Heavenly Court.
Star Constellation Chessboard was half a foot off the ground, slowly rotating between Fairy Zi Wei and Feng Jin Huang, blossoming with brilliant starlight.
The specks of starlight were so dazzling that they resembled blue fireflies, lightly jumping, sometimes swirling around the two, sometimes burrowing into their brains and colliding.
The two sat opposite each other, both with their eyes closed and brows knitted tightly, pondering over some difficult question.
The starlight slowly disappeared, Star Constellation Chessboard flew into Fairy Zi Wei's hands.
Fairy Zi Wei slowly opened her eyes, but Feng Jin Huang did not, she fell softly to the ground as she had passed out on the spot.
"This child..." Fairy Zi Wei was not nervous, she merely sighed.
She knew Feng Jin Huang's condition like the back of her hand.
In the end, Feng Jin Huang was only a Gu Master, unlike Fairy Zi Wei who was a rank eight great expert. The original deduction speed arranged by Fairy Zi Wei was very suitable for Feng Jin Huang.
However, Feng Jin Huang insisted that she did not want to slow down the progress and waste Fairy Zi Wei's time because of her own reasons. After all, Fairy Zi Wei was a key figure in Heavenly Court.
When Feng Jin Huang slowly woke up, she found that she had already left the deduction hall and had returned to Central Great Hall.
"Well done, Huang Er!" Duke Long looked at Feng Jin Huang and was extremely pleased: "You have actually improved the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, eliminating the flaw of this physique entirely. You are indeed worthy of being the fated Great Dream Immortal Venerable."
Feng Jin Huang was a little embarrassed from the praise: "Master, to be honest, I was only able to do so by coincidence. Do you remember the killer move shatter dream I created previously? This modification was done based on its results. The entire process was thanks to Lady Zi Wei's deductions, I was only playing a minor supplementary role in modifying the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique."
Fairy Zi Wei smiled: "Little Huang Er, you're too modest. It is precisely because you provided the correct direction that we were able to make our deductions. If not for that, I'm afraid that even if I had made many calculations, I would have gained nothing."
Duke Long spoke with great solemness: "Huang Er, this perfect Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique is extremely significant to you, it is the key to your future achievements. You must grasp it well and remember that you must undergo immortal ascension using the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique in the future."
Feng Jin Huang had never seen such solemnity from Duke Long before, she nodded her head: "Yes master, I will definitely keep that in mind."
Duke Long nodded: "You can go, I still have important matters to discuss with Fairy Zi Wei."
"This disciple takes her leave." Feng Jin Huang immediately left obediently.
"This time, Huang Er was able to obtain the perfect Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, you deserve credit for that!" Duke Long said to Fairy Zi Wei.
It was indeed so.
Not only did Fairy Zi Wei play a major role in the deduction, but the original Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique was also obtained because she looked through the memories of Spectral Soul.
Without this foundation, no matter how much inspiration or direction Feng Jin Huang had, she would not be able to make any progress.
Fairy Zi Wei smiled: "This is my duty. If you hadn't captured Spectral Soul alive, I wouldn't have been able to soul search him. Speaking of which, the one Huang Er has to thank is you, her master."
Duke Long shook his head slightly: "This is shameful, as a master, I actually have very little to teach. I don't know anything about dream path, but fortunately, Huang Er possesses an extraordinary talent in dream path. It is also an honor for me to be able to do something for the future Great Dream Immortal Venerable. How has the practice of the killer move benevolent equality gone recently?"
Fairy Zi Wei's face turned solemn: "There is no problem with benevolence Gu, as for the killer move, I have successfully activated it several times."
"Did you find anything strange?" Duke Long pursued.
Fairy Zi Wei denied: "Not at all."
Duke Long intoned: "This means that benevolent equality is effective. But why haven't we seen any results?"
"Yes." Fairy Zi Wei's eyebrows were knitted: "Using benevolent equality to deal with Spring Autumn Cicada is a plan we have had all along. Looking at Fang Yuan's recent actions, all of them have been well planned and prepared, such as the battle in the River of Time, or the Dragon Palace fight, he had a good head start. He must have been reborn already, but why does no one on our side have memories of the previous life?"
The effect of benevolent equality was just as the name implied. Once Fairy Zi Wei used the killer move, the people that she looked at during the process would experience equivalent changes to their conditions.
For example, after Fairy Zi Wei used benevolent equality, she saw Fang Yuan's rebirth. At the same time, she looked towards Duke Long.
Then if Fang Yuan self-detonated using the killer move spring autumn success, his memories would go back to his past self. Duke Long would receive the same treatment, his memories would also go back to his former self.
"We don't know exactly what happened in Fang Yuan's last life. Previously, it was speculated that we couldn't borrow benevolence Gu, causing benevolent equality to be unusable. But now it seems we indeed gained this method."
"So was this result the effect of Fang Yuan's rebirth, and we actually did not gain benevolent equality in our previous life, or was it because something happened to me in the previous life, causing me to not use benevolent equality on him?"
Fairy Zi Wei was in a predicament.
A while after being awakened and understanding the current situation, Duke Long proposed to use benevolent equality to deal with Spring Autumn Cicada.
Spring Autumn Cicada was refined by his disciple, Red Lotus Demon Venerable, Demon Venerable knew the ways to deal with this cicada.
The time of Fang Yuan's rebirth was easily calculable by Fairy Zi Wei, it was at the time when Heavenly Court attacked Lang Ya blessed land.
The Fang Yuan before this and the Fang Yuan after this time had a different style of action and a completely different success rate in his plans.
Before Heavenly Court attacked Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan failed to regain the upper extreme heavenly eagle and was trapped by Lu Wei Yin.
After that, Fang Yuan had countless adequate preparations to deal with Heavenly Court's attack. Heavenly Court's side was repeatedly restrained, their advantages could not be utilized while their disadvantages were infinitely magnified, yet Fang Yuan was just the opposite.
Duke Long pondered: "Actually, there is another possibility. In the previous life, you successfully used benevolent equality, but you saw no one else but Fang Yuan. Or perhaps this person is not a Gu Immortal who is loyal to Heavenly Court."
There was a slight flicker of light in the eyes of Fairy Zi Wei: "If that's the case, then who could this crucial person be?"
Longevity Heaven.
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 shaking people's hearts.
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.
"What happened?" Five Elements Grandmaster was very uncertain.
Bull Demon and Flower Lady looked at each other, seeing the joy on each other's faces, the latter giggled: "West Desolation Immortal Bing Sai Chuan has awakened!"
"Bing Sai Chuan?" Five Elements Grandmaster's brows rose, he felt that the name was familiar.
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 soft facial features, but 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.
Five Elements Grandmaster was 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?!"
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.
"Greetings, Senior West Desolation." Bull Demon and Flower Lady quickly went to greet him while Five Elements Grandmaster followed after with a reverent expression.
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 Heavenly Court's Central Continent Refinement Path Convention.
"Fang Yuan... he actually extorted Southern Border's righteous path using rank seven cultivation level, while causing huge problems for Heavenly Court time and again in the River of Time. He is truly a world-shaking person!"
"Qi Sea Ancestor... able to fight equally with Duke Long? This is very rare, Eastern Sea has a lot of hidden depths."
"There's also Fang Di Chang, he actually refined Divine Bean Palace. Haha, this world really has no lack of experts!"
After gaining intel, Bing Sai Chuan laughed loudly with a heroic aura.
After his laughter, Bing Sai Chuan's eyes shined with bright light: "Since Fang Yuan is the person who destroyed Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, he is the crucial person who Lord Giant Sun Immortal Venerable mentioned."
Bull Demon, Flower Lady, and Five Elements Grandmaster were stunned.
Bing Sai Chuan's words involved the deep secrets of history.
Did Giant Sun Immortal Venerable predict that Fang Yuan would destroy Eighty-Eight True Yang Building? If he could predict that, why would he let Fang Yuan succeed?
Bing Sai Chuan did not answer them, he gave his orders: "We cannot let fate Gu be repaired completely, we need to stop them during this Refinement Path Convention. We have to contact Fang Yuan now and make an alliance!"
"What?" The three immortals were shocked.
Bing Sai Chuan frowned: "Can any of you contact Fang Yuan?"
The three immortals shook their heads in a daze.
Bing Sai Chuan's brows furrowed even tighter: "Then what are you waiting for? Do I have to search for the way to contact Fang Yuan myself?"
In the last life, Lang Ya Sect had joined Longevity Heaven, so they easily obtained a way to contact Fang Yuan from Lang Ya land spirit.
But now, Fang Yuan absorbed the entire four races variant human alliance including Lang Ya blessed land, Longevity Heaven was not involved.
Bing Sai Chuan wanted to contact Fang Yuan but he was stuck at the first step.
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Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Northern Plains.
"Are you all prepared?" Xue Er stood in the snow crystal formation as she observed the tens of frost qi lumps.
"We are prepared, supreme elder." A female snowman rank five Gu Master knelt on the ground, speaking reverently.
"Then go, remember to attend to them enthusiastically. Of course, if you suffer any misgivings, do not take it wordlessly." Xue Er thought about it and said.
"Yes." The female snowman Gu Master left.
Xue Er sighed a little.
Ever since she had been placed here by Fang Yuan, she had been dedicated to the development of the snowman tribe. With the aid of Fang Yuan's snow crystal formation, Xue Er worked hard and the size of the snowman tribe quadrupled under her command, turning into a huge variant human tribe.
"My husband has finally brought in the human race... If I had the time, I'd love to go see for myself. Unfortunately, I can't get away here." Xue Er looked at the frost qi, she felt downcast.
She manipulated the formation, carefully maintaining it. Ever since Fang Yuan annexed Qi Sea grotto-heaven, his qi path dao marks had risen greatly, causing a tremendous impact to the sovereign immortal aperture, the effects had yet to stop, still gradually transforming every aspect of the sovereign immortal aperture.
For example, the snowman tribe with Xue Er in charge had been experiencing a surge in frost qi, every few months, Xue Er had to come here personally to manipulate the formation and maintain it.
If the frost qi gathers to a certain extent, beyond the limit, this frost qi would turn into a frost tide.
A frost tide would be a calamity for the physically weak snowmen.
As for the surroundings, it would be heavily damaged too. In fact, when the frost tide spreads out, it would be a problem for the whole of Mini Northern Plains.
Because of the regional walls, the other four mini regions would not be affected by the frost tide.
Not long ago, Fang Yuan sent a letter to inform Xue Er that a city would be placed near the snowman tribe's location. By then, he would need the snowman tribe to gather their people and send gifts while interacting with the newcomers.
Xue Er naturally followed his instructions, but all along, her variant human group had been suppressed by humans all along, asking her to interact with the humans now made her feel some lingering fear from her past.
If possible, Xue Er would like the whole of Mini Northern Plains to be ruled by snowmen.
But that was just an impossible dream.
Fang Yuan was a human after all, when his immortal aperture gets developed to an extent, he would bring in humans to live. That was the sign that an immortal aperture was prospering and growing.
The snowman tribe's group had just moved out when Mini Western Desert's inkman group arrived at its destination.
As the Inkman City Lord, Mo Tan Sang flew high in the sky, quietly awaiting.
"It's coming." Suddenly, his eyes shined with bright light.
In the sky, a dazzling rainbow light flashed brightly.
Around this colored profound light, the earth pushed out in all directions. The colored profound light grew larger and larger, gradually revealing the vague illusory phantom of a city.
This phantom became more and more real, eventually the brilliant light dissipated, adding thousands of miles of land to the original location.
A city was located at the center of the newly added land, it was the Sacred Eagle City of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
The inkman Gu Master group was already kneeling on the ground, praising and cheering at such a mystical sight, only when Mo Tan Sang gave the orders did they stand up.
The gates of Sacred Eagle City opened, the city folks inside had already been informed and quickly gathered into a welcoming party.
The two parties met at the city gates, as contact officially began.
The people of Sacred Eagle City curiously sized up the dark-skinned, white-haired inkmen, the inkmen gradually let go of their worries.
They had also been living under the heavy pressure of the human race for a long time, but they did not expect this new group of people to be so easygoing. The conversations stemmed from a place of equality, which made the inkmen happy from the bottom of their hearts.
"Is this Lord Mo Tang Sang?" The Eagle Warrior who was in charge of Sacred Eagle City flew towards Mo Tan Sang: "From now on, we will be in your care."
"Likewise, likewise." Mo Tan Sang smiled: "You don't have to be too polite, we're all allies here."
Mini Blue Heaven.
The cloud soil gathered into a small hanging continent.
After the starlight flashed, a majestic city was suddenly added to this originally empty continent.
This city was scarred and devastated, It was Star Collection City, which had resisted the poisonous smoke grand tribulation earlier.
In the center of Star Collection City, there was already a brand new Star Snail Hall, which was a mortal Gu House that Fang Yuan had purposely built.
As for the Star Sea Snail that originally served as the hall, it had been put into the treasury by Fang Yuan. This was an immemorial desolate beast, and the shell of the snail was an rank eight immortal material. If it was handed over to the old Combat Beast King, he would not know how to process it, he would only let the dao marks on the immortal material dissipate naturally. That would be too wasteful.
"Is this your father's world? It is so huge." The old Combat Beast King quietly left Star Collection City as he flew around, sighing to himself deeply.
Accompanying him was none other than Zhan Bu Du: "This is Mini Blue Heaven. There are nine other places like this in my father's immortal aperture world. I'm sure we'll be able to live well here."
The old Combat Beast King nodded and asked: "How do we contact the others?"
"Use this. It is an information path mortal Gu." Zhan Bu Du took out a mortal Gu and handed it to the old Combat Beast King.
The Combat Beast King's cultivation was at rank eight but his knowledge was very shallow, this simple information path mortal Gu made him marvel in awe: "I can't believe that Gu worms can be this useful."
"This is how they should be used. The Beast Calamity true inheritance that I received says this as well." Zhan Bu Du smiled shyly: "Please don't blame me, Grandpa Combat Beast King, my father wanted me to keep this as a secret."
The old Combat Beast King nodded: "I understand. I wonder what your father wants me to do?"
"For the time being, we would like Grandpa Combat Beast King and the other warriors to learn the traditional Gu cultivation method. This place is not safe, we have strong enemies outside." Zhan Bu Du said vaguely.
The old Combat Beast King was shook: "Your father is willing to impart the true cultivation way to us?"
"Of course he is. We are all allies." Zhan Bu Du smiled.
Fang Yuan annexed Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
Getting rid of the myriad tribulation in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven expended a lot of his immortal essence and effort, but it could not stop Fang Yuan.
He almost singlehandedly got rid of the grotto-heaven's crisis, Fang Yuan's reputation also rose to its peak.
Next, with the help of Zhan Bu Du, the owner of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, he successfully annexed Beast Calamity grotto-heaven and brought it into his sovereign immortal aperture.
Different from the previous life, Fang Yuan had already made all the preparations now, he deduced everything in advance.
After annexing the grotto-heaven, he split up the grotto-heaven and placed the different parts all over the sovereign immortal aperture.
Beast Calamity grotto-heaven had several major gathering spots, some contained a portion of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven's true inheritance.
Fang Yuan placed Sacred Eagle City, Dark Valley, Spirit Spring Forest, Mountain Cliff City, Star Collection City in Mini Western Desert, Mini Southern Border, Mini Central Continent, Mini Northern Plains and Mini Blue Heaven respectively.
Of course, other than that, the many major resource points in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven were also handled properly by Fang Yuan.
Fully absorbing this grotto-heaven would take time.
The fusing of ecologies needed to reach a balance, time was needed for that, as well as the patience of the Gu Immortals managing the place.
Fang Yuan obtained myriad beings assimilation transformation again, the qilin heavenly spirit was also alive at the largest piece of territory.
Fang Yuan gained more than two hundred thousand transformation path dao marks from this!
In the previous life, Beast Calamity grotto-heaven gave him over a hundred thousand transformation path dao marks only. But in this life, because of Fang Yuan's arrangements, there was ample time to trigger the second myriad tribulation.
The original owner of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven only survived the first myriad tribulation before dying. By the time Fang Yuan discovered Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, its second myriad tribulation was approaching.
After passing the second myriad tribulation, Beast Calamity grotto-heaven gained another hundred thousand dao marks.
Thus, in terms of transformation path dao marks, Fang Yuan gained about double of them this time.
The more dao marks he had, the better it was for him.
"Oh, Bing Sai Chuan has awakened, he wants to cooperate?" Fang Yuan received this information and smiled.
Even though Longevity Heaven could not contact Fang Yuan directly, they found a method to do so.
They knew that Southern Border's righteous path had been extorted by him before, they definitely had ways to contact him. Thus, by finding one of Southern Border's super forces, and paying a high price, they would gain this method.
Bing Sai Chuan immediately talked to Fang Yuan, saying that he wished to cooperate with him.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan was a little puzzled, but this time, he understood the reason.
"Bing Sai Chuan wants to work together and gather everyone's strength to try to snatch fate Gu away."
"However, I need them to attack Heavenly Court as well, they will test the water for me and lure away some firepower."
Fang Yuan was wary about many things in Heavenly Court.
For example, Genesis Lotus' painting path method, or the game of chess between two venerables in Imperfection Regret Pavilion.
Fang Yuan agreed to cooperate with Bing Sai Chuan.
This instead made Bing Sai Chuan have some doubts: "Why did Fang Yuan agree to this so readily? He is likely suspicious of us, he wants to see our future actions."
Bing Sai Chuan frowned, he felt that he should find an opportunity to fight together with Fang Yuan and show his sincerity.
But after thinking about it, Bing Sai Chuan could not find any suitable targets.
In the previous life, he had no such worries. Be it the River of Time's stone lotus island or Dragon Palace, he could ally with Fang Yuan to fight.
But in this life, Fang Yuan changed many things. He obtained Dragon Palace in advance, the River of Time battle ended in Heavenly Court's defeat, they had not recovered even now, still being fearful to step into this forbidden ground that Fang Yuan personally created.
Heavenly Court.
Qin Ding Ling looked at Feng Jiu Ge, smiling: "Tell me, since you approached me personally, what is your request?
Towards this exemplary junior who was also the Dao Guardian of the future Great Dream Immortal Venerable, Qin Ding Ling was quite appreciative.
Feng Jiu Ge hesitated for a while before speaking: "I would like to borrow a rank eight luck path Immortal Gu from senior — Responsive Luck."
Qin Ding Ling was slightly surprised, before she realized: "Sure, I agree to your request."
Saying so, she handed responsive luck Immortal Gu to Feng Jiu Ge on the spot.
Feng Jiu Ge was slightly stunned.
Qin Ding Ling said: "I know that you are creating a new killer move, this responsive luck Immortal Gu must be very helpful to you, otherwise, with your nature, you will not ask to borrow my Gu worm."
Feng Jiu Ge nodded, receiving responsive luck Immortal Gu: "That is correct."
He had already created an eighty percent complete destiny song, he found that rank eight fate armor Immortal Gu could not shoulder the grand and vast destiny song, he needed another luck path Immortal Gu as the core.
With Feng Jiu Ge's current understanding, responsive luck Immortal Gu was the most suitable for him.
Qin Ding Ling looked at this Immortal Gu and sighed: "The Immortal Gu recipe for responsive luck Immortal Gu was not actually created by me, I had secretly taken a look at the manuscript written by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. In the future, if you use this Gu to deal with the Northern Plains Gu Immortals, we will give them a taste of their own medicine. I will give this Immortal Gu to you."
Feng Jiu Ge thanked Qin Ding Ling as he said: "This Gu is not enough, I will need to head to the River of Time, view the past and present, and observe the paths of all lives."
Qin Ding Ling frowned: "According to what I know, even though Heavenly Court is working at full speed, we have only created one time path Immortal Gu House as of now. Going to the River of Time now is simply courting death. Let me take a look at your luck, to try to find a hidden chance for you."
Feng Jiu Ge thanked her once again.
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The River of Time flowed endlessly.
Heavenly Court.
Discussion hall.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals gathered, there were few Gu Immortals who did not come, this was the largest gathering that Heavenly Court had in the last thousand years.
Duke Long sat at the highest seat, he looked around: "We have explained our plan, go ahead and execute it. Whether we can restore the glory of Heavenly Court will depend on everyone's hard work."
"We will do our best!" All of the immortals resounded, they were very motivated.
The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention that would affect all five regions and the future of the world was about to begin!
Once news got out, the world was shaken.
Thanks to Fang Yuan's intentional spread of news, all the Gu Immortals knew of the importance of this Refinement Path Convention. But mortal Gu Masters had no idea, they thought that this Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was like the usual ones in the past.
Gu Masters started to move, heading towards Central Continent.
Each Central Continent Refinement Path Convention would attract the Gu Masters of the other four regions to participate, it involved all five regions and was a huge event.
But this time was slightly different from the beginning.
Western Desert.
A huge group of Gu Masters stood in front of the regional wall.
A youngster sighed loudly: "Father, if I were not seeing this personally, I simply could not believe there is such an amazing thing in the world."
"This is the regional wall. Once we get past this, we will reach Central Continent." The middle aged Gu Master beside the youngster said: "After entering the regional wall, our vision will be restricted, by then, you need to stay by my side and not get lost. Understood?"
"Yes father, I will." The youngster nodded obediently.
"Mm." Zhang Quan looked at his son Zhang Ping, feeling very proud.
His son had strong refinement path talent, for his future development, Zhang Quan brought him on a journey to participate in the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention, to train his refinement path ability and also to gain some knowledge.
"What sound is that?" At the next moment, Zhang Quan looked up in confusion.
Next, his pupils shrunk as he showed great shock.
A huge meteor that was the size of a hill crashed down towards them.
The surrounding Gu Masters screamed in fear.
"Why is this happening? We're doomed!" Instantly, Zhang Quan felt great regret. If he had decided to travel to Central Continent alone, his son would not die with him.
Boom!
The meteor crashed down on the ground, causing an earthshaking explosion.
Zhang Quan and the rest died without intact corpses.
In the sky, an inkman Gu Immortal looked around coldly before leaving.
Similar scenes were happening all over the five regions.
These Gu Immortals were all Fang Yuan's subordinates, they had received his order to prevent people from joining the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention.
Next, Fang Yuan publicly announced in treasure yellow heaven: "If anyone joins the Refinement Path Convention, you will be making an enemy out of me, one day, I will find you and settle the score!"
The Gu Immortals of the five regions sighed in amazement: The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention had just started but Fang Yuan made his move already. As expected of the Little Demon Venerable, he was rampant and brutal.
Heavenly Court was enraged!
Because the assault of Fang Yuan's subordinates would cause much fewer Gu Masters to join the convention, it would be disadvantageous in repairing fate Gu.
Different from the previous life, Fang Yuan ordered his subordinates to only move around Northern Plains, Southern Border, Western Desert, and Eastern Sea. This way, Central Continent and Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals could not head to the other four regions and save these people.
During this period of time, if Central Continent and Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals head to the other four regions, they would be angering and provoking the other four regions' super forces.
Heavenly Court could only accuse Fang Yuan of his heinous crimes and communicate with the righteous paths of the other regions to get them to take revenge on this terribly demonic act.
The righteous paths of the other four regions responded loudly but they took little action, even if they did anything, they were merely doing it superficially, creating a lot of noise but little effect.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan acted in Central Continent itself and was faced with much obstruction not long after.
In this life, Fang Yuan took action in advance, he immediately gained huge results in battle.
The waves of Gu Masters rushing to Central Continent immediately ceased.
Nobody wanted to die just because of one Central Continent Refinement Path Convention.
Furthermore, the four regions' super forces had also stopped their own Gu Masters from joining the convention, it caused this current Refinement Path Convention to be very sparse in attendants.
Central Continent, Unification Sect.
As one of the sign up locations of the Refinement Path Convention, it was filled with people and commotion as well.
"The Refinement Path Convention is about to start! Strange, why do I not see people from the other four regions?" Luo Sheng sighed.
In the previous Refinement Path Convention, he had lost to a Northern Plains Gu Master by chance, this time, he was trying to find that Northern Plains Gu Master again for a rematch.
Luo Sheng was eager to prove himself.
"But Central Continent is too large, the five regions are too broad, geniuses are everywhere."
He looked around and found that three people here were tough opponents for himself.
One was an old man that had been reputed for many years, he was also a refinement path master. Another was a young man, and the last one was a young girl. The former had performed well in the previous convention while the latter was a rising star that had emerged in the last ten years.
"This Refinement Path Convention is still going to be that intense!"
"I must make good use of this opportunity, I cannot fail anymore..."
"I will prove myself, I will let my wife and children be proud!"
Boom!
At the next moment, a huge ancient year beast descended from the sky, crushing the entire hall to ruin.
All of his grand ambitions vanished into thin air.
The young Gu Master with a great future, the genius young girl who was thought of highly, they all died pitifully on the spot, their bones and flesh were mashed together, even the corpses could not be seen clearly.
In the sky, Bai Ning Bing's figure flashed rapidly.
She was in charge of moving around, every destination she reached, she released ancient year beasts. As for the result, Fang Yuan said that she did not need to be concerned with that.
Earlier, Fang Yuan sent variant human Gu Immortals to kill Gu Master participants in advance. Now, he ordered Shadow Sect's immortals to infiltrate Central Continent and use ancient year beasts to destroy the sign-up locations, to create bloodshed as countless elite Gu Masters face their end.
After learning of this situation, Heavenly Court immediately spread news of the truth.
"There really are immortals in this world..."
"The culprit behind everything is Fang Yuan!"
"Fang Yuan, you killed my father, I will definitely take revenge for this immense hatred!"
"Even rank fives are just ants if they do not become Gu Immortals."
"Immortals are high and mighty, why must I sacrifice my life for a mere Refinement Path Convention? Forget it, forget it."
"I must go! If I do not go, wouldn't I fall into that Fang Yuan's scheme?"
Some were fearful, some felt emotional, some backed out, while some became determined.
"They are trying to gather the rage of the people and accumulate human will." In the previous life, Fang Yuan did not know what Heavenly Court was doing, but now, he was deeply aware.
Fang Yuan quickly ordered his subordinates to stop.
Heavenly Court and Central Continent's Gu Immortals gathered rage and hatred, they were about to take action when they found that Fang Yuan's subordinates all vanished without a trace.
"Isn't Fang Yuan trying to destroy the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention? Why did he stop?" The four regions' super forces who were watching the show felt very perplexed.
In a secret meeting in Southern Border, Wu Yong analyzed some of Fang Yuan's thoughts: "Fang Yuan had an early advantage, if he continues, Heavenly Court will deduce the locations of his attackers, he will lose many subordinates."
"Then will Fang Yuan attack again?" Someone asked.
"Of course." Wu Yong said without doubt: "But before that, we need to move out secretly too."
In the previous life, Fang Yuan attacked personally and caused destruction, not long after, he was marked by the killer move people's accusation, he had to hide while his subordinates like Bai Ning Bing took action.
This time, Fang Yuan lurked and concealed himself while ordering his subordinates to cause destruction and bloodshed.
Others were not like Fang Yuan who could defend against Fairy Zi Wei's deductions using wisdom path methods. Thus, Fang Yuan ordered Bai Ning Bing and the rest to hide themselves after causing some level of destruction.
The Refinement Path Convention had just started.
The huge battle had not begun, these subordinates were still very useful to Fang Yuan.
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The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was wildly continuing, but Fang Yuan's group was nowhere to be found.
Fang Yuan gave the orders to retreat so quickly, the Gu Immortals of the five regions felt as if the slaughter earlier was not real.
"What is Fang Yuan doing?"
"The Central Continent Refinement Path Convention is still going on, why aren't you doing anything!"
"You are the Little Demon Venerable, don't bring shame to your reputation."
The four regions' super forces were very anxious as they complained, they wanted Fang Yuan to attack and take the role of charging into battle for them.
But Fang Yuan, who had opposed Heavenly Court all along, went missing now, he was in hiding and could not be seen anywhere.
The four regions' forces were about to feel some resentment towards him, as days passed, they watched as the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention continued to advance, all sorts of refinement path elites were progressing in the competition.
The number of test locations in Central Continent also shrunk greatly. Each area was now guarded by multiple Central Continent Gu Immortals arranged by Heavenly Court.
In this situation, Fang Yuan ordered again, various immortals including Bai Ning Bing, Bing Yuan, and Beast Calamity grotto-heaven's Gu Immortals took action.
Central Continent, Xuanwu mountain range.
"Bai Ning Bing, you have committed too much evil, you will face retribution eventually!" A female immortal from Spirit Affinity House was guarding this place, she said that before escaping.
Bai Ning Bing snorted coldly: "She ran really quickly."
Xuanwu mountain range was a giant resource point of Spirit Affinity House, it had a huge area and was a publicly known immortal material treasure trove.
"Problems will come with waiting, I should act quickly." Bai Ning Bing started to loot the place.
Central Continent, Imprisonment Valley.
"It's here." Steel Rush Warrior looked around.
Frost Butterfly Warrior came along with him: "Open!"
Once the killer move was used, a formation appeared in front of them.
Transformation!
The two rank seven Gu Immortals from Beast Calamity grotto-heaven did not hesitate to use their most proficient method. One turned into a giant with bull head and human body, while the other turned into a mini butterfly person that emanated frost energy.
As immortal killer moves were unleashed, the formation broke after resisting for a while.
"Southern thorns, the entire valley is made of immortal materials." Steel Rush Warrior was overjoyed.
Frost Butterfly Warrior was even more direct, freezing the southern thorns and looting them rapidly.
Central Continent, red river beach.
The Central Continent Gu Immortals who arrived were furious.
They were late, they only saw ruins left.
The blazing red stones that accumulated on the beach were all taken.
A clean sweep!
Fang Yuan was waiting silently earlier, but once he made a move, it shocked the world.
His Gu Immortals were almost fully deployed, even the hairy man Gu Immortals were sent out.
These people were instructed by Fang Yuan, they did not attack the sign-up spots that were heavily guarded, they targeted the resource points with weaker defenses instead.
Each time they broke into a resource point, these people would plunder it dry. After the plunder, they would use killer moves to completely destroy the place beyond salvation.
At once, the whole of Central Continent was set ablaze, all sorts of large resource points were plundered and destroyed.
Every time Fang Yuan succeeded in taking down an area, he would publish the results of his success in treasure yellow heaven.
The five regions' Gu Immortals went into a clamor.
"How does Fang Yuan have so many subordinates!"
"So many Gu Immortals, he has greatly surpassed a normal super force."
"How much strength is he hiding?!"
After feeling shocked, they felt envy and admiration.
Fang Yuan's subordinates had varying battle strength, but even the weakest Gu Immortal could succeed. For the Refinement Path Convention, Central Continent had lowered its defense of these resource points too much.
Many powerful Gu Immortals started to think: "Since these variant human Gu Immortals can plunder successfully, why can't I?"
And many weaker Gu Immortals started to think: "Most of the good stuff will be taken by those experts, but I can still get the leftovers, right?"
Thus, similar to the previous life, the four regions' Gu Immortals could not wait anymore, especially those demonic immortals and lone cultivators.
These people started to attack all the resource points around Central Continent.
The situation in Central Continent fell apart rapidly.
Heavenly Court.
Fairy Zi Wei had a dark expression.
No matter how great her self-control, seeing all the information sources regarding resource points getting plundered and looted dry, she felt deep anger within her.
"Fang Yuan..." She gritted her teeth, emitting an intense killing intent uncontrollably.
It was this culprit who stirred everyone's desires and made Central Continent the hunting ground of the other four regions, it was plundered casually and suffered huge losses.
Be they Fairy Zi Wei, Duke Long, or Qin Ding Ling, they were helpless.
Central Continent was too big, it was at the center surrounded by the other four regions as well.
They had too few Gu Immortals, they could not send people to all the resource points, their manpower was severely lacking.
This gave thieves and bandits a chance to strike.
"People's hearts have changed." Qin Ding Ling sighed.
Duke Long was indifferent: "Sacrifices are necessary for our grand ambition. We will focus on the Refinement Path Convention, these immortal materials can be given up. Once fate Gu is repaired, we will make them pay back a thousandfold."
Central Continent was currently being ravaged.
Fang Yuan's timing was too impeccable, he chose the perfect moment where Heavenly Court was increasing its defense of the Gu refinement locations, these elites could not be lost as it would severely affect Central Continent's potential. And for the moment, their loss would be detrimental to repairing fate Gu.
Fang Yuan's target was also perfect.
For example, places like Xuanwu mountain range were too huge, it naturally had low defense. As for Imprisonment Valley and red river beach, he had looted them in the previous life, he knew their layout and defensive measures.
Together with his meticulous planning, Fang Yuan's subordinates had a high success rate. The ease of his plunder and immense gains lured all of the other four regions' Gu Immortals.
The Gu Immortals of all four regions quickly moved out to target the various resource points.
Central Continent had not given up on all their resource points, many important resource points were guarded by experts.
At once, all sorts of battles erupted, Gu Immortals fought and the moment they found that one resource point was too hard to take down, they would wisely give up and move to the next location.
Central Continent had so many resource points anyway, why would they be fixated on one area?
Western Desert earth path Gu Immortal Shi Gan Dang destroyed the earth qi rock forest and obtained a large amount of round kun stones.
Forgotten Daoist successfully stole the spirit bank spring water, even though it was defended by Ancient Soul Sect's expert Yang Feng.
Xiao Hu Chi, Xiao Shi Rang, and Pi Shui Han worked together and succeeded in their plunder, but because of the problem of distribution, they fought against each other.
Central Continent was full of conflict and fighting, it was utter chaos.
Fairy Zi Wei stayed in Heavenly Court, she felt that days were passing like years.
Eventually, Old Man Zheng Yuan spoke: "We have gathered enough human will now, we can use the first human path killer move."
Fairy Zi Wei was overjoyed, quickly asking him to make a move.
Old Man Zheng Yuan nodded, he stood up shakily as a grand and vast aura surged out of his body!
Immortal killer move — People's United Hearts!
The accumulated human will was expended rapidly, almost none was left.
At the same time, Central Continent's Gu Immortals, Gu Masters and even mortals became enveloped in a halo of light.
The halo flashed for a moment, it was like an illusion.
But Central Continent's people soon found something special.
Their hearts were connected, they could sense each other's thoughts and emotions.
The fear of being attacked, the sadness and hatred of having friends and family die, the worry towards one's own life, and the aspirations towards one's future...
Never had Central Continent's people been so tightly connected before in history.
Unfettered Scholar, who was hiding in the Gu refinement location, was discovered, he managed to exact revenge and kill the Central Continent Gu Immortal who was guarding the place.
Southern Border secluded immortal Zheng Qing was exposed too, but he had no animosity towards Central Continent or Heavenly Court, he was asked to leave politely.
"This human path killer move, people's united hearts, is truly amazing." Shen Shang communicated with Fang Yuan using treasure yellow heaven. His current location was unknown, Fang Yuan only knew that he had left Eastern Sea and could possibly even be in Central Continent now.
"What did you comprehend? Can we restrict these human path killer moves?" Fang Yuan asked, he had already given all of the information regarding these human path killer moves in his memory to Shen Shang.
Shen Shang sighed: "To negate these killer moves, the easiest way is to destroy the human will. Without human will as the foundation, these human path killer moves cannot be used. But I deduced that these human wills are kept in Heavenly Court."
"Then what about other ways?" Fang Yuan asked.
Shen Shang sighed again: "Then we can only unravel the killer move directly, this is very difficult, I will need a lot of time. Don't worry, since I promised you, I will do my best. I do not want to see a complete fate Gu either."
Fang Yuan continued to wait patiently.
Wu Yong led the Southern Alliance immortals as they appeared on Hairy Foot Mountain.
"Follow me, let us destroy Infallible blessed land, let's take all the success dao marks and make Heavenly Court taste failure!" Wu Yong announced.
"We will follow Lord Alliance Leader!!" The Southern Alliance immortals said together, they had high morale as they followed him.
Heavenly Court immediately received news about this.
Fairy Zi Wei's face was grim as cold light shined in her eyes: "This Wu Yong."
"Wu Yong has moved out. Longevity Heaven is also about to take action, it is time for me to make my move." After receiving the news, Fang Yuan smiled as he appeared near Yi Tian Mountain.
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Myriad Year Flying Warship floated in the sky, Fang Yuan looked at the formation in front of him with a smile.
He arrived at Yi Tian Mountain again, this time, he would definitely take all of the dream realms away.
This timing was truly impeccable.
Firstly, Wu Yong had led the Southern Alliance experts to infiltrate Central Continent, Southern Border was at its weakest now. Secondly, the huge battle had just started, this was likely the final period of free time for Fang Yuan.
"Different from the previous life, I had all the initiative this time, I defeated Heavenly Court repeatedly. The secret of my rebirth is known to all, Heavenly Court must have ways to counter it. Their arrangements will be different from the previous life, I should let the four regions' Gu Immortals strike first while I observe their new methods."
Fang Yuan had a firm grasp of the situation.
At this point, Fang Yuan's rebirth advantage was mostly depleted. His previous life's memories were not reliable against a colossal force like Heavenly Court.
Heavenly Court would not be so stupid as to not make changes.
If Fang Yuan took the lead as the vanguard, he would be stuck in endless battles, unable to get away from fighting. He might even die in the process.
After all, Heavenly Court's foundation was unfathomable, Fang Yuan could not be sure that the venerable methods in his memories were all the methods left behind.
Immortal killer move — Refinement Formation Rain.
Rain started to fall from the sky, gradually infiltrating the formation.
There were naturally defending Gu Immortals in the formation.
The Gu Immortals were in panic.
The formation could not block him, the periphery had already been refined by Fang Yuan.
Even though this formation was set up by Chi Qu You, Fang Yuan had secretly undergone dream realm transactions with him, he gained a lot of information about this formation.
Fang Yuan's formation path and wisdom path attainment, along with refinement formation rain, completely countered this formation.
"This demon Fang Yuan did not attack Central Continent, he came back to Southern Border!"
"What do I do?"
"Seek help?"
"Our rank eight Gu Immortals have all gone to Central Continent under the lead of Lord Wu Yong!"
"We still need to inform them about this!"
The Southern Border Gu Immortals conversed for a while, nobody dared to go out to fight Fang Yuan, but they had no reinforcements either. They had to use the immortal formation and add changes to it.
The immortal formation continued to change, Fang Yuan's speed of refining the formation became slower instantly.
But Fang Yuan became happy internally.
The more this formation changed, the more he could comprehend the profundity within it. With the help of the light of wisdom, he could easily understand all of these secrets.
Within Central Continent, the Southern Alliance's immortals had already entered the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
Wu Yong and the rest received this news.
"What? The dream realm was attacked?"
"That scoundrel Fang Yuan!"
"Can he see the big picture at all? He is actually attacking us at this time?!"
The Southern Alliance's immortals were furious.
Wu Yong was silent for a while before speaking: "Of course he can."
"What does Lord Wu Yong mean?" Ba De had a livid expression. Fang Yuan's actions were harming the benefits of all the Southern Border righteous path forces!
Everyone knew about the value of these dream realms, furthermore, they would get more important when the great era arrives.
Wu Yong smiled instead: "If Fang Yuan does not see the big picture, he would have attacked the dream realm long ago. He would not wait for us to go to Central Continent. Or maybe, he wants to make use of us as cannon fodder."
"Then aren't we sacrificing ourselves for him?" Someone asked in an indignant tone.
"No." Wu Yong shook his head: "If fate Gu is repaired, its threat will be far greater than the otherworldly demon Fang Yuan. He has been reborn, it seems we took the initiative to attack like now in the previous life. But there is no choice, we need to attack. This is for the sake of the five regions."
"Everyone, before we left, I already told you that our region would likely get attacked. Be they your family, friends, or our territory, all of the destruction and slaughter pale in comparison to the big picture! If Heavenly Court gains a complete fate Gu, we will all be helpless, there will be no future for anyone!"
Wu clan said this as his eyes shined like lightning, he looked around as he declared: "This is my order, let all of the defending Gu Immortals retreat from the formation, do not make unnecessary sacrifices. I know this is a risky move, but even if my Wu clan headquarters get destroyed, I will not retract my words!"
Wu Yong's determination shook the hearts of all the immortals.
They were all united now, the Southern Alliance immortals were tightly connected, they fought their way into the depths of the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
After Southern Border received Wu Yong's orders, the defending Gu Immortals sighed in relief, they brought as many Immortal Gu as they could with them as they started to teleport away.
A moment later, Fang Yuan refined the formation, not a single Southern Border Gu Immortal was in sight.
After he dismantled the formation, he received an information path Gu worm, it was a letter that Wu Yong had specially written to him.
Fang Yuan's divine sense swept through it, looking at the content.
The letter only had one sentence, it spoke of one viewpoint — The threat of Heavenly Court and Fate, Central Continent is strong, while the four regions are weak.
He did not say anything about asking Fang Yuan to stop.
"This Wu Yong..." Fang Yuan sighed to himself.
Earlier, he was a problem for Fang Yuan, using his political skills to restrict Fang Yuan's extortion and causing him great loss. But now, Wu Yong asked the Southern Border Gu Immortals to stop defending, he made them retreat and saved Fang Yuan a lot of effort.
If these Southern Border Gu Immortals continued to defend, it would waste a lot of time.
After Fang Yuan takes the dream realm, he would save a lot of time, that meant he could find trouble with the righteous path of Southern Border. Wu Yong's orders carried lots of risk, it was a bold move.
But Wu Yong was sure that Fang Yuan knew the big picture, he would not continue causing trouble in Southern Border.
It was like how Fang Yuan knew Wu Yong would not come back from Central Continent to defend these territories if he attacked.
And the truth was, Fang Yuan had no intention to find trouble with Southern Border's righteous path at this moment.
After some effort, Fang Yuan took away all of the dream realms here.
Yi Tian Mountain saw the light of day again, the huge Gu Immortal battles engraved here could be seen all around the mountain, there was no sign of life here, everything had changed.
Fang Yuan started to head to Central Continent.
As he traveled, he transformed these dream realms into Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies.
In the following battle, these Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies would be a huge force of his. In the previous life, Feng Jin Huang was able to resist the detonation of his Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies, in this life, it was likely that she could do the same.
But Feng Jin Huang was just one single mortal Gu Master. Fang Yuan had the initiative, he had several battlefields to approach.
Heavenly Court, Central Great Hall.
Duke Long, Fairy Zi Wei, and Qin Ding Ling watched over the situation.
Old Man Zheng Yuan was also invited here.
"The latest news, Southern Border's Gu Immortals broke the first formation, they are going to the second formation. Fang Yuan appeared in Yi Tian Mountain and destroyed the formation, taking all the dream realms." Fairy Zi Wei suddenly said.
Duke Long said grimly: "Fang Yuan will not continue causing chaos in Southern Border, he will definitely go fight in Central Continent. It seems that we need to deal with these dream realms."
Fairy Zi Wei nodded: "We are very lucky that Feng Jin Huang created the perfect Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, she can resist Fang Yuan's dream path methods."
Duke Long chuckled: "You think this is luck? No, this is the power of fate! Heavenly Court will not lose this battle, we cannot lose."
At this moment, Fairy Zi Wei gasped as she showed a surprised expression: "Southern Border's immortals have broken the second formation, they are going to the third one now."
"So fast?" Even Qin Ding Ling was shocked.
Within nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, the immortals had high morale.
"Chi Qu You, good job."
"As expected of the sole formation path great grandmaster in Southern Border!"
"With Lord Chi Qu You around, how can any formation stop us? Hahaha."
Just earlier, when the immortals went into the second sub-formation, Chi Qu You spoke: "Stop."
Next, he observed the area and led the immortals to quickly and delicately destroy the formation.
The immortals praised him but Chi Qu You shook his head: "The truth is, I did not see through this formation, I had received information from Fang Yuan."
The expressions of the Southern Border immortals froze.
Chi Qu You continued: "Using my method, I can break this formation rapidly. But that is a forbidden method that will expend my lifespan. It seems that Fang Yuan had been reborn. In the previous life, he must have broken this formation too, he knows about it clearly."
The immortals nodded, agreeing with him.
What they did not know was, Chi Qu You was the one who explained the profundity of this formation to Fang Yuan.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan rushed to Hairy Foot Mountain from Emperor City battlefield, in order to destroy the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, the immortals wanted to use the five regional limit formation. But without the complete formation chart, and having to create it within the enemy's formation, it was too difficult.
Fang Yuan used his wisdom path and formation path attainment to cooperate with Chi Qu You and Black Extremity, working together to deduce the complete formation chart.
During this process, Chi Qu You gave Fang Yuan and Black Extremity an explanation on their experiences of breaking the earlier formations so that they could understand the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
Since Wu Yong asked the Southern Border immortals to retreat, displaying greater sincerity and determination, Fang Yuan was returning the favor by guiding them now.
After learning of this situation, Wu Yong had a slightly complex expression as he sighed: "It seems that Fang Yuan has already arrived in Central Continent."
Fang Yuan understood Wu Yong, but Wu Yong also understood Fang Yuan.
The two of them had an indescribable understanding.
Even though they wanted each other to die during normal times!
The truth was, in the previous life, in order to break the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation, Fang Yuan also asked the Southern Alliance for dream realms.
Wu Yong did not hesitate but agreed instantly.
Fang Yuan was transported back to Southern Border, the defensive formation was opened and he managed to take the dream realms away.
But later, when Fang Yuan converted them into Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies, Feng Jin Huang resisted them and he failed to destroy the nine-nine consecutive unceasing formation.
Using Fang Yuan's guidance, the Southern Alliance's immortals broke through another two formations, their efficiency was out of this world.
Heavenly Court finally reacted in time, Fairy Zi Wei frowned and thought about the countermeasure when suddenly, rainbow light appeared above Heavenly Court.
Bright lights spread everywhere, rank eight Immortal Gu House Calamity Luck Altar shot out from within!
"Heavenly Court, we're here." Bing Sai Chuan called out with great morale.
"We have been waiting." Qin Ding Ling slowly stood up.
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Heavenly Court.
Colorful lights filled the sky, a huge rank eight Immortal Gu House flew out from within.
It had three floors of altars, grand and magnificent. There were multiple pillars holding each floor up, having white jade railings and shining aurora, it was eye-catching.
"Calamity Luck Altar!" Qin Ding Ling watched with shrunken pupils, her expression was complex.
She was looking at the Immortal Gu House that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable built personally, but the latter had passed away. Even if you were an Immortal Venerable, lifespan was limited.
"Heavenly Court." On the other hand, Bing Sai Chuan in Calamity Luck Altar was trembling with excitement.
At long last, he had finally attacked this place, commencing the great plan that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had entrusted to him — to seize fate Gu and refine destiny Gu!
"We really got in." The accompanying Five Elements Grandmaster was very shocked and surprised: "Is Heavenly Court's defense really this weak?"
"Of course not." Bull Demon explained in a deep voice: "This is the arrangement of our Ancestor Giant Sun. Back then, Golden Hoop Great Immortal invited our ancestor to come to the Heavenly Court for a visit, ostensibly proclaiming that he wanted to invite Ancestor Giant Sun into Heavenly Court. At that time, Ancestor Giant Sun secretly set up this arrangement, leaving it for the future."
Five Elements Grandmaster could not help but inwardly be astounded at the words, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's strategy was planned so long ago but he actually managed to use it so far in the future!
"Go! We'll use the route that Limitless Demon Venerable made when he previously attacked, we will attack Central Great Hall, ascend to Heaven Overseeing Tower, and seize fate Gu!" As soon as Bing Sai Chuan gave the order, the surrounding colored lights moved sharply.
Calamity Luck Altar was actually carried by the colored lights and moved to a distant place.
The qi wall left by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable had already activated, it sealed Calamity Luck Altar within the qi wall.
On the other side, Qin Ding Ling had a pale face as she fell to the ground.
She had already done her best to make some minor modifications to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangements. The so-called trap against Northern Plains would naturally be most effective with the help of a venerable method.
Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable left behind the killer move qi wall in Heavenly Court, it was everywhere. When the three Demon Venerables attacked Heavenly Court, they created three paths that had no qi wall along them. But all other areas were filled by the qi wall.
Qin Ding Ling worked her hardest to relocate Calamity Luck Altar into the qi wall.
At once, Calamity Luck Altar became immobilized, it faced a huge pressure from all directions.
Fairy Zi Wei quickly helped Qin Ding Ling to stand up as she said in admiration: "Senior, it was all thanks to you!"
Qin Ding Ling sighed and said with a solemn tone: "To think that even after I worked my hardest after waking up, I merely managed to move his method to a slight extent. Sigh..."
Duke Long walked slowly with a calm expression: "Let's go, it is time to welcome our guests."
"Damn it! Heavenly Court knew that we were going to attack, they made use of that to set up an ambush!" Bing Sai Chuan's expression changed, turning ashen.
The surprise attack that he had anticipated for so long had just started, but he already lost control of the situation.
He manipulated Calamity Luck Altar with all his strength but the killer move qi wall was too strong.
Even though this rank eight Immortal Gu House could barely move now with a snail-like speed, the most despairing thing was that the qi wall had a strong self-recovery ability. As Calamity Luck Altar moved, the qi wall behind it healed and mended together.
Just as Longevity Heaven's people suffered a setback, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals arrived in Hidden Dragon Cave.
"To think that Hidden Dragon Cave is here." Song Qi Yuan sighed deeply to himself.
Granny Rong snickered: "This place is quite secluded indeed, but there is no such thing as absolutely hidden in this world."
Yang Zi He added: "Back then, Di Zang Sheng wreaked havoc in Central Continent, Duke Long suppressed and sealed it here, it was a huge event. But because that was long ago in history, and because Heavenly Court wanted to exterminate the dragonman race, they were ruthless in eliminating the traces."
"Hehehe. Speaking of which, Duke Long is very vicious, for the sake of Heavenly Court, he sacrificed all of his children and descendants." Shen Cong Sheng criticized with a tone of disdain.
Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals arrived here.
It was the same situation as the previous life.
To achieve this goal, Fang Yuan had put in a lot of effort secretly. On one hand, he used his status as Qi Sea Ancestor to hint to Song Qi Yuan and Hua Cai Yun, on another hand, he contacted Shen Cong Sheng using his own identity, and finally, the four rank eight lone cultivators in Eastern Sea were all Dragon Palace Dragon Generals, they obeyed Fang Yuan's arrangements.
Fang Yuan was not sure about Hidden Dragon Cave's location originally, but after getting Dragon Palace, he saw related records in it.
Back then, when Duke Long suppressed Di Zang Sheng, the dragonman race had put in effort too.
After getting this secret information, Fang Yuan spread it using the mouths of the Four Dragon Generals, influencing the decisions of all the different Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
These rank eight Gu Immortals from Eastern Sea were different from Southern Alliance and Longevity Heaven, they did not have any courageous spirit to take risks, in this life, they had no strong intention to gain Dragon Palace. Fang Yuan thus motivated them to release Di Zang Sheng from Hidden Dragon Cave and cause problems for Heavenly Court.
Once Di Zang Sheng gets released, the entire world would shake, blood would flow into rivers, living beings would die. There would be no need for these Eastern Sea Gu Immortals to fight.
Once Central Continent's attention was drawn and they sent Gu Immortals to deal with Di Zang Sheng, they would be weaker elsewhere, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals would have a great opportunity.
There was another advantage, Di Zang Sheng would target and attack Central Continent's mortals.
The more people it killed, the more foundation Central Continent would lose.
Eastern Sea's righteous path rank eights would not attack mortals with their status, it would ruin their reputation. Having Di Zang Sheng do the dirty work was best.
At the fringe of Western Desert.
The thin regional wall was in front them.
"The five regions are indeed fusing. The regional walls that once restricted our movement are already so thin and weak." Fang Gong looked at the scene in front of him as he sighed.
Fang Yuan's clone, Fang Di Chang, had a high status in Fang clan, he managed to convince Fang clan's first supreme elder and many Western Desert super forces to take action together.
This was a much stronger group than in the previous life.
But gathering so many Gu Immortals used a lot of time, they only managed to assemble now.
"Oh no, that blood path demonic immortal is causing chaos in my clan." Right at this time, Sun clan reported bad news.
"There is a brand new immemorial desolate beast attacking my clan's oasis." Mo clan's Gu Immortal also received bad news.
"Everyone! This is likely Heavenly Court's scheme. They want to restrain us so that we cannot stop them from repairing fate Gu." Fang Di Chang analyzed.
Even though he had no proof, in order to stabilize these Gu Immortals, lying was fine.
"No, I need to get back."
"I objected earlier when you asked us to move out. Our base is too weak now, I was right after all."
"In my opinion, we should play safe. Western Desert's resources are all in the oases, if they are destroyed, our clans will lose our foundation without the support of resources."
The Western Desert Gu Immortals discussed, they wanted to retreat.
"Damn it, Fang clan took too long to develop, we do not have enough influence and authority." Fang Di Chang gritted his teeth, he watched as a portion of Sun clan and Mo clan left.
"The nature of these two clan's Gu Immortals is not so tough normally, I'm afraid Heavenly Court is involved with these two clans!" Fang Di Chang reacted at this time.
With the departure of a portion of Sun clan and Mo clan, the other clans also wanted to leave, otherwise, their balance would be disrupted.
Western Desert's Gu Immortal world had gone into chaos earlier because of the rise of Fang clan, their relationship was tense now and nobody trusted each other.
There was another fundamental problem, in history, Western Desert had never experienced any large scale cooperation between super forces.
Western Desert's Gu Immortal world did not have any domineering overlord in history, unlike Southern Border's Wu clan or Northern Plains' Longevity Heaven.
After some discussion, a portion of Western Desert's Gu Immortals returned to their base. The rest of them still exceeded the numbers in the previous life, they passed the regional walls and arrived in Central Continent.
Heavenly Court.
Reports of battles were sent over rapidly.
"Hidden Dragon Cave is attacked by Eastern Sea's rank eight Gu Immortals."
"Gu Immortal elites have appeared at Western Desert's fringe, they are heading towards Emperor City."
Fairy Zi Wei spoke.
At this time, Duke Long slowly retreated from the front of the battlefield.
Calamity Luck Altar was surrounded by the qi wall, there was a sizable area of movable space around it now, Heavenly Court's countless experts were attacking it from all directions.
If Calamity Luck Altar retaliated, these Gu Immortals would retreat into the qi wall and hide themselves, staying safe.
After several attempts, Bing Sai Chuan had to activate Calamity Luck Altar's defense as they pressed forward.
Because of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals' obstruction, Calamity Luck Altar could barely move forward slowly and with great difficulty.
Duke Long had nothing much to do, the battlefield in Heavenly Court was already secured, Longevity Heaven was trapped and they would eventually fall.
Duke Long heard Fairy Zi Wei's reports as he said calmly: "Qi Sea Ancestor and Fang Yuan, have they not made a move?"
"Nothing at the moment." Fairy Zi Wei shook her head.
The two people Duke Long was most wary of were these two. Qi Sea Ancestor had unparalleled strength, he rivaled Duke Long and was someone that Duke Long had to focus and keep his attention on.
Meanwhile, even though Fang Yuan had rank seven cultivation level, he inherited Red Lotus Demon Venerable's true inheritance, he might have some powerful method, he needed to be guarded against.
"Qi Sea Ancestor's attitude is unclear, meanwhile, ever since Fang Yuan snatched Southern Border's dream realms, he vanished. He has a lot of dream realms on his hands now." Fairy Zi Wei said slowly, she was going to analyze this further.
"What plan do you have?" Duke Long interrupted her.
Fairy Zi Wei said: "I plan to activate the formation and resist our external foes to force out Fang Yuan. There is also Qi Sea Ancestor who might possibly fight us, we need to force them to take action!"
Duke Long pondered before nodding: "Alright, we need to take the initiative. If we can establish our dominance in this battle, the five regions chaotic war will be much easier to deal with."
Fairy Zi Wei quickly left and sat down at the central area of a formation.
She activated the formation and released Star Constellation Chessboard. The chessboard floated in the air and rotated on its own, innumerable starlight specks that resembled fireflies flew in the sky, entering the formation.
Central Continent's people soon noticed a strange phenomenon.
Many pointed at the sky and screamed: "Quickly look! There is starlight, there are actually stars in bright daylight."
"What is going on?" Fang Di Chang had just crossed the regional wall when he saw such a scene.
"Heavenly Court took action. This did not happen in my previous life." Fang Yuan also arrived in Central Continent, he looked at the sky silently while frowning.
Heavenly Court had indeed prepared something new.
At this moment, in the sky of Central Continent, bright lights shined, stars appeared during daytime, radiating heaven and earth!
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Central Continent, Hidden Dragon Cave.
"What is going on?" Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals saw the change in the sky.
In broad daylight, Central Continent's sky was covered in stars that shined brightly.
"This is likely Heavenly Court's method, but we do not know what effect it has." Qing Yue An frowned as he spoke.
"What is there to fear? We will deal with it when it comes, with our force, who can stop us? Unless Heavenly Court sends their main forces to face us." Yang Zi He laughed loudly.
"Indeed." Qing Yue An's frown eased a little.
In this situation, Heavenly Court focused on repairing fate Gu, Hidden Dragon Cave was just a small area at the corner of the big picture, if Heavenly Court sent their main forces here to resist Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals, they would be disregarding the bigger problems, it would be a terrible decision!
"Enter the formation, destroy this formation and release Di Zang Sheng, he will cause chaos in the world, we will then gain our opportunity." Yang Zi He encouraged them without acting suspicious.
"Hmm... let's wait for a while. Since we are going to take action, why the need to rush now?" Song Qi Yuan had a composed mentality: "Since Heavenly Court has already used their method, we need to at least find out what it does, right?"
Song Qi Yuan's words made the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals hesitant again.
Yang Zi He and the other Dragon Generals cursed in their hearts, these Eastern Sea righteous path rank eights were truly indecisive. They had already shown hostility to Heavenly Court but still did not want to destroy the formation immediately!
They were concerned about this ridiculous starry sky because they were too worried about their own safety. If they were Northern Plains' Gu Immortals, they would have entered the formation already. No wonder Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world had the most wealth but still stayed suppressed and unable to resist Gu Immortals of other regions.
Fang Yuan did not want these Gu Immortals to wait outside.
The Four Dragon Generals were enslaved by Dragon Palace, they were undoubtedly loyal.
Among them, Granny Rong smiled as she said: "If this method has just materialized and needs three days to take effect, are we going to wait three days here?"
"This..." Song Qi Yuan and the rest were uncertain.
But at this moment, from the sky, grand starlight pillars shot down rapidly.
The light pillars were shining in a bluish light, it was a grand sight.
More than ten pillars of light shot down together, encircling all eight Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
Next, the pillars faded away as a Heavenly Court Gu Immortal appeared in the location of each pillar.
The Eastern Sea immortals' expressions changed.
In an instant, they were surrounded by Heavenly Court, the situation took a turn for the worse!
"You crawling worms dare to offend Heavenly Court!" Zhang Fei Xiong said in a cold and domineering tone.
"You will die today." Wan Zi Hong licked her scarlet lips, oozing with killing intent.
"Those who offend Central Continent will be killed." Qin Song had a solemn expression.
"Enough talk, I'm going to attack now, yayaya!" A female Heavenly Court immortal could not wait anymore, she charged forward.
Her body was plump to its limit, she was like a meat cannonball that shot towards the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals fearlessly.
Eastern Sea's immortals were not united, they quickly split up.
The fat female immortal missed her target, she screamed in anger: "You cowards, why are you dodging, come, fight your mommy for three hundred rounds!"
"Flesh Whip Immortal is still so impatient." A Heavenly Court Gu Immortal who knew about this female immortal sighed helplessly.
"Flesh Whip Immortal is gentle and kind normally, but once she enters battle, she acts like what the rumors say." Many Heavenly Court Gu Immortals watched with surprise.
At once, the female immortal called Flesh Whip Immortal chased after Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals while shouting vulgarities non-stop, she was extremely noisy.
"Vile woman, don't be too arrogant." Qing Yue An could not take it, he turned around to battle.
Flesh Whip Immortal was overjoyed: "Someone finally stopped running!"
Boom!
The two used their killer moves that collided, causing a thunderous explosion.
A huge shock wave burst out and caused the surrounding clouds to disperse and change form.
"Quickly go and reinforce Little Whip." Qin Song ordered, among these Gu Immortals, he was the most senior, even Flesh Whip Immortal was his junior.
Central Continent's immortals all charged forward at once.
Among them, there was Zhu Que Er who cultivated fire path and transformation path. There was Vortex Space Boy who cultivated space path and had terrifying killer moves. There was Ye Qiao Zi, Z, Wu Shuang, Yu Zhu Zi, and others, they were all famous Heavenly Court experts in history.
Not only did Heavenly Court's side have more people, they even had excellent coordination, they created their battle tactic long ago, they erupted with great power.
Eastern Sea's eight Gu Immortals were forced back time and again, they could not hold their own.
"This is a trap, let's retreat!" Song Qi Yuan shouted with all his might.
His words immediately received the acceptance of the other three righteous path members, with the enemies being this strong now, they could not fight forcefully.
The Four Dragon Generals remained silent.
Without Fang Yuan's orders, they would not abruptly retreat.
Amidst the chaotic battle, Zhu Que Er suddenly pushed with her palm as a flame light was shot out.
The flame light resembled a beautiful blade light as it slashed towards Granny Rong.
Granny Rong and Zhao Shan He were currently fighting, seeing the approaching blade, she did not dodge it.
At the crucial moment, Zhang Yin suddenly moved, a shadow appeared and blocked the flame light.
"Oh? There's something weird going on with these two Gu Immortals." Zhu Que Er's expression changed, she felt something amiss.
Compared to the previous life, she had woken up much earlier, she made many preparations. She had already obtained information regarding Granny Rong and Zhang Yin.
These two were lone immortals but they actually trusted each other this much, it was really rare!
But soon, Zhu Que Er found out that it was not only Zhang Yin and Granny Rong, Yang Zi He and Shi Miao were also weird, these four rank eights trusted each other completely, they were willing to let themselves be defended by one another in dangerous situations!
Because of their coordination, they were able to resist the attacks of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals without losing.
Fairy Zi Wei was currently looking at the situation from her formation core in Central Hall.
Starlight flashed in front of her, displaying the scene in Hidden Dragon Cave.
Even though she was in Heavenly Court, she obtained firsthand information of the battlefield.
"What's wrong with these four Eastern Sea lone immortals? Their relationship should not be this close. Unless they set some sort of strict alliance agreement that allowed them to work together with complete trust?"
Fairy Zi Wei could not think more, it was not the time to deduce this now.
She considered it for a while before giving her orders.
After getting her orders, Old Man Bei Feng who was inside Hidden Dragon Cave became revitalized, he quickly activated the formation.
Intense lights appeared around the formation, its power spread out across the battlefield.
"Oh no!"
"Quickly leave!!"
"Once we enter the formation, they will take us out one by one."
Eastern Sea's immortals were flustered, they quickly shouted.
But how could Heavenly Court's rank eight Gu Immortals allow them to leave? Immediately, killer moves were used to obstruct the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals, they could not get out, they were swept into the formation along with the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
Both parties entered Hidden Dragon Cave's formation.
Old Man Bei Feng, who was controlling the formation, grunted as his face turned pale, blood flowed out of his nostrils.
Even though Hidden Dragon Cave's formation was powerful, taking in so many rank eight Gu Immortals at once was beyond Old Man Bei Feng's limits.
"Grandfather, are you okay?" Feng Chan Zi who was at the side asked with concern.
He was Old Man Bei Feng's beloved grandson, if he did not make a mistake and was forced to guard Hidden Dragon Cave along with his grandfather, Old Man Bei Feng would have become a member of Heavenly Court already.
"But if I can make some contributions in this battle, Heavenly Court might recruit me!" Old Man Bei Feng's eyes shined with bright light, he was filled with morale.
Eastern Sea's rank eights were trapped in the formation, they were split up.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were also split up into different areas.
"This formation is mainly used to suppress and seal Di Zang Sheng, it does not have any power to cooperate with Gu Immortals in battle. Every Gu Immortal that enters the formation will be sent to a different area. Unless the formation is destroyed, there will not be two Gu Immortals in the same area."
Fairy Zi Wei knew about Hidden Dragon Cave's formation, she ordered Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals to retreat.
While Eastern Sea's immortals were trapped inside.
"I will leave this place to you." Qin Song said before leaving.
"Don't worry, I will guard this place with my life. If anything happens, I will report it and seek reinforcements." Old Man Bei Feng said with a polite and serious attitude.
"Very good." Qin Song felt assured as he brought the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals to leave.
At this time, more than ten pillars of light shot down again, the blue starlight pillars enveloped all the Heavenly Court rank eights.
The pillars vanished, along with the rank eight Gu Immortals within.
Fang Di Chang and the rest traveled in their Immortal Gu House as they rushed towards Emperor City.
Even though the Central Continent Refinement Path Convention was disrupted by Fang Yuan in advance in this life and had slower progress than the previous life, it was not even at the final round of the competition yet.
But evidently, Emperor City was the only place that could protect them while not interfering with the Gu refinement and the restoration of fate Gu. That place was already heavily guarded by Heavenly Court, Fang Di Chang thus asked the Western Desert immortals to head to Emperor City.
Western Desert's immortals had surging morale.
But at the next moment, starlight pillars appeared again, as more than ten Heavenly Court Gu Immortals appeared.
"Kill!" Flesh Whip Immortal charged forward again.
But this time, Western Desert's Gu Immortals were not flustered.
They were within their Immortal Gu Houses, they felt very safe.
Watching as Flesh Whip Immortal attacked, even though she was a rank eight Gu Immortal, she could not destroy an Immortal Gu House instantly.
"What method is Heavenly Court using? They could transport so many rank eights at the same time!" Fang Di Chang did not think anymore, he mobilized several Immortal Gu Houses to resist the enemies.
As a wisdom path Gu Immortal who controlled the strongest Immortal Gu House Divine Bean Palace, he was selected as the leader of the group, he had the highest authority.
Immortal Gu Houses charged without care, it was Heavenly Court's time to dodge them.
But two Gu Immortals did not retreat.
One was Zhang Fei Xiong, he turned into a giant with a bear head and human body, he resisted Immortal Gu Houses with his body.
The other was Flesh Whip Immortal, she was a transformation path Gu Immortal, she transformed into a walking meat tree as her roots moved like legs, running rapidly, while her branches turned into countless whips that attacked in a frenzy.
Crack crack crack!
She was also resisting Immortal Gu Houses, several rank seven Immortal Gu Houses were forced to turn around and escape.
Within Divine Bean Palace, Fang Di Chang's expression was dark.
"Heavenly Court made changes, but this change is simply too huge."
"Zhang Fei Xiong, Wan Zi Hong, and Zhu Que Er woke up in advance, even experts like Flesh Whip Immortal appeared."
"And most importantly, what killer move is this? It can transport more than ten rank eight Gu Immortals at once! This is simply unheard of!"
With this move, Heavenly Court had the initiative to mobilize their main forces to attack anywhere they wanted.
This was a very significant trump card in battle.
As long as this move was not destroyed, Heavenly Court could fight in several battlefields at the same time, they could deal with anything that came at them.