"Alright, Yu Liang, go and complete the Gu formation, as long as you go through this last round, you will be able to obtain my main body's true inheritance. As for you, Old Lord Can Yang, you will die here today." Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will said slowly.
Old Lord Can Yang took a step back, he spoke arrogantly: "Hmph, although I am alone, you are only a group of rank six along with a mere will, you want to take my life? Don't forget that my ally is among you. There are also demonic path Gu Immortals outside, they are like hungry wolves, your phantom beasts can't hold them off for long."
Although he said that, his face showed a vigilant and alert expression.
To live to his age, and obtain such accomplishments, a vigilant nature was a necessary trait.
Old Lord Can Yang's words were true, he attacked Dong Fang tribe's weakness.
That was also why Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals did not attack rashly despite having an advantage in numbers.
Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will laughed: "During the Remote Antiquity Era, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, the creator of wisdom path, died, but she deduced matters over a million years after her death. It caused three future Demon Venerables to return empty handed, protecting Heavenly Court. Although I, Dong Fang Chang Fan, am far inferior to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, I can still somewhat deduce matters within a hundred years after my demise. Since I made such an arrangement, I have my trump cards."
Saying so, an illusory Gu formation appeared in the hall.
Countless Gu worms flew around, they were like the threads of countless spiders, weaved in the large hall.
Compared to this new formation, the Gu formation that Dong Fang Yu Liang was completing resembled a baby in front of an adult.
Old Lord Can Yang saw this and his expression turned ugly: "This is a phantom formation! To think that you, Dong Fang Chang Fan, had such deep attainment in phantom path, you can actually set up a phantom formation!"
Ordinary Gu formations, once exposed, were easy to target and destroy.
That was because the Gu worms that made up the Gu formation were of solid form.
The Gu worms themselves were very fragile, even the immortal level Spring Autumn Cicada could be destroyed by Fang Yuan if he squeezed it between his fingers lightly.
But this phantom formation was a high level method involving phantom path, it made all of the Gu worms in the Gu formation turn phantom, while not obstructing the effect of the Gu formation itself.
The phantom beasts could hold off Fang Yuan and the other demonic path Gu Immortals for so long because of their ability to turn phantom. Once they turned phantom, no moves would have any effect on them.
The star will displayed the Gu formation outright, not afraid of Old Lord Can Yang destroying it, that was because the Gu formation had turned phantom, Old Lord Can Yang could only watch it activate, there was nothing he could do.
As the Gu formation started to activate, a blinding light filled the hall.
"Hahaha." Old Lord Can Yang laughed loudly: "Since I cannot do anything to the phantom formation, I will kill all of you instead!"
"Everyone, be careful!"
"He is attacking!"
"Beware of the traitor, do not be too careless. This is a life-and-death moment for our tribe!"
"That's right, as long as we survive this, all will be smooth sailing."
The Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals were all waiting in seriousness, they were deeply focused.
"Everyone, don't be anxious, for the time being, he can't get here." Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will was very calm.
At the next moment, Old Lord Can Yang charged over, but his movements were very slow.
The fire that he shot out was originally very fast, but now it was slow like a snail.
"This is?" Old Lord Can Yang quickly realized that he did not become slower, instead, a mystical change had occurred to the space in front of him that could not be observed with the naked eye.
The distance seemed short, but the space was condensed.
"I spent decades and immense effort to design this. Although this hall looks ordinary and is no different from the other halls, I had shifted most of the space path dao marks on the corpse here. Although we and Old Lord Can Yang are only tens of steps apart, our true distance is gigantic." The star will said slowly.
"As expected of Lord Dong Fang Chang Fan!" Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals were relieved, their eyes were shining as they looked at the star will with much admiration.
The star will nodded: "Now is the crucial moment, I will tell you the truth. This formation is a large formation. With my wisdom path Immortal Gu as the core, and blood path Immortal Gu as support, once activated, the power will be overwhelming, it can shake heaven and earth. Furthermore, because of the blood path Immortal Gu, it has an amazing effect against Gu Immortals. As long as the Gu formation is activated, not only can it kill Old Lord Can Yang, it can even slaughter all of the demonic path Gu Immortals in the sky. After this battle, my Dong Fang tribe will be renowned in Northern Plains, both the righteous and demonic paths, and the other major forces would be greatly wary of us. After this battle ends, your can move this formation back to our blessed land. If Yu Liang can obtain my inheritance, he will be the person in charge of controlling this formation."
Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals heard this and became excited.
In contrast, Old Lord Can Yang's expression was unable to conceal his suspicion and wariness.
The star will continued: "My main body had formed an agreement with the righteous path super forces before dying, creating an alliance, but in this world, only power that one has in their own hands can best ensure safety. You must remember, do not unnecessarily place hope in other's hands."
Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals nodded, they expressed that they had learned a lesson.
Dong Fang Yi Kong shouted: "Lord Chang Fan, our tribe still has that traitor. No matter how vigilant we are, we can't defend against an internal threat!"
"Don't be anxious." The star will laughed: "I'm not finished yet. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, gains and losses. This Gu formation is very powerful, but it has a severe drawback. To activate this Gu formation, it will need to use the immortal aperture origin core of Gu Immortals."
"What?" Many of Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals shouted in shock.
The immortal aperture origin core was the foundation of the immortal aperture, the base of it all.
Once it was drawn out, the painstakingly developed immortal aperture would reverse its progression, the space would shrink and the primeval energy would dwindle, lifeforms within would die en masse.
The Gu Immortal themselves would weaken instead of progressing, once the time comes, heavenly tribulations or earthly calamities in the immortal aperture would be devastating.
The shrinking of the immortal aperture would mean the weakening of the Gu Immortal, they would die from disasters if they were not vigilant.
Since their lives were at stake, Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals lost their bearings.
But soon, one Gu Immortal stood up.
It was Dong Fang Wan Xiu.
The people in the hall heard him speak: "There cannot be benefits without losses, Lord Chang Fan had planned this with much difficulty, creating this situation now. For Dong Fang tribe, what reasons do I have not to make such a sacrifice?"
"That's right! Truly worthy of Lord Wan Xiu. I, Dong Fang Yi Kong, will accompany you!" Soon after, Dong Fang Yi Kong also stood up.
The star will smiled, he was silent as he looked at the others.
The other Gu Immortals looked at each other, nodding quickly, they decided to eliminate the tribe's strong foes by sacrificing themselves.
"No need to rush." The star will waved his hand, he said slowly: "I have something else to tell all of you. Once you enter the Gu formation, the immortal aperture origin core would start being extracted, by then, none of you would not be able to move or leave forcefully. Your lives and deaths will be in my control. Are you still willing? If you are not, you can step out now."
The Gu Immortals' expressions changed again.
Dong Fang Wan Xiu's eyes were shining with a lively light, he looked around and smiled coldly: "Traitor, you should reveal yourself now, if not, it will be too late."
Star will's words were naturally for the traitor.
As long as one thought about it, they would realize: If there was really a traitor, after hearing this, they would feel great mental pressure. Once they entered the formation, their life would not be in their own hands. If they were exposed when attacking Old Lord Can Yang later due to panic, then they would not be able to fight back at all!
If there really was a traitor, they would have other goals and would not want to attack Old Lord Can Yang. They would not want their lives to be in the star will's hands.
After that, a few breaths later, none of Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals in the hall stood out.
"Alright, at this point, I, Wan Xiu, have to admire you. No wonder you could conceal yourself in the tribe for so long, and so deeply." Dong Fang Wan Xiu said with much hatred.
The star will laughed lightly: "In that case, enter the formation."
The phantom Gu formation had eight core points, the Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals entered and occupied one each.
The Gu formation activated slowly, the Gu Immortals' expressions changed as they felt their immortal apertures tremble, a strong suction force was emitting from the formation.
"Relax your mind, cooperate with the formation, let it run fully." The star will was solemn.
The Gu Immortals were hesitant, but they eventually opened their immortal apertures and allowed traces of their immortal aperture origin cores to be drawn out, flowing out from the eight core points of the formation.
In the phantom formation, a faint blood-colored light quickly surfaced.
Under the effect of the blood-colored light, these eight different immortal aperture origin cores converged in the Gu formation, they were actually fusing into one.
"This formation is really mystical!" A Gu Immortal saw this and could not help but praise.
"This is because all of you have Dong Fang tribe's bloodline in you. Your bloodlines are close, your origins are the same. Therefore, your bloodlines can mix, and your immortal aperture origin can could fuse. Only by fusing could they accumulate in quantity, and summon a huge force!" Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will slowly explained.
The eight Gu Immortals in the formation nodded, Dong Fang Wan Xiu's eyes were shining with brilliance, he looked around but could not find out any flaws that could expose the traitor.
"No matter." The star will laughed lightly: "In this situation, regardless of who the traitor is, they are already under my control, they are putting in strength for our tribe. Everyone, relax, I am going to extract more of your immortal aperture origin cores."
"Go ahead!"
"Right, we will kill all of these accursed demonic path Gu Immortals! They dare to target our Dong Fang tribe!!"
The phantom formation burst out in a bright light, the Gu Immortals snorted as their expressions turned dark, some of them were frowning while others were feeling discomfort and pain.
The immortal aperture origin cores were like lumps of water as they fused in the phantom formation, converging into a huge force, they resembled a slumbering fierce beast. No matter who it was, anyone could feel that this force was huge, even the surrounding air had ripples it in, as if it could not hold such power.
The Gu Immortals in Dong Fang tribe had red faces, some of their bodies were trembling, some of them had ruthless expressions, they were all looking forward to this rampaging power.
But this power was not unleashed yet under the control of the star will, it was prepared for release but remained in place.
"No need to rush." The star will looked into the sky, at the chaotic battle.
The phantom beasts that obstructed the demonic path Gu Immortals were all slaughtered, almost none were left.
The star will was like a flood dragon, hiding in the river, waiting for the best time to strike.
Once the time was right, the flood dragon would soar into the sky, overturning rivers and seas. By then, the unfortunate people would be the one charging at its front.
Right at this time, Dong Fang Yu Liang stood up, shouting loudly: "Master, I did it, I succeeded in completing this Gu formation, I completed your request!"
The star will's gaze swept towards him, he showed a pleased smile: "Very good. Yu Liang, you did not disappoint me. Enter the formation too, stand at the center. Although you are a mortal, you will need to ascend to immortal eventually. When the battle begins, you will experience the power of a Gu Immortal, it will be of great help for your future."
"Yes, master. I will listen to you!" Dong Fang Yu Liang's eyes were red, he was so moved he was choking back tears.
He leaped, jumping into the air, with the power of the phantom formation, he stood in the formation's central core as he floated in the air.
In the sky, despite Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han's heavy disturbances, Fang Yuan finally found a chance.
The sky in front of him was clear, there was nothing stopping him, the chance was only momentary, he latched onto it and flew down with minimal attention to his safety!
Seven strength path giant hands slammed down, only one was left protecting his body.
"It is time." The star will saw this and sighed lightly.
Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals were all looking into the sky with much blood lust.
At the next moment, they saw Old Lord Can Yang flying up, blocking Fang Yuan's attack as he force the latter back into the sky.
"Eh?!" This turn of events made all of the Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals look on with stunned expressions.
"All of my efforts were not in vain, in forming this plot to regain my life through possession, now is the moment!" The star will laughed loudly, he was extremely excited.
Dong Fang Chang Fan's soul suddenly appeared, charging into the phantom formation's center as he entered Dong Fang Yu Liang's body.
"Hahaha, you bunch of fools! I will tell you the truth, the true traitor in Dong Fang tribe is that beloved Lord Chang Fan of yours, hahahaha." Old Lord Can Yang was laughing maniacally.
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"What?" Dong Fang Wan Xiu stared with wide open eyes.
"This is not possible!" Dong Fang Yi Kong firmly denied.
"How could it be Lord Dong Fang Chang Fan? Everyone, be careful, this is likely to be an illusion! The enemy cannot break the formation, so he is trying to confuse us!!"
All the Gu Immortals of Dong Fang tribe had incredulous expressions, unable to accept this shocking fact.
Old Lord Can Yang scoffed: "Confuse you guys? Laughable, all of you are incapable of moving, you aren't even worth confusing. You have already become meat on the chopping board, unable to free yourselves, it is funny how you still cannot see the truth. Hehehe."
These words were like shocking strikes of lightning that ruthlessly assaulted the Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals.
Everyone looked at Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will.
Dong Fang Wan Xiu shouted: "Lord Chang Fan, this is not real!"
Dong Fang Yi Kong asked: "Lord Chang Fan, please speak up!"
"Lord Chang Fan, Dong Fang Chang Fan! What are your intentions?!"
Countless questions and shouts echoed in this hall.
The star will chuckled, seemingly at leisure. He was only a will, but had condensed into the image of his body back when he was alive, his frame was upright, his face like that of jade, his eyes full of splendor and a graceful aura of a great commander was revealed.
However, right now, this sight, this attitude and demeanor, caused a chill to emerge in the hearts of Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals.
The phantom formation transformed again; the enormous power which it had condensed was finally being released at this moment.
It was like a surge of waves; blood-colored light shot out everywhere, forming a thick bloody veil that covered the main location in the ruin bat's corpse.
At this sight, Dong Fang Wan Xiu and the rest finally had a huge change in their expressions.
They had thought this formation was used for attacking the enemies, but its true use was to defend.
This chilling fact was displayed in front of everyone's eyes, tearing apart the lies told by the star will.
"Dong Fang Chang Fan, why are you doing this? Why are you harming us!?" Dong Fang Wan Xiu looked malevolent, his expression filled with pain and grief.
"What could it be for? Being alive is the foundation for everything, who would want to die? Who doesn't want to live? As long as there is a sliver of a hope to survive, who can resist the temptation?" Old Lord Can Yang sneered, staring at the phantom formation intently without blinking.
Looking at the phantom formation operating normally, Old Lord Can Yang could not help but take a deep breath: "This possession technique really has an extremely high price. It needs the sacrifice of Gu Immortals every time it is activated?"
If it was true, this possession technique could not be used widely as the activation conditions were too costly.
Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will slowly shook its head: "Old Lord, you don't need to worry. I previously obtained this possession technique in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. The contents inside allow one to possess mortals and even Gu Immortals. But to possess Gu Immortals, one's cultivation must be higher than the target. Moreover, after possession, the immortal aperture would be the target's immortal aperture. This is akin to a raven taking over a seagull's nest, it is unfitting and has great disadvantages. While alive, I was a wisdom path Gu Immortal, but I did not have a suitable wisdom path Gu Immortal as the possession target. Thus, I exerted effort to think and plan for so many years before I finally obtained this formation."
"This formation was created with the possession technique as the foundation. It can let me possess a mortal and at the same time, it can mobilize the origin cores of Gu Immortals of the same bloodline and create a completely new wisdom path immortal aperture, allowing me to immediately become an immortal after possession and avoid the dangerous stage of having weaker cultivation initially."
Hearing the star will's explanation, Old Lord Can Yang sized up the star will while also being inwardly shocked: 'This Dong Fang Chang Fan concealed his abilities really well, not only is his wisdom path attainment enough to be known as the best in Northern Plains, he also can use space path dao marks and manipulate the phantom beast army. Now, it seems his blood path attainment is also not low!'
The star will did not know of the churning of Old Lord Can Yang's inner thoughts, still continuing its explanation: "Don't underestimate this formation. With these eight Gu Immortals sacrificing themselves, they will be supplying me with abundant resources! My newly formed immortal aperture will absolutely be the best within high grade! There is also another key point – the immortal aperture will automatically produce resources like flowers, birds, fish, insects and so on. It would be as if I had managed the blessed land for many years, this would save hundreds of years of hard work. Thus, after I complete possession, not only would my cultivation be restored, I will also have enough resources, much more than when I was alive! Old Lord Can Yang, feel free to observe and ask questions as you desire. I will explain the key content of every step."
A heated expression flashed across Old Lord Can Yang's face.
He laughed heartily, looking deeply at Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will: "You truly made a good plan, wanting me to keep you safe from danger. My presence here was to help you resist these demonic path Gu Immortals. And when you succeed in advancing to Gu Immortal, there will definitely be a heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, at that time, I will be by your side, forced to take action even if I don't want to."
Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will smiled without any shame from having his scheme exposed. He looked at Old Lord Can Yang and said with a quiet and deep voice: "If you want to gain something in this world, you need to be prepared to pay the price. How can there be free things? In particular, the more you want to obtain, the higher the risk will be. What is Old Lord's decision, please confirm it quickly."
Old Lord Can Yang snickered, but inwardly, he deeply admired Dong Fang Chang Fan for being decisive in what to give up.
Back then, when Dong Fang Chang Fan obtained the possession technique from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's true inheritance secluded domain, he had also discovered the arrangements of Central Continent's ten great sects.
Meanwhile, Immortal Crane Sect had been infiltrating Dong Fang tribe. After Dong Fang Chang Fan became a Gu Immortal and joined the higher ups of the tribe, he secretly discovered this fact.
But he did not expose this, instead following this clue to covertly engage in cooperation with Immortal Crane Sect.
He used the possession technique to make a transaction with Immortal Crane Sect.
Lifespan Gu were hard to find, any Gu Immortal would scramble for any methods for life extension. Let alone when this possession technique came from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable!
Immortal Crane Sect was one of the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent and had long history with deep foundations, but even it could not resist the temptation of the possession technique.
The two sides had their own needs, Dong Fang Chang Fan slowly released the contents of the possession technique while obtaining resources from Immortal Crane Sect.
He used these resources to quickly advance and successfully passed many tribulations. He also supported the next generations of the tribe and formed schemes directed everywhere, bringing the declining Dong Fang tribe to glory!
In cooperating with a person like Dong Fang Chang Fan, Old Lord Can Yang was very cautious, not relaxing his guard, even though he was stronger.
He did not think for long, nodding and accepting.
Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will gave a laugh: "Good, I will explain the first step..."
Old Lord Can Yang listened, paying full attention.
It was clear to him that Dong Fang Chang Fan was using him, but Old Lord Can Yang had come as a representative of Immortal Crane Sect's will, thus he also had no other choice.
Old Lord Can Yang thought of the heavy reward from the sect for completing this mission, and that was his motivation to continue.
Dong Fang tribe's eight Gu Immortals were already cursing loudly.
Dong Fang Yu Liang was unconscious and motionless, his eyes closed.
Meanwhile, in the outside world, Fang Yuan looked down at another sight.
He saw an incomparably large blood veil which covered the ruin bat's corpse like a mountain. The blood veil was extremely thick, with greatly plentiful quantities of blood colored light, and the terrifying might it showcased could make one's heart palpitate.
The demonic path Gu Immortals turned their attentions to the blood veil, and stopped their internal conflicts.
Some among them tried using their methods in attacking the blood veil, but it was like pebbles being thrown into a large lake, there were only slight ripples on the blood veil, and it stood unmoved, stable like a mountain.
"Such a strong defense!"
"What Gu formation is this? I have neither seen it nor even heard of it before."
"Dong Fang Chang Fan truly left behind an endless number of arrangements."
The demonic path Gu Immortals were making guesses.
Fang Yuan also frowned. Even though he was an expert in blood path and had his previous life's memories, he had never seen nor heard of this Gu formation.
"Who cares what Gu formation this is, it will break with one smash from my hammer!" Gu Immortal Zhuo Zhan shouted and charged forward.
He was riding a flying boar desolate beast, his body was covered in armor and he was holding a giant hammer. He had a burly build and was easily irritable, but he bullied the weak while fearing the strong.
Everyone's gazes gathered on him.
Zhuo Zhan felt very proud for being in the limelight, his expression turning even more fierce.
But several breaths later, his fierce expression was gone completely, replaced by shock and fear.
As he approached the blood veil, the blood in his body went out of his control, and started flowing out of his body.
Gu Immortals were called immortals, but their bodies, for the most part, still retained the normal workings and functions of the human body. Blood supported the movement of the body and was a crucial part.
Zhuo Zhan was still a far distance from the blood veil, but half the blood in his body had sprayed out.
If he continued, before he even reached the blood veil, his blood would completely seep out and he would turn into a dried out corpse.
"Such an odd formation!"
"This is the effect of menses blood Gu, it can draw out blood."
"Menses blood Gu is one of the blood path inheritances of Blood Sea Ancestor, who could have thought that the rumor of Dong Fang Chang Fan obtaining it was not only true, he also raised this menses blood Gu to Immortal Gu level!"
The demonic path Gu Immortals showed moved expressions.
Several Gu Immortals tried all kinds of methods, but everyone failed.
Everyone was aware that unless they used methods that targeted defensive abilities, they would not be able to break this blood veil.
Fang Yuan frowned tensely. He, himself, was an expert in blood path during his previous life, but he currently did not have any blood path Immortal Gu and he cultivated strength path. Without the necessary starting components, one couldn't get anywhere, he was unable to do anything to this formation.
The situation was troublesome and everyone was feeling anxious. Dong Fang Yu Liang had been inside for so long, he might have already completely obtained the inheritance.
"The current plan should be to use long range killer moves! Everyone, attack together, let's destroy Dong Fang Chang Fan's arrangements first before we fight for the spoils. Otherwise, under the eyes of numerous immortals, a mortal would seize the inheritance. If that really happens, I, Unfettered Scholar, would have no face left to continue living in Northern Plains!" Unfettered Scholar suddenly shouted.
He immediately made his move after shouting.
The demonic path Gu Immortals agreed.
For a while, water and fire converged, lightning and wind struck, colorful lights sparkled, and countless explosions struck the blood veil, reducing its mass.
Everyone had joyful expressions before they soon turned grave.
The blood veil continuously shrunk but also unceasingly regenerated. Especially for the parts further inside, the demonic path Gu Immortals' attacks clearly showed insufficient damage.
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The blood veil firmly covered the ruin bat's corpse, resisting the wanton attacks of the demonic path Gu Immortals.
Having not expected such resistance from the blood veil and under the urgent situation, Pi Shui Han shouted: "Make way!"
He was a rank seven Gu Immortal and had already formed a reputation within the demonic path. Everyone parted ways and opened up a space for him.
Water path and ice path killer move — Flood Glacier!
Inside Pi Shui Han's immortal aperture, over ten thousand Gu worms were activated, while his rank seven red date immortal essence was being consumed bead by bead.
Rumble!
Endless waves started surging out of thin air from the space within hundreds of steps of Pi Shui Han.
Surging waves, like innumerable raging dragons, roared and crashed down with a catastrophic momentum!
The giant wave was still crashing down when it underwent another transformation.
Crackle... The giant wave started condensing into ice from inside to outside. Within several breaths, the monstrous giant wave turned into an enormous glacier and pressed down like a giant whale, or a pillar falling from the heavens.
The ice-cold chilly air could make one tremble.
The terrifying attack made people hold their breaths subconsciously.
In the hall, Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will no longer had the leisurely attitude from before, and all his focus was on raising the defensive power to the maximum.
The previous demonic path Gu Immortals' attacks were fierce, but they lacked coordination, and although they were numerous in quantity, they had limited qualitative increase in power. Now that Pi Shui Han used this trump card, his strength was united as it was his own power, and was stronger than the earlier chaotic attacks by at least ten times.
Rumble...
The glacier heavily smashed at the blood veil.
The blood veil deformed from the enormous weight, but was still able to rigidly resist the pressure of the glacier and the corrosion of the cold aura.
Immortal killer move flood glacier was powerful, but Dong Fang Chang Fan's blood veil was arranged from the origin cores of eight Gu Immortals' immortal apertures and also was aided by the arrangements prepared at this location. Pi Shui Han, alone, could not break through the blood veil.
But this killer move was still astonishing.
The demonic path Gu Immortals looked down from above, and saw that with the ruin bat at the center, the entire surroundings had turned into a glacier.
The dead immemorial ruin bat was huge, like a mountain, and now that it was covered by the glacier, it was as if it wore a heavy suit of ice armor, looking even more gigantic.
Inside the translucent glacier was a giant red blood veil.
The bone-chilling cold air was still spreading everywhere, frost had covered the vegetation on the periphery and was expanding.
For a while, everyone looked at Pi Shui Han with astonished gazes.
Although the killer move had not broken the blood veil, its power still left a deep impression on everyone.
"Even if I used all eight strength path giant hands together, I wouldn't be able to resist this killer move head-on." Fang Yuan's gaze flickered.
This was the true strength of an veteran rank seven Gu Immortal.
Compared to this, Fang Yuan was still lacking greatly.
Previously, Fang Yuan had been able to fight against two, blocking Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, because the two had not used their trump cards.
Gu Immortals were rational; they all came for the wisdom path inheritance, and had no deep hatred against each other, they would have to be mentally handicapped to fight each other to the death.
But now, the Gu Immortals realized something was wrong, only then did Pi Shui Han use a trump card and put out his full strength!
"Although I have rank seven battle strength with my immortal killer move myriad self, it is only barely at that level. If I had to truly fight an expert like Pi Shui Han to the death, the one who is likely to lose is me. But if I had to confront this move, I would not face it head-on, but attempt to evade and detour around to battle."
The power of the immortal killer move, flood glacier, made Fang Yuan aware of some of Pi Shui Han's strength and also made him aware of the gap between him and Pi Shui Han.
Immediately, Fang Yuan felt a slight sense of urgency.
The cultivation of Gu Immortals was a major factor in influencing battle strength. A part of Pi Shui Han's power was because he had used rank seven red date immortal essence. Fang Yuan already had made extremely superior progress in this life, but the thing hindering him was his immortal zombie body. His true cultivation was only at the bottom of rank six with not even one tribulation passed.
"Cultivation is the base, the foundation. My immortal zombie body might be strong, but there is no room to greatly improve. I still have to search for the method to regain my living body."
"Brother Pi really is mighty! Let me also test my hand." At this moment, Unfettered Scholar laughed brightly and flew towards Pi Shui Han.
Pi Shui Han coldly snorted, with a ugly expression on his face. He had made such an effort in front of everyone, but had still not been able to break the blood veil. Seeing Unfettered Scholar coming over, he slowly gave way for the central position.
Under everyone's gazes, Unfettered Scholar flew right above the ruin bat's corpse.
He had already been preparing earlier, he suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils were completely white and shot out two thin rays of faint white light.
This move looked very inconspicuous, purely based on how imposing it appeared, it could never be compared to the glacier earlier.
The Gu Immortals who were unaware were rather baffled at this.
However, Pi Shui Han's complexion changed.
When the two faint white light rays shined down, the glacier instantly melted and the blood veil intensely shook, unexpectedly displaying immense power.
"Hmm? This is Unfettered Scholar? What an amazing move, thousand disintegrations!" In the hall, Old Lord Can Yang, however, recognized this move.
Central Continent's ten great ancient sects had infiltrated into Northern Plains for many years over Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Since Old Lord Can Yang took the risk to come, he naturally had a lot of information on Northern Plains.
Unfettered Scholar originated from Central Continent's Chen clan.
Central Continent's Chen clan specialized in rule path, but Central Continent was ruled by a sect system and did not leave room for clans to prosper. After being pushed aside, Chen clan moved to Northern Plains.
Unfortunately, Northern Plains' righteous path was ruled by the Huang Jin bloodline. Chen clan might be a super force with Gu Immortal level strength, but under secret repulsion from Huang Jin bloodline forces, it finally weakened.
By Unfettered Scholar's time, he was the only outstanding talent remaining and the clan already did not exist anymore. He was left to fight alone and fend for himself.
"Chen clan specialized in rule path and among its Gu Immortals, rank six could use the killer move hundred disintegrations, rank seven could use thousand disintegrations, and rank eight could use myriad disintegrations. This killer move is extremely powerful and can attack as well as defend, disintegrating almost any mysterious elements. In Central Continent's past, many Gu Immortals from sects suffered crushing defeats under the might of myriad disintegrations!" Old Lord Can Yang sighed as he recalled.
"You have spoken so much nonsense, are you still not going to strike? The blood veil is being consumed greatly because of Unfettered Scholar, these are all precious immortal aperture origin cores that are being used up!" Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will urged.
"Haha." Old Lord Can Yang stood with his hands clasped behind his back and did not seem like he was going to fight, "Unfettered Scholar is only one person while you have the collaboration of eight people. He also doesn't know the situation here, watch me use my method."
He then let out his rank seven aura.
The aura immediately shocked the demonic path Gu Immortals in the sky.
"They actually have a rank seven Gu Immortal?"
"Aren't all the Gu Immortals of Dong Fang tribe rank six? Could it be that someone advanced to rank seven but kept it a secret all along?"
"Or maybe Dong Fang tribe invited reinforcements? Don't forget they are of Huang Jin bloodline, a super force of the righteous path!"
The Gu Immortals were startled and puzzled.
Unfettered Scholar looked indifferent, but he was inwardly shaken.
His killer move was powerful and had a huge origin, but its consumption of red date immortal essence was extremely intense.
The other side had a rank seven Gu Immortal, thus they could clearly fight toe-to-toe with him. His side has numerous people, but everyone had their own intentions. Unfettered Scholar could not help but consider: He could not brainlessly charge ahead and waste his immortal essence. Otherwise, during the time when they fought for real, he would lack the necessary immortal essence to continue, and all of his efforts would have gone to waste and to the advantage of others.
Unfettered Scholar stopped his killer move when he thought of this.
"See, didn't it stop?" Old Lord Can Yang laughed heartily, a pleased expression on his face.
He only leaked his aura, and was able to make Unfettered Scholar stop. Just based on scheming and deceiving, Old Lord Can Yang might not be a match to Dong Fang Chang Fan, but his plentiful life experiences were enough for him to know people's mindsets and use the situation to make schemes.
"The longer the time prolongs, the more favorable it is to that Dong Fang Yu Liang. This blood veil is extremely thick, we need to use our trump cards to attack it if we want to break it." Unfettered Scholar spoke, his gaze cast towards Fang Yuan.
Traveling Three Elites lost Han Dong, Lu Qing Ming and Su Guang were only at rank six. Besides Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, there was only Fang Yuan who had shown rank seven battle strength.
Pi Shui Han also looked at Fang Yuan.
These demonic path Gu Immortal experts naturally would not let Fang Yuan take easy benefits.
"Fairies, please guard me while I exert all my strength." Fang Yuan secretly transmitted his voice and after obtaining affirmation, he sat cross-legged in the air.
Eight strength path giant hands flew towards the blood veil.
The periphery of the blood veil was covered with a layer of glacier, looking like a stuffed large iceberg.
Fang Yuan paid no attention to it, moving his eight strength path giant hands in eight directions. The giant hands opened up and the palms tightly stuck to the surface of the iceberg. The five fingers then started to dig into the iceberg.
"Rise!" Fang Yuan called out, immediately, a rumbling noise resounded in everyone's ears.
At first, this noise was only slight.
But soon, the sound got louder and louder, until the rumbling resounded like bursts of endless thunder.
Earth shook and giant cracks started to appear on the ground surrounding the iceberg.
In everyone's astonished gazes, the iceberg that covered the blood veil was actually slowly rising, like it was going to leave the ground!
The hall was trembling and swaying. Old Lord Can Yang blurted out: "This is?"
The star will also changed expression: "Not good. I have already remodeled this immemorial ruin bat's corpse, and to make it stable, I connected it to the ground to form a mountain based on the corpse. The other party seems to have the ability to pull mountain roots, which happens to counter my arrangements! Can Yang, you need to make a move!"
Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will was so anxious that his figure almost collapsed.
His main body could indeed make great calculations, but human minds had their limits. The arrangements were set long ago, and even the most extensive calculations could have mishaps.
Fang Yuan's pulling mountain Immortal Gu was one such mishap.
Pulling mountain Immortal Gu could target any mountainous body, when Dong Fang Chang Fan was alive, he had linked the immemorial ruin bat's corpse to the surrounding landscape, forming what could truly be called a corpse mountain.
This arrangement instead became a flaw which happened to be used by pulling mountain Immortal Gu!
"This mountain with roots connected to the ground can be pulled up?" Pi Shui Han stared with wide open eyes, his gaze constantly flickering.
"Who could this person be?!" Unfettered Scholar was startled and puzzled, while he used his killer move, thousand disintegrations, at the blood veil again.
Being attacked from two ends, the situation did not seem to bode well for Dong Fang Chang Fan's side.
Old Lord Can Yang laughed before finally making his move: "Look at my life chasing fire."
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Immortal killer move — Life Chasing Fire!
Old Lord Can Yang looked solemn as he slowly opened up his hand, revealing a weak flame.
The faint yellow flame swayed, appearing dim and weak, as if it would extinguish at any moment.
Old Lord Can Yang's pupils, however, let out a sharp and bright radiance, and as he gazed at this flame in his hand, a proud expression appeared on his face.
This was the supreme technique which he had used to make his name and shake Central Continent!
"Life chasing fire, go." Old Lord Can Yang lightly shook his palm; the life chasing fire made a whooshing sound as it shot out rapidly.
The star will quickly opened up a path.
The unremarkable-looking life chasing fire moved out of the blood veil and pierced into the cold iceberg.
Boom!
Almost at the same instant, there was a large yellow flame that blazed to the sky and burned the whole iceberg.
Almost all the demonic path Gu Immortals in the air were taken aback at this change.
Soon, they revealed odd expressions.
The reason was, although the fire was fierce, it had no heat; the iceberg covered in the fire was completely undamaged with no signs of melting down.
Some demonic path Gu Immortals were just about to ridicule it, when the rank seven demonic path Gu Immortal, Pi Shui Han, suddenly let out a miserable scream.
Everyone followed the voice and saw a sight that gave them a great shock.
Pi Shui Han was covered in fire, of such intensity that his whole face twisted in pain. Great amounts of cold air were being let off from his body and a river of water started flowing around him, like a dragon coiling around his body. The faint yellow fire, however, did not weaken, instead looking like it was growing even fiercer.
"What move is this?"
"How did Pi Shui Han get attacked, why didn't I see it?"
"Such a strange fire, everyone evade it!"
The demonic path Gu Immortals retreated one after the other, while looking with lingering fear at Pi Shui Han exerting all his efforts to extinguish the fire.
"This fire, could it be... life chasing fire? Not good!" Fang Yuan's mind was shaken as he realized something amiss, and quickly withdrew the eight strength path giant hands.
But it was already too late.
The fire burned the iceberg and quickly had spread to the eight strength path giant hands.
The strength path giant hands were completely unharmed, but a faint flame had emerged out of thin air in Fang Yuan's immortal aperture, quietly burning his one hundred and sixty thousand strength path phantoms!
These strength path phantoms had their arms raised, they had been providing the strength to form the eight strength path giant hands in the outside world.
They were bathed in the fire, but were completely safe.
Fang Yuan's heart shivered at this sight.
"This is truly that killer move, life chasing fire!" Fang Yuan was aware of the terrifying power of this move, he quickly made a decision and willed, the one hundred and sixty thousand strength path phantoms collapsed.
Without these strength path phantoms, the eight strength path giant hands pulling the iceberg also crumbled apart.
Boom, the ruin bat's corpse mountain heavily fell down, producing a huge tremor, the surrounding ground cracked and countless stones were splattered, leaving dust swirling everywhere.
Fang Yuan suffered an intense backlash from forcibly halting use of Pulling Mountain! He felt intense dizziness and nausea, his body shook and he almost fell down from the air.
Hei Lou Lan saw this and quickly moved to support him.
Fang Yuan, however, evaded and shouted: "Don't approach me!"
He quickly retreated backwards, a faint yellow flame started to burn his body like Pi Shui Han.
At the same time, Unfettered Scholar turned pale. He was also struck by this move and his body was similarly burning in fire.
"This fire path immortal killer move can actually detect auras and follow our attacks back to the source, directly reaching our immortal apertures!" Unfettered Scholar was greatly shocked.
Unfettered Scholar realized at this moment why Pi Shui Han was in a panic.
Not only were their bodies burning, the fire was spreading in their immortal apertures as well. The former was okay, but the latter was a Gu Immortal's headquarters, their foundation that had been managed meticulously for countless years, and also where innumerable cultivation resources had been stored inside.
Now that this foundation was being burned, it was like the fire was burning directly at the Gu Immortal's heart, make them bleed from the heartache.
Pi Shui Han not only was extinguishing the fire on his body, he was even more importantly putting out the fire in his immortal aperture. But the strange thing was, this fire could not be extinguished by water or ice.
The surrounding demonic path Gu Immortals started to move away from Fang Yuan, Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, fearing this strange fire would spread to them as well.
"Why are the flames on Fang Yuan weaker than the other two?" Hei Lou Lan was bewildered.
The remaining Gu Immortals soon discovered this difference. Immediately, Fang Yuan looked even more unfathomable to everyone.
Unfettered Scholar's gaze also paused on Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's situation was much better than the other two. There was only a thin layer of flames on him, as if they were the fires of an oil lamp, while the flames on Pi Shui Han and Unfettered Scholar were blazing like a torch.
In just a few breaths of time, Unfettered Scholar's body was already mostly burnt and started to emit the smell of burning meat.
Unfettered Scholar himself was calm and not particularly panicked, the reason was that he still had a trump card!
Immortal killer move — Thousand Disintegrations!
He wildly activated the killer move, the light in his white pupils turned even more vigorous.
But this time, the light did not shine on the iceberg and the blood veil, instead it shined on himself, on his immortal aperture.
The faint yellow flame started to disintegrate continuously under the white light, weakening rapidly.
Soon, the flames on his body completely dispersed and the fire in his immortal aperture was also suppressed.
Thousand disintegrations was very useful, it could not only be used to attack enemies, but could also be used for defense. Offense and defense in one move, and its power was also extraordinary.
In a short while, Fang Yuan also stood up, the fire on his body completely dissipated.
Only Pi Shui Han was still trying out all sorts of methods, but the flames on him were instead burning even more. His whole body was darkened from burns, the intense odor of burnt meat was spreading everywhere. He had no choice but to activate healing Gu to heal his injuries and also endure the burning of the fire.
He shouted furiously, he felt pain not only physically, but also heartache mentally.
The fire was spreading in his immortal aperture, large amounts of resources were being burnt to nothingness, but he still had no way to put out this fire.
"What to do? What to do!" Pi Shui Han thought rapidly in extreme anxiety.
Fang Yuan and Unfettered Scholar just watched on coldly and silently. The remaining demonic path Gu Immortals stood further away, some gazes were flickering, eager to make some trouble.
If Pi Shui Han were to be seriously injured and weakened, these demonic path Gu Immortals would absolutely be moved and interested in attacking Pi Shui Han, adding on to his misfortune.
Suddenly, Pi Shui Han gave a loud shout before soaring high, and with his whole body in flames, he shot far away like a meteor.
This fire was giving him enormous trouble, and there were many demonic path Gu Immortals present, he could not stick around. Pi Shui Han's retreat was a wise choice.
Seeing him rapidly disappear into the horizon, several demonic path Gu Immortals at the periphery also stealthily left, following the trail of Pi Shui Han.
In the hall, Old Lord Can Yang laughed heartily, saying to Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will: "How was that?"
"Truly worthy of being called life chasing fire." The star will nodded, "This fire has the ability to trace auras back to their source. Gu Immortals normally place Gu worms in their immortal apertures, thus this fire would burn their immortal apertures. This fire also uses life as the fuel, as long as life has not been extinguished, it will keep on burning. Thus, special methods must be used to extinguish this fire, like the technique of thousand disintegrations. If one doesn't have such methods, then they have to be resolute in cutting off the burning part, restraining it from burning sources of life force within their body as much as possible. As long as the life force is used up, this fire will disperse. Unfortunately, this Pi Shui Han did not think of this point and continuously healed himself which increased his life force, increasing the intensity of the fire."
The star will chuckled as it said this, and praised: "Old Lord Can Yang, your move is a truly unique and innovative method. As long as this fire strikes the enemy, they will fall into chaos. If it is allowed to keep on burning, even the wealthier Gu Immortals will have their foundations greatly damaged and have no battle intent."
Listening to the star will praise his method so much, Old Lord Can Yang's pleased expression instead disappeared and was replaced by a gloomy look.
The reason for Old Lord Can Yang's fame was the killer move life chasing fire.
Once this fire burned, even if it was eliminated, the enemy would be low in spirits. If they attacked, the fire could follow the attack and burn their immortal aperture.
Immortal apertures were the foundations of Gu Immortals, and it would be greatly damaged if it was burned a few times. Even if the fire did not burn the enemy to death, it could ruin them.
Thus, Old Lord Can Yang had already been able to roam unhindered around Central Continent in his early years, and was very well known. Gu Immortals fighting him would have a headache.
After becoming rank seven, Old Lord Can Yang did not wander around much, but just based on his battle strength, he was in the top five of Immortal Crane Sect! The matter of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's collapse was simply too important, so Immortal Crane Sect had sent him to Northern Plains to investigate the culprit.
Once life chasing fire was used, it restrained Fang Yuan and Unfettered Scholar, and caused Pi Shui Han to retreat in a miserable state. Old Lord Can Yang was repelling the enemies on the surface, but was covertly also trying to intimidate Dong Fang Chang Fan.
However, Dong Fang Chang Fan was aware of the details of life chasing fire, his words were appreciative, but in truth were a counterattack against Old Lord Can Yang.
If Old Lord Can Yang could still show a good expression, that would be strange.
"Life chasing fire... Old Lord Can Yang... why is he here?" Fang Yuan hovered in the air, looking at the blood veil below in uncertainty and doubt.
He might have his previous life's memories, but there was an extremely large difference between having them and being all-knowing and omnipotent, Dong Fang Chang Fan's possession scheme was kept in extreme secrecy and Fang Yuan was not aware of it.
Now that he saw a Central Continent Gu Immortal mixed up with Dong Fang Chang Fan's inheritance, he naturally felt surprised and bewildered.
When Old Lord Can Yang repelled him, he had done so evasively, and had not revealed his identity at all.
Old Lord Can Yang had methods to conceal his aura and with them being used, his aura was the same as a Northern Plains Gu Immortal's. The other demonic path Gu Immortals did not discover anything wrong, which showed how ingenious Old Lord Can Yang's methods were.
'Not good.' Fang Yuan inwardly shouted, thoughts of retreating rose up inside him..
He knew Central Continent's forces had secretly infiltrated into Northern Plains to search for him, the culprit. He also knew someone had gone to Northern Plains Zombie Alliance with suspicions about his Sha Huang identity.
"The reason I could resolve life chasing fire was because I knew the details of this move and made the decision quickly. And as an immortal zombie, I am among the living dead, my immortal aperture is a dead land with sparse life force, thus it could not be burned. Old Lord Can Yang has plenty of experience, he might have already discerned that I am an immortal zombie. Hiding myself like this, perhaps he might become suspicious!" The more Fang Yuan thought, the heavier his state of mind.
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As far as Fang Yuan was concerned, a wisdom path inheritance was indeed precious and rare. But even if he gained a complete inheritance, risking his true identity and the pursuit of Northern Plains' Gu Immortals was absolutely not worth it!
Old Lord Can Yang had restrained the group of demons with one burst of fire, and even sent Pi Shui Han retreating far away.
Fang Yuan had realized the bad situation and also was considering retreating, thus he naturally stopped his attacks.
The rank seven Unfettered Scholar also did not risk attacking. He thought higher of Fang Yuan from the way he dealt with the life chasing fire. He himself had to rely on thousand disintegrations to get through that danger, which made him feel Fang Yuan was even more mysterious.
And besides Fang Yuan, there was still the two black robed Gu Immortals, Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan, thus Unfettered Scholar restrained his desire to make a move and only observed Fang Yuan's side.
His thoughts were obvious – he was waiting for Fang Yuan's side to make a move.
For a while, the surroundings above the ruin bat's corpse became silent, while inside the ruined hall, curses were still being endlessly hurled out.
Dong Fang tribe's eight Gu Immortals could not budge even a bit but had retained the ability to speak.
Since the moment Dong Fang Chang Fan's possession had begun, they had been throwing curses and shouting at Dong Fang Chang Fan.
Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will turned a deaf ear to this.
He saw the situation outside had quietened down, the group of demons would be restrained for a while. He smiled: "Finally, the time is ripe, my possession and rebirth will start at this moment. Old Lord Can Yang, I have explained the previous main steps to you. The crucial time has arrived, I will have to trouble you to guard me."
Being indecisive when a decision was needed would instead worsen the situation; the star will made the decision and did not hesitate any longer!
A change occurred, a large vortex suddenly formed on the surface of the blood veil.
Blood energy started fermenting in the vortex. It condensed into form before suddenly bursting out, it turned into a giant blood pillar that directly shot straight down to the center of the phantom formation, covering Dong Fang Yu Liang's body.
Old Lord Can Yang's eyes opened wide, and he shouted: "Damn it!"
Old Lord Can Yang understood after seeing this change: This blood veil was not used just to defend, but was also involved in a purification process. The extracted eight immortal aperture origin cores were like eight metals melting together. It then used the demonic path Gu Immortals' attacks to temper the melted origin cores, eliminating the wills and auras of the eight Gu Immortals, before pouring the fused product into the possession target.
Dong Fang Chang Fan had arranged the situation exquisitely, calculating the demonic path Gu Immortals within his plan. Even Fang Yuan was in the dark, used by Dong Fang Chang Fan into unknowingly becoming a blacksmith.
Now, the blood energy flowed backwards, filling Dong Fang Yu Liang's body, naturally, the blood veil would weaken. With the weakening of the blood veil, the defense immediately fell. Old Lord Can Yang had a heavy duty from the sect and with enormous benefits in front of him, how could he stay still and not share the burden?
Seeing the blood veil weakening, the demonic path Gu Immortals indeed were moved.
"It seems the previous attacks were effective!"
"There is hope in breaking the blood veil, everyone attack together!"
The Gu Immortals attacked one after the other, countless attacks rained down like a violent storm.
The blood veil was sending the blood energy inside, while also having to endure the attacks, immediately, it was strained and started to sway unstably.
Old Lord Can Yang had no choice but to take action, using an immortal killer move — Final Afterglow!
A light barrier emerged outside of the blood veil, it looked to be condensed from the afterglow of the setting sun, and was so thin and faint that it was almost like there was nothing. Countless attacks passed through this light barrier and landed on the blood veil, however, their power was reduced to less than half the original.
This was the use of 'final afterglow', it was not a complete defense, instead it weakened the power of most attacks.
Even immortal killer moves on the level of 'flood glacier' would be weakened by thirty percent. And what the demonic path Gu Immortals were using right now were mostly all mortal killer moves, after being weakened by final afterglow, they only appeared strong but had little threat.
Dong Fang Chang Fan showed a joyous expression.
The situation was extremely beneficial to him in this way.
The phantom formation was constantly extracting the eight immortal aperture origin cores and fusing them to create the blood veil.
When the blood veil suffered the attacks, the foreign wills and auras hidden inside the origin cores were gradually being removed. Afterwards, the purified blood energy would then pour into Dong Fang Yu Liang's body.
Dong Fang Yu Liang was a Gu Master with a rank five peak stage aperture. Right now, his soul was already eliminated by Dong Fang Chang Fan, leaving him in control of his young body. Dong Fang Chang Fan's attention was fully focused on the aperture.
The aperture burst with a loud sound as it was filled with blood energy.
Dong Fang Yu Liang's aura rose higher instead of shrinking.
An astonishing transformation was occurring — surpassing mortal, charging to Gu Immortal!
Crack!
In the clear sky outside, a lightning bolt flashed.
Within several breaths later, dark clouds surged and spread over the entire surroundings in the clear sky.
Earth tremored and rumbled, and vast amounts of dusts surged, as if countless bulls were running on the ground.
Heaven and earth qi were stirred, a heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity were forming!
"Someone is actually ascending to immortal inside?!"
"What is going on?"
The Gu Immortals quickly stopped their attacks, feeling baffled.
Crack crack crack!
Rays of lightning struck down together from above. The power they contained shocked the demonic path Gu Immortals into hurriedly retreating.
"Amazing! This is the heavenly star lightning tribulation."
"How unlucky is the mortal to not receive the favor of heaven and earth. He is just ascending to immortal, and is met with such a powerful heavenly tribulation!"
"What earthly calamity is this?"
The Gu Immortals retreated to the edges and observed.
Countless round craters appeared in the surroundings of the ruin bat's corpse. The craters were pitch-black and unfathomably deep.
Bang bang bang!
Balls of pitch black lightning shot out from the craters and impacted on the ruin bat's corpse mountain, creating loud explosions.
The lightning strikes flashed and in just a few breaths of time, the iceberg was struck by countless lightning balls, the iceberg was smashed into pieces and spattered everywhere.
Even Unfettered Scholar was moved at this, inwardly exclaiming: 'The heavenly tribulation is heavenly star lightning, tyrannical and sharp. The earthly calamity is the earth ghost lightning, underhanded and explosive. These two great lightning tribulations are called the twin lightnings of heaven and earth, their power is increased further when they combine. Even I have to worry if I face them!"
The twin lightning of heaven and earth combined, one fell from above while the other exploded from below. The lightning was dazzling, forming a purgatory filled with the sound of thunder.
Countless bolts of lightning, densely packed together, combined into a huge lightning forest!
The shattered ice pieces were completely destroyed, even the remaining traces of frost energy were extinguished.
The scene, as if part of the world was ending, caused the observing demonic path Gu Immortals to hold their breaths in and feel stifled.
Inside the ruin bat's corpse mountain, Old Lord Can Yang looked serious as he put all his effort in maintaining the immortal killer move, final afterglow.
This ingenious defensive killer move was being used to its utmost to weaken the strength of the twin lightnings of heaven and earth.
However, all of Old Lord Can Yang's effort only weakened the lightning by fifteen percent.
His red date immortal essence was being consumed extremely quickly, and soon, his forehead was covered in a thin layer of sweat.
"How could there be such a strong lightning tribulation!" Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will muttered with a worried expression. This was almost the worst case scenario in his plan.
He had not thought he would be faced with them at this moment.
His luck really was extremely bad.
The blood veil was being badly destroyed by the lightning strikes and explosions of thunder, the losses caused Dong Fang Chang Fan to feel extreme heartache.
These losses would greatly influence the foundation of Dong Fang Yu Liang's immortal aperture.
Fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, one hour, two hours... time continued to pass, but the lightning tribulations from heaven and earth did not show any signs of weakening, instead they were constantly increasing in strength.
The immemorial ruin bat's corpse was wrecked until it was beyond recognition.
There were previously countless numbers of densely packed space path dao marks covering the surroundings of the ruin bat, but now they were almost completely cleared up by the lightning tribulations.
Old Lord Can Yang was already unable to support the situation, and the severe loss of immortal essence caused him to feel heavy.
"Right! The power of the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity is beyond normal, it is all because of you, Dong Fang Chang Fan." Old Lord Can Yang suddenly spoke, "You are already dead, and according to the arrangement of fate, your soul should be returning to the door of life and death, how could you still remain here alive and kicking? Right now, you are not only trying to revive, you are even thinking of ascending to immortal, this is truly an act in defiance of heaven! No wonder heaven and earth are so enraged!!"
When Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will heard this, his grave expression changed, he raised his eyebrows and laughed: "Ever since Red Lotus Demon Venerable broke fate, the destiny of all living beings in this world has been in their own hands. So what if it is in defiance to heaven? My fate is in my own hands, I have planned for so long, I made so many preparations, I will definitely succeed!"
He had just spoken when they heard a rumbling sound.
The lightning strikes were already as dense as rain and the thunder was already resounding non-stop.
The thunder at this moment was beyond that of the previous ones, its sound resounded through the skies and caused everyone's ears to buzz.
Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will shook and dispersed at once!
A dazzling white light filled the world! Fang Yuan, Unfettered Scholar and the remaining demonic path Gu Immortals all retreated in alarm, and even Old Lord Can Yang had to tightly close his eyes.
From the white light, a ray of divine lightning struck down.
This divine lightning was incomparably fierce, sweeping past all obstacles, in an instant, it blew up final afterglow, broke the blood veil and directly struck at Dong Fang Yu Liang.
The divine lightning was extremely fast, in almost the blink of an eye, it had broken through all the barriers like they were rotten wood and appeared in front of Dong Fang Yu Liang.
Dong Fang Yu Liang only had a mortal body and would definitely be shattered to pieces if he really was struck by this lightning, Dong Fang Chang Fan's possession plan would come to an end, resulting in complete failure!
At the moment between life and death, 'Dong Fang Yu Liang', whose eyes were tightly closed the whole time, suddenly opened his eyes!
In the dazzling white light, he barely managed to see that ray of thunder and lightning.
Intense startled anger rose up inside him: 'Fluctuating light! Falling star lightning! Tribulations hidden inside my original tribulation, accursed heaven, you want me to die so badly?! Then I refuse to die!'
Dong Fang Chang Fan roared in his mind.
The phantom formation started to give off bright radiance.
Boom!!!
A piercing explosion resounded. Endless rays of white light shot out from the ruin bat's corpse.
The light rays swept through some unlucky demonic path Gu Immortals, immediately, their minds and souls shook, and some even directly crashed down from the sky.
The terrifying explosion created a huge shock wave that lifted all the vegetation in the surroundings.
The sky seemed to be collapsing while the earth quaked.
The demonic path Gu Immortals retreated in panic.
They retreated several kilometers, before the while light rays gradually dispersed, only then did the Gu Immortals calm down, returning.
There was nothing left of the enormous, lofty ruin bat's corpse mountain.
In the air above, a young figure appeared, standing proudly as he looked at Fang Yuan and the others.
Dong Fang Yu Liang!
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"Dong Fang Yu Liang? Am I seeing wrongly?"
"How did he become a Gu Immortal? It seems that this heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity was caused by him."
"Becoming an immortal on the spot, was that Dong Fang Chang Fan's inheritance? Sigh, a mortal actually snatched it!"
The demonic path Gu Immortals saw Dong Fang Chang Fan and were very shocked, they felt some dejection and sadness.
'Dong Fang Yu Liang' was expressionless, there was no pupils or whites in his eyes, they were completely shining with many different colored crystalline lights, flickering continuously.
He had this gaze while observing the demonic path Gu Immortals around him, saying softly: "You are the people who want to snatch my master's inheritance? What gives you the guts to attack a righteous path super force?"
After Dong Fang Chang Fan succeeded in his possession, but he did not expose the truth, he still spoke as if he was Dong Fang Yu Liang, with his voice.
The demonic path Gu Immortals were in a dejected state, filled with great grievance, now that they heard Dong Fang Yu Liang's arrogant words, their faces turned ugly, some scoffed while others shouted: "You mere junior, you have just become an immortal, after ascending in one step, you are arrogant! Here, take my hammer!"
As he said so, a figure flew out from among the crowd.
This demonic path Gu Immortal had broad shoulders and a thick waist, there was a flying heavenly boar underneath him, its fat legs were running quickly, as it carried its owner towards Dong Fang Yu Liang in an imposing manner.
It was Zhuo Zhan.
The immortals jolted, reacting to what had happened.
"This Zhuo Zhan is so crafty, he is trying to pick up a bargain!"
"We were almost deterred by the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, but even if Dong Fang Yu Liang became an immortal, he is a newbie. What is there to be afraid of?"
"Capture Dong Fang Yu Liang alive, and interrogate the wisdom path inheritance from him!!"
The demonic path Gu Immortals moved quickly, charging towards 'Dong Fang Yu Liang', fearing that they would be left behind.
Unfettered Scholar was among them.
Only Fang Yuan and a few other people did not move, they remained in their places.
He did not know that Dong Fang Yu Liang's body was already possessed by Dong Fang Chang Fan, but he was wary of Old Lord Can Yang.
"Dong Fang Yu Liang appeared, but where is Old Lord Can Yang?"
Old Lord Can Yang was actually standing behind 'Dong Fang Yu Liang', but he used an immortal technique and concealed himself. His method was superb, none of the demonic path immortals sensed him.
But he was quite injured, seeing the immortals charging over, he transmitted to 'Dong Fang Yu Liang': "Do you need my help?"
'Dong Fang Yu Liang' quickly rejected him: "You do not need to do anything, let me deal with them!"
Once Old Lord Can Yang attacked, if he was exposed, Northern Plains' Gu Immortals would realize that 'Dong Fang Yu Liang' was colluding with Central Continent's forces. By then, not only would 'Dong Fang Yu Liang' get ostracized by the righteous path, even the demonic path would not welcome him.
In addition, 'Dong Fang Yu Liang' wanted to single-handedly showcase a heavy crippling of his enemies. That was the only way he could rise up after the death of eight Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals, to allow Dong Fang tribe to once again become a force to be reckoned with!
Zhuo Zhan led the way, he was getting closer, Dong Fang Yu Liang could see the sinister smile on his face.
Behind him, more than ten demonic path Gu Immortals were charging with killing intent.
Dong Fang Yu Liang was all alone, his cultivation level was only at the bottom of rank six, but he was neither flustered nor scared.
His lips curled up, he showed a mild smile as if he was in complete control of the situation.
Old Lord Can Yang who was behind him looked on with much curiosity, he wanted to see how he could repel his foes with his current cultivation level.
Only to see that Dong Fang Yu Liang raised his right arm, his white sleeves were pulled back as his right index finger pointed at the sky, he spoke loudly and leisurely, word by word: "Myriad. Star. Fireflies."
The immortals heard this and their advancement halted, their expressions changed.
Myriad star fireflies was well known in the world of Northern Plains Gu Immortals, it was Dong Fang Chang Fan's strongest killer move.
Dong Fang Chang Fan was known as the number one wisdom path Gu Immortal in Northern Plains, that was not just because of his deductions alone, there was also his battle strength!
Without stunning battle strength, how could he stand firm in the turbulent Northern Plains? Without immense power, how could he lead Dong Fang tribe on the road to success?
Thus, in terms of battle strength, Dong Fang Chang Fan easily surpassed Pi Shui Han and Unfettered Scholar during his life. After all, he was the first supreme elder of a righteous path super force!
The wisdom path killer move, myriad star fireflies, was the greatest display of Dong Fang Chang Fan's battle strength. This move was extremely famous, it was ingrained into the hearts of Northern Plains Gu Immortals.
"Don't listen to his bluff! Myriad star fireflies involves tens of thousands of Gu worms, can it be activated so easily?" Zhuo Zhan shouted.
"He is just a newbie Gu Immortal, he has just ascended and gone beyond the mortal stage, how can he manipulate so many Gu worms immediately?" Lu Qing Ming snickered.
"Wishful thinking!" Divine Lord Tian Du held his Immortal Gu as he prepared to strike.
"Hmph, myriad star fireflies, I lost to that move back then. I wonder how much of its power you can use?" Unfettered Scholar's expression flashed with rage.
"Are we really doing nothing?" Hei Lou Lan's heart was pounding in excitement, but Fang Yuan was a great strength amongst them, after Hei Lou Lan lost self strength Immortal Gu, her battle strength was weaker than before.
"Wait a while longer, the situation is not right." Fang Yuan wanted to speak of what he had found out earlier, but the sky suddenly changed.
Earlier, the clouds had dispersed, the surroundings were entirely clear skies. But now, darkness descended as the world turned dim.
Darkness surrounded the surroundings, countless firefly-like spots of light appeared in the sky, dancing as they moved around.
Starlight burst out, it was a brilliant and dazzling sight!
"Myriad star fireflies!!" The demonic path Gu Immortals' expressions changed, they shouted as they were fell into the midst of the star fireflies.
Starlight was glowing and reflected on their faces.
Unfettered Scholar's expression was pale, this was truly myriad star fireflies, it seemed even stronger than in his memories!
But how could this be possible?
Dong Fang Yu Liang had just became an immortal, right? Even if he had Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will, and could use rank seven red date immortal essence left behind by Dong Fang Chang Fan, this was the first time he was activating myriad star fireflies, how could he be so familiar with it, like he had practiced it a thousand times?
Unfettered Scholar could not understand it.
The Gu Immortals around him were in a more pathetic state.
The surrounding specks of starlight were attacking them from all directions.
One starlight speck was not powerful, but with tens of thousands of starlight specks? Hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions of starlight spots?
Especially when each of the starlight specks had a star thought in them.
Even if the Gu Immortals destroyed the starlight specks, the star thoughts would come out and force their way into the Gu Immortals' minds.
Even if the Gu Immortals had defensive methods, the starlight specks were endless and nearly unlimited in numbers, they were bound to fail eventually. Once star thoughts find an opportunity and enter their minds, that would be dangerous.
The least they could do was to disrupt one's thoughts, the worst they could do was to destroy the person's thoughts, causing them to become slow-witted, or if all the thoughts in their mind were star thoughts, they would be subdued completely. The star thoughts would replace their cognition, and the Gu Immortal would become Dong Fang Yu Liang's puppet, manipulated at will!
"What are you doing?!" Beside Zhuo Zhan, a demonic path Gu Immortal shouted angrily.
Zhuo Zhan's face was turning purplish-red: "Sorry, my attack changed directions all of a sudden!"
"Hmph! With your ability, you want to snatch the wisdom path inheritance? In such a short time, you already got invaded by the star thoughts. You are really more of a trouble than help!" The demonic path Gu Immortal was nearly hit, he was extremely angry.
"What did you say? Do you dare to say it again?!" Zhuo Zhan was furious too, he shouted at the demonic path Gu Immortal.
"Enough, are you still fighting amongst yourselves? The important thing now is to escape. This is myriad star fireflies, the longer we stay here, the more dangerous it is." A Gu Immortal said anxiously.
Another Gu Immortal immediately rebuked: "Escape? What are you afraid of? He is only a bottom tier rank six Gu Immortal, we have so many people, and Lord Unfettered Scholar, why are you afraid to this extent? In my opinion, we should just attack!"
Everyone was hesitant on whether to retreat or advance, they subconsciously looked towards Unfettered Scholar.
Pi Shui Han had already escaped, Fang Yuan was far away, Unfettered Scholar was the only rank seven battle strength here, he was their shepherd.
It was not that everyone acknowledged Unfettered Scholar as the leader, but in times of difficulty, the strong would handle the greater dangers.
Unfettered Scholar was their 'strong' person, by moving alongside an expert, they would have a greater chance of surviving.
Unfettered Scholar himself was hesitant.
He and Dong Fang Chang Fan had fought before, back then, he lost to this move, myriad star fireflies.
After losing in battle, he learned from his painful lesson, focusing more attention on information regarding Dong Fang Chang Fan, thus his understanding of myriad star fireflies was much deeper than that of other people.
He knew that myriad star fireflies was a wisdom path killer move, it had immense power, and was created by Dong Fang Chang Fan singlehandedly.
The weakness of this move was hard to discover.
At the moment, Unfettered Scholar only knew this: Once a person enters the range of this move, they would be plotted against. Each of the Gu Immortal's thoughts could produce star thoughts.
These star thoughts were formed by myriad star fireflies to turn into starlight specks, attacking the Gu Immortal.
During an intense battle, Gu Immortals would have to consider many things, as their minds worked rapidly, they would create more star thoughts.
The more star thoughts produced, the stronger the killer move becomes, especially when there are more Gu Immortals in the range, the star thoughts produced would be even greater. When the star thoughts completely took over the Gu Immortals' minds, they would turn into Dong Fang Yu Liang's puppets, fighting for him.
Even if it could not reach that stage, being influenced by the star thoughts, mistakes would occur. Like earlier, when Zhuo Zhan almost injured an ally.
Thus, myriad star fireflies was a move well suited to deal with multiple enemies, it was weaker when fighting one enemy. Against more people, they would be used to restrain each other, the battle might instead be easier to win.
The reason Dong Fang Chang Fan created this move was because he had tried to develop Dong Fang tribe singlehandedly. Without many Gu Immortals in his tribe to help him, he often had to fight many enemies alone.
But after Dong Fang Chang Fan created this move, he no longer feared group fights.
"The current scenario is what Dong Fang Yu Liang most wants to see. We have many people and are not united, everyone is wary of each other, and we have barely any elites, I am the only rank seven. In a fight, we will become hindrances to each other. Not only that, from the battle earlier, there also seems to be a fire path Gu Immortal hiding here."
Unfettered Scholar thought rapidly in his mind, starlight specks appeared around him, he had much more of them compared to other people.
Given such concerns, Unfettered Scholar did not feel like retreating, instead, his battle intent was roused!
"I lost to Dong Fang Chang Fan, that was the greatest humiliation in my life. Now that I am facing his successor, if I retreat, how will I face myself afterwards? Even if they have a hidden Gu Immortal, we also have many people. If I retreat instead of fighting, which Gu Immortal in Northern Plains would look up to me in the future?"