"Five Boundaries Mountain Range?" Jun Shenguang's heart stirred immediately.
Fang Yuan's recent large-scale destruction of the beacon towers had caused far too great a disturbance. Even though the Heavenly Court's influence in the Southern Border was quite weak, they were still able to detect it.
The Southern Border had gathered numerous wisdom path Gu Immortals, who had deduced three possible locations, including the Five Boundaries Mountain Range.
Yet the Heavenly Court had Ziwei Fairy working alone on her deductions, and she had calculated the Five Boundaries Mountain Range in advance.
Jun Shenguang set off immediately, rushing toward the Five Boundaries Mountain Range.
At the same time, various pieces of intelligence related to the mountain range surfaced in his mind.
The Five Boundaries Mountain Range was not a naturally formed famous mountain, but an artificially constructed one. The person who created such a mountain range was, of course, no ordinary figure — he was Tao Zhu, an Eighth Transformation restriction path Gu Immortal.
This man was known as the Restriction Master, with a supreme attainment level in his dao. He had conducted extensive research on the boundary walls of the five regions, attempting to find a method that would allow Gu Immortals to easily cross the boundary walls. As a result, he had created the Five Boundaries Mountain Range.
Unfortunately, even up to the moment of his death, he had failed to produce any effective results. But the Five Boundaries Mountain Range remained behind, becoming a special location in the Southern Border.
"Senior Lei Gui Zhenjun once hunted Fang Yuan and was defeated by him within the boundary wall. That battle revealed the secret that Fang Yuan's combat strength inside the boundary walls is virtually unaffected. One could say that the boundary walls of the five regions are a natural home ground for him."
"It's a pity that the heaven and earth qi within the five region boundary walls is extremely difficult to extract. If he wants to undergo his tribulation, doing it inside the boundary walls would be absolutely impossible. But the Five Boundaries Mountain Range is different. This place was artificially modified and is located within the Southern Border. The earth qi is abundant, the heaven qi is not weak, and at the same time it can still provide Fang Yuan with some home ground advantage!"
Jun Shenguang moved with extraordinary speed. By the time his rapid deliberations finished in his mind, he had already crossed tens of thousands of miles. On the horizon, the Five Boundaries Mountain Range was already within sight.
The reason he could arrive so quickly at the scene was that Jun Shenguang had originally been patrolling in this vicinity.
The Five Boundaries Mountain Range, this peculiar location, had long been known to others — it was no secret.
Several months ago, Ziwei Fairy had already been plotting against Fang Yuan and had deduced several locations suitable for his tribulation. The Five Boundaries Mountain Range naturally ranked near the top of that list.
Therefore, the Five Boundaries Mountain Range itself was one of the Heavenly Court's key surveillance locations.
This time, in order to deal with Fang Yuan, Ziwei Fairy had spared no effort in reallocating multiple Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals, dispatching them to the other four regions respectively. In the Southern Border there were two — Jun Shenguang was one of them. The other was an Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal named Wei Feng, who was farther away but moved with astonishing speed and was currently rushing over.
As Jun Shenguang approached the Five Boundaries Mountain Range, he immediately activated a killing move to conceal his presence and advanced with utmost caution.
Whoosh!
Massive quantities of heaven and earth qi, like the surging tides of a great river, were being extracted ceaselessly, converging upon a single point at the center of the Five Boundaries Mountain Range.
That point was shrouded by light and shadow, completely impossible to see clearly — it was like a bottomless pit, continuously swallowing heaven and earth qi on an enormous scale.
"This scale is truly terrifying..." A chill ran through Jun Shenguang's heart as he watched. He promptly deployed his unique investigative methods.
When Fang Yuan had set up a formation ambush and successfully captured a group of Southern Border Gu Immortals, Jun Shenguang had been one of the people present at the scene.
At this moment, Jun Shenguang was filled with vigilance. Even though he was an Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal, with cultivation a full realm above Fang Yuan's, he absolutely dared not advance rashly. If, after entering the Five Boundaries Mountain Range, he discovered that this was actually one of Fang Yuan's ambush circles, that would be disastrous.
After conducting his investigation, Jun Shenguang confirmed that someone was indeed undergoing tribulation here.
But whether it was truly Fang Yuan or not remained to be seen.
Jun Shenguang possessed ample patience and deployed several other methods. Moments later, he obtained his result — this was indeed an otherworldly demon undergoing tribulation.
With this, Jun Shenguang could be nearly a hundred percent certain that Fang Yuan's true body was here.
"He really is undergoing tribulation here!" Jun Shenguang murmured, a trace of disbelief flickering in his eyes.
But he quickly recovered and laughed at himself with a wry smile: "What appears real is actually illusory, and what appears illusory is actually real. Fang Yuan's true body is clearly here, yet I find myself almost unable to believe it."
The Hei Family in the Northern Plains possessed unique methods capable of detecting otherworldly demons. Naturally, the Heavenly Court possessed similar killing moves.
Ziwei Fairy had once attempted to persuade Fang Yuan to surrender inside the Lang Ya Blessed Land, and had revealed: the Heavenly Court belongs to the human race, and even otherworldly demons are welcome. The Heavenly Court had indeed recruited otherworldly demons as members in the past — it was merely that there were no clear records in history, and the world at large did not know of it.
It was not strange at all for the Heavenly Court to possess such methods.
Right now, Jun Shenguang was employing exactly this type of method.
"If one were to say that Fang Yuan had considered this method in advance and prepared defenses and deceptions against it, the probability would be far too low. After all, even if he has returned through rebirth, my method was only recently refined and improved in particular by Lord Ziwei."
"It is said that after Yuan Qiongdu joined the Heavenly Court, apart from overseeing the work of repairing Destiny Gu, she was also specifically refining Immortal Gu targeted at Fang Yuan."
In history, there had been cases where Eighth Transformation Demonic Path Gu Immortals wreaked havoc upon the world.
When the Heavenly Court was unable to suppress such a demonic figure in time, they would forge Immortal Gu specifically to counter him. These Immortal Gu were designed to suppress such demonic figures, and their effects were extraordinary.
Fang Yuan was merely at the Seventh Transformation level of cultivation, yet he had already earned this level of attention and treatment from the Heavenly Court — something truly unprecedented in all of history.
"Perhaps there is yet another reason: his calamity period can no longer be delayed. He must undergo his tribulation!" A sharp gleam flickered ceaselessly in Jun Shenguang's eyes.
Someone was undergoing tribulation here, and it had been confirmed as an otherworldly demon. Fang Yuan's identity was now laid bare for all to see.