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Eastern Sea.
Fang Yuan lightly let out a breath of air.
"This time, I succeeded in deceiving her again."
Just earlier, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used her investigative killer move to check
on Fang Yuan.
Obscured heavenly secret activated again and helped him to conceal the truth.
Heaven path...
So it be if Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not understand heaven path. But even Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable was deceived time and again, she had once become one with
the Dao, she was able to influence and alter heaven's will.
"Even she was deceived by me, is it because of heaven path's profundity, or because her
revival had flaws in it, in terms of heaven path, she did not regain her former life's abilities?"
"Earlier, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's investigative method had unprecedented
power. It is very likely that she has already refined all of Heavenly Court's wisdom path dao
marks."
Fang Yuan was only making a guess, he did not use any investigative method now.
Looking into the sovereign immortal aperture.
Three earth path dao veins had been constructed already.
A wind path dao vein and a fire path dao vein were also almost completed too, he was just a
few more away from completing the first dao vein ring.
He had undergone countless Immortal Gu transactions in treasure yellow heaven to exchange
for resource points. There was also Fang clan's contribution that led to such huge progress.
Western Desert's fire path, earth path, and wind path dao marks were outstanding, these three
paths had the most resource points there.
Fang clan was forced into desperation, they had to cut their foundation to fight for survival.
The sovereign immortal aperture gained a lot, but even then, the entire immortal aperture was
still in a precarious situation.
Currently, Fang Yuan had already reduced the purchasing of earth path resource points, he
started to buy other paths' resource points.
According to his deductions, he had to establish the various paths' dao veins first and construct
the first ring. After that, there would be an immediate effect on the sovereign immortal aperture's
stability.
"The sovereign immortal aperture is unstable and strange situations are occurring frequently.
The Gu Immortals within the immortal aperture are already working at their limit. Even the six
mermaid immortals that came into the immortal aperture are not enough anymore."
During this period of time, many Gu Immortals had liver explosions.
Thankfully, Fang Yuan constructed a healing hall, otherwise, if these Gu Immortals had to
recuperate for a long time, the sovereign immortal aperture would fall apart instantly. In the end,
Fang Yuan would need to take action himself to suppress the turmoil.
"I need to bring in more manpower."
Venerables were undoubtedly invincible, but with the contest of three venerables, the situation
became rather complex.
According to the current situation, the main priority of the three venerables was to refine natural
dao marks.
But the world itself had a vast number of natural dao marks, it would take a long time for the
three venerables to refine them all.
Currently, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was making the fastest progress, but he was still
refining Northern Plains' dao marks.
The three venerables were not at the stage of having a decisive battle yet.
Because Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court were refined, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable
and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had their own firm base. Even if the other venerables
collaborated, they could not overwhelm the target at their base camp.
And without sufficient advantage, it was unwise to have a battle now.
The venerables would not do that.
Thus, for the following period of time, the venerables would need other Gu Immortals to help
them and work for them.
In this situation, normal Gu Immortals were very useful to the venerables.
This value displayed its worth during their deadlock.
Even if Fang Yuan was a refinement path venerable, being capable of easily refining most rank
eight and below Immortal Gu and also creating countless Immortal Gu Houses, this could not
replace the use of Gu Immortals.
The earlier discussion on Fang clan showed this clearly.
What decided the outcome were not the Immortal Gu Houses but Fang Gong and Wan Gu
Chou.
For Gu Immortal experts, once the mechanics of the Immortal Gu House were deciphered, they
would be easy to target and deal with.
Be it Fang clan's roof tile breaker or Zuo Qiu clan's state of disunity, they were counters to
Immortal Gu Houses.
Thus, the people were most important.
Gu are the essence of heaven and earth, man is the spirit of all living beings.
Having more Immortal Gu was a good thing, but the human element was on par with the Gu.
Fang Yuan needed a large number of Gu Immortal subordinates.
One one hand, in a deadlock of venerables, he needed enough henchman, it would lead to
greater convenience.
Especially when he was refining natural dao marks and could not leave.
On the other hand, Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture often needed a large number of
Gu Immortals to suppress the strange phenomena that occurred frequently.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable also needed Gu
Immortals.
On one hand, when the venerables were in a deadlock, they could settle matters for them. For
example, when Star Constellation Immortal Venerable refined Heavenly Court's dao marks, Jun
Shen Guang went to the two heavens to collect stars.
On the other hand, Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court were also trying to nurture their
second venerable.
After the destruction of fate, it was possible to create new venerables. As for Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, because of their conflicting dao
marks, they could not become the venerable of a second path themselves.
But how could they recruit Gu Immortals?
The most convenient source were the Gu Immortals of the five regions.
But this contained huge hidden threats.
On one hand, these Gu Immortals could be the spies of another venerable, the fact that Fang
Yuan brought in six mermaid immortals was already a huge risk in itself.
If he had to bring in Gu Immortals of the five regions, Fang Yuan was more inclined to bring in
variant humans.
After all, variant humans were on the opposite side of Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven.
Other than bringing in more Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan's other main method was immortal
ascension.
He could nurture Gu Immortals inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
But this had a merit and demerit.
The merit was that the Gu Immortal's loyalty was assured.
The demerit was that the time needed to nurture Gu Immortals was very long. And as the saying
went, water in the distance could not quench thirst.
But Fang Yuan had an advantage over the other venerables, his sovereign immortal aperture
did not conflict with time path, so changing the time flow was very easy. Right now, the
sovereign immortal aperture definitely had the fastest time flow among the venerables.
In terms of nurturing Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan already had many good choices.
He had specially revived some of the Gu Immortals that died in Crazed Demon Cave as
mortals.
But now that the two heavens were fusing, heaven's will was chaotic and Gu Immortals were
unable to get natural inspiration when they first ascend at this time.
This would not do!
Fang Yuan knew his own limitations. His wisdom path deductions could not match Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable, they were barely on par with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Thus, Fang Yuan had to make full use of natural inspiration.
If he missed these opportunities, his killer move deduction and modification would be far slower
than the other two venerables.
If he could not bring in Gu Immortals or nurture them himself, what could he do?
Fang Yuan quickly thought of human path.
Fang Yuan's clone was still trapped in Divine Emperor City, but through Shen Shang, he
transferred his human path cultivation results to Fang Yuan's main body.
Together with Fang Yuan's transaction with Shen Shang, he also gained a portion of the latter's
human path cultivation results.
Fang Yuan obtained the incomplete Immortal Gu recipes of beggar Gu and merchant Gu.
If he had the complete Immortal Gu recipes, Fang Yuan would be able to refine merchant
Immortal Gu and beggar Immortal Gu. After activating them, he would gain manpower, there
would be no threat of betrayal as well.
But Fang Yuan lacked human path attainment level, while human path Immortal Gu recipes
were hard to deduce.
Were there natural human path Immortal Gu in the wild?
According to Fang Yuan's estimation, the answer was no.
Such Immortal Gu recipes needed to be created by humans!
After deep consideration, Fang Yuan did not attempt to deduce the human path Immortal Gu
recipes, they would waste too much of his time and effort.
Thus, Fang Yuan held anticipation towards Central Continent's human path development as
well.
Ignoring other matters, just his soul path cultivation needed the support of human path.
Looking at refinement path, it was able to grow to such a prosperous state today because of
refinement path's own development and also because it supported all other paths in their
development.
Human Sea rippled as huge waves appeared.
After the rise and fall of tides, two fallen Gu Immortals remained on the beach.
"Where, where is this place?"
"I clearly died on the battlefield already..."
Fang Dong Xi and Fang An Lei were confused as they stood up.
This situation made them puzzled and shocked.
But soon, Fang Yuan's will descended and informed them of the situation.
"Lord Fang Yuan actually has such a shocking method to revive us!" Fang clan's two Gu
Immortals were filled with joy and excitement upon revival.
Right at this time, there was a giant wave in Human Sea.
The size of this wave was far bigger than the one carrying the Fang clan members.
As the huge wave crashed onto the beach, it receded rapidly.
A young looking Gu Immortal rode the waves and landed ashore.
He gave off rank eight aura, stunning the two Fang clan Gu Immortals.
They immediately recognized that this newly revived Gu Immortal was one of Fang Yuan's main
clones — Zhan Bu Du!
When bringing in Gu Immortals, nurturing Gu Immortals, and human path Immortal Gu were all
unfeasible at this moment, Fang Yuan chose to revive Gu Immortals.
Originally, the Gu Immortals only revived as mortals.
But now, they kept their cultivation level.
Fang clan's two immortals were rank seven while Zhan Bu Du was rank eight.
To achieve this, Human Sea expended itself at an unprecedented level, it could only revive
three more rank eight Gu Immortals at this rate.
Where there are gains, there are losses.
Following this, Fang Yuan would need to collect more human qi to replenish Human Sea.
But there was no rush in this.
The thing that needed replenishment the most was Refinement Sea.
At this point, Fang Yuan's Refinement Sea was almost dry already.
After the two Fang clan Gu Immortals left, Fang Yuan gave all the transformation path Immortal
Gu to Zhan Bu Du. This way, as long as he used the transformation path killer move, Zhan Bu
Du would gain pseudo venerable battle strength again.
Zhan Bu Du went to handle the strange phenomena while Fang Yuan's main body expended
heaven path immortal materials to replenish obscured heavenly secret.
After that, he secretly unsealed the truthful floating ice.
Right now, Fang Yuan's transformation path and rule path attainment levels rose.
But the greatest growth was still heaven path.
Fang Yuan could sense that his heaven path attainment level was reaching a point of qualitative
change.
Black and white heaven.
A huge transparent pillar slammed down and killed most of the soul beasts under it.
From the body of a desolate level soul beast, two Gu Immortals flew out.
One was a female immortal who had a graceful figure with hair that extended to her waist, she
was adorned in a beautiful purple robe. Her eyes were like deep pools, with a sense of sorrow
shrouding her face.
The other was a male immortal, he had an ordinary face, his eyes were dark and he emitted a
soul path aura.
They were Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie.
"What heaven path immortal material is this? When it fell, the soul beasts could not move or
dodge it at all." Ying Wu Xie asked curiously.
Fairy Zi Wei inspected it and explained: "This is a heavenly pillar. Each heavenly pillar is a rank
nine heaven path immortal material! Back then, Central Continent's Tian Ti Mountain could
connect to Heavenly Court because it had a heavenly pillar."
"We lost the concealment of soul beasts but gained a rank nine immortal material. Is this good
or bad luck?" Ying Wu Xie sighed.
"What's the point of sighing now, the urgent matter is to find Master Spectral Soul, your main
body!"
-x-X-x-
Western Desert, Fang clan's headquarters.
"Open!" Mo Sha Ta shouted.
The killer move was activated, the immortal formation ahead was forced open.
The inside was completely empty.
Not a shred of resources were left, it was completely barren.
"This again!" Many Gu Immortals were angry and frustrated.
"Emptied, they emptied this as well..." Some muttered to themselves with expressions of
dejectedness.
"Fang clan is so ruthless!" Some Gu Immortals' eyes were spewing fire, they gritted their teeth
angrily.
"Just Fang clan alone cannot have such manpower or methods, they must be backed by
Heaven Refining Demon Venerable!" Some of the Gu Immortals felt helpless.
This was Fang clan's final resource point.
Like the earlier resource points, nothing was left to the anti-Fang alliance.
The Gu Immortals discussed among themselves, it was a rowdy scene.
This was too different from their expectations!
Fang clan had not only emptied the resource points, they also left the immortal formations
behind. These immortal formations were created using natural dao marks and immortal
materials.
When the anti-Fang alliance tried to break the immortal formation, they had to spend immortal
essence as well.
They wasted a bunch of immortal essence and ended up with no gains.
Looking at these deep pits or desolate land, the anti-Fang alliance's members had grim
expressions.
Xiao Ye Hu did not even have the energy to get angry.
He was feeling regret.
"Had I known this, I would not have interfered in this stupid matter!"
Xiao Ye Hu's own injuries had not healed yet, and most importantly, his Immortal Gu House
Chamber Pot was ruined.
It was not that he had no gains, but the things he got could not make up for his losses.
Wan Gu Chou looked at this scene and sighed internally, she was also feeling quite helpless.
In her first life, she had not seen any super force with no bottom line like this, it was truly a new
experience now.
She led the anti-Fang alliance and attacked, along the route, they did not meet any Fang clan
Gu Immortal, even though they broke many immortal formations, there were no resource points
inside, many of the immortal formations were even tampered with, if they could not open it
properly, it would explode!
This was too devious!
Many Gu Immortals suffered injuries because of this.
Even Fang clan's headquarters had been relocated, it could not be found.
This was a public blessed land, but Fang clan actually had a method to relocate the immortal
aperture!
There was a saying on Earth, the monk can run away but the temple cannot, but now, Fang clan
directly brought the temple with them.
Even though Wan Gu Chou did not know this saying, her mood was just as horrible.
Even though they defeated Fang clan, Wan Gu Chou was not feeling happy at all, she was
instead filled with worries.
Fang clan vanished but they retained most of their battle strength.
Right now, it was Wan clan and the other super forces' turn to feel worried. It was possible that
Fang clan would attack one of their resource points one day, and the chance of defending it was
low!
Fang clan did not have resource points left, they did not need to have Gu Immortals stationed to
guard them. If they attacked all at once, they could turn their passive situation into an active
one.
Wan Gu Chou looked at the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
In this situation, Heavenly Court and Wan clan were on the same side, their benefits were tied
together.
And in fact, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had issued orders long ago to exterminate
the whole of Fang clan.
Thus, after Zhou Xiong Xin sensed Wan Gu Chou's gaze, he said without hesitation: "Fang
clan's actions are crippling their foundation, they have completely submitted to Heaven Refining
Demon Venerable. This means that Fang clan is the same as Fang Yuan, they are all demons,
they are threats to this world!"
"Don't say these things to us, what are we going to do now?" The other Western Desert Gu
Immortals did not want to hear his talk.
Zhou Xiong Xin smiled: "Our Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable predicted that this
would happen, she sent me here specially to find clues and information about Fang clan's
traces. Once we find something, the anti-Fang alliance will be able to go all-out and eradicate
Fang clan."
Wan Zi Hong, who was beside him, knew why Fang clan acted like this.
Some time ago, she had raised a suggestion to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable but the
plan to recruit Fang clan was rejected. At that point, Wan Zi Hong knew that Fang clan had no
way to surrender. Heavenly Court needed to intimidate everyone by showing a tough stance on
this matter, in this situation, even she would react the same.
The anti-Fang alliance was too dragged on and slow in its movements, it gave Fang clan and
Fang Yuan ample time to relocate their resources.
The best tactic of the anti-Fang alliance was to immediately attack Fang clan.
But they spent too much time discussing their internal affairs.
Negotiations took time after all, only after they finished distributing the supposed benefits did the
anti-Fang alliance move out.
But Wan Zi Hong understood them.
If they did not do this, the anti-Fang alliance would not be able to send Gu Immortals out or
come up with an appropriate tactic.
Risks and benefits were interlinked.
Only by confirming the benefit distribution would they be able to assign the clans to attack first
and which ones to stay at the back, the entire anti-Fang alliance would have motivation to do
this as well.
This alliance had been established for too short of a period, many of the Gu Immortals came
from super forces that were not willing to take anyone's lead, there was nobody who could have
sufficient authority or strength to take charge.
Without temptation, this anti-Fang alliance would not have even been able to form.
Like earlier, Wan clan had to pay out of their own pockets to lure the various super forces to
send people and organize the anti-Fang alliance. After Wan Gu Chou was exposed, they used
Fang clan's assets to tempt them.
Without any clear distribution of benefits, the anti-Fang alliance could not send anyone.
If battle broke out and Fang clan retaliated forcefully, the Gu Immortals would immediately
retreat and protect themselves, without clear benefits, nobody would take any risk.
But Fang clan was forced into a corner, they were united at this moment.
In this situation, Fang clan was like a clenched fist while the anti-Fang alliance was like a pile of
loose sand, it was likely that they would fail.
Thus, the process of negotiating benefits was a necessity.
"But my strength alone is not enough. Everyone, you should know about the threat that Fang
clan poses, we need to get rid of these demonic path scoundrels as soon as possible, I would
like you to send information path Gu Immortals to assist in pursuing them." Zhou Xiong Xin said.
"Fang clan is in the demonic path, they are no longer a righteous path super force, it is
everyone's duty to eradicate them!" Western Desert's Gu Immortals nodded.
"But we returned with no gains from this, Wan clan and Heavenly Court have to give us a proper
answer!"
"Indeed, indeed, in this situation, we can't leave empty handed, right?"
"If we leave without any gains, we will be too disappointed in you, Wan clan. If Fang clan attacks
again, how can anyone come to support the anti-Fang alliance?"
The Gu Immortals went into a commotion again.
Wan Gu Chou felt a huge headache!
She thought about it and secretly transmitted to Xiao Ye Hu.
"Friend from Xiao clan, don't be anxious, my Wan clan will guarantee your benefits first."
"Accordingly, the first ancestor of Fang clan was the sole Gu Immortal in their clan. Back then,
Fang clan occupied moving rock crevice and was the smallest super force in Western Desert.
"When the sand calamity appeared, Fang clan's first ancestor was faced with a choice. He could
have created an immortal formation and sacrificed some Fang clan mortals to block the sand
calamity. But he chose to protect Fang clan's people and left, giving up moving rock crevice in
the process. Such an extreme nature is truly rare, but it is not hard to understand why he did
that."
"Friend, you have captured many Fang clansmen, even though they are just from branch
families, we can still make use of Fang clan's nature."
Xiao clan was the strongest super force besides Wan clan, Wan Gu Chou had to pacify them
first.
Strength was the most important thing in a negotiation.
After getting Wan Gu Chou's assurance, Xiao Ye Hu's expression eased up and he stopped
creating a scene.
Wan Gu Chou's words could be trusted, this was the attitude of the righteous path after all.
Furthermore, even if Wan Gu Chou disregarded her reputation and refused to pay, what could
Xiao Ye Hu do?
"Sell! I will sell these Fang clansmen as slaves to humiliate Fang clan! We can also tamper with
these people and use them to find out the location of Fang clan's immortals."
Xiao Ye Hu gritted his teeth and firmed up his mind.
A moment later, in treasure yellow heaven.
"Where, where is this?" Wang Xiao Er gasped.
The surrounding people were screaming in fear too, there was a loud commotion around them.
These people were floating in treasure yellow heaven, a formless force was restrained them,
keeping them in place together.
Thus, Wang Xiao Er felt horrible, he was not stepping on ground and he was surrounded by
people, they were all squeezing around him.
"We were sold!"
"This is the legendary treasure yellow heaven."
Some knowledgeable Gu Masters explained the truth.
Fang clan's members had pale expressions.
This was the consequence of losing!
"Fang clan's Gu Immortals, listen to this. You have betrayed the righteous path and fallen into
the demonic path, you are the shame of Western Desert's righteous path. Even if you ran away,
you will still face our judgment!"
"These people are all members of Fang clan. They are innocent, but because of you, they are
now slaves, this is all your fault."
Xiao Ye Hu's will entered treasure yellow heaven and spread the news, trying to humiliate Fang
clan.
Such words made the Fang clansmen cry out in deeper anguish.
"Will anyone save us!"
"Lord ancestors, we are here."
"Why are you crying? Don't be a disgrace to Fang clan."
The best situation for them was to be bought by Fang clan's Gu Immortals.
Wang Xiao Er was among them, he shouted alongside the rest.
He was feeling very uneasy now.
He was treated as a Fang clan member because the situation was too chaotic earlier. Fang
clan's members did not know that an external Gu Master was mixed among them.
Different from the rest, Wang Xiao Er did not want to be bought by Fang clan Gu Immortals.
Because the Fang clan Gu Immortals knew he was an outsider, not long ago, Fang Dong Xi had
not just interrogated him roughly, he even used all sorts of vicious methods to torture Wang Xiao
Er before healing him.
"Chaotic times are starting, Fang clan is a super force but it has actually gotten into this state."
"They courted death!"
"Fang clan definitely did not want to kill Wan clan's first supreme elder, they held back. In my
opinion, Wan clan's first supreme elder was too useless, he actually died so easily."
"Right now, Wan clan is different. With Wan Gu Chou's revival, they will rise up to power again
with such a legendary expert."
"Cooperating with Fang Yuan will give us Immortal Gu transactions. But working with Heavenly
Court will allow us to revive Gu Immortals. They are both quite attractive!"
Fang clan's members were now slaves, this was a warning to many Gu Immortals.
The five regions chaotic war had not started, but the super forces had already started to
destabilize.
At once, all of them felt varying emotions, Fang clan's predicament was also their concern for
the future.
"How are you selling these human slaves?" Some people put up bids.
Human slaves were getting rarer and rarer, for the last hundred years, there were no such large
scale human slave trade activities.
After all, capturing human enemies and selling them as slaves was an undeniable demonic act.
But right now, these Fang clan members had lost the battle, there was a proper excuse to sell
them.
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Among the Gu Immortals who came to purchase Fang clan slaves, there might be Fang clan Gu
Immortals, but treasure yellow heaven would not decipher them.
Xiao Ye Hu did not care.
He quoted his price expressionlessly, it was a normal price that was neither too low nor high.
Immediately, several transactions were completed.
"With this batch of Fang clan members, I have made up for the final gap, I can try to refine
wealth Gu now." Shi Kang was very happy.
"Please don't let me get sold to Fang clan Gu Immortals!" Wang Xiao Er prayed in his heart.
"I'll take this batch, they seem to be of decent quality." The Gu Immortal spoke to Xiao Ye Hu
and chose a batch.
Even among human slaves, quality differed.
Among which, rank five Gu Masters were the most popular, following that were the young and
talented Gu Masters.
At once, crying sounds could be heard.
The Fang clan members were sold off, their families were broken up for good, they bid farewell
to each other here for the last time, it was a sad sight to see.
Here, the Fang clan members' lives would be greatly changed, the future was bound to be very
different from now.
The pitiful Fang clan members would be sold to Shi Kang as Gu materials and used till they
died.
Some of the luckier ones would be specially chosen as Gu Immortal seeds to join certain sects
or clans. If they succeed in becoming Gu Immortals in the future, it would be a huge profit for
the buyer.
Of course, there were few who were regarded as Gu Immortal seeds.
"Fang clan lost but they are not out yet. It seems that this contest will still go on." In the two
heavens, Fairy Zi Wei retracted her divine sense from treasure yellow heaven.
She had been paying close attention to the trend of the world recently.
Currently, she had already been in the two heavens with Ying Wu Xie for a few days.
During this period of time, they had a tough journey filled with difficulties and danger.
The immemorial two heavens were dangerous to begin with, ordinary rank eight Gu Immortals
had to be very careful when they explored.
Now that the two heavens had fused, the environment was chaotic and messy, it was filled with
changes. The five regions had already been implicated, while the fused two heavens itself was
even more intense.
From time to time, roaming immemorial desolate beasts would appear, there could even be
huge armies made of desolate beasts, ancient desolate beasts, and even immemorial desolate
beasts.
It was still relatively safer to meet wild beasts, the scariest thing was getting into a place with
dense dao marks, because the two heavens had shattered and fused together, many dangerous
and forbidden places were shifting around now.
If one got trapped, they would be like a mortal stepping into a quicksand in the desert, they
could only wait for death in despair.
Even an expert like Fairy Zi Wei would encounter danger.
"Ying Wu Xie, just how far away are we?" Fairy Zi Wei asked.
Currently, they were hiding within a soul beast army.
This soul beast army had many ancient soul beasts, Ying Wu Xie took control of it.
Ying Wu Xie replied: "From what I sense, we still need three days to reach the main body.
During this period, if he moves, the timing could be extended or shortened."
Ying Wu Xie used a soul path killer move and managed to sense the location of his main body.
But Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's speed was far beyond them.
Thankfully, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable had lost his senses, he did not use defensive
methods against investigations, he was also roaming around causing destruction, he did not
avoid them.
Thus, during this time, Ying Wu Xie and Fairy Zi Wei managed to get closer to Spectral Soul
Demon Venerable.
Howl!
The soul beast that was moving ahead suddenly stopped, it cried out in pain like it had slammed
into an invisible wall.
"What's going on?" Fairy Zi Wei instantly became alert.
"Be careful, all of you, stop!" Ying Wu Xie also controlled his soul beast army and stopped,
floating in the air.
In the past few days, they had used the soul beasts to probe many dangerous areas.
The cost was thirty percent of the soul beasts they controlled.
"This is... heavenly chasm?" Fairy Zi Wei checked and gasped in surprise.
Heavenly chasm was a rank nine heaven path immortal material, it had an irregular form but
was incredibly big. It was formless and ethereal, although it seemed like empty air, it could not
be passed through.
"We are so unlucky, to think that we would be obstructed by this!" Ying Wu Xie was
disappointed.
The heavenly chasm was not dangerous but it was a huge problem for them.
Because they needed to get past the heavenly chasm, but they could not find out what its exact
shape or distribution was.
Both Fairy Zi Wei's and Ying Wu Xie's investigative methods had a smaller range than the size
of the entire heavenly chasm.
In other words, they could only test their luck by choosing one direction and trying to get around
it from there.
It was inestimable how much time they would need to use up now.
But there was no helping it, Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie could only make a detour.
After moving for a long distance, the heavenly chasm remained in front of them, it was like a
huge wall that blocked their every path.
Suddenly, a sound was transmitted into Ying Wu Xie and Fairy Zi Wei's ears.
Initially, they did not mind it, they thought that it was a normal wind sound.
But soon, it got louder and more delightful.
When the two immortals were attracted by the sound, their actions unconsciously slowed down.
After more than ten breaths of time, the entire soul beast army had stopped in the air, they were
completely entranced by the beautiful sound.
This sound did not contain any instrumental component, it purely composed of wind, rain,
thunder, bird chirping sounds and so on. However, the outcome was a beautiful melody that
made Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie addicted to it.
"Oh no, this is the heavenly melody!" Fairy Zi Wei was internally shaken, she wanted to warn
Ying Wu Xie but she only gasped out loud, her body completely relaxed as she fell into deep
entrancement.
Ying Wu Xie had lower cultivation level than her, he was much more immersed in it, he was
already showing an expression of indulgence, he could not save himself.
Fairy Zi Wei's heart was sinking.
She knew that this was a truly desperate situation.
If this went on, she and Ying Wu Xie, along with the soul beasts, would be completely immersed
in the heavenly melody, they would eventually lose their senses and become floating corpses.
Fairy Zi Wei wanted to save herself but after several attempts, she could not even activate any
Gu worm, not to mention killer moves.
If she had reacted in time and did her best to stop it, there might be a chance of survival.
But she had been listening to the heavenly melody for too long, she was like a human struggling
after falling into the water, her strength was depleting as she drank more and more water.
"Am I... going to die here?" Fairy Zi Wei felt her eyelids getting heavier, her vision was turning
blur, she could not help but feel like shutting her eyes and enjoying the beautiful melody with her
full attention.
This might be the most enjoyable way to die.
As Fairy Zi Wei approached death, her mind was filled with indulgent and wonderful emotions.
If she died, she would not feel any sadness, despair, pain, or other negative emotions.
But right when Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie were about to die, the heavenly melody started
weakening.
A Gu Immortal was flying closer to them from afar.
He wore a red and white robe, standing straight like a spear or sword. His eyebrows were sharp
like swords, a mysterious and profound light was hidden in his eyes.
He revealed a faint smile from the corner of his lips, he gave off the aura of gentleness and
confidence.
It was the current rank eight sound path great expert — Feng Jiu Ge!
"What a beautiful heavenly melody." Feng Jiu Ge laughed brightly as he looked at the soul beast
army and the two incapacitated immortals, Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie.
The heavenly melody that almost killed the two Shadow Sect members did not manage to affect
Feng Jiu Ge, in fact, he used a mysterious method to contain and collect it.
"Feng Jiu Ge?!" As Fairy Zi Wei slowly recovered, she looked at the Gu Immortal in front of her
with shock.
Ever since the fate war, Feng Jiu Ge went missing without a trace. Had he been in the two
heavens all along?
Since he was able to take the rank nine immortal material heavenly melody, did this mean that
his strength had grown again? Did he retain his pseudo venerable battle strength?
It was a mystery.
As Feng Jiu Ge collected and stored the heavenly melody, he activated a killer move.
Two lumps of profound light shot into Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie, wrapping around them and
slowly entering their bodies.
Because of the heavenly melody, Fairy Zi Wei still could not move, Feng Jiu Ge was free to do
this without resistance.
"What... what killer move is this? What are you trying to do?" Fairy Zi Wei slowly regained her
ability to speak.
Feng Jiu Ge replied: "Don't worry, I'm not seeking to harm you. After the fate war, haven't our
circumstances become quite similar now?"
Feng Jiu Ge said this as he turned to leave.
Fairy Zi Wei could not catch up, she watched as he flew away casually.
"What, what happened?" Ying Wu Xie recovered and watched Feng Jiu Ge's figure fly far away
in the sky.
"We were hit by the heavenly melody and fell into grave danger. But Feng Jiu Ge suddenly
appeared and collected the heavenly melody, he also used a mysterious method on us." Fairy Zi
Wei explained the situation quickly.
Ying Wu Xie stared with wide eyes: "What... Feng Jiu Ge didn't kill us?"
"He is also a demonic path member, he has betrayed Heavenly Court, what is the point of killing
us?" Fairy Zi Wei sighed: "If he wanted us to die, he could have waited by the side, he would
gain our corpses, immortal apertures, and Immortal Gu. His motive was to get the heavenly
melody, other than that, he also wanted to use that move on us."
The two used their methods and inspected their bodies, but could not find anything strange or
peculiar.
It was as if Feng Jiu Ge's killer move was just an illusion that had not actually been used.
"Regardless of whether he has pseudo venerable battle strength, his methods are becoming
more profound!" Fairy Zi Wei sighed.
"What killer move is this?" Ying Wu Xie frowned: "Is he trying to use us as bait to harm the main
body?"
Fairy Zi Wei shook her head: "We have too few clues, but according to my intuition, Feng Jiu Ge
does not seem interested in Master Spectral Soul. Also, even if your guess is correct, are we
going to stop here?"
Ying Wu Xie considered it and gritted his teeth while nodding: "Of course we have to continue
moving. Even if Feng Jiu Ge wants to harm the main body, he is only rank eight, how can he
harm my main body?"
The two immortals set off again.
Because of the heavenly melody, half of the beast group was wiped out.
Since they were near the heavenly chasm, the army could not be replenished.
This time, to guard against the heavenly melody, the soul beasts were widely spread out, they
were far from each other.
"The main body, I can sense the main body!" Not long after, Ying Wu Xie suddenly shouted.
Following his sensation, the two immortals changed directions and saw Spectral Soul Demon
Venerable after a few minutes.
"So the main body was on the other side of the heavenly chasm, but because of this rank nine
immortal material's interference, I thought that he was far away!" Ying Wu Xie suddenly realized.
He shouted: "I am here!"
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable saw Ying Wu Xie and immediately roared.
Boom boom boom!
With a chain of sounds, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable landed several hundred fists on the
heavenly chasm.
The heavenly chasm shook intensely, it was on the brink of breaking.
Ying Wu Xie and Fairy Zi Wei turned pale, why did Spectral Soul Demon Venerable turn so
ferocious after seeing Ying Wu Xie? It was as if they were mortal enemies.
What in the world was going on?
-x-X-x-
Qin Ding Ling and Jun Shen Guang flew carefully in the two heavens.
"This Old Immortal Hua Yu is really crafty! He actually wants us to convince Flickering Light
grotto-heaven first." Jun Shen Guang said begrudgingly.
After the two of them received the mission to make Old Immortal Hua Yu change sides, they got
close to Profound Literature grotto-heaven and lurked there.
While Old Immortal Hua Yu was chasing away beast groups outside, they secretly met with him.
"Do you think Old Immortal Hua Yu is purposely wasting our time now, after we convince
Flickering Light grotto-heaven to join us, he will already have his trap prepared?" Jun Shen
Guang asked.
Qin Ding Ling sighed: "This is unlikely. Old Immortal Hua Yu has been hesitating for a long time,
but the reason why he is staying on the fence and being ambiguous is because he is afraid that
Fang Yuan will try to kill him if he betrays him!"
"In this situation, he wants the attention on him to be smaller, thus, he wants to see more
grotto-heavens betraying Fang Yuan, in that case, Profound Literature grotto-heaven will not be
as big of a target."
"But the situation that you mentioned cannot be ruled out as well."
Jun Shen Guang asked: "Then what should we do? Flickering Light grotto-heaven is led by Gu
Immortal Liang Jing Jing, but different from Old Immortal Hua Yu, we do not know much about
her, we cannot be sure of her true intentions."
Qin Ding Ling pondered for a while and said: "Even if we don't, I'm sure Old Immortal Hua Yu
already has some leads. Otherwise, he would not have chosen this grotto-heaven specially for
us."
"Maybe it is time to use that move."
Qin Ding Ling started to fly slower as her expression became resolute, it was clear that she had
made up her mind.
Jun Shen Guang showed a look of confusion.
Qin Ding Ling said: "Flickering Light grotto-heaven is not far away, but before taking the risk, I
want to use my luck path method to make some arrangements."
Jun Shen Guang asked worriedly: "Is the cost of this move too high?"
Qin Ding Ling shook her head: "Although it will consume some of my luck path dao marks, for
the sake of Heavenly Court, this is a small cost. The reason why I hesitated was because this
move has a huge drawback. It is the same as using my future good luck in advance, it may have
the effect of helping our enemies."
"So that's it." Jun Shen Guang nodded.
Qin Ding Ling continued to speak: "But thinking about it, it is very important for us to recruit Old
Immortal Hua Yu. With the contest of three venerables, for a long time in the future, this balance
will continue to hold."
"Western Desert's Fang clan has already been driven out of their territory, if Old Immortal Hua
Yu and the others betray Fang Yuan, then Heaven Refining Demon Venerable's reputation will
become the lowest of the three. Regardless of whether Fang Yuan goes to kill Old Immortal Hua
Yu, he will still face losses."
"For us rank eight Gu Immortals to be able to influence the situation of the three venerables,
isn't it normal that the price to pay is huge?"
Jun Shen Guang was convinced by her: "That's true! Lady Qin Ding Ling, go ahead and use it, I
will guard you."
Not long after, Qin Ding Ling finished her preparation and used the killer move.
However, this killer move took a whole hour before it ended.
Qin Ding Ling was pale and covered in sweat, her expression was quite strange.
"Did something happen?" Jun Shen Guang sensed that something was wrong long ago, he
quickly asked.
Qin Ding Ling did not conceal the matter, she answered: "When I used this killer move, there
was a mystical change like the entire world was responding to me. This killer move normally
takes ten or so breaths to activate, but in that situation earlier, with the help of heaven and
earth, I persevered and continued to use it. In the end, the move's activation took one hour."
Jun Shen Guang frowned: "I've heard about the secret behind the power of a Dao Lord. After a
venerable refines natural dao marks, every move they make will be amplified by the dao marks,
which is the resonance of heaven and earth. Lady Qin Ding Ling, why did that happen to you?"
Qin Ding Ling shook her head: "I can't comprehend it either, but that is not a problem. On this
expedition to Flickering Light grotto-heaven, we will definitely receive huge help. Let's go."
"Mmm."
The two Heavenly Court immortals continued on their way.
On the other side.
Boom!
With a loud rumbling sound, the heavenly chasm was unable to take any more hits, the weakest
segment was pierced by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's arm.
The two sides were connected at once.
Fairy Zi Wei's and Ying Wu Xie's pupils shrunk rapidly, in an instant, they sensed an
unparalleled killing intent surging from Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's body to the
surroundings.
His killing intent was so intense that even Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie felt that they were
mortals about to be engulfed by a tsunami.
Helplessness, despair, fear, panic, these emotions appeared naturally in them as they spread
rapidly.
"Quickly go!" Fairy Zi Wei was a wisdom path great expert after all, she quickly reacted and
used her killer move.
With her help, Ying Wu Xie regained his senses too.
Boom boom boom.
More and more arms pierced the heavenly chasm as they extended towards the two.
The rank nine heavenly chasm could trap Fairy Zi Wei or Ying Wu Xie, but it was only a small
hurdle for the senseless Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie quickly retreated.
But suddenly, a black arm increased in speed and grabbed onto Ying Wu Xie.
At the moment of life and death, Ying Wu Xie activated his method.
Immortal killer move — Change Soul Technique!
At the next moment, he swapped position with a soul beast. This ancient soul beast took his
place and got captured by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. Meanwhile, Ying Wu Xie appeared
far away and quickly escaped for his life.
During this period of time, Ying Wu Xie practiced hard and created his killer move, change soul
technique.
Compared to Fang Yuan's switch soul in dream, this change soul technique had its own merits
and demerits.
Ying Wu Xie managed to escape.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable growled angrily and squeezed with his huge claw as the
ancient soul beast was ground into powder, its ancient soul core was absorbed by Spectral Soul
Demon Venerable instantly.
More and more huge claws slashed through the heavenly chasm and surrounded him.
Nearly ten hands opened up, an intense suction force appeared from the centers of the palms.
Ying Wu Xie's soul beast group had no resistance at all, they were all absorbed.
As the claws contracted, they did not squeeze the soul beasts this time, instead, they were
molded.
Be it desolate beast or ancient desolate beast, the soul beasts cried out in agony. After several
breaths of time, the huge claws opened up as these soul beasts were released.
Not only did the size of the strength group change, their strength also rose dramatically, there
were actually three immemorial soul beasts among them.
These soul beasts were completely loyal to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, they screeched as
they attacked Ying Wu Xie.
Ying Wu Xie spat out blood, he felt incredibly stunned.
The method that he used to enslave the soul beasts had been completely erased by Spectral
Soul Demon Venerable, he suffered a backlash as a result.
Fairy Zi Wei brought Ying Wu Xie along with her as they quickly retreated.
As purple smoke started to rise, these soul beasts were temporarily trapped, they could only
move around in the smoke.
After flying for some time, they two immortals heard a loud sound as the surrounding hundred li
started to shake.
The heavenly chasm was broken through by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!
The two immortals turned pale as they did their best to flee.
But Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was incredibly fast, not long after, he reached them.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's left head roared loudly.
The silhouette of Dang Hun Mountain appeared immediately as it slammed towards the two
immortals.
They could not avoid it.
Immortal killer move — Purple Will Production!
At the crucial moment, Fairy Zi Wei used a killer move as her body shook, turning into purple
smoke that carried Ying Wu Xie as they vanished on the spot.
After a few breaths of time, purple smoke was produced out of nowhere several tens of li away.
The purple smoke turned back into Fairy Zi Wei while Ying Wu Xie fell out from it.
Thankfully, when they encountered the heavenly melody and after Feng Jiu Ge left, Fairy Zi Wei
used her method at every set interval of distance traveled.
This method was originally meant to defend against the heavenly melody. But to think that she
would have to use it to avoid Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
After using it, the two immortals managed to survive.
But danger was far from over, the two immortals were still in a perilous situation.
"Bring me along and leave. After using this move, there is a huge drawback, I need to
exterminate the large amount of purple will in my mind before I can use it again." Fairy Zi Wei
said in an urgent tone.
Ying Wu Xie quickly used his soul path method as he flew away with Fairy Zi Wei.
After the two immortals escaped for some time, Ying Wu Xie was shocked to find that his speed
was getting slower, any soul path killer move that he used had increasing expenditure.
"I have been struck!"
"It happened when the main body caught me earlier."
"What move is this?"
"It seems to counter all soul path killer moves!"
Ying Wu Xie was soon rendered useless.
Fairy Zi Wei had no choice but to take over and escape with Ying Wu Xie.
As Spectral Soul Demon Venerable approached, Fairy Zi Wei had no choice but to use purple
will production again to stall for time desperately.
"Let's split up!" Ying Wu Xie gritted his teeth and suggested.
Fairy Zi Wei shook her head, she rejected him without hestiation.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable wanted to kill Ying Wu Xie now. If they split up, Fairy Zi Wei
would survive but Ying Wu Xie would definitely not be spared.
Fairy Zi Wei was affected by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's method and became absolutely
loyal to him. Currently, because Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was not in the right state of
mind, her loyalty went to Spectral Soul's split soul.
She would do anything to protect Ying Wu Xie, even if it cost her life.
But right at this time, three rank eight Gu Immortals appeared before Fairy Zi Wei.
The left one had a round head and large ears, he wore a loose robe and had an intense qi path
aura, he was Heavenly Court's Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch.
The right one wore a golden hoop on his head, it was Golden Hooped Great Immortal.
The Gu Immortal in the center looked kind and merciful, his eyebrows were very long, reaching
his chest, it was one of the three dukes, Duke Mei!
"Fairy Zi Wei is here after all!"
"Oh, Ying Wu Xie is here too."
Duke Mei, Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch, and Golden Hooped Great Immortal were here
on Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's orders to capture Fairy Zi Wei.
Fairy Zi Wei's immortal aperture was with Heavenly Court, with such an obvious lead, after Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable personally made deductions, the three immortals managed to
find her.
Fairy Zi Wei and Ying Wu Xie's expressions changed.
They were facing danger from both directions.
This was a desperate predicament!
"What do we do?" Ying Wu Xie turned pale.
Fairy Zi Wei frowned deeply, at the moment of crisis, she shouted loudly: "Feng Jiu Ge, I know
you are nearby. If you lend us a hand now, we will repay you tenfold in the future!
"Feng Jiu Ge... that Heavenly Court traitor?" Golden Hooped Great Immortal frowned.
Seven Fiendish Primeval Monarch snorted coldly: "Good, we will take care of him too."
Duke Mei was about to speak but his brows suddenly rose as his long eyebrows shook
intensely: "Oh no, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable is here!"
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's mountain-like body appeared in everyone's vision.