"Fang Yuan, you actually dare! You're truly ignorant and fearless! You dare to scheme against me inside Langya Blessed Land?! I'll make you understand what kind of terrible mistake you've made!!"
Langya Earth Spirit roared, his face contorted with fury like a volcano on the verge of eruption, ready to send streams of molten lava to melt Fang Yuan into slag.
But in the next moment, Langya Earth Spirit's movements froze. The rage on his face turned rigid, then shifted to deep astonishment.
"How is this possible? I can't move, and my connection to Langya Blessed Land has become faint and tenuous!" For a moment, Langya Earth Spirit was stunned speechless.
Fang Yuan's lips curved into a faint smile. Everything was under his control.
Ever since Fang Yuan first laid eyes on the Langya Earth Spirit, the seed of "making a move on Langya Blessed Land" had been planted in his heart.
Over the course of several years, that seed had taken root, sprouted, and grown in secret until this very moment, when it had blossomed into a beautiful flower!
Fang Yuan looked down at the Langya Earth Spirit, his tone calm and brimming with confidence: "It's useless. You have no idea of the gap between us."
The Langya Earth Spirit struggled with all his might, but he was like an ant, firmly crushed and utterly unable to move, let alone command the entirety of Langya Blessed Land.
After one attempt, he discovered with horror that not only had things not improved in the slightest, but the restraints on his body had only grown tighter!
"This is impossible!" He stared at Fang Yuan, his face a mask of disbelief.
Fang Yuan smiled. "It seems you're beginning to gradually realize the distance between us."
Fang Yuan's attainment in the Refinement Path far surpassed that of the Langya Earth Spirit.
The former had absorbed Chang Mao's True Intent, elevating his Refinement Path attainment to the Quasi-Supreme level, while the latter was merely a residual will of Ancestor Chang Mao that had formed the Earth Spirit. Though his mastery of refinement was extraordinary, he was still quite far from reaching the Quasi-Supreme level.
Fang Yuan's attainment in the Formation Path was even more overwhelmingly superior.
Langya Earth Spirit's mastery of formations was quite ordinary, while Fang Yuan was a grandmaster.
More importantly, Fang Yuan had immensely rich practical experience in deploying formations. The Pure Body Preservation Formation, the Four-Directional Ancient Battle Formation, the Dragon Scale Sea Food Path Immortal Formation, the Primordial Year Beast Fishing Formation, the River of Time Flood Discharge and Current Chase Formation, My Will Seal Heaven Formation, the Wisdom Refinement Gu Formation... many of these Gu formations had been designed by Fang Yuan himself, improved by him, and constructed by him—handled entirely by his own hand from beginning to end.
"What a Fang Yuan! You truly deserve your reputation as the world's foremost Demonic Path Colossus!" Langya Earth Spirit clenched his fists, his face twisted with malice, eyes blazing like fire as he stared fixedly at Fang Yuan.
He ground his teeth and continued: "So this was all your conspiracy! The Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu Recipe already had flaws, but I failed to see them. The accident during Gu refinement was inevitable, and you used that opportunity to successfully deploy your formation, then lured me into it. Your formation within a formation—you modeled it after the Blood Light Soul-Suppressing Killing Move, didn't you?"
"So it turns out that among the eight main ingredients in the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu Recipe, the latter four blood materials were all meant to frame me! The true main ingredients for refining the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu were only the first four!"
As Langya Earth Spirit spoke, he grew increasingly calm, his emotions gradually settling.
Fang Yuan watched him without a word, his expression placid.
Langya Earth Spirit, on the other hand, furrowed his brows. In the depths of Fang Yuan's eyes, he caught a glimmer of amusement—as though Fang Yuan had already seen through his intentions!
A flash of panic flickered through Langya Earth Spirit's heart, but he quickly suppressed it.
He continued: "Stay calm! Don't panic! The Chang Mao Refinement Path Grand Formation is the crowning masterwork of my original body—how could Fang Yuan possibly have figured it all out in such a short time? He set up a formation within a formation to trap me, but this little Blood Path formation exists within my Refinement Path Grand Formation. Before long, the Grand Formation alone will crush this little Blood Path formation. When that happens, I'll seize the opportunity to escape."
"As long as I make it out, the entirety of Langya Blessed Land becomes my power. Then I'll broadcast the truth of how Fang Yuan plotted against me, and the Foreign Tribe Great Alliance will stand on my side."
"By then, I'll make Fang Yuan suffer!"
"Oh no!"
Langya Earth Spirit suddenly slapped his own head, his face turning ashen with regret: "Damn it! How did I say all of that out loud!"
Fang Yuan chuckled. "Don't worry, Earth Spirit. The flaw you're counting on—do you think I wouldn't have anticipated it?"
"What? You already foresaw that?" Langya Earth Spirit started in shock, then quickly composed himself.
He let out a hearty laugh. "Even if you did, what of it? Can you see through this supreme Refinement Path formation?"
Fang Yuan scratched his nose. "My understanding of this formation is at the very least far deeper than you think. Though I admit, in terms of seeing through it completely, I'm still a ways off."
Langya Earth Spirit burst into laughter again. "Exactly! Just wait, Fang Yuan. When I get out, I'll make you understand the terrible consequences of betraying my Langya Sect!"
Then, Langya Earth Spirit's waiting yielded nothing.
After a while, the Blood Path formation remained as stable as ever.
Langya Earth Spirit waited in vain—the Chang Mao Refinement Path Grand Formation showed no signs of activating! Moreover, his entire body had already been saturated with crimson light.
"This is impossible! What exactly did you do?!" Langya Earth Spirit suddenly roared in fury at Fang Yuan, completely consumed by panic.
Fang Yuan smiled without a word.
The time he had spent studying the Chang Mao Refinement Path Grand Formation was far longer than the Langya Earth Spirit imagined.
Because in his previous life, he had already encountered it.
Fang Yuan's profound attainments in the Formation Path, Refinement Path, and Wisdom Path gave him a thorough understanding of the essence and mysteries of the Chang Mao Refinement Path Grand Formation.
The Chang Mao Refinement Path Grand Formation had been painstakingly created by Ancestor Chang Mao as the culmination of his life's work.