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Fang Yuan activated his strongest offensive method!
Dragons roared and countless silver scales filled the sky. Myriad dragons flew and besieged Jing Lan who was at the center of the deep crater.
"Damn, damn it..." Jing Lan clenched her teeth, fury burning in her eyes.
After the attack just now, her aura fell to the bottom. Myriad dragons pounced at her, but she easily killed them.
"These little worms can't do anything! Fang Yuan, you coward, come, let's have a real fight!" Jing Lan roared.
Fang Yuan sneered, his true body deeply concealed in a corner.
Myriad dragon!
Myriad dragon!
Myriad dragon!
Myriad dragon....
Disregarding the expenditure of immortal essence, Fang Yuan activated myriad dragon killer move in a frenzy.
Jing Lan's aura weakened rapidly, she kept on roaring and provoking Fang Yuan, but he did not move his true body.
Myriad dragon was a peak rank seven killer move, but it was indeed not much for Jing Lan.
Because Jing Lan still had abundant immortal essence and her Immortal Gu were also intact. But every time Jing Lan used a killer move, she would suffer backlash from the regional wall.
She had methods to weaken this backlash, but with her current severe injuries, any backlash could be fatal.
And also, she still had to use her healing methods, but how could her injuries be so easy to heal?
A Gu Immortal's injuries were difficult to treat. Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal body was the only exception in the world.
After failing to lure out Fang Yuan's true body, Jing Lan could only choose to break through.
Myriad dragons could not stop her even when she was heavily injured. This was the Thunder Ghost True Monarch who had such astonishing battle strength that she had once stood up to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
Fang Yuan sighed, knowing that he was stronger in defense. Although his battle strength had barely reached into rank eight level, it was not enough to take the life of an expert like Jing Lan.
Gu Immortals of this level could not die so easily. Unless they were ambushed and trapped in immortal battlefield killer move, moreover, they had to be killed before the battlefield killer move was broken.
Naturally, from another angle, Fang Yuan was unable to kill Jing Lan, but Jing Lan was also unable to kill Fang Yuan. Even if she was faster, she could not stop Fang Yuan from entering the regional wall.
But even so, Fang Yuan was clearly aware that even if he could not kill Jing Lan, he still had to hunt her down.
"I must weaken this person's battle strength as much as possible so that I can gain as much time as possible later." At this thought, Fang Yuan pointed his finger.
Immortal killer move — Directional Confusion Fog!
Originally, the fog was purple and was not big, although it could confuse even rank eight Gu Immortals.
After Fang Yuan modified it, this move had no effect on rank eight Gu Immortals, but it had an amplified effect on rank seven and below Gu Immortals. Not only did the color change, the range was greatly expanded, but the duration shortened drastically.
After the battle in green ghost desert, Fang Yuan had once again modified this move with his high theft path attainment level, adding in many theft path mortal Gu and even adding great thief Immortal Gu as its core to steal the enemy's perception ability. Thus, its might had soared and could affect rank eight Gu Immortals once again!
In an instant, large amounts of fog spread around Jing Lan, messing up her sense of direction.
Fang Yuan took this chance to send out the myriad dragons once again to surround and attack her.
"Oh no! I lack many of my Immortal Gu, I cannot even break a killer move of this level now?" Jing Lan tried many methods, but shockingly found she could not deal with this killer move properly.
"'Hm? What's going on?" Fang Yuan was observing the whole situation, and was surprised when he saw Jing Lan unable to break through.
After this killer move was modified by Fang Yuan, its activation was slightly more convenient, but it was still only a rank seven move.
Fang Yuan did not even have the thought of obstructing Jing Lan with this move, his real thought had been to delay Jing Lan for some time.
But he was surprised to see that Jing Lan actually could not break out of the fog.
From outside the fog, Fang Yuan could clearly sense waves of Immortal Gu aura, this was Jing Lan constantly trying various methods to break the fog.
Her moves were not completely ineffective, but they had little effect, only thinning the directional confusion fog by a small degree.
Sharp light erupted in Fang Yuan's eyes as he immediately continued to activate directional confusion fog!
The fog continued to pile up layer upon layers, firmly trapping Jing Lan inside.
"She really can't break out." Fang Yuan gave a bitter smile, if he had known this before, he would have already used this move and did not need to flee so miserably.
However, any killer move's effect would decrease if they were used multiple times. Not only would it make others be on guard, it would also reveal traces that could be deduced and deciphered.
So Fang Yuan leaving this killer move until now was a wise choice. It was just that he had not expected it to actually be able to trap Jing Lan!
This was a pleasant surprise.
"This is problematic!" Jing Lan also realized this as she truly started to feel the aura of death approaching.
Kill!
Countless sword dragons pierced into directional confusion fog and attacked Jing Lan from all directions.
Jing Lan could not break out the fog, instantly falling in a bitter fight.
The regional wall was still rejecting her, every time she used a killer move, she would suffer a backlash.
"Am I, Jing Lan, the grand Thunder Ghost True Monarch, going to die here?" As time passed, Jing Lan's heart started to sink as the situation turned increasingly unfavorable for her.
"No, I need to hold on, I can still fight! Even if I die, I will bring down Fang Yuan with me!" Jing Lan looked at her chest, her chest wounds were the largest and exposed her heart.
Her heart was extremely unusual, every time it beat, it let out threads of purple lightning.
This was her final trump card.
"Such valiant battle strength! Even after being so heavily injured, she can still persevere and it even looks like she has enough strength left. Moreover, her will is unbreakable, even though I secretly used so many wisdom path methods..."
After attacking for a good while, Fang Yuan heaved a sigh and gave up.
Time was extremely important now, Fang Yuan needed to deduce and modify ghost official garment as soon as possible.
Although the situation was completely advantageous to Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court would not just watch by. Once their reinforcements arrived, it would be Fang Yuan's calamity then.
There was even the possibility that Thunder Ghost True Monarch came with other Gu Immortals, but that her speed was too fast and left her companions far behind!
Immediately making the decision, Fang Yuan left, but he did not forget to add in many uses of myriad dragon and directional confusion fog before leaving.
Retreat!
Fang Yuan immediately moved deeper into the regional wall.
The five regions' regional walls were rather safe areas for Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan moved while deducing the modifications of ghost official garment.
But soon, he found that no matter how he modified ghost official garment, its limit was still rank seven. Instead, it was better to deepen the connection between it and ghostly concealment.
"Ghostly concealment is a rank nine killer move, although it belongs to theft path, it has 'ghost' in its name and is closely related to soul path as well since it blocks the perception of souls. Yama is the correct way to go, I can raise ghost official garment to a much higher level by borrowing the strength from ghostly concealment!"
After finding the correct direction, Fang Yuan immediately began to deduce.
He had plenty of wisdom path methods and his attainment level was also high enough, and his theft path attainment level was the one which gave him the most crucial support!
Like this, after several days and several nights, Fang Yuan finally finished his deductions, activating yama once again.
This completely new yama killer move made the connection between ghostly concealment and ghost official garment much more close.
Previously, these two killer moves rejected each other, but now, they were beginning to merge together, and the rejection between them was completely gone.
"Success!" Fang Yuan carefully felt the effects, and clenched his fists in joy.
He was once again shielded from Heavenly Court's deductions, making his situation turn from dangerous to safe.
But if he canceled yama, he would once again be exposed to Heavenly Court's deductions.
Fang Yuan quickly moved towards Northern Plains.
Maintaining the new yama took a lot of immortal essence. And he had already spent an enormous amount of immortal essence in the fight with Thunder Ghost True Monarch, his immortal essence reserves were almost empty now.
In this battle, Fang Yuan had activated myriad dragon multiple times and also used directional confusion fog an unprecedentedly high amount of times.
These immortal killer moves expended immortal essence.
Furthermore, he had also spent a lot of immortal essence to deduce the new yama.
All together, Fang Yuan had suffered huge losses in this battle, but it was not that he had no gains. Preserving his life was the greatest gain, besides this, there was the new yama and three rib bones of Thunder Ghost True Monarch.
"These three rib bones were cut off by my dragon claws. Every one of them is a rare immortal material. But they originate from Thunder Ghost True Monarch, I don't dare to use them. It is better to put them in treasure yellow heaven!"
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Heavenly Court.
In a vast hall, Fairy Zi Wei slowly opened her eyes, stopping her deductions as she heaved a sigh: "Fang Yuan's wisdom path attainment is remarkable. He is protected from my methods once again."
Rank eight Gu Immortal Chen Yi was standing to the side, maintaining the killer move karma divine tree to help Fairy Zi Wei in her deductions.
At this time, he had a complex expression as he said: "Lady Zi Wei, there is something I need to report to you."
"What is it?"
Chen Yi was only helping from the side, while Fairy Zi Wei was fully focused in deducing Fang Yuan, so Chen Yi was the first to discover Fang Yuan's action.
He immediately reported: "Three rib bones of Thunder Ghost True Monarch are being put for sale in treasure yellow heaven."
"What?" Fairy Zi Wei's expression immediately changed.
She immediately connected to treasure yellow heaven and sure enough, saw the three rib bones being put for sale, it had already gathered the attention of many Gu Immortal wills.
"Unimaginable, this demon Fang Yuan already has such battle strength!"
"Sigh, his growth is too fast, he is already a demonic path overlord of this generation."
"Fang Yuan is an otherworldly demon, and has used Spring Autumn Cicada to rebirth, he naturally has an enormous advantage in cultivation."
"I recognize her, this is Heavenly Court's Gu Immortal Thunder Ghost True Monarch, who could have thought she would actually be suppressed by Fang Yuan!"
"Thunder Ghost True Monarch Jing Lan, this is an old senior, she is still alive?"
"So much for Central Continent's Heavenly Court being regarded as the number one human force. They have all along been trying to capture Fang Yuan, and even sent a rank eight Gu Immortal, but look at this, Fang Yuan actually beat her so miserably."
Gu Immortal wills were endlessly conversing with each other.
Fairy Zi Wei's body began to tremble from anger!
Fang Yuan had not only put the rib bones for sale, he had also used some methods to continuously display his battle with Jing Lan on loop.
Naturally, he only chose to play the part where he had successfully counterattacked and pummeled Jing Lan.
"Do we report this to Thunder Ghost True Monarch?" Chen Yi inquired.
Jing Lan had beaten back the myriad dragons and got rid of the directional confusion fog with much difficulty, but when she came out, Fang Yuan had already long since left without even leaving behind a trace.
Although Fairy Zi Wei could still deduce Fang Yuan's location at that time, Jing Lan's battle strength had weakened extremely, her state was not optimal and she needed to recuperate urgently.
When the reinforcements arrived later and joined with her, she once again began to chase after Fang Yuan.
Unfortunately, the distance between her and Fang Yuan was already greatly enlarged. Fang Yuan was deep within the depths of the regional wall, Jing Lan continued to give chase but her reinforcements did not have methods to enter deep into the regional wall and could only stay at the boundary.
Jing Lan was not resigned to this defeat, filled with anger and humiliation, she continued to chase without rest. But right at that time, Fairy Zi Wei was unable to deduce Fang Yuan any more, Jing Lan also thus lost her target.
"Zi Wei! Where the hell is that demon Fang Yuan?" Jing Lan transmitted her voice, she was burning with rage so her tone was very blunt.
What should have been easy prey actually caused her to land in such an extremely miserable situation with serious injuries, how could the proud Jing Lan accept this fact?
She gritted her teeth, desperately wanting to kill Fang Yuan and erase her shame!
Fairy Zi Wei was silent for a moment before slowly informing Jing Lan.
"What? Even you lost him?!" Jing Lan was furious and discontented.
"Fang Yuan's wisdom path attainment is already no longer the same as before. But he will go to Lang Ya blessed land no matter what. We have already made some arrangements there. Although we failed to capture this scoundrel, we have also made huge gains, not only did we waste a large amount of his immortal essence, we also forced him to reveal many trump cards. How could a Gu Immortal like him be dealt with in one battle?" Fairy Zi Wei gently persuaded Jing Lan.
Jing Lan was silent, standing on the spot.
After a while, she heaved a long sigh, her anger already gone.
"I underestimated him, this person is astonishingly talented, he is indeed worthy of being the person chosen by heaven's will and Shadow Sect. Next time we fight, I won't make the same mistake."
Jing Lan was not a reckless person, after being reminded by Fairy Zi Wei, she immediately regained her calm and the demeanor of a Heavenly Court expert, frankly admitting her mistake.
"Compared to Fang Yuan, there is an even more troublesome matter..." Fairy Zi Wei tactfully informed Jing Lan of the matter in treasure yellow heaven.
The calm mind that Jing Lan just regained immediately surged with waves of anger.
"What? This guy actually dared to sell my rib bones? Outrageous, simply outrageous!"
Jing Lan immediately connected to treasure yellow heaven, and sure enough, saw her own rib bones being put for sale. Anger surged to her head, and her eyes turned bloodshot.
Soon after, when Jing Lan saw the projection of the scenes where Fang Yuan pummeled her, she almost crushed her teeth: "Damn that guy... when he ends up in my hands later, I will tear off his skin, pull out his tendons, and grind his bones till they turn to dust!"
"But... this kid Fang Yuan actually put them for sale, he is indeed very cautious. Also displaying only that small portion of the battle, this guy has no shame."
Jing Lan breathed roughly, and with some effort, calmed down and began to think: "He definitely expended a lot of resources in this battle, did his foundation get damaged so he is selling these three bones to replenish it? Then let me fulfill your wish and buy them!"
On one hand, Jing Lan wanted to buy the rib bones to connect them back, they would have an extremely remarkable effect on the healing.
On the other hand, letting this scene and the rib bones stay in treasure yellow heaven for even a day would have a deep impact on Heavenly Court.
Since ancient times, Heavenly Court had all along been publicly acknowledged as the number one force. Now, Fang Yuan selling Jing Lan's three rib bones was like a huge slap to Heavenly Court's face!
It was not good for Fairy Zi Wei to make a move since Jing Lan was the one involved.
Jing Lan also realized Fairy Zi Wei's intent, she swallowed this humiliation as she activated a will and concealed her identity before inquiring Fang Yuan's will: "What are you selling these rib bones for?"
"Who might you be?"
"I am from Eastern Sea." Jing Lan clenched her teeth, never having thought the grand Thunder Ghost True Monarch would have to be secretive like this: "I am very interested in these three rib bones."
Fang Yuan's will laughed: "There are many interested parties."
Jing Lan's will clenched her teeth: "But there are few who will be bidding a high price like me."
Fang Yuan's will did not act according to her expectations and inquire about the bid, instead shaking his head: "No matter how high a price you bid, I am not selling!"
"Not selling? If you are not selling, what are you putting these here for?" Jing Lan immediately had a bad feeling.
Fang Yuan's will sneered: "For fun! You have a problem?"
Guh.
Jing Lan could not endure it, immediately spitting out blood: "Fang Yuan! I, Jing Lan, will do whatever it takes to kill you!!"
More than ten days later, Lang Ya blessed land's immortal formation shone with radiance that soared to the skies.
The radiance gradually dissipated, Fang Yuan leisurely walked out of the immortal formation.
After defeating Jing Lan, Fang Yuan had maintained the immortal killer move yama throughout the way, moving without resting towards Lang Ya blessed land.
Because Fang Yuan still did not know Lang Ya blessed land's true location, he had to rely on the immortal formation to directly teleport inside.
"Finally, I don't need to maintain yama." Fang Yuan let out a sigh of relief, as he canceled the killer move yama.
"Elder Fang Yuan, you have finally returned!" Lang Ya land spirit was already standing outside of the immortal formation. As Fang Yuan canceled yama and showed his true appearance, Lang Ya land spirit immediately came to welcome him with a smile.
Lang Ya land spirit was invaded and Fang Yuan had not contributed anything, why was Lang Ya land spirit's attitude so cordial then?
Fang Yuan was clear of it, it was completely because he had put the three rib bones of Thunder Ghost True Monarch on display in treasure yellow heaven.
Fang Yuan did not sell them, on one hand it was to strike Heavenly Court's prestige, on the other hand, it was for Lang Ya blessed land.
Lang Ya blessed land was invaded by Feng Jiu Ge's group and was beaten miserably, as well as provoking Heavenly Court. Over these last days, the higher ups of the Northern Plains variant human alliance higher ups were in a constant state of anxiety and pressure.
After all, these variant humans had once dominated the world and suppressed humans. It was Heavenly Court who led the human race to defeat these variant human races, creating the current human dominance.
So these four variant human races were afraid of the human race, they survived by hiding in some corners of the world. Now that they had provoked Heavenly Court, it could be imagined how much pressure they were facing.
In such a situation, Fang Yuan had pummeled Thunder Ghost True Monarch mercilessly and put the battle scene on display in treasure yellow heaven for everyone to see. Jing Lan was a famous rank eight expert in the history, such a person was also beaten back by Fang Yuan, to variant human Gu Immortals, this was tremendously good news! As the news spread, it was like sunlight shone on them, removing the gloominess in their hearts!
"Elder Fang Yuan, you did a good job this time! Previously, I had been trying to borrow the immemorial rock dragon from the rockman race, but they had been acting ambiguous. But when the news of your battle spread, their attitude clearly changed." Lang Ya land spirit gave an eye signal to Fang Yuan, transmitting his voice: "Now that you are back, we can intimidate the rockman race to lend their immemorial rock dragon. At that time, we will have three great rank eight battle strengths, and moving Lang Ya blessed land would not be an issue!"
Lang Ya land spirit was in high spirits.
Fang Yuan glanced at land spirit, he was not as optimistic as the latter. Heavenly Court definitely had made a lot of arrangements, it wouldn't be an easy matter to relocate Lang Ya blessed land.
However, it was not urgent right now to explain this to Lang Ya land spirit.
Fang Yuan then looked at a group of variant humans behind Lang Ya land spirit.
These people were Gu Immortals of the four races. To promote Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan returned grandly, they came to welcome him, they all had smiles on their faces at this moment.
Snowman Gu Immortal Bing Yuan praised: "Elder Fang Yuan is indeed a heavenly genius, even that grand Thunder Ghost True Monarch is not your match. This battle has already set your throne as the number one rank seven!"
Bing Yuan was all smiles, Fang Yuan was engaged to a woman of the snowman race, he was considered half a snowman. She was the one who had initiated this, the stronger Fang Yuan was, the more happy she would be.
Previously, Fang Yuan and Feng Jiu Ge held this throne collectively, after all both had rank seven cultivation but were able to fight rank eights.
But now, after Fang Yuan displayed the battle scene where he beat Thunder Ghost True Monarch so miserably, the whole world was shocked and in a clamor.
Feng Jiu Ge had invaded Lang Ya blessed land, but he naturally could not publicize it. As such, Fang Yuan's reputation suppressed Feng Jiu Ge, officially recognized as currently the number one rank seven expert in the world!
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The fight depended on who the opponent was.
If Fang Yuan had won against rank six or rank seven Gu Immortals, no one would be so surprised.
But when the opponent was the famous rank eight expert Thunder Ghost True Monarch, it became a completely different thing.
Truthfully, Fang Yuan did not have an easy time in this battle, but it was sufficient to establish his reputation as the number one rank seven in the world, bringing down Feng Jiu Ge.
After this battle, Fang Yuan's name became truly renowned in the world!
After this battle, even those rank eight Gu Immortals would start paying heavy attention to this rank seven monster, Fang Yuan.
Naturally, this was all Fang Yuan's scheme.
Although it was Fang Yuan's defeat, as he took the initiative to retreat, he was not without any gains.
Victory and loss in a battle was not too important, only the losses and benefits derived from the battle mattered.
Although Fang Yuan was defeated in this battle, he had made a lot of gains. The three rib bones' value did not lie in themselves, but in their significance.
Fang Yuan used this battle spoil to the limit, shaking the entire Gu Immortal world. This included Chu Du's complicated feelings, Wu Yong's displeased expression, and Lu Wei Yin's sigh.
And when Fang Yuan returned to Lang Ya blessed land, he immediately felt a huge difference.
These variant human Gu Immortals, including Lang Ya land spirit, had a completely different attitude towards him, they held him in genuine awe.
Especially in this situation when Heavenly Court was waiting to attack them, Fang Yuan had become their pillar of support.
After all, the immemorial rock dragon was only an immemorial desolate beast, even though ancient battle formation Heavenly Giant Solor had rank eight battle strength, it still could not compare to a genuine rank eight Gu Immortal.
And now, Fang Yuan had pummeled a rank eight Gu Immortal, and this rank eight Gu Immortal was Thunder Ghost True Monarch who was an expert even among rank eights!
Right now, who would even care about Fang Yuan's rank seven cultivation?
His battle accomplishment was displayed right in front of everyone!
Because of this, when Fang Yuan returned to Lang Ya blessed land, these people eagerly came to welcome him.
Fang Yuan's attitude, however, was slightly cold, he only talked a little with Lang Ya land spirit, Bing Yuan and others, while nodding towards Xue Er. Xue Er immediately lowered her head bashfully, the other snowman Gu Immortals beamed with pleasure at this.
The variant human Gu Immortals proposed holding a feast to welcome Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan declined without hesitation.
"The current situation is quite dangerous, the important thing right now is to make the best use of time to get through this danger." Fang Yuan said this indifferently, but the variant human Gu Immortals nodded and exclaimed in agreement.
Fang Yuan's status had truly changed.
These variant human Gu Immortals truly treated him as a rank eight Gu Immortal. Compared to their similar status with Fang Yuan before, they were now slightly lowering their heads and had a humble attitude.
On one hand, it was because of Fang Yuan's powerful battle strength that could pummel Thunder Ghost True Monarch; on the other hand, a great enemy was in front of them, they needed Fang Yuan's help.
"Everyone can leave now, I need to talk with first supreme elder in private." Fang Yuan waved the immortals to leave without any politeness.
Fang Yuan then transmitted his voice to Lang Ya land spirit: "I am first a supreme elder of Lang Ya Sect, only after that am I a member of the alliance."
These words were spoken with sincerity which immediately made Lang Ya land spirit feel good, thinking Fang Yuan had not forgotten his origin and was still their member. The gloominess he felt from Fang Yuan persuading him to hand over refinement path true meaning had also decreased by a lot.
The group of immortals was tactful, taking their leave.
Lang Ya land spirit grabbed Fang Yuan's arm, vanishing from the spot and appearing in the first cloud city.
"With your perceivable dao Immortal Gu, we found that they had really made some arrangements in the blessed land. We need to get rid of these harmful dao marks first if we want to move Lang Ya blessed land." Lang Ya land spirit was worried.
Fang Yuan felt slightly strange: "First supreme elder, with your refinement path attainment, isn't refining these dao marks your specialty?"
Lang Ya land spirit said in a distressed tone: "Heavenly Court is indeed Heavenly Court, their methods are extremely unusual. I have used almost all methods, but am unable to do anything to these dao marks."
A sharp light flashed across Fang Yuan's eyes.
Heavenly Court had indeed made ample preparations with their extremely profound foundation. Since they made arrangements, they were not worried of it being discovered, and even more unafraid of it being broken. Perhaps Fairy Zi Wei had already taken Lang Ya land spirit's skills into her consideration.
"I wonder if my self cleansing killer move will have any effect?" Fang Yuan was rather confident in this method, after all he had gotten rid of inextinguishable star target by using this move.
But at this moment, Fang Yuan did not want to immediately make an attempt.
He said to Lang Ya land spirit: "Since that is the case, then let me be direct. First supreme elder, please take out the refinement path true meaning, after I become a refinement path quasi-supreme grandmaster, I will surely be able to resolve this problem."
Lang Ya land spirit's expression immediately changed, this refinement path true meaning was his ultimate treasure, he was going to take it out now and give to Fang Yuan, a human Gu Immortal. He naturally did not feel well, and was reluctant to part with it.
However, since he had already agreed to Fang Yuan before, and with the grave situation in front of them, even if he was reluctant, he could only nod at this moment.
After a while, Fang Yuan finally saw the refinement path true meaning of Long Hair Ancestor.
True meaning was an extremely special form of will.
This was the first time Fang Yuan was personally seeing a lump of true meaning. This true meaning had the appearance of Long Hair Ancestor sitting cross-legged, its whole body was shining and crystal-clear, it did not have a physical body and looked like it was purely made from diamonds.
The absolute majority of wills could move about themselves, continuously expending themselves to think and move. But the true meaning was completely still, like a statue.
However, it was because of this characteristic that this true meaning could exist for so long. If it was able to move around and think, it would have already been expended completely.
"You... take it." Lang Ya land spirit had an extremely complicated expression as he looked at the Long Hair true meaning for a good while before sighing and saying to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan nodded and stepped forward, his eyes widened as an attractive force appeared that absorbed this Long Hair true meaning into his mind.
Long Hair true meaning entered Fang Yuan's mind, immediately letting out brilliant radiance.
The diamond-like radiance shone upon Fang Yuan's mind, forming an area of imposing light.
Fang Yuan immediately sat cross-legged and closed his eyes, his expression firm.
He began to use many wisdom path methods, immediately, shocking waves rose in his mind as countless thoughts and all kinds of wills charged at the Long Hair true meaning, constantly colliding, constantly absorbing, learning and comprehending.
Everything progressed smoothly, Fang Yuan completely absorbed this Long Hair true meaning in several hours, turning it into his own foundation.
This was the complete understanding of Long Hair Ancestor towards refinement path, now it completely turned into Fang Yuan's cultivation resource.
Fang Yuan's refinement path attainment level, which had been relatively unspectacular the entire time, now soared to quasi-supreme grandmaster in one step!
"This is truly ascending to heaven in one step! Even if it were the time of five regions chaotic war where dream realms manifested, I would not have such an accomplishment from exploring dream realms!" Even Fang Yuan felt extremely moved, his gain was truly enormous!
Although he had completely absorbed the refinement path true meaning, Fang Yuan still remained seated without budging, whole-heartedly savoring his advancement.
Refinement path!
This was a very special path.
Gu Immortals who cultivated this path were most proficient in refining Gu.
The way of Gu cultivation had three elements: nurture, use, and refinement.
Now, in terms of refining Gu, Fang Yuan had become extraordinarily skilled, among all the Gu Immortals in the entire five regions, there was almost no one who could match the current Fang Yuan in his understanding towards refinement path.
"But, just attainment level is still not enough. What I currently lack are experiences of refining Gu, refinement path Immortal Gu, and refinement path killer moves." Fang Yuan had a clear understanding of himself.
"But as long as I practice these things, my progress will be extremely rapid, to the point of simply skyrocketing. After all, I am now a quasi-supreme grandmaster!"
"Who could have thought that after raising my theft path attainment level to great grandmaster, my refinement path would become quasi-supreme grandmaster in just a short time!"
Fang Yuan pondered with closed eyes, carefully comprehending the changes brought by refinement path attainment level.
He casually flipped through a Gu recipe, with just one glance, the mortal Gu recipe completely revealed its profundities to Fang Yuan, and with another thought, Fang Yuan could raise this Gu recipe to its most optimal level.
He looked at an Immortal Gu recipe, it naturally had much more contents than the mortal Gu recipe, and its difficulty also rose sharply. But this did not beat Fang Yuan, he discovered he only needed to concentrate on the contents and some problems would immediately become clear with just some thinking.
For some more complex rank eight Immortal Gu recipes, Fang Yuan needed to use wisdom path methods to constantly ponder. But because of quasi-supreme refinement path attainment, his thoughts would not have errors.
Sometimes, he did not even need to deduce, he could just refine an Immortal Gu based on intuition or determine if an Immortal Gu recipe was usable.
Looking at an Immortal Gu recipe which he understood completely before, he was now able to instantly think of a large number of improvements, the more he thought, the more modification plans he discovered.
And regarding incomplete recipes, unlike before when he had to deduce with the help of the light of wisdom, the difficulty had decreased by countless times now. Naturally, he was not all-knowing, and would still need the respective path's attainment level to deduce many incomplete recipes.
"In the history of refinement path, there were only three supreme grandmasters. I now have quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment level, not just in the current era, even throughout history, based on refinement path attainment level, I should be in the top ten."
Fang Yuan's battle strength might not have changed, but his view was no longer the same, it had almost been elevated to the highest point of Gu cultivation.
Standing at this height, Fang Yuan could simply look down upon the entire Gu cultivation process.
Countless insights emerged in his mind.
"The way of Gu contains nurturing, using, and refinement, they are actually one to begin with!"
"The nurturing of Gu worms has the element of refinement, the element of refinement contains the element of use, and the element of use also contains both nurturing and refinement."
The current Fang Yuan could look at a complete Gu recipe and tell how this Gu worm should be nurtured and what its effects were.
With his comprehension, he could also reverse-deduce how the Gu worm should be refined from the way it was nurtured and used.
"Wait a moment, I understand now! Actually, any killer move, be it mortal or immortal killer move, can be considered as an incomplete Gu recipe."
Fang Yuan's body suddenly shook as he comprehended this maxim of refinement path!
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This was one of the greatest pursuits of refinement path — combining all kinds of killer moves into one Gu worm!
For instance, mortal killer move self strength.
This move was a strength path killer move which Northern Plains Gu Immortal Su Xian Er had created for her daughter Hei Lou Lan. Its core was strength path, but it treaded on soul path and qi path, once it was activated, it could produce a human phantom, the phantom's appearance was lifelike and was a portrayal of the Gu Master's inner consciousness.
Moreover, this strength path phantom could act on its own and chase its enemies.
There were altogether fifty Gu worms used in forming this killer move.
According to Fang Yuan's current comprehension of the refinement path maxim: any killer move, be it of mortal or immortal level, could be considered as an incomplete recipe.
That was to say, self strength killer move's contents could be altered by taking out and adding in various kinds of Gu materials, continuously improving it until it becomes a Gu recipe for self strength Gu.
When the Gu recipe is perfected and self strength Gu is refined, activating just this Gu worm could produce a strength path phantom!
The benefits of this were clear as day.
A killer move condensed into a Gu worm reduced the amount of Gu worms used to only one. When the Gu Master activates it, not only would it be extremely convenient and fast, the primeval essence expended would also be much less than activating the killer move.
Another example was immortal killer move myriad self.
This move was Fang Yuan's unique creation, it combined enslavement and strength path, made from the merging of killer moves like dragon horse spirit, three heads six arms, rat epidemic, thunder explosion. leopard rush, horse barrage, three hearts combination soul, beast phantoms, six arm heavenly zombie king, and so on.
The core Immortal Gu were Self Strength, Pulling Mountain, Pulling Water, and Cleanse Soul. The supplementary Gu worms were all-out effort Gu, bitter strength Gu, borrow strength Gu, self-reliance Gu, refine essence spirit Gu, earth strength Gu, water strength Gu, wind strength Gu, lightning strength Gu, fire strength Gu, heavenly essence treasure king lotus Gu, lurking soul coat Gu, breath concealment Gu, group strength Gu, as well as all kinds of soul path mortal Gu.
This killer move clearly had lots of contents, it was extremely troublesome to activate.
It was because Fang Yuan had practised it frequently to the point where it had become a kind of instinct that he was able to use it freely in battle.
But in fact, it contained countless extremely complex steps.
What if this killer move was elevated and refined into a Gu?
Myriad self Immortal Gu!
It would clearly be extremely convenient and usable!
Fang Yuan would only need to transfer immortal essence and activate this Gu worm to produce tens of thousands of strength path phantoms, quickly and conveniently.
Fang Yuan did not have qualifications to do this before, but now with his quasi-supreme refinement path attainment, he had the ability to reach this level!
All kinds of killer moves refined into Gu worms!
Fang Yuan's heart thumped with excitement, but he did not lose his calm as he continued to ponder.
"I now have the ability to elevate killer moves into Gu worms."
"However, even though there are killer moves that can be refined into a Gu worm like myriad self, some killer moves cannot, like purple blood river formation or ignited thought flying rock. If these killer moves are condensed to their limit, they will comprise multiple Immortal Gu. Later on, I will need to coordinate and activate these multiple Immortal Gu to use the killer move."
"This method has benefits and demerits as well."
"The benefits are that it will be much more convenient and quick, the exhaustion of mind is also sharply reduced. But there are disadvantages, first, when myriad self killer move is condensed into a myriad self Immortal Gu, other Immortal Gu might be required to be used as Gu materials to refine it. Moreover, the power of just myriad self Immortal Gu might not be as strong as myriad self killer move."
Myriad self killer move used so many Immortal Gu and supplementary mortal Gu, while myriad self Gu would only be one Gu, if its rank was just rank six or rank seven, it would have limited dao marks, thus not enough power.
"Another thing is that when only a Gu worm is used, it will be easy to counter. Killer moves are complicated but they are also much more difficult for others to deduce and decipher."
Killer moves could also be continuously adjusted and elevated. For instance, myriad self killer move had the variation moves strength path giant hand and reverse flow protection seal.
But myriad self Gu itself would not have the potential to be elevated further.
"Of course, the overall benefits in elevating killer moves to a Gu worm is still much higher. Simply because the Gu could be used as the core of the original killer move anyway, raising its power and also preventing it from being deduced easily."
"Even if some Immortal Gu have to be used as Gu materials during the refinement process, I can refine them again!"
This ability would be extremely helpful to Fang Yuan.
Look at myriad self first, Fang Yuan's reverse flow protection seal was a variation move of this killer move. Since the start, it was extremely troublesome for Fang Yuan to activate reverse flow protection seal, he needed time to prepare for it because of the complicated procedures, and if there was even a slight mistake, the killer move would fail and inflict backlash to himself.
But if he had myriad self Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan could modify reverse flow protection seal, greatly simplifying its steps and activating it much faster.
With this, his battle strength would rise by another level!
Fang Yuan possessed a lot of killer moves, but the ones he used frequently were few.
Myriad self could be condensed and elevated, purple thought perception starlight could be condensed into multiple Immortal Gu, ancient sword dragon transformation could also be condensed into one Gu worm. By then, with myriad self Immortal Gu and ancient sword dragon Immortal Gu, he could use just two Immortal Gu to unleash the killer move myriad dragon!
Divination tortoise transformation, self cleansing killer move, hundred and eighty slaves, enslavement after victorious fight, and so on could also be condensed and elevated.
As Fang Yuan continued to ponder deep into this subject, he suddenly had another insight.
"Wait, be it killer moves or refining Gu, they are both basically the utilization of Dao."
"Isn't my reverse flow protection seal using Reverse Flow River? And didn't Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's orderly well use City Well?"
"City Well and Reverse Flow River are not Gu worms, why could they be used? Isn't it because they are secluded domains of heaven and earth, containing a huge amount of dao marks which are then used by us?"
Fang Yuan thought about it again, the nurture, use, and refinement of Gu worms were in essence, Dao.
There were too many Gu cultivation paths1, fire path, water path, metal path, wood path, strength path, wisdom path, soul path, rule path, poison path, theft path...
"These paths all involve the nurture, use, and refinement of Gu, all involving Dao, this is in fact a kind of Dao that connects us to heaven and earth!"
Suddenly, the most classic phrase of the Gu cultivation world appeared in Fang Yuan's mind.
Man is the spirit of all beings, Gu are the essence of heaven and earth!
Never had Fang Yuan's understanding of this phrase been as profound as this moment.
"I want to condense and elevate killer moves into Gu worms, I need to take out Gu worms, add in Gu materials, and merge them into one."
"Immortal Gu are the fragments of the Great Dao, Gu materials are the accumulation of dao marks, as long as the path is the same, they can be substituted with each other."
"The reason why killer moves like reverse flow protection seal and orderly well can be activated is because Reverse Flow River and City Well have an abundant amount of dao marks that can take the place of Gu worms. From this point of view, these two killer moves have actually progressed from killer moves to Gu recipes!"
As Fang Yuan continued to ponder, many of his questions from before were being clearly solved.
Refinement path was actually rather special, although it was one path, it was related to every path. The comprehension gained from becoming a quasi-supreme grandmaster was much broader and deeper than any of Fang Yuan's accomplishments in other paths.
"Thinking about it, I am using landscape as before Immortal Gu to restore Dang Hun Mountain, it looks like I am using a Gu worm on the surface, but it can also be seen as using the killer move landscape as before. Any killer moves can be seen as an incomplete Gu recipe, thus from another angle, this is also Gu refinement."
"Only that what I am trying to refine is not a Gu worm, but a rank nine immortal material — Dang Hun Mountain!"
Fang Yuan was only rank seven, but he could refine rank nine immortal material?
The important thing here was the orderly well killer move, which was Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's method. And back then, the orderly well killer move that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable used on Dang Hun Mountain was of rank nine level.
Realizing this point, Fang Yuan immediately got many new ideas for the restoration of Dang Hun Mountain.
"Dang Hun Mountain can be restored, it can also be used as a core like Reverse Flow River and form an immortal killer move!"
"Oh! I understand! The peak of soul cultivation recorded in Spectral Soul's true inheritance —the Three Headed Thousand Arms Demon Soul, isn't it an artificial secluded domain of heaven and earth?"
"Also, the rank nine killer move ghostly concealment of Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable has countless dao marks working together and can function endlessly without adding any immortal essence, this is also an artificial secluded domain of heaven and earth!"
All along, Fang Yuan did not understand why ghostly concealment did not need immortal essence and could continue working all the time.
But now, he came to a realization.
Did Dang Hun Mountain require immortal essence? No.
Did Luo Po Valley require immortal essence? Also no.
Spectral Soul forcibly resisted the calamities and tribulations, although he used immortal essence to activate killer moves, in essence, he did not require immortal essence to possess his extremely powerful battle strength.
But this did not mean all kinds of dao marks could be casually piled together with enough quantity to form a secluded domain of heaven and earth, or form a killer move like ghostly concealment.
Dao marks needed to coordinate together.
Wasn't this coordination just Gu refinement? The required Gu materials needed to be selectively chosen.
Wasn't it nurturing Gu? The required food materials needed to be of a certain standard.
Wasn't it using Gu? The coordination between Gu worms was the coordination between dao marks.
Fang Yuan continued to ponder deeply for a long time before slowly opening his eyes.
Three days and three nights had passed.
He had absorbed the refinement path true meaning in a few hours, but his comprehension used up three days and three nights!
Fang Yuan's black eyes shone brightly, he looked even more unfathomable now.
"You..." Looking at Fang Yuan's eyes, Lang Ya land spirit became uncertain with shock.
"What's wrong?" Fang Yuan asked.
Lang Ya land spirit sighed: "The air you gave off a moment ago made me feel like I was looking at Giant Sun Immortal Venerable or Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable!"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable... any Gu Venerable was publicly recognized as a supreme grandmaster of their own path.
Fang Yuan was already able to reach their boundary with his refinement path quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment.
He was no longer looking up at the towering mountains, from the level below, he was able to observe the scenery!
This was the view at the peak of Gu cultivation!
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"Slumbering lightning python!" Lang Ya land spirit gave a loud shout.
At the next moment, lightning bolts flashed and interwove together, forming a huge dragon-like lightning python.
Lightning was yang, python was yin. The lightning python contained yin and yang, not only was the wild nature of the lightning curbed, it even showed some gentleness.
As a result, the lightning python was not ferocious, but graceful and lovely.
It moved in a zigzag pattern, slowly coiling around a mountain-like elephant shaped rock. The python constantly crushed the rocks into the finest powder.
Refinement path had four publicly recognized strongest immortal killer moves to deal with immortal materials. One of them was slumbering lightning python.
Lang Ya land spirit originated from Long Hair Ancestor, he naturally had extreme proficiency in them.
This killer move was elevated to rank eight by using rank eight refinement path Immortal Gu.
They could not process this rank eight immortal material elephant armor mountain without the rank eight slumbering lightning python.
This was an immemorial immortal material of information path.
Lang Ya land spirit had already been processing immortal materials for several hours now, over ten rank eight immortal materials had already been processed, these immortal materials were divided into various categories and were all of information path.
Slumbering lightning python gradually dissipated, elephant armor mountain had completely been turned into fine powder. The powder gathered with other immortal materials, and under Lang Ya land spirit's methods, they all formed a constantly rotating multicolored whirlpool.
"It is done, you can stop the immortal formation." Lang Ya land spirit let out a breath of relief, extremely exhausted.
Immediately, a hairy man Gu Immortal removed the refinement path immortal formation.
With the immortal formation gone, the aura of the multicolored whirlpool immediately started to spread, the distant wisdom Gu was like a kitten that had smelled fish as it flew over and jumped right into the whirlpool, looking drunk.
"So wisdom Gu had such a trait." Fang Yuan said with a moved expression.
"According to legends, wisdom Gu's recipe contains a large amount of information path immortal materials. In nature, a wild wisdom Gu can only complete its advancement in areas that are full of information path dao marks." Lang Ya land spirit said.
Fang Yuan immediately understood.
Wisdom Gu's Gu recipe was not recorded in both Spectral Soul's true inheritance and Lang Ya true inheritance. Only Heavenly Court had some records.
Fang Yuan could not control wisdom Gu, but he could move this lump of multicolored whirlpool from afar.
As for those over four thousand years of lifespan Gu, he had already collected them after refinement path true meaning.
"I had to trouble first supreme elder to personally act, I will gradually repay this debt." Fang Yuan spoke in a sincere way to Lang Ya land spirit.
Although the method of moving wisdom Gu was simple, the cost was not anything small.
Various rank eight immortal materials had to be merged to create this temporary multicolored whirlpool. And this whirlpool would gradually dissipate not long after, it had no use besides deceiving wisdom Gu to change location.
This cost was naturally borne by Fang Yuan.
After discussing with Lang Ya land spirit, both sides came to an agreement to let Fang Yuan owe the cost for the time being and not immediately pay. After all, Fang Yuan had just been through an intense battle, he urgently needed to fill his immortal essence reserves.
This was also because of the rise in Fang Yuan's status. Before this, he would not have been able to enjoy such great benefits.
But now, after he had pummeled Thunder Ghost True Monarch, he had the dominant status when communicating and negotiating with Lang Ya land spirit.
"Time is tight, I will immediately go into closed cultivation and use all my strength to deduce a way as fast as possible to get out of this predicament." Fang Yuan said.
"Good, good, then I won't disturb you." Joy flashed by Lang Ya land spirit's eyes, his exhausted look easing by a lot.
Fang Yuan returned to his cloud city.
Feng Jiu Ge's group had invaded Lang Ya blessed land and taken several cloud cities. But by some luck, Fang Yuan's cloud city had evaded this calamity and was still safe.
This might also be related to Fang Yuan's powerful luck.
Fang Yuan entered closed cultivation, the other variant human Gu Immortals wanted to get close to him, but Fang Yuan did not meet any of them including those of the snowman race.
Inside sovereign immortal aperture.
Immortal killer move — Strength Reversing Life and Death!
"This move is a strength path killer move, it is not too suitable for my time path clone, I need to modify it into time path in the future."
Fang Yuan's time path clone immediately turned back into an immortal zombie and arrived in front of wisdom Gu.
After a while, wisdom Gu erupted with the light of wisdom, Fang Yuan's time path clone sat cross-legged and began to think rapidly in the light of wisdom.
The issue of the dao marks left by Feng Jiu Ge's group in Lang Ya blessed land was shelved aside by Fang Yuan.
Comparing Lang Ya blessed land's safety and his own, his was of course more important.
"Right now, the most crucial thing is to elevate yama. Otherwise, once I come out of the blessed land, the immortal essence to maintain yama is really too high."
If yama was not elevated, Fang Yuan would be in an extremely passive situation.
If his location was exposed and Heavenly Court continued to make deductions, they would learn of even more secrets which Fang Yuan absolutely did not want to see.
Previously, Fang Yuan had thought it was much better to use ghost official garment along with ghostly concealment's power to block Heavenly Court's deductions.
The killer move yama was a successful result of his attempts.
But now, Heavenly Court had a lot of clues on Fang Yuan, the current yama was not enough to protect him.
This deduction continued for over a month.
Of course, the light of wisdom was not used the whole time.
The whole process went smoothly for the most part, because Fang Yuan had great grandmaster attainment in theft path, quasi-supreme in refinement path, and also had good grasp over ghostly concealment, ghost official garment and other killer moves. The process slowed slightly because of his slightly lacking soul path attainment.
The biggest difficulty was during the mid-late stage. But it was also resolved after Fang Yuan added rank eight Immortal Gu Soul Beast Token.
The killer move yama had a huge transformation, Fang Yuan renamed it to emperor yama!
Emperor yama had four main components. Ghostly concealment, ghost official garment, Soul Beast Token and myriad self.
"Although I have deduced emperor yama, it can only be considered an initial version, I will need to activate it and constantly adjust it."
"My main body will be in charge of this. As for the clone, it will continue to deduce the way to deal with the dao marks left by Feng Jiu Ge."
Just like this, Fang Yuan stayed in Lang Ya blessed land for about half a month.
Fang Yuan finally came out of his closed cultivation.
His clone had already completed its deduction task, Fang Yuan found the method to resolve the problem of the dao marks left by Feng Jiu Ge.
He gave this method to Lang Ya land spirit. The latter's expression immediately changed at this, cursing Heavenly Court's sinister craftiness.
It turned out that if refinement path methods were used to get rid of these dao marks, it would instead help these dao marks. The killer move self cleansing was also ineffective. Heavenly Court was not a match for Spectral Soul Demon Venerable in soul path, but their refinement path foundation was not any weaker than Lang Ya Sect. After all, among the three supreme grandmasters of refinement path, only Long Hair Ancestor was a hairy man, while the other two were humans, and most of their inheritances were gathered by Heavenly Court.
Fang Yuan was a quasi-supreme grandmaster, he saw through this scheme and even provided the simplest way to deal with it.
Fang Yuan could quickly deal with these dao marks when Lang Ya blessed land was relocated. Other methods would require more than ten years.
So the question returned back to the starting point – Lang Ya blessed land's relocation.
"What do we do? Maybe Heavenly Court intentionally made this arrangement to force us to relocate the blessed land." Lang Ya land spirit was very worried.
Fang Yuan also had the same worry.
Heavenly Court had not made any movement in this period of time, but it did not mean they had given up. It was more likely that they had already made preparations and were waiting for Lang Ya blessed land to expose its location.
But if they didn't relocate, Heavenly Court would find this location sooner or later.
"Looks like we can only prepare to relocate. This is the recipe for myriad self Immortal Gu, if it is refined, it will be a huge boost to my battle strength." Fang Yuan said as he gave a Gu recipe to Lang Ya land spirit.
This was the result of his recent deduction.
Using his refinement path quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment, Fang Yuan was confident this was already the most outstanding recipe possible.
"Myriad self Immortal Gu?" Lang Ya land spirit's attention was immediately attracted. Although his obsession was different from the previous land spirit, he had originated from Long Hair Ancestor after all.
"If your Immortal Gu recipe is refined, it will be at least a rank seven. But, several of the immortal materials are in scarce amounts in the sect's storage. It will be difficult to purchase them in a short time period even from treasure yellow heaven." Lang Ya land spirit gave a bitter smile.
"No worries, I will gather these immortal materials myself." Fang Yuan waved his hand, giving a slight smile, his gaze deep and eerie.
With the new emperor yama killer move in his hands, he intended to use this chance to test out this move's power in a real battle!
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Southeast of the northern icy plain, north of Inkman City, northwest of poison grassland, and at the extreme south of Meng tribe, there was a place called autumn blade plain.
This was a special land created naturally, it was flat with no grass growing on it.
Meng Tu walked step by step in autumn blade plain.
He was tall and well-built, and had a bronze luster to his skin. He was wearing an armored vest that revealed his shoulders. His pants were rolled up, revealing his calves.
He was walking barefoot.
The plain and natural ground was as sharp as knives, as Meng Tu walked on this silver soil, it was like walking on a mountain of blades, as his every step left behind a trail of blood.
But his expression was without a change. He was silent, his eyes closed, and his brows slightly knitted as he pondered over a doubt in his mind.
"Autumn blade plain is full of blade path dao marks, forming countless edge Gu naturally. I have been walking back and forth barefooted for several years now, but what is it that I am lacking for which I am still unable to make a breakthrough in my blade path attainment level?"
Blade path was an extremely small path, it could not be compared to paths like metal path, fire path, earth path and so on.
Sword path could not be left out when mentioning blade path.
These two paths were deeply interconnected and yet conflicting with each other. Because the origin of these two paths was the same, that was edge Gu.
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Edge Gu was the origin of both blade path and sword path.
Many wild edge Gu were produced in nature, autumn blade plain was one of the few edge Gu production areas in five regions, and was controlled by the super force Meng tribe.
Meng Tu was a rank seven Gu Immortal who cultivated blade path and had peak rank seven battle strength. He was a genius when he was young, and grew rapidly, becoming a famous expert of Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world, and was one of the pillars of Meng tribe.
Several years ago, he gave a request to the tribe's Gu Immortals, wanting to stay in this autumn blade plain. On one hand, he could look after this important resource point of the tribe, while on the other hand, he was doing this in consideration of his own cultivation.
His blade path had been stuck at quasi-great grandmaster level, he wanted to use this autumn blade plain, by imitating Ren Zu's actions, to truly step into great grandmaster level!
But over these years, although he made some gains, he was always obstructed by a thin veil from stepping into great grandmaster.
Meng Tu had a determined personality, he refused to give up even after not seeing results for several years.
"Sigh, breaking through to great grandmaster realm is truly difficult! The tribe's supreme elders all praised me as a blade path genius rarely seen once in a thousand years, but I am still only at quasi-great grandmaster level even after hundreds of years."
"Although I have already sensed the thin veil obstructing me which seems to be so near to me, it feels like it is far away in the horizon and is as difficult as stepping into heaven!"
"But I need to continue walking, this method still has some effect. Some day, I will definitely be able to become a blade path great grandmaster!"
"Huh? Who is it?"
Right at this time, the Gu formation that covered the whole of autumn blade plain was destroyed abruptly, revealing the clear blue sky.
A figure descended with overwhelming aura, directly charging at Meng Tu without even saying a word!
"Such guts!" Meng Tu shouted in fury, he did not dodge, instead counterattacking with a knife-hand stance.
A loud sound resulted from the collision, the attacker was stable like a mountain, while Meng Tu was sent flying from the force
"My immortal killer move might look like it has no momentum, but all its power is contained within, I can easily break the ordinary defenses of rank seven Gu Immortals. But this person is uninjured after taking my attack head-on! This is a powerful enemy!"
Meng Tu was surprised, he quickly stabilized his footing and shouted at the attacker: "State your name. You dare to intrude on my Meng tribe's territory!"
"Hahaha." Fang Yuan laughed madly, saying in a completely altered voice: "Meng Tu, of course you don't recognize me, but that is not an issue, because the dead do not need to know too much."
Myriad self Immortal Gu's recipe required an enormous amount of edge Gu, more importantly, it required a kind of special rank seven immortal material that was deep under autumn blade plain – drinking blade wine.
This wine was not produced naturally; it was an unusual product formed from the bloodstains left by Meng Tu, which had seeped deep into the ground and merged with this place's blade path dao marks.
Fang Yuan knew from his first life's memories that Meng Tu bitterly cultivated here to breakthrough to blade path great grandmaster, but was never able to meet with that opportunity.
Meng Tu failed to breakthrough, he imitated Ren Zu by inserting edge Gu in his heart to deepen his understanding of blade path. The killer move he created was incomplete and had serious hidden side-effects, Meng Tu's mind gradually started to be affected and he would often fall into a mad demonic state.
Meng Tu also knew that this was not the ideal method, but he kept on insisting on cultivating relentlessly, hiding it from others.
When the five regions chaotic war started, Meng Tu took part in battles, however, the side-effect started up during a battle, he fell into a crazed demonic state, killing his own tribe's Gu Immortals.
After Meng Tu regained his senses, he concealed all traces while also fabricating false reasons, concealing this from the tribe.
However, as this happened suddenly, Meng Tu was not able to deal with the traces completely, Northern Plains' Gu Immortals slowly noticed some clues and found the truth.
Meng Tu faced huge pressure, Heavenly Court came and secretly instigated him.
Meng Tu had initially felt fortunate and wanted to use Heavenly Court to make contributions and make up for his mistakes, but how could Heavenly Court be schemed against by him, a blade path Gu Immortal?
Meng Tu was instead schemed against by Heavenly Court, he made mistakes again and again until he had no way out other than to side with Heavenly Court.
To support this chess piece, Heavenly Court deduced the opportunity to advance to great grandmaster, which was the drinking blade wine deep underground in this place.
Meng Tu followed Heavenly Court's guidance and came to autumn blade plain, he dug the ground and extracted a large amount of drinking blade wine.
When he took a small sip, his organs felt like they were being cut by blades, when he took a large sip, he felt so much pain that he wished for death, by the time he took the third sip, he had advanced to blade path great grandmaster.
From then onwards, he completely devoted himself to Heavenly Court and became the spy with second highest status in Northern Plains after Prince Feng Xian.
Later on, due to a lucky coincidence, his identity was exposed by Ma Hong Yun, but that was another story altogether.
Fang Yuan had deduced and confirmed that this place contained drinking blade wine, although the quantity was not much, he only needed a small amount. As for this Meng Tu, Fang Yuan had carefully picked him to test his emperor yama killer move.
Fang Yuan could not find a rank eight Gu Immortal to test the might of his emperor yama, that would be looking for trouble. As for ordinary rank seven Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan had no use for them. However, Meng Tu, who had peak rank seven battle strength, and was already renowned as a blade path quasi-great grandmaster, was an extremely good choice.
So Fang Yuan made a long trip to autumn blade plain, directly looking for trouble with Meng Tu.
"The attack just now was Meng Tu's hidden killer move, its power is beyond ordinary, but I could block it with just emperor yama. This defensive method is pretty good."
Fang Yuan assessed in his mind.
He had already activated emperor yama.
He was covered in a yellowish-brown robe of an emperor, turning into a ten feet giant.
The giant had a crown on its head which had strings of pearls in front and back. Its face was deep and dark, as if it was shrouded by a layer of fog, or was a dark whirlpool. Its sleeves were long and wide, it had a jade belt on his waist, and a bronze armor was covering his chest and back. The surface of the robe was adorned with golden threads that had weaved into thousands of ghostly monsters who stood orderly and without moving, giving a dignified aura.
Meng Tu's attack was not without any effect, the thin bronze armor on emperor yama's chest had a dent.
But with a little consumption of Fang Yuan's soul foundation, this dent immediately bulged up, restoring itself.
This was the specialty of emperor yama!
Rank nine ghostly concealment did not expend anything and also functioned on its own, while ghost official garment relied on soul foundation.
Emperor yama, which was a combination of the these two moves, did not require immortal essence, but spent Fang Yuan's soul foundation!
"Meng Tu, you are nothing much. You have cultivated here for several years, what new killer moves have you created? It will be a real pity if you don't use them before your death." Fang Yuan provoked.
Meng Tu laughed from anger, then looked at Fang Yuan with pity: "No matter who you are, you are seeking your own death by challenging me here! There used to be a defensive immortal formation here, but do you know why I persuaded the tribe to take it back?"
"Because as long as I am here, there is no need for an immortal formation to guard this place!"
Meng Tu fiercely stomped on the ground with his right foot.
At the next moment, the ground shook as endless blade lights surged up, countless blade path phantoms gathered into a huge army, surrounding Fang Yuan tightly.
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In a blink of an eye, Fang Yuan was already surrounded tightly by countless blade path phantoms. Not only this, the endless blade lights filled the whole sky, isolating inside from outside.
"Whoever you may be, your defensive killer move is indeed amazing!" Meng Tu was protected by many layers of blade path phantoms, he gazed at Fang Yuan deeply before smiling and rubbing his hands to ease the numbness from the previous force.
"But!" Meng Tu raised his head slightly at the tall emperor yama, his gaze filled with pity: "You should never have come to find trouble for me here in autumn blade plain."
"Hehe, actually, it was not wrong to find trouble for me here, but your timing is really bad, if it were when I had just come here, you might still have some chance at survival. But now, hehehe..."
Meng Tu laughed, holding his hands behind his back as he shook his head.
At the next moment, Fang Yuan continued after Meng Tu's words: "But now, this place is already filled with your traces. Since years back, you have been comprehending blade path here, trying to breakthrough to blade path great grandmaster realm. Thus, you can greatly influence the dao marks of this place to form an environment that is close to an immortal battlefield killer move1, like this scene in front of me."
"You..." Meng Tu's expression immediately changed. He had believed no one knew of his trump card, and thus had never expected Fang Yuan to not only be unsurprised, but also speak of his trump card in such a familiar way.
Fang Yuan's low and deep voice continued: "Do you know why I am looking for trouble with you? It is precisely because you have this method which can form such a battlefield environment. This is close to an immortal battlefield, but it is still not a true immortal battlefield, with an essential difference that your influence is already at its maximum, you are unable to control it at will, so it might have trapped me, but aren't you also trapped?"
Meng Tu's pupils shrunk rapidly, his pleased mood had completely disappeared.
"Who exactly are you?" He asked Fang Yuan nervously.
Fang Yuan chuckled, looking at his surroundings: "Although your blade path phantoms are in high numbers, their quality is not up to par. It happens that I also have a similar method, why don't we spar a little."
Fang Yuan's yellowish-brown emperor robe suddenly emitted countless howls and shrieks. Next, those ghostly monsters weaved on the surface of the robe came alive, and started to move, then jumped out of Fang Yuan's emperor yama robe one by one, turning from small to large!
These ghostly monsters had human shapes, but they all had malevolent and terrifying faces, knife-like claws, and bloodshot eyes, looking quite horrifying.
"Kill!" Meng Tu narrowed his eyes, as he mobilized his blade path phantoms to charge towards these ghostly monsters.
These blade path phantoms all had his appearance, but their faces were vague, and compared to the size of the ghostly monsters, they were like rats against carriage wheels.
The ghostly monsters howled and spread their huge arms like a tall tree waving its branches.
Bang bang bang, all the blade path phantoms on their way were destroyed.
The monsters ran amok while letting out crazed screams and howls, easily crushing all the blade path phantoms on their way.
"These ghostly monsters are really powerful, each having rank seven battle strength!" Meng Tu had rich battle experience, as he noticed this with just a short observation. His heart immediately felt as heavy as a mountain, his eyelids twitched violently.
"But it doesn't matter, my blade path phantoms are created from the natural dao marks in autumn blade plain which are almost endless. Although the quality is not good, it can be made up with the quantity!"
Meng Tu quickly calmed down.
"Hmm, these yama children have quite the battle strength." Fang Yuan assessed inwardly and was pleased.
These ghostly monsters originated from the ancient soul beasts that Fang Yuan had gathered in green ghost desert.
After Fang Yuan deduced the killer move emperor yama, he modified these ancient soul beasts, changing them into human shapes and turning them into yama children.
This inspiration came from blood deity Immortal Gu's recipe.
Fang Yuan was a grandmaster in blood path, with the light of wisdom's help, he had already completed the blood deity Immortal Gu recipe.
The current Fang Yuan, with his refinement path quasi-supreme attainment, could change any Immortal Gu recipe into an immortal killer move.
So Fang Yuan was able to grasp the immortal killer move blood deity.
The killer move Yama child was deduced from consulting not only blood deity, but also some main contents of Spectral Soul's true inheritance.
For example, soul beast modification.
Spectral Soul modified the soul beasts in the Door of Life and Death, causing them to become loyal to him, they even faced Duke Long without fearing death.
There was also another soul path immortal killer move — Life and Death Retrieval.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable had created this immortal killer move by comprehending the secluded domain of heaven and earth, the Door of Life and Death.
What kind of place was the Door of Life and Death?
When any living being die, their soul would return to the Door of Life and Death. It was only when Red Lotus Demon Venerable damaged fate Gu that the Door of Life and Death's power weakened greatly, allowing countless souls to linger behind in the living world to gradually turn into soul beasts.
Life and death retrieval had the power to let the Gu Immortal retrieve souls from the Door of Life and Death.
Fang Yuan completely merged this move into emperor yama, giving his yama children the ability to instantly return.
Soon, a yama child gave a miserable shriek, its thigh was broken and it was knocked down onto the ground, countless blade path phantoms immediately flocked towards it.
But Fang Yuan willed: "Return."
At the next moment, this yama child immediately turned into fog which flew back into Fang Yuan's emperor robe, turning back into a monster image that was motionless, but was filled with injuries and a broken thigh.
"It can do this?" Meng Tu was astonished once again, his hands, which had been held behind his back, were loosened as his gaze towards Fang Yuan turned somewhat stunned.
This was too outrageous!
Meng Tu had been intending to rely on quantity to kill every yama child, but had not expected them to be able to return like this.
Theoretically, any killer moves could be deciphered, but Meng Tu was a blade path Gu Immortal and not a wisdom path Gu Immortal. Even if he was a wisdom path Gu Immortal, against a rank eight killer move like emperor yama, unless he was a wisdom path great expert, how could he decipher it on the spot?
Even Fairy Zi Wei could not decipher it on the spot.
When deducing reverse flow protection seal, she had to repeatedly gather clues from battles, continuously accumulating them before she was able to gain some results.
Fang Yuan's emperor yama used ghostly concealment as its base. This rank nine killer move was an artificial secluded domain of heaven and earth at the same level as Reverse Flow River, how could Meng Tu break it?
Meng Tu simply could not deduce it, he could only summon his courage to continue fighting with Fang Yuan.
However, the yama children's quantity was limited, although they killed a large amount of blade path phantoms, the injuries accumulated to a serious degree and they were recalled by Fang Yuan.
On the battlefield, there were fewer and fewer yama children, while blade path phantoms seemed to be unlimited. After all, Fang Yuan had limited time, he was not able to modify enough soul beasts.
"This battle has likely weakened autumn blade plain's foundation by more than half." Meng Tu's expression was gloomy.
The price he had to pay was high as he was using the whole of autumn blade plain, the future benefits of Meng tribe, to engage in a battle of attrition with Fang Yuan.
But regardless of how much he had to sacrifice, Meng Tu still persisted with this tactic.
Fang Yuan's previous words had truly scared him, he had already regarded Fang Yuan as the strongest enemy in his life, so he was cautiously using any available methods to deal with Fang Yuan.
But, this was also what Fang Yuan intended to attain with his words.
Only this Meng Tu could be the best whetstone to test his emperor yama killer move.
There were less than ten yama children left and they stood on guard beside Fang Yuan, while the unlimited number of blade path phantoms surged towards them like a tidal wave.
"The speed of recovery is passable." Fang Yuan's expression did not change, he had been standing on the same spot from the start, unmoving like a millennium old tree.
By now, the first yama child he had recalled to his emperor robe had already recovered completely.
When these yama children modified from soul beasts returned to the robe, they would start recovering from their injuries. Naturally, it expended Fang Yuan's soul foundation.
This involved a profundity of Gu refinement.
The yama child was still a soul beast and the healing, from another angle, was like a Gu refinement process.
"If I bring out these recovered yama children, I wonder what expression Meng Tu will have." Fang Yuan smiled inwardly, but did not do this, instead using another method.
"Let me see emperor yama's offensive prowess." At the next moment, Fang Yuan inwardly called out: "Soul explosion!"
The emperor yama suddenly spread its arms, its whole body shook as vast waves of darkness erupted out from it.
The yama children were completely safe in the dark waves, only shaking like they were being blown at by a fierce wind.
But those blade path phantoms were like weak candle-flames under a storm, instantly extinguishing!
In an instant, the whole battlefield was cleared, the unlimited blade lights were instantly destroyed.
Meng Tu was sent back hundreds of steps from the soul explosion and was half-kneeling on the ground, a glaring radiance was being emitted by his whole body as he pushed his defensive killer moves to their limits.
"Such power!" Meng Tu quickly stood up and looked up at Fang Yuan with a shaken expression: "This killer move is truly amazing, it should be a combination move containing both offense and defense! Its defense is so strong, and there is also the powerful method of sending out troops, but its strongest point is its offensive power! I have never seen or heard of this killer move, was it created by this person? If so, then who in the world is this person who can create such a killer move?"
"This soul explosion effect is decent, I suppose." Fang Yuan gave a nod of approval.
One yama child was completely used to create the power of a peak rank seven killer move, but it still did not reach rank eight.
"Defense, yama child, recovery, soul explosion... these aspects are all at the peak of rank seven. But emperor yama's true power lies in two other aspects. Let's try this."
Just as Fang Yuan was thinking, Meng Tu had already charged over, shouting: "Come, try my killer move, heaven and earth blade!"
Immortal killer move — Great Thief Ghost Hand!
In an instant, a ghost hand, as if from the netherworld, that was as large as a handheld fan appeared behind Meng Tu and directly entered his body. It then came out, disappearing from sight once again.
Puff!
Meng Tu suddenly coughed out a mouthful of blood, the core Immortal Gu of heaven and earth blade was robbed, the killer move failed and the backlash immediately inflicted serious injuries on him.
"What's going on? Where is my Immortal Gu?!" Meng Tu's heart shook in unprecedented fright!