Legend has it that there is a River of Time in this world, its waters surging and whipping up terrifying waves.
Upon the turbulent River of Time, a tiny Gu insect carrying Fang Yuan's will traveled upstream like a traveler returning home.
The surging river water struck the Gu insect, which was like a small boat, as if it could capsize at any moment.
Finally, it no longer had the strength to carry Fang Yuan's will...
"Is it all over?"
At this moment, a red lotus emerged from the surface of the River of Time, transforming into a grimace.
The spring autumn cicada recovered once more and, carrying Fang Yuan's will, plunged headlong into the water...
Central Continent, Great Love Sect, Great Love Blessed Land.
Just a short while ago, Fang Yuan had refined his Personal Disciple Cui Zi Wai into the Myriad Gold Wondrous Flower Immortal Zombie and brought along Gu Yue Lin Xiang, that Universe Great Evolution Immortal Zombie, preparing to use the Life and Death Immortal Aperture Method to achieve Immortal Ascension with dual Ten Extremes Physiques.
Suddenly, a surge of will drilled into Fang Yuan's mind. The immortal materials he was preparing in his hands dropped directly to the ground, and his expression changed drastically:
"I... I have been reborn again... Spring, spring autumn cicada!"
Fang Yuan looked into his first immortal aperture and saw that his vital Gu, the spring autumn cicada, was already extremely weak, as if it would die at any moment.
Seeing this, Fang Yuan felt immense heartache, but the joyful thing was that the spring autumn cicada had not only helped him be reborn once more, but because of his previous life, it had become a Rank Seven immortal gu spring autumn cicada.
At this time, Yuan Fang flew over, his face full of shock: "We actually failed at the last moment... Fang Yuan, Heavenly Court's Duke... Duke Long has actually awakened!"
"Duke Long?" Fang Yuan raised an eyebrow:
"Is Duke Long the person who, at the last moment, slapped away the fifth sword of the Five Fingers Fist Heart Sword with one hand? Tell me about him."
Yuan Fang nodded: "It's him. Duke Long awakened early, no wonder Longevity Heaven also came to Southern Border to assist Shadow Sect..."
"You must never underestimate Duke Long. He is the ancestor of the dragonmen, the head of the Three Dukes of Heavenly Court, the Master of Red Lotus Demon Venerable, and an existence far surpassing Thin Green."
"To think he's a person from a million years ago... Heavenly Court is truly profound and unfathomable..." Fang Yuan pondered slightly, and Yuan Fang continued:
"Duke Long is too powerful. Even if we escaped Yi Tian Mountain, we wouldn't have survived... Perhaps Duke Long's awakening is related to our rapid growth in strength. If we were a bit weaker..."
Thinking of this, Yuan Fang suddenly realized something: "Heaven's Will... Heaven's Will influenced me just now, making me think in the direction of becoming weaker."
Yuan Fang couldn't help but feel a chill. Had the current Heaven's Will already grown to such a level? Even an Otherworldly Demon like him could be influenced to such a terrifying degree.
"Since Heaven's Will wants to weaken me, then I insist on being even stronger than in my previous life. Fang Yuan, give the Universe Great Evolution Body to me. With it, my first immortal aperture can also soon reach Rank Seven."
Fang Yuan nodded in agreement. Ultimately, Yuan Fang's first immortal aperture became a Universe Great Evolution life and death immortal aperture, while Fang Yuan's second immortal aperture also became a Myriad Gold Wondrous Flower life and death immortal aperture.
After transforming into the Universe Great Evolution immortal aperture, the foundation of Yuan Fang Blessed Land increased greatly, with only one Earth Tribulation remaining before reaching Rank Seven.
However, before that, Yuan Fang prepared to head to Falling Heaven River first to steal Thin Green's immortal gu.
Just like in the previous life, Yuan Fang stole Sword Eyebrows, Flying Sword, Wave Sword, Wisdom Sword, Change Soul, Sword Escape, Sword Light, Net, Standing Sword, and Sword Book immortal gu from the Immortal Zombie Thin Green.
With these immortal gu, Yuan Fang now had the Five Fingers Fist Heart Sword Killer Move available for use.
Afterward, Yuan Fang used the Mao Tribe Natural Refining Method to refine the Rank Seven Myriad Self Immortal Gu and went to Lang Ya Blessed Land to sell the Net immortal gu to the Lang Ya Earth Spirit in exchange for the Rank Six Dragon Scale Immortal Gu.
With the Dragon Scale Immortal Gu, Yuan Fang could activate the Rank Six Desolate Beast Sword Jiao Transformation Killer Move. In the future, if he obtained the dragon breath immortal gu, the Rank Six Desolate Beast Sword Jiao Transformation Killer Move would also transform into the Rank Seven Ancient Sword Flood Dragon Transformation Killer Move.
However, obtaining the dragon breath immortal gu was something that would happen after the future hundred-day battle.
On the other side, Fang Yuan took Willow Like Smoke and others to Northern Plains for the 'Martial Arts Competition for Marriage' event.
After this event, Fang Yuan obtained Flying Ant, Golden Body, Wolf Devour, and other rank six immortal gu.
As for those Rank Six Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan did not turn them into Clones, but instead made them all captives.
These captives would still be very useful in the future:
Firstly, they could be used to forge life and death immortal apertures for Qing Shu, Fang Zheng, and others. Secondly, he could wait until he possessed the sovereign immortal aperture and then devour all their apertures.
Thus, Fang Yuan picked out those Gu Immortal captives from paths like Wood Path, Transformation Path, and Fire Path, and refined them all into Immortal Zombies.
The remaining eight Gu Immortals were all packed into the Breath-Holding Jade Burial Gu that Fang Yuan had prepared for them, to be given to Fang Yuan later.
Those Gu Immortals who were refined into Immortal Zombies were all crafted into life and death immortal apertures and distributed to the Great Love Sect Gu Immortals.
In the end, thirteen people—Fang Zheng, Qing Shu, Clan Leader, Lin Hong, Dongfang Chang Fan, Xiao Mang, Willow Like Smoke, Scarless White, Feng Tian Yu, Red Snake, Desolate Dust, Avatar, and Great White Cloud Life—all obtained life and death immortal apertures.
"Great! This is Master's Life and Death Immortal Aperture Method! Not only has the difficulty of calamities and tribulations dropped by fifty percent, but my high-grade blessed land has even upgraded to a superlative-grade blessed land!"
Great White Cloud Life laughed loudly after obtaining the life and death immortal aperture. Others who reached superlative-grade blessed lands like him included:
Fang Zheng, Qing Shu, Lin Hong, and Avatar.
Once a Gu Immortal has a life and death immortal aperture, their cultivation path becomes smooth, almost without any further obstacles.
Through that Immortal Path Killer Move of the Lang Ya Earth Spirit that accelerates the flow of time, the cultivation levels of the Gu Immortals with life and death immortal apertures also rose rapidly.
In the previous life, Yuan Fang had obtained the complete Gu recipe for the Rank Six my will immortal gu through Dongfang Chang Fan.
In this life, Yuan Fang took the risk of using the Mao Tribe Natural Refining Method and, after failing once, succeeded on the second attempt.
With the my will immortal gu, Yuan Fang relied on his terrifying attainment as a Wisdom Path and Human Path Quasi-Great Grandmaster, combined with the help of the wisdom halo of the Rank Nine wisdom gu, to create a Killer Move specifically designed to deal with Heaven's Will—
Heaven and Earth Follow My Will.
This Killer Move was somewhat similar to Feathered Sage City's Immortal Path Killer Move 'Heaven Follows Human Wishes,' but unlike that move, Heaven and Earth Follow My Will could actually effect certain changes to Heavenly Tribulations and Earth Tribulations.
When paired with Yuan Fang's Immortal Tribulation Aperture Forging Killer Move, it truly became 'Heaven and Earth Follow My Will.'
Relying on this Killer Move, Yuan Fang forcibly strengthened his final Heavenly Tribulation at Rank Six and transformed it into the second Heavenly Tribulation from his previous life—that single dragon.
Yuan Fang wanted to enslave this dragon, so he borrowed the beast taming gu from the Lang Ya Earth Spirit.
Yuan Fang was also worried that a mere beast taming gu wouldn't be able to eliminate the Heaven's Will on that dragon, so he used the Mao Tribe Natural Refining Method again. After failing three times in a row, he refined the my will immortal gu that had been consumed not long ago.
Even with these preparations, Yuan Fang still felt it wasn't enough, so relying on his memories of the previous life, he recreated the Myriad Soul Beast Killer Move.
Subsequently, Yuan Fang used Fixed Immortal Travel to teleport into the dangerous Black Heaven, using the beast taming immortal gu to enslave thirty ancient soul beasts and two hundred and eighty-two desolate level soul beasts.
In fact, Yuan Fang could have originally obtained even more soul beasts.
Unfortunately, he encountered three Immemorial Soul Beasts with Rank Eight battle strength on the way, which resulted in him not only losing a large number of soul beasts but also nearly departing this world and losing his life.
However, with these thirty ancient soul beasts and two hundred and eighty-two desolate level soul beasts, it was more or less enough.
Yuan Fang also conveniently used the beast taming immortal gu to enslave an Incense Witch Shadow Carving Wolf and a Lightning Glow Giant Wolf for his Clone, Lin Hong.
Both of these wolves were Ancient Desolate Beasts, possessing Rank Seven battle strength.
In addition, Yuan Fang wanted to improve his Transformation Path attainment, which could be achieved through his own immortal gu.
However, Yuan Fang didn't want to leave Transformation Path dao marks on his own body. It just so happened that Yuan Fang's beastman Clone, Eastern Orc, wanted to cultivate Transformation Path as a secondary path.
Thus, Yuan Fang used the Everyone is Equal Killer Move to transfer the Transformation Path dao marks he had gained from eating immortal gu onto Eastern Orc, and he also got his wish, becoming a Transformation Path Quasi-Great Grandmaster.
However, based on the fact that the death of Clones leads to a decrease in Luck—in the previous life, it was because too many Clones died that his Luck fluctuated wildly and was very unstable.
Therefore, Yuan Fang decided to strengthen these Clones of his.
First was this Eastern Orc. He originally specialized in Food Path with Strength Path as a secondary, but his Strength Path immortal gu had been taken by Fang Yuan for use.
Now he had switched his secondary path to Transformation Path, and Materials for Transformation Path immortal gu were not difficult to find.
Coincidentally, Eastern Orc specialized in Food Path, and Yuan Fang himself had raised some Dragon Fish, and also possessed the cultivation methods for Copper Dragon Fish, Iron Dragon Fish, and Silver Dragon Fish.
The former was already being sold in Treasure Yellow Heaven, while the latter three had not yet begun to be cultivated, and thus had not yet begun to be sold.
And these Dragon Fish were all Food Path desolate beasts, perfectly suited for Eastern Orc.
Thus, Yuan Fang cultivated Silver Dragon Fish and, using some Silver Dragon Fish as immortal materials, used the Mao Tribe Natural Refining Method to refine the Rank Six Fish Scale Immortal Gu in one go, giving it to Eastern Orc.
With the Fish Scale Immortal Gu, Eastern Orc created the Transformation Path Immortal Rank Killer Move 'Desolate Beast Silver Dragon Fish Transformation,' which could turn Eastern Orc's Transformation Path dao marks into Food Path dao marks and transform him into the desolate beast Silver Dragon Fish.
Besides Eastern Orc, Yuan Fang also strengthened Avatar.
He refined a Phantom Path immortal gu for Avatar, named the Kidney Deficiency Immortal Gu, which could make a person's kidneys deficient.
If there were no counter-measures, the person targeted by the Kidney Deficiency Immortal Gu would be unable to engage in sexual intercourse for the rest of their life, and would also be weak and limp, have backaches and leg pains, lack energy, and have blurred vision...
This Kidney Deficiency Immortal Gu would be extremely useful against those Strength Path Gu Immortals, Transformation Path Gu Immortals, and desolate beasts, making them weak and powerless, unable to even muster strength when throwing a punch, greatly reducing their battle strength.
As for Yuan Fang's other Clones, they were relatively strong, especially Dongfang Chang Fan, who had many immortal gu, followed by Lin Hong, who had two Ancient Desolate Beasts with Rank Seven battle strength.
At present, among Yuan Fang's many Clones, Willow Like Smoke was the weakest, but Yuan Fang did not intend to let Willow Like Smoke fight, but rather used the Yin-Yang life extension method to perform Dual Cultivation with her.
As for why it was Willow Like Smoke and not Lin Hong from the earliest batch.
That was truly because Lin Hong was too ugly, with a wretched appearance and a monkey-like face; it was simply unbearable to look at.
After completing these tasks, Yuan Fang took six Clones—Eastern Orc, Lin Hong, Xiao Mang, Dongfang Chang Fan, Avatar, and Scarless White—into the Yuan Fang Human Path Blessed Land, preparing to undergo this Heavenly Tribulation.
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Human Qi Astral Wall!"
In the next moment, streams of human qi gathered, forming an invisible wall of qi that stretched for thousands of miles, like a Great Wall.
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Desolate Beast Sword Jiao Transformation!"
After Yuan Fang set up the Human Qi Astral Wall, he transformed into a desolate beast Sword Jiao.
Nearby, Eastern Orc also used his newly created Desolate Beast Silver Dragon Fish Transformation Killer Move, transforming into a giant Silver Dragon Fish, its silver-white scales, which were about as tall as a person, shimmering with light.
Soon, the Heavenly Tribulation was about to descend.
Heavenly thunder rolled, wind and rain lashed out, and black calamity clouds densely covered the sky, making one feel an overwhelming sense of pressure.
"Is this the Heavenly Tribulation that the main body deliberately strengthened?"
Scarless White looked up at the calamity clouds that seemed like the end of the world, his face showing worry. Who else could the 'main body' he spoke of be but Yuan Fang?
In contrast, Yuan Fang at this moment was actually completely unperturbed, even a little excited.
Strands of human will flew in from all directions, gathering in the center of the calamity clouds like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, a magnificent sight.
These human wills gathered in one place, transforming into a white ball of light that nurtured a brand-new life, and its aura also surged frantically.
Feeling this aura, Yuan Fang was both happy and felt a trace of regret.
What made Yuan Fang happy was that the Heaven and Earth Follow My Will Killer Move he created could truly change the calamities and tribulations into what he wanted;
What made Yuan Fang feel it was a pity was that the influence of his Heaven and Earth Follow My Will Killer Move on the calamities and tribulations was not yet perfect, because he also felt the aura of Law Path.
Soon, when the light ball grew to a shocking size, it transformed into a giant dragon.
That giant dragon's scales were all silver-white, shining with a metallic luster. Its dragon horns were vermilion, like two stalks of red coral. Its dragon teeth were forest-white, its dragon whiskers were long like brambles, its dragon pupils emitted a fierce light, and the hair on its tail and under its jaw was all vermilion.
"What a huge dragon..." Xiao Mang's face showed wariness.
"You guys go up, I'll activate the Five Fingers Fist Heart Sword Killer Move from behind!" Yuan Fang said, putting his hands together and lowering his eyelids like an old monk in meditation, brewing the Killer Move.
The group of immortals attacked together, countless Killer Moves blasting toward the giant dragon.
The giant dragon directly used an Immortal Path Killer Move, causing those Killer Moves to decrease in power, unable to cause even a tiny bit of damage to the giant dragon.
And the giant dragon's pupils also looked toward Yuan Fang in the distance, who was raising his right fist, and it used another Immortal Path Killer Move.
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Awe Inspiring the Four Seas."
In the next moment, a surge of pressure covered all directions. Everyone felt an incomparable dragon prestige and subconsciously knelt on the ground, supporting themselves with their hands. Even the Human Qi Astral Wall was covered in cracks.
As for Yuan Fang, because the distance was too far, he was unaffected.
"Immortal, Immortal Path... Immortal Path Killer Move — Flower Exchange, Wood Grafting!" Avatar risked the backlash of the Killer Move and activated the Flower Exchange, Wood Grafting move.
Just like in the previous life, the giant dragon was completely off guard, and several rank six immortal gu were swapped over. Avatar counted them; there were three in total.
Swoosh—
A Sword Light pierced through the air, the Human Qi Astral Wall splitting open to make way. The Sword Light flashed, and before the giant dragon could use a defensive Killer Move, its head was struck by the Sword Light.
The indestructible dragon scales simply couldn't withstand the Sword Light and were pierced through on the spot, but the giant dragon did not die.
"This... this Sword Light..." The giant dragon was shocked and wanted to heal, but its Healing Immortal Gu was gone.
The giant dragon felt an extremely strong sense of crisis and activated a Transformation Path Killer Move, crashing through the Human Qi Astral Wall and charging toward Lin Hong and the others.
Seeing this, Lin Hong immediately sent out the two Rank Seven battle strengths, the Incense Witch Shadow Carving Wolf and the Lightning Glow Giant Wolf, to attack the giant dragon.
Dongfang Chang Fan also used the two Killer Moves Star Snake Rope and Star Cloud Grinding Stone to restrain the giant dragon.
Suddenly, the second sword shot over like lightning.
This time, the giant dragon was prepared, and the Sword Light failed to break through its defense.
Seeing this, Avatar activated the Kidney Deficiency Immortal Gu, and the giant dragon's dragon kidneys became weak on the spot, leaving its whole body powerless.
But subsequently, the giant dragon used a Killer Move to directly dispel the Kidney Deficiency Immortal Gu.
At this time, the third sword of the Five Fingers Fist Heart Sword shot out. The Sword Light swept past the giant dragon, its defensive Killer Move was broken on the spot, and some immortal gu were also destroyed.
The giant dragon's Physical Body was strong after all. After the Sword Light broke through its defensive Killer Move, it failed to pierce through its dragon scales.
"This..." The giant dragon felt fear. The human sovereign banner then activated the Myriad Soul Beast Killer Move, and tens of thousands of soul beasts charged toward the giant dragon, making it impossible for the giant dragon to get close to Yuan Fang.
And Yuan Fang's fourth sword was also being brewed at this moment.
The fourth sword! Its power surpassed the first three swords, piercing through the dragon's body on the spot. The giant dragon was heavily injured by the single sword, powerless to fight further.
Seeing this, Yuan Fang slowly lowered his fifth sword.
After a long time, the most lethal fifth sword was not shot out, and Yuan Fang also activated the Rank Seven beast taming immortal gu, enslaving the giant dragon on the spot, and then used the my will immortal gu to eliminate Heaven's Will.
"What is your name?" Yuan Fang asked. The giant dragon said it had no name, so Yuan Fang named it "Di Zang Sheng Number Two."
Yuan Fang then took out all of Di Zang Sheng Number Two's immortal gu. Combined with the ones Avatar had swapped, there were three Rank Six and four Rank Seven.
They were respectively the Rank Six Calm Immortal Gu, Aloof Immortal Gu, and Healing Immortal Gu, as well as the Rank Seven Fame Immortal Gu, 'Weak' immortal gu,'Suppress' immortal gu, and 'Might' immortal gu.
Among them, besides the three Law Path immortal gu—Weak, Suppress, and Might—the remaining four—Calm, Aloof, Healing, and Fame—were all Human Path immortal gu.
After Di Zang Sheng Number Two was enslaved, the Heavenly Tribulation was passed. Yuan Fang became a Rank Seven Gu Immortal once more, and his vital Gu, Self Gu, was also promoted to Rank Seven.
Yuan Fang then let the Rank Seven Self Gu take a bite of the six immortal gu—Calm, Aloof, Healing, Fame, Myriad Self, and Human Heart—respectively. His human path dao marks surged by four thousand, and he leaped to become a Human Path Great Grandmaster.
At this point, Yuan Fang was a Great Grandmaster in Human Path, Sword Path, and Luck Path respectively.
Three Great Grandmaster Realms!