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Other Gu Immortals would feel despair at this moment.
"This rascal Fang Yuan is too good at turtling up, how can we kill him?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue asked with a tone that contained anger and frustration.
Spectral Soul also turned silent for a moment before he smiled coldly.
Instantly, a terrifying killing intent seemed to condense and solidify, emanating from his body, everyone could feel their limbs turning cold as they shook in their hearts.
After suffering a setback, Spectral Soul's determination to kill Fang Yuan became even firmer!
"I will dismantle his tortoise shell! Go and deal with the rest, guard me." Spectral Soul said as his soul flew out and devoured Lady Cold Ash's body in one mouthful.
A soul giant that was as large as a mountain appeared before everyone!
The giant's body was black as ink, it had muscular limbs and bulging muscles. There were two heads, one was scary while the other was cold and aloof. The first pair of eyes had blood red light in them, shooting towards heaven, the other pair of eyes was cold as ice, emitting a deep chill.
It also had six hundred pairs of arms that were raised up or lowered, some were tucked in while others were straight, it showed the stance of grasping the sun and moon, it had the potential to catch stars and whip up storms.
"Amazing giant!" Lu Wei Yin's body shook as he praised, fighting spirit surged in him as he shouted: "Then take this move!"
He used all his strength to activate illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Intense winds blew as yellow sand flew, countless rocks moved along, they slammed towards the black soul giant's body like shooting stars.
The black soul giant only watched coldly as it raised its arms.
Two hundred pairs of arms stretched out and stabbed into the sandstorm. The ghost hands stretched out their fingers as they grabbed towards the sandstorm.
Unexpectedly, the formless sandstorm was grabbed onto like silk or threads in the sky!
The black soul giant pulled, snapping sounds could be heard continuously. The sandstorm was pulled apart, wind scattered as clear vision returned to the battlefield.
Lu Wei Yin's eyes were bulging, his expression turned pale, Spectral Soul dealt with the battlefield so easily, he was deeply shocked!
"Let me." Qi Sea Ancestor flew into the sky, staring at the black soul giant at equal heights.
Immortal killer move — Qi Breath Mountain.
Rumble!
A huge translucent mountain created from air currents descended and pressed down immediately.
This move was once used by Duke Long, it was part of Primordial Origin's true inheritance, it managed to send Purple Mountain True Monarch flying. Right now, with Qi Sea Ancestor using it, the power was not to be underestimated.
Giant Spectral Soul looked at the mountain but approached it instead, he raised more than a hundred pairs of arms, at once, the entire battlefield seemed to have hundreds of black trees, resembling a forest!
The hundred pairs of arms blocked the qi mountain, emitting a loud sound.
The five sharp fingers of each of the ghost hands grabbed, the qi current mountain lasted for a breath of time before breaking apart.
Qi Sea Ancestor grunted, he was forced to retreat.
But Spectral Soul did not let him off, the angry head roared loudly and spat out a grand soul river. The soul river was made of countless ghosts and vengeful spirits, they cried out in agony and despair, causing the entire battlefield to freeze up for a moment.
Seeing the power of this move, Qi Sea Ancestor understood that this move was extraordinary, its might was many times higher than the self-detonation of the immemorial soul beasts earlier!
At this moment, Spectral Soul had used his true strength. Not only did he turn into a black soul giant, he even changed his killer moves, each attack became much stronger, they were all vicious and terrifying.
Qi Sea Ancestor waved his hands, two hands flew out of his wide sleeves. His index and middle fingers stretched out and drew a circle in the air, causing wind and clouds to move along.
Immortal killer move — Qi Current Scissors!
A translucent qi current flew out of his sleeves, moving rapidly.
These qi currents seemed weak but they were extremely sharp, they drew an arc in the sky before gathering to form a translucent qi current river.
With a loud sound, the qi current scissors river crashed into the vengeful ghost river!
The qi current scissors was forced back but the soul river also suffered some damage, it still managed to move as it quickly approached Qi Sea Ancestor.
Lu Wei Yin shouted as he activated the battlefield, creating a rock shield that intercepted the soul river at its weak spot.
Qi Sea Ancestor's face was already flushing red, it was a tough contest of strength, he quickly used this chance to escape.
"Spectral Soul, why aren't you going to die!!" At the same time, Qing Chou shouted as it approached from the left.
At the right of Giant Spectral Soul, Wu Shuai wordlessly manipulated his army ants that pressed down like a black cloud, attacking Giant Spectral Soul's head.
Attacked from the left and right!
Spectral Soul did not move, three hundred pairs of arms resisted Qing Chou while a hundred pairs of arms attacked Wu Shuai.
Qing Chou was fighting without regard for its life, it advanced relentlessly.
Spectral Soul snickered as the fingers of his hands gathered into a sharp spear form, this move countered soul beasts!
At the next instant, a hundred pairs of arms stabbed into Qing Chou's body, green-black blood oozed out and dyed the battlefield.
Seeing this blood, a bright light shined on the face of Spectral Soul's angry head, he snickered coldly: "Soul beasts have no blood, but your body seems to have changed under the influence of hatred Gu's refinement. Interesting! After this battle, I will dissect your body before attempting good and thorough research."
In other words, Spectral Soul was completely confident in taking down Qing Chou.
Qing Chou growled in pain, its snake-like neck struggled intensely, its roars almost burst the immortals' eardrums.
Its entire body emitted black smoke, almost the same as Spectral Soul. Not just that, it opened its mouth and shot out more than ten human faced soul balls that were covered in lightning!
All sorts of attacks landed on Giant Spectral Soul, it was like wind blowing on a tree, even though the leaves were moving, the trunk remained still and motionless.
Spectral Soul's arms that were stabbed into Qing Chou pushed deeper, trying to destroy its body from the inside.
Qing Chou cried out continuously, it was heavily injured by Spectral Soul, unable to break free, its blood flowed like a river, this was a gruesome sight.
Seeing this, Wu Shuai who cultivated enslavement path and had a weak body did not dare to take a risk, he quickly retreated. He decided that unless there was no choice, he would only attack from afar.
The army ants were densely packed and moved like a cloud that could gather and split at will, they rushed towards the black soul giant's eyes, nose, and ears.
Spectral Soul's cold head snorted as he breathed out black smoke from his nose. The smoke spread out, wherever it went, army ants died without resistance, a large number of them fell at once.
"As expected of a former Demon Venerable!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue's eyes shined with bright light, he was full of praise.
Spectral Soul unleashed his true strength, it immediately changed the situation!
Even though Lu Wei Yin and the rest had the territorial advantage as well as more people, they still got suppressed by him.
Spectral Soul struck several times to completely block them, after that, he went back and stared at Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress. Four hundred arms stretched out and clenched into fists, they punched at the rank eight earth path Immortal Gu House with black qi covering the fists!
Bam bam bam…
Each punch caused Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress to shake intensely.
As countless fists rained down, black qi also invaded the Immortal Gu House. Soon, the fragments began to fall off Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress' surface, shattering into pieces.
Fang Yuan quickly used his killer move and added in earth path Gu worms to replenish it.
But other trouble came at the same time, inside his sovereign immortal aperture, the myriad tribulation transformed again!
Almost all of the heaven path dao marks gathered into a giant monstrous ball of flesh.
The flesh ball floated in the air, it was large as a mountain, more than ten times of Spectral Soul's size, casting a shadow down onto the ground.
Countless black colored holes appeared on the flesh ball's surface.
As the holes expanded, they emitted a huge suction force, soon, tornadoes began to form from these holes.
As the tornadoes moved, countless resources in the sovereign immortal aperture, even variant humans got swept away and sucked into the flesh ball.
At once, growling and crying could be heard as fatalities rose.
The flesh ball quickly digested them as it slowly expanded in size!
"Oh no, I have never seen this myriad tribulation before, it also seems to be able to grow, it can get stronger and stronger!" Fang Yuan's heart sank.
He needed to deal with Spectral Soul's attacks and the myriad tribulation in his immortal aperture.
Either one required his full attention and strength, nobody else could help him with this.
Fang Yuan could not attend to both ends, he had to choose what to give up.
"Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress can still last some time, but if I let the myriad tribulation grow further, it will exceed the limit of my capabilities!" Realizing the greater problem at hand, Fang Yuan chose to deal with the myriad tribulation.
Most of his attention was placed in the sovereign immortal aperture, his manipulation of Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress became slightly slower.
Combat Beast King had already awakened, he dragged his injured body and stood up while gritting his teeth, listening to Fang Yuan's orders.
Xue Er controlled the situation on the ground, using the ice crystal formation to resist the suction of the tornadoes.
The flesh ball monster floated towards her slowly while being firm as a mountain, there was a huge pressure placed on Xue Er.
Immortal killer move unrestrained heavenly mark was still active, Fang Yuan had not stopped using it even for one moment! But now, its effect had fallen to its lowest point.
Countless thoughts collided in Fang Yuan's mind, it was like a turbulent sea, the sight was spectacular.
Fang Yuan multitasked, he first activated a wisdom path killer move, the quantity of his thoughts expanded abruptly, even his mind seemed small in comparison!
A vast number of thoughts collided, allowing Fang Yuan to think acutely, he was able to use other killer moves now.
There was no choice, Fang Yuan activated the human path formation to interfere with the Heavenly Dao's interference.
As the formation activated, it created a buzzing noise as it shined with a brilliant light. At this step, over half of Fang Yuan's thoughts were already expended!
If this continued, the consumption of thoughts would exceed the production, he would soon run out of thoughts and Fang Yuan would turn into an idiot instantly.
Fang Yuan gritted his teeth but was not flustered, he was prepared for this, there were many of his wills in the human path formation.
Fang Yuan's wills took charge of the formation as it operated, allowing his thoughts to accumulate again. Fang Yuan only had to do the first step of activating the formation.
"Again!" Fang Yuan shouted internally as he activated the wisdom path killer move again.
The thoughts in his mind burst out again like a tsunami, the quantity rose continuously, almost filling up his entire mind!
For wisdom path Gu Immortals, having too many thoughts was a bad idea, they would take up all the space in the mind and prevent any collisions from happening, it was the worst case scenario.
Fang Yuan did not do something stupid, this was part of his expectations.
Seeing that these thoughts were about to fill up his mind, he placed his concentration on the sea of clouds in the sky.
It was a huge and wide sea of clouds!
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Looming clouds spread out in the boundless sky, surging like tides as ripples splashed, it seemed like the sea but it also resembled countless cloud mountains, changing forms at will, having unlimited possibilities.
This was a killer move.
This killer move was Fang Yuan's trump card, it was in fact his strongest offensive method at this moment!
Immortal killer move — Unlimited Qi Sea!
This move was — mystical!
After Fang Yuan's modifications, it not only used rank eight Immortal Gu Big Qi as the core, it also had more than ten supplementary qi path Immortal Gu, as well as hundreds of thousands of foundational mortal Gu. There were even qi path immortal materials that could be expended to increase the power of this move.
This move was — incredible!
It could use all of the kinds of qi in this world, life qi, death qi, sword qi, blade qi, dusk qi, dawn qi... the more qi path immortal materials stored in it, the more powerful this move would be. When used offensively, it would expend immortal essence and immortal materials. When used defensively, it would absorb external qi currents.
This move was — powerful and unstoppable!
Qi Xiang left this move behind, resulting in Qi Xiang grotto-heaven surviving many myriad tribulations after his death. Myriad tribulations... most rank eight Gu Immortals in this world did not even dare to challenge their first myriad tribulation, they desperately delayed the time in their immortal aperture. But Qi Xiang grotto-heaven's heavenly spirit could use this move to get past myriad tribulations time and time again.
After annexing this grotto-heaven, Fang Yuan used the light of wisdom to modify unlimited qi sea before the fate war! After that, during this battle, he used this move to break the primordial qi wall and shocked everyone, including Gu Immortals, in the five regions.
The primordial qi wall was the creation of Primordial Origin, it not only had qi path Immortal Gu but also qi path immortal materials. Qi path had one trait, it was able to use qi path immortal materials in place of Gu worms to execute killer moves.
Fang Yuan used unlimited qi sea to break the primordial qi wall, he also absorbed the vast amount of qi path immortal materials inside the qi wall.
After the first time, Fang Yuan broke it again for a second time!
Not long ago in Heavenly Court, he used unlimited qi sea to absorb the immortal material qi currents in the primordial qi wall, breaking it apart.
After absorbing two qi walls and with Fang Yuan's exploration of Qi Sea grotto-heaven, he gained a huge amount of immortal material qi currents, it caused unlimited qi sea's storage to rise to an unprecedented amount. Thus, the power of this move reached a level that felt terrifying even for Fang Yuan!
As Fang Yuan willed, he unleashed the killer move unlimited qi sea!
The sea of qi rumbled, a huge white qi pillar gathered in the sky and shot down at the giant flesh ball monster.
The qi pillar was extremely thick, reaching a level that had never been seen before, even Qi Xiang would gasp at its majesty now.
Not only that, the qi pillar was covered in a layer of shining golden light, it gave off a tough feeling, it was extremely domineering!
Before the white qi pillar hit the flesh ball monster, a terrifying force acted on it from all directions, immobilizing the flesh ball monster in the air.
Boom—!
The white qi pillar crashed into the flesh ball monster like a falling monument, before rushing through it violently.
The huge sound created even deafened Xue Er, who was far away from the battlefield.
The qi pillar had an intense white light, Xue Er, who was hiding in the ice crystal formation had to shut her eyes to prevent them from being blinded.
The flesh ball monster could not resist the power of the qi pillar, it was suppressed on the grassland of Mini Northern Plains.
The grass and soil of the grassland had already been sent flying long ago by raging tornadoes before the qi pillar struck.
Thus, the flesh ball monster was pressed down on the barren grassland by the unstoppable qi pillar!
As the earth shook, hundreds of cracks formed below the flesh ball monster, resembling a spider web.
The white qi pillar was still continuing its assault, it had the power to destroy mountains and split seas! The great flesh ball monster made from the myriad tribulation got pressed on the ground like a defenseless chick, unable to struggle.
Ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet...
As the flesh ball monster sank into the ground, its body became smaller and smaller. It continued to be disintegrated by the white qi pillar bit by bit!
The black holes all over the giant monster were shut, it tried to curl up, a pitiful cry could be heard from within its body.
This was the cry of heaven's will!
The white qi pillar lasted for twenty breaths of time before fading away.
Not only did the sea of clouds in the sky shrink by eighty percent, the remaining clouds were sparse and thin. Fang Yuan quickly moved them away.
But the flesh ball monster was in a worse condition, its mountain-like body had shrunk to the size of Dragon Palace.
The flesh ball monster did not move, it remained in the pit like a corpse. This pit was over a thousand feet deep!
Fang Yuan's main body breathed roughly, his brain was hurting along with each breath. In order to use this move, he exerted his mind to its limit, he used up too many thoughts, beyond the capabilities of his mind.
The myriad tribulation created from three thousand heaven path dao marks finally paused for the first time.
It was as if it got beaten into shock by Fang Yuan!
The opportunity was rare, Fang Yuan quickly hastened his action and used unrestrained heavenly mark to refine the heaven path dao marks.
In a short while, Fang Yuan refined more than a hundred heaven path dao marks. Together with his earlier gains, he had already refined over a hundred and sixty heaven path dao marks!
When Fang Yuan refined over two hundred heaven path dao marks, the Heavenly Dao finally reacted. The flesh ball in the hole vanished as it started to hail.
However, even though Fang Yuan could take advantage of this chance, he could only sustain this situation as he was forced to place his attention back to the outside world.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was heavily damaged beyond repair, Giant Spectral Soul's attacks were increasing in frequency, he had made huge advancements!
Spectral Soul swore to kill Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin and the rest tried to restrain him but Giant Spectral Soul ignored their attacks and endured them, while maintaining his firepower on Fang Yuan.
Even though Fang Yuan was doing his best to repair his Immortal Gu House, the situation was going downhill.
Bam.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress could not take it anymore, a hole was created, it connected to the outside!
Through this hole, Giant Spectral Soul's four eyes emitted cold killing intent as he looked at Fang Yuan who was sitting inside.
He saw that Fang Yuan's expression was pale after unleashing unlimited qi sea.
Fang Yuan was in bad shape now!
Spectral Soul had a realization, his incredibly deep battle experience made a decision for him, similar to Fang Yuan, he was going to use his trump card.
Immortal killer move — Eat Heart!
"I comprehended this move in my later years from \u003c\u003cThe Legends of Ren Zu\u003e\u003e. Fang Yuan, it is over. The current Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress has no way of blocking this attack." Spectral Soul surged with killing intent.
And like what he said.
At the next moment, Fang Yuan grunted, his face became distorted, he grasped his chest in pain.
The intense pain in his heart felt like it was bitten by a fierce beast!
\u003c\u003cThe Legends of Ren Zu\u003e\u003e, chapter five, section thirty-three —
Ren Zu stared at the skeleton head: "Next, I will eat the most important part of the Predicament's body."
Strong Gu laughed: "This is a stupid move! Oh human, your choice is extremely foolish."
The Predicament shook its body as it shrank. At the same time, countless Tribulations flew out of its neck and attacked Ren Zu.
The Tribulations were like fire, burning Ren Zu's bones. The Tribulations were like hammers, charging at Ren Zu as his bones cracked. The Tribulations were like wind and rain, sweeping at Ren Zu's lone body. The Tribulations were like flashing lightning, striking on Ren Zu continuously.
Fear Gu shouted: "Oh heaven, this is too scary, that human will die for sure at this rate."
Courage Gu encouraged: "Oh human, don't be afraid."
Self Gu and attitude Gu shouted together: "I am very strong, I am very strong, all Tribulations are mere drizzles, they are insignificant breezes!"
Weak Gu, betrayal Gu, and fear Gu flew together, wanting to escape with Ren Zu: "Oh human, quickly run. Don't believe in self Gu's words, it has already been deceived."
Ren Zu was trapped in the Tribulations, he could not escape.
When Tribulations loom over you, it is not a simple matter of running away.
"This is too scary, let's go, forget about the human." Weak gu, betrayal Gu, and fear Gu flew away together.
"You traitors!" Self Gu was furious, it grabbed onto these three Gu and bit them all.
The three Gu were injured but they were not stopped by self Gu, they quickly escaped from Ren Zu.
Self Gu wanted to chase them but rules and regulation Gu urged: "Don't chase them. Escaping when Tribulations strike due to fear and weakness, betraying one's self and courage in the process, it will only lead to death. Isn't it good that they are gone? Weak Gu and betrayal Gu are unable to help us, as for fear Gu... if the Tribulations did not appear, fear would have been pointless. But since the Tribulations are here now, fear will only lead to greater pain in the human."
"You are absolutely right." Self Gu stopped.
Hope Gu flickered with light as it supported Ren Zu: "Oh human, as long as you still have hope in your heart during the Tribulations, there will still be hope in this situation."
Strong Gu could not stop laughing: "Oh human, you are truly pitiful, you easily believe in the words of hope. Don't you know? Having only hope during the Tribulations will only cause them to continue longer, hope is the thing that lengthens the person's pain. When you stop bearing any hope, you will feel relaxed in the Tribulations."
Ren Zu did not speak, he endured the attacks of the Tribulations with great difficulty.
No matter how bent his body became, he did not fall.
Strong Gu soon found the reason — on Ren Zu's feet, there was a pair of independent wings. Even though the wings were small, they flapped stubbornly, helping Ren Zu to stand up despite everything.
Strong Gu continued to demoralize Ren Zu: "Oh human, I am starting to admire you. It is a pity that you are going to fall soon, look at your bones, they are covered in cracks now due to the Tribulations."
Ren Zu was silent.
Originally, Ren Zu's bones were shiny and intact, there were no cracks at all. Now, his skeleton was covered in cracks, it seemed like it would shatter at any moment.
All the other Gu worms were silent, only hope Gu gave out light: "Oh human, don't give up! Tribulations are not scary, the scariest thing is a person who has lost hope."
The light of hope Gu penetrated the cracks of Ren Zu's bones, into his bone marrow.
In the life of everyone in this world, cracks would always form at some point, but those were the times where the light of hope would shine in!
Ren Zu's bones absorbed the light of hope, they started to engulf the surrounding Tribulations.
Each crack was like a huge mouth, the larger the crack, the larger the mouth, and the more Tribulations it could devour.
"How could this happen?" Strong Gu was extremely shocked.
The more Tribulations that Ren Zu's skeleton devoured, the stronger and firmer his bones became.
Tribulations could destroy people, but they could also toughen oneself!
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As the Tribulations continued, Ren Zu's bones started to shine in a golden light.
The Tribulations became wilder as Ren Zu's bones burned in flames, becoming dazzlingly golden.
Ren Zu started to straighten his back, he raised his head and puffed his chest, after enduring countless tortures, his skeleton shined like a golden pillar, he stood directly inside the Tribulations. This was the myriad tribulation golden skeleton.
And on Ren Zu's skeleton head, a crown grew out naturally, it was the heaven connecting bone crown.
All of the tribulations and disasters that people suffer would become their crowns of achievement in the future.
Even though the Tribulations had not ended, Ren Zu could already speak at this time: "I know, Fate has arrangements, Tribulations are the arrangements it makes for people. But I can persevere, any Tribulations that seem unendurable are all in fact endurable to me."
Strong Gu was shocked and bewildered.
Self Gu realized at this time: "I understand. Oh human, you are someone who walked out of Ordinary Abyss, that is why you can endure these Tribulations that are impossible to endure."
Strong Gu saw that the Tribulations could not take down Ren Zu, it forced itself to stay calm: "Oh human, don't forget, as long as you have hope Gu, these Tribulations will not stop. Are you going to delay our bet from earlier? I don't care! I will treat it as if you passed the Tribulations. Now, it is our turn to eat you."
"Which part of me do you want to eat?" Ren Zu sighed.
Strong Gu laughed loudly, pointing at Ren Zu's chest: "Next, I will eat your hearts!"
Ren Zu shook slightly, strong Gu's choice was too fatal, how could a human live without his heart?
"Quickly take out all of your hearts, let us eat them!" Strong Gu shouted in excitement.
Ren Zu sighed as he hesitated, before taking out the heart of sympathy.
Strong Gu directly placed the heart of sympathy into the Predicament's neck as the heart fell into its stomach. The Predicament's stomach expanded slightly.
When faced with predicaments, people often lose their hearts of sympathy first.
Ren Zu took out his heart of nobleness next, the Predicament ate it as its stomach expanded some more, it seemed to have problems digesting it.
Ren Zu took out his original heart next: "Oh hope Gu, leave now. I do not want to implicate you."
Hope Gu resided in Ren Zu's original heart, it did not fly out, instead it said: "I am not leaving, this is my home. Oh human, just toss me in along with it, I do not blame you."
Ren Zu had no choice, as strong Gu rushed him, he gave his original heart to the Predicament as food.
After the Predicament ate it, its belly expanded again.
Predicaments often caused people to lose hope as well.
Without hope Gu, all of the Tribulations around Ren Zu vanished. This caused the pressure on Ren Zu to fall, but he felt deep melancholy as well.
"Quick, oh human, take out your final heart and let us eat it!" Strong Gu pointed at the heart of loneliness in Ren Zu's chest.
Ren Zu hesitated as he felt troubled, the heart of loneliness did not only contain his self Gu, it was also his final heart. Without this heart, Ren Zu might die.
Strong Gu laughed and threatened: "Quick! If you do not take it out yourself, we will make our move and eat you entirely!"
Self Gu had already been deceived, it called out in nonchalance: "Oh human, just give it to them. I do not care, you will not die either! We are the strongest."
"Give it to me!" Strong Gu grabbed the heart of loneliness in Ren Zu's hand and stuffed it into the Predicament's stomach through its exposed neck.
At this point, Ren Zu lost all his hearts.
He fell onto the ground, losing all signs of life, he could not stand up anymore.
Ren Zu died.
"Oh human, you died, we have regained freedom." Rules and regulation Gu flew away.
"There is no helping it, the human met with the greatest predicament in his life." Courage Gu and edge Gu flew away as well.
On Ren Zu's corpse, only self Gu remained, it flew around him. Attitude Gu wanted to leave too, but self Gu grabbed onto it, forcing it to stay.
Strong Gu laughed happily: "Hahaha, oh human, you were nothing impressive after all. Hmm? Predicament, what's wrong?"
The Predicament that strong Gu was attached to grabbed onto its bulging stomach as it rolled on the ground in pain.
Loneliness was extremely hard to digest, the stronger the Predicament, the lonelier one would feel.
Boom!
Suddenly, the Predicament's belly burst open.
Ren Zu's heart of loneliness, his skin and flesh fused to create a boy.
Strong Gu was flabbergasted: "Who are you?"
The boy said: "I am Ren Zu's son — Great Strength True Martial!"
Before finishing his words, he jumped up and grabbed strong Gu.
Strong Gu tried to struggle while self Gu used the opportunity to approach and take a bite of it.
Strong Gu was injured, it got weakened.
"Where are you trying to go!" Great Strength True Martial shouted, he grabbed strong Gu and stuffed it into his chest.
Strong Gu went into his chest and got imprisoned in his heart, unable to escape.
"Don't waste your effort, this is my heart of ambition, you cannot escape." Great Strength True Martial laughed.
Next, he found Ren Zu's other hearts from the corpse of the Predicament and placed them back into his chest.
Ren Zu was revived once again!
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Undeniably, a person's heart was the source of their vitality, one of the most fatal weaknesses of a human's body.
The food path killer move eat heart that Spectral Soul created was a greater creation than bitter taste and swallow loss. Even if these two moves hit his enemies, they could only tilt the balance of victory and defeat. Meanwhile, eat heart was a fatal attack, once hit without ample preparation, it could decide the outcome almost instantly!
This was a method that could claim victory!!
Fang Yuan was hit.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had outstanding defense without doubt. But among all the Gu Immortal paths, food path was extremely well hidden, there were few defensive measures against it. Thus, during the fate war, Western Desert's Gu Immortals were all without options against Heavenly Court's combination killer move, sitting and eating the mountain empty, they were all hit by it.
Fang Yuan also had a food path inheritance, he also knew that Spectral Soul had a deep attainment in food path.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was assembled by Fang Yuan, it could defend against food path originally.
But now, Spectral Soul broke a hole in this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
Even the complete Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress would have difficulties blocking the killer move eat heart entirely, Fang Yuan would still be affected regardless.
At this moment, the intense feeling of death assaulted Fang Yuan.
He could not struggle, he had no way to struggle!
The Heavenly Dao in the sovereign immortal aperture seemed to have noticed this, it stopped conjuring new myriad tribulations as the dao marks scattered all over the aperture, trying to restrain Fang Yuan's entire body.
Fang Yuan could not use any defensive methods, he could only wait for death.
Lu Wei Yin saw that the situation was bad, he quickly activated the earth path battlefield, yellow sand gathered into dragons that coiled around Giant Spectral Soul, squeezing and attempting to immobilize Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul smiled coldly, hundreds of arms blocked them as he defended easily. His four eyes were still staring at Fang Yuan, most of his attention was spent on sustaining eat heart.
"Oh no!" Lu Wei Yin's heart sank.
Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai also felt chills flowing down their spines, they tried to desperately attack, but Spectral Soul did not even turn around for a moment.
Spectral Soul would rather suffer heavy injuries to make use of this opportunity.
He wanted Fang Yuan dead no matter what!
"Is... is everything going to end like this?" Fang Yuan's mind was still quite empty, he did not have many thoughts left. This was the aftermath of using unlimited qi sea.
Spectral Soul was just too strong.
Worthy of the former Demon Venerable! The man who was invincible in this world during his era!
During that time, he killed until the world became shrouded in darkness, nobody dared to make a sound, all of the living beings in the world could only tremble under his shadow.
Only until the appearance of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, he spent his entire life to mend the wounds and scars of the hearts of the people.
Before Spectral Soul went all out, his battle strength was not much higher compared to the rest, yet he still had a firm control over the situation. After he used his full power, his battle strength rose greatly, he immediately surpassed everyone. The most despairing thing was that each of his decisions carried immediate effect, he did not give his enemy any opportunities to recover, there was no way for them to survive.
"No, even if there is only a trace of hope, I need to do my best!" Fang Yuan could not use any methods, even if he could use a killer move, he could not block the killer move eat heart.
Unless it was reverse flow protection seal!
The pain on Fang Yuan's face vanished, his lips curled up as he revealed a mysterious smile, it was extremely unusual.
At the next moment, he shouted loudly: "If you do not take action now, when will you ever get another chance? Qi Jue!"
A pair of Spectral Soul's pupils expanded, while another pair of eyes squinted: "Is... Fang Yuan trying to deceive me? No wait!"
One of his heads turned around, he saw Demon Immortal Qi Jue attacking!
Boom!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue activated his killer move, the Xi Land on top of his head flew down like a comet, crashing into Spectral Soul's back.
Spectral Soul was greatly impacted, he also fell to the ground.
Puff puff puff!
Countless holes appeared on his body, it was like a deflating balloon, dark soul qi spewed out of the holes towards the outside.
Not only that, a hundred arms of Spectral Soul immediately fell onto the ground like decaying tree branches.
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"Ahhhh—! Qi Jue!" Spectral Soul screamed, staring at Demon Immortal Qi Jue with deep anger.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue retrieved Xi Land as he retreated, guarding against Spectral Soul's retaliation.
"You idiot!" Spectral Soul stepped on the ground as a loud sound echoed, he finally stabilized his footing.
Even someone like him who had lived for so long became furious this instant, he was about to kill Fang Yuan but his ally actually attacked him.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue floated in the air, staring at Spectral Soul with deep vigilance.
He first frowned as he recalled Fang Yuan's expression, it was evident that Fang Yuan did that on purpose so Spectral Soul would expose a weakness.
"Was Fang Yuan really at his wits' end at that time? No, this is more likely Spectral Soul's deception to distract me. The truth is, even if I was deceived, at this point, I can only continue to attack Spectral Soul!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue made up his mind very soon.
With eat heart broken, Spectral Soul suffered a backlash. During this time, Fang Yuan quickly repaired Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, at the very least, he fixed that hole on it.
While recovering, Fang Yuan did not forget to attack using words: "Spectral Soul, don't be too angry now, the truth is, before you contacted Qi Jue, I had already reached an agreement with him."
"You made an agreement? Impossible, I checked secretly, you do not have any alliance agreements on you!" Spectral Soul retorted.
"I have just been revived, I will not trust any information path methods. Oh Spectral Soul, you tempted me with benefits, but Fang Yuan did that even earlier. And... he is much more generous than you!" Before Demon Immortal Qi Jue finished his words, he attacked again.
A qi path killer move erupted, the attack swept towards Giant Spectral Soul like a storm.
Lu Wei Yin and the rest saw this, they felt overjoyed.
Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor were unaware of this cooperation, seeing Demon Immortal Qi Jue's betrayal, they became very excited. The situation was tight earlier, but with Demon Immortal Qi Jue's action, the situation was immediately flipped around to their advantage!
Lu Wei Yin pondered and quickly realized: "After the fate war, I used Lord Paradise Earth's methods to confirm that Spectral Soul had not only regained freedom but was also getting stronger. Soon after, the secret of the sovereign immortal aperture got exposed in treasure yellow heaven. When I contacted Fang Yuan secretly to inform him, I wanted to cooperate with him to deal with Spectral Soul and Shadow Sect. But initially, Fang Yuan did not fully believe me."
"But soon after, Fang Yuan contacted me and agreed to this alliance. Now it seems that he had already contacted Demon Immortal Qi Jue and used him to confirm my information."
Lu Wei Yin was Paradise Earth's inheritor, the venerable had spent his entire life restoring peace to the world, he was at odds with Spectral Soul.
The reason why Lu Wei Yin participated in the fate war was to get rid of Spectral Soul's remnant soul for good.
But even after it ended, Lu Wei Yin did not find Spectral Soul's remnant soul.
Lu Wei Yin naturally did not give up, he paid a huge price and used Paradise Earth's method to deduce Spectral Soul's current condition, but he could not find his location.
Thus, Lu Wei Yin thought of Fang Yuan.
If Spectral Soul wanted to regain full strength, he would need to kill Fang Yuan. After killing Fang Yuan, Spectral Soul would regain sovereign immortal fetus Gu as well as his personal dream realms and attainment levels.
Lu Wei Yin used Paradise Earth's method and contacted Fang Yuan after great difficulty, but the latter was very wary in regards to him.
Fang Yuan had been reborn, he knew that Lu Wei Yin was not what he seemed like on the surface in supporting Heavenly Court, he had his own personal objectives.
Also, because Fang Yuan did not see Spectral Soul during the fate war when he invaded Heavenly Court, he trusted some parts of Lu Wei Yin's information.
Soon after, the secret of the sovereign immortal body was exposed in treasure yellow heaven, it made Fang Yuan believe his words even more.
After Demon Immortal Qi Jue revived, Fang Yuan tried to contact him in secret but did not succeed once.
But coincidentally, Demon Immortal Qi Jue went to approach Qi Sea Ancestor for trouble. Using Qin Ding Ling's reinforcement, Fang Yuan managed to force Demon Immortal Qi Jue to retreat, but the truth was, he secretly made a deal with Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
In order to gain Demon Immortal Qi Jue's trust, Fang Yuan told him that Qi Sea Ancestor was his disguise.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue gained this hold on Fang Yuan and immediately understood that Fang Yuan was sincere in this cooperation.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue lacked knowledge of the Gu Immortal world at that time, Fang Yuan attended to his needs, he used his various true inheritances as the transaction goods.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was greatly moved but he was still very wary, he did not want to set an alliance agreement with Fang Yuan, he was afraid that Fang Yuan would use unknown information path methods to harm him.
Fang Yuan did not force him, they eventually came to a relaxed agreement that could not have any restraining power to either of them.
Fang Yuan provided true inheritances of various paths to Demon Immortal Qi Jue, while the latter gave Fang Yuan the secret of his qi path resurrection. Furthermore, he even followed Fang Yuan's arrangement and sold a huge amount of qi path immortal materials in treasure yellow heaven to purchase inheritances of all paths.
Fang Yuan learned of the secret regarding Qi Jue's revival, he immediately gained a huge breakthrough in resolving the qi harvest fruit. Thus, Qi Sea Ancestor was able to get rid of it. After that, Fang Yuan's clone used Heavenly Court's qi harvest fruit to create the Qi Sea clone successfully!
The truth was, with just Fang Yuan's qi path attainment, he could not resolve the problem of the qi harvest fruit so quickly.
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue was contacted by Spectral Soul in treasure yellow heaven some time after that.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was greatly shocked, after hearing Spectral Soul's words, he understood Fang Yuan's intention.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Fang Yuan had a lax agreement, they could betray each other easily. Demon Immortal Qi Jue would not consider Fang Yuan's benefits, he immediately negotiated with Spectral Soul in secret.
But soon, he realized that Spectral Soul's offer was far inferior to Fang Yuan's.
"How can a great Demon Venerable be so stingy?!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue first held disdain before he pondered: "Oh, I get it! Spectral Soul is the pioneer of soul path, he also has a food path true inheritance, but he wants to keep them and refuses to transact these two. Even though Shadow Sect had existed for so long, they only found very few venerable true inheritances. But Fang Yuan is the crucial pawn of heaven's will and the ten venerables, many of these venerables invested in him, thus he possesses Red Lotus' true inheritance, Thieving Heaven's true inheritance, Giant Sun's true inheritance, Spectral Soul's true inheritance, Reckless Savage's true inheritance, Primordial Origin's true inheritance, Genesis Lotus' true inheritance, Paradise Earth's true inheritance, and Limitless' true inheritance. Other than these, he also has Lang Ya's true inheritance, the dragonman race's true inheritance, food path true inheritance, Bo Qing's sword path true inheritance, and many more. Damn... how can this one guy have so much wealth?"
After Demon Immortal Qi Jue understood the reason, a complex feeling emerged in his heart uncontrollably.
Fang Yuan could be said to be the wealthiest person in terms of true inheritances throughout history!
Even though Spectral Soul's Shadow Sect had searched for such a long period of time, obtaining venerable true inheritances took a lot of time and effort, and they were usually incomplete. Every venerable would make each inheritance with a specific purpose. Even if Spectral Soul destroyed them, he would not gain much. His greatest gain was still that Red Lotus true inheritance, and that was left to him intentionally by Red Lotus Demon Venerable to allow them to cooperate.
Regarding Fang Yuan's gains, Demon Immortal Qi Jue felt jealousy, envy, and hatred.
Fang Yuan was too rich, even though Spectral Soul was a Demon Venerable, compared to Fang Yuan in this regard, he was simply too poor!
After comprehending this, Demon Immortal Qi Jue gained a deeper understanding of Fang Yuan: "No wonder this guy was chosen to be the crucial person to destroy Fate! He is making use of me to defend against Spectral Soul while also harming him, he also knows my wants so even without an agreement, I would not betray him easily."
Fang Yuan had abundant wealth, he also knew that Qi Jue would go against Spectral Soul, he naturally acted very generously.
Spectral Soul was kept in the dark, he had to deal with the crafty Demon Immortal Qi Jue that showed signs of this betrayal, it was a stark contrast from Fang Yuan.
Of course, Demon Immortal Qi Jue would not side with Fang Yuan simply because of this.
He took advantage of both sides, on one hand, he told Fang Yuan about the price that Spectral Soul was paying, on the other hand, he requested for more things from Spectral Soul, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had been trying to gain the maximum benefits for himself all along. Up until he attacked Spectral Soul earlier, he had been interacting with both parties.
The sovereign immortal aperture's situation was not optimistic.
The myriad tribulation transformed again, it became a boundless grey wind. Wherever the wind blew, ash and sparks would appear, in the end, it would burn and destroy everything, the grey wind would sweep through, leaving a huge empty land behind.
It was the myriad tribulation — Spark Blowing Grey Wind!
The heaven path dao marks turned into wind path and fire path dao marks, creating this myriad tribulation that Fang Yuan had trouble dealing with immediately.
Not only did the grey wind appear in the mini five regions, it also affected the mini nine heavens.
A lot of resource points were destroyed, the sovereign immortal aperture had always been developed by Fang Yuan, it reached twenty percent development, but now, half of that was gone.
During this time, Fang Yuan could only try to save the people instead.
There were many humans and variant humans living in the sovereign immortal aperture, they were gathered in cities, mountains or valleys. This was huge wealth, Fang Yuan could give up the rest but he had to preserve the lives of these people.
"Cough cough."
Inside Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, Fang Yuan continued to cough out blood.
He was heavily injured.
This was the result of Spectral Soul's eat heart killer move.
The scene earlier was too dangerous, if it lasted for a few more breaths of time, Fang Yuan would have died. Even now, if Spectral Soul uses eat heart on Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress again, Fang Yuan would not escape death.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress could not fully resist the power of eat heart!
However, Spectral Soul no longer had a chance.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's betrayal changed the entire situation.
Earlier, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had Xi Land that countered Qi Sea Ancestor, he could shoulder some pressure for Spectral Soul. Now, Demon Immortal Qi Jue became the most troublesome person for Spectral Soul to deal with.
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Hand Explosion!
Qi Sea Ancestor activated his killer move, Spectral Soul sensed it, immediately moving a hundred arms as black smoke appeared around him.
Qi Sea Ancestor's face flushed red, he felt like he was squeezing an expanding piece of metal, his killer move was about to break!
Immortal killer move — Upper-Lower Breathless Qi!
At the crucial moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue attacked with his killer move, directly hitting Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul soon felt his breath going out of sync, his immortal essence flow became choppy, his defensive method that resisted great qi hand explosion became much weaker.
Using this chance, Qi Sea Ancestor exerted more strength into his move.
Boom!
Great qi hand explosion was successfully used, and at this moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue used a supplementary method to double the strength of this great qi hand explosion.
Giant Spectral Soul was sent flying from the impact as tens of black arms exploded, he was covered in dust and smoke.
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Swoosh!
Some parts of Giant Spectral Soul's body broke out with countless holes of various sizes, from these holes, black soul qi spewed out rapidly.
As the soul qi leaked out, Giant Spectral Soul's huge body started to shrink at an observable speed.
Seeing this, Lu Wei Yin's eyes shined with bright light: "No wonder Spectral Soul used a physical body to fight earlier and did not turn into the giant immediately. This move gives him a temporary power boost but it cannot be sustained for long, it also has a severe problem in it!"
Giant Spectral Soul quickly healed his wounds and mended the holes, preventing soul qi from leaking further.
As he healed, he attacked in place of defense, hundreds of arms danced around and slammed at Lu Wei Yin and the rest, causing them to scatter and dodge.
Spectral Soul was actually even fiercer than before!
But Lu Wei Yin and the rest were calm, their morale rose as they saw the hope of victory!
"Create an opportunity for me." Demon Immortal Qi Jue suddenly transmitted to Lu Wei Yin and the rest.
Lu Wei Yin did not hesitate, he immediately activated the battlefield, a sandstorm concealed Demon Immortal Qi Jue's traces.
Within the sandstorm, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had a solemn expression, almost all of his concentration was placed in his immortal aperture. A brand new killer move was carefully prepared by him, it was taking shape.
Spectral Soul sensed something amiss, he immediately charged into the sandstorm, attempting to disrupt Demon Immortal Qi Jue's mysterious killer move.
Qi Sea Ancestor and Wu Shuai desperately tried to stop him but they could not stall Spectral Soul at all.
Qing Chou rammed towards Spectral Soul but was easily dodged.
Seeing that Spectral Soul was about to reach Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Lu Wei Yin stepped in.
He had outstanding defensive methods, even though he lacked offense, he was the one who could stall Spectral Soul for the longest time now!
Giant Spectral Soul fought with Lu Wei Yin, causing the latter to bleed from his nose and mouth, but he was unable to advance any further due to this obstruction.
Getting some crucial time, Demon Immortal Qi Jue took a risk and completed his killer move preparation.
Immortal killer move — Xi Xi!
The Xi Land above his head shined with profound light, directed at Spectral Soul. Seeing this, Spectral Soul roared with a trace of panic in his voice.
The profound light pillar emitted an intense suction force, forcefully draining the black soul qi from Giant Spectral Soul's body!
Giant Spectral Soul's body shrunk rapidly, all of his soul path methods fell drastically in strength.
Spectral Soul had a grim expression, he unleashed food path killer moves, bitter taste and swallow loss.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue got hit by them, his body shook, he almost failed to sustain the killer move, Spectral Soul nearly escaped.
But at the crucial moment, Lu Wei Yin strained his mind and pointed at Demon Immortal Qi Jue, shooting out two yellow lights.
One yellow light landed on Demon Immortal Qi Jue and spread around the battlefield.
Immortal killer move — All Life Is Bitter!
Instantly, all of the immortals here felt bitterness, even the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield was sharing the burden of experiencing the killer move bitter taste.
The second yellow light entered Demon Immortal Qi Jue's body.
Immortal killer move — Suffering Loss Is A Blessing!
Demon Immortal Qi Jue benefited from this, his body's injuries started to recover, he laughed loudly in satisfaction.
Spectral Soul's expression was dark.
After Lu Wei Yin used both killer moves, his aura diminished to an extreme low, he immediately escaped using the sandstorm.
From within the sandstorm, his voice was firm: "Spectral Soul, you committed too many sins and caused great harm to the world. Back then, countless Gu Immortals fell victim to your two food path killer moves! Thus, Lord Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created these two moves specially to deal with you!"
They were his direct counter!
Spectral Soul was stuck in a passive spot instantly, his two killer moves were broken.
Once a killer move was broken, the user would fall into a passive state, even Spectral Soul was no exception. Simply because he was dealing with another venerable, someone who had opposed him over his entire life!
Bitter taste and swallow loss were countered, Spectral Soul wanted to use eat heart now.
This move was created in his later years, it had almost never been used, there was almost no possibility that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had a counter to it.
But Spectral Soul could not use it.
When he used eat heart earlier, many soul path Immortal Gu were destroyed, he also expended a huge amount of food path mortal Gu, he had paid a huge price to forcefully activate it.
Simply put, he could not use eat heart for the following short period of time.
Precisely so, Spectral Soul had been holding back eat heart, not willing to use it without a good reason.
After Spectral Soul escaped, he first ransacked Heavenly Court's storage before devouring Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven, taking its entire foundation. Spectral Soul recovered his strength, he rose up again with great efficiency! However, it was undeniably that his gains in food path Immortal Gu were minuscule, he could not truly exert the full strength of his food path.
Food path was very rarely passed down, this was both Spectral Soul's advantage and disadvantage. Because there were too few food path Gu Immortals, there were also very few food path Immortal Gu around.
All in all, Spectral Soul had too little time to recover!
Ever since this battle to chase Fang Yuan started, Spectral Soul had been using countless soul path killer moves that were tough to deal with.
But in terms of food path, Spectral Soul only had three killer moves. Among which, eat heart was only used with great difficulty, it was a one-time use trump card.
Spectral Soul had countless soul path killer moves with terrifying and peculiar effects, they were hard to counter. But in terms of food path, there was nothing special, he only had three moves, for Lu Wei Yin and the others who had fought him for so long, it was hard to not accustom themselves to these moves.
It was like Fang Yuan's Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, when he used it earlier, it was shocking. But after a while of fighting, with its foundation exposed, Spectral Soul and Qi Jue quickly familiarized themselves with its weaknesses.
Trump cards were things that were best left unused as much as possible.
Spectral Soul's two food path killer moves were countered by Lu Wei Yin, he immediately suffered a backlash, his injuries were severe!
Killer moves could not be used carelessly, once they were broken, the outcome would be terrible.
But this was not Spectral Soul's mistake, in the earlier situation, soul path killer moves could not turn the situation around, food path was the wisest choice!
But Lu Wei Yin was someone with deep schemes, he was just Paradise Earth's inheritor, he was not the Immortal Venerable after all. Thus he kept these two moves concealed as trump cards, even though Spectral Soul used the two food path killer moves earlier, he did not show any hints. At the most crucial moment, he unleashed his counter and achieved the best result!
"Ming You, I will kill you, I will kill you!" After Spectral Soul suffered heavy injuries, Qing Chou attacked while roaring loudly!
It was like a mad beast, its expression was distorted and its eyes were red, bursting open and bleeding with green-black blood. Its body was covered in hundreds of holes, blood spewed out continuously, its injuries were scary to look at.
"Truly an amazing creation." For a moment, Giant Spectral Soul squinted his eyes.
Spectral Soul's attainment in soul path was definitely unsurpassed in the world. He created soul path, causing soul beasts to exist in the world. Thus, his understanding of soul beasts was extremely thorough, nobody could know more than him! And yet, Qing Chou was different, a qualitative change had occurred within its body.
Facing Qing Chou's attack, Giant Spectral Soul became overjoyed instead!
Since the fight started, Spectral Soul had gained great benefits from Qing Chou. For others, Qing Chou would be a huge problem, it was quite fatal. But for Spectral Soul, it was like a gentle rain, it came at a good time to allow Spectral Soul to absorb its strength and recover rapidly!
Qing Chou charged with extreme speed, it did not care about its own life.
The sole enemy in its life was right before it!
But as memories surfaced, its vision blurred again.
"Escape, quickly escape!"
"Can anyone save me, oh, ancestors of Qing clan, why are you not taking action?"
"Father! Mother! Where are you?"
...
Cries resounded, screaming filled the entire Qing oasis.
Rough winds howled in the desert, while the oasis carried a warm breeze.
This was Western Desert Qing clan's blessed land headquarters, it was situated in a beautiful oasis of Western Desert.
The sandstones were like mountains, the still lake were like the sea, and the trees were lush and vibrant. However, this utopia that was Qing clan's beautiful home turned into living hell.
A terrifying slaughter was ongoing, blood flowed into rivers, countless Gu Masters retaliated desperately but were unable to cause any problems for the perpetrator.
The young Spectral Soul, Ming You from Southern Border's Gu Immortal world, wore a black robe, he stood proudly in the sky, each time he attacked, he took away thousands of lives.
He looked down on the ground, countless people were running in the face of death, they were like pitiful ants.
"Qing clan, you are a great Western Desert super force, how long are you going to hide?" Ming You snickered and taunted: "It is too disappointing, are you going to watch your clan get slaughtered like this? Hehehe, the so-called Qing clan is nothing amazing after all!"
Qing clan did not have many Gu Immortals left.
Right now, they were in the deepest part of their blessed land headquarters, hearing Ming You's voice, they felt extremely furious.
"This demonic path scoundrel is too arrogant and hateful!"
"To think that our second supreme elder would die at his hands, this is truly too unbelievable."
"Our great Qing clan actually ended up in this situation, nobody dares to go out and fight just this mere Ming You alone!"
"No, this is not all Ming You's credit. Don't you all find it weird that news of Divine Bean Palace was leaked out?"
Qing clan's Gu Immortals discussed, some were sad and dejected, some felt they were helpless to do anything.
"Cough cough, you are right." Qing clan's first supreme elder woke up from his coma.
"First elder!" Qing clan's Gu Immortals were overjoyed, they cheered: "You are finally awake."
Qing clan's first supreme elder still had a purplish complexion, his aura was extremely weak. He barely sat up on his bed as he said: "Ming You has likely cooperated with the other forces to deal with us. He is an open blade while the other forces are restraining us secretly, they are too vicious. Not long ago, to settle some territorial dispute and get a giant resource point, I was sneak attacked and suffered heavy injuries, I have no battle strength now. Recently, our clan's giant resource points have all been attacked by demonic path Gu Immortals. After sending our Immortal Gu Houses to deal with them, our headquarters have fallen into a state of absolute weakness... cough, cough."
"First supreme elder, you need to rest, don't exert yourself!"
"Yes, we will handle this!"
"As long as Qing clan survives this crisis, we will definitely take revenge on those vicious scoundrels."
Qing clan's Gu Immortals quickly assured.
But Qing clan's first supreme elder shook his head: "Don't go and waste your lives, Ming You has incredible battle strength, he possesses an immense innate luck, he is not a simple character. We were too careless earlier, by the time we realized this and want to deal with him seriously, the other forces already started to restrain us. We need to be very vigilant in dealing with him now!"
Qing clan's Gu Immortals were discussing earlier, but hearing the first supreme elder's words, it seemed like he had other plans.
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"First supreme elder, what idea do you have?"
Qing clan's first supreme elder forced a smile: "The cause of everything, the origin of Qing clan's predicament, is just one thing, Divine Bean Palace! Other than us, nobody wants to see Qing clan refine Divine Bean Palace successfully, even if we exert all our strength and give up our territories, even if we defeat Ming You, how can we deal with all the super forces?"
"Cough, cough." Qing clan's first supreme elder paused before continuing: "So our best counterattack is to refine Divine Bean Palace."
An anxious Gu Immortal immediately asked: "How can we refine Divine Bean Palace rapidly?"
Qing clan's first supreme elder sighed: "There is one method we can try!"
Qing clan's immortals were very excited, they looked at Qing clan's first supreme elder fixedly.
Qing clan's first supreme elder slowly explained: "Earlier, we used hatred Gu to get past Divine Bean Palace's defense, we made huge progress, we just need some time to refine it now. However, we lack the time we need, we can only take a risk and use that killer move now."
"What killer move?"
"Don't tell me..."
Some Qing clan Gu Immortals had perplexed expressions while some had changing expressions, they recalled some vague rumors they had heard.
Qing clan's first supreme elder nodded, excitement showed on his tired face: "This killer move was created by second supreme elder and I, he was the main user with my assistance. The killer move has extraordinary might, I will activate it while all of you participate and help. As long as we can unleash it, the current Divine Bean Palace cannot block it, any rank eight Gu Immortal will need to avoid it as well. No matter how strong Ming You is, he is still rank seven."
"We will do that!"
"First supreme elder, what do we name it?"
First supreme elder shook his head as he smiled bitterly: "Second supreme elder died before we could name it."
This old man was silent for a while before replying solemnly: "Let's call it, Qing Chou[1], this is the revenge of Qing clan! Divine Bean Palace was the cause of our predicament and suffering, Qing clan needs to take revenge. We will use Qing Chou to refine Divine Bean Palace completely! These super forces with ill intentions will also face the revenge of our Qing clan one by one! That arrogant and vicious Ming You who caused us great harm will also face our revenge! Using Qing Chou, we will..."
"We will take revenge! We will repay this debt a thousandfold to those who hurt us. In this aspect, we will not be stingy, we will repay them fully!"
These words raised the spirits of the immortals.
"Qing Chou... truly a good name."
"First supreme elder is right, we must take revenge!"
"Let Qing Chou be the sign of our Qing clan's rise to greatness."
Qing... Chou...
Qing Chou...
Qing Chou?
Qing Chou!
Qing Chou's vision cleared up at once, it recalled everything, its memories were fully restored.
Facing Ming You's assault, Qing clan first decided to use the killer move Qing Chou to refine Divine Bean Palace. Next, they would go and fight to claim victory.
However, the Qing Chou killer move that they entrusted their hopes to did not fully refine Divine Bean Palace. Instead, it triggered a mysterious resonance with Divine Bean Palace, the entire sky shined with jade green light.
The mysterious light devoured Qing clan's immortals, it digested the entire Qing clan headquarters, including Qing oasis, it covered the surrounding ten thousand li!
Ming You was forced to retreat, after the mysterious light faded, the super forces came to check what happened, they saw that the great Qing clan territory was reduced to a huge and vast ruin.
The indignant Western Desert Gu Immortals searched the entire place thoroughly but they could not find anything.
As time passed, people went from disappointment to despair, they left this lifeless dessert eventually.
Only in some corner, a rank eight wood path Immortal Gu House with a dim hall and hatred Gu as the core within the hall was activating a killer move.
This killer move was called Qing Chou.
The killer move Qing Chou did not fail, it was only influenced by something and mutated in essence.
It turned into... a life form!
Countless vengeful souls who died terrible deaths fused together, a soul beast with hatred Gu as the core was born.
Initially, it was very small like a baby.
It opened its eyes, its gaze was crystal clear.
Next, it grew up continuously, without any idea of what was happening.
Its body started to grow as its physique became clear. It had claws, a tortoise shell, and a head with long hair.
Its size was initially the same as a rabbit, next it grew to a wolf's size, before a bull and then an elephant, eventually, it became as large as a mountain.
Countless vengeful souls cried out, from the moment it was born, they had been screeching in its ears, reverberating in its heart.
Every time it grew, these resounding voices would become louder and more muffled.
They were screaming, they were howling.
Qing Chou could not hear them clearly, it felt greatly troubled.
These voices were too annoying and muffled, they went on without stopping, it became confused, it became frustrated, it became angry.
Its thoughts became more chaotic, it became more ruthless and aggressive.
It growled, it slashed the ground of the hall with its claws, it crashed into the pillars using its shell, it bled from injuries as its hair covered its face.
The hall rapidly repaired itself but the voices still continued, they were getting more muffled and loud.
Qing Chou could do nothing.
It became dejected eventually.
It wanted to give up, it wanted to die.
But it did not do so, those vengeful voices were trying to remind it of something.
What was it?
What were those damned voices trying to say?
Tell me, tell me, why are you torturing me like this, why don't you just let me die?!
Ever since the chaotic battle started, Qing Chou sensed Spectral Soul, its consciousness fell into chaos due to hatred Gu. Even though it was conscious, its mind was not clear.
It only knew how to kill, it knew how to charge and advance, it only knew how to fight! It wanted to exert itself, to use every drop of blood in its body to kill Spectral Soul, to exterminate Spectral Soul!
But now, Qing Chou's mind was no longer in chaos, it regained clarity.
It was as if the clouds parted in the sky, everything was clear now.
Its memories were complete, it understood the whole situation from start to finish.
It... could finally understand the words of those vengeful souls.
These vengeful souls were screaming and crying all the time, they had never stopped or weakened at all.
Qing Chou heard them clearly now.
These vengeful souls were not screaming in pain or bitterness.
They were not crying out in grievance, they were not screaming their innocence.
They only said one thing — Qing Chou.
Qing Chou!
Qing Chou!!
You must remember the purpose of your existence!
You must remember the burden that you bear!
You must remember all your enemies!
Don't forget it, don't forget it for even an instance, don't give up, don't give up even for an instance.
Revenge, revenge, revenge!
Those clansmen who died pitiful deaths, those Qing clan members who had yet to fulfill their aspirations, we need to take revenge for the pain and suffering that was inflicted on us!
"Spectral Soul—!" Qing Chou screamed: "Have a good taste of this!"
"This is the revenge of Qing clan, after a hundred thousand years, the killer move that has been nurturing for a hundred thousand years—"
"Qing Chou!!!"
"Oh no!" At this moment, Giant Spectral Soul's expression turned cold, his heart sank.
A qualitative change occurred in Qing Chou's body, rank eight Immortal Gu Hatred which had been growing the entire time finally broke through at this moment, it became a genuine rank nine Immortal Gu!
Qing Chou's mountain-like body shot out a jade green light that was familiar to Spectral Soul.
Within the green light, Qing Chou's body transformed like flowing water.
It stood straight up, its four limbs turned into human hands and legs.
The huge pair of wings that it had turned into a full body armor.
Its shell turned into a shield, held by its left arm.
Its snake neck contracted rapidly, allowing its neck and shoulder to have the perfect proportion.
Next, a huge lump of light flowed from its long tail and snake neck, transferring to its right palm as it extended into a terrifying spear.
Giant Qing Chou charged towards Spectral Soul, the vast green light condensed and went into the tip of its spear.
The long spear stabbed forward with great force!
Giant Spectral Soul changed moves!
He had to make a change, if he used his earlier method on Qing Chou again, he would be courting death.
Spectral Soul grunted as he retracted his move, causing him to suffer backlash.
But he achieved his goal, he successfully changed killer moves. At the crucial moment, rumbling black smoke gushed towards Qing Chou, stopping its attack.
Seeing this, Wu Shuai, Qi Sea Ancestor, and Demon Immortal Qi Jue stared with wide eyes.
This seemed like a long process but in fact, it occurred too quickly and suddenly.
Qing Chou suddenly became stronger, it turned into a giant with a huge rise in battle strength.
Before Wu Shuai, Qi Sea or Qi Jue had time to celebrate, Giant Spectral Soul withdrew his killer move and retaliated instantly.
Seeing that this fatal killer move was mostly blocked by Spectral Soul, Wu Shuai, Qi Sea, and Qi Jue felt greatly disappointed, they could not help but admire Spectral Soul's resolve and method.
He could actually swap killer moves within such a short time frame!
However, Lu Wei Yin smiled.
At the next moment, Giant Qing Chou's messy hair rose up and tangled together like vines, gathering into the appearance of a huge tree.
This tree had lush leaves, it was a massive cover over Qing Chou's head, it emitted a jade green light again.
Spectral Soul's rumbling smoke was all blocked by this powerful light!
"This is?!"
"A venerable method!"
"Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's karma divine tree killer move!!"
Qi Sea, Qi Jue, and Wu Shuai were shocked.
Swish!
Giant Qing Chou's attacks were no longer obstructed, the terrifying spear pierced through Giant Spectral Soul from the front to the back.
Following that, the green spear turned into jade green light and flowed into Giant Spectral Soul's body like a torrent of water.
Giant Spectral Soul took several steps back, his aura weakened to an extremely low level.
Spectral Soul was covered in holes as soul qi leaked out along with some jade green light. Hundreds of arms covered these holes but could not stop the overwhelming green light from shining.
These mysterious lights were like swords or spears, bursting out of Spectral Soul's body, radiating the entire battlefield.
Spectral Soul lost!
This was a truly fatal blow!!
Spectral Soul's expression was cold as he muttered: "Genesis Lotus, Paradise Earth... good, you guys are really impressive."
Next, he smiled coldly, his killing intent surged instead, reaching an unprecedented level!
"Long long ago, I swore that I would only make others struggle in the face of death. Are you all... prepared for that?"
Spectral Soul's words made everyone's expressions change.
"Oh no!"
"Get away from him, quickly!"
"He is going to self-detonate!!"
"All of you, die with me." Spectral Soul roared.
Boom—!!!
[1] Chou means revenge
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"Quickly, quickly, we need to be faster!" Fairy Zi Wei continued to urge herself internally.
She was the only wisdom path great expert here, the duty of unraveling this battlefield killer move ended up on her shoulders.
Fairy Zi Wei's soul was modified by Spectral Soul, she was loyal to him, she exerted herself in trying to unravel this battlefield killer move.
However, Lu Wei Yin's illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield was not a simple battlefield.
"This earth path battlefield is extremely sturdy, it also has a layer of vagueness. I'm afraid it uses Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's battlefield as the foundation and was modified from that!"
Fairy Zi Wei was frowning deeply, her mind was heating up, with her full effort, she managed to deduce some useful information.
But there was little progress overall.
Firstly, the battlefield killer move would shrink into a tiny spot once they were activated, isolating the inside and outside. Be it from within or externally, it was hard to unravel.
Initially, Fairy Zi Wei was able to break Fang Yuan's yama battlefield in Lang Ya blessed land because she had Feng Jiu Ge's fate armor Immortal Gu to locate yama battlefield.
By combining both internal and external influences, she had a breakthrough in unraveling that battlefield.
Secondly, illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield was not ordinary, it was the work of a venerable, improved upon by future generations.
It was already amazing that Fairy Zi Wei could find the exact location of the battlefield so quickly, it showed her incredible wisdom path attainment.
Fairy Zi Wei continued to use various methods, sometimes, she activated individual Immortal Gu, sometimes, she used wisdom path killer moves, sometimes, she even asked the Longevity Heaven or Heavenly Court Gu Immortals to probe the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield continuously.
This was truly an unthinkable sight.
Shadow Sect, Longevity Heaven, and Heavenly Court were actually working together closely!
At the outer periphery, the black bat group was like a raging black tide that attacked constantly. Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses were guarding against them, forming a tight defense that killed all the black bats that were daring enough to approach them.
In the inner area, Fairy Zi Wei was high in the sky with Old Man Zheng Yuan, Bai Ning Bing, and Fairy Miao Yin protecting her.
At the center, two Immortal Gu Houses were situated beside each other. They were Longevity Heaven's Calamity Luck Altar and Heavenly Court's Demon Judgment Board. Each time Fairy Zi Wei gave instructions, these two Immortal Gu Houses would cooperate and use their methods to attack a corner of the battlefield.
Qin Ding Ling and Bing Sai Chuan did not doubt Fairy Zi Wei's anxiety, they also lacked a wisdom path great expert, they were willing to put in effort for this.
Everything they did was for the eventual goal, Fang Yuan!
Originally, these three forces restrained each other while chasing Fang Yuan, they had their own vigilance.
But now that the battlefield killer move enveloped Fang Yuan and Spectral Soul, these three forces started to work together, exerting their effort and energy into unraveling this battlefield killer move.
Fang Yuan's craftiness and viciousness was deeply etched in everyone's minds, since he put up an ambush here, he definitely had ill intentions.
The three factions' Gu Immortals felt something amiss, they quickly worked together, attempting to thwart Fang Yuan's plans with all their effort.
It was truly a wise decision.
But...
Guh.
Fairy Zi Wei suddenly shook as she spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Oh?" Seeing this change, all of the Gu Immortals' attention was drawn.
Fairy Zi Wei wiped the blood off the corner of her lips, her expression was pale but she gritted her teeth, continuing her deduction.
"Heavenly Court nurtured a great immortal, for her master, she is really giving it her all." Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan sneered as he tried to attack the two forces with words.
Within the Immortal Gu House, Qin Ding Ling snorted coldly, frowning: "Why is my luck wavering so much?"
At the next moment, Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan suddenly took action, profound light flickered, the Shadow Sect immortals were all enveloped, before they shot outside like a meteor!
Bing Sai Chuan and Qin Ding Ling's hearts jumped, they did not think anymore, quickly controlling the Immortal Gu Houses to follow after Fairy Zi Wei.
Boom!
A terrifying explosion occurred at this moment.
Calamity Luck Altar had just started to move when an immense force assaulted it from the back.
Bing Sai Chuan growled: "Zi Wei harmed us!"
Calamity Luck Altar suffered a huge blow, but its momentum rose as it charged towards Fairy Zi Wei with killing intent.
Within Demon Judgment Board, Fang Zheng lacked experience compared to Bing Sai Chuan and Qin Ding Ling. When the explosion occurred, Demon Judgment Board was still staying motionless on the spot.
Thus, Demon Judgment Board suffered much greater damage than Calamity Luck Altar.
At once, Fang Zheng felt like he had fallen into a tsunami, he was caught unguarded, the entire Demon Judgment Board was swept away by the explosion.
Rumble!
This explosion was created by Spectral Soul's self-detonation.
After the explosion destroyed the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield, the three forces' Gu Immortals who did not know what happened were greatly affected.
Both Immortal Gu Houses, Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Judgment Board, were heavily damaged, even though Fairy Zi Wei deduced the explosion slightly earlier, there was too little time, the explosion quickly implicated them, they were sent flying everywhere.
The numerous Heavenly Court Immortal Gu Houses were also sent flying like kites, blown away by the intense force.
The black bat group was even worse, hundreds of thousands of bats, be they desolate beasts or immemorial desolate beasts, were instantly blown to pieces.
The ground shook as the world seemingly collapsed, the entire scene was very chaotic now.
An extremely damaged fortress appeared in the air.
Qing Chou, which had turned into a giant, was blown into three pieces, it landed on the ground.
Xi Land was greatly damaged, it was originally complete and intact, now only less than thirty percent was left.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was covered in blood as he flew out of this secluded domain of heaven and earth, he had a sharp gaze as he fixed his eyes on the fortress.
It was Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
This rank eight Immortal Gu House truly had top notch defense, even though it was heavily damaged, it still managed to block the force of Spectral Soul's self-detonation.
At the next moment, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was stored into Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.
This Immortal Gu House was too slow, it could not be relied on all the time.
Fang Yuan appeared!
Instantly, he attracted the attention of all the Gu Immortals.
But Fang Yuan was not alone, Lu Wei Yin and Wu Shuai were also around him.
"Let's kill Fang Yuan!" Calamity Luck Altar was not in good shape, Bing Sai Chuan gave up on it and let the rest repair, while he went to kill Fang Yuan himself.
This rank eight great expert who had once fought alongside Fang Yuan did not conceal his deep killing intent towards the latter.
"Fang Yuan, what did you do to master?!" Fairy Zi Wei stopped escaping, she screamed out as blood oozed out of her nose and mouth.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had a child-like appearance but an elderly voice, he smiled coldly: "Didn't you all feel the severity of the explosion earlier? Spectral Soul has already self-detonated and died."
What?!
The immortals heard this and were intensely shocked.
"The great Spectral Soul actually died?"
"The explosion earlier was too terrifying, it was clearly a soul path killer move, was it Spectral Soul's final attack before dying?"
"But how can this be! A great Demon Venerable..."
"No, Spectral Soul is no longer a Demon Venerable."
"Even so, he still has the number one battle strength in the world, to think that he actually died at the hands of Fang Yuan and the rest!"
"Fang Yuan actually killed Spectral Soul??"
The immortals' expressions changed, their pupils contracted as all of their gazes focused on Fang Yuan!
Even though Spectral Soul's death was caused by everyone's effort, Fang Yuan was undeniably the main perpetrator.
"Fang Yuan cannot be underestimated, he is too scheming, he actually managed to kill Spectral Soul, that is a former Demon Venerable!"
"He even destroyed fate Gu, it is not strange that he managed to achieve this."
"Kill him, we cannot let him escape. This demon being alive is truly the greatest misfortune of all lives in this world!"
"Yes, even if he was acting earlier, after killing Spectral Soul, he must definitely be in bad shape. If we don't kill him now, when will we?"
The immortals shouted in unison.
"Fang Yuan, even if I have to die here, I want you dead!" Fairy Zi Wei's expression was distorted, she gritted her teeth as she attacked.
On one hand, Fairy Zi Wei was modified by Spectral Soul and became extremely loyal to him, his death angered her deeply. On the other hand, she had constantly experienced failure as a result of Fang Yuan. In Heavenly Court, she failed, in Shadow Sect, she still failed, she kept losing to this Fang Yuan.
"Kill him, if Fang Yuan is not dead, the ones to suffer will be everyone present here." Demon Immortal Qi Jue called out as he attacked Fang Yuan as well.
At the same time, he secretly transmitted to Fang Yuan while chuckling: "Fang Yuan, when Spectral Soul self-detonated earlier, you did not let me into your Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, I'll forget that. If you want to escape now, you will need my help, take out some venerable true inheritances, show me your sincerity!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue's Xi Land was greatly damaged but he retained most of his own battle strength.
This old demon was still working with Fang Yuan to fight Spectral Soul one moment ago, immediately after, he flipped and changed sides, using the three forces to threaten and extort Fang Yuan again!
Fang Yuan was really not in good shape, the sovereign immortal aperture's myriad tribulation was still ongoing.
Beside him, Lu Wei Yin had a pale expression, his body was wobbling around, it would not be surprising if he fainted at the next moment.
Wu Shuai was looking terrible, even though his rank eight aura was not stable, he still retained some battle strength. Right now, he could only be sacrificed to try to stall for time. Even so, there was no guarantee regarding how much time he could fight for.
As for Qi Sea Ancestor, he was already put into Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture. Within it, Combat Beast King was still unconscious, Fang Yuan needed a Gu Immortal expert to manage the situation.
If not, Qi Sea Ancestor would be forced by the situation, to protect his main body, he would need to expose his identity.
"At the crucial moment, without any better options, I will need to sacrifice the Qi Sea clone and Wu Shuai clone to stall for time." Fang Yuan thought.
He transmitted to Lu Wei Yin: "What is the escape method that you mentioned earlier?"
When Giant Spectral Soul self-detonated, Lu Wei Yin made his move, forcefully activating the illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield and suppressing the soul explosion miraculously, even though it only lasted a few breaths of time, it managed to successfully gain them some time.
Using this time, Fang Yuan's Qi Sea and Wu Shuai clone managed to hide inside Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
During which, Lu Wei Yin transmitted to Fang Yuan that he had a way to escape and leave Central Continent safely.
Precisely so, Fang Yuan let Lu Wei Yin into his Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
Firstly, Lu Wei Yin saved both of Fang Yuan's clones, that was a move demonstrating great sincerity.
Secondly, because Lu Wei Yin's battlefield killer move was broken, he suffered an immense backlash, his battle strength plunged and his threat level also diminished, Fang Yuan did not fear him now.