Chapter 1603

More and more year beasts pour into the battlefield, and the immortals, spending their killer moves on them, grow truly helpless and tired. Lu Wei Yin pants as he faces two immemorial year beasts alone while secretly helping the rank seven immortals. Fang Yuan enslaves each immemorial year beast that loses. Another is lured in, and Xia Cha destroys two more formation cores, which do not become spiral entrances because years flow execution formation can sustain only three. After an entire day of intense battle, Fang Yuan has gained seven immemorial year beasts and Xia Cha has destroyed nine cores. ^{ch. 1603}

With the formation shaking, Fang Yuan finally acts, and a great thief ghost hand flies out of an ancient year beast’s mouth. Tie Qu Zhong loses his rank seven edge Gu, and the backlash of his failed killer move leaves him heavily injured. Fang Yuan is pleased, because he needs edge Gu as a core of time cutting edge. He spares Tie Qu Zhong to draw reinforcements, and Shang Hu Zhang and the rest who rush in are robbed of multiple Immortal Gu. Shang Hu Zhang warns that Fang Yuan has enslaved some very dangerous year beasts. ^{ch. 1603}

The extremely alarmed immortals attack more often and guard themselves, which wins the advantage back for Southern Border. When their strength falls again, Fang Yuan steals more Immortal Gu. With unlucky year already used, his luck is too dominant, and most are cores of their killer moves or Gu he needs. Several immortals suffer deep injuries from the backlash of their killer moves. Lu Wei Yin and Xia Cha destroy the two great thief ghost hands aimed at them. Without Lu Wei Yin, extremely skilled at defending the others, immortals would already be dying. ^{ch. 1603}

Xia Cha shouts a command, and storm winds and lightning condense into a huge fan in her hands. Her wave breaks the formation core where Fang Yuan stands, his seven orifices bleed, and his location is exposed. Controlling the formation, three ghost hands and the year beast army, he has no thoughts left to activate reverse flow protection seal. A wave to the left hits Bai Ning Bing, who uses Bai Xiang and shatters. A wave to the right bursts Lady White Rabbit’s body, and she dies. After three waves of Summer Fan the formation is about to break, Fang Yuan’s side is injured, and the dimmed fan lights again. ^{ch. 1603}

Fang Yuan realises Xia Cha had deduced the formation deeply and might not have struck had his ghost hands not threatened the immortals. Her performance exceeds Shadow Sect’s information, and she may have formation path attainment too. A broken formation would bring him huge backlashes, and even reverse flow protection seal would be very awkward, costing him the formation’s Gu worms. Liu Hao shouts that the time has come for Fang Yuan to die and uses fixed space Immortal Gu, so Fang Yuan can no longer use Fixed Immortal Travel in the area. Xia Cha smiles, saying she can kill him even in the River of Time. ^{ch. 1603}

Fang Yuan asks why he would escape, and the ancient year beasts stiffen and release dream realms. Xia Cha’s fan is completely ineffective against them, and the dream realms close over her, Lu Wei Yin and the rest. They submerge the whole formation, which loses its use, and the year beasts fall asleep. Bai Ning Bing has recovered in Bai Xiang form, which regenerates from even a tiny fragment. Fairy Miao Yin gasps at the power of dream path. Dream path is a brand new path, nearly unstoppable now, and existing paths are unlikely to have measures that counter it. ^{ch. 1603}