The immortals present could hardly believe their own eyes!
The Calamity of Heartstrings and the Calamity of Star Flow — two great tribulations had been broken by Demon Venerable You Hun as easily as drinking water.
"Is this… the power of a Ninth Transformation Demon Venerable?" Fang Yuan's heart shook violently.
Demon Venerable You Hun was already dead. What stood before the assembled immortals was merely his soul.
This colossal soul had long since departed from any normal human form.
He stood over a thousand zhang tall, reaching from earth to sky! The dark clouds conjured by the Ten Extremes Immortal Zombie Undying Grand Formation reached only to Demon Venerable You Hun's waist.
Fang Yuan and the others, suspended in midair, were no more than insects. Gazing upon Demon Venerable You Hun's thigh was like beholding a mountain peak piercing the clouds.
Demon Venerable You Hun's chest already soared into the heavens, shoulder to shoulder with the sky itself!
He had three heads.
The front head bore dragon horns, a lion's mane, serpent pupils, and ivory tusks.
The left head had a peach-shaped forehead, grass-like hair, and three eyes blooming like flowers.
The right head possessed cloud-like temples, lightning-bright eyes, fire-touched ears, and a golden mouth.
His arms numbered a full thousand — five hundred on the left, five hundred on the right. They were pitch-black as ink, bulging with muscle, hard-lined and sharp, radiating an aura of demonic might.
His ghostly hands also numbered a thousand. The ones that the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals had gone to such great lengths to sew onto the earth's surface using the Embroidery Tower — that had been merely one in a thousand!
"Ah! This form, this form! Could it be?! Impossible! Impossible!" Fairy Li Shan had already recognized Demon Venerable You Hun and screamed involuntarily. She clutched her head with both hands, shook it again and again, and retreated in panic — all trace of a Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal's composure utterly gone.
Demon Venerable You Hun's form was no secret. In the world of Gu Immortals, and even among mortals, it was widely known.
In the Southern Border especially, many stockades and countless mortals held superstitious beliefs about Demon Venerable You Hun. People shaped clay into statues closely resembling him, and during festivals or sacrificial ceremonies, they would bow in worship and offer tribute.
Hei Loulan's pupils contracted to needle points, too shocked to speak. Her entire body trembled ever so slightly.
*Gulp.* Tai Bai Yun Sheng's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed hard, cold sweat drenching him from head to toe.
On Fang Yuan's face, however, a look of awe and longing surfaced.
His earlier shock had vanished without a trace.
"Is this… the pinnacle of the Soul Path? The soul returning from the ethereal to the material, interfering with the physical world, solidifying into something like flesh and body — its power is inconceivable! A soul foundation like this absolutely surpasses the souls of a hundred million people. My own soul compared to his is like a firefly set against the full moon…"
"But even so powerful a Demon Venerable You Hun still perished, his soul returning to the Gate of Life and Death. Now that he has broken free, defying heaven and fate — what exactly is he planning?"
"When will I reach his level? But even at this level, death remains inescapable. My pursuit… eternal life… does it truly exist?"
Fang Yuan's eyes blazed with brilliance. In this moment, he felt a surge of excitement.
Despite being an Immortal Zombie, he experienced the illusion of boiling blood coursing through his veins!
Those who have mastered the way are teachers.
Demon Venerable You Hun was a sage, without question — he walked at the very forefront of Gu cultivation.
Even with Fang Yuan's five hundred years of past-life experience, standing before Demon Venerable You Hun, he was like the current scene — as insignificant as a gnat.
But the fear in Fang Yuan's heart had already dissipated entirely.
Instead, he grew even more excited, bordering on fanaticism!
Like a man determined to scale the highest peak who catches sight of a towering mountain — though it is not his ultimate goal, his whole body thrummed with energy, urging him to climb, to surpass!
Death had long since been cast from Fang Yuan's mind.
To die on the journey, his body destroyed, his soul scattered — what did that matter?
This! This was his lifelong pursuit!
**BOOM!!**
At that moment, the Heaven Watching Tower suddenly erupted with majestic radiance, shattering Demon Venerable You Hun's ghostly hands in an instant and reclaiming its freedom.
After all, it was a Ninth Transformation Immortal Gu dwelling.
Inside the tower, the atmosphere was tense beyond measure.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals pressed their lips tight, gazing at the heaven-filling, earth-shaking giant before them, hearts heavy with oppression.
"As expected of Demon Venerable You Hun — his vast demonic might is truly terrifying beyond compare!" The Tower Lord of the Heaven Watching Tower laughed heartily. His aura surged outward, silver-white hair and beard fluttering in every direction, great sleeves billowing like war banners snapping in the wind.
His fighting spirit blazed like fire, quickly infecting the other Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.
In the eyes of all present, flames ignited one after another.
"Heaven's will cannot be defied!"
"The heavens cannot be overturned!"
"Even you, Demon Venerable You Hun, who once slaughtered the world and bathed all living beings in blood!"
"Your era has already passed!"
"Even if we die today, we will defend the Heavenly Dao!"
"Come — let us power the Heaven Watching Tower together!"
The immortals united in purpose, and the Heaven Watching Tower unleashed a blinding radiance the likes of which had never been seen before.
Demon Venerable You Hun's left head cast its gaze downward and let out a low roar. Several arms swept through the air with savage speed.
The entirety of Demon Venerable You Hun possessed speed utterly incongruent with his massive frame. In the blink of an eye, several ghostly hands had clamped down upon the Heaven Watching Tower, enveloping it tightly within their palms.
More ghostly hands reached over one after another, layering atop each other, pinning the Heaven Watching Tower at the very center.
The Heavenly Court Gu Immortals naturally refused to submit. The tower's radiance pierced through the gaps between the ghostly fingers like beams of sharp swords, stabbing outward.
But with more than ten ghostly hands stacked together, the tower began to tremble faintly.
Demon Venerable You Hun, having achieved this, paid the Heaven Watching Tower no further mind. All three heads gazed upward at the sky, their expressions grave.
Though he stood over a thousand zhang tall, the heavens were taller still — they remained above him.