"Fang Yuan, you'd better come take a look — those Dao Marks have changed again!" The battle had just concluded when the Lang Ya Earth Spirit's voice suddenly rang out.
"What?" Fang Yuan faltered for a moment.
He quickly left the battered colossal formation and headed to the site of the anomaly.
The unfavorable Dao Marks left behind by Feng Jiuge were spread across many locations, but only the spot where the dark vortex had just formed held the densest concentration.
Now, at the other locations, although the unfavorable Dao Marks were sparse, they had undergone a strange transformation.
These Dao Marks intermittently emitted a faint blue glow, like the morning star in the sky, shining brilliantly.
After observing for a moment, Fang Yuan's expression grew grim.
"So there's been this kind of change too!"
He had a deep foundation in the Wisdom Path and accomplishments in the Star Path, so he immediately discerned the power and purpose of this transformation.
"It seems Feng Jiuge was sent straight back to the Central Continent — or even directly to Fairy Ziwei's side — by the Cause-Trace, Fruit-Sever killer move. That's how Fairy Ziwei obtained the intelligence."
"What a fast reaction!"
Fang Yuan felt a pang of regret.
He shouldn't have dragged out the recent battle, engineering a mutually devastating outcome.
He should have struck directly, spending Immortal Essence without restraint, to swiftly finish off Chen Yi.
In truth, even if he had done that, it wouldn't have been much faster. The Karma Tree killer move was truly exceptional — a seamless integration of offense and defense. Without the variant human Gu Immortals sacrificing themselves to drain it, defeating and killing Chen Yi would have been extremely difficult.
Fang Yuan said gravely: "These changes in the Dao Marks must be coordinating with a Wisdom Path powerhouse in the Heavenly Court to truly pin down the location of the Lang Ya Blessed Land. We need to deal with them quickly, or it'll be extremely dangerous."
The Lang Ya Earth Spirit was frantic: "The dark vortex is easy to scatter and destroy, but these star-like shining Dao Marks are incredibly difficult to eliminate. I've already tried everything!"
"What's going on?" At this point, the surviving variant human Gu Immortals flew over, their expressions varied.
Fang Yuan paid them no mind. His thoughts churned, flashing like lightning.
"Fairy Ziwei wants to truly pin down the location of the Lang Ya Blessed Land — she's going all in for one last attempt."
"The Heavenly Court's attack ended in a crushing defeat this time, and it's thoroughly enraged her."
"The Lang Ya Blessed Land has already been relocated by the Earth Spirit to Songwei Ridge, but Crown Prince Fengxian is probably patrolling nearby, secretly searching."
"We absolutely cannot let Fairy Ziwei calculate the true location of the Lang Ya Blessed Land. If she does, it'll be catastrophic."
Once the location was exposed, not only might Crown Prince Fengxian come charging in, but Heavenly Court Gu Immortals would pour in endlessly as reinforcements. Even if the Heavenly Court ultimately failed, Fang Yuan would not come away unscathed — any victory would be pyrrhic.
The Heavenly Court side could ultimately just throw caution to the wind and expose the Lang Ya Blessed Land's location to everyone.
This hairy man holy land would inevitably draw countless greedy and covetous eyes.
Longevity Heaven would be the first to pounce!
"What should be done?" Fang Yuan racked his brain, heat radiating from his temples.
The variant human Gu Immortals beside him grew agitated as well.
They'd received the Lang Ya Earth Spirit's explanation and immediately grasped the severity of the situation.
"The Heavenly Court is truly terrifying. We gave everything we had, and we only just managed to kill two of their Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals."
"And we're still not out of danger! If we don't get rid of these Dao Marks soon and the Lang Ya Blessed Land's location is exposed, we won't be able to hold this place at all."
"Exactly. Right now, our only hope is for Lord Fang Yuan to come up with a solution!"
Even though the Lang Ya Earth Spirit had the means to relocate the blessed land, with enemies surrounding them on all sides, such a large-scale operation was simply impossible.
All the Gu Immortals could do was place their hopes on Fang Yuan.
"I've got it!" Fang Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up, the words slipping out before he could stop them.
"You thought of a method?" the Lang Ya Earth Spirit immediately called out.
"Open the Refinement Path Grand Formation at once. I'll refine these Dao Marks using my own technique," Fang Yuan answered swiftly.
In his previous life, after absorbing the true meaning of the Refinement Path, Fang Yuan had devised a method for dealing with this kind of Dao Mark — strike during the migration of the Immortal Orifice Blessed Land, and they could be easily neutralized.
But thinking about it now, this was actually a trap.
Crown Prince Fengxian had long been lurking nearby. If the Lang Ya Blessed Land were to relocate, the disturbance would be enormous and inevitably give them away, inviting a devastating assault from Crown Prince Fengxian and the other Heavenly Court Gu Immortals.