As they spoke, Ying Wuxie felt the luck above his head fluctuate violently.
This time, Fang Yuan had raised the Luck Sensing killer move's intensity by a considerable margin. Ying Wuxie discovered that even hiding inside an immortal aperture could no longer block or conceal himself.
However, Ying Wuxie was not the type to sit back and await his fate. After much deliberation, he decided to take the opposite approach.
Previously, he had tried every means to hide himself and suppress his presence. Now that direction was temporarily unworkable, so instead Ying Wuxie deliberately amplified his luck fluctuations.
They were all linked in a luck connection — Fang Yuan could use this link to leverage the Luck Sensing killer move and track him down. Naturally, Ying Wuxie could do the same.
To that end, Ying Wuxie had recently researched a Gu Insect combination that allowed him to calculate the distance between himself and Fang Yuan based on the fluctuations of his own luck.
Ying Wuxie named this Immortal Gu killer move "Luck Tremor Distance Sensing."
With this, Fang Yuan's Familiar Face would be rendered ineffective against Ying Wuxie's method.
Ying Wuxie was one of Demon Venerable Spectral Soul's split souls. Although he had lost his memories, his level of comprehension had been supplemented during his time in the River of Time, so his foundational realm was anything but lacking.
What mattered most was the realm.
It was precisely because of this that Ying Wuxie could conceive various Gu Insect combinations at any time and place to handle all manner of situations.
Of course, this required an extremely high realm of comprehension, and the constructs he came up with still demanded a certain amount of experimentation and practice from the Gu Immortal.
"Form the formation! Use our previous tactics to repel Fang Yuan." Upon sensing Fang Yuan's rapid approach, Ying Wuxie issued the command, and the five Gu Immortals halted in their tracks, beginning to construct a Gu formation.
Having successfully recruited Bai Ningbing to their side, and with the inheritance she possessed in the Baixiang Blessed Land, Ying Wuxie's faction had grown in strength at a staggering pace.
This Immortal Gu formation was the very same formidable technique that had recently trapped Ying Wuxie and the others. This time, Ying Wuxie intended to give Fang Yuan a taste of his own medicine.
"He's here," Bai Ningbing suddenly said.
She was now the master of the Baixiang Blessed Land, and her resources had immediately skyrocketed. She wielded exceptional Immortal Gu, and her scouting capabilities were now on a completely different level — surpassing those of Ying Wuxie, Hei Loulan, and the others beside her. Thus, she was the first to detect Fang Yuan's approach.
The other four Immortals quickly looked in the direction she indicated.
To the south, across the sea, a tremendous wave surged upward.
A Sword Jiao thrashed its body with extraordinary vigor, piercing through clouds and crashing through waves as it charged toward them.
Sharp dragon horns pierced the sky, dense jiao scales glimmered with silver light, and its dragon claws were hideously ferocious. Its maw bristled with fangs that gleamed with a chilling cold light.
Ying Wuxie and the other four Immortals tensed as though facing a mortal enemy.
Bai Ningbing stepped forward, moving ahead of the group. "Does the intruder dare enter our formation?"
When Fang Yuan saw Bai Ningbing, though she had transformed into a dragon woman and become even more strikingly beautiful, her underlying features had not fundamentally changed. He was momentarily stunned.
He had not expected to encounter Bai Ningbing under these circumstances.
In truth, Fang Yuan and Bai Ningbing had not seen each other for a very long time. Even during the great battle at Yitian Mountain, Bai Ningbing had remained on the sidelines, never showing herself.
It seemed that ever since the events at Sanwang Mountain, when Bai Ningbing had betrayed him, the two had parted ways — until this very moment, when they met once more.
Everything had changed.
The two young Gu Masters who had survived Qing Mao Mountain had both since become Gu Immortals.
Bai Ningbing, once called a genius yet also one of the Ten Extremes — possessing the Northern Ice Soul Physique with a bleak future — had become a Sixth Transformation Dragon Woman Gu Immortal, now commanding the Baixiang Blessed Land.
And Fang Yuan's journey had been even more dramatic. After their parting, he first became the master of Fox Immortal's Blessed Land. Then he rampaged through the Northern Plains, toppling the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and destroying the Royal Court Blessed Land. Afterward, he appeared successively in the Eastern Sea, Central Continent, and Western Desert, before finally, in the great battle at Yitian Mountain, seizing the fruits of Shadow Sect's hundred-thousand-year grand plan — the Supreme Immortal Zombie Gu.
With this Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan's cultivation had risen like a rocket at a pace that shocked the world. He had now reached the Seventh Transformation. Along the way, he had also used dream realms to achieve Grandmaster level in six different paths.
The two of them had been clashing ever since their days on Qing Mao Mountain. During that time, they had been known as the Black and White Fiends, walking the mortal realm of the Southern Border in close cooperation. Now they met again as irreconcilable mortal enemies.
"Very well. I'll deal with you as well," Fang Yuan thought, killing intent flooding his heart. A dragon roar sounded as he spat out a breath of dragon energy.
The white dragon breath, razor-sharp to the extreme, flashed with brilliant light and crossed an immense distance in an instant, shooting toward Bai Ningbing's face.
Bai Ningbing neither dodged nor retreated. Instead, a smile curled at the corner of her lips.
The next moment, the Sword Light Dragon Breath struck an invisible wall of light and accomplished nothing.
A Gu formation capable of trapping Ying Wuxie and the others was naturally no ordinary thing.
"A Gu formation?" Fang Yuan mused inwardly.
For the moment, he had no ready solution.
The Formation Path.
Fang Yuan had always had very little involvement with the Formation Path, even in his previous five-hundred-year life.
Breaking a Gu formation naturally required attainment in the Formation Path. Alternatively, Wisdom Path calculations could suffice.
Fang Yuan was a Wisdom Path Grandmaster, but he lacked powerful Wisdom Path Immortal Gu in his current arsenal. Calculating the flaws of this Gu formation would prove extremely difficult.
The Sword Jiao circled in the air, hovering without advancing.
Ying Wuxie and the others stood within the Gu formation, quietly awaiting Fang Yuan's assault.
For a moment, thoughts churned through Fang Yuan's mind as he weighed his options.
"The fact that they set up a Gu formation in advance shows that while they couldn't conceal their movements, they've already acquired the means to scout me."
"Even that brief probe just now proves this formation is far from ordinary."
"Since they can deploy this formation, they must have the confidence to deal with me."
"Even a rotting ship still has three pounds of nails. In such a short time, Ying Wuxie has already developed a method like this."