Inside the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot, Hei Loulan and the others watched with hearts and minds completely captivated.
The scene was immensely grand. The Year Beast army surged in from every direction, converging to attack.
"What an astonishing killer move!"
"No wonder this move has never been activated inside the Supreme Immortal Aperture."
"Too many Year Beasts have been drawn in. If this were inside the Supreme Immortal Aperture, it would surely trigger a catastrophe, with living beings slaughtered en masse."
The Heavenly Court side was equally stunned.
"The Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot..." Gu Liru murmured the name, his expression grave.
Li Huang wore a solemn look, his voice heavy: "This has already become a beast tide, and its power is this tremendous!"
Even a legendary figure like himself, upon witnessing such a boundless spectacle, couldn't help but sigh with admiration.
Fang Yuan smiled faintly.
The Ten Thousand Year Hunting killer move drew its inspiration from the Ancient Year Beast Fishing Array, and he had pushed it to its absolute limit. With the Years Like Water Immortal Gu as its core, amplified through the River of Time, it achieved extraordinary power.
The beasts roared in unison as the tide surged forward.
Boom boom boom!
Heavenly Court struck back, launching killer move after killer move into the waves of Year Beasts.
Great swathes of Year Beasts were blasted apart. The two Immortal Gu Houses of Heavenly Court were both at the Seventh Transformation level, capable of contending with Eighth Transformation combat power, and could handle the vast majority of Year Beasts without issue.
But the problem was — what was the use of simply killing these Year Beasts? As long as the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot still stood, the Year Beasts would keep coming endlessly.
This was the strategy of the Path of Slavery — to exhaust Heavenly Court's combat power through sheer attrition.
Every killer move Heavenly Court launched consumed Immortal Essence.
"If we keep getting entangled with these Year Beasts, we'll have fallen right into Fang Yuan's calculations. We should capture the king to capture the bandits!" a Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal inside the Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform suggested.
No sooner had he spoken than another Gu Immortal beside him said: "But we already know how tough the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot is. How are we supposed to carry out a decapitation strike?"
The Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal was rendered speechless: "This..."
Then, in the next moment, he heard everyone around him shouting: "Watch out! Fang Yuan is attacking again!!"
The Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot surged forward at terrifying speed, not retreating but instead charging straight at the Shark Flow Lever.
"Such audacity!" Li Huang raged atop the Shark Flow Lever. Fang Yuan actually dared to come back — clearly, he didn't take them seriously at all.
Immediately, Heavenly Court's two Immortal Gu Houses and the Eighth Transformation Path of Time expert Gu Liru surrounded the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot and engaged in fierce combat.
The Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot weathered wave after wave of bombardment, while countless silver flying swords blazed around it, shooting outward with piercing whooshes like a fierce storm.
The two sides exchanged blow after blow, locked in a heated battle.
"This isn't right! Fang Yuan is trying to pin us down so the Year Beast army can complete its encirclement!" Gu Liru saw through Fang Yuan's plan.
Li Huang sneered: "As long as we're determined to break through, what use are these Year Beasts, no matter how many there are?"
Gu Liru sighed: "Don't forget that behind us we have the River-Suppressing Lotus-Locking Grand Formation."
Li Huang froze — in his urgency, he hadn't thought of that. At this reminder, his heart lurched, and he cursed inwardly: "That fiend Fang Yuan is truly insidious and vicious!"
The River-Suppressing Lotus-Locking Grand Formation had been painstakingly constructed by Heavenly Court. It could drift slowly along the surface of the River of Time, with a large number of Gu Immortals stationed inside, each operating their respective formation nodes.
If this formation were breached, Heavenly Court would lose not only a large number of Immortal Gu, but also all these Seventh Transformation Gu Immortals.
And in this short period of time, they likely couldn't construct a second River-Suppressing Lotus-Locking Grand Formation!
Heavenly Court's situation was deeply awkward.
They had originally intended to use the River-Suppressing Lotus-Locking Grand Formation to ambush Fang Yuan. Instead, Fang Yuan saw through their plan, and now this very formation had become a vulnerability that he seized upon relentlessly.
Though the River-Suppressing Lotus-Locking Grand Formation could drift, its speed was extremely slow. There was no way it could disengage from the current battlefield.
"First, evacuate the Gu Immortals from the formation in an orderly manner," Gu Liru deliberated for a moment and said.
But Li Huang spoke at the same time: "Kill Fang Yuan! Eliminate the ringleader, and all of this will be settled!"
The two Gu Immortals immediately locked eyes. At this critical juncture, a rift had appeared between them.
Roar roar roar!
Because of Fang Yuan's entanglement, the vanguard wave of the Year Beast army had reached them.
At the forefront were three Ancient Year Beasts.
These Ancient Year Beasts had thick, tough hide that withstood Heavenly Court's bombardment. One of them smashed directly into the Immortal Gu Houses' battlefield.
"Courting death!" Li Huang roared in fury, commanding the enormous great shark at the prow of the Shark Flow Lever to lunge and tear into the beast.
Simultaneously, he activated a killer move within the Shark Flow Lever, and within a dozen breaths, killed both Ancient Year Beasts one after another.
"Jumping clowns!" Li Huang's killing intent had just slightly eased when he heard Gu Liru's cry for help — "Come quickly and assist me!"
It turned out that with Li Huang going to deal with the Ancient Year Beasts, Gu Liru and the Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform were left to besiege the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot alone, barely holding their own.
Then Fang Yuan activated the Breaking Dawn Sword killer move, directing a ferocious bombardment straight at the River-Suppressing Lotus-Locking Grand Formation.
This formation was strong on the inside but weak on the outside — it had originally been designed to deal with Stone Lotus Island. Subjected to Fang Yuan's fierce onslaught, it immediately began to crumble, with multiple sections collapsing.
Many Gu Immortals inside the formation nodes lost their lives on the spot.
The Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot was also extraordinarily tough and sturdy. Unable to strike at a vital target, Gu Liru and the Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform could only move to block Fang Yuan's attacks, covering the Gu Immortals' retreat from the formation.
This gave Fang Yuan the initiative. He struck freely, aiming wherever he pleased, beating Gu Liru and the Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform into a wretched state, hard-pressed on every side.
Seeing the situation deteriorating, Li Huang quickly circled around to attack the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Chariot from behind.
Fang Yuan showed not the slightest fear!
If it were just him alone, he might not have been able to cover everything. But the numerous Gu Immortals inside the chariot were lending a hand — experienced veterans providing excellent support. To achieve yet another record of slaying an Eighth Transformation expert, every one of them was red-eyed with excitement.
Fang Yuan stood at the prow the entire time, paying no mind to the violent tempests raging outside. Suddenly he spotted an opening in Gu Liru's defenses and unleashed a killer move.
It was the Spring Scissors!
The Spring Scissors shot forward — not at Gu Liru, but slipping past his interception. With a sharp crack, it sheared through the neck of a female Gu Immortal from the Central Continent.
Gu Liru's heart jolted: "Isn't that Xia Cha's signature technique? Fang Yuan has already mastered it and improved it to the Seventh Transformation level!"
Fang Yuan laughed heartily and activated another killer move — the Summer Fan, also at the Seventh Transformation level.
Li Huang couldn't cover every front. He could only watch helplessly as the howling gale tore open even more gaping holes in the River-Suppressing Lotus-Locking Grand Formation, instantly destroying several Immortal Gu.
"Hahaha! If I want to kill someone, can you stop me?" Fang Yuan laughed out loud, mocking them openly.
Li Huang's eyes split with rage as he cursed: "You little thief! I will grind your bones to dust!"