"Come then! Fixed True Branch Transformation!" Facing the Great Unity Wind, Langya Earth Spirit let out a low roar and unleashed an Immortal Killer Move.
The moment this technique was activated, the entire silver giant underwent an earth-shattering transformation.
The massive humanoid body abruptly transformed into a towering tree with a silvery-white trunk, thousands of branches, and countless leaves carved from gleaming silver. They clashed against one another, producing crisp, tinkling sounds.
The branches and leaves grew wildly, reaching out to meet the Great Unity Wind.
The Great Unity Wind had been raging outward in all directions, but upon encountering the giant tree's obstruction, its expansion suddenly slowed to half!
"What?!"
"The Great Unity Wind has actually been stopped!"
"Incredible! The depths of Langya Blessed Land are truly unfathomable!"
The Gu Immortals of the Snow Folk, Ink Folk, and Stone Folk watched this scene with overwhelming excitement.
"Hmm? Is that... the Fixed True Tree?" A red-and-white rainbow shot out from the heart of the Great Unity Wind — it was Feng Jiuge.
Though he had created the Great Wind Song, which produced the Great Unity Wind, once it was released, Feng Jiuge had to immediately flee the wind's core. Otherwise, as the Great Unity Wind expanded and filled the hollow center, Feng Jiuge himself would perish.
Feng Jiuge could only unleash the Great Unity Wind but could not control it. He had tried before, but any method of control applied to it would be assimilated by the wind, making it grow stronger.
Feng Jiuge possessed the Immortal Killer Move One Song Warrior, which could condense his songs — the Heaven and Earth Song, the Parting Song, and others — into combat clones. But the Great Wind Song could not form a One Song Warrior.
Feng Jiuge had retreated far from the battlefield. Langya Earth Spirit and the others were fully occupied dealing with the Great Unity Wind, with no energy to spare for him.
"So it really is the Fixed True Tree. I didn't expect them to actually possess a means to counter the Great Unity Wind." Feng Jiuge watched from afar, a sharp gleam flickering in his eyes.
The Fixed True Tree was an Ancient Legendary Wild Plant, famous throughout history. It had lived between heaven and earth since the Ancient Era, before the Human Ancestor's appearance. It survived through the Remote Antiquity and High Antiquity eras before perishing in the Middle Antiquity era, killed by Yuan Lian Immortal Venerable.
Many wild Immortal Gu inhabited this tree, including several at the Eighth Transformation. When Yuan Lian was still only at the Eighth Transformation, he traveled across the Eastern Sea. A tsunami and flooding devastated the world, and with the Immortal Gu he possessed alone, Yuan Lian could not quell the catastrophe. He ventured to the depths of the Eastern Sea and borrowed the two Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu — Wind Calm and Wave Still — from the Fixed True Tree.
But this Ancient Legendary Wild Plant, proud of its status and strength, refused to lend them to Yuan Lian Immortal Venerable, imposing harsh conditions instead. Yuan Lian flew into a rage and fought the tree, killing the Fixed True Tree and taking all its Gu. He used them to quell the floods, saving countless mortals.
Though Yuan Lian killed the Fixed True Tree, he praised it highly. Later, after becoming a Venerable, he occasionally lamented: "Destroying that tree back then was truly a waste. It was one of a kind in all of heaven and earth, possessing the mysterious natural talent to counter the Great Unity Wind!"
Fang Yuan, a reborn individual, had long known about the Great Wind Song in Feng Jiuge's possession. This move was devastating — during the Five Region War, who knew how many Gu Immortals it had slain. For that reason, countless Gu Immortals had sought ways to find its flaw.
There were no unsolvable moves in this world, only unsolvable people.
The Great Wind Song was powerful, but a move was still a move — there would always be something to counter it.
Western Desert Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal Thousand Transformations Old Ancestor, through deep investigation and with the help of another Eighth Transformation Time Path expert, witnessed the Fixed True Tree's power within the River of Time. Upon returning, he deduced the Transformation Path Killer Move: Fixed True Transformation!
Using this move, one could counter the Great Unity Wind.
At the time, Feng Jiuge was only at the Seventh Transformation, yet he had warranted an Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal researching countermeasures specifically to deal with him — a testament to the Great Wind Song's terrifying power.
Fang Yuan remembered this. Preparing for the future, he had anticipated that Feng Jiuge would attack Langya Blessed Land in his previous life. To counter Feng Jiuge's strongest weapon, the Great Wind Song, he had relied on his Wisdom Halo and his Transformation Path mastery to deduce the Fixed True Branch Transformation.
This move was merely a simplified version of the Fixed True Transformation. But the Great Wind Song that Feng Jiuge wielded now was far from the magnificent and perfected form it would achieve during the Five Region War.
Therefore, when Langya Earth Spirit activated this technique, transforming the entire silver giant into the branches of the Fixed True Tree, it gradually managed to hold back the Great Unity Wind.
"Go deal with Feng Jiuge! Don't let him act with impunity. Once I've handled this Great Unity Wind, I'll come help you kill him!" Langya Earth Spirit roared, directing the Gu Immortals of the other three non-human races.
The non-human Gu Immortals immediately responded, manipulating the Super Immortal Formation to pressure Feng Jiuge.
Langya Earth Spirit was drenched in cold sweat, exerting every ounce of his mental energy to maintain the killer move against the Great Unity Wind.
He silently groaned: "Fang Yuan taught me this killer move, but I always thought it was too cumbersome and never practiced it enough. I never expected Feng Jiuge would actually attack, and I'd have to face the Great Unity Wind so soon! If only I had known, I would have drilled this technique much harder."
Langya's side was not at all constrained by the Great Unity Wind and held firm under tremendous strain. Countless branches made contact with the Great Unity Wind and were destroyed, but simultaneously, countless new branches grew in their place.
This move could withstand the Great Unity Wind, but the cost of activation was enormous — it consumed vast amounts of Immortal Essence and placed a heavy burden on the Gu Immortals' mental stamina.
Soon, many of the Fur Clan Gu Immortals inside the silver giant began to look haggard, their spirits visibly depleted.
"Hold on! Hold on!" Langya Earth Spirit shouted encouragement.
"My lord, why can't we simply abandon this section of the Blessed Land?" a Fur Clan Gu Immortal suggested.
Langya Earth Spirit, as a spirit born from Langya Blessed Land itself, naturally had the ability to sever this portion of land. If he did so, the Great Unity Wind within would no longer threaten the rest of Langya Blessed Land.
Compared to the entirety of Langya Blessed Land, the piece to be abandoned was insignificant — not even a drop in the ocean.
"Absolutely not!" Langya Earth Spirit refused flatly. Recalling Fang Yuan's earlier solemn instructions, he explained: "If we do that, we'll fall into the enemy's trap. Severing the Blessed Land requires establishing a connection with the outside world, which at that moment would be no different from opening a gateway. That would expose our location to the enemy! Under no circumstances!"