Crazy Demon Hollow.
The Origin Realm.
Fang Yuan's true body finally entered the fray, clashing directly with a Venerable!
Immortal killer move — Tongue Sword Dragon Souls.
In the heat of battle, Fang Yuan let out a sharp cry and shook his mighty frame. Over a hundred evil dragons swiftly condensed around him.
The horde of dragons roared and charged toward Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
"Another composite killer move?" Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's gaze narrowed ever so slightly. In an instant, she perceived that the dragons before her contained the profound truths of both the Transformation Path and the Slave Path.
Fang Yuan's accumulation of Dao Marks was terrifying in scale. Although Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could have simply brute-forced her way through and fought him head-on, that was simply not her nature.
She was the supreme grandmaster of the Wisdom Path!
She had been one in life, and she remained one now.
Without hesitation, her figure flickered. Starlight shimmered around her as one split into a thousand — in the blink of an eye, over a thousand copies of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable stood arrayed across the battlefield.
"Hm?" Giant Sun Immortal Zombie hurriedly activated his probing methods to distinguish the real from the fake.
Fang Yuan's eyes narrowed, but he did not waver. He continued driving the horde of dragons forward, crashing into the enemy.
The dragons clashed with the illusory Star Constellations, and in an instant the battlefield descended into utter chaos — darkness and pandemonium.
Some evil dragons opened their maws to tear and bite, some lashed out with their dragon tails, some gored enemies with their horns, some raked with their claws, and still others opened their mouths and roared, unleashing streams of razor-sharp sword qi from their tongues…
At the initial clash, the illusory Star Constellations had been caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.
But soon, once they had grasped the true nature of these dragons, the Star Constellation illusions stabilized the situation and began to fight back.
These Star Constellation illusions possessed only modest abilities — each one wielded a single killer move, and across all of them there were merely six different moves in total.
Yet these illusions operated with extraordinary coordination when working together, barely inferior to the previous Three Aspects formation.
The Star Constellation illusions leveraged their numerical advantage, typically surrounding a single evil dragon with nearly a dozen copies. In the end, at the cost of several illusions, they would slay the dragon.
Fang Yuan's dragon horde began to dwindle rapidly.
"Fang Yuan's Tongue Sword Dragon Souls — even though the Slave Path's profundities allow for fine control, his Wisdom Path ability is far inferior to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's," Giant Sun Immortal Zombie observed the scene and silently evaluated.
"However, Fang Yuan understands both his own strengths and his enemy's. If he were to focus all his mental energy on carefully commanding each dragon soul, it would be a net loss. So he simply continues unleashing this move over and over."
Giant Sun Immortal Zombie refrained from intervening for the time content to watch.
As he observed the battle, he activated his own methods. Multicolored light danced and swept outward, continuously absorbing the surrounding Origin Realm into his own immortal aperture.
Intelligence was of paramount importance to Gu Immortals.
Against an opponent like Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, a killer move was most effective the very first time it was deployed.
Fang Yuan did not resort to other methods. He simply kept unleashing the Tongue Sword Dragon Souls.
Wave after wave of dragon hordes, each numbering over a hundred, surged onto the battlefield.
The dragons were slain by the Star Constellation illusions, but in terms of sheer numbers, Fang Yuan's forces quickly gained the upper hand.
Giant Sun Immortal Zombie was mildly surprised. "So this move also involves the Soul Path?"
He noticed that although these dragons were being annihilated, dragon souls gradually began to emerge from the fallen. At first, these dragon souls were extremely weak, possessing only a tenth of the combat power of the living dragons.
But as the number of slain dragons mounted, the Soul Path Dao Marks dispersing across the battlefield grew exponentially. The dragon soul specters born from the remains of the fallen grew ever stronger.
Twenty percent… forty percent… sixty percent…
The combat power of the dragon souls continued to climb until, at last, the Star Constellation illusions collapsed, and the tide of battle tilted decisively in Fang Yuan's favor.
When only a few dozen illusions remained, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's true body could no longer conceal itself.
She offered Fang Yuan a faint smile, then simply withdrew, retreating from the battlefield entirely.
Fang Yuan let out a cold snort.
Through their exchanges, he had gained considerable insight into Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's temperament.
Even though this Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had been reborn and resurrected — and clearly possessed the combat strength to face Fang Yuan head-on — she repeatedly avoided direct engagement, remaining supremely rational and extraordinarily flexible.
Just like this time: her sudden retreat rendered Fang Yuan's earlier investment nearly wasted.
The Soul Path Dao Marks left on this battlefield would have been of great help to Fang Yuan. Unfortunately, Star Constellation's light withdrawal forced Fang Yuan to give chase, abandoning the favorable battlefield he had spent so much effort constructing.
Fighting this kind of opponent was thoroughly unsatisfying.
"Fellow Daoist Star Constellation, please stay a moment." Giant Sun Immortal Zombie chuckled softly. Brilliant light blazed around him as he moved to block Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's retreat.
"Good!" Fang Yuan praised, seizing the chance to press his attack.
It seemed the prior agreement between Eternal Life and Fang Yuan to join forces was still in effect.
Giant Sun Immortal Zombie's choice was easy to understand.
Having witnessed Fang Yuan's combat strength — and seeing that Fang Yuan still inhabited only an Immortal Zombie body — Giant Sun Immortal Zombie continued to regard Heavenly Court as his primary enemy.
Had Fang Yuan been weak, he would no doubt have faced an immediate joint assault from both Giant Sun Immortal Zombie and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, eliminating the easiest target first to prevent the strongest two from weakening each other and letting the weakest profit.
Fang Yuan clashed with Star Constellation Immortal Venerable once more, while Giant Sun Immortal Zombie refrained from intervening.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable delicately flicked her jade hand, and clusters of flying stars shot forth.
The flying stars were blindingly fast, striking Fang Yuan's body in rapid succession — phew, phew, phew.
Fang Yuan had attempted to dodge earlier, but these flying stars possessed a homing ability. No matter how he evaded, they would find their mark.
To break this killer move, Fang Yuan would need to deliberate at length, spending considerable time on calculations and deductions before it might be possible.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
A series of light sounds rang out as the light barrier around Fang Yuan's body shattered.