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Lu Wei Yin replied Fang Yuan immediately: "Fang Yuan, follow me!"

However, Fang Yuan replied: "No rush."

At the next moment, he smiled coldly, his arms were folded behind him, looking at the three groups of Gu Immortals and their Immortal Gu Houses, he spoke calmly and casually: "Very good, which of you want to die first?"

Saying this, intense aura burst out of his body, his rank eight aura was fully intact and not weak at all.

All of the immortals stared with wide eyes.

"Wasn't he at his limit already?"

All of the excitement to attack was doused.

The immortals became hesitant.

Using this timing, Fang Yuan laughed loudly as he activated an immortal killer move, bringing Lu Wei Yin and the rest away, they turned into a sword rainbow, flying far away.

Different from earlier, Fang Yuan had already refined many heaven path dao marks, he had already gotten some freedom from the restrictions of the heaven path dao marks.

It was many times easier for him to use immortal killer moves now. Although he still needed to use the human path formation to attack the heaven path dao marks, he could already use other methods now.

"Fang Yuan escaped, chase him!"

"He was toying with us."

The immortals realized at once, they started to pursue him relentlessly.

All sorts of killer moves were unleashed, bombarding Fang Yuan and the rest.

It was as if the situation had returned to before, except Spectral Soul, Qi Sea Ancestor, and Qing Chou were gone, in exchange there was Lu Wei Yin instead.

But...

"Everyone, be very careful! The final struggle of this demon Fang Yuan cannot be underestimated."

"Let the other two forces fight, let's save our energy."

"Fang Yuan is too scheming, in my opinion, he might still have a second battlefield killer move or an immortal formation."

"That's right, in the Southern Border battle, Fang Yuan used a time path formation to trap the allied forces of Southern Border's righteous path. Lu Wei Yin is also a devious person, he set up the earth path formation to trap Spectral Soul, he did the same thing as Fang Yuan. I was wrong about him!"

"The great Paradise Earth's Southern Border inheritor actually collaborated with Fang Yuan so shamelessly!!"

The immortals' words were filled with righteousness and heroism against the evil enemies, they transmitted thoughts and exchanged conversations, trying to come up with a plan.

They chased with a huge commotion, but they were all feeling internally fearful!

The current situation was already very different from earlier, it had changed almost completely.

Fang Yuan managed to kill Spectral Soul, this incredible feat made all three forces very wary and fearful.

Furthermore, Fang Yuan was devious and crafty, he was ruthless and vicious, his battle achievements were deeply etched into everyone's hearts, the three forces' Gu Immortals were filled with trepidation.

On one hand, even if Fang Yuan was near his limit, his final struggle would cause any of them to suffer huge losses, their plans would fail completely; on the other hand, the three forces were not just fighting Fang Yuan, they were also mutual enemies.

Earlier, Spectral Soul and Qi Jue took on the role as the vanguard, the three forces were happy to follow behind them and try to reap some benefits. But now, Spectral Soul was dead, even though Demon Immortal Qi Jue appeared imposing, he was secretly extorting Fang Yuan for his personal gains, why would he really fight with his true strength?

Speaking of which, the three forces' Gu Immortals were wary of Fang Yuan, but was Demon Immortal Qi Jue not wary of him?

"Fang Yuan did not fight much in the few battles earlier. How much did he actually recover? Looking at his killer moves, they are clearly more complex and numerous, how much strength is he concealing? Does he have a fourth Immortal Gu House?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue thought to himself.

Earlier, Fang Yuan lost Dragon Palace and Myriad Year Flying Warship, he immediately took out Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress. These three Immortal Gu Houses were all rank eight, they were peak creations of enslavement path, time path, and earth path.

Fang Yuan's abundant wealth truly shocked Demon Immortal Qi Jue. He would not be surprised even if Fang Yuan took out a fifth Immortal Gu House at this point.

"Just how deep is Fang Yuan's foundation?! Aren't the past venerables investing too much in him!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue gritted his teeth.

As Fang Yuan retreated, he suggested transacting using true inheritances, his attitude was tough at times, Demon Immortal Qi Jue could not make up his mind.

"Should I attack at this time?"

"How much strength does Fang Yuan have left? Would my gains be higher if I kill him?"

"But now, chasing and collecting true inheritances seems pretty good too..."

Among the people, Demon Immortal Qi Jue had the best time during this chasing period.

"We arrived! It is below this place." Lu Wei Yin suddenly transmitted.

Fang Yuan controlled the rainbow, he suddenly changed directions, he instantly broke through the rock layer, entering the next layer.

Rumble...

Fang Yuan and the rest heard loud rumbling noises around them.

A boundless earth qi river surged intensely as tides raged, Fang Yuan and the other two were surrounded by it, they felt like ants in the river, being extremely insignificant.

"This is... the manifestation of an earth vein?!" Fang Yuan was stunned before he soon realized it.

Lu Wei Yin nodded as he smiled: "Indeed, with the five regions becoming one, the earth veins have merged as well, with the movement of the earth veins, they will manifest themselves. It is about to reach that island."

Fang Yuan activated his killer move with difficulty as the sword rainbow shot down.

The sword rainbow was hard to maintain, it finally dissipated in the air after some time.

The three immortals fell onto a brown island, they were in sorry states.

This island was very small, it was only a few square kilometers in size. The island was deserted without any living beings, it had a plain terrain, there were three huge rocks at the periphery that resembled pillars, embedded into the grand earth vein.

Precisely because of these three rock pillars, the island remained unmoving despite the earth vein's movement.

"Fang Yuan, where are you running?"

"Chase!"

"What is this place?!"

At this time, the three groups of pursuers also arrived at this layer.

Someone activated a killer move but found that the earth path dao marks here were too dense, they suppressed almost all other paths.

Gu Immortals had to spend a lot of effort activating killer moves unless it was earth path, otherwise, only Immortal Gu Houses could still move around freely.

"Oh no, Fang Yuan came here with a plan in mind."

"No matter what he is trying to do, we must stop him!"

"Quickly destroy that island."

The three forces' Gu Immortals had imposing aura, they quickly got close.

However, Fang Yuan, Wu Shuai, and Lu Wei Yin attacked suddenly, destroying the three huge rock pillars on the island!

Without the support of the rock pillars, the island started to float away along the earth vein.

The three forces' Gu Immortals chased but the island moved rapidly, the difference between the two was just too big, the island quickly pulled apart some distance and in a few breaths of time, shook off the three forces' Gu Immortals.

The three forces' Gu Immortals were dumbfounded.

What the heck was happening?

It was just an island but it actually moved so quickly!

"We really escaped from them. What is this island? Where will it bring us to?" Wu Shuai touched the hard ground of this island with his hands as he asked in amazement.

Lu Wei Yin continued to cough blood, destroying the rock pillars earlier caused his injuries to be aggravated.

He did not answer Wu Shuai, he looked at Fang Yuan instead: "Fang Yuan, you must have recalled it already?"

Fang Yuan nodded, the moment he saw this island, a flash of inspiration struck in his mind. By the time he landed, he had already recalled it.

"This is Flying Earth." Fang Yuan told Wu Shuai.

Even though Wu Shuai was his clone, Fang Yuan did not give him a copy of all his memories, this was a precaution.

If Wu Shuai got captured in the future and got his soul searched, these memories would end up helping his enemies after all.

"In the previous life's five hundred years, the five regions became one, the two heavens combined, the earth veins of the five regions also merged and created many unique terrains. The people in the world called them the ten earths. They are Earth Abyss, Earth Trench, Earth Tunnel, Earth Cave, Earth Prison, Production Earth, Flying Earth, Formation Earth, Treasure Earth, and Tomb Earth."

"This island is one of the ten earths, Flying Earth, it is formed from the earth vein. It can move around in the earth vein as quickly as flying, its speed cannot be matched normally."

Wu Shuai finally understood: "So that's it."

He continued to sigh: "With the changes in the world, the underground has also become much more interesting."

He knew the essence of this island, he asked: "Then where can we go?"

Fang Yuan shook his head: "I have only heard of Flying Earth, I have never interacted with it. We can only follow along its trail now, we cannot control the direction. Lu Wei Yin, I wonder if you have any method?"

In this ambush battle, Lu Wei Yin's performance was very outstanding, Fang Yuan saw much value in him now.

This current generation inheritor of Paradise Earth had incredible power.

He first set up illusory sand shifting shadow battlefield, which was powerful enough to trap Spectral Soul and Qi Jue, it perfectly displayed the might of a proper battlefield.

Next, Lu Wei Yin controlled the battlefield and allowed the immortals to cooperate tightly while dealing with Spectral Soul. During the intense fight, Spectral Soul wanted to target Qing Chou but was obstructed by Lu Wei Yin multiple times.

After that, at the crucial moment, Lu Wei Yin displayed a powerful defensive killer move that blocked Spectral Soul's rampaging attack, allowing Qi Jue to have enough time to use his xi xi killer move. This was the turning point of that battle.

In addition, Lu Wei Yin used all life is bitter and suffering loss is a blessing to counter Spectral Soul, causing him to suffer an intense backlash.

Finally, he forcefully maintained the battlefield and suppressed Spectral Soul's self-detonation, allowing Fang Yuan's clones to escape the crisis.

After the battlefield was destroyed, he was the one who guided Fang Yuan to this Flying Earth and escaped successfully.

Lu Wei Yin's battle strength was definitely top tier in the current world, but Fang Yuan admired his nature even more. He was adept at enduring and persevering, he used the two killer moves, all life is bitter and suffering loss is a blessing, at the crucial moment to cause Spectral Soul to suffer a huge setback.

With his deep shrewdness and wisdom, Fang Yuan believed that Lu Wei Yin definitely had a method to control Flying Earth. After all, this involved earth path, it was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's greatest expertise.

And as expected, Lu Wei Yin did not disappoint Fang Yuan.

He smiled and nodded: "I am not so skilled, but Paradise Earth's inheritance has a relevant method to control Flying Earth's direction and decide the place to stop at."

Wu Shuai heard this, his pupils shrank, he became quite cautious.

Lu Wei Yin seemed to have not noticed as he kept up his smile: "This earth vein travels along Western Desert, towards Eastern Sea, before reaching Southern Border and Northern Plains after that, I wonder where you want to stop at, Fang Yuan?"

Fang Yuan smiled too: "Didn't you invite me to be a guest of your Mushroomman Paradise earlier?"

Lu Wei Yin nodded: "Fang Yuan, now that Spectral Soul has been killed by us, I am sure you know of my sincerity already. This is not just my sincerity, this is also the sincerity of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable!"

"Even though I am not sure of the details, there is something written down in the inheritance that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable left behind — Gu Yue Fang Yuan is the Paradise Earth inheritor of the five regions! All of Paradise Earth's forces will help him, they will assist him to become a Gu Venerable with their full strength!"

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"What?" When Wu Shuai heard this news for the first time, he was stupefied.

Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was well reputed to be benevolent and kind, who did not know of his nature? He spent his entire life cleaning up the mess that Spectral Soul created, he did not have a single offensive method. All of his actions and words were meant to lead people to the path of kindness, he took joy in helping people.

Among the people he helped, were the numbers merely millions or tens of millions? In fact, not only humans, even variant humans and legendary immemorial beasts received his help. He even took action many times to repair mountains and rivers, he managed the natural resource points of heaven and earth.

Southern Border's Mushroomman Paradise, Eastern Sea's Merman Imperial Court, as well as the blue dragon whale, had all received Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's help.

Even Central Continent's Reincarnation Battlefield was created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable because he did not want to see bloodshed between Central Continent Gu Immortals, he used it to resolve their conflicts.

And Fang Yuan?

He killed people like cutting grass, he was cold and callous. For his personal benefit, he destroyed fate Gu and disregarded the prosperity of humanity.

In order to cultivate, he plundered resources everywhere. He extorted, he stole, he snatched, he used all methods possible.

Everywhere he went, there was blood, there was disaster.

And now that Spectral Soul was dead, Fang Yuan became the genuine number one demon in the world!

It was not strange that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable managed to deduce the existence of Fang Yuan, all the other nine venerables had done the same. But Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable actually wanted Fang Yuan to become his inheritor, he wanted all of the forces of Paradise Earth to help Fang Yuan ascend to the position of a venerable?

This was simply bizarre beyond belief!

"Has Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable gone mad?" Wu Shuai's first thoughts after reacting were as such.

Immediately after, Wu Shuai thought: "Don't tell me Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable wants my main body to become a kind person? This does suit his style of action."

Indeed.

Fang Yuan was a demon.

After news of the earlier battle spread out, it would shock the world, Fang Yuan's title as the number one demon in the world would gain everyone's agreement!

If such a demon could turn over a new leaf and become righteous, it was definitely good news for the world and the people living in it.

Wu Shuai was shocked but Fang Yuan was expressionless, he did not show any external emotions.

Because he had already heard such words before he communicated with Lu Wei Yin.

Fang Yuan recalled the scene back then on the Red Lotus stone island.

Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable arrived at the stone lotus island, when he spoke with Red Lotus' will, he did mention that he wanted to snatch Fang Yuan as his inheritor.

For this purpose, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable took away regret Gu and placed it inside the blue dragon whale.

Because of this, future events happened, Fang Yuan entered the blue dragon whale's grotto-heaven paradise, taking regret Gu and releasing Shen Shang.

Back then, the ultimate mission of the merit board seemed to have intentions of inviting Fang Yuan to stay in the grotto-heaven, to accept the mission and become the new owner of the blue dragon whale. But Fang Yuan did not give in to temptation, he chose to leave and participate in the fate war, to destroy fate Gu.

After the fate war, Lu Wei Yin contacted Fang Yuan, stating that he wanted to help the latter.

These two matters were related in essence.

Thus, it was not so hard for Fang Yuan to accept this.

"Ever since I was reborn, I obtained many venerable true inheritances. These are the investments of the past venerables, they used me as a tool to destroy fate Gu."

"I originally thought that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had the same idea, but to think that he had deeper intentions."

Thoughts continued to flicker and collide in Fang Yuan's mind.

This was the greatest predicament of his life, it was truly a near death experience. The most dangerous moment was when Giant Spectral Soul used the killer move eat heart on him, Fang Yuan was truly defenseless at that moment, he had to gamble.

Thus, he forced himself to laugh and put up a perfect disguise, successfully hoaxing Demon Immortal Qi Jue to attack and betray Spectral Soul. That interrupted eat heart and allowed him to survive.

At that time, Fang Yuan was half a step from entering his grave.

What was the cause of this precarious situation?

Externally, Spectral Soul was chasing after him, trying to regain sovereign immortal fetus Gu and the dream realms.

Internally, there was Red Lotus Demon Venerable's scheme, he used the three thousand heaven path dao marks to restrain Fang Yuan and forced him to be unable to fight.

Fate Gu was destroyed, Fang Yuan had no value remaining. However much help he had received in the past, he would suffer a proportionate backlash at this moment!

All of the venerables who invested in Fang Yuan also abandoned him, they had resolute killing intent.

In such a situation, one venerable stood out from the rest, he lent a helping hand at the crucial moment, pulling Fang Yuan up from the abyss.

What was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's intention?

What did he want from Fang Yuan?

Why did he think that Fang Yuan would become a venerable?

Why did he want to help Fang Yuan become a venerable despite the huge cost?

Surrounded by brown soil, earth qi rumbled.

Flying Earth continued to move within the grand earth vein.

"According to my understanding, in the Prophecy of Three Venerables, the next venerable is Great Dream Immortal Venerable. Does Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable think I have the capability to become Great Dream Immortal Venerable?" Fang Yuan's gaze flickered as he broke the silence, probing as he asked.

Lu Wei Yin replied: "The Prophecy of Three Venerables is well known to everyone, but now that fate Gu has been destroyed, the future is no longer certain. It is possible that Great Dream Immortal Venerable will emerge, it is also possible that this will not happen, right?"

"Fang Yuan, no need to say anymore, once you visit Mushroomman Paradise and receive Paradise Earth's true meaning, you will understand everything. At that time, I will definitely welcome you enthusiastically."

Lu Wei Yin smiled but was not willing to speak anymore.

After this battle, he was certain that Fang Yuan would go to Mushroomman Paradise, but he would not go now.

Lu Wei Yin knew of Fang Yuan's vigilance, he was a ruthless person but he was incomparably careful!

Even though Lu Wei Yin made such a huge contribution in this battle, if there was a chance, Fang Yuan would definitely kill him.

But Lu Wei Yin had been cautious, Fang Yuan had no such opportunities. When Spectral Soul self-detonated, he saved Wu Shuai and Qi Sea Ancestor, expressing his goodwill while also telling Fang Yuan he had a way to escape, that was the reason Fang Yuan let him into Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.

When they got to Flying Earth, because he had a method to control it, he retained his value, Fang Yuan was unwilling to kill him.

But if he fainted, Fang Yuan would definitely deal the fatal blow, before soul searching Lu Wei Yin and learning of all the details.

Eventually, Fang Yuan chose to leave mid-journey.

He was pestered by the myriad tribulation, the most important thing now was to resolve it!

His battle strength was low now, otherwise, he would have attacked the weakened Lu Wei Yin.

Before departing, Lu Wei Yin spoke to Fang Yuan, expressing great sincerity: "Fang Yuan, I am sure you are deeply aware of the situation now. All the venerables want to kill you, this will not be your only predicament. We have very little time now, the actual circumstances are even more dangerous than during the fate war. If we act slowly, we will end up with terrible deaths. Thus, I hope you will come visit the Mushroomman Paradise as soon as possible."

Fang Yuan nodded, bringing Wu Shuai and leaving.

The two immortals left the earth vein, moving upwards. An hour later, they arrived at the surface, appearing in a desert.

There was nothing in the surrounding thousand li.

Wu Shuai suddenly smiled: "Lu Wei Yin seems to be in trouble. By helping us this time, and also being the leader of a variant human force, he is going to face the pressure of Southern Border's righteous path."

Fang Yuan nodded: "This is indeed problematic for him. Southern Border's righteous path is led by Wu clan, while Wu clan's leader, Wu Yong, is an ambitious and formidable person, he will not let go of this chance. But with Lu Wei Yin's political skills, I am sure he already has a way to resolve it."

Wu Shuai asked again: "Before parting, was Lu Wei Yin simply trying to scare us?"

Fang Yuan had a solemn expression, he shook his head slightly.

Wu Shuai's mood became heavy.

"Let's go, we will recuperate now, we really have no time left!" Fang Yuan said.

Earth vein.

"That demon Fang Yuan really escaped!" Inside Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu House, Qin Ding Ling stared with wide and furious eyes as she gritted her teeth, clenching her fists tightly.

This was the situation that she had not wanted to see, but it happened anyway.

Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan also let out a sigh.

He did not think that this would happen, the powerful and imposing Spectral Soul died while Fang Yuan, who was escaping from them, managed to flee. The biggest surprise was Lu Wei Yin, this inheritor of Paradise Earth was simply not worthy of being in the righteous path, he was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's disgrace!

Of course, there was also the earth vein and Flying Earth.

The five regions were unified, the regional walls vanished, Gu Immortals of the five regions focused their attention on the fate war. The aftermath of the war had not settled, but qi tides already started to emerge, all Gu Immortals were busy dealing with them. Almost nobody had the time or energy at this time to explore the changes underground.

The earth vein was grand and vast, it was like a rumbling yellow river, creating huge commotions and sounds. Traveling around this turbulent earth vein was simply not easy.

The Flying Earth that Fang Yuan was on had already gone missing, the immortals traveled with great difficulty underground, their expectations regarding catching Fang Yuan became increasingly lower.

Wherever the immortals' gazes landed, they would see an abundance of earth path resources around the earth vein. And within the earth vein, there were even higher quality immortal materials.

"With the changes in heaven and earth, even the earth has become so foreign and unfamiliar."

"These earth path resources are very heavy, it is too troublesome to take them from the earth vein, that is, unless one has exceptional earth path attainment."

"Just these earth path resources that we saw along the way, if we can use them well, we can definitely change the situation. Ancient Soul Sect, who owns this Earth Abyss, is going to benefit, if they can absorb these resources, they will definitely become a much more powerful force!"

These were elites among the highest tier of Gu Immortals, they had excellent knowledge and understanding.

The resources underground were too abundant, this would have great implications. The way to extract these resources efficiently and make use of them would affect the entire world's situation in the future.

"Quick, take out some spare Gu worms, another three hundred were destroyed. Who can help me to replace the new Gu worms together?"

When Immortal Gu Houses moved in this earth vein, they would suffer the invasion of these earth qi, there would be increasingly more earth path dao marks carved on the Immortal Gu Houses.

That was unless it was an earth path Immortal Gu House, Immortal Gu Houses of other paths could not stay inside the earth vein for too long.

"Fang Yuan has disappeared for a long time already."

"Unless we can find another flying island like what they had, otherwise..."

"That Lu Wei Yin clearly had a method to control the flying island. He is Paradise Earth's inheritor, back then, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable cultivated earth path primarily."

Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals did not say it explicitly, but they had intentions to retreat already.

Qin Ding Ling kept silent, she was unwilling, but Fang Yuan was actually going to successfully escape in front of their very eyes! She knew that Fang Yuan had already escaped for quite some time, there was almost no hope in catching him now.

But she still subconsciously kept silent.

After this battle, her trepidation towards Fang Yuan rose by several times. Spectral Soul went after him personally but could not kill him, instead, Fang Yuan managed to kill Spectral Soul in reverse!

"Gu Yue Fang Yuan... I underestimated you after all."

"No wonder even the wisdom path cultivator Fairy Zi Wei faltered in your hands time and time again."

"Wait, where are the Shadow Sect members?"

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Countless rock pillars flashed by with speed that resembled illusory figures.

These rock pillars were located in Earth Abyss, they naturally could not move. What was moving was Fairy Zi Wei's group.

"Since Fang Yuan can kill master, he definitely has a method to escape. I have fought against him many times, I understand him too well!" Fairy Zi Wei said.

After Spectral Soul's death, the weakest group became Shadow Sect.

Earlier, Fairy Zi Wei purposely shouted and drew Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court's attention to Fang Yuan, she secretly transmitted and directed these Shadow Sect immortals to escape mid-journey.

After that, she did not even get to the layer with the earth vein, she directly left the battlefield with these Shadow Sect immortals.

"No!" While flying, Fairy Zi Wei suddenly stopped, saying: "Even though I am not sure how long Fang Yuan, Longevity Heaven, and Heavenly Court will fight, we need to make some preparations in advance."

Fairy Zi Wei cast her gaze towards Bai Ning Bing, Fairy Miao Yin, and Lady White Rabbit.

"Farewell to the three of you." Fairy Zi Wei's tone became extremely cold.

Fairy Miao Yin's expression turned ugly, evidently, Fairy Zi Wei was going to discard them as used pawns.

Lady White Rabbit was feeling uneasy, while Bai Ning Bing smiled as she rubbed her chin, nodding cheerfully: "Interesting, getting chased like this is common, but I have never experienced such a status myself."

Even if they objected, what could they do?

Fairy Zi Wei was a rank eight great expert, she could suppress the three of them!

Fairy Zi Wei nodded, bringing Old Man Zheng Yuan and Ying Wu Xie away, quickly vanishing from the sights of Bai Ning Bing and the rest.

"What do we do?" Lady White Rabbit asked, she was lost and unsure.

Bai Ning Bing chuckled: "We are in big trouble, I am sure we will be caught very soon."

White Rabbit stared with large and clear eyes, she asked: "Are you sure?"

Bai Ning Bing nodded but said: "We can't be too sure, but Fairy Zi Wei is a wisdom path great expert, seeing her action earlier, doesn't it tell you the truth? Even though we have low cultivation level, we have our value. Didn't they find out Fang Yuan's traces using us as the connection? But now, Fairy Zi Wei gave up on us instantly, it meant that she gave up the method to detect Fang Yuan. This shows how much danger we are currently in."

"What should we do, let's leave now." Lady White Rabbit said anxiously.

"Why don't we split up?" Fairy Miao Yin asked: "Whoever gets caught will be the unlucky one, White Rabbit, go with me."

Among Fang Yuan's subordinates, Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit had the closest relationship. In this critical moment, she wanted to bring White Rabbit along with her.

"We can't escape, but I have a good plan." Bai Ning Bing said, bright light flashed in her eyes.

"What plan?" Lady White Rabbit was curious.

But after Bai Ning Bing told them, the two rejected it instantly.

"Isn't that too risky?" Lady White Rabbit was tongue-tied.

"You want to return to the black bat layer? You lunatic!" Fairy Miao Yin rolled her eyes.

Bai Ning Bing replied: "It seems dangerous there but the truth is different. With a vast number of bats in there, even pursuers will not detect us, they might go to the next layer while passing us by."

White Rabbit was dazed, it seemed that Bai Ning Bing's words made sense.

"Do you think Lord Fang Yuan will return to save us?" Lady White Rabbit suddenly asked.

Fairy Miao Yin's expression sank: "Don't forget that we participated in the chase against him earlier."

White Rabbit was anxious: "But we were forced to, there was no choice. Lord Fang Yuan is so wise, why wouldn't he understand it?"

Bai Ning Bing sneered: "You two are still hopeful about him? Not to mention that he is currently busy trying to save his own life, even if he could, with that cold aloof nature of his, why would he even come to save us? In fact, he would rather we die now, after we are dead, there will not be sufficient clues to deduce his location."

Lady White Rabbit was speechless.

Fairy Miao Yin gritted her teeth: "No need for more talk, White Rabbit, come with me. As for you, Bai Ning Bing, farewell."

Fairy Miao Yin had no interest in Bai Ning Bing's suggestion, after much interaction with her, she knew that this person was a lunatic.

Bai Ning Bing shrugged her shoulders: "Go ahead."

As she said that, an intense wind blew, the odor of blood spread throughout the area.

Rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board arrived, Fang Zheng's cold voice could be heard from within: "Where are you trying to go?"

Bai Ning Bing and the others were physically and mentally shaken, to think that their pursuers came so quickly!

Why was Fang Zheng here?

It turned out that after Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven, and Demon Immortal Qi Jue lost sight of Fang Yuan, they lost hope while moving along the earth vein, they started to have other thoughts.

Demon Immortal Qi Jue was the first to strike, attacking Calamity Luck Altar.

Within Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan was prepared for this, he blocked Demon Immortal Qi Jue's attack.

Seeing that his attack failed, Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not feel dejected, he called out: "Heavenly Court! If you do not fight Calamity Luck Altar now, are you going to wait until Longevity Heaven invades Central Continent?"

Bing Sai Chuan heard this, his heart sank.

"You are not wrong." Qin Ding Ling laughed as she gave orders to Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses, launching their attack as well.

However, Heavenly Court did not just encircle Calamity Luck Altar, they even targeted Demon Immortal Qi Jue.

Demon Immortal Qi Jue snorted coldly: "Heavenly Court, your appetite is simply too big!"

Qin Ding Ling replied arrogantly: "Qi Jue, after that intense battle, how much battle strength do you have left? Go ahead and show us."

Demon Immortal Qi Jue was silent!

There was nothing wrong with Heavenly Court attacking him, it was a wise decision.

"However, Qin Ding Ling is acting resolutely, is she putting up a farce or..." Demon Immortal Qi Jue had no time to think, Heavenly Court's attacks already arrived, and he had to defend himself.

The three parties fought above the earth vein.

"Fang Zheng, quickly go to the upper layers and pursue Shadow Sect. Fairy Zi Wei is able to use Bai Ning Bing and the rest to deduce Fang Zheng's location. We can also do that, go capture these people, as for Fairy Zi Wei and Old Man Zheng Yuan..." Saying this, Qin Ding Ling hesitated.

But soon, she continued with a firm tone: "As for the two of them, kill them if you can!"

"Yes." Fang Zheng acknowledged her orders, he controlled Demon Judgment Board and left the battlefield.

Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue were trapped, they watched as Demon Judgment Board left.

Fang Zheng flew rapidly within Demon Judgment Board, using the Immortal Gu House's ability to find the traces of Shadow Sect.

Shadow Sect's members were all on the board list, Fang Zheng quickly found Bai Ning Bing and the other two immortals.

"Rank eight Immortal Gu House — Demon Judgment Board!" Lady White Rabbit's and Fairy Miao Yin's hearts sank, they felt a huge pressure.

They wanted to tell Fang Zheng about the direction that Fairy Zi Wei escaped to but there was an alliance agreement made earlier, if they betrayed Fairy Zi Wei, the consequences would be severe.

Cold light flashed in Bai Ning Bing's eyes, even with an enemy in front of them and possibly others behind, she still had an excited expression: "It's you, I know that voice, Gu Yue Fang Zheng."

Gu Yue Fang Zheng had a flickering gaze, he looked at Bai Ning Bing through the Immortal Gu House: "Bai Ning Bing, to think that we would meet here at this time."

Memories from before surged in his mind, it was as if he had just drunk some liquor before the battle, his entire body was filled with heated battle intent.

"Bai Ning Bing!" He shouted loudly: "Do you still remember Gu Yue Qing Shu?!"

In Fang Zheng's heart, Gu Yue Qing Shu was more of a brother than Fang Yuan to him. He was caring, he was gentle, he was responsible, he was admirable.

When he lived in Gu Yue village, even though Gu Yue clan leader took care of Fang Zheng and taught him personally, he was still a senior.

The care and concern that Gu Yue Qing Shu gave to Fang Zheng had always been kept in Fang Zheng's heart.

But such a person was killed by Bai Ning Bing, Fang Zheng witnessed the entire battle that involved Qing Shu's death.

"Gu Yue Qing Shu?" Bai Ning Bing was slightly dazed, how could she forget. Back in the day, she fought against Gu Yue Qing Shu, even though she killed the latter, she also lost an arm because of him.

But at the next moment, Bai Ning Bing turned a deaf ear, she laughed in disdain: "I would've forgotten if you did not mention him. That was an insignificant ant after all."

Gu Yue Fang Zheng's eyes widened in response, blood filled his eyes as killing intent surged in his body.

"Bai Ning Bing, die!"

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"Dan... danger." Lady White Rabbit's expression turned pale.

"Quickly dodge it!!" Fairy Miao Yin screamed.

Demon Judgment Board became larger in the three immortals' eyes, quickly filling up their field of vision. The intense winds made Lady White Rabbit's breathing turn difficult.

Bam.

At the next moment, earth shook, rocks were sent flying.

Demon Judgment Board slammed into the tough ground with great intensity.

Bai Ning Bing and the rest split up and moved towards different directions, at the crucial moment, they evaded the attack.

Demon Judgment Board rose up, it charged again.

This time, it targeted Bai Ning Bing.

"So quick!" Bai Ning Bing's pupils shrank, she focused herself to deal with the situation.

Demon Judgment Board was covered in a light red halo, granting it even more speed. It did not use killer moves, it only charged wildly with rapid attacks, Bai Ning Bing had to dodge continuously, spending her effort on evasion and having no chance to retaliate.

"What do we do?" Lady White Rabbit asked anxiously.

Fairy Miao Yin had an ashen expression, she replied: "Let's go! This is their old grudge, let the two of them fight it out."

Lady White Rabbit was dragged by Fairy Miao Yin as they tried to escape the battlefield.

"Where are you going?" Gu Yue Fang Zheng suddenly turned around.

Even though he hated Bai Ning Bing deeply, he did not forget Qin Ding Ling's instructions. White Rabbit and Miao Yin were crucial clues to find Fang Yuan, how could they be allowed to escape?

Demon Judgment Board let out a wave of powerful blood red light, it radiated in the battlefield, Bai Ning Bing and the rest were enveloped by this blood red light, their expressions changed.

Under this blood red light, they felt the blood in their bodies drawn by a powerful force, it was as if the blood in their bodies was getting sucked into Demon Judgment Board, it was very uncomfortable.

"If we do not resolve this problem, we might get sucked dry of all our blood!" Fairy Miao Yin said solemnly.

Immortal killer move — Bai Xiang!

On the other hand, Bai Ning Bing successfully unleashed her killer move, she turned into a white ice giant.

The blood red light instantly became ineffective on her.

The killer move Bai Xiang was the famous trump card of the Southern Border rank eight Gu Immortal, it allowed the Gu Immortal to temporarily convert their body into another type of lifeform.

This move was incredibly powerful, it created the White Terror that once shook Southern Border, leaving its own mark in history.

Once Bai Ning Bing used it, she changed her circumstances. The ice giant did not have any blood in its body, Demon Judgment Board's killer move was useless against it.

Fairy Miao Yin's heart sank, with Bai Ning Bing's current condition, she could easily escape. But Bai Ning Bing did not do that, she attacked instead with great excitement and enthusiasm!

"This lunatic!" Fairy Miao Yin muttered, experiencing a complicated feeling.

However, when Bai Ning Bing's killer moves landed on Demon Judgment Board, they was like waves hitting the reef. No matter how Demon Judgment Board was attacked, it did not even move one bit against the currents.

Fairy Miao Yin frowned deeply as she called out: "White Rabbit, use that move!"

Lady White Rabbit nodded solemnly, she quickly used the killer move, protecting herself and Fairy Miao Yin.

Fairy Miao Yin took a risk and accepted her protection, using this chance, she unleashed her killer move, wondrous hand profound sound.

She grew five new arms, causing her to have a total of seven arms.

The seven hands moved by themselves, the smooth long fingers were moving in a dazzling motion.

Ding ding, dang dang...

Cling cling, clang clang...

With the movement of her fingers, sharp sounds could be heard whenever they touched.

The sounds even caused sound waves to start appearing in the surrounding air.

Sound waves moved like a storm, creating a huge commotion as the attacks landed on Demon Judgment Board!

"Fairy Miao Yin, thirty-seventh position on the Demon Judgment Board, she has rank seven cultivation level and the Profound Sound true inheritance. Among which, her wondrous hand profound sound killer move can be raised alongside the core Immortal Gu until it reaches rank eight." Fang Zheng muttered to himself.

On top of his head, countless texts in blood gathered to form a scarlet name list. Be they Fairy Miao Yin, Lady White Rabbit, or Bai Ning Bing, their names were present.

Fairy Miao Yin and Bai Ning Bing worked together, while Gu Yue Fang Zheng still had a calm expression.

After all, he was inside Demon Judgment Board.

The rank eight Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board was extremely powerful.

Normally speaking, rank seven Immortal Gu Houses could resist rank eight, they were the foundation of super forces.

As for top tier rank eight Immortal Gu Houses, they could resist pseudo-Immortal Venerables!

During the fate war, Fang Yuan used Myriad Year Flying Warship and Dragon Palace to fight against Duke Long. In the earlier battle, he used three Immortal Gu Houses against Spectral Soul, they were all rank eight.

Demon Judgment Board was also rank eight, but it was specialized in investigation.

Against rank seven Gu Immortals like Bai Ning Bing, Demon Judgment Board's battle strength was far superior, it could not be matched.

Waves of blood red light shot out of Demon Judgment Board!

These blood red lights shot down like rain, targeting Bai Ning Bing with an unceasing quantity.

Bai Ning Bing turned into a white ice giant, even though it was large and bulky, the giant's movement was actually very agile and flexible.

She dodged continuously, none of the blood red lights managed to hit her once.

"But as long as I get hit once, I will suffer heavy injuries!" Bai Ning Bing knew this in her heart, she focused and fought, the dangerous situation was making her more excited and thrilled.

Suddenly, Demon Judgment Board shook lightly, Bai Ning Bing got immobilized.

Bai Ning Bing could not move, she was shot by tens of blood lights.

The white ice giant was punctured in many places, it was reduced to ice shards in a few moments.

Lady White Rabbit screamed while Fairy Miao Yin's heart sank, the difference in battle strength was too great, they could not claim victory with just an advantage in numbers.

As the ice shards fell to the ground, an intense light burst out.

Within the icy light, the white ice giant reappeared.

Bai Ning Bing recovered fully!

This was the strongest aspect of the killer move Bai Xiang, as long as one shard was left, it could fully recover rapidly.

Fang Zheng was not surprised, he knew a lot of information about Bai Ning Bing. Long ago, the two were already enemies, Bai Ning Bing had fought against them many times, why would Heavenly Court not collect her information?

Furthermore, Demon Judgment Board had investigative abilities, the board list did not only include blood path demonic immortals. It was just that blood relation Immortal Gu made almost all blood path demonic cultivators unable to hide from it.

Bai Ning Bing got up and fought against Fang Zheng again, Miao Yin assisted her, half the blood red light in the battlefield dissipated.

As their blood was no longer affected, Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit flew out with preparation, they were about to escape.

Fang Zheng smiled lightly: "Not so fast!"

The dissipated blood red light turned into a ball that floated above the battlefield. Instantly, the blood suction force that vanished amplified by several times of before.

Bai Ning Bing shouted as she took action suddenly. Her ice path killer move hit the blood ball and caused it to scatter slightly.

"Surrender now!" Fang Zheng's lips curled up, he activated Demon Judgment Board, the formless pressure caused Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit's expressions to change.

At the crucial moment, Lady White Rabbit suddenly became ruthless, black shadows surged around her, enveloping her body.

Instantly, Black Tigress appeared on the battlefield!

Her eyes were pure black, her pupils could not be seen, only a dark and cold light was moving around. The area around her eyes was dyed black, her entire disposition changed from pure and innocent to vicious and ruthless.

Black Tigress took action, her dark path killer move landed on the blood ball with greater intensity than Bai Ning Bing's attack, causing more than half of it to vanish.

Black Tigress and Miao Yin were almost killed by Demon Judgment Board, they managed to narrowly escape.

Fang Zheng was not flustered, he raised his hand, Demon Judgment Board's aura changed.

With a change of method, he moved fluidly, blood qi surged, countless sand-like specks moved like stars, enveloping the entire battlefield.

"This is the killer move, blood speck star mark!"

"When was it used? I did not sense anything at all."

Even if Qin Ding Ling saw this, she would call out in praise. After Fang Zheng became the Demon Judgment Board Lord, he had improved greatly, he already learned to use the various methods of Demon Judgment Board, he could use the methods while managing to display his own style.

This time, even Bai Xiang was not spared, it got hit.

As the blood sand entered the three immortals' bodies, red marks started to appear, causing their movements to be restricted, their thoughts became slower, their immortal essence could not be instilled smoothly, they felt like they were trapped in quicksand.

The difference between the two sides was just too big!

Normally speaking, when Gu Immortals fought, if one side wanted to escape, it would be hard to stop them unless a battlefield killer move was successfully used to trap the enemy.

But Demon Judgment Board was a top tier rank eight Immortal Gu House, it was initially created to hunt demonic path Gu Immortals. Thus, other than investigative methods, even though Demon Judgment Board could not create a battlefield, it had ways to stop demonic path Gu Immortals from escaping.

Bai Ning Bing and the rest were about to be captured by Fang Zheng, but the ground suddenly shook as earth qi spewed up from the lower layer, the currents actually managed to pierce through the tough layer of ground.

With a loud sound, the brown earth vein rushed up like a grand river.

"What is this?" Bai Ning Bing and the other two did not know what was happening, they were shocked.

Even though Fang Zheng knew, at this moment, he felt like he was seeing Evil Dragon Di Zang Sheng.

As earth qi surged and flooded this battlefield, the earth path dao marks took over everything here, they corroded the surroundings.

From the surging earth vein, Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue suddenly emerged.

Xi Land was above Demon Immortal Qi Jue's head, even though this secluded domain of heaven and earth was extremely damaged now, it was still useful. It was used earlier to draw all of the earth qi upwards earlier.

Meanwhile, Calamity Luck Altar was in charge of changing the direction of the earth vein on top of that effect, eventually creating this scene where the earth vein surged upwards!

"Longevity Heaven actually worked together with Demon Immortal Qi Jue?!" Fang Zheng was internally shocked.

Originally, under Qin Ding Ling's deployment, Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses encircled Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue.

The two sides fought intensely, Heavenly Court was unable to defeat them, while Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue could not escape either.

Bing Sai Chuan thus communicated with Demon Immortal Qi Jue, they knew the situation was not looking good.

The two were genuine experts with lots of experience, they were suspicious about Qin Ding Ling's attitude and felt deeply worried.

Thus, the two sides cooperated seamlessly.

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In order to break Heavenly Court's encirclement, Longevity Heaven and Demon Immortal Qi Jue collaborated, they made use of the earth vein to find a way out of Qin Ding Ling's arrangement.

After Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi Jue left the earth vein, they quickly split up as they ascended to the upper layers.

Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses also appeared after them.

Qin Ding Ling transmitted her voice to Fang Zheng: "Stop them!"

Even before her order, Fang Zheng was already prepared to do so.

Boom!

Demon Judgment Board shook intensely, a huge blood red beam of light shot towards Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Calamity Luck Altar.

The terrifying power of the attack made Miao Yin and Black Tigress shake internally.

In order to capture the three of them alive, Fang Zheng had been quite restricted, its current attack displayed the true power of Demon Judgment Board!

The intense blood red light assaulted, Calamity Luck Altar and Demon Immortal Qi were obstructed for a moment, they swiftly blocked it, Qin Ding Ling quickly arrived and tangled with them.

"Good job, Fang Zheng! After you're done with those three immortals, come here and work together to deal with these people." Qin Ding Ling ordered again.

At this moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's battle strength had fallen greatly after the fight against Spectral Soul, but as long as he worked with Calamity Luck Altar, they were evenly matched with Heavenly Court. Where was Qin Ding Ling getting her confidence from?

"Yes." Fang Zheng had a serious expression, the moment he received his orders, Bai Ning Bing attacked abruptly.

In fact, Bai Ning Bing's ice path killer move had been prepared for some time, but Fang Zheng did not pay any attention to it. He had once controlled Demon Judgment Board to fight against rank eight ice path Gu Immortal Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, he was attacked by the snowman race's immortal suppression coffin killer move. Fang Zheng still had a deep memory of that battle even now, compared to Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, Bai Ning Bing was just rank seven, she was far inferior to him!

However, after Bai Ning Bing activated her killer move, Fang Zheng's expression changed.

Bai Ning Bing did not attack Demon Judgment Board, instead, she targeted Fairy Miao Yin and Black Tigress!

Gu Yue Fang Zheng could only change his tactic in a fluster, blood red fog enveloped Miao Yin and Black Tigress at the crucial moment, blocking Bai Ning Bing's attack.

"Bai Ning Bing, are you crazy! You actually attacked us!!" Fairy Miao Yin broke out in cold sweat as she screamed.

"No! This might be the best way." Black Tigress' expression was shaken but she quickly understood it.

Fairy Miao Yin was dazed, soon, she also got it.

Fairy Zi Wei was once the leader of Heavenly Court, she knew everything about Heavenly Court. She had informed Ying Wu Xie and the rest about the details of the Immortal Gu Houses, Miao Yin, Bai Ning Bing, and White Rabbit were naturally not kept in the dark.

Because earlier, even though Spectral Soul led them, Fairy Zi Wei and the rest did not have an Immortal Gu House, they were weaker compared to Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court.

Thus, Fairy Zi Wei used information to make up for this gap.

Gu Yue Fang Zheng understood Bai Ning Bing and the rest quite well, but similarly, Bai Ning Bing and the rest also had a good understanding of Fang Zheng and Demon Judgment Board.

Especially the Immortal Gu House, its methods were difficult to change after creation, the more exceptional the Immortal Gu House, the more likely this was the case.

Why?

Taking Demon Judgment Board for an example, it was a top tier rank eight Immortal Gu House. Its abilities had reached the limit of a certain aspect, it was extremely hard to modify. Even if there were any good ideas, they might not be experimented on regarding this Immortal Gu House. Demon Judgment Board was extremely complex and was made of countless Gu worms. A single modification would change the entire structure, it would mean a complete makeover, that was as good as creating a new Immortal Gu House from scratch.

Fairy Miao Yin was not stupid, she had just failed to react at the first moment.

Now, she started to understand: "Southern Border's Tie clan has Demon Suppression Tower, it most excels at imprisonment, but Heavenly Court's Demon Judgment Board does not use such methods. Heavenly Court must have ordered Fang Zheng to capture us all alive. Thus, when fighting, Fang Zheng is very restricted, only against Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Calamity Luck Altar earlier, he used his full strength!"

As for why he wanted to capture them, the answer was obvious — to find Fang Yuan!

Fairy Zi Wei had constructed the wisdom path formation in front of all these Heavenly Court Gu Immortals, finally managing to deduce Fang Yuan's location. Why would Qin Ding Ling not know about their value?

Using this as the starting point, Fairy Miao Yin soon guessed: "It seems that Fang Yuan escaped successfully, Heavenly Court wants to capture us and use us to find Fang Yuan in the future. Even though they lack a wisdom path great expert now, Central Continent's ten great sects did not suffer losses, they have many wisdom path candidates. Furthermore, Fairy Zi Wei's true inheritance has already been contributed to Heavenly Court, the wisdom path formation is likely part of the inheritance."

Thinking of this, Fairy Miao Yin thought of Bai Ning Bing and gritted her teeth: "Bai Ning Bing, you lunatic!"

But at the next moment, Fairy Miao Yin stared with her eyes wide open.

Bai Ning Bing's insanity was beyond what she had expected, she actually dispelled the killer move Bai Xiang, she returned to a body of flesh and blood!

"Come, Fang Zheng, attack me!" Bai Ning Bing shouted as she moved like a white light, circling around Demon Judgment Board as she shot out countless icicles.

The icicles landed on Demon Judgment Board but could not penetrate it, only leaving behind some icy marks.

"Hahaha!" Black Tigress laughed loudly, she did the same thing as Bai Ning Bing, dispelling her defense and joining the battle.

"She went insane too!" Miao Yin sighed.

Black Tigress was ruthless and vicious, her nature was the opposite of White Rabbit. When she resolved herself, she even disregarded her own life.

The three immortals attacked Demon Judgment Board, especially Bai Ning Bing and Black Tigress who gave up on defense, they invested all of their energy into attacking, Fang Zheng was actually feeling quite troubled.

He wanted to capture these three female immortals alive, he did not want to kill them. Qin Ding Ling had already informed him, it would be best to get more clues to deduce Fang Yuan's location. If one of them was killed, it could lead to a failure in the deduction next time. Fang Zheng knew the heavy responsibility on him.

But the Immortal Gu House Demon Judgment Board's weakest aspect was the lack of methods to capture others. When Demon Judgment Board was created, which person in Heavenly Court would consider this aspect?

Demon Judgment Board, naturally by looking at its name, it meant killing demonic path Gu cultivators. What was the point of capturing them?

In this aspect,, Qin Ding Ling seemed to have made a mistake in asking Demon Judgment Board to capture them, but she had no other choices at the moment.

Among Heavenly Court's Immortal Gu Houses, Demon Judgment Board had the strongest investigative ability. Even though Fang Zheng's cultivation level was low, Demon Judgment Board had an abundance of rank eight immortal essence and the wills of the past Demon Judgment Board Lords, it could display its full battle strength!

However, all Immortal Gu Houses had a fatal weakness, they were not flexible enough in terms of methods.

Demon Judgment Board was no exception, it was a final product that could not be altered. After it was created, its methods had always been the same until now, there had been no changes.

Fang Zheng fell into an awkward spot.

Using Demon Judgment Board, he had the upper hand, Bai Ning Bing and the rest were not his match. But just Demon Judgment Board alone could not capture them alive.

In terms of flexibility of methods, Gu Immortals far surpassed Immortal Gu Houses.

In the past, when facing this situation, the Demon Judgment Board Lords would take action personally. But Fang Zheng only had rank seven cultivation level, if he left Demon Judgment Board, Bai Ning Bing and the rest would be able to turn this around.

Right now, if Fang Zheng had a rank eight Gu Immortal helping him, it would be sufficient.

But why would he be given an assistant?

In the eyes of Qin Ding Ling and the rest, wasn't Demon Judgment Board enough? He still needed more help?

Heavenly Court's manpower was extremely lacking now, they could not deal with the situation easily.

"No, Lady Qin Ding Ling's arrangement was logical, but I actually encountered two lunatics! It made the logical deployment completely illogical." Fang Zheng thought.

Who would be so crazy as to give up on defense against a strong enemy and only choose to attack?

Wasn't that courting death?

But Bai Ning Bing and Black Tigress did that.

And amazingly, the results were quite favorable for them.

During the intense battle, Bai Ning Bing laughed loudly: "Gu Yue Fang Zheng, don't you want revenge? Kill me, don't you want to kill me? Come take action!"

Gu Yue Fang Zheng was silent.

Bai Ning Bing continued to provoke him: "This is why you are just a dog that Heavenly Court adopted. Your enemy is right in front of you but you do not even have the courage to try killing me. You are far inferior to your brother Fang Yuan!"

Hearing her provocative speech, not just Fairy Miao Yin, even Black Tigress was stunned.

She thought: "Hmph, I thought I was crazy enough to give up my defense. But looking at Bai Ning Bing, I pale in comparison."

Fairy Miao Yin and Black Tigress were very worried while Gu Yue Fang Zheng fell into silence.

Hearing Gu Yue Fang Yuan's name again, he could not help but raise his head, looking at the blood text above his head.

The blood text formed into a giant name list, the rankings and names on it changed constantly.

Not long ago, Spectral Soul, who stood at the top of the list, vanished, replacing him was the person at the second position —

Gu Yue Fang Yuan!

Defeated Heavenly Court, destroyed Fate, killed Spectral Soul!

The number one demon of the five regions and two heavens!!

Fang Zheng smiled bitterly.

Regardless of time and place, even though he was the great Demon Judgment Board Lord, Fang Yuan's name was still hanging above his head, Fang Yuan was still casting a shadow down on his life.

"Killing everyone on the Demon Judgment Board list is the grand ambition of the past generations of owners. But I know that I am not Fang Yuan's match. For all my life, I could only look at his shadow and hear about his legends. But..."

"Bai Ning Bing!"

"You are merely ranked twenty-seventh on this list."

"Do you really think I won't dare to kill you?"

"Where does your confidence come from?!"

Fang Zheng shouted loudly as Demon Judgment Board charged ahead as he spoke, in a breath of time, he arrived in front of Bai Ning Bing.

Intense winds blew towards her.

Bai Ning Bing had no time to dodge, at the next moment, Demon Judgment Board would crush her entire body to a pulp, she would die undoubtedly!

"No!" Fairy Miao Yin shouted in her head as her seven hands moved, shooting out profound sounds.

The profound sounds were multi-layered and attacked rapidly but they could not stop Demon Judgment Board.

Black Tigress spat out a mouthful of blood, she activated a method to block it but Demon Judgment Board still rampaged unhindered.

The two immortals could only watch in despair as Demon Judgment Board crashed into Bai Ning Bing and pressed down on her harshly!

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Earth Abyss battlefield.

Boom!

Hit by Heavenly Court's attack, Calamity Luck Altar shook intensely, Bing Sai Chuan had a cold expression inside it.

Legendary immemorial beast Mao Li Qiu exploded and shouted: "Let this Grandpa Mao go out and kill them all!"

Five Elements Grandmaster shouted: "Grandpa Mao, this place has a huge hole, we need to repair it together."

Mao Li Qiu snorted as it helped to repair Calamity Luck Altar, it mumbled: "Taking hits like this feels really terrible! Bing Sai Chuan, Calamity Luck Altar was given to you to control, don't ruin master's reputation and prestige."

Bing Sai Chuan frowned as he answered: "Mao Li Qiu, take a look outside, there is someone who is even worse than us."

Demon Immortal Qi Jue was the one that Bing Sai Chuan referred to.

He was indeed in a sorry state, Spectral Soul's self-detonation caused his Xi Land to suffer huge damage, but it was his greatest reliance since reviving. Even though he had many exceptional true inheritances, he did not have time to modify killer moves. Thus, his qi path methods were all old fashioned, only killer moves that used Xi Land as the core were strong enough to be used in the battlefield.

But now, Xi Land was heavily damaged, Demon Immortal Qi Jue's battle strength fell sharply.

"This cannot go on, Heavenly Court likely has strong reinforcements! Longevity Heaven, we need to work together again." Demon Immortal Qi Jue transmitted with great difficulty.

"Right now, Heavenly Court is at its weakest throughout history, why would they have reinforcements?" Mao Li Qiu mumbled.

"Don't be careless, nobody can truly assess Heavenly Court's foundation." After replying to Mao Li Qiu, Bing Sai Chuan agreed to Demon Immortal Qi Jue's request for cooperation.

He had also sensed something amiss.

Thus, Calamity Luck Altar first exploded with a strong attack and shielded Demon Immortal Qi Jue.

Next, Demon Immortal Qi Jue gritted his teeth and summoned Xi Land, drawing upon the endless earth qi.

Calamity Luck Altar took over again, pulling upon the gradually declining earth vein.

"Hmph, trying the same trick again, you all are simply looking down on me!" Qin Ding Ling suddenly left the Immortal Gu House, she came to the outside world and used a luck path killer move.

The killer move's golden light shined everywhere, Bing Sai Chuan's expression changed, he quickly withdrew his hand like it was bitten by a snake.

"So close! This killer move vaguely counters Calamity Luck Altar. If I was slow, Calamity Luck Altar would have to resist the pressure of the earth vein, it would be suppressed and unable to escape, becoming an easy target." Bing Sai Chuan sighed to himself, Qin Ding Ling's method was out of his expectations.

Without Calamity Luck Altar's guidance, the newly rising earth vein started to fall again.

But Demon Immortal Qi Jue's and Calamity Luck Altar's efforts were not in vain, giant pillars of earth vein tributaries spewed out randomly in all directions, towards the sky and ground.

An earth vein tributary that was like a yellow-brown river flowed across the battlefield of Demon Judgment Board and Bai Ning Bing's group.

The three immortals were sustaining the battle with difficulty, resisting Demon Judgment Board.

Bai Ning Bing was still alive.

Even though she was crushed by Demon Judgment Board earlier, at the crucial moment, she used Bai Xiang once again.

Demon Judgment Board dodged, unwilling to fall into the earth vein tributary.

"Even heaven is helping me!" Seeing this scene, Bai Ning Bing's eyes shined with bright light, she felt surprised and joyful.

Her body suddenly expanded from fifteen feet to over twenty feet instantly.

"The time to escape is now!" Bai Ning Bing stretched out her hands to Miao Yin and Black Tigress.

The two hesitated for a moment before allowing Bai Ning Bing to grab onto their hands.

Bai Ning Bing did not hesitate, she jumped into the earth vein tributary immediately!

"Don't think of leaving!" Fang Zheng gritted his teeth as he drove Demon Judgment Board into the tributary as well.

The earth vein was extremely large, even the tributary was huge, after Demon Judgment Board entered it, it was like a small fish had entered the river.

"No, we can't escape. Demon Judgment Board is a rank eight Immortal Gu House!" Fairy Miao Yin's expression was pale.

After a short while, Bai Ning Bing was already unable to hold on.

A vast amount of earth path dao marks corroded her body, Bai Xiang was on the verge of collapsing, even though Miao Yin and Black Tigress were doing their best in terms of defense.

Bai Ning Bing smiled coldly, she was not flustered: "Of course we cannot match Demon Judgment Board, but now, it will depend on how resolute Gu Yue Fang Zheng is. Hehe."

At the moment of life and death, Bai Ning Bing actually laughed.

She turned around and dispelled Bai Xiang, exposing her true body.

Fairy Miao Yin and Black Tigress had already resolved themselves, they charged towards Demon Judgment Board alongside Bai Ning Bing.

"You people?!" Gu Yue Fang Zheng was shocked to see that Bai Ning Bing and the rest dispelled their defenses, he had to use a rainbow of blood red light to envelop the three immortals.

After receiving Demon Judgment Board's help, the three immortals were saved from the outcome of getting crushed by the earth vein.

Gu Yue Fang Zheng felt a huge rock weighing on him internally!

What was this?

He actually became the one who helped Bai Ning Bing and the rest!

But Gu Yue Fang Zheng had to do this, he had to complete the mission given by Qin Ding Ling and capture them alive.

"Gu Yue Fang Zheng, do you have any method to capture us? If Demon Judgment Board had it, you would have used it already. In this situation, you will need to leave the Immortal Gu House and use your own methods! Come, let us take a chance." Bai Ning Bing could not speak, she could only think internally.

If they lost, they would be captured and left helpless. Once their value was extracted, they would be killed, becoming the sacrifices to raise Heavenly Court's reputation.

Gu Yue Fang Zheng stared with wide eyes, gritting his teeth tightly.

Bai Ning Bing had won this bet!

Fang Zheng did not have any special method to capture them.

Unless he took a chance and brought all three immortals into the Immortal Gu House.

But if Fang Zheng did that, he would be too stupid! Because that was simply letting the enemies into his territory. Just Fang Zheng alone could not deal with the three immortals.

"You are very crafty, but so what?" Fang Zheng said through the gaps between his teeth: "If I capture you, you will still live for some time. But now, you will die. Congratulations, your efforts in battle have reaped you such great rewards."

Fang Zheng spoke sarcastically before abandoning Bai Ning Bing and the rest, leaving the earth vein using Demon Judgment Board.

The strong Demon Judgment Board could not stay in the earth vein for long. Just this short period destroyed most of Demon Judgment Board's mortal Gu.

Without Demon Judgment Board's protection, Bai Ning Bing felt an immense pressure, their lives were at stake, they struggled at death's door.

"Maybe Fang Zheng was right after all." Fairy Miao Yin smiled bitterly.

Bai Ning Bing snorted.

"What's that?" Black Tigress suddenly shouted.

The three immortals were like tiny bugs flowing along the earth vein tributary. From the boundless brown color surrounding them, a dark hole suddenly appeared.

"Go!" The three immortals had no choice, at the crucial final moment, they went into the dark hole precariously.

At almost the same time.

In a dense and lush forest on the surface, Fairy Zi Wei, Ying Wu Xie, and Old Man Zheng Yuan were traveling.

"This distance is not safe enough, we will continue moving." Fairy Zi Wei saw that Ying Wu Xie was moving slowly, she quickly reminded.

Ying Wu Xie gritted his teeth but his expression was dazed, he said dejectedly: "My main body has died, what do we..."

Fairy Zi Wei looked at Ying Wu Xie solemnly: "Even if the main body is dead, we still have you. Ying Wu Xie, you are his split soul, from today onwards, you are our master!"

"But..." Ying Wu Xie was not feeling happy at all, he was in low spirits: "Even my main body died in battle, this entire world is no longer in Spectral Soul's era."

Fairy Zi Wei frowned slightly, she was about to console him when Old Man Zheng Yuan suddenly spoke: "Something is up, don't move, let me deal with it!"

At the next moment, he activated his killer move, his body shot out white light that enveloped the three immortals.

After a few breaths of time, heaven and earth shook, birds flew out of the forest, a loud collision could be heard from afar, resounding throughout the place.

The three immortals raised their heads, they saw that the sky was dyed green, a grand and majestic Immortal Gu House descended from the sky, it shrouded even the sun itself, moving rapidly even though it seemed slow.

This Immortal Gu House was so big, it was definitely the number one in the world in terms of size. Its rank eight aura was vast as the sea, intimidating all living beings. Within the Immortal Gu House, clamor could be heard, it was filled with human vitality, seemingly comprising all kinds of people.

"This is... Divine Emperor City?!" Ying Wu Xie was shocked.

"Divine Emperor City was created by combining Divine Bean Palace and Emperor City. Isn't it stationary at the largest gathering point of Central Continent's human vein? It could actually move?" Old Man Zheng Yuan was shocked as well.

Fairy Zi Wei pondered: "This Immortal Gu House was made by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, there must be a reason for its movement. Strange, why didn't Qin Ding Ling relocate this house into Heavenly Court during the battle earlier?"

"So that's it." Old Man Zheng Yuan used his human path methods to investigate, he found something.

"Too strong, this Immortal Gu House is too strong!" Old Man Zheng Yuan's body shook, he was greatly shocked by his discovery.

"This Immortal Gu House contains countless people, it is filled with the profundity of human path. It can actually relocate the human vein gathering point with ease! Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's method is too amazing, his goals were too farsighted, he only exposed it now. Divine Emperor City gathers the strength of all the people inside, be they Gu Immortal, Gu Master, or mortal, they are gathered together and used in unison. Currently, this is likely the number one Immortal Gu House in the world!" Old Man Zheng Yuan praised, he sighed deeply.

"So that's it, it was a pity that Genesis Lotus miscalculated, this Divine Emperor City did not make it to the fate war in time." Ying Wu Xie said.

Fairy Zi Wei shook her head lightly: "How can a venerable fail his scheme so easily? There are extremely deep secrets behind all these, don't come up with a conclusion so casually."

The three immortals stopped in their tracks and hid in the forest, concealing their auras, as Divine Emperor City went past them and entered Earth Abyss, they finally let out sighs of relief.

"Let's go." Fairy Zi Wei was ready to move.

But Old Man Zheng Yuan stopped on the spot, smiling bitterly: "I cannot follow after the two of you anymore."

Ying Wu Xie was surprised: "Why?"

Old Man Zheng Yuan sighed: "That Divine Emperor City has already become the gathering point of human path in the world, since I cultivate human path, I am restricted by it. Earlier, it probably sensed me but because there was something more important, it chose to ignore me. To play safe, I should part with master and Zi Wei."

Ying Wu Xie's expression was grim, they suffered a setback again. Before this battle, Shadow Sect was full of people and prospered for some time. Now, only him and Fairy Zi Wei were left.

It was truly pitiful!

"Maybe trying to kill Fang Yuan was a terrible mistake!" Ying Wu Xie gritted his teeth, he felt extremely bitter internally.

-x-X-x-

Divine Emperor City was filled with noise and commotion.

The hundreds of thousands of people living in the city were looking towards the sky.

Profound green light had covered the sky of Divine Emperor City. Not only this, the city gates were also closed and guarded heavily.

"What in the world is going on?"

"You don't know? There were notices posted at the city gates, announcing the city will be closed for a period of time. During this time period, there will be abnormal phenomena and there is no need to panic."

"I also heard of this notice, but I did not expect such a huge and grand phenomenon."

The city residents discussed with relative calmness, no large scale chaos emerged.

Northern city area.

"Where did that fellow Hong Yi go?" Cao Yu sighed as he walked out of a dark alley.

Accompanying him was Xie Lan.

The two were Universal Life Academy's disciples, who were ordered to search for Hong Yi after he disappeared.

Regretfully, they had been at Divine Emperor City for two to three months now and had yet to make any progress.

Xie Lan frowned: "We have almost finished combing through Divine Emperor City by now and have contacted a dozen or so information path Gu Masters, but have not gotten any news regarding Hong Yi. This is probably the worst case scenario."

Cao Yu's eyes opened wide: "Are you saying Hong Yi entered a painting world? How can that be?"

Xie Lan looked around in a hurry and lowered his voice: "Keep your voice down, such secret news have been circulating in the city recently. Painting worlds were arranged by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, they can take in the city residents and return them safely after a period of time. Especially these days, how many Gu Masters have come to Divine Emperor City because they heard this rumor and wanted to find an immortal opportunity?"

Cao Yu was at a loss: "If Hong Yi really is inside a painting world, how are we going to find him?"

Xie Lan was silent for a while before saying with a sigh: "If that is the case, then we can only wait."

Eastern city area.

"Master, please take care." A female Gu Master sent her master off.

Most of the surrounding pedestrians were staring at the phenomenon in the sky, only a few were astonished at this sight.

The female Gu Master was a renowned refinement path master who was ranked among the top hundred in the Refinement Path Convention, and she was actually being so courteous to an unknown Gu Master.

This unknown Gu Master was wearing a long robe and a straw hat which hid his appearance under the shadows.

The unknown Gu Master moved cautiously and maintained his silence as he disappeared into the corner of the street.

"What exactly is going on? Such a phenomenon is definitely a Gu Immortal's doing." The unknown Gu Master moved along the empty alley and raised his head slightly to glance at the strange scene in the sky.

"Sigh, I did not expect to encounter such trouble in this trip to exchange Gu materials in the city. I just hope my identity won't be exposed."

"Just in case, I will choose a remote tavern to stay in until the city gates open again."

The unknown Gu Master was worried.

This person was Ben Duo Yi, who was taught the nature Gu refinement technique by Gu Immortal Yu Mu Chun.

He cultivated day and night, making huge progress. However, the cost of cultivating refinement path was high, and with no one else to depend upon, he had to frequently sell the refined Gu to purchase cultivation resources.

He was a hairy man and was hiding his appearance by using Gu worms. He had to move with caution in this gathering area of humans.

All kinds of people lived in Divine Emperor City, there were even rank six Gu Immortals.

But no one could imagine that under the cover of the profound green light, Divine Emperor City had not only left its original spot, it even flew towards Ancient Soul Sect and entered Earth Abyss to fight Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Calamity Luck Altar!

Immortal killer move — Great Qi Cloud Explosion.

Demon Immortal Qi Jue's killer move struck Divine Emperor City but it only raised slight ripples on the surface of the profound green light.

"This is probably the number one Immortal Gu House in the present age!" Even a person like Demon Immortal Qi Jue felt demoralized.

His current strength was simply unable to shake Divine Emperor City.

"So Qin Ding Ling's trump card was this Divine Emperor City!" Inside Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan looked extremely serious.

Calamity Luck Altar was left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, while Divine Emperor City was created by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable. In this confrontation between the two, Divine Emperor City firmly won against Calamity Luck Altar and by a huge margin!

Calamity Luck Altar was not huge, and when compared to Divine Emperor City now, it looked even smaller.

The number one large size Immortal Gu House in history, Divine Emperor City, was like a colossal jade cloud that seemed to cover heaven and earth as it obstructed Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Calamity Luck Altar's escape route.

And in the rear, Qin Ding Ling led the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals. Among the several Immortal Gu Houses, Demon Judgment Board was at the front, taking the position of the vanguard.

As the intense battle started, Divine Emperor City suddenly let out loud human voices, following which, the profound green light bubbled and formed a huge whirlpool.

The whirlpool blew out spiraling green wind that covered Demon Immortal Qi Jue.

Demon Immortal Qi Jue's expression changed greatly, he could only take out the damaged Xi Land. But Xi Land was also unable to block this move, and at the next moment, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was absorbed into Divine Emperor City!

"Divine Emperor City suppressed Demon Immortal Qi Jue!" Inside Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan and the rest were horrified.

Even if Demon Immortal Qi Jue only had the damaged Xi Land, he had pseudo venerable battle strength. They did not expect there to be no disturbance in Divine Emperor City after he was absorbed.

Divine Emperor City's might shook the minds of Longevity Heaven's immortals.

It was no wonder Qin Ding Ling confronted them resolutely and had such a huge ambition as well!

"This is an emergency!" Bing Sai Chuan exclaimed in fright and activated the strongest method of Calamity Luck Altar without hesitating any more.

Golden lights shot out from Calamity Luck Altar and covered the surroundings.

The lights formed a broken path. The path extended far away, passing through the surface layer without damaging a single rock.

"Longevity Heaven, where are you trying to go!" Qin Ding Ling was aware that it was the crucial moment, she resolutely attacked and disturbed Calamity Luck Altar.

She cultivated luck path and opposed Giant Sun Immortal Venerable her whole life, and being an immortal concubine of Giant Sun before, she had a deep understanding regarding Calamity Luck Altar.

Calamity Luck Altar's method was disturbed by Qin Ding Ling; the golden path started shaking immediately, unable to maintain stability.

At this moment, the profound green light around Divine Emperor City formed another whirlpool.

"Are we also going to be captured by Heavenly Court?" Hei Lou Lan's heart sank as she sensed the worsening situation.

At this crucial moment, Five Elements Grandmaster hesitated for a bit before coming forward: "Let me hold them back, you should all leave!"

"No, little fellow, you cultivate formation path which will be very useful in the future. I, Grandpa Mao, am most suitable for this." Mao Li Qiu pushed Five Elements Grandmaster aside.

"Grandpa Mao..." Five Elements Grandmaster was stunned. Mao Li Qiu's status in Longevity Heaven was much higher than his. He had thought that sacrificing himself was the most sensible arrangement in this situation, but did not expect Mao Li Qiu to stop him.

Under this situation, Heavenly Court would never go easy on them.

Mao Li Qiu would probably lose its life if it went!

Bing Sai Chuan took a deep look at Mao Li Qiu, Mao Li Qiu, however, said casually: "Bing Sai Chuan, I will leave Longevity Heaven to you. Don't bring shame to Grandpa Mao, you must escape. Don't disappoint master, otherwise I will haunt you even if I turned into a ghost."

Bing Sai Chuan gritted his teeth: "Hmph, so much nonsense. Even if you die, make sure you die in the most brilliant way."

He had fought alongside Mao Li Qiu many times before and had deep friendship although they were quite rude towards each other. It was the way of these Northern Plainsmen, they only knew to express themselves with rough language.

Mao Li Qiu laughed heartily: "Then you can rest assured, I am most proficient in this!"

Bing Sai Chuan quickly opened the Immortal Gu House and closed it immediately. In that single moment, Mao Li Qiu had charged out.

"Come fight me, little ones of Heavenly Court!" Mao Li Qiu charged forward bravely.

In an instant, Demon Judgment Board was sent flying by Mao Li Qiu.

Mao Li Qiu fought madly and was soon soaked in blood with many bone fractures.

Its laughter however became more resonant and its aura kept on rising.

Divine Emperor City activated the spiraling green wind towards Calamity Luck Altar again.

Mao Li Qiu clicked its tongue as it flew forward and blocked the spiraling green wind with its body. At the next moment, like Demon Immortal Qi Jue, it was locked onto by the green wind and absorbed into the profound green light.

Using this crucial time, Calamity Luck Altar turned into a lump of light that escaped through the golden path.

Divine Bean Palace, painting world.

Boom!

Boom!!

Within short intervals of time, two enormous explosions reverberated throughout the whole painting world.

"What's going on?" Fairy Bi Xia and the rest were shocked and bewildered. They were cultivating with all their efforts inside the painting world and were completely unaware of what was going on outside Divine Emperor City.

"Something big has happened, Fang Di Chang." Shen Shang went up to Fang Di Chang with an excited expression.

Fang Di Chang was curled up in the corner of the alley, he was dirty and messy and his clothes were ragged. There was a bamboo cane beside him and a broken bowl in front of him.

He raised his head to look at Shen Shang and begged: "Lord, please give me something to eat, I have not eaten for three days and three nights now."

While secretly, he transmitted his voice: "Brother Shen, what happened?"

Shen Shang transmitted his reply: "I am not sure about the exact details. But two large paintings have been added at the edges of the painting world. Qi currents are gathered in one painting with wind howling all the time. The other painting is mysterious with beastly roars resounding again and again."

Fang Di Chang's eyes shined with bright light, he felt deep interest.

He was schemed against by Genesis Lotus's will, and his will had to escape secretly. With Shen Shang's help, the situation was showing improvement.

Fang Di Chang did not know what happened outside the painting world. But this situation had appeared for the first time in the painting world. Maybe they could probe the deeper secrets of the painting world through this?

Some days later.

At some part of Southern Border.

The fog in the valley dissipated and two people walked out.

One had a handsome face with dragon horns on his head and imposing dragon pupils, he was rank eight enslavement path Gu Immortal Wu Shuai. The other was wearing white clothes, had black hair, deep pupils and fair skin, he was Gu Yue Fang Yuan.

"Over three thousand heaven path dao marks have been refined, what should we do next?" Wu Shuai asked, "Should we go meet up with Lu Wei Yin first?"

Fang Yuan, however, was staring at his palm with a complex expression, there was slight loss, some curiously, and some excitement on his face.

His lips curled up into a captivating smile as he gave an irrelevant answer: "These three thousand heaven path dao marks are really amazing!"