The Supreme Immortal Aperture.
The disaster was still ongoing, and the entire situation was gradually sliding into the abyss.
Fang Yuan had suffered great losses this time. In order to save his resource points, he had already distributed the variant humans and Gu Immortals within his immortal aperture to various locations, ordering them to maintain close watch, devote their full effort to caring for the resources, and distribute large numbers of mortal Gu capable of specifically detecting the Heavenly Will.
On top of that, Fang Yuan had deployed his Time Path clone as well as his main body in person, striking out across the land to eliminate the Heavenly Will that was constantly being born and evolving. This was barely enough to hold on to the major resource points of the Supreme Immortal Aperture.
However, as long as the Heavenly Dao's Dao Marks were not refined by Fang Yuan, the Heavenly Will they produced would be endless, growing ever more numerous in quantity.
Even though Fang Yuan had mobilized all his strength, he could not truly stop the situation from deteriorating further.
He could only barely hold on to the resource points, but the Supreme Immortal Aperture's space was vast beyond measure — the resource points occupied only a tiny fraction of it. In most areas, Heavenly Will was being generated, like a dense and massive army gradually surrounding the resource points on all sides.
Fang Yuan knew full well that his situation had reached a critical juncture!
He no longer had time to clear out the Heavenly Will within his immortal aperture. To prevent the Heavenly Will inside his blessed land from linking up with the Heavenly Will of the Five Regions, he had been forced to carve out a separate secret space within the Qi Sea Grand Formation, specifically to block Heavenly Will's perception.
Meanwhile, on the broader stage, the revival of the Qi Cutoff Demon Immortal had also exceeded Fang Yuan's expectations. The Qi Cutoff Demon Immortal had declared he would challenge Patriarch Qi Sea and the others — this was no empty boast.
Troubles within and threats without!
"Next, it all depends on how well this Immortal Formation performs." Fang Yuan directed his focus toward a Law Path Grand Formation.
This grand formation stood suspended in the air within the Little Blue Heaven, an improved version derived from the Five Realm Limit Formation.
Fang Yuan possessed the attainments of Wisdom Path, and had long foreseen that the situation would develop to this point. Thus, well prepared for contingencies, he had already begun devising a solution.
Long ago, he had gained inspiration and resolved to replicate the Qi Tide in order to combat the Heavenly Will within his own immortal aperture.
And this Law Path Grand Formation was the result of that research.
A stockpile of Eighth Transformation Immortal Essence had already been accumulated within the Immortal Formation. At a mere thought from Fang Yuan, this magnificent grand formation spanning over ten li of territory began to slowly activate.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
The grand formation let out a howling wind, and as the wind shook heaven and earth, countless streams of qi emerged from around the formation like a sky full of steam — a vast white expanse where one could not see one's own hand before one's face.
The grand formation suddenly burst forth with mysterious light. The light struck upon the white qi, like a colossal hand giving it a fierce push.
The next moment, roughly thirty percent of the white misty steam began surging forward in a rolling torrent.
The mysterious light plunged into the white qi, continuously transforming it, making these loose wisps increasingly condensed.
Finally, the pushed-out white qi successfully transformed into a Qi Tide, advancing resolutely toward the southeast. Along the way, the massive Qi Tide was like an enormous brush, thoroughly sweeping and cleansing the ambient Heaven and Earth Qi of everything in its path.
In terms of pure power, this Qi Tide manufactured by Fang Yuan could not compare to a natural one, but its might was already considerable — it could easily claim the lives of mortal Gu Masters.
This was precisely why Fang Yuan had set up the grand formation within the Little Blue Heaven — to prevent accidentally slaughtering living beings through carelessness and bringing suffering upon himself.
The Qi Tide advanced for a full half shichen, driving straight ahead until it nearly reached the aperture walls at the edge of the Little Blue Heaven.
Fang Yuan carefully inspected the results and found that the Heavenly Will he had deliberately planted beforehand had all been obliterated completely, without even a shred remaining. Furthermore, along the path the Qi Tide had traversed, the Heaven and Earth Qi had been harmonized excellently — perfectly calm and balanced.
Fang Yuan exhaled a long breath of turbid air. The results were gratifying.
With this formation, he could finally resolve the great trouble of the Heavenly Will.
To him, this was of immense significance!
If he could not resolve the Heavenly Will, he would have been essentially trapped within the Qi Sea Grand Formation, forced to prevent his identity and location from being exposed under the Heavenly Will's gaze.
The mountain-like pressure upon Fang Yuan's heart was instantly halved.
Now, as he looked upon the Qi Tide once more, he gained an even deeper level of understanding.
"The generation of the Qi Tide stems from the disparity between Heaven and Earth Qi. It is like the height difference above and below a cliff — when water flows past, a waterfall is formed. The Qi Tide is the same. It is precisely because the Five Region World Wall has disappeared, the earth veins have unified, and the differing Heaven and Earth Qi of the Five Regions are merging together that a period of Qi Tide is formed."
"In the future, when the Heaven and Earth Qi have completely merged and the Five Regions are no longer distinguishable from one another, Qi Tides will cease to form."
"And what is the Five Region World Wall, then? In truth, its very essence is the Qi Tide."
The Heaven and Earth Qi of the Five Regions had always existed in a state of disparity, and therefore at the borders where the Five Regions met, there was a gradient between them. But back then, the earth veins were different, and the Heaven and Earth Qi could not merge as they did now. In the end, it congested and solidified into the Five Region World Wall.
When Gu Immortals unleashed their killer moves within the Five Region World Wall, they would suffer backlash. The same was true within a Qi Tide. The root cause in both cases was the disparity between one's own Heaven and Earth Qi and that within the World Wall or Tide.
And what Tao Zhu had spent his entire life researching — the Five Region World Wall — in other words, was the Qi Tide!
It was merely that his research approach had begun from Law Path. And one of his main achievements — the Five Restriction Mysterious Light Qi — judging from the name of this killer move alone, was inseparable from Qi Path.
Fang Yuan possessed Tao Zhu's true transmission, half of Primordial Origin's true transmission, the foundation of his Qi Phase, and his own attainment in Qi Path. It was precisely this wealth of accumulated resources that allowed Fang Yuan to achieve gratifying results so rapidly.
"Next, I need to make minor adjustments to this grand formation, then set up subsidiary formations in various locations so that the Qi Tide surges continuously, ceaselessly eliminating the Heavenly Will."
"The trouble of the Heavenly Will can finally be considered resolved. But the refinement of the Heavenly Dao's Dao Marks remains a major problem."
However, Fang Yuan could only set this problem aside for the time being. He needed to guard against the arrival of the Qi Cutoff Demon Immortal.
The identity of Patriarch Qi Sea was extremely valuable. During the Battle of Destiny, Fang Yuan had gone to great lengths to conceal it, never once proactively revealing any related clues.