204 RI
He started.
The first step, Fang Yuan turned into a divination tortoise.
The second step, he started to activate a large number of mortal Gu, followed by vajra thought Immortal Gu and more mortal Gu.
The third step, and the most important one, he activated precaution Immortal Gu.
Puff!
Fang Yuan turned into a divination tortoise, spitting out a huge amount of blood. In his immortal aperture, large numbers of mortal Gu were destroyed, but thankfully, precaution Immortal Gu was sturdy and did not get damaged.
Fang Yuan's head was dizzy, his immortal killer move failed, his organs were damaged, he suffered heavy injuries.
Thankfully, he had transformed into a divination tortoise, an ancient desolate beast, he had a tough body and incredible recovery speed. If he did this with a human body, his injuries would have been worse, his organs and intestines might have disintegrated on the spot.
"Why did this happen?" Fang Yuan was dazed.
This was different from what he conceptualized.
In fact, before precaution Immortal Gu could use its power, this immortal killer move broke apart.
Fang Yuan did not expect this.
Fang Yuan had used affection Immortal Gu and other wisdom path Immortal Gu to deduce this modified immortal killer move, such a severe error should not have occurred.
This was truly a huge blow to him.
After Fang Yuan's injuries healed, he calmed down and looked at the killer move.
After several deductions, Fang Yuan was even more troubled: "There are no problems, though?"
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration: "I understand!"
Fang Yuan instantly understood where the problem was.
He had misunderstood precaution Immortal Gu.
When precaution Immortal Gu activated, it continued to expend red date immortal essence, but it could only unleash its power after ten breaths. It did not activate at the tenth breath, but at the eleventh breath. Because of this small mistake, the entire immortal killer move failed and Fang Yuan suffered a backlash.
"To think that the problem was here, it was truly a blind spot!"
"It seems that I need to add some time path Gu worms to make up for the time difference." Fang Yuan's time path attainment level was ordinary, it had never risen much. Because he had never encountered any time path dream realm.
However, he had Hei Fan's true inheritance and wisdom path deduction methods, it could make up for some of his weaknesses.
But because of this, the deduction could not be completed instantly.
One day passed, Fang Yuan did not rest.
Two days passed, Fang Yuan was still deducing.
Three days passed, Wu clan's Immortal Gu House had already completed most of its journey.
Fang Yuan's deduction finally had some progress.
After his qualitative advancement, his future deductions went smoothly.
Southern Border, Human Smoke Mountain Range.
This place had the most living mortals in Southern Border. Villages after villages were seen on the mountains here. On some mountain peaks, there were even several villages, they were neighbors.
This was a bountiful sight.
The population had multiplied to its limit, there were a vast number of humans here. Of course, in terms of battle strength, a Gu Immortal would be able to wipe this place out, no mortal could resist their unstoppable might.
And at the center of this mountain range, it was the political core of all the villages — Human Smoke Mountain.
The base of one of the super clans, Chai clan!
The person who created Chai clan was called Chai Fu, he had left his mark in human history.
During his era, he was the number one person in Southern Border's Gu Immortal world, he cultivated fire path along with earth path, because he had gained a lot of insight from reading <
In fact, most Gu Immortal experts and great experts would read <
A true inheritance of human path was hidden within <
It had a unique inheritance method.
Normal inheritances were like Hei Fan's true inheritance and Bai Xiang's true inheritance.
But Ren Zu's human path true inheritance was just one book, <
Everyone had different gains, after all, the benevolent see benevolence, the wise see wisdom. But every Immortal Venerable and Demon Venerable had their gains, and those were huge gains. For example, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had created all living being's luck and heaven and earth luck after reading <
After Chai Fu read <
Precisely so, Chai clan's development strategy was different from other super clans. Chai clan focused on increasing population, to increase the number of mortals.
As for other super forces, they basically only focused on a portion of their clansmen and allowed them to develop and grow in the five regions. These clansmen would have the bloodline of certain authoritative figures in the super force, they were also called the main bloodline.
And a portion of the people would stay inside their blessed lands or grotto-heavens and would not go outside. These people were often the branch bloodlines. Only when unexpected mishaps occur and the main bloodline dies out, or when a ruling figure dies without an inheritor, would the branch bloodlines take over.
Chai clan expanded the population, but they did not have Chai clan bloodline.
If any other clan did this, they were courting trouble. Spending great effort to nurture mortals of other surnames, with greater population, more Gu Masters would emerge among them. These Gu Masters would not have the clan's bloodline, their loyalty was greatly reduced, they had no value in being nurtured to become Gu Immortals. If they became Gu Immortals on their own, it would cause conflict between them and the main clan.
But Chai clan was different.
They nurtured so many mortals, but these mortals all had low aptitudes, there were few Gu Masters among them, not to mention Gu Immortals.
In contrast, highly talented people continuously emerged from Chai clan's own descendants, there were many who were talented enough to be nurtured into Gu Immortals.
This formed a clear contrast to the other super forces.
According to their conjectures, Chai clan's abnormal situation was likely due to the human path method that Chai Fu had left behind.
However, no matter which generation it was, even though Chai clan had lots of genius descendants, because of limited resources, these Gu Immortal seeds eventually remained as only rank four or five Gu Masters.
There was a need to talk about Southern Border's geography at this point.
Southern Border's biggest features, other than mountains, were the three great rivers.
Red dragon river, jade dragon river, and yellow dragon river, each of them passed through the whole of Southern Border, cutting it up into many segments.
Red dragon river started from the extreme northwest, moving east towards the south, all the way until Southern Border's extreme southeast.
Jade dragon river started above it, it had a downward slope if a bird's-eye view over the region was used.
Yellow dragon river had the shape of the character '几', there was a protrusion at the top, it was far more steep than jade dragon river.
Jade dragon river and yellow dragon river did not intersect, but red dragon river intersected with both jade dragon river and yellow dragon river 1 .
At the point of intersection between red dragon river and yellow dragon river, it was Wu clan's territory, towards the northeast shore of the huge whirlpool there was Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian.
As for the intersection between red dragon river and jade dragon river, the huge whirlpool there was dozens of times as large. Natural essence was incredible dense there, at the center of the whirlpool, there were huge numbers of spirit springs, tens of thousands of them. These spirit springs were not stable, almost every breath of time, dozens would be destroyed.
Thus, a great amount of natural essence poured onto the river banks.
When Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable traveled to this place, he had once commented that throughout the whole of Southern Border, this place had the greatest density of primeval energy.
Over there, the air was filled with primeval energy, large amounts of resources were produced, on par with grotto-heavens and blessed lands.
And at this place, the bases of three super forces were gathered!
For example, red dragon river and jade dragon river formed a cross shape, with the center being the spiral whirlpool. Chai clan's Human Smoke Mountain was north of it, Ba clan was south, while Xia clan was to its east.
For the last three days, Chai clan's discussion hall had been in chaos.
Now was no exception.
Chai clan's first supreme elder sat before everyone as his gaze flickered, showing a hesitant expression.
Not long ago, Fang Yuan had sent him a letter. In the letter, Fang Yuan, who was Wu Yi Hai, represented Wu clan and was willing to work with Chai clan to attack Xia clan and Ba clan.
This was an incredibly important matter, Chai clan's first supreme elder had to gather the clan's Gu Immortals and discuss about it.
The discussion hall's chaos was due to this.
"We cannot attack Ba clan and Xia clan! Wu clan's intention is just to make use of us to get rid of their external pressure. The moment we attack, our Chai clan will have to face two super forces at once. If these two super forces ignore Wu clan and turn around to target us, we will be on the losing end, we will not be able to overturn it." A Chai clan Gu Immortal shouted loudly, standing at the center of the discussion hall.
He had just finished his words when a Gu Immortal at a corner proposed: "We can choose to attack one clan. Even though Wu clan gave the request of fighting both clans, we can negotiate about this matter. This will not determine what we do, after all."
"Sigh... the matter is severe. Our Chai clan has so many mortals around, if we fight, the other party just needs one Gu Immortal to wipe out all of our mortals, we will suffer huge losses." An elderly Gu Immortal from Chai clan sighed, he was very apprehensive.
Because of the human path method's limitation, these humans could not leave Human Smoke Mountain Range. This way, they needed an immortal Gu formation or an Immortal Gu House to defend the place.
"Precisely so, we need to fight for more resources."
"That's right! Our Chai clan's advantage is that we have a human path method to allow geniuses to appear in our descendants. But we do not have enough resources to nurture them. Once we chase away one clan or even two, we will gain a vast amount of resources, we will become the number one force in Southern Border in no time."
These were the arguments of the side that wanted to fight.
Chai clan's first supreme elder remained silent, after a while, he looked at a Gu Immortal in the hall, asking: "You Yan, tell us about your view."
-x-X-x-
The discussion hall became quiet, everyone's gazes turned to this Gu Immortal.
This Gu Immortal looked young and had a normal appearance, it was not outstanding, but he was an important Gu Immortal in Chai clan, he was the trusted and capable aide of Chai clan's first supreme elder.
Chai You Yan, who was an information path Gu Immortal, thought for a while before saying: "The things I consider might be different from everyone. These last days, I have been pondering over Wu Yi Hai."
"Wu Yong went missing and is presumably dead, regardless of whether this is true or who the culprit was, Wu Yi Hai is currently the leader of Wu clan. I am thinking about his personality, and how sincere he actually is."
"We all know about Wu Yi Hai's origin. We know too little about him, he did not grow up in Southern Border after all."
"Hmm, continue." Chai clan's first supreme elder showed interest in his eyes.
Chai You Yan smiled before continuing: "Actually, we know about the information regarding Wu Yi Hai already, I will skip that. From this information, we can more or less understand this person's attitude and personality. I will mention something that everyone ignored."
"Oh? We all ignored something?"
Chai You Yan rubbed his nose: "I mean that letter. In Wu Yi Hai's letter, he wanted to ally with our clan to attack Ba clan and Xia clan. He did not choose either Ba clan or Xia clan, he chose to target them both."
"Wu clan has always acted so domineering, isn't this their usual style of doing things?" Some Chai clan Gu Immortals did not understand.
"No no no. Wu Yi Hai is different." Chai You Yan shook his head: "We can tell from how he dealt with Frosty Peak and the agreement with Mountain Moving Old Monster. His actions are similar to lone cultivators, after all, how long has it been since he returned to Wu clan?"
"Wu Yi Hai lacks the dominating disposition of Wu clan, but he has the astuteness of lone cultivators, he knows how to make agreements, from what I see, he is talented as a part of the righteous path."
"Why did he list Ba clan and Xia clan as his targets? Like what was mentioned earlier, why did he not choose one of them and seek peace with the other? Because when we ally with Wu clan, if we choose one of them to attack, would the other stay still? They would definitely work together and resist both Wu clan and us!"
Chai clan's Gu Immortals heard this and nodded, agreeing with Chai You Yan.
Chai clan, Ba clan, Xia clan, these three clans were gathered around the red and jade rivers, their relationship was complex. If one clan became strong, the other two would join up to resist it.
The three were in a power balance, restraining each other, this was also why Chai clan had never made any progress after so many years of development.
If Chai clan worked with Wu clan, this balance would shift, would Ba clan and Xia clan not cooperate?
Thus, Fang Yuan directly listed both of them as his targets. Because he knew that it was bound to happen!
"This means that Wu Yi Hai has quite good foresight. Since he suggested for us to cooperate with him, he must have made many preparations. We do not need to worry about Wu clan toying with us." Someone said.
Chai You Yan nodded: "What I want to say is, Wu Yi Hai has a lot of talent in politics. From all these details, I can see that he has a lot of sincerity in this cooperation."
"The truth is, our Chai clan needs to act."
"After developing until now, we finally suppressed Xia clan and Ba clan, it was not easy, this is the hard work of countless generations, mixed in with some luck."
"Once Ba clan or Xia clan devours more resources, their foundations would grow, our advantage will be gone."
"Of course, we need to be careful of Wu clan as well if we work together."
"As for how we will fight, and how we will restrict the extent of this battle? That will be first supreme elder's decision."
"But at the very least, we need to send some Gu Immortals to attack. We cannot let Ba clan and Xia clan expand their territories so easily, right?"
His words were met with the nodding of Chai clan's Gu Immortals.
At almost the same time.
Southern Border, Myriad Snake Mountain, Chi clan's base.
Chi clan's first supreme elder held a letter Gu and remained silent.
Chi clan was at the extreme west of Southern Border, southwest of it was Yang clan, and towards its east was Qiao clan.
Chi clan bordered on these two clans, but Yang clan was farther from its base and had a longer border with it.
Making friends with those far away and making enemies with those close by, this was a common foreign policy.
Thus, Chi clan and Yang clan had poor relationships. Yang clan's Ghost Hand Mountain was at the source of yellow dragon river, it had abundant resources and was a strategic location, Yang clan Gu Immortals mostly cultivated soul path, they had incredible battle strength and was a threat to Chi clan.
In the past, Yang clan and Chi clan had many conflicts, this had accumulated throughout history.
Towards the east of Yang clan, all the way along yellow dragon river, was Wu clan's territory.
Actually, Wu clan and Chi clan were close by. Even though they did not border each other, Qiao clan and Chi clan did.
Qiao clan was heavily supported by a Wu clan first supreme elder of a certain generation. Qiao clan was at the central area of Southern Border, bordering Ba clan, Xia clan, and Chi clan, it could even restrain the southwest Yang clan.
Chi clan and Qiao clan had conflicts, but everyone knew that Qiao clan was Wu clan's guard dog, thus, Chi clan's and Wu clan's relationship was good or bad at times, depending on the situation.
If there was one phrase to describe Chi clan's and Wu clan's relationship, ambiguous would be a rather appropriate term.
Not long ago, Chi clan had found trouble with Wu clan. But inside the super Gu formation of Yi Tian Mountain, Chi clan worked with Wu clan, creating the immortal opportunity business.
"Wu Yi Hai, you are giving me a tough problem." In his study room, Chi clan first supreme elder Chi Qu You sighed deeply.
Fang Yuan had requested to work with Chi clan and deal with Yang clan.
Chi Qu You was moved, because he knew this was a good opportunity. This chance was rare even in his lifetime.
Any force needed to grow larger. Trying to annex Yang clan's resources, even if they could not succeed, would weaken Yang clan, this was something beneficial to Chi clan no matter what.
Chi clan had a lot of spare energy for this.
Not only because Chi clan's base was located far from the action, but also because Chi clan specialized in Gu formations. By setting up many immortal Gu formations, Chi clan's base and all their resource points had incredible defense.
Chi clan had little to worry about. They also had two Immortal Gu Houses, and don't forget, Chi Qu You was a rank eight Gu Immortal.
Wu Yong had died, this news sent Southern Border into chaos.
In this chaotic situation, what would Chi clan do, Chi Qu You needed to decide quickly and resolutely!
Several days later, in the super Gu formation, Fang Yuan came out of his seclusion.
He had a bit of joy on his face.
His closed cultivation bore fruit, he had completed the deduction of vajra shell and tested it several times.
And during these few days, the situation in Southern Border had undergone a huge change.
Chai clan sent Gu Immortals to the river and showed a threatening stance. Ba clan and Xia clan had to gather a portion of their strength and defend themselves.
Chi clan's Gu Immortals directly invaded Yang clan's territory. The two clans were neighbors for so long, it was easy to find an excuse to do so.
Both sides were fighting near their mountain range.
Chi clan's great expert was very active, he brought an Immortal Gu House and attacked personally. This made Yang clan very nervous, they had to send their Immortal Gu House and many Gu Immortals to face him. Yang clan had no rank eight Gu Immortal, they were in a passive state.
Other than that, Luo clan, Tie clan, and Yi clan also made their movements.
Because Fang Yuan sent these clans letters as well. Of course, the contents were all different from Chai clan and Chi clan.
After all, these four clans were too close to each other, they were all towards the east of Southern Border.
But even so, these clans' movements had attracted the attention of Hou clan and Yao clan, they were drawn away. Because they knew that even though these clans were unlikely to strike, they were afraid of taking that chance, they had to defend against it.
As for Shang clan, this clan had always scrupulously followed neutrality, even though Fang Yuan sent a letter, they replied instantly, rejecting his suggestion.
Because of this sudden change, Wu clan's and Qiao clan's dangerous situation had become much more relaxed.
Wu clan's and Qiao clan's Gu Immortals were very shocked at this result.
Even though Fang Yuan just sent a few letters, to be able to convince super forces to act, it was not a simple thing. Especially when the letter had to be very precise on the amount of resources Wu clan was willing to give up to express their sincerity.
Fang Yuan dealt with this perfectly, it was far beyond many people's imaginations.
Very few people knew about the content of his letters, but everyone knew that these letters moved many Gu Immortals in these super forces. This allowed Wu clan and Qiao clan to have an opportunity to retaliate!
"It seems that my skills have not fallen much." In the five hundred years of his previous life, Fang Yuan was once the leader of an organization, during the five regions chaotic war, the political situation was far more chaotic, all five regions were linked together, all sorts of deceptions, schemes, betrayal were endless.
The current political chaos was just surrounding Wu clan and Qiao clan, as well as the western part of Southern Border.
It was not too complex in Fang Yuan's opinion.
He did not need to be careful, he could directly target the problem.
"Wu clan's Immortal Gu House is finally arriving?" Fang Yuan received more information.
Originally, the Immortal Gu House was supposed to move earlier, but a mishap occurred midway and it was stalled for some time, no matter who did it or what their intention was, Fang Yuan had to wait an extra day before this Immortal Gu House arrived.
"It seems I need to leave this place now." This dream realm gave Fang Yuan an incredible boost, many things happened during this period, Fang Yuan felt a bit of unwillingness to leave this treasure.
-x-X-x-
Fang Yuan started to settle the matters that piled up while he was in closed cultivation.
"Lady White Rabbit wants to see me? For what?" Fang Yuan asked Wu An using information path methods.
Soon, Fang Yuan understood Lady White Rabbit's intention.
"Not seeing her, get her to leave." Fang Yuan rejected mercilessly.
Wu clan's Immortal Gu House would arrive in a day.
Fang Yuan was not going to bring Lady White Rabbit with him, he needed a chess piece to stay here. Even if she was not in the super Gu formation, having one outside was fine too.
Of course this carried huge risks, after all, Lady White Rabbit's and Wu Yi Hai's 'relationship' was quite close, everyone knew about it.
But chess pieces needed to display their worth. When Fang Yuan took in Lady White Rabbit, it was not because of her beauty or love, he just wanted to extract all of her value.
"Even with one day left, I cannot waste it, I might be able to gain something in the dream realm."
But unfortunately, Fang Yuan still only met with absurd dream realms.
It was a real pity.
During this final period, he kept meeting absurd dream realms, his luck was quite bad. If they were realistic dream realms, he would at least obtain some growth.
"I heard that Qiao clan has many realistic dream realms. It is a pity... those demonic path Gu Immortals have no methods to use, but they are able to encounter realistic dream realms."
Fang Yuan could not go to Qiao clan. It was their territory, if he exposed his method of exploring dream realms, it would be a huge problem to Fang Yuan.
At this moment, Qiao clan's area.
"One more day before we leave, your dream realm exploration is going to end. Make good use of your time, also, our Qiao clan is very willing to purchase the dream path materials that you find." Qiao Bo transmitted to Fairy Miao Yin and the other demonic path Gu Immortals.
"No need for more explorations, we can end now." Fairy Miao Yin smiled at Qiao Bo.
Qiao Bo was dazed.
He had brought Fairy Miao Yin here to explore the dream realm many times, but this was the first time he saw Fairy Miao Yin smiling at him so deeply.
At once, his heart jumped, he showed a dazed expression.
But soon, his body shook.
A soft sound echoed.
Qiao Bo's pupils shrunk to pin size, he looked down at his chest.
There, a hand with sharp fingernails had pierced through his back, directly destroying his heart, a cold frost was also spreading around his injury.
"You, how dare you..." Qiao Bo did not finish his words, he lost his life and turned into an ice statue.
Qiao Bo died!
Behind him, Bai Ning Bing drew back her hand expressionlessly.
In the air, crystal shards were scattering.
Her hand was white as snow, the blood traces were all removed along with the frost.
"The time is now, let's begin." The third Gu Immortal walked out, her appearance changed as she revealed her true form.
Who else could it be but Hei Lou Lan?
"Is Lord Wu Yi Hai really unwilling to meet me?" Lady White Rabbit had teary eyes as she looked at Wu An.
Wu An sighed, shaking his head: "Leave, there is no rush, you will meet again in the future. As long as you manage the immortal opportunity business well, maybe Lord Wu Yi Hai might reward you in the future."
"Manage it well? Hehe!" Lady White Rabbit's eyes suddenly turned black, a cold light was shining in her dark eyes.
Seeing this change, Wu An became alert, he took a step back: "Lady White Rabbit, what are you doing? Don't act rashly."
Lady White Rabbit's voice changed too: "Don't talk about White Rabbit! I am not that weak fool, blindly loving this cruel and heartless man. Remember, I am Black Tigress."
"Hmph, what Black Tigress, it is time to teach you people a lesson. Even though my Wu clan is in a difficult spot, you minor characters should forget about... urgh!" Before Wu An finished his words, his angry face turned into one of extreme fear.
He found that he could not move, not only that, his body and soul were melting, turning into black water on the ground.
"What, what killer move is this? When was I hit?!"
At this time, Black Tigress' cold voice entered Wu An's ears: "Enjoy it, this was meant for Wu Yi Hai. It is a pity I did not get to see him."
Once she said that, Wu An completely melted into a puddle of black water.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Right after Wu An had died from Black Tigress' powerful killer move, the super Gu formation started to shake intensely.
The super Gu formation was under attack!
"What is going on?" The righteous path Gu Immortals here immediately reacted.
"Someone is attacking the Gu formation, they are inside the Gu formation!" Soon, Chi Gui, who was the leader of Chi clan here. found the problem and informed the righteous path Gu Immortals.
The immortals' hearts sank.
The super Gu formation had incredibly strong defense, but it was split into inside and outside. Attacking the super Gu formation from the inside and from the outside were two different situations.
Undeniably, attacking it from the inside would be much more destructive.
"The problem is at Qiao clan's area." The righteous path Gu Immortals near Qiao clan's area quickly transmitted.
"Damn it, I said that this immortal opportunity business was going to create problems. Qiao clan is toying with fire! See what happened!!" Ba Quan Feng shouted, after all, Ba clan did not participate in this immortal opportunity business.
Once he said that, many righteous path Gu Immortals went silent.
"No need to worry, even in this situation, my Chi clan ancestor had prepared against this, this super Gu formation has formations inside formations, for a total of four layers. Just these demonic path Gu Immortals cannot break our outermost layer." Chi Gui tried to raise the morale and relieve his own awkwardness. Because Chi clan was one of the instigators of the immortal opportunity business.
"That's right, they are just some rats." The righteous path Gu Immortals calmed down.
But at this moment.
Boom!
Several loud explosions occurred as the Gu formation shook again, the intensity was many times stronger than before. Many Gu worms died, quite a few Immortal Gu were destroyed.
"What is going on, what is going on?!"
Chi Gui was shocked: "They actually found our formation core? Oh no, the other party came prepared, they are not attacking abruptly."
"They are attacking from both inside and outside, the outside of the Gu formation was hit by a strong attack earlier!"
"Stop them!"
"Quickly activate the Gu formations."
"Send some people to the site, exterminate those demonic path scoundrels!"
"Did Wu clan's and Qiao clan's Gu Immortals all die? Is anyone there?!"
The righteous path Gu Immortals transmitted to each other, it was a chaotic scene.
"What is going on?" In the hall at Wu clan's area, Fang Yuan's brows were locked, he was observing the situation that had just occurred using the Gu formation.
He had just practised his killer move, the event happened too quickly, he was caught unprepared.
Information was transmitted to Fang Yuan from the Gu formation. Lady White Rabbit's transformation and the killing of Wu An, he learned about everything.
"Lady White Rabbit is a traitor, she seemed to have become another person! And her target was actually me." Fang Yuan frowned even deeper now.
He immediately decided to go ahead and kill White Rabbit to take revenge for Wu An.
Not just because of Wu Yi Hai's identity, but also because Fang Yuan needed to maintain the stability of the super Gu formation, he needed to kill Lady White Rabbit.
"To think that there was such a huge slip-up, Yi Hai, my side of the Gu formation is completely out of control, come lend me a hand!"
Qiao Si Liu transmitted to Fang Yuan a cry for help and also the scene of Bai Ning Bing killing Qiao Bo.
Receiving this information, Fang Yuan's intention of acting was dispersed!
"Bai Ning Bing? Hei Lou Lan! Why are they here? I get it, this is the act of Shadow Sect!" Fang Yuan's heart shook.
He stayed on the spot, his eyes bursting with bright light.
After discovering Shadow Sect, even though he had killing intent, his thoughts of going out vanished.
What a joke!
Shadow Sect had a rank eight existence.
Fang Yuan saw this from the battle of Reverse Flow River.
Who knew where that Purple Mountain True Monarch was. He might be close by, waiting to attack Wu Yi Hai if he came out!
"Even though I have the immortal killer move reverse flow protection seal, which can defend against rank eight existences, once I use it, my identity will be exposed. Since Shadow Sect sent Lady White Rabbit to kill me, undoubtedly, they did not discover that I am impersonating Wu Yi Hai. Otherwise, they would not send just Lady White Rabbit."
"What to do?"
Fang Yuan went into rapid contemplation.
Using his wisdom path methods, thoughts moved rapidly in Fang Yuan's mind, raging like a storm.
"Shadow Sect's intention is obvious, they want to save Spectral Soul's main body."
"Shadow Sect must have their trump cards, I need to quietly observe for now! This super Gu formation is not a joke, using this super Gu formation, we can defend against the attacks of rank eight Gu Immortals. I should not expose myself."
Fang Yuan quickly made his plan.
As for Qiao Si Liu?
You can die for all I care!
"Yi Hai, come quickly." Qiao Si Liu urged again.
Fang Yuan had a cold expression, immediately rejecting: "Hang on, I have some problems here. Wu An was murdered by Lady White Rabbit, I cannot spare this murderer!!"
"What? Be careful yourself." Qiao Si Liu was shocked, but she still gave Fang Yuan some words of concern, not knowing that he had already abandoned her in his mind.
Qiao Si Liu was facing against Fairy Miao Yin, Hei Lou Lan, and Bai Ning Bing.
She was a rank seven Gu Immortal, similar to Fairy Miao Yin, while Hei Lou Lan and Bai Ning Bing were rank six.
Thus, in Qiao Si Liu's perspective, the situation was not out of control. Her gaze was focused on Fairy Miao Yin: "You are all finished, the super Gu formation has already been activated, you are all trapped here, surrender now and be my clan's slave Gu Immortals, you might be able to survive."
"Hehehe." Fairy Miao Yin laughed: "Is that so?"
-x-X-x-
Right at this time, an intensely strong aura burst out from outside the super Gu formation.
Soon, the righteous path Gu Immortals controlling the Gu formation noticed.
"There is a strong aura ahead!"
"Such intense aura, so, so powerful! A rank eight Gu Immortal?"
The righteous path Gu Immortals were gasping.
"Is it Purple Mountain True Monarch?" Fang Yuan, who was inside the hall, watched attentively.
"No, it is not a Gu Immortal, it is an immemorial desolate beast... ah, it is actually?!"
Before he finished his words, bam—!
The entire super Gu formation was faced with an unprecedentedly intense attack.
The entire Gu formation shook intensely, the halls created inside the Gu formation were destroyed, they crumbled and disintegrated.
At once, it felt like doomsday.
The entire Gu formation was cracked open, but there were not many injuries in the righteous path Gu Immortals.
This was the difference between a Gu formation and a killer move.
Even though Gu formations were the killer moves of formation path, after a Gu formation is set up, it works based on the Gu worms and the environment. When they are destroyed, the Gu Immortal would suffer a less intense backlash.
Of course, ancient battle formations were different. Once ancient battle formations were destroyed, the Gu Immortals would suffer severe backlashes, especially the main controller of the formation.
"Cough, cough." Dust and smoke was clouding the place.
The hall that Fang Yuan was in had completely collapsed, the corners were turning back into mortal Gu, dead Gu worms poured down like rain.
A huge hole was created in the super Gu formation, the dream realm that was completely concealed earlier was now exposed.
Many righteous path Gu Immortals stood by the opening, looking outside blankly.
Over there, a huge figure was rampaging.
It was a human shaped immemorial desolate beast, it stood on both legs and had two huge monstrous claws, its hair was messy and its body was black like ink.
"Gu Immortals, so many Gu Immortals, I want to eat, I want to eat you all! After eating you, I will be closer to being human." This human shaped immemorial desolate beast growled in a low tone, extremely excited.
"This, this is..." A righteous path Gu Immortal pointed at the immemorial desolate beast, stammering in a shocked state.
"Zuo Ye Hui!" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth subconsciously, feeling great pressure.
The moment he saw this immemorial desolate beast, Fang Yuan felt like he was in the dream, but the shouting of the Gu Immortals around him, the destroyed halls, and the super Gu formation that was breaking apart reminded him that this was not a dream.
Fang Yuan had not expected Zuo Ye Hui to come here!
This legendary immemorial desolate beast had caused too much suffering and deaths in Southern Border. All of the righteous path Gu Immortals in Southern Border knew about it.
With the appearance of Zuo Ye Hui, the hearts of the righteous path members wavered, their morale fell to rock bottom.
This was a powerful existence on par with rank eight Gu Immortals. Especially after the super Gu formation was destroyed, how could these righteous path rank six and seven Gu Immortals defend against it?
With their bodies?
In this huge world of the five regions, there were only two people who could resist rank eight as rank seven, they were Feng Jiu Ge and Liu Guan Yi.
"We need to hold on! Don't panic, our Gu formation has four layers! That was just the outermost fourth layer which broke. Start to move, come into the next layer of the Gu formation." At the crucial moment, Chi Gui spoke up.
He was the leader of Chi clan in this place, this super Gu formation was created by Chi clan's first supreme elder, Chi Qu You, Chi Gui naturally knew some information that others did not.
As expected, the Gu formation activated and shined with a bright light. The collapsing stopped, and the outer formation was completely abandoned, a new line of defense appeared inside.
The third layer of the Gu formation appeared before Zuo Ye Hui.
It did not cover the entire dream realm, it was visible, but most of the dream realm was still concealed by the Gu formation.
The righteous path Gu Immortals quickly went inside.
Fang Yuan was not an exception.
He had to, Shadow Sect did not know about Wu Yi Hai's true identity, otherwise, Shadow Sect, which had a wisdom path rank eight Gu Immortal, would not send just Lady White Rabbit to assassinate Fang Yuan.
The enemy was in the open while he was hidden, this was a clear advantage. At the same time, Fang Yuan had another advantage, that was the Immortal Gu House.
An Immortal Gu House from Wu clan was on the way.
Most Gu formations could not move, but Immortal Gu Houses could!
And the power of Immortal Gu Houses could increase the more immortal essence was used, they could resist rank eight Gu Immortals.
With an Immortal Gu House to defend and escort him, Fang Yuan would have a greater chance to leave this place.
"But earlier, Wu clan's Immortal Gu House was delayed along the way due to an unexpected mishap, was it Shadow Sect?" Fang Yuan considered this as his thoughts turned dark.
"Tsk, so troublesome." Bai Ning Bing looked at the Gu formation's third layer of defense, frowning.
"This is hard to destroy." Hei Lou Lan sighed.
At this time, Ying Wu Xie smiled coldly, transmitting to them: "Don't worry, just dodge."
Fairy Miao Yin's, Bai Ning Bing's, and Hei Lou Lan's bodies shook as they quickly flew back and retreated.
Roar!
At the next moment, Zuo Ye Hui roared and emitted a thunderously loud wave.
Its voice burst out and created a sonic wave, pushing out the surrounding air and uprooting the trees and rocks, whipping up a storm.
Next, Zuo Ye Hui breathed in deeply, its stomach bulged up.
Its entire body expanded to double its size!
Next, it opened its bloodthirsty mouth filled with sharp teeth, and a huge beam of light shot out fiercely.
The grey colored beam of light shot out extremely quickly, in the blink of an eye, it landed on the third layer of the Gu formation.
There was a creepy silence.
The third layer of the Gu formation was hit by the grey beam of light, as it was dyed grey rapidly.
Earlier, Zuo Ye Hui had attacked the super Gu formation as well. The first few attempts were just trials, but the previous time was also the killer move grey night, together with Hei Lou Lan, Bai Ning Bing, and Fairy Miao Yin, they destroyed the fourth layer of the Gu formation.
Most of the righteous path Gu Immortals did not manage to see these attacks clearly.
But this time, they witnessed it firsthand, they saw how terrifying Zuo Ye Hui was!
As if heaven and earth became still, monochrome color enveloped the place, time seemed to be moving slower.
For one breath of time.
Boom—!
Another thunderous explosion resounded in the world, the immortals' eardrums were bursting.
The entire world shook, the third layer of the Gu formation was ripped apart, as if the previous attack was going to be played out again.
The righteous path Gu Immortals were pale, they instilled their immortal essence into the Gu formation desperately.
When the tremors ended, the third layer of the Gu formation was only half destroyed, it still existed!
This was a super Gu formation personally created by rank eight Gu Immortal Chi Qu You, together with a vast number of Immortal Gu and mortal Gu from Southern Border's righteous path forces, it was displaying its power now.
It managed to block the signature move of legendary immemorial desolate beast Zuo Ye Hui!
There were no injuries or deaths among the righteous path Gu Immortals.
"I am actually still alive!" Someone almost cried from joy.
"This is Zuo Ye Hui's signature method, immortal killer move — Grey Night! We actually defended against it!!" Someone shouted loudly.
Chi Gui's forehead was full of sweat, he said: "This is the super Gu formation that my clan's first supreme elder set up, why would it be destroyed? If not for them attacking from both inside and outside earlier, the fourth layer might still be around."
"Immortal killer move grey night, it is different from the one in my dream realm, was its form changed? After so many years, grey night must have been modified. Did Zuo Ye Hui modify it? Or did it have help? Is this help from Shadow Sect? Strange! If they had Zuo Ye Hui as a tool, why did Shadow Sect not use it when they were refining sovereign immortal fetus Gu? Was it because they could not control it? Or is this all because of that rank eight Gu Immortal?" Fang Yuan fell into deep contemplation.
Fairy Miao Yin, Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, they came to the super Gu formation again.
Looking at the damaged third layer of the super Gu formation, they were not shocked nor disappointed.
Because they did not come alone, there was Ying Wu Xie, as well as many demonic path Gu Immortals and lone immortals.
Shadow Sect lacked manpower, but not resources.
Normally, demonic path Gu Immortals and lone cultivators lacked cultivation resources, they would pursue resources over their whole lives.
Purple Mountain True Monarch endured the huge costs of spending resources to recruit a batch of demonic path and lone immortals.
Humans die for wealth and birds die for food, money makes the world go round.
Of course, these Southern Border Gu Immortals were not stupid, only after Zuo Ye Hui appeared and used grey night did they start to follow Ying Wu Xie and show up.
On the other hand, this showed that Shadow Sect had a good grasp on timing and human emotions.
From these demonic path and lone immortals' perspectives, not only was there the wisdom path rank eight great expert Purple Mountain True Monarch, there was also the legendary immemorial desolate beast Zuo Ye Hui, this battle was decided already, they were going to win.
"It is all as Purple Mountain True Monarch predicted, we will attack using these holes in the Gu formation. Whoever can kill enemies and expand the hole would get several times the reward!" Ying Wu Xie shouted, Shadow Sect's side started to clamor as they attacked the super Gu formation.
The righteous path side also reacted.
"Quickly, seal the hole."
"We cannot let them in."
"I need time to activate the second layer of the Gu formation, everyone, try to stall and fight for time." Chi Gui called out.
"Zuo Ye Hui has already used grey night twice, this is the limit. It needs to rest for a while, it is time to teach these demonic path scoundrels a lesson!!" Ba De shouted.
Fang Yuan squinted, he had been assessing Zuo Ye Hui, he also saw that after Zuo Ye Hui used grey night, it was in a state of exhaustion, it panted as it remained on the spot, unmoving.
This made Fang Yuan feel slightly relieved.
There were so many Southern Border Gu Immortals here, many people were familiar with history, they knew a lot about Zuo Ye Hui. After all, every time Zuo Ye Hui appeared, it would cause disaster in Southern Border, lots of Southern Border Gu Immortals would need to work together, defending against and battling it.
Southern Border's righteous path super clans had accurate information about Zuo Ye Hui from their historical records.
-x-X-x-
"Kill!"
"Charge!"
"Block them, we need more time."
"Don't be afraid, so what if this is Zuo Ye Hui, the Gu formation is around, we can last until reinforcements arrive from our clans."
Shadow Sect attacked, while Southern Border's righteous path defended desperately.
The third layer of the Gu formation was already half destroyed, cracks could be seen everywhere, it was of little help to the righteous path Gu Immortals, a chaotic battle ensued.
Rumble...
Unceasing explosions, the collisions of wind, fire, water, and lightning, unfolded like fireworks in the sky.
There was no probing, Immortal Gu and immortal killer moves were used from the start, the battle became heated almost instantly.
"You cannot defend this place." Fairy Miao Yin smiled as she flew in the air.
Qiao Si Liu was in front of her.
Qiao Si Liu was silent, the situation had changed too quickly, earlier, the righteous path had the advantage, but now they were at a disadvantage. Even with the super Gu formation, they could only defend passively, they lost their initiative. For the righteous path Gu Immortals, their only chance was to wait for reinforcements.
"Who are you people? You can actually mobilize the legendary immemorial desolate beast Zuo Ye Hui." Qiao Si Liu asked, paying close attention.
Fairy Miao Yin laughed: "The ones to end your life."
Her killing intent rose, a crescent moon shadow appeared in her eyes.
Immortal killer move — Curved Moon!
This was a sight based attack, because the aura was completely concealed, once it was used, one would not be able to react in time, it was very difficult to guard against.
Qiao Si Liu was hit immediately.
But soon, on the surface of her dress and skin, jade green light shone. Within the faint light, long willow branches formed, it was like ribbons made of branches coiling around her, she resembled a fairy from heaven.
Swish swish swish.
The jade willow branches were not just defensive, they quickly flew towards Fairy Miao Yin with impressive mobility.
Fairy Miao Yin was stunned, she quickly retreated.
She avoided the willow branches but could not defend against the shadow below them. One of the shadows shot up like a venomous snake, slapping Fairy Miao Yin's body.
"This is... an attached move?" Fairy Miao Yin could not conceal the shock on her beautiful face.
Attached moves were like consecutive moves, split moves, and variation moves, they were special techniques in activating killer moves, they were hard to master for normal people.
What was an attached move?
Normally speaking, it meant two different immortal killer moves, one primary and one secondary. Like the willow branch attack that Qiao Si Liu used, it was the primary move. The shadows below the branches were the secondary move, attached to the primary move.
When the primary move was used, the secondary move would have a certain chance of getting activated as well, unleashing its effects.
Fairy Miao Yin did not expect that Qiao Si Liu would actually master such a difficult technique like attached move, she was caught off guard and was hit by the willow branch's shadow.
A long wound appeared as blood started to flow out.
On Fairy Miao Yin's beautiful face, it was really apparent.
Qiao Si Liu tittered: "Oh no, I lost my concentration and disfigured you. If we fight anymore, you'll no longer be on par with me in beauty."
Fairy Miao Yin snorted.
Qiao Si Liu took the initiative and attacked, there were countless jade willow branches around her, these rootless willows were formed from the killer move, they were agile and resembled dozens of long whips, lashing at Fairy Miao Yin.
The attacks became more frequent, it was like a jade storm.
Fairy Miao Yin was shrouded in whips, not only did she need to defend against the whips, she also had to guard against their shadows.
After all, a whip might come out at any time and attack Fairy Miao Yin.
Splat splat splat...
Lashing sounds were endless, even though Fairy Miao Yin was putting up her defense, her clothes were still torn by the whips.
Fairy Miao Yin retreated as she used her hands to shield herself from the willow branches.
A moment later, her clothes were torn and her snow white body was exposed, it was beautiful and alluring, men would have a nosebleed upon seeing her.
Qiao Si Liu pursued her along the way.
But good times did not last, her opponent suddenly cried out as a pair of slender hands appeared on her back.
Fairy Miao Yin had four arms now.
Her four arms defended herself as Fairy Miao Yin restored her steady position, it was easy for her to block those willows now.
Qiao Si Liu sighed to herself.
This was immortal killer move — Wondrous Hand Profound Sound, Fairy Miao Yin's signature killer move, Qiao Si Liu knew of it.
She had attacked rapidly earlier to catch Fairy Miao Yin off-guard, to maintain her pressure and prevent her from regaining her composure.
However, Qiao Si Liu's tactic failed, Fairy Miao Yin managed to use this move in the end.
Even though Fairy Miao Yin was facing huge pressure, she was not a newbie like Zhao Lian Yun, Fairy Miao Yin did not make an error, she withstood the pressure and used her killer move successfully.
With her success, the situation changed.
Qiao Si Liu slowly flew backwards, stopping her attacks and starting a battle of attrition using the damaged Gu formation as she retreated.
She had left the super Gu formation when pursuing Fairy Miao Yin, it was wise to return.
"It is my turn now, Sister Si Liu, you have to endure it." Fairy Miao Yin smiled, but her gaze was very dark.
Four hands started to move rapidly.
Her smooth, long fingers were moving in a dazzling motion.
Ding ding, dang dang...
Cling cling, clang clang...
With the movement of her fingers, sharp sounds could be heard whenever they touched.
The sounds even caused sound waves to start appearing in the surrounding air.
The sound waves were moving rapidly, with Fairy Miao Yin at the center, it quickly spread to the radius of a few hundred steps.
The damaged third layer of the Gu formation was breaking apart many times as quickly with the effect of the sound.
The sound waves appeared quickly and vanished just as quickly.
Qiao Si Liu had a solemn expression, she quickly defended herself, as willow branches surrounded her entire body.
The two were in a deadlock.
And at another hole.
Shang clan Gu Immortal Shang Guai Li crossed his arms as he stood in front of the hole, looking at Hei Lou Lan.
He had arrogance and disdain on his face: "Just a rank six Gu Immortal, you dare to attack us, you are truly courting death. I will kill you first before reinforcing my allies."
Saying this, he vanished on the spot.
At the next moment, he appeared behind Hei Lou Lan.
Next, he stretched out his right hand as it turned into a white bone claw, scratching at Hei Lou Lan's back.
Plop.
A soft sound echoed.
The white bone claw ripped apart Hei Lou Lan's defensive method, stabbing into her back as blood splattered upon impact.
Hei Lou Lan shouted in anger, turning around to retaliate.
Shang Guai Li vanished on the spot again, appearing in the damaged formation once more.
Hei Lou Lan missed her attack, she growled in anger, her expression was twisted, there were five deep wounds on her back.
Shang Guai Li mocked in disdain: "You're nothing much, I will take your life in the next hit... hmm?"
But suddenly, his expression changed.
On his white bone claw, Hei Lou Lan's flesh and blood were burning in flames.
The fire was extremely special, it grew as it burned, in the blink of an eye, it covered Shang Guai Li's entire right hand.
"You fell for it so easily." Hei Lou Lan laughed.
Immortal killer move — Flesh Blood Fire!
...
"Dragonman?" A middle aged Gu Immortal with huge nostrils, Chai Huo Xiong, was bare on his upper body, he had a wide back and waist, his body's muscles were glowing red, like he was on fire.
Every time he breathed, smoke came out of his nostrils.
He was brutish and domineering, he stood on the spot and blocked the hole in the Gu formation behind him.
"At least you are knowledgeable." Bai Ning Bing had a plain expression, she stretched out her right arm, her jade fingers were covered in frost energy, as snowflakes descended from the sky.
Boom!
A loud sound occurred around Chai Huo Xiong, the ground caved in as he shot out like a cannonball, charging towards Bai Ning Bing.
"Take this!" Chai Huo Xiong shouted in the air, large amounts of flames flew out of his nose and nose, even his pores were flaming.
In an instant, raging flames filled Bai Ning Bing's vision.
Bai Ning Bing had a cold gaze, she did not dodge, she watched as Chai Huo Xiong got closer.
Her lips curled up, she called out in excitement: "Come at me."
Before she finished her words, she charged forward!
Her body was tiny compared to Chai Huo Xiong, this was like the collision of a fly towards a flame.
Boom!
An intense explosion.
Both sides attacked and were locked in the middle, dividing this battlefield into two.
Half was flame and half was frost, they were repelling each other.
Flames flickered with the power to burn all lifeforms, while the frost solidified the earth into an icy domain, freezing all lifeforms.
Flames could not melt the frost, and the frost could not freeze the flames, there was no clear victor.
When the flames and frost vanished, two figures appeared on each end.
Bai Ning Bing stood on the spot, excitement and concentration was evident in her dragon eyes.
On the other end, the domineering Chai clan Gu Immortal took several steps back, looking at Bai Ning Bing in disbelief: "Impossible, you are only a rank six Gu Immortal!"
Bai Ning Bing smiled and her icy white teeth were exposed: "I praised you for being knowledgeable earlier, it seems that I need to... take that back!"
The moment she said 'need to', Bai Ning Bing charged ahead again, when she finished her words, she was right in front of Chai Huo Xiong.
She jumped into the sky and her right arm was raised up, she was like a deity of snow descending to the world, bringing with her an endless blizzard, her divine might was unstoppable.
Next, Bai Ning Bing's right arm slashed down at Chai Huo Xiong like a giant sharp blade!
...
"White Rabbit, you slut, die!" Wu Liao had bloodshot eyes, filled with rage and hatred.
Even though he was not on good terms with Wu An as they disliked each other, they were still Wu clan Gu Immortals.
Now that White Rabbit killed Wu An, Wu Liao attacked with hatred, wanting to avenge Wu An.
But it was a pity, Lady White Rabbit who had transformed, or rather, Black Tigress, had rank seven cultivation level, her battle strength had surged dramatically.
Wu Liao was just a rank six Gu Immortal, he could do nothing to Lady White Rabbit, instead, his own life was in danger.
"Step down Wu Liao, you are not her match." Fang Yuan blocked Wu Liao, who was going to fight, he had cold killing intent as he stood in front of Lady White Rabbit.
-x-X-x-
"Hehehe." Black Tigress had a strange laugh, her beautiful appearance looked very twisted.
Her clear innocent eyes were filled with sinister light, there were deep bags under her eyes, like she had not slept for a long time. Her eyeshadow was thick, like the wings of a black butterfly, extending from her eyes to her brows.
Even though her appearance did not change much, she had turned sinister and vicious, her demeanor had changed completely, the innocent and weak form was worlds apart from this.
"White Rabbit true inheritance... interesting." Fang Yuan's body shined in bright light.
When the light faded, Fang Yuan had turned into a huge tortoise.
Immortal killer move — Divination Tortoise Transformation!
Guh.
The rank seven formation path Gu Immortal Chi Gui coughed out a mouthful of blood.
"Damn it, damn it!" He cursed continuously, looking ahead at the fragmented corpse of the Immortal Gu floating in front of him.
This Immortal Gu was originally damaged by Zuo Ye Hui's attack.
Earlier, when Chi Gui wanted to activate the second layer of the super Gu formation, this Immortal Gu reached its limit and broke.
The Gu formation activation failed, there would be a chain reaction and cause other Immortal Gu to be damaged.
Chi Gui had to use his own body to endure the backlash of the collapsing Gu formation, in order to keep it from being destroyed.
But he got injured in the process.
"Is the injury severe?" Ba De quickly came to check.
Chi Gui swallowed the blood in his mouth, he had a pale expression like that of a dead person: "Very severe! This destroyed Immortal Gu is one of the main pillars. The second layer of the Gu formation has three hundred thousand Gu worms, but there are only four Immortal Gu of such importance. We need to find a replacement and activate the second layer of the Gu formation. This Gu formation has many linked layers, without the second layer, the first layer will not be able to activate."
After pausing for a while, Chi Gui shouted with a frantic expression: "Anyone who has earth path Immortal Gu, I need one passed to me. Now is the moment of life and death!"
Beside him, Ba Quan Feng and Ba De looked at each other helplessly.
The former was a wind path Gu Immortal, while the latter was wood path, they did not have earth path Immortal Gu.
Chi Gui had to heal his injuries, Ba Quan Feng and Ba De went to ask around.
The reason why they had to ask one by one was because he needed to try and conceal this disastrous information. After all, mental state affected battle strength, the fewer people who knew, the better.
Thankfully, among the five regions, Southern Border had the most earth path Gu Immortals.
Soon, some people spoke up, they were willing to contribute their earth path Immortal Gu.
Chi Gui had to choose, it was not easy to choose the earth path Immortal Gu, but he had to try and find the one closest to the one that was destroyed.
Chi Gui's injuries had not healed, but he could not care.
"Next, I need to deduce this and try to add that earth path Immortal Gu into this Gu formation. My safety will be in your hands."
This act was very risky, he was placing his life in the hands of others.
But Chi Gui had a determined expression, he did not hesitate.
He knew that there was no other way now, time was pressing, he needed to gamble!
Ba De had a solemn expression, nodding: "I promise that I will defend your life. Even if Zuo Ye Hui comes, he will have to step over my corpse first."
He was sincere, these were not lies. In this situation, even if Ba De had high battle strength, he could not resist Zuo Ye Hui, the battle could not be turned around.
He was not Feng Jiu Ge or Fang Yuan, who had reverse flow protection seal.
Ba De did not know that Wu clan's Immortal Gu House was on the way.
But the moment Shadow Sect attacked, he had immediately used his information path methods to inform Ba clan.
There were other Gu Immortals who did the same thing.
Defending with all they had, that was the only way for everyone to survive.
Like this, Chi Gui's attention and concentration was focused on the Gu formation. And Ba De, who had the highest battle strength, was leading the group in defending the place. With Wu clan and Qiao clan in trouble, their reputation had fallen greatly, Ba clan's Ba De became the most suitable leader.
Ba De did not let go of this chance.
As the most important person to protect Chi Gui, he stayed at the back and observed the battlefield.
All in all, the righteous path's defense was quite stable.
The righteous path Gu Immortal elites were using the damaged Gu formation, they could retreat in time.
Meanwhile, even though the demonic path Gu Immortals arrived imposingly, they lacked strong experts. It was not that Southern Border had no demonic path or lone immortal experts, but most of them had died in Yi Tian Mountain.
Even though the righteous path also suffered great losses in that battle, compared to the demonic path, the righteous path was more stable, it was easier to produce Gu Immortal experts with abundant resources.
One could imagine, unless something happened, at this rate, for the following period of time, Southern Border's righteous path would greatly suppress the demonic path and lone cultivators.
Ba De's gaze swept past Fairy Miao Yin, Hei Lou Lan, and Bai Ning Bing's battlefield, eventually looking at Fang Yuan.
"Wu Yi Hai." He muttered this name, feeling some emotions.
In the past, he wanted to suppress Wu Yi Hai and teach Wu clan a lesson. But now, they had to work together, Ba De had a lot of ambition, he wanted to replace Wu clan and make Ba clan flourish. But now, with this strong enemy, he was willing to work with Wu Yi Hai, he had an open mind.
Of course, this was temporary, once the crisis ended, Ba De would deal with them again.
With this event, Ba De had a huge hold on Fang Yuan. Before the mishap occurred in Wu clan and Qiao clan, Ba De had been holding himself back, he did not use the immortal opportunity business to find trouble with him. He had endured until now, there were finally results to be shown.
Black Tigress jumped around, she was very agile, evading many vajra thoughts.
After her personality changed, this former Lady White Rabbit started to use dark path methods.
Not just that, her rank six cultivation level turned to rank seven, it was simply unreasonable!
But no matter how fast she moved, she was merely a bit faster than Fang Yuan's thoughts.
Times were different now.
If this was Fang Yuan had just obtained vajra thought Immortal Gu, he might not have been able to handle Black Tigress. But now, Fang Yuan was very familiar with this move, thoughts scattered like rain, assaulting her and cooperating with each other, forming a huge web of attacks, even though Black Tigress dodged them, she was still going to be overwhelmed by the countless thoughts.
Immortal killer move — Cornered Tiger!
Realizing that she was in a disadvantage, Black Tigress' aura burst out as her toes landed lightly on the ground.
Black liquid started to spread on the ground.
A breath of time later, the water expanded to the size of a pond.
Two breaths of time later, the black water started to bubble.
Three breaths of time later, a lizard 1 with the size of a horse emerged from the black water.
This lizard was black in color and had shiny eyes, it was not real, it was made from the dark path killer move.
The lizard moved rapidly, spreading its limbs and moving like the wind, bringing Black Tigress to its back as she charged away.
Compared to Black Tigress, Fang Yuan, who had turned into a divination tortoise, looked very slow.
After he transformed, he stopped moving, he blocked the hole of the Gu formation.
Even though Fang Yuan did not move, the vajra thoughts he created were like tiny tortoise shells, they moved agilely and circulated around the divination tortoise's body with an incredible number.
Since the battle started, Fang Yuan had been using vajra shell.
The tortoise shell thoughts few rapidly, Fang Yuan had a composed plan, he first used these thoughts to defend himself before sending the new ones outside.
Black Tigress stood on top of the black lizard, she could move with ease but she gritted her teeth.
On the surface, her speed was an advantage, she had the initiative, but the truth was, she needed to get past Fang Yuan's obstruction to attack the damaged formation.
But Fang Yuan was blocking her way.
Black Tigress tried to move every which way, trying to get past Fang Yuan.
She moved around these tortoise shell thoughts and exposed vulnerability on purpose, but Fang Yuan did not fall for it, he defended himself firmly and continued to push Black Tigress out.
Fang Yuan was a bit wary of Black Tigress' trump card.
Even though Fang Yuan did not know its name, he saw how Wu An had turned into a puddle of black water after he got hit by it unknowingly.
"Black Tigress prepared that move for me."
"She wanted to meet me but I rejected her, thus she used it on Wu An."
"This means that the move has a small range, it is quite limited. Like dark assassination, even though the aura is concealed and it has great power, the flaw is evident."
Fang Yuan created more and more thoughts, the tortoise shell thoughts were moving around without any gaps, it was terrifying.
Black Tigress had to retreat, seeing so many tortoise shells, she was so angry her chest was moving up and down.
"This tortoise transformation really suits you, Lord Wu Yi Hai." She grinned, showing a cruel smile filled with killing intent.
"However, don't think my methods are just these. Take this!"
Saying so, Black Tigress opened her mouth and aimed at Fang Yuan, sticking out her tiny tongue.
Her tongue was cute and pinkish, but her lips were black like ink, it was a clear contrast of black lips and pink tongue.
Her tongue moved rapidly.
It was like a cute neighbor's daughter making a funny face.
But Fang Yuan felt a chill down his spine, he suffered a heavy injury.
He quickly turned around and looked, he saw a tiny hole on his shell.
This hole was only the size of a basin, it was nothing compared to the giant tortoise's size.
But it was very deep, the wound was spreading outwards, black smoke could be seen rising from the hole, making a cracking sound.
-x-X-x-
Fang Yuan's heart shook.
"What killer move is this?!"
"The divination tortoise's shell is the hardest thing on its body, yet it could not endure this attack."
"Even though my sovereign immortal body has the trait of non-conflicting dao marks, my tough ancient desolate beast body still suffered such injuries?"
Black Tigress' battle strength was out of Fang Yuan's expectations. Her method was peculiar and could bypass even the divination tortoise's defense.
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan did not dare to hold back, he quickly used rank seven Immortal Gu Precaution.
This rule path Immortal Gu had already been added into vajra shell by Fang Yuan.
Immediately, the original vajra shell killer move stopped working, a brand new vajra shell killer move was activated.
Whoosh.
Wind was created out of nowhere, the divination tortoise's aura changed.
The brand new vajra shell killer move used a large number of time path mortal Gu, their effect was to eliminate the weakness of precaution Immortal Gu needing ten breaths of time.
Thus, once vajra shell was activated, precaution Immortal Gu's effect became active at once.
The small tortoise shell thoughts expanded and became firmer, at the same time, the divination tortoise's main body started to shine in a metallic light, it also became darker.
Black Tigress saw this and her expression changed, she licked again.
The two were far away, but Fang Yuan still suffered injuries despite the distance.
There was another hole on the tortoise shell, but this time, it was only the size of an adult's fist, the injury was light and there was no black smoke.
The wound earlier had already stopped producing black smoke, the injury was expanding very slowly.
Black Tigress snorted coldly, feeling unresigned, she muttered: "In that case, I will attack there!"
At the next moment, Fang Yuan felt his tortoise head go numb.
Immediately, pain assaulted him, there was also a numb feeling as well.
The injuries were not light.
Fang Yuan quickly placed his head into the shell.
"Damn it!" Black Tigress saw this and her eyes spewed fire from rage.
Fang Yuan was very shameless, not just his head, his limbs and tail also went into the shell.
Only the tortoise shell thoughts were still spinning and increasing in numbers, raising his defensive power and range once more.
Black Tigress licked the tortoise shell continuously, but there was little use.
She was in a predicament, there was nothing she could do to Fang Yuan.
Wu Liao healed his injuries as he watched the battle, seeing this, he broke out in sweat, he thought: "At this rate, when will Lord Wu Yi Hai be able to take revenge for Wu An, how many years would it take?"
Ba De snorted in unhappiness.
The other holes had intense battles, but Fang Yuan was calm and composed, there was little commotion.
Fang Yuan easily hid inside his shell.
He was thinking rapidly about Black Tigress' killer move.
Killer moves could be directed to targets in certain ways. For example, a fireball killer move may need to form in the hands first, before being shot out towards the target, to have any form of impact.
But where it flew, in what direction and towards what target, that would depend on the direction that the killer move was designed to move.
Wherever the move was directed towards, the fireball would fly there.
If the targeting was not impressive, the fireball would move straight, after leaving the hands, its direction could not be changed anymore.
If the targeting ability was stronger, the fireball would be able to move in a curved manner. After leaving the hands, its direction could be tweaked slightly.
And even stronger ones would have automatic homing abilities.
"Black Tigress' killer move must also have a targeting ability."
"It is formless after activation, it is not as obvious as a fireball. But it definitely has a targeting ability, because it is not a wide ranged attack, the damage is concentrated."
"Then how does it do that? By sight?"
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan activated his Gu worms, creating a thick fog around the divination tortoise, surrounding it.
"What is this Wu Yi Hai trying to do? Hmph." Black Tigress was suspicious that Fang Yuan was using a new killer move, she quickly stretched out her tongue and licked towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was hit again.
"Not sight? Is it smell?"
Fang Yuan used his method again, the fog became extremely smelly.
Wu Liao who was close by to him, had a twisted expression as he quickly used his Gu worms to breathe internally.
The smell spread in the air, soon, other battlefields were looking over.
"Wu Yi Hai is actually trying to break the other party's killer move." Ba De's eyes shined, he could see Fang Yuan's motive.
He snorted as the displeasure in his heart grew.
There was usually little hope of breaking an enemy's killer move on the spot, experimentation was needed, and even if the reasoning was understood, there might not be the necessary Immortal Gu or method to counter it.
Trying to break a killer move, it would result in a drawn out battle.
"This is an emergency, but he still has the time to break the killer move? Hmph! If he has time, he should try to kill the enemy!" Ba Quan Feng expressed the unhappiness in his heart.
Ba De did not say anything, now was not the time for internal conflict.
Black Tigress hesitated for a moment, she stretched out her tongue and licked again.
Another hole appeared on Fang Yuan's shell.
Fang Yuan had a flash of inspiration: "I get it, this is her sense of taste."
Normally speaking, taste was experienced through the tongue, and Gu Immortals' tongues were able to taste things from afar through Immortal Gu or killer moves, it was not hard.
"Every time she activates it, Black Tigress needs to stretch out her tongue."
"She and Shadow Sect are aligned, while Shadow Sect has food path true inheritances. Only such a non-standard path can deal such damage to my defensive divination tortoise transformation."
"Let me test it."
The divination tortoise turned red, especially the shell, it was red as molten iron.
Black Tigress licked and immediately cringed: "Argh... so hot!"
The divination tortoise's redness faded, there was a strange smell in the sky.
Black Tigress stretched out her tongue and licked, she almost puked from disgust, she frowned: "So salty!"
The divination tortoise transformation changed again.
Black Tigress stopped trying, she understood Fang Yuan's intention: "This guy! He is actually trying to counter my killer move, he is not trying to use any immortal killer moves. Damn it!!"
Black Tigress thought earlier that the divination tortoise's changes were the start of Fang Yuan's new immortal killer move.
Thus, she interfered with him time and time again, once she succeeded, Fang Yuan would suffer an intense backlash. She would have hope of passing this huge tortoise shell obstacle.
"Under such a situation, he still has time to try to deduce and counter my killer move?!" Fang Yuan's movements were not logical, the battle was so intense now, nobody had any time for this.
But precisely so, Black Tigress fell for it.
After realizing this, Black Tigress stopped using this move, she started to use other long range methods.
She punched with both fists as dark green fist qi moved around the troublesome tortoise shell thoughts, some were wiped out but some managed to land on the divination tortoise shell.
Even though the damage was little, each time the punches landed, Fang Yuan's body shook uncontrollably. Evidently, this immortal killer move had rule path Gu worms. Black Tigress was trying to prevent Fang Yuan from using an immortal killer move, it was a good strategy.
"It was taste, huh." Fang Yuan's head was still inside his shell.
Even though he had a result, it was still far from truly breaking Black Tigress' move.
Fang Yuan, however, was not in a rush.
Black Tigress could not use this move anymore, her punches were of little harm to Fang Yuan.
The original Wu Yi Hai had other methods, but they were all defensive in nature.
Black Tigress was really over-thinking it when she guarded against Fang Yuan's attacking moves, even though he had them, with this identity, he could not use them. If he tried, he would incur huge suspicions, his identity was likely to be exposed.
Thus, this battle slowed down tremendously.
Fang Yuan did not want to attack, or rather, he had no attacking moves, while Black Tigress could not go past this shell.
After a long time, there were already a hundred thousand tortoise shells around Fang Yuan.
Black Tigress felt like she was helpless, the vast number of tortoise shells made this an incredibly eye catching sight in the battlefield.
Ba De's expression became even colder, he could not help but transmit: "Wu Yi Hai, I heard you have two more transformations. Why are you still holding back? Quickly kill her and reinforce the others! Unless, you really have some relationship with this White Rabbit? You can't bear to kill her?"
Fang Yuan heard Ba De's transmissions but ignored him, pretending not to hear anything.
Ba De did not get a reply, he gritted his teeth in anger, his gaze towards Fang Yuan turned colder.
Fang Yuan was thinking about his situation.
"Shadow Sect is definitely attacking to save Spectral Soul's main body."
"They control Zuo Ye Hui, but the extent is limited, and the rank eight Gu Immortal Purple Mountain True Monarch has not shown up yet."
"The righteous path has the super Gu formation, we can hold on for a while. As long as we stall for time, reinforcements will come from all over."
"And I have reverse flow protection seal, I can resist rank eight existences, they will not be able to defeat me."
"Purple Mountain True Monarch is a wisdom path Gu Immortal, how can he not have a trump card? And these righteous path Gu Immortals are far from being desperate now."
"I should conceal my identity and wait for a chance to take action. Maybe this time, I might have some great gains!"
Fang Yuan thought about it and realized this was a great opportunity.
He had sufficient strength, but he needed to wait for the right timing.
Shadow Sect was a huge threat to him, he wanted to exterminate them all. But Fang Yuan had not succeeded in any of his attempts so far. It was not that he did not try, or that he was not determined enough, but Shadow Sect's group was made of elites and geniuses.
But now was a grand opportunity.