Battle of Crazed Demon Cave

Under the demonic sounds of the seventh layer, dao marks of the same path gather into broad areas of rainbow light instead of lying scattered, and the steal dao killer move cast from Immortal Gu House Thieves Den turns them into rank nine immortal materials pure enough to carry one path alone; Lu Wei Yin estimates at least three of them in a little over ten breaths and watches the beautiful sight turn black and white in patches. Three paths lead onward, one of golden luck path left by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, one dark and full of killing intent left by Spectral Soul when he entered the eighth layer, and one plain and virtuous left by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, and Thieves Den devours all three. The eighth layer is a shoreless void where countless worlds are created and destroyed and new heaven path dao marks derive; this time every world drifts the same way, and Fang Yuan reads the void as contracting toward a moment when all worlds and heaven path dao marks are squeezed and fused into one. At the destination the three great worlds hang joined at the center as green, yellow and red bubbles ringed by smaller ones, Yellow Earth Great World is under the joint attack of the other two, and the flat man-made mound at its center is Tomb Earth of the Ten Earths under a tombstone naming it the tomb of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable; when the tomb answers Fang Yuan’s arrival with a pillar of light, Yellow Earth Great World roars that its sage has come and counterattacks. ^{ch. 2155}

Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, a grand and ancient dark gold palace, floats over Savage Wilderness Great World, which Longevity Heaven occupies, and Bing Sai Chuan cannot decide whether to retreat first or send more people to probe Fang Yuan’s strength now that Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin have arrived together. He knocks awake the fatty sleeping at his left, Gai Mei, the Heaven Extremity who cultivates wisdom path, and sends the newest information path Immortal Gu onto his head for a deduction of what Longevity Heaven should do next. ^{ch. 2156}

Fairy Ming Hao fights Lu Wei Yin with flying stars whose power never rises while their number does, one at a time and then three, five, ten and over a hundred, so that the pressure on him grows the longer he defends; he judges that she cultivates wisdom path and star path and holds pseudo venerable battle strength, and decides to retreat. ^{ch. 2160} Fairy Yu Xiu tells Qin Ding Ling she is prepared against lingering poisonous ant plague, since the move had been used in Eastern Sea before and Heavenly Court had Zui Xian Weng infiltrate the Righteous Qi Alliance for first-hand information about it, and asks three days to modify her method against Fang Yuan’s modified version while Heavenly Court spreads word of the move. ^{ch. 2165}

Fang Yuan’s luck changes again: a dazzlingly bright silver-white star appears between the three clouds above his silver light pillar and shines down onto it, and looking across ten thousand li at the center of the intersection between the three great worlds he finds a small world giving off the intense aura of Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, very likely holding one of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritances. In Northern Plains, Hei Lou Lan dodges Yin Wu Que’s crescent moon thrust, a move he says has failed before only against Tian Xia Xin, a wisdom path immortal capable of deductions, and Zhou Ye Zi, a time path immortal whose investigative method peers a few breaths into the future. ^{ch. 2169} Beaten to the ground, Yin Wu Que admits defeat and Wu Guang asks Fairy Black Moon to spare him, which she does, having come only to spar; in the same stretch Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s will fights Limitless Demon Venerable’s will, which regenerates endlessly inside Crazed Demon Cave and holds the territorial advantage, and Thieving Heaven still gains the upper hand. ^{ch. 2170} With the void shaking and small worlds destroyed around them, Thieving Heaven explains that fate Gu’s control over otherworldly demons is limited because every otherworldly demon carries its original world’s insignia as otherworldly dao marks, and proposes making a subspace from the otherworldly space path dao marks on his own body to block a hole while the others mend it at full strength; Limitless’ will retracts its chains and tells him to go ahead, with Reckless Savage’s will also present and Sha Xiao, Thieving Heaven’s Dao Guardian, already gone. ^{ch. 2171} Inside Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space, Zhan Bu Du, a clone of Fang Yuan who cultivates transformation path at rank eight, reaches pseudo venerable battle strength with incomplete freedom transformation, built from internal breathing green fish, devouring blue leopard and thunder rush yellow bird transformations; as the space blackens at the brink of destruction, Immortal Zombie Giant Sun steps out of Calamity Luck Altar onto the battlefield. ^{ch. 2175}

Immortal Zombie Giant Sun tells Fang Yuan the fight was Heavenly Court’s scheme: Thieving Heaven’s true inheritance space had been added in much later to salvage the situation and greatly affected Limitless Demon Venerable’s derivation, so Limitless’ will is happy to see it destroyed, and it also obstructed Heavenly Court’s Feng Ya, whom he calls the strongest wisdom path expert among the three pseudo venerables and who has already come into contact with the ninth layer’s other core. By his reading, Heavenly Court’s stated aim of blocking Fang Yuan from the true inheritance was cover for forcing him to act by using the captives in Divine Emperor City as bait, and Feng Ya’s absence means their advantage has grown larger still. The immortals look toward Green Lotus Great World and see a pure white ball far larger than Book Mountain shining at the mountain’s peak, and Lu Wei Yin names it: Primordial Domain. ^{ch. 2176}

Three star avatars join into one on the peak of Book Mountain and become Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, and though the immortals had expected venerables to revive once fate Gu was destroyed, the sight still shocks them. She is the only female among the ten venerables, and she created wisdom path, inherited Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable’s will, developed Heavenly Court, assimilated with heaven’s will and helped Heavenly Court resist three Demon Venerables; Zhan Bu Du attacks her without hesitation, and Fang Yuan, who had already guessed at the identities of Ming Hao, Yu Xiu and Feng Ya, is not surprised by the revival. ^{ch. 2184} After a single exchange even Star Constellation feels troubled, both because compound killer moves are hard to defend against and because Fang Yuan’s dao mark accumulation is vast; the freshly revived venerable’s foundation is the summed dao marks of her three avatars, and it is lower than his. ^{ch. 2185}

Four Gu Immortals reach the periphery of the Crazed Demon formation in the ninth layer, where Star Constellation stands nearest the center, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable second and Fang Yuan last; the truthful floating ice differs in size, shape and emotional impact from observer to observer, so Gu Immortals cannot advance in a group and each must pick the piece that suits him. Three immortals who had lived there long explain that Limitless’ will arranged them to cooperate with the formation by controlling practice Gu to carve one piece of truthful floating ice, and that once all the worlds of the eighth layer merge into one and vanish into clues and energy for the formation’s derivation, they will finish the carving and find the method of eternal life. ^{ch. 2189} Reading his luck again through Cooking Luck Pot, Fang Yuan sees the starry clouds and the dark clouds almost merged into one and beginning to corrode his silver light pillar, and judges from it that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable has allied with Star Constellation, that Heavenly Court holds too much of a lead, and that the final victor is very likely to be Star Constellation. ^{ch. 2193} Once Primordial Domain is gone the eighth and ninth layers can be traveled freely, and Star Constellation leads Heavenly Court’s immortals onto the floating ice and explains its control method in detail; Not Immortal, Pang Shan and Secret Schemer threaten to activate practice Gu and destroy the central piece, and from the ruins of Paradise Earth’s tomb a Gu Immortal rises in yellow light, recites four lines about rising from a hundred thousand years in the earth and wishing all lives equal, and asks Spectral Soul to open the door. ^{ch. 2195}

Neither Star Constellation nor Giant Sun had detected that Limitless Demon Venerable’s revival method lay inside Crazed Demon Cave, which is why the two of them had fought so intensely there, and the revived Limitless gives off an aura that far surpasses both of them and cannot be seen through by any investigative killer move. He draws a deep breath, puts his arm into the hole in the world boundary and pulls it back completely intact. ^{ch. 2208} Venerables face a grand tribulation every ten years, a myriad tribulation every fifty years and a chaotic disaster every hundred years, the last originating from the chaos outside the world boundary and putting the venerable’s life in danger each time; Limitless used no defensive method at all and returned unharmed, which shocks the venerables who know that terror first-hand. ^{ch. 2209} Fang Yuan calls on Paradise Earth to share truthful floating ice and be united, and Paradise Earth agrees and then takes a piece into his own immortal aperture with a heaven path method; when the two venerables probe Fang Yuan with starlight and golden needles he blocks both perfectly with a qi tide and a red aurora, displaying genuine rank nine cultivation. ^{ch. 2210} Fang Yuan pushes through and takes the final piece of truthful floating ice, his dao marks by then exceeding Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s; Verdant Great Sun’s voice sighs from inside Spectral Soul’s belly that it has done its best, Spectral Soul’s expression goes blank, and he charges the hole and blocks it with his own body. ^{ch. 2212}