Chapter 1008

Fang Yuan’s Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, using Giant Sun’s essence, seals vajra pearl after pearl, shaking and cracking as it barely absorbs the tribulation. He succeeds, but at a huge price. The Giant Sun essence that carried him through the whole earlier battle, barely thirty percent spent, is gone after a hundred pearls, shocking him. He draws more anyway, and the House keeps absorbing pearls, growing stronger rather than weaker. After this first wave, Sacred Feather City takes the worst damage of the three, its wish power mortal Gu unable to match Fang Yuan or Heavenly Court. ^{ch. 1008}

The tribulation lasts eight minutes, and a second wave descends: twenty-two immemorial Destiny Light Deer, each matching a rank eight Gu Immortal, charge the formation. A gap opens and lets half the deer inside; trapped in the formation too, Heavenly Court is drawn into the fight. Fang Yuan pulls the House back, since its seal works on wind, water, earth and fire, not living beasts, and instead uses captured vajra pearls to force the deer away. Heavenly Court fares best in this wave, Fang Yuan second, and Shadow Sect worst. Immortal zombie Bo Qing turns the tide with sword path killer moves such as five finger fist heart sword, killing most of the deer on the spot even where they carry wild Immortal Gu. His zombie body carries so many dao marks that the same move hits far harder than when Qin Bai Sheng used it, and he alone gets Shadow Sect through the wave. ^{ch. 1008}

As the dark clouds thin until the ten extreme physique immortal zombies show through, Fang Yuan calls the charge and Heaven Overseeing Tower moves in as well. Seven Star Child decides they can only sacrifice Zombie Alliance. The Zombie Alliance branches across the five regions are secretly subordinate to Shadow Sect, a secret many of its own leaders never knew. One by one, immortal zombies from every branch appear inside the formation, seemingly mindless, sacrificing themselves as material before Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord can strike them down as rebels. Among them Fairy Li Shan recognizes her big sister Blazing Heaven Demoness, rank eight leader of Northern Plains’ branch, merging in with the same blank expression as the rest. The dark clouds condense and expand past their previous peak, almost covering the sky, while Fang Yuan realizes the reinforcement he counted on has just died before him. ^{ch. 1008}

Zombie Alliance, the super force with the most Gu Immortals in the five regions, turns out to be only a front for Shadow Sect, and from this moment it is completely destroyed. Tai Bai Yun Sheng guesses that Shadow Sect’s earlier order to refine Gu formations at scale was probably aimed at scheming against Zombie Alliance’s own members. Fang Yuan blames his previous life’s memories, in which every Zombie Alliance branch survived the five regions chaotic war. Fang Yuan wonders at the cost, nearly every zombie in the five regions killed for material, and asks what needs such a price, perhaps a Gu for eternal life. Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord and the immortals behind him look awestruck and worried. A piercing sound announces the third wave, grand tribulation Absolute Piercing Rain, far more terrifying than the first two combined, striking the reconstructed formation’s dark clouds a blow they cannot recover from. ^{ch. 1008}

Fang Yuan again burns Giant Sun’s immortal essence to absorb the rain, but he feels the difficulty is many times higher than before. The House is pierced repeatedly and sacrifices many Gu worms, and Hei Lou Lan warns that at this rate it can probably last only fifteen more minutes. Even at full effort, Fang Yuan absorbs only about ten percent of the rain. Shadow Sect suffers most of it. The third wave ends with Sacred Feather City and Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage both shattered, their Gu worms recovered by their owners, and Heaven Overseeing Tower cracked many times deeper than before, one corner completely crumbled. Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord laughs that Heavenly Court alone will win, and unleashes the Tower’s strongest attack, the unavoidable power of fate. Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord sees the formation crack open under it, Shadow Sect’s Gu Immortals take countless casualties, and Fang Yuan and the rest die along with them. ^{ch. 1008}