"Hmph! Old thing, obeying your commands before was merely for my own gain. Now that the Strength Immortal Gu is in my possession, why should I still follow your orders?" Hei Loulan sneered, her beautiful face a mask of arrogance and coldness.
"You ingrate, unfilial descendant, to actually betray your own ancestor!" The golden thought howled in fury.
"Be quiet, stop yelling. Is it true that with so few thoughts, you can't think properly, and so appear shallow?" Hei Loulan crossed her arms over her chest, glancing sideways with contempt. "You told me to self-detonate, then claimed you could save me. On what grounds? Relying on your Slave Gu, the Difficulty-Resolving Gu, or the Fixed Star Travel? Those are your only three remaining Immortal Gu. Tell me, which of these can bring me back from the dead? Hmph, such childish tricks, did you think they could fool me?"
"If you were powerful, I would obey you as one submits to the strong. But as you are now, what right do you have to command me? Hm? Just because you are a will left behind by a dead man? Hehehe, even if it was Immortal Venerable Ju Yang, once dead, he's dead, finished! This is a new era, what is a dead man like you still thrashing around for?"
Her words were filled with the bearing of a formidable figure!
Hei Loulan was still that same Hei Loulan!
"Even with only a single thought left, I can destroy an Immortal Gu!" The golden thought cursed loudly.
But Hei Loulan remained calm: "Go ahead and try."
"How is this possible? You actually suppressed four Immortal Gu! Although you possess the Great Strength True Body, you don't have an Immortal's will. How can you possibly suppress four Immortal Gu?" The golden thought's glow flickered once, then it cried out in disbelief. Clearly, its attempt to destroy the Immortal Gu had failed.
"There are still many things you don't know." At this moment, Hei Loulan seemed unfathomably deep.
"Hei Loulan, as a member of the Golden Bloodline, the patriarch of a super-clan, you actually colluded with an outsider to harm your own ancestor! When exactly did you two despicable things join forces? Why did I never notice!" The golden thought angrily interrogated.
"As expected, unable to think, you are much easier to deal with. Sigh, your sorry state truly brings shame to Immortal Venerable Ju Yang," Fang Yuan sighed. A slight, contemptuous smile tugged at the corner of his lips.
Their alliance had actually been formed just moments ago.
Previously, Hei Loulan had roared — "Demon, your tongue is glib and your cunning like a fox! Detestable, what Gu did you just use on me? I will make you pay the gravest price. Your life!"
Fang Yuan hadn't used any Gu at all. Yet Hei Loulan claimed he had.
This was a code.
Both Fang Yuan and Hei Loulan were meticulous, suspicious, ruthless, and cunning figures.
Having cooperated throughout the King's Court battle, they understood each other well, knowing both possessed immense ambition and refused to be subordinate to others.
It was precisely because of this that Fang Yuan was willing to take the gamble. After all, with the Strength Phantoms protecting him, the risk was minimal.
The two master deceivers cooperated with perfect sincerity. Hei Loulan seized the opportunity and successfully ambushed Ju Yang's will, seizing all the Immortal Gu.
"I refuse to accept this! I refuse!" The golden thought screamed hysterically. "I was the strongest, yet I was ambushed, and now I've fallen to this state! You won't fare well either. My true self left numerous contingencies. Once the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building falls, the other arrangements will activate. The True Yang Building will be rebuilt, and you will be hunted down relentlessly until death! I wasn't defeated by you two. If it weren't for dealing with Ma Hongyun, which ruined my luck, how could I possibly lose? In the end, I was defeated by luck!"
*Bang, bang, bang.*
In the next instant, it self-detonated, destroying itself!
In the end, it was a remnant of Immortal Venerable Ju Yang. Even with so few thoughts left, it possessed decisiveness.
Fearing its secrets would be extracted and revealed, with the tide already turned, it directly chose self-destruction.
The self-destruction of a thought was extremely swift. Even Fang Yuan, who wished to stop it, lacked the means. Unlike the Blood Path, Strength Path, or Slavery Path, his attainment in the Wisdom Path was still shallow.
Unless he could have lured Ju Yang's will into his own Immortal aperture blessed land, similar to Mo Yao's will, then he could have suppressed it easily.
Thus, the strongest existence in the King's Court Blessed Land, the number one in power, finally vanished into nothingness at this moment, not even a trace remaining.
Hei Loulan exhaled a turbid breath, looking at Fang Yuan with a calm gaze, and said solemnly, "Next, it's time for us to have a proper talk. I believe we have a foundation for cooperation."
Fang Yuan nodded, then sneered, "Setting everything else aside, the Immortal Gu Fixed Star Travel you took was mine to begin with."
It turned out the Formless Fist that took the Fixed Star Travel had been broken by Ju Yang's will. After Ju Yang's will seized it, it forcibly suppressed Fang Yuan's consciousness within the Gu, but had not yet refined it, or perhaps lacked the strength to do so.
Therefore, Fang Yuan hadn't sensed the Fixed Star Travel's presence. He had lost his target earlier and assumed the Formless Fist had already fled through the void.
"I know. That is one of my conditions. Now, the roles are reversed, and I have suppressed your Immortal Gu, but time does not permit me to refine it by force. I need you to lend me this Fixed Star Travel!" Hei Loulan's words were startling.
Fang Yuan remained expressionless: "Why should I lend it to you?"
"Hmph, the Gu is in my possession. Without the Fixed Star Travel, how will you leave this place? Only by cooperating sincerely can we achieve this," Hei Loulan said.
Fang Yuan chuckled: "Who told you that I don't have other means to leave here?"
Hei Loulan's pupils contracted slightly. She looked deeply at Fang Yuan: "The Great Unity Wind Screen isolates heaven and earth. The Cave Earth Gu and Heaven Linking Gu cannot be used. You actually have other means... However, you have been hesitant to use them. Heh, obviously this method also has its drawbacks!"
As a formidable figure, she quickly regained her composure and even launched a probing counter-attack.
Her tone was extremely certain, though in truth she wasn't sure; she was merely probing.
Fang Yuan laughed heartily. His Strength Phantom army was right beside him, and he didn't fear the Great Strength True Body's self-detonation.
But the enemy before him was no ordinary Great Strength True Body; she was Hei Loulan!
This person could not be underestimated. She had clashed with Fang Yuan multiple times within the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, equally matched, and had caused him countless headaches.
Now, she was still merely a mortal, yet she had suppressed four Immortal Gu in succession, astonishing even Ju Yang's will.
If Fang Yuan didn't use the Fixed Star Travel, she was dead. If she fought back desperately in a death struggle, Fang Yuan would still be wary.
Without Mo Yao's will interfering, Fang Yuan had reverted to his true nature. He calculated the gains, then asked the question he cared most about: "Then, what do I get in return?"
"The Immortal Gu Dark Passage," Hei Loulan replied with a calm expression, though inwardly she felt a wave of relief.