Boundless clouds stretched across the sky, rising and falling like mountain peaks and crashing waves. It resembled a sea, yet it was not — shrouded in mist and fog, endlessly transforming, manifesting in countless wondrous forms.
This was a killer move.
This killer move was Fang Yuan's trump card, his ace in the hole — one could even say it was his most powerful offensive method at present!
It was none other than the Immortal Gu Killer Move — Boundless Qi Sea!!!
This move was — strange!
After Fang Yuan's modifications, it not only used the Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu Da Qi as its core, with nearly ten Qi Path Immortal Gu as supplements and hundreds of thousands of mortal Gu as its foundation, but it also incorporated Qi Path immortal materials. By consuming immortal material qi streams, the move's power could be amplified further.
This move was — wondrous!
It could absorb all qi under heaven — vitality qi, death qi, sword qi, blade qi, twilight qi, dawn qi… The more immortal material qi streams stored within it, the greater its power. When used offensively, it consumed Immortal Essence and immortal materials. When used defensively, it devoured external qi streams.
This move's power was — truly vast!!!
Qi Xiang had left this move behind, and the Qi Xiang Grotto-Heaven had relied on it to endure multiple Myriad Calamities through sheer force. Myriad Calamity… Most Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals in this world did not dare face even a single Myriad Calamity, desperately staving off the time for their Grotto-Heavens. Yet the Qi Xiang Grotto-Heaven, guided only by its Heavenly Spirit, had passed through multiple Myriad Calamities in succession.
After Fang Yuan devoured the Qi Xiang Grotto-Heaven, he had used the halo of the Wisdom Gu to refine the Boundless Qi Sea killer move before the Battle of Fate. During that battle, he then used this move to forcefully shatter the Primordial Qi Wall, stunning Gu Immortals across all five regions.
The Primordial Qi Wall bore the mark of Primordial — not only did it contain Qi Path Immortal Gu, but also Qi Path immortal materials. One of the defining traits of the Qi Stream was its ability to substitute Gu Insects with Qi Path immortal materials to execute killer moves.
By using the Boundless Qi Sea to shatter the Primordial Qi Wall, Fang Yuan had also absorbed the massive stores of immortal material qi streams within the wall.
He shattered it once, then shattered it again!
Not long ago in Heavenly Court, he had once more deployed Boundless Qi Sea to devour the immortal material qi streams inside the Primordial Qi Wall, breaking through it yet again.
Having broken through the Qi Wall twice in succession, combined with the enormous quantity of immortal material qi streams he had obtained from exploring the Qi Jue Grotto-Heaven earlier, the qi stream reserves within Boundless Qi Sea had surged to a truly terrifying degree. This, in turn, had elevated the move's power to a level that even Fang Yuan himself found frightening!
With a single thought, Fang Yuan decisively unleashed the Boundless Qi Sea killer move!
The qi sea churned, and an enormous white qi pillar condensed into form, pressing down from high above, hurtling straight toward the fleshy sphere giant.
The qi pillar was immensely thick — its scale unprecedented in history. Even the former Bai Xiang would have been left speechless.
More than that, the surface of the qi pillar was enveloped in a layer of brilliant golden radiance, conveying a sensation of extreme hardness and overbearing dominance!
Before the white qi pillar even struck the fleshy sphere giant, an invisible and boundless force surged in from every direction, locking the giant firmly in midair.
BOOM—!
The white qi pillar, like a pillar supporting the heavens itself, smashed into the fleshy sphere giant and then scoured it with relentless force.
The colossal boom deafened Xue'er at the edge of the battlefield in an instant.
The piercingly blinding white radiance of the qi pillar forced Xue'er, hiding within the Ice Crystal Grand Formation, to squeeze her eyes shut tightly, lest she be blinded by the searing light.
The fleshy sphere giant could not withstand the qi pillar's impact and was crushed straight down onto the grasslands of Minor Northern Plains.
The grass and a layer of topsoil had already been swept away by the howling gale long before the qi pillar descended.
The fleshy sphere giant was smashed into the grassland earth with devastating force!
The ground trembled. Over a hundred enormous fissures formed, spreading rapidly outward from beneath the giant like a spider's web.
The white qi pillar continued its onslaught, splitting mountains and shattering seas! The mighty Myriad Calamity-formed fleshy sphere giant was pounded underground, as feeble as a helpless chick, utterly powerless to resist.
One zhang, two zhang, three zhang…
As the fleshy sphere giant sank ever deeper, its body continued to shrink. It was being scoured away by the white qi pillar, continuously annihilated!
Countless black holes on the giant's surface clamped shut in desperate attempt to contract, and wave after wave of mournful shrieks emanated from deep within its body.
This was the wail of Heavenly Dao's will!
The white qi pillar persisted for a full twenty breaths before it finally faded.
The sea of clouds overhead had not only been reduced by eighty percent, but what remained had grown incredibly thin. Fang Yuan immediately dispersed it.
The fleshy sphere giant fared far worse. Once mountainous in size, it was now no larger than the Dragon Palace.
The giant lay motionless, like a corpse resting at the bottom of the pit — a pit a full hundred zhang deep from the surface!
Fang Yuan's true body gasped for breath, his brain throbbing with stabbing pain accompanying each inhalation. For this single move, he had poured in every ounce of effort. The mental threads he had consumed in commanding it exceeded the limits his mind could bear.
The Myriad Calamity formed from over three thousand Heavenly Dao marks had, at last, paused its rampage.
It seemed to have been stunned by Fang Yuan's ferocious counterattack!
A rare opportunity — Fang Yuan seized the moment and intensified his efforts, using the Freedom Heavenly Trace killer move to refine the Heavenly Dao marks.
In a brief span, Fang Yuan had already refined over a hundred new Heavenly Dao marks. Combined with his earlier progress, Fang Yuan now possessed more than a hundred and sixty Heavenly Dao marks!
When the total number of Heavenly Dao marks Fang Yuan had refined formally surpassed two hundred, the Heavenly Dao finally reacted. The fleshy sphere at the bottom of the pit dissolved like smoke, and hailstones began raining down from the sky.
However, while Fang Yuan could have pressed his advantage and prepared further countermeasures, he was now barely able to cope. He had to redirect his attention back to the outside world.
The Steadfast Mountain Fortress had sustained severe damage and was in a state of ruin. Phantom Soul's giant form had been relentlessly bombarding it during this time, achieving devastating results!