Fang Yuan nodded in agreement.
This price was fair, the value of the Gu Immortal soul had increased because of guts Gu.
Since the four races alliance was set, the rockman tribe below the northern icy plain requested for a large amount of guts Gu as they had an extremely urgent need for them.
However, guts Gu had always been sold at a fixed price in treasure yellow heaven. This price could not be reduced, after all, they had to consider the long term.
Currently, although the rockman tribe's relation with Lang Ya Sect was close, most of the guts Gu were still sold at treasure yellow heaven.
Because of the monopoly on guts Gu, they could not only exchange guts Gu for immortal essence stones, but also exchange for many immortal materials and other resources.
In the resource-scarce northern icy plain, the payment the rockman tribe could provide was not able to satisfy Lang Ya Sect's development requirements.
For the benefit of the whole sect, Lang Ya land spirit would not make the rockman tribe the main trade partner.
The rockman tribe was dissatisfied but had no choice regarding this.
In short, the production of guts Gu was far from enough to meet the demand in the market. Especially in regards to Southern Border, because of the righteous path Gu Immortals exploring the giant dream realm repeatedly, they had excessive demands for the guts Gu in treasure yellow heaven.
This even created a black market for guts Gu.
Some guts Gu were resold at a much higher price.
Lang Ya Sect had repeatedly raised the price of guts Gu, but the item was still extremely popular, the whole market was like an insatiable monster and even though Lang Ya Sect was already putting full effort in producing guts Gu, it simply was unable to satisfy the terrifying appetite of this monster.
Among Fang Yuan's revenue sources, the profits from the guts Gu trade had already soared far ahead, entering its own level.
Guts gu was the greatest contributor to Fang Yuan being able to repeatedly use rank seven Immortal Gu in battle and easily replenishing his reserves of green grape immortal essence at set intervals.
Lang Ya land spirit received this Gu Immortal soul and spoke: "Man is the spirit of all living beings, with this Gu Immortal soul, we can indeed increase the production of guts Gu to a huge degree next time. Unfortunately, Gu Immortal souls can only be found by fortunate circumstances and not sought out. In the future, the primary investment for this aspect is still in Tai Qiu. Fang Yuan, if you are free, make a few trips to Tai Qiu. Desolate beast and desolate plant souls might be far inferior to Gu Immortal souls, but we can offset it with quantity and the source is also stable. With you taking action, we should be able to develop even more quickly in Tai Qiu."
Lang Ya land spirit thought highly of Fang Yuan's ability.
However, Fang Yuan replied: "I will be going to take part in blood battle martial competition soon, I am afraid I won't have time to split my attention. This is a second Gu Immortal soul, I hope first supreme elder can verify its quality."
"Second?" Lang Ya land spirit raised his eyebrows, but was not surprised.
He knew some details about Fang Yuan, and was not surprised at Fang Yuan selling some Gu Immortal souls.
"This is a featherman Gu Immortal's soul." When Lang Ya land spirit inspected it, he was slightly surprised. Variant humans were suppressed, variant human Gu Immortals were extremely rare. He had not expected Fang Yuan to have a featherman Gu Immortal's soul.
"This is your kill?" Lang Ya land spirit casually asked.
Fang Yuan smiled: "Right."
This Gu Immortal soul was of a featherman, Zheng Ling, the previous soul was Xue Song Zi's.
Lang Ya Sect was a hairy man sect, regarding an unknown featherman Gu Immortal's soul, Lang Ya land spirit decided to take it and did not have the intention to investigate further.
Thus, Fang Yuan gained several hundred contribution points.
Immediately afterwards, he brought out a third Gu Immortal soul.
Lang Ya land spirit smiled: "It seems you intend to sell a lot today. Alright, just take out all the Gu Immortal souls you want to sell."
"Alright." Fang Yuan started taking out Gu Immortal souls one after the other.
He truly had many Gu Immortal souls.
There were souls of Dong Fang Chang Fan, Xue Song Zi, Zheng Ling and others from before. Later, in Hei Fan grotto-heaven, he killed a group. Then finally, he received even more souls in the turbulent flow sea area.
When Fang Yuan took out three Gu Immortal souls in a row, Lang Ya land spirit smiled.
When Fang Yuan took out six, Lang Ya land spirit was surprised, he subconsciously stood a little from his seat, as if he wanted to come closer to check.
When Fang Yuan took out the tenth Gu Immortal soul, Lang Ya land spirit's expression changed, he started pointing at Fang Yuan: "How did you kill so many people?"
Fang Yuan smiled: "It was just luck."
He then continued to take out Gu Immortal souls.
Finally, when Lang Ya land spirit saw Gu Immortal souls all around in the surroundings, he was extremely shocked.
"I finally understand why you are not able to blend in with humans and sided with us variant humans!" Lang Ya land spirit was left speechless.
"You only have rank six cultivation!" Lang Ya land spirit knew details about Fang Yuan, because familiar face was given to Fang Yuan by him.
"How long has it been since you became an immortal? You also still had to travel around here and there to revive yourself. Killing so many people, you are simply like Spectral Soul Demon Venerable when he was young."
Fang Yuan gave a forced smile when he heard the name Spectral Soul: "I am contributing all these souls to the sect, besides this, I also have many cultivation insights, Gu recipes of all paths, Immortal Gu recipes, killer moves and immortal killer moves. Even battlefield killer moves as well as up-to-date maps of each region, which will make it more convenient for my fellow sect members to move in the outside world."
Fang Yuan was undergoing a huge sale!
Lang Ya blessed land's history was extremely long, it had incomparably rich treasures which were even coveted by Heavenly Court and always in the minds of Shadow Sect.
But Fang Yuan had killed so many people, and the things he obtained from soul searching were also extremely abundant.
Most of the treasures in Lang Ya blessed land were payment received in the past by Long Hair Ancestor by refining Gu for others. While some were items purchased by Lang Ya land spirit through treasure yellow heaven.
Among these treasures, the former were stored ages ago, Long Hair Ancestor was a person from three hundred thousand years ago, a figure of the Medieval Antiquity Era.
And the latter could be sold at treasure yellow heaven, one could imagine that the top quality goods among them were sparse, although they would also have rare items.
As for these things Fang Yuan contributed, most of them were the entire foundation of the Gu Immortals, these things were as precious as life to them. Not to mention that they were new creations that would also not be sold for no reason in treasure yellow heaven.
In this regard, Lang Ya land spirit did not reject any offers.
He was different from the previous Lang Ya land spirit, the previous Lang Ya land spirit was only interested in refining Gu, while he was brimming with ambitions, creating Lang Ya Sect and wholeheartedly trying to make hairy men the rulers of the world, restoring their glory from the Immemorial Antiquity Era and Remote Antiquity Era.
Currently, Lang Ya Sect primarily used refinement path, most of the hairy man Gu Immortals cultivated transformation path as well.
Lang Ya Sect wanted to become a large sect, completing Lang Ya land spirit's ambition, for this they needed to incorporate various kinds of things and possess Gu Immortals of all paths. Like the great Huang Jin tribe super forces of Northern Plains, the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent and so on.
Fang Yuan's sect contribution points rose steeply.
In another cloud city.
Twelfth Hair was in the midst of refining Gu.
"Oh no, there is an error!" Suddenly, his expression changed as the fire he was controlling suddenly weakened.
He quickly activated Gu worms, spurting out blood into the fire.
Whoosh.
The fire burned high once again, Twelfth Hair was pale, his body shivering uncontrollably. He had just been injured by the backlash caused by failing in Gu refinement, blood was slowly seeping out of his seven orifices, causing the hair on his whole body to moisten with blood.
His wide-opened eyes were filled with traces of blood, as they firmly focused on the fire.
After a while, the burning fire suddenly erupted and disappeared.
The refinement path Gu formation opened up, revealing over a hundred self will Gu.
The hairy man Gu Immortals raised by the previous Lang Ya land spirit had extremely weak battle strength, but had strong Gu refinement ability.
These self will Gu were only mortal Gu but they were rank five. Twelfth Hair could refine over a hundred of these rank five self will Gu at once, revealing his extraordinary refinement path attainment.
Twelfth Hair thought to himself that it was a close shave, he rejoiced: "Fortunately, I sacrificed myself to make up for the mistake. Otherwise, these self will Gu would be destroyed, not only would it waste the effort I spent over these last few days to refine these Gu, I would also have to compensate for it with three times the refinement materials."
To increase the production of self will Gu, Fang Yuan not only used his sect contribution points to attract other hairy man Gu Immortals to refine them for him, he also supplied them immortal materials out of his own pockets, letting these hairy man Gu Immortals use these immortal materials to refine mortal Gu.
The hairy man Gu Immortals no longer had disdain and disgust towards Fang Yuan like before.
Fang Yuan possessed rank eight battle strength, causing these hairy man Gu Immortals to be filled with respect. Moreover, after such a strong financial ability was revealed, these hairy man Gu Immortals accepted the difference between them and Fang Yuan even more.
Strong dizziness assaulted Twelfth Hair's mind.
"Refining self will Gu eleven times without pausing is truly too consuming on the body and mind. The mistake just now is a warning that I need to rest. I need to quickly recover and accept some of these self will Gu refinement assignments later to earn more immortal essence stones."
Twelfth Hair had a bitter expression when he thought of immortal essence stones, heaving a deep sigh.
"Desolate beasts are not easy to raise."
"These desolate beasts all have great appetites, there is a huge burden on me every month to feed and raise them!"
"More importantly, beast enslavement Immortal Gu is only lent to me, every time I borrow it, I will have to pay with sect contribution points according to the period of time."
"Considering the long term, I definitely need to buy this beast enslavement Immortal Gu. But rank six beast enslavement Immortal Gu needs up to ten thousand sect contribution points..."
Twelfth Hair took out an information path Gu worm.
This Gu worm had one use, to display the sect contribution points of all Gu Immortals in Lang Ya Sect and rank them accordingly.
Simply put, it was Lang Ya Sect's contribution list.
Twelfth Hair looked into it with his consciousness and easily found his name in the upper half of the list.
Then he saw a series of numbers beside his name.
"Over six hundred sect contribution points, but I am still way too far from my target!" Twelfth Hair gave a bitter smile, feeling he had a long way to go.
"But the other hairy man Gu Immortals are also similar to me, some are even worse than me."
"My advantage lies in that I cultivate enslavement path as well, and now already have several desolate beasts with me. I can obtain sect contribution points more easily than others."
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"That's right, this is my advantage, I need to prioritize my strengths from now on and make full use of my talents in battle."
"I can use this to break the deadlock and drive up my cultivation speed."
"According to this development, my strength will continue to grow and the sect will need me more often. When I have strength like Elder Fang Yuan, the sect contribution points will be solely mine to take!"
"Cheer up, these days will keep on improving, Twelfth Hair, you need to continue working hard and reach your peak in life!"
Twelfth Hair's mood changed, and his fighting spirit gradually returned.
As he thought of Fang Yuan, he subconsciously glanced at the first name of Lang Ya Sect's contribution list.
Last time, because of the four races alliance, Fang Yuan had obtained a thousand sect contribution points which had caused the hairy man Gu Immortals' mouths to water in envy.
But recently, because Fang Yuan had issued large numbers of Gu refinement tasks, his sect contribution points had been continuing to dwindle, and quickly at that.
Fang Yuan's name still occupied first on the list, but the gap with the second ranked hairy man Gu Immortal was getting smaller and smaller.
A lot of hairy man Gu Immortals were waiting for the time when Fang Yuan's name was surpassed.
Fang Yuan was a human Gu Immortal possessing rank eight battle strength, surpassing him at the contribution list would give a different sensation to the hairy man Gu Immortals.
It would be an enormous glory!
However, the next moment, Twelfth Hair's whole body suddenly stiffened.
He remained still like a stone statue.
Because he saw the number behind Fang Yuan's name.
"Over fifteen thousand sect contribution points, how could it be?!" Twelfth Hair almost felt like he was hallucinating.
Ever since Lang Ya Sect was established, there had been no one who had obtained so many sect contribution points.
At most, at one time, Fang Yuan's sect contribution points had reached above two thousand, before it started rapidly falling.
Now, Fang Yuan's sect contribution points had passed fifteen thousand!
Unbelievable!
This was an unprecedented record!
Twelfth Hair's heart shook wildly, but the following scene made him even more shocked.
Fang Yuan's sect contribution points were continuously rising!
Fifteen thousand, eighteen thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand... fifty thousand, sixty thousand...
The number kept on rising steeply!
"It surpassed... eighty thousand!" Twelfth Hair was stupefied at the sight. What made him even more astonished was that Fang Yuan's sect contribution points still showed no signs of stopping!
When it reached over ninety thousand, suddenly, Fang Yuan's total sect contribution points decreased by over seventy thousand!
Only over ten thousand was left now.
"What is happening?"
"Could it be, I actually refined Gu so much that I am starting to hallucinate?"
"This, this is a dream?"
"Ah, no!"
Twelfth Hair suddenly shook and snapped back to awareness.
"Over seventy thousand sect contribution points suddenly disappeared, Fang Yuan definitely exchanged for an Immortal Gu. No, he did not exchange for my beast enslavement Immortal Gu, right?"
Twelfth Hair quickly took out another information path Gu worm and placed his consciousness in it.
After inspecting, he let out a heavy breath of relief: "So he did not exchange for beast enslavement Immortal Gu, but a rank seven Immortal Gu. It is good as long as it is not beast enslavement Immortal Gu."
That was seriously a huge scare!
Twelfth Hair patted his chest, his whole body easing up.
But the moment he relaxed, his eyes rolled backwards as he fainted on the spot.
He had suffered injuries during the Gu refinement process, and his mood had swung up and down at this moment, he naturally would fall unconscious after relaxing.
Achieving his target, Fang Yuan returned to his cloud city.
Inside a secret room, he took out a completely new Immortal Gu.
This Gu resembled light purple colored fog in the form of a dragon, it did not have a fixed shape and was floating around.
Rank seven Immortal Gu — Dragon Breath!
Fang Yuan had finally chosen sword dragon transformation because Lang Ya Sect's treasury had this Immortal Gu.
To exchange for this Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan had to sell all his Gu Immortal souls along with large amounts of cultivation information he had obtained from soul searching.
Naturally, Fang Yuan had withheld some of the contents. Like Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path methods, Hei Fan true inheritance's important details, and so on.
This had sharply raised Fang Yuan's sect contribution points to above ninety thousand. In the near future, this amount would be Fang Yuan's peak, difficult to surpass.
Then, Fang Yuan used over seventy thousand sect contribution points to exchange for the rank seven transformation path Immortal Gu, Dragon Breath.
In just a short while, his sect contribution points had fallen to over ten thousand.
But he still occupied first place on the contribution list.
The second ranked Gu Immortal on the contribution list only had four digits in terms of contribution points.
The gap had been widened by a huge margin.
Fang Yuan's position was firmly in place like a mountain.
Naturally, Fang Yuan did not care about the sect contribution list.
He also did not know Twelfth Hair had received a great impact from this event and had fallen unconscious.
If he knew, Fang Yuan would think he was over-thinking it.
Not all Immortal Gu in Lang Ya blessed land could be exchanged. Beast enslavement Immortal Gu was on the exchange list, but Lang Ya land spirit had clearly left it behind for Twelfth Hair.
Even if Fang Yuan wanted to exchange for it, he would not be able to.
Besides this, rank seven Immortal Gu Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus was also not for sale.
This Immortal Gu was originally Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's Immortal Gu, later it was refined by Long Hair Ancestor up to rank eight and was merged into the rank eight Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron.
Some time ago, Shadow Sect had invaded Lang Ya blessed land, destroying Refinement Cauldron and seizing many of the core Immortal Gu. Although Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus remained, it had been damaged and had fallen from rank eight to rank seven.
If Fang Yuan wanted to exchange for this Immortal Gu, he would have to pay a very large price that could move Lang Ya land spirit's mind.
However, Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus would not be of much help to Fang Yuan. He had calculated that after he raised his cultivation to rank seven and his immortal essence started producing red date immortal essence, it would be sufficient.
It was not worth it to pay a greater price for just Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus.
Fang Yuan spent some time before he successfully integrated this rank seven dragon breath Gu into his immortal killer move, sword dragon transformation.
Transformation path immortal killer moves were essentially very simple. Dragon breath Gu was a natural component of sword dragon transformation.
What's more, Fang Yuan was a transformation path grandmaster.
With this rank seven dragon breath Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan simply did not need any dragon breath mortal Gu.
Like in Hei Fan's true inheritance, Hei Fan had really wanted to obtain immortal level day Gu and month Gu. Because then, when he activated days pass like years and similar immortal killer moves, he would not need to spend so many mortal day Gu and month Gu.
Having a relevant Immortal Gu made it extremely convenient.
It also reduced the difficulty of controlling the killer move.
Its effect would also have a large boost!
Taking a deep breath, Fang Yuan tried sword dragon transformation again.
Silver light burst out, shining towards the sky.
Just looking at this, Fang Yuan knew that sword dragon transformation's might had increased by multiple times.
From within the silvery light, a sword dragon revealed its figure. Its body was more than double the size of before, reaching over forty feet.
Its eyes were still white, its scales were much wider and thicker than before, there were now two more claws, reaching a total of four claws now. The dragon horn protruded out further, piercing towards the sky.
Fang Yuan inspected all over and saw that every aspect had received a huge boost in quality.
"After adding the rank seven dragon breath Gu, this is now an ancient desolate beast level sword dragon." Fang Yuan was well aware.
As such, this immortal killer move could be used at the blood battle martial competition.
The previous sword dragon transformation would not work.
It could only be used to bully some ordinary rank six Gu Immortals.
The current ancient sword dragon had the qualifications to match against rank seven Gu Immortals.
Next was the most important part.
Fang Yuan was unavoidably a little nervous.
He lightly stretched out his dragon body and flew to a completely new dark inkstone.
Dragon breath!
Fang Yuan opened his mouth and breathed out.
In that instant, a pure white sword light flashed past.
Crack, a crisp sound was heard, as the dark inkstone was cut in two.
Not only this, the sword light still had strength remaining to destroy the whole secret room.
Fang Yuan's cloud city shook intensely, giving off muffled noises as large numbers of Gu worms that formed the secret room died instantly.
"I have already controlled my strength, the dark inkstone already bore most of the dragon breath, only a small part of its power was leaked out." Intense joy flashed past the ancient sword dragon's eyes.
Fang Yuan had only displayed a small portion of his strength, but his surrounding environment actually was unable to endure it.
Although the cloud city's structure was exquisite and hairy man Gu Immortals had spent immense mental effort to make it, it was after all only a mortal Gu house, and could not endure the remaining power of the ancient sword dragon's breath.
Green grape immortal essence continued to be consumed to maintain the form of the ancient sword dragon.
Clearly, the immortal essence expenditure had increased by many times.
Where there are gains, there are losses.
After all, adding rank seven Immortal Gu dragon breath had increased the level of the immortal killer move, sword dragon transformation, immortal essence being expended rapidly was an inevitable outcome.
"I can no longer practice in the cloud city. Lang Ya blessed land has many observers, but if I go out of Lang Ya blessed land I will receive even more attention from heaven's will."
"It seems I still need to place my sovereign immortal aperture and properly test the limits of ancient sword dragon transformation."
"The dragon breath I send out has already reached rank seven battle strength, its effect is outstanding and the expenditure is still small. How powerful will it be when I use sword marks targeting death, dark assassination and triple layered sword wave in my ancient sword dragon form?"
Fang Yuan was feeling anticipation.
He resolutely took action, immediately flying out of the cloud city, going through the super Gu formation and teleporting to the outside world.
"Fang Yuan has left. He actually exchanged for dragon breath Immortal Gu, what is the reason?" Sixth Hair was secretly activating investigative methods, paying close attention until the super Gu formation activated and Fang Yuan's figure disappeared from his perception.
After Sixth Hair knew the change in the sect contribution points list, he was filled with unease.
Fang Yuan's development speed had surpassed his expectations again. Moreover, he did not understand the direction of Fang Yuan's growth.
"Fang Yuan naturally won't exchange for an Immortal Gu that has no use to him. No, I need to report this information to Lord Ying Wu Xie quickly." Sixth Hair was filled with worries.
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Sun was shining bright in the sky of Northern Plains, with no clouds to be seen in the surroundings.
However, at Blood Plain, starlight shone brilliantly, as if stars filled the sky.
Golden Dawn Hall was quietly floating in the air, it stood majestically, no matter how much turbulence was going on outside, it remained lofty and unmoved.
In contrast, the Gu Immortals on Chu Du's side were all standing on clouds, their expressions looking unsightly or filled with worries.
Chu Du was expressionless, but his gaze that looked at the battle was extremely heavy.
"Immortal Wang is going to lose." Chu Du sighed internally.
In the center of the battlefield, Immortal Wang was fighting with the righteous path Gu Immortal Ye Lui Qun Xing!
Immortal Wang had already transformed into a heaven swallowing hound, charging left and right with astonishing might.
The heaven swallowing hound was an immemorial desolate beast, but Immortal Wang was only a rank seven Gu Immortal, this transformation path immortal killer move also did not have a relevant rank eight Immortal Gu in it. So, this heaven swallowing hound's battle strength was only at rank seven level.
And Immortal Wang's opponent, Ye Lui Qun Xing, was tall and thin like a bamboo pole. He had three strands of hair as a beard and had a yellowish-white complexion. Right now, he was far away from the heaven swallowing hound, hundreds of star fragments were flying around him, shining with brilliant light, dying the sky a color of blue.
Immortal Wang's heaven swallowing hound transformation used all its strength to attack.
However, countless star fragments, big and small, tightly surrounded him.
Of these star fragments, small ones were the size of a lantern, while the big ones were the size of an elephant. They kept on flying around, a small portion were encircling Immortal Wang with dizzying speed, while the larger portion were encircling Ye Lui Qun Xing, moving slowly in a mysterious trajectory.
Plop.
A muffled sound echoed, a star fragment firmly collided against Immortal Wang's body.
The heaven swallowing hound's movement slowed, and exposed a flaw when it tried to dodge.
Boom boom boom.
Three muffled sounds resounded as this opportunity was taken, star fragments collided against Immortal Wang fiercely.
The heaven swallowing hound let out a low growl, coughing out a large amount of blood, its feet staggered and almost fell down to the ground.
Any Gu Immortal with eyes could see who was in control of the situation.
Immortal Wang was the one attacking, but was in an absolute disadvantage from start to finish.
And the defending Ye Lui Qun Xing was the one who held the upper hand, putting himself behind layers of defense.
This battle tactic was naturally a correct one.
One often had to choose long range battle when dealing with transformation path Gu Immortals.
Because the Gu Immortal that transformed into desolate beast, ancient desolate beast or even immemorial desolate beast, would have a strong and sturdy body, just relying on their transformed body's quality, their battle strength would increase to a terrifying level.
Gu Immortals of other paths mostly had human bodies. Their physical qualities were weak, even if they had powerful defensive methods, they did not want to put themselves in such a dangerous situation where they were fighting with their weakness against a transformation path Gu Immortal's strength.
The dominance was already clear, Ye Lui Qun Xing was in an impregnable position.
He spoke in a clear voice: "It is useless, Immortal Wang. My immortal killer move was created by taking Dong Fang Chang Fan's myriad star fireflies as a reference, the flying trajectory is extremely profound and inscrutable. Previously, six star fragments could completely obstruct you. Now, there are at least thirty-six star fragments around you, how will you break through?"
This Ye Lui Qun Xing was also a person with an interesting past.
He had challenged Dong Fang Chang Fan, and had suffered defeat after defeat, but had still persisted in challenging him. Dong Fang Chang Fan was a righteous path figure, the number one wisdom path Gu Immortal of Northern Plains who had single-handedly led Dong Fang tribe to prominence.
Ye Lui Qun Xing's defeats did not make Northern Plains' Gu Immortals feel he was weak.
Instead, they very much appreciated him fighting back despite the repeated setbacks, and his steady, unwavering spirit.
As one of the leading figures of the righteous path, Dong Fang Chang Fan could not lay a heavy hand on Ye Lui Qun Xing, who was similarly of Huang Jin bloodline.
There was even one time when after he defeated Ye Lui Qun Xing, he personally instructed him regarding some secrets of myriad star fireflies.
Ye Lui Qun Xing treated the guidance as a precious treasure, immediately going into closed cultivation.
Unknown to him, this was precisely Dong Fang Chang Fan's scheme.
Dong Fang Chang Fan had not only gotten rid of the annoying Ye Lui Qun Xing, this also expressed his goodwill to Ye Lui tribe, and had smoothly accomplished an instance of collaboration with Ye Lui tribe, gaining large amounts of benefits.
Ye Lui Qun Xing had originally felt that Dong Fang Chang Fan was a thorn in his eyes, but having obtained benefits from Dong Fang Chang Fan, he did not feel he could shamelessly challenge Dong Fang Chang Fan again. After coming out of his closed cultivation, he chose to focus hard on his own development and did not even find trouble with other Gu Immortals of Dong Fang tribe.
As such, this trump card killer move of his clearly bore resemblance to myriad star fireflies.
Myriad star fireflies was Dong Fang Chang Fan's killer move, which was famous throughout the whole of Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world.
Ye Lui Qun Xing's move, however, treated the star fragments as the main body, it could be considered as him creating his own unique method.
A real star was extremely huge, Fang Yuan had been using star eyes Immortal Gu up until now, and had only managed to refine one star.
Immortal Wang's heaven swallowing hound transformation kept on coughing up blood, and was struck by more and more star fragments. He could not even retort, he was dizzy and was heavily injured, moreover, his immortal essence expenditure had reached an enormous amount.
The immortals on Chu Du's side showed even more unsightly looks.
"If Immortal Wang is defeated, he would be the fourth person Ye Lui Qun Xing has defeated from our side!"
"His immortal killer move is truly too powerful, when it was just two or three star fragments, they can still be resisted. When fifteen star fragments appear and they work together as one, the difficulty to resist them increases by countless times. Right now, he already has a hundred star fragments, achieving complete dominance, this simply cannot be resisted."
Inside Golden Dawn Hall, the righteous path immortals had smiles on their faces.
Ye Lui Xiao Jin was watching the battle with excitement, Ye Lui Qun Xing was his senior, seeing this senior about to defeat his fourth opponent, Ye Lui Xiao Jin also felt excitement and pride.
On the other side, Nian Er Ping Zhi was still regulating his breathing.
One thing worth mentioning was that Nian Er tribe's position had already moved to the center.
This was because of Nian Er Ping Zhi's battle where he had killed the rank seven demonic path expert Granny Yin.
Many rank six geniuses and experts had the battle strength to go against rank seven. But being able to kill rank seven was a different level altogether.
Adding Nian Er Ping Zhi's young age to this battle achievement, this undoubtedly became even more rare.
By this time.
The allied righteous path forces, and the alliance of Chu Sect and Bai Zu, had already gone through over ten battles.
At the start, Chu Du had the discerning eye to send out the promising young Xue Wu Hen, who won three battles in a row, awing others.
Then, from the righteous path's side, Gong Wan Ting sent Nian Er Ping Zhi. Similarly a rising young genius, Nian Er Ping Zhi's battle result was even more brilliant, using the immortal killer move sword heart clarity and killing the renowned demonic path expert Granny Yin.
Afterwards, Gong Wan Ting negotiated with Chu Du, and the two sides temporarily stopped the battle, setting rules regarding exchange of corpses.
Then the battle began again, Yuan tribe of the righteous path, Meng tribe, and other tribe's Gu Immortals appeared one after the other, while Chu Du sent out Hao Zhen, Chou Lao Wu as well as some Gu Immortals of Bai Zu tribe to contest with them.
Perhaps it was because they were senior Gu Immortals, each side had their own victories and defeats, and suffered varying degrees of injuries, but there were no deaths.
Seeing the situation seemingly entering a stalemate, Gong Wan Ting pondered for a while before sending Ye Lui Qun Xing.
This person was a true main strength among Ye Lui tribe's force. He was an expert among rank seven Gu Immortals, although he had many losses among his battle achievements, they were against Dong Fang Chang Fan, naturally, no one would look down on him.
What made people especially admire him were his character and spirit. He had suffered many defeats from Dong Fang Chang Fan, but he always came back stronger.
Worth mentioning was that Ye Lui Hui Hong had the highest seniority, but his battle strength could not compare to Ye Lui Qun Xing.
The righteous path paid attention to seniority, unlike the demonic path which only looked at strength.
Finally, Chu Du spoke: "Alright, this battle is our loss."
Immortal Wang retreated with a shameful expression.
Ye Lui Qun Xing also did not forcibly go after his life, after all, Immortal Wang still had the ability to protect himself and it would give enough time for Chu Du to come help.
Immortal Wang was pale, his mood extremely complicated.
He was the fourth opponent of Ye Lui Qun Xing and had originally thought of having gotten an easy opportunity, but the result was that Ye Lui Qun Xing's battle strength had not fallen even after three battles.
Immortal Wang returned to his human form and walked towards Chu Du, saying in a heavy voice: "That Ye Lui Qun Xing's immortal killer move is extremely ingenious. His immortal essence expenditure is definitely small, and the star fragments have mutual attraction force between them, creating a good deal of starlight magnetic force, I am afraid it would not be easy to discern the mysteries of this killer move unless one is a star path Gu Immortal."
"The opponent would be implicated by these star fragments. These star fragments are very fast and sometimes they would suddenly form a formless force which skewed my direction, making me lose control over myself many times. Now that I think of it, Ye Lui Qun Xing was weakest in the first battle. Now, he has already released a hundred star fragments, forming an array for battle. The ones who will go later will lose many advantages, and would find it very difficult to go against this array."
Immortal Wang's tone was sincere, these were his sincere words, they were also reasons given to excuse himself and not be held at fault.
Chu Du nodded and patted Immortal Wang's shoulder: "No need to say much, it is good that you returned safely."
It was a simple action, but this action almost made Immortal Wang's eyes tear up.
"Who wants to come fight next!" At this time, Ye Lui Qun Xing called out.
"It seems this person still does not want to retreat and wants to fight his fifth battle!" Chu Du's expression slightly changed, killing intent flashing in his eyes.
The immortals behind him started whispering.
"He has already defeated four people in a row, he still seems to have strength remaining."
"Immortal Wang's strength is outstanding, he transformed into a heaven swallowing hound but was still unable to win, sigh!"
Bai Zu tribe's Gu Immortals were silent.
Bai Zu Wei was already dead, what they were good at was not individual battle strength, but Green City Rampage.
Hao Zhen and Chou Lao Wu's wind thunder roar was renowned throughout Northern Plains, it could be considered a trump card that could pressure the opponents and make them feel apprehensive. It was only that they had already battled separately and still bore some injuries.
When Gu Immortals were injured, because of the conflict of dao marks, they were very difficult to heal.
For a moment, Chu Du actually found that he had fallen into an awkward situation of having no experts to send.
Comparatively, in the righteous path, experts filled Golden Dawn Hall, while Chu Du's side was only an alliance of the newly established Bai Zu tribe and his sect, they indeed had few members and were seriously stretched out.
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"Do I have to go myself?"
Facing the awkward situation of having no experts to send, Chu Du unavoidably had such a thought.
He could naturally take the stage and also had the confidence to win against Ye Lui Qun Xing.
But what would it look like when Chu Du, as the strongest expert on his side, took the stage? Would it not make their side look weaker?
Moreover, even after he wins against Ye Lui Qun Xing, the other side would definitely continue to send other Gu Immortals. Gong Wan Ting, Yao tribe's Yao Yuan Ying, Guan tribe's Guan Yang, Nu Er tribe's Nu Er Gu and Nu Er Qian, all of these people were experts who Chu Du needed to pay attention to.
Two fists cannot rival four palms.
Chu Du could win one battle, two battles, three battles, but could he guarantee he would win all the battles?
Chu Du fell into silence.
"What, no one wants to fight? We have just reached this stage and there is already nobody left?" Ye Lui Qun Xing did not let go of this chance to mock them.
Xue Wu Hen could not endure this provocation, he was a very prideful person. He requested to be sent by Chu Du: "Let me go deal with this Ye Lui Qun Xing."
However, Xue Wu Hen was only at rank six, how could Chu Du let him go? Xue Wu Hen might be able to battle rank seven, but the other party was an expert among rank sevens.
Chu Du slowly shook his head.
Right at this moment, his eyes suddenly brightened, because an information path Gu worm flew to his immortal aperture through treasure yellow heaven.
"Wonderful! Elder Liu Guan Yi's timing is perfect." Chu Du sent his consciousness into the Gu worm and after absorbing the information, his brows immediately relaxed.
He had confidence in Liu Guan Yi! He had always thought Fang Yuan's strength was only second to his in Chu Sect.
Especially when they made the trip to Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan's performance had left a deep impression on Chu Du.
"Be patient. My Chu Sect's second supreme elder is about to arrive. Ye Lui Qun Xing, why are you in such a rush, enjoy your moment of victory for a while longer." Chu Du chuckled as he said in a plain tone.
"Chu Sect's second supreme elder?"
"Chu Du is the first supreme elder, doesn't it mean this second supreme elder is only second to him?"
"This person is very mysterious, no one knows where he comes from, and we have very limited information on him."
Both sides' Gu Immortals discussed.
The righteous path Gu Immortals in Golden Dawn Hall started discussing and exchanging information on Fang Yuan.
"Think about that Xue Wu Hen, what is strange about them having Liu Guan Yi?" Nian Er Yi Fang caressed his beard, speaking unconcernedly.
"So what if he is stronger? At most, he would have rank seven peak battle strength, our side is a gathering of experts and geniuses." Ye Lui Hui Hong laughed.
Gong Wan Ting spoke softly, her voice lingering around the whole of Golden Dawn Hall: "Chu Du is not blind, this person is placed above Hao Zhen and Chou Lao Wu. He is Chu Sect's second supreme elder, we should assume that he possesses an outstanding aspect."
Xue Wu Hen's eyes brightened, having many expectations regarding Fang Yuan.
"Elder Hao Zhen, how is Elder Liu Guan Yi's strength?" One Hei tribe Gu Immortal asked. Naturally, this Hei tribe Gu Immortal had now already changed his surname to Bai Zu. He had not participated in the battle of Iron Eagle blessed land, and it was not appropriate for him to ask Bai Zu tribe's Gu Immortals, Bai Zu Wei had died in the battle, and this had become almost like a taboo topic in Bai Zu tribe.
Hao Zhen and Chou Lao Wu were respectively Chu Sect's third and forth supreme elder. Actually, they were uncomfortable at being underneath Fang Yuan, but right now, they could not damage their own sect's reputation.
"He claims to be a transformation path Gu Immortal."
"But we have never seen him use any transformation killer moves. Even in Hei Fan grotto-heaven, when we resisted the attacks of Heavenly Lord, it was like that."
The surrounding Gu Immortals could not help but draw in deep breaths.
The words of Hao Zhen and Chou Lao Wu made people unavoidably think towards one aspect.
"It seems this Elder Liu Guan Yi is quite amazing! Even the invasion of Heavenly Lord Bai Zu did not make him use all his strength?"
"This was the person who first intruded Iron Eagle blessed land and seized almost all the eagle nests." A Gu Immortal of Bai Zu bloodline was feeling complicated at this moment.
"He has arrived." Chu Du suddenly spoke.
The immortals behind him followed Chu Du's movement and turned around, looking behind them.
Inside Golden Dawn Hall, the righteous path immortals also cast their gazes over.
A multicolored cloud was flying rapidly, upon which a young-looking Gu Immortal stood at the front with his head held high.
He wore a white robe, the wide sleeves constantly fluttered backwards due to the wind.
He had long black hair and a jade-like complexion, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, his nose bridge was tall, and his skin was white like snow. He had a light smile on his face, appearing relaxed and unfettered, and was extremely handsome, even a man would be moved by his appearance.
Just one glance at Fang Yuan left a deep impression on these immortals.
"Elder Liu, you have finally come." Chu Du smiled brightly, flying over to welcome him.
"Domination Immortal Chu Du personally went to receive him?"
Seeing this scene, many Gu Immortals were shaken, instantly, Fang Yuan's status had risen by multiple levels in their hearts.
"What are the origins of this Liu Guan Yi? What has he done to deserve such treatment from Domination Immortal?"
The righteous path Gu Immortals looked at each other, as they started to pay more importance to Fang Yuan's arrival.
"This information path Gu worm records the battle scenes from earlier, look at it quickly." Chu Du flew in front of Fang Yuan, and secretly handed an information path mortal Gu to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan silently accepted it.
Chu Du treated him as an equal, after the Crazed Demon Agreement, Chu Du's and Fang Yuan's relationship had become much closer.
The group of immortals subconsciously went silent, patiently watching Fang Yuan slowly fly towards the battle.
"This person is Ye Lui Qun Xing, he primarily cultivates star path. He has already defeated four people on our side, we need you to show your might and defeat him." Chu Du spoke softly to Fang Yuan as he pointed at Ye Lui Qun Xing, who was standing proudly in the air.
Fang Yuan inwardly thought: "I came over because of this person. A star path blessed land is suitable for me to annex. Moreover, this guy has rank seven cultivation, after I annex his immortal aperture, my cultivation will immediately soar and reach rank seven, I will start producing red date immortal essence."
Ye Lui Qun Xing was tense.
Ever since Fang Yuan had appeared, he had been paying close attention to him.
Fang Yuan's gaze was tranquil, he could not read his expression at all.
After some thinking, Ye Lui Qun Xing solemnly spoke: "I am honored."
The immortals quietly looked at Fang Yuan, awaiting him entering the battle.
Fang Yuan, however, internally was shaking his head.
He had already read all the information in the information path Gu worm, Chu Du had given him, and knew all the moves Ye Lui Qun Xing had shown before.
Fang Yuan had a clear estimation of Ye Lui Qun Xing's strength.
He was probably at the level of experts like Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, or maybe slightly weaker, all in all, he was an expert among rank sevens.
Above them would be people like Domination Immortal Chu Du and Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei.
And above Chu Du were Feng Jiu Ge and Qin Bai Sheng after regaining his memories.
It was fully achievable for him to defeat Ye Lui Qun Xing with ancient sword dragon transformation.
But killing him would be difficult with a frontal assault. Especially under the view of the crowd and their watchful eyes, everyone was on guard against each other.
Let alone when the opponent was Ye Lui Qun Xing.
The most important thing regarding this person was this immortal killer move, not only did it expend little immortal essence, it also had terrifying offensive and defensive properties.
Even more praiseworthy was his mental state and nature.
Losses could not defeat him and could only make him stronger.
If this kind of person was the enemy, the best thing was to kill them.
Even Dong Fang Chang Fan felt a headache because he could not kill him.
But how to kill him?
Fang Yuan estimated he did not have a high chance of killing Ye Lui Qun Xing. After transforming into an ancient sword dragon, Fang Yuan's battle strength would reach the level of Unfettered Scholar. However, Fang Yuan's ability to sustain a long battle was quite poor, after all, green grape immortal essence could not compare to red date immortal essence.
One hundred beads of green grape immortal essence could turn into one bead of red date immortal essence. But when using rank seven Immortal Gu, the effect that could be reached with one bead of red date immortal essence required at least one hundred and thirty beads of green grape immortal essence.
This created a phenomenon of intensifying expenditure.
Gu Immortals using higher rank Immortal Gu were like children waving around a sledgehammer, it was very difficult.
As he pondered this, Fang Yuan spoke: "I won't fight."
The immortals were stunned.
"Why won't you fight, are you afraid?" Immortal Wang's sneering voice came from behind.
Ever since the Iron Eagle blessed land's battle where Fang Yuan had treated him as a scapegoat, Immortal Wang had felt hatred towards Fang Yuan. The expectant gazes of immortals at Fang Yuan, made Immortal Wang very dissatisfied. He, himself, was defeated by Ye Lui Qun Xing, and the person whom everyone's expectations were placed on was his enemy. Such a feeling left a really bad taste in his mouth.
Fang Yuan did not respond.
Chu Du, however, immediately frowned, as he turned back and gave a fierce glare at Immortal Wang.
Immortal Wang quickly closed his mouth, beads of cold sweat starting to seep out of his forehead.
Chu Du inwardly shook his head: "Immortal Wang and these other Gu Immortals were all lone immortals or demonic cultivators, they are accustomed to being unrestrained. After joining Chu Sect, their awareness has not increased much. Right now, even if he has some dissatisfaction with Liu Guan Yi, how could he reveal the internal conflicts of Chu Sect in front of the public?"
At the same time, Chu Du looked at Fang Yuan, he did not speak but his gaze inquired: Why won't you fight?
Fang Yuan gazed at Ye Lui Qun Xing, sneering: "He is too weak, I can kill him with just my spit. Do we kill chickens with an ox-cleaver? Fighting him is an insult towards my status."
Arrogant!
Way too arrogant!!
For a moment, the stomachs of the immortals churned, as all kinds of thoughts surged in their minds.
Fang Yuan looked like a quiet handsome boy, who could have thought his first few words would reveal the astonishing arrogance within him.
"He actually said he can win against an expert like Ye Lui Qun Xing with just his spit? Even Domination Immortal Chu Du might not be able to do it!" Nian Er Ping Zhi was displeased.
"He is tooting his own horn too much." Xue Wu Hen looked at Fang Yuan with a dazed look. He had always thought he was a very prideful person, but he could not compare to this person before him.
Fang Yuan spouted a lot of nonsense right away. His arrogance caused many people to be dissatisfied.
The most dissatisfied person was Ye Lui Xiao Jin.
He was young and full of vigor, Ye Lui Qun Xing was his tribe member, humiliating Ye Lui Qun Xing was like humiliating him.
Therefore, this young Gu Immortal immediately stood up and shouted loudly: "You don't dare to show your skills, but you have quite the mouth! How can you estimate the skills of my tribe's Lord Qun Xing? You are not being proud, but are intentionally saying this because you are afraid!"
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"I don't know if you are afraid or not, but we can all see whether you dare or not." A Bai Zu tribe Gu Immortal sneered.
He had pure Bai Zu bloodline, behind him was Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, even Chu Du did not have a sway over him.
Fang Yuan lightly glanced at this person, the latter looked back without any fear.
Clearly, Fang Yuan stealing the eagle nests had caused the hatred with Bai Zu tribe to be big.
Fang Yuan swept his gaze around, the Gu Immortals all gazed back at him with doubts, curiosity, uncertainty, anticipation and so on. Especially, Xue Wu Hen who was beside him, his gaze was shining.
"Not fighting."
"What kind of person am I?"
"This weakling?"
"Hehe, not worthy of me making a move."
"In the future, when my biography is written, my first battle after seclusion is against Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, but the second battle is with this thing? There won't be any splendor even if I win against such a minor character of Ye Lui tribe."
No matter how open-minded Ye Lui Qun Xing was, his tone unavoidably had become colder from anger: "Hmph, so much nonsense! You have said so much, come fight me if you have guts!"
"You don't have enough qualifications." Fang Yuan held his hands behind his back, head raised and chest out, as he looked at Ye Lui Qun Xing with unconcealed contempt.
Many Gu Immortals' eyes widened.
They really wanted to ask: Ye Lui Qun Xing actually doesn't have enough qualifications, then who has the qualifications? What qualifications do you have? I really don't understand where you are getting such confidence from!
You are clearly a demonic path lone cultivator, who knows where you came from. Ye Lui Qun Xing fighting you is giving you face, giving you the chance to perform and gain some glory.
But the person involved, Fang Yuan, clearly did not have such a thought.
The immortals began discussing, the situation had become noisy from the clamor.
They were all talking about Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan turned a deaf ear to their words.
After a while, Gong Wan Ting's expression turned cold, lightly calling out: "Enough, do you all want to make the grand blood battle martial competition into a joke?"
The righteous path immortals immediately turned silent.
Gong Wan Ting then looked at Chu Du: "Could it be that your side only has troublemakers remaining? Stalling for so long will only make others ridicule you."
Facing the overbearing Gong Wan Ting, Chu Du did not reply, instead looking at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan ignored Chu Du's gaze and slightly turned towards the side, pointing backwards: "You."
"Me?" A former supreme elder of Hei tribe, currently a Bai Zu tribe Gu Immortal, was completely stumped, not having expected Fang Yuan to suddenly point towards him.
"Go take the fight, if he can win against you, it means he has some qualifications for me to make a move once." Fang Yuan's tone was still very arrogant, even his own side's Gu Immortals felt their teeth itch from hearing him.
The immortals' gazes turned towards this unlucky person.
This Gu Immortal immediately felt huge pressure.
His anger was boiling: "Who did I provoke to suddenly send me to battle? Moreover, why the hell are you commanding me? I am a Bai Zu tribe Gu Immortal, even Domination Immortal Chu Du can only discuss with me. How can you, a mere second supreme elder, command me?"
This Gu Immortal had decided to refuse.
But then he heard the discussions of other immortals.
For instance —
"Ye Lui Qun Xing is so strong, he has already defeated four people in a row. Now, letting this person fight, isn't it letting the enemy gain more battle achievements?"
"Hmph, this person is only a minor character, Ye Lui Qun Xing can easily beat two of this guy."
"He is a Hei tribe Gu Immortal, although his surname has changed to Bai Zu, can he really fight to the death with a Huang Jin bloodline Gu Immortal?"
Wow!
When these discussions resounded in this Gu Immortal's ears, he immediately realized that he had no choice but to go to battle.
He fiercely glared at Fang Yuan, unfortunately, Fang Yuan had already turned around, facing him with his back.
The Bai Zu tribe Gu Immortal was furious and aggrieved, but could only give in and fly to the stage.
There was nothing unusual about the battle.
This Gu Immortal was clearly weaker than Ye Lui Qun Xing. After exchanging ten or so moves, he lost.
"I hope Elder Liu Guan Yi can fight now and enlighten us." This Bai Zu Gu Immortal carried his injuries back, and his first words were to sarcastically speak to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan snorted: "You are too weak."
The Bai Zu Gu Immortal suppressed his anger: "I am indeed too weak, elder should show his divine prowess."
Fang Yuan's following words almost made him flare up —
"Taking so long to fight with a weakling like you. I have to admit I had overestimated that Ye Lui Qun Xing. Now, I have no interest to battle with him at all."
"You!" The Bai Zu Gu Immortal was stifled to the point of being speechless.
The immortals' gaze towards Fang Yuan were also vaguely changing.
Xue Wu Hen's expression was even more blatant, he sized up Fang Yuan with intense suspicion.
"So it was like this. The so-called Chu Sect's second supreme elder is just a poser." Ye Lui Qun Xing scoffed, his scoff felt piercing to Chu Du's side's Gu Immortals.
"Lord Domination Immortal, have you ever seen him make a move?" Ye Lui Xiao Jin also added.
Chu Du was silent, he had sensed Fang Yuan's strange behavior but decided to wait and watch.
"Elder Liu Guan Yi, if you truly have skills, go kill him!" That Gu Immortal of Bai Zu tribe sneered.
Fang Yuan lightly shook his head, boasting shamelessly: "How can you comprehend my power? That's why you will never have the hope of becoming an expert like me."
Ye Lui Qun Xing flicked his sleeves and walked away. He knew Fang Yuan could not be forced to fight.
In truth, after fighting five people in a row, he was indeed feeling exhaustion. His immortal essence expenditure was still good, the main thing was that his mind had been taxed a lot.
Seeing him retrieve the star fragments and leave, many on Chu Du's side let out a sigh of relief.
Ye Lui Xiao Jin was also extremely happy, as he raised his head high and ran to the entrance of Golden Dawn Hall to welcome Ye Lui Qun Xing.
How could they have known Fang Yuan to speak: "Look, he is indeed afraid of me, even if I didn't enter the battle, he has been feeling frightened, now he is unable to maintain his cool any longer, having no choice but to leave."
Ye Lui Qun Xing's steps slightly paused.
Xue Wu Hen's eyes widened, as he gazed at Fang Yuan and thought: "There is actually such a shameless person in this world? It has really opened my eyes. Brother Chu actually gave this person the status of second supreme elder, perhaps his judgment has dulled."
Ye Lui Xiao Jin's mouth almost twisted from anger.
On the contrary, Ye Lui Hui Hong's expression slightly changed, he squinted his eyes and started looking at Fang Yuan.
Ye Lui Qun Xing shook his head, continuing to leave without even glancing at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan laughed loudly: "Ye Lui Qun Xing, f*ck your eighteen generations of ancestors!"
The whole scene was silent, before they suddenly burst into an uproar.
Where is your disposition? Where is it?
The Gu Immortals screamed internally.
Who could have thought the elegant looking Fang Yuan would swear out loud in public. Even if they were fighting for their lives, Gu Immortals always maintained their disposition, after all, they all praised themselves as being righteous. Cursing like this in front of everyone was really letting go of one's reputation.
"His good looks are wasted." A Gu Immortal gazed at Fang Yuan, shaking their head constantly.
No doubt, the favorable impression Fang Yuan gave to the immortals at first glance was already ruined.
Fang Yuan laughed sinisterly, suddenly walking to the battle stage: "Ye Lui whatever, I am here, didn't you want to fight with me?"
Ye Lui Qun Xing stopped and gazed back.
The atmosphere of the whole scene changed.
Inside Golden Dawn Hall, Ye Lui Hui Hong was sitting upright, his expression solemn: "Qun Xing, careful, this person is doing something underhanded. Come back."
Fang Yuan's earlier and later attitude made Ye Lui Hui Hong realize that something was fishy.
Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Gutless rat, Ye Lui tribe is made up of cowards, you are a bunch of bastards..."
All kinds of derogatory terms were thrown out one after the other.
The immortals were stupefied as they listened.
Chu Du wanted to cover his face, Fang Yuan did not have even a bit of elegance, he was destroying the image of Chu Sect.
A piece of rat poop spoils an entire pot of soup!
It was the first time Chu Du reconsidered on his decision to draw in Fang Yuan, was it correct?
But no matter what anyone said, Fang Yuan's provocation was effective.
The righteous path was easier to deal with than demonic path and lone cultivators in certain aspects. Especially when the question was about reputation. When it involved the tribe and bloodline, even if one did not care on the inside and was willing to ignore the other's cursing, in front of the public, with so many outsiders watching fixedly, it became another situation.
The super forces which were held together by bloodline and blood relations protected and attached great importance to the reputations of their ancestors.
This was their basic moral philosophy!
"Qun Xing, come back. I will personally face the skills of this Chu Sect's second supreme elder." Ye Lui Hui Hong stood up.
Fang Yuan unavoidably felt disappointed inwardly, but laughed on the surface: "Ye Lui Qun Xing, it's time to scram."
Ye Lui Qun Xing waved his hand at Ye Lui Hui Hong, smiling at Fang Yuan, revealing his white teeth: "Since it is so hard to find a chance for you to fight, how can I avoid the battle and escape? It is just that I have fought hard for five battles, and need to rest for a while."
Such a request was completely fair.
Fang Yuan smiled, this Ye Lui Qun Xing could still be so cool-headed. But he also did not expect these words to be able to make these Gu Immortals lose their rationality from anger.
In truth, his pestering had already reached his target.
So, Fang Yuan immediately allowed: "Rest as much as you want, I will give you two or three days. If two or three days are not enough, then take two or three years, hahaha!"
"Hehe, an hour is enough." Ye Lui Qun Xing smiled with clenched teeth.
Fang Yuan was really detestable, Ye Lui Qun Xing was naturally very angry.
But he was also very aware of his own situation.
His immortal essence expenditure was not much and he still had a lot of reserves left. Resting for an hour was mainly to restore his mental energy. He had his own methods for this, and after an hour, he could completely recover to his peak state!
At that time, he will let this Liu Guan Yi taste his power!
This hour of time appeared somewhat unbearable as the Gu Immortals waited.
Finally, Ye Lui Qun Xing recovered and walked to the stage, standing opposite Fang Yuan.
"Liu Guan Yi, I..." Ye Lui Qun Xing was just about to speak when Fang Yuan's body suddenly erupted with dazzling silver light.
At the next instance, a silver colored ancient sword dragon shot out of the light.
It had a sharp dragon horn, its mouth was opened wide, revealing it to be densely filled with sharp fangs.
"So despicable!"
"He actually sneak attacked!!"
The righteous path's immortals scolded at once.
The ancient sword dragon had already neared Ye Lui Qun Xing.
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Ye Lui Qun Xing had a great fright as he quickly retreated!
"This shameless guy!" He cursed inwardly, not having expected Fang Yuan's actions. Every time he felt that Fang Yuan was shameless, Fang Yuan's following actions would completely redefine shamelessness.
Fortunately, Ye Lui Qun Xing had been all the while and reacted in time.
One chased and the other escaped.
The distance between Fang Yuan and Ye Lui Qun Xing was rapidly shrinking.
The immortals held their breaths.
Ye Lui Xiao Jin also subconsciously stood up, looking at Ye Lui Qun Xing with worry.
Ye Lui Hui Hong, however, stood stably in his seat, he had a better understanding of Ye Lui Qun Xing's trump cards and did not think Ye Lui Qun Xing was in danger right now.
"So he cultivates ancient sword dragon transformation!" Chu Du thought.
"Ancient sword dragon, based on potential, it is still inferior to my heaven swallowing hound..." Immortal Wang had clenched teeth.
"He finally took action!" This was what many Gu Immortals were thinking.
"Go."
The retreating Ye Lui Qun Xing suddenly called out, pushing lightly towards the charging ancient sword dragon.
Immediately, his whole hand emitted brilliant blue light. A star fragment shot out from the blue light and collided against Fang Yuan with a speed like that of a meteor.
Fang Yuan roared towards the sky before suddenly moving, the whole ancient sword dragon made a beautiful arc in the air, as it nimbly moved past the incoming star fragment, almost brushing past it.
When the Gu Immortals saw this scene, despite having an extremely bad impression of Fang Yuan, many of them could not help but give praise internally, as they sensed Fang Yuan had already reached a proficient level at ancient sword dragon transformation.
Such control made Fang Yuan seem like he was an ancient sword dragon from the start of his life.
"Not good." Immortal Wang suddenly spoke.
Almost at the same time, Ye Lui Qun Xing saw Fang Yuan moving past this star fragment, and the corner of lips slightly raised up.
Ping.
A sharp sound echoed. Fang Yuan's dragon tail swung, directly smashing the star fragment he had brushed past.
The ancient sword dragon Fang Yuan had turned into had a more terrifying tail compared to its claws, its tail could directly smash dark inkstone, let alone this star fragment.
Such a response made even Chu Du pleasantly surprised.
He was happy inwardly: "The information path Gu worm I gave to Liu Guan Yi has records of all the battle scenes of Ye Lui Qun Xing. So Liu Guan Yi knows he absolutely cannot let Ye Lui Qun Xing have many star fragments under his control. The greater the number of star fragments he controls, the stronger he would become. Finally, it would form into an enormous advantage that managed to defeat five people in a row."
Ye Lui Qun Xing was slightly disappointed when he saw Fang Yuan responding in the wisest way, and quickly increased his retreating speed.
At the same time, he repeatedly clapped, layers of blue light covered his two hands, from which star fragments shot out one after the other.
At first, they were only thumb sized, but as they moved in the air, they returned to their original size and flew more rapidly, bringing in strong gusts of wind.
Boom boom boom.
Fang Yuan used his horn, claws as well as his body and tail to destroy all these star fragments.
He did not give Ye Lui Qun Xing any opportunity to accumulate power.
For a moment, star debris flew all around, turning into blue fragments like fog or sand, which scattered with the strong gale, creating a beautiful sight that was difficult to describe.
The silver scales of the ancient sword dragon also added to this beauty, as it moved along the star debris.
Chu Du slightly frowned.
Originally, Fang Yuan made a wise choice of smashing the star fragments, targeting the weakness of Ye Lui Qun Xing's immortal killer move. But also because of this, it led to a decrease in Fang Yuan's speed.
The distance between the two did not shrink much.
The advantage of the sneak attack before had already disappeared now.
Ye Lui Qun Xing had already stabilized himself.
He snorted, as he struck out with his hands rapidly, star fragments shot out everywhere, but not directly towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan fell into a difficult situation with two choices in front of him.
If he charged directly towards Ye Lui Qun Xing, the latter would retreat and he would not be able to forcibly close the distance, at the same time, the surrounding star fragments would keep on increasing, accumulating a great advantage for the latter.
If Fang Yuan dealt with these star fragments, he would have to keep on flying around, and would fall deeper into Ye Lui Qun Xing's scheme, giving the latter the initiative to more easily arrange the battle situation.
The ancient sword dragon slowed down its offense in its state of hesitation.
Sensing this, Chu Du's frown became deeper, while Ye Lui Hui Hong, inside Golden Dawn Hall, was starting to smile, taking a small sip of fine wine.
Despite Fang Yuan's hesitation not lasting for long, he had missed a good opportunity and there were now dozens of star fragments on the battlefield.
Ye Lui Qun Xing's advantage had started to accumulate.
Fang Yuan was surrounded by the star fragments, despite him not caring about his body, and engaging in even more crazed offenses, he was not able to break through the layers of encirclement.
Ye Lui Qun Xing relaxed, the star fragments continued to increase, not only surrounding Fang Yuan, some had also appeared beside him, orbiting around continuously.
"Liu Guan Yi, you acted arrogant and boasted shamelessly, it was to make me take back the star fragments so I would have to lay them out again."
"Your scheme was quite deep, almost letting others think you are wildly arrogant. Unfortunately, I am not the same person I was years ago."
"A few years ago, I already improved upon this weakness of my immortal killer move. It is indeed somewhat weak at the start, but your methods are not enough to restrain me."
"Now, what are you going to use to resolve this situation?"
A dragon's roar resounded, Fang Yuan moved his body, brandished his claws, and destroyed countless star fragments, star debris flew all around.
The dragon's might was powerful, its speed was especially astonishing.
Unfortunately, the spectating immortals sensed weakness within this strong momentum.
Fang Yuan was attacking wildly, but Ye Lui Qun Xing was far away, watching with arms folded in front of him, maneuvering the star fragments leisurely.
As time passed, there were more and more star fragments orbiting around Ye Lui Qun Xing.
"Liu Guan Yi has lost!" Immortal Wang spoke decisively at this sight.
Xue Wu Hen did not speak, inwardly thinking: "Based on strength, Elder Liu Guan Yi is indeed powerful, at the same level as Elder Hao Zhen and Elder Chou Lao Wu. But there is still a gap when compared to Ye Lui Qun Xing."
Chu Du was still frowning, the strength Fang Yuan displayed was not consistent with his expectations. But he still felt Fang Yuan had a trump card and was still confident in Fang Yuan, and until the end of the battle, he would choose to keep his expectations.
Ye Lui Xiao Jin laughed heartily at the entrance of Golden Dawn Hall, and shouted: "That Liu Guan or whatever, why are you not yelling now? Come on, continue boasting. Didn't you say my tribe's Lord Qun Xing could not compare to you? Didn't you say fighting him would lower your status? Why are you not speaking now? Only knowing how to yell, what do you want to vent out?"
The ancient sword dragon roared furiously, destroying the star fragments.
Sensing Fang Yuan's furious mood, Ye Lui Xiao Jin laughed again.
"Chu Sect's second supreme elder is only at this level."
"In all fairness, he does have some strength. Have you counted how many star fragments he has already destroyed?"
"But that is useless, Ye Lui Qun Xing's dominance is already increasing."
"Liu Guan Yi's hesitation earlier decided the battle. This was his only fault but it was perfectly used by Ye Lui Qun Xing."
"Thinking of it, it is also not strange. What is Chu Sect? How can they be on par with our great Huang Jin forces? Their second supreme elder has such battle strength, Chu Du cannot be considered to have made a bad judgment."
The righteous path Gu Immortals drank and rejoiced inside Golden Dawn Hall, the atmosphere was relaxed.
Ye Lui Hui Hong stroked his beard, the smile on his face had become brighter, but at the same time, he did not forget to speak and remind Ye Lui Qun Xing: "Be careful of his dragon breath. The ancient sword dragon's strongest weapon is its breath. Until now, he still hasn't breathed out once."
Ye Lui Qun Xing slightly nodded.
Even without Ye Lui Hui Hong's reminder, he had already been concerned about this.
Experts!
They were not decided with just strength, but also their mental state during battle.
No doubt, Ye Lui Qun Xing who had suffered numerous defeats, had an extremely good mentality. He was an expert that had gone through painstaking training, setbacks and defeats.
His foundation was extremely solid and stable.
However, Ye Lui Qun Xing did not retreat.
Right now, he was quite far away from Fang Yuan, almost at the opposite end of the battlefield.
Ye Lui Qun Xing looked at the star fragments orbiting around him, and thought: "I have a hundred star fragments protecting me. Even if Chu Du personally comes, I can resist for a while, let alone this Liu Guan Yi. Dong Fang Chang Fan, you might have passed away, but let me sustain the reputation of myriad star fireflies for you. After all, my immortal killer move had received your guidance."
Right as most of the Gu Immortals felt the battle was decided, there was a sudden change!
Sword escape Immortal Gu!
Suddenly, Fang Yuan activated rank seven sword escape Immortal Gu.
Right now, he had transformed into an ancient sword dragon, his transformation path dao marks had turned into sword path dao marks, adding on to his cultivation of sword eyebrows Immortal Gu, his sword path dao marks had already reached a number of ten thousand.
A thousand dao marks could double an Immortal Gu's power.
Ten thousand dao marks could add ten times the power!
Sword escape Immortal Gu was already an exceptional movement Gu worm among rank seven Immortal Gu. Now, ten times its power was added!
At the same time, the ancient sword dragon's own speed also had to be calculated.
Sword dragons did not have strong long range attacks, but their burst of speed from a stationary state was astonishing.
Ancient sword dragon, sword escape Immortal Gu and ten thousand sword path dao marks, when stacked together, allowed Fang Yuan to instantly disappear from his spot.
Before any immortals had reacted, he had already flown through the whole battlefield and appeared in front of Ye Lui Qun Xing!
At this moment, Ye Lui Qun Xing's expression was still paused on a strategic and victorious smile. But his pupils had shrunk to needle-sized, as he looked, with extreme fright, at a gigantic sword dragon head that filled his whole vision!
He only had one thought in his mind —
"Impossible! My star fragments' flying trajectories are extremely profound and takes reference from myriad star fireflies, how could he see through it?!"
This was Ye Lui Qun Xing's final thought in life.
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Everything happened too quickly!
At the previous moment, the ancient sword dragon was still tightly surrounded by star fragments. It was charging here and there, roaring repeatedly but unable to do anything.
At the previous moment, Ye Lui Qun Xing was still at the other end of the battlefield, star fragments were orbiting around him like he was the lord of stars.
At the previous moment, almost all the Gu Immortals felt Ye Lui Qun Xing already had victory in his grasp and the battle was decided. Because they were very much familiar with the scene that was unfolding in front of them.
Before this, the five Gu Immortals Ye Lui Qun Xing had defeated in succession were all in this situation.
Although there was no study of 'subconscious bias' in this world, these Gu Immortals' thought processes were almost the same at this moment.
Then, at the next moment!
Fang Yuan suddenly used sword escape Immortal Gu, instantaneously bursting out with an extremely terrifying speed.
At the next moment, the ancient sword dragon had destroyed all the obstructing star fragments in its path, and arrived in front of Ye Lui Qun Xing.
He opened his mouth and breathed out.
Dragon breath!
While Ye Lui Qun Xing was still confident in his defensive methods, his whole head had instantly been sliced off.
The human body was weak and had many fatal areas. One the head was cut off, they would die. Even if they turned into an immortal zombie, their head was still a weak point.
Ye Lui Qun Xing immediately died!
Fang Yuan smoothly grabbed his body.
A portion of Ye Lui Qun Xing's soul was also cut and before it could escape from his physical body, Fang Yuan had already stored it inside his immortal aperture.
The whole process went extremely quickly.
Fang Yuan had already been plotting for a long time!
Activating Sword Escape, charging in, using his dragon breath and retrieving the corpse. The whole process involved four actions.
But even so, after Fang Yuan finished these four actions, his whole dragon body had already charged out of the battlefield, reaching several li away.
One could feel how terrifying his speed was!
If it were a human body, it might have already burst from the enormous pressure brought by such intense speed.
Fortunately, Fang Yuan had transformed into a dragon.
But even with this, Fang Yuan felt quite a bit of pressure when he had charged.
His vision had already turned blurry.
If he had human eyes, they would not have been able to keep up with such speed. But Fang Yuan's eyes were dragon eyes now, even so, it was difficult for his eyes to cope with this speed.
At this speed, even Fang Yuan felt like he could not sustain it.
"If I am to move with this speed, I must use all my energy and concentration in controlling my body."
"Otherwise, if there is any deviation in my direction, who knows whether I crash into peaks or the ground at the next moment."
"This speed is too fast, one moment I am still in the air, and the next moment I am already several li away!"
Fang Yuan thought in his mind.
He thought of when he had first gotten the sovereign immortal aperture and practiced colliding into Southern Border's mounds, besides knocking himself dizzy, the whole mound and even the veins underneath had been destroyed.
This speed was quite suitable for a momentary burst, but in truth, it was not highly practical during battle.
Once Fang Yuan used his fastest speed, he would have to use all his energy and concentration in controlling the ancient sword dragon body. As such, he could only perform some simple actions, or maybe rely on the transformed sword dragon body.
If so, it would be quite dangerous.
Because although Fang Yuan would have a sturdy and strong body in ancient sword dragon form, the sovereign immortal body's characteristic of non-conflicting dao marks would still exist.
"Ancient sword dragon transformation is a classic case of strong offense and weak defense, moreover, there is an extreme imbalance between its offense and defense."
"Fortunately, I actually succeeded this time and killed Ye Lui Qun Xing. My luck is pretty good!"
"First, I need to find a place to annex this immortal aperture before I think of anything else."
Fang Yuan did not return, directly flying away from Blood Plain.
The Gu Immortals of both sides watched his figure dazedly, until he disappeared into the horizon.
The immortals looked at the messy battlefield with countless star debris as well as many star fragments still flying in the air, only then did they come to a sudden realization!
"Liu Guan Yi, he killed Ye Lui Qun Xing!"
"Unbelievable! This is like a dream."
"Too fast, we simply cannot react to such speed."
Regardless of the righteous path or Chu Du's side, they were both clamoring in discussions. Gu Immortals did not transmit their voices secretly, but directly spoke out, as if they could only release the doubts in their hearts by speaking up.
Ye Lui Xiao Jin was standing, dumbfounded, at the entrance of Golden Dawn Hall, like a statue.
Just moments before Ye Lui Qun Xing was killed by Fang Yuan, he had still been shouting and mocking Fang Yuan.
Now, these words he spoke out, as well as his actions, seemed to be like slaps that struck his face repeatedly and resoundingly.
He was shaken and shocked, unable to believe this fact!
Ye Lui Hui Hong also stood from his seat, his hand was still holding a wine cup and his beard was wet from the spilling of the wine.
Just the moment before Fang Yuan killed Ye Lui Qun Xing, he had been sitting and moving the wine cup to his lips.
But after the matter occurred, Ye Lui Hui Hong subconsciously stood up from shock, not caring about the wine cup in his hand, letting the wine spill on his beard, neck and clothes.
Ye Lui Qun Xing was dead!
An expert of Ye Lui tribe, a famous Northern Plains Gu Immortal, Ye Lui Qun Xing was dead.
His death was so sudden that there had been no signs at all.
If Ye Lui Xiao Jin was said to be a future hope of Ye Lui tribe, then Ye Lui Qun Xing was a current pillar of the tribe.
But he had died.
His life had ended here!
This was an extremely heavy impact to Ye Lui Hui Hong and Ye Lui Xiao Jin!
And to the whole of Ye Lui tribe as well, this was an extremely big loss!
"Terrifying, too powerful."
"He is indeed the second supreme elder of Chu Sect, such astonishing battle strength."
"Chu Du really has an eye for talent, I had been looking down on Liu Guan Yi just before, my insight is still too superficial."
The Gu Immortals on Chu Du's side were all showing happy expressions.
Despite them not liking Fang Yuan, the battle achievement was displayed in front of them, Fang Yuan had resolved their difficult problem, Ye Lui Qun Xing, permanently.
From now, there would be no such person in Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world!
"Amazing. Elder Liu put on a pretentious appearance to incite the other side, then during the battle, he lured the enemy into having a false sense of security step by step. He clearly has such strength, but he restrained himself until the last moment, when he dealt the fatal blow!" Xue Wu Hen heaved a long sigh.
He was thoroughly convinced.
Such a turn of events made him fully admire Fang Yuan.
"How laughable I was, I had still been thinking Elder Liu was nothing impressive. Sigh, if I was Elder Liu's enemy, I might have died without knowing how I died. I am still too inexperienced!"
"Everyone needs to pay attention, this Liu Guan Yi is extremely crafty, be vigilant when you encounter him in the future." Inside Golden Dawn Hall, Nu Er Gu spoke with a grave expression, breaking the long silence.
Right now, as they thought back to Fang Yuan's performance, they all felt Fang Yuan was extremely insidious and sly.
The arrogance before the battle and the weak display during the battle were just disguises so he could strike with the most fatal attack at the end.
He did not make a move carelessly, but when he moved, it shook everyone!
"Ping Zhi, if you run into this Liu Guan Yi alone in the future, it would be best for you to avoid him and retreat." Nian Er Yi Fang looked at his tribe's future hope, and spoke with worry.
Nian Er Ping Zhi nodded: "Yes! I understand. I am only a Sword Child right now, when I become a Swordmaster in the future and cultivate to rank seven, I will definitely have a proper fight with this Elder Liu Guan Yi."
The righteous path Gu Immortals spoke to each other.
"Ye Lui Qun Xing died a miserable death. The whole battle was in Liu Guan Yi's grasp, what we and Ye Lui Qun Xing felt and saw, was all just his facade."
"Sigh, who could have thought he had such strength."
"Elder Ye Lui Hui Hong, don't blame yourself. We will definitely take revenge for Ye Lui tribe in the coming battles!"
Ye Lui Hui Hong had already snapped back to awareness.
There was one thing he did not understand in his mind — how was Liu Guan Yi able to easily penetrate through the heavy lines of defense from Ye Lui Qun Xing's numerous star fragments!
He had sparred many times with Ye Lui Qun Xing and was very clear on how much power the defensive lines held.
This doubt was shrouding over Ye Lui Hui Hong's heart, like a heavy dark fog.
He took two large breaths, his face was still pale, but he forcibly calmed down because right now, he represented the whole of Ye Lui tribe.
If his performance was not good, the whole of Ye Lui tribe would be disgraced!
"Lady Gong Wan Ting." Ye Lui Hui Hong took a deep bow to the main seat, "My tribe's Ye Lui Qun Xing is of pure Huang Jin bloodline, sacrificing his life here is also a glory for him, he is a hero of our Huang Jin bloodline. But now, his corpse is still in his killer's hands, his soul also might still be alive. I sincerely request to come forward and recover Qun Xing's corpse and his soul."
"Of course." Gong Wan Ting softly agreed, her attitude was straightforward and clear.
According the rules set by both sides previously, they could exchange corpses.
But right now, Fang Yuan had already raced off to who knows where with Ye Lui Qun Xing's corpse. Even if the righteous path Gu Immortals wanted to chase him, they were too late.
Thus, Gong Wan Ting directly asked Chu Du.
Chu Du was also surprised at Fang Yuan's direct departure, and had already sent a letter to ask. Fang Yuan had such strength, Chu Du still needed to rely on him.
Just as Gong Wan Ting had asked, Chu Du had coincidentally received Fang Yuan's reply in his immortal aperture —
"I have great use for Ye Lui Qun Xing's corpse! Brother Chu, if you have no choice, just expel me from Chu Sect."
These were two simple sentences, but they expressed Fang Yuan's firm and unrelenting attitude.
Chu Du frowned, but spoke calmly to Gong Wan Ting: "Fairy, you can rest at ease, Ye Lui Qun Xing's corpse will definitely be guarded properly. I have already notified my sect's second supreme elder. But to exchange for the corpse, your side will have to pay a price."
"Everything can be discussed." Ye Lui Hui Hong immediately agreed, his stance was clear.