Fang Yuan finally revealed his true strength, his fist speed increasing dramatically. The Juyang Will was caught completely off guard, taking a devastating hit.
With a crash, the condensed golden will was smashed to pieces, splitting into countless fragments.
But in the next instant, the will reconsolidated, its volume reduced by a full fifth.
Having taken a heavy blow, the Juyang Will was about to launch a furious counterattack, but Fang Yuan had already pulled back. His heavy Strength Phantoms once again shielded him.
The Juyang Will, witnessing this, was so enraged it nearly scattered once more.
It could not afford to think further; otherwise it would have long recognized this as a trap, and thus it had fallen victim to Fang Yuan's scheme.
"Hei Loulan! What are you still hesitating for?!" the Juyang Will roared.
"How can he possibly create Strength Phantoms identical to his own?!" Hei Loulan's mind was in turmoil. Hearing the Juyang Will's roar, she jolted and finally snapped back to awareness.
Fang Yuan's killer move was devastating and overwhelming, pressing everyone deep into disadvantage, unable to even lift their heads. Even the Juyang Will's intervention had yielded no progress.
This was a moment between life and death!
Her Great Force True Martial Body would be the key combat power to turn the tide!
Realizing this, Hei Loulan's eyes blazed as she sprang to her feet.
BOOM!
A single punch produced terrifying effects. The piercing fist energy nearly punched through the encircling layers of Strength Phantoms.
Figures scattered through the air, phantom after phantom shattered.
This was the true combat power of the Great Force True Martial Body.
In this moment, Hei Loulan unleashed everything, holding nothing back!
The power left on her body by the Stealth Passage Immortal Gu formed a faint dark film.
Hei Loulan tore through the dark film with a single rip. Her appearance transformed dramatically! The surging aura of the Ten Extremes Body immediately shot skyward, the invisible pressure disturbing the air and forming a shockwave that swept in all directions.
"This?!"
"What's happening?! Lord Hei Loulan has turned into a woman!"
"The rumors were actually true! Su Xian eloped under cover of night… and with the Hei family's Supreme Elder, Hei Cheng, bore a daughter…"
No wonder the Juyang Will had originally selected both Hei Loulan and Ma Hongyun to serve as the Frost Jade Peacock's masters. It had long since seen through Hei Loulan's true gender.
Hei Loulan paid no heed to the exclamations around her. Her eyes were locked tightly on Fang Yuan, killing intent boiling, wild and untamable—like a lithe black tigress descending the mountain, fearless and brave, ready to devour anyone in her path.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly. Fist energy continuously erupted from his side, condensing into Strength Phantom after Strength Phantom, forming a formidable army.
He had absolute confidence in his killer move and felt no fear toward Hei Loulan: "A Ten Extremes Body's self-destruction can indeed slaughter immortals. But my killer move can do the same!"
The Strength Phantoms surged forward with their battle cries, rushing toward Hei Loulan like a rolling river.
Now revealed in her true form, Hei Loulan was unstoppable—gods who stood in her way would be slain, Buddhas who blocked her path would be cut down. Like a war goddess, she sent armies scattering, standing immovable against the onslaught of the Strength Phantom army.
"Save us!" came the desperate cries from Yelü Sang and the others.
It turned out Fang Yuan had been dividing his attention three ways—focusing on Hei Loulan, not neglecting to dispatch the other Gu Masters, and simultaneously guarding against the Juyang Will.
His mastery of the Servitude Path was on full display.
The Strength Phantom army coordinated seamlessly, operating as a single entity. They sacrificed without hesitation, their momentum frenzied. Yelü Sang and the others had long been in critical danger, and now their final line of defense was finally breached.
Hei Loulan wanted to rush back to save them, but the Strength Phantoms held her firmly in place.
"These Strength Phantoms—each one possesses ordinary human intelligence! How did he manage this?! He must have seized my Life Gu to activate them, yet the fact remains that he can produce Strength Phantoms identical to his own!" Hei Loulan was utterly astonished.
The more she fought against the Strength Phantom army, the more she recognized their true power.
A single Strength Phantom was nothing to worry about. But three Strength Phantoms coordinating together could mount a modest resistance. Six Strength Phantoms forming a small battle formation could hold Hei Loulan in place. Nine Strength Phantoms attacking in succession could even exert real pressure on her.
The greater the number of Strength Phantoms, the stronger their combat effectiveness.
This was all thanks to their exquisite coordination!
Even a beast horde could not achieve this, but Fang Yuan's Servitude Path army consisted of his own Strength Phantoms—originating from the same source, connected to him as one mind and body.
Unable to reach them in time, Hei Loulan watched as Yelü Sang and the others were killed one after another by the Strength Phantoms.
Meanwhile, faced with the desperate pleas of its bloodline descendants, the Juyang Will made the opposite choice from Hei Loulan—it transformed into several arrows, attempting to seize the chaos and snipe Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan redeployed the guards around him to engage the Juyang Will in a fierce clash.
The clash was fleeting but extraordinarily intense.
Finding no opening, the Juyang Will withdrew upon contact, refusing to linger in combat. It truly had very little left—intense combat inevitably brought intense thinking, and this internal drain it could increasingly no longer sustain.
And Fang Yuan had troubles of his own.