Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, another half month or so had passed.
One day, Fang Yuan's figure shot out from Cloud City like lightning. The immortal formation enveloping the entire Langya Blessed Land suddenly shifted, releasing a streak of golden light that enveloped Fang Yuan.
The golden light flashed and vanished. Fang Yuan disappeared from his original spot, and when he reappeared, he was already on a desolate wasteland more than a thousand miles away.
Over these days, Fang Yuan had further improved the super immortal formation, granting it the power to teleport other objects.
This was because previously, Feng Jiuge had employed a strategy of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao, slaughtering the hairy people everywhere. The Langya Earth Spirit had been heartbroken but powerless to stop it.
So the Langya Earth Spirit had engraved this bitter lesson into memory. After refining the Myriad Self Immortal Gu, it proposed the suggestion of improving the immortal formation to Fang Yuan.
The entire Langya sect had refined the Myriad Self Immortal Gu for Fang Yuan, going so far as to deploy their Long Hair Gu Refining Immortal Formation. Naturally, Fang Yuan would return the favor by improving their defensive immortal formation.
Fang Yuan's attainment in the Formation Path was already remarkable, and with the assistance of the Wisdom Halo, he had worked out the improvement plan days ago and completed the formation's refinement.
Arriving at this open clearing, Fang Yuan took a deep breath and began to practice his killer moves.
Immortal Killer Move — Yama Emperor!
In an instant, his form transformed — tall and imposing, a crown upon his head, his features obscured and unfathomably deep. The ghosts embroidered upon his imperial robe were no longer the same number as before; they had multiplied greatly, surpassing a thousand in count.
All of this was the result of Fang Yuan's secluded cultivation over this period.
Immortal Killer Move — Soul Detonation!
Fang Yuan pointed with his hand, and a pitch-black stream of qi erupted forth with explosive force. Wherever it reached, everything was blown apart. But under the protection of the immortal formation, the surface of Cloud Canopy Continent shimmered with silver light, largely resisting the power of Soul Detonation.
Even so, a killer move at the Peak Stage of Seventh Transformation was not something that silver light could fully withstand.
Amid a series of thunderous explosions, the ground around Fang Yuan was blasted beyond recognition. Countless chunks of cloud mud flew in every direction, and massive craters pockmarked the land for miles around.
The black qi dissipated, and Soul Detonation came to an end. Upon Fang Yuan's imperial robe, a ghostly Yama Offspring slowly faded away, vanishing without a trace after a few breaths, as if it had never existed in the first place.
This was the price of using Soul Detonation.
Fang Yuan felt no heartache. Instead, after carefully sensing the results, a sharp gleam flashed through his eyes.
Immortal Killer Move — Yama Battlefield!
Whoosh.
Violent winds erupted, and heaven and earth shifted.
In the span of three blinks, an area of a thousand miles was covered by Fang Yuan's immortal battlefield, sealing off the inside from the outside, creating an inescapable dead end!
Within this battlefield killer move, the world was a sickly greenish-brown, the view blurred as if a haze faintly lingered. Yin winds blew in gusts, producing mournful sounds — desolate and bone-chillingly cold.
Fang Yuan released the Yama Offspring. These ghosts cackled wildly, flying freely within the Yama Battlefield, empowered and bolstered, like fish returned to water.
After testing it for a while, Fang Yuan recalled all the Yama Offspring and deactivated the Yama Battlefield. Heaven and earth returned to clarity, and he was once again within the Langya Blessed Land.
The Yama Battlefield was the primary achievement of Fang Yuan's recent period of secluded cultivation!
Before this, Fang Yuan had already deduced the Purple Palace Severing Fate Immortal Battlefield. It was constructed from the Wisdom Path Immortal Gu left behind by Purple Mountain True Lord, and with it, Fang Yuan had slain You Chan and Qin Baihe.
But the Purple Palace Severing Fate Immortal Battlefield's advantage lay in concealing itself, with extremely strict isolation between inside and outside. Its drawback was that deployment required time, so it usually needed to be prepared in advance. If used on the spot during battle, Gu Immortals were no fools — by the time it was fully deployed, they would have long since fled far away.
The Yama Battlefield, however, was created by Fang Yuan after studying and synthesizing numerous battlefield killer moves from the Ghostly Soul True Inheritance, combined with his own specific circumstances.
In terms of concealing itself and isolating communication between inside and outside, the Yama Battlefield was inferior to the Purple Palace Severing Fate Battlefield. Its advantage was that the deployment time was exceedingly short — only three blinks.
During this time, although Fang Yuan could not move either, it had become viable for actual combat use.
Three blinks — as long as Fang Yuan could seize the right moment, caught off guard, a Gu Immortal would find it extremely difficult to escape this stratagem.
Once enveloped by the Yama Battlefield, Fang Yuan's advantage would become enormously greater.
"Now, facing most Sixth and Seventh Transformation Gu Immortals, I have the ability to keep them here and take their lives!" Fang Yuan exclaimed with a sigh.
A Gu Immortal could be defeated, but capturing and killing one was far from easy.
First, the methods of escape were bizarre and varied, too numerous to count. Gu Immortals could hardly master all of them, and against practitioners of other paths, certain escape methods could easily prove effective. Second, Fang Yuan stood alone, wanted by righteous factions such as Chang Sheng Tian and the Heavenly Court, which meant he had to end battles swiftly.
That was why, previously, Fang Yuan had been extremely cautious in choosing his opponents. Had Meng Tu not possessed means similar to an immortal battlefield — trapping both himself and his enemies within the Autumn Blade Plains — Fang Yuan would not have chosen such a target.
With the Yama Battlefield now perfected, what Fang Yuan thought of first was his other method — the Great Thief Ghost Hand!
His attainment in the Theft Path was at the Grandmaster level. Using the Great Thief Immortal Gu and the Ghost Unaware killer move as its foundation, he had deduced the Great Thief Ghost Hand killer move, capable of stealing Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu.
This move had undergone further refinement by Fang Yuan, becoming even more razor-sharp. In its only two uses, it had once stolen the Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu Soul Beast Token, and once stolen the Seventh Transformation Immortal Gu Blade Wings. Both times, the battle shifted instantly and Meng Tu was swiftly defeated — a truly spectacular record.
"Before, the Great Thief Ghost Hand could not be used too frequently — it would easily expose my identity. If word spread, it would raise alarms and prompt everyone to race to decipher the Great Thief Ghost Hand, further jeopardizing my arrangements in the Green Ghost Desert."
"But now, with the Yama Battlefield, I can completely seal people inside and continuously use the Great Thief Ghost Hand to steal their Immortal Gu. The enemy will have little chance of escaping, and I can silence them, rapidly accumulating the resources for my cultivation!"
A fierce light flickered in Fang Yuan's eyes, killing intent swelling in his chest.