Faced with the overwhelmingly powerful Fang Yuan, the variant human Gu Immortals gritted their teeth, their eyes flickering. Many stole glances around, hoping someone else would step forward first.
Unfortunately, Fang Yuan was now the greatest demonic figure in the world — even Demon Venerable Spectral Soul had died in his ambush. At the height of his demonic might, not a single Gu Immortal in the variant human alliance dared to provoke him.
No one dared to resist Fang Yuan, yet no Gu Immortal surrendered either, willingly handing over their blessed land headquarters on a silver platter.
Anyone could see the unwillingness in these Gu Immortals!
These blessed lands were where they lived day and night — their homes, the pure sanctuaries in their hearts. To truly hand their homes over to Fang Yuan would earn them the scorn of their own people, and their own consciences would never forgive them.
Back when Heavenly Court had invaded the Ice Crystal Blessed Land, the Ice Crystal Immortal King had fought to the death without hesitation, burning his lifespan to power the Immortal-Subduing Coffin killer move. Great Wisdom Immortal Mother, in order to save the Great Wisdom Blessed Land, had even handed over the racial heritage related to the Cosmic Crystal Wall directly to Wu Shuai. All of this proved that these blessed lands within the Two Realms held extraordinary, irreplaceable meaning for the members of the variant human alliance — they occupied the highest place in their hearts.
But so what?
Fang Yuan's strength was known to all under heaven. He was now the undisputed greatest demonic figure — Heavenly Court had fallen to him, Destiny Gu had been destroyed by him, and now Spectral Soul had been killed by him too!
After the great chase against Fang Yuan, even though he had only rested for a little over ten days — a mere blink of an eye — not a single variant human Gu Immortal present doubted it: Fang Yuan could annihilate every last one of them.
Perhaps their only hope lay in outside help.
But what outside help could these variant human Gu Immortals possibly have?
Turn to Heavenly Court? Or Eternal Life?
Don't make them laugh!
And what made things even more dire, nearly every blessed land in the Two Realms was afflicted by the Qi Gong Fruit calamity. If they didn't submit to Fang Yuan and let these Qi Gong Fruits continue to develop, these blessed lands would end up destroyed regardless!
But if they did submit to Fang Yuan, their very lives and fortunes would be in his hands. Once aboard the pirate ship, getting off would be easier said than done!
Fang Yuan's ruthlessness was already well known to the world. He had previously sent numerous subordinates to attack Central Continent, and after the great Destiny battle, he had only cared about his own escape — those subordinates were still wandering aimlessly across the Five Regions to this day. And during the great chase, Fang Yuan and Wu Shuai had simply taken the Dragon Palace and evacuated Heavenly Court, leaving all the variant human Gu Immortals behind without so much as a backward glance.
Who could feel at ease following such a leader?
"Have you all made up your minds? My patience has its limits." Fang Yuan's expression was flat and indifferent as he issued his final ultimatum.
Every Gu Immortal's heart trembled. Many turned pale, cold sweat streaming down their faces.
Among them, the human Gu Immortals felt the most regret.
If they had known it would come to this, they would have just pledged themselves to Heavenly Court from the start.
In the current world, humans held dominion and would never accept the allegiance of variant human factions. But if they were fellow humans, that was an entirely different matter.
In truth, ever since the great chase against Fang Yuan, after they had withdrawn from Heavenly Court, it wasn't as if they hadn't considered imitating Heavenly Lord Night Wolf and defecting to Heavenly Court. Unfortunately, the other variant human Gu Immortals kept too close a watch on them, and they never had the opportunity.
And so, the earlier suspicions and hostility from the variant human Gu Immortals toward these human Gu Immortal members were not entirely without reason.
The great hall remained deathly silent. Fang Yuan's expression was placid, but the pressure weighing on the hearts of the variant human alliance members only grew heavier.
Even though Fang Yuan hadn't deployed a single killer move, the vast majority of the Gu Immortals found it difficult to breathe, their hearts crushed under an unbearable weight.