Bai Ning Bing, Ying Wu Xie, and the rest went into the formation one by one, finally, Fairy Zi Wei also went to the center of the formation, activating it.
The deduction was beginning.
Qi Sea Ancestor did not move, he stayed at the original spot.
"If I take action now to destroy the formation, will it help my main body?" Qi Sea Ancestor analyzed, he estimated his chances.
Once the formation was damaged or even destroyed, the Gu Immortals inside would suffer backlash, but Qi Sea Ancestor could not be certain of the exact effect.
Furthermore, if Qi Sea Ancestor struck now, the secret that he was Fang Yuan's clone would be exposed for sure.
"If only I could convince Qin Ding Ling and the rest to strike together." Qi Sea Ancestor sighed internally.
Even though Qin Ding Ling was not a wisdom path great expert, she was not so easy to deceive. Qi Sea Ancestor did not even dare to say anything odd now, otherwise, Heavenly Court might find out the truth instead.
"Ancestor, time is pressing, you need to consider the big picture!" Qin Ding Ling was secretly sending transmissions to him, trying to convince Qi Sea Ancestor. She wanted him to chase after Dragon Palace and Spectral Soul, but Qi Sea Ancestor started to talk about payment instead.
Qi Sea Ancestor sighed: "Fairy Qin, precisely because of the big picture, I am being shameless in asking you for the three qi Immortal Gu. My methods are all known by the enemies, only with these Immortal Gu can I gain a boost in strength and catch the enemies by surprise. For the sake of the people, for the righteousness of humanity, I hope you will consider the big picture and give those three Immortal Gu to me."
Qin Ding Ling mentally rolled her eyes, this Qi Sea Ancestor was not just shameless, he was incomparably so, using this opportunity to ask for huge compensation. He wanted three rank eight Immortal Gu at once, the cores of Primordial Origin's true inheritance! He was simply too greedy.
But Qin Ding Ling had many worries now, if she fell out with Qi Sea Ancestor, Heavenly Court would not have any peak rank eight battle strength, they would likely be targeted by Shadow Sect and Longevity Heaven.
Qi Sea clone purposely chose this current situation to exert pressure on Qin Ding Ling.
Qin Ding Ling sighed: "Qi Sea Ancestor, why must you force us now? Back then, in Eastern Sea, who helped you to resist Demon Immortal Qi Jue?"
Qi Sea Ancestor replied: "If we want to talk about favors, I am sure you all owe me more. I have already gotten rid of Heavenly Court's biggest threat, the qi harvest fruit is gone now. Also, in this battle, I have never slacked off, I took risks alongside all of you."
Qin Ding Ling was silent for a while before she replied solemnly: "I can give heaven qi and earth qi Immortal Gu to you, but human qi Immortal Gu is out of the question. This is the bottom line of Heavenly Court, please understand our circumstances, ancestor."
Qi Sea Ancestor accepted the result.
The truth was, the Qi Sea clone did not think he would get all three qi Immortal Gu to begin with. They were all rank eight Immortal Gu connected to Primordial Origin true inheritance, they were too valuable, far beyond the value of the supposed payment. Heavenly Court could have used other resources to pay him, but because the situation was really urgent now, the Qi Sea clone fought for the greatest benefit.
Of course, the fact that Qin Ding Ling gave the two qi path rank eight Immortal Gu to Qi Sea Ancestor on the spot caused all of the Gu Immortals to gasp in amazement.
Qi Sea Ancestor obtained two Immortal Gu, he said his goodbyes to the Heavenly Court immortals as he chased after Dragon Palace immediately.
"I finally got him to work." Qin Ding Ling felt very tired, but this outcome was not too bad. She would not give all three qi Immortal Gu to Qi Sea Ancestor, she had to keep at least one to use as bait against him.
Furthermore, Qi Sea Ancestor obtained two qi Immortal Gu, he only needed human qi Immortal Gu to be able to use the killer move triple qi retraction, this temptation was probably even greater now that he had two of them.
Dragon Palace flew rapidly in the wild winds.
In the dream realm earlier, Wu Shuai got sufficient time to put all his effort into repairing Dragon Palace, at least from the outside, it looked restored.
"The damage to the core Immortal Gu cannot be resolved quickly, this is already my limit!" Wu Shuai was very worried.
Behind Dragon Palace, a female rank eight soul path immortal was chasing it relentlessly.
It was Spectral Soul who was inside Lady Cold Ash's body. He emanated black qi as he surged with killing intent, he locked onto Dragon Palace without any signs of hesitation or giving up.
"You cannot escape, Fang Yuan! Even if you escape to the ends of the world, I will definitely kill you." Spectral Soul had just said that when his pupils expanded.
Wherever Spectral Soul's gaze landed, smoke that was pitch black appeared, quickly reaching Dragon Palace.
The smoke expanded rapidly, with a soft sound, it turned into a round spiral that had an immense suction force.
Wu Shuai was controlling Dragon Palace, he was caught by surprise as Dragon Palace's speed fell, it fell towards the black smoke spiral.
"What move is this?!" Wu Shuai gritted his teeth, veins bulged on his forehead as he tried to move Dragon Palace to the sky.
Ever since they fought, Spectral Soul's soul path methods had been endless, it was hard to guard against them. Especially when Spectral Soul was such an expert with abundant experiences, he could use these soul path killer moves beyond their usual limits.
Dragon Palace turned around with difficulty, attempting to fly away from the black smoke spiral from above.
Spectral Soul sneered, he pointed his finger. Black light quickly gathered on his finger, it shot out, instantly hitting the area around Dragon Palace.
The tiny black light expanded rapidly, turning into an immemorial soul beast.
Seeing that the immemorial soul beast was about to pounce on Dragon Palace, Wu Shuai was shocked, his pupils expanded rapidly.
If Dragon Palace got hit, its movement would be obstructed, it would fall into the black spiral along with the immemorial soul beast. In that case, the precious time that Fang Yuan obtained through this tactic would be completely wasted.
At the crucial moment, Wu Shuai shouted, his eyes shined with mysterious dazzling light.
Dragon Palace reacted to it, golden light erupted, a wave of pink smoke rapidly gathered, easily dragging the immemorial soul beast away, into the depths of Dragon Palace. The powerful immemorial soul beast could not resist it at all!
Spectral Soul was not surprised.
This was the dream path killer move — Dreamy Light Smoke.
Wu Shuai got rid of the immemorial soul beast, Dragon Palace managed to fly far above the spiral.
At this time, Spectral Soul's body suddenly appeared near Dragon Palace, his eyes shined with cold light: "I have been waiting for this!"
At the same time, 'Spectral Soul', who was far away, faded into nothingness.
Spectral Soul slammed with his palm, the silhouette of a soul mountain appeared and pressed down on Dragon Palace.
This soul mountain was huge, the top was beyond the clouds, looking from below, Wu Shuai's entire vision was obstructed.
It covered the entire sky!
But the soul mountain's appearance was very familiar to Wu Shuai.
"Isn't this Dang Hun Mountain?" Wu Shuai was shocked and uncertain.
Bam!
With a loud sound, Dang Hun Mountain crashed down on Dragon Palace.
Dragon Palace's beautiful roof met with a devastating blow. Countless tiles shattered, many Gu worms died at once.
And even worse was that due to the impact, even though Dragon Palace struggled, it was slammed into the black smoke spiral by the giant soul mountain.
The spiral surrounded the entirety of Dragon Palace, an immeasurable suction force started acting on it.
Dragon Palace spun around along with the spiral, losing its sense of direction. Wu Shuai had to leave his throne as he tried to think of a way to break out of this situation, but it was hopeless in the short term.
"Don't tell me this is Spectral Soul's truth strength?" Wu Shuai gritted his teeth.
Spectral Soul unleashed several killer moves in succession, Wu Shuai was very tired in trying to deal with them. The great rank eight Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace could not put up a resistance, with Spectral Soul's array of killer moves, he managed to suppress Dragon Palace forcefully.
Wu Shuai stared with furious eyes, he had to try and delay for time, he instilled immortal essence to try and fix the Immortal Gu House, wanting to maintain his defensive position.
"In this situation, the main body's safety is in my hands! But how long can I last?" Wu Shuai was completely unsure at this point.
Fang Yuan's main body was deep inside Dragon Palace.
The heaven path dao marks prevented him from doing anything now. The unlimited qi sea killer move he used earlier against the primordial qi wall was also prepared for a long time, he used human path methods to find a gap in the restriction of the heaven path dao marks, allowing him to make one move.
But with just that action, after breaking the qi wall, the heaven path dao marks reacted and started to obstruct Fang Yuan in another way.
Thankfully, Fang Yuan did not get greedy and quickly stopped using his killer move. Otherwise, the strong interference would cause his killer move to fail, he would suffer intense backlash.
Fang Yuan only found that human path could resist heaven path. Dream path might be effective but his attainment in dream path was not high enough.
Ever since he obtained Heavenly Court's heaven path research results, Fang Yuan had been researching on them.
He was fighting against time!
It was possible that a minute's or even a second's difference would lead to either surviving or dying.
Immortal killer move — Heaven-human Sensation!
Immortal killer move — Human Executing Heaven's Work!
Within the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan's will mixed with heaven's will, he sensed various heaven path dao marks.
Refine them!
Immortal killer move — Unrestrained Heavenly Mark!
This killer move was meant to deal with heaven path dao marks, Fang Yuan did not care about the cost, he expended rank eight immortal essence rapidly, he quickly refined three heaven path dao marks successfully.
"Wu Shuai, persevere, I have already made a huge breakthrough!" The moment Fang Yuan transmitted to Wu Shuai, a change occurred in the immortal aperture.
Fang Yuan's success infuriated heaven's will.
The heaven path dao marks were like angry beasts, they were originally scattered all over the place, but now they gathered together.
Rumble!
Thunder rumbled as lightning roared, dark clouds formed as wild winds blew.
The heaven path dao marks triggered a huge change, in just a few breaths of time, a tribulation was formed!
At that instant, earth shook as mountains rumbled, lightning flashed and shattered rocks, the earth was crying out in sorrow.
Fang Yuan's heart jumped: "Don't tell me that forcefully refining heaven path dao marks will anger the Heavenly Dao and cause a tribulation to occur? Or maybe the killer move I used has a problem?"
Lightning clouds continued to form and spread out. Soon, they spread over a hundred li, several thousand li, tens of thousands of li, and over a hundred thousand li!
Millions of lightning bolts flickered continuously, this was like a huge forest made of lightning bolts!
Myriad tribulation — Myriad Destruction Lightning Forest!
It was not an earthly calamity, a heavenly tribulation, or a grand tribulation, it was actually a myriad tribulation.
Only a rank eight Gu Immortal could face such a tribulation.
It was a myriad tribulation, they put fear into most rank eight Gu Immortals!
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Fang Yuan immediately frowned, as if a huge rock was weighing on his mind, his expression turned grim.
He did not think that a myriad tribulation would occur.
Rank eight Gu Immortals stood at the peak of the Gu Immortal world, but for each one of them, every myriad tribulation was a troublesome hurdle.
In the current Gu Immortal world, most rank eight Gu Immortals have not gone through one myriad tribulation. For example, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and Yao Huang were like this, even Prince Feng Xian was the same.
Back then, why did Old Ancestor Xue Hu try all means possible to refine fortune rivalling heaven Gu? It was to deal with his first ever myriad tribulation in this life! It was a pity that he created a huge commotion and ended up with a huge loss, not only did Old Ancestor Xue Hu fail to refine fortune rivalling heaven Gu, he even lost the whole of Snowy Mountain blessed land.
Western Desert's Thousand Transformations Ancestor had gone through one myriad tribulation. He survived it by a hairsbreadth, he was forced to recuperate for a long time. During the period, his beloved Fairy Cui Bo was killed by Fang Yuan, yet he could only send Dancer Hong Yun to investigate it.
Beast Calamity Immortal died after suffering heavy injuries from his first myriad tribulation, leaving behind Beast Calamity grotto-heaven.
Bo Qing was a rank eight Gu Immortal who had passed two myriad tribulations, Duke Long was too. Throughout history, both of them were top tier experts merely below venerable level.
Even though Fang Yuan possessed over a million dao marks after becoming a rank eight Gu Immortal, the truth was that he used the sovereign immortal aperture's specialty to annex grotto-heavens, he skipped all his myriad tribulations.
Thus, Fang Yuan had not gone through a single myriad tribulation.
In his case, myriad tribulations were still huge problems. And the biggest issue now was that this current situation was really inappropriate to undergo tribulation. Fang Yuan could not estimate how long Wu Shuai could last, after all, Spectral Soul was a terrifying foe that they could not assess!
"I need to refine these heaven path dao marks as soon as possible, only after that can I face Spectral Soul!"
"But to refine heaven path dao marks, I need to undergo myriad tribulation?"
Fang Yuan felt like there was a tsunami now, he went up the mountain to avoid the flood but found out that this was actually a volcano! And now, this volcano was about to erupt.
Externally was Spectral Soul, internally was the myriad tribulation, at this moment, Fang Yuan fell into the greatest predicament of his life so far.
"No, I still have a chance!" Even in this situation, Fang Yuan remained calm, he was not flustered.
At the same time, at another area.
Myriad Year Flying Warship and Demon Immortal Qi Jue were escaping and chasing respectively.
Suddenly, 'Fang Yuan' flew out of Myriad Year Flying Warship, using his killer move with ferocity as he forced back Demon Immortal Qi Jue temporarily.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue immediately used his investigative method, after confirming this, he transmitted to Spectral Soul: "Fang Yuan is here with me, I can't deal with him alone. Come quickly! Otherwise, he might escape."
Spectral Soul heard the news and got stunned for a moment.
"Is Fang Yuan really not in Dragon Palace?" Spectral Soul thought rapidly, his attacks also slowed down as a result.
Right now, even though Dragon Palace was trapped, it was still a rank eight Immortal Gu House, it could last for a while.
Fang Yuan was rushing against time, Spectral Soul was the same. If he wasted time with Dragon Palace, even if he destroyed it, Fang Yuan would escape, then this entire pursuit would fail because he could not meet his goal.
Victory in battle was never important, only the benefits behind it mattered. Combat was just one of the ways to gain benefits, the glory of victory was completely irrelevant to Spectral Soul.
"Fang Yuan has familiar face, he can create a will and give it immortal essence and Immortal Gu to create a false impression of being the main body." Spectral Soul knew about this information, thus he was quite troubled now.
Even though he was strong, far beyond other Gu Immortals, he could be called the number one in the world, but Fang Yuan was crafty and hard to catch, this situation was quite vexing.
Spectral Soul knew he had to be vigilant, otherwise, he would follow in Heavenly Court's footsteps. This Fang Yuan was just too good at escaping!
The sovereign immortal aperture was facing countless lightning bolts, ever since the myriad tribulation formed, it had been attacking non-stop.
Mini Southern Border suffered severe damage!
The Heavenly Dao sought to balance deficit and surplus, which area in the sovereign immortal aperture was the most developed? It was undoubtedly Mini Southern Border. Thus, the Heavenly Dao created this myriad tribulation that targeted Mini Southern Border.
"Myriad tribulation — Myriad Destruction Lightning Forest!" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, doing his best to make arrangements. He ignored Spectral Soul who was outside now, he let Wu Shuai try to stall for time.
Rumble...
Cloud Bamboo Mountain was completely broken apart into countless pieces by the lightning bolts.
There were eight desolate beast cloud foxes living on the mountain, and eleven desolate plant spear tip bamboos, they were completely wiped from existence by the lightning bolts. Cloud qi roots, white hair ginseng and a vast number of ordinary spear tip bamboos were all destroyed too.
The seven colored cloud soil inside the mountain were also affected, they were scattered all over the place, after the damage from the lightning, their value fell drastically.
Cloud Bamboo Mountain was originally taken from Southern Border's Chi clan by Fang Yuan, it had the weakest defensive formation, thus at this moment, it was completely decimated beyond recognition.
Soon, the other resource points started to face problems too.
"I need to solve this internal threat as soon as possible!" Fang Yuan thought to himself, but the power of the myriad destruction lightning forest was terrifying, he could not do anything about it, each of his actions were still restricted by the heaven path dao marks.
Thankfully, there was a bunch of Gu Immortals in the sovereign immortal aperture.
Among them, Xue Er, Shi Shi Cheng, and Mo Tan Sang were nurtured by Fang Yuan to become the new leaders of their variant human tribes. Their cultivation level was too weak, asking them to help out was simply sending them to death's doors.
"I will help!" At the moment of crisis, an elderly Gu Immortal stepped up, emanating rank eight aura.
Since when did Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture gain such a powerful expert?
This elderly man was none other than the sole rank eight in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, the current generation Combat Beast King.
Ever since Fang Yuan's plan succeeded and he annexed Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, all of the Gu Immortals inside were turned into his subordinates. After that, Fang Yuan gave them the true method of Gu cultivation.
During the fate war, most of the rank seven Gu Immortals were sent out to fight, until now, Fang Yuan did not have any time to recall them, they were still wandering around in the five regions.
Combat Beast King was a different case, because he had been cultivating inside Star Collection City, his strength rose greatly.
This was Fang Yuan's backup plan during the fate war to guard against people trying to invade his immortal aperture.
During the fate war, this situation did not occur, and now that the sovereign immortal aperture had a myriad tribulation, with Fang Yuan unable to make a move, he could only send out the Combat Beast King.
Winds blew, starlight shot out.
The rank eight star sea snail corpse was taken out by Fang Yuan, handed to Combat Beast King. The Combat Beast King did not hesitate, he immediately used his killer move and turned into a giant covered in starlight armor.
The giant roared as his body flew up towards the sky of lightning clouds.
Crack!
When the giant reached half the distance, several lightning bolts combined into one, the pillar-like bolt shot down on the star armored giant.
If this were in the past, Combat Beast King would definitely die from getting hit by this. But after this period of cultivation, he had already learned how to use immortal killer moves.
Thus, the defensive killer move was used by Combat Beast King before he moved, it managed to resist the lightning bolts.
But the giant's advancement was also halted at this moment.
The giant landed back on the ground, its majestic body shivering as sparks remained on its body, Combat Beast King's limbs were going numb, his movements were greatly affected.
"Myriad tribulations are truly terrifying!" Combat Beast King was tongue-tied, he spoke with deep shock.
Fang Yuan frowned tightly.
Earlier, the lightning bolts combined to target Combat Beast King, that was the work of heaven's will. The heaven path dao marks were too densely gathered now, heaven's will was naturally being produced.
With the manipulation of heaven's will, the terrifying myriad tribulation became even more adaptive, it led to despair.
"I have the killer move heaven's will dissipation, I can even get rid of heaven's will in dream realms. Unfortunately, I cannot use it now!" Fang Yuan sighed to himself, he needed to refine the heaven path dao marks, he had to mingle with heaven's will and use both heaven-human sensation and human executing heaven's work to capture the location of the heaven path dao marks. After that, he would use unrestrained heavenly mark to refine the relevant heaven path dao marks.
Thus, heaven's will was necessary.
Once Fang Yuan gets rid of the heaven's will, he would also not be able to refine these heaven path dao marks.
"But the heaven path dao marks gathered and created a myriad tribulation, this greatly affected my refinement of the heaven path dao marks, my efficiency is less than one percent of before!"
Originally, the heaven path dao marks were scattered all over the sovereign immortal aperture, they were like divided troops, Fang Yuan could refine them group by group, the refinement was very effective. But now that the heaven path dao marks gathered into one tight group, Fang Yuan would have huge problems in trying to target them, his refinement also started to have no progress.
With this speed of refining the heaven path dao marks, how long would it take?
Fang Yuan's circumstances were really precarious!
"Oh no, I can't hold on anymore!" When it rains, it pours, at this moment, Wu Shuai shouted loudly as he requested for Fang Yuan's help.
This dragonman clone was also in a bind now.
Veins were bulging on his forehead, he was sweating profusely, Dragon Palace was trapped in the black smoke spiral, it was taking huge damage at all times. With cracking tiles and pillars, the whole of Dragon Palace was visibly shrinking.
Wu Shuai could only do his best to repair it, but his speed could not match Spectral Soul's destruction.
Seeing that a crucial area was about to be destroyed, Wu Shuai had no choice but to ask for help.
Fang Yuan knew that his clone would not ask unless he was desperate. He sighed to himself as he switched his attention to the outside world.
After inspecting the situation, Fang Yuan immediately took action to help Wu Shuai with the repair of the Gu House.
They managed to alleviate the situation, but it was not enough!
Suddenly, Wu Shuai gasped: "Why are Spectral Soul's attacks getting slower?"
Fang Yuan realized at once, he said: "I created a fake main body over in Myriad Year Flying Warship, it seems to have worked. Spectral Soul is hesitating now, he has always been worried that I would escape. He has no idea that Dragon Palace is about to collapse, he thinks the rank eight Immortal Gu House can still last for some time. If my 'main body' in Myriad Year Flying Warship escapes during this period, even if he manages to take down Dragon Palace and kill you, his plan will fail regardless."
Wu Shuai's eyes shined: "It will be great if we can deceive him now!"
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"It'll be difficult." Fang Yuan sighed deeply.
Almost the same time as he said that, Spectral Soul, who was outside, attacked even quicker than before!
Spectral Soul shouted coldly: "Fang Yuan, you are truly a disappointment. How long are you going to hide? I'll tell you the truth, Fairy Zi Wei has already deduced your location earlier."
"Entrusting your hope to deceit, this is the way of the weak. I gave you sovereign immortal fetus Gu, it was truly a waste!"
"Come out and fight me, in this case, even if you die, people of the world will not say that you were cowardly, being afraid of the strong while bullying the weak."
"Damn it!" Wu Shuai's hope was dashed, he could not help but grit his teeth.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, frowning and not answering. From his perspective, what was the point of reputation? What he cared about was whether Fairy Zi Wei really succeeded in her deduction, was Spectral Soul trying to deceive him now, was it all an act just to bait out Fang Yuan?
The Qi Sea clone had already left, so Fang Yuan did not know about the situation over there.
"Even now, the wisdom path formation is still working, we cannot forget another possibility, that is Fairy Zi Wei trying to delay Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven's action by telling Spectral Soul about the result secretly in advance. Sigh, I can't care about it now." Fang Yuan sighed as he quickly tossed away this question.
It was not that he found out the truth, but Dragon Palace's current condition was too dangerous, he had no choice but to take action.
Fang Yuan opened the door of his immortal aperture slightly, letting out the immemorial year beasts that he had prepared!
Several immemorial year beasts roared as they charged out of Dragon Palace, attempting to destroy the black smoke spiral, while a few of them charged towards Spectral Soul.
"Your efforts are futile." Spectral Soul made his move, black smoke spread out from his body and whipped up a dark storm, shrouding the surrounding over an immense range.
He pointed repeatedly with his finger, each attack only carried a trace of smoke but it was incredibly fast, the power was overwhelming. When the black smoke hit the immemorial year beasts, it immediately expanded into countless dense smoke chains that binded the immemorial year beasts.
The immemorial year beasts struggled but the black smoke chains were boosted by the black smoke spiral, they became thicker and tighter. The immemorial year beasts could struggle at first but soon they became unable to move, they were swept away by the spiral without resistance.
"These are just petty tricks, you are truly a disappointment, Fang Yuan." Spectral Soul flew up into the sky as he looked down at the black smoke spiral.
The great rank eight Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace was like a toy, once its details were exposed, it was completely toyed around with like a harmless object.
Wu Shuai gritted his teeth, activating the killer move dreamy light smoke.
Spectral Soul chuckled, spitting out several soul balls. The tadpole-like soul balls had tails, they moved rapidly in the air, quickly entering the immemorial year beasts.
Thin black qi appeared around the immemorial year beasts' bodies, the black smoke chains fused into the black qi and caused it to become much thicker.
The three immemorial year beasts regained freedom, they growled angrily as they attacked Dragon Palace!
One of the immemorial year beasts directly jumped into the range of dreamy light smoke.
Their control was actually taken over by Spectral Soul.
Dreamy light smoke swept away one immemorial year beast, Wu Shuai felt powerless. With Spectral Soul controlling the situation now, he had ample time and initiative, dreamy light smoke could no longer pose a threat, it was just a small problem.
The soul path killer moves that Spectral Soul was using now were all unheard of by Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai, they had never seen any moves like these.
The foundation of a rank nine venerable was truly unfathomable!
High in the sky, the wisdom path formation continued to operate.
Fairy Zi Wei stayed at the central control area, she showed an appearance of working her hardest to make deductions.
Longevity Heaven's and Heavenly Court's immortals surrounded the wisdom path formation.
Qin Ding Ling silently looked at the wisdom path formation, just earlier, Heavenly Court transmitted news that the few Gu Immortals staying back successfully suppressed Di Zang Sheng.
Di Zang Sheng was hit by Primordial Origin's qi path killer move, its condition was slipping rapidly. When Fang Yuan escaped, he abandoned it to its own demise. Now, it was not strange that Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals suppressed it.
This point alone showed how anxious Fang Yuan was, he even gave up something like Di Zang Sheng, it showed that he was at his weakest point.
And this fact amplified Qin Ding Ling's killing intent towards Fang Yuan.
This was a rare opportunity that could not be lost!
After suppressing the Evil Dragon, the remaining Gu Immortals started to repair Heavenly Court grotto-heaven. They quickly fixed the holes, Heavenly Court's crisis was finally alleviated.
This also allowed Qin Ding Ling to let out a sigh of relief, but she still had other worries.
"Qi Sea Ancestor has just left recently, with Dragon Palace's speed and direction, it should have already reached Intestinal Gorge, right?" Qin Ding Ling thought to herself.
Fang Yuan escaped in Dragon Palace, moving out of immemorial white heaven and into Central Continent. This enraged Heavenly Court and also caused them to be worried that the aftermath of the battle might cause severe losses.
Intestinal Gorge was the northern entrance of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, it was created during the Olden Antiquity Era when a beastman expert died and fused with the surrounding mountains. It was under the control of one of Central Continent's ten great ancient sects, Black Heaven Temple.
Qin Ding Ling had already transmitted the details to Black Heaven Temple, asking them to send out their Immortal Gu House and move along Intestinal Gorge. If there was a chance they would strike, if the enemies were too strong, they would abandon Intestinal Gorge and preserve their strength as the main goal.
After receiving Heavenly Court's orders, Black Heaven Temple went into an alert state, they mobilized all of their strength and started to move out.
But after waiting for a long time, they did not see Dragon Palace nor Spectral Soul.
Qin Ding Ling did not know that Spectral Soul had already intercepted Dragon Palace along the way, they were still above the sky of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range.
Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range was huge, extending over hundreds of thousands of li, compared to other mountain ranges, it was relatively gentle, the resources here were not abundant, most of the mountains were barren. Thus, even though it was in Black Heaven Temple's territory, they did not care much about it.
This place mostly produced wind path resources, in the past, a rank seven Gu Immortal of Wind Cloud Manor came here to cultivate in seclusion, he managed to breakthrough to rank eight, it was Old Man Bei Feng. It was a pity that his life was filled with hardship, he first got captured by Fang Yuan during the fate war and became enslaved by Dragon Palace. In the intense battle earlier, Old Man Bei Feng died already.
He was not the only one, all of the Four Dragon Generals died in this battle. Even the strongest of the enslaved, Di Zang Sheng, was now suppressed by Heavenly Court.
On a certain mountain of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range.
Several youngsters were herding sheep, they got into an argument.
A youngster was being bullied, he was the weakest and thinnest person here, he took several steps back amidst the argument.
"Wang Xiao Er, this mountain is occupied by us, there is no place for you here."
"Scram now, get lost from our sight."
Several youngsters wore thick leather jackets, they had muscular bodies and vicious expressions.
Wang Xiao Er's clothes were patched up with many tattered areas, he looked like a beggar.
He resisted weakly: "But my sheep need to eat, if I do not feed them sufficiently, uncle and aunt will beat me up when I return."
The youngsters laughed loudly, the strongest one struck and pushed Wang Xiao Er to the ground.
"Go to the other mountain to herd your sheep, there is still some grass there. Scram now! Otherwise, I will break your leg!" The muscular young man threatened viciously.
Wang Xiao Er struggled to get up, he did not resist, he only moved his small group of sheep and left the mountain.
He walked with his thin legs, crossing rivers and steep paths. There was no road on the mountain, Wang Xiao Er often fell down and suffered bruises from the hard rocks on the ground, only the sheep behind him were traveling without any problems.
Wang Xiao Er finally found a small patch of grass, the sheep got tired and thirsty after running around, even without his command, they went forward and competed to eat the food.
Wang Xiao Er was so tired he laid down on the rock and watched the sheep fighting to eat, he sighed to himself: "Recently, the sorrowful winds in the mountains are getting more violent, there is less and less grass available. That is why they chased my sheep away from that grassland."
The patch of grass was tiny, it was completely gobbled up by the sheep after some time. The stronger sheep ate the most food while the remaining sheep growled in hunger.
Wang Xiao Er shook his head, this mountain had little grass, it was scattered all over the place. If he wanted to feed all the sheep, he would need to head to another mountain. It would not only waste time but energy as well.
"Oh sheep, oh sheep, at least you guys have food. In order to feed you all, I will definitely have to return late. I will definitely be beaten up by uncle and aunt, I will have to eat leftover rotten food."
Even though Central Continent was the most developed among the five regions, most of the mortals still lived difficult lives, it was common to starve.
Right at this time, there were suddenly rumbling noises heard.
Wang Xiao Er raised his head, this was a strange situation, why was there thunder rumbling in this bright sky?
After that, he slowly opened his mouth and saw a shooting star falling from the sky.
The shooting star became larger and larger in his vision, winds became stronger, the rumbling sounds were deafening, even the temperature of the air rose.
Wang Xiao Er was completely stunned, he froze on the spot, the surrounding sheep sensed the danger, they started crying out and running around.
Not just the sheep, the wild beasts on the mountains were also scrambling, the originally quiet mountain suddenly became very lively.
As the shooting star got closer, Wang Xiao Er finally got a good glimpse of it.
This shooting star was actually a mountain-sized beast!
The wild beast crashed down with a loud sound, coincidentally, it was the mountain that Wang Xiao Er lived on!
The mountains collapsed as rocks flew, earth shook as the mountain trembled, dust clouds rose up rapidly.
The village on the mountain was instantly destroyed, there were anguished cries of people mixed with the growls of beasts, Wang Xiao Er could hear these sounds spreading through the air currents produced.
Rumble rumble rumble...
As Wang Xiao Er stared with a frightened gaze, terrifying cracks were spreading on the ground, soon, the surroundings of the mountain peak also cracked, they fell apart piece by piece.
The youngsters who chased Wang Xiao Er away earlier all met with a disaster!
"Am I going to die?" Wang Xiao Er sat on the ground helplessly.
He seemed to have lost all of his strength, he could only watch as the dust clouds devoured him like a hungry beast that ate everything in its path.
Inside the dust clouds were countless rock shards carried by the wind.
One of them hit Wang Xiao Er's forehead.
Before he fainted, his final thought was that of confusion, why did a giant beast fall from the sky?
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Above the clouds, in the sky.
Dragon Palace barely managed to create a golden light to shield itself, but it was trapped inside the black smoke spiral, resisting against the ferocious attacks from the outside.
Only three immemorial year beasts that Spectral Soul took control of were left.
The rest were all defeated by Wu Shuai using Dragon Palace. As for their falling corpses and what mountains they destroyed, how many people they killed, nobody in this battle cared, they could not afford to bother with the devastating disaster that a mortal boy like Wang Xiao Er experienced.
The remaining three immemorial year beasts regained their senses after the black smoke dissipated, they fought against Spectral Soul once again.
But Wu Shuai had a heavy mood.
These immemorial year beasts were collected by Fang Yuan in an attempt to restore his Twelve Zodiac battle formation, at this crucial moment, he had to use them for battle.
The result was that due to Spectral Soul's methods, they became used by him instead.
After the fight earlier, the remaining three immemorial year beasts were all injured, they could not be used to break out of this situation. Spectral Soul easily managed to resolve Fang Yuan's method, he dealt with the situation without breaking a sweat.
Not only could Spectral Soul control soul beasts, ordinary enslavement path methods were also useless against him, he could use it against the enemy instead!
Wu Shuai was deeply worried: "At this rate, how long can we last?"
Fang Yuan frowned tightly, his opponent was Spectral Soul now, he was trying hard to maintain his defense, but inside sovereign immortal aperture, the myriad tribulation was rampaging and causing destruction. After this short while, Mini Southern Border lost many resource points, his losses were rapidly increasing.
The bigger problem was that even if Fang Yuan gave up a portion of his immortal aperture, he could not break free from the myriad tribulation. This was because the heaven path dao marks that created the tribulation were very special, they could move around. He had to endure the myriad tribulation forcefully to get past this biggest hurdle.
Spectral Soul's eyes shined with cold light, he did not chase after his enemies and attack Dragon Palace again, instead, he looked away.
In his vision, a black dot appeared.
Soon, this dot expanded as a legendary immemorial beast showed its appearance, it had a tortoise shell, four tiger paws, dragon tail, snake neck, and a human head. Its hair was disheveled and it had a twisted expression filled with insanity.
It was Qing Chou who had caught up!
Spectral Soul did not avoid Qing Chou's pursuit, instead, he started to smile coldly: "Since you are here to court death, that will be the best outcome."
However, when Qing Chou reached Spectral Soul, the corner of its tortoise shell split open as a pair of bat wings formed instantly! This was very similar to the wings of the green claw ghost winged lion.
Immortal killer move — Qing Mouth!
Qing Chou opened its mouth, as it had a human face, its mouth was not big, but right now, its mouth opened to form a huge green-black hole.
The hole expanded rapidly, it shot out and devoured Spectral Soul in one mouthful.
The hole rapidly shrunk as it entered Qing Chou's mouth. Qing Chou swallowed as it gulped, a ball could be seen flowing down its snake neck, into its stomach.
"Good chance!" At this moment, brilliance flashed in Wu Shuai's eyes.
"This move was left behind to deal with you, scumbag!" Qing Chou roared loudly in joy after devouring Spectral Soul, memories surfaced in its mind again...
"What, all three Gu Immortals we sent were killed by Ming You?"
"Impossible!"
"But that is the truth. Ming You first pretended to be weak and got injured on purpose, causing our three immortals to split up to look for him. He ambushed them at a corner and found the opportunity to launch a shameless sneak attack on them. Out of carelessness, all three immortals met with their demise."
Qing clan's hall turned silent.
They wanted to restore their reputation but they ended up suffering even greater losses. A rank seven Gu Immortal was not easy to nurture, especially when they were elite rank seven Gu Immortals of Qing clan.
The losses were really huge for Qing clan, their foundation was definitely shook.
"Ming You deserves death! We were too careless... this lesson is very important, we need to remember it and pass it down to the future generations. I am going to deal with him personally." Qing clan first supreme elder said.
The immortals were silent, nobody expressed their objection.
Sending a rank eight Gu Immortal against the rank seven Ming You was really not something to be proud of. But Qing clan could not afford to lose anymore, all of the super forces in Western Desert were watching them like a joke!
However, when Qing clan's first supreme elder was about to set off, he received a challenge letter.
This letter came from another Western Desert super force which had deep enmity with Qing clan, they requested a battle with Qing clan first supreme elder, wanting to use the result of this battle to decide their territorial boundary.
"Damn it, at this juncture!" Qing clan's Gu Immortals shouted immediately.
"They are doing this on purpose. But the territorial boundary determines the ownership of a resource point, the benefits involved are too much. What do you think?" Qing clan first supreme elder hesitated at this moment.
"I will go and end Ming You's life." Qing clan's second supreme elder stood up.
"You?" The first supreme elder hesitated.
Second supreme elder smiled: "I only have rank seven cultivation level but Ming You is heavily injured, he needs to recuperate. We have already learned of his details, even though his methods are innovative and peculiar, they are mostly soul related. My immemorial desolate beast green claw ghost winged lion is his nemesis. Not just that, I created an immortal move called Qing mouth, I gained inspiration from the green claw ghost winged lion and created it. Once used, it can devour souls. Don't worry everyone, I can definitely take this Southern Border Gu Immortal's life."
"Alright, go ahead. Be careful on this trip." Eventually, first supreme elder nodded and agreed.
"With second supreme elder taking action, we will definitely succeed!"
"Ming You is as good as dead, he is not a threat, our problem now is still this challenge letter."
"Second supreme elder, you must avenge Qing Hua Lan and the rest!"
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"I finally took revenge for all of you!" As his memories faded away, Qing Chou could not help become choked with tears, hot tears started to flow out of its red eyes.
Revenge was finally taken, it felt relieved and free.
"Such a familiar sight..." Spectral Soul spoke in a casual tone from within Qing Chou's stomach.
Qing Chou's body instantly froze.
Next, it felt bitterness.
Deep bitterness.
Intense bitterness!
An indescribable and unendurable bitterness!
Bitter, it was too bitter.
"Ugh..." Qing Chou's expression turned pale, it gagged as it almost wanted to vomit.
It quickly gritted its teeth, enduring desperately.
The taste of bitterness surged like a huge tsunami, it crashed towards the limits of its endurance.
Qing Chou growled in pain, its entire body was shivering from the bitterness, it could no longer fly as it fell towards the ground.
While descending, it started to feel hungry!
It was as if there was an empty space in its stomach.
No, it was not just hunger, it was a sort of loss. It was as if its entire body was experiencing a loss.
"Now, you should know how Qing clan's second supreme elder died in my hands? Indeed, I purposely got hit by Qing mouth killer move. Do you know why I am so confident? Hehe." Spectral Soul chuckled from inside Qing Chou's stomach.
Long ago, when Spectral Soul was still young, before he went up against Western Desert's Qing clan...
Ming You who was extremely successful in life met with a wild green claw ghost winged lion and suffered a terrible defeat.
"Impossible! The soul path I created actually failed to beat a beast. Even though it is an immemorial desolate beast, my soul path... how can my soul path be so pathetic and weak?!"
Ming You who was tired after a long fight fell to the ground, he stared at the green claw ghost winged lion with a crazed expression of disbelief and indignance.
The green claw ghost winged lion stood on four legs, it looked at Ming You who was on the sandy ground, its entire body was casting the shadow of death down on him.
Next, the green claw ghost winged lion lowered its head as it opened its bloodthirsty mouth.
Plop.
With a soft sound, the green claw ghost winged lion bit off Ming You's leg.
Ah——!
Ming You cried out in pain, after losing his entire right leg, blood poured out of the wound.
The intense pain caused him to curl his body, twisting around on the ground. Soon, the surroundings were dyed red from blood.
After biting off his right leg, the green claw ghost winged lion swallowed it and felt annoyed by the moving Ming You, it stretched out its right claw and pressed him firmly on the ground.
No matter how Ming You struggled, he could not resist the strength of this beast.
The green claw ghost winged lion lowered its head and bit off Ming You's left arm this time, swallowing it.
Ming You cried out in pain again, his eyes turned white as he almost fainted from pain.
The pain was even more severe this time, earlier when his right leg was bitten off by the green claw ghost winged lion, it was a quick action, but this time, his left arm was torn off forcefully. There was still a small chunk of flesh left on his shoulder, the white arm bone could be seen with the naked eye.
Ming You resisted, he used a soul path killer move with his full strength, but all his attack only impacted the green claw ghost winged lion slightly, it did not move back at all.
Because of the attack, the green claw ghost winged lion lost its patience, it opened its mouth for the third time and ate Ming You entirely.
It started to move its teeth and chew.
Ming You's body was pierced and minced, his bones were all shattered. His brain was not spared either, blood matter and brain matter mixed together, along with his minced flesh, they were all swallowed by the green claw ghost winged lion.
Only Ming You's soul was left.
However, the green claw ghost winged lion could not digest human bodies, it only ate souls as food.
Ming You's soul could not escape from the green claw ghost winged lion's stomach, he was rapidly broken down by the gastric acid.
The shadow of death loomed over him.
Ming You's soul shook intensely, he realized that death was approaching him.
"Am I going to die..."
"Dying in the mouth of a mere beast?"
Damn it!
Indignance!
"I am still too weak. I can do much more!"
"I can definitely do more things, I have just created soul path..."
But his soul path methods were countered by the green claw ghost winged lion. This immemorial desolate beast was simply the natural nemesis of Ming You!
"I cannot die here. I will not accept this outcome."
"There must be a way, there has to be a way!"
"My immortal aperture is still inside my flesh body, it is still with me. My Gu worms are around too... but soul path is useless here. I, I still have food path!"
But the food path killer moves he had could not resist the green claw ghost winged lion, otherwise, he would have used them already, he would not end up like this.
"If existing food path killer moves are useless, I will create new food path killer moves!"
This was wishful thinking, but for Ming You, it was his only hope, even though the hope was extremely slim.
Ming You did not think about the unlikeliness of this action, he only focused on thinking, doing his best to create his concept.
Never before was he so concentrated on something!
His soul was still eroding, it became smaller and smaller.
His thoughts were producing at an increasing slower speed.
Soon, even his thoughts could not move anymore.
"I... cannot... give up..."
"I have to think... I got it... THE LEGEND OF REN ZUU"
"That's right, didn't Ren Zu get eaten as well?"
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THE LEGEND OF REN ZUU, chapter five, section thirty-two.
Ren Zu continued on his journey, after a while, a huge Predicament entered Ren Zu's vision.
Strong Gu was inside this Predicament's body, it laughed: "Oh human, I am back again. This time, I have help, let's see what you can do!"
Ren Zu had to stop walking, even though the Predicament before him was huge, he did not fluster.
Long long ago, Ren Zu had been chased by a group of Predicaments as he escaped, but after he gave his heart to hope Gu, those Predicaments which feared hope escaped in panic.
"Oh hope Gu, I need your help."
Ren Zu summoned hope Gu but the light of hope did not scare away this Predicament.
What was going on?
"Haha!" Strong Gu laughed: "Oh human, this Predicament has gained my help, it will definitely be the greatest Predicament you have ever met in your life. With just hope, how can you possibly defeat it?"
Ren Zu could not think of a way.
At this moment, weak Gu that was shielded by Ren Zu spoke in a soft voice: "Oh human, thank you for protecting me. Don't worry, I have an idea, let's scare this Predicament away!"
"You can scare it away?"
Weak Gu shook its head: "Oh human, even something as weak as me has a method to survive in life. Against those that want to eat or bully me, I will often put up a deceiving disguise, to make others think that I am very strong."
"This world favors the strong. Even if we are weak, we need to disguise ourselves as strong beings or we will be bullied everywhere."
"Oh human, you can do it. Don't you have fear Gu? Isn't attitude Gu on your face?"
Ren Zu heard weak Gu's suggestion and decided to try it.
He first twisted his appearance using attitude Gu, revealing his teeth and showing a fierce expression. Next, he used fear Gu to scare the Predicament as it bore its teeth, sprawling on the ground and staring at Ren Zu vigilantly.
Ren Zu was dazed: "Why didn't we scare it away?"
Weak Gu urged: "Didn't it jump earlier? This means that my method works, but we need to put in more effort. Oh human, why don't you put attitude Gu on top of self Gu? What is the best form of deceit or disguise? It is to deceive even yourself. By doing that, we should be able to deceive the Predicament."
Weak Gu continued: "As long as the Predicament thinks that you are strong, it will definitely let you pass. That is because Predicaments often take the initiative to give way to the strong."
Ren Zu took off the mask on his face as he placed attitude Gu on self Gu.
However, it was pointless.
The Predicament did not run off in fear.
Ren Zu realized at once: "I understand now, when a person faces a huge predicament, putting up a facade will never solve the real problem."
Strong Gu laughed: "Oh human, stop wasting your effort. With me here to remind the Predicament, how can you guys possibly deceive it? You should not have saved weak Gu, weak people often like to jeer and taunt others, showing a ruthless demeanor to conceal their own weakness inside."
Ren Zu was helpless, he could only stall for time temporarily.
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration as he said to strong Gu: "You said that the law of survival is for the strong to eat the weak, I agree with that. But how do you prove that you are strong while we are weak? If you cannot prove this, on what basis are you allowed to eat us?"
Strong Gu was dazed: "It is because I am strong Gu and that is weak Gu."
Ren Zu shook his head: "Just your names alone cannot prove anything. Moreover, other than both of you Gu worms, myself and this Predicament are also here."
Strong Gu smiled coldly: "Then I have a good method to prove it! We will eat a portion of each other, whoever fails to persevere to the end will lose, whoever is weak deserves to be eaten."
Ren Zu saw that he could not stall for any more time, he had to take a risk: "Then we will do that. Don't regret it! However, which of us will eat first?"
Strong Gu was confident in its strength, it chuckled: "So what if I let you go first?"
Ren Zu assessed the Predicament with his gaze, the truth was he had never eaten any Predicaments before.
Ren Zu thought about it before he had an idea: "Then I will eat the head of the Predicament first."
Thus, Predicament took off its head and gave it to Ren Zu.
Ren Zu only took a bite when his face became distorted, he almost vomited on the spot: "So bitter!"
It turned out that this was a huge bitter head[1].
Not just that, even though the Predicament lost its head, it was still standing, the neck that was missing a head did not bleed at all, there were no issues at all.
"Haha!" Strong Gu laughed: "Oh human, you chose wrongly, by just eating bitter heads, you cannot resolve any predicaments. Moreover, whether you are capable of eating this huge bitter head is another question altogether! If you cannot eat it, it means that you are a weakling, you deserve to be eaten by us."
Compared to the Predicament's head, Ren Zu's body was very small.
Ren Zu knew that strong Gu was right, he could not afford to lose. If he lost, not only would he fail to protect weak Gu, he would even lose his life and become the food of the Predicament.
Ren Zu could only frown as he opened his mouth, continuing to eat the bitter head.
After taking dozens of mouthfuls, Ren Zu suddenly stopped, he opened his mouth and almost vomited.
Hope Gu encouraged him: "Oh human, don't vomit. If you grit your teeth, you can devour any hardship that comes your way. Humans do not just need to eat food, they also need to taste bitterness."
Ren Zu nodded as he continued to eat.
Halfway through, the fear Gu on his body started to shout: "Oh heaven, when will we ever finish eating it?"
Ren Zu also felt a trace of despair.
Courage Gu quickly said: "Oh human, you cannot be afraid of tasting bitterness. Don't fear bitterness, suffering is only temporary, if you start to fear suffering, you will suffer for life."
With the help of courage Gu, Ren Zu finally managed to eat all of the bitter heads after great hardship.
Ren Zu wiped his mouth as he looked at strong Gu with difficulty: "You can choose now."
Strong Gu smiled: "Then we will eat your skin first."
Ren Zu had to pull off the skin on his body as he threw it to the Predicament.
The Predicament had no head, it stuffed Ren Zu's skin down its neck. Ren Zu's skin was completely eaten but its huge belly did not expand at all.
Strong Gu asked again: "Oh human, what are you going to eat next?"
Ren Zu was troubled now, he had just eaten the Predicament's head, it was too bitter, even though he endured the process, his stomach was almost full now.
As for the Predicament, even though it had no head, it was still alive and standing.
"What should I eat now? I ate too much earlier, my stomach is reaching its limit, if I have to eat a lot, my stomach might burst and I'll die." Ren Zu thought to himself, he had to eat the most important and fatal part of the Predicament's body!
But which part of the Predicament's body was the most important?
After thinking for a long time, Ren Zu finally had an idea, he said to strong Gu: "Then I will eat the part that you absolutely do not want me to eat."
Strong Gu snorted coldly: "Then you can eat some losses[2]."
It took out all of the losses from the Predicament's body and gave it to Ren Zu for consumption.
These losses were not big, the quantity was not large either.
Ren Zu was quite surprised, because after these losses were taken out, the originally huge Predicament shrunk by a lot.
Rules and regulation Gu started to explain for Ren Zu: "Oh human, this is not strange. Predicaments vary according to people, since you ate such a huge bitter head earlier, you will have less losses to eat, thus, it became smaller."
Ren Zu became happy: "This is great. Even if I eat all of these losses, I will not reach my limit, it will not fill my stomach completely."
Ren Zu opened his mouth and ate a small loss.
It was so spicy!
Ren Zu could not even speak at this moment.
Continuing to eat.
Ren Zu opened his mouth as he breathed heavily, his empty eye sockets also started to tear up uncontrollably.
Eating again.
Ren Zu's entire body was covered in sweat that merged with the tears flowing out of his eye sockets.
The most uncomfortable thing for Ren Zu was that budding flames started to appear in his heart. These yellowish flames resembled chicks, they gathered together in groups.
The more losses one ate, the more flames of resentment they would feel in their heart.
The more flames of resentment they had, the more uncomfortable it felt, even Ren Zu's several hearts could not take it, they were going to be incinerated soon!
Right at this moment, the heart of nobleness grew in Ren Zu's chest.
Compared to the other hearts, the heart of nobleness was able to endure the most flames of resentment. With this heart to bear the burden, Ren Zu finally managed to endure it.
Ren Zu ate all of the losses.
Strong Gu looked at Ren Zu's bulging belly as he smiled coldly: "Oh human, you are almost at your limit, it is time for us to eat."
Ren Zu breathed roughly as he asked: "What do you want to eat?"
Strong Gu said: "I want to eat your flesh."
Ren Zu was helpless about it, he could only let it eat his flesh.
Ren Zu's skin and flesh were inside Predicament's stomach, he only had his bones, organs, and hair left.
...
In this deep and eerie darkness, only Ming You's thoughts were flickering with much difficulty, radiating the light of hope near the end of his life.
"I... can do it..."
"Come on... come on..."
Food path killer move — Bitter Taste!
Food path killer move — Swallow Loss!
The green claw ghost winged lion was flying in the air, suddenly, its body shook as it fell towards the ground with a pitiful cry.
With a loud sound, it crashed into the desert, creating a deep pit.
The green claw ghost winged lion struggled intensely, causing the sand on the ground to turn into a huge sand wave.
It could not endure the immense feelings of bitterness, the flames of resentment burned intensely in its heart.
It knew that Ming You was the one causing problems in its stomach, it stabbed its claw into its stomach without hesitation!
After spending a long time struggling, it slowly came to a halt as its life force dissipated.
Using the hole that its claw created, Ming You's soul flew out like a trace of smoke, bringing along his immortal essence and Gu worms, escaping from the stomach of the beast.
"I actually survived." Even he did not think that this would be the outcome!
His soul was dim, after floating and moving for some time, he collapsed onto the ground.
Only after resting for a long time did he recover slightly.
Looking at the dark sky, Spectral Soul who was still a young adult snorted coldly before laughing to himself: "Pathetic, truly pathetic. However, in this world, in this world... who does not struggle at death's doors?"
"I swear!" Spectral Soul's figure was blur and vague, he seemed to be pointing at heaven.
He used an extremely firm and determined, yet incomparably weak voice to shout with all his strength: "This is the last time I will struggle before death in my life! From today onwards, only I can cause others to struggle in the face of death, the five regions and two heavens can bear testament to my words!"
Heaven and earth was silent.
Going back to the present, his memories faded away as the battlefield reappeared.
Qing Chou was rolling around in the air, finally, it could not take it anymore as it vomited out Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul's body was like a phantom, moving rapidly and reaching Qing Chou's back.
He raised his right arm as his five fingers turned black like ink, it was quite peculiar. His five fingernails were longer than his fingers, they were white and sharp, emitting an icy and terrifying aura.
"Go ahead and struggle to death. Don't worry, I will not let any of you feel even the slightest hope of survival!"
Spectral Soul's eyes shined with a dark light, his five fingers stabbed at lightning speed.
Roar—!
Qing Chou's body shook, all of its strength surged again as Spectral Soul quickly absorbed everything.
[1] The Chinese phrase for suffering/hardship is written as bitter head literally.
[2] Eat loss is the literal meaning of the phrase that means suffering a loss, being disadvantaged, or ending up in an unfavorable situation.
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Lightning flashed and thunder roared, causing destruction to sovereign immortal aperture.
Mini Southern Border was ravaged by the myriad destruction lightning forest to a pitiful level, countless mountains collapsed, the earth cracked as deep crevices formed. Combat Beast King was bathed in blood as he fought, his injuries were getting more severe, the situation was getting tougher now.
He was using his life to forcefully hold on and maintain the situation.
"Compared to the might of heaven and earth, even if I am a rank eight Gu Immortal, so what?" Combat Beast King had been cultivating in sovereign immortal aperture, he gained a lot of knowledge and his strength rose greatly, giving him a boost of confidence. But now, facing the myriad tribulation, he could feel how tiny and insignificant he was.
The range of the myriad destruction lightning forest expanded again, because Fang Yuan's main body had to deal with the fight outside, he was at a disadvantage. Against this myriad tribulation, even if Fang Yuan put in all his effort, it would still be a dangerous process, and yet half of his attention was drawn away to deal with Spectral Soul.
This was a myriad tribulation, countless rank eights had faltered at this hurdle!
Fang Yuan's situation was quite unique, this was not his first myriad tribulation. He had not just skipped two myriad tribulations, this current one was created by the three thousand heaven path dao marks in his body.
A myriad tribulation created this way was extremely rare even in the long history of humanity.
Forced by the situation, Fang Yuan had to multitask, he dealt with the situation outside while simultaneously observing sovereign immortal aperture.
He looked at the heaven path dao marks that transformed into lightning path and cloud path to create this myriad tribulation, he suddenly comprehended something.
"I think I understand something now." At that instance, he realized the origin of the calamities and tribulations!
In the past, he knew that calamities and tribulations were controlled by the Heavenly Dao, it cared about balance, to take away surpluses while replenishing deficits. Every Gu Immortal and immortal aperture was a mass congregation of dao marks, thus, the Heavenly Dao had to take measures to maintain the balance.
Every once in a while, the Heavenly Dao would unleash its might, creating calamities and tribulations for Gu Immortals. But how could it create these calamities and tribulations? Fang Yuan did not know.
Right now, this question in Fang Yuan's heart got answered by the scene before him.
It turned out that matter what kind of tribulation, it was actually created using heaven path dao marks. The heaven path dao marks could transform into any path, thus, there were the flying frost jumping lightning tribulation, four inferno cloud tribulation, dragon roar tribulation, heavenly drum thunder tribulation, wind flower calamity, snow moon calamity, profound white flying salt calamity...
These tribulations were of the various paths, there were many types of them, Gu Immortals could not guess what would come, thus they faced huge difficulties. The Heavenly Dao would even mimic venerable methods, for example, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's formless hand.
All these different tribulations were merely the manifestation, in essence, they were all heaven path dao marks!
The higher the Gu Immortal's cultivation level, the more dao marks they would have, and the bigger the difference between them and the natural environment. The more imbalanced it was, the more heaven path dao marks would be drawn to them, and the stronger the tribulations they would face.
Nobody in the world could cultivate heaven path, even if a Gu Immortal passed a tribulation successfully, they would not gain heaven path dao marks. These heaven path dao marks would transform into the dao marks of other paths and fuse with the Gu Immortal's immortal aperture.
Thinking about it, back in Crazed Demon Cave, the heaven path dao marks derived many strange and peculiar small worlds, after these worlds were destroyed, they transformed back into heaven path dao marks.
As for the immortal tribulation tempering aperture killer move that Fang Yuan obtained from Lang Ya Sect, it used the same logic.
Immortal tribulation tempering aperture killer move used the blessed land and grotto-heaven as the refinement target, using the killer move to connect the immortal aperture with the five regions world outside, influencing the calamities and tribulations and using it to temper the immortal aperture itself.
Lang Ya blessed land was once located at Northern Plains' crescent lake. Around the vicinity of crescent lake were water path and refinement path dao marks, immortal tribulation tempering aperture killer move was often used to deal with the calamities and tribulations. Most often, water path and refinement path calamities would occur. After passing it, the immortal aperture would gain water path and refinement path dao marks.
The true effect of this move was to affect the transformation of the heaven path dao marks.
In Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's true inheritance, there were also luck path methods to weaken tribulations. For example, Dog Shit Luck and Fortune Rivalling Heaven. He was using luck path dao marks to interfere with the creation of tribulations by the heaven path dao marks, causing a favorable change to occur and weakening the might of the tribulations.
In Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, there was myriad beings assimilation transformation killer move, it limited the transformation of the heaven path dao marks, thus each tribulation turned into a transformation path beast calamity instead.
The exposing heavenly secret killer move that Fang Yuan obtained from Shadow Sect could precisely deduce the content of the following tribulation. Exposing heavenly secret killer move used heavenly secret Immortal Gu as the core, very evidently, it also targeted the root source, the heaven path dao marks, to make its deductions. Thus, each deduction was extremely precise about the content.
Immortal tribulation tempering aperture, luck path methods, myriad beings assimilation transformation, exposing heavenly secret... Fang Yuan had all of these methods, it was a pity that he could not use them now.
The heaven path dao marks restricted his actions, he could not activate any of these moves.
Only by using human path methods to resist heaven path could Fang Yuan gain some time and opportunity to activate other killer moves. Like earlier in Heavenly Court when he used unlimited qi sea killer move to deal with primordial qi wall.
Fang Yuan had a human path formation in sovereign immortal aperture that used the thousand wish tree as the core. But heaven's will was not stupid, it knew about Fang Yuan's information. Myriad destruction lightning forest also appeared in Mini Central Continent, it was attacking the human path formation, making Fang Yuan trapped in a tighter spot.
Roar—!
Beast growls resounded, a large group of soul beasts moved out towards the lightning clouds in the sky.
They charged relentlessly without any concern about their own lives.
These were all soul beasts, most were desolate beasts, there were some ancient soul beasts and four immemorial soul beasts.
These soul beasts were all captured by Fang Yuan in green ghost desert. Among them, the immemorial soul beasts were enslaved when Fang Yuan helped Fang clan to obtain Divine Bean Palace.
These soul beasts were usually kept in Mini Black Heaven.
Right now, Fang Yuan was facing a crisis, he had to make use of them.
The soul beasts were extremely fragile under the myriad tribulation, they were completely defenseless. In just a while, a hundred desolate level soul beasts perished from the lightning bolts, more than ten ancient soul beasts died as well.
Fang Yuan's heart was cold as ice, he did not waver.
The soul beast group had already served its purpose, it drew the firepower away and took away the pressure, allowing Fang Yuan to gain some time.
This included the immemorial soul beasts, without Immortal Gu, they were just high tier cannon fodder against the myriad tribulation, but they were still useful as meat shields after all.
Fang Yuan did not dare to use the soul beasts against Spectral Soul.
The truth was, after Spectral Soul took control of the year beasts, Fang Yuan gave up on this aspect.
A huge amount of strength flowed like a tidal wave into Spectral Soul's body.
Qing Chou struggled intensely, using killer moves to attack itself manically. However, Spectral Soul endured Qing Chou's attacks forcefully as he continued to drain its strength.
Soul beasts existed in this world because Spectral Soul created soul path.
Spectral Soul understood soul beasts too well, not only could he make them loyal to him, he also has methods to extract strength from them to replenish himself.
Qing Chou's struggles became weaker and weaker.
Spectral Soul looked at Qing Chou with great satisfaction, the hatred Gu within its body was already reaching completion, this fool was simply sending itself to death while contributing treasures as well.
Spectral Soul suppressed Qing Chou while keeping his attention on Dragon Palace, all along, he did not relax, he stared at Fang Yuan's main body without looking away.
The entire situation was still under his control!
Whoosh!
Suddenly, winds blew as the air rumbled, two giant hands slammed towards Spectral Soul from the left and right.
One hand was black while the other was white, they were grand and majestic, containing deep profundities, it was the qi path killer move — Yin-yang Great Killer Hands!
At the crucial moment, Fang Yuan's qi path clone arrived.
Spectral Soul smiled coldly, black smoke spewing out of his body, from the smoke, two immemorial soul beasts flew out and slammed into the two qi path giant hands.
The qi path hands grabbed as the two immemorial soul beasts growled in pain, but they did not die just yet.
Qi Sea Ancestor could neither let go of them nor continue grabbing them at this moment.
If he grabbed onto them, his offensive momentum would be halted. If he let go, these two immemorial soul beasts would still attack him later.
Qi Sea Ancestor shouted as he waved both hands, letting them fly far away, bringing the immemorial soul beasts away from the battlefield.
Spectral Soul's goal was achieved, he used two immemorial soul beasts to restrain Qi Sea Ancestor while also wasting his energy. After all, Qi Sea Ancestor had to sustain the two qi path hands to trap the immemorial soul beasts.
Qi Sea and Spectral Soul's first round of fighting ended up as a simple exchange.
Spectral Soul used two immemorial soul beasts while Qi Sea Ancestor wasted some mental energy, immortal essence, timing. Both sides were evenly matched, in fact Spectral Soul lost a bit more, after all, the immemorial soul beasts had rank eight battle strength!
But looking at the big picture, Spectral Soul's gains were slightly higher, he still continued to control the situation.
Because he controlled Soul Pacifying grotto-heaven secretly, it had many immemorial soul beasts, losing two was no issue. In contrast, Qi Sea failed to use this opportunity well, he originally wanted to disrupt Spectral Soul but was interrupted, this chance was wasted.
Spectral Soul made use of his advantage well, he continued to absorb Qing Chou's strength to strengthen himself while weakening Qing Chou. On the whole, he had gained a lot from this first round of combat.
This round was just a tiny projection of their fight, yet it showed Spectral Soul's abundant and rich battle experience, his vision loomed over the entire battlefield. His control of combat was so precise and flawless, even someone like Fang Yuan felt stifled.
Fang Yuan was not giving up obviously, he focused on repairing Dragon Palace while asking Qi Sea Ancestor to attack again.
Spectral Soul focused on three things at once, he suppressed Dragon Palace and used the black smoke spiral to damage it, he absorbed Qing Chou's soul beast strength, he also used killer moves to resist Qi Sea Ancestor's attacks.
Dragon Palace, Qing Chou, and Qi Sea Ancestor, these were three entities with top tier battle strength in the world, yet they could not turn the situation around even by being on the same side!
To speak the truth, Spectral Soul's current strength was not too impressive, but he had the complete dominance over Dragon Palace, he countered Qing Chou's abilities, and he even knew about Qi Sea Ancestor's information.
"His soul path methods are used in succession, the moves complement each other and are tightly connected, this is an exceptional combat system. In contrast, my Qi Sea clone has only existed for a short period of time, he has too few methods that are all easily countered." Fang Yuan's main body understood the reason.
Qi Sea clone's most common offensive method was yin-yang great killer hands and his main defensive method was heavenly astral cloth robe. His foundation was too low, when observed by Spectral Soul, after just a few exchanges of moves, he would be able to create a countermeasure easily.
Be it battle strength, knowledge, or experience, Spectral Soul stood at the peak of the world. After all, he was once the invincible Demon Venerable that dominated the world!
Among the generations of venerables, Spectral Soul was publicly recognized as the one with the deepest killing intent.
He had gone through intense battles, he fought his way to the top, he was an expert that carved out his own bloody path through countless hurdles!
Under his venerable throne, there was a mountain of skeletons and sea of corpses.
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"Qi Sea Ancestor, how is the situation over there?" Amidst intense battle, Fang Yuan's clone Qi Sea received Qin Ding Ling's transmission.
Qi Sea Ancestor did not speak, he recorded the scene of the battle using an information path Gu worm and sold it to Qin Ding Ling in treasure yellow heaven.
Heavenly Court soon gained an understanding of the battle situation.
Qin Ding Ling was slightly shocked internally, Spectral Soul's strength far surpassed her initial estimations, it seemed like Qi Sea Ancestor could not restrain Spectral Soul, at this rate, Spectral Soul might likely kill Fang Yuan and defeat Qi Sea, he would also absorb Qing Chou, he would be the greatest winner in this clash!
This was something Qin Ding Ling did not want to see.
Fang Yuan and Spectral Soul were supreme demons, it would be great if they both perished, the best scenario would be Longevity Heaven going down with them! That was the result Qin Ding Ling most wanted to see.
"We have our Immortal Gu House, if we join the fight, we can cause some changes to it. Even though Qing Chou is strong, it is a mistake to use it against Spectral Soul. Looking at Spectral Soul's actions, it seems that he is sure that Fang Yuan is inside Dragon Palace. Then has Fairy Zi Wei already succeeded in her deductions and informed Spectral Soul?"
Qin Ding Ling guessed the truth but she was not certain.
She looked at the operating wisdom path formation and Calamity Luck Altar beside it.
If Heavenly Court could exterminate Fairy Zi Wei and the rest, that would be the best. Clipping Spectral Soul's wings prematurely would result in fewer variables in this battle. It was a pity that Calamity Luck Altar was here, most of Longevity Heaven's experts came along with it, Qin Ding Ling was not confident of taking down Fairy Zi Wei at this moment.
"Longevity Heaven..." Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth.
Among the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals present, she hated Longevity Heaven most deeply. Back then, she was forced to become Giant Sun's immortal concubine. She endured this humiliation and successfully switched to cultivating luck path, she eventually participated in the fate war. But at the crucial moment, Giant Sun immortal zombie's attack tilted the balance of the final battle in his favor.
"Longevity Heaven, I will settle the scores with you one day!" Qin Ding Ling swore in her heart.
Right when Qin Ding Ling was thinking, a rank seven Immortal Gu House flew over.
This Immortal Gu House was owned by Spirit Affinity House, the first supreme elder and second supreme elder were inside it as they brought along an important person, Feng Jin Huang.
"Feng Jin Huang, quickly retrieve the dream realms before us." Qin Ding Ling ordered.
"Yes." The door of the Immortal Gu House opened as Feng Jin Huang stood on the steps, quickly using her method with a solemn expression.
She had dream wings Immortal Gu and the modified pure dream reality seeker transformation. In fact, this killer move was created by Fairy Zi Wei's deductions.
As dream realms turned into human form, they flew into Spirit Affinity House's Immortal Gu House.
Shadow Sect and Longevity Heaven were stirred.
Fairy Zi Wei's eyes shined with brilliance.
Old Man Zheng Yuan quickly asked: "Fairy, do we take action?"
After all, these dream realms belonged by Spectral Soul, his attainment levels were inside them.
Fairy Zi Wei shook her head: "We will wait for now, these dream realms are just a small portion, they are not important. Fang Yuan is our main priority!"
At the moment, Spectral Soul's side had a clear advantage. At this rate of development, Shadow Sect was greatly favored. Fairy Zi Wei did not want to upset the balance now and disrupt the overall situation.
Feng Jin Huang was just a rank five Gu Master, she was not even a rank six Gu Immortal. But her status was quite unique, she was Feng Jiu Ge's daughter!
If anyone attacked her, it might cause Feng Jiu Ge to come.
Feng Jiu Ge's future self had likely disappeared, similar to Hei Lou Lan and Bai Ning Bing. But even so, with Feng Jiu Ge's own strength, he could participate in this fight, he was an uncertain variable.
Especially when this variable was not favorable for Shadow Sect, Fairy Zi Wei wanted to have less problems if possible.
Calamity Luck Altar's Bing Sai Chuan had the same thought, he did not make a move in the end.
Feng Jin Huang was heavily protected by Heavenly Court's immortals as she gradually collected the dream realms.
Qin Ding Ling had a complex emotion.
She eventually made this move, using Feng Jin Huang and thus, Feng Jiu Ge indirectly to intimidate their opponents. Since when did the great Heavenly Court fall to such a level?
The pride in Qin Ding Ling's heart pressured her, but the logic in her mind told her to use all of the resources and influences they could gather!
Qi Sea Ancestor transmitted information again, requesting for Heavenly Court's reinforcement.
Qin Ding Ling rejected his request politely, asking him to persevere some more time.
Thus, Qi Sea Ancestor changed his request: "Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range is closest to Black Heaven Temple, why don't you ask them to send an Immortal Gu House to patrol the periphery of the battlefield. If I am unable to stop Spectral Soul from killing Fang Yuan, we can still rely on Black Heaven Temple."
Qin Ding Ling thought about it but did not tell Qi Sea Ancestor about her orders to Black Heaven Temple, she rejected: "Black Heaven Temple is not strong enough to participate in this battle."
Qi Sea Ancestor replied angrily: "This is a prime opportunity! If Heavenly Court hesitates and loses the chance, either one of these two demons getting stronger will be a problem for the righteous path."
Qin Ding Ling sighed: "Why wouldn't I know that? But Heavenly Court is not as before, we need to act cautiously. If we send Black Heaven Temple's Gu Immortals there, they would only die in vain. Please understand our plight!"
Qi Sea Ancestor felt a little dejected. Since Heavenly Court's leader openly spoke of their weakness, they were really not the Heavenly Court of before, their style of action changed, Fang Yuan could not make use of them easily anymore.
While Qin Ding Ling and Qi Sea Ancestor spoke secretly, Demon Immortal Qi Jue was also asking Spectral Soul: "Fang Yuan's main body is here, why aren't you coming here?"
Fang Yuan placed his will in Myriad Year Flying Warship, he also left behind Immortal Gu and immortal essence, under the effect of familiar face killer move, he could disguise his will very well.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue told Spectral Soul about this but the latter continued to fight Dragon Palace, not showing signs of leaving. This made Demon Immortal Qi Jue quite suspicious.
Spectral Soul directly replied: "Don't forget about Fang Yuan's familiar face. We cannot be sure of his location."
Demon Immortal Qi Jue became increasingly suspicious: "Spectral Soul, are you hiding something from me?"
Spectral Soul replied: "Don't worry, just continue restraining Myriad Year Flying Warship, you will get your due remuneration."
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue did not fall for it, he smiled coldly: "Don't worry indeed, I have a brilliant plan to find out which is Fang Yuan's main body."
Saying so, he suddenly stopped dealing with Myriad Year Flying Warship as he flew towards Spectral Soul's direction.
Myriad Year Flying Warship was stunned for a moment before quickly pulling away from Demon Immortal Qi Jue.
Spectral Soul sensed something amiss, he quickly transmitted: "Qi Jue, don't do anything foolish."
But Demon Immortal Qi Jue was firm: "Sometimes, we need to take a chance right? Or maybe, you can tell me the information that you just obtained?"
Spectral Soul snorted but did not reply.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue turned silent as he flew into the sky with an increased speed.
In a few breaths of time, Myriad Year Flying Warship appeared behind him again.
Seeing this, Demon Immortal Qi Jue laughed loudly: "Oh Spectral Soul, look, I found out the truth already. I can be certain that Fang Yuan's main body is inside Dragon Palace now!"
If Fang Yuan's main body was inside Myriad Year Flying Warship, he would have flown away already. But now, Myriad Year Flying Warship returned to stall Demon Immortal Qi Jue, it showed that Fang Yuan's main body was unwilling to see Spectral Soul gain reinforcements, he had to stop Demon Immortal Qi Jue from leaving.
At this moment, Fang Yuan's plan to deceive his enemies by splitting up has failed completely.
Demon Immortal Qi Jue was a famous demon in history, his seniority was higher than everyone here, including Spectral Soul.
After sensing something wrong, he quickly tested his method to find out the truth.
Spectral Soul snorted coldly, showing displeasure. With Demon Immortal Qi Jue's move, the situation got out of Spectral Soul's control.
Spectral Soul was just using Qi Jue by promising benefits, they were wary of each other in essence, their relationship was merely because of mutual gains. The reason why Spectral Soul did not want Demon Immortal Qi Jue to come over was because this uncertain variable could possibly get greedy and fight with him over the immense benefits of killing Fang Yuan!
Right now, from Demon Immortal Qi Jue's actions, it showed that Spectral Soul's worries were well justified. Demon Immortal Qi Jue definitely had his own ideas.
But Spectral Soul did not fluster.
Back when he lured Demon Immortal Qi Jue to join the battle, he had already thought of this. But there was no helping it, Spectral Soul had just regained his strength, Shadow Sect was still very weak. Because of the many variables in this battle, Spectral Soul had to increase the strength of his side, it was thanks to Fairy Zi Wei communicating with Longevity Heaven earlier, to rope them in with Shadow Sect temporarily, otherwise the situation would have been even more chaotic.
Did Bing Sai Chuan had no such intentions either? Was he really going to watch Spectral Soul kill Fang Yuan like that?
Of course not.
Fairy Zi Wei was a wisdom path great expert, she had deep considerations. She created the formation in front of Heavenly Court, it was to restrain them as well as Longevity Heaven.
This battle to kill Fang Yuan was not as grand as the fate war but it involved four parties, tens of Gu Immortals, and almost all of the peak experts in the current world.
These people plotted against each other and schemed deeply, Spectral Soul could sense acutely that his control over the situation was slipping.
Immortal killer move — Qi Wall!
During the intense battle, Qi Sea Ancestor pushed with both hands as a colossal qi wall formed instantly.
The qi wall was like a mountain as it pressed towards Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul pointed with his fingers as several immemorial soul beasts appeared, growling as they blocked the qi wall.
But Qi Sea Ancestor shouted suddenly as he raised his right fist, he spread out his fingers as his palm targeted Spectral Soul from afar.
Spectral Soul seemed to have sensed something as black smoke appeared around him in a ball shape, shielding him.
The moment Qi Sea Ancestor's killer move was ready, he moved his palm away and targeted the black smoke spiral instead.
Immortal killer move — Great Qi Hand Explosion!
Bam.
Following an intense explosion, the black smoke spiral was completely torn apart as black qi flew all over the place. Dragon Palace which was greatly damaged moved quickly as it drew a golden trail of light in the sky, rapidly escaping!
At this point in the battle, Dragon Palace finally broke free.
Spectral Soul's attention was drawn by Demon Immortal Qi Jue, Qi Sea Ancestor found this small loophole and quickly made use of his opportunity with some luck.
Spectral Soul looked at Qi Sea Ancestor deeply, other than intense anger and killing intent, there was also praise and admiration in his gaze.
Qi Sea Ancestor had made a brilliant move!
Now that Dragon Palace had escaped, Spectral Soul had to keep up with it, he had to abandon the heavy Qing Chou.
It was such a pity! Spectral Soul was only a bit of time away from completely subduing Qing Chou.