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Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's attacks were blocked. Fang Yuan took the chance to counterattack, but at this time, a ray of starlight landed on Fang Yuan's forehead with an incredible speed.
Fang Yuan's head leaned back slightly from the attack. Seeing his defensive methods weakened by thirty percent, he quickly moved away.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable flew over and coordinated with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to pincer attack Fang Yuan!
At this moment, Fang Yuan was facing the attacks of two venerables!
All the immortals were tongue-tied.
No matter how strong Fang Yuan was and how much reputation he had, was he worthy of being targeted by two venerables?
But thinking about it carefully, the immortals understood why.
After all, among all the pseudo venerables, Fang Yuan possessed the greatest threat! Besides Fang Yuan's main body, Qi Sea Ancestor and Zhan Bu Du were also Fang Yuan's clones. Thus, he also had the largest force here.
And the seemingly lone Demon Immortal Qi Jue had already made a secret deal with Fang Yuan back during the pursuit battle against him, they had cooperated for a long time.
With the sharp increase in pressure, Fang Yuan prioritized on evading. He defended against the two venerables' attacks while shouting to Paradise Earth and the other immortals: "We must join hands and unite. Otherwise, with the eternal life research results right in front of us, the two venerables will not let you gain benefits easily. They will definitely kill us first!"
Without much hesitation, Shen Shang, Paradise Earth, Demon Immortal Qi Jue, and others agreed, attacking one after the other.
It was just that their efforts could not lift the pressure off Fang Yuan.
In Star Constellation Chessboard Formation, the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals tied down the pseudo venerables even if they had to sacrifice their lives.
Fang Yuan was beginning to flee everywhere, falling into a passive state.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable suddenly mobilized Star Constellation Chessboard formation to slow down Fang Yuan's flying speed. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable took the chance to attack, a ray of golden light shot out from his hand.
Fang Yuan could not dodge in time and was illuminated by the golden light.
At the crucial moment, Fang Yuan had to activate his renowned defensive method.
A long robe appeared on him. This long robe had wide sleeves, it was white like snow. On the surface of the robe, there was slow flowing water, it was the same appearance as Reverse Flow River earlier.
Not just that, the surface of the long robe had faint mist surrounding it. There was also a strip of light that was deep azure, it was curvy and wavy, resembling a long sash, it coiled around Fang Yuan's arms, the back of his neck, and around his waist again.
Immortal killer move — Reverse Flow Protection Seal!
Reverse flow protection seal was outstanding, it immediately reflected Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's golden light and the flying stars that followed closely behind.
Fang Yuan finally gained a slight respite, but he did not dare to relax.
His hands opened wide.
His left hand released five colored smoke, it was five restriction profound light qi!
His right hand pressed down towards the starry paths, activating a sinister and baleful compound killer move, rotting poisonous dark ash!
This move contained the profundity of wood path, poison path, dark path, and fire path. It could corrode everything and destroy their internal structure. As time passes, its damage would become even fiercer. Even when this killer move was canceled, there would still be continuous corrosion, but the corrosion would become weaker.
Fang Yuan had once tried this move on an immemorial year beast.
He had stopped this killer move in just a few breaths of time.
But the struck immemorial year beast cried miserably for three days and three nights before it finally turned into a pile of rotten grey ash. Fang Yuan blew it away with just a light breath.
Fang Yuan was not using this move to target Star Constellation Immortal Venerable or Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
He was targeting this Star Constellation Chessboard Formation!
He must first destroy this formation!
Heaven path killer move — Heavenly Summary Earthly Norm!
On the other side, Paradise Earth activated his killer move again. He had the same intention as Fang Yuan; great minds thought alike, he wanted to first dismantle this formation as well.
The heaven path killer move's power was beyond ordinary, everywhere it went, starry paths vanished and starlight dissipated, restoring it to the original void.
"Paradise Earth..." Star Constellation Immortal Venerable frowned as she threw out numerous stars. Most of them still targeted Fang Yuan, but a small portion attacked Paradise Earth.
Even though Paradise Earth only had pseudo venerable cultivation, he had converted to heaven path. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was unable to ascertain his methods for the moment, so she had to be on alert against him.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable controlled the whole situation and was always calm. As long as there was something odd, she would suppress it immediately.
With Star Constellation Immortal Venerable targeting him, Paradise Earth also had to be on guard.
"This reverse flow protection seal is indeed difficult to deal with, but Fang Yuan, how long can you hold on for?" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable used powerful killer moves one after the other.
These killer moves were all reflected back, but Reverse Flow River's water level also fell sharply.
Fang Yuan's reverse flow protection seal was renowned all over the world, it was not that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had not prepared for it. It was just that he had not personally dealt with Fang Yuan's reverse flow protection seal, and after Fang Yuan modified it later, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable could only choose the method of consuming it.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable frowned slightly.
With a shift of her mind, starry paths shook, a grand rank eight Immortal Gu House followed the starry paths and entered the battlefield.
It was Divine Emperor City!
Inside Divine Emperor City, Genesis Lotus' will was solemn as he activated a method that he had prepared for a long while.
Painting path killer move — Scenic Portrait!
Instantly, Fang Yuan's portrait appeared inside Divine Emperor City's painting world.
Fang Yuan's portrait stood in front of Genesis Lotus' will, he was motionless with his eyes closed, he had no expressions.
After Genesis Lotus' will used this killer move, his form began to turn unstable.
He clenched his teeth as he activated another painting path killer move called ink slicing thread.
Thin lines of ink suddenly flew out of the hands of Genesis Lotus' will, they started slicing the cheeks of Fang Yuan's portrait.
Almost at the same time, Fang Yuan, who was fighting Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, suddenly shook.
His left cheek was cut, the injury was a thin line from which black ink flowed out from.
"What's going on?!" Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, and almost immediately, his sharp gaze fell on Divine Emperor City.
"This is a painting path method, it is definitely Divine Emperor City's doing and very likely involves Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable!" Fang Yuan's thoughts moved like lightning.
He was right.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable planned before taking action. Since she could prepare the killer move luck gamble against Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, she would not neglect Fang Yuan.
Although Fang Yuan had not used reverse flow protection seal for a long time, it did not mean he had no way of using it.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's plan would never forget Fang Yuan's reverse flow protection seal!
The killer move scenic portrait was already created by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable. Later, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable worked together with Genesis Lotus' will to modify it, to target Fang Yuan's reverse flow protection seal.
Fang Yuan had just stabilized his footing with the help of reverse flow protection seal when Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used this method.
Reverse Flow River could essentially reflect everything, however, reverse flow protection seal was created by Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan had almost no understanding of painting path, his attainment level in it was blank.
Fang Yuan was aware of this flaw, so he had already gathered some painting path mortal Gu. However, it was far out of its depth against a painting path method at this level.
As such, Fang Yuan was hit by the killer move scenic portrait.
This was also the reason why most venerables cultivated two paths.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable cultivated wisdom path and star path, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable cultivated wood path and painting path, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable cultivated luck path and blood path, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable cultivated earth path and heaven path, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable cultivated transformation path and strength path, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable cultivated theft path and space path...
Venerables often cultivated one main path and one specialty path.
The first path would be the primary one which could be widely spread. The other path would be kept secretive and mysterious, information about it would be sealed tight.
For instance, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable cultivated wisdom path as the primary, with star path as her specialty. Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable cultivated wood path as the primary, with painting path as his specialty.
Fang Yuan's current situation showed the advantage of doing this.
Fang Yuan could reflect wood path methods, but he was a stranger to painting path, so painting path methods were effective on him.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's situation was slightly special, he had planned to take blood path as the primary, and luck path as his specialty.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable created luck path when he was alive, he was the only one to possess luck path. Thus, he kept luck path a secret, but to help Fang Yuan and his ambitions, he left a portion of the luck path true inheritance in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and with Lang Ya land spirit.
After he died, he tried all ways to use his clone to create blood path. He had planned to make blood path the most common path, thus the Blood Sea clone spread blood path everywhere. He wanted to get the help of others to help him perfect and promote blood path.
Inside Divine Emperor City, Genesis Lotus' will used another painting path killer move, brush stroke.
A painting brush swept past Fang Yuan's portrait, leaving ink traces wherever it brushed.
At the same time, ink-black injuries appeared on Fang Yuan's body. The injuries deepened quickly.
Compound killer move — Man as Before!
Fang Yuan activated a killer move again to heal himself constantly.
But with this, he had no choice but to cancel the rotting poisonous dark ash killer move, which only left five restriction profound light qi for his counterattack.
Simultaneously activating multiple killer moves did not surpass Fang Yuan's wisdom path limits. But Fang Yuan had to leave some capacity for thinking to deal with any sudden event.
Otherwise, once an unexpected situation occurred, and Fang Yuan's reaction was slightly late, it would give the enemy an opportunity.
After all, his enemies were venerables, they were not the likes of Qin Ding Ling and Bing Sai Chuan.
Moreover, these two venerables had allied!
Pressure, immense pressure that was like a mountain pressed down endlessly on Fang Yuan, it would not stop until it killed him.
Fang Yuan was in a disadvantage all along, his situation continued to be more troublesome.
This was the hardest battle of his life!
Comparatively, the battle in the fate war was not so heated.
"Fang Yuan is in danger!" Paradise Earth and the others wanted to help, but were always blocked by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
The two venerables' attacks were concentrated on Fang Yuan, they only used the remaining small portion of energy to block the other pseudo venerables.
Finally, Fang Yuan's Reverse Flow River was expended, he had no choice but to cancel this move.
Without the obstruction of this move, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable laughed as he activated an already prepared killer move.
The killer move was formless, Fang Yuan was instantly hit.
Sovereign immortal aperture shook violently, lightning flashed as tribulation clouds gathered.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable smiled: "Fang Yuan, the core of this move is Calamity Luck Altar, it can change fortune to misfortune. Your sovereign immortal aperture has too many resources, and it has developed extremely well. How large of a tribulation will form once such a deep fortune turns into calamity?"
Fang Yuan's expression changed.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Northern Plains.
Sacred Eagle City.
Tribulation clouds billowed. At the previous moment, it was still a scene of blue skies and white clouds, now the world had turned dark.
"What's going on?" The residents of the city looked at the sky.
Shortly afterwards, noisy sounds rose from Sacred Eagle City.
"Tribulation clouds, there are tribulation clouds again!"
"What is happening?"
"Quick, go ask the City Lord for help."
The city residents were terrified and panicked as they ran towards the City Lord Manor.
Sacred Eagle City's residents were mostly humans who came from the former Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
In this life, Fang Yuan had secretly accelerated Beast Calamity grotto-heaven's calamities and tribulations to subdue it. This caused tribulation clouds to cover the whole of Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, creating a huge number of casualties.
These residents had such a painful experience, so when they saw the tribulation clouds that was almost the same as in their memory, they immediately acted like spooked cats, screaming and fleeing madly.
Inside the City Lord Manor, a transformation path rank seven Gu Immortal looked at the sky, a bitter expression was on his face too.
He was the recently promoted Sacred Eagle City Lord. He was originally only at rank six, but he received Fang Yuan's help, and his cultivation advanced to rank seven. After accepting a mission, he became this Sacred Eagle City's City Lord.
"This tribulation is so huge, Sacred Eagle City only has three Gu Immortals. We might not be able to stop it, it is better to ask for reinforcements from Triple Sacred Mountain!" Sacred Eagle City Lord immediately sent a request for reinforcements.
Triple Sacred Mountain was the center of Mini Northern Plains, it was the gathering area of snowmen, and was the most developed area. It was looked after by Fang Yuan's fiancée, Xue Er.
Different from the five regions, humans lived peacefully with other variant humans the inside sovereign immortal aperture, helping each other without any discrimination.
Sacred Eagle City's residents were very isolated and ignorant. When they first moved into the sovereign immortal aperture, they were helped extensively by Xue Er and the snowmen, so they had good feelings towards the snowmen.
As for Sacred Eagle City's Gu Immortals who came from Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, these Gu Immortals were also vastly different from the five regions' Gu Immortals in regards to their philosophy of life. They took the duty of protecting mortals as their glory.
Adding on Fang Yuan's rule and management, all the races in sovereign immortal aperture lived unitedly.
The human Sacred Eagle City Lord did not have any mental barrier in asking for reinforcements from the snowmen. At the same time, he had a lot of faith in Fairy Xue Er's help.
Mini Western Desert.
An enormous pitch-black city was standing in the depths of the desert.
It was Inkman City.
Inkman City Lord Mo Tan Sang's cultivation had also advanced to rank seven. He had around eight Gu Immortals under him, but they were just rank six.
"The scale of this tribulation is so huge, its power will definitely be unprecedented." Mo Tan Sang's expression was solemn, he felt heavy pressure.
He reacted almost immediately and sent out commands.
Two Gu Immortals were dispatched to maintain the security and prevent the residents from taking vicious actions, like rioting or stampeding.
Additionally, four Gu Immortals were dispatched out of the city to look after white steel bowl valley, rotten swamp, hibiscus trees, and other resource points. If the situation became urgent, these Gu Immortals could immediately retrieve as many of these resources as possible and temporarily place them in Inkman City's storage.
Mo Tan Sang's status was similar to Xue Er's. He was almost like the person in charge of Mini Western Desert, he governed not only Inkman City, but also many other locations.
Mini Blue Heaven.
A grand city was on a continent above cloud soil.
In the heart of the city was a mountain-like hall made from a star snail.
This hall was in uproar at this moment.
A rank eight elderly man was sitting inside solemnly as he listened to the reports from various Gu Immortals.
He was the old Combat Beast King, he was appointed as Star Collection City Lord by Fang Yuan and was in charge of overseeing the internal affairs of the sovereign immortal aperture.
"This tribulation is too sudden!"
"It is even more terrifying than the one in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, it is much larger and covers the whole sovereign immortal aperture!!"
"City Lord, what should we do?"
"Master has taken away almost all the rank eight Gu Immortals and the strong rank sevens for the fight at this time. Although most of them have revived, they are at Gu Master level. Our manpower is too few, how do we deal with such a tribulation?!"
"Even if there were no casualties, could we deal with such a tribulation by combining our strength? That is impossible! Only an existence like master can protect our home from such a tribulation..."
Combat Beast King raised his hand, the hall gradually quietened: "Master is wise and mighty, he will definitely make a move when he should. But right now, we should remember our responsibility — to protect our home! Even if we die, it cannot crumble our will. Everyone, this is a difficult test, master is watching us, our clansmen are watching us. As Gu Immortals, if we cannot protect them, if we are afraid of dying, how can we raise our heads in pride later on?"
"We are willing to fight with all our strength!" The Gu Immortals shouted together with surging morale.
Death was not terrifying.
Even if they died, they could revive through Human Sea.
The terrifying thing was escaping in the face of danger and leaving a bad impression on Fang Yuan.
There was no doubt that Fang Yuan's will was paramount in the sovereign immortal aperture, he ruled everything.
In Crazed Demon Cave.
Dazzling and vast golden light flowed like a sea wave.
Fang Yuan retreated rapidly with a solemn expression.
He no longer had reverse flow protection seal. Facing the two venerables, his situation was perilous, almost like walking on a steel rope between cliffs.
What was even worse was the trouble in the sovereign immortal aperture.
"This is a method of all living beings luck..." Fang Yuan looked at Giant Sun Immortal Venerable with a malevolent killing intent.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's gaze was eerie, he observed the tribulation aura on Fang Yuan's body becoming denser before he put his mind at rest.
Fang Yuan possessed Cooking Luck Pot which could indeed stop most of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's luck path methods, however, Fang Yuan still could not compare to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable in terms of luck path foundation.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable sighed lightly: "Fang Yuan, you have such talent and aptitude, I really don't want to kill you. It is such a pity that your character determined your outcome. I have to get rid of you. If you are really allowed to keep on developing, there will be a day when you comprehend all living beings luck and heaven and earth luck through the self luck true inheritance. It is much easier to get rid of you now."
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable appreciated Fang Yuan's talent, but was even more wary of him!
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable continued to attack while speaking.
Fang Yuan was forced to retreat again and again.
Although he had cooperated with Fang Yuan time and again, when they truly fought, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable seemed to be even happier than Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to get rid of Fang Yuan!
Fang Yuan's expression was solemn, his eyes shone sharply as he kept silent.
He continuously activated all kinds of compound killer moves, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had never heard of or seen these killer moves before.
Because of this, it was rather troublesome for Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to deal with them.
Fang Yuan relied on this to barely maintain his footing.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable smiled: "I am getting more and more amazed by you, such brilliant and numerous compound killer moves have really broadened my horizons. A pity, it is a pity that these killer moves are unsystematic, you still don't have your own combat system!"
"But this is not your fault."
"I used close to one thousand years to perfect my current combat system back then."
"Moreover, making a combat system is not just about time, it also needs plenty of worthy opponents to be created successfully."
"Fang Yuan, how many years have you lived even after adding up all your lives?"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable smiled, while speaking, he inflicted another deep injury on Fang Yuan's chest.
Fang Yuan did not speak.
Comparing foundation, he was indeed inferior to venerables.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had a smile on his face as he saw Fang Yuan's tribulation aura increasing by double in just a short while: "You already felt it, right? The greatest profundity of my move lies in the number of calamities and tribulations. As many resource points, Immortal Gu, Gu Immortals, desolate beasts, and so on as are there in the sovereign immortal aperture, there will be an equivalent number of calamities and tribulations."
"Those who are struck by this move need to resolve countless calamities and tribulations at the same time. Difficult, this is extremely difficult. Fang Yuan, I won't give you an opportunity to save yourself."
Saying so, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable attacked once again.
His attacks were unceasing and majestic, Fang Yuan could only block them, and was unable to do anything to the sovereign immortal aperture.
It was a scene of an abyss in the sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Central Continent.
Flower mist extreme marsh.
Large meteorites dragged long tails as they smashed on the ground.
Bam bam bam...
The meteorites erupted and flames spread, burning the mist, marsh, and extreme marsh flowers around them. Only dry land was left behind.
From the inferno, tall flame monsters stood up.
As the flame monsters wreaked havoc, a Gu Immortal streaked across the sky.
It was Fang Yuan's dragonman clone — Wu Shuai.
With a thought from Wu Shuai, ant groups flew out and fought with the flame monsters.
Mini Southern Border.
There was a downpour on the whole dark inkstone mine.
The corrosive rain inflicted heavy damage on the dark inkstones.
A rockman Gu Immortal was stationed here, he used all his strength to activate his killer moves but could only protect a small part of the mine.
Star Collection City was in chaos.
"Every resource point in the mini five regions and mini nine heavens is being attacked by different types and scales of calamities and tribulations."
"The Gu Immortals on Fire Bird Mountain are requesting for reinforcements!"
"Ghost fire is burning pin tree snowfield, if we don't stop it on time, the ghost fire will destroy the whole snowfield."
"The Hairy Man continent is being bombarded by lightning, one of the cities is already drowned by a tsunami!"
"A terrifying beast calamity has appeared in Mini Black Heaven, thousands of green claw ghost winged lions are hunting down soul beasts!"
Bad news came one after the other.
Combat Beast King subconsciously clenched his fists. Despite already being prepared mentally, when the calamities and tribulations really broke out, the severity of the losses made him unable to maintain his calm for some time.
But from start to finish, he maintained his solemn expression.
At this time, when all the Gu Immortals were panicking, as their backbone, he could not panic!
He sent out various commands, Star Collection City began to operate frantically. Manpower and resources were dispatched to every place as they began to deal with the calamities and tribulations.
But there were too many calamities and tribulations, not only was their range huge, they were of various types. Every calamity and tribulation needed to be dealt with using different methods.
This was an extremely difficult challenge to the Gu Immortals stationed in the sovereign immortal aperture.
-x-X-x-
News of the first Gu Immortal to be heavily injured and near death arrived.
Combat Beast King's heart immediately tensed: "So quickly?"
His mood became even heavier.
The more casualties the Gu Immortals suffered, the lower the resistance the sovereign immortal aperture could put up. If this continued until a certain extent, the situation would be irredeemable, like an unstoppable avalanche.
Combat Beast King gritted his teeth: "Send the orders, Mini Black Heaven does not need to be saved, give up on rescuing any desolate beasts, ancient desolate beasts, and even immemorial desolate beasts! We will protect the large cities first, second are the important resource points. How are the results of the wisdom path Gu Immortals' deductions?"
Star Collection City naturally had wisdom path Gu Immortals.
"We have not even deduced half of them, there are too many calamities and tribulations." A wisdom path Gu Immortal said with sweat all over his head.
"Take out whatever results you have to deal with this situation first!" Combat Beast King almost stamped his foot.
The results were soon obtained, Combat Beast King made the decision on the spot, Star Collection City began to mobilize Gu Immortals.
"Oh?" Wu Shuai was the first to receive this command.
A strange expression flashed by his face before he slowly retreated.
In the short while of his fight with the flame monsters, flower mist extreme marsh was already completely destroyed, while the majority of the flame monsters still remained.
There were too many of them, even though Wu Shuai used all his strength, he could only eradicate a small portion of them.
These flame monsters' target was already destroyed, so their hostility gathered on Wu Shuai.
Seeing Wu Shuai retreat, the flame monsters immediately chased after him.
Wu Shuai led them to the west and met another Gu Immortal midway. A group of qi monsters were chasing after this Gu Immortal.
The two Gu Immortals were in the center, but the flame monsters and qi monsters fought with each other.
"It is feasible indeed!"
"These calamities and tribulations are not formed naturally, but were created because of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's killer move."
"Since they are only formed through luck path and is not controlled by heaven's will, they are like an army without a leader. We can use calamities and tribulations to deal with calamities and tribulations."
Wu Shuai was slightly happy.
This was the deduction result of the wisdom path Gu Immortals.
Some Gu Immortals gathered acidic rain, while some Gu Immortals directed the heavenly river towards the desert...
Under such operations, the sovereign immortal aperture's situation finally eased.
"We have stabilized the situation!" Combat Beast King let out a breath of air. In just a short period of time, his face was covered with sweat.
Calamities and tribulations came too fiercely, if their reaction had been slightly slow, it might have resulted in destruction. Fortunately, they used every moment, seized the initiative, and stabilized the situation.
But this was far from enough.
Calamities and tribulations were still playing out in many places, those that could consume each other were only a small portion.
The whole sovereign immortal aperture was still being destroyed by calamities and tribulations, losses increased at every breath of time.
"The tribulation clouds above the flower mist extreme marsh have disappeared completely."
"Most of the tribulation clouds above the pin tree snowfield have dissipated!"
"The dark inkstone mine is completely destroyed, but the tribulation clouds are also destroyed!"
"Something is wrong!!! There is an abnormal situation."
"Reporting! Over twenty tribulation clouds all over the mini five regions are showing identical changes."
"This is the... earth shaking heavenly light tribulation!"
Combat Beast King had just relaxed, when he heard the devastating news.
"This is bad!" His expression turned pale. From combining the information, in the map of the mini five regions in his mind, earth shaking heavenly light tribulations were appearing in crucial areas.
Bam bam bam...
Yellowish brown pillars of light shot out from tribulation clouds, the light pillars struck the ground and continued to pierce down into the ground.
A large amount of tribulation clouds swarmed into the yellowish brown light pillars. They suddenly lit up, and this light flowed down the light pillars into the depths of the ground.
Boom—!
Explosions rang, the earth shook fiercely.
Boom—!
Boom—!
Boom—!
Earth shaking light pillars in the mini five regions were continuing to exert power, earthquakes were becoming even more intense.
Terrifying shockwaves continued to expand. Everywhere they passed by, earth shook, mountains crumbled, rivers changed courses, and seas roared.
"This luck path method targets the resources in the immortal aperture. Now that those resource points are destroyed or damaged heavily, earth veins became the conspicuous target!"
"That's why there are so many earth shaking heavenly light tribulations, they just happen to cover all the earth vein nodes and are seeking to destroy them."
Wu Shuai's face was cold as ice.
Although these calamities and tribulations triggered by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not have heaven's will to control the overall situation, there would be this kind of change at the later part. It greatly made up for the lack of commands.
"However, you think the earth veins we constructed painstakingly can be destroyed so easily?"
Wu Shuai sneered, activating a formation.
Earth vein formation was activated, thick and grand aura spread rapidly. The powerful tremors underground were forcefully suppressed.
Next, the Gu Immortals dispatched by Star Collection City reached the tribulation areas, and began attacking earth shaking heavenly light pillars.
The huge heavenly light pillars began to break down one after the other. The sovereign immortal aperture's Gu Immortals coordinated to get past this difficulty.
The tribulation clouds changed again. This time, they formed beast calamities in various areas. Immemorial desolate beast level golden steel earth rats emerged from everywhere and besieged the earth vein nodes.
Seven to eight earth vein nodes were destroyed before these golden steel earth rats were eradicated. A small portion of the earth rats were enslaved by Wu Shuai.
Tribulation clouds changed again, but they were still targeting earth veins.
The immortals defended the earth veins strongly using all their strength, they cooperated tightly.
Although earth vein nodes continued to decrease in number, the situation was turning for the better.
The calamities and tribulations were of all kinds, but their targets were still earth veins. This was a controllable factor, which brought a lot of convenience to the immortals.
Over ten or so calamities and tribulations targeted earth veins, but after they were repelled by the immortals, the tribulation clouds that covered the whole sovereign immortal aperture had mostly disappeared.
However, when the immortals thought the tribulations had finally passed, an aura that made the hearts of all living beings in the sovereign immortal aperture shake appeared all of a sudden!
At first, this aura was extremely small.
But soon, the aura grew rapidly in the deepest part of the tribulation clouds.
Amidst the immortals' puzzled and terrified gazes, a fire burned in the depths of the tribulation clouds.
The fire was black!
The black fire had just appeared, when it burned all the remaining stubborn tribulation clouds.
The black fire grew rapidly, and started falling down. Wherever it passed by, be it ground or the air, they were all burned into nothingness.
The immortals breathed in sharply, the power of the black fire was horrifying, it was like the nemesis of all existences!
"Isn't this black fire like the one in the dragon whale grotto-heaven? It actually appeared here! Giant Sun Immortal Venerable is truly formidable!" Wu Shuai's heart jumped. Even an expert like him felt extreme threat from the black fire.
There was nothing else to say, the immortals used their methods to defend against the black fire.
However, all the methods were of no use.
Even when Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit used all their strength, they could only extinguish a little of the black fire.
Moreover, once the black fire was destroyed to a certain extent, it would change form, transforming into black water, black lightning, and so on, killing many Gu Immortals who were caught off guard.
At the crucial moment, He Chun Qiu took action.
"Don't panic! The main body also expected this scene, and taught me a countermeasure." He Chun Qiu said as he activated a human path formation.
The human path formation had the thousand wish tree, and also the secluded domain of heaven and earth, Human Sea.
Bam bam bam...
Lumps of white light flew out from the formation.
These lumps of light were extremely large, they flew everywhere in the mini five regions. As long as the black fire spread, the white light would pounce on it.
The black fire was quickly dissipating, it changed its form again. But no matter what form it took, it was still continuing to be extinguished by the white light.
The white light's effect was excellent, but the black fire continued to gather and grow.
"It will be really dangerous if this continues!"
"Human path killer moves are effective, but they cannot compare to the black fire's growth."
"What should we do?"
The immortals panicked.
"Oh no, black fire has appeared on Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley!"
"The earth vein formation is also being burned!"
The situation worsened rapidly, He Chun Qiu, Wu Shuai, and the rest were pale.
The situation was out of control!
The human path formation left behind by Fang Yuan was also implicated.
What to do?
These Gu Immortals had already tried their best, but they could do nothing.
They could only depend on Fang Yuan's main body!
Fang Yuan's main body was continuing to dodge, his whole body was bathed in blood, his hair were disheveled, and his arm was broken. He was in a miserable state.
He simply could not counterattack and gain any initiative against the two venerables. Five restriction profound light qi was forced to stop, one phrase could be used to describe the current Fang Yuan — hanging onto his last breath.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's methods were truly terrifying and dealt with Fang Yuan's methods by destroying their foundation.
The Gu Immortals left behind to guard the sovereign immortal aperture could do nothing more, their only hope lay with Fang Yuan.
But Fang Yuan did not have such an opportunity.
The two venerables attacked like a storm, arriving one after another, not giving him the chance to catch a breather.
"I must resolve the black fire!" Fang Yuan clenched his teeth. If he ignored the black fire, his sovereign immortal aperture would be as good as destroyed.
Immortal killer move — Hu Elevation!
Suddenly, a qi path killer move descended, temporarily blocking a venerable.
Qi Sea clone had made his move, he was finally freed from the shackles.
"Here I come!" Zhan Bu Du roared. He was freed from the responsibility of protecting Qi Sea, he rampaged and fought his way to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Fang Yuan's main body took the chance to retreat.
Immortal killer move — Humanly Flame Smoke!
He activated his method to save the human path formation first. Then, he coordinated with the human path formation to deal with the black fire that was scattered everywhere.
Burning white flames shrouded the black fire, and started tearing it apart.
The main body's abilities were indeed extraordinary, the black fire's growth was immediately impeded.
However, Zhan Bu Du and Qi Sea Ancestor were being beaten back.
"Paradise Earth!" Fang Yuan retreated towards Paradise Earth.
Paradise Earth took a deep breath, as he activated heavenly web protection veil once again.
With his help, Fang Yuan obtained a brief respite. When the two venerables broke the heavenly web, Zhan Bu Du and Qi Sea Ancestor arrived to reinforce him.
The battle had lasted until now, but the two venerables were unable to take Fang Yuan's life. Both frowned.
Crazed Demon formation was shrinking rapidly, the limit on the venerables was being released.
Their attacks became increasingly terrifying, Fang Yuan could only flee miserably.
Immortal Gu House — Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
Fang Yuan hid inside the Immortal Gu House and activated a killer move. This move used ability Gu as the core, it had the effect of absorbing the black fire!
The deadlock inside the sovereign immortal aperture finally began turning for the better.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress protected Fang Yuan for a while before it was broken by the combined strength of the two venerables.
"Die!" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable suddenly used a vicious killer move.
"Protect me!" Fang Yuan cried out in alarm, he was unable to dodge in time.
At the crucial moment, Zhan Bu Du flew over and used his body to block the killer move.
Boom!
A huge explosion rang, Zhan Bu Du was torn into pieces, dying immediately.
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Fang Yuan's eyelids twitched.
The other pseudo venerables' hearts sank heavily.
On the contrary, the morale of Heavenly Court's immortals surged.
Fang Yuan lost Zhan Bu Du, one of his main clones. Zhan Bu Du's immortal aperture was also quickly absorbed by the Crazed Demon formation.
But fortunately, under the control of Zhan Bu Du's will, his various Immortal Gu were sent in time to treasure yellow heaven.
However, black fire was still wreaking havoc in the sovereign immortal aperture!
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable attacked once again.
Fang Yuan clenched his teeth as he ordered the Qi Sea clone to block the calamity.
Qi Sea clone did not have tough body like Zhan Bu Du, his death was certain against Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's attack. But Fang Yuan could only choose to sacrifice this clone to protect himself.
However, at the next moment, starry paths shook and twisted, forming an azure sphere that trapped Qi Sea Ancestor.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was caught unprepared, his killer move bombarded the starry path sphere and destroyed it instantly.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable turned around to look at Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, the latter heaved a sigh.
Lu Wei Yin and the rest's spirits shook. This was the first lapse in the cooperation of the two venerables!
This was really fortunate!
Qi Sea clone managed to escape death, he continued to protect Fang Yuan by his side.
The situation in the sovereign immortal aperture had only turned slightly better. As long as Fang Yuan let go of his control by even a slight bit, the situation would erupt again, and the whole immortal aperture would face destruction.
A huge sound rang as the void shook.
Crazed Demon Cave's eighth layer disappeared completely, the final merged great world turned into nothingness, and countless living beings became sacrificial offerings.
The Door of Life and Death with the immortal graveyard flew away, they were stored by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable in her immortal aperture.
Crazed Demon Cave had a total of nine layers. The first seven layers were swept clean by Fang Yuan, the eighth layer was completely gone, only the final ninth layer remained.
And in the Crazed Demon formation in the center of the ninth layer, only the final truthful floating ice piece remained.
The three Crazed Demon Eccentrics were on the floating ice, they were activating practice Gu together, like they were carving the final part.
Seeing this scene, the immortals felt their mind shake, while Fang Yuan silently let out a sigh of relief.
The danger had passed!
He had finally passed the most difficult time.
Indeed, like Fang Yuan expected, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not attack him anymore. Both stopped on their spots, looking at each other.
The atmosphere changed subtly.
The two venerables had allied to get rid of the pseudo venerables. But Fang Yuan used every method he could to hold onto his last breath.
The venerables' plan had failed.
Right now, the eternal life research results were already close to completion. The most important thing now was to seize these results!
Whoever tangled with those pseudo venerables would be giving the other venerable a chance.
"Success, we succeeded!" The three eccentrics slumped on the ground, shouting hoarsely and excitedly.
Immortal killer move — Luck Gamble!
The two venerables' stalemate lasted for a while, when Qin Ding Ling came out of the starry paths.
She used the killer move once again, targeting Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Almost at the same time, Golden Hooped Great Immortal appeared again, using his golden hoop to trap Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Compared to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable clearly held the upper hand.
As long as Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was struck by these methods, his combat system's foundation would be hit, and he would fall into a disadvantage. Even if he were to not be hit, he would have to slow down for a while to deal with Qin Ding Ling and Golden Hooped Great Immortal.
With just those few minutes of advantage, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable might be able to last until the end and seize the eternal life research results.
However, right at this time, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable smiled: "Star Constellation, you have good methods, but you seem to have forgotten something?"
At the next moment, a rank eight Immortal Gu House suddenly shone brightly. Most of the void in the ninth layer was filled with this light.
It was Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace!
This Immortal Gu House was already placed in the Crazed Demon formation by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had used this to break out of the trap, Fang Yuan and others had also escaped alongside him.
From that moment onwards, this Immortal Gu House had been comprehending the Crazed Demon formation's workings until it was shaken off.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace was not a piece of truthful floating ice after all. After it was thrown out, it hid deeply, and even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable seemed to have failed to sense it.
Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace was not simple, it had comprehended Crazed Demon formation's workings and was compatible with this world.
Right now, it was activated by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. It immediately affected the Crazed Demon formation and caused unrest in Limitless' chains.
The Star Constellation Chessboard Formation that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable arranged had forcefully merged with Limitless' chains and also restrained the various pseudo venerables, including Fang Yuan. It was already at its limits.
Right now, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable suddenly made his move, allowing the chains of Limitless to break free from the starry paths, thus causing the whole Star Constellation Chessboard Formation to collapse.
Guh.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable coughed out blood, she had suffered a terrifying backlash.
Using this chance, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable rushed forward, rapidly closing the distance between him and the Crazed Demon formation.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not have time to heal her injuries, she took out that mysterious secluded domain of heaven and earth once again.
This secluded domain was like a lantern and also like a bird cage.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable aimed the lantern-like secluded domain of heaven and earth at Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's back and shook it lightly.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was immediately disturbed by immense emotions, his speed fell sharply.
Starlight specks shot out around Star Constellation Immortal Venerable as she gave chase.
Bam bam bam...
The two venerables fought, storms blew from the aftershock, the world shook intensely.
Fortunately, this was the void, otherwise, nothing would be left!
The two venerables held each other back, reaching that final mountain-like large truthful floating ice at almost the same time.
The two venerables suddenly stopped, their expressions were strange.
Pang Shan of the three eccentrics woke up at this time. He was extremely fat before, but was now skinny, as if all his essence had been drained.
"What happened?"
"Why are there still no eternal life results?!"
"We were just a little short!"
"But we don't have any strength left..."
Pang Shan's gaze was dim, he was not in the right condition. He seemed to have become crazy, murmuring to himself.
His voice awakened the other two immortals.
Secret Schemer's expression was unsightly. He was slumped on the ground, and was barely able to cup his fists towards the two venerables: "Venerables, the eternal life research results are just lacking a step, no, half a step. As long as either of you activate practice Gu for a little while, this truthful floating ice will be carved successfully!"
The two venerables were silent.
This final truthful floating ice was not a small matter!
Whoever went in would not be able to come out for some time. If they wanted to come out, they needed to completely carve this truthful floating ice.
But was it that easy?
The eighth layer was destroyed, there were no more great worlds to provide fuel and clues to the Crazed Demon formation.
That was to say, they needed to contribute their own strength to carve this truthful floating ice.
The contribution amount was very crucial. If they needed to contribute too much, even if the venerable who entered the truthful floating ice held the lead, their battle strength would fall. Finally, they might play into the hands of the other venerable who was in a perfect state!
Be it Star Constellation Immortal Venerable or Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, they both had scruples. They stood silently for some time.
On the other side, the fight between the pseudo venerables and Heavenly Court Gu Immortals was still continuing.
"Duke Tong, don't you like stopping me?" Demon Immortal Qi Jue smiled fiercely as he pointed with his finger.
Boom boom boom!
Qi spheres burst, Duke Tong exploded into pieces with not even a bone remaining.
"Endless spears!" Che Wei shouted, countless spears shot out from around him like a dense forest.
Lu Wei Yin charged through the spear forest and grabbed.
A yellowish-brown giant hand flew out and grabbed Che Wei.
"Without Star Constellation Chessboard Formation, even if you have unparalleled talent, how can you block me?" Lu Wei Yin sighed. The yellowish-brown giant hand clenched, forcefully pressing Che Wei into meat paste.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were inferior to the pseudo venerables after all.
Previously, even inside Star Constellation Chessboard formation, these Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were hard pressed to block the pseudo venerables, they died constantly on the battlefield.
They relied on the immortal graveyard to revive and participate in the battle again, balancing their weak battle strength.
Now, without Star Constellation Chessboard formation and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to control the overall situation, these Heavenly Court Gu Immortals immediately got outmatched. They were slaughtered one after the other, unable to block the pseudo venerables.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable snorted coldly when she saw this, immediately making a move to help.
How could Giant Sun Immortal Venerable let go of this chance, he immediately acted to block Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
The two venerables fought once again!
Both venerables had equal strength. Using the brief respite, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable opened his immortal aperture and let out Calamity Luck Altar.
At the same time, he transmitted his voice: "Bing Sai Chuan, go!"
Calamity Luck Altar quickly charged towards the truthful floating ice, Bing Sai Chuan received Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's command and flew into it.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable snorted as she shook the lantern again.
Calamity Luck Altar's movement stopped immediately. Bing Sai Chuan, who was in charge of Calamity Luck Altar suddenly grasped his chest, he knelt down and started crying.
He blamed himself endlessly, sobbing: "It is all my fault, it is all my fault! I am wrong, I am to blame. If I was slightly stronger, I could have assisted master in defeating Heavenly Court and obtaining the eternal life research results. What is the point of my life? I have let down master. Sob sob sob... I should just die!"
Saying so, Bing Sai Chuan actually activated a killer move to kill himself!
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable sighed, he endured Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's attacks while summoning Calamity Luck Altar to his side.
Golden light flowed and entered Bing Sai Chuan's body and mind.
With Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's help, Bing Sai Chuan broke free from the guilty emotions.
His head was covered in cold sweat, he felt lingering fear: "If not for master, I would have killed myself! This is Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's method? Master has been enduring such terrifying emotional torture all along?"
As he thought of this, fear rose in Bing Sai Chuan's heart.
His face was pale as he slumped on the ground, his body shivering intensely.
He opened his mouth and breathed heavily, but still felt suffocation.
His heart was filled with fear, he was scaring himself to death!
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable took action and saved Bing Sai Chuan once again.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled. She got a hold of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's weakness, she also bullied him for not having an excellent method to revive his subordinates.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had to avoid colliding with her, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable opened her immortal aperture, letting out Qin Ding Ling and the other immortals.
These Gu Immortals were killed by Lu Wei Yin's group, but had revived shortly after in the immortal graveyard.
The moment these people exited Star Constellation's immortal aperture, they spread out and flew towards the truthful floating ice.
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Giant Sun Immortal Venerable coldly activated various methods and killed all these Heavenly Court members.
The two venerables held each other back, exchanging moves one after the other, not letting the other's subordinates enter the truthful floating ice.
The situation was at a deadlock once again. While the battle continued, a figure suddenly closed in on the truthful floating ice.
It was Shen Shang!
"Seeking death!" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable shouted, golden light shooting out of his eyes.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable also attacked Shen Shang at the same time.
Shen Shang shouted and quickly retreated, Paradise Earth and Lu Wei Yin used all their strength to protect him.
The two venerables' attacks broke past layers of defense and reached Shen Shang.
Shen Shang cried out, fainting immediately from the attacks. His injuries were so terrifying that he was only lingering on a single breath.
After fighting for so long, the two venerables were filled with anger, and also knew the limits of the strength they could use now. Shen Shang's attempt triggered the two venerables's nerves, he was immediately attacked by both venerables!
Shen Shang's miserable state caused the pseudo venerables to feel their hearts shaking.
The two venerables used action to tell them that if they wanted to fish for profits right under their eyes, this would be their outcome!
The situation continued to be at a deadlock. The two venerables held each other back, their attention focused on each other, letting the pseudo venerables watch from the sidelines.
And it was an extravagant wish for the pseudo venerables to try to charge into the truthful floating ice. Once they showed any movements, they would be attacked by both venerables.
After Shen Shang's attempt, Paradise Earth, Qi Jue, and others tried to grab onto opportunities during the fight between the venerables, but it was all in vain.
Lu Wei Yin was heavily injured, while Paradise Earth was lightly injured and was panting heavily.
Soon, Shen Shang woke up, his injuries were severe and were difficult to heal in a short period of time.
When Demon Immortal Qi Jue noticed something wrong, he immediately retreated and gave up on the chance. Thus, his condition was quite good.
As for Fang Yuan, he did not make many moves. He just observed the fight while saving his aperture.
He had finally resolved the black fire!
But he paid an astronomical price.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture, every large and small resource point was damaged. Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley were burned by black fire, they were in a ruined state.
Many Immortal Gu were also destroyed by the black fire, even more Gu Immortals died.
Sixty percent of the Gu Immortals were dead, including the old Combat Beast King.
Fang Yuan was almost back to his original state due to this tribulation, his foundation had fallen by seventy to eighty percent!
"Only twenty percent of my immortal essence is remaining." Fang Yuan inwardly calculated.
He had time path methods to accelerate the immortal essence production as well as the help of Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus, but his expenditure was too huge.
Let alone the immortal essence expenditure when constructing resource points and refining Immortal Gu, just the repeated large battles caused the immortal essence reserves to fall sharply. Fang Yuan's calculations were of no use, he had no room to save them.
Using just twenty percent of his immortal essence to face the two venerables who were in their optimum states was extremely dangerous.
Boom boom boom!
The two venerables attacked, the power of their killer moves continued to increase, surpassing the previous limit.
The Crazed Demon formation was continuing to operate, Limitless's chains emerged out of thin air and shot towards the two venerables.
The two venerables blocked Limitless' chains, while attacking even more fiercely!
At first, the two venerables were rather restrained. But as the stalemate continued, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable broke the limit and triggered Limitless' chains.
He defended against the chains while attacking Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, quickly gaining the upper hand.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was forced to raise the power of her killer move as well to deal with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. Like this, she also provoked the attacks of Limitless' chains.
The situation was gradually going out of control. The two venerables fought and competed fiercely with each other, gradually using stronger killer moves.
At first, there were only hundreds of chains, but soon, the number increased by several times as they mixed into the venerables' fight.
The pseudo venerables had to retreat again and again, almost forced to the edge of the ninth layer.
"The two venerables are really going all out!"
"No, more accurately speaking, they have no way to hold back. Even though they are aware that this is not optimal, they cannot do anything about it. The vicious competition has already started."
"What should we do? We won't be able to hold on for long if this continues!"
"So this is a venerable's true strength. Us pseudo venerables don't even have the qualifications to observe the battle closely."
These pseudo venerables conversed.
Paradise Earth looked at Fang Yuan: "Fang Yuan, do you have a good plan?"
Fang Yuan's face was pale, his aura was extremely weak. He smiled bitterly and shook his head.
However, a change occurred right at this moment.
The two venerables' killer moves collided and exploded, but the leftover power of the moves hit the truthful floating ice.
The truthful floating ice was heavily damaged. Crack, crack, countless cracks appeared on the floating ice.
The three eccentrics were also heavily injured, Pang Shan even died immediately!
"Floating ice, the floating ice!" Secret Schemer coughed blood, but was still shouting in worry. His face was twisted, there was not even a slight bearing of a wisdom path Gu Immortal.
"What are you doing? You idiots. These are the eternal life research results, we just need a person to continue activating practice Gu. But you are actually destroying it!!" Not Immortal hit his chest and stamped his foot, scolding and pointing at the two venerables. He had fallen into a hysterical frenzy.
The pseudo venerables' expressions looked unsightly, but the two venerables did not listen.
The damage to the eternal life research results shook their hearts.
But they could not stop.
By now, the battle had come to such a state that whoever stopped would be suppressed by the other side, they would suffer a huge loss.
The two venerables had equal strength. Once one side suffered a huge loss, it would influence victory and defeat.
The victory and defeat here was not just about eternal life research results, but also the overall situation of the five regions. Be it Giant Sun Immortal Venerable or Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, the winner would influence Longevity Heaven's and Heavenly Court's prestige, even determining who the five regions would come under!
Naturally, retreating might be an option too.
But if one retreated, the other side would quickly interfere and obtain the eternal life research results, they could just send someone to complete the final step and obtain the eternal life research results!
Thus, they could not retreat.
Although some of the eternal life research results were destroyed, the main part was still there.
But if they continued to fight like this without anyone willing to retreat, if they were unable to determine victory or defeat, the eternal life research results might really be completely destroyed.
The two venerables were naturally aware of this.
But they could not step back.
Even if everything was destroyed in the end and no one obtained it, it was still better than letting the enemy obtain it!
"Fang Yuan." Under such a situation, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable suddenly shouted, "Heavenly Court is our common enemy, lend me a hand, I will split the eternal life research results with you, just like Primordial Domain."
The immortals were astonished.
Not long ago, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had been trying to kill Fang Yuan. But now, he actually took the initiative to request for an alliance.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was actually so shameless?
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable reacted immediately, shouting: "Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court always had the intention of recruiting you, we had tried to recruit you in the past. Now that fate Gu is destroyed, why can't our sides join hands?"
All the immortals were astonished once again.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable acted like this, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable also did the same, did all venerables behave like this?
But soon, the immortals accepted this seemingly absurd fact.
A venerable's strength surpassed pseudo venerables, but Fang Yuan was different. Not long ago, the two venerables had joined hands to attack him, but he held onto his last breath!
Currently, the two venerables were in a stalemate. Fang Yuan had enough strength to participate, whichever side he joined, the other side would immediately fall into a disadvantageous position.
Just based on the current situation, a slight disadvantage might be enough to decide victory and defeat. Even if the venerables still had spare strength and safety nets, if they could recruit Fang Yuan to get rid of the other side's trump cards, there would be no loss.
Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Venerables, you both have good plans! It is not impossible to get my help. But can you pay the price?"
Fang Yuan had no fear!
His aura had fallen to rock-bottom, the tribulations had ruined his sovereign immortal aperture, but the situation was already different.
No venerable was foolish enough to find trouble with him, because it was not worth it.
Even if the two venerables joined hands again, Fang Yuan was not tied down by the black fire tribulation, he could hold on for some time. What's more, it was impossible for the two venerables to join hands anymore!
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable fell out with Fang Yuan, but he took the initiative to make up for it. It was because Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was strong, and Fang Yuan was weak.
The similar reason applied to the relationship between Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Fang Yuan. Despite Fang Yuan's and Heavenly Court's deep enmity, with the eternal life research results right in front, they could work together indeed.
Why not?
Fang Yuan was never a person who was blinded by emotions.
But the falling out between the two venerables could not be easily patched. They were extremely wary of each other. They would only work together if an even stronger force appeared, in which they believed it was more advantageous to do so!
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable smiled: "Fang Yuan, I can give you all of my Primordial Domain!"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable bid right after: "I can also give all of my Primordial Domain to you, we can also transact my wisdom path true inheritance and Genesis Lotus' wood path true inheritance. Not only you, Fang Yuan, this invitation goes to Paradise Earth, Lu Wei Yin, Shen Shang, Qi Jue, and everyone as well, my Heavenly Court's bearing is known to all. I am willing to swear in the name of Star Constellation..."
Crack crack.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had yet to finish speaking when everyone heard a crisp sound.
Secret Schemer and Not Immortal stared at the truthful floating ice with wide eyes.
Cracks spread and filled the truthful floating ice.
"Did that attack from earlier completely destroy this truthful floating ice?!" Not Immortal shouted while holding his head.
The immortals stared at the truthful floating ice.
If the truthful floating ice broke down completely, what would they be fighting for?
Bam.
At the next moment, a soft sound rang. The truthful floating ice completely broke down, the crystal fragments flew everywhere before gradually dissipating.
Only a human shaped ice was left in the middle.
The form and outline of this human shaped ice were very vague at first. But in just a few breaths of time, it became lifelike. And in another few breaths of time, it was filled with flesh and blood.
Finally, under the immortals' stupefied gaze, the human shaped ice turned into a Gu Immortal.
"Forever been the Dao-Seeking Crazed Demon,"
"Looking up towards life, death, and the universe."
"Through a million years of planning and accumulation,"
"On this day, Limitless achieves true eternal life!"
This immortal recited and slowly opened his eyes. His expression was plain, but it shocked Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, and Paradise Earth.
"Limitless?" Paradise Earth could not believe it.
"Limitless!" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable frowned tightly.
"Limitless Demon Venerable, how could you revive? This is impossible!" Star Constellation Immortal Venerable cried out involuntarily.
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The most shocked person was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
She had penetrated incredibly deeply into Crazed Demon Cave and Limitless' formation. Even after countless investigations, she did not notice that Limitless' revival method was in this Crazed Demon Cave.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had the same investigation results as her.
Precisely so, the two venerables fought so intensely earlier.
But the truth was in front of them, Limitless Demon Venerable had actually managed to revive.
"Don't tell me, when the final piece of truthful floating ice was successfully carved, Limitless Demon Venerable revived and attained eternal life in one step?" Fang Yuan was also shaken.
Fang Yuan could also sense acutely that the current Limitless Demon Venerable's aura far surpassed the other two venerables.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could feel this difference even more deeply.
Facing Limitless Demon Venerable, they seemed to be up against towering mountains and vast oceans.
"This is not in line with historical records, did Limitless Demon Venerable really surpass the venerables and attain eternal life?" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's eyes flickered with golden light.
"His current condition is extremely strange, his aura is so strong that even master cannot compare to him." Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was shocked and suspicious.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable looked at each other and moved at the same time, attacking Limitless Demon Venerable with fierce methods.
Limitless Demon Venerable smiled lightly, chains flew around in a spiral, easily resolving the methods of the two venerables.
The two venerables were shocked internally but their fighting spirit soared, they launched even stronger killer moves in response.
Limitless Demon Venerable only defended instead of attacking, even after a few rounds of barraging, they did not manage to harm a hair of Limitless Demon Venerable.
Limitless let out a soft sound as he waved his hands, at once, space rippled, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable retreated immediately.
Paradise Earth and Fang Yuan did not dare to linger either, they quickly dodged.
At once, around a thousand steps of Limitless Demon Venerable, other than Not Immortal and Secret Schemer, there was nobody else.
Giant Sun had a grim expression.
Star Constellation had a deep gaze that flickered with starlight, she seemed to be making deductions with her full strength.
Limitless Demon Venerable smiled: "I do not wish to be enemies with all of you. The fruit of eternal life has been obtained after a million years, but I have not truly tested it yet."
"How do you want to test it?" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable asked.
"Watch." Limitless Demon Venerable turned around slightly.
All the immortals stared fixedly.
At the original spot that Limitless Demon Venerable was in, a tiny hole appeared.
Through this hole, the Gu Immortals could see a vast sea of — Chaos!
It seemed like black, yet it was not black. It seemed like white, yet it was not white.
If one said it was light, it would be light. If one said it was darkness, it would be darkness.
Almost no descriptive word in the world could accurately describe it.
Because chaos was just chaos after all.
Chaos was the greatest calamity!
"You lunatic, you actually broke the world boundary again, aren't you afraid that the entire world will be destroyed?" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable called out.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable also added in with a solemn tone: "Limitless, I know about your aspiration. But if you intend to go ahead with this and destroy the five regions and two heavens, even if I have to sacrifice my life alongside Heavenly Court, we will exterminate you!"
"Both of you, calm down. The hole is not big, I merely want to test the result of this eternal life. Us venerables are invincible in the world, yet we are plagued by tribulations that originate from this chaos."
"Of the venerables here, who has not gotten injured from the chaos? Who has not suffered an ordeal because of it?"
"Crazed Demon Cave has been active for a million years, there is one most clear indicator if we want to know if the eternal life obtained is successful."
Saying this, Limitless Demon Venerable extended his arm into the hole.
The other venerables and the various Gu Immortals held their breaths subconsciously, staring at him fixedly.
Limitless Demon Venerable did not activate any killer move, he was using his own body to do this experiment.
He was simply too daring!
Even Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable would never attempt this.
Even though they could last for some time in the chaos, that was the result of them using their full strength to defend their bodies.
If they acted like Limitless Demon Venerable, who did not put up any defense, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable would be completely obliterated with just a slight touch of the chaos! Unless they managed to cut off the body part in time.
Limitless Demon Venerable placed his arm in simply like this, after a while, he pulled back his arm.
His arm was pitch-black, it seemed like charcoal created after a tree was completely burnt.
But when he clenched his arm, the 'black charcoal' on the surface instantly vanished into thin air, exposing a slightly smaller arm.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's mouth was wide open as he said dejectedly: "Is this... the true realm of eternal life?!"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable sigh to herself: "I understand why I did not deduce it now. When you created Crazed Demon Cave, you had constantly been making use of the chaos outside the world. You lunatic!"
Back then, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable nearly destroyed the world, the reason was that he created a huge hole.
And at the deepest part of Limitless' formation, he broke the world boundary and created a tiny hole.
If there was a commotion in the Crazed Demon formation and this tiny hole became larger, it would be trouble. The entire Gu world might be destroyed as a result.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable called Limitless a lunatic, she was not wrong at all.
For the last million years, the world had been on the brink of destruction. And the reason for this was Limitless Demon Venerable.
Limitless Demon Venerable looked at his arm and sighed softly, replying Star Constellation Immortal Venerable: "In my previous life, I had already reached the end of the road. Even when I asked the Heavenly Dao, there was no possibility of eternal life. I was pitifully restrained by fate Gu, after searching long and hard, through laborious planning, I designed this Crazed Demon Cave. I simply had no other choice but to use this method."
"But to play safe, I involved Heavenly Court in this."
"With you guys around, even if a problem occurred in the Crazed Demon formation and the hole got larger, you would do your best to fix it."
Hearing this, how could Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's expression possibly be amicable?
She realized now that the reason why Limitless Demon Venerable drew her into the gamble was not just because he needed her wisdom path attainment or Heavenly Court's strength to derive new heaven path research results. The deeper intention was to bring in Heavenly Court's involvement as an assurance.
If Crazed Demon Cave became a problem, Heavenly Court would have to clean up after Limitless Demon Venerable.
But because of Heavenly Court's perspective, they would spare no expense in repairing it, they would be willing to do so in fact!
"But..." Limitless Demon Venerable added: "This is still not at the level of eternal life. Don't you think so too, Paradise Earth?"
Paradise Earth nodded slowly and expressionlessly.
Fang Yuan had some sort of realization, the true realm of eternal life would be complete indestructibility against the chaos. Limitless Demon Venerable had clearly not reached that stage yet.
"Just a bit more, I am lacking by just a bit." Limitless Demon Venerable continued to shake his head, sighing deeply.
He turned his gaze towards Demon Immortal Qi Jue: "Qi Jue, Qi Jue, can you lend me a hand?"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue snorted coldly: "Why must I help you?"
Limitless Demon Venerable took out practice Gu, smiling: "This Immortal Gu was prepared for you to begin with, Qi Jue, for this moment, I have already waited for you for over a million years."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue laughed loudly until tears flowed out: "So my revival was really part of your schemes. Hahaha, too laughable, simply too laughable. This is so disappointing, so disappointing!"
He was not mocking Limitless Demon Venerable, he was laughing at himself.
He had always felt resentful and unresigned after losing to Limitless Demon Venerable. After revival, he had always wanted to take revenge.
But at this moment, he finally understood the huge gap between him and Limitless Demon Venerable.
Limitless Demon Venerable was quiet as he watched Demon Immortal Qi Jue cry and laugh, afterwards, he tossed practice Gu to the latter.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue had a complex expression at this moment.
He recalled the scene of the deepest memory he had.
"Limitless, you want to become a venerable, but did you ask me? With me around, you can dream on about becoming a venerable!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue sneak attacked Limitless Demon Venerable and succeeded.
Because he knew that once Limitless became a venerable, he would no longer have a chance of winning.
This battle lasted nine days and nights.
Thereafter, Demon Immortal Qi Jue lost.
His eyes were blood red as he called out to Limitless Demon Venerable: "You have passed the tribulation long ago and became a venerable already. Why did you seal your own cultivation level to fight to the death with me?"
Limitless Demon Venerable was bathed in blood, he had struggled at death's doors several times during the intense battle.
He smiled lightly: "Because you are my Dao Guardian, only when I am at the brink of death can I understand the true relationship between a venerable and their Dao Guardian. And the truth has been proven, my guess was not wrong after all. I have already comprehended the secret behind the Dao Guardian."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue stared with wide eyes: "To prove such a guess, you even disregarded your own life? Even though you had already become a venerable, even though you are already invincible in the world?!"
Limitless Demon Venerable replied plainly: "Even though I became a venerable, this is merely another cultivation level. Compared to this, I would prefer to pursue the Great Dao."
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"Limitless, oh Limitless. Even a million years cannot change your nature. You are still that Limitless I know!" Demon Immortal Qi Jue pointed at Demon Immortal Qi Jue and shouted.
Limitless Demon Venerable smiled: "Like how I am still Limitless, you are also still that Demon Immortal Qi Jue, right?"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue gritted his teeth, he seemed to have become too helpless to rage, he grabbed practice Gu and flew towards Limitless Demon Venerable: "You are right, I am still me. Then let's do it!"
Bright light flashed in Limitless Demon Venerable's eyes: "Good! You are my Dao Guardian, our destinies are intertwined, according to my deduction, only with the help of the Dao Guardian can a venerable go one step further, to break through the realm of venerable and attain eternal life!"
Demon Immortal Qi Jue gritted his teeth: "Then let me see what is true eternity!"
Saying so, he activated practice Gu.
The light of practice Gu enveloped Limitless Demon Venerable's entire body.
Limitless Demon Venerable's body expanded rapidly, he went from a normal person's size to a ten foot giant.
In contrast, Demon Immortal Qi Jue became weaker and weaker, his aura fell to rock bottom, he had no choice but to stop using practice Gu.
As for Limitless Demon Venerable's aura, it was completely concealed, no different from an ordinary mortal.
But anyone could tell that the current Limitless Demon Venerable had become powerful to a point which nobody could fathom. Because even against the investigative killer moves of the various immortals, he was no different than a common man.
The immortals could not see through him!
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, Paradise Earth, and the others did not move, they watched in anticipation.
Even if they wanted to stop him, it would be too difficult.
Limitless Demon Venerable took in a deep breath before stretching his arm into the hole of the world boundary again.
A moment later, he pulled back his arm, it was completely intact!
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