The earth spirit gathered all its strength and launched an assault against the force that sealed it.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three consecutive muffled explosions rang out, and three of the black chains binding it snapped directly.
The green mud on its body had also completely fallen away from its neck, and even the upper portions of both wings were free of green mud, revealing vibrant, resplendent feathers.
"You little sparrow, how dare you!" Giant Yang's will erupted in fury.
"Giant Yang, you're already dead, yet you still imprisoned me for over a hundred thousand years. Today, I will break free from this wretched cage!" The Frost Jade Peacock let out a piercing shriek, equally frenzied.
Years upon years of imprisonment, of being unable to move, of being denied freedom — all the frustration and indignation had transformed into the driving force behind its assault on the seal.
Giant Yang's will let out a low growl. The sun-like will erupted abruptly, sending countless torrents of gold shooting out in every direction.
Over ten thousand Specific Will Gu had long since surrounded it in layer after layer. Like a dam, they held back the torrent of golden will.
Giant Yang's Specific Will was completely countered by the Specific Will Gu. The entire dam held firm — but this situation lasted only a few breaths. The Specific Will Gu that had devoured Giant Yang's Specific Will reached their limits and burst one by one.
After a few breaths, the "dam" made of Specific Will Gu trembled, disintegrated, and collapsed!
Although Giant Yang's Specific Will was being countered, its quantity was far too vast — it originated from the Giant Yang Immortal Venerable. Even after over a hundred thousand years of erosion and significant depletion, it was still more than ten thousand Specific Will Gu could suppress.
Countering was only relative.
Water could extinguish fire, but when the flames were fierce enough, they could boil the water poured on them into steam.
The sun-like Giant Yang will, vast and powerful, surged straight through. Although the cost was not small, it burst over ten thousand Specific Will Gu outright.
Freed from the encirclement of the Specific Will Gu, Giant Yang's will broke free like a bound prisoner throwing off its restraints and immediately seized full control of the True Yang Building.
But in the very next moment, a full fifty thousand Specific Will Gu swarmed in, reassembling to form a new encirclement!
Precisely because their research ran deep, the Central Continent Gu Immortals had never underestimated Giant Yang's will. They had prepared thoroughly for this. Moreover, Specific Will Gu were not Immortal Gu — their numbers could simply be piled on.
Giant Yang's will had barely regained its freedom before being sealed off again. It let out a furious roar.
It launched another assault, surging forth like a mighty river, scattering the Specific Will Gu encirclement into disarray once more.
But soon, the third wave of Specific Will Gu closed in, this time with even greater numbers — over a hundred thousand!
The Central Continent Gu Immortals had spent thousands of years preparing for this. Several great superpowers worked together, purchasing on a massive scale, continuously refining Gu, consuming astronomical quantities of Gu refining materials.
The staggering costs paid were now all harnessed by Fang Yuan, put to impressive use.
Seeing itself surrounded once more, Giant Yang's will did not roar or shout this time.
He was an Immortal Venerable's will — he knew how to think.
When he realized he had fallen into a calculated trap and that the opposing side was thoroughly prepared, he regained his composure.
He began to analyze, and quickly found a flaw in the encirclement!
Although the successive layers of Specific Will Gu had filled every direction around Giant Yang's will — above, below, left, right, front, and back — leaving no dead angles.
This did not mean the encirclement had no flaws.
These Specific Will Gu had been refined by Gu Immortals. Refined Gu could not directly absorb primordial qi, and there was no primordial qi here for them to draw upon.
So where did the True Essence powering these Specific Will Gu come from?
This many Specific Will Gu — and there might be even more — had an enormous demand for True Essence. After a moment's thought, Giant Yang's will understood: what these Specific Will Gu were drawing upon was not True Essence, but Immortal Essence!
A single, lowest-grade Sixth Transformation Green Grape Immortal Essence could convert into practically limitless True Essence!
This Immortal Essence was the power source of all these Specific Will Gu.
And this Immortal Essence was very well hidden — clearly, other auxiliary Gu were working in concert with the Specific Will Gu, forming an enormous and concealed Gu formation.
"As long as I cut their connection to the Immortal Essence, these Specific Will Gu will no longer be a threat." Giant Yang's will quickly reached this conclusion.
And to sever the connection between the Specific Will Gu and the Immortal Essence, the prerequisite was to decipher this Gu formation.
Just as the Central Continent Gu Immortals had sealed away the Yellow Apricot Immortal Essence left behind by the Giant Yang Immortal Venerable to counter the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Giant Yang's will was harboring the same idea.
Immediately, Giant Yang's will began rapidly analyzing, and soon found over a dozen clues.
Following these clues, he conducted deep deductions simultaneously, and the vague diagrams of the Gu formation's structure gradually became clear.
The earth spirit would, of course, not sit idly by and wait for its fate.
Sensing that Giant Yang's will was preoccupied, it gathered all its strength and struck at the seal on its body.
The Harmony Mud greatly countered the seal. The green mud covering its body was riddled with cracks, and its edges were rapidly dissolving. Four more of the pitch-black chains locked around its wings snapped in succession.
The earth spirit, the Frost Jade Peacock, let out a piercing shriek. Its entire body shuddered violently, shattering most of the green mud on both wings. It then spread its wings impatiently.
Cold energy radiated from every part of its body, white as snow. It raised its head with passionate intensity, noble and magnificent. But before its broad wings could fully open, the pitch-black chains pulled them taut.
Its movement came to an abrupt halt, the searing pain fueling even greater fury.
The remaining chains — though only three were left — were still sturdy shackles binding its freedom.
"Tear them apart!" The Frost Jade Peacock twisted its elegant neck sharply, its blade-like brows flashing with an intimidating cold gleam.
"Not good!" Giant Yang's will, deep in frantic calculation, sensed the change and had no choice but to halt its analysis.
Once the earth spirit broke free from his control, the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building could be thrown out of the Blessed Land of the Royal Court at any moment.