The Shadow Plundering Gully's grand defensive formation had fallen!
All of the Southern Border's great superpowers quickly learned of this fact.
The Righteous Path was shaken!
The dreams within the Shadow Plundering Gully represented the largest concentration of dreams in the Southern Border outside of Yitian Mountain.
Every school of cultivation had its own resources.
Dreams were clearly the unique resource for the Dream Dao path, containing all manner of mysteries inherent to the Dream Dao school.
Yi Yan Xian's "Three Sovereigns" prophecy had long since taken root in everyone's hearts. The Gu Immortals all knew that the future era would be the era of the Dream Dao. As a result, every superpower placed tremendous importance on dreams, guarding them with the utmost vigilance.
"The Shadow Plundering grand formation fell far too quickly — who on earth made the move?"
"Based on the intelligence relayed by the Gu Immortals inside the formation beforehand, as well as our subsequent reconnaissance, there was only one enemy, and they were only a Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal."
"Only a Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal, yet they could breach such a grand formation? And that swiftly?"
"This matter is certainly suspicious. Do you suppose it could be that demonic fiend Fang Yuan again?"
"That seems unlikely, doesn't it? If it were Fang Yuan, why would the dreams inside the Shadow Plundering Gully still be left behind? He has the means to transform dreams into human form."
Unlike in his previous life, Fang Yuan had not taken away the dreams inside the Shadow Plundering Gully. Instead, he deliberately left them behind.
This move, as expected, set the Southern Border's Righteous Path to speculating wildly, effectively concealing Fang Yuan's identity.
For a time, the entire Gu Immortal world of the Southern Border was guessing — who exactly was this Gu Immortal who had breached the grand formation?
Who had the audacity to proactively challenge the Southern Border's Righteous Path?
And who possessed such capability as to easily topple a super grand formation?
What was this person's objective? Was it a pure assault on the Southern Border's Righteous Path? Did they hold a grudge against the Righteous Path? Or… had they already conducted some research into the Dream Dao, and had made use of the dreams within?
Among all the Righteous Path forces of the Southern Border, the one who felt most vexed was the Grand Supreme Elder of the Chi family — Chi Quyou.
Inside the Shadow Plundering Gully's immortal formation, there was a secret passage that Chi Quyou had deliberately left in place. To guard against future conflicts over the dreams, he had prepared ahead of time, leaving behind this hidden contingency.
On the day Fang Yuan attacked the grand formation, Chi Quyou quickly became aware of it, and then hesitated over whether to activate the secret passage.
After all, this stemmed from his own dark scheming. If it were exposed needlessly, his reputation among the Southern Border's Righteous Path would suffer.
However, by the time he realized things were going badly and was about to activate the passage, Fang Yuan's Refinement Dao killer move had already destroyed that capability.
Chi Quyou was furious!
In the previous life, after Fang Yuan had revealed his identity and the prolonged siege of the grand formation had stalled, Chi Quyou had finally made up his mind — and had the time to secretly teleport into the formation.
But in this life, Fang Yuan had annexed the Langya Blessed Land. His strength had surged enormously compared to the same point in the prior timeline, leaving Chi Quyou with no ample time to respond.
In truth, Chi Quyou had held a sliver of an opportunity, but he had hesitated and failed to seize it.
Of course, even if he had teleported through the secret passage and appeared before Fang Yuan, the latter would not have feared him in the slightest.
Before long, Chi Quyou became even more frustrated.
Because from some unknown source, rumors had begun to spread.
The talk was that the reason the grand formation had been breached so swiftly — leaving the Righteous Path with no time to send reinforcements — was that a traitor had emerged within the Chi family!
It was this very traitor who had leaked the grand formation's secrets, enabling the mysterious Gu Immortal to conquer the formation unopposed.