Chapter 1204

Badly frightened, Ye Lui Qun Xing retreats in time, having stayed alert throughout. Ye Lui Xiao Jin stands up in alarm, but Ye Lui Hui Hong stays seated, confident in his tribesman’s trump cards. Retreating, Qun Xing flings a star fragment at the charging dragon with the speed of a meteor. Fang Yuan swerves past it in a graceful arc, and even the immortals who despise him admit he has grown proficient at the transformation. ^{ch. 1204}

With a sharp sound, Fang Yuan’s tail, more fearsome than his claws and able to smash dark inkstone outright, swings back and shatters the fragment he had only seemed to dodge. Chu Du is pleasantly surprised, realizing the Gu worm he gave Fang Yuan recorded every one of Qun Xing’s past battles, so Fang Yuan already knows not to let the fragments accumulate under Qun Xing’s control, the source of his five-battle winning streak. Disappointed, Qun Xing retreats faster, clapping out more fragments. Fang Yuan destroys them all, denying accumulation, though the effort costs him speed and the sneak attack’s early advantage. ^{ch. 1204}

Stabilized, Qun Xing changes tactics, spreading fragments wide instead of aiming them at Fang Yuan, who hesitates between charging directly and letting them pile up, or destroying them and ceding the initiative. The dragon’s offense visibly slows. Inside Golden Dawn Hall, Ye Lui Hui Hong begins to smile over a sip of wine. The pause costs Fang Yuan a good opportunity, and dozens of fragments soon crowd the field, some orbiting close around him as well as Qun Xing. ^{ch. 1204}

Relaxed, Qun Xing tells Fang Yuan that the arrogance and boasting were a scheme to make him withdraw and re-lay his fragments, clever enough, but he improved that early weakness in his killer move years ago, and asks what Fang Yuan will do now. A dragon’s roar sounds as Fang Yuan attacks wildly, destroying countless fragments, but the immortals sense weakness beneath the show, since Qun Xing maneuvers them at leisure from far off. Immortal Wang declares outright that Liu Guan Yi has lost. ^{ch. 1204}

Xue Wu Hen judges Fang Yuan powerful. He rates Fang Yuan level with Hao Zhen and Chou Lao Wu, but still a step below Qun Xing. Chu Du keeps frowning, troubled that Fang Yuan’s shown strength falls short of expectations, yet still trusts he holds a trump card. Ye Lui Xiao Jin taunts him from Golden Dawn Hall’s entrance, asking where his earlier boasts have gone. Ye Lui Hui Hong, still smiling, warns Qun Xing to be careful of the dragon’s breath, its strongest weapon and one Fang Yuan has not used even once. ^{ch. 1204}

Qun Xing nods, already wary of that breath himself, his many defeats having given him an extremely good mentality and a foundation made solid by painstaking training. He does not retreat further, standing almost at the battlefield’s far end. Looking at the hundred fragments orbiting him, he thinks even Chu Du could not break through them quickly, let alone this Liu Guan Yi. Silently he vows to sustain the reputation of myriad star fireflies for the dead Dong Fang Chang Fan, whose guidance built his own killer move. ^{ch. 1204}

Just as most immortals feel the battle decided, everything changes: Fang Yuan activates rank seven sword escape Immortal Gu. Transformed, his dao marks have turned to sword path, and combined with his cultivation of sword eyebrows Immortal Gu they now number ten thousand, adding tenfold power to a Gu already exceptional among rank sevens. Stacked with the dragon’s own burst of speed, this lets Fang Yuan vanish from his spot and cross the whole battlefield before any immortal can react. He appears directly before Ye Lui Qun Xing. ^{ch. 1204}

Qun Xing’s expression is still frozen in a victorious smile, but his pupils shrink to pinpoints in extreme fright at the sight of a gigantic dragon head filling his whole vision. His last thought is disbelief that anyone could see through flight patterns this profound, drawn from myriad star fireflies itself. It proves his final thought in life. ^{ch. 1204}