think."
Qi luck sensation was telling Fang Yuan that Ying Wu Xie and the rest were inside Snowy Mountain blessed land, they did not leave.
Fang Yuan's pursuit was obstructed, he was unwilling to give up, he was waiting outside, to see if there was a chance.
And at a certain place a thousand li away, two Gu Immortals descended from the sky.
They were none other than Longevity Heaven's Black Extremity and Flood Extremity.
"This is the place." Black Extremity said as he used his Gu worms, causing a huge commotion.
The small slope that was in front of them started to shine in rainbow light.
Flood Extremity realized at once: "So you have set up a Gu formation at this place, you need me to control the Gu formation now?"
Black Extremity shook his head: "Wait until we get inside."
He took a large step ahead, entering the Gu formation, as Flood Extremity followed behind.
Once they were inside the Gu formation, Flood Extremity's expression changed, he said in shock: "This Gu formation has a grand aura, as expected of your personal arrangement, Black Extremity, I can tell that once activated, it will have incredible strength. But..."
Towards the end, Flood Extremity had a hesitant tone.
"But what?" Black Extremity looked at him with much interest.
Flood Extremity said in a profound tone: "But I feel that this formation is not complete, it is missing something. It is like a lake, there should be something connecting it to the sea."
Black Extremity heard this and his eyebrows rose, he praised and clapped: "As expected of a quasi-great grandmaster of water path, you are already proficient in comprehending other paths through your main path. That's right! This Gu formation is just a sub formation, there is a corresponding main formation."
"Then where is the main formation?" Flood Extremity frowned.
Before Black Extremity answered, he had an inspiration as he said in realization: "I understand! The main formation is the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation in Snowy Mountain blessed land!"
"Indeed." Black Extremity laughed: "I was tasked earlier to act as Sun Ming Lu and get near Lady Wan Shou. Eventually, I created the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation which used Reverse Flow River. Even though Old Ancestor Xue Hu is currently the strongest person in Northern Plains, he is not proficient in formation path, he could not tell that I had a backdoor."
"Right now, as long as I activate this sub formation, I can make the main formation in Snowy Mountain blessed land break apart, and draw the Reverse Flow River here."
"Once the Gu formation collapses, everyone and everything in the surrounding ten thousand li of Snowy Mountain blessed land would all be swept here."
Black Extremity said with an excited gaze.
Flood Extremity was shocked: "In this case, wouldn't those four rank eight great experts be sent here too?"
Black Extremity shook his head: "Reverse Flow River is a secluded domain of heaven and earth, it is not ordinary, it has an incredibly large number of dao marks. As long as one falls into Reverse Flow River, even rank eight great experts cannot use any Gu worms. In <
"Then wouldn't they be meat on the chopping block for us?" Flood Extremity was excited.
But Black Extremity shook his head: "We are outside Reverse Flow River, if we make any attacks, it will be reversed and reflect back at us. This is Reverse Flow River, the word reverse naturally has deep meaning."
Flood Extremity was confused: "In this case, how can we save Ma Hong Yun and capture Zhao Lian Yun?"
"Hahaha." Black Extremity laughed: "Did you forget that Reverse Flow River is still subjected to the influence of both my sub and main fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation."
"When the main formation collapses, Reverse Flow River would flow towards us. By then, the order of everyone in Snowy Mountain blessed land would be arranged by me, Zhao Lian Yun and Ma Hong Yun would be at the front of Reverse Flow River."
"Lady Wan Shou and the rest would be behind, while Central Continent's Gu Immortals would be even further back, those rank eight Gu Immortals would be at the end."
"Incredible!" Flood Extremity said with shining eyes, he clapped: "This way, in order to escape from Lady Wan Shou and the rest, Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun would desperately struggle and move forward, to pull ahead of the rest behind. But as long as they are ahead, we will be able to interact with them here and capture them alive."
"However..." Flood Extremity frowned: "If Zhao Lian Yun and Ma Hong Yun are unable to persevere, would they be like Ren Zu and be washed away by the river? If that happens, they would fall behind the other Gu Immortals, wouldn't it foil our plans?"
Black Extremity smiled bitterly: "This is the biggest flaw in the plan. But traveling in Reverse Flow River has nothing to do with cultivation level or strength, Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun are not at a disadvantage."
"But this is not an assured result." Flood Extremity was not satisfied with this.
Black Extremity shrugged: "Then what do you want from a rank seven Gu Immortal like me? This is the best way already, after all, we are not plotting against two rank seven Gu Immortals, but the entirety of Snowy Mountain blessed land and Central Continent's Gu Immortal experts, involving multiple rank eight great experts, a total of four at that!"
Flood Extremity was speechless, he nodded helplessly, this was their limit indeed.
In fact, it was already very impressive that Black Extremity could achieve this much.
"Don't worry, we are just part of the arrangements, Lord South Desolation has woken up, he definitely has other plans. We just need to do our part, that will suffice." Black Extremity patted Flood Extremity's shoulder in consolation.
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Boom boom boom!
The silhouette of the giant horn shot around in the sky, sending out a barrage of attacks.
Around Old Ancestor Xue Hu, frost energy was oozing, turning into blue icy cold frost that swept at Edge Link Camp in layers.
The two Central Continent rank eights in Edge Link Camp were desperately gritting their teeth, the Gu Immortals behind them were trying to repair the Immortal Gu Houses, they were covered in sweat and had panicked expressions.
Meanwhile, beside Old Ancestor Xue Hu, Purple Mountain True Monarch was covered in dazzling purple light, radiating in the entire Snowy Mountain blessed land.
Central Continent's group was attacking Snowy Mountain, Purple Mountain True Monarch was tasked to defend it. This blessed land was the foundation of the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation, as long as they defended it, Central Continent would lose.
"What should we do?" Bi Chen Tian had a frantic expression: "If this continues, not only will we fail to save Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun, we will also lose this Immortal Gu House and our own lives!"
Wei Ling Yang was the leader of this expedition, he had a grim expression.
The situation was very disadvantageous for the Central Continent Gu Immortals.
It could even be said they were hopeless.
According to the plans of Central Continent's Gu Immortals, they were split into two, one group would restrain Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, while the other would save Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun, before they joined up and left Northern Plains together.
But now, the group that went to Snowy Mountain blessed land was already close to defeat, and the other group was also waiting for their rescue.
This was Northern Plains, not Central Continent.
Three rank eights and three Immortal Gu Houses, along with a band of Gu Immortals, were still a relatively small number of people.
Of course, this was also because the Northern Plains Gu Immortals were prepared. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's plan was not known to Central Continent.
Central Continent struck with a powerful attack, according to the planning of this assault, there was a huge chance of success.
But as the situation progressed, the targets of their sneak attack became strong foes, and with Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's arrangements, Central Continent's Gu Immortals fell into this dangerous situation.
Wei Ling Yang's thoughts were churning rapidly.
A moment later, he gritted his teeth and gave his orders, seemingly exerting his last bit of strength: "We will retreat!"
Forget about Zhao Lian Yun and Ma Hong Yun.
After Purple Mountain True Monarch appeared, the situation went beyond Wei Ling Yang's control.
If this dragged on, Central Continent would suffer even greater losses!
Wei Ling Yang decided to retreat back to black heaven, and join up with the other two Immortal Gu Houses and escape to Central Continent.
Edge Link Camp was directed to leave, Old Ancestor Xue Hu and Purple Mountain True Monarch could not stop it together. After all, they had no Immortal Gu Houses, they could not stop it from charging away.
However!
Just when Edge Link Camp was about to charge out of the Gu formation, a change occurred.
The entirety of Snowy Mountain blessed land was rumbling intensely.
A great earthquake!
"What is going on?"
"The blessed land is collapsing!"
Zhao Lian Yun and the others, as well as the remaining peak lords, were extremely shocked.
Rumble!
With a loud sound, the snowy peaks started to break apart.
"What is going on?!" Old Ancestor Xue Hu showed shock on his face.
"The entire formation is breaking apart." Purple Mountain True Monarch's eyes shined brightly, before he corrected himself: "No! This formation..."
Before he finished his words, the Gu Immortals present heard the sound of waves.
At the next moment, giant rushing waves appeared out of nowhere, sweeping the battlefield!
It was the secluded domain of heaven and earth — Reverse Flow River!!
"Oh no, my wife!" Everything happened too quickly, Old Ancestor Xue Hu wanted to charge back to the first peak, but he was engulfed by the river along the way.
Within Reverse Flow River, no Gu worms could be activated.
Old Ancestor Xue Hu could not defend himself, he was washed away by the rushing tides.
He had the highest battle strength in this place, if this happened to him, there was no need to mention the rest.
Immortal Gu House Edge Link Camp broke apart in the river, the Central Continent Gu Immortals were washed along the river like falling dumplings.
Zhao Lian Yun and the rest, the peak lords of Snowy Mountain blessed land, Lady Wan Shou, Ying Wu Xie's group, and Ma Hong Yun, were all inside Reverse Flow River.
Snowy Mountain blessed land completely collapsed, only a framework was left as the winds of assimilation started to blow.
"They're coming!" Far away, Black Extremity's head was bulging with veins, he manipulated the sub formation with all his strength.
He was the culprit behind Snowy Mountain's destruction.
And beside him, Flood Extremity was defending him vigilantly, at the final moment, Flood Extremity had to use his water path methods to direct Reverse Flow River.
"What?!" Fang Yuan felt his vision turning bright as a huge torrent engulfed him in an instant.
Once the fate reversing sacrificial refinement formation broke, everyone and everything within the surrounding ten thousand li of Snowy Mountain blessed land was engulfed by Reverse Flow River.
Fang Yuan was within this range, he was not spared.
From the raging river water, Fang Yuan's head emerged on the surface.
"This is — Reverse Flow River?!" He had a wide range of knowledge, after his shock, he realized the origin of the river that he was in.
"Snowy Mountain blessed land contains Reverse Flow River?"
"No wonder my ancient sword dragon transformation was removed for no apparent reason."
This was natural.
Inside Reverse Flow River, Gu worms could not be used. Fang Yuan's ancient sword dragon transformation was an immortal killer move, it needed Immortal Gu and mortal Gu to activate.
Thus, the moment Fang Yuan was swept in, all of his Gu worms stopped working, he returned to his original form.
"Thankfully, I can swim." Fang Yuan moved his limbs, swimming skillfully.
He looked ahead, on the surface of the raging river, there were many things floating or swimming. Large numbers of wild beasts, trees and grass, and even rocks.
Reverse Flow River's waves were extremely rough, gushes of currents caused rocks or trees to move around randomly, creating chaos in the river.
Fang Yuan's heart sank, in this situation, he could not use Gu worms, his battle strength was at rock bottom, he could only rely on his own body's defense.
At this time, Fang Yuan heard something that did not sound right near him.
He quickly turned around, he saw that a giant metal tree was flowing along the river, the trunk was as thick as an elephant, it rushed towards him.
"Danger!" Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, he wanted to dodge.
But in the torrential Reverse Flow River, he could not move easily, his speed was very slow, the metal tree crashed into his waist.
Fang Yuan was quickly knocked into the depths of the river.
Next, he rapidly moved his four limbs, before resurfacing above the river.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
He breathed raggedly, taking in fresh air as he inspected his body, checking his injuries.
He was shocked when he checked it.
Because he had no injuries.
He only had a bruise on his waist.
But soon, his bruise vanished.
Fang Yuan's eyes shined, he realized: "Oh right! My body is not normal, I have the sovereign immortal body!"
Inside Reverse Flow River, Fang Yuan could not use any Gu worms, he could only rely on his own body.
However!
His sovereign immortal body was not normal at all.