Of course, during these days, Fang Yuan had not been idle.
The largest batch of Long-Hate Spiders at hand had just been sold, and Fang Yuan’s reserves of Red Date Immortal Essence completely pulled him out of his predicament.
Regarding the Gang-Back Killer, Fang Yuan had already finished improving it, and was only waiting to test it.
Because his An Dao realm had explosively risen to the level of Grandmaster, he had successfully created a new Immortal Killer move, An Jiu Cang. This move used the Sixth Transformation Immortal Gu An Du and the Seventh Transformation Immortal Gu Jian Chi as its core, supplemented by hundreds of Mortal Gu, to amplify and extend the effect of the An Du Immortal Gu.
Just then, Qiao Siliu requested an audience from outside the hall.
With a thought from Fang Yuan, the hall doors slowly opened.
Qiao Siliu’s face was heavy as water, a layer of anxious worry shrouding her features.
She brought bad news.
Besides the Yao, Hou, and Yang families encroaching on Wu family territory, the Ba and Xia families had also made their move against the Qiao family almost simultaneously.
Unfolding the map of the Southern Border, both the Ba and Xia families were located to the north of the Qiao family, and both shared borders with Qiao territory.
This time, what the Qiao family lost were the Bridal Veil Lake and the Void Return Heavenly Pit, annexed by the Ba and Xia families respectively.
Following the mysterious disappearance of the Qiao family’s Supreme Elder Qiao Zhicai, the Qiao family had also adopted a strategy of gathering Gu Immortals and defending their main base, waiting to observe how things developed.
As a result, the annexation efforts of the Ba and Xia families proceeded very smoothly.
The Qiao family suffered heavy losses this time.
Both the Bridal Veil Lake and the Void Return Heavenly Pit were resource points worth more than the Blood Tide Heavenly Pit.
Among the Righteous Path super-forces, the Qiao family’s strength was at the bottom. Losing these two major resources this time left the entire Qiao family in mourning and fury.
Fang Yuan had also heard of these two resource points.
The Bridal Veil Lake was linked to a folk tale in the Southern Border. It was rumored that a celestial maiden wove cloth in the heavens, weaving her own bridal gown. Whoever could obtain it would become the celestial maiden’s husband.
After the maiden finished weaving the gown, she threw it into this lake, where it was found by a young fisherman living by the shore.
The celestial and mortal fell in love, hid themselves in the center of the lake, and from then on lived a beautiful life.
This folk tale was mostly false, but the Bridal Veil Lake did produce all kinds of clothing Gu. For example, Fire Clothing Gu, Water Clothing Gu, Wooden Armor Gu, and so on.
During the history of Qiao family control, it had once produced three wild Immortal Gu.
As for the Void Return Heavenly Pit, the nearby mountain folk called it the Final Hiding Place, said to connect to the Immortal Realm.
Ignorant mountain folk, upon death, would throw their bodies into the pit.
Often, before the corpses even hit the ground, they were shredded by the dense Space Dao marks within the pit, leaving not a speck behind.
The ignorant mortals believed this was the reason they ascended to the Immortal Realm after death.
In reality, this was an excellent production site for Space Dao resources. The Xia family had long coveted it, and the Qiao family was no match for the Xia family. Unfortunately, the Qiao family had always had the Wu family backing them up.
Now that both Wu Yong and Qiao Zhicai had lost contact, with such an excellent opportunity, how could the Xia family not make a move?
The Qiao and Wu families had long been allied, sharing the same breath and life.
The Qiao family suffering encroachment from the Ba and Xia families was tantamount to an attack on the Wu family.
Thus, counting the Yao, Hou, and Yang families, a total of five major super-forces were besieging the Wu family.
The situation had deteriorated to the extreme.
If it wasn’t curbed in time, the Wu and Qiao families would see more and more of their territory seized by others.
"I will arrange it right away, have Wu Qiao pilot the Immortal Gu house to come support," Fang Yuan said to Qiao Siliu.
Qiao Siliu nodded. This was precisely why she had come. The Qiao family’s situation forced her to seek Fang Yuan’s help.
In fact, Fang Yuan’s procrastination these past days had already caused Qiao Siliu some dissatisfaction. If the Qiao family hadn’t only possessed a single Immortal Gu house, they would have already dispatched one to take Fang Yuan away from here.
"You should also arrange to gather the Qiao family Gu Immortals. This time, we will leave together," Fang Yuan added.
Qiao Siliu was slightly stunned: "Leave together? Then this place?"
"It can only be temporarily abandoned." Now that Fang Yuan had made his decision, he no longer hesitated.
"Then what about the Immortal Gu we used in the formation?" Qiao Siliu frowned.
"They all come with us. If we leave them here, I’m afraid some Gu Immortals with ulterior motives might forcibly refine them, or even destroy them. You should know what kind of faces these people make. Moreover, such an excuse would be all too easy to find." Fang Yuan’s tone was indifferent.
"Also, don’t forget, my attainment in Formation Dao is not weak. I still have the assurance to remove some of the Immortal Gu," Fang Yuan continued.
Qiao Siliu recalled Fang Yuan’s clash with Chi Shang and couldn’t help but nod, thinking to herself, "Fang Yuan’s attainment in Formation Dao really is not weak. Chi Shang had also praised it highly."
In truth, she still underestimated Fang Yuan.
Now, Fang Yuan’s Formation Dao realm was already at the Grandmaster level, completely on par with Chi Shang.
In the past, when Fang Yuan looked at this grand formation, it was still completely baffling, like reading a heavenly text.