Wang Court Blessed Land was the foremost blessed land of the Northern Border, possessing profound foundations and immense fortune.
However, after Fang Yuan entered, the blessed land's Earth Spirit, the Frost Jade Peacock, first clashed violently with Giant Sun's Will.
Then came Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fang Yuan ascending to Immortality, their successive ascensions continuously draining the blessed land's Heavenly and Earthly Qi.
To make matters worse, it was ravaged by the Ten-Year Blizzard calamity, then further afflicted by the terrifying Heavenly Tribulation formed from merging the tribulations of Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fang Yuan's ascension.
That the Frost Jade Peacock had held on for this long was already extraordinarily rare. The destruction of Wang Court Blessed Land had become an inevitability. The resulting wind curtain enveloped the remnants of Wang Court Blessed Land into a sphere — its walls vast and deep, spanning a full hundred zhang.
Even the Formless Hands that flew inside would be shredded to bits, then assimilated into wind, nourishing the power of the Grand Unity Wind.
Even with his Shuoshuo Gu, Fang Yuan could not break through.
However, this wind curtain also temporarily severed the connection between inside and outside, preventing external forces from intervening.
At this moment, three thousand zhang above the ground.
Three Gu Immortals all wore iron-blue expressions as they gazed down below. The Grand Unity Wind Curtain stretched vast and mighty beneath them, like an enormous deep-blue bowl inverted over the earth.
The wind curtain's surface appeared extremely calm, but no one dared underestimate the power of the Grand Unity Wind!
"The destruction of Wang Court Blessed Land is already inevitable! What exactly happened inside? How did it come to this?!" One of the elder Gu Immortals furrowed his brow deeply, suspicion and fury building within.
The Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and Wang Court Blessed Land had been established by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable as an endowment for his descendants.
As inheritors of the Golden Bloodline, they had long since claimed Wang Court Blessed Land as their own territory.
Now, with this home containing invaluable treasures destroyed, these Righteous Path Gu Immortals from the super clans were all like volcanoes on the verge of erupting — barely suppressed.
"This is clearly an enormous conspiracy. Based on our current investigation, the most suspicious figure is that Wolf King Chang Shan Yin. We already have ample evidence proving this person was an impostor — the real Chang Shan Yin is already dead!" Another young Gu Immortal spoke in a heavy voice.
He paused briefly, then continued: "Of course, it's not just Chang Shan Yin alone. Besides him, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Bian Si Xuan, and others are all suspects. The waters here run deep — they involve Central Continent forces! According to our current tracking, at least three major ancient sects from the Central Continent have been secretly plotting against the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building for over a hundred years!"
The Central Continent Gu Immortals had secretly schemed, expending countless resources and ingenuity on their ambushes and preparations. Yet all of their arrangements had been prematurely triggered by Fang Yuan, and everything ended up benefiting another.
The Northern Border Gu Immortals were no pushovers either.
Wang Court Blessed Land and the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building were spiritual symbols of the Northern Border — matters of paramount importance.
As soon as something went wrong with Wang Court Blessed Land and the external anomalies appeared, every faction in the Northern Border had immediately taken notice.
Unfortunately, they were stationed on the periphery, and events had unfolded far too quickly. By the time they wanted to rescue Wang Court Blessed Land, it was already too late.
"Sigh..." The leading Gu Immortal let out a deep sigh.
His lips were red and his teeth white — for reasons unknown, he bore the appearance of a small child, yet the aura radiating from his body was vast and surging, marking him subtly as the leader of the three.
"The priority now is not to assign blame, but to recover our losses! The Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is an arrangement left behind by Ancestor Giant Sun — an Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu House, its mysteries profound, its power grand beyond what you or I can fathom. Though the Grand Unity Wind is fierce and has formed this wind curtain, it may not necessarily be able to destroy the True Yang Building. We should hold our position here, watch for the right moment, and act accordingly."
The child-like Gu Immortal's words caused the elder and the young Gu Immortal beside him to draw sharp breaths.
"Lord Tongzu's reminder is well taken. Our Shan Yu clan possesses a killer Immortal Path technique — the Winged Blade. As long as we work together to activate it, we should have enough power to forcibly break through the Grand Unity Wind Curtain." As the young Gu Immortal spoke, undisguised pride crept into his tone.
"The Grand Unity Wind is no ordinary force. Even the Winged Blade would only have enough power for a single strike. I've calculated it — a wound cut into this Grand Unity Wind Curtain would fully heal in just eight breaths." The elder Gu Immortal was a Wisdom Path Gu Immortal, capable of calculation and prediction.
Shan Yu Tongzu, the leader of the three, nodded slightly: "Right now, surrounding the wind curtain, the Black clan, Yelu clan, Dongfang clan, and all the other major Righteous Path super powers have sent their Gu Immortals. The number one Demonic Path force, the Great Snowy Mountain, has also dispatched a full six Gu Immortals, hoping to fish in troubled waters. We must not underestimate them. We have our methods, but they may well have theirs. When we activate the Winged Blade, we must be especially vigilant against them swooping in to reap the benefits!"
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"The Supreme Fortune Path True Inheritance must never fall into the hands of Heavenly external demons! It's all mine — MINE!" Giant Sun's Will roared repeatedly, its voice resounding across the entire battlefield.
It transformed into a colossal golden dragon, coalescing and dispersing at will. At times it split into seventeen or eighteen smaller dragons; at other times it merged into a single enormous azure dragon!
It wielded Giant Sun's Immortal Essence without the slightest restraint.
Over ten Immortal Gu were embedded across the dragon's body — two on each coral horn, one nestled within each eye, and six or seven distributed among its scales.
Scorching flames, trouble-dispersing immortal light, frost and freezing qi — launched in frenzied barrages, blotting out the sky, unending and relentless.
At this stage, the situation finally gave Giant Sun's Will a chance to unleash its full power.
The towering fury that Giant Sun's Will had long suppressed was now vented to its heart's content!
Because eliminating the Heavenly external demon was the top priority, and because of the Supreme Fortune Path True Inheritance's paramount importance, Giant Sun's Will focused primarily on Ma and Zhao.
Vast numbers of Formless Hands wrapped around the Fortune Path True Inheritance in layers, while Formless Fists occasionally flew outward, each having captured Fortune Path Gu Insects.
Giant Sun's Will circled around the glowing orb of the Fortune Path True Inheritance like a golden dragon, destroying the Formless Fists that attempted to escape.
The Formless Fists were numerous, and even Giant Sun's Will could only selectively target them, prioritizing strikes to liberate more Immortal Gu and bolster its own combat power.
But around the dragon of will, countless Formless Hands also raged.
Giant Sun's Will would seize the Gu Insects back, only for the Formless Hands to wrench them away again. The two sides grappled fiercely in their contest, battling at the highest reaches of the sky.
Below this main battle, the surviving Gu Masters fought their own struggle against a smaller number of Formless Hands.
Although Giant Sun's Will had drawn the bulk of the Formless Hands' fire, the Gu Masters were no better off than before.