Brothers, the previous chapter was hit by the Heaven Overseeing Tower's Fate Defeat Killer Move again, everyone head to my QQ group to read it.
In the Gu Yue Clan, the youth with the Universe Great Evolution Body among the Ten Extreme Aptitudes was naturally Yuan Fang's adopted son and his first Human Path Clone—Gu Yue Lin Xiang.
Fang Yuan had already planned everything out; once he recovered his human body, he would refine the post-ascension Gu Yue Lin Xiang into a Ten Extremes Immortal Zombie. Then, he would use Gu Yue Lin Xiang's Ten Extremes dead aperture to forge a life and death immortal aperture for himself.
The wonder of the life and death immortal aperture lay in its ability to directly reduce the difficulty of calamities and tribulations by fifty percent, while the dao marks brought by those tribulations would not decrease at all.
This was a perfect virtuous cycle; after all, the vast majority of Gu Immortals perished in calamities and tribulations, just like White Fox Immortal, who died from an Earth Tribulation.
If the difficulty of blessed land tribulations were reduced, it would mean the number of Gu Immortals could increase significantly.
If Fang Yuan promoted the Life and Death Immortal Aperture method within the Gu Yue Clan, countless high-rank Gu Immortals would likely emerge from the future Gu Yue Clan.
Perhaps by the time of the Fate War, the Gu Yue Clan could directly field over a hundred Rank Eight Gu Immortals... just thinking about that scene made one's blood boil.
As for the other dead aperture, Fang Yuan also planned to refine another Ten Extremes Immortal Zombie.
Regarding which unlucky fellow would "share a body with the Immortal Venerable," the first person he thought of was Fairy Hei Lou Lan.
(Hei Lou Lan: Not good!!!)
As for how to capture Hei Lou Lan, this Great Strength True Martial Body Gu Immortal, Fang Yuan's plan was very direct—use Yuan Fang's Only I Am Supreme Killer Move to turn her directly into a Yuan Fang Clone.
As for Yuan Fang's side, Fang Yuan also wanted to arrange two "unlucky children" of the Ten Extremes Physique for him, with the first choice being Bai Ning Bing.
Unfortunately, the current Bai Ning Bing had already joined the Shadow Sect; combined with the foundation of a Ten Extremes Immortal Ascension, two immortal gu, and the support of the Shadow Sect Legacy, her combat power had already reached the rank six Peak.
Given the current situation, Yuan Fang did not yet have a Ten Extremes immortal aperture that could be manufactured into a life and death immortal aperture.
However, all of this could wait; there would be plenty of opportunities in the future. Moreover, the current Fang Yuan did not yet have a method to change an Immortal Zombie back into a human body.
But this did not prevent Fang Yuan from first helping Gu Yue Lin Xiang shatter his aperture and achieve Immortal Ascension.
Northern Plains, a place where the heaven and earth qi were thin.
Fang Yuan brought Gu Yue Lin Xiang, Fang Zheng, and Great White Cloud Life here, preparing to help Gu Yue Lin Xiang undergo the Ten Extremes Immortal Ascension tribulation.
Before undergoing the tribulation, Fang Yuan laid out a rank six immortal formation—Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds—according to the formation chart taught by the Lang Ya Earth Spirit.
He modified this formation, using Cloud Mountain, Cloud Sea, Dispelling Clouds, and the Rank Seven Human Qi immortal gu as the core, making this immortal formation specialize in defense, enough to block most rank six Killer Moves and barely withstand one or two Rank Seven Killer Moves.
After a full several dozen minutes, Fang Yuan finally succeeded in setting up the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation.
He lacked Formation Path methods and attainment, so his formation-setting speed was extremely slow, but with the formation chart in hand, following it step-by-step presented no major problems.
After setting up the immortal formation, Fang Yuan invested thirty-five crystal-clear green grape immortal essence. In the next moment, the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation roared into operation.
Within the immortal formation, visions of mountains and rivers emerged; the Peaks reached the heavens, and the foot of the mountains was thick with clouds and mist; while the water flowed like a surging ocean, like ten thousand galloping horses.
Fang Yuan, Lin Xiang, Fang Zheng, and Great White Cloud Life stood on a sub-Peak of one of the mountains, which also had an ancient pavilion.
The pavilion was quaint and elegant, with green bamboo, a fish pond, and strange rocks nearby; inside the pavilion, stone tables and chairs were all present, and there was a chessboard on the table.
This chessboard could control the entire Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation, such as controlling the mountains and water within the formation.
Fang Yuan reached an Immortal Zombie monster arm into his own dead aperture; the monster arm threw with effort, and over ten thousand stingy gu were evenly scattered. Now, everything was ready.
Gu Yue Lin Xiang sat cross-legged on the ground, activating the Purple Crystal True Essence within his aperture to strike at the already shattered Ten Extremes aperture.
In the next moment, the Rank Five Peak Purple Crystal True Essence broke through the Ten Extremes aperture; Gu Yue Lin Xiang hovered in mid-air, frantically absorbing the surrounding heaven and earth qi.
Because he possessed the Universe Great Travel Physique among the Ten Extremes Physique, he actually absorbed the heaven and earth qi within a thousand-mile radius in one breath.
The step of absorbing heaven and earth qi was extremely dangerous, especially for a Ten Extremes Immortal Ascension, which was even more difficult—a situation of ten deaths and no life.
However, with Fang Yuan's assistance by his side and over ten thousand stingy gu helping to regulate the three qis of heaven, earth, and man, Gu Yue Lin Xiang finally achieved the balance of the three qis, and the Ten Extremes immortal aperture took shape.
The calamity cloud gathered turbulently like an ocean made of ink, pressing down like a severe drought. Fang Yuan couldn't help but think of a few lines of poetry:
"Heh, truly 'black clouds weigh down on the city, threatening to crush it; the mountain rain is about to fall, and the wind fills the tower'."
In the next moment, a fierce wind rose, and a giant hand with six fingers emerged from the overlapping layers of calamity clouds, flying toward the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation.
Subsequently, countless giant hands emerged, some with three fingers, some with five...
Immortal Path Killer Move—faceless hand!
It turned out that Heaven's Will, targeting the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation Fang Yuan had laid out and considering Fang Yuan's formidable combat power, knew it couldn't kill them directly.
Thus, Heaven's Will sent the non-lethal faceless hand, specifically to "steal" Fang Yuan's Gu worms and weaken his strength:
"Damn! I've been set up by Heaven's Will!"
The faceless hand Killer Move could not be defended against; it had two forms:
One was the open "faceless hand," and the other was the closed "faceless fist."
The "faceless hand" had not stolen any Gu and could not be destroyed by attacks; one could only dodge it. The "faceless fist" was when it had stolen a Gu worm; one could then blast it apart to take the Gu back.
How could this be called "stealing"! It was clearly "robbery," and even worse, being robbed while watching helplessly, unable to resist until the faceless hand had stolen the Gu worm, at which point one could strike to take it back.
All those faceless hands flew toward Fang Yuan; he immediately controlled the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation.
The faceless hands could not bypass the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation to snatch Fang Yuan's Gu worms; they had to first snatch the Gu worms within the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation.
heaven connecting gu.
With a thought from Fang Yuan, the heaven connecting gu was activated, connecting to Treasure Yellow Heaven. As soon as he entered Treasure Yellow Heaven, Fang Yuan immediately contacted Little Fox Immortal in Fox Immortal Blessed Land, sending self gu, pulling mountain gu, all-out effort gu, transformation gu, and other immortal gu into Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
Because the spring autumn cicada had been sealed using certain methods, even the Flower Exchange, Wood Grafting Killer Move couldn't swap it away; Fang Yuan estimated that the faceless hand wouldn't be able to steal his spring autumn cicada.
Gu Yue Lin Xiang was currently refining immortal gu; with the amount of his Human Qi, it was enough to refine one or two immortal gu.
But while his semi-finished immortal gu was still being refined, the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation suddenly shook—the core immortal gu, Dispelling Clouds, was snatched away!
In the next moment, a six-fingered faceless hand reached into the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation, its six fingers plunging into Lin Xiang's immortal aperture and grabbing; the semi-finished immortal gu was snatched on the spot.
Seeing this, Fang Yuan wanted to take back the semi-finished immortal gu, but immediately three to five five-fingered faceless hands flew over to intercept him.
Fang Yuan flapped the Solidified Bat Wings on his back, dodging these five-fingered faceless hands, but it was too late; that six-fingered faceless fist had already burrowed back into the calamity clouds.
Countless faceless hands swarmed forward, tearing the entire Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation into pieces.
Fang Yuan immediately felt something was wrong and shouted loudly:
"Fang Zheng! Quickly go and recover the immortal gu from the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds immortal formation! Save the Human Qi immortal gu first!"
Fang Zheng immediately obeyed, but thirteen faceless hands instantly pounced on him, surrounding him.
By the time Fang Zheng escaped, it was too late; a seven-fingered faceless hand had grabbed the Human Qi immortal gu!
"Dammit! Dammit!"
Fang Zheng gnashed his teeth but was powerless.
Just as the Human Qi immortal gu was about to be snatched into the calamity clouds, a white figure suddenly appeared, striking out a patch of clouds with a raised hand, blasting the seven-fingered faceless fist apart on the spot!
"Great White Cloud Life! Be careful!"
Fang Zheng suddenly shouted as a large group of faceless hands pounced straight for Great White Cloud Life; Great White Cloud Life directly communicated with Treasure Yellow Heaven, sending the Human Qi immortal gu to Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
In the next moment, countless faceless hands reached into Great White Cloud Life's immortal aperture, snatching nearly a hundred mortal gu. Among them were the heaven connecting gu that could communicate with Treasure Yellow Heaven and the flying Gu worms Great White Cloud Life was currently activating.
Great White Cloud Life fell from the high sky; Fang Yuan flew over, a zombie monster arm supporting Great White Cloud Life, preventing him from being seriously injured.
Meanwhile, Fang Zheng also continuously collected the stingy gu within the formation that were filled with earth qi; this earth qi was still useful and could still be used to refine Gu back home.
Just then, another six-fingered faceless hand snatched the Cloud Sea immortal gu from the Qi Enveloping Myriad Clouds formation; the formation could no longer hold and collapsed on the spot.
Without the formation's defense, the sky full of faceless hands became even more unscrupulous, greeting Fang Yuan and the others directly.
"Great White Cloud Life! Quickly go save the Cloud Mountain immortal gu! Fang Zheng! Quickly go save the Cloud Sea immortal gu!"
Fang Yuan moved among the countless faceless hands; Great White Cloud Life activated another flying Gu and flew toward the center of the ruined formation, wanting to take back the Cloud Mountain immortal gu.
A six-fingered faceless hand, however, was one step ahead and got there first. Fang Zheng activated the Mortal Path Killer Move, Four-Winged Pegasus Transformation, pouncing toward the six-fingered faceless fist that had snatched the Cloud Sea immortal gu.
Seeing that Great White Cloud Life did not bring back the Cloud Mountain immortal gu in time, Fang Yuan flapped his Solidified Bat Wings.
In the next moment, Fang Yuan appeared beside the faceless fist that had snatched the Cloud Mountain immortal gu, blasting the six-fingered faceless fist with one punch and reclaiming the Cloud Mountain immortal gu.
Suddenly!
A six-fingered faceless hand flew from behind Fang Yuan, grabbing at his dead aperture and snatching away the Cloud Mountain immortal gu he had just reclaimed.
Fang Yuan immediately gave chase, wanting to reclaim the Cloud Mountain immortal gu that had been snatched again before it even got warm.
Fang Zheng suddenly appeared and struck boldly, blasting that six-fingered faceless fist on the spot.
Not long ago, Fang Zheng had successfully reclaimed the Cloud Sea immortal gu and used Treasure Yellow Heaven to send it back to Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
Seeing that he was about to get back the Cloud Mountain immortal gu, Fang Zheng changed back from the Four-Winged Pegasus into human form and grabbed the Cloud Mountain immortal gu!
But, at such a critical moment, something completely unbelievable suddenly happened right before everyone's eyes.
Only a crisp sound was heard; the Cloud Mountain immortal gu died on the spot.
The immortal gu that was still exquisite a second ago became a cold corpse the next.
"Fang Zheng! You actually crushed it to death!!" Fang Yuan's eyes widened.
"I... I didn't mean to..." Fang Zheng looked shocked; he had actually accidentally crushed the already fragile Cloud Mountain immortal gu to death.
After losing the Cloud Mountain immortal gu, Fang Yuan's group did not lose any more immortal gu.
By the time Lin Xiang's Immortal Ascension tribulation ended and all the faceless hands had left, the four—Fang Yuan, Fang Zheng, Great White Cloud Life, and Gu Yue Lin Xiang—did not have a single Gu worm left.
Even the mortal gu were gone.
However, fortunately, most of the important Gu worms had been transferred to Fox Immortal Blessed Land, with the loss of the Dispelling Clouds immortal gu, Cloud Mountain immortal gu, the semi-finished immortal gu, and countless mortal gu.
Currently, the four were at the nadir of their combat power, likely unable to even defeat an ordinary Rank Six Gu Immortal.
According to Heaven's Will's wicked nature, powerful experts would surely appear soon to follow heaven's will and wipe the four of them out.
However, since the Rank Nine Supreme Immortal Fetus Gu at the Yi Tian Mountain righteous-demonic battle had not yet been dealt with, Heaven's Will might not kill Fang Yuan. But Heaven's Will could wipe out Great White Cloud Life, Fang Zheng, and Lin Xiang.
Thus, Fang Yuan made two preparations:
First, faceless hands only steal Gu worms, not Gu materials; Fang Yuan ordered the three to refine heaven connecting gu at the fastest speed and hide in a secret place.
Second, based on the former shared-body relationship between Yuan Fang and Fang Yuan, they could directly use Divine Soul communication without Gu worms and even share memories; Fang Yuan used this connection to have Yuan Fang contact the Gu Yue Clan to come to the rescue via Fixed Immortal Travel.
The process of refining heaven connecting gu was not fast; Fang Yuan and the others had just burrowed into a cave when they felt the presence of a Gu Immortal.
Speaking of which, this Gu Immortal was an old acquaintance of Fang Yuan's—it was the Bai Clan Leader who had escaped when the Hundred Families Village was overrun years ago!
At that time, the Bai Clan Leader had only Rank Four cultivation and could only flee.
Over these years, the Bai Clan Leader had drifted from place to place, and for survival, she had no choice but to become a demonic Gu Master. She also bore the heavy burden of revenge, enduring hardships to strengthen herself.
Fortunately, heaven does not betray those who are diligent; the Bai Clan Leader had continuous fortuitous encounters over these years.
She discovered a Rank Four Strength Path Legacy in the Southern Border;
Then she found a Rank Five Transformation Path Legacy in the Western Desert, from then on switching to Transformation Path and becoming a Rank Five Gu Master;
Later, she was besieged by the Righteous Path and entered the Northern Plains.
In the Northern Plains, the Bai Clan Leader actually discovered three Transformation Path legacies; finally, she became a Rank Six Gu Immortal, primarily cultivating Transformation Path, though she had no immortal gu and had only recently achieved immortality.
"How could it be her..."
Fang Yuan's eyes widened in the cave; he knew there would be a tribulation today. The Bai Clan Leader arrived above the cave and inexplicably stopped, then inexplicably activated a reconnaissance Killer Move.
"Eh? Why are there four Gu Immortals? No... this person looks so familiar..."
"Fang Yuan!"
In the next moment, the Bai Clan Leader activated a Transformation Path Killer Move, becoming incredibly massive. She naturally didn't recognize Fang Yuan, who had turned into an Immortal Zombie, but she mistook Fang Zheng beside him for Fang Yuan:
"Fang Yuan! Years ago, you killed my whole family and wiped out my entire clan! Today, even if I die, I will kill you!"
In the next moment, the Bai Clan Leader threw a punch, and the cave where Fang Yuan and the others were hiding collapsed on the spot.
Then, another punch was thrown at Fang Zheng, but Fang Zheng hid behind Fang Yuan, and the Bai Clan Leader's giant fist also pressed down on Fang Yuan's Immortal Zombie body.
Although Fang Yuan was an Immortal Zombie with a powerful and tough Physical Body, it was difficult for him to resist and defend against this strike from the Bai Clan Leader. To find out what happens to Fang Yuan's life, please read the next installment.