Chapter 1690

After leaving Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, Fang Yuan names the immortal killer move Myriad Beings Assimilation Transformation. It is Beast Calamity Immortal’s unique method, adding a great number of transformation path dao marks and turning the target’s other dao marks into transformation path dao marks. The move expends an enormous amount of immortal essence and needs abundant positive, righteous emotions, which explains the nature of the Combat Beast Warriors. Fang Yuan’s rank eight immortal essence could support two rank eight battles, and his very high wisdom path attainment supplies the emotions. What he lacks are the four Immortal Gu forming the move. Its core is rank eight Adaptation, a transformation path Immortal Gu and Beast Calamity Immortal’s vital Gu, and the other three are rank seven. ^{ch. 1690}

He plans to find them with heaven form and snatch them with great thief ghost hand. Taking the whole grotto-heaven is somewhat troublesome. The Beast Calamity heavenly spirit can destroy it, so rash force would cost him more than it gains. Desolate beasts, ancient ones and even a star sea snail’s shell can serve the move. Beast Calamity Immortal used the move on the entire grotto-heaven, so in extremity it could merge with the Gu Immortals for a temporary rank eight battle strength. Fang Yuan would win but bear all the losses, so he must find a way to restrict it. He may invade again with familiar face, since the heavenly spirit is very unlikely to see through him. ^{ch. 1690}

News arrives that Dragon Palace has appeared and that four Eastern Sea rank eights obstructed Duke Long. Shadow Sect’s true inheritance holds only superficial clues, chiefly that its inheritor must be a dragonman. Fang Yuan praises the four rank eights and leaves for Eastern Sea at once, since Dragon Palace cannot be left to Heavenly Court. Dragon Palace holds an unknown dream path Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 1690}

Days later in Eastern Sea, Shi Miao retreats, spitting blood after an intense explosion. Duke Long charges Dragon Palace, but Granny Rong, heavily injured and releasing purple gas, blocks him. Duke Long detours, since her purple poisonous air is a poison path trump card that even he will not touch. She has lost the most: a core Immortal Gu is destroyed, her speed falls greatly, and she is forced into an extremely passive state. Duke Long slams Dragon Palace into the sea, raising an enormous wave, and it dives deeper on its own. ^{ch. 1690}

Duke Long strikes to his left and is blocked by the disguised Song Qi Yuan, first supreme elder of Song clan. He says Eastern Sea’s righteous path is finally making a move and lets Dragon Palace sink from sight. Qing Yue clan’s first supreme elder Qing Yue An and Hua clan’s first supreme elder Hua Cai Yun show themselves. Duke Long cuts Hua Cai Yun off and attacks, and after several immortal killer moves the three are suppressed and forced back. Fang Yuan, disguised as a sea snake, sees that Duke Long used only transformation path methods, not his most proficient qi path killer moves. Purple Mountain True Monarch had once forced those from him. ^{ch. 1690}

Fang Yuan slowly leaves the battlefield. He reasons that the righteous path has already decided and more rank eights are coming. Eastern Sea, richest of the five regions, has the most rank eights. Two more righteous path rank eights arrive and obstruct Dragon Palace, and Zhang Yin, Granny Rong and others fight them. Fang Yuan hides in the mud at the sea bottom to wait for an opportunity. ^{ch. 1690}