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Boom boom boom!

Fang clan's rank seven Gu Immortal experts unleashed their might and attacked Chen Yi.

At once, lightning flashed and thunder roared, piercing light shined in the whole of Divine Bean Palace.

Air currents moved rapidly, but Chen Yi remained standing, unmoving.

He was covered in layers of shining light, they were thick and old, like old tree bark. Fang clan's Gu Immortals attacked together, but the tree bark light blocked them all, they had no effect!

"What defensive method is this?!" Not only did the rank seven Gu Immortals take a deep breath of shock, even Fang Di Chang's pupils shrunk.

"Not only is he a rank eight Gu Immortal, he is an expert among rank eights! We'll attack again!!" Fang clan's Gu Immortals were not dejected, Fang Hua Sheng shouted as he led an attack again.

Boom boom boom!

Fang clan's Gu Immortals unleashed more attacks, but Chen Yi could not dodge or move away, he was hit by them all.

After the explosions faded, his body was still covered by the tree bark light, and it was even thicker than before.

Fang Di Chang's gaze flickered, he finally recognized Chen Yi: "So you are Heavenly Lotus Sect's first supreme elder Chen Yi! No wonder you have such an incredible defensive method!"

Chen Yi, the first supreme elder of one of the ten great ancient sects in Central Continent!

Even though the Fang clan Gu Immortals lived in Western Desert, they had some information about Gu Immortals of other regions.

When they heard Chen Yi's identity from Fang Di Chang, their hearts sank.

Pressure!

A person's reputation created pressure, just the title of Heavenly Lotus Sect's first supreme elder demoralized all of Fang clan's Gu Immortals.

"Divine Bean Palace originates from Ancestor Genesis Lotus, your Fang clan wants to obtain it, you are simply disregarding Central Continent." Chen Yi spoke casually.

Fang clan's rank seven Gu Immortals looked at each other, they were stunned by his attitude.

"Hmph, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable left Divine Bean Palace in Western Desert, this means that it belongs to Western Desert. You are merely a descendant, how dare you distort your ancestor's decision?" Fang Di Chang snickered, he was very skilled at arguments as a wisdom path great grandmaster, he would not lose in such a fight.

Chen Yi laughed: "It is useless, my defensive killer move is called thickening wood armor, the more you attack it, the tougher it becomes. It is weak when I first use it, but unless you destroy it in one hit, it will only become stronger!"

Chen Yi said, he seemed to be exposing his move, but he was using words to reduce the fighting spirit of his enemies.

Right at this time, a change occurred!

An old and hoarse voice resounded: "Then let this old man try!"

As he said this, a rank seven Gu Immortal took a few steps forward and arrived in front of Chen Yi.

His appearance rapidly changed, from a young rank seven Gu Immortal into a muscular old man with white beard and hair.

This old man had bulging muscles that resembled rocks, he raised his huge fist that aimed at Chen Yi's face.

This fist quickly filled Chen Yi's vision, before it landed, Chen Yi's heart was already pounding, he felt an immeasurable amount of strength path dao marks slamming towards him!

Chen Yi's expression changed!

He could not dodge this move, he had to take it.

The fist landed on Chen Yi's face.

Chen Yi instantly felt that a terrifying force crashed into his face like a colliding mountain!

At once, he was sent flying like a cannonball, with a loud sound, he crashed into Divine Bean Palace's walls, he did not fall to the ground, he was fixed onto the wall.

Puff!

Chen Yi's seven orifices were bleeding, his head was almost smashed, his bones were definitely broken but jade light soon shined on his body as he healed himself.

As for his defensive killer move, it was smashed by this old man in one punch!

"Fang Gong, as the first supreme elder of Fang clan, a rank eight great expert, you actually used a sneak attack! How shameless are you!" Chen Yi shouted, his anger was spewing out like fire.

He exposed this old man's identity immediately, he was Fang clan's first supreme elder, Fang Gong!

"This Fang Gong is indeed a strength path cultivator, among the rank eight Gu Immortals in the five regions, he is a rare one that cultivate strength path!"

"This person concealed himself so deeply, he had been following us the entire time, Fang clan is too determined this time, they even brought a rank eight existence here!"

"Earlier, the two rounds of attacks by the rank seven Gu Immortals were just a cover, they were setting up for Fang Gong's attack. This must be Fang Di Chang's plan."

Fang Yuan had been watching the battle, he was quite shocked.

The grand rank eight Gu Immortal, first supreme elder of Fang clan, actually concealed his identity and used a sneak attack, this was more shameless than a government official stealing a chicken.

If news spread, his righteous path reputation would be ruined.

But precisely so, Fang Gong's sneak attack was extremely effective, the situation was turned around with Chen Yi sent flying!

The stalemate had been broken.

Fang clan's first supreme elder Fang Gong forced away Chen Yi, he had the upper hand now, Fang clan could control the situation.

Chen Yi fell for the scheme and was forced back, his accumulated control over Divine Bean Palace had been lost by half, he felt horrible!

Because his objective was heavily interrupted. But he still had a chance, his injuries were not severe.

Chen Yi's defensive method was broken, but he had the killer move graft wood earlier to protect Old Ghost Bai Jun and Eagle Concubine, he naturally used it on himself too.

Thus, Chen Yi's injuries were sustained by Divine Bean Palace instead.

Crack crack.

Divine Bean Palace took the damage for Chen Yi, cracks appeared on the walls of the palace.

At the same time, the cracks spread to the roof and the tall pillars.

Crack crack.

Several large pillars shattered into piles of Gu worm corpses.

Fang Yuan's heart jumped, he thought: "Fang Gong's attack must have taken all his effort, even though that punch was very simple, it had actually concealed all of its aura. Therefore, after breaking Chen Yi's defense, the remaining force still caused such great damage to Divine Bean Palace."

But Fang Yuan added in his mind: "Of course, this is because rank eight Immortal Gu House Divine Bean Palace did not use any defensive methods and was taking the hit normally, and because the attack was dealt internally, the damage was this great!"

Roar—!

As Divine Bean Palace's huge pillars collapsed, Qing Chou's roars also reverberated the area.

Divine Bean Palace was heavily damaged, the suppression it felt also reduced, Qing Chou benefited from it.

It raised its head and tried to hold up its body, it shattered the spears of light stabbing its body, it was about to rise up again!

"Noisy!" Fang Gong frowned and leaped towards Qing Chou.

Qing Chou roared and faced Fang Gong.

Boom!

Both sides collided, Qing Chou cried out in pain as its mountain-like body was sent flying by the ant-like Fang Gong.

Fang Gong landed on the ground as he snorted, touching his fist as he jumped forward again.

Qing Chou was a legendary immemorial soul beast, but it actually lost to Fang Gong in a physical brawl!

"Who is the immemorial desolate beast here?" Fang Yuan was dazed.

Chen Yi frowned deeply, thinking: "Fang Gong is very powerful, I cannot allow him to gain an advantage and obtain control over the situation!"

"You have already attacked, now it is time to face my move as well!" Chen Yi joined the battle, reinforcing Qing Chou.

Fang Gong had been suppressing Qing Chou, but due to Chen Yi's interference, that advantage vanished.

If Chen Yi worked together with Qing Chou, Fang Gong would not be able to match both of them, and because they had a common enemy, they could work together now, although barely.

"Fang Gong cultivates strength path, his power is deeply embedded in his body, he has a huge advantage in this battlefield. As for me, I can only unleash sixty percent of my methods!"

Chen Yi had a bitter and indescribable feeling.

Divine Bean Palace was something all of them wanted, in this rank eight battle, all of the people were suppressing their attacks and refused to use wide ranged methods.

The three rank eight existences were fighting within Divine Bean Palace, while Fang clan's rank seven Gu Immortals had all left, staying here was courting death after all.

The difference between rank seven and eight was huge.

Fang clan's rank seven Gu Immortals attacked Chen Yi and could not even penetrate his defenses, it was truly futile.

Even though these Fang clan Gu Immortals retreated, they did not return to the three Immortal Gu Houses, they fought in peach blossom maze.

On one hand, they were fighting Old Ghost Bai Jun and Eagle Concubine, on the other hand, a large number of soul beasts had already entered peach blossom maze, they needed to be dealt with.

"This is really bad!" Fang Di Chang had an ugly expression: "Green ghost desert's dao marks are penetrating in here, the peach blossom maze battlefield has already been corroded, it cannot last much longer. Countless soul beasts are rushing in here, there are too many to kill. But first supreme elder is still fighting in there, unable to finish matters, what should we do?"

Even as a wisdom path great grandmaster, Fang Di Chang was only rank seven, he could not solve the problem.

And as time passed, Fang Di Chang's analysis came true.

Peach blossom maze got weaker and weaker, loopholes started to appear in some areas, the desert outside could be seen.

And the view was terrifying, outside peach blossom maze were countless soul beasts. They were all summoned by Soul Beast Token, gathered into a sea of them, every moment, countless soul beasts entered peach blossom maze, there was no way to kill them all.

Old Ghost Bai Jun and Eagle Concubine felt a fall in pressure, they worked together and did not dare to leave. They could only focus on protecting themselves.

"The crucial thing now is within Divine Bean Palace!" Fang Yuan opened his eyes, he slowly stood up, having a clear understanding of the situation.

Within Divine Bean Palace, three rank eight existences were still fighting!

Qing Chou was roaring, Fang Gong was solemn, while Chen Yi was bitter, they all had ugly expressions.

Because even though they held themselves back, their attacks still affected Divine Bean Palace, this rank eight Immortal Gu House was about to break apart.

If Divine Bean Palace gets destroyed, what would be the entire purpose of this fight? They only wanted Divine Bean Palace!

And if this continued, this battle to fight for ownership of Divine Bean Palace was going to be the reason for its destruction!

"I can help your Fang clan obtain this Immortal Gu House." At this moment, Fang Yuan spoke to Fang Di Chang..

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Fang Di Chang was stunned!

Fang Yuan was Suan Bu Jin at the moment, as a rank seven Gu Immortal, how could he resolve the problem?

But Fang Di Chang quickly reacted, smiling brightly: "Go ahead and say your request friend, what do you need in order to help us now?"

He was a wisdom path great grandmaster after all, regardless of whether Fang Yuan had a plan, he had to try. And Fang Yuan said this on purpose to negotiate his compensation.

Fang Yuan smiled too: "This situation is urgent, we cannot talk slowly. But Divine Bean Palace is a rank eight Immortal Gu House, if I help you obtain it, what sort of compensation can match my contribution?"

Fang Di Chang did not hesitate, he bowed to Fang Yuan as he said earnestly: "Friend, I can guarantee on my reputation that Fang clan will give an appropriate compensation for your contribution!"

"Alright, then we will set an agreement, giving me a compensation worthy of my contribution." Fang Yuan clapped.

Both sides made an agreement.

"Please open Inquiry Dock, I will go out personally." Fang Yuan said again.

Fang Di Chang was surprised, he thought that Fang Yuan had found some weakness because he was a wisdom path Gu Immortal. But to think that he was going to act personally.

So be it if he was making a move, but he wanted to leave Immortal Gu House Inquiry Dock.

Once he left, the outside world would be very dangerous. Especially that Divine Bean Palace, three rank eight existences were fighting in it, the difference between rank seven and eight was huge, there was a chance of dying if he got involved.

Fang Di Chang hesitated: "It is not safe outside. Why don't I use peach blossom maze's variation move and summon flowery wind warriors for you to unleash your methods instead?"

Fang Yuan laughed: "I need to use this method personally. Don't worry, I will not harm Fang clan's interests."

Fang Di Chang was not worried about this, be it the alliance agreement earlier or their new one, there were related rules.

Once Fang Yuan did anything against the interest of Fang clan, he would be breaking the agreement, he would face a fierce backlash!

But since Fang Yuan said this, Fang Di Chang could not stop him, he opened Inquiry Dock.

Fang Yuan flew into the sky, getting into peach blossom maze.

Fang Di Chang did not blink, he was focusing on Fang Yuan's actions, he wanted to see what method Fang Yuan had to help Fang clan obtain Immortal Gu House Divine Bean Palace!

At the next moment, Fang Di Chang's eyes widened.

Fang Yuan actually charged into Divine Bean Palace.

"Is he trying to die?" At once, Fang clan's Gu Immortals could only think of this possibility.

But Fang Yuan came prepared!

Immortal killer move — Yama1!

He activated the immortal killer move that he had just created inside Inquiry Dock earlier.

Once he used this move, the 'thin layer of silk clothing' on the surface of his soul shined with a profound light.

This profound light interacted with the soul coat, which was his ghost official garment.

Ghost official garment expanded rapidly, covering Fang Yuan's body and forming a huge imperial robe that was brown in color with pale green in it. The robe had wide sleeves and a jade belt on his waist, the left and right side of the robe was laced with golden threads that formed the images of ghostly monsters, he also wore a royal crown that had hanging beads at the front and back1.

Once this move was used, Fang Yuan's aura changed completely, he became eerie, dark, and unfathomable.

"What is this person doing here?" Chen Yi squinted as cold light flashed in his eyes.

"That rank seven wisdom path Gu Immortal?!" Fang Gong recognized him, but did not understand why he was here.

But both parties were cautious, they did not attack yet.

Fang Gong was informed by Fang Di Chang while Chen Yi decided to observe the situation first. If he attacked now, Fang Gong might find a chance to attack him.

Fang Yuan officially entered Divine Bean Palace, the three rank eight existences had been fighting, their battle strength and concentration were mostly kept among themselves.

Chen Yi did not attack, Fang Yuan let out a sigh of relief, he increased his speed and flew towards Qing Chou.

"Hmm?" Seeing Fang Yuan's action, Chen Yi and Fang Gong's attacks became slower.

"What is he trying to do?" Fang clan's Gu Immortals were all watching Fang Yuan.

"A wisdom path Gu Immortal approaching the legendary immemorial soul beast?! This, this, this..." Seeing Fang Yuan's rash action, many Fang clan Gu Immortals were lost for words.

Qing Chou roared!

It pounced towards Fang Gong.

It roared again.

It pounced at Chen Yi.

Fang Yuan came directly to it, but it completely ignored him, it did not sense him at all!

This was the effect of the killer move yama!

This move was very special, its core was the immortal killer move ghostly concealment.

All along, Fang Yuan had not been able to use ghostly concealment well, because he could not pair it with his other moves. Qing Chou could detect Fang Yuan earlier because he used killer moves to fight, he had exposed himself.

But it was different now.

After gaining theft path great grandmaster attainment, even though Fang Yuan could not decipher all the profundities of ghostly concealment, he had enough ability to make use of this rank nine killer move!

Yama was one of his deduction results.

It combined ghostly concealment and ghost official garment, the two were no longer separate and did not conflict anymore. After Fang Yuan used the killer move yama, no matter what he did, Qing Chou could not detect him.

Seeing that Fang Yuan was on Qing Chou's tortoise shell, be it Fang clan or the two rank eight Gu Immortals, they were stunned.

"What happened?"

"He got close to Qing Chou so easily?!"

"This Qing Chou is a legendary immemorial beast that has an immortal aperture, it is able to cultivate!"

Many Fang clan Gu Immortals could not believe it.

But next, what Fang Yuan did almost made their eyeballs pop out.

Immortal killer move — Great Thief Ghost Hand!

Fang Yuan directly stood on Qing Chou's back as he grabbed at it with his right arm.

He was merely rank seven, but he dared to provoke a rank eight existence like this. Many Fang clan Gu Immortals had two thoughts.

The first thought was, is this person trying to die?

The second thought was, even though he was rash, one had no choice but to admire his courage!

Qing Chou roared!

It pounced towards Fang Gong.

Fang Gong: "Again?"

Qing Chou roared!

It attacked Chen Yi.

Chen Yi: "You idiot, there is someone on your back."

Chen Yi felt something amiss, ever since Fang Yuan appeared, everything had been too strange. Therefore, he reminded Qing Chou.

Qing Chou was still able to think, it wanted to turn around but Fang Yuan's great thief ghost hand had already activated, a huge black eerie hand entered Qing Chou's body.

Qing Chou turned around to look at his back, Fang Yuan was there but it could not see him!

But soon, it roared as it pounced at Chen Yi after feeling angry from being deceived.

Chen Yi was furious too, he screamed: "You idiot, stop!"

Fang Gong was also moved, he thought: "This Suan Bu Jin is amazing! He is right there but Qing Chou cannot detect him no matter what! What method is this? And he is currently on Qing Chou's back, his objective is definitely not simple, what does he want?"

At the next moment, Fang Gong's questions were answered.

Fang Yuan's expression changed as he pulled out the ghost hand that had entered Qing Chou's body.

When the ghost hand flew in, the five fingers were opened like a fan. But now, it was extremely fast and clenched, like it was holding onto something!

"I got it!" Fang Yuan was very happy, he opened his immortal aperture as the ghost hand went inside.

Qing Chou's huge body suddenly shook, his entire body cracked as the tortoise shell was on the verge of breaking apart on the spot.

It was a soul beast, it could not spit out blood, but this scene showed that it was heavily injured!

Rage! Anger!

Qing Chou roared as it raised its head.

Its furious voice turned into sound waves that reverberated Divine Bean Palace, the entire place was starting to shake.

"What is going on? What did Suan Bu Jin do?"

"That fellow seemed to have taken something!"

Fang Gong and Chen Yi were both uncertain and suspicious.

Chen Yi squinted and wanted to attack Fang Yuan but Fang Gong blocked him and defended against the attack.

Boom!

At the next moment, Qing Chou came crashing over.

Fang Gong and Chen Yi quickly dodged.

Qing Chou roared: "Who is it? Which one of you two stole my Soul Beast Token!"

"What?!" Upon hearing Qing Chou's words, all of the Gu Immortals present felt their hearts shook intensely!

"He actually has a way to steal the rank eight Immortal Gu Soul Beast Token?! No wonder he wanted to take great thief Immortal Gu earlier, he had this method!" Fang Di Chang's eyes were wide open, shock was all over his face.

"This person is not simple, he concealed himself so deeply! Qing Chou has an immortal aperture, he could actually steal the Immortal Gu from it, and it is rank eight!" At once, Chen Yi thought of a famous person in history — Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable!

"Did this person obtain Thieving Heaven's true inheritance?" Chen Yi thought while shouting: "Qing Chou you idiot, I reminded you already that someone is on your back. We did not steal it, that fellow did, he is at the door!"

Qing Chou turned to look, Fang Yuan was flying towards the outside of the palace, but Qing Chou could not see anything!

Qing Chou used an investigative immortal killer move but also found nothing!

The investigative killer move managed to detect Fang Yuan, but Qing Chou could not perceive it at all.

Qing Chou was even angrier than before, it aimed at Chen Yi as he roared: "You coward, I am sure you are the one!!"

"You idiot!" Chen Yi was furious and felt maligned, he retaliated.

Both sides fought with greater intensity now, Fang Gong could tell that this was bad. Earlier, the three parties restrained themselves, but now, after losing a rank eight Immortal Gu, Qing Chou was going mad, it was filled with anger, why would it hold back?

Fang Gong persuaded them but it was useless. Not only so, Chen Yi did not want to face Qing Chou's rage alone, he flew towards Fang Gong and the three rank eight existences fought once more.

But now was different than before, the three sides did not hold back, they started to use killer moves.

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Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.

A fan-like dark eerie ghost hand was flying around in the sky.

Its fingers were clenched, rank eight Immortal Gu Soul Beast Token was struggling inside, trying to escape.

The dark eerie ghost hand was met with this Soul Beast Token's rampage, there were protrusions on the ghost hand as the five fingers trembled, it was about to give way.

However, even if Soul Beast Token escaped from the ghost hand, it was inside Fang Yuan's immortal aperture, it had nowhere to run. It would merely go from a tiny cage to a bigger cage.

Fang Yuan thought: "This immortal killer move great thief ghost hand that I conceptualized uses rank nine killer move ghostly concealment as the core with rank seven great thief Immortal Gu and others as the supplement, therefore it could even steal a rank eight Immortal Gu like Soul Beast Token. However... this move cannot last long, it does not have any sealing properties. I need to work hard to refine this Soul Beast Token myself!"

While he was thinking, great thief ghost hand was increasingly weakening as soul beast token Immortal Gu did its best to escape from the restraint.

However, Fang Yuan's goal had already been met at this point.

Heaven Sealing Mountain!

This was originally used to seal his immortal zombie body's heaven's will.

But now, Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body had his split soul, it was a rank six time path clone now, Heaven Sealing Mountain was empty as a result.

"Go." Under Fang Yuan's manipulation, great thief ghost hand entered the cave inside Heaven Sealing Mountain and into the Gu formation.

Fang Yuan activated the Gu formation, great thief ghost hand stopped trembling, the soul beast token Immortal Gu inside was temporarily suppressed, even though it still struggled, it was already far less than before.

"I cannot constantly suppress Soul Beast Token like this, the urgent matter now is to find a place to refine this rank eight Immortal Gu!"

Fang Yuan thought about this, his speed did not fall, after getting out of Divine Bean Palace, he went out of peach blossom maze's loophole and left the battlefield directly.

"He left?!" Fang Yuan's action made all the Gu Immortals feel surprised.

Chen Yi gritted his teeth in hatred, he could not do anything about it, he was facing the attacks of Qing Chou and Fang Gong.

"Such resolution." Fang Di Chang praised as he sighed deeply, watching Fang Yuan's figure that gradually became smaller.

After Fang Yuan left, he met with countless soul beasts.

There were an uncountable number of soul beasts, Fang Yuan was deeply moved. But he had a thought and controlled himself, he did not kill them to harvest soul cores.

He needed to refine rank eight Immortal Gu Soul Beast Token now. As for the rank eight Immortal Gu House Divine Bean Palace, those three rank eight existences could continue to fight for it.

Fang Yuan understood his own abilities clearly.

Even with reverse flow protection seal, he was only able to fight rank eight and have rank eight battle strength. If he interfered in the battle of the three rank eight existences now, and competed to obtain Divine Bean Palace, there was little hope and a high chance for mishaps.

Once he exposes reverse flow protection seal, he would also expose his identity, he might even face Fang clan's attacks.

This was not worth it for Fang Yuan, he wanted to have a working relationship with Fang clan and use green ghost desert to cultivate soul path.

His alliance agreement with Fang clan was also a factor. It was not easy to get rid of it, he needed time to prepare.

Even though Fang Yuan took away Soul Beast Token, the soul path dao marks in green ghost desert still continued to corrode peach blossom maze.

There was a sea of soul beasts around the entire battlefield.

But Fang Yuan left easily.

He had yama killer move, he could use ghostly concealment's effect, even Qing Chou could not find him, not to mention these mere soul beasts.

He flew rapidly and left green ghost desert without looking back, after confirming his safety and the lack of people in the proximity, Fang Yuan landed on an ordinary desert.

Fang Yuan went underground and set up a temporary Gu formation, eliminating all of his aura and traces.

After that, he focused his mind to deal with rank eight Immortal Gu Soul Beast Token.

Soul Beast Token had been refined by Qing Chou, its will was inside, Fang Yuan had a lot of difficulty refining it.

This was the most basic part of Gu refinement — single refinement.

The single refinement of an existing Gu worm. The essence of it was to use one's own will to replace the original will of the Gu worm inside.

Gu Masters use primeval essence to refine mortal Gu because the primeval essence belonged to them and contained their will.

When Gu Immortals use immortal essence to refine Immortal Gu, the same logic followed.

Wild Gu worms contained wild wills and were hard to tame, they were difficult to refine. But man is the spirit of living beings, trying to take away someone else's Immortal Gu was even harder.

Fang Yuan had been planning in Inquiry Dock for a long time, he was not unprepared.

Rank seven Immortal Gu, Affection and Self Love!

Fang Yuan first took out these two Immortal Gu as he activated self love Immortal Gu on Soul Beast Token.

The will of Qing Chou inside Soul Beast Token was quickly affected, it started to love and treasure itself, no matter what Fang Yuan did from now on, this will would not take a risk and self-detonate Soul Beast Token.

Next, Fang Yuan used affection Immortal Gu, sending its will into the Soul Beast Token.

Both wills interacted and started to compete.

Affection was not a will that specialized in offense, it was quickly destroyed by Qing Chou's will.

But there was lingering affection will that scattered in Soul Beast Token, it was not completely decimated.

This was the specialty of affection will, it allowed affection Immortal Gu's effect to linger. But as time passes, the lingering affection will would be eradicated.

Fang Yuan continued to activate affection Immortal Gu as he sent in its will continuously into Soul Beast Token.

But no matter how much Fang Yuan sent in, Qing Chou's will would destroy it, while suffering little losses.

Qing Chou's will was very powerful inside Soul Beast Token, and was very stubborn!

Immortal essence was rapidly expended, but Fang Yuan could sustain the cost, he had already prepared a lot of immortal essence, his earlier development in the immortal aperture was paying off now.

After several minutes, Fang Yuan stopped instilling affection will into Soul Beast Token.

There was a lot of affection will left inside, even though most of it was erased by Qing Chou's will, the remaining amount was quite a lot, after reaching its limit, there was no way of raising its quantity.

At this point, Fang Yuan sent his self will into Soul Beast Token.

Once self will went in, Qing Chou's will became furious, charging at it like a frenzied beast. In comparison, the battle between Qing Chou's will and affection will earlier was like a drizzle.

Fang Yuan's self will fought with Qing Chou's will, the fight was one-sided, the self will army could not match it at all.

For example, Soul Beast Token was like a camp that was the territory of Qing Chou's will. Fang Yuan's self will was like an invader traveling by boat, only able to send in a small number of troops each time. With such a small scale, it was easily wiped out by Qing Chou's will each time.

But Fang Yuan ignored that, he continued to instill self will.

His advantage was that with enough immortal essence, self will was endlessly produced. Meanwhile, Qing Chou's will could not be replenished.

Fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, forty-five minutes... as time passed, Fang Yuan's advantage grew, he stabilized himself and eventually matched Qing Chou's will, having half the control over Soul Beast Token.

Qing Chou's will rumbled intensely, knowing that it was not Fang Yuan's match, it wanted to detonate this Soul Beast Token.

But at this time, the lingering affection will activated, erasing the determination from Qing Chou's will. Fang Yuan also sent in fake will and interfered with the decision of Qing Chou's will.

Eventually, Fang Yuan sent in a large amount of self will and charged like an army, erasing all of Qing Chou's lingering will.

"I finally refined soul beast token Immortal Gu." Fang Yuan let out a breath of air, his forehead was full of sweat.

This battle was like a major war involving countless troops, he was extremely tired.

Looking at the time, three days and nights had passed in the outside world!

"Thankfully I have wisdom path methods and compatible Immortal Gu, otherwise, I could not have refined this Gu."

"Sigh, even though I have great thief ghost hand and ghostly concealment, I only managed to replicate a trace of Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's capabilities. I was merely making use of his accomplishments. Legend says that Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable has a move, steal heart, it has the power to steal the will inside Immortal Gu and instantly refine them, it is truly amazing!"

Fang Yuan was sighing in his mind, he stored Soul Beast Token and quickly went back to green ghost desert.

"I have soul beast token Immortal Gu, together with hundred and eighty slaves, I can enslave that Qing Chou!"

"With Qing Chou, I would have a huge possibility of obtaining Divine Bean Palace, after all, it has huge control over Divine Bean Palace."

"Even if I face the backlash of Fang clan, I have the ability to protect my life, and if I obtain Divine Bean Palace, I will gain immense profits!"

Fang Yuan analyzed in his mind.

After successfully getting Soul Beast Token, he started to work his mind on trying to get that rank eight Immortal Gu House Divine Bean Palace.

But when he flew to the periphery of green ghost desert, he was intercepted by a Gu Immortal.

"Please wait." An ordinary looking female immortal had stopped him, she smiled politely, having rank seven aura.

"What is it?" Fang Yuan had a thought as he slowed down.

The female immortal smiled: "I am He Gu, I saw that you were flying fast, you must have an intended destination. With green ghost desert's huge change, I heard that a precious treasure had emerged, I wonder if you have any information? I am willing to buy it."

Fang Yuan's expression did not change, but he felt something amiss in his mind.

Originally, Fang clan had caused a huge commotion when trying to get Divine Bean Palace, all of the soul beasts in green ghost desert were stirred, this could not be concealed, Western Desert's Gu Immortals noticed it and came over.

Fang Yuan spent three days and night to refine Soul Beast Token, many Western Desert Gu Immortals had already arrived.

"I'm afraid the battle ended already!"

"If the three parties are still fighting, the power of rank eight cannot be concealed, the commotion would be grand, how can these Gu Immortals be clueless now?"

"I wonder how this battle ended? Who obtained Divine Bean Palace?"

Fang Yuan could not help but think.

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"So that's it." Fang Yuan immediately contacted Fang clan's Gu Immortals and found out what happened.

This battle over Divine Bean Palace had indeed ended. Fang clan obtained it!

Heavenly Lotus Sect's first supreme elder Chen Yi said some words before leaving, he wanted Fang clan to take good care of Divine Bean Palace, he would return to retrieve it next time.

As for Qing Chou, it also escaped, it had deep foundations, it had more rank eight Immortal Gu than just Soul Beast Token.

Even though Fang clan obtained Divine Bean Palace, among their three Immortal Gu Houses, Chicken Dog Coop and Inquiry Dock were both heavily damaged, first supreme elder Fang Gong also suffered heavy injuries. And the Divine Bean Palace that they got was nearly half destroyed.

However, after Fang Yuan contacted them, Fang clan promised to pay the compensation that Fang Yuan was supposed to get. And it was very high according to their alliance agreement. But Fang clan wanted Fang Yuan to hold on first, because the commotion was too big now, news that Fang clan obtained Divine Bean Palace would be deduced very soon. By then, Western Desert would be in a huge commotion, many super forces would not want Fang clan to obtain this Immortal Gu House and became the number one super force in Western Desert!

By then, Fang clan would face pressure from all directions, they needed to raise their strength during this peaceful period and rest. Especially their Immortal Gu Houses, they needed to repair them.

Thus, Fang clan was tight on funds, they wanted Fang clan to give them some time.

Fang Yuan thought about it and agreed.

Firstly, the alliance agreement was not strict on the payment timing. And secondly, Fang Yuan wanted to maintain a good relationship with them.

The situation was different now.

Fang clan provoked Central Continent's Heavenly Lotus Sect, it was the same as provoking Heavenly Court, Fang Yuan, who was acting as Suan Bu Jin, had also been part of this, from Fang clan's perspective, he was their natural ally against such a strong enemy.

On another hand, Fang clan was facing great pressure and wary of Fang Yuan's high battle strength. Suan Bu Jin was a wisdom path Gu Immortal with methods to enslave a soul beast army, during the battle in Divine Bean Palace, he even showed the ability to steal rank eight Immortal Gu Soul Beast Token, it was simply shocking!

Thus, Fang clan had a very vigilant attitude, they did not want to provoke him, especially at this timing, Fang clan was facing huge danger, they did not want to antagonize Fang Yuan, they even wanted to rely on him as external help.

Fang Yuan understood their intentions easily.

"First was Tang clan, and now this Fang clan is also a good pawn to resist Heavenly Court." Fang clan was plotting against the world, his vision looked towards the future.

"Western Desert would definitely go into a commotion, the crucial thing is how much battle strength Fang clan still has left, how much of Divine Bean Palace's power can they unleash?"

If Fang clan could endure all of the pressure, Fang Yuan would not mind helping them and stabilizing their relationship.

If Fang clan could not defend themselves or even faced extermination, Fang Yuan would not help them, in fact, he would go ahead and try to snatch Divine Bean Palace for himself.

Fang Yuan watched on the fence, he had a calm emotion.

He had gained a lot in this Divine Bean Palace battle. Firstly, he obtained rank seven great thief Immortal Gu, together with his theft path great grandmaster attainment level, he could start to use ghostly concealment, it was a qualitative breakthrough. Secondly, he obtained Soul Beast Token, such a rank eight Immortal Gu could not be obtained normally even if one had huge assets. And thirdly, his relationship with Fang clan improved drastically, they even owed him lots of compensation.

Even if Fang Yuan obtained Divine Bean Palace, he would need to invest a lot to repair it. In addition, his burden of feeding Immortal Gu would intensify.

This result was not necessarily suboptimal for Fang Yuan.

"But at the moment, there are lots of Western Desert Gu Immortals in green ghost desert, I cannot start my plans here."

Originally, Fang Yuan was going to let Ying Wu Xie and the rest farm soul cores in green ghost desert to help his soul cultivation. But he could not do so now.

There were too many people now, he could not act.

And there was the biggest threat, Qing Chou, which had escaped.

This legendary immemorial soul beast had rank eight battle strength, Fang Yuan did not fight against it personally, but he could see how powerful it was, even with reverse flow protection seal, he could at best only fight evenly with it.

Right now, Qing Chou was missing, it could likely be hiding in green ghost desert, this way, whether Fang Yuan sent Ying Wu Xie to hunt or stayed here himself, there was great danger. If they fought, just the exposure of his identity would ruin many of Fang Yuan's plans.

"I should leave." Fang Yuan had many wisdom path methods, in just a while, he made the wisest choice, he decided to leave green ghost desert, and even leave Western Desert.

"Friend?" At this moment, He Gu was still beside Fang Yuan, seeing his silence, she asked again.

Fang Yuan chuckled as he looked at her, this woman was quite astute, she deduced many things just from his flying movement.

Fang Yuan's gaze flickered as he said: "I have some precious information, if you want to buy them, you need to be able to pay for them."

He Gu smiled: "No worries friend, even though I am a lone cultivator, I have some assets. As long as your information is accurate, I will definitely pay an appropriate sum."

Fang Yuan created a simple agreement with He Gu before he told her some things about Qing Chou, they were all truthful words.

He Gu's eyes shined brightly: "Oh? A soul beast that has to do with Qing clan? Qing clan's inheritance seems to be with it?"

"I am unsure about the specifics." Fang Yuan shook his head, not willing to say anything else.

He Gu was satisfied with the information, she paid Fang Yuan a lot of Western Desert immortal materials.

Even with Fang Yuan's wealth, he was quite surprised. Among these immortal materials, one was ancient divine wood, it was a rare rank six immortal material. Even though it was rank six, it was very rare in treasure yellow heaven, it could be sold at the price of a rank seven immortal material.

This was a small surprise, Fang Yuan earned some profits while exposing Qing Chou's information.

On one hand, he was helping Fang clan to divert the attention of the Western Desert Gu Immortals towards Qing Chou. Secondly, as long as Qing Chou was alive and hidden, Fang Yuan's plans in green ghost desert were severely affected, he could make use of these Western Desert Gu Immortals to find out where Qing Chou was. If they really met and discovered this legendary immemorial soul beast, good luck to them.

"My information is true, wisdom path Gu Immortals will definitely deduce upon it to test its reliability. This involves Qing clan's inheritance, even rank eight existences would be moved. If one or two rank eight Gu Immortals act, Qing Chou would be in trouble."

As a wisdom path grandmaster, Fang Yuan used this opportunity to plot against Qing Chou.

But that He Gu was not satisfied, she asked to explore green ghost desert with Fang Yuan.

Lone immortals working together was common.

Of course, Fang Yuan rejected her.

Fang Yuan bid farewell to He Gu and left.

That He Gu wanted to follow him, but he easily took a turn and used familiar face to disguise himself, getting rid of this woman.

Fang Yuan did not enter green ghost desert, he left from the periphery of green ghost desert.

He flew for several days without rest, arriving at Western Desert's regional wall.

After passing two regional walls, he reached Southern Border!

The blazing sun was replaced by dark clouds in the sky.

Western Desert had dry winds, but Southern Border was humid and moist.

Looking far away, mountains were covered in vegetation, the scene was dyed in a dark-green color.

"Southern Border..." Fang Yuan's eyes flashed with a mild light before becoming clear again. Within the five regions, he was the biggest impression of Southern Border.

Immortal investigative killer move — Qi Luck Sensation!

Immediately, he used the killer move as cold light shined in his eyes.

He had connected his luck to upper extreme heavenly eagle earlier, now that he used qi luck sensation, he sensed its location to an extent.

Fang Yuan's main objective in Southern Border now was to obtain control of the upper extreme heavenly eagle again.

This space path immemorial desolate beast was very useful to him. With it, Fang Yuan could annex all of the blessed lands within City Well, his immortal aperture's foundation would rise sharply and his dao marks would increase in number.

"The southeast direction..." Fang Yuan stopped qi luck sensation as he flew into the clouds at lightning speed.

-x-X-x-

Southern Border, southeast direction.

Yellow dragon river was to the north, while Bai Shou Mountain was to the south.

This was originally a mountain range with varying contours, but it had split apart now, a huge Earth Trench had been created here with immeasurable depth.

The great era was arriving, the five regions were becoming one, the first step was the turbulence in earth qi, and the connection of earth veins. Southern Border had the densest earth path dao marks in all five regions, therefore, after the first earthquake, several more huge earthquakes occurred throughout the region.

Each earthquake was a disaster to Southern Border's mortals. But for Gu Immortals, they were all fortuitous encounters!

All sorts of immortal materials and even wild Immortal Gu would emerge from deep underground. The earth veins were the essence of the earth after all.

These last years, Southern Border's Gu Immortal world had been in deep commotion.

First was the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, followed by the dream realm battle, be it lone cultivators, demonic path or righteous path members, many people had died, especially Wu clan, they had lost seven Gu Immortals!

Southern Border's Gu Immortals became alert as a result, because of the danger, they tried hard to raise their strength.

This time, the earth vein tremors created Earth Trenches, countless Southern Border Gu Immortals invested themselves into this, trying to scavenge for resources and make up for their losses while raising their strength.

At this moment, in this newly developed Earth Trench, a group of Gu Masters were setting up a mortal Gu formation and setting up camp.

The leader had rank five cultivation level and was a woman.

Her eyebrows were thin like smoke, her eyes were as clear as the moon. Her skin was snow-white, and her lips were pink and tender, her silky jet black hair draping over her shoulders, accentuating her beauty.

Right now, she was wearing a plain white dress, she was elegant like an orchid and gentle like water, having an aura of royalty in her.

It was none other than Shang clan's current leader, Shang Xin Ci.

Shang Xin Ci's beautiful eyes were in a daze, staring at the field before her.

This field was deep within Earth Trench, it was extraordinary, the soil was black and firm like iron, colorful smoke was rising up from the soil, floating towards the sky and forming into clouds.

All of the Gu Masters in the field felt a warm feeling permeating their bodies and souls, they felt extremely comfortable.

"The great power of nature, this is truly incredible!" Shang Xin Ci sighed, feeling deeply moved.

A white robed young man was standing beside her, he had a heroic stature, sword-like sharp eyes and brows, a small eagle was resting on his shoulder, it was Ye Fan.

Ye Fan spoke: "This field is not simple, if I am not wrong, this is a smoky warm jade field, it can produce immortal material smoky warm jade, it is extraordinary. This field is actually a few square kilometers worth of land, it has extremely high value!"

Ye Fan still loved Shang Xin Ci in his heart, before this, he had taken it upon himself to help Shang Xin Ci handle the affairs of her clan.

But afterwards, when chasing away the Eighteen Lads of Wine Village, he met Bai Ning Bing and was almost killed.

Ye Fan managed to keep his life and changed drastically, becoming more mature. By chance, he met Lu Wei Yin and became his disciple.

He was nurtured by Lu Wei Yin, not only did he enter black heaven to cultivate, he was even given lots of knowledge by Lu Wei Yin, far surpassing Shang Xin Ci.

"So this place is called smoky warm jade field, thank you young master Ye for the explanation. I finally know why the immortal ancestors in our clan want me to lead the group to guard this place." Shang Xin Ci expressed her gratitude.

She originally had low aptitude and cultivation level, but to fight for the smoky warm jade field this time, Shang clan's Gu Immortals went ahead and used their unique methods to raise Shang Xin Ci to rank five regardless of the cost.

Worry flashed across Ye Fan's eyes.

Shang Xin Ci's enemies were Hou clan and Tie clan.

These two clans also sent their rank five cultivation level clan leaders here, they were bent on getting the smoky warm jade field.

Ye Fan's current understanding of the world had surpassed the mortal realm, he could tell very clearly.

"This smoky warm jade field is a natural resource point. Whichever clan can control this place will gain a sizeable amount of smoky warm jade each year. Shang clan, Hou clan, and Tie clan, even the clan leaders of these three super forces are merely pawns, the Gu Immortals behind them are the true contesters."

"Sigh! The position of Shang clan leader seems high and mighty, but it is merely a political tool for Gu Immortals. They have no freedom and are in danger, lone immortals and demonic cultivators might also be coming here. During the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, Shang clan's previous leader, Shang Yan Fei, the father of Shang Xin Ci, died as well. Wu clan's leader Empress Wu Ji and other champions also faced the same fate... if one is not a Gu Immortal, no matter how amazing of a mortal they are, they are still mortals."

Ye Fan felt deep emotions thinking about this, he affirmed his determination to become an immortal!

"Report—! Hou clan and Tie clan have sent large groups of troops of an unprecedented scale, directly towards us." At this time, an investigative Gu Master reported.

A beautiful female Gu Master beside Shang Xin Ci said: "Clan leader was right, we set up a Gu formation and expanded our base, we triggered the bottom lines of these two clans."

This beautiful woman was Wei De Xin, the wife of Wei clan leader, she was once bought as a slave by Fang Yuan and given to Shang Xin Ci. Right now, she was Shang Xin Ci's personal guard, she was loyal and only wanted to repay her gratitude.

Shang Xin Ci nodded, smiling: "The Gu formation has been set long ago, we are pretending to set it up now so as to lure these two clans to attack us, so that we can take them down at once."

Shang clan, Tie clan, and Hou clan had been in this conflict for a long time, they each had wins and losses, it was a tie between them. Thus, Shang Xin Ci came up with a plan to set up a Gu formation and amplify her side's strength to win this contest. The other two clan leaders were experienced leaders and would not cause a commotion in their clans if they left for some time, but Shang Xin Ci was young and inexperienced, if she went out of the clan for too long, there would be a huge commotion internally. This was the reason why Shang Xin Ci had to take a risk.

Of course, she was not taking a risk blindly, Shang Xin Ci had devised her plan after thoroughly researching her enemies, she was confident of obtaining victory now.

"If I can defeat the two old clan leaders from Hou clan and Tie clan here, my reputation will rise sharply, when I return to the clan, things will change." Saying so, Shang Xin Ci's lips curled up as she said loudly: "I hope everyone can put in their effort and claim victory now."

Everyone responded positively.

Shang Xin Ci had Wei De Xin as her guard, Xiong Tu, Xiong Huo, and Xiong Feng as her three experts, she even had Xiao Yan from Shang clan arena, an external Gu Master who had been recruited by her and became an important general. As for steward Zhou Quan, he was taking the place of Shang Xin Ci in Shang Liang Mountain to maintain the situation in the clan.

Ye Fan was like a guest elder, he was not considered a subordinate of Shang Xin Ci.

"The position of clan leader is tiring and hard, but Xin Ci has learned a lot, she is not as weak now, she is becoming more bold." At once, Ye Fan was dazed by Shang Xin Ci's determined and elegant disposition.

"Shang clan leader, what is the meaning of this?" A moment later, Tie clan leader arrived.

Next, Hou clan leader also arrived with his men, questioning Shang Xin Ci: "Little lass, are you trying to take over this entire place by expanding your base?"

Shang Xin Ci smiled lightly: "Clan leaders, we have already wasted a lot of time here. Why don't we decide the victor now, what is the point of stalling?"

Hou clan leader's pupils shrunk.

Tie clan leader laughed heartily, showing Shang Xin Ci a thumbs-up: "Good, you are an amazing junior. The truth is, I am quite frustrated with being here for so long, let's have a huge three-way battle today and decide the victor."

Thus, all three sides sent out their troops and fought.

Shang Xin Ci, Ye Fan, and the other higher-ups were standing on the spot, waiting for the results of the battle.

"Activate the Gu formation." Shang Xin Ci instructed.

The formation path Gu Master beside her was hesitant: "Isn't it too early to activate the Gu formation now? They will have a lot of time to react to it."

Shang Xin Ci shook her head: "Go ahead and set it up."

The Gu formation activated as light filled the battlefield.

Hou clan and Tie clan's Gu Masters immediately panicked.

Shang Xin Ci spoke loudly: "This formation can protect the lives of those heavily injured, Gu Masters from Hou clan and Tie clan, go ahead and fight."

Once she said that, Hou clan's and Tie clan's leaders had changes of expressions.

Tie clan leader laughed loudly: "I've heard of Shang clan leader's kindness long ago, it seems to be true after all, alright, let us fight until the end."

Hou clan leader snorted coldly, thinking: "This lass is truly formidable, she said the incredible ability of this Gu formation to put our resolve in chaos, would we still get rid of the formation after hearing that? I truly underestimated her!"

"Looking at all the clan leaders of super forces and even Gu Master experts, Xin Ci is the kindest person I've ever seen. She could have created an offensive formation, but she chose this and reduced her own advantage. I need to lend her a hand later." Ye Fan thought.

He did not mention his immortal fortuitous encounter to Shang Xin Ci and the rest.

But after cultivating in black heaven, Ye Fan was confident that even rank five Gu Masters were not his match!

The Gu formation activated, under its effect, whenever a Gu Master suffers great injury, they would be enveloped by light and sent out, safe from harm.

At the same time, the Gu formation amplified the power of Shang clan's Gu Masters.

Tie clan and Hou clan had Gu Masters trying to unravel this Gu formation, but before they succeeded, Shang clan's Gu Masters would have a huge advantage.

"Kill!" Xiong Tu, Xiong Huo, and Xiong Feng joined the battlefield, the three worked together closely, most elders were not their match.

Soon, three elders from Hou clan suffered heavy injuries and were sent out of the battlefield by the light.

"Damn it!" Hou clan leader clenched his fist: "I already convinced a crucial person in Shang clan to sabotage Shang Xin Ci, to think that she would initiate battle now. This Tie clan leader is too rash, he actually agreed and fell into her schemes. Hmm?"

At this time, a female Gu Master walked out of Tie clan's formation, she was fearsome!

She fought valiantly, rampaging the battlefield unhindered.

The three Xiong brothers wanted to stop her, but they were sent out of the battlefield rapidly by her unstoppable advancement.

Hou clan leader's eyes were bulging, he finally realized: "So Tie clan has such a person! Amazing, too amazing, even if I go and fight, I am not her match."

At the moment of crisis, Ye Fan entered the battlefield, standing in front of this female Gu Master: "Lady, may I know your name?"

That woman's eyes flashed like lightning as she assessed Ye Fan, showing a hint of sternness, she said in a cold tone: "Tie Ruo Nan!"

-x-X-x-

Boom boom boom!

Intense explosions resounded. Mortal killer moves were unleashed endlessly, two figures were clashing continuously as they fought.

One was Ye Fan with immense luck, he cultivated transformation path and light path, he obtained the guidance of a Gu Immortal of Shang clan and was also the disciple of the mysterious Gu Immortal Lu Wei Yin. And the rarest thing was that he did not rely on his fortuitous encounters alone, he was walking on his own cultivation path.

And for Tie Ruo Nan, even though she was born in the super clan Tie clan, her childhood was not fortunate, she lost her mother when she was a child, and her father when she was a teenager, she became one of Tie clan's eight young masters through her own hard work, she was skilled in both the pen and sword, she had a lot of suitors. Especially after getting the guidance of Tie clan Gu Immortal Tie Mian Shen, she became the inheritor of Iron Mask true inheritance.

These two were fighting like two geniuses competing, huge commotions were created, the backlash of their attacks created a large area that would injure ordinary Gu Masters if they went into the range of their attacks, everyone had to evade them.

The Gu Masters from all three clans were stunned from seeing their fight.

"Missy, young master Ye is so strong? Why did we not know?" Servant Xiao Die asked Shang Xin Ci.

Shang Xin Ci's eyes flickered as she pondered: "Young master Ye must have his own opportunities, his strength rose drastically. This is a good thing, but his opponent is not simple, young master Ye has to be more careful."

Xiao Die chuckled as she covered her mouth: "Young master Ye is indeed talented and handsome, everyone can see that he likes you, Missy. If he knows about your concern towards him, he would be so happy."

Shang Xin Ci shook her head, she wanted to say something but did not speak in the end.

Xiao Die had been observing her, she was Shang Xin Ci's confidant, extremely close to her, she was a servant back in Zhang clan, back then, she had followed the caravan along with Shang Xin Ci to Shang clan city.

Thus, others called Shang Xin Ci clan leader or city lord, but Xiao Die still addressed her as Missy, and Shang Xin Ci did not ask her to change her title, this showed how close the two girls were.

Right now, Xiao Die was full of worries, she thought: "It seems that Missy still cannot forget that demonic path Gu Master Fang Yuan. Sigh, what ill-affinity do they have, that Fang Yuan only escorted us to Shang clan city but he became Missy's crush. I wonder where he is now? I'm afraid he's already dead. Sigh, if he really died, I hope we can see his corpse so that Missy can give up and forget him."

Xiao Die had B grade aptitude, she was just a mortal Gu Master after all, she had not interacted with Gu Immortals, she did not know who Fang Yuan was now, she still thought that Fang Yuan was that mortal demonic path Gu Master.

Even though Shang Xin Ci learned about Fang Yuan's current situation from Shang clan Gu Immortal Shang Qing Qing, she did not need to tell Xiao Die about this.

"The new generation surpasses the old, I am truly old now." Hou clan leader watched Tie Ruo Nan and Ye Fan's fight, he felt incredibly shocked and also bitter.

Tie clan leader was more shocked than anything, he thought: "I thought that by sending Tie Ruo Nan, we would be able to sweep away the obstacles and claim victory, but now, it seems that the outcome has yet to be decided. To think that Shang clan has such a hidden expert!"

At the same time, in the sky above the battlefield where mortal Gu Masters could not detect, three Southern Border Gu Immortals placed their gazes on Tie Ruo Nan's and Ye Fan's fight.

They were from Shang clan, Hou clan, and Tie clan, the three immortals were sitting on a white cloud, there was a round table in front of them as fragrant tea was placed before them.

The Gu Immortals drank tea as they used the mortals of their clans as chips to gamble, deciding the ownership of this smoky warm jade field.

This smoky warm jade field was a high grade resource point, even super forces placed a lot of attention on it. If they could get it, there would be huge profits for the entire clan.

But using mortals to compete without Gu Immortals fighting, was it too foolish? Or rather, if they lost, would the Gu Immortals deny the victory?

Using mortals to gamble on immortal level conflicts, it was not so simple after all.

Forget about the lone and demonic immortals that live alone, but for righteous path forces, they looked at the long term consequences. They focused on nurturing descendants, like how Shang clan had their young master competition to make them fight for top positions, they even brought in external Gu Masters in the arena. Tie clan also had eight main young masters, and other clans had their own systems, it was all to choose immortal seeds from their mortal descendants!

There was deep meaning in letting the clansmen fight, they represented the future achievements of the clan. Especially those Gu Immortal seeds, losing any one of them was a huge loss to the Gu Immortals.

But Gu Immortals needed to do this, the advantages far outweighed the costs.

Firstly, as long as Gu Immortals did not die in the clan, their foundations would not waver, the clan would not be destabilized. As long as Gu Immortals did not fight, anything could be negotiated.

Secondly, it was a test for these mortals too when they compete. Those who survive would emerge more experienced while those dead genius would not be considered real geniuses. The righteous path has been nurturing descendants for a long time, they could afford to lose Gu Immortal seeds.

Among the three, when competing, there were bound to be positive and negative relationships created, this would bond the clan together. When the Gu Immortal seeds grow in the future, they might have enemies in other super forces, by then, they would not be able to leave the clan, they would need to rely on it.

Any policy had its considerations, this was not just a shallow game where Gu Immortals used mortals as pawns. Those in power were not so simple.

At this moment, the three immortals were focusing on Tie Ruo Nan and Ye Fan, the three knew: the winner of this fight was the key to decide who would own smoky warm jade field.

The immortal from Shang clan, Shang Qing Qing, smiled from the seat to the left: "Congratulations Lord Tie Mian Shen, you found a good inheritor for your Iron Mask true inheritance."

Tie clan had Iron Mask true inheritance, all the immortals in Southern Border knew about it. This true inheritance had a strict requirement, it was hard to find a suitable inheritor.

A true inheritance was a mature and superior set of cultivation content. Sometimes, not everyone could inherit it, there were certain requirements for them.

Tie clan's Tie Mian Shen was sitting at the center.

He wore a martial uniform and his chest and legs were covered in armor, there was a thick iron mask on his face.

He had not brought a mask to wear, it was the trait of cultivating the Iron Mask true inheritance. All the Gu Immortals who cultivate this true inheritance must have a heart of justice, they also were often people most skilled in Southern Border in investigating the truth.

He had originally chosen the divine investigator, Tie Ruo Nan's father, to become the inheritor of Iron Mask true inheritance, but he died on Qing Mao Mountain and recently, finding that Tie Ruo Nan also had the qualities and talent, she was chosen as his new inheritor.

This time, Tie clan sent him here to fight over smoky warm jade field, he brought Tie Ruo Nan along to use this chance to train her.

Among the three Gu Immortals present, the Gu Immortals from Hou clan and Shang clan were only rank six, as the only one with rank seven cultivation level, Tie Mian Shen sat at the center.

When they conversed, Shang Qing Qing and the Hou clan Gu Immortal also spoke respectfully to Tie Mian Shen.

Tie Mian Shen nodded slightly: "Shang clan's fairy is right, this is my true inheritance's successor. But she is still young, she needs to be trained."

Hou clan's Gu Immortal Hou Yao remained silent. He was watching the battlefield now, even though his clan was the weakest now, he had not lost yet. As long as Tie clan and Shang clan suffered losses together, the eventual result was still unknown.

Smoke and dust rumbled as Ye Fan took a step back, he breathed in deeply as his chest inflated and bulged.

Tie Ruo Nan pounced like an eagle from behind him, her fingers were extended like claws.

Ye Fan turned around and spat out a bright red arrow towards Tie Ruo Nan's face.

Tie Ruo Nan was not panicking, her eyes shined brightly as she leaned backwards, evading like an elegant crane, dodging the red arrow.

But at this time, Ye Fan had already found his opportunity, he pushed forward with both hands and pounced.

-x-X-x-

Tie Ruo Nan grunted as she raised her fists, facing the attack.

Boom!

A loud sound resounded as fist and palm collided, erupting with white light.

Intense light burst out, the ground cracked from the impact.

Both sides collided intensely before retreating backwards rapidly. After ten or so steps, they stabilized their footing and looked at each other while panting roughly.

At this moment, they both had solemn expressions as they treated the other party as their biggest rival, they did not dare to be careless.

"Really amazing, these two have battle strength far surpassing normal rank fives, they are both Gu Immortal seeds!" Shang Xin Ci sighed in her mind, with her current knowledge, she knew some things about the Gu Immortal world from Shang Qing Qing.

Ye Fan looked around as he spoke: "Tie Ruo Nan, if you can handle this move, I will admit defeat!"

Tie Ruo Nan's gaze focused as she nodded, agreeing: "Okay."

Mortal Gu Masters had limited primeval essence, they did not fight for long, but the battle was intense, they used many mortal killer moves, their primeval essence was greatly expended.

Thus, there was little primeval essence left in their apertures. Tie Ruo Nan agreed the moment Ye Fan initiated a final move to decide victory.

Ye Fan breathed in deeply and started to activate his killer move.

Mortal killer move — Aurora Bird!

Chirp chirp!

Sounds of anxious bird chirping could be heard.

Light flowed like water on Ye Fan's body, these rainbow lights rumbled and gathered on his forearms and right palm.

The aurora lights acted on their own, they chirped as they transformed into the shape of a small sparrow.

The aurora bird gathered energy and had a powerful aura, Tie Ruo Nan had a grim expression, black smoke was emerging from her body. The black smoke gathered on her face and slowly turned into a thin black iron mask.

Mortal killer move — Iron Mask Equipment!

This move came from Iron Mask true inheritance, if an Immortal Gu was used as the core, it would be an immortal killer move.

"Go." Ye Fan called out as the rainbow light on his right arm seemingly gained life at this instant, leaving his body and flying into the sky, turning into a rainbow bird.

The bird flapped its wings as the aurora bird charged forward at an extreme speed.

"Come." Tie Ruo Nan called out too as she charged forward instead of staying back.

At the next moment, she collided into the aurora bird.

Tie clan's Gu Masters gasped, they were worried for Tie Ruo Nan, to think that she actually used her body to block the strongest attack from Ye Fan.

Above the clouds, Tie Mian Shen was calm and unmoved, he knew the power of iron mask equipment, he was confident in its defense.

Chirp chirp!

The aurora bird crashed onto Tie Ruo Nan and turned back into a lump of aurora light, enveloping Tie Ruo Nan.

Black smoke emerged from Tie Ruo Nan's body as it defended against the corrosion of the aurora light.

Both sides were stuck in a deadlock, unable to decide the victor.

"Your Shang clan's Gu Immortal seed is also quite good." Tie Mian Shen praised.

Shang Qing Qing smiled: "It is a shame, he is an external seed."

Tie Mian Shen nodded: "I see that this killer move he had is innovative, it is likely his own creation. To be able to create his own style at this age, he far surpasses ordinary geniuses."

Hou Yao watched with envy by the side, sighing: "Such seeds are all future pillars for the clan."

Shang Qing Qing was humble but she felt very suspicious. She had given guidance to Ye Fan before, but he did not display such talent back then.

"My Shang clan has an arena system, thus Tie Mian Shen and Hou Yao thought that he is an external Gu Immortal seed that we recruited, but that is not the case."

"Ye Fan displayed such talent, he must have had some fortuitous encounters recently. Of course, he created his own killer move, such talent cannot be underestimated. He really is qualified to become part of our clan."

"If we can investigate and find that his origins are not suspicious, we will recruit him. Right, he seems to like Shang Xin Ci, we can make use of that. If he can become a Gu Immortal, so what if we have to give him Shang Xin Ci? This would be a beautiful story in the future as well."

Shang Qing Qing thought and made her plans, while at the same time, two Gu Immortals were conversing and plotting at a lake near the mountain.

These two Gu Immortals were concealing their traces, they had prepared for this long ago.

Among them, one of the Gu Immortals was a weak looking young man, he was called Yi Yu, he had a worried expression: "Will our actions really not alert those three Gu Immortals?"

"No." His companion Yi Nan Men answered with certainty: "If not for my unique investigative killer move, I would not have found an ancient water monster under this smoky warm jade field! Our Yi clan is most skilled at water path, it is hard for these three Gu Immortals to find out."

"And currently, we are not acting directly, we are luring this slumbering ancient water monster to wake up and rampage."

Saying so, Yi Nan Men's words shifted: "Of course, Gu Immortals have all sorts of methods, I cannot guarantee that they will not find out. But even if they find out and expose us, we can explain ourselves too, after all, Yi clan is also a super force, they might be suspicious, but they would not fight to the death with us."

"If they do not discover anything, hehe, when the water monster rampages, they will definitely suppress it. By then, you can act and kill one of them to make the three clans suspicious of each other and fight!"

Yi Nan Men had rank seven cultivation level, while Yi Yu was only rank six, in their plan, Yi Yu was the one executing the assassination, he must have some unique method.

The weak looking young man Yi Yu had a worried expression: "I am not familiar with that move yet, what if the activation fails? What if they find out when I use it?"

Yi Nan Men had a solemn expression: "That is the worst possible scenario, if they find out, I will use my life to stall them and let you escape. I will not admit I am a Gu Immortal from Yi clan even if I die, you must do the same."

"Mm!" This time, Yi Yu no longer had a worried expression, he was filled with solemnness and determination.

Yi Nan Men breathed in deeply: "I am going to make a move."

He activated an immortal killer move with deeply concealed aura, there was not a hint of commotion from it, Yi Yu became more assured.

At the next moment, water ripples appeared deep underground, a slumbering water monster had been rudely awakened!

On the surface, Ye Fan and Tie Ruo Nan were still about to decide the winner when the ground shook.

Puff puff puff!

Gushes of water rushed out of the black soil on the ground and penetrated the battlefield, destroying the Gu formation that Shang clan had painstakingly created.

Dozens of huge water pillars that were tens of feet high appeared in smoky warm jade field.

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Those unlucky Gu Masters who were hit by the water pillars were quickly reduced to piles of mushy flesh.

Such a shocking change made all the Gu Masters incredibly flustered, they quickly stopped fighting and tried to leave the place.

"What is going on?" The three Gu Immortals above the clouds were about to respond when these water pillars gathered into one and turned into an ancient water monster that had a fish body, frog legs, and tiger head!

The water monster roared and pounced at the mortals.

It did not have much intelligence, it thought that these mortal Gu Masters had interrupted its sleep.

Its huge frog legs landed on the ground as a vast amount of water gushed out.

But the three immortals acted in time, three shields of light defended their respective clansmen.

"So this smoky warm jade field has an underground frost heart lake, there was an ancient water monster inside it." Hou Yao had a solemn expression.

Shang Qing Qing gritted her teeth, looking at Tie Mian Shen: "I hope Lord Tie Mian Shen can take the lead, we will assist you to take down the ancient water monster, preventing it from rampaging and destroying the smoky warm jade field."

Hou Yao and her were rank six Gu Immortals, they could not deal with the ancient water monster. Only Tie Mian Shen was a rank seven Gu Immortal, he was naturally going to take the lead.

Tie Mian Shen nodded, he was about to fly down when suddenly, a sharp eagle cry resounded in everyone's ears.

At the next moment, everyone became shocked, the tiny eagle beside Ye Fan expanded rapidly and turned into a huge eagle!

Upper extreme heavenly eagle!

The huge eagle shrieked as it pounced at the ancient water monster.

Upper extreme heavenly eagle was rescued by the mysterious Gu Immortal Lu Wei Yin, it was restrained by his methods and was forced to stay with Ye Fan.

But when Ye Fan met with danger, Lu Wei Yin's restraints would weaken greatly, the upper extreme heavenly eagle would be able to use its strength again.

The upper extreme heavenly eagle did not have the awareness of humans, it could not detect Gu Immortals in the area, it only felt threatened by the ancient water monster and its pride was provoked, it wanted to teach this monster a lesson.

Sensing the upper extreme heavenly eagle's imposing aura, the ancient water monster backed off and turned into water, flowing out of the cave and escaping.

After the ancient water monster left, Ye Fan became safe again, the upper extreme heavenly eagle's seal activated as it turned back into a tiny eagle, a formless force made it return to Ye Fan again.

Silence was around Ye Fan, countless Gu Masters looked at him with a shocked expression.

"Young... young master Ye, what is this eagle exactly..." Xiao Die was tongue-tied, she was completely stunned.

Ye Fan rubbed his nose: "If I say that this is the first time I've seen this eagle's power, would you believe me?"

"Immemorial desolate beast!! Be it the three Gu Immortals in the clouds or the two Yi clan Gu Immortals hiding under the lake, they were completely lost for words.

"Why did this happen?" Those two Yi clan Gu Immortals only wanted to release the ancient water monster, they did not expect an immemorial desolate beast to appear.

"This is a good thing, we do not need to do anything. That immemorial desolate beast can kill these three immortals!" Yi Yu said.

Yi Nan Men had a grim expression: "Things are not so simple, can't you see? That immemorial desolate beast is raised by someone, it is the pet of that young man who was fighting earlier!"

"Shang clan's fairy, what is going on, this immemorial desolate beast is?" Tie Mian Shen's gaze was bright like lightning, he turned around and questioned Shang Qing Qing.

Shang Qing Qing smiled bitterly, she was completely stunned earlier, her expression had given her away, even if she did not expose any loopholes earlier, she could not lie now.

Shang Qing Qing only had rank six cultivation level, she had to say: "I am not sure, it must be the young man's fortuitous encounter."

"What sort of fortuitous encounter can make a mortal raise an immemorial desolate beast as a pet?" Hou Yao exclaimed in a tone of shock and disbelief.

Tie Mian Shen smiled coldly: "This matter is too important, we cannot ignore it. Smoky warm jade field is no longer important in comparison! This young man must have obtained an immortal true inheritance, but our Southern Border righteous path has never had such a method to allow a mere mortal to raise an immemorial desolate beast, I need to investigate this and prevent the demonic path from rising again!"

Shang Qing Qing was furious but helpless, she smiled bitterly: "I am sure Lord Tie Mian Shen will investigate this matter and uphold justice."

"Eagle, eagle, so you are this amazing!" Ye Fan sighed continuously, he stretched out his hand and wanted to touch the upper extreme heavenly eagle's head.

The upper extreme heavenly eagle had struggled and attempted to break free but it could do nothing against the seal, after a long time, it gave up. It returned to Ye Fan's shoulder and felt angry, but hearing his words, it showed a prideful expression, seeing Ye Fan's hand, it stretched out its wing and slapped it away.

Ye Fan smiled bitterly.

Xiao Die watched with bulging eyes: "This eagle is so arrogant, but with that strength, the arrogance suits it. Young master Ye, you..."

Before she finished, Shang Xin Ci interrupted: "Xiao Die, this is young master Ye Fan's secret, stop asking him."

"No worry, no worry, this eagle was captured by my master." Ye Fan saw that this was exposed and did not want to lie to Shang Xin Ci.

"Your master could subdue such an eagle?!" Xiao Die screeched.

Shang Xin Ci had a shocked expression too, she connected the dots, Ye Fan's master was likely to be a powerful Gu Immortal!

While they were speaking, the upper extreme heavenly eagle suddenly showed great fright and became restless on Ye Fan's shoulder, it was like a rat seeing a cat, or a sheep seeing a wolf.

"What happened?" Xiao Die and the rest were surprised, this arrogant eagle actually acted like this, it was a huge contrast to their impression of it.

"I don't know!" Ye Fan shouted: "This is the first time I've seen the eagle act so flustered."

The upper extreme heavenly eagle did not move from Ye Fan's shoulder, but it shrieked at one direction. Its voice was no longer imposing as before, it was filled with fright and even had a begging tone, one could easily tell that fear was in its eyes, and even a trace of anger.

"What is going on?" At once, be it the mortal Gu Masters or Gu Immortals, they looked towards the direction that upper extreme heavenly eagle was crying out at.

Next, everyone saw a figure flying in the sky, moving like a sword piercing the air.

All of the white clouds in the sky were cut into two by this figure.

"It seems like a person?"

"Immortal?!"

The Gu Masters were shocked.

"Who is it?"

"This aura, it is not an ordinary immortal..."

The Gu Immortals were alerted and felt great surprise.

The figure stopped in the air as everyone saw this Gu Immortal's true appearance.

Only to see that his complexion was as clear as jade, his nose was tall and his black eyes were shining with cold light. He had long hair that resembled a waterfall, hanging straight down to his waist. He wore a white robe that fluttered in the wind, he was handsome to the point of looking like a peerless beauty, his dominating aura was extremely intense.

All of the mortal Gu Masters looked up towards him.

In pure silence.

Before they heard him speak in a plain tone: "My bird, so you are here."