Chapter 1743

Bing Sai Chuan shouts that retreat is too late and that Heavenly Court cannot use fate vanquish again for a short while, so this is their final chance. Escape is impossible anyway, because Heaven Overseeing Tower is extremely fast and they are deep inside Central Continent. The Southern Border and Northern Plains immortals stay and fight with everything they have. Heavenly Court’s pursuers arrive with overwhelming momentum, but they fall into disadvantage against this counterattack. ^{ch. 1743}

Inside the Tower, Duke Long asks Fairy Zi Wei whether the news of fate Gu’s restoration has been announced. She answers that it has spread through treasure yellow heaven, and that she has also broadcast his battle everywhere through human path methods. Mortals, Gu Masters and Gu Immortals alike now watch the fight in Infallible blessed land. She wants to capture the Southern and Northern elites in one sweep and lift Heavenly Court’s prestige to a peak. Duke Long finds this slightly abrupt, but he cooperates. ^{ch. 1743}

The other four regions had plundered Central Continent and greatly harmed Heavenly Court’s prestige, so Heavenly Court must show absolute strength. Fate vanquish suits best, yet it cannot be activated often. Duke Long therefore leaves the Tower under several Gu Immortals and floats out himself. Fang Yuan, Yao Huang and the other rank eight Gu Immortals besiege him with several killer moves, shielded by Immortal Gu Houses, among them Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building. Duke Long stays unmoved, and the nine phantom dragons around him blow the dust away. ^{ch. 1743}

Bing Sai Chuan despairs that Duke Long is several times stronger than before and that the half-ruined Calamity Luck Altar cannot match him. Fang Yuan uses Myriad Ghost Sword Dragon and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu uses Centipede Scar, drowning Duke Long from all directions. Duke Long calls them good but not enough and casts Qi Current Scissors, which cuts the dragons apart and smashes the centipedes into fragments. Central Continent rejoices, and the invading Gu Immortals begin to retreat. ^{ch. 1743}

Duke Long vanishes and smashes Yi Hao Fang down from five hundred feet, leaving him heavily injured in a huge pit. When he reappears before Yi Hao Fang, Five Elements Grandmaster and Chi Qu You, having calculated that he would keep attacking, lay a formation around him. He shatters it and they take the backlash, but he is stopped for a moment and misses the chance to kill Yi Hao Fang. Yi Hao Fang, a famous rank eight expert of Southern Border, was almost killed in less than three moves. He heals himself, icy cold inside. ^{ch. 1743}

Then the ground bursts open and the giant dragon Di Zang Sheng flies out, swearing to crush Duke Long. Duke Long charges it head-on, and their fight is a stalemate. Di Zang Sheng was supposed to be trapped in Hidden Dragon Cave, but Duke Long had once suppressed it personally, so its coming for him is natural. Heavenly Court immortals are stunned by its power, which is put down to the merging of the five regions and their earth veins and to Central Continent’s fury over countless sacrificed lives. The Southern and Northern immortals talk of retreating, but Fang Yuan refuses, because Duke Long is stalled and they can reach the Tower and destroy fate Gu. He charges first, Bing Sai Chuan and the Northern Plains immortals follow, and the Southern Border immortals attack a moment later while Duke Long, held by Di Zang Sheng, can only watch. ^{ch. 1743}