Chapter 1368

Purple Mountain True Monarch has lost his immortal aperture. His cultivation foundation is gone and his future is bleak. He has already lost a huge amount of dao marks, and even keeping most of his Gu worms and immortal essence, his battle strength has fallen to rock bottom. Fang Yuan watches in shock: throughout history ten Gu Immortals became venerables, and Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable’s triple qi retraction ranks as an extraordinary method beside Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s formless hand and Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s reincarnation battlefield. He can only feel glad that Purple Mountain True Monarch had already given him the heavenly crystals he is using to nurture his upper extreme heavenly eagle. ^{ch. 1368}

Duke Long has quasi-rank nine battle strength. He could crush an ordinary rank eight Gu Immortal. Only someone of Purple Mountain True Monarch’s standing, at the peak of rank eight and one of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s original split souls with a hundred thousand years of cultivation, has the foundation to challenge him. After dozens of rounds of probing find no true counter in him, Duke Long turns to triple qi retraction. A countered cast leaves even its own user in horrible condition, so every Gu Immortal treats the move with as much care as Fang Yuan gives his own reverse flow protection seal. Duke Long vows he alone will unveil the coming great era, then resumes his chase, and Purple Mountain True Monarch, already hit by the first two styles, fights and retreats, completely suppressed. ^{ch. 1368}

Fang Yuan looks for a weak point among the forces Duke Long sent and finds none, since Fairy Zi Wei holds the Star Constellation Chessboard and Zuo Ye Hui’s attacks only scar the outside of the fortress-like Heaven Overseeing Tower. A blessed land entrance suddenly opens: Shadow Sect’s blessed land, sealed since the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, has been quietly freed as Purple Mountain True Monarch’s killer move clears the dream realms shrouding it. Shadow Sect’s blessed land holds the Door of Life and Death, and the countless soul beasts inside it are all mobilized against Duke Long. A massive soul beast army pours out, countless desolate beasts among them, and its suicidal charge buys Purple Mountain True Monarch time to retreat inside. For the fiftieth time Purple Mountain True Monarch begs Fang Yuan to release the upper extreme heavenly eagle, but Fang Yuan will not spend his own final trump card, and hopes instead to draw Duke Long into the blessed land’s traps. Duke Long stops his pursuit. ^{ch. 1368}

Smiling for the first time, he turns and tears into the soul beast army, calling out that Spectral Soul has finally shown himself. A human shaped soul rises and strikes back hard enough to send even Duke Long flying, and Duke Long spits blood but laughs that Spectral Soul is truly at his weakest. Fang Yuan understands the scheme: Purple Mountain True Monarch’s pure dream reality seeker physique bodies were a distraction, and the true plan was to loose the soul beast army for Spectral Soul to devour and recover his strength. Duke Long had already foreseen it and strikes while Spectral Soul is still weak, blocking Purple Mountain True Monarch’s attempt to reinforce him. Spectral Soul, once a quasi-rank nine immemorial soul beast, has been a remnant trace since the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, and Duke Long overpowers him, declaring he means to imprison him in Heavenly Court to prove its supreme might. Spectral Soul’s main body is captured, trapped inside a cage of air currents. ^{ch. 1368}