Decent, I Suppose
Countless blade path phantoms surround Fang Yuan, and endless blade lights fill the sky, isolating inside from outside. Meng Tu, shielded by many layers of phantoms, says Fang Yuan should never have come, and that arriving when Meng Tu first came might have left Fang Yuan some chance at survival. Fang Yuan completes the thought: after years of comprehending blade path here, Meng Tu can greatly influence the dao marks into an environment close to an immortal battlefield killer move. Meng Tu’s expression changes, since he believed nobody knew his trump card. Fang Yuan says this method is why he came, though it is no true immortal battlefield, because Meng Tu’s influence is at its maximum and uncontrollable, leaving him trapped too. Asked nervously who he is, Fang Yuan answers by calling the phantoms many but poor in quality and proposing a spar. ch. 1564
The ghostly monsters woven on the emperor robe come alive, jump out and grow large as yama children, crushing every phantom in their way. Each has rank seven battle strength. The yama children are ancient soul beasts from green ghost desert that Fang Yuan modified into human shapes after deducing emperor yama. He drew on blood deity, which he completed as an Immortal Gu recipe with the light of wisdom and grasped as an immortal killer move, and on Spectral Soul’s true inheritance, including soul beast modification. Spectral Soul’s modified soul beasts were loyal enough to face even Duke Long without fear. Fang Yuan also merged Life and Death Retrieval completely into emperor yama, so the yama children can return instantly. Spectral Soul Demon Venerable created that move by comprehending the Door of Life and Death, which receives souls at death but weakened greatly after Red Lotus Demon Venerable damaged fate Gu, leaving souls to linger as soul beasts. ch. 1564
A yama child with a broken thigh is knocked down, but Fang Yuan wills it to return, and it turns to fog and flies back into the robe. Meng Tu, astonished, cannot decipher the killer move, whose base ghostly concealment is a rank nine artificial secluded domain of heaven and earth. Still, the yama children are limited in number, injuries accumulate, and Fang Yuan recalls them, so fewer and fewer face unlimited phantoms. Meng Tu judges that the battle has likely weakened the plain’s foundation by more than half, yet he persists in the war of attrition, spending the tribe’s future benefits. Fang Yuan’s earlier words had truly scared Meng Tu, as intended. ch. 1564
With fewer than ten yama children left, the first yama child Fang Yuan recalled has recovered completely, at the cost of his soul foundation. Fang Yuan calls the recovery passable and unleashes soul explosion, and vast waves of darkness leave the yama children safe while extinguishing every phantom. Meng Tu is sent back hundreds of steps and half-kneels. Fang Yuan supposes the soul explosion decent, noting that one yama child, used completely, produced peak rank seven power that still does not reach rank eight. He rates defense, yama child, recovery and soul explosion all at peak rank seven, and says emperor yama’s true power lies in two other aspects. ch. 1564
Meng Tu charges, shouting for his killer move heaven and earth blade. Fang Yuan answers with Great Thief Ghost Hand, and a ghost hand as large as a handheld fan appears behind Meng Tu, enters his body and leaves. Meng Tu coughs up blood as the hand robs the core Immortal Gu of heaven and earth blade, the killer move fails, and the backlash seriously injures him. He cries out in unprecedented fright, asking where his Immortal Gu is. ch. 1564
