Fairy Ming Hao's body swayed, and she quickly stood up.
She wasn't actually injured — it was her inability to stop Zhan Bu Du that was the real headache.
In the current state of battle, Zhan Bu Du's threat level far exceeded those Immortal Gu Houses.
Swish, swish, swish.
Fairy Ming Hao's small foot kicked off the ground as she shot into the air, scattering dozens of stardust particles from her palm.
Zhan Bu Du neither dodged nor evaded, letting the stardust hit him as he charged like a mad dragon or fierce tiger, his sole target the mountain's peak.
Fairy Ming Hao gritted her teeth and could only lunge at Zhan Bu Du once more, closing in.
Zhan Bu Du kicked her flying with a single strike, sending her tumbling away while he ignored her completely.
"He's charged up!" A Gu Immortal saw Zhan Bu Du reach the summit of Book Mountain and was overjoyed, about to cheer, when suddenly starlight flashed before his eyes.
Zhan Bu Du was enveloped in starlight and vanished instantly. When he reappeared, he was already at the foot of Book Mountain.
The immortals were stunned, then quickly understood.
This killer move was not unfamiliar — it had been deployed during the Battle of Fate as well.
Sure enough, when Zhan Bu Du looked up again, he saw a small, exquisite Immortal Gu House hovering above the summit of Book Mountain.
The Immortal Gu House resembled a chessboard. If it wasn't the Constellation Chessboard, what else could it be?
The Constellation Chessboard radiated waves of starlight. Any enemy who approached the summit would be enveloped in starlight and forcibly transported to a distant location, leaving them helpless.
Fairy Ming Hao lunged at Zhan Bu Du once more, attempting to entangle him, while her heart raced with anxiety: "I hope no one can break this move!"
This move had been used before, after all.
The more times a Gu Immortal deployed their methods, the greater the risk.
Zhan Bu Du's gaze deepened, and he quickly made his decision.
He braced through Fairy Ming Hao's frenzied attacks and charged once more, ascending rapidly!
He seemed to have accomplished nothing, but in truth he had. Fairy Feng Ya had been devoting all her effort to collecting the Yuan Realm, but now she had to split her attention to control the Constellation Chessboard, naturally reducing her efficiency greatly.
Fang Yuan's side had to keep applying pressure, forcing her to divert her focus.
Fairy Ming Hao possessed an exceptional combat system — the more stardust accumulated on her, the greater the damage she dealt.
When Zhan Bu Du first resisted the stardust, it couldn't even break his skin. But after hundreds of stardust particles, his entire body was drenched in blood. By the time the stardust exceeded a thousand, the wounds on Zhan Bu Du's body cut deep enough to show bone.
During this time, he charged repeatedly, failing three times.
Each time, he was teleported away by the Constellation Chessboard.
"It seems no one can currently break this technique," Fairy Ming Hao said, relieved.
In the interim, other Gu Immortals had not stood idle, but the Constellation Chessboard's killer move had undergone subtle adjustments by Heavenly Court and remained effective.
"We can't delay any longer." Patriarch Qi Hai had been fighting Fairy Yu Xiu all along, and seeing Zhan Bu Du's situation, he had already made up his mind.
He waved his great sleeve, projecting an illusory shadow in place of his true body to deceive Fairy Yu Xiu.
Fairy Yu Xiu quickly saw through the false body, but Lu Wei Yin immediately flew in front of her, desperately blocking her path.
Fairy Yu Xiu was stalled by this, and in the distance above Patriarch Qi Hai's head, a Heaven and Earth Secret Realm suddenly appeared.
"Hu Di!?" The Demon Immortal Qi Jue and Seven Kill Yuan Jun, locked in fierce combat, simultaneously turned their heads and exclaimed in unison.
"Stand aside." Patriarch Qi Hai's great robes billowed, his beard and hair flowing, his face flushed red.
Lu Wei Yin hurriedly dodged.
Patriarch Qi Hai suddenly shifted direction, aiming at Book Mountain.
"Not good!" Fairy Yu Xiu saw this and her heart lurched. She immediately unleashed a killer move, braving all danger, positioning herself between Patriarch Qi Hai and Book Mountain.
Righteous Path Killer Move — Hu Ang!
Hu Di trembled violently as boundless qi erupted from within.
Qi surged and rolled, vast and majestic — righteous qi, evil qi, blood qi, strange qi, all manner of energies. Under the power of Hu Di, they condensed into a single unified force, inseparable and tightly bound together!
Boom.
Heaven and earth shook. Ghosts and gods alike were alarmed.
A massive pillar of qi blasted forth — enormously thick, magnificent and terrifying, splitting heaven and earth as it charged toward Book Mountain.
Fairy Yu Xiu clenched her teeth and deployed the strongest defensive technique of her life. Vivid Wisdom Path marks materialized around her, illuminating heaven and earth.
The qi pillar struck. The Wisdom Path marks rapidly dissolved, and then the pillar engulfed Fairy Yu Xiu's tiny body entirely.
The qi pillar's momentum was reduced by thirty percent from this interception, but it still approached Book Mountain with an unstoppable force.
"Don't even think about it!" At the critical moment, Bai Cang Shui piloted an Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu House to charge forward.
Amid earth-shaking booms, Heavenly Court's Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu House could only hold for a few breaths before it began to disintegrate.
On Book Mountain, the Constellation Chessboard shot a beam of light through the gaps in the Immortal Gu House, enveloping Bai Cang Shui and carrying him away.
Without Bai Cang Shui's guidance, the Immortal Gu House rapidly crumbled to fragments under the qi pillar's assault.
Then, even those fragments were completely annihilated by the qi pillar!
The qi pillar's power was reduced by another twenty percent, leaving less than a hundred paces to Book Mountain.
At the moment of crisis, a blue-gold giant appeared.
It was Qingchou.
Qingchou raised a massive shield to block the qi pillar.
With a thunderous bang, the qi pillar hammered Qingchou all the way into Book Mountain, carving a crater dozens of zhang deep.
The qi pillar dissipated, its residual energy spreading across the entire battlefield.
Qingchou remained motionless. His shield was destroyed, and a massive hole had been blasted through his chest, visible from both inside and out.
God Emperor City hurried over, its surface flickering with azure light as it formed a vortex, once again absorbing Qingchou's corpse.