"Why did the Immortal leave?"
"O Great Immortal, please take me as your disciple!"
The crowd knelt and kowtowed one after another, but Yuan Fang did not even look back as he walked straight away. Seeing this, Li Seek Defeat immediately grabbed Ancient Moon Deep Love and fled amidst the chaos, activating the Mortal Path Killer Move 'Blood Light Gallop'.
A flash of blood-red light appeared, and Blood Wings unfolded from Li Seek Defeat's back as he soared into the sky.
It wasn't until his figure vanished into the horizon that the crowd snapped out of their daze and desperately gave chase.
We shall set aside how Li Seek Defeat escaped for now, only noting that he did indeed succeed in getting away.
Meanwhile, in the Fox Immortal Blessed Land on Central Continent's Tian Ti Mountain, Fang Yuan built another stone nest.
Tens of thousands of small Hairy People were busy inside, refining Rank Three Air Sac Gu. This Gu could carry courage gu out of Soul Searching Mountain and then send them to Treasure Yellow Heaven for trade.
Nowadays, the trade of courage gu and ancient glory light has become the primary source of income for the Gu Yue Clan.
In addition, the Stone Man trade and Bubble Fish trade also brought in significant monthly profits.
If not for the limitations of his identity, Fang Yuan could have earned a massive amount of immortal essence stones by relying on the two immortal gu, 'the land remains as before' and 'Calamity Beckoning'.
However, as the current stock of immortal essence stones continued to accumulate, the Gu Yue Clan's capital grew increasingly robust, and they now possessed the conditions to expand production.
Fang Yuan also utilized wisdom gu and his attainment as a Light Path Great Master to improve the mortal Gu recipe for great light gu.
The new recipe not only had fewer refining steps but also significantly lower costs. Now, Feng Tianyu no longer needed to personally refine Gu—the clan had ample manpower, and many were Refinement Path experts.
Stable trade brought rich rewards:
The ancient glory light trade brought in a steady three hundred immortal essence stones per month; the courage gu trade, due to a shortage of soul materials, earned one hundred and eighty immortal essence stones, falling slightly behind. Combining the two, the Gu Yue Clan's total monthly income had reached over six hundred immortal essence stones, which was already a considerable fortune.
It was just a pity that the production of courage gu was too low, otherwise, the earnings could have reached another level.
Just then, Yuan Fang stepped into the Fox Immortal Blessed Land. He came this time firstly to send newly purchased old Hairy People into the stone nest to refine great light gu, and secondly to borrow Gu from Fang Yuan to deal with the upcoming Earth Tribulation.
He needed to borrow Great White Cloud Life's 'the land remains as before' and 'Man as Before' immortal gu, as well as Fang Yuan's 'All-Out Effort' immortal gu.
At the same time, he also wanted to take back the prototype immortal gu house, the 'human sovereign banner'. This human sovereign banner was usually not in Yuan Fang's hands because Fang Yuan had once again improved it using the wisdom light halo.
The current human sovereign banner could be called an enhanced version of the Soul Storing Toad.
It could not only store souls but also possessed the divine effects of nourishing and strengthening souls. Although it could not directly turn mortal souls into combatants, it could strengthen them.
Once the strengthened mortal souls were thrown into Soul Searching Mountain to be crushed, they could produce even more courage gu.
As for the well-nourished Immortal souls, they were similar to Soul Beasts, with rank six combat power, which is to say, Desolate Beast level combat power. However, unlike Desolate Beasts, these Immortal souls had high intelligence and could even activate Gu worms.
Carrying the human sovereign banner and the three immortal gu, Yuan Fang called upon his two Clones, Xiao Mang and Lin Hong, and also summoned Gu Yue Qingzhuo, who had recently achieved Immortal Ascension.
He wanted to exploit Qingzhuo's labor for free, under the pretext of:
"Although this lad has become an Immortal, he lacks experience; fine jade still needs to be polished."
As a Righteous Path Gu Immortal within the system, Gu Yue Qingzhuo naturally could not refuse.
Moreover, he himself was very curious and wanted to see with his own eyes how tragic a war at the Gu Immortal level could be.
In the fortieth year of Yuan Fang Blessed Land, the fourth Earth Tribulation arrived as scheduled.
In the sky, dark clouds like ink churned and gathered, letting out rumbling roars. Yuan Fang sat on the mortal gu house white bone war chariot, driven by Xiao Mang, with Lin Hong and Gu Yue Qingzhuo accompanying him.
The four looked at the oppressive black clouds, their hearts filled with both anxiety and worry.
The next moment, the calamity descended. A giant palm that blotted out the sun, carrying majestic heavenly might, slammed down violently.
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Vast Desolation Endless Hand!"
This was a rank six Killer Move from Crazy Savage Demon Venerable, possessing infinite power. After the first palm, dozens of giant palms followed in succession, pelting the white bone war chariot like raindrops.
Seeing this, Yuan Fang immediately ordered Xiao Mang to drive the chariot and dodge, but it was already too late.
The 'Vast Desolation Endless Hand' crashed down, and the white bone war chariot was instantly smashed to pieces.
At the critical moment, Lin Hong acted decisively, releasing seven Desolate Beasts and borrowing Yuan Fang's immortal gu to activate the Mortal Path Killer Move Killer Move.
At the cost of seven green grape immortal essence, she controlled seven Desolate Beasts simultaneously. At this moment, she was like having seven Rank Six Gu Immortals assisting her.
(Although this Killer Move is a Mortal Path Killer Move, it utilizes the power of immortal gu and requires green grape immortal essence. A similar Killer Move is the Poison Gas Respiration with the womans heart immortal gu as its core.)
One of the Desolate Beasts, the Tortoise Back Wolf, immediately activated the Mortal Path Killer Move 'Tortoise Shell'.
With the enhancement of the dao marks across its entire body, it transformed into a solid barrier, blocking the fatal blow for everyone.
At the same time, Yuan Fang shook the human sovereign banner in his hand. Two Gu Immortal souls flew out from the banner, which were none other than Dai Xuanzi and Gu Yue Dongtu.
After a long period of soul nourishing, strengthening, and Soul Refining, these two souls had become incredibly solid. Although they were in the form of Ten-Thousand-Man Souls, they could perform physical attacks and possessed powerful combat strength comparable to Desolate Beasts.
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Myriad Self!" Yuan Fang shouted in a low voice.
In an instant, a dense army of Myriad Self appeared in the sky, like a calamity cloud, vast and mighty, sweeping across everything.
This Myriad Self army charged fearlessly towards the incoming Vast Desolation Endless Hands, successfully intercepting four giant palms with a suicide charge.
However, there were simply too many Vast Desolation Endless Hands, and the remaining giant palms continued to strike towards Yuan Fang like a tide.
The Desolate Beast Tortoise Back Wolf was unable to hold out alone, and after taking seven giant palms head-on, it finally ran out of strength and was crushed to death.
"Not good!" Lin Hong cried out in shock. A giant palm had already broken through the defense line, aiming straight for her life.
As an Enslavement Path Gu Immortal, she was completely unable to resist and was instantly flattened into a meat patty.
"Man as Before!"
Light suddenly erupted from Yuan Fang's hand, and the next moment, Lin Hong was resurrected completely intact.
But at the moment he saved her, another Vast Desolation Endless Hand smashed down toward Yuan Fang like Mount Tai pressing down.
Just as it seemed his Soul would be Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, Xiao Mang timely blocked in front of him.
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Great Light Golden Wall!"
In Xiao Mang's hand, the ancient glory light suddenly erupted, condensing into a dazzling golden light wall. With a loud "Clang," the light wall steadily blocked the fatal blow.
In fact, the true purpose of ancient glory light was not this. It was originally meant for reconnaissance, as it could penetrate Space and Time, illuminating every corner of the Gu World, and could even see into the River of Time.
But at this moment, Xiao Mang used it to create a light wall.
However, this light wall was not to be underestimated. The Light Path dao marks it contained were concentrated to the extreme, and its defensive power was terrifying.
Ordinary rank six Immortal Path Killer Moves would even be canceled out by the repulsion of the Light Path dao marks before they could touch the light wall.
Even so, the price was extremely high—this was a Rank Seven Immortal material! After taking thirteen Vast Desolation Endless Hands head-on, Xiao Mang had to immediately retract the light wall.
At this point, the amount of ancient glory light remaining was only fifty percent, equivalent to consuming half a portion.
Fortunately, the Earth Tribulation this time only sent down rank six Killer Moves.
If it were a Rank Seven Killer Move, even if it were this 'Vast Desolation Endless Hand' of Crazy Savage Demon Venerable, the Great Light Golden Wall might not have been able to block it.
Ultimately, Yuan Fang and his group successfully survived the fourth Earth Tribulation.
Since Yuan Fang had previously annexed the blessed lands of Dongtu, Moyan, and Chi Zhong, he had skipped three Earth Tribulations.
This meant that he only needed to pass two more Earth Tribulations before he would face the terrifying Heavenly Tribulation.
If the power of the Earth Tribulation was already like this, the Heavenly Tribulation would be even harder than ascending to heaven. Yuan Fang had already made up his mind that after passing two more Earth Tribulations, he would annex another Human Path blessed land to evade that almost impossible-to-survive Heavenly Tribulation.
This Earth Tribulation caused severe damage to the terrain of Yuan Fang Blessed Land. However, Yuan Fang borrowed Great White Cloud Life's 'the land remains as before' immortal gu, and by consuming four green grape immortal essence, he restored the entire blessed land to its original state.
And at this very moment, the sky above Yuan Fang Blessed Land was already thick with the clouds of war.
Gu Yue Fuqi of Central Continent was preparing to charge for the Gu Immortal Realm, but it had attracted a joint crusade from Western Cloud Continent and North Darkness Mermaid Continent.
The number of participants exceeded one hundred thousand; this was undoubtedly the largest and most far-reaching battle in the history of Yuan Fang Blessed Land.