The Wan Family's Supreme Grand Elder piloted the Curving Light Platform to reinforce in time. After clashing with the Chicken Coop and Dog Kennel for a round, he immediately discovered that the Fang Family's Earth Path Immortal Gu House was their weak point.
Upon discovering this, the Wan Family's Supreme Grand Elder didn't hesitate. He activated the Curving Light Platform at once, unleashing beam after beam of light, striking fiercely toward the Earth Path Immortal Gu House underground.
The Earth Path Immortal Gu House quickly burrowed deeper underground, dodging with incredible agility.
Though its defenses were practically nonexistent, its speed was astonishing, and it successfully evaded all the light beams.
Some of the light beams grazed past it — the situation was extremely perilous for a moment.
The Wan Family's Supreme Grand Elder merely smiled faintly. "Then let me show you the wondrous power of my Wan Family's Immortal Gu House!"
As he spoke, he activated the Curving Light Platform, unleashing its most formidable technique.
Instantly, those pure white, straight light beams that had plunged underground suddenly bent, changed direction, and once again struck toward the Earth Path Immortal Gu House.
A massive net of light beams formed, sweeping upward from below to ensnare the Earth Path Immortal Gu House.
The Earth Path Immortal Gu House had no choice but to frantically dash upward. After a dozen or so breaths, it burst through the ground with a deafening boom.
"I've been waiting for you." The Wan Family's Supreme Grand Elder's eyes blazed with radiance as he shouted, "Destroy this Immortal Gu House — this is the price for raiding our Wan Family at will!"
"Don't even think about it!" Fang Di Chang bellowed, steering the Chicken Coop and Dog Kennel directly toward the Curving Light Platform.
The Wan Family's Supreme Grand Elder let out a roar. The Curving Light Platform fired light beams once more. The beams curved, circling around the platform end to end, forming a powerful barrier.
The Chicken Coop and Dog Kennel slammed into it but was deflected by the curving, flying light beams, grazing past the Curving Light Platform.
Then, a yellow beam shot out from the Curving Light Platform.
The yellow light shrouded the Fang Family's Earth Path Immortal Gu House, immobilizing it completely.
The Wan Family's Supreme Grand Elder then frantically channeled Immortal Essence into it. The yellow light gradually twisted, resembling a coiled rope.
Under the twisting of the yellow light beam, the Fang Family's Earth Path Immortal Gu House cracked and splintered. A massive number of mortal Gu were twisted into scrap.
This technique was the Curving Light Platform's most powerful ability. With just ten more breaths of sustained effort, the Fang Family's Earth Path Immortal Gu House would completely collapse and be destroyed — and even the Gu Immortal inside would not be spared!
Wan Zhuiqing was hurtling through the sky at high speed.
His expression was cold as ice, yet inside, a raging fire burned.
It was the fire of revenge!
Wan Zhuiqing's father was none other than Wan Lianghan.
The latter had been a Seventh Transformation Wisdom Path Gu Immortal who fell in battle while besieging Fang Yuan alongside Wan Haoguang and Wan Xiao.
At the time, Fang Yuan had been lurking within the Fang Family. So in Wan Zhuiqing's mind, it was the Fang Family that had killed his father.
The hatred of a murdered father — an irreconcilable enmity!
From the moment he learned of his father's death, Wan Zhuiqing's life had undergone an earth-shattering transformation.
Previously, he had been a second-generation immortal, backed by his father's prestige. Arrogant and complacent, he had no drive to improve.
After the great tree that had sheltered him — his father — fell, Wan Zhuiqing rapidly matured amid grief and panic.
He came to understand that the vast majority of the favorable treatment he had enjoyed before was because others respected his father's face. He understood the fortune he had once possessed, and he understood that only through his own efforts could he find hope going forward.
Therefore, when the Wan Family put out a call for volunteers to man the border defenses, even though Wan Zhuiqing was only at the Sixth Transformation, he disregarded the danger and volunteered to go to the border line to guard a resource point.
He knew: he had to prove his value to the clan. If that value wasn't great enough, then he would prove his loyalty!
He had no extraordinary encounters to rely on — only his clan.
But his clan was not his father.
Every time Wan Zhuiqing remembered the happiness of having his father around, his hatred for the Fang Family deepened by another layer.
"Wan Haoguang assigned me to guard the resource point here, but I'm merely a Sixth Transformation Gu Immortal. Even with an Immortal Formation to aid me, what can I really do? Wan Haoguang is the one holding the line until reinforcements arrive. If the Fang Family's true objective is to raid the resource points along the border and they launch a full-scale assault, I certainly won't be able to hold."
"In that case, I might as well take a bolder risk — directly attack a Fang Family resource point. What Wan Haoguang can't do, I'll do!"
Wan Zhuiqing decided to gamble.
If he stayed to defend the resource point and the Fang Family launched a full-scale attack, he would at most hold out for a brief moment before having to retreat through the Immortal Formation.
Returning to the clan with such a result — having lost a clan resource point — would count as, at best, a minor demerit.
But if he successfully raided a Fang Family resource point and gained something, it would surely be counted as great merit. Especially now, with Gaosong Oasis having been raided and the certain heavy casualties that entailed.
In such a situation, any merit Wan Zhuiqing could achieve would be like a lifeline in the snow for the Wan Family's prestige.
"By then, a single war merit will be counted as ten! The clan will also look upon me in a new light."
"With the clan's rewards and strong support, I can grow quickly. Otherwise, at my current rate of progress, avenging my father would be hopelessly distant!"
After Wan Lianghan's death, his Gu had not been left to Wan Zhuiqing.
Wan Zhuiqing's cultivation path was extremely difficult. He could only fight desperately to seize every opportunity.
"Here it is — the Fang Family's nearest resource point on the border!" Wan Zhuiqing slowed down, suppressed his aura, and crept closer.
"Fang Family — the debt of my father's murder, I'll settle the first installment with you now!"
However, moments later, Wan Zhuiqing was dumbfounded.
He stared at the barren desert, standing frozen in place.
"Isn't this where the Flying Sand Earth Cave was? Wait — there are obvious signs of demolition here. The Fang Family dismantled and relocated this resource point?"
Wan Zhuiqing was thoroughly bewildered.
Was there really a need for this?
To preempt even the slightest possibility of a Wan Family counterattack, they had moved the entire resource point away?
He had to consider that this was no small loss.
A dismantled resource point would certainly see its resource output drop, because a resource point depended not only on itself but was also integrated with its surrounding environment.
A relocated resource point was like a tree uprooted — its roots torn from the soil, deprived of water and nutrients. Even if replanted in a better location, it would need a period of adaptation.
And how many truly suitable locations for resource points were there?
Even in places where Earth Path dao marks were denser, the distribution of dao marks might differ — and that alone could be the very thing that destroyed the resource point.
Superpowers had always rarely relocated resource points.
For the enemy, the dismantling of a resource point was equivalent to losing a frontline fortress, reducing the obstacles against them, allowing them to press deeper into enemy territory. This was entirely a good thing.