Chapter 1039: Monster
Chapter 1039: Monster
“Hm? ”
Fang Xi’s heart stirred: “The Yu family truly has a profound foundation, to think they still hid an old ancestor? ”
Xu Qing pondered for a moment before saying with uncertainty: “It seems there’s an ancient existence, an immortal who founded the Fengyuan Chamber of Commerce, who has lived for untold tens of thousands of years. . . We all thought he had long fallen in battle or departed for distant lands, but unexpectedly, he’s been in seclusion on Abundant Snow Mountain all this time! ”
Roar!
Chirp!
At this moment, streaks of dragon script and phoenix seal characters, replacing the heavy snow from before, descended from the sky, unexpectedly carrying traces of space-time distortion.
Fang Xi suddenly felt that while Xu Qing seemed very close, they were actually quite distant, separated by an unknown number of spatial layers.
“Breaking them down one by one? That’s quite a fine secret art. . . ”
This secret art required Ao An and Fenghuang to combine their efforts to cast, but for him, as his Void and Time Dao Seeds had long condensed, he could cultivate it alone.
It was just a pity these two wouldn’t teach him.
‘Wait. . . I can’t say that, not only am I an ascended cultivator, but I’m also an ascended human cultivator from the Earthly Immortal World. Within the Ascension Alliance, I can be considered ‘pure-blooded’ and ‘true-rooted’, a fellow countryman of the Azure Cloud Dao Monarch, definitely one of their own. . . ’
‘If I were to join, wouldn’t my status skyrocket? ’
‘But never mind, it’s not worth it. The Ascension Alliance is currently still in a stalemate with the North Star Immortal Palace. . . Once Dao Monarchs from other Immortal Domains come to reinforce them, I’m afraid their situation will become somewhat perilous. . . Although the Azure Cloud Dao Monarch might have made preparations, I never gamble! ’
‘As long as I don’t gamble, I won’t lose! ’
Fang Xi smiled inwardly, the Earth Virtue Sword appeared in his hand, and with a wave, a yellow-earth Dao Seed vibrated with earth-attribute laws.
The power of the laws surged forth mightily, suddenly transforming into mountains, one after another.
—Thousandfold Mountains!
Bang bang!
One peak after another exploded, causing the space-time blockade to show slight signs of instability.
Fang Xi unleashed another sword strike; this sword light was incredibly nimble, leaping like a shooting star, and suddenly struck the point where countless phoenix seal characters and dragon script characters converged.
Swish!
As if breaking the whole from a single point, this secret art began to collapse from its very foundation!
This sword strike was truly stunning; had Fang Xi not already condensed Dao Seeds of two types of law power, and been proficient in phoenix seal characters and dragon script, and extremely familiar with Fenghuang and Ao An, he would never have been able to achieve all this.
“Our space-time secret art. . . why would it have such a flaw? ”
Ao An was greatly alarmed.
“It’s not that the space-time secret art has flaws, but that you and I have flaws! ”
Fenghuang looked at Fang Xi, a thoughtful look flashed in her beautiful eyes, and a delicate jade-like hand transformed into a phoenix claw, clutching an immortal’s nascent soul within it.
“Fairy, spare my life. . . ”
This nascent soul belonged to Yun Li, the immortal of the Black Water Sect.
Evidently, when the many immortals were separated by this space-time secret art just now, this person had fallen victim to a deadly blow.
The disparity in strength it represented was enough to make one despair!
Immortal Yun Li naturally didn’t want to die; he hadn’t cultivated the external avatar secret art, and this was his true body that had come.
He had never expected to encounter such a great disaster!
“Hmph. . . ”
Fenghuang let out a cold laugh, and a Void Dao Seed appeared on her phoenix claw, igniting silvery-white void flames.
Immortal Yun Li let out a tragic scream, and instantly perished, body and soul!
For immortals who sought eternal life and freedom, this scene was quite terrifying!
Meanwhile, Ao An’s methods were even more brutal; he had already devoured Immortal Ying’s body and nascent soul earlier!
As ascended immortals who had been enslaved, they actually harbored a surge of resentment in their hearts, and furthermore, since their true forms were demon beasts, their actions tended to be bloody and cruel.
“Uncle Ying. . . ”
All the immortals who had managed to escape thanks to Fang Xi, upon seeing this scene, couldn’t help but tremble in their hearts.
Upon seeing Immortal Ying killed, Yu Xuan manifested several crimson plum-like flying swords around her, with myriad layers of puppets guarding her side, a hint of killing intent appeared on her face, and she fiercely waved a token in her hand.
Streaks of light descended, making the grand array of Abundant Snow Mountain collapse even faster.
Snow peaks crumbled one after another, revealing a gigantic underground cave.
Inside the cave was an immortal’s abode, where two bronze gates stood proudly.
Numerous bronze chains were covered in rust marks, firmly sealing the great gates shut.
Clang!
At this moment, these bronze chains were continuously breaking apart.
“Hm? This isn’t cultivating in secluded death. . . How does it look like it’s been sealed? ”
Upon seeing this scene, Fang Xi’s heart stirred, and he immediately landed on the ground.
With a flash of earth escape art, he vanished without a trace.
“Senior Fang. . . ”
Yu Xuan, upon seeing this scene, cried out in alarm: “What are you doing? ! ”
“Sect Master. . . My abilities are shallow, truly difficult to resist, so I shall withdraw from the Fengyuan Chamber of Commerce today. . . ”
Fang Xi transmitted a divine sense message, and then he left the vicinity of Abundant Snow Mountain.
After all, he was merely an external avatar.
As for his true body, it naturally acted more opportunistically; as soon as the dragon and phoenix arrived, it had already departed with Little Fang Xian.
Even Ao An and Fenghuang had not noticed in the slightest.
In fact, even the external avatar from the Mountain Sea Pearl had already experimented with the method of Golden Immortal Nascent Soul beforehand, elevating the quality of its own nascent soul.
At this moment, if its combat power were fully unleashed, even if only partially revealed, it wouldn’t have much trouble taking down Ao An and Fenghuang.
But it was still that saying: What virtue or ability did the Fengyuan Chamber of Commerce possessed to make Fang Xi risk his life so much?
Moreover, Yu Xuan’s subtle change in attitude earlier had also been noticed by Fang Xi.
At this moment, he naturally chose to seize the opportunity to withdraw!
With his withdrawal, Xu Qing and the other immortals exchanged glances, and unexpectedly also flew out in all directions.
Among them, Chun Li and the other congratulating immortals were the fastest.
After all, they were merely implicated.
“Sect Master, I shall also resign from my elder position today. . . ”
Xu Qing sighed, and threw out an elder’s token.
He saw clearly that even if the Fengyuan Chamber of Commerce won this time, it would inevitably be embroiled in the conflict between the North Star Immortal Palace and the Ascension Alliance, two colossal entities.
As an immortal of the Chamber, it was even possible he would be dispatched to various places to fight to the death.
Immortals prioritized freedom and ease, so upon encountering such matters, they naturally chose to leave.
Nothing was more important than one’s own life!
“I. . . ”
Yu Xuan was momentarily stunned, why, just as she was about to invite out the old ancestor, with victory seemingly within her grasp, had so many people around her left?
Now, only Xing Xuanzi remained.
What she didn’t know was that it was precisely because they wanted to leave that they had to avoid the Fengyuan Chamber of Commerce’s profound foundation!
Otherwise, once that old ancestor emerged, it would be difficult to leave.
“Hahaha. . . As expected, just a mob of rabble, trying to run? ”
Ao An burst into laughter, a hint of hatred resurfacing on his face, and from his true form, one ‘Ao An’ after another suddenly walked out, chasing after the various immortals.
These were not his external avatars, but ‘past selves’; for the Ancestral Dragon, such avatars condensed from the laws of time were more effective and cheaper than external avatars. . .
“Careful! ”
Fenghuang was an immortal array master, and as she looked at the underground immortal’s abode, her expression turned incredibly solemn: “This rank nine top-grade array, most of its power is unexpectedly directed inward. . . I’m afraid that old ancestor of the Yu family is in a very problematic state! ”
“Are you saying? ”
Ao An seemed to think of something, and his expression couldn’t help but harden.
Swish!
The next moment, countless vines pierced through the colossal bronze gates.
The vines were pitch-black throughout, with foul-smelling black viscous liquid flowing upon them, and upon closer inspection, they seemed to be pieced together from various human limbs.
“This is. . . the fluctuating spiritual power of a third-step Dao Merging, a ‘Forgetfulness Realm’ cultivator? ”
Xing Xuanzi, upon seeing this scene, revealed an expression of panic: “This is bad. . . Your old ancestor failed in his Forgetfulness, and has already transformed into a Dao-corrupted monster! ”
Before he could finish speaking, streaks of pitch-black branches had already pierced through Yu Xuan, impaling her before a colossal, pitch-black tree seemingly composed of countless limbs!
The myriad layers of puppets stared blankly as all this unfolded, and unexpectedly made no movement at all.
“Old Ancestor. . . ”
Yu Xuan’s immortal blood splattered across the sky, her nascent soul struggled in agony, but was slowly permeated by the pitch-black viscous liquid.
As an immortal, she shouldn’t have been so powerless.
However, having just ascended, she hadn’t yet familiarized herself with an immortal’s nascent soul and spiritual power, and furthermore, because the cultivation technique she practiced, her bloodline, inherited immortal artifacts, and puppets all carried the imprint of this ancestor, she was utterly unable to resist in the slightest, dying an incredibly suffocating death.
Upon that colossal pitch-black tree, a massive tree tumor appeared, from which grew an aged human face.
The aged human face, when young, must have been a graceful and handsome man, but now its cheeks were gaunt, looking even more like a skull.
Its blank eyes stared at Yu Xuan, and it suddenly opened its enormous mouth.
Strands of strange black silk threads spewed from its mouth, layer by layer entangling Yu Xuan’s nascent soul, and finally swallowing it into its belly.
Rustle!
A vast number of limbs and joints surged forth, with pitch-black mist spreading all around, like a massive cage, unexpectedly trapping countless cultivators below the immortal realm from the Fengyuan Chamber of Commerce, and even Xing Xuanzi, Ao An, and Fenghuang, within it!
The earth seemed to have turned into a swamp.
Without a sound, the cultivators of the Fengyuan Chamber of Commerce, one by one, didn’t even have time to scream, before being swallowed by the earth. . .
The human-faced tree tumor immediately turned, a third eye appearing on its forehead, and each eye stared at a different immortal. . .
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“Oh? Is that the Yu family’s ancestor? ”
With a flash of yellow-earth light, Fang Xi’s Mountain Sea Pearl Divine Transformation appeared on a hillside ten thousand miles away.
Fang Xi’s true body was currently seated cross-legged on the ground with Fang Xian, a long table laid out before them, filled with all sorts of immortal fruits and exotic flowers.
Fang Xian cut a jade-green melon, and presented it to Fang Xi, then curiously asked: “Master, what is that thing? ”
At this moment, from the direction of Abundant Snow Mountain, pitch-black colossal trees were descending, one by one, like a massive cage.
But each of those pitch-black colossal trees was unexpectedly condensed from terrifying wood-attribute law power, and also carried an aura of obscurity and madness. . .
“An Earth Immortal who reached the third stage of Dao Merging, but ultimately couldn’t pass the Taiyi Seven Decays, and transformed into a Dao-corrupted monster! ”
Fang Xi took a bite of melon, and casually explained.
Moreover, he was extraordinarily familiar with the cultivation technique practiced by that Yu family ancestor—it was precisely the ‘Evergreen Art’!
An Earth Immortal who was at the third step of Dao Merging, and furthermore mutated into a Dao-corrupted monster, was truly terrifying.
It should only be slightly inferior to that Heavenly Immortal monster that was refined into Starry liquid during the Myriad Immortals Grand Gathering back then. . .
‘If I were to fail my Taiyi Decay tribulation, the monster I would mutate into would likely be thousands, tens of thousands of times more terrifying than this one. . . ’
Fang Xi’s true body gazed at this scene from afar, and couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
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