Tie Qu Zhong nodded his head repeatedly, he looked at Tie Ruo Nan with an unconcealed gaze
of appreciation.
Previously, when Tie Qu Zhong heard that Tie Mian Shen chose Tie Ruo Nan to inherit the Iron
Mask true inheritance, he had some doubts.
But over this period of interaction, Tie Qu Zhong fully approved of Tie Ruo Nan, he felt that she
was the rising star with most potential in this generation.
"Tie Ruo Nan, it is great that you have such a deep awareness of the situation."
"Fang Yuan is evil, he seized my immortal aperture and forced me to use second aperture to
cultivate, causing me to be dependent on him. My future is ruined, my prospects are bleak. But
you have bright prospects. Your current accumulation is already enough to undergo immortal
ascension!" Tie Qu Zhong said in a gratified tone.
Tie Ruo Nan did not pretend to be modest: "Yes. I was in closed cultivation inside Demon
Suppression Tower recently, I have consulted many seniors in the clan regarding their immortal
ascension experience, I am 80-90% confident in passing the immortal ascension!"
"Good. But you need to slow down a little. The two heavens are merging, causing constant
turbulence and heaven's will to be chaotic, you will suffer losses if you undergo immortal
ascension at this time. The opportunity of natural inspiration comes only once in a lifetime, but it
is very important." Tie Qu Zhong instructed.
"Oh? I would like to hear the details."
Tie Qu Zhong explained: "In the process of natural inspiration, a Gu cultivator can question
heaven's will and obtain an answer. If the question is too difficult and surpasses the limits of
heaven and earth, you won't obtain any answer."
"For instance, if you ask for a method of eternal life during natural inspiration, heaven and earth
has no way to answer you."
"If the question is too simple, the Gu cultivator can obtain an answer, but they will not be making
the best use of this precious opportunity. That will be extremely unfortunate."
"The ideal situation is to ask a question of moderate difficulty and obtain a perfect answer. But
this situation is too rare, and we have no way to grasp it."
"So, the most mature method is to ask a slightly more difficult question. As such, the answer will
be correct but not complete as it will be lacking a small portion."
"The remaining portion can be completed through deductions using manpower and material
resources in the future."
"This is the most effective way to use natural inspiration."
Tie Ruo Nan's eyes shined as she asked: "Then how can I judge the difficulty of these
questions?"
"Generally speaking, asking about Immortal Gu recipes of common rank seven Immortal Gu is
the standard for this. Any Gu worms related to <
Gu."
"Besides this, ask about things closely related to you. For instance, you cultivate metal path, ask
questions relating to metal path. But if you ask about earth path or other paths, the effect will be
low. And you need to be very careful if you want to ask about things relating to dream path."
At the same time.
Southern Border.
Iron Tooth Mountain.
In a nameless cave.
Wu Yong cupped his fists and greeted with a smile: "I brought some good wine this time."
In front of Wu Yong was an old Gu Immortal. He was sitting cross-legged on the ground, he
slowly opened his eyes like he had just woken up.
The old man sighed: "Lord Wu Yong, this is the third time you have paid me a visit. You are a
rank eight Gu cultivator, the alliance leader of Southern Alliance, but have given such special
treatment to a mere rank seven Gu Immortal like me."
"I understand your intention, but I only want to cultivate in seclusion, I have no wish to
participate in the struggles and conflicts of the world."
"Your wine is fragrant, but I don't have the fortune to enjoy it."
This old man was a secluded cultivator, he cultivated wisdom path and was called Forgotten
Daoist.
Wu clan specialized in wind path, they had no advantages in wisdom path.
Wu Yong had been looking for reliable talents. When he learned that Forgotten Daoist was living
on Iron Tooth Mountain, he personally visited three times to recruit him.
Wu Yong said grimly: "Friend, you are wrong. Right now, the two heavens are merging, the war
of the five regions is almost before us. Who can possibly stay out of it?"
"Even if you are unwilling to conflict with others, in this chaotic world, there are always people
who want to cause trouble, like Western Desert's Fang clan."
"With some support from Fang Yuan, Fang clan decisively invaded Wan clan, causing Wan
clan's first supreme elder to perish in battle."
"This is the signal of the upcoming chaotic world."
"Even if Heavenly Court supported Wan clan to victory, what is the main difference between Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable and Fang Yuan?"
"As a wisdom path Gu cultivator, you must have understood it."
Forgotten Daoist heaved a long sigh: "It is better to be a dog during peaceful times, than a man
involved in brutal chaos. In the present world, Great Love Immortal Venerable, Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable, and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable are leading an ultimate
force of a region each. They have robust foundation, they can easily topple the balance
between super forces. As for you, Wu Yong, you can hardly restrain your excitement and urge to
make a move, but I can only see misery in this."
"Lord Wu Yong, you don't need to urge me anymore, please leave."
Wu Yong sighed, he could only hold his expectations for the future. After looking at Forgotten
Daoist, he left while feeling it was a deep pity.
This world was huge.
There was Shi Zhong who worked hard and tried to refine Immortal Gu, there was also Xiao Qi
Xing who used his great-grandfather's help to attempt a rank seven vital Gu even before
advancing to Gu Immortal.
There was Nu Er Tu, who already advanced to a Gu Immortal with the clan's help, there was
also a Gu Master, Tie Ruo Nan, who cultivated metal path, she obtained her senior's guidance
and learned of the secret of natural inspiration.
There was Wu Yong with great ambition, and also Forgotten Daoist, who was content with living
in seclusion and was unwilling to get involved in disputes.
And finally, there was a super force whose future was dark and currently faced a precarious
situation — Fang clan.
In Fang clan headquarters.
The atmosphere was heavy in the discussion hall.
Fang clan lost.
Their losses were severe!
What should they do?
Be it Fang Gong, Fang Di Chang, or Fang Leng and Fang Yun, their mood was extremely
heavy.
Wan Gu Chou reclaimed all the lost territories of Wan clan, but the anti-Fang alliance was still
there.
If not for the alliance discussing about the distribution of spoils, they would have already
attacked Fang clan.
Although Fang clan still had the strength to fight, their hope of winning was negligible.
Right at this time, Lu Wei Yin suddenly paid a visit.
The Fang clan immortals were moved.
"Quick, invite him in!" Fang Gong had just finished speaking, when he stood up, "No, come with
me, we will welcome him together."
Fang clan's immortals invited Lu Wei Yin into the hall.
Lu Wei Yin saw the dejected expressions of Fang clan immortals: "Everlasting sorrow is indeed
an amazing killer move. According to what I know, everlasting sorrow is a compound killer move
created from time path and wisdom path. Once the target's feelings are influenced by this killer
move, their lifespan will decrease rapidly. The decreased lifespan will strengthen the killer
move's power, making the sorrowful emotions even more violent. The emotions will shroud the
heart, and the target's battle intent will fall to a minimum."
Fang Hua Sheng sighed: "This killer move is a lot different from the historical records. I tried my
best to treat it, but there are still many negative emotions left in our hearts, they can only
dissipate slowly with time."
Lu Wei Yin laughed: "Don't worry, I brought a special Immortal Gu this time, please try it."
Saying so, he gave an Immortal Gu to Fang Di Chang.
This was a rank seven wisdom path Immortal Gu.
After Fang Di Chang activated it with much difficulty, the Immortal Gu let out a profound light
that covered his whole body.
After a while, Fang Di Chang recovered his mental state. His body was relaxed and the
sorrowful emotions that shrouded his heart were already gone.
"This is a good Immortal Gu." Fang Di Chang praised.
Lu Wei Yin continued his words: "My alliance leader knows of Fang clan's defeat, so he
specially refined this Immortal Gu. With this wisdom path Immortal Gu, it is easy to remove the
remnant power of the killer move everlasting sorrow."
"Besides this Immortal Gu, there are also several killer moves with it as the core. One of them
can even defend against everlasting sorrow, albeit with difficulty."
"You only need to pay a super resource point to buy them all."
Fang Di Chang smiled bitterly and was about to speak.
But Lu Wei Yin added: "No need to grieve, my friends. I know Fang clan lost Fang Dong Xi and
Fang An Lei in this battle. This is a disastrous loss for Fang clan!"
"But no worries. Heavenly Court has methods to revive Wan Gu Chou, how can my Lord Fang
Yuan not have them?"
"You only need to pay two giant resource points for Lord Alliance Leader to revive those two, but
their cultivation will be at rank six."
This time, the Fang clan immortals' expressions changed.
"Really? Can An Lei really be revived?" Fang Chen was very excited.
He was Fang clan's son-in-law, Fang An Lei was his wife.
Lu Wei Yin smiled: "In the previous transactions with your clan, there was one transaction which
asked for your human qi. These portions of human qi are the key to reviving you."
"There are no issues with the revival. Not only this, there is also no issue with restoring the
cultivation of those two to rank seven. You just need to add two additional giant resource
points."
"Naturally, if you want those two's cultivation to be raised to rank eight, that is also possible. As
long as you can afford it, with the vast powers of our Lord Alliance Leader, you will not be
disappointed."
"Even rank eight cultivation level can be transacted?" Fang Gong was stunned.
The other Fang clan Gu Immortals had complicated expressions.
Rank eight cultivation level had once been the highest achievement, but in the last few decades,
pseudo venerables took the stage one after the other, venerables also started reviving. The
status of rank eight cultivation fell again and again.
Now, rank eight cultivation had become a commodity to be transacted at will!
This made the Fang clan immortals become somewhat dazed.
Lu Wei Yin looked around and asked: "You still don't get it? The world has already undergone
an intense change ever since the destruction of fate Gu."
"This is true for Immortal Gu Houses, rank eight Gu Immortals, and even venerables."
"This change can be said to completely flip societal norms, even super forces will only be a
ripple in the waves of time if they cannot adapt to this change, wiped out in just a moment."
Fang Di Chang narrowed his eyes: "Lord Lu Wei Yin, you seem to have another meaning
behind your words."
Lu Wei Yin chuckled: "I will be direct then, your situation is very dangerous, how will Fang clan
defend against the anti-Fang alliance?"
"If you just defend, no matter how much more powerful the immortal formation you possess, you
will only be delaying your destruction."
"You can only deal with this intense change by taking drastic measures!"
"Naturally, the choice belongs to you. Lord Alliance Leader will not personally interfere in
Western Desert's internal battle. But if I were you, I would sell all the resource points to
exchange for Immortal Gu, immortal materials, and revive Fang clan's Gu Immortals."
Fang Gong's and Fang Di Chang's pupils shrunk slightly.
The remaining Gu Immortals were in an uproar.
"How can we do that? Such an action is too unfilial."
"Our Fang clan's foundation will be gone without these resource points."
"If we do this, how can we face our ancestors when we die?!"
"This is my Fang clan's foundation!"
The Fang clan immortals reacted agitatedly, looking at Lu Wei Yin with hatred and ferocity.
Lu Wei Yin shrugged his shoulders, saying calmly: "Whether you sell or not, it is up to you. I am
only giving a small suggestion."
"We will sell." Fang Di Chang's voice was extremely hoarse.
Fang Gong did not retort, he kept silent.
"Lord Fang Di Chang!!" Some Fang clan Gu Immortals stood up in agitation.
But Fang Di Chang's next sentence silenced these Gu Immortals completely.
"If we don't sell the resource points, are you able to defend them?"
-x-X-x-
Sitting on a deserted mound, Fang Di Chang was still as a rock.
Ever since the two heavens merged, there was no longer day or night, in place of that was a mix
of black and white in the sky.
Thus, different areas had different intensity of brightness.
Fang Di Chang was currently in the darkness, he looked at the empty mound expressionlessly,
it was a barren desert with no vegetation in sight.
But because of the fusion of two heavens, this huge desert was split into two areas, one was
bright while the other was dark.
This was tassel desert, a super resource point of Fang clan.
Every year, at a certain period, earth roots would grow here like grass or willow branches, they
were soft but durable.
The earth roots were long or short, they ranged from mortal materials to rank eight immortal
materials.
At peak growth, the earth roots would cover the entire tassel desert, when wind blew, looking
from above, it would seem like a huge sea made of earth roots, the waves would look grand and
impressive.
This was Fang clan's number one resource point, it was the pride of all Fang clan Gu Immortals.
But now, it was being sold to Fang Yuan.
Once this transaction was done, it would never be returned, this was farewell.
Fang Di Chang had a plain expression but his heart was like this desert, it was barren and cold.
Fang Gong flew over from afar, he landed on the barren mound and stood beside Fang Di
Chang.
"I knew you were here." Fang Gong sighed.
Fang Di Chang, who was seated, suddenly had a twisted expression as he clenched his fists:
"Fang Yuan did this on purpose!"
"I'm afraid he has known about Wan Gu Chou all along, but he did not say it and caused our
clan to suffer a huge loss!"
Fang Gong was stunned.
Fang Di Chang continued: "Even if he did not know about Wan Gu Chou, he concealed the
secret that he could revive our clan's Gu Immortals! As long as he mentioned it, even if he
vaguely hinted it, I would have known."
"If I had known that venerables are able to easily revive Gu Immortals, I would be on guard
against a threat like Wan Gu Chou!"
"In fact, we might have exchanged for that forgotten sorrow Immortal Gu earlier, if we could
defend against Wan Gu Chou's killer move, we would not have lost, the alliance against Wan
clan would have succeeded!"
Towards the end, Fang Di Chang was basically screaming his lungs out.
He was right.
Back then, the situation was hanging on a thread.
The battle between Fang clan and the alliance against Fang clan was very close.
If they knew about Wan Gu Chou, Fang clan would not sent all six Immortal Gu Houses to
attack Myriad Age Building, Wan Gu Chou's killer move had a limited range after all.
But at that time, Fang clan did not know about this information, they pressured Wan clan's
members to try to obtain the greatest benefit.
"Alright." Fang Gong smiled bitterly: "Since it has already happened, second supreme elder, no
need to ponder upon it. We do not have Spring Autumn Cicada to return to the past."
"Earlier, when Heavenly Court revived Gu Immortals, they were all their members. Everyone
guessed that their revival had something to do with their contributed immortal apertures.
Furthermore, because Fang Yuan nearly destroyed the entire immortal graveyard, it is very hard
to deduce Wan Gu Chou's revival."
Fang Di Chang had a cold expression: "No, it is Fang Yuan, everything is caused by Fang Yuan.
He is the greatest mastermind behind everything."
"I have woken up now!"
"Our Fang clan wanted to destroy the anti-Fang alliance, it was not something Heavenly Court
wanted to see, but Fang Yuan did not like that either."
"If our Fang clan obtains victory, we will no longer attack the other super forces."
"And in this current situation, we need to urgently move and sell our resource points to Fang
Yuan in exchange for Immortal Gu and also to revive Gu Immortals."
"Now, what will we do?"
"Without resource points and the ability to provide for ourselves, we can only rely on Fang Yuan
increasingly!"
"We can only invade other super forces' resource points and exchange them to Fang Yuan for
Immortal Gu and other cultivation resources."
"Our Fang clan has become his vanguard, we are his bandits to loot Western Desert."
"And this Gu Yue Fang Yuan is still staying in Eastern Sea, he is the high and mighty Great
Love Immortal Venerable!"
"He will declare to everyone that he is not interfering in Western Desert's affairs. All of the vile
reputation will be shouldered by my Fang clan alone. He, Gu Yue Fang Yuan, has a clean
reputation!"
"Hehehe... hahaha..."
"What Heaven and Earth Great Love Alliance? What Great Love Immortal Venerable?"
Fang Di Chang raised his head up and laughed in a pitiful tone of mockery.
His eyes were reddened, his hair was messy, the light of tears flickered in his eyes.
"First supreme elder Fang Gong, think about it, don't you feel that Wan clan's first supreme
elder died too peculiarly?"
"With his death, our Fang clan only has one route to take."
"This is Fang Yuan, he is covered in a false human skin, but he is a vile beast that devours
everyone with no hesitation."
"I hate him, I am truly hateful."
Fang Di Chang gritted his teeth.
"I hate that my Fang clan got too involved with Fang Yuan."
"I hate those Eastern Sea super forces who are too weak and meek, they let Fang Yuan rule
over them so easily!"
"However, the one I hate most is myself!"
"To think that I am a wisdom path Gu Immortal, not only did I fail to expose Fang Yuan's
schemes, I caused our entire clan to become his pawns!"
"We were manipulated and toyed around by him!"
"I am the greatest sinner of Fang clan..."
Saying so, Fang Di Chang knelt on the ground, his head was lowered to the ground as he
punched the soil below him and cried out loud.
This proud wisdom path Gu Immortal had not lost his composure for over a hundred years, he
was crying so pitifully now.
Fang Gong sighed as he sat down beside Fang Di Chang.
"How could I have not been suspicious about the peculiar death of Wan clan's first supreme
elder?"
"But even if this is Fang Yuan's scheme, what can we do?"
"Do we have evidence?"
"Hehe." Fang Gong smiled in a weak and powerless way: "Even if we have evidence, what can
we do to Heaven Refining Demon Venerable?"
Fang Gong placed his arm on Fang Di Chang's shoulder: "Don't lose your cool, second
supreme elder, you are the strategist of Fang clan. If the other Fang clan Gu Immortals see this,
what will they think? What will happen to Fang clan's morale?"
Fang Di Chang gritted his teeth and stopped crying.
He sat upright and moved shoulder to shoulder with Fang Gong.
Fang Gong continued to speak: "I feel hatred too, I hate Heavenly Court, I hate Wan clan, I hate
Fang Yuan, and I hate you. But similarly, I hate myself the most!"
"As the first supreme elder of Fang clan, I actually lost to Wan Gu Chou's killer move. I am like a
dog that ran away pitifully, I cannot do anything."
"My fist is so weak, my body is as fragile as glass."
"Fang Di Chang, you are not the first supreme elder, I am!"
"Who is to blame for Fang clan's current situation?"
"Nobody has committed a greater mistake than me!"
"If death can atone for my sins, I will immediately suicide in front of the anti-Fang alliance. But
that will not happen! We know the truth behind the righteous path, if Fang clan loses the only
rank eight like me, those people will be even more ruthless."
"I need to live, I need to raise my fist and show a firm expression, I need to live with my chest
held high!"
"That is how I can help Fang clan, I want to make compensations for my sins."
"I want to atone for my sins through actions!"
"I don't want to be the greatest sinner of our clan, I don't want our clan to end by my leadership!"
"Do you understand this? Fang Di Chang!"
Fang Gong screamed.
Fang Di Chang gritted his teeth, he started at Fang Gong: "Of course I understand!!"
Fang Gong stood up and looked at tassel desert as well as the sky, he said: "Today's tassel
desert is like the moving rock crevice of back then. We must learn from the first generation Fang
clan immortal ancestor and face our difficulties head on."
"What is our homeland?"
"It is not these resource points, but ourselves."
"Where there's life, there's hope."
"You are right." Fang Di Chang also stood up as he showed a determined expression: "Our
Fang clan still has hope!"
Immemorial two heavens.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's huge mountain-like body charged towards two Heavenly
Court Gu Immortals, Jun Shen Guang and Che Wei.
As qi tides blew, a formless pressure enveloped Jun Shen Guang and Che Wei.
"Oh no, why did he come to us?" Jun Shen Guang frowned tightly.
Che Wei sighed: "Even if Spectral Soul Demon Venerable is not sane now, we are not his
match. Retreat!"
"But these stars were lured here after so much hard work, and this heavenly veil was given to us
by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable." Jun Shen Guang gritted his teeth, in the end, he also
chose to retreat.
The three headed thousand armed Spectral Soul Demon Venerable growled and raised
hundreds of thick black arms that were the size of ancient trees, he slashed at the space before
him.
With continuous cracking sounds, the empty space in the sky was torn apart, as if a huge veil
was shredded into pieces.
And within the veil, there were countless huge stars.
Bam bam bam...
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable charged into the field of stars, along the way, all of the stars
that touched his huge body were destroyed, he even used his arms to crushed many of the
stars he saw.
The two Heavenly Court Gu Immortals saw that their hard work was being destroyed, they felt
extremely angry.
But thankfully, stars scattered and flew away, the senseless Spectral Soul Demon Venerable
only managed to destroy a small portion of them.
Che Wei and Jun Shen Guang discussed among themselves, they decided to keep the
heavenly veil and bring all of the remaining stars to Central Continent.
After all, this was a mission handed out by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
"This is a heavenly veil?" Shen Shang suddenly appeared.
Che Wei's and Jun Shen Guang's expressions sank at once, they became very alert. Shen
Shang displayed pseudo venerable battle strength in Crazed Demon Cave, he was a huge
enemy to these two.
Shen Shang also collected some of the heavenly veil, he looked at Spectral Soul Demon
Venerable who was causing destruction to the stars and smiled at the two Heavenly Court
immortals: "Can you tell me what Heavenly Court is collecting these stars for?"
Che Wei's and Jun Shen Guang's expressions became grim.
Shen Shang continued: "So be it if you don't tell me. Since you are using the heavenly veil to
collect the stars, you must be trying to act secretly, you don't want to be disturbed."
"In that case, I will take the heavenly veil and expose your actions to the public."
Che Wei snorted coldly: "Shen Shang, don't go overboard. Fang clan's outcome is also the
outcome of all those super forces who joined Fang Yuan! Your Shen clan's good days are
coming to an end."
Shen Shang squinted: "I won't trouble you with my Shen clan's affairs. But what I do know is
that your good times are ending now!"
"Retreat!" Jun Shen Guang spoke while Che Wei acknowledged the decision.
Shen Shang chased and forced these Heavenly Court immortals to retreat before he returned
and stored the collected heavenly veil.
"The heavenly veil is an extremely precious heaven path immortal material, it is best if I
contribute this to Alliance Leader Fang Yuan!"
-x-X-x-
Hundreds of stars shot down at Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
Old Immortal Hua Yu's subordinates had already heard the news, they waited in vigilance.
"They're back!"
"Quickly activate the immortal formation!!"
Bam bam bam...
The stars landed on the immortal formation and erupted with immense power.
Profound light flashed as the stars broke into countless fragments.
The immortal formation suffered the heavy impact, the Gu Immortals coughed out blood from
injuries.
A moment later, the tattered immortal formation still remained, while several stars continued to
attack.
"Retreat." Old Immortal Hua Yu ordered.
"Lord?!"
"But the grotto-heaven is right behind us."
"If anything happens..."
"I refuse to retreat! Even if I have to give up my life, I will defend our home!"
Even though the Gu Immortals were currently weakened, their morale was very high.
Profound Literature grotto-heaven was originally condensed into a small dot in empty space, no
matter how the stars flew outside, it was unaffected. But with the fusion of two heavens, an
intense change occurred.
All of the two heavens' grotto-heavens that were hidden were forced to reveal themselves.
Currently, behind the half-broken immortal formation was Profound Literature grotto-heaven's
entrance.
Even though the entrance was shut, it was exposed and could not be hidden.
Old Immortal Hua Yu shouted: "I have my ways, don't hesitate, otherwise, you will lose your
lives in vain!"
The immortals went silent, they quickly dismantled the immortal formation and escaped into
Profound Literature grotto-heaven.
They all believed in Old Immortal Hua Yu.
"Here they come." Old Immortal Hua Yu was alone as he watched the approaching stars, his
expression was grim.
Immortal killer move — Cold Words!
Immortal killer move — Shattered Words!
The first move created frost that slowed down the stars. The second move slashed at the stars
and shattered them into pieces.
However, large star fragments still continued to fly towards him with the remaining force.
"I'll risk it!" Old Immortal Hua Yu shouted loudly, he disregarded his own life and used methods
without stopping, eventually blocking all of the star fragments.
Guh.
He spat out a mouthful of blood, his expression was pale and wounds were all over his body,
shining in star path light.
With the fusion of two heavens, the flying trajectory of the stars was affected by the Heavenly
Dao and became chaotic, they were also amplified and became more powerful.
Even the rank eight Old Immortal Hua Yu had great difficulty in blocking them.
Old Immortal Hua Yu was about to return when he suddenly turned around, seeing another
group of stars flying towards him.
If these stars really hit, Profound Literature grotto-heaven would not be able to take the impact!
His pupils contracted rapidly and his expression froze, but soon, he relaxed.
He was resolved for this.
Even if he had to sacrifice his life, he had to block them!
But at this time, Jun Shen Guang suddenly appeared.
Heavenly veil!
He flew while tossing with his hands, he quickly arrived in front of the stars and set up the
heavenly veil.
Once the stars landed on the heavenly veil, it started shaking intensely, clear ripples could be
seen on it.
"Heavenly Court's Gu Immortal, Jun Shen Guang!" Old Immortal Hua Yu's expression froze for
a second.
"Heaven and Earth Great Love Alliance's Old Immortal Hua Yu!" Jun Shen Guang was slightly
stunned and soon felt worried. It was currently the crucial period, if Old Immortal Hua Yu took
action, the heavenly veil would get destroyed again.
But Jun Shen Guang's worries did not end up happening.
After fifteen minutes passed, Old Immortal Hua Yu still watched from the side and did not act.
Jun Shen Guang collected the heavenly veil and collected all of the stars successfully.
Finally, Jun Shen Guang cast a deep gaze at Old Immortal Hua Yu, before dragging the huge
heavenly veil bag and leaving with the stars.
Old Immortal Hua Yu had a complex expression as he opened the immortal aperture's entrance
and entered the grotto-heaven.
He was actually saved by Heavenly Court.
Throughout the entire Profound Literature grotto-heaven, calamities struck everywhere, there
were earthquakes and floods, volcanic eruptions caused huge areas of thick smoke in the sky,
and acid rain had also been pouring for more than ten days.
"With the fusion of two heavens, the Heavenly Dao is stirred. Heaven's will is chaotic, and all of
our grotto-heavens that are situated on the heaven vein node are suffering."
"Lifeforms have perished, living beings are anguished!"
"Sigh, I am guilty..."
Old Immortal Hua Yu sighed deeply, he was filled with guilt, helplessness, angry, sadness, and
other complex emotions.
The Gu Immortals of the two heavens' grotto-heavens had deep feelings for their own
grotto-heaven world. This was different from the Gu Immortals of the five regions.
Gu Immortals of the two heavens' grotto-heavens were ostracized by the five regions, they had
to survive in this dangerous place.
Most of them were secluded cultivators, their grotto-heavens were the final and most important
homeland where they could experience peace and comfort.
Among these grotto-heavens, Profound Literature grotto-heaven established a dynasty ruled by
a single Gu Immortal force, it had deep literary development and the citizens saw this homeland
as the most precious thing.
The immortals quickly came to greet Old Immortal Hua Yu.
"This was too dangerous. We should get help from the Heaven and Earth Great Love Alliance
again!"
"With the fusion of two heavens, the environment has gotten incredibly dangerous. Those
Eastern Sea Gu Immortals live in peace and tranquility, why would they come here and do such
a risky thing?"
"Sigh, it is possible to get their help. But the price to pay is too high."
"The entire Imperial Court's foundation is running dry!"
"Skeleton grotto-heaven and others are also asking for help without caring about expenses. This
creates a negative effect where Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals demand higher prices in response.
Damn it!"
"Sigh, Lord Alliance Leader is not even taking control of this!"
"Great Love Immortal Venerable is busy refining dao marks or making arrangements in Western
Desert. Why would he care about the affairs of our small Profound Literature grotto-heaven?"
"In any case, our Profound Literature grotto-heaven will get annexed by him eventually!"
Old Immortal Hua Yu's expression turned solemn as he scolded: "Everyone, shut up, don't talk
about Lord Alliance Leader in such a manner!"
Even though he said that, Old Immortal Hua Yu had a thought flash in his mind, he recalled the
deep gaze that Jun Shen Guang showed earlier.
Longevity Heaven.
Golden light rippled constantly in waves.
"Hold on, hold on!" Several Gu Immortals among the Eight Extremities were controlling Calamity
Luck Altar as they tried to stabilize the situation.
The entire Longevity Heaven was shaking intensely.
The earth shook.
Not just Calamity Luck Altar, Bing Sai Chuan was also controlling Luck Suppression Heavenly
Palace.
However, both luck path Immortal Gu Houses were only barely able to keep the current situation
stable.
Boom.
With a loud sound, the ground cracked and also broke the entire Longevity Heaven into two.
Swoosh swoosh.
Waves surged from below, scarlet red light soared up into the sky.
A vast sea of blood appeared in front of the immortals.
"Longevity Heaven has such a huge Blood Sea?" Bing Sai Chuan and the rest were shaken.
Heavenly Court.
The bright and peaceful atmosphere was no more.
Qin Ding Ling, Red Heart Traveler, Nine Spiritual Fairy, Prince Feng Xian, and other members
were moving around everywhere.
Shabi Ninety-five, Ruan Dan, and even Qing Chou were mobilized to stabilize this situation.
Both the sky and earth were forming terrifying cracks.
The grand palaces had already been dismantled by Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals, they were
condensed into ten or more rank six, seven, and eight Immortal Gu Houses.
No matter what the situation was, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not pay any
attention to it, she focused entirely on refining Heavenly Court's wisdom path dao marks.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Fang Yuan's soul was lying in the pool water, feeling extremely relaxed.
The water was hot and steam was coming out of it, forming a region of white smoke.
Once in a while, there would be ripples in the water that splattered on Fang Yuan's soul.
Fang Yuan's soul originally had hundreds of arms and two heads, after the cleansing of the pool
water, hundreds of arms had vanished, he also returned to having one head.
This was not an ordinary pool, it was Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool!
After Fang Yuan raised advance refinement Immortal Gu to rank nine, he started modifying Four
Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool. Some time ago, he started to refine his soul in
it.
Because the rank nine advance refinement Immortal Gu was added, Four Elements Square
Regret Blood Refinement Pool became a genuine rank nine Immortal Gu House.
This Immortal Gu House still had the same four cores, Advance Refinement, Water Refinement,
Regret, and Blood Asset.
Advance Refinement was rank nine, the other three were rank eight.
Among which, blood asset Immortal Gu had reached its limit, it could not be raised to rank nine.
Heavenly Court's suppression of blood path's development was showing great effect here.
Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool was created before the battle in Crazed
Demon Cave, after advance refinement Immortal Gu became rank nine, Fang Yuan could
modify it now that he was a refinement path supreme grandmaster.
Right now, Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool had undoubtedly gained a
huge boost in power in terms of refining Gu!
Fang Yuan's soul used Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool to cleanse itself,
the effect was incredible.
The drawback of cultivating soul path was gradually weakening.
Fang Yuan's soul path cultivation mainly relied on Spectral Soul's soul path true inheritance.
This true inheritance had a huge drawback, it was completely exposed now!
Humans could reach hundred million man soul at most, that was their racial limit.
But after Red Lotus Demon Venerable damaged fate Gu, and with Spectral Soul Demon
Venerable's innovation, he broke the limit of the human soul and created a qualitative change,
he allowed hundred million man soul to reach desolate soul. After that, it could continue to grow
to ten desolate soul, hundred desolate soul... all the way to hundred million desolate soul.
Hundred million desolate soul was the end point of Spectral Soul's true inheritance, it could
create the Three Headed Thousand Arms Demon Soul which possessed quasi-rank nine battle
strength. The soul could directly resist calamities and tribulations, defy the heavens and stomp
the earth, slaughter deities and ghosts, and shock the world with unmatched might!
This was the peak of soul cultivation, it was the upper limit that this world could allow.
But Fang Yuan gradually found that this cultivation method had a huge drawback, because
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable overly pursued strength, many threats were left behind.
A human soul was a human soul, after becoming a desolate soul, the pure human nature would
gain beast nature, or more accurately speaking, heaven nature!
Hundred million desolate soul was truly terrifying, but the proportion of human nature also
became very low, the bestial traits took over most of its nature.
At this current moment, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable lost his senses and got controlled by
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. Afterwards, he roamed the two heavens and acted
according to his beast nature, this was the most obvious flaw!
Fang Yuan had some estimations towards Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's current condition.
Some time ago, Shen Shang contributed his human path cultivation results, Fang Yuan
compared the two and confirmed the drawback of soul path cultivation.
"In the past, human path was not developed, thus, the limit of a human was hundred million man
soul. Spectral Soul Demon Venerable had to break through it forcefully, but truthfully, he had
gone in the wrong direction."
"Of course, there are many reasons for this."
"Back then, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable wanted to create killing path, he devoured the
black heaven heavenly spirit but failed to succeed, causing him to create soul path instead.
There is a huge secret behind this, the more I think about this, the scarier it is!"
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Intense winds and storms filled Heavenly Court.
The silvery white sky turned dark at this moment.
Within the intense winds, more than ten Immortal Gu Houses were moving around the place, all
of Heavenly Court's members were doing their best to salvage the situation.
"The northeast corner has large areas of black smoke, it can corrode the ground and create
rotten soil!"
"The immortal graveyard needs to be protected."
"Branded Name Palace is severely damaged, please send reinforcements!"
"Can anyone help me, I can't repair this huge crack in time!!"
The Gu Immortals conversed among each other, this situation had been going on for tens of
days, it was getting more dangerous as time passed.
Heavenly Court was filled with danger, and most importantly, its foundation was too immense, it
was the number one heaven vein node in the world. During the fusion of the two heavens,
Heavenly Court suffered the greatest impact.
Originally, Heavenly Court had a tight defense, but after two invasions, the defensive methods
left by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable and others had either been destroyed or greatly
weakened, they were useless in this situation.
Crack.
Lightning flashed and bolted across half of Heavenly Court.
Eventually, Five Deity Hall blocked it but suffered huge damage in doing it, it fell to the ground,
creating a huge pit that emitted dense smoke.
This situation was caused by Heavenly Court's immense foundation.
Even the rank eight Five Deity Hall could barely block such power.
Rain and wind continued unceasingly.
Under such a turbulent situation, in Central Great Hall, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable
opened her eyes slowly.
Her star pupils were clear and bright, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable looked through
Central Great Hall and observed the entire situation of Heavenly Court in one glance.
...
"Little Xing, from today onwards, this will be your home." Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable
brought back the child Xing Su and said to her.
"Where is this?"
"Heavenly Court." Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable said with deep emotions.
"Heavenly Court..." Xing Su muttered this foreign phrase.
"You can think of it as your home." Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable patted Little Xing Su's
head.
"Home?" Xing Su's eyes brightened.
Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable looked far and wide, across the five regions, he seemed to
be able to look into the future: "Of course, this is your home, this will also be home to all of
humanity!"
...
Deep memories surfaced in Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's mind before fading away
quickly.
"Since when has Heavenly Court been in such a pitiful state?"
"Master."
"This is our home, I will defend it till the end. After that..."
"I will wait for your return!"
At the next moment, purple light burst out of Central Great Hall and spread to every corner of
Heavenly Court.
"This is?!"
"Star Constellation Immortal Venerable made her move?"
"We are too incapable, we are a burden to Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!"
"No, how can Star Constellation Immortal Venerable act unwisely? It is obvious that she has
already refined all of Heavenly Court's wisdom path dao marks."
Once Star Constellation Immortal Venerable took action, the situation immediately changed.
Under the rays of purple light, the raging wind and rain vanished, the intense lightning bolts
were dispersed, the crack of heaven and earth mended quickly.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals were all shaken internally.
This was the might of a Dao Lord!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable refined all of the wisdom path dao marks in Heavenly
Court, her strength exceeded Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Spectral Soul Demon
Venerable completely in this domain.
Right now, even if Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Fang Yuan were to collaborate to attack
Heavenly Court, they would not be able to do anything to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!
"Go! Let's go meet Lady Star Constellation."
Some Immortal Gu Houses landed while some stayed in the air, Gu Immortals streamed out and
moved towards Central Great Hall.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable activated her investigative method.
This investigation had a completely different effect from before.
Using the amplification of Heavenly Court's countless wisdom path dao marks, the investigative
killer move's power surged!
"The situation is still within my expectations. Both venerables are still refining natural dao marks,
Fang Yuan has little immortal essence and has the slowest progress. Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable has the most results, even exceeding me."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable quickly stopped her investigative method.
She needed to conserve immortal essence now.
It was time for Heavenly Court's immortals to report the various situations.
Due to the fusion of both heavens, Heavenly Court was greatly affected and had huge losses.
"Back then, Profound Literature grotto-heaven faced the problem of crashing stars, thus, Old
Immortal Hua Yu did not attack me, I successfully brought back those stars to Central
Continent."
Jun Shen Guang said an interesting event that made Star Constellation Immortal Venerable
develop a thought.
Human, Imperial Court, poetry, dynasty, Fang Yuan, mermaid immortals, the sovereign immortal
aperture...
All sorts of information related to Old Immortal Hua Yu and Profound Literature grotto-heaven
flashed past Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's mind.
With the help of Heavenly Court's wisdom path dao marks, Star Constellation Immortal
Venerable only expended several hundred thoughts and a meager amount of immortal essence
to deduce the result.
"We can make this Profound Literature grotto-heaven betray his alliance!"
Old Immortal Hua Yu had deep attachment to the grotto-heaven, Star Constellation Immortal
Venerable understood why.
Interrupting Jun Shen Guang was a huge merit but Old Immortal Hua Yu did not do it. This
meant that in his heart, Profound Literature grotto-heaven was more important than his status in
the Heaven and Earth Great Love Alliance.
And most importantly, Old Immortal Hua Yu had once opposed Fang Yuan and the variant
human alliance, that was the reason why he joined the Righteous Qi Alliance.
But afterwards, Fang Yuan declared himself as Great Love, Eastern Sea's super forces were
too meek and immediately joined him, Profound Literature grotto-heaven was forced to follow.
Why did Fang Yuan not annex all these grotto-heavens?
The reason was simple.
The sovereign immortal aperture was not stable, it was unable to expand anymore now!
Non-conflicting dao marks were a double-edged sword.
Long before the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had
already deduced this huge threat of Fang Yuan's.
Fang Yuan took in many resource points and focused on earth path resource points at first, he
was likely constructing an earth path dao vein to stabilize the sovereign immortal aperture.
During the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan lost many Gu Immortal subordinates.
Afterwards, he took the risk and took in six mermaid immortals, it showed that he was lacking
manpower, the sovereign immortal aperture was in a desperate state.
Thus, Fang Yuan could not annex these grotto-heavens.
"He is only skilled at defending against wisdom path deductions, Western Desert's Fang clan's
situation is also taking a lot of his energy. The lack of refinement path development is his
greatest worry, he cannot bother with Profound Literature grotto-heaven's matter."
Even though Fang Yuan was strong, he had become a venerable through refinement path, not
wisdom path.
His wisdom path attainment was not amazing in Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's view.
In the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, the reason why Fang Yuan succeeded was because Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable had focused on reviving, she did her best to try to get Crazed
Demon Cave's eternal life research results, she also had to guard against Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable, it gave Fang Yuan the chance to succeed.
Wisdom path was not skilled at solving impromptu situations, Star Constellation Immortal
Venerable had too little time to prepare back then.
But as time passed, her wisdom path advantage continued to accumulate.
Ignoring other matters, just the fact that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable refined Heavenly
Court's wisdom path dao marks meant that she already had an impregnable position in this
contest of three venerables!
"Even if Fang Yuan is not skilled in wisdom path, his wisdom path methods are beyond the
ordinary rank eight Gu Immortal. But Profound Literature grotto-heaven's issue has just
surfaced, Old Immortal Hua Yu will not report the matter. This is our opportunity."
"If we do not use this chance well and stall for too long, Fang Yuan will notice it."
Thinking of this, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable immediately gave orders to send Jun
Shen Guang and Qin Ding Ling to Profound Literature grotto-heaven secretly in an attempt to
persuade Old Immortal Hua Yu.
"If we can recruit Profound Literature grotto-heaven, can we also do the same to Western
Desert's Fang clan?" Wan Zi Hong's will was present, she suggested this.
Duke Tong chuckled and showed an expression of disdain.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable shook her head and asked Wan Zi Hong's will instead:
"Why do you think Wan clan did not choose to join Fang Yuan back then? They knew about
Fang clan and Fang Yuan's relationship, why did Western Desert's super forces still agree to
create the anti-Fang alliance before our Heavenly Court showed up?"
Wan Zi Hong's will shook slightly, she seemed to realize something.
With the fusion of two heavens and contest of three venerables, the five regions' political
situation was completely chaotic, the factors involved were not just strength or benefits, there
was also the people's will.
The heart of the people was a very intricate thing, it was hard to assess at times, but also
extremely easy to decipher at times.
Back then, Heavenly Court was created and received resounding support from everyone, the
greatest reason was the people's will.
Righteous path and demonic path, if one only classified them according to fixed criteria set by
the major players, it would be too shallow.
Heavenly Court could recruit otherworldly demons, they could recruit demonic path Gu
Immortals like Wan Zi Hong, this was because they could be said to be upholding justice, they
were giving demons a second chance to turn over a new leaf, this was their great benevolence.
But if Heavenly Court recruited Fang clan, they would lose everyone's support.
Why did Heavenly Court support Wan clan, what was the reason? All along, what was the motto
of Heavenly Court? What stance did they take?
If they recruited Fang clan which had fallen into the demonic path entirely, then what difference
would Heavenly Court have when compared to those who only pursued benefits?
In these situations, if Heavenly Court wavered in their stance and went for petty gains, their
reputation would take the biggest hit. In fact, even the ten great ancient sects of Central
Continent would start having doubts.
Especially at this sensitive juncture, Fang clan was supported by Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan plotted secretly and made Fang clan attack Wan clan, it was because he knew that
his reputation and popularity would not be accepted easily just because he declared himself as
Great Love.
Eastern Sea's super forces joined him merely out of fear.
Wu Yong made transactions with Fang Yuan for benefits. Not long after, Wu Yong also made
transactions with Heavenly Court.
If Heavenly Court did this, Fang Yuan might become overjoyed.
And this suggestion could only be brought up by someone like Wan Zi Hong, she was a former
demonic path member after all, other Heavenly Court members had not mentioned it.
Was it because they could not?
Of course not!
"The righteous path has the advantage in Western Desert's conflict. The only worry is if Fang
clan goes all-in and sell all their resource points to Fang Yuan." Star Constellation Immortal
Venerable had a thought.
She was the number one person in wisdom path, she had long expected such a situation, thus,
when she sent the members, she chose Zhou Xiong Xin.
Zhou Xiong Xin was an information path Gu Immortal, he was skilled at finding clues.
Once Fang clan abandoned everything and left, Zhou Xiong Xin would collect the relevant
information and let Star Constellation Immortal Venerable make deductions on them.
They had the duty of eradicating evil forces.
Fang clan had to be exterminated!
After Star Constellation Immortal Venerable refined all of Heavenly Court's wisdom path dao
marks, she had to rest and accumulate immortal essence now before she could start her next
move.
"For the short period ahead, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's threat is even greater than Giant
Sun Immortal Venerable and Heaven Refining Demon Venerable."
"It is time to send people to search for Fairy Zi Wei."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable arranged everything in meticulous and orderly fashion.
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