Seeing this scene, the pitiful Gu Immortal surnamed Leng nearly popped his eyes out of his head.
"How is this possible? This Ancient Sword Flood Dragon possesses an Immortal Orifice! It's not wild — it's a Gu Immortal in transformation!"
"That can't be right! If it's a Transformation Path Gu Immortal, how can it not be affected by the Realm Wall?!"
The Gu Immortal surnamed Leng roared and howled in his mind!
All of this defied the common sense of the cultivation world! How could things be this way?!
The Ancient Sword Flood Dragon let out a roar and turned to counterattack.
The Thunderfang Giant Wolf's eyes were already bleeding. Wu Yihai was dead — everything he had done before was all for nothing.
The Gu Immortal surnamed Leng fought with all his might, this time simply to keep himself alive.
The Ancient Sword Flood Dragon cunningly dodged all of his Immortal killer moves, circling the Thunderfang Giant Wolf and continuously spewing dragon breath at it.
The Thunderfang Giant Wolf struggled to move within the Realm Wall, like a hobbling old man. But the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon was unaffected — its movements smooth and fluid, advancing and retreating at will, maintaining firm control of the initiative.
The Thunderfang Giant Wolf could only passively take the beating most of the time. Even when it used Immortal killer moves to counterattack, the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon dodged them all with ease.
After a brief moment, the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon seized an opening and blasted the Thunderfang Giant Wolf's belly with a jet of dragon breath.
The Thunderfang Giant Wolf's defenses collapsed. Its belly was instantly pierced through, and intestines and blood gushed out in a torrent through the massive wound.
The Ancient Sword Flood Dragon pressed its advantage and pursued the kill. The Thunderfang Giant Wolf blocked left and parried right, but ultimately could not withstand the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon's might. In the end, riddled with wounds, it collapsed to the ground, reverted to human form, and lay dead in a pool of blood, having met a wretched end at the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon's hands.
The Ancient Sword Flood Dragon quickly cleaned up the battlefield with movements so practiced they seemed honed through a thousand trials.
Soon, he stuffed the bodies of Uncle Zhang and the Gu Immortal surnamed Leng into his Immortal Orifice, then destroyed every trace of the battlefield before striding away.
The Ancient Sword Flood Dragon did not turn back toward the Southern Border but instead headed east, passing through the Miasma Realm Wall. He then crossed the Azure Water Realm Wall and arrived at the Eastern Sea.
He found an unnamed, ordinary stretch of ocean and first landed Wu Yihai's Immortal Orifice.
Once it formed a Blessed Land, its gateway opened wide. The Ancient Sword Flood Dragon took the opportunity to enter.
Wu Yihai's Immortal Orifice Blessed Land was nothing but a vast ocean. It mainly harbored three types of life: sea turtles, coral, and seagulls.
Of course, there were Desolate Beasts within — and even Ancient Desolate Beasts.
For example, three Ancient Desolate Beast Horn God Turtles, an entire grove of Ancient Desolate Plant — Silent Coral, and six Desolate Beast White-Crested Blue Feather Gulls.
Before long, the Earth Spirit appeared before the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon.
It was an Earth Spirit in the form of a sea turtle, and the conditions it offered for submission were actually quite difficult.
The Ancient Sword Flood Dragon could only withdraw in frustration, temporarily leaving the Blessed Land.
Back in the outside world, once he had confirmed it was safe, the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon transformed into human form.
Who else could it be but Fang Yuan?
As it turned out, he had learned quite a lot of real-time intelligence about the Southern Border from the White Rabbit Girl, and among that information was news of Wu Yihai.
This was originally an internal dispute within the Wu Family, but anything related to Wu Duxiu — no matter how trivial — became a major matter.
Wu Yihai's return route had been spreading like wildfire, and Fang Yuan immediately and keenly sensed that this was an extraordinary opportunity!
Clearly, Wu Yihai was the ideal candidate for Fang Yuan to disguise himself as and impersonate.
First, he was Wu Duxiu's illegitimate son. He had no Life Plaque Gu or Soul Lantern Gu — if he did, he wouldn't be an illegitimate son but the legitimate Second Young Master.
So Fang Yuan killed him. The chances of the Wu Family detecting anything were extremely slim. More likely, they would detect nothing at all.
Second, Wu Yihai had always lived in the Eastern Sea, cultivating as a Gu Immortal under the identity of a rogue cultivator. His contact with the Wu Family's Gu Immerals was essentially nonexistent. The vast majority of the Wu Family's Gu Immerals didn't even know what he looked like — let alone details like his speaking accent, his daily habits, and other such specifics.
Therefore, once Fang Yuan used Meeting Familiar Face to disguise himself as Wu Yihai, the longer the deception continued, the more negligible the chance of being exposed became.
Wu Yihai's Immortal Orifice Blessed Land hadn't been subdued yet, but Fang Yuan wasn't in any hurry.
He first found an uninhabited barren island and rested there.
On one hand, he was waiting for the Blood Capital Immortal Gu to fully recover. On the other, he began refining and improving an Immortal killer move — Blood Light Soul Suppression.
The Blood Capital Immortal Gu, since being damaged, had been carefully nourished and tended to by Fang Yuan, and was already on the verge of recovery.
A few days later, Fang Yuan obtained a Blood Capital Immortal Gu in perfect condition.
But Fang Yuan then secluded himself for several more days, constantly computing and refining Blood Light Soul Suppression.
Finally, he obtained what he wanted: a simplified version of Blood Light Soul Suppression, centered on the Blood Capital Immortal Gu!
What followed went very smoothly.
Fang Yuan used the Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle to enter Wu Yihai's Immortal Orifice Blessed Land, made as if to approach the Earth Spirit, and then used Blood Light Soul Suppression to subdue it.
In the end, with the Earth Spirit utterly unable to resist, Fang Yuan expended considerably more effort before successfully merging this Yihai Blessed Land into himself, transforming it into a part of his Supreme Immortal Orifice.