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Central Continent.
A mountain village, somewhere.
Rumble!
Enormous booming sounds echoed through the mountains.
Countless mudslides, like avalanches, tumbled down from the slopes, vast and overwhelming.
"Run for your lives!"
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die..."
"Dad, where are you? Don't leave me behind!"
As the natural disaster descended, the once tranquil little mountain village erupted into utter chaos.
Chickens scattered, dogs yelped, and countless people fled in every direction. Others collapsed onto the ground. Children wailed, clutched tightly in their mothers' arms. Many had already given up resisting.
Without anyone noticing, a figure materialized high in the sky.
This was a Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal.
He wore a silk blue robe, his long hair draped over his shoulders. His frame was not imposing—rather, he appeared somewhat delicate.
At this moment, he furrowed his brow, gazing at the mudslide before him, murmuring, "This mudslide is exceedingly peculiar."
Normally, mudslides were preceded by rare torrential rains, but recently, the weather had been nothing but clear skies and gentle breezes.
In truth, the environment within tens of thousands of li of this area had been secretly regulated by this Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal, ensuring favorable weather and bountiful harvests year after year.
Bang!
Mountain rocks suddenly flew in all directions as an enormous brass-colored carapace burst forth from the mountainside.
The Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal hovered in the sky, observing it all with perfect clarity.
His slightly furrowed brow now smoothed out. "So that's what it was—it's merely a Mud Swamp Crab."
The Mud Swamp Crab was a desolate beast. It possessed a body as massive as a mountain. It had no eyes—or rather, its eyes had completely degenerated. Its entire body was encased in its carapace, leaving absolutely no defensive vulnerabilities.
Among all desolate beasts, it reigned supreme. The sovereign of the mud swamps.
Ten pairs of claws, extraordinarily rigid and unyielding. The first pair in particular was remarkably thick and powerful—a gentle pinch could sever mountains and shear dragons! The remaining eighteen claws, though comparatively slender, were in reality still thicker than hundred-year-old ancient trees.
The Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal spotted the mud swamp crab. His eyes brightened slightly, and joy filled his heart.
He was a Water Path Gu Immortal, and this mud swamp crab carried both Earth Path and Water Path dao marks on its body. Slaying this mud swamp crab would yield a massive haul of usable immortal materials for the Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal.
"Still, this mud swamp crab is merely a desolate beast. With careful cultivation, it might grow into an ancient desolate beast — the Mud Soup Swamp Crab. Above the Mud Soup Swamp Crab, there is the Mud Robe Swamp Crab. The Mud Robe Swamp Crab is a Primordial-era desolate beast. I needn't harbor such lofty hopes, though. My immortal aperture blessed land could never nurture something on that level. But the Mud Soup Swamp Crab — that might be worth attempting."
With this thought in mind, the Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal set about his work.
From within his wide sleeves, he extended his arm.
His skin was remarkably pale, and his ten fingers were slender and long.
His ten fingers began to sway, blooming like lotus petals, stirring up layer upon layer of shimmering, prismatic light.
This was his unique method of manipulating Gu Insects!
Before long, the aura of countless Gu Insects rose from his body — the auras of mortal Gu and the auras of Immortal Gu. Wave upon wave of auras overlapped with one another, coalescing into a complex field of energy that radiated outward in all directions.
The mud swamp crab in the mountains had no eyes, but through its beastly instincts, it keenly sensed the threat descending from midair.
The mud swamp crab began retreating into the mountainside.
Its enormous brass carapace quickly sank halfway into the rock.
But by this point, the Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal had already finished his preparations. He unleashed his Immortal Gu move!
Rushing, roaring...
A surging, tumultuous blue tide materialized from thin air, surging toward the mud swamp crab in a vast, sweeping torrent.
The mud swamp crab was quite large and could not dodge in time. It was engulfed by the tide.
Yet as the tide surged and ebbed, the mud swamp crab remained utterly unmoved — its body was simply too massive and heavy.
A smile of assured victory bloomed at the corner of the Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal's lips. His ten fingers swayed even faster, and the afterimages of each finger lingered in the air, a dizzying spectacle.
This Immortal Gu move of his was no ordinary technique.
As the red date immortal essence continued to drain away, the tide shifted from pale blue to a deep azure. The waves swelled with power, more than triple their original scale.
Under the Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal's precise control, the tidal waters moved as naturally as his own limbs, forming an enormous vortex.
The mud swamp crab, trapped at the very center of the blue tide's vortex, could no longer resist. It was swept up by the churning whirlpool.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The mud swamp crab's colossal, ponderous body spun faster and faster within the tidal vortex, tossed about like duckweed, utterly beyond its own control.
The Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal suddenly clenched both fists. The countless finger afterimages lingering in the air vanished in an instant. The tide surged violently upward, rising into a titanic tsunami that blotted out the sky.
Boom!
A deafening explosion erupted as the tsunami, formed from tens of thousands of tons of water, smashed down heavily onto the mud swamp crab's back.
The mud swamp crab's shell was extremely hard, but the force of the tsunami strike caused a large section of its previously flat back to cave in immediately.
The mud swamp crab went completely motionless, knocked unconscious on the spot by the blow.
The Seventh Transformation blue-robed Gu Immortal laughed out loud. His right hand opened gently, his index finger tracing lightly from bottom to top, giving a soft lift.