Chapter 1425

Fang Yuan charges Feng Jiu Ge and activates reverse flow protection seal, a move that Feng Jiu Ge still cannot break. Feng Jiu Ge retreats and easily holds his distance. He reasons that sustaining the seal costs Fang Yuan so much focus that he cannot use movement or other killer moves while it is active. Fang Yuan is alone this time, without Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan or the others. Feng Jiu Ge judges Fang Yuan a moving target board with no hope of winning, inferior in both attack and movement, leaving the battle in Feng Jiu Ge’s control. ^{ch. 1425}

Yet he suspects a hidden scheme. He stays wary and keeps retreating whenever Fang Yuan closes in. Fang Yuan taunts him for running. Feng Jiu Ge answers that so strong a seal must carry a heavy price in mental energy and immortal essence. The two settle into a standoff of chasing and retreating rather than open combat. Fang Yuan has an answer to this, drawn on five hundred years of battle experience. ^{ch. 1425}

Fang Yuan suddenly drops into an ordinary stretch of desert and burrows underground. Feng Jiu Ge, wary after being caught out by the anti-sound desert before, gouges the ground with drum fist and bell palm. He senses nothing amiss. He wonders whether Fang Yuan prepared something here in advance or knows some special trait of this desert. Going deeper only worsens his own disadvantage against earth path dao marks. Feng Jiu Ge dives after him even so, since waiting would let Fang Yuan strip the investigative killer move or set up formations at leisure. His sound path killer moves stay overbearing even deep underground, since sound path conflicts far less with rival dao marks than paths like earth do. ^{ch. 1425}

Fang Yuan marvels that Feng Jiu Ge’s dao mark accumulation rivals rank eight. He judges that without the seal he could not still be standing. He activates ancient sword dragon transformation underground. A huge dragon head bursts out of the soil in front of Feng Jiu Ge and shoots a wave of silvery sword dragon breath at him. That sword dragon breath is sustained without pause by perseverance Immortal Gu, where an ordinary dragon breath would last only a moment. The impact forces Feng Jiu Ge’s defenses to activate and break, and he uses his own methods to fly into the sky out of the breath’s range. ^{ch. 1425}

Fang Yuan fires the breath skyward. Sped by sword escape Immortal Gu and his sword path dao marks, he closes the distance almost instantly after Feng Jiu Ge teleports clear with yang pass tune. This time Feng Jiu Ge chooses to take the attack rather than dodge. He is shocked to find Fang Yuan sustaining reverse flow protection seal even while transformed, unlike their earlier clash. Fang Yuan’s blow lands together with the reflection of Feng Jiu Ge’s own attack, and Feng Jiu Ge is thrown back spitting blood. ^{ch. 1425}

Fang Yuan presses forward. Feng Jiu Ge, still shaken that both killer moves are being held at once, escapes again with yang pass tune. Fang Yuan’s straight-line dragon speed cannot match that space path teleport, unless Fang Yuan draws on the sword path movement move from Bo Qing’s inheritance. Yang pass tune carries its own time limit. With Fang Yuan attacking again while it is still active, Feng Jiu Ge’s heart sinks. He searches for a way to end the fight before his own advantage runs out. ^{ch. 1425}