Fairy Ming Hao swayed on her feet, then quickly steadied herself.
She wasn't injured — it was the fact that she couldn't stop Zhan Bu Du that truly vexed her.
As far as the current battle was concerned, Zhan Bu Du's level of threat far exceeded those Immortal Gu Houses.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
Fairy Ming Hao pushed off the ground with her small feet, instantly shooting into the air and scattering dozens of stardust particles from her palm.
Zhan Bu Du didn't dodge or evade, letting the stardust strike him full-on. Like a wild dragon or fierce tiger, his only target was the mountain peak.
Fairy Ming Hao gritted her teeth and had no choice but to lunge at him again, closing in on Zhan Bu Du.
Zhan Bu Du sent her flying with a single kick, ignoring her completely.
"He charged up!" A Gu Immortal saw Zhan Bu Du reach the summit of Book Mountain and nearly cheered — then a flash of starlight appeared before his eyes.
Zhan Bu Du was enveloped by starlight and vanished instantly. When he reappeared, he was already at the foot of Book Mountain.
The immortals stared in stunned silence, then quickly understood.
This killer move was not unfamiliar — it had been deployed during the Great Battle of Destiny before.
Sure enough, when Zhan Bu Du looked up again, he saw a small and exquisite Immortal Gu House floating above the peak of Book Mountain.
The Immortal Gu House resembled a chessboard — if not the Star Constellation Chessboard, then what could it be?
The Star Constellation Chessboard emitted waves of starlight. Any enemy who approached the peak would be enveloped by the light and forcibly teleported far away, leaving them utterly helpless.
Fairy Ming Hao lunged at Zhan Bu Du once more, trying to entangle him, her heart tight with anxiety: "Hopefully no one can break this move!"
After all, this move had been used before.
The more times a Gu Immortal's methods were deployed, the greater the risk of someone finding a way to counter them.
Zhan Bu Du's gaze darkened slightly, and he quickly made his decision.
He weathered Fairy Ming Hao's frenzied attacks head-on and charged again, ascending at breakneck speed!
He appeared to have gained nothing, but in reality he had already made headway. Fairy Feng Ya had originally been devoting her full effort to collecting the Origin Realm, but now she had to split her attention to control the Star Constellation Chessboard, naturally reducing her efficiency significantly.
Fang Yuan's side had to keep up the pressure and keep her distracted.
Fairy Ming Hao possessed an excellent combat system — the more stardust that struck her, the greater the damage she suffered.
At first, Zhan Bu Du weathered the stardust without so much as a scratch. But after several hundred pieces, he was drenched in blood. By the time the count exceeded a thousand, the wounds on his body were deep enough to expose bone.
During this period he charged three times in succession and failed each time.
Each time, the Star Constellation Chessboard teleported him away.
"It seems for now, no one can find a way to counter this method." Fairy Ming Hao's heart eased.
Meanwhile, it wasn't as if other Gu Immortals hadn't tried to act, but the Star Constellation Chessboard's killer move had been subtly adjusted by Heavenly Court and remained continuously effective.
"We can't delay any longer." Qi Sea Old Ancestor had been fighting Fairy Yu Xiu the entire time. Seeing Zhan Bu Du's situation, his resolve hardened.
He swept his great sleeve, releasing a phantom to replace his real body in order 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.
Delayed even briefly, Fairy Yu Xiu watched as a Heaven and Earth Secret Realm suddenly manifested above Qi Sea Old Ancestor's head in the distance.
"Hū Di?!" Qi Jue Demon Immortal and Seven Kill Sovereign, both locked in fierce combat, turned their heads simultaneously and cried out in alarm.
"Step aside." Qi Sea Old Ancestor's great robes billowed outward, his hair and beard flowing, his face flushed crimson.
Lu Wei Yin hastily dodged.
Qi Sea Old Ancestor suddenly shifted his aim toward Book Mountain.
"No!" Fairy Yu Xiu's heart lurched when she saw this. She immediately unleashed her killer move, braving mortal danger to position herself between Qi Sea Old Ancestor and Book Mountain.
Immortal Killer Move — Hū Áng!
The Hū Di trembled violently, and boundless streams of qi erupted from within.
The qi currents surged and roared in overwhelming grandeur — righteous qi, evil qi, blood qi, strange qi, and every other variety — under the effect of Hū Di, they condensed into a single unified force, inseparable and tightly bound as one!
BOOM.
Heaven and earth shook; ghosts and gods alike were alarmed.
A massive pillar of qi blasted forth, extraordinarily thick and terrifyingly grand, surging toward Book Mountain as if cleaving heaven and earth in two.
Fairy Yu Xiu clenched her teeth and unleashed the strongest defensive method of her entire life. Vivid Wisdom Path marks materialized all around her, illuminating heaven and earth.
The qi pillar crashed in. The Wisdom Path marks dissolved rapidly, and then the pillar directly swallowed Fairy Yu Xiu's tiny figure.
The pillar of qi lost thirty percent of its power from this obstruction, but still bore down on Book Mountain with unstoppable momentum.
"Don't you dare succeed!" At the critical moment, Bai Cang Shui piloted an Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu House and charged forward.
Amid earth-shattering rumbling, the Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu House of Heavenly Court lasted only a few breaths before it began to crumble.
On Book Mountain, the Star Constellation Chessboard shot out a beam of light that threaded through the gaps in the Immortal Gu House, enveloped Bai Cang Shui, and teleported him away.
Without Bai Cang Shui's control, the Immortal Gu House was quickly reduced to fragments under the qi pillar's bombardment.
Then, those fragments were completely annihilated by the qi pillar as well!
The pillar's power was reduced by another twenty percent, and was now less than a hundred paces from Book Mountain.
At the critical moment, a cyan-gold giant appeared.
It was Qing Chou.
Qing Chou raised his massive shield to block the qi pillar.
BOOM.
The qi pillar hammered Qing Chou deep into Book Mountain, carving a crater dozens of zhang deep.
The qi pillar dissipated, its residual aura dispersing across the entire battlefield.
Qing Chou stood motionless. His shield was destroyed, and a massive hole had been blasted clean through his chest.
Divine Emperor City hurried over, its surface shimmering with green light, swirling into a vortex that absorbed Qing Chou's lifeless body once more.