"Tao Zhu's true inheritance..."
If this was months ago, Fang Yuan might be able to use the Southern Border Gu Immortals to exchange for this inheritance.
But now, the Southern Border captives that he had were already annexed, he had already killed the hostages.
These Southern Border Gu Immortals were all rank seven Gu Immortal experts, while Xia Cha had rank eight cultivation level. The sovereign immortal aperture annexed them as well as the immortal aperture blessed lands in City Well, Fang Yuan's cultivation level rose rapidly, he went from rank seven to rank eight, skipping the final rank seven grand tribulation.
Fang Yuan originally planned to continue capturing Southern Border Gu Immortals in the five regional mountain range before extorting them. But because of Lu Wei Yin, Fang Yuan's plan was disrupted.
Not only did his cultivation level rise, because the sovereign immortal aperture could annex his enemies perfectly, Fang Yuan's dao marks also rose in huge numbers!
Using perceivable dao Immortal Gu to check them, Fang Yuan's current dao mark accumulation was extremely deep.
He originally had very little time path dao marks, almost at the bottom, but it had emerged to become his number one path, having seventy-three thousand dao marks. Almost all of it was Xia Cha's contribution, he had truly 'become wealthy from one single robbery'.
With so many time path dao marks, Fang Yuan's time path killer moves could be amplified by seventy-four times. Along with the rank eight Gu Spring and Summer, his battle strength was extremely high now. Within the five regional mountain range, he managed to block the attacks of many Gu Immortals at once.
Of course, he had made use of the territorial advantage of the five regional walls' trait, the Southern Border Gu Immortals could not work together well and conflicted with each other.
The second was water path dao marks, reaching sixty thousand.
He had a lot of water path accumulations, Fang Yuan had killed lone immortals Zhou Li, Wu Yi Hai, You Chan, and others, while many of the Eastern Sea lone immortals in City Well were also water path cultivators.
Third was transformation path, having fifty thousand. It was originally first place, but had fallen to third place now.
Fourth was soul path at thirty thousand. The immortal aperture's own dao marks, as well as the yellow spring ghost martial statue earthly calamity and green lightning divine martial statue heavenly tribulation, along with other accumulations, added up to twenty-nine thousand. The remaining hundreds were obtained from Fang Yuan's soul cultivation. According to Spectral Soul's true inheritance, after million man soul, ten million man soul, hundred million man soul, and desolate soul... after reaching desolate soul, there would be a thousand dao marks on the soul.
Next were ice and snow path, rule path, metal path, wood path, fire path, wind path, and other common paths, they had about twenty thousand.
After that were dark path, light path, strength path, qi path, luck path, sound path, blood light, and others, being around ten thousand.
And finally, food path, phantom path, and others were in the thousands and hundreds category.
Next, the dream realms.
Fang Yuan had already explored all of his dream realms in these few months, all of his different paths had grown to certain extents.
The highest was still refinement path at quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment level!
Second were theft path and time path at great grandmaster level.
Third were blood path, strength path, star path, wisdom path, and others, they were all at grandmaster level. Rule path and soul path also entered this category.
The paths below that will not be explained in detail.
Unlike dao marks, attainment level was harder to raise as it got higher. The ones with the most evident growth were time path, soul path, and rule path.
Other than dao marks and dream realms, Fang Yuan's development of the sovereign immortal aperture had also risen greatly due to his annexing of immortal apertures, it had reached fifteen percent development.
And worth noting was that in Xia Cha's immortal aperture, Fang Yuan found a year essence pool!
This way, Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture had two year essence pools.
Other than these, Fang Yuan's greatest gains were two things.
One was Luo Po seal.
Fang Yuan had always been trying to create this immortal killer move, he only succeeded recently.
The other was an incomplete Immortal Gu House.
Fang Yuan had wanted to build his own Immortal Gu House long ago, so that Hei Lou Lan, Bai Ning Bing, and the rest could fight in battle with him.
To create this Immortal Gu House, Fang Yuan took reference from Secluded Residence, Cloud City, Dark Flow Giant City, Profound Ice House, Unbreakable Iron Fortress, Blood River Chariot, Nightmare Castle,Green Wave Pavilion, Weaving Cocoon Manor, Golden Altar, Regret Pool, Sacred Feather City, Bai He Palace, and other Immortal Gu Houses, while the skeleton of the design was based on Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage.
Several months ago, while extorting Southern Border's righteous path to exchange Gu for Gu, Fang Yuan obtained many crucial Immortal Gu that allowed him to create the skeleton.
This Immortal Gu House was created by Fang Yuan himself, it was unprecedented. Because he needed to enter the River of Time, it mainly used time path Immortal Gu, it had a comprehensive range of abilities and most excelled in concealment.
Even though it was only a skeleton now, it had great battle strength in the five regional mountain range. Ying Wu Xie and the rest relied on this to cooperate with Fang Yuan, successfully capturing Jun Shen Guang.
In the River of Time, waves rose and fell, water splattered everywhere, creating beautiful rainbow light.
Fang Yuan rode in the incomplete Immortal Gu House as he traveled slowly in the river.
The rank six time path clone had already emerged from the sovereign immortal aperture, standing beside him as he shut his eyes, sensing internally.
Red Lotus Demon Venerable had left behind many true inheritances scattered in the River of Time, Spring Autumn Cicada was the key to finding them.
But the River of Time was extremely huge, in order to find the several stone lotus islands, other than luck, he also needed lots of time and energy to explore.
"It would be best if we could find a Red Lotus true inheritance in this exploration of the River of Time."
"But most importantly, we need to test Heavenly Court's arrangements and catch them off guard, if possible, we need to destroy their arrangements!"
Fang Yuan thought as he searched Jun Shen Guang's soul in the sovereign immortal aperture.
Jun Shen Guang's soul originally had light path dao marks to protect it, but after Fang Yuan's Luo Po seal struck, the defense was destroyed, at the same time, Jun Shen Guang's soul was injured, he was on the verge of death.
Precisely so, after Ying Wu Xie used lead soul into dream, Jun Shen Guang was directly hit and fell asleep.
The condition to use lead soul into dream killer move was to sense the soul and compare the strength between the enemy's soul and the user to determine the success.
Being able to deal such damage to a rank eight Gu Immortal, it showed how powerful Luo Po seal was!
However, compared to reverse flow protection seal, and seeing how Fang Yuan used Luo Po Valley as the core of this move, it was not very surprising that it had such power.
Right now, Jun Shen Guang's soul was extremely weak, he could not defend against Fang Yuan's method, information was obtained by Fang Yuan continuously.
"What arrangements did Heavenly Court make? Jun Shen Guang must know about them."
A moment later, Fang Yuan's brows eased as he found something: "Oh? Time path Immortal Gu House Present and Past Pavilion..."
He had just thought of this when the water in front of him rose up, a huge pavilion was riding the waves and approaching.
This pavilion was not covered on all four sides, it was very simplistic. The cover was made of yellow grass, the pillars were grey white rocks that were not polished. There was a folding screen1 in the pavilion, it was the most elegant decoration in there. Four Gu Immortals stood in the pavilion, they all had rank seven cultivation level, looking at Fang Yuan's incomplete Immortal Gu House, their eyes flashed with a dangerous light.
"This Present and Past Pavilion is a pure time path Immortal Gu House, it can inspect the past and present, it is best at investigation. Heavenly Court placed it here, the moment I entered, they noticed. Amazing, amazing!" Fang Yuan's heart sank a little, but he praised on the surface, explaining to Ying Wu Xie and the rest.
Ying Wu Xie, Bai Ning Bing, and the rest frowned lightly or had dark gazes.
They understood something, Fang Yuan's incomplete Immortal Gu House was best at concealing traces, to think that Present and Past Pavilion would be able to find them. This was like their advantage getting countered, even before fighting, they had gotten into a passive situation.
Present and Past Pavilion got to Fang Yuan and the rest before stopping, staying a thousand steps away from the incomplete Immortal Gu House.
Someone spoke coldly from within the pavilion: "Central Continent's Four Xunzi are here to guard the river, demon, don't think of advancing."
A person behind him said: "That's right, you'll have to step over our corpses if you want to pass!"
"Four Xunzi..." Fang Yuan directly soul searched Jun Shen Guang and quickly got the information of these four people.
It turned out that these four were time path Gu Immortals, they were quadruplets, found by Spirit Butterfly Valley when they were young and specially nurtured. They comprised three older brothers and one younger sister, they were Shang Xunzi, Zhong Xunzi, Xia Xunzi, and Xun Guo Zi respectively.
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According to Jun Shen Guang's information, the Four Xunzi had the same rank seven cultivation level, they had a combination technique with extraordinary power, even against rank eight Gu Immortals, they could contest against them.
Of course, they were only able to fight with that one move. After a few rounds, they would definitely lose to the rank eight Gu Immortal.
They were not like the past Fang Yuan or Feng Jiu Ge with battle strength that could rival rank eights.
Even so, they were quite impressive. After nurturing the Four Xunzi, they had been kept hidden by Spirit Butterfly Valley, they were not easily deployed.
"Heavenly Court wants to make arrangements in the River of Time, Spirit Butterfly Valley had to comply. Four Xunzi... four time path experts with great cooperation, they are indeed the best candidates to control Present and Past Pavilion."
Fang Yuan frowned slightly.
The Four Xunzi and Present and Past Pavilion were not out of his expectations.
Rank eight Gu Immortals that were also time path were very rare. Heavenly Court originally had Lord Huang Shi, but he had died in the River of Time last time after Fang Yuan made use of the stone lotus island.
In order to deal with Fang Yuan and obstruct him in the River of Time, they had to choose people who were rank seven time path Gu Immortals, unless more antiques woke up from Heavenly Court's immortal graveyard.
What made Fang Yuan more concerned was that other than Present and Past Pavilion, Heavenly Court also had another time path Immortal Gu House, Eternal Yacht.
"Present and Past Pavilion excels at investigation, it is nearby so it was the first to obstruct me. I cannot stay here, once the Four Xunzi delay long enough, Eternal Yacht would arrive to help it, it will be disadvantageous for me to face two enemies at once."
Heavenly Court had a huge advantage in this, even though they did not have time path rank eights, they had members of other paths, along with two Immortal Gu Houses, Present and Past Pavilion and Eternal Yacht.
In contrast, Fang Yuan only had one incomplete Immortal Gu House, even though he became rank eight, Hei Lou Lan, Bai Ning Bing, and the rest were very weak.
Fang Yuan immediately opened his immortal aperture's entrance, letting out a second batch of immemorial year beasts.
He had used the first batch of immemorial year beasts in the five regional mountain range, they were injured or killed by Southern Border's righteous path, Fang Yuan did not manage to retrieve them.
But it did not matter, Fang Yuan had a second batch.
After annexing Xia Cha's immortal aperture, Fang Yuan obtained a second year essence pool, there were two immemorial year beasts inside. Furthermore, throughout the months, Fang Yuan had been using immemorial year beast fishing formation to lure immemorial year beasts to him, before capturing them inside the year essence pool.
Thus, Fang Yuan obtained two batches of immemorial year beasts, the second batch had a total of nine immemorial year beasts.
The only flaw was that Fang Yuan did not manage to collect all twelve types of immemorial year beasts to form the ancient battle formation.
He had tried to collect them during this period, but when he actually tried, he realized that getting a full set was very hard to achieve. He got the most number of immemorial year chickens, because recently, the River of Time was producing this type of year beasts1.
In Fang Yuan's second batch of immemorial year beasts, he had five chickens, more than half of the entire group.
Nine immemorial year beasts roared as they charged towards Present and Past Pavilion.
Inside Present and Past Pavilion, the Four Xunzi had grim expressions, they activated Present and Past Pavilion's power together.
Pew!
A huge wave that was ten meters tall crashed towards the nine immemorial year beasts.
Immemorial year beasts were beasts that belonged in the River of Time, Present and Past Pavilion's waves could not obstruct their movement. Instantly, they charged through the obstacle, creating countless splashes as they approached Present and Past Pavilion.
The surface of Present and Past Pavilion shined with brilliant light, the light shot up like a huge pillar.
Swish swish swish...
Waves came after waves, they were like moving walls that could attack or defend, constantly crashing into the immemorial year beasts.
At Fang Yuan's will, the immemorial year beast were instructed by him to cooperate, they shot out like an arrow, going past many walls of waves and reaching Present and Past Pavilion.
But all of a sudden, the Four Xunzi shouted as the folding screen in Present and Past Pavilion turned into misty green fog.
The green fog flew into the battlefield as the immemorial year beasts got affected, their speed fell as if they had landed in a marsh.
The green fog settled and fused into the water of the River of Time, turning the surface of the water in this area jade green.
Present and Past Pavilion shook intensely, the huge pillar of light faded and turned into green sparkles that enveloped the surroundings.
The sound of crashing waves became even louder and more imposing, they were many times larger than before, thirty meters tall now. Not just that, tens of spirals formed on the surface of the River of Time, they became excellent traps to restrain the immemorial year beasts.
The nine immemorial year beasts were originally gathered together, but after the obstruction of the waves, their formation broke apart as they fell into their own respective battles.
At once, Present and Past Pavilion stood at the center and controlled the situation. Fang Yuan's immemorial year beasts were all at a disadvantage.
The Four Xunzi's expressions relaxed.
Shang Xunzi let out a breath of air: "We finally got past the initial period, this demon did not break through."
Xun Guo Zi smiled: "Present and Past Pavilion has control of the situation now, even though Fang Yuan has many immemorial year beasts, he cannot gather them, he is not a threat."
"That's right." Xia Xunzi stroke his beard: "Even though Present and Past Pavilion is not his match anyway, as long as we can stall until Eternal Yacht arrives, by then our strength will surpass him, we will be able to win."
Zhong Xunzi had a deep gaze: "The demon is crafty, we cannot be careless, let's play safe."
He had just spoken when the immemorial year monkey closest to Present and Past Pavilion suddenly jumped up and used an immortal killer move.
It held a huge fan in its hands as it waved towards the front.
Rank eight immortal killer move — Summer Fan!
Instantly, intense winds whipped, sweeping away everything, the entire battlefield became dark and gloomy.
The huge waves resembling thick walls that were in front of the immemorial year monkey completely broke apart and collapsed due to summer fan.
The immemorial year monkey snickered as it dived down.
In Present and Past Pavilion, the Four Xunzi were shocked, they noticed that Fang Yuan was disguised as the immemorial year monkey.
"That demon has joined the battle!"
"Impossible! We have the investigative killer move from Lady Zi Wei, we can expose familiar face, how did he manage to deceive us?"
Fang Yuan sneered internally, he had spent the last few months to its fullest, using all of his time and energy without any waste, he had naturally modified familiar face.
Fang Yuan finally got to the Four Xunzi.
Present and Past Pavilion burst out with brilliant light once again, while Fang Yuan relied on the immemorial year monkey's tough physique to punch with its strong fists, but Present and Past Pavilion remained unmoving despite a loud sound.
"It is useless, right now, Present and Past Pavilion is anchored here in the River of Time, how can you move it?" Xun Guo Zi said with a nervous tone.
"Is that so..." Fang Yuan's eyes shined with brilliant light, he used immortal killer move spring scissors at the next moment.
Clip, clip.
Spring scissors cut continuously, Present and Past Pavilion was able to defend itself initially, but soon, the brilliant light on it was unable to last as spring scissors cut away a corner of the roof after five to six snips!
"This is a rank eight time path killer move, but how can it be so powerful?"
"Even Present and Past Pavilion cannot match it? How can this be!"
The Four Xunzi were frantic.
Fang Yuan's eyes were filled with cold flickering lightning.
He originally had over seventy thousand time path dao marks, it was at rank eight level. Now that he became an immemorial year monkey, his transformation path dao marks also turned into time path dao marks, adding another fifty thousand.
Thus, he had over a hundred and twenty thousand time path dao marks now!
Ordinary rank seven Gu Immortals would only have less than thirty thousand dao marks. A hundred and twenty thousand dao marks was not common for rank eight Gu Immortals, they normally would have to pass one myriad tribulation to get such an accumulation.
He could amplify any time path killer move by a hundred and twenty times its power!
And Fang Yuan was already using two rank eight immortal killer moves.
Even though Present and Past Pavilion had the territorial advantage, Fang Yuan's killer move was also boosted by the environment of the River of Time.
Thus, his time path battle strength soared to the extent that even Present and Past Pavilion could not endure his attacks!
Fang Yuan's two killer moves forced Present and Past Pavilion back time and time again.
The Four Xunzi tried to keep their stability in Present and Past Pavilion, while attacking sometimes, but Fang Yuan did not even need defensive killer moves like winter coat, with just the immemorial year monkey's body, he could endure them.
"Hold on!" A huge yacht was riding the waves, approaching them from afar. Several Gu Immortals were shouting and having nervous expressions.
Eternal Yacht was nearby.
"Too late." Fang Yuan snickered, he waved the summer fan and whipped up some tornadoes, Present and Past Pavilion was shaking from the impact, it was about to collapse.
Spring scissors flew towards it and snipped again!
A pillar in Present and Past Pavilion broke as it collapsed entirely.
Fang Yuan laughed loudly as he jumped above Present and Past Pavilion, stomping with his huge immemorial year monkey feet.
Boom!
The whole of Present and Past Pavilion broke apart into pieces, the Four Xunzi were either dead or injured, they were all kicked into the River of Time.
Fang Yuan and the incomplete Immortal Gu House left with ease.
When Eternal Yacht arrived, it was already too late. The Gu Immortals in the yacht hesitated, should they save the Four Xunzi or chase after Fang Yuan.
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"Cough, cough." Shang Xunzi sprawled on the deck of Eternal Yacht as he coughed, he had drunk a lot of water, he was drenched.
Beside him, Xia Xunzi had already fainted, his injuries were severe, his situation was not looking good.
Rank eight Gu Immortal Qing Ye walked over and looked at Shang Xunzi calmly: "The other two have been swept away by the River of Time, we cannot find them."
Shang Xunzi breathed roughly for a while, he forcibly stood up, taking a glance at Xia Xunzi before speaking with a pale expression: "They have already died, that demon Fang Yuan is very powerful! How is the salvaging of Present and Past Pavilion going?"
The Four Xunzi were siblings with deep kinship, but right now, Shang Xunzi was more concerned about Present and Past Pavilion, he did not pay attention to the dying Xia Xunzi nor did he display anger or sadness.
Qing Ye smiled: "The core Immortal Gu have not been destroyed, we have recovered all of them."
"That's good!" Shang Xunzi let out a breath of air, his expression easing.
Qing Ye nodded: "I have already prepared the room for you."
Shang Xunzi: "Thank you, I will go and revive my siblings now."
It turned out that these quadruplets, with their very close bloodline, managed to create a unique killer move. Even if three of them died, as long as one remained, they could use the killer move to rapidly revive the other three.
Precisely so, Shang Xunzi did not feel any sadness.
A moment later, the Four Xunzi returned to the deck with no injuries, entering battle once again.
Fang Yuan's second batch of immemorial year beasts were surrounding Eternal Yacht, attacking from all sides, desperately drawing their attention...
The river water was turbulent, sounds of waves crashing could be heard by Fang Yuan.
Right now, he had returned to his original appearance, he entered the incomplete Immortal Gu House to rest.
With this incomplete Immortal Gu House, Fang Yuan had a base, it was very useful.
"Eternal Yacht did not chase us..." After leaving the battlefield for a while, Fang Yuan relaxed his mind slightly.
The speed of the incomplete Immortal Gu House could not match Eternal Yacht, its specialty was in concealing its traces when moving.
With Present and Past Pavilion around, the incomplete Immortal Gu House could not move stealthily. But Eternal Yacht could not detect the incomplete Immortal Gu House, otherwise, why would it not pursue him with such an advantage in speed?
"We are temporarily safe." Ying Wu Xie breathed out deeply, feeling some lingering fear: "It was quite dangerous earlier."
"Indeed, if sect leader did not destroy Present and Past Pavilion, we might have fallen into a tough battle and would not be able to escape." Fairy Miao Yin smiled.
Bai Ning Bing was silent at the side.
Hei Lou Lan looked outside the Immortal Gu House, at the grand River of Time.
Fang Yuan's time path clone was frowning with his eyes shut. He was trying to track the islands, but his vital Gu Spring Autumn Cicada had no reactions.
In fact, according to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's deduction, the higher Spring Autumn Cicada's rank was, the larger the range of its detection to find Red Lotus' true inheritance.
Fang Yuan's Spring Autumn Cicada was only rank six, even though he had many Immortal Gu recipes, Fang Yuan's multiple attempts at refining it ended in failure.
It was regrettable, but Fang Yuan had done his best already.
For the last few months, he had put in all his effort to cultivate soul path, explore dream realms, modify killer moves, extort Southern Border's righteous path, plot for the overall situation, defend against deductions, annex immortal apertures, and so on, he had expended his time and energy.
It was already a miracle that he could squeeze out some time to refine Spring Autumn Cicada. But the real miracle did not happen, Fang Yuan's refinement attempts failed.
"Even though Spring Autumn Cicada is rank six, I have already made up for the flaws in other aspects." Fang Yuan's eyes shined with deep confidence.
He had planned deeply before entering the River of Time. Fang Yuan had already used luck path methods like burning soul bursting luck, he had only stopped after reaching the limit.
In this vast River of Time, finding one or two stone lotus islands was purely dependent on luck.
Roar—!
The river water suddenly became turbulent as sounds of beast growls entered their ears.
"There are two immemorial year beasts fighting ahead!" After inspecting it, Ying Wu Xie alerted.
Looking at it closely, these two immemorial year beasts had already fought for some time, they were near their limit.
Fang Yuan laughed, wasn't this the work of luck path?
He flew out of the incomplete Immortal Gu House and activated familiar face, becoming a part of the river water as he blended into the River of Time.
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Next, he opened a trace of his immortal aperture's entrance and activated the immemorial year beast fishing formation!
The two immemorial year beasts detected the delicacy, their movements stopped, they charged towards Fang Yuan like they were competing in a race.
They did not find any enemies, but they sensed a tributary of the River of Time under the river water.
The immemorial year beasts did not think much, they charged into this tributary of the River of Time.
This was naturally Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture.
If it were in the past, Fang Yuan would not dare to lure these immemorial year beasts, they would cause huge destruction to the sovereign immortal aperture if they went in.
But now, times were different, Fang Yuan had year essence pools, two in fact!
The year essence pools were connected to the tributary of the River of Time like huge dams.
The immemorial year beasts were lured by the formation, following the tributary of the River of Time until they rushed into the 'dam', becoming trapped.
Fang Yuan smiled heartily as he stopped the transformation killer move, he flew back into the incomplete Immortal Gu House.
Those two immemorial year monkeys were trapped in the year essence pools, they could not find any food and sensed something amiss, but how could they return to the River of Time now?
Fang Yuan used his enslavement path methods and quickly subdued these two immemorial year beasts.
The incomplete Immortal Gu House moved stealthily as it searched for a stone lotus island.
Fang Yuan met many year beasts along the way, he took in all of them, luring them into the year essence pools and subduing them.
Soon, Fang Yuan's number of immemorial year beasts rose to six.
And even more ancient and desolate level year beasts.
Other than year beasts, there were other lifeforms like day beasts, month beasts, or dark web spiders in the River of Time, Fang Yuan had chosen to ignore them all.
The use of the year essence pools was amply displayed here!
With th, Fang Yuan could lure immemorial year beasts while keeping sovereign immortal aperture very safe. Without their restriction, the immemorial year beasts would be able to move along the tributary of the River of Time and go to anywhere in the sovereign immortal aperture. Because the tributary was present all over the whole sovereign immortal aperture.
"Wait!" After moving for a while, Fang Yuan's time path clone opened his eyes, bursting with bright light.
He seemed to have found something!
The time path clone quickly shut his eyes as he frowned deeply, trying to sense it.
Next, he pointed in one direction: "There seems to be something there, Spring Autumn Cicada shuddered a little."
The time path clone spoke with uncertainty.
But this was the only clue, Fang Yuan manipulated the incomplete Immortal Gu House and changed directions, going towards that place.
As the distance shortened, Fang Yuan's clone felt increasingly happy: "The feeling is getting stronger, our luck is really not bad, we found it so quickly!"
A while later, in the vision of Fang Yuan and the rest, a thin layer of fog appeared.
The incomplete Immortal Gu House halted for a moment before rushing into the fog with no hesitation.
The fog was extraordinary, it could obscure one's sense of direction and confuse them, but using the key Spring Autumn Cicada, Fang Yuan's clone could move in the proper direction.
The fog got thicker, the river water also moved slower due to its effect, it was not as turbulent as the water outside.
Vaguely, the silhouette of an island appeared before Fang Yuan and the rest.
"Stone lotus island! Red Lotus true inheritance!!" Ying Wu Xie stared wide and shouted loudly.
Bai Ning Bing and the rest also started to breathe roughly.
When the incomplete Immortal Gu House got to the periphery of the stone lotus island, the island shot out a white light that hit the incomplete Immortal Gu House directly.
"What is going on?!" Fairy Miao Yin screamed.
"Oh no! This is a trap." Fang Yuan's eyes shined with a sharp light, it was too late to escape now.
The entire incomplete Immortal Gu House shook intensely, it could not resist the strong attacks outside.
"Demon, I have been waiting for you for a long time!" A rank eight Gu Immortal with a tall muscular body appeared on the stone lotus island.
At the next moment, his killer move that had been prepared for a while hit the incomplete Immortal Gu House.
Boom!
The incomplete Immortal Gu House broke apart at once.
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Fang Yuan's incomplete Immortal Gu House did not excel in defense, after it was struck, it broke apart.
Fang Yuan and the rest quickly defended themselves inside the Immortal Gu House.
A huge amount of flames moved like poisonous snakes and burned all of the Gu worms in their way, before they gathered towards Fang Yuan in an encircling movement.
Fang Yuan shouted as he used immortal killer move winter coat, his body was immediately covered by a layer of snow-white frost.
The frost not only protected him, at this crucial moment, it spread out and protected the time path clone, Hei Lou Lan, Ying Wu Xie, Bai Ning Bing, and the rest.
In this regard, winter coat was better than reverse flow protection seal.
Because reverse flow protection seal only defended himself, it could not help others, but winter coat was able to affect other people.
Winter coat killer move blocked the fire snakes' attacks, but at the next moment, the old man on the stone lotus island shouted: "By the power of flames, snakes turn into dragons!"
Whoosh!
The flames burst out with incredible heat, the snakes coiled around each other, turning into a huge flame dragon that was a hundred feet long, possessing huge claws and fangs.
The bright red flame dragon slashed through winter coat before charging at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan wanted to open his immortal aperture's entrance to store the immortals back in his aperture, but this fire snake killer move actually had a variation, with the old man's deep experience, Fang Yuan had no time for that.
The flame dragon opened its mouth as its soared down from above.
Fang Yuan and the rest looked up as their faces were red from the light of the flames, the intense heat felt like it was going to grill them alive!
Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, and the rest all revealed looks of despair on their faces.
This flame dragon was not an ordinary rank eight killer move, it had extraordinary power, even Bai Ning Bing's Bai Xiang killer move could not escape from it.
Their only hope was Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's ears, nose, and eyes were bleeding!
Winter coat killer move was broken, Fang Yuan suffered a rank eight killer move backlash. A large number of mortal Gu were killed, thankfully his core Immortal Gu were still alive, they were damaged but still usable.
Fang Yuan was in a difficult situation.
The time path clone, Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, and the rest were behind him, their cultivation level was too low, they could not block the flame dragon. If they had the incomplete Immortal Gu House, they could still participate in the fight, but the old man was too perceptive, he destroyed the incomplete Immortal Gu House from the start.
If Fang Yuan stayed and protected them, not only did he have no good methods now that winter coat was broken, even if he did, it would be too dangerous!
Because the other party wanted to force Fang Yuan to fight them, once he protects them and fights, the old man's plan would succeed.
Fang Yuan was almost certain that the other party still had killer moves prepared. Once Fang Yuan fights with the flame dragon, the old man would grasp the tempo of the battle, he would control the battle's flow from now on.
Instantly, Fang Yuan made up his mind, he moved out like lightning, dodging the flame dragon.
The old man laughed frenziedly: "A true demon indeed! Then burn to death!"
The flame dragon ignored Fang Yuan, it charged down.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, he turned around and attacked the old man.
The old man diverted his gaze at Fang Yuan, seeing that he was approaching, the old man smiled and revealed a sinister expression.
Fang Yuan's heart sank, he attacked so that the old man would divert attention to defend himself but the old man was similarly courageous and did not fear a frontal assault. Most possibly, he still had arrangements on this stone lotus island, he was extremely confident.
Fang Yuan stretched out his finger, his hard work over the last few months had not been in vain, spring scissors was unleashed and shot towards the old man.
The scissors was very sharp, but when it landed on the old man, his hair started to burn as it turned into a flame cloak, protecting him all around and blocking spring scissors.
"Hahaha, I named this move verdant sun flame cloak, I made it from the inspiration I gained from Verdant Great Sun's flame hair from <
But at the next moment, the old man's smile faded.
It turned out that the flame dragon had returned empty-handed, be it Fang Yuan's time path clone, Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, or others, they were still alive.
The old man's eyelids twitched, he licked his dry lips as he said darkly: "This is a dream realm?"
It turned out that while Fang Yuan dodged the flame dragon, he did not abandon his clone or the other Gu Immortals, he had ordered Ying Wu Xie to self-detonate at the crucial moment.
After the five regional mountain range, Ying Wu Xie had changed bodies, using a body with the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique again. Precisely because of the dream path dao marks on the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, he was able to use lead soul into dream and successfully affect rank eight Gu Immortal Jun Shen Guang.
Now that the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body self-detonated, Ying Wu Xie's soul was trapped in the dream realm. The other immortals were very close to him, they were covered by the dream realm.
With the manifestation of the dream realm, all other paths could not affect it. The old man's flame dragon had great power, but against the illusory dream realm, it was useless.
"Hmph, you are truly a scheming demon, but you will die today!" The old man stomped his feet, flying up into the sky as the stone lotus island below him scattered into dust and sand.
The old man wore a flame cloak as he approached Fang Yuan like a blazing meteor. Spring scissors followed after him as it attacked, but the flames defended against them and the old man was completely unharmed.
Fang Yuan flew backwards as he used summer fan.
Intense winds blew, the old man's flame cloak was flickering, but it seemed like the fire was growing with the wind, becoming even larger.
The old man smiled as he exposed his sharp teeth: "How about that! My verdant sun flame cloak is unparalleled, have you felt despair yet? Hahaha!"
Like what the old man has said, summer fan and spring scissors were useless against verdant sun flame cloak.
Not only that, as they got closer, an intense feeling of drunkenness assaulted Fang Yuan.
But soon, Fang Yuan used his wisdom path killer move and regained clarity in his mind.
Verdant sun flame cloak not only contained the extreme profundity of fire path, it also mimicked the effects of human path and food path. As the old man got closer to him, the greater the feeling of drunkenness would be.
Fang Yuan tried his best to retreat, wanting to pull some distance from the old man, but against his wishes, the enemy's speed surpassed him by quite a bit.
"Demon, you are trapped in the formation, where can you run to? Obediently accept your death!" The old man shouted.
Earlier, the stone lotus island was merely an illusion, its true essence was a super time path immortal formation set up in the River of Time!
This formation was very powerful, even Fang Yuan could not notice it. As it activated now, a formation space was created, Fang Yuan was trapped inside, restricting him from using Omni-directional Travel, Fixed Immortal Travel, and other similar methods.
Fang Yuan had used a time path formation earlier to ambush Southern Border's righteous path. Now, Heavenly Court did the same against Fang Yuan.
But Heavenly Court put in much more effort than Fang Yuan!
Fang Yuan could not create such a time path formation in the River of Time. With his current strength, he could only create a time path immortal formation near a tributary of the River of Time in the outside world.
Even for time path great experts in history, few could create immortal formations inside the River of Time.
The person who could achieve this to the limit was Red Lotus Demon Venerable. This person had already surpassed the realms of time path immortal formations, he could directly create artificial secluded domains of heaven and earth, stone lotus islands, to influence segments of the River of Time and take control of it.
Heavenly Court had been looking for the stone lotus islands and had yet to find one, but they were not without gains. This time path immortal formation was one of their achievements.
The formation restricted Fang Yuan, making him unable to evade or dodge.
The old man got closer, Fang Yuan snorted, instead of retreating, he charged at the old man.
The old man was slightly surprised, but he quickly reacted as he waved his hands, sending waves of flames towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had no fear, he rammed forward.
The huge flames reversed and went back to attack the old man.
It was the immortal killer move — Reverse Flow Protection Seal!
The old man was a little flustered, he defended against his own killer move, but at this moment, Fang Yuan had already arrived in front of him.
Fang Yuan was ruthless, he slammed his body into the old man.
Reverse flow protection seal against verdant sun flame cloak!
At the next moment, Fang Yuan and the old man both flew backwards, they were nearly evenly matched in this contest.
The old man had lost by a slight bit, but soon, his flame cloak burned again as he returned to his peak condition.
Reverse flow protection seal was extremely effective against attacks. But verdant sun flame cloak was a defensive killer move, the reflected damage was quite little.
"This is reverse flow protection seal? Heh, he found out so quickly." The old man's gaze flickered eerily.
It turned out that this time path immortal formation created an isolated inner formation space, there was a core effect, it was that this environment weakened time path.
Heavenly Court's original intention was to use this formation to deal with the stone lotus islands of Red Lotus' true inheritance. These islands were artificially created time path secluded domains of heaven and earth, once the formation encapsulates them, they would be weakened.
Precisely so, Fang Yuan's spring scissors and summer fan killer moves were so ineffective against verdant sun flame cloak.
Verdant sun flame cloak was very powerful indeed, it was the peak creation of fire path, and even extended to contain the profundities of human path and food path.
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In terms of intricacy, reverse flow protection seal was very roughly made and straightforward. In contrast, myriad self comprised both enslavement path and strength path, it was on par with verdant sun flame cloak in this aspect.
Summer fan and spring scissors were ordinary, they only contained rank eight Immortal Gu and were amplified by time path dao marks to gain such great power. They could not break verdant sun flame cloak but could have caused great damage. Yet in this environment, they had a mild effect.
Fang Yuan realized this and daringly dispelled winter coat, instead using reverse flow protection seal to regain his footing in the battle.
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Immortal killer move — Myriad Dragon!
Howl...
At once, myriad dragons flew in a sea of silvery scales, attacking the old man like a tidal wave.
After understanding the effect of the time path formation, Fang Yuan gave up on his strongest time path methods, he started to use other methods. In this aspect, Fang Yuan had many useful methods comparatively.
The old man snorted, showing no surprise on his face.
Before coming here, he had already made ample preparation, he knew about Fang Yuan's myriad dragon killer move.
"Slippery eels, what can they do to me?" The old man stood arrogantly in the sky, instead of dodging, he watched as the myriad dragons approached him.
His verdant sun flame cloak was blazing, his entire body was covered, resembling a huge fireball.
The myriad dragons appeared before the old man, but they started to screech weirdly, the sword dragons were all drowsy as they randomly flew around, their ferocious attacks had been stopped.
When each sword dragon's drunkenness got to a certain level, they would start to blaze up with a loud sound.
The sword dragons turned into a pile of flames before rapidly vanishing.
Looking at the field, the old man was unmoving while the myriad dragons burned to death. Even though there were countless dragons, the moment they got close to the old man, they died, they were of no threat to him.
"Immortal killer move verdant sun flame cloak!" Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, he finally saw the power of this move. It was both offensive and defensive, it was a counter to Fang Yuan's myriad dragon killer move.
"Then let's try Luo Po seal." Fang Yuan thought to himself.
He had already used familiar face to disguise as a sword dragon, he blended into the army of dragons, getting closer to the old man.
Next, he pretended to be drunk as he got closer and unleashed Luo Po seal.
Fang Yuan got exposed when the killer move had just activated, Luo Po seal's aura was too great, it could not be hidden.
The old man's gaze shot like lightning as he charged at Fang Yuan without fearing Luo Po seal.
Boom boom boom!
The old man attacked Fang Yuan in a frenzy but reverse flow protection seal kept him safe.
Fang Yuan did not speak, he endured the old man's attacks until Luo Po seal was finally ready to strike.
The old man was on guard now, the situation was not good for Fang Yuan. Eventually, he barely managed to use Luo Po seal, but it scraped past the old man's shoulder, only half landing!
The old man immediately felt a sense of emptiness in his heart, at the same time, the blazing cloak on his back weakened by forty percent!
"This move is amazing, but it cannot break my verdant sun flame cloak!" The old man laughed loudly as he retreated, using methods to heal himself.
His speed was faster than Fang Yuan, it was hard to land consecutive hits on him.
The old man found time to catch a breather despite having the disadvantage, a moment later, his injuries healed mostly and his aura regained its peak state, the verdant sun flame cloak also started to blaze up again.
Luo Po seal had terrifying might but the old man was very alert, he did not give Fang Yuan any more chances.
His verdant sun flame cloak's defenses were superb, Fang Yuan could sense that in battle, it was like how his enemies felt when facing reverse flow protection seal.
"This old man's soul is not his weakness." Even though he only grazed past him, Fang Yuan obtained valuable intel.
Luo Po seal was targeted at the enemy's soul, but this old man was an experienced rank eight Gu Immortal with deep foundations, he did not have any evident weaknesses, his soul's defense was quite tight.
Fang Yuan estimated that even if Luo Po seal hit directly, it could not kill the old man in one move.
Luo Po seal had to be paired with lead soul into dream to deal with Heavenly Court's rank eight Gu Immortals.
But at the start of the battle, the old man destroyed Fang Yuan's incomplete Immortal Gu House, causing Ying Wu Xie and the rest to slumber in the dream realm.
If the incomplete Immortal Gu House was still around, Fang Yuan would have Ying Wu Xie's lead soul into dream to help him, he would have the advantage against this old man.
But the old man had ambushed and destroyed the incomplete Immortal Gu House, not only were Fang Yuan's losses severe, he lost his initiative and was kept on the back foot for a long time.
This situation was naturally very dangerous for Fang Yuan, he had fallen into an ambush, he had to escape quickly.
Immortal killer move — Myriad Dragon!
Fang Yuan continued to activate myriad dragon as more sword dragons filled this formation space.
The old man had the advantage but he did not relax his mind or become careless.
He squinted a little as Fang Yuan hid among the sword dragons again. At this time, should he use an investigative method to find Fang Yuan or eliminate these sword dragons first?
If he did not kill Fang Yuan, there would be an endless stream of sword dragons, but the old man had clear awareness, he thought: "I'm afraid my investigative method cannot expose familiar face, Fang Yuan is so crafty, he must have other plans!"
The old man had the initiative now, he spoke arrogantly and wildly, but his mind was extremely calm and composed.
He knew that when opponents of his and Fang Yuan's level fight, with such rich battle experience on both sides, even though he had the initiative now and could hold the advantage, if he made a mistake, Fang Yuan would turn the situation around.
The old man roared as flames started to burn around, spreading out like a sea of fire.
The sword dragons melted in candles within the flame.
The old man's decision made Fang Yuan quite troubled.
He hesitated for a while before persisting with his tactic, he controlled the myriad dragons to charge at the formation space.
This formation was clearly controlled by Central Continent Gu Immortals. Seeing that the myriad dragons were attacking, they wanted to retaliate but the old man quickly transmitted to them: "Don't move! Fang Yuan has very high time path and wisdom path attainment levels, the more the formation activates, the more flaws he will notice. I will handle these eels, don't be anxious."
The old man did not want to give Fang Yuan any chances, the sea of fire killed the sword dragons at a rapid rate.
Fang Yuan smiled coldly, he suddenly appeared in front of the dream realm.
Immortal killer move — Pure Dream Reality Seeker Transformation!
He quickly gathered the dream realm and turned the lump of dream realm into a Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body.
"Oh no, this demon is so scheming!" The old man's expression changed, Fang Yuan used many feints and tactics, it was hard to see through his plans after all.
Fang Yuan opened a sliver of his immortal aperture's entrance, wanting to send the time path clone, Ying Wu Xie's soul, Hei Lou Lan, and Bai Ning Bing inside.
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But at this moment, the old man screamed angrily behind him: "Demon, forget about it!"
Boom!
A killer move was used, bursting out with immense strength and sound.
Fang Yuan felt a chill, he did not need to turn around to know that this move was the old man's strongest offensive method.
"I won't make it!" Fang Yuan did not have enough time to react, his heart sank to rock bottom.
At the crucial moment, he went all out!
His time path killer move was used as the time around suddenly became faster.
He placed the immortals into the immortal aperture, and at the same time, he felt like a giant had landed a punch on his back, the huge force sent him flying like a cannonball, he lost fifteen percent of Reverse Flow River's water! The impact made Fang Yuan's head dizzy, he directly spat out a mouthful of blood.
He was only able to save a portion of them, Fairy Miao Yin could not be reached. She was still unconscious earlier, after being engulfed in the huge flames, she was burned to ashes, not a bit of her body remained.
Fang Yuan shouted loudly as he used myriad dragon, charging around the place, while he started to act and destroy the formation.
The old man was a bit nervous now, he started to attack Fang Yuan.
But Fang Yuan had reverse flow protection seal to defend him, he ignored the old man and only targeted the formation.
"Fang Yuan, don't think of getting out, that is merely a delusion!" The old man roared as his flames engulfed Fang Yuan.
"Hahaha, you are simply struggling at death's door." The old man got behind Fang Yuan and slammed them on his back like two huge tablets, Fang Yuan was sent flying.
Fang Yuan was bleeding from all seven orifices, it was quite a pathetic sight, yet his eyes were still cold as ice, he continued to attack the time path formation.
"It is useless! How can you break such an amazing formation? Look at your Reverse Flow River, it is about to be fully expended." The old man mocked, he attacked with greater intensity, killing intent surged as he behaved in a frenzied manner.
Even though Reverse Flow River could reflect attacks, the old man also had his verdant sun flame cloak. He endured the reflected attacks as he continued to expend the Reverse Flow River water.
He was not wrong, Fang Yuan's Reverse Flow River had gone through many battles, a lot of it was used up already. As he continued to attack, the river water level fell, Fang Yuan's robe also started to become thin and flimsy.
Suddenly, Fang Yuan roared as he stopped attacking, preparing Luo Po seal again.
The old man's pupils shrunk, his attacks changed, he started to prepare his defenses against Luo Po seal.
Fang Yuan completed the preparation as he flicked his palm, instead of attacking the old man, he shot it towards a corner of the formation.
"Guh!" With a shocked voice, a rank seven Gu Immortal controlling the formation was hit by Luo Po seal, he died on the spot.
"How?!" The other Central Continent Gu Immortals were also shocked and lost for words.
Fang Yuan was able to find a formation core in such a short time and kill the person inside.
Luo Po seal was very powerful even against rank eight Gu Immortals, not to mention these rank sevens.
"Quick, that formation core has been destroyed, quickly move and fix the hole!" A Gu Immortal shouted.
On the other end, the old man grunted as he attacked Fang Yuan again.
Fang Yuan used the extremely depleted reverse flow protection seal to defend himself while attacking the formation himself.
With many of his methods used, Heavenly Court's meticulously created time path immortal formation collapsed area by area, it could not hold up against Fang Yuan's unraveling.
"How can this be?!" Fang Yuan's speed of deduction was extremely shocking to everyone.
"Quick, over there!" Someone shouted.
A loophole formed in the formation, connecting with the outside world.
Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Bye."
"You cannot leave!" Flames swept over, turning into the old man. He hid the loophole behind himself desperately.
The other Central Continent Gu Immortals also let out a sigh of relief.
But Fang Yuan shot out like an arrow towards the old man, saying coldly with deep killing intent: "Get lost."
The old man snickered: "It is useless, you cannot deal with my verdant sun flame cloak!"
The distance between them shrunk!
Central Continent's Gu Immortals quickly changed their formation, someone shouted: "Block Fang Yuan, we only need five breaths of time to change the formation! This is a complete change, it would be ten times as difficult as before to deduce it afterwards!"
The old man scoffed: "Not just five breaths, even if... hmm?"
His eyes suddenly widened, his face turned stiff, he looked at Fang Yuan's killer move preparation with deep disbelief.
Fang Yuan's aura was completely concealed, not a bit leaked out.
He clapped both hands together in front of his chest. Next, his right hand which was in contact with his left hand moved, it was like he was trying to pull out something precious, as his right palm slowly clenched into a fist.
Afterwards, his left hand was still at the original position, but his tightly clenched right fist was lifted, above his chest and shoulder, above his head, until it was fixed right above his head.
"This, this move is..." The old man no longer smiled, there was nervousness in his eyes and even some fear.
Indeed, this was the immortal killer move — Five Finger Fist Heart Sword!
Time passed, at the first breath.
First finger!
Fang Yuan had a cold expression as he raised the thumb of his right hand.
From the right fist that he held high in the air, a sword light shot out.
Fast! Fast! Fast!
The speed of the sword light was beyond belief!
The moment it was shot out, it pierced the old man's forehead.
The old man shuddered, the flames on the verdant sun flame cloak on his body weakened by half.
Second breath.
Second finger!
The old man reacted, he roared as the verdant sun flame cloak started blazing again.
But the sword light landed again, weakening the verdant sun flame cloak.
Third breath.
Third finger.
The old man's expression turned pale, he wanted to grit his teeth, the verdant sun flame cloak on his back had expanded like a fireball, earlier it was the size of a horse carriage, but now it was the size of a house.
The old man roared: "This is the peak condition of my verdant sun flame cloak! Come, your attacks cannot break through."
The moment he said that, the sword light landed as the verdant sun flame cloak burst like a balloon, it returned to its former condition.
Five finger fist heart sword got stronger as it progressed.
Fourth breath, fourth finger!
The old man desperately blocked the fourth sword, his expression was pale, he took a huge step back, verdant sun flame cloak was like a flickering candle, it was extremely thin now.
Fifth breath.
Fang Yuan snickered: "What cloak, it is laughable. Li Huang, you can start preparing your funeral. It is over, the fifth sword!"
The old man's heart jumped, his eyes were filled with terror: "No, Bo Qing, don't even dream of killing me!"
The flame blazed, he turned into dozens of figures as he flew in all directions.
Fang Yuan ignored him, he flew outside the loophole, escaping into the River of Time.
He had just flown out when the time path formation changed completely, the earlier loopholes were fixed, it had become whole again, securely locking the formation space inside.
But Fang Yuan had already escaped, the time path formation was completely silent inside.
The Central Continent Gu Immortals controlling the formation were all dumbfounded.
The flame clones dissipated slowly, until only the old man's main body remained.
At this moment, his face was flushing red and white; anger, fear, humiliation, hatred, and killing intent, they filled his heart entirely, turning his expression distorted and filled with terrifying hatred.
Suddenly, the old man raised his head and roared.
"There, there was no fifth sword!"
"Fang Yuan!!"
"You lied!!!"
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After a tough battle of brains and brawn, Fang Yuan finally got out of Heavenly Court's ambush and escaped into the River of Time.
Once he left the formation, Fang Yuan felt the difficulty of using reverse flow protection seal raise by several times, he quickly stopped it and changed to the time path killer move winter coat.
Immortal killer move — Familiar Face!
At the next moment, Fang Yuan turned into an immemorial year beast.
Because he had transformed in the River of Time, transformation path was also greatly suppressed. Even though he managed to use the move, his immortal essence expenditure was tens of times as much as usual!
Thankfully, familiar face's core was attitude Gu, it only expended mental energy. Thus, on the whole, familiar face used very little immortal essence, Fang Yuan could sustain it.
Plop.
Fang Yuan turned into an immemorial year snake as he went into the River of Time, slithering away.
"We are finally out of the encirclement, escaping the time path formation." Fang Yuan felt a little glad.
The earlier situation was quite dangerous. The longer it dragged on, the more tight Heavenly Court's defenses would be, and the lower chances Fang Yuan would have of survival.
This time, there were two reasons why he could escape.
Firstly, Fang Yuan had made the time path clone use the light of wisdom to break the formation. Because of the light of wisdom, Fang Yuan's wisdom path abilities far exceeded Heavenly Court's imagination, he could catch them off guard.
Secondly, he used five finger fist heart sword. Fang Yuan had rank eight cultivation level, with his own white litchi immortal essence, he could use wisdom sword Immortal Gu. This Immortal Gu was one of the core of five finger fist heart sword to begin with, thus, Fang Yuan could use the fourth sword of five finger fist heart sword. This was his current limit, to use the fifth sword, he would need other core sword path Immortal Gu.
"I expended a lot of rank eight immortal essence." Fang Yuan inspected his immortal aperture, his immortal essence storage had fallen to a dangerous level.
Even though Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture had a fast time flow and could accumulate white litchi immortal essence rapidly, he had gone through fierce battles consecutively, especially earlier against the old man Li Huang, he had expended a lot when breaking out of the time path formation.
"I should escape first!" In this situation, Fang Yuan only had one thought.
This was the wisest decision, a frontal face-off was the most stupid idea.
"Fang Yuan, where are you going!" An angry growl could be heard behind him.
Fang Yuan turned around and his heart jumped.
Three Immortal Gu Houses were chasing after him with threatening auras.
The left one was Eternal Yacht, it was tall and rode with the wind. On the deck, rank eight Gu Immortal Qing Ye, the rank seven Gu Immortals Four Xunzi and others were standing with a righteous aura.
The middle one was Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform, it was elegant and grand, the orange roof resembled cranes with their wings spread out. The Immortal Gu House was radiating three layers of autumn light, it was quite extraordinary.
The right one was Shark Flow Lever, the huge lever was white like jade, a rank eight Gu Immortal was standing on it, he wore a suit of blue star armor and had a rough appearance. There were seven huge sharks in front of the lever, they had sharp teeth and were dragging the huge lever ahead.
"Three rank seven Immortal Gu Houses, at least three rank eight Gu Immortals, with many rank seven Gu Immortals..." Fang Yuan's heart continued to sink, at this moment, he could see Heavenly Court's huge determination to get rid of him!
Even though Fang Yuan became an immemorial year snake, his speed was not fast. With the destruction of the incomplete Immortal Gu House, he could not conceal himself.
Both sides continued to shrink in distance, the three Immortal Gu Houses attacked from afar.
Fang Yuan used autumn perception killer move as eyes seemed to grow on his back, he managed to evade agilely.
If he could not dodge, he would use winter coat to endure the attacks forcefully.
Winter coat was amplified in the River of Time, together with Fang Yuan's time path dao marks, it displayed incredible defensive power, even though it was not as amazing as reverse flow protection seal, it was on par with it here.
"This cannot go on!" The situation was getting worse, Fang Yuan tried to find a solution.
Luo Po seal took a long time to activate, in the River of Time, the duration would be even longer, and the overall strength would be weaker. Heavenly Court would be fully on guard against him, he could not rely on Luo Po seal to turn the situation around.
Myriad self, myriad dragon, strength path giant hand, emperor yama, and others, they were the same.
Fang Yuan could only rely on summer fan, spring scissors, and other time path methods.
But the three Immortal Gu Houses after Fang Yuan were strong as fortresses, spring scissors and summer fan were unable to do anything to them.
As they continued to fight, Fang Yuan's immortal essence storage fell continuously, the situation was getting worse.
Heavenly Court chased after Fang Yuan with rising morale, their expressions were very optimistic.
Suddenly, at the river ahead, a change occurred, huge fountains were starting to burst out.
"Oh no, this is the sudden spring river segment!"
"This demon excels in luck path, he has incredible luck, he is very hard to kill. As expected, something occurred here!"
"Follow him, don't let him escape."
Heavenly Court's side shouted, showing nervous expressions on their faces.
Fang Yuan dived into the sudden spring river segment.
The sudden springs were very dangerous, they carried the might of time path. If the scale was large enough, they would definitely be able to take the lives of rank eight Gu Immortals.
In most situations, Fang Yuan would avoid them, but now, this sudden spring river segment was his hope of escaping.
The immemorial year snake slithered in the river, sudden springs erupted around Fang Yuan time and time again, but they were not much of an obstacle for him.
Fang Yuan had luck inspection Immortal Gu, while the sovereign immortal body had non-conflicting dao marks, he could evidently sense that his luck was falling rapidly.
Luck path usually could not be sensed, but at this moment, it displayed its incredible power.
Heavenly Court's three Immortal Gu Houses had a hard time chasing him.
The moment they entered the sudden spring river segment, Eternal Yacht and Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform were hit by sudden springs immediately, pushed up forcefully.
They spent a lot of effort to dive down, even Shark Flow Lever was hit.
Fang Yuan often encountered rank six or seven level small to mid sized sudden springs, while Heavenly Court faced rank eight level big sudden springs.
Even though Fang Yuan met many obstacles and was often obstructed by the sudden springs, Heavenly Court's group was more like a bunch of sick people climbing a mountain. Their encounters were clearly contrasted, Heavenly Court's members had dark expressions, they felt deeply vexed, wanting to spit blood in anger.
"It seems that Feng Jiu Ge is not part of the group." Fang Yuan had a realization.
In the battle of Lang Ya, Fang Yuan saw how strong Feng Jiu Ge's luck was, he could not suppress the latter.
If he was here, Heavenly Court would not face such troubles now.
Without much danger, Fang Yuan managed to get out of the sudden spring river segment.
Behind him, Shark Flow Lever and Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform were already far behind, only Eternal Yacht could barely catch up with him, it had left the sudden spring river segment as well.
Without obstacles now, Eternal Yacht's speed rose, it reduced the distance between Fang Yuan and itself.
"I cannot escape like this!" Fang Yuan's eyes shined with lightning, he made up his mind and stopped to face the enemy.
Seeing that Fang Yuan was not escaping, Eternal Yacht's Gu Immortals were overjoyed, but soon, they exposed wary expressions full of alertness.
Xun Guo Zi shouted: "Everyone, be careful, the demon is fighting instead of running, he must have some vicious plans!"
She had just spoken when Fang Yuan's killer move activated.
Immortal killer move — Time Cutting Edge!
This move was still rank seven level, but Fang Yuan's time path dao marks amplified it to a hundred times of its power, at the same time, it was inside the River of Time, its power rose to nearly rank eight.
At once, the leader, rank eight Gu Immortal Qing Ye, sensed a fatal threat, his hair was standing on ends, his heart shrunk as he quickly dodged.
But time cutting edge was too fast, even faster than five finger fist heart sword, the moment Fang Yuan used it, it had already reached Qing Ye.
Eternal Yacht had its defenses of course, but time cutting edge was thin as paper, it easily penetrated it!
"Isn't this move lost in history? How can he use it! Am I going to die here?!" Instantly, Qing Ye was filled with shock as he fell into deep despair.
"Let me!" At the dangerous moment, Xun Guo Zi jumped out, standing in front of Qing Ye.
Crack!
Xun Guo Zi's body shook intensely, she was hit by time cutting edge, her eyes stared widely as she fell down on the deck.
"Huff huff!" Qing Ye breathed roughly, he was covered in sweat, having barely kept his life.
"Xun Guo Zi..." Qing Ye's expression was pale as he showed a deeply moved expression.
The other three Xunzi looked at each other with calm expressions.
They thought: Xun Guo Zi blocked the blade for Qing Ye and died for him, it was definitely worth it to gain the favor of this rank eight Gu Immortal.
"Lord Qing Ye, don't worry about it. We have a unique method to revive our sister." Shang Xunzi smiled and expressed his sincerity.
But Qing Ye shook his head, showing a grim expression: "I can somewhat understand the profundities behind your method. I am afraid it will not work this time."
The three Xunzi were shocked, they asked: "Lord, what do you mean? Please explain it to us."
"This is Bo clan's killer move, it had once threatened the whole of Central Continent, it is called time cutting edge." Qing Ye said with a complex expression, unable to conceal his fear.
"What?"
""There is such a move!"
The three Xunzi's expressions changed, they all started to tremble as they became fearful and panicky, no longer as calm as before.
"No, impossible, isn't this move gone already?" Shang Xunzi shook his head, refusing to believe Qing Ye.
"But the truth is so, stop chasing him." Qing Ye breathed in deeply with a pale expression.
"Lord!" The remaining rank seven Gu Immortals shouted, Fang Yuan was right in front of them, it was a great chance to kill this demon, they would gain an incredible amount of contribution credits! If they let him go, they would definitely be reprimanded and punished.
But Qing Ye made up his mind.
"Among the three Immortal Gu Houses, Eternal Yacht is the fastest but has the weakest defense. You've all seen how time cutting edge could not be blocked!"
"If we pursue him, as long as Fang Yuan kills us one by one, he will gain this Eternal Yacht instead. Plus, even though I have a phantom aperture, you all have a lifetime of accumulation, we cannot give them all to this demon."
If at this moment, other than Eternal Yacht, the other Immortal Gu Houses were around, Qing Ye might pursue him.
But right now, if they chased after him, there would not be any chance of victory.
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"Huff..." Fang Yuan let out a breath of air and suddenly opened his eyes.
This was an underground cave, there were dim flames lighting the walls, creating a natural formation. Even though it was not strong, it could alert him.
Fang Yuan was ambushed by Heavenly Court in the River of Time, he had fought desperately for a way out after an intense struggle.
After getting away from Qing Ye and the rest, Fang Yuan followed the tributary of the River of Time and got to the outside world of Southern Border.
Southern Border was the headquarters of Shadow Sect, Purple Mountain True Monarch had set up many eerie fire caves at many locations. Fang Yuan used Fixed Immortal Travel to randomly go into one and rest, recovering from the fight.
Even though he had reverse flow protection seal, he was not using it the entire time, he had to rely on winter coat. Let alone the battle with Li Huang, just during his escape, Fang Yuan was hit by the three Immortal Gu Houses multiple times, his injuries were not light.
Fang Yuan inspected his sovereign immortal body before standing up slowly.
After a few days of recovery, he had already healed. Most importantly, because the sovereign immortal body had non-conflicting dao marks, his healing effects were very effective.
His rank eight white litchi immortal essence had also increased, but it was still in the red zone.
Fang Yuan paced around in the cave with his arms behind his back. While considering the situation, his frown got deeper.
This time, he had suffered greatly in the River of Time. It was no exaggeration to say that he had 'barely survived'.
Fang Yuan did not feel much fear or joy, such a case was within his expectations.
Heavenly Court's foundation was simply too deep!
Fang Yuan's growth was simply nothing compared to the long history of Heavenly Court.
With such immense foundation, they only had to put in some effort to give Fang Yuan huge problems. The battle in the River of Time was a good affirmation to this.
Earlier, Fang Yuan had an advantage against Heavenly Court, it was because he sneak attacked and caught them unprepared. Because he was able to stay hidden, Heavenly Court could not do anything. Fang Yuan had always been exerting all his effort and using all his time to grow stronger and make Heavenly Court's plans fail each time.
But as Heavenly Court learned more about Fang Yuan, they placed more emphasis on him, when it finally came to a frontal assault, Fang Yuan's strength was just too little.
Heavenly Court was not just strong in foundation, the biggest advantage was their unified mindset.
Southern Border's righteous path also had immense strength, but all of the clans were focused on their individual benefits, they could not effectively deal with Fang Yuan.
But Heavenly Court had always been pressuring Fang Yuan.
If not for his schemes and plots, any other demonic path Gu Immortal would have been captured or killed already.
As time passes, Heavenly Court's arrangements in the River of Time would get more elaborate, the chances of getting Red Lotus' true inheritance would become slimmer.
Against such a strong enemy, what could Fang Yuan do?
"I have expended almost all of my white litchi immortal essence."
"Reverse Flow River also has barely any water, Li Huang expended too much of it, I can't use it anymore."
Unlike Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley which had rank nine killer move orderly well and could be repaired using Landscape as Before rapidly, Reverse Flow River was very different.
Fang Yuan did not lack the methods to restore it, but any method would incur huge costs!
For the foreseeable future, Fang Yuan would not be able to use his reverse flow protection seal anymore.
Even without reverse flow protection seal, Fang Yuan had gotten to rank eight and obtained Xia Cha's methods, on the whole, his strength had still risen by quite a lot.
"But this time, I exposed too many methods."
Immemorial year beasts, spring scissors, summer fan, and other killer moves were exposed, they were part of Fang Yuan's plan. But the reveal of time cutting edge was truly a shame.
There was no choice, in that battle, if Fang Yuan did not use this method, he might have died already.
"But I am not without gains."
Fang Yuan also managed to probe Heavenly Court's foundation.
They had a mysterious method to cause the resonance of Spring Autumn Cicada!
Fang Yuan had not expected this.
But now, thinking about it, Fang Yuan could understand that the time path formation in ambush was not targeted at him, but Red Lotus' true inheritance instead.
And Spring Autumn Cicada was the key to opening Red Lotus' true inheritance.
How could Heavenly Court not research Red Lotus' true inheritance using Spring Autumn Cicada as the starting point? Even though they could not refine Spring Autumn Cicada, they could mimic it to a great extent.
"Li Huang, Qing Ye..." New rank eight Gu Immortals showed up.
Heavenly Court ruled Central Continent and could take in rank eight Gu Immortals from the ten great ancient sects as new members. From time to time, a few experienced experts would wake up from the immortal graveyard.
Having been created since the Remote Antiquity Era, all the way until now, nobody knew how deep Heavenly Court's foundation truly was.
Precisely with such foundations, during the five hundred years of Fang Yuan's previous life, Heavenly Court ruled Central Continent and fought against four other regions, for a long time, they held the advantage and even many super clans were destroyed.
Perhaps because of this, even though Spectral Soul managed to defy heaven, he did not dare to attack Heavenly Court directly, he continued to lurk and infiltrate it slowly.
"And those three Immortal Gu Houses... no, the one I destroyed earlier did not lose many Immortal Gu, even if they were destroyed, Heavenly Court could still refine it. I am afraid that next time, I will have to face four or more Immortal Gu Houses!"
Rank eight time path Gu Immortals were not easily found, even for Heavenly Court.
But time path Immortal Gu Houses could be assembled using parts of other Immortal Gu Houses, or using Immortal Gu that various Gu Immortals had in their possession or inventory.
After assembling these time path Immortal Gu Houses, Heavenly Court could place a large number of Gu Immortals from different paths inside, allowing them to seal off the entire River of Time.
Any plan of luring the enemy away would not work.
Heavenly Court was the number one grotto-heaven in the five regions, there was no concerns over its safety. Even if Fang Yuan attacked Heavenly Court directly, not only would he be unable to find the entrance, even if he got in, he would incur Heavenly Court's wrath, a few rank eight great experts from the immortal graveyard could wake up and take his life.
And if Fang Yuan attacked the ten great ancient sects, he would not be able to topple Heavenly Court's rule either, and it was extremely risky to do so. After all, they had the wisdom path great expert Fairy Zi Wei.
Fang Yuan's gaze was cold as ice, he knew clearly that to find Red Lotus' true inheritance, he would need to face off against Heavenly Court!
The more defenses Heavenly Court placed in the River of Time, the more important Red Lotus' true inheritance was, and the greater Fang Yuan's hope to destroy fate Gu rested in it.
"I need to be fast!"
Heavenly Court had all sorts of methods, they might find Red Lotus' true inheritance before him. Thus, he needed to get past their layers of defense into the stone lotus island before Heavenly Court succeeds, and obtain the most crucial things left by Red Lotus Demon Venerable.
As for what they were, Fang Yuan had no idea, even Heavenly Court might not know.
Guarding the River of Time was an open scheme by Heavenly Court, because they had the tactical advantage, they were not afraid that Fang Yuan would not come.
Fate Gu was about to recover, Fang Yuan needed to get past Heavenly Court and obtain Red Lotus' true inheritance to have a chance of destroying Fate. Even if he had to take huge risks, even if he had to risk his life, even though there was an ambush, he had to go!
"There are no special tactics or shortcuts, I need to raise my strength and continue to grow, surpassing Heavenly Court's defenses to break through these obstacles and obtain Red Lotus' true inheritance!"
Once Fang Yuan achieves this goal, he would have the qualification and ability to continue challenging Heavenly Court.