If there was anyone more frustrating than Fang Yuan, it was Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable!
Not only did he cause havoc in the Gu world with the spread of Fake Gu, but he also shamelessly tore a hole in the World Boundary just to fulfill his desire of returning home!
In fact, Heaven's Will was shocked when he learned that such an event had taken place!
Because Fate still existed, his consciousness at the time was still asleep, plus the Crazed Demon Cave's 9th layer was hidden even from his senses.
The entire world was almost doomed…because one man wanted to go home!?
"Fortunately, that bastard gave himself the ultimate punishment! Hmph, an ordinary death would have been too kind to him,"
The powers of Chaos were not something that could be underestimated.
Just a single wisp could send a Psuedo-Venerabe insane, imagine what a boundless ocean of it could do?
Even Heaven's Will did not dare fathom what would happen.
Seeing that the thousand arm Spectral Soul could not budge against Fang Yuan's methods:
"*sigh* If you want something done right do it yourself,"
In the River of Time,
Fang Yuan maintained the hold on the thousand-armed Spectral Soul, while the 3 Venerables held the spatial tunnel.
Suddenly from above, they heard a cold snort:
"Hmph, pathetic."
With a wave of his hand the giant thousand arm Spectral Soul turned into pure Soul Path Dao Marks and was absorbed by the main body Spectral Soul.
"We finally meet Fang Yuan."
"You're not Spectral Soul." Fang Yuan could sense that the person before him carried himself differently.
There was no killing intent oozing out, but rather cold indifference.
Colder than even his own!
As if the lives of a billion beings didn't even weigh an ounce.
There was only one person with such a level of indifference: Heaven!
The two men stared at each other, trying to decipher and comprehend the other.
One valued his life above all, the other his harmony above all.
One wanted everything for himself, and the other wanted everything where it should be.
Chaos vs Order.
All for one? Or one for All?
The manifestation of these two ideologies was now face to face.
"Do you know of the sacrifice that went into this world? I built this place from scratch! Do you have any idea how everything has been meticulously created and yet here you come barging in ruining it all!?"
"Hmph, was it her choice to be sacrificed?"
Hearing this Heaven was shocked; then enraged!
"You know nothing!"
But Fang Yuan didn't care: "Eternity will one day be mine."
Heaven snorted: "Hmph, what's the joy in eternal loneliness."
"Better than eternal slumber." Fang Yuan retorted.
All this was going on in their heads and the 3 Venerables did not know the truth.
They only thought that Spectral Soul was a bit weird today, though he did almost die was a pretty good justification.
With almost 3 million total Soul Path Dao Marks, 'Spectral Soul'[1] was going to be challenging to deal with.
Immediately after their talk broke down, he unleashed a Soul Path hand that swatted Fang Yuan down into the River of Time.
With a loud splash, Fang Yuan was knocked under the waters of the River of Time.
But he instantly burst forth; a golden barrier protecting him.
It was the Path of Life!
Normally, the River of Time would erode the life span of whoever came in contact, if they didn't have protection, but the Path of Life was the ultimate counter against Death.
"Tch,"
Waves of Soul Path arms came crashing into Fang Yuan's barrier and also targeted the Spatial tunnel behind him!
Heaven knew the strength of the Road of Life, after all, he created it, he knew how robust it was and that 3 million Soul Path Dao Marks would not breakthrough.
Thus, he decided to attack the spatial tunnel as if it collapses, even Freedom Gu would not be able to save Ying Guang Xin!
The space within was too unstable, it was impossible to lock on and break through the Space since it was so turbulent.
"Hmph, nice try." Fang Yuan wrapped the 3 Venerables and the entrance of the spatial tunnel in the Road of Life while transmitting to them.
"I will know once they're safe, and at that time I will take back the Road of Life!"
He was implying to them, come help when they're safe either way you will be left exposed!
"Tsk," the 3 Venerables thought to themselves.
Seeing that he could no longer directly harm the Spatial tunnel he turned his full attention onto Fang Yuan.
"Cocky much?"
"Nah, just confident."
Immortal Killer Move ----------- Time Prison!
"Hmm?"
The waters of the River of Time surged up and formed a sphere of water around Heaven.
Within the sphere Heaven's thoughts ran slower, and so were his movements, actions, and even Immortal Essence was all slowed to a near halt!
"Tch, an actual Rank 9 Time Path Killer Move? And with a concealed aura, coupled with Strong Gu as well while being in the River of Time? Hehe, how cautious."
Indeed, Fang Yuan's Time Prison involved Rank 9 Time Gu as its core!
But the other 3 Venerables did not know Fang Yuan had other Rank 9 Gu yet, so to mask its aura not only did Fang Yuan use conceal casting, but he also used Strong Gu's aura to make it seems as if the move was Rank 9 because of it.
"So this is the strength of Strong Gu, able to effortlessly turn any move into a Rank 9!" Giant Sun commented.
"Hmph, don't worry its not effortless it requires great amounts of Rank 9 Immortal Essence!" Genesis Lotus chimed in.
Star Constellation said: "True but in the River of Time with all the Time Path Dao Marks I'm sure he used the bare minimum to qualify as a Rank 9."
That was indeed the case, but not just for the reason he had calculated how strong it should roughly be without an actual Rank 9 Time Path Gu.
Coupled with Fang Yuan's Quasi-Supreme Time Path attainment it was good enough to trick even Star Constellation!
Though if she were free to thoroughly inspect the move some points of suspicion would come up.
"Hmph, this should hold him long enough for those 4 to make it the Stone Continent,"
But just as Fang Yuan was about to lower his guard, the entire River of Time began to shake!
"Fang Yuan! The Stone Continent is rising faster!" Giant Sun called out.
Fang Yuan looked down and could make out more of the Stone Continent, there were some basic building structures erected but to Fang Yuan's senses rather than a continent, it was more like an Iceberg!
From above one could only see the surface but below it lay a huge mass!
At least 80% of the Stone continent was below!
"Dammit, what the hell are you planning Red Lotus!"
The disturbance in the rise of the Stone Continent caused the Time Prison to weaken as the waves crashed and disturbed its structure.
*BOOM*
Water exploded in all directions as 'Spectral Soul' walked out.
"Not too shabby, if it wasn't for the disturbance I would have been stuck for a good hour or so."
'Spectral Soul' cracked his neck: "My turn."
Soul Chains appeared from above the River of Time and stabbed into Fang Yuan while Spectral Soul unleashed his thousand arms to barrage Fang Yuan.
"Dammit…"
Immortal Killer Move --------- Roar Of Time [2]
From Fang Yuan's mouth water shot out but rather than normal water this water was exactly the same as that of the River of Time!
It eroded away the Soul Chains and allowed Fang Yuan to dodge Spectral Soul's arms.
"Tsk, Time Path is really annoying here…"
A Time Path Quasi-Supreme Master, in the River of Time was a deadly combination.
Immortal Killer Move ------- Daybreak Sword!
Fang Yuan had decided that since his success with making Gu House Worms was quite impressive, he decided to do one with his strongest Gu House, Myriad Year Flying Warship!
With Four Elements Square Regret Blood Refinement Pool he easily refined all the Immortal Gu that went into the Myriad Year Flying Warship, after all, it was only a Rank 8 Gu House.
The power of the Myriad Year Flying Warship Gu was truly impressive.
With just the insertion of Immoral essence, Fang Yuan could shoot out Killer Moves with barely any need for thoughts.
This gave him spare thoughts to think, deduce, weave Killer Moves, etc…
It gave him a huge edge and the effect was showing as he shot a torrent of Daybreak Swords at Heaven, he also weaved in some more complicated Killer Moves.
"Future Sight"
"Delayed Strike"
"False Reality"
Each of these moves was troublesome in its own right, Future Sight lay an attack in the future, Delayed Strike would disguise itself as one of Daybreak Swords and upon impact would leave Time Path Dao Marks that exploded after a set amount of time.
The worst was False Reality which gave the victim glimpses of the 'future' where they won when in actuality it was an illusion.
For an ordinary cultivator, this would be the end, and even for a Venerable it was troublesome but Heaven largely repelled Fang Yuan's attacks.
"Hmph, child's play."
Heaven decided to up the ante.
Immortal Killer Move -------- Yin to Yang
His body once again began to shift into that of an extremely beautiful and icy female.
Now that her body was Yin, she could now use Yang Path moves which included Heaven Path!
Although Heaven had, ironically, no Heaven Path Gu she was still the world's only Supreme Heaven Path expert!
Immortal Killer Move --------- Tribulations Descend Upon Heroes!
The River of Time became more and more uneasy.
Suddenly, a powerful aura erupted from downstream and was flung at Fang Yuan!
"Hmm?"
Fang Yuan was caught off guard and was hit! Severely injuring him!
The scene flashed quickly in Fang Yuan's mind as he immediately prepped himself to block the attack.
*BOOM*
The attack collided with his defenses leaving him slightly shocked.
"To think there would be a Rank 8 Killer Move of this level of strength!"
The move was from a long-forgotten Pseudo-Venerable that lived in the Remote Olden Antiquity Era.
Fang Yuan was able to dodge thanks to Three Breaths Future Vision!
The defensive move of Myriad Year Flying Warship!
"Tch, that Gu is really annoying!"
Soon more and more powerful auras erupted from the River of Time.
While Fang Yuan could easily defend against Killer Moves of Pseudo-Venerables, he had a thought:
"Will this move bring up Killer Moves from past Venerables?"
Seeing the smug look on Heaven he felt he had his answer.
Indeed, the next move that emerge had a strong aura.
Rank 9!
It was incredibly ancient and contained Qi Path.
Obviously, it was from Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable.
Immortal Killer Move -------- Triple Qi Retraction!
[1] So heads up moving forward, when I say 'Spectral Soul' it means the perspective includes the other 3 Venerables as they don't know he's Heaven yet. But when it is Heaven it means its Fang Yuan, or whoever in the future knows, idk trying something new might keep it or ditch it moving forward.
[2] <3 if u get it.
I think switching from 'Spectral Soul' and Heaven is too much work.
So I'll just use Heaven from now on unless they are talking.