Chapter 1429

The immemorial year beast fishing formation withstands the monkey’s opening assault. It holds as long as its core Immortal Gu survives and sixty percent of its Gu worms remain, where lesser formations break at ten percent loss. Each strike destroys large numbers of mortal Gu, which White Rabbit, Hei Lou Lan and Ying Wu Xie rapidly replenish. Fang Yuan judges that the formation’s defense cannot hold forever. Bai Ning Bing activates Bai Xiang, becomes a five meter snow giant with ice armor, three heads and six arms, and flies out to strike the monkey’s throat. Her speed should have carried her clear, but it catches and crushes her anyway, and Bai Xiang reforms from a fingernail sized fragment into a complete giant within a few breaths. Even with Bai Xiang’s true inheritance and the Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique, her foundation cannot match a beast that has lived tens of thousands of years. ^{ch. 1429}

Bai Ning Bing keeps attacking with Bai Xiang and penetrating ice blade, but the monkey heals fully within moments of each hit. Her own speed and Bai Xiang’s recovery both slow with each round, leaving her a little dejected. They had already checked that the monkey carried no wild Immortal Gu, only a large number of wild mortal Gu. Fang Yuan notes that immemorial year beasts vary in strength by zodiac animal, dragons, bulls and tigers ranking far above this mid tier monkey, which a rank seven still cannot seriously harm. He orders Fairy Miao Yin to help Bai Ning Bing. Her curved moon sight attack fails completely, since immemorial year monkeys live with their eyes submerged in the river water and those eyes hold their densest time path dao marks. Her follow up lingering tune and soft bone music only soften its arm bones enough to leave it slightly confused before it resumes attacking. ^{ch. 1429}

Hei Lou Lan joins with crimson ray, angry bird and fire phoenix, landing smoothly but causing only a huge commotion and little damage. Fang Yuan judges that even profound rank seven killer moves barely affect rank eights. He can fight rank eight Gu Immortals but not kill them, because his killer move cores are only rank seven Immortal Gu and his defense far surpasses his offense. The Shadow Sect immortals share Fairy Miao Yin’s admiration: only Fang Yuan and Feng Jiu Ge have resisted rank eights as rank sevens in the last few thousand years. Fang Yuan withholds Ying Wu Xie’s lead soul into dream, the group’s one killer move that threatens rank eight existences. He chooses instead to let his people gain experience fighting a rank eight and to wear the monkey down, so it submits more easily to hundred and eighty slaves later. ^{ch. 1429}

When the formation nears collapse, Fang Yuan activates myriad self, ancient sword dragon transformation and reverse flow protection seal. He then uses a rule path Immortal Gu called Big to match the monkey’s size and fights it directly. The Gu only makes him larger, and his strength path methods still cannot match the monkey’s. The monkey repeatedly sends him flying, but reverse flow protection seal reflects its blows fully back onto it, so it suffers worse than he does while the others keep adding damage over several hours. Injured and trying to flee back into the River of Time, the monkey is blocked by Fang Yuan’s dragon body. It submits to hundred and eighty slaves on the third use. That gives Fang Yuan a replacement rank eight battle strength for the upper extreme heavenly eagle he lost earlier. ^{ch. 1429}