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"Do what you want."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's words almost froze the atmosphere between the two venerables.
Fang Yuan could not help but laugh in ridicule: "Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, you are truly the Immortal King of Heavenly Court, this is truly the number one super force, the leader of humanity — Heavenly Court!"
His eyes narrowed as his expression turned solemn: "This is not normal, even if it was just for my mere clone, even if this is Qi Sea... Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, what is your true intention?!"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not speak, her figure flashed like starlight and disappeared from the entrance.
Fang Yuan's expression was dark and his eyes shone coldly as some anxiety showed itself on his face.
Fang Yuan turned around and flew down from spectral heaven, arriving in Central Continent and entering the battlefield.
He was trying to take the Heavenly Court members as captives but these Gu Immortals had already suicided.
They could revive in Heavenly Court's immortal graveyard.
With the destruction of fate Gu, there was a huge potential in the method of suicide and revival.
Heavenly Court had complete methods. On one hand, the Gu Immortals had phantom apertures, when they died, the phantom apertures returned, their losses were minimized. On the other hand, when the Gu Immortals suicided, their Immortal Gu could be transferred through treasure yellow heaven.
Now, this had already become a mature and excellent battle tactic of Heavenly Court.
Under the same cultivation level, stopping a Gu Immortal from escaping was extremely difficult. At the very least, one needed immortal formations or immortal battlefield killer moves to trap the target.
To prevent a Gu Immortal from suiciding was much more difficult than stopping them from escaping.
What could they do about if the other wanted to die?
But, with Zhan Bu Du and Wu Shuai pinning them down, some Gu Immortals were still stuck in the battle.
Fang Yuan's main body descended, bringing complete despair to these Central Continent Gu Immortals. He directly waved his sleeve and suppressed all of these Gu Immortals.
He did not kill them and only took them as captives.
He captured over ten Central Continent Gu Immortals but there was not even one member of Heavenly Court; naturally, these captives included Li Xiao Bai.
Heavenly Court and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not show any movement, Fang Yuan's expression became increasingly unsightly.
He thought for a bit and flew towards Fei He Mountain.
Central Continent's Fei He Mountain was the base of Immortal Crane Sect, this mountain was not only a super resource point, the public blessed land of Immortal Crane Sect was also located on it.
Fang Yuan was currently at the center of the star array calculation formation and the nearest super force was Immortal Crane Sect.
But when he arrived at the location of Fei He Mountain, this floating mountain range had disappeared.
Fang Yuan's expression turned darker, he then moved northwest towards Myriad Dragon Dock.
Myriad Dragon Dock was the same as Immortal Crane Sect, both belonged to the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent. Myriad Dragon Dock's headquarters blessed land was on the island at the heart of dragon lake.
Fang Yuan arrived here, dragon lake and the central island were still around but the public blessed land was empty.
Fang Yuan went to Heavenly Lotus Sect, Spirit Butterfly Valley, Ancient Soul Sect, Heaven's Envy Manor, Wind Cloud Manor, Combat Immortal Sect, Spirit Affinity House, and Black Heaven Temple, but all their headquarters were empty.
Clearly, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had already planned to give up on Central Continent and had made sufficient preparations to bring away the sect members.
Heavenly Court.
Within Qi Sea Ancestor's mind.
Qi Sea Ancestor could not move, his thoughts were also being suppressed by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's method.
But Qi Sea Ancestor put up his final resistance with the remaining will in his mind: "Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, you are really a good schemer."
During this period of imprisonment, Qi Sea Ancestor already understood the situation.
Lin Jian Xing's sword qi killer move was extremely effective on him; first, it was because the sword qi was concealed and also had qi path dao marks, Qi Sea Ancestor was not able to detect it with the vast qi currents surrounding him at that time.
But analyzing the situation deeper, Qi Sea Ancestor was certain that the main culprit ware the sword path dao marks!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable sensed Qi Sea Ancestor's thoughts and said: "You are not wrong, Lin Jian Xing is different from others, he is an otherworldly demon and in history, otherworldly demons carry otherworldly dao marks."
"Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable had otherworldly space path dao marks so his Thieving Heaven's true inheritance space could block the future venerables. In Crazed Demon Cave, when the hole of chaos appeared, Thieving Heaven used his otherworldly space path dao marks as the main force to seal it."
Qi Sea Ancestor understood at once: "So Lin Jian Xing has otherworldly sword path dao marks. This move is probably effective against even venerables, isn't it too much of a waste to use it on a clone like me?"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable then told the truth of the qi harvest fruit and Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's revival.
Qi Sea's will shook fiercely: "So it was like this! Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, you already planned a trap when you set up the star array calculation formation. Later, you used heaven path dream realms to create an environment to lure me into attacking the star array calculation formation. We actually fell for it!"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable: "As a wisdom path Gu Immortal, I naturally researched deeply into Fang Yuan's personality. Moreover, you are are his most capable clone, there was a high chance you would be sent to attack the star array calculation formation."
Qi Sea's will sneered: "In that case, even though you went through such an elaborate charade to capture and imprison me, did you manage to deduce my main body's actions? Your Central Continent is done for! Hahaha. It is such a regret, if you had refined all of the wisdom path dao marks of Central Continent, you might have had a chance to block my main body. A pity, a pity."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's tone became quiet and heavy: "My Heavenly Court is the leader of the righteous path, over three million years had passed since it was established. Since then, countless Heavenly Court Gu Immortals had sacrificed themselves to protect the righteous path and the whole of humanity."
"In the present situation, many venerables are confronting each other in utter chaos, it is much more terrifying and severe than when variant humans dominated the world in the Immemorial Antiquity Era."
"Central Continent is bordered with four regions, I, Star Constellation, am starting to feel powerless after confronting the other venerables for so long. Right now, I can only pay attention to the key aspects and guard the overall situation."
"Since I made such a plan, I obviously know what Fang Yuan's reaction will be. The plan succeeded now, so the common people of my Central Continent and countless living beings are facing Fang Yuan's terrifying revenge!"
"However..."
"As long as Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable revives from this, my Heavenly Court will have two venerables, the situation of the five regions will definitely undergo a great change."
"Everyone knows that the demonic path is unrestrained and runs amok, but they do not know that it takes even more courage and sense of responsibility to defend the righteous path!"
"I, Star Constellation, have sinned to create an advantage for the righteous path. I am sinful for sacrificing countless people!"
"But I am willing to bear this heavy sin to create more hope for the future, for humanity, and for the righteous path."
"In fact, Divine Emperor City has already stored the records of various human qi in it. By cooperating with Heavenly Court's immortal graveyard, we will be capable of using more revival methods."
"I solemnly swear now, regardless of how many humans Fang Yuan slaughters today, as long as I have a trace of strength left in the future, I will do everything I can to revive them! If I fail to keep my word, then I, Star Constellation, am not fit to be human!!"
These words stupefied Qi Sea Ancestor.
Even as her enemy, he could not help but admire Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's resolve, sense of responsibility, and decisiveness.
"Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!"
"Sob, sob... we were too shallow, we even resented you before."
"Everything is for righteousness!"
"How can we compromise because of Demon Venerable's threat and revenge? This is not kindness but a form of weakness!"
"Right, if we compromise this time, we will do it again and again in the future. We are the backbone of Central Continent's righteous path, how can we bend our backs in front of Fang Yuan?"
Central Continent's ten great ancient sects' Gu Immortals were gathered together, listening to the conversation between Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Qi Sea's will.
Emotions surged in their hearts and many even cried.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used Qi Sea Ancestor to explain this situation to them personally.
The resentment, confusion, anger, and other negative feelings hiding in their hearts were swept away. Central Continent's ten great ancient sects' Gu Immortals were now filled with respect towards Star Constellation Immortal Venerable along with confidence and courage to protect the righteous path.
But at the next moment, a Gu Immortal shouted: "Oh no, Heaven Refining Demon Venerable published news in treasure yellow heaven saying that we captured Qi Sea Ancestor to recreate the qi harvest fruit and revive Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable!"
The crowd went into a commotion immediately.
Many connected to treasure yellow heaven and some of them started cursing: "Fang Yuan, this shameless, despicable scoundrel. He even recorded Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's previous nonchalance towards his threat in a video and is playing it on constant loop in treasure yellow heaven. He is trying to stir the hearts of Central Continent's people and damage our Heavenly Court's reputation!!"
"There is a spy, there is likely Fang Yuan's spy hidden among us. Otherwise, why will he suddenly know the truth?!" Someone brought up the possibility of a spy, making the Gu Immortals feel even more at unease.
Many Gu Immortals openly requested Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to inspect everyone.
But Star Constellation Immortal Venerable shook her head slightly: "Please don't be rash. I escorted Qi Sea Ancestor personally, by putting such an emphasis on him, it had already created doubts in Fang Yuan's mind."
"Venerables are not easy to deceive, it is normal for him to see through it."
"Although Fang Yuan cannot bring out any evidence and is probably not certain of it himself, he intentionally let out this information to gain the attention of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable."
"However, it doesn't matter. I will be staying in Heavenly Court and won't go out for the following time. Even if Giant Sun, Fang Yuan, and Spectral Soul get into an alliance, they won't be able to hinder the plan of reviving Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable!"
"As long as we don't waver and stay here, Fang Yuan and the rest won't be able to do anything."
The immortals' gazes shone as they praised Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's unmatched wisdom.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was indeed an expert in using such tricks.
Even if there was Fang Yuan's spy among the immortals, she did not intend to investigate it.
What was the point?
People were not united right now, with Fang Yuan causing a great massacre in Central Continent, it would stir their hearts even more. Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could not even unite the people's minds, why would she add more chaos to this?
Moreover, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not feel fear even if there were spies here. Even if Fang Yuan, Giant Sun, and Spectral Soul attacked together, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had the confidence to defend Heavenly Court.
This was the benefit of owning their own headquarters!
No matter how many people Fang Yuan killed, or how miserable Central Continent's situation became, as long as Star Constellation Immortal Venerable revived Primordial Origin, it would be a huge victory!
It was similar to the earlier situation where Fang Yuan was beaten miserably by Giant Sun and Star Constellation, but as long as he absorbed the dream realms, he would be the true winner!
In fact, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was already preparing to revive Primordial Origin even back in Crazed Demon Cave.
When she was seizing the Primordial Domains, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable deliberately searched and gathered qi path and wood path Primordial Domains.
So, once Primordial Domain revived, he could absorb the qi path Primordial Domains. Even if he did not reach supreme grandmaster attainment level, he would not be far from it.
What Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was worried about were Immortal Gu.
Even if Primordial Origin revived, if he did not have Immortal Gu to use, he could not use his full strength.
This was the situation with Star Constellation and Giant Sun, they did not have suitable rank nine Immortal Gu and had completely new rank nine immortal aperture; their condition was far from their previous life's peak state.
"Heaven qi Immortal Gu and earth qi Immortal Gu along with the secluded domain of heaven and earth Hu Land are with Qi Sea. Adding on Heavenly Court's human qi Immortal Gu and other Gu, master's qi path Gu worms are somewhat gathered now."
"It is indeed a huge pity that there are no rank nine qi path Immortal Gu, but maybe, Primordial Origin Treasury has it?"
"When master revives, he can activate the treasury, I won't need to search for clues to find the Primordial Origin Treasury."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable quietly planned internally.
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Profound jade snake cave was a famous super resource point in Central Continent.
It belonged to one of the ten great ancient sects, Heaven's Envy Manor. The scale of annual resource production of profound jade snake cave was among the top five in Central Continent, the resources it produced were of many types as well, including enslavement path, transformation path, earth path, dark path, space path, and poison path.
Profound jade snake cave was the breeding ground for countless poisonous creatures among which profound jade snakes were the overlords that countered poison. Every profound jade snake was an immemorial desolate beast, they were born from jade, had no scales, were light green resembling jade, and emitted fresh fragrance.
The most valuable resources in profound jade snake cave were the profound jade snakes but it was not easy to find them. It was not only because profound jade snakes were small and enjoyed silence, profound jade snake cave's terrain was complex with thousands of caves in it. And because it had space path dao marks, small caves often contained large spaces and were nested upon each other.
Heaven's Envy Manor might possess this super resource point and also set up an immortal formation here but had never grasped it completely. Every year, Heaven's Envy Manor had to send many Gu Immortal experts to explore profound jade snake cave to capture profound jade snakes.
But for the current Fang Yuan, it was not much of a trouble.
"Rise." After preparing for a while, Fang Yuan used a killer move.
At the next moment, the earth and mountains shook.
The whole profound jade snake cave rose slowly amidst billowing smoke, and under Fang Yuan's methods, shrank and was placed into sovereign immortal aperture.
This was already the eleventh super resource point that Fang Yuan obtained.
"Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, if you don't hand over my clone, I will take away all of Central Continent's large resource points!" Fang Yuan did not forget to shout threats.
But Star Constellation Immortal Venerable showed no movement, she had clearly resolved herself to stay in Heavenly Court and revive Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable. She was not going to be shaken by the outside world.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly as he continued.
He arrived at the source of Falling Heavenly River.
This river was a boundless expanse of water that heavily crashed at the riverbed from an endless height. The rumbling noise of the waterfall was like the continuous crackling of thunder. Endless water vapor formed dense fog that shrouded a vast range of the surroundings.
The reason for the formation of this river was because of Bo Qing's attempt to breakthrough to rank nine.
Falling Heavenly River smashed open an inland river that opened a channel that flowed through the entirety of Central Continent, towards the eastern side of central continent, and into eastern sea.
Even the merging of two heavens only reduced the size of Falling Heavenly River slightly, it was still a majestic sight to behold.
After taking profound jade snake cave, Fang Yuan arrived at the source of Falling Heavenly River.
Fang Yuan made his move.
After a while, Falling Heavenly River's size shrank to sixty percent!
This sixty percent Falling Heavenly River was stored inside sovereign immortal aperture.
The water level of the inland river at the source of Falling Heavenly River fell by thousands of feet. The water surface at the middle and lower stream of Falling Heavenly River began to reduce rapidly and exposed the river bed, causing negative influences on the surrounding plants, crops, temperature, mortal habitats, and so on.
Fang Yuan left Falling Heavenly River and arrived at spirit bank spring.
This was a super resource point that belonged to Ancient Soul Sect, which had once sent Yang Feng to guard this place but was still plundered by Forgotten Daoist.
But now, Yang Feng had already followed Ancient Soul Sect to enter Heavenly Court.
Fang Yuan easily dismantled the immortal formation and took spirit bank spring away.
After spirit bank spring was pot river.
This river resembled a long jade belt, it was situated in the eastern area of Central Continent. The riverbank was filled with willow trees and gentle breeze. The water in pot river was smooth flowing, like a beautiful song, it was graceful and harmonious. There was a lot of pot grass growing in pot river.
Wind Cloud Manor was in charge of pot river and held a festival around pot river every year.
But not long later, pot river along with its river channel was moved into the immortal aperture by Fang Yuan. Even if there were to be pot river festivals in the future, they could only be held inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
After pot river was Hidden Dragon Cave.
Hidden Dragon Cave had once imprisoned the legendary immemorial desolate beast Di Zang Sheng. There were very large numbers of scale enslavement path and rule path dao marks here. There was also the remnants of the huge immortal Gu formation that Heavenly Court set up here, it had a huge reference value to most formation path Gu Immortals.
After Hidden Dragon Cave was put into the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan moved to Lake Heart Mountain.
This was Spirit Affinity House's headquarters.
It was definitely an outstanding place to be chosen as the encampment of one of the ten great ancient sects.
Lake Heart Mountain was a super resource point by itself, not only did it contain secret inheritance peak, lesser cold peak, affection peak, fierce fire peak, heavenly flowers peak, and other peaks, it also had Fairy Life Tablet Hall, time path cultivation immortal formation, and other facilities.
Naturally, life tablet Gu was already taken from the Fairy Life Tablet Hall, the time path cultivation immortal formation's Immortal Gu were also taken away. But these facilities were mostly intact, they could be used after repairing.
Soon, Lake Heart Mountain became a scenic spot within the sovereign immortal aperture.
After Lake Heart Mountain was Mountain Tortoise Valley, then Imprisonment Valley, red river beach, hundred segment forest, scale light river, earth qi rock forest, Quiet Rain Valley.....
Fang Yuan looted wantonly, he did not hold back at all!
Central Continent's ten great ancient sects had left, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was holed up in Heavenly Court; Fang Yuan had no obstructions.
His looting efficiency was extremely high!
If Giant Sun Immortal Venerable wanted to relocate these resource points, he had to use luck path methods or blood path methods to imitate other paths and put in a lot of effort to move them.
Fang Yuan had the sovereign immortal body which had non-conflicting dao marks, so he could use methods of all paths. Earth path was more suitable to relocate caves and caverns. Wood path methods were appropriate to plunder forests.
Another point was that Fang Yuan had a lot of Immortal Gu in his reserves. Putting rank nine Immortal Gu aside, refining rank eight Immortal Gu was as easy as drinking water to him.
Resource points were looted one after the other, the essence of the whole Central Continent was being plundered by him and his appetite showed no signs of being full!
There were some resource points which Fang Yuan could not obtain completely for the moment.
For instance, Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range. The mountain range was extremely range, Fang Yuan could not relocate the whole mountain range in a short period. He could easily take one or two mountain peaks but the mountain range was a long stretch, it could not be compared to one or two mountain peaks.
Another example was Hairy Foot Mountain. Hairy Foot Mountain once held Infallible blessed land, Fang Yuan had came to this place first but it was already destroyed by Heavenly Court.
There was also Reincarnation Battlefield. This was the battlefield killer move that was personally set up by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. It was famous in history and was publicly recognized as the number one battlefield killer move since ancient times! Fang Yuan had carefully observed it before leaving directly.
It was not that he could not take it but it required careful study and deductions. This required a lot of time and effort, moreover, the specific time required was difficult to be estimated.
Fang Yuan had a lot of experience in looting so his actions were extremely efficient.
He left forty percent of Falling Heavenly River, it was not because he was willing to leave it behind, but he would have to spend more time and effort to take it. And it was better to loot other places than waste time here!
Central Continent fell into an unprecedented state of unrest.
There was no such unrest and chaos even during the fate war.
The fate war was mainly the war of Gu Immortals, Heavenly Court and Central Continent's ten great ancient sects defended their positions.
But now that the Gu Immortals of Heavenly Court and Central Continent's ten great ancient sects were all holed up inside Heavenly Court, Central Continent became an unguarded place.
Fang Yuan did not conceal his action of looting and relocating resource points. Every time he moved, it would cause a huge commotion that was noticed by others, and his actions enticed others as well.
"The grand venerable is eating meat but we should be able to drink the remaining soup, right?"
"Even if it is just one mouthful, it is enough for us to be full."
"This is Central Continent, the ten great ancient sects have all moved away! This opportunity won't come again."
The five regional walls were gone, so the other four regions' Gu Immortals began to move. After them were Central Continent's few demonic path Gu Immortals and lone immortals, then finally were Central Continent's righteous path Gu Immortals.
Central Continent's righteous path did not consist of just the ten great ancient sects, there were many other super forces, for instance, Great Heavenly Sword Sect, Lightning Information Sect, Demon Expelling Sect, and so on.
Naturally, these righteous path forces moved with the excuse of defending Central Continent and helping Heavenly Court.
These people did not dare to appear in front of Fang Yuan, but Central Continent was huge and had a lot of resource points. Many resource points could not catch Fang Yuan's eye or were positioned towards the end of the looting plan, these areas became the target of the Gu Immortals.
The sovereign immortal aperture was also in chaos.
Gu Immortals were so busy that their heads were spinning.
There had never been such a moment when resource points were moved in on such a large scale.
This was simply like a flood of resources, unceasing and endless.
The most crucial point was that super resource points could be found everywhere and were the majority, even the sovereign immortal aperture's Gu Immortals were shaken to the core.
"Master is mighty! He is looting the whole of Central Continent."
"This is a venerable's might, this is our Lord Fang Yuan!"
"Great, Lord Qi Sea was captured by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, even if Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable revives, they will only be welcomed by a barren Central Continent."
"The first wind vein ring is completed!"
"The second light vein ring is finished."
"Dark path has also completed the first ring!"
The sovereign immortal aperture's time flow was very different from the five regions' outside world. All kinds of dao veins were constructed rapidly, metal path, light path, dark path, poison path, rule path, enslavement path, transformation path...
Gu Immortals worked day and night, squeezing out all their energy and constantly visiting Liver Life Hall. Now and then, someone would reach the limits and their liver would explode, but it was not an issue, many healing halls were constructed around the sovereign immortal aperture.
In an instant, many of the sovereign immortal aperture's Gu Immortals became like Yu Zi, choosing to use the salt-water liver plan.
As the saying went, humans needed windfalls to get rich, while horses needed extra grass to grow healthy.
Fang Yuan's costless looting made his sovereign immortal aperture's development achieve an unprecedented and terrifying efficiency!
Central Continent was surrounded by four regions but was also a region with rich resources, second only to Eastern Sea. Eastern Sea had more water path resources but Central Continent had resources of all kinds.
Central Continent was developed by Heavenly Court for over three million years, its development had reached the limits, almost all the immortal level resource points were developed to some extent.
These all became Fang Yuan's targets.
Many dao veins were completed almost at one go in the sovereign immortal aperture. This was a huge boost to the stability of the sovereign immortal aperture!
Thus, even though the sovereign immortal aperture annexed so many resource points, because of the dao veins, it became much more stable instead.
With such a foundation, Fang Yuan could begin absorbing the Primordial Domain in treasure yellow heaven and annexing blessed lands everywhere.
He had stored the Primordial Domain in treasure yellow heaven all along. There was no need to lie low now and he could start absorbing it.
There were many blessed lands everywhere in Central Continent.
For instance, Flowing Silver blessed land that was revealed because of the qi tides, Hu Immortal blessed land that Fang Yuan gave up in the past, or Star Form blessed land, and so on.
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"Star Constellation, is the rumor in treasure yellow heaven true?" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable fought against Spectral Soul Demon Venerable while contacting Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and questioning.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable replied casually: "This is Fang Yuan's scheme to waver your determination."
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable dodged Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's attack while probing: "Right now, Fang Yuan is plundering Central Continent, why aren't you stopping him? If you are willing to give up on Central Continent's resources, why don't you come and deal with Spectral Soul Demon Venerable alongside me? Aren't you the one who wants to eradicate Spectral Soul the most?"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable gave an excuse: "Since you are in a bind, I will come and help you after I heal myself."
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable heaved a long sigh: "Star Constellation, you are truly good at scheming. I am impressed."
He was a venerable, after seeing that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable hid inside Heavenly Court without any intention of coming out after capturing Qi Sea Ancestor, even giving up Central Continent's resources and recalling the Gu Immortals of the ten great ancient sects, he guessed the truth.
What could make the grand Heavenly Court and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable make such a sacrifice?
The revival of a venerable!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was silent, she did not respond.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had to retreat, he no longer fought against Spectral Soul Demon Venerable but transmitted to Fang Yuan instead: "Fang Yuan, I can't lure Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to come out. If Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable revives, it will be over. Sigh, thinking about it, there were signs alluding to this earlier."
"Do you remember the battle in Crazed Demon Cave? Back then, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable cooperated with me to pressure you but she made a mistake and lost the opportunity. The reason was because you used Qi Sea Ancestor as a shield, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable held back."
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, replying: "Star Constellation Immortal Venerable is truly the number one wisdom path in the world throughout history! It is normal that my wisdom path attainment is inferior to her! But what is the point of saying that now? We need to ally now and attack Heavenly Court to have a chance of turning the situation around!"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did his best to withdraw, he only dodged Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's attacks as he pulled apart the distance between them while thinking to himself.
He frowned deeply and considered the situation rapidly.
It seemed that he was the biggest loser in the battle over the heaven path dream realms.
Fang Yuan obtained the heaven path dream realms and lost Qi Sea Ancestor, but he obtained a lot of resources plundered from Central Continent.
Although Star Constellation Immortal Venerable lost Central Continent's resources, she obtained Qi Sea Ancestor, if she could revive Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable successfully, she would be the biggest winner. By then, even if all of Central Continent were to be slaughtered by Fang Yuan, they would still be the winner!
Another venerable would change the situation fundamentally. No matter how much manpower or resources Central Continent lost, it was only temporary.
They were completely different concepts.
Even a fool would know which choice was more important.
As long as Heavenly Court's two venerables cooperated, they would easily suppress Fang Yuan, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, or Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
It would be basically impossible for Fang Yuan, Giant Sun, or Spectral Soul to refine natural dao marks. If Heavenly Court sent out both venerables to attack them, they would need to retreat, they could not undergo the process of natural dao mark refinement.
Conversely, as long as Heavenly Court sent out a venerable to stall them, the other person could refine natural dao marks using that time.
As time passes, Heavenly Court's advantage would accumulate quicker, by the time they refine all the natural dao marks of the five regions, the other venerables would be cornered.
Of course, in this situation, Giant Sun, Fang Yuan, and Spectral Soul would have to work together.
But could their alliance match the cooperation of Heavenly Court's venerables?
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was not sane now, the main cooperation would lie with Giant Sun and Fang Yuan.
But Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not trust either of them.
It would not work!
Be it their cooperation level or fundamental beliefs, such differences would be magnified in a battle of life and death.
Not only that, Heavenly Court even had a third venerable in history, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable!
If two other venerables were alive, the third venerable, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, would have a much easier time reviving.
"Thus, Heavenly Court has finally reached its most crucial turning point." Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was clear about this fact.
This was like the backlash Fang Yuan faced from the venerables when he refined rank nine Gu earlier. If he survived it, he would experience a qualitative change and obtain the upper hand, in the future, no matter what he did, the difficulty would be much smaller.
The reason why the venerables were in a deadlock was because they had all just revived and were at the same starting point, or rather, their differences were minuscule.
But if another venerable from Heavenly Court revived, this balance would be broken, even if Giant Sun and Fang Yuan worked together, they could not match Heavenly Court.
"If we can't stop Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, this will be the crucial moment where Heavenly Court regains its domination of the world and defeats the other venerables."
Knowing this, after learning that Qi Sea was captured in Heavenly Court, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's standpoint changed completely.
He contacted Fang Yuan and created a plan to pretend that he was still fighting against Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
"It is a pity that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has a clear grasp of the human heart, I can't lure her to come outside!"
If Star Constellation Immortal Venerable were in Central Continent, there would still be hope. After all, her advantage in Central Continent was not as large as being physically in Heavenly Court.
But Star Constellation Immortal Venerable hid inside and refused to come outside no matter what, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was helpless in this situation.
Truly, a top schemer could achieve victory without even participating in battle!
At the crucial moment, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not try to fight, she was unaffected by the burden of Heavenly Court's reputation and other factors, bearing the huge pressure of sacrificing and giving up Central Continent's people to make the right choice.
Luck inspection.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was indignant, he used his luck inspection method.
The results were disappointing.
Heavenly Court's luck was above everyone else, it was still showing signs of rising. Be it Giant Sun, Fang Yuan, or Spectral Soul, they were all suppressed by Heavenly Court's luck.
Other than that, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not see any huge variables that could influence the situation.
"Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, why are you still hesitating?!" Fang Yuan's voice was transmitted again.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable sighed: "Fang Yuan, we've lost, accept the fact. We will need to exert a lot of effort to enter Heavenly Court, even if we get in, we are unable to cooperate sincerely, how can we be Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's match? We won't succeed even with Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!"
"Attacking rashly will cause us to fall into Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's trap, our strength will dwindle. In my opinion, we should preserve our strength for a future opportunity."
Fang Yuan snorted coldly as he replied in displeasure: "How can I accept this without even trying? Star Constellation Immortal Venerable is the number one wisdom path expert, she had such ease in plotting against us. If Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable revives, she will have an even easier time."
"How can we deal with a wisdom path Gu Immortal? We need to exterminate them! We cannot give a wisdom path Gu Immortal any time to make arrangements. Our current situation is the best proof of this!"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable asked in response: "Then in your opinion, what should we do now?"
Fang Yuan gritted his teeth: "Plunder Central Continent and slaughter the people, I don't believe that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable will let it happen! Even if she can, after Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable revives, he will only gain a barren region!"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable shook his head.
Such an act was too brutal and demonic, it did not suit his nature.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had his reservations.
If he did this, when Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable retaliate by slaughtering the Huang Jin tribes, what would he do?
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had another thought: "Fang Yuan wants me to stand on the same side as him, if I participate in slaughtering the people of Central Continent, there will be no way of reconciling with Heavenly Court, my demonic path status will be permanent."
Without any reconciliation, there would be no room for a truce.
The pressure of two venerables would weight on his shoulders. He was not like Fang Yuan, who was cold and unconcerned with his subordinates' lives.
"I have Longevity Heaven as my base, even if all three venerables of Heavenly Court revive, I can still defend myself. This is my foundation for a negotiation!"
"But Fang Yuan is all alone, he has no such base."
"This is a huge problem to him, thus, he wants me to join him."
"If I do not participate in this, in the future, Heavenly Court will target Fang Yuan as their priority, I will have more time to cultivate. It is still not the time to go all-in now."
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable thought of this and rejected Fang Yuan's proposal.
But Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not want to offend Fang Yuan, he explained: "I can't bring myself to do such a thing like killing all the people. I'll advise you not to do this personally, there's a more suitable person. I'll lure him to you now."
"Coward!" Fang Yuan shouted: "All you care about is useless reputation!"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not show any anger, he understood why Fang Yuan was feeling upset and angry after getting schemed against.
He lured Spectral Soul Demon Venerable to Fang Yuan, who landed in Central Continent in response.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was not like Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he did not let Fang Yuan down. After leaving spectral heaven, he went into Central Continent and started his massacre.
This was within the expectations of Fang Yuan and Giant Sun.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's injuries were severe, but he could heal himself by slaughtering lifeforms and hunting soul beasts to increase his strength. He had done this in spectral heaven earlier, now, the situation was similar. Heavenly Court.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had been paying attention to the two venerables' actions.
After seeing that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was killing all the lifeforms in Central Continent, she sighed deeply. But after seeing that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left Central Continent to return to Northern Plains, her eyes shone brightly as joy filled her heart.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals could not understand why.
Even if Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not want to invade Heavenly Court, he would at least ransack Central Continent for some resources, right?
But he left directly.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was clear of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's intention.
She spoke to Golden Hooped Great Immortal: "Your effort back then has finally paid off. This is the best result for us."
In the past, Golden Hooped Great Immortal had invited Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to tour Heavenly Court and wanted to recruit him to become their fourth Immortal King.
His plan failed and even allowed Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to leave a luck path method as a backdoor to Heavenly Court, causing them huge losses during the fate war.
But in fact, the truth was that Golden Hooped Great Immortal's action had a certain impact on Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. In his heart, Heavenly Court had once tried to recruit him, they even tried to make him their leader. In that case, there was a possibility of negotiating with them to come to a peaceful truce.
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After hearing Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's words, many of the Gu Immortals gained some realization.
"Now it seems that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable is still a righteous path person in essence."
"He is indeed quite different from Fang Yuan, be it in terms of action or ideology. Fang Yuan is brutal and casually sacrifices his subordinates, he treats everything as his tool. But Giant Sun Immortal Venerable is different, he cares for his descendants and is someone with deep kinship."
"Hmph, in my opinion, he has far greater foresight than Fang Yuan. If he acts like Fang Yuan, he will have no chance of appeasing Heavenly Court, he will be our mortal enemy. Thus, he has already started planning to express his goodwill towards Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable!"
"From what I see, this is all Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's plan. She did everything to defend Heavenly Court and allowed Fang Yuan to ransack Central Continent. The truth is, I was quite unhappy about it. But now, it seems that this was only part of her plan, it managed to make Giant Sun leave Central Continent of his own accord. This is an incredible outcome! Sigh, I should not have tried to evaluate Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's wisdom with my shallow view."
Qi Sea Ancestor's eyes were shut, he was motionless like a statue, floating quietly in Heavenly Court.
Above his head, Star Constellation Chessboard orbited and released a pale blue light that enveloped his body.
After some preparation, the entrance of Qi Sea Ancestor's immortal aperture started to open, the immortals cheered loudly.
Afterwards, rank eight heaven qi Immortal Gu flew out of his immortal aperture first.
After that was earth qi Immortal Gu, followed by various qi path Immortal Gu.
The immortals were in a commotion.
"Even though Qi Sea Ancestor is strong, against Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, he is only meat on the chopping block."
"Self-detonating Immortal Gu is so easy, but right now, the pseudo venerable Qi Sea Ancestor has been completely controlled by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, he can't even do something as simple as self-detonating his Immortal Gu."
"Once Lord Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable revives, these qi path Immortal Gu will allow him to recover a portion of his strength, Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has truly planned it perfectly!"
The immortals praised in succession.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had clearly suppressed Qi Sea Ancestor completely, she controlled his mind and used her thoughts to replace his.
Thus, she was able to open the immortal aperture's entrance and suppress all of the Gu worms inside.
Of course, these qi path Gu worms still belonged to Qi Sea Ancestor, they were filled with his will.
It was much more difficult for Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to get rid of his will than controlling Qi Sea Ancestor's mind directly. These Immortal Gu did not have a mind, to get rid of their lingering will of Qi Sea, the best solution would be to directly refine these qi path Immortal Gu.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not plan to do that.
She only suppressed these Immortal Gu and prevented them from self-detonating, she kept them for her master, Primordial Origin, to deal with personally.
Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable was a qi path Gu cultivator, it was better for him to deal with these qi path Immortal Gu.
After all the Immortal Gu were retrieved, it was time for the secluded domain of heaven and earth, Hu Land.
Once Hu Land appeared in front of everyone, Heavenly Court erupted with an intense wave of cheers.
This was a qi path secluded domain of heaven and earth!
It was spoils of battle comparable to rank nine Immortal Gu!!
Qi Sea Ancestor's Hu elevation killer move used Hu Land as the core.
A secluded domain of heaven and earth was very hard to destroy, it was much easier to obtain than Immortal Gu. Since Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could even suppress Qi Sea Ancestor's Immortal Gu, obtaining Hu Land was a natural thing.
"With this secluded domain of heaven and earth, even if master has no rank nine Immortal Gu in his treasury, he can still display the might of qi path."
While feeling satisfied, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not forget to inspect these Immortal Gu and the secluded domain of heaven and earth.
Fang Yuan was vigilant, so was she.
Even in Heavenly Court, she was not being careless at all.
After using all her methods to inspect them over a hundred times, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable confirmed that these Immortal Gu and the secluded domain of heaven and earth were not tampered with.
Afterwards, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable placed these loot into the immortal formation and suppressed them.
This was her final step of precaution.
Fang Yuan was a refinement path venerable, he might have some methods that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could not decipher. But with these loot being suppressed in the immortal formation, even if Fang Yuan's method activated, it would be detected by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable immediately, she would have time to counter them.
"Even if Fang Yuan has any method that I have not detected, it is not a big deal, I can suppress anything with the immortal formation."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was filled with confidence regarding this.
Back then, she had even used He Feng Yang to undergo Immortal Gu transactions with Fang Yuan.
Was she not afraid of Fang Yuan tampering with them?
Of course she had such worries.
But the concern was quite small, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was confident in noticing Fang Yuan's methods. Other venerables like Giant Sun Immortal Venerable would also have such confidence.
Their confidence was not baseless.
Refinement path was too broadly cultivated in the whole world.
The advantage was that refinement path developed immensely, many refinement path Gu worms could advance to rank nine. The weakness was that everyone knew how to refine Gu, they had a certain understanding of refinement path.
Heavenly Court had existed for three million years, while Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was a wisdom path venerable, how could she not know the refinement method of fake Gu?
Such an action was common in the mortal Gu Master world!
If Fang Yuan made fake Gu, even if Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not cultivate refinement path, she would notice it.
Of course, if Fang Yuan had sufficient time to develop, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable would not dare to take a risk in this aspect.
She would be incredibly cautious towards any Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan had contacted!
After Qi Sea Ancestor's Immortal Gu and Hu Land were taken out, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable took out various resource points from Qi Sea's immortal aperture.
Most of the qi path resource points were kept inside.
The ones that were taken out had one similarity, they all had a lot of non-qi path dao marks.
After finishing this, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable started to use her killer moves.
She had created these wisdom path killer moves herself, nobody else knew of them except her.
After more than ten killer moves were used, Qi Sea Ancestor's immortal aperture and mind started to break down, all sorts of qi path resource points and his entire body started to turn into qi currents.
A massive number of qi currents were gathered together, forming into the vague shape of a qi harvest fruit.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's eyes shone with brilliance and wisdom, she used three killer moves consecutively, eliminating Qi Sea Ancestor's will, thoughts, and remaining emotions in the qi harvest fruit.
Qi Sea Ancestor's soul was taken out and kept in the Immortal Gu House Soul Suppression Hall. This Immortal Gu House was once used to hold Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, it was too easy to contain Qi Sea's soul now.
The qi harvest fruit slowly stabilized.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable stopped her various wisdom path methods, carefully drawing Star Constellation Chessboard away from the location.
Even without Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's support, the qi harvest fruit was becoming clearer and more stable.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable inspected it carefully and relaxed. As she had expected, the qi harvest fruit was in sync with Primordial Origin's methods now, she did not need to do anything else.
She could not interfere anymore or it could be an issue. After all, there were conflicting dao marks, she cultivated wisdom path and star path, not qi path.
The best situation was to allow Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's methods to activate and trigger his revival.
"After three million years, Lord Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's methods are still effective! I am truly in admiration."
"There are no issues left, Lord Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's revival is imminent!"
"It was my fault." The newly revived Qin Ding Ling came over and said with an expression of guilt: "If I was not muddled and let Qi Sea Ancestor take Heavenly Court's qi harvest fruit, the first venerable to revive would have been Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable!"
Everyone consoled her upon hearing this.
Even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable looked over at her: "Qin Ding Ling, no need to blame yourself. You are not a wisdom path Gu Immortal, while Fang Yuan is extremely crafty and has even deceived the world, it was not your fault that you failed to deduce Qi Sea Ancestor's true identity."
"Even I would make mistakes sometimes. The important thing is that you learn from your mistakes and grow, you must continue to look forward bravely, that is the true behavior that we should follow."
"We will remember Lady Immortal Venerable's teachings!" The immortals responded in unison.
The qi harvest fruit soon grew to the size of a mountain.
Qi Sea Ancestor's qi path foundation was converted into the qi harvest fruit. After it stabilized, it was even larger than the one that Fang Yuan made back then.
As time passed, the qi harvest fruit continued to grow stronger.
In the past, the Heavenly Court immortals would be terrified of this scene. But now, they looked towards the qi harvest fruit with anticipation and excitement.
Primordial Origin's revival process, which had been interrupted by Fang Yuan in the past, was restarting now.
Not long after, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable frowned. She noticed that the qi harvest fruit's growth was slowing down.
"Something is wrong." She quickly inspected.
The entire inspection process was slow and careful, she did not want a powerful investigative method to affect Primordial Origin's revival process.
The Heavenly Court wisdom path dao marks that she refined were very useful in this case, she soon found the reason.
Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable had left many methods in Heavenly Court that were related to his revival. For example, the primordial qi wall.
"Master's plan must have been to use the qi harvest fruit from the qi tides to revive himself. He arranged all sorts of qi path methods in Heavenly Court as a form of assurance. When the qi harvest fruit lacks nutrients, these qi path methods would be used to supplement it."
However, because of the various battles that occurred, these qi path methods were greatly expended. Thus, its growth was slowed now.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had no way to make these qi path methods recover to their original state.
But after thinking about it, she quickly found a replacement method.
After all, these qi path methods were meant to support the qi harvest fruit's growth.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable immediately ordered for all of Heavenly Court's qi path immortal materials to be taken out while she made deductions.
Not long after, her expression turned pale, she was covered in perspiration, but she produced a qi path immortal formation.
The foundation of this qi path formation were the qi path methods from Primordial Origin, it was quickly completed under Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's arrangements.
Afterwards, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable placed a large number of qi path immortal materials into the immortal formation.
As the qi path immortal formation activated, it was quickly reduced into all sorts of qi currents that were condensed together, before being instilled into the qi harvest fruit through Primordial Origin's arrangements.
After the boost of nutrients, the qi harvest fruit started to grow rapidly again.
But this did not last long, Heavenly Court's storage of qi path immortal materials was quickly expended, they were about to run dry again.
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