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Immemorial white heaven, Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
"Bull demon, face this move!" A golden haired ape shouted as it charged towards Fang Yuan while carrying the might of wind and thunder.
Bull-headed Demon God Fang Yuan stood on the spot without moving, quietly looking at the golden haired ape approaching him. Only when the ape reached in front of him did he lift his hand slightly.
Swoosh!
At the next moment, his fist that was raised from kneel level suddenly appeared right before his chest.
A straight punch.
It was an ordinary movement, but in Fang Yuan's current state, it had terrifying might.
Before the golden haired ape could react, it felt an incomparable strength that sent it flying backwards.
Bam!
After flying a short arc in the air, the golden haired ape crashed into a mountain. Rocks and boulders were smashed and fell down, burying him.
"What kind of strength is this, even Golden Ape is not its match!"
"I have never seen such strength matched with such speed... It is indeed a monster on the same level as the star sea snail!"
Besides the buried Golden Ape, there were several Combat Beast Warriors around the battlefield, but right now, they all felt a chill as they saw Golden Ape's ending.
"Pull yourself together! This is clearly a combat technique, it will expend its stamina intensely if it uses it many times." One of the Combat Beast Warriors, Lightning Lion, roared.
Fang Yuan had already defeated most of the Combat Beast Warriors sent by Combat Beast King, but there were still five who had some strength left.
They were the strongest five Combat Beast Warriors!
There were two Lion Warriors, Lightning Lion and Dharma Lion. The former had a lion head and human body, and grasped lightning powers, while the latter had a human head and lion body, and had extremely powerful recovery.
A mountain sized mollusk, called Stone Mollusk. Its two large shells were open and could spit out countless meteor-like stones.
A gigantic rhinoceros that looked like it was forged from steel, it was called Steel Rush.
The last one was an exquisite Frost Butterfly with the size of an adult's fist, it had a human shape with butterfly wings and could let out powerful frost energy.
"Hehehe, stupid bull, you are trapped." Unknowingly, the exquisite Frost Butterfly had appeared above Fang Yuan's head.
Frost energy burst forth, covering Fang Yuan's head and shoulders and quickly spreading down.
Roar!
Steel Rush let out a loud roar as it rushed straight towards Fang Yuan, causing an earthquake.
"Have a taste of my new combat technique!" Stone Mollusk suddenly started moving in circles rapidly, letting out an astonishing speed as it closed in on Fang Yuan.
Its two shells opened and it clamped down on Fang Yuan's whole lower half.
At the next moment, Steel Rush fiercely knocked Fang Yuan to the ground.
Freezing air had frozen Fang Yuan's arms in a large block of deep blue profound ice.
"The time is now!" Lightning Lion and Dharma Lion attacked Fang Yuan's head from the left and right.
"Die!" The five of them shouted together, their battle intent soared to their peak state.
Boom—!
An intense explosion occurred, causing boundless surging air currents. The five Combat Beast Warriors were like small planks in a hurricane as they coughed out blood and were sent flying away by the air currents.
In the dust cloud, a mountain sized black figure was gradually revealed.
Fang Yuan quietly stood on his original spot, he looked at the five Combat Beast Warriors that wanted to fight him struggle on the ground, before continuing to move ahead.
Bam Bam Bam...
His every step shook the surrounding land and left behind large footprints.
"Damn it!"
"Don't leave..."
"Stop, stop it!"
Combat beast warriors struggled to stand up, but only Lightning Lion was able to barely stand up.
"It is Lightning Lion!"
"Go, you must stop this monster!"
Lightning Lion charged towards Fang Yuan without any fear once again, his gaze was filled with resolute light: "If you want to slaughter the others, you will have to step past my corpse."
Boom!
No one saw how Fang Yuan attacked, they only saw Lightning Lion getting slammed back at an even faster speed.
The giant lion's body was dragged along the ground, creating a thirty meter sized gully before it stopped.
Lightning Lion fainted, there was no movement from him anymore.
Fang Yuan continued moving forward.
He had controlled himself and did not take the lives of these people. Different from when he had just invaded, after inheriting several inheritances, his attitude had already changed. Right now, the way he looked at it, everything in this Beast Calamity grotto-heaven was his property. This naturally included these Combat Beast Warriors.
"There is the final inheritance ground left. As long as I take this inheritance, I can combine all the inheritance contents and obtain the complete contents."
Soon, Fang Yuan reached before the star sea snail.
The star sea snail was an immemorial desolate beast, but the one in front of Fang Yuan was only its corpse.
Beast Calamity Immortal had been heavily injured when fighting the star sea snail and had suffered a fatal, irrecoverable wound. On his deathbed, he had left behind the inheritances and also forged this star sea snail into the final inheritance ground.
"Bull-headed Demon God, I have been waiting for you." This generation's Combat Beast King stood on the top of the star sea snail and looked at Fang Yuan.
He was already very old and was like a small ant when compared to Fang Yuan's size.
But this ant's eyes burned with blazing flames.
Starlight suddenly shined on the star sea snail's body and covered the old man's body.
Several breaths later, the starlight became eye-piercing.
After the starlight dissipated, a heavily armored giant stood in front of Fang Yuan, only slightly shorter than Fang Yuan.
"Oh? So this method is not limited to live beasts, it can even be used on an immemorial desolate beast's corpse!" Fang Yuan was inwardly surprised.
But shortly afterwards, he understood.
This transformation path method was reliant on dao marks and did not differentiate between alive or dead targets.
Although the star sea snail was dead, its shell still retained a vast number of star path dao marks which could be used by the old man.
"This should be this grotto-heaven's greatest trump card, right? Unfortunately, even if it were a living star sea snail, it would be no match for me. Let alone its corpse that has lost so many dao marks since its death."
Fang Yuan mentally sneered as he charged towards the star armored giant.
The battle was intense but the result was within Fang Yuan's expectations.
In the scarred battlefield, Fang Yuan was still standing proudly while the star armored giant was collapsed on the ground on the verge of death.
"There is no hope..." The other Combat Beast Warriors who had come to help out in the battle were kneeling on the ground, their faces were pale.
Starlight shined, the star armored giant once again turned back into the current generation Combat Beast King and there was also the star sea snail shell with cracks all over it.
Fang Yuan examined for a while and discovered the profundities within the star sea snail.
He laughed and suddenly spoke: "Beast Calamity heavenly spirit, are you still not coming out?"
"..."
All the Combat Beast Warriors were dumbstruck and shaken.
"I... I... what did I just hear?"
"That giant monster spoke, it can actually speak human language?!"
"Am I hearing things because I am too old and am about to die soon?" The Combat Beast King mumbled with a dull expression.
But at the next moment, an even more astonishing scene played out.
Beast Calamity heavenly spirit flew towards Fang Yuan along with several Immortal Gu.
The heavenly spirit was in the form of a young qilin, it spoke with a crisp and clear sound: "Foreign Gu Immortal, although you came here and obtained many inheritances, you have not obtained my full recognition. You recklessly killed innocent people and rampaged wildly, you are powerful but you can only obtain my main body's immortal killer moves. As for Immortal Gu and this grotto-heaven's inheritance rights, don't even think about it."
"Oh?" Fang Yuan let out laughter filled with deep meaning.
The young qilin was solemn: "I know what you are thinking, even I won't be able to win against you if you use force. But I can make these Immortal Gu self-detonate and destroy the grotto-heaven, you will gain nothing from this."
Fang Yuan was silent.
He felt somewhat troubled when he saw the young qilin's resolute look. A heavenly spirit was like a land spirit, it would not lie.
Fang Yuan was unable to inspect where Beast Calamity Immortal's Immortal Gu were.
And his blood light spirit suppression was not high enough level to pose sufficient threat to the grotto-heaven's heavenly spirit.
"So it was like this, the Combat Beast Warriors here were originally a part of the inheritance. I realize Beast Calamity Immortal's intention." After a long while of silence, Fang Yuan suddenly spoke.
"Even if you understand now, it is too late. Everyone only has one chance. But you are not leaving empty-handed, according to the main body's arrangements, immortal killer moves will be handed to you." The heavenly spirit had made its point clear, it wanted him to leave.
After Fang Yuan obtained these immortal killer moves, he did not remain or use force, leaving Beast Calamity grotto-heaven through the entrance which was opened by the heavenly spirit.
1Eastern Sea.
The battle between five rank eight Gu Immortals was astonishing!
1Large sea waves and tsunamis surged, dark clouds rumbled in the sky with lightning flashing and thunder roaring. Undercurrents rose in the sea, poison path, water path, soul path, and all kinds of terrifying methods had already exterminated all living beings in the surroundings.
"If you have any methods left, use them." Duke Long was still relaxed.
Feng Jin Huang was standing beside him, she was completely safe with not even a hair out of place. But right now, her face was filled with shock. After all, this was the first time she was seeing the fight between rank eight Gu Immortals at such a close distance, this had truly broadened her perspective.
Granny Rong, Yang Zi He, and others were solemn and distressed.
After truly exchanging moves, they tasted Duke Long's power. Although Duke Long was alone and had a burden, Feng Jin Huang, the four Eastern Sea rank eights were actually unable to gain an upper hand since the start. Despite the four immortals using all their strength, they were unable to change the situation. Right now, they already saw signs of defeat!
"He already has quasi-rank nine strength, besides an Immortal Venerable or a Demon Venerable, we have no way to deal with him!"
"Such powerful strength, as expected of Heavenly Court, as expected of Duke Long..."
The morale of Granny Rong, Yang Zi He, and the others had already sunk to rock-bottom.
"Damn it, we plotted to get Dragon Palace for so long but Heavenly Court is going to take it away."
"Sigh, let's go. We are not Duke Long's match and with us being on guard against each other, we cannot cooperate completely, there is no meaning in staying."
Seeing there was no choice, the four Eastern Sea rank eights left immediately.
Duke Long did not give chase.
His goal this time was Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace and his goal never changed.
"Dragon Palace was corroded by dream realms and has already fallen apart, I wonder how many Gu are still remaining? How many core Immortal Gu are damaged?"
Duke Long sighed inwardly as he moved to take Dragon Palace.
"Hmm?!"
At the next moment, an astonishing scene occurred.
Dragon Palace suddenly let out an extraordinary splendor and flew to the sky.
Duke Long remained standing on the spot, he was not able to obstruct Dragon Palace in time and could only look as it flew away. A trace of blood flowed out from the corners of his lips as his eyes revealed shock: "Dragon Palace is actually completely intact, not only this, one of its cores is a dream path Immortal Gu!"
"Hahaha, Duke Long, let's see how you fight against us this time!" The four Eastern Sea rank eights had returned.
Duke Long's expression sank.
The situation had turned troublesome.
He was besieged and Dragon Palace had flown away while spreading its aura everywhere, it would definitely create turmoil in Eastern Sea!
-x-X-x-
"Immortal killer move — Myriad Beings Assimilation Transformation." Fang Yuan mumbled.
He was sitting on the auspicious cloud moving through empty air in immemorial white heaven, it was vast and boundless.
After leaving Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, he actively absorbed the benefits from this trip.
Beast Calamity Immortal's unique method was immortal killer move myriad beings assimilation transformation, after using this move, it could add a great number of transformation path dao marks and also transform the target's other dao marks into transformation path dao marks.
This move expended an enormous amount of immortal essence and also required abundant emotions. These emotions had to be positive and righteous. From this point, Fang Yuan finally realized the cause of the nature of those Combat Beast Warriors in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
Fang Yuan did not lack immortal essence. Over this period of time, although he had spent a lot in advancing the ranks of his Immortal Gu, his gains were similarly a lot. Especially in the later stage of Gu refinement, Fang Yuan's progress was huge and his expenditure had continued to fall. Currently, Fang Yuan's total amount of rank eight immortal essence was a lot and could support two battles of rank eight level intensity.
Fang Yuan had abundant emotions as well, he could easily create the positive emotions through wisdom path methods. His wisdom path attainment was very high after all.
What Fang Yuan lacked were Immortal Gu.
There were four Immortal Gu that formed this move, among them the core was a rank eight Immortal Gu — Adaptation!
1It went without saying that this was a transformation path Immortal Gu, and was also the vital Gu of Beast Calamity Immortal. The other three Immortal Gu were all rank seven.
"Even if the heavenly spirit does not give me these Immortal Gu, I can snatch them. I have already improved great thief ghost hand and it is now much more reliable."
"Currently, I only need heaven form to constantly scout and find the place where these Immortal Gu are hidden, then I can use my theft path method to get them."
"However, it is somewhat troublesome to obtain the whole of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven."
As far as Fang Yuan was concerned, Beast Calamity grotto-heaven itself had an enormous value to him. But the heavenly spirit was able to destroy the grotto-heaven, so if he rashly used force, his losses would far outweigh his gains.
"From my deduction based on this myriad beings assimilation transformation, Beast Calamity grotto-heaven's Gu Immortals might also have a trump card."
Desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts could be used for myriad beings assimilation transformation, so could the star sea snail's shell. These Gu Immortals did not grasp myriad beings assimilation transformation, the reason was that Beast Calamity Immortal used this move on the entire Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
That meant, if the situation came to it, the entire Beast Calamity grotto-heaven could merge with the Gu Immortals through myriad beings assimilation transformation.
This could create a temporary rank eight battle strength!
Naturally, Fang Yuan could win against this kind of rank eight, but all of the resulting losses would be incurred on Fang Yuan. Even if he won, Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, which had used myriad beings assimilation transformation, would suffer severe damage.
"This means, I need to deduce a way to restrict them from using myriad beings assimilation transformation with the entire Beast Calamity grotto-heaven."
"Also, I can use familiar face to invade once again."
Beast Calamity heavenly spirit said a person only had one chance to inherit it, but how strong could its detection ability be? Could it distinguish Fang Yuan's true identity? According to Fang Yuan's deduction, this possibility was very low.
However, just as Fang Yuan was deducing restraining methods, he obtained some news.
This news was important!
"Dragon Palace has appeared? Moreover, Duke Long personally made a move but was not able to acquire it? Oh, it was because he was obstructed by an alliance of four Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortals?"
"Interesting! Currently, the rank eight Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace is flying in the skies of Eastern Sea without hiding its aura, it has already created a huge commotion, countless forces and Gu Immortal experts are paying close attention to it."
Fang Yuan's eyes shined brightly.
He knew of Dragon Palace's existence.
There were relevant clues in Shadow Sect's true inheritance. But these clues were only superficial clues and were not significant enough. The most valuable content recorded was: Dragon Palace had a restriction that its inheritor must be a dragonman!
Although Fang Yuan wanted to own a rank eight Immortal Gu House, he never had a good opportunity or time. Although he had Bai Ning Bing, it would be difficult to search for Dragon Palace and it would take a great amount of time and energy.
According to the previous situation, although the rank eight Immortal Gu House was strong, were Fang Yuan to take the risk to search for it and end up unable to obtain it, he would quickly be pursued and hunted by Heavenly Court.
The benefits were huge but the risk was even greater, so Fang Yuan had not made a move.
"So Heavenly Court had been secretly searching for Dragon Palace and almost got it."
Knowing this, Fang Yuan could not help but praise those four Eastern Sea rank eights: Great job!
He did not think for long, Fang Yuan immediately left immemorial white heaven and moved towards Eastern Sea.
Beast Calamity grotto-heaven was here and would not be discovered easily, he could deal with it slowly. Dragon Palace's matter was urgent, he could not let Heavenly Court take it.
This was a rank eight Immortal Gu House and had an unknown dream path Immortal Gu!
Days later, Eastern Sea.
Boom!
Amidst an intense explosion, Gu Immortal Shi Miao spat out a large mouthful of blood while retreating rapidly.
Duke Long gave a loud roar, his body turned into light rays as he charged at Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace.
The distance between the two was rapidly shrinking, but at the crucial moment, Granny Rong moved and blocked Duke Long.
Her whole body was releasing purple gas, she was heavily injured and was pale as paper.
Duke Long's momentum was ferocious but his pupils shrunk when he saw the purple poisonous air around Granny Rong, he rapidly changed his direction and detoured.
Granny Rong was a poison path Gu Immortal, this purple poisonous air was her trump card and even Duke Long was not willing to touch it.
Granny Rong was not in a good state, over these days of fighting, her loss was the greatest. One of her core Immortal Gu was destroyed, her speed fell greatly and she was forced into an extremely passive state. She had relied on her determination and the help of the other three Gu Immortals to persist till now.
It was very wise of Duke Long to detour around Granny Rong.
Granny Rong could only watch Duke Long with a bitter expression but was unable to give chase.
Among the four rank eights, the other two were still several li away.
Boom!
Duke Long flew above Dragon Palace and slammed at this rank eight Immortal Gu House heavily.
Bam.
The Immortal Gu House fell into the sea, immediately raising an enormous wave.
Dragon Palace acted on its own, it did not fly to the sky again, instead moving deeper into the sea.
Duke Long was about to give chase when suddenly, his body paused and he struck towards the area left of him.
There looked to be nobody to his left, but his ferocious attack was suddenly stopped, it was blocked by a Gu Immortal.
The Gu Immortal revealed his figure and smiled at Duke Long: "As expected of Senior Duke Long, you could see through my disguise."
Duke Long frowned, sneering: "Song Qi Yuan, you are the first supreme elder of Song clan, a rank eight Gu Immortal, but you actually sneak attacked?"
The Gu Immortal was Song Qi Yuan.
"It seems Eastern Sea's righteous path is finally making a move. Who else is there, come out now." Duke Long glanced below at the sea, Dragon Palace gradually disappeared from his sight. He did not give chase, instead hovering in the air while letting out terrifying battle intent.
At the next moment, two more Gu Immortals showed themselves.
One was a middle aged man in blue robe, he was Qing Yue clan's first supreme elder Qing Yue An.
Another looked to be a young girl with bright eyes, exquisite rainbow clouds coiled around her body. She was Hua clan's first supreme elder Hua Cai Yun.
"Lord Duke Long..." Hua Cai Yun was just about to speak.
"Enough nonsense!" Duke Long shouted and took the initiative to attack.
Boom boom boom!
Several immortal killer moves were exchanged, the three righteous path rank eights were immediately suppressed and forced back.
"Duke Long is too powerful, he can easily suppress three Eastern Sea rank eights by himself!" Fang Yuan was inwardly shocked, he had transformed into a sea snake and was currently swimming in the sea.
Righteous path rank eights were often stronger than lone rank eight cultivators. This was because they had more exemplary immortal killer moves and ample cultivation resources.
The alliance of these three righteous path rank eights could absolutely win against the four person alliance of Granny Rong, Yang Zi He, Zhang Yin, and Shi Miao.
But they were still not Duke Long's match.
Duke Long was too ferocious, he was only using transformation path methods even until now, and had not used his most proficient qi path killer moves.
From this, one could see how powerful Purple Mountain True Monarch was, he had actually forced Duke Long to use his signature qi path killer moves.
"It was not that Purple Mountain True Monarch was weak, but Duke Long was simply too strong!" Fang Yuan looked at the distant Dragon Palace and slowly left the battlefield.
Since Song Qi Yuan, Qing Yue An and others appeared, it meant Eastern Sea's righteous path had already discussed and made decisions. Among the five regions, Eastern Sea was the richest in resources and thus had the highest number of rank eight Gu Immortals.
"Only three righteous path rank eights have appeared currently... there are definitely more coming." Fang Yuan decided to bide his time.
Sure enough, like he expected, two more righteous path rank eights showed up and obstructed Dragon Palace.
Zhang Yin, Granny Rong and others quickly came and fought these two righteous path rank eights.
A huge battle erupted under the sea.
Fang Yuan quickly hid in the mud at the bottom of the sea, waiting for a good opportunity to strike.
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Swoosh—!
Following a sharp sonic boom, Dragon Palace turned into a golden light as it moved towards the sky with an extremely fast speed.
"Where are you going!"
"Die."
"Want to obstruct me? Not a chance!"
Several Gu Immortals battled while giving chase, each displaying their great might. Intense battles followed the trail of Dragon Palace all along the way.
Wherever it went, mounds crumbled and the sea split, the sky changed colors and countless beings met with calamity, rank six and rank seven Gu Immortals all escaped in fright.
Only rank eight Gu Immortals had the qualifications to take part in this battle.
The battles of Duke Long, Zhang Yin, Granny Rong, Song Qi Yuan, and other rank eights did not allow rank seven Gu Immortals to interfere. Unless they were the likes of Feng Jiu Ge and Fang Yuan. But now, both Fang Yuan and Feng Jiu Ge had advanced to rank eight.
"Most of the Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortals are already participating in the battle, but there are a few who have yet to show themselves." Fang Yuan was patiently observing from far behind, waiting for a perfect opportunity.
From the time he rushed over to Eastern Sea, over ten days had already gone by. Over these days, the battle between rank eight Gu Immortals was a splendid show with none willing to make concessions. Occasionally, new rank eights would join in while some would temporarily retreat.
They allied sometimes and acted against each other sometimes. As long as anyone neared Dragon Palace, they would be met with the joint attack of everyone else. Fang Yuan could not find any opportunity to make a move.
But he was extremely patient and was not in the least bit worried.
"Being able to observe the skills of these rank eight Gu Immortals from here is also an enormous gain. This information is very valuable."
"Duke Long is truly terrifying! In this battle, he is no doubt the strongest, but because of that unknown dream path Immortal Gu in Dragon Palace, the joint attack of other rank eights, as well as being concerned about the safety of Feng Jin Huang, he has not been able to obtain Dragon Palace."
Fang Yuan's eyes flashed with sinister light.
Not just the rank eight Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace, Feng Jin Huang who was beside Duke Long was also his target.
This girl possessed a dream path Immortal Gu and was also Duke Long's disciple, looking at how Duke Long protected her, her importance could be seen clearly.
But although Fang Yuan had such a scheme, he similarly did not find an opportunity to make a move against Feng Jin Huang!
"A chance, a chance... it will definitely appear."
"Eastern Sea's righteous path has clearly already discussed with each other. Someone retreats while another comes in, taking turns to maintain their battle strength and also retain their control of the situation. This is to be on guard against Central Continent and Heavenly Court's reinforcements."
"Duke Long has been fighting alone, but he is still the strongest. If there are reinforcements from Heavenly Court, this stalemate will definitely be broken."
"Even if Heavenly Court does not send reinforcements, the four person team of Granny Rong, Zhang Yin and others won't be able to last long."
"Among the three sides, the righteous path is the most stable, the other two sides have the possibility of overturning this balance. But once the balance is broken, there will definitely be a chaotic battle. And this chaos will give me the chance to make a move!"
Fang Yuan was extremely clear about the situation.
But right at this time, there was a sudden explosion in front; Song Qi Yuan was struck and became lightly injured, coughing out a mouthful of blood.
Zhang Yin turned his head around and chuckled: "I have already struck you with fatal dark lightning, chase me if you are not afraid of dying."
Song Qi Yuan's defenses were thorough and comprehensive but after getting struck by this move, he got injured. His defensive methods were immediately torn, fatal dark lightning could not be underestimated.
Thereupon, the entire group of pursuers immediately split into two, one group ahead and one group behind.
"Fatal dark lightning is Zhang Yin's trump card, it has a huge cost to activate, it is formless, colorless and cannot be sensed. It can be arranged in the sea or air, once touched, it will explode. What should we do?" The remaining three rank eight Gu Immortals were also of the righteous path.
"We need to give chase, it will be dangerous for Hua Cai Yun alone."
"We don't have time to make a detour, we can only control beast groups to charge through this lightning formation!"
The three righteous path members quickly thought of a way and released their respective ancient desolate beasts.
Song Qi Yuan waved his hand, these ancient desolate beasts' auras immediately soared to the level of immemorial desolate beasts.
Boom boom boom!
The false immemorial desolate beasts could trigger the fatal dark lightning traps.
These ancient desolate beasts constantly died to pave a path for the three righteous path rank eights.
The three rank eights quickly moved ahead through the path.
"This is a little troublesome, let's take a chance." Fang Yuan was uneasy and wanted to cross the lightning formation as well.
Boom!
He was immediately struck by the fatal dark lightning, but did not dare use reverse flow protection seal and could only endure the damage forcibly.
"This dark lightning is truly troublesome, it is better to make a detour." Fang Yuan coughed out a mouthful of blood, changing his original intention.
Boom!
He was struck again.
"Ridiculous, this fatal dark lightning actually spread out this far, its range is too wide." Fang Yuan clenched his teeth and swallowed his blood.
Boom boom boom!
Fang Yuan continued to trigger fatal dark lightning traps, his luck path methods seemed to have no use.
After about eight minutes, Fang Yuan forcibly endured the pain as he caught up to the rank eight Gu Immortals' battle.
"Come and face my killer move, red pestilence insignia!" Granny Rong shouted and used all her strength to shoot out a red insignia.
Hua Cai Yun snorted as she pushed forward her hands, sending out a lump of cloud.
This cloud was pitch black and was like an inverted pot, its shape was peculiar. It quickly moved and absorbed the red insignia.
Granny Rong's expression immediately changed, she had lost control of the red pestilence insignia.
The cloud continued to move as it tossed the red pestilence insignia away.
Hua Cai Yun said proudly: "Your red pestilence insignia is useless against my pot tossing cloud! It will only be tossed away by me, I will never get hit."
"The f*ck!" Fang Yuan cursed in his mind. By some weird coincidence, the red pestilence insignia had been tossed towards him.
3Dodge!
Fang Yuan was disguised as a sea snake and could not casually increase his speed, so he barely managed to dodge.
The red pestilence insignia flew far away and exploded, the surrounding sea area met with calamity, living beings met their end with countless sea organisms turning into mush from the intense poison.
Fang Yuan was also struck by the move, he endured the rank eight killer move and turned into a sea snake corpse, continuing his disguise.
It was not easy for Fang Yuan to stalk from behind, he was constantly hit by the splattering effects of the moves in this battle. Fortunately, he remained far behind and with the rank eight Gu Immortals all paying attention to Dragon Palace and each other, they had not discovered him.
However, this did not last long, Fang Yuan's identity was finally exposed several days later.
It was a rank eight lone cultivator who found him, he was Yang Jun and had been chasing after Dragon Palace in his Immortal Gu House Fragrant Treasure Horse Chariot when he discovered Fang Yuan by chance.
Fang Yuan struck him and immediately escaped.
This movement finally attracted the attention of other rank eights, but Fang Yuan had left immediately. Even if Duke Long wanted to do anything, it was too late.
Central Continent, Infallible blessed land.
The radiance of the formation disappeared.
After inspecting for a while, Fairy Zi Wei nodded in satisfaction and thought: "With this formation here, who can destroy Infallible blessed land? Even if Fang Yuan came here, he would also be trapped."
Fairy Zi Wei was confident in this formation.
A bright light suddenly descended from the sky and arrived in front of her, revealing its true form.
"Greetings to Lady Zi Wei." It was Feng Jiu Ge. He already had rank eight cultivation now and his tone carried a trace of being on equal status with Fairy Zi Wei.
Fairy Zi Wei smiled: "Feng Jiu Ge, I called you for one matter. Dragon Palace has appeared, Lord Duke Long is chasing after it but has encountered obstruction from Eastern Sea's rank eights. Go to Eastern Sea, reinforce Lord Duke Long, protect your daughter Feng Jin Huang, and help my Heavenly Court take Dragon Palace."
Feng Jiu Ge was silent for a moment but rejected in the end: "Huang Er is protected by Lord Duke Long, she won't be in any danger. But... when I advanced to rank eight, I gained an inspiration and wanted to create a new song. I want to enter the River of Time now to observe the different types of worldly affairs throughout the eras, I want to experience the journey of myriad beings' lives."
Fairy Zi Wei was dazed for a moment: "Alright then, guard the River of Time in place of Li Huang."
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Eastern Sea, late at night.
Stars filled the sky, the calm sea suddenly turned turbulent with fierce waves.
Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace charged out of the sea, flying into the sky rapidly.
There was a rank eight Gu Immortal waiting in the sky, it was Qing Yue clan's first supreme elder, Qing Yue An.
"Puff!" He muttered lightly as he waved his arms rapidly.
Immediately the phantom image of a mountain descended from the sky, the mountain ranges extended far and beyond, encircling the entire Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Mountain Ranges!
Dragon Palace's movement was obstructed, it crashed into the phantom mountain like it had truly slammed into a solid one.
"Hmph!"
There was a cold snort as a rank eight Gu Immortal charged out of Dragon Palace, it was rank eight lone immortal Shi Miao.
Shi Miao spat out a mouthful of acid water, this acid water did not look impressive but it grew with the wind, turning into a huge wave after several tens of feet.
The wave crashed into the phantom mountain and had an incredible effect, the mountain started melting like snow exposed to the sun.
The acid wave opened a path for Dragon Palace as it nearly got out of the encirclement, but Song Qi Yuan arrived right at this moment.
His aura burst out and grand light pillars shined in all directions, dissolving the waves and also causing Dragon Palace to shake, when it landed on Shi Miao, it felt like he was hit by a lightning bolt.
After this, Song Qi Yuan did not stop, he raised his head and pointed with his finger.
A sharp light shot out like lightning, vanishing instantly.
Far away, Fang Yuan who was using star eyes Immortal Gu to observe the battlefield felt his vision going dark, he could not see anything anymore.
Fang Yuan's expression turned dark, he knew that the star that he had refined using star eyes Immortal Gu was destroyed by Song Qi Yuan!
"Rank seven star eyes Immortal Gu might be unique, but against a rank eight Gu Immortal, it is too weak, not only can it be discovered, it can also be stopped.
Song Qi Yuan's immortal killer move is even more profound, it moved along the starlight and found the star of origin to destroy it."
"Even though the star was destroyed, star eyes Immortal Gu suffered no injuries, it can be used again after further preparation."
Even though these Eastern Sea Gu Immortals could not defeat Duke Long, they were still rank eight with brilliant methods, they could not be underestimated.
Earlier, Zhang Yin's fatal dark lightning, Hua Cai Yun's pot tossing cloud, Yang Jun discovering Fang Yuan who was in familiar face disguise, and Song Qi Yuan's attack that destroyed Star Eyes' star, they proved this point.
But even so, Fang Yuan did not want to give up.
"Dragon Palace is very important, it is far more important than I had expected!"
"It is a rank eight Immortal Gu House that contains dream path Immortal Gu. These days, in this battle, it displayed very powerful offensive and defensive methods, if I can get it, I will obtain peak rank eight battle strength!"
Fang Yuan's main body chased while heaven form killer move stayed in immemorial white heaven, dealing with Beast Calamity Grotto-heaven and finding the hiding spot of adaptation Immortal Gu.
Heaven form killer move was rank nine and extremely mobile, even within immemorial white heaven, there were few existences which could threaten it.
Because of the earth vein's turbulence, the Gu Immortals of the five regions were in chaos.
Especially, Eastern Sea, the emergence of Dragon Palace caused a battle among rank eights, it was truly spectacular.
On this day, Northern Plains' Longevity Heaven also started to tremor intensely.
Bzzz bzzz bzzz....
Orange-yellow light flickered endlessly, enveloping the sky of Longevity Heaven.
Next, an aura started from an extremely weak state and grew rapidly, soon filling the world and causing fear in everyone.
Such a change had already attracted the attention of Five Elements Grandmaster, Bull Demon, and Flower Lady.
Five Elements Grandmaster was a lone cultivator of Northern Plains, but after getting trapped by Longevity Heaven, he felt despair after struggling and decided to join Longevity Heaven, he was not stationed in Longevity Heaven permanently.
Bull Demon and Flower Lady were a duo that took the role of North Desolation Immortal together.
Bull Demon was a muscular brute with a thick beard and a thunderous voice, he was extremely tall and strong, having a powerful aura. Flower Lady was a little girl with a flower on her head, she sat on the muscular man's shoulder, giggling as her crystal-like eyes flickered with innocence.
"What happened?" Five Elements Grandmaster was very uncertain.
Bull Demon and Flower Lady looked at each other, the latter giggled: "West Desolation Immortal Bing Sai Chuan has awakened!"
Longevity Heaven was a bit different from Heavenly Court, it had Four Desolation Immortals and Eight Extremities, a total of twelve positions. Among which, the Four Desolation Immortals were only meant for rank eight Gu Immortals, while the Eight Extremities needed at least rank seven cultivation level, and they had to be elites among rank sevens.
"Bing Sai Chuan?" Five Elements Grandmaster's brows rose, he felt that the name was familiar but he could not get more information from just that name.
At this moment, there was a loud roar, ripples of light flickered in the sky, rainbows extended like rivers as they pierced through the horizons.
A figure walked down from the river, he had a tall body and delicate face, nevertheless, his eyes were extremely sharp and icy, emitting a cold gaze. From his right ear to the left corner of his lips, there was an ugly scar, it was flickering with white light, while emitting the coldness of a thousand year profound ice.
Seeing this face, Five Elements Grandmaster's eyes burst out with bright light as he became deeply shocked: "I remember now, this is the Bing Sai Chuan who was born in Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's generation, he was a rank eight legend, a time path great expert, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had tried three times before subduing him. He did not die, he is actually the West Desolation Immortal of Longevity Heaven?!"
West Desolation Immortal was born in the same generation as Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, even though he lost, it was not a disgrace. After all, be they Immortal Venerable or Demon Venerable, they were invincible in the world with no equal.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had to make three attempts to subdue this West Desolation Immortal, it showed that he had great strength!
"Greetings, Senior West Desolation." Bull Demon and Flower Lady quickly went to greet him while Five Elements Grandmaster followed after with an expression of reverence.
West Desolation Immortal Bing Sai Chuan's seniority was simply too high.
Bing Sai Chuan went up to the three, he nodded after looking around: "I am awake but I do not have much lifespan, time is limited. Give me the information of the current world, I need to know about it."
Longevity Heaven had very comprehensive information.
They had detailed information of the collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the reappearance of Dragon Palace in Eastern Sea, and the Refinement Path Convention of Central Continent's Heavenly Court.
"Eighty-Eight True Yang Building truly collapsed..." Bing Sai Chuan sighed deeply.
"It was Fang Yuan, that demon was reborn using Spring Autumn Cicada, he is rank eight already." Five Elements Grandmaster gritted his teeth.
Bing Sai Chuan laughed loudly as he said: "Good job, Fang Yuan, he is truly a demon, he did a great job in destroying Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!"
Five Elements Grandmaster was stunned: "What?"
Bull Demon looked at Flower Lady: "..."
Flower Lady looked at Bull Demon: "..."
The three immortals were completely shocked.
Next, Bing Sai Chuan added: "Fate Gu is about to be repaired, it seems that this Refinement Path Convention is the final one. There is no time, we have to contact Fang Yuan now and make an alliance!"
The gazes of Five Elements Grandmaster, Bull Demon, and Flower Lady changed abruptly.
Was this Bing Sai Chuan really the West Desolation Immortal? Could he possibly be a fake one?
"Longevity Heaven wants to cooperate with me?" Fang Yuan received this message and became quite shocked.
It was easy to contact him, Lang Ya land spirit could do it.
Bing Sai Chuan used Lang Ya land spirit to contact Fang Yuan, he spoke openly: "I am West Desolation Immortal, the current leader of Longevity Heaven. Fang Yuan, you are an otherworldly demon but you have yet to obtain Red Lotus' true inheritance? If Heavenly Court repairs fate Immortal Gu, it will not benefit you at all. Similarly, Longevity Heaven does not want to see Heavenly Court succeed. If they repair fate Gu, it would be too helpful to Heavenly Court, it would also go against the luck path of my Ancestor Giant Sun. Let us forget our past conflicts and resist the strong enemy together!"
Fang Yuan was quiet for a while before asking: "You are?"
Bing Sai Chuan!
Soon, Fang Yuan learned who the other party was.
He should be the real deal.
Fang Yuan sighed at Longevity Heaven's foundation, they even concealed a rank eight legend like Bing Sai Chuan, he had only appeared now.
And in Longevity Heaven, among the Four Desolation Immortals, East Desolation Immortal had the highest status, the great Bing Sai Chuan was only second place?
Who in the world was the East Desolation Immortal?
Longevity Heaven's change of attitude made Fang Yuan deeply surprised. But to think of it, against the terrifying Heavenly Court, it was possible for Fang Yuan to work with them.
After all, he was a rank eight Gu Immortal now, the leader of Shadow Sect who possessed deep dream path research results, his name shook the world!
A while ago, Heavenly Court even infiltrated Northern Plains and attacked Lang Ya blessed land, the two sides had immense conflicts.
The saying goes, the enemy of an enemy is my friend!
If they could cooperate, Fang Yuan naturally wanted to work with Longevity Heaven.
After all, Heavenly Court was the true enemy.
But how could they trust each other?
To gain Fang Yuan's trust, Longevity Heaven opened its treasury and traded immortal materials with Fang Yuan, they could even exchange Immortal Gu.
From this step, they seemed to be very sincere.
"Since we are cooperating, Lord Bing Sai Chuan, why don't we work together to fight for Dragon Palace?" Fang Yuan had a thought as he initiated.
"Good idea!" Bing Sai Chuan was in full agreement, any person with a brain could tell that Dragon Palace had immense value.
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Since rebirth, Fang Yuan's strength had been growing rapidly, it was rising at a shocking speed.
Especially in recent times, he advanced to rank eight and possessed countless Immortal Gu, it was truly a rare situation.
However, he was still not strong enough to contend for Dragon Palace.
Among the rank eight Gu Immortals fighting after Dragon Palace, there was Duke Long with pseudo-Immortal Venerable battle strength and multiple Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortals, it could be said that Eastern Sea's strongest immortals were here.
Fang Yuan had too little time since his rise, against the peak experts of a region, against Duke Long, trying to snatch an Immortal Gu House that had the power to retaliate was just too difficult for him.
But Fang Yuan knew that he could not watch on the sidelines.
If Heavenly Court obtains Dragon Palace, they would grow even stronger. Especially that mysterious dream path Immortal Gu, it was not simple! It might have been created naturally by this world itself, it was the seed that the heavens had planted into Eastern Sea to start the era of dream path.
At this time, drawing in Longevity Heaven's strength would make the situation even more chaotic.
The more chaotic it was, the more Fang Yuan would be able to take advantage of the situation.
He was rank eight now, but against Eastern Sea's rank eight Gu Immortals, he did not dare to be careless. The foundation of rank eight Gu Immortals was immense, they would easily hit him with their killer moves if he was not careful.
As for Duke Long, Fang Yuan knew clearly that he was not his match. After all, Fang Yuan had personally witnessed how Duke Long had fought Purple Mountain True Monarch.
"Duke Long is protecting Feng Jin Huang, he is not going all-out. I have not seen him use any qi path methods yet. Even so, with just his transformation path methods, he is already the strongest person here, he is resisting almost everyone alone."
"Bai Ning Bing and the rest are still cultivating on the Red Lotus island, even if they have the help of future self, they would only have peak rank seven battle strength."
"It is a pity my incomplete Immortal Gu House was destroyed, if I had it, after this period of development, it would have rank eight battle strength, it would be very useful to me."
"If I can steal adaptation Immortal Gu from Beast Calamity Grotto-heaven, I would be able to unleash myriad beings assimilation transformation, I will temporarily gain great battle strength. It is a pity that we do not have time, heaven form is still investigating."
Fang Yuan felt some regret.
But reality was like this, not everything could go smoothly and appropriately.
Dragon Palace would not tire, Eastern Sea's rank eight Gu Immortals had not fully shown up, while Duke Long was waiting for Heavenly Court reinforcements, there was still some time before they truly fought for the Immortal Gu House's ownership.
Fang Yuan was also concerned about Longevity Heaven's attitude change. But even if they had ill intentions, luring them into the battle was much more useful for Fang Yuan than the potential threat.
With this move, he could try to obtain Dragon Palace, damage Heavenly Court, and probe Longevity Heaven, it could achieve many goals.
But a few days later, Bing Sai Chuan did not arrive, instead, he obtained some crucial information — Heavenly Court had found a stone lotus island in the River of Time, they had full control of it now!
Bing Sai Chuan suggested: "You have Spring Autumn Cicada, you are the rightful inheritor of Red Lotus' true inheritance. If Heavenly Court takes away your fortuitous encounter, you will suffer while they grow stronger. Red Lotus Demon Venerable was able to damage fate Gu, very likely, his true inheritance also contains the way for us to destroy fate Gu for good!"
Bing Sai Chuan's words had no issue, he did not know that Fang Yuan had already obtained one of the Red Lotus true inheritances.
Fang Yuan did not have any method to destroy fate Gu, but what if the other Red Lotus true inheritance had it?
It was possible.
Of course, there was a possibility that Bing Sai Chuan gave false information to trap Fang Yuan.
Right now, Fang Yuan had two choices, he could stay and observe Dragon Palace, or go to the River of Time and contest for Red Lotus' true inheritance with Heavenly Court.
The former was filled with chaos and danger, so was the latter, the risks were great.
Fang Yuan sensed acutely that this choice was crucial. He started to think, what was the best course of action in this situation?
Southern Border.
Virtue Paradise.
Two rank eight Gu Immortals walked side by side and ascended the mountain, their auras were completely concealed, resembling mortals.
The one on the left wore a grey hemp garment, it was very simple and plain, but his muscular body could not be concealed. He wore a conical hat that was large and wide, it covered his face under the shadow, concealing his appearance.
It was the famous current generation Paradise Earth inheritor in Southern Border's Gu Immortal world — Lu Wei Yin.
The one on the right was a woman, she had a graceful figure with hair that extended to her waist, and was adorned in a beautiful purple robe that was mysterious and elegant. Her eyes were like deep pools, with a sense of sorrow shrouding her face.
It was Heavenly Court's leader, the person who had Star Constellation Chessboard, the number one wisdom path great expert in the current world — Fairy Zi Wei!
Fairy Zi Wei had actually quietly appeared in Southern Border and met with Lu Wei Yin, what was the reason behind it?
Along the way, Lu Wei Yin and Fairy Zi Wei spoke, even though there were few words, the atmosphere was amicable.
As they walked, a small red pavilion emerged from the dense greenery, Lu Wei Yin pointed at it as he said: "Lady Zi Wei, it has been a long journey, let's go rest a bit in that pavilion."
"Good idea." Fairy Zi Wei smiled as she walked.
The two walked into the red pavilion, there were stone benches inside, instead of sitting down, Fairy Zi Wei walked towards the edge and looked at the wide view of mountains and rivers.
This pavilion was built at the edge of a cliff, it had an extremely good view.
Fairy Zi Wei looked outside, Virtue Paradise was filled with tall mountains and clean rivers, there were treehouses and villages around the mountains, lots of commotion could be heard from chickens and dogs, there were columns of smoke rising from houses, it was a serene and tranquil atmosphere.
In the sky, there were many floating mountains. These mountains were made from float soil and could stay in the sky, there were many specialties in each mountain, their environments varied. Some had long green vines that extended like hair. Some had drizzles and beautiful rainbows. Some had waterfalls with huge crashing torrents that gathered in huge pools.
Cranes flew, apes shrieked, there was lots of life and immortal materials everywhere, desolate beasts and plants were abundant in numbers.
The thing that Fairy Zi Wei noticed was that the mushroommen and humans lived harmoniously in the villages, kids played together, husbands and wives cared for each other, children were also filial towards their parents.
"It is truly a paradise! Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable wanted to create such a world, but humanity is the ruler of the world, how could variant humans possibly be equal with us? But even so, I admire Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. Because he had contributed his whole life towards this dream, he had never sought benefits for himself." Fairy Zi Wei said slowly.
Heavenly Court belonged to humans, its ideology was to rule over the variant humans, but Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable wanted equality for all, in his opinion, be it variant humans or pure humans, all life in this world should be equal.
Because of their ideological differences, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable did not enter Heavenly Court, he created his paradises in the five regions and tried to establish the utopia of his ideals.
Lu Wei Yin nodded: "Even though our ideologies are different, our attitude towards the demonic path that harms the world is the same. Lady Zi Wei is here to borrow Gu, if you are borrowing other Gu, forget it. But this benevolence Gu can benefit the world, why would I stop you? However, if outsiders want to borrow Gu, according to the Immortal Venerable's rules, you need to walk and ascend to the top of the mountain to gain the qualification to borrow Gu. This journey is difficult, the higher your cultivation level, the worse it is. Please do understand, Fairy Zi Wei."
"This mountain is truly not easy to ascend, but I understand Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's intention. Getting up this mountain will benefit me quite a bit too." Fairy Zi Wei said softly as she smiled, light flickered in her eyes: "Alright, let's continue."
River of Time.
Heavenly Court's four Immortal Gu Houses stood in different positions as they surrounded an immortal formation.
The atmosphere was heated among the Gu Immortals.
"Lord Feng Jiu Ge, we have already encircled this stone lotus island, we can explore it already." Shang Xunzi said.
Feng Jiu Ge nodded, he originally wanted to use the River of Time to solidify and strengthen his inspiration regarding the song of destiny. To think that after entering the River of Time for this short period, the stone lotus island showed up and became besieged by Heavenly Court.
"The stone lotus islands were created by Red Lotus Demon Venerable, I should go ahead and see the methods of this world-shocking Demon Venerable." Feng Jiu Ge was about to move and enter the immortal formation.
Boom!
With a loud sound, the Immortal Gu House that he was in shook intensely.
"Enemy!"
"Who is so daring as to attack us Heavenly Court?!"
The immortals were furious and shocked.
Who else but Fang Yuan could it be?
Heavenly Court's group was slightly dazed, someone started to shout: "Demon, you managed to escape last time, but you actually dared to return! Then accept your death."
Fang Yuan smiled lightly, he had thought about it for a moment before deciding to come to the River of Time, and trying to get Red Lotus' true inheritance.
After all, Dragon Palace's scene was chaotic, all the forces had not gone all-out yet, there was too much uncertainty.
But at the stone lotus island, if he did not come, Heavenly Court would definitely get it. Fang Yuan had Spring Autumn Cicada, his advantage was huge when it came to the stone lotus islands.
"Fang Yuan, we meet again." Feng Jiu Ge's voice reverberated within the Immortal Gu House, there were deep emotions in his voice.
Fang Yuan's expression focused, it seemed like in this battle, he was going to fight Feng Jiu Ge once again!
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"Fang Yuan, we meet again." Feng Jiu Ge's voice reverberated from within the Immortal Gu House, there were deep emotions in his tone.
"It has been a long time indeed." Fang Yuan sighed.
Years had passed, Fang Yuan met with Feng Jiu Ge again, it was like a meeting of old friends, their words had no animosity in them.
2But they were not friends after all, after that brief talk, they went silent.
1At this moment, there was only the sound of waves in the River of Time, surging forward with continuous motion.
Feng Jiu Ge still remembered the first time he met Fang Yuan, back then, he was still not an immortal, he had obtained Hu Immortal blessed land with the status of a mortal. But now, he was renowned in the world, he had rank eight cultivation level and his speed of growth was rare even in history, it was truly shocking to the world.
Feng Jiu Ge was also rank eight with brilliant battle results, his strength was no longer the same as before, he had rank eight fate armor Immortal Gu, and because of his Dao Guardian status, he was heavily supported by Heavenly Court.
Fang Yuan had once saved Feng Jiu Ge's life, he had returned the favor as well. Because of their different identities, Feng Jiu Ge had failed in many attempts to pursue Fang Yuan. They had fought many times and gained a deep understanding of each other. Both were wary of each other, but they appreciated the other person's capabilities and talent immensely.
1"Fang Yuan, you lost to us once, you managed to escape last time in the River of Time, to think that you would dare to come back and court death!" A voice broke the temporary silence.
The person who spoke had starry blue armor, he had a rough appearance and his body was strong, he emitted a powerful rank eight aura and was standing on Shark Flow Lever.
Fang Yuan took a look and discerned that this was a person who had participated in the battle last time.
Even though last time, he did not know who this was, he had obtained information already. This person had woken up from Heavenly Court's immortal graveyard, he was an experienced rank eight star path expert, Xing Ye Wang.
Fang Yuan inspected Heavenly Court's group again.
The three remaining Xunzi occupied Present and Past Pavilion, they looked at Fang Yuan with deep hatred, their eyes were spewing fire. Last time, Fang Yuan used time cutting edge and killed Xun Guo Zi, causing their revival methods to fail, only three were left now.
Rank eight Gu Immortal Qing Ye had the same status as Xing Ye Wang, he controlled Eternal Yacht with a grim expression.
Xing Ye Wang stood on Shark Flow Lever, looking at Fang Yuan with deep battle intent.
Meanwhile, Feng Jiu Ge stayed in Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform, he had now shown up yet.
"Four time path Immortal Gu Houses, three rank eight Gu Immortals, as well as many rank seven Gu Immortals including three of the Xunzi, and this super immortal formation..." Fang Yuan evaluated their strength.
On the whole, it was not bad.
Because Heavenly Court had not sent too many people here. But thinking about it, Central Continent's earth veins were moving, other than maintaining control, Heavenly Court placed all its attention on repairing rank nine fate Gu, a lot of manpower and resources were expended for it.
From Heavenly Court's perspective, Fang Yuan was not their main enemy, in their overall plan, Fang Yuan was not a part of it.
Thus, Fairy Zi Wei had once offered to recruit Fang Yuan back in Lang Ya blessed land.
Heavenly Court's goal was the entire world, the great era of dream path, and to become the ruler of the world.
This was the grandness of Heavenly Court!
Thus, Heavenly Court's focus had always been to fully restore fate Gu!
Moreover, last time Fang Yuan escaped barely with his life. Afterwards, Fairy Zi Wei used Heavenly Court's foundation to buy all sorts of time path materials and disrupted Fang Yuan's growth.
He had hidden his tracks and even when the earth veins moved and countless Immortal Gu and immortal materials appeared, he did not show up.
Due to all these reasons, Heavenly Court had not increased their numbers in the River of Time.
"Of course, they might have some groups lying in ambush?" Fang Yuan smiled coldly, regardless of what they did, as long as they fought, Heavenly Court would summon them anyway.
Roar!
With a huge sound, Fang Yuan used familiar face to turn into the immemorial year monkey again.
The monkey body was huge like a mountain, it pounced towards Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform, that was where Feng Jiu Ge was.
"Such a courageous demon, let me fight you!" Xing Ye Wang moved Shark Flow Lever as he intercepted with great speed.
Fang Yuan moved rapidly above the water, he pointed his finger as immortal killer move spring scissors flew out.
The scissors were green in color and moved agilely, even though it was huge like an elephant, it shrunk when it got in front of Shark Flow Lever.
Xing Ye Wang was a little shocked, he knew about spring scissors, but to think there was such a transformation?
The mini spring scissors flew down and became large again when it got to the shark lever of Shark Flow Lever.
Crack.
With a snip, the scissors cut and a huge shark head fell off.
Crack.
With another snip, another shark lost its head.
Xing Ye Wang was very shocked, he quickly moved Shark Flow Lever aside, he could not dare continue trying to obstruct Fang Yuan, he needed to know how to handle spring scissors.
After stopping Xing Ye Wang, Fang Yuan moved quick as the wind, arriving in front of Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform.
Within the Immortal Gu House, Feng Jiu Ge had a plain expression as he controlled it calmly.
Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform burst out with a dazzling light, stopping Fang Yuan's advancement as if he had crashed into a metal wall.
Fang Yuan who was in the immemorial year monkey form laughed as he punched with his huge fists.
The huge fists landed on Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform and caused it to shake, rubbles flew everywhere as it got pushed back.
"Fang Yuan got stronger again!"
1"That's right, he has at least modified spring scissors and winter coat. The former can change sizes and become hard to guard against, while the latter has fused with his immemorial year monkey transformation, his monkey fur is like frost and his skin is like ice, his defenses are extremely thick."
The three Xunzi guarded Present and Past Pavilion, they talked to each other with lingering shock.
Ever since Fang Yuan escaped pitifully last time while exposing all his trump cards, Heavenly Court had deduced all sorts of killer moves that he had. But to think that in this battle, all of their deductions were outdated, Fang Yuan's modifications were far beyond Heavenly Court's expectations, they were greatly caught off-guard.
Not just that, Fang Yuan had also made many deductions on the four Immortal Gu Houses. Looking at how he dealt with Shark Flow Lever and Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform, it was evident.
Fang Yuan's wisdom path attainment was not low, he also had the help of wisdom Gu which Heavenly Court did not manage to deduce.
Fang Yuan, who had the light of wisdom and sufficient intel, made great gains when he deduced matters regarding the four time path Immortal Gu Houses!
In the previous battle, Fang Yuan exposed his trump cards, but at the same time, Heavenly Court also expended their trump cards, Fang Yuan could learn a lot of details about them.
It was not easy for Gu Immortals to create immortal killer moves, modifications were even harder. Then what about Immortal Gu Houses?
Immortal Gu Houses were the collective body of multiple immortal killer moves.
Thus, modifying Immortal Gu Houses was even tougher.
Fang Yuan could modify immortal killer moves because he had wisdom Gu. Heavenly Court wanted to modify Immortal Gu Houses but they did not have wisdom Gu, the difficulty was even higher, thus, these four Immortal Gu Houses did not have many changes, they were also similar to before.
Fang Yuan lost last time but he gained lots of information, he could deal with these Immortal Gu Houses now. This was also why he gave up on Dragon Palace for now and chose to target the River of Time.
"The northern corner is destroyed, the Gu worms cannot be retrieved."
"Three layers of autumn light shields have been broken, only one is left!"
"Immortal Gu Autumn Light has cracks on it..."
The Gu Immortals inside Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform reported, they had nervous expressions.
Feng Jiu Ge was the person in charge, he still had a calm expression.
He did not attempt to fight personally, because he knew that only relying on his sound path cultivation, he could not make useful efforts in this River of Time. Only the time path Immortal Gu House could resist Fang Yuan.
Feng Jiu Ge thought to himself: "Fang Yuan can suppress two Immortal Gu Houses, but Heavenly Court still has another two. This battle has just begun!"
Fang Yuan's barrage of attacks made him pant loudly, even though Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform was shattered on the outside, its foundation was unaffected, it only lost a large number of mortal Gu. Those rank seven Gu Immortals inside the Immortal Gu House were trying to repair it rapidly.
After the initial burst, his attacks got softer, the Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform got past the initial stage as Fang Yuan's ferocious attacks started to weaken. Xing Ye Wang had already repaired Shark Flow Lever after facing spring scissors killer move, it charged over again.
At the same time, Present and Past Pavilion and Eternal Yacht came from the left and right, forming a complete web.
"Fang Yuan, I want to see how you will deal with four Immortal Gu Houses together!" Xing Ye Wang shouted loudly.
Fang Yuan looked at his encirclement as his eyes shined with bright light, he smiled and shouted loudly: "Bing Sai Chuan, are you still not going to act?"
Before he finished his words, Bing Sai Chuan appeared, standing behind Present and Past Pavilion.
"Who?!" The three Xunzi were very shocked, because Present and Past Pavilion was most specialized in investigation, they were able to detect Fang Yuan but not Bing Sai Chuan.
Bing Sai Chuan roared as he pushed with both palms, immediately, cold winds blew and frost energy surged, covering the whole of Present and Past Pavilion.
At the next moment, the entire Present and Past Pavilion became sealed in a transparent profound ice, the three Xunzi were unmoving inside, a frightened expression frozen on their faces.
On Eternal Yacht, rank eight Gu Immortal Qing Ye who had a calm expression showed a change of attitude: "This immortal killer move is... immediate time freeze! You are the time path great expert of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's era, Bing Sai Chuan!"
Bing Sai Chuan cultivated time path and was most skilled at freezing time, his time path killer moves were able to imitate the effects of ice path. He was a rank eight legend, his battle strength was at its peak, on the same level as Li Huang.
1But right now, Li Huang was deployed elsewhere, in exchange for Feng Jiu Ge who had just reached rank eight. Regardless, this was the River of Time, even if Li Huang was here, without using the time path Immortal Gu House to fight against Bing Sai Chuan, he would not be his match.
Bing Sai Chuan waited for a long time before striking with great impact! He targeted the weakest enemy, directly sealing a time path Immortal Gu House and preventing it from joining the fight again.
"Amazing!" Fang Yuan could not help but praise.
Bing Sai Chuan looked at Qing Ye: "I am Longevity Heaven's Bing Sai Chuan, to think that someone of this generation recognized me."
As he said that, he smiled warmly but did not act mildly, he attacked the rank eight Gu Immortal Qing Ye who was on Eternal Yacht.
Fang Yuan had the help of Bing Sai Chuan, they managed to suppress the remaining three Immortal Gu Houses that Heavenly Court possessed!
At the next moment, a fifth time path Immortal Gu House appeared.
This was a gatehouse with a simple but elegant structure, its supporting pillars were bright red in color, it was quite auspicious. There were two dazzling words written on its entrance plaque — Year End.
Rank seven time path Immortal Gu House — Year End Gatehouse!
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Year End Gatehouse suddenly appeared in the River of Time, the side that got shocked was Heavenly Court instead of Fang Yuan's group.
This was because Heavenly Court only had four time path Immortal Gu Houses stationed here, this fifth time path Immortal Gu House Year End Gatehouse came from Northern Plains, it was owned by the Huang Jin tribes.
"Since when did an Immortal Gu House enter?"
"Oh no, what is it trying to do to the river suppression lotus sealing formation?"
"Quick, stop it!!"
Heavenly Court's side shouted, even rank eight Gu Immortals showed shock on their faces.
Bing Sai Chuan laughed loudly, frost energy oozed out of his body, he slammed with both palms as Eternal Yacht was sent to the bottom of the river.
Fang Yuan shouted loudly, he mustered his strength and attacked Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform, raining down punches like a flurry of meteors, forcing the latter to retreat continuously.
Present and Past Pavilion was sealed, it had sunk into the river, vanishing entirely.
Xing Ye Wang who was on Shark Flow Lever had an ashen expression, he tried to stop Year End Gatehouse but it was too late.
As the immortals watched, Year End Gatehouse got close to the river suppression lotus sealing formation as the gatehouse started to shine in a pure white light.
Next, a voice could be heard from within: "Take a good look, this is my five elements profound light!"
Ringgggggggg!
There was a loud sound as a mystical five colored light shot out of the gatehouse, landing on the river suppression lotus sealing formation.
The five colored lights resembled five river currents that merged and weaved together, melting the layers of the river suppression lotus sealing formation, causing a huge hole in an instant!
"Quick, repair the formation!"
"What method is this, the river suppression lotus sealing formation was completely powerless against it?!"
The rank seven Gu Immortals controlling the super immortal formation were furious and shocked.
Feng Jiu Ge's pupils shrunk, he recognized it: "That must be Northern Plains' rank eight lone immortal Five Elements Grandmaster! This person cultivates formation path and mimics the five paths of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, he is a formation path great grandmaster. He was actually recruited by Longevity Heaven!"
After using this move, Five Elements Grandmaster panted heavily, his aura diminished until it became extremely weak.
His five elements profound light was most skilled in breaking immortal formations, he had prepared this move for a long time, once it was unleashed, half of the river suppression lotus sealing formation was destroyed, it was on the brink of destruction.
Of course, this was because Fang Yuan had given Longevity Heaven crucial information.
Fang Yuan had a deeper understanding of this river suppression lotus sealing formation, after all, he was locked in and had broken out of it personally.
With this intel, Five Elements Grandmaster was able to modify his five elements profound light to counter this river suppression lotus sealing formation!
Once the formation was broken, the stone lotus island inside became exposed before everyone's eyes.
Fang Yuan laughed heartily as he jumped up.
Boom!
He kicked hard and stomped Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform into the river, creating a huge wave.
Next, he shot out like a cannonball, flying into the formation, towards the stone lotus island.
The Gu Immortals in the river suppression lotus sealing formation were flustered, they worked up a sweat trying to stabilize the formation and prevent it from collapsing. If this super immortal formation broke, its controllers would face huge backlash. These Gu Immortals were also trying to save their own lives.
The formation's controllers were too busy with their own matters, they could only watch as Fang Yuan went in.
"Red Lotus' true inheritance!" Fang Yuan looked at the stone lotus island as his eyes flashed with a bright light. The Spring Autumn Cicada inside time path clone's aperture was shaking, right now, Spring Autumn Cicada was rank seven and had Fang Yuan's personal immortal killer move to discern if the stone lotus island was real.
It was the real deal!
In the previous Red Lotus true inheritance, Fang Yuan made great gains, he was lifted out of his difficult situation. If he could obtain this Red Lotus true inheritance as well, how much would he grow?
"Fang Yuan, don't think of leaving!" At this moment, Xing Ye Wang shouted as he moved Shark Flow Lever and attacked Fang Yuan's back.
"Scram!" At the crucial moment, Bing Sai Chuan appeared, blocking Shark Flow Lever.
"Fang Yuan, quickly go get Red Lotus true inheritance!" Bing Sai Chuan fought as he said to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan looked at Bing Sai Chuan deeply, it seemed that Longevity Heaven was very sincere about cooperating! He got closer to the stone lotus island without stopping.
"Don't think about it!" Rank eight Gu Immortal Qing Ye who was inside Eternal Yacht went around Bing Sai Chuan and Xing Ye Wang, going towards Fang Yuan.
"Want to chase him? Hehe, get past me first." Year End Gatehouse suddenly appeared abruptly, blocking Qing Ye's path.
Qing Ye frowned but laughed coldly: "My Eternal Yacht is the fastest, it can ride the waves of the River of Time, how can you Year End Gatehouse stop me? Hmm?!"
Suddenly, Qing Ye's expression changed as she saw that an immortal formation had appeared around Eternal Yacht.
"Setting up a time path formation in such a short time?" Qing Ye shook, he finally understood the formation path attainment that Five Elements Grandmaster had.
"This Red Lotus true inheritance is mine!" After obtaining Longevity Heaven's reinforcement, Fang Yuan obtained enough time to successfully get close to the stone lotus island, he was about to step onto it.
But at this moment, a change occurred, the stone lotus island erupted with a formless force and pushed Fang Yuan far away.
"What happened?" Suspicion rose in Fang Yuan's mind: "I have Spring Autumn Cicada with me, unless... once this stone lotus island lets me in, the defenses will vanish? Or will a loophole appear that would allow others to take advantage of it?"
Boom boom boom!
At this point, attacks that approached like a wild storm rained down on Fang Yuan's immemorial year monkey body and surrounded him.
The river suppression lotus sealing formation was finally stabilized, even though it was damaged, the hole was shrinking, the rank seven Gu Immortals controlling it were now able to find time to fight Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was obstructed by the formation, he could not get close to the stone lotus island as easily now.
"This formation is likely created by Heavenly Court to target stone lotus island. The stone lotus island rejected me earlier because of this formation?"
Fang Yuan was thinking about this when Feng Jiu Ge who was inside Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform arrived before him.
1The two sides started to fight again, they clashed and exchanged moves, the situation was in a deadlock.
At the same time.
Eastern Sea.
"Li Huang pays respects to Lord Duke Long!" In the sky, flames scattered as a muscular old man appeared, it was Heavenly Court's reinforcement, rank eight Gu Immortal Li Huang.
Duke Long nodded as he patted Feng Jin Huang who was beside him.
Feng Jin Huang was surrounded by a circular qi wall, she floated lightly towards Li Huang.
"Protect Huang Er, if anything happens to her, I will hold you accountable." Duke Long said plainly.
Li Huang had a grim expression as he said confidently: "Don't worry Lord Duke Long, with my verdant sun flame cloak, who in the world can harm Feng Jin Huang?"
Duke Long stopped looking at him, he looked towards the sky, in order to protect Feng Jin Huang, he had wasted some time, Dragon Palace had flown away already.
Duke Long smiled, feeling no nervousness.
He clenched his fists, it was time to take action.
At the next moment, he vanished on the spot.
Dragon Palace was obstructed by Qing Yue An again, while the other rank eight Gu Immortals fought each other.
"The chance will slip by easily, I need to grab my opportunity!" Qing Yue An's eyes burst out with brilliance, after so many days of fighting, he had finally obtained his fourth chance.
But right when Qing Yue An was about to reach Dragon Palace, an immense force approached, the aura of death almost suffocated him.
He quickly turned around, enduring the fatal attack, he managed to block it but flew away like a sandbag, spitting out huge amounts of blood.
"Duke Long, you!" Qing Yue An had a hoarse voice filled with anger.
Duke Long floated in the sky expressionlessly, his horns were flickering with purple-gold light, his long hair fluttered in the wind, his body was tough as a monolith, his dragon pupils shined with cold light.
Qing Yue An struggled to stabilize his body, he wanted to counter attack but his expression suddenly changed.
A dragon-shaped qi shot out of his chest, exploding.
Boom!
The explosion was not loud, but Qing Yue An's defenses were like useless scraps of paper.
Qing Yue An looked at Duke Long with disbelief and fright as he retreated!
He was bleeding intensely, his ribs were broken, his chest was almost fully blown off, his heart and lungs could be seen.
"Take this Duke Long!"
"This Immortal Gu House is mine!"
Song Qi Yuan and Zhang Yin flew over, the two temporarily stopped fighting each other as they faced against Duke Long together.
Duke Long smiled nonchalantly.
Roar—!
The dragon roar erupted as Song Qi Yuan and Zhang Yin flew away with a confused and flabbergasted expression.
They suffered serious injuries, they did not even see what move hit them before they were defeated.
"Be careful, without that burden, Duke Long is using his full power!"
"Is this his true strength?"
"Everyone, work together, we must not let him succeed!"
Duke Long's powerful disposition made the remaining rank eight Gu Immortals feel deeply threatened, they started to target him collectively.
Duke Long breathed in deeply, he actually shut his eyes.
He did not move, only when the surrounding killer moves reached before him did he open his eyes abruptly.
Immortal killer move — Qi Engulfing Mountains and Rivers!
"Hmm?!" At once, the rank eight Gu Immortals shook intensely as they felt an unparalleled pressure slamming down at them from all around.
Not just them, the killer moves that they activated, even the sky and sea of all the surroundings were facing this immense pressure.
Many killer moves collapsed, the rank eight Gu Immortals as well as Dragon Palace fell into the water like dumplings falling into a pot.
The world became still, nothing was left standing.
Except Duke Long, he was standing proudly in the sky, looking down at the immortals in distress with his cold dragon pupils.
At this point of the Dragon Palace contest, he had finally displayed his true strength.
Having pseudo-Immortal Venerable battle strength, it suppressed his enemies and obtained the upper hand!
"Kill!"
"Duke Long, I want to kill you!"
"I do not believe that you can defeat all of us!!"
A few breaths of time later, huge waves surged in the sea, the rank eight Gu Immortals who were humiliated by Duke Long attacked him together with great intensity.
Duke Long snorted coldly, his dragon tail appeared and his body became covered in scales, the horns on his head became as sharp as blades.
He opened his mouth and roared, it was immortal killer move dragon roaring wave.
Next, his body flickered from place to place, he appeared near his enemies as he punched their faces with his fists, tore defenses with his claws, and created a bloody storm around the area.
Eastern Sea's rank eight Gu Immortals were not his match, they were all furious and shocked, they used their immortal killer moves but were constantly obstructed, even if they succeeded, they could not injure Duke Long.
After such a long time, other than protecting Feng Jin Huang, Duke Long had also collected lots of information, he had grasped the weakness of some of these Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortals' methods.
"Old fiend, you are too much!"
"Face my fatal killer move!"
"Restrain him, I have even stronger methods!"
Eastern Sea's rank eights were furious, they were about to use even stronger methods.
Immortal killer move — Qi Engulfing Mountains and Rivers!
Puff puff puff.
At the next moment, Eastern Sea's rank eights fell like dumplings again, into the depths of the ocean.
Duke Long controlled the tempo of the battle completely, his battle experience was even deeper than the depths of this ocean itself!
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