Boom!
With the amplification of Human Hero, Dragon Palace barely managed to withstand Dragon Lord.
"Scram." The next moment, Dragon Lord unleashed a Dragon Claw Strike, sending Dragon Palace flying.
Dragon Lord's field of view opened up once more, but there was no joy in his eyes — because at this moment, Fang Yuan had already closed in on the Observation Tower.
He was not the only one. Wu Yong, Bing Saichuan, Shen Shang, and the others surged forward in a furious assault. The tide of attacks was absolutely terrifying.
Dragon Lord could no longer intervene. Seeing this, his eyes nearly split with fury.
At this moment, even if the Observation Tower went intangible, it could not escape this predicament. Because Fang Yuan himself commanded Dream Path methods!
Feng Jinhuang could counter them to some extent, but she was ultimately just an ordinary mortal Gu Master. Resisting Fang Yuan in his current state was absolutely beyond her capacity.
"Quick — use Fate Collapse!" Dragon Lord roared.
The Gu Immortals inside the Observation Tower shuddered, and without caring any longer about friend or foe, they risked their very lives to activate the killing move once again.
The sky turned instantly white!
It was all light.
White light.
It flooded heaven and earth, every direction, the entire cosmos, the vault of the sky in all directions.
This was the Observation Tower's most powerful method — a supreme killing move powered by the complete Ninth Transformation Fate Gu!
Both Heavenly Court and the three regions' Gu Immortals were intimately familiar with this move.
The white light filled the entire battlefield, sweeping over everything without mercy, regardless of friend or foe!
In an instant, regardless of who it was or which Immortal Gu House it was, all were heavily damaged, all forced into retreat!
"Damn it, damn it!" Wu Yong gritted his teeth, blood seeping from the corners of his mouth. He felt his ambition dissolving like melting snow within the white light. "Again, always like this! Every time there's a breakthrough, Fate Collapse swoops in to turn the tide for Heavenly Court!"
"Hm?" Wu Yong's gaze suddenly sharpened, and a complex expression flickered across his face.
On a swath of cleared battlefield, a single streak of blood-red remained!
What was that?
It was a cape, fluttering like a war banner!
"Ohhhhh!" Within the cape, the Will of Wildness clenched both fists, pounding its own chest over and over, like an ape in a frenzy.
It was ecstatic, roaring at the top of its lungs: "That's it! That's it! Between heaven and earth, who else but me? At the critical moment, it all comes down to me! Cool — so damn cool!!"
If it were simply the three freaks on their own, they would naturally have been unable to withstand the power of Fate Collapse.
However, when they merged their moves into one, with Fang Yuan as the core, and with Fang Yuan's complete identity as a Foreign Demon, Fate Collapse posed absolutely no obstruction whatsoever.
Amid the vast expanse of white light, Fang Yuan stood in his white robes, black hair and blood-red cape whipping wildly in the wind.
He was charging!
He pressed forward!
Without the slightest pause!
"We still have… hope." The Tribulation Luck Altar was being forced back, but Bing Saichuan stared wide-eyed, fixed on that most crimson figure within the blazing white.
Shen Congsheng spat out a torrent of blood and plummeted from the sky. Even as he fell, his eyes were locked on Fang Yuan, straining with everything he had!
He screamed in his heart: "Fang Yuan, you damn great demon lord! Now — it's all on you!!"
Fang Yuan was like a great arrow shooting toward the sky, or perhaps a calamitous star launched from the earth, destined to defy heaven and turn the world upside down!
"Charge, charge!! A man's heroism lies on the charge itself — oh yeah!" At Fang Yuan's ear, the Will of Wildness clamored without cease.
Whether it was Dragon Lord, Feng Jiuge, the immortals of Heavenly Court, or the people of the three regions — everyone who could barely make out the scene fixed their gaze upon Fang Yuan.
Heaven and earth were a blank, pale white. Against that pallor, the road of the charge seemed to stretch impossibly far and long.
It seemed to pierce through the river of history, from antiquity to the present!
…
Three million years ago, when the non-human races were flourishing, there was an unremarkable human slave.
His name was Wei Yushu.
He learned of Heavenly Court's location. He refused to remain a slave any longer. He fled, only to be caught again.
His master interrogated him in a harsh voice.
"Wei Yushu! When I first bought you, you were nothing more than a youth — you didn't even know what cultivation was!"
"It was I who nurtured you step by step, who elevated you to the rank of Gu Immortal. Was it my favor, my repeated leniency, my sheltering of you that made you so audacious?"
"Tell me — why did you betray me?"
"In what way did I, Princess Yetong, treat you poorly?! You had fine clothes and rich food, a life of ease without a worry. All you had to do was serve me, and I was never cruel or cold to you."
Wei Yushu let out a wretched laugh: "But no matter how well I lived, I was still your slave!"
The Ink Woman Immortal grew angrier: "What is wrong with being my slave?! There are countless Ink people who would give anything for your life, who would never have such an opportunity!"
Wei Yushu stared blankly, and said slowly: "I never used to think it was bad either. But when I heard that in this world there was a place called Heavenly Court, and that people lived that way… only then did I understand why I was always so miserable, so weighed down with sorrow. Because I was missing something."
"Hehehe… I've read the 'Records of the Human Ancestor' — I truly am a fool. I'm more foolish than birds without wings, beasts without teeth, fish without gills! At least they know they've lost their freedom and struggle desperately, trying to find it again. But me? I didn't even know I had lost my freedom!"
"So you wanted to escape — to flee to Heavenly Court?" the Ink Woman Immortal sneered. "You're far too naive! How could you possibly believe such demonic heresy?"
Wei Yushu closed his eyes, his voice hoarse: "It's not that I believed it. It's that I was willing to believe."
"Heavenly Court was never the point!"
"Without Heavenly Court, there would be an Earth Court, a Human Court!"
"There will always be some place, some group of people, who are chasing freedom!!"
…
One million years ago.