Bab 41: Chapter 2376 The Venerables Take Action
Fairy Zi Wei woke up just in time to see Myriad Year Flying Warship combine with 12 Zodiac Battle Formation.
The Daybreak Torrent triggered memories of the Fate War and the terror that was Fang Yuan.
"Keep it together Zi Wei, you have to succeed for Master Spectral Soul." The rebranding on her soul was effective.
That was one of the benefits of Soul Path, it was easy to take or add strength through sheer quantity.
Currently, the two sides stood opposed from one another with Myriad Year Flying Warship being the only real threat right now.
On the other hand, the Anti-Great Love Alliance wasn't doing so hot either, although no one from their side had died, the gap in power they witnessed was a big blow to their confidence.
It would take all they have to keep the Myriad Year Flying Warship in check not to mention that Chicken Dog Coop and its hordes of Chicken Beast were slowly breaking out.
"15 Minutes. That's how long it should take for the Chicken Dog Coop to break out," Fairy Zi Wei jumped right back into the fray.
Thoughts began to be rapidly produced and collided in her brain to come up with a way to gain an advantage.
The 2 Sides were at a stalemate as although Myriad Year Flying Ship was powerful it also drained a lot of Immortal Essence.
Even with the abundance of supply given it was still finite and could not be used recklessly.
Fang Yuan had supplied a good portion of the Immortal Essence reserves of each of the Gu House he sent.
With such a large amount they could reasonably keep pressuring the Anti-Great Love Alliance but that would leave them under the threat of a counterattack by the Venerables!
Fang Yuan specifically told them: "I will only give you 1 method to protect yourselves and will dedicate no more than that. During the latter portions of the game, the Venerable will use their methods on you so be prepared."
Shen Shang was debating between using the method now to finish off the Anti-Great Love Alliance or to save for a counterattack from the Venerables.
But it was at that moment that the Zhan Bu Du reached the 3rd floor!
As he stood on the floor to observe he saw that it was covered in thick fog.
"Hmm? My Investigative Killer Move doesn't work on the fog? It seems like things are going to be interesting,"
Zhan Bu Du started traveling through the Fog.
Shortly, after him was Ying Guang Xin who also got no results from his Investigative Killer Move, but instead of just directly heading in he created a few Soul Beasts to scout the path ahead of him as he traversed behind them.
The Hooded Figure was next, and he just walked into the Fog humming a tune to himself: "…I come from far and walked alone some may come while others go…this life is mine and mine alone."
His voice was beautiful and captivating, seemingly playing a never-ending story for all to hear, he never faltered or doubted and walked wherever he felt like going.
As 3 people had landed on the 3rd floor, it made the Ordinary Abyss rise faster!
Now the 6th Floor of the Path of Descension was swallowed up and it was making its way up fast.
Worse for the people stuck on the first floor was that there were still more people heading up, Light Emperor and Lu Wei Yin were closing in on the 3rd floor.
Wu Shuai, Wu Yong, He Chun Qiu and, Chu Du had already reached the 2nd floor and Hei Lou Lan had just taken her first step past the 2nd floor.
Because of her Effort Gu each step she took required more Effort, she was forced to pace herself and take short breaks causing her to fall far behind the other Pseudo-Venerables.
But she did not give up.
"*Huff* *Huff* I must go on I just took a break *Huff* *Huff*" Hei Lou Lan's body was on the verge of collapsing due to exhaustion.
As she pushed herself to take one more step forward, her body finally could no longer bear the brunt of all that pressure.
Even though her Will remained strong her body could no longer keep up.
It was already outstanding enough for her to make it this far.
As her consciousness lost control of her body, she thought to herself: "Is this it? Am I doomed to never be able to catch up?"
Her hands stretched out as she tried to grasp onto the illusory back of Fang Yuan, who she imagined ascending to the very top of Ascension and winning once again.
But just as was about to stumble backward a Queen piece was seen floating down into Hei Lou Lan.
Suddenly, her eyes shone with light as her strength soared and the burden of Effort Gu was lifted.
Hei Lou Lan's speed greatly increased as she soared through the Path of Ascension.
Outside the Venerables had a clear view of the performance Hei Lou Lan was putting up.
"Friend Giant Sun your descendant has quite the backbone you must be placing a lot of confidence in her to use your Queen Piece." Star Constellation remarked.
She was shocked that Giant Sun would use his Queen Piece so early in the game, that was their only Rank 8 Move!
It was something that if any of them used would turn the tides of battle, a near-guaranteed win, a nuclear deterrent, and now Giant Sun was placed in a passive position, he no longer had his strongest piece.
"Hmph, call it intuition." Giant Sun responded.
His Luck Path attainment was calling him to make this play, as he had a bad feeling that if Hei Lou Lan lost the game would be over.
"What are you planning Reckless?" Giant Sun wondered to himself.
As Hei Lou Lan rushed up the Path of Ascension, so to did the Ordinary Abyss rush up.
The situation on the first floor grew grimmer as the Ordinary Abyss surpassed the 5th Floor.
Fairy Zi Wei analyzed: "Tch, there's about an hour before the Ordinary Abyss crosses into the 4th floor, though at the rate that it increases with every ascender it's not a reliable measurement.
Shen Shang was also thinking about this point: "If we battle it out with them, we have a shot at victory but that's with no Venerable interference, and if the fight gets drawn to the point of all of us getting swallowed by the Abyss, then, assuming the worse, we're all dead!"
At this point, the participants had no idea that falling into Ordinary Abyss could be considered a fate worse than death.
Shen Shang turned his attention to the numerous cages that trapped Chicken Dog Coop.
He flew Myriad Year Flying Ship towards it but was blocked by nearly half of the Anti-Great Love Alliance members.
Some of them had to stay near Nightmare Castle, Fallen Flower Hall, and Dragon Palace to prevent them from helping.
But to send the bare minimum required Immortals to block Myriad Year Flying Warship was risky.
After all, it was instrumental in the Fate War and Fang Yuan's escape from Spectral Soul and Heavenly Court!
The Anti-Great Love Alliance was paper-thin on manpower, Fairy Zi Wei was racking her brains trying to figure out the best way to stall for time.
"As long as I delay long enough to wipe out everyone then Master Spectral Soul can revive me even if I die," Fairy Zi Wei had confidence in this as a part of Soul was split by Spectral Soul and kept in Spectral Heaven for emergencies.
She would be forever tied to him as a slave, and she didn't mind!
"Hehe, as long as it's for master than even dying forever is okay."
Inside the cage
Chicken Dog Coop was slowly making progress.
By this point, they had enough Chicken Beasts to cause a stampede!
Once they were free the tides of battle will be shifted.
Fang Gong was in charge of Chicken Dog Coop.
"How many barriers did they place!? Even though they're Rank 6 for some reason their incredibly tricky and constantly slowing us down."
The Gu Immortals of the Chicken Dog Coop had broken through 7 different barriers.
The first was a soul fog that interrupted the control of the Desolate level Chicken Beast and made it difficult to control the Ancient and Immemorial Chickens.
This caused the Gu Immortals much headache, with Fang Gong ultimately breaking the barrier by himself as the Rank 7s held back the Ancient and Immemorial Chickens from attacking, using Chicken Dog Coop.
But because it was difficult enough to control the Ancient and Immemorial Chicken Beasts they had to let the Desolate Chicken Beast roam free and they began attacking the Chicken Dog Coop and Fang Gong.
So, their time was consumed to deal with their own Chickens!
Many such situations occurred, there was a Luck Path Barrier that attracted a Desolate Snake Time Beast which made the Chickens panic.
There was a Wisdom Path barrier that gave enlightenment to one of the Immemorial Chickens, not enough to make it as smart as the ape in the Crazed Demon Cave, but smart enough to fight against the control of Chicken Dog Coop.
Forcing Fang Gong to have to kill it.
Many such troublesome scenarios occurred preventing them from blasting through all the barriers.
All while their thoughts seemed to be running slow.
"There must be another Wisdom Path Barrier causing this," Fang Gong managed to conclude.
But they were now on the 8th barrier; it was Soul Path once again!
As they had noticed a pattern between the barriers having only 3 of either Luck, Wisdom or Soul Path.
They were prepared to deal with either Wisdom or Soul Path as Luck Path had 3 Barriers broken already.
"Hmph, same old tricks." Fang Gong lashed out decimating any Desolate Chicken Beast that got in his way.
Meanwhile, the Rank 7s within were defending the Chicken Dog Coop from the rest of the Desolate Chicken Beast.
"Going by this logic this is the last Soul Path barrier which means the barrier after is the Wisdom Path one."
"Finally, I can't wait to think at full speed."
The Gu Immortals had gotten comfortable with dealing with these threats.
As Fang Gong broke the final Soul Path Barrier, he was instantly greeted with the Wisdom Path barrier.
"Huh, this was going to be faster than I thought."
He punched the Wisdom Path barrier and completely shattered it.
As the barrier came down the Gu Immortals outside were greeted by the sight of Hundreds of Chicken Beasts.
"Oh my god, they have hundreds of them!"
"Even though a few are only at the Immemorial level there are still a lot of Ancient and Desolate Chicken Beasts!"
"We're doomed."
As Fang Gong was basking in his freedom he got a message from Shen Shang.
"Watch Out!"
Fang Gong tried to activate his Defensive Killer Move but all his thoughts were crawling at a snail's pace.
At that moment, a torrent of Soul Path came washing down, damaging Chicken Dog Coop, and freeing the Chicken Beast from its control.
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