Watching the Immortal Gu House Black Prison hurtle like a meteor toward the silver giant.
At that moment, the silver giant's three arms began to change.
One hand spread its five fingers wide, and a nebula vortex emerged from its palm. The deep blue vortex rapidly expanded, quickly ballooning to five or six times the size of a normal nebula disc, spinning fifty to sixty percent faster than before.
Another arm folded horizontally across its chest, the forearm bones abruptly shifting to condense into a massive dark cyan shield.
This shield was so enormous that it concealed most of the silver giant's body, which stood dozens of zhang tall.
The last arm let its fingers dangle downward, as if pinching a thin, translucent pale yellow gauze — unremarkable compared to the other two.
The Immortal Gu House Black Prison tore through the air, now mere inches away.
The silver giant raised its nebula disc to block.
With a thunderous boom, the Black Prison was absorbed into the nebula disc.
The disc began grinding rapidly, producing enormous cracking sounds, swelling suddenly then shrinking violently. After several cycles of this, it finally exploded.
The nebula disintegrated, and amid the scattered blue light, the Immortal Gu House Black Prison burst forth like a raging bull.
The silver giant then thrust forward with the massive dark cyan shield, bracing hard.
The Black Prison slammed into the shield. After a stalemate of several breaths, large cracks spread across the area where the two collided, and then the great shield shattered completely.
But after these two layers of defense, the Black Prison's offensive momentum had been reduced to less than thirty percent of what it had been.
Finally, the Black Prison Immortal Gu House crashed into the Wu Earth Gauze. It was soft and yielding, lacking any solid purchase — like an arrow reaching the end of its range, pressing against the silver giant's chest but inflicting only negligible damage.
Although the Black Prison was an Immortal Gu House, the only Gu Immortal powering it was Hei Cheng alone.
From this perspective, the ancient battle formation Tian Po Suo Luo and the Immortal Gu House were actually quite similar.
The more Gu Immortals that powered either of them, the greater their explosive force.
But there were differences between the two.
The Immortal Gu House had no strict requirements regarding a Gu Immortal's path or cultivation level. Battle formations, however, had specific requirements.
For instance, the Tian Po Suo Luo battle formation required that the Gu Immortals inside preferably cultivate the same path. This way the silver giant's power would be greater, and its movements more flexible and agile.
In this current battle, Fang Yuan demonstrated star path power, Mo Tan Sang was qi path, the Lang Ya land spirit was a special existence, while the remaining Hairy Man Gu Immortals were all refinement path Gu Immortals.
In this situation, Tian Po Suo Luo's power had not yet reached its limit. Fortunately, there were enough Hairy Men to serve as the foundation — otherwise, with paths too diverse and scattered, the silver giant would not have been able to coalesce at all.
And this was merely the formation requirements of Tian Po Suo Luo.
Tian Po Suo Luo ranked second among ancient battle formations, and its requirements were not particularly strict.
According to historical records, many other battle formations had requirements that were either eccentric or bizarre. Generally speaking, it was very difficult to meet such requirements and assemble a battle formation.
This weakness of battle formations was one of the reasons they gradually faded from history.
As another supreme achievement of the formation path, the Immortal Gu House was far more convenient than battle formations — a symbol of progress across the ages.
History rolls ever onward. From ancient times to the present, every era has produced countless heroes and villains, prodigies and eccentrics. The accumulated wisdom of these people, generation upon generation, has formed today's flourishing era of hundred schools of thought in Gu cultivation.
Although many natural treasures, fierce beasts, and mystical plants of the ancient and primordial eras have gone extinct, the present age, overall, is vastly superior to those of old and continues to advance ceaselessly.
Materials and Gu Insects are merely the foundation — it is the wisdom of Gu cultivators that is the key.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Qin Bai Sheng had concentrated nearly all of his attention on the sky above.
His gaze burned with intensity as he raised both hands high, snatching at the air again and again.
With each of his movements, thunderous explosions rang out across the heavens. Sections of space shattered like mirrors, one Gu Insect after another being revealed. Then, under an invisible and mysterious force, these Gu Insects were plucked free, falling one by one into Qin Bai Sheng's hands.
Qin Bai Sheng's bearing was extraordinary as he harvested these Gu Insects as though they were his for the taking.
In this moment, his aura was vast and magnificent — like a god of war battling immortals, plucking stars and grasping the moon, giving people a sense of utter incomparability, of gazing up at an unassailable peak.
Also collecting Gu Insects alongside him were the mysterious black-robed Gu Immortal and the fairy Jiang Yu, present from two other locations.
"They're taking my Immortal Gu House Refinement Furnace — we can't let them succeed! Otherwise, the entire Lang Ya Blessed Land will suffer a massive collapse!" At the center of the battle formation, the Lang Ya land spirit roared in desperate fury.
But it was no use.
Although the silver giant had blocked the Black Prison Immortal Gu House's charge, it could not prevent its interference.
Several times, the silver giant, under the land spirit's control, attempted to approach Qin Bai Sheng, but each time Hei Cheng desperately blocked its path.
Boom—!
At that moment, a tremendous explosion suddenly rang out. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled in the sky as, for the first time, an Immortal Gu was revealed within the fractured space.
"Excellent!" Upon seeing this, Qin Bai Sheng couldn't help but cry out in delight, his face full of joy.
He reached out to capture it. In principle, this Immortal Gu should have belonged to the Lang Ya land spirit, but at this moment it was completely powerless to resist. Qin Bai Sheng captured it with effortless ease, tucking it away.