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"Hmph, a bunch of clowns." Bai Ning Bing snorted coldly.
Hei Lou Lan was silent, feeling deep emotions.
Peacock Deity, Beautiful Camel Immortal, and Dong Lie Feng were rank seven experts, even in Southern Border, although they could not compare to Old Treeman Ba De and Wu clan's Wu Yu Bo, they could match Wu Yi Ran.
That Beautiful Camel Immortal had status similar to Fairy Miao Yin and Qiao Si Liu in Western Desert's Gu Immortal world.
But against Fang Yuan, who could rival rank eights, they were simply too weak.
"Unknowingly, he had already grown to this extent. Such terrifying growth speed!!" Hei Lou Lan's heart was truly in a commotion.
Her battle strength had surged greatly as well. But after her immortal ascension, she had been pursued constantly, she rarely had time to flaunt her strength. This time, when the enemies ran away from them, she finally realized, their side was truly powerful.
Their earlier encounters were because the enemies were too powerful.
Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven, and the entire righteous path alliance of Southern Border.
The truth was, as long as there were no rank eight Gu Immortals, with their power, they could rampage unhindered!
"In the entire Gu Immortal world, rank eight Gu Immortals are very few, as long as we get rid of the investigative killer moves on us, we can hide ourselves and develop quietly. With such strength, most Gu Immortals cannot obstruct our development!"
Hei Lou Lan thought of this as her ambitions grew again.
She was a bold and formidable person, her ambitions were huge.
Even though she was restrained by Shadow Sect's alliance agreement, she was not going to be an obedient subordinate of Fang Yuan forever.
"Alright, we got what we want, let's go." Fang Yuan said.
Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, and Fairy Miao Yin gathered together.
The four immortals worked together and used the ancient battle formation, Omni-directional Travel.
Whoosh!
With a bright light, they vanished.
When they opened their eyes, they were above an ordinary sand dune.
The sun was hanging in the sky, as the sand below them were heated and the air was distorted from heat, they felt a strong wave of hot air blowing at them.
Fang Yuan looked afar.
Translocation desert was over there. They were far away now.
"We will rest here. Guard the surroundings." Fang Yuan said as he opened his immortal aperture's entrance, letting Lady White Rabbit out.
He was now the leader of Shadow Sect. He had Shadow Sect's information, all these members, wandering other regions, chose to obey Fang Yuan.
The four immortals flew out and concealed themselves, using their investigative methods.
Fang Yuan entered the desert and went deep underground, creating a small cave in the sand.
This cave was very simple, but Fang Yuan used some mortal Gu to create a Gu formation.
Not only did he reinforce this cave, he even allowed fresh air to come in.
Fang Yuan was a formation path grandmaster, such a mortal Gu formation was as easy as breathing to him.
After creating it, Fang Yuan did not waste time, he sat down and shut his eyes.
He raced against time and quickly used an immortal killer move.
This move was called soaring fighting spirit, it was a non-mainstream wisdom path killer move that Fang Yuan got from Purple Mountain True Monarch's inheritance.
This move only had one core Immortal Gu, it was the rule path rank seven Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan obtained from Corpse City's defensive Gu formation — Fight.
The other supplementary Gu worms were all mortal Gu, and most were wisdom path.
It was a rank seven immortal killer move after all, even though time was pressing, Fang Yuan was not overly rushing it.
He moved step by step, meticulously.
Gu worms were activated as profound lights formed, enveloping the sky of Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture.
As the number of mortal Gu increased, the profound lights became deeper in color.
After reaching the limit, Fang Yuan started to instill red date immortal essence into fight Immortal Gu.
The immortal essence expenditure was not high, only using three beads, the back of fight Gu opened up as it started to fly, drawing a silver trace in the sky using its body.
This trace entered the profound light, it shined instantly with a blinding glare.
Boom.
The profound light exploded, fading instantly.
A large number of mortal Gu were destroyed, even fight Gu fell to the ground.
The killer move activation failed!
The backlash made Fang Yuan's soul shake as he suffered major injuries.
Thoughts were rampaging in his mind, countless thoughts collided or destroyed themselves uncontrollably.
Fang Yuan started to think about random things as absurd thoughts filled his mind.
But he was prepared for it, he held on and endured it.
After a dozen breaths, the thoughts in his mind settled down.
Fang Yuan was pale and let out a breath of air, healing his injuries.
The injuries on his body were mild, but his soul was heavily injured and his mind was also hurt badly.
It was not surprising.
This immortal killer move was used for the first time, even though Fang Yuan simulated it earlier, the actual use of it would definitely be different from his deductions.
The stronger the immortal killer move, the greater the backlash when its activation fails.
And backlash also had different types.
Like this time, Fang Yuan's body was not injured much, his soul and mind were the ones which suffered.
After some healing, Fang Yuan recovered from his injuries.
Currently, although Fang Yuan did not have any strong immortal healing methods, he had sufficient ways. If his body got injured, he had time path Immortal Gu Man as Before. If his soul was injured, he had guts Gu.
His mind was injured this time, but Fang Yuan also had many wisdom path methods to heal himself.
These were all inherited from Purple Mountain True Monarch.
Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal body had non-conflicting dao marks, the healing effect was very good.
Of course, with an injured mind, just these small methods could not completely resolve the issue, but the lingering symptoms were of no concern.
Fang Yuan ignored these, he continued to try and activate the immortal killer move, soaring fighting spirit.
He failed the second time but finally succeeded on the third time.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture, a profound light flowed like water, turning from a spread out cloud to a condensed basin-size shape.
"Go." At Fang Yuan's will, this round profound light shot down and landed on Ying Wu Xie.
Ying Wu Xie was still in the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body, but he had suffered too big of an impact, he was like a corpse lying on the ground, lifeless and dull.
The profound light landed on him like water going into the soil, it directly went into Ying Wu Xie's brain.
Not just that, a big portion went into his soul.
The entire process was very fast, it completely fused into him with just a few breaths of time.
Ying Wu Xie's body shook.
Next, his eyes burst out with sharp light.
"Ahh!!!" He opened his mouth and shouted, before jumped and sitting up.
"Damn it... damn it!" He clenched his fists, veins were popping on his arms, his fingers were cracking.
"Heavenly Court captured my main body, this is unforgivable!"
"I must get back my main body, I must save him, even if it is Heavenly Court, I will smash them to bits!"
"Ahhhhhh!"
Ying Wu Xie continued to shout, he stood up and screamed at the sky.
"I want to fight!"
"I must persevere!!"
"I was too weak-willed earlier, that was not right."
"Oh Fang Yuan, you are a complete otherworldly demon, since Lord Purple acknowledged you, I will do the same!"
"In this world, who has a chance of destroying fate Gu? You are the most likely person!"
"I believe that you can lead us and charge into Heavenly Court, destroy fate Gu and rescue my main body!!"
Ying Wu Xie was no longer as depressed as earlier, he was like a new person.
"Good." Fang Yuan nodded in satisfaction.
Ying Wu Xie's display showed he had not wasted his efforts.
Ying Wu Xie's battle strength was rank seven, but he had the ultimate lead soul into dream killer move, even rank eight Gu Immortals could not defend against him, or even Immortal Gu Houses.
If Ying Wu Xie helped them during the battle against Wu Yong, Wu Yong might have died.
Ying Wu Xie regained his fighting spirit, not only did it increase Fang Yuan's strength, it also involved another person.
Sixth Hair!
Inside Lang Ya blessed land, in a refinement hall.
Rumble!
Earth fire burst up and exploded like thunder.
From the flames, a figure jumped out.
This person was covered in black hair, had a brawny figure and was coughing pathetically.
It was Lang Ya land spirit.
"Cough, cough, I failed again."
"Damn it!"
"If I used the nature refinement method of my race, the Immortal Gu refinement would have succeeded already. But that Fang Yuan wants to use the human isolation style to refine the Immortal Gu, isn't he just making things difficult for me?"
Lang Ya land spirit complained incessantly.
At this moment, a voice came from outside the door: "I am Sixth Hair, requesting to meet lord first supreme elder!"
"Sixth Hair, what is it?" Facing his fellow hairy man, Lang Ya land spirit had an amiable disposition.
"I want to help first supreme elder refine Gu, it will help with raising my refinement path attainment!" Sixth Hair answered, bright light shining deep in his eyes.
Lang Ya land spirit was most skilled at the hairy man heaven and earth style Gu refinement method.
But this method would never succeed in refining Fang Yuan's Gu. Because this method attracted heaven's will and even heavenly tribulations or earthly calamities.
Only the human isolation method had a chance of success.
Lang Ya land spirit did not know this, and as a matter of fact, he did not excel at the human isolation style.
As a hairy man supremacist, he scoffed at the human isolation style, looking down on it. In terms of success rate, the hairy man heaven and earth style was far superior to the human isolation style.
Lang Ya land spirit was not familiar with this method, but Sixth Hair was.
Sixth Hair was a split soul of Spectral Soul, he was skilled at the human style. But when he lived in Lang Ya blessed land all these years, he did not expose that talent.
Until now.
"Oh Fang Yuan, since you obtained the acknowledgement of Ying Wu Xie, I will try and accept you as the leader of Shadow Sect!"
"Let me help you to refine the Immortal Gu."
This was where Sixth Hair could help Fang Yuan the most.
Even though exposing his talent would be risky and attract Lang Ya land spirit's suspicion, putting Sixth Hair in danger, he could not care about it now.
Being able to help Shadow Sect would be good enough!
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His wavy black hair flowed down to his shoulders.
He had a tall nose, his lips were sharp like blades, he was currently pressing his lips together lightly, showing a cold and cool demeanor.
It was Ying Wu Xie's soul.
Now, he had already left the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body, his soul was floating in the air.
"This body?" Ying Wu Xie frowned, looking at the ice coffin in front of him.
This ice coffin was emitting frost energy at all times, it was translucent like a crystal, a Gu Immortal was sealed inside.
Her body was small and dainty, she was like a little girl wearing a flowery green dress, there were two pearl earrings hanging on her ears, as if water was inside the pearls, there were green ripples inside when they shook.
Her eyes were shut, with Bai Ning Bing sealing her in the ice, even the thoughts in her mind were frozen, her life was in their hands.
This female immortal was none other than the Western Desert Gu Immortal who, out of lack of knowledge, did not flee from Fang Yuan immediately and got captured by Bai Ning Bing — Fairy Cui Bo.
Seeing Ying Wu Xie's hesitation, Fang Yuan urged: "In this situation, how can we find another suitable body for you? Just use this for now."
Ying Wu Xie nodded: "Sigh, this is the only way, let's start!"
Fang Yuan waved his right hand as a rank seven Immortal Gu flew out from his hand.
This Immortal Gu was like a swan's egg, it was translucent, and from the outside, jade light could be seen in it. When it was close, Fang Yuan could feel a bone chilling coldness emitting from this Immortal Gu.
This cold was different from the frost of the ice coffin.
The ice coffin's coldness was bone piercing, but this Immortal Gu's coldness was targeted directly at the soul.
Ying Wu Xie's soul shuddered uncontrollably when this Immortal Gu came out.
On the other end, Bai Ning Bing watched quietly, her gaze was attracted to this rank seven Immortal Gu.
"This is change soul Immortal Gu?" Bai Ning Bing thought to herself.
Indeed, it was change soul Immortal Gu.
This Immortal Gu's history was quite complex.
It was first refined by Green of Spectral Soul's first generation split souls.
It was then passed to Spirit Affinity House's Fairy Mo Yao.
To save her lover Bo Qing, Mo Yao used Change Soul to swap her soul with Bo Qing.
Bo Qing's remnant soul was saved by Shadow Sect and hidden inside Central Continent's Earth Abyss, they tried healing him but his injuries were too severe, he was captured by Heavenly Court in the end.
Meanwhile, Mo Yao's remnant soul was left inside Bo Qing's immortal zombie body, and change soul Immortal Gu, as well as Bo Qing's sword path Immortal Gu, were all left behind.
After this, Fang Yuan went into Falling Heavenly River and used Mo Yao's will to lure out some Immortal Gu, including change soul Immortal Gu.
But even though Fang Yuan used the light of wisdom to refine these Immortal Gu, he knew nothing about change soul Immortal Gu.
Only when Star Constellation heaven's will directed Fang Yuan and gave him a powerful killer move for switching souls, did Fang Yuan learn about its effect.
Fang Yuan switched souls in his dream and took over Ying Wu Xie's body at the most crucial moment, he successfully plotted against Spectral Soul and took away sovereign immortal fetus Gu.
One could say, during the battle of Yi Tian Mountain, Shadow Sect lost completely and Fang Yuan managed to turn it around for himself, this change soul Immortal Gu played a crucial role!
And now, this Immortal Gu was used once again, but this time, Fang Yuan was not dealing with Shadow Sect, he was helping it. He had even become the leader of Shadow Sect himself!
Events in life were truly unpredictable.
Before this, be it Fang Yuan or Shadow Sect, who could have expected this outcome?
Under the effect of Change Soul, Ying Wu Xie's soul and Fairy Cui Bo's soul were switched.
"What are you doing? What have you done with me?" Fairy Cui Bo's soul left the ice coffin and woke up, screaming in terror.
But she lacked a body, even though her soul was screaming, the only thing that came out would be meaningless screeches to a person's ear.
Of course, Fang Yuan understood them.
He had soul language Gu worms, they were mortal Gu and he possessed a huge quantity of them, inherited from Purple Mountain True Monarch.
Fang Yuan snickered, waving lightly towards Fairy Cui Bo's soul.
Fairy Cui Bo felt an irresistible force as she floated towards Fang Yuan's hand.
"No—!" She screamed loudly, her voice was so shrill that even Bai Ning Bing frowned lightly.
At the next moment, she was stuffed into the sovereign immortal aperture by Fang Yuan's method.
Even though Bai Ning Bing had already soul searched Fairy Cui Bo and she had no secrets left, her Gu Immortal soul itself could be used.
Dang Hun Mountain was an effective way to use her.
Gu Immortal souls, especially human Gu Immortal souls with higher cultivation level, would have deeper foundations, after they were smashed on Dang Hun Mountain, the guts Gu produced would be higher in quantity.
But now, Fang Yuan had other methods to deal with her.
Thanks to Purple Mountain True Monarch's inheritance, there were many soul path methods recorded inside, one of them was a way to refine a Gu Immortal soul into a human shaped soul beast.
Fairy Cui Bo, with rank seven cultivation level, would become an ancient soul beast.
If Fang Yuan refined her into a soul beast, he did not need to use any enslavement path methods, he could make her obey him with absolute loyalty.
After becoming the leader of Shadow Sect, Fang Yuan's greatest gain was in methods and killer moves. Even though there were many immortal materials and Immortal Gu, their value in total was still lower.
But these methods needed time to be converted into true battle strength.
And Fang Yuan was now facing the pursuit of enemies, he lacked time.
Fairy Cui Bo's soul was suppressed, and Fang Yuan stored away change soul Immortal Gu, at this time, Bai Ning Bing let out 'Fairy Cui Bo' from the ice coffin.
Or rather, it was Ying Wu Xie inside Fairy Cui Bo's body.
"So cold." Ying Wu Xie muttered, he was still covered in frost.
Bai Ning Bing gave a wave, the frost on Ying Wu Xie's body vanished.
Ying Wu Xie expressed his gratitude before receiving a large number of Gu worms from Fang Yuan.
He received a large amount of mortal Gu and Immortal Gu, as well as immortal essence stones.
"You still want me to use lead soul into dream?" Ying Wu Xie saw these Gu worms and was surprised.
"Take them, I already know about lead soul into dream. This killer move is too complex, I cannot master it in a short time, we were hit by Heavenly Court's investigative killer move earlier, we need your battle strength!" Fang Yuan said calmly.
Ying Wu Xie nodded deeply, his eyes were shining as he clenched his fists: "Sect leader, you are right, I will not let you down!"
Bai Ning Bing had a look of suspicion in her gaze.
Even though Ying Wu Xie regained his morale, his personality seemed to have changed.
Fang Yuan nodded in agreement, but he understood.
Wisdom path had thoughts, wills, and emotions. Ying Wu Xie was originally depressed, but because his fighting spirit was renewed, his personality had changed slightly, it was natural.
"Sect leader, what are we going to do next? Tell us!"
"Even if we are attacking Heavenly Court, I will follow you!"
"Damn these righteous path scoundrels, I will kill all of them!!"
Ying Wu Xie said as he waved his arms, he was extremely excited, his huge plump chest was bouncing up and down in response.
Fang Yuan pondered: "Heavenly Court's pursuit is the problem I want to address. They are the people most familiar with our information, the Gu Immortals they send will definitely be too strong for us to resist."
Fang Yuan thought of this as he frowned.
He thought of Feng Jiu Ge.
Feng Jiu Ge said that he had met Fang Yuan and the others because he was pursuing an Immortal Gu related to Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable.
But their encounter was simply too coincidental.
Was Feng Jiu Ge the back up plan of Heavenly Court?
It seemed like it, yet not really.
Fang Yuan thought in their shoes: "If I were Heavenly Court, I would do my best to deal with the remnant forces of Shadow Sect, and deal a fatal blow. Sending Feng Jiu Ge seems to be a poor decision."
Fang Yuan did not understand this.
There was little chance of Heavenly Court making a mistake.
Heavenly Court dealt with Shadow Sect and attacked twice with great effect. The first was during the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, and the second was the battle of the giant dream realm.
These were two crucial battles, because of Heavenly Court's interference, Shadow Sect lost and Spectral Soul's hundred thousand year plan was foiled.
"I became the leader of Shadow Sect and Heavenly Court immediately makes a careless mistake? No, there is something that I am not understanding." Fang Yuan thought to himself.
At the same time, someone emerged from Western Desert's regional wall.
He had a tall body, sharp brows and bright eyes, his expression was warm and he had a graceful demeanor, making people feel admiration towards him.
It was Feng Jiu Ge!
"With such a rank eight Immortal Gu, crossing the regional wall is countless times easier now." Feng Jiu Ge looked behind, recalling the scene earlier.
Two Heavenly Court rank eight Gu Immortals suddenly appeared and stopped Feng Jiu Ge's and Wu Yong's battle.
Heavenly Court returned the Gu worms of Southern Border's righteous path, and because Wu Yong was already injured, he accepted this result and left.
"Feng Jiu Ge, you have already vowed upon it, from now on, go pursue Fang Yuan and Shadow Sect."
"This rank eight Immortal Gu will be lent to you, in the future, when you face rank eight Gu Immortals, it will not be so difficult."
"But against Fang Yuan, you need to be careful of one thing." The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals instructed Feng Jiu Ge.
Feng Jiu Ge was confused, asking: "What do you mean?"
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals had dark gazes: "Fang Yuan is a complete otherworldly demon, he needs to be killed. But it is not enough to kill him."
"Red Lotus Demon Venerable's chosen pawn is Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan has Spring Autumn Cicada and is now the leader of Shadow Sect, he will definitely head to the River of Time and find the stone lotus islands to inherit Red Lotus' true inheritance."
"Red Lotus Demon Venerable's true inheritance is hidden deep in the River of Time, it is incredibly concealed."
"Pursue Fang Yuan and force him to find Red Lotus' true inheritance, before destroying him along with Red Lotus' true inheritance!"
Feng Jiu Ge's gaze flickered, he finally understood Heavenly Court's true objective.
"Fang Yuan, Red Lotus' true inheritance..."
Back in reality, Feng Jiu Ge muttered as he flew into the sky, directly towards the location where Fang Yuan and the others were hiding.
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The sun was blazing, the rays were like countless arrows shooting down at this majestic desert.
On this desert, there were countless sand statues.
These statues made from sand had the forms of humans or beasts, some were fighting while some were lying down, looking like they were on their final breaths.
There were larger and smaller sand statues, but the smallest one was tens of feet tall.
Countless statues formed a forest of sand statues, it was a grand sight.
It was the myriad statue desert!
This desert was huge, there were countless sand statues in it, everyone in Western Desert's Gu Immortal world knew about it.
It had a long history, it was formed during the Olden Antiquity Era, and had been around for over a million years.
This desert was formed from a particularly important situation in human history.
It was during Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's era, a huge battle was fought here between humans and variant humans, after a hundred days and night, rivers of blood flowed, almost turning into a sea.
During that era, transformation path was the mainstream path.
In the battle, humans won a pyrrhic victory, be it the humans or the variant humans, large numbers of Gu Immortals died here.
Their immortal fetuses formed into blessed lands, their dao marks spread out and changed the environment.
Gradually, this became the myriad statue desert. The sand moved on its own, growing like trees at a slow rate each year, eventually turning into huge statues.
This was the former location of the great battle where the different races fought from day until night, countless life forms died. But fortune and disaster coexisted, this place became a sanctuary for cultivation as it was now filled with resources.
Every sand statue was an immortal material filled with transformation path dao marks if it was at least sixty feet tall.
There were no longer any blessed lands here, after a million years, these blessed lands were either destroyed by tribulations or taken by Gu Immortals.
But here, there were countless wild Gu worms and even wild Immortal Gu.
Nobody would step here rashly.
Because the environment was too dense with dao marks, mortals could not traverse the desert, it was too dangerous for them.
As for Western Desert Gu Immortals, they would also make a detour when they came here.
Because of one person.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor!
This rank eight Gu Immortal, specialized in transformation path, had been here for a thousand years.
The might of rank eight deterred everyone from antagonizing him.
Myriad statue desert was Thousand Transformations Ancestor's territory, any Gu Immortal who entered without his permission would need to prepare to face the fury of a rank eight.
Deep below the desert, in Myriad Statue Palace.
Deep within the palace, in an eerie dark corner, there was a painful cry that could be heard.
"Ahhhhhh—!"
Thousand Transformations Ancestor raised his head and screamed, he seemed to be in great pain, his expression was terrifying.
Every time he shouted, sound waves could be seen spreading outwards.
But when these sound waves landed on the palace walls, there would be a veil of light that absorbed all the sound waves rapidly.
Because of these walls isolating him, all of the commotion from Thousand Transformations Ancestor could not be felt outside.
Pain!
Intense pain!
An unbearable pain was assaulting Thousand Transformations Ancestor's mind and body.
His forehead had popping veins, he could not take it anymore, he rolled around the ground in pain.
If any other Gu Immortal saw this, they would be deeply shocked. What was the reason that made Thousand Transformations Ancestor suffer such intense torture, to have lost all of his rank eight demeanor?
Cling, clang!
More than ten thick chains coiled around Thousand Transformations Ancestor's body, his four limbs were connected to chains that stabbed deeply into the surrounding walls.
Seeing this, Thousand Transformations Ancestor was actually imprisoned?!
"No, this cannot continue, I am going to go crazy completely, the intense pain will engulf all my reason and make me a lunatic! Rank eight myriad tribulation, even the first one is so terrifying, how can I deal with the next two?"
Damn it!
The final bit of clarity in Thousand Transformations Ancestor's eyes struggled.
Using this last bit of sanity, Thousand Transformations Ancestor made his choice!
Immortal killer move — Cutting Flesh Transformation!
He activated his killer move, he was extremely familiar with this move, at the crucial moment, even though he was in deep pain, the activation did not fail.
This rank eight immortal killer move had grand aura.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor's immortal body started to expand.
Like he was a balloon, he became larger and larger, from a muscular middle aged man into a round and fat meatball.
The fat Thousand Transformations Ancestor shook his body as soft sounds could be heard from within him.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh...
Along with the sound, a meat lump appeared on the side of his neck.
The meat lump became larger and larger, it inflated like a balloon.
His pain intensified!
Thousand Transformations Ancestor gritted his teeth, his face had swollen up, his eyes could not be seen anymore.
Guh.
Soon, after the meat lump on his neck grew to the size of a face, it reached its limits and exploded.
The meat lump exploded as yellow pus splattered, a year beast jumped out and landed on the ground.
Woof woof woof!
After this year beast landed, it started to bark, it was a dog year beast.
And its aura was not weak, it was a desolate year beast.
After the dog year beast landed on the ground, Thousand Transformations Ancestor felt a bit of relief. It was as if he was carrying a mountain on his back, and now, a rock had been lifted off that mountain.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh...
Next, on Thousand Transformations Ancestor's body, more meat lumps appeared.
Puff puff puff.
In a short time, these meat lumps expanded and exploded, as pus oozed out and year beasts appeared.
Chicken, monkey, sheep, rabbit, all sorts of year beasts appeared.
These year beasts were not just desolate beast level, there were also some ancient year beasts.
After some time, the year beasts gathered and attacked Thousand Transformations Ancestor!
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was not surprised, his expression became more relaxed instead.
His pain was greatly reduced, even though it was still painful, it was at a bearable level now.
Against the attack of a dozen year beasts, Thousand Transformations Ancestor snorted as he willed.
Cling clang!
Countless thick chains shot out from the surrounding walls at lightning speed.
In the blink of an eye, all of the year beasts were captured and suppressed, no matter how they struggled inside the palace.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor let out a breath of air: "I can finally catch a breather."
He grabbed the snake year beast closest to him and observed it with his methods.
The snake year beast continued to hiss as it exposed its tongue, it wanted to bite Thousand Transformations Ancestor but was restrained and could not move.
A moment later, Thousand Transformations Ancestor's expression was unchanged, but he was deeply shocked.
"I used all my methods earlier, but this snake year beast still has such great animosity against me, it wants me dead."
"My cutting flesh transformation is one of the styles of an immortal killer move from Reckless Savage true inheritance, suicide transformation. Whenever I use it, life forms would be produced from my body, regardless of form, they will be manipulated like my limbs, I can use them freely. Because they are a portion of my body to begin with."
"But these year beasts were produced from my body, yet I cannot control them, even with all my methods, they are useless."
"Such an amazing myriad tribulation!"
Thousand Transformations Ancestor's forehead produced a drop of sweat.
He thought about his tribulation half a month ago, he was still feeling lingering fear from it.
Rank eight Gu Immortals had to go through three myriad tribulations.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor had just gone through the first.
"If not for this Immortal Gu House left behind by Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, I would not be able to survive the first myriad tribulation at all. Even though I passed it now, I am still severely injured, I had to use cutting flesh transformation to cut my losses short."
Thousand Transformations Ancestor wanted to find some other way around it, but after half a month, he reached his limit and could not endure it anymore.
Without a choice, he could only use cutting flesh transformation to discard a portion of his immortal body, and get rid of the part of his body that was heavily injured.
This time, he met with a time path myriad tribulation, the injuries on him were all of time path dao marks.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor got rid of all these time path dao marks using cutting flesh transformation, abandoning them.
This way, the cutting flesh transformation turned them into year beasts.
And because they were filled with heaven's will, these year beasts were not under his control, they were his enemies.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor felt great loss.
The costs were too severe.
Not just the near catastrophic damage to his immortal aperture from the myriad tribulation.
Looking at the dao marks he lost from cutting flesh transformation, not only did he lose the time path dao marks, he even lost his own transformation path dao marks.
The dao marks losses were too huge.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor counted, after this myriad tribulation, not only did he not have any growth in dao marks, he even made a small loss instead!
"This means, I was better off not going through the tribulation?"
Thinking of this, the experienced Thousand Transformations Ancestor's heart felt some bitterness.
He sighed deeply.
It could not be helped.
In the past, he had cultivated boldly and advanced quickly, facing his myriad tribulation, he had stalled it until recently, when he could no longer stall it anymore.
Even though he passed the myriad tribulation, Thousand Transformations Ancestor's foundation did not grow, he even became weaker in terms of dao marks.
"I was wrong."
"A thousand years ago, by relying on this Reckless Savage true inheritance, I thought I would progress unhindered."
"Earthly calamities, heavenly tribulations, grand tribulations, I got through all of them easily, but the myriad tribulation is a completely different story!"
"I underestimated the myriad tribulation's power. These last years, I had unknowingly gotten more arrogant, this injury is both a blessing and a disaster to me."
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was a rank eight expert, he was naturally an incredible person.
He recalled his experiences and reflected on himself after this severe loss.
Right at this time, outside the palace, a female immortal's voice could be heard: "Lord husband, something happened. Sister Cui Bo's life tablet Gu was broken, her soul lantern Gu has turned dim. She went to translocation desert, but none of us can contact her now, this is too important, I had no choice but to inform you!"
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"What?"
Thousand Transformations Ancestor heard this and became furious.
Even though he had many wives and concubines, among them, he doted on his third concubine, Fairy Cui Bo, the most.
Who did not know that in Western Desert's Gu Immortal world?
Now that Fairy Cui Bo was in trouble, if it was intentional, then these Gu Immortal culprits were simply looking down on Thousand Transformations Ancestor!
There were two possibilities.
The first was that the attacking Gu Immortal had a strong background, similar to that of a rank eight great expert, they were not afraid of Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
The other possibility was that the inheritance of Western Desert Zombie Alliance's branch was too alluring, the value was tremendous, greed led to killing intent, and they took that risk at the spur of the moment.
"I'll repress it." Thousand Transformations Ancestor breathed in deeply, holding down his anger for now.
He could not go out in this situation.
There were still meat lumps growing on his body, continuing to produce year beasts.
He needed to heal himself.
If he left now and met any rank eights, his weakness would be exposed.
"I occupy myriad statue desert, everyone knows I obtained Reckless Savage's true inheritance. If my weak state is exposed, everyone will want to attack me, I need to lay low for now, I'll let Hong Yun 1 deal with it."
Thinking of this, Thousand Transformations Ancestor transmitted outside: "Hong Yun, set off now, find Cui Bo and save her."
The female immortal outside said in fear: "Lord husband, I have low battle strength, my safety is secondary, but if I fail to achieve your objective, that will be worse."
"No worries, I will lend you a rank eight Immortal Gu along with my will and immortal essence. Don't worry and go." Thousand Transformations Ancestor said as a slit opened in the door, a lump of will carrying a rank eight Immortal Gu as well as some immortal essence flew out.
The female immortal, Hong Yun, was overjoyed, she bowed three times: "This concubine understands."
Thousand Transformations Ancestor asked Hong Yun to leave as his thoughts went back to his problem.
Even though he loved Fairy Cui Bo, the bigger concern was himself. There were more and more year beasts in this palace, Thousand Transformations Ancestor frowned deeply.
"These year beasts are either desolate beasts or ancient desolate beasts."
"But they are filled with heaven's will and are my enemies, I cannot use them!"
"Rather than killing them for immortal materials... I might as well sell them inside treasure yellow heaven."
Thousand Transformations Ancestor had no other choice.
This myriad tribulation expended almost all of his foundation. His immortal aperture was a mess now, and so was his body, his battle strength was lower than before he went through the myriad tribulation.
And the most infuriating thing was, even though he passed the myriad tribulation, he had lost dao marks instead of gaining them.
"Gu Immortal cultivation is truly increasingly difficult."
"Even though I had Reckless Savage's true inheritance, I still faced such great danger during the myriad tribulation."
"No wonder there are only ten rank nine Gu Immortals throughout the long history of humanity. Sigh!"
Thousand Transformations Ancestor sighed deeply as he stuffed a desolate level year beast into his immortal aperture.
Using the immortal aperture, he sent this year beast into treasure yellow heaven.
Any item, when placed into treasure yellow heaven, would emit treasure light.
Although Thousand Transformations Ancestor's desolate level year beast was not a genuine one, being formed from his flesh, and created from heaven's will and time path dao marks, after entering treasure yellow heaven, it emitted an incredibly large treasure light.
This treasure light attracted the attention of many Gu Immortals.
Some were Gu Immortal wills while others were the divine senses of Gu Immortals undergoing transaction.
"How are you selling this year beast?" Soon, Gu Immortals approached him.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor smiled and replied: "No hurry, no hurry."
Soon after, he stuffed a portion of the year beasts into treasure yellow heaven again.
Year beasts were rare in the first place. Especially when they lived inside the River of Time. Be it the five regions or the two heavens, they were rarely seen. Entering the River of Time was far harder than entering black heaven and white heaven. Only time path rank eight great experts could enter freely.
Right now, Thousand Transformations Ancestor wanted to sell so many year beasts, and they were not ordinary beasts, they were all desolate beasts or ancient desolate beasts, treasure yellow heaven went into a commotion.
"There is a Gu Immortal selling large numbers of year beasts suddenly, go take a look."
"These year beasts have such high quality, it is astounding."
"It is hard to imagine that someone raised so many year beasts. This person must be a time path great expert!"
The Gu Immortals conversed and guessed.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was rather satisfied, he created such a commotion and watched as it spread, soon, more and more Gu Immortals will pay attention to this.
"These year beasts are pure and natural. I have not used any enslavement methods on them from the start. You can see for yourselves." Thousand Transformations Ancestor explained.
The Gu Immortals took a look and found that it was true, they quickly asked for the price.
"No rush, no rush." Thousand Transformations Ancestor stalled.
He was waiting.
These year beasts were not true wild beasts, they were flesh of his body, formed from the might of the myriad tribulation. There were differences between them and natural year beasts.
Normal year beasts could be enslaved, but these year beasts filled with heaven's will could not. Even if anyone could do it, they would have to be incredible experts, having extraordinary methods.
Thus, Thousand Transformations Ancestor needed to sell them all in the shortest time possible.
This could not be a sustained trade.
As time passes, everyone would find out this problem and announce it, his business will suffer greatly.
"Hopefully, one buyer offers a high price and buy all these year beasts!" Thousand Transformations Ancestor was thinking about the best case scenario.
He wanted to sell it to those super forces or rank eight Gu Immortals.
More and more year beasts were put up in treasure yellow heaven by Thousand Transformations Ancestor.
The Gu Immortals were gasping, thinking that this was a huge trade, for the last fifty thousand years, this was an extremely large number of year beasts sold.
Seeing that more people were coming, Thousand Transformations Ancestor announced: "I don't like trouble, whoever buys more, I will sell to them first. For the price, I will sell according to the treasure light of each year beast, this is a fair and impartial trade."
Once he said that, the secluded cultivators and lone cultivators begrudged.
But some emerged to ask about the transaction and price.
They were either rank eight great experts or representatives of super forces.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor negotiated with these people closely, his mind went back to a calm state, at this rate of sales, after he sells all the year beasts, he would earn quite a bit!
He might even be able to recoup his losses.
Feng Jiu Ge was flying in the sky.
It was a clear sky with no clouds anywhere.
Looking down, he saw that sand dunes were moving around, flowing slowly. What made Feng Jiu Ge comfortable was that this desert was not void of life, there was vegetation in it.
Some were cactus pointers, some were arrow shrubs, and some were white teeth flowers, bringing some life to the desert.
These were all common vegetation in Western Desert.
The cactus pointer was very much like a cactus, there were pin-like leaves on it. The cactus pointer had the shape of a human hand, some were clenched while others were pointing their index fingers, some were curling their pinky or raising their middle fingers, they pointed in all directions.
Arrow shrubs were the most common shrub in Western Desert. They had long and thick branches, they were about ten feet tall while some could reach thirty feet, even taller than houses. Under the arrow shrubs were some sand worms, and even wild Gu.
As for white teeth flowers, they were like sunflowers at the size of a face, looking at the sun to absorb sunlight. Around the flowers, there were orange-yellow petals, and at the center of the flower, there were rows of white teeth, lined together in a packed fashion. Under the light of the sun, they shined with a milky luster.
This was the special scenery of Western Desert, Feng Jiu Ge enjoyed it very much.
His main attention was ahead of him.
"I am close, Fang Yuan and the rest are nearby." Feng Jiu Ge started to descend.
Soon, he went down and landed on the hot desert surface.
He flew down rapidly, but from start to finish, there was no commotion, no wind had formed at all.
Feng Jiu Ge looked around, a brilliant light flashed in his eyes, he had a discovery.
"There is an illusion formation here!"
This illusion formation could not be destroyed, even though it was a mortal formation, destroying it would alert them.
Feng Jiu Ge thought about it, he found that this illusion formation did not isolate the air of the inside and outside.
A gust of wind blew.
Feng Jiu Ge stretched out his arm and squeezed.
He actually grabbed the wind with his hand.
Next, an immortal killer move was secretly activated in his hand, the aura was completely concealed.
Finally, Feng Jiu Ge opened his hand as the wind in his grasp was placed towards his chest.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Next, wind moved around his entire body, it was no different from the earlier natural breeze.
Under the force of this wind, he moved quickly and went past the illusion formation, getting to the core of the Gu formation.
His field of vision changed.
A huge sand whirlpool took over Feng Jiu Ge's sight.
Loud crashing noises could be heard around his ears, Feng Jiu Ge felt like he was in the middle of a waterfall.
The rising smoke felt like the water vapor of the waterfall.
The entire sand whirlpool was huge and grand.
Feng Jiu Ge looked around, he did not discover Fang Yuan and the rest, he directed his gaze towards the center of the sand whirlpool.
There was a deep dark hole there.
After investigating it, Feng Jiu Ge did not hesitate, he jumped into the hole.
The hole was formed from spiraling sand, Feng Jiu Ge flew downward alone, the tunnel was quite big for one person.
Deep into the sand hole, Feng Jiu Ge soon found himself in darkness.
Feng Jiu Ge could not see anything but it did not matter, his investigative methods were not few, they were very useful.
This darkness could not stop him.
"Time path aura!" Feng Jiu Ge's heart jumped, he knew he was at the right place.
This could be a tributary of the River of Time. If Fang Yuan followed the tributary of the River of Time, he could enter the River of Time and find Red Lotus' true inheritance!
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The tunnel deep within the center of the sand whirlpool seemed to extend endlessly underground.
The deeper Feng Jiu Ge went, the more he could feel the time path aura getting denser.
Suddenly, from the darkness, there was a shining spark.
Inside the darkness, this light was extremely eye catching, it was shining in a brass color.
"A wild mortal Gu?" Feng Jiu Ge flew closer and saw a rank three day Gu.
Day Gu looked like a shell with a size of a child's palm, it was round with two fins on its sides. The fins moved around as the shell swam in the darkness gently.
Compared to year beasts, day Gu was much more common, it could be found anywhere in the five regions and two heavens.
What got Feng Jiu Ge's attention was the fact that the River of Time was filled with a vast number of day Gu, month Gu, and year Gu to begin with.
There were wild day Gu here, was there a tributary of the River of Time like he thought?
Tributaries of the River of Time were a commonly seen yet rare cultivation resource.
Commonly seen because every Gu Immortal's immortal aperture had a tributary of the River of Time, it allowed time to flow within the immortal aperture's world.
But rare because inside the five regions and two heavens, there were few tributaries of the River of Time, yet their scale was much larger than those inside immortal apertures. Once they appeared, super forces would fight for them using great strength. If lone immortals found them, they would try to conceal them and use them to gain a fortune themselves.
Not only were time path Gu worms needed by time path Gu Masters or Gu Immortals, they were very widely used in Gu refinement.
For example, day Gu, this rank three day Gu has three days worth of time in it.
If one had the relevant refinement path method, by expending this rank three day Gu, they could shorten the time needed for Gu refinement by three days.
There were also time path lifespan extension methods using day Gu, month Gu, and year Gu to increase lifespan. Of course, these methods had flaws and would carve time path dao marks in the person's body. When these dao marks accumulated, they would not be able to use lifespan Gu in the future.
But lifespan Gu were hard to find, if one did not have any, and their lifespan was at its end, would they not use these methods?
"If there is a tributary of the River of Time here, Shadow Sect must have found it and secretly hid it here." Feng Jiu Ge continued to delve deeper.
Soon, he saw more and more wild time path Gu worms.
Day Gu, month Gu, year Gu and more.
A white ripple of light appeared in front of Feng Jiu Ge.
This ripple was the size of a bed, it was like the ripples on the surface of a lake, completely silent.
Feng Jiu Ge slowed down cautiously.
This was a ripple of time.
A special phenomenon.
Like wind in the desert, fog in the mountains, and rain from the sky.
Ripples of time were a natural phenomenon as well.
Any life form which entered a ripple of time would be affected. Their time would become faster, they would grow older more quickly. They could also become slower, the world would seem to 'move faster' from their perspective.
But regardless of fast or slow, their lifespan would be shaved away.
Feng Jiu Ge did not dare to test it, he slowed down and detoured around it.
After leaving the ripple of time, Feng Jiu Ge let out a breath of air, he was even more certain now that there was a tributary of the River of Time here.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals have already pointed out to him that Red Lotus' true inheritance was hidden in the stone lotus islands, if Fang Yuan wanted to inherit it, he would need to enter the River of Time, and to get into the River of Time, the best way was to find a tributary of the River of Time.
This tributary of the River of Time was like an entrance, it had to be big enough to enter. The tributary of the River of Time in a Gu Immortal's immortal aperture was not big enough.
Only a tributary of the River of Time in the five regions and two heavens had an almost similar rate at which time flowed as the River of Time, it could allow Gu Immortals to enter.
More and more ripples of time started to appear in front of Feng Jiu Ge.
The deeper he went, the larger the tunnel became.
At first, there were only a few time path mortal Gu, but they increased in numbers, when he got to the deepest part, there were Gu worm groups of at least a hundred per group.
The time path aura was getting denser, Feng Jiu Ge could even hear the sound of flowing water.
Next, in his vision, he saw a long line.
As Feng Jiu Ge got closer, this line got larger, until it became the form of a river.
"A tributary of the River of Time!" Feng Jiu Ge's heart shook, it was indeed here.
"But where are Fang Yuan and the others?" Feng Jiu Ge had just thought of this when a figure emerged from a ripple of time near him, pouncing at him.
Feng Jiu Ge immediately dodged as bright light shined in his eyes.
An immortal killer move was instantly activated.
Sound path — Silence Surpasses Sound!
Feng Jiu Ge cultivated sound path and aspired to create nine songs to represent everything in this world. He had already created seven songs currently, separation song was one of them.
But other than his seven songs, he also had other sound path methods.
Sound path killer move silence surpasses sound was one of them.
Feng Jiu Ge had practised it a lot, he was extremely familiar with it, his activation succeeded instantly.
He started to punch with his fist and strike with his palm, attacking the black shadow from a distance.
This was a killer move, with his fist as the drum fist, and his palm as the bell palm, it was the content of Spirit Affinity House's Three Sounds true inheritance.
Within the Three Sounds true inheritance, other than drum fist and bell palm, there was also whistle finger. But Feng Jiu Ge had not learned it yet, he had only practised this with the aim of covering some shortages of methods in battle.
That huge shadow monster was growling from Feng Jiu Ge's attacks.
But the strange thing was, its growling vanished the moment it opened its mouth.
Feng Jiu Ge's drum fist created drumming noises, while his bell palm created bell chimes. But at this moment, there was no sound produced here.
Soon, Feng Jiu Ge had the upper hand, his attacks became fiercer as the monster became dazed from the attacks, it could not retaliate.
Feng Jiu Ge also saw that the thing that assaulted him was a year beast.
Monkey year beast.
And it was only a desolate beast, it was not an ancient desolate beast. Otherwise, it would not be suppressed so easily.
Feng Jiu Ge squinted.
In the River of Time, not only were there wild time path Gu worms, there were also wild beasts and plants. Year beasts were rare in the five regions, but they were common in the River of Time.
But...
Was this desolate level year beast arranged by Fang Yuan, or was it truly wild?
Feng Jiu Ge was considering this problem.
The answer to this would mean that Fang Yuan had either found his traces or not.
"Year beast..." Fang Yuan watched the battle as he connected to treasure yellow heaven.
In treasure yellow heaven, there were actually people selling year beasts openly, this was very rare.
Fang Yuan was deeply enticed.
These year beasts were either desolate beasts or ancient desolate beasts, if he could buy them and enslave them, they would be a huge force.
Don't forget about his hundred and eighty slaves immortal killer move.
By then, using these year beasts and hundred and eighty slaves killer move, Fang Yuan could even enslave immemorial year beasts!
Even though he lost the upper extreme heavenly eagle, if he could get immemorial year beasts, Fang Yuan would get another rank eight battle strength.
But the problem was, the seller wanted to make huge transactions.
Fang Yuan naturally wanted to buy all of the year beasts, but he was not the only one.
His greatest weakness was that he did not have enough funds, if he wanted to buy the year beasts, he would need to sell the desolate beast eagles and ancient desolate beast eagles he bought earlier.
Of course, Fang Yuan could sell Immortal Gu.
But he would not do that unless he had no choice.
During the battle of the dream realm, Fang Yuan had to do that to survive, but now, it was not a situation of life and death.
Thousand Transformations Ancestor was making his decision now.
He received many offers, but there were only three that moved him.
One directly offered immortal essence stones, a vast number of them, it was hard to imagine that someone would actually have so many immortal essence stones, even Thousand Transformations Ancestor was shocked.
The second one offered a lot of immortal materials of all kinds, what moved Thousand Transformations Ancestor was that among them were a lot of transformation path immortal materials.
The third buyer was also very sincere, he wanted to use eagle beasts to exchange for year beasts. Thousand Transformations Ancestor was currently cultivating a type of eagle transformation, this buyer's offer suited him.
While Thousand Transformations Ancestor was hesitating, one of the three buyers offered a new high price.
"They are willing to offer Immortal Gu?!" Thousand Transformations Ancestor was shocked and surprised, he did not hesitate anymore, he agreed to the transaction.
All of the year beasts were sold to one Gu Immortal.
The transaction ended quickly, be it the buyer's deep foundation and offer, or Thousand Transformations Ancestor's quick decision, they were shocking.
Western Desert, inside the moving sand tunnel.
Chirp chirp chirp!
The monkey year beast screamed shrilly.
But its screams vanished due to Feng Jiu Ge's killer move.
In this silent battle, the monkey year beast could not resist Feng Jiu Ge, it was brutally slaughtered.
Feng Jiu Ge inspected and found that this monkey year beast was truly a wild desolate beast, he took it as his spoils of battle and kept it in his immortal aperture.
The entire battle only lasted for a short while.
Feng Jiu Ge had evidently not used his true power, eliminating a desolate level year beast was too simple.
He did not need to rest, he continued to travel towards the tributary of the River of Time.
The closer he got, the clearer the tributary of the River of Time became.
River water was flowing, ripples were shining, the river was silently moving in this darkness.
Howl! Howl!
Suddenly, from the tributary of the River of Time, several year beasts flew out and attacked Feng Jiu Ge.
Feng Jiu Ge was slightly shocked.
"I was discovered?" Earlier at that instant, he felt the aura of an immortal killer move.
The year beasts that attacked were quite powerful, there were five desolate level year beasts and three ancient year beasts!
Feng Jiu Ge snorted, his battle intent surged.
Since he was discovered, he no longer needed to restrain himself in battle.
"Come out Fang Yuan." Feng Jiu Ge lightly called out.
But at the next moment, his pupils shrunk.
More year beasts were coming out from the tributary of the River of Time. In an instant, there were more than ten year beasts.
And more were continuing to attack as they came out of the tributary of the River of Time!
"What is going on? Is there a group of year beasts near this tributary of the River of Time?"
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Large numbers of year beasts, chicken, sheep, monkey, dog, pig, horse, tiger, rabbit, they bore their fangs and claws as they attacked Feng Jiu Ge.
Feng Jiu Ge was soon encircled.
But he was daring and courageous, his expression did not change, he was still calm and composed.
"Come at me!" He shouted, his body shook as he used an immortal killer move.
Ding ding ding...
There was a clear crisp sound in the battlefield.
It was like countless jade pearls landing on a jade plate.
Immortal killer move — Green Jade Song!
The year beasts closer to him suffered injuries, they were corroded by the song as they quickly turned into green jade stones.
The year beasts' ferocious attacks were immediately resisted.
But soon, from the year beast group, eight ancient year beasts emerged.
Dragon, snake, tiger, ox, they attacked Feng Jiu Ge from four directions.
Feng Jiu Ge snorted, the sound waves around him grew more intense, around him, a green jade sound wave pushed towards his surroundings.
Boom boom boom!
The eight ancient year beasts were pushed back to their original places by these intense sound waves.
Before they landed, they were turned into jade statues as they shattered, dying as they broke into small jade pieces.
"Green jade song is so powerful!" The Shadow Sect immortals lying in ambush saw this and expressed their shock.
Only Fang Yuan's expression did not change.
He knew some intel.
He knew about the battle between Qin Bai Sheng and Feng Jiu Ge thanks to Purple Mountain True Monarch's inheritance.
"Feng Jiu Ge's green jade song has gotten much stronger since the battle of Luo Po Valley. It seems he has improved it a lot."
"Green jade song is secondary, but if he uses submission song, half of the year beasts here would likely turn into my enemy."
"However, even if that happens, hehe!"
Fang Yuan laughed internally.
There was a lump of water in his right palm.
This ball of water was emitting a weak eerie ripple, looking at it, it seemed to be the water of the River of Time.
But in truth, it was a rank eight Immortal Gu —
Years Flow Like Water!
Indeed, this Immortal Gu obtained from Hei Fan's true inheritance had always been sealed.
But now, Fang Yuan had unsealed and used it.
Immortal killer move — Year Beast Summoning.
It was the same name, but the current year beast summoning was completely different from before. This was because the core was no longer year Gu, but the rank eight Immortal Gu Years Flow Like Water!
Hei Fan's true inheritance was very detailed about this. There were two versions, year beast summoning using year Gu as the core, as well as using years flow like water Immortal Gu as the core.
The ordinary year beast summoning could only summon one year beast. But the one that Fang Yuan was using now could summon an army of year beasts!
Immortal killer move — Submission Song!
Indeed, as the battle continued, Feng Jiu Ge used this incredible killer move.
The entire place was silent.
The song could not be heard with the ears, it was heard in every Gu Immortal's and year beast's mind directly.
The year beast army went into chaos.
Because many year beasts submitted to Feng Jiu Ge and fought against their former allies.
Submission song encompassed wisdom path, enslavement path, sound path, and soul path, it affected the mind. The inspiration was obtained during the battle with Qin Bai Sheng when he used five finger fist heart sword.
Many desolate level year beasts and ancient year beasts switched sides and obeyed Feng Jiu Ge.
The battle changed intensely.
Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit, who were watching the battle, gasped in shock.
But Fang Yuan was still calm.
He continued to use immortal killer move year beast summoning.
Rank eight Immortal Gu Years Flow Like Water could be used by even rank six Gu Immortals. And Fang Yuan was already experienced with using this immortal killer move, year beast summoning, he had practised it so that he could use it in battle one day!
If one did not have huge worries, they would worry about smaller things.
Fang Yuan was a vigilant person, he had preparations in advance, at this moment, he benefited greatly from it, thus he had no problems.
"Year beast summoning will continue to summon year beasts, I want to see how many your submission song can control."
"At a certain stage, even immemorial year beasts will respond and come here."
Year beast summoning was a time path method that had the effect of enslavement path.
And enslavement path excelled in battles of attrition.
Feng Jiu Ge was a strong enemy, Fang Yuan was not counting on being able to kill him currently. Moreover, Feng Jiu Ge was backed by Heavenly Court, there might be other rank eight Gu Immortals hiding somewhere.
Because of these two reasons, Fang Yuan decided to hide himself and use the year beasts to attack and expend his energy.
An endless stream of year beasts continued to rush out of the tributary of the River of Time, responding to Fang Yuan's call and attacking Feng Jiu Ge.
Soon, the number of year beasts on this battlefield reached a hundred and more.
A large number of year beasts made a circle and surrounded Feng Jiu Ge.
Feng Jiu Ge relied on submission song to control the year beasts and avert the crisis, creating his own defensive circle within the encirclement.
The battle was in a deadlock.
This scene was clearly observed by Fairy Zi Wei.
She was in Central Continent's Heavenly Court, but using the investigative killer move, and Star Constellation Chessboard, she could observe the entire battlefield clearly.
Fairy Zi Wei's eyes were flickering with thoughts.
Killing Fang Yuan, and taking or destroying Red Lotus' true inheritance was her main objective now.
She had already made all the plans, Feng Jiu Ge was just a part of them.
Even though the battle was in a deadlock, Fairy Zi Wei was aware that Feng Jiu Ge was not using his full strength. Even if he was, he still had the rank eight Immortal Gu that Heavenly Court had lent him!
"Right now, everything is under my control." Fairy Zi Wei willed as the image on Star Constellation Chessboard changed to another battle.
Two Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were fighting against an upper extreme heavenly eagle.
This upper extreme heavenly eagle was the one which had escaped from Fang Yuan's control and flew away.
The upper extreme heavenly eagle cried out, it had injuries on it.
It did not have any Immortal Gu, even though it was an immemorial desolate beast, it was too hard to fight against two Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
The battle was not in its favor.
"This upper extreme heavenly eagle has Fang Yuan's tracking method on it. As long as we capture it, I will be able to reverse-deduce his location."
"Of course, right now, Fang Yuan and the others have been hit by my investigative killer move. Capturing the upper extreme heavenly eagle is to prevent Fang Yuan from regaining control of this immemorial desolate beast in the future."
Fairy Zi Wei planned.
Fang Yuan was a complete otherworldly demon, he was no longer under fate's control, he was the biggest uncertainty in this world.
Right now, he had Giant Sun's true inheritance, the combination of otherworldly demon and luck path meant that these uncertainties were stacking up, leading to greater unknowns.
Spectral Soul was captured already, Fang Yuan was now Heavenly Court's biggest threat.
But Heavenly Court could not use its full strength against Fang Yuan.
Firstly, Fang Yuan had extremely strong luck, if too many people went after him, he would benefit from the misfortune instead. Only someone of similarly high luck could stop Fang Yuan's luck path advantage from showing.
This was the reason why Fairy Zi Wei arranged for Feng Jiu Ge to deal with Fang Yuan.
Secondly, Heavenly Court also needed to develop.
The great era was coming, the five regional walls would dissipate and the five regions would become one. Without any geographical obstacles, Gu Immortals could travel freely, there was sure to be chaos.
During such unprecedented chaotic battles, Heavenly Court would be in an awkward spot.
Because it was encircled by Southern Border, Northern Plains, Eastern Sea, and Western Desert, Central Continent was right in the middle, bordering all four regions.
Once battle erupted, Central Continent would face great pressure, it might get into great trouble.
Thus, Heavenly Court needed to prepare itself.
At the same time, Star Constellation heaven's will also instructed Duke Long and Fairy Zi Wei that she needed many rank eight Gu Immortals to hibernate in the future.
Even though Fairy Zi Wei did not understand why this was needed, she trusted Star Constellation heaven's will and Duke Long.
"Lady Zi Wei, there is great news!" At this time, a Heavenly Court Gu Immortal sent a letter Gu to Fairy Zi Wei.
Fairy Zi Wei knew that this person was recently recruited, originally being a supreme elder in one of the ten great ancient sects, Yuan Qiong Du.
Ever since the battle of the dream realm, Fairy Zi Wei had elevated multiple Gu Immortals from the ten great ancient sects to become members of Heavenly Court.
The two Heavenly Court Gu Immortals who informed Feng Jiu Ge and were now chasing the upper extreme heavenly eagle were also such people.
As for this Yuan Qiong Du, because he cultivated refinement path, Fairy Zi Wei tasked him with the mission of repairing fate Gu.
"What good news?" Fairy Zi Wei asked.
"I have bought a batch of year beasts in treasure yellow heaven. The seller might not know, but these year beasts are different from normal year beasts, they are filled with heaven's will. I can use these year beasts as immortal materials to repair fate Immortal Gu. Not only can we save time, we can use the heaven's will inside to increase the effects." Yuan Qiong Du was extremely excited.
"Very good." Fairy Zi Wei's eyes were shining: "Continue working hard."
"Yes, Lady Zi Wei."
This was indeed great news.
Fairy Zi Wei was quite happy.
"This way, fate Gu can be repaired even more quickly, until its wounds are healed."
"With Spectral Soul captured now, once news gets out, it will shake the world and deter all the forces."
Thinking of this, Fairy Zi Wei felt deep admiration towards Duke Long.
Duke Long's wise and resolute attack created Heavenly Court's current huge advantage.
If the five regions chaotic war started, Central Continent could definitely benefit the most in the initial period.
However, the true deciding factor of this chaotic war was one person.
Great Dream Immortal Venerable!
Western Desert.
Fang Yuan was at a crucial moment.
Fight Immortal Gu was activated, around it were a large number of supplementary Gu worms.
Immortal killer move — Enslavement After Victorious Fight!
The killer move activation succeeded, Fang Yuan's gaze turned sharp, he looked towards the year beast army.
Countless strength path giant hands flew out and defeated these year beasts.
The defeated year beasts no longer ran away, due to the effect of enslavement after victorious fight, they became Fang Yuan's slaves, gathering towards him.
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Under the effect of immortal killer move enslavement after victorious fight, any life form defeated by Fang Yuan would have a high chance of being enslaved by him.
The core of this move was the new rank seven Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan just got, Fight. By using all sorts of wisdom path supplementary Gu worms, this rule path Immortal Gu displayed its unique value.
Enslavement after victorious fight was created by immortal zombie Da Li.
Immortal zombie Da Li was a second generation split soul of Spectral Soul, he was known as the Martial Duel Heavenly King. He cultivated strength path and wisdom path together, he had the Great Strength True Martial Physique.
After the first generation split soul, Purple Mountain True Monarch, turned into a purple gold rock, he took over as the leader of Shadow Sect.
However, afterwards, a mysterious Gu Immortal with a Red Lotus insignia on their forehead appeared, after an intense battle, he lost and was suppressed by Immortal Gu House Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage.
This was the origin of the killer move enslavement after victorious fight, it was an incredible killer move that combined both the profundities of strength path and wisdom path.
Fang Yuan inherited Purple Mountain True Monarch's inheritance, he learned about this killer move.
Of course, he was not familiar with it, he was only starting to use it now.
However, unlike the other moves, this one only needed Fang Yuan to activate it in advance, he could sustain it very easily during the battle.
Most immortal killer moves could not be used by Fang Yuan during battle because he was not familiar with them, if he failed in using them, he would be hurting himself.
But at this moment, Fang Yuan had the initiative, he plotted to harm the Heavenly Court pursuers. Thus, he had enough time to prepare and after some failures, he successfully used enslavement after victorious fight.
Next, Fang Yuan sustained enslavement after victorious fight as he multitasked, using year beast summoning to summon an army of year beasts from the tributary of the River of Time.
However, even though there were many year beasts, year beast summoning's flaw was still around.
That was, the year beasts would not risk their lives for Fang Yuan. If they were injured, or if the enemies were too strong, they would retreat.
This was different from soul beast summoning.
The soul beast summoning that Spectral Soul created could force any soul beast to fight to the death for the Gu Immortal, disregarding its own life.
Year beast summoning was created by Hei Fan, even though Hei Fan was a time path great expert, he was far inferior to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
Of course, even so, the strength of year beast summoning could not be denied.
All in all, this move was very useful.
With rank eight Immortal Gu Years Flow Like Water as the core, the Gu Immortal could summon an army of year beasts. Against the enemy, such a huge number would result in a powerful encirclement, unless the enemy was a special rank seven Gu Immortal like Feng Jiu Ge or rank eight Gu Immortal.
But in the Gu Immortal world, how many rank eight great experts and Feng Jiu Ges were there?
Clap clap clap.
Strength path giant hands flew around, pushing the year beasts which were retreating onto the ground.
These year beasts were under the effect of year beast summoning, fighting against Feng Jiu Ge. But after facing the power of Feng Jiu Ge, they wanted to retreat through the tributary of the River of Time.
But Fang Yuan had already blocked their path of retreat, he used the giant hands to slam these year beasts to the ground.
These year beasts were all subdued with enslavement after victorious fight and became Fang Yuan's slaves.
But a portion of them were still resisting.
Against these stubborn ones, Fang Yuan's response was to attack with more strength path giant hands.
Clap clap clap.
With several more slaps, very few of the year beasts stayed adamant. After all, they were not in good shape, most of them were injured from Feng Jiu Ge's attacks.
Fang Yuan enslaved more and more year beasts.
He opened his immortal aperture's entrance and kept these year beasts in his immortal aperture.
As well as some year beast corpses.
These unlucky ones were already injured and were killed by Fang Yuan's strength path giant hands when he slammed at them with too much force.
Even though they died, they were still rank six and seven immortal materials.
Fang Yuan did not let go of any!
On the battlefield, Feng Jiu Ge killed most of the year beasts, before Fang Yuan used year beast summoning again to call more year beasts into battle.
Next, he stayed concealed by the Gu formation and used Feng Jiu Ge's strength to capture these year beasts.
A moment later, Fang Yuan had seventy to eighty year beasts in his immortal aperture.
Most of them were desolate level year beasts, a small portion were ancient year beasts.
"At this rate, I will be able to accumulate several hundred year beasts." Fang Yuan was joyous.
Even though he did not have the batch of year beasts sold in treasure yellow heaven, he farmed for them himself, he had quite a good harvest.
"However... with my soul foundation, I can enslave a hundred year beasts at most." Fang Yuan estimated.
His soul foundation was strong, but don't forget, he already had a group of eagles under his control.
"Maybe I should sell these eagles?" Fang Yuan was hesitant, but he suddenly felt a shiver as his body tensed up.
A strong and aged aura emerged from the tributary of the River of Time behind him.
"An immemorial year beast! It was lured here by Years Flow Like Water." Fang Yuan understood.
Fang Yuan did not place years flow like water Immortal Gu in the sovereign immortal aperture, thus, the immemorial year beast was lured here by the Immortal Gu, arriving through the tributary of the River of Time.
After sensing the aura of the immemorial year beast, the year beasts on the battlefield became frenzied, they suddenly fought more boldly.
Feng Jiu Ge felt his pressure intensifying, especially when the difficulty of enslaving those year beasts with submission song increased by many times now.
Rumble!
A huge tiger claw emerged from the tributary of the River of Time.
Creating a huge wave made of river water, the tiger claw struck at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was prepared for it, he had kept the year beasts and Shadow Sect's immortals in his immortal aperture. When the tiger claw arrived, he had already flown away.
The huge tiger claw crashed down like a mountain, the formation that Fang Yuan created was destroyed by the tiger claw easily.
Roar—!
The tiger immemorial year beast did not hit, but it sensed that the delicious Years Flow Like Water was leaving it, it roared as the sound waves produced spread out like thunder.
Swish swish swish!
The tributary of the River of Time created huge waves that crashed outwards, the tiger immemorial desolate beast was unhappy, it wanted to try and get out of this tributary of the River of Time.
But it was too huge, its foundation was too deep, this tributary of the River of Time was too small for it.
But it was not a problem, the tiger claws slashed around the place as the tiger immemorial year beast tried to expand this tributary of the River of Time.
The tributary of the River of Time quickly became wider as its size increased.
This superb time path resource point was ruined.
Even though the size of it was going to increase by many times, it had lost its balance. After a while, this tributary of the River of Time would entirely return to the main river.
Of course, this was nothing to the immemorial year beast, it did not care.
Feng Jiu Ge saw that Fang Yuan approached him, his eyes shined with brilliance as he stayed vigilant.
Fang Yuan had Feng Jiu Ge blocking him in front and the immemorial year beast behind him, he seemed to be in great danger.
But in reality, he was smiling lightly, feeling extremely confident.
He did not even use reverse flow protection seal, he activated rank eight Immortal Gu Years Flow Like Water again.
"Fang Yuan has a rank eight Immortal Gu." Feng Jiu Ge's pupils shrunk.
But he was not surprised. Fang Yuan took over Shadow Sect, it was normal to have such an inheritance.
"I wanted to get rid of all the Heavenly Court pursuers, too bad only Feng Jiu Ge came here. Hmph!" Fang Yuan smiled coldly, years flow like water Immortal Gu stared to shine in a pure white light in his hands.
The white light shone over the area, turning this dark tunnel into a bright place.
Under the strong light, a Gu formation started to activate.
"This is?!" Feng Jiu Ge found that he was trapped in the Gu formation. But earlier, this huge Gu formation did not activate, it was hidden perfectly, fusing with the environment flawlessly.
Rank eight Years Flow Like Water, it was the core of this Gu formation, under its lead, the Gu formation activated.
Feng Jiu Ge was on guard, but this Gu formation's power did not seem to target him.
Rumble!
Like a dam that had accumulated for years unleashing the floodgates, the tributary of the River of Time turned into a raging river in a few breaths' time.
It turned out that this Gu formation's true target was this tributary of the River of Time itself!
Feng Jiu Ge subconsciously held his breath.
At this instant, the tributary of the River of Time was overflowing, it seemed to have become the main River of Time!
The river water surged and created huge waves that blocked out the sky!
The unstoppable waves devoured Fang Yuan instantly, before moving towards Feng Jiu Ge.
Feng Jiu Ge naturally wanted to escape, even though there were many year beasts, with his nimble movement, they were of no obstruction to him.
But the River of Time could not be comprehended by normal standards.
"So fast!"
Feng Jiu Ge was dazzled, he found that the River of Time's waves were already directly above him.
The River of Time was a time path secluded domain of heaven and earth, wherever it flowed towards, there was no concept of flow speed, only time itself mattered.
The water of the River of Time only needed an instant to travel ten million li, or it could take a million years to travel an inch.
"I cannot evade it..." Feng Jiu Ge instantly understood this, he used his defensive methods to protect himself.
Rumble!
Hearing the sound of crashing waves around him, Feng Jiu Ge's body was engulfed by the huge waves, completely submerged.
But Fang Yuan managed to emerge from the water of the River of Time using the Gu formation.
"Flood discharge formation, break!"
Fang Yuan called out in his mind as the Gu formation broke apart.
Without the Gu formation, the tributary of the River of Time was instantly attracted towards the main River of Time.
This was because the flood earlier had surpassed the limits of this tributary of the River of Time, such a tributary was not going to flow out of the main river.
This was no longer the power of the Gu formation, it was the power of heaven and earth, the supreme power of the River of Time itself.
Rumble rumble!
Amidst the loud crashes, Feng Jiu Ge was swept into the main river, even the tiger immemorial desolate beast that wanted to come out was obstructed by the main river.
After a few breaths of time, the tributary of the River of Time vanished completely, only a large area of the ripples of time were still flickering silently.
The year beasts in the battlefield had all returned to the River of Time.
"Farewell, Feng Jiu Ge." Fang Yuan said lightly as he stored the Gu worms used in the formation and left the place.