Second Battle in the River of Time!
Fang Yuan’s myriad year hunting sends a year beast army charging toward Myriad Year Flying Warship from every direction. He built the move up from immemorial year beast fishing formation, taking it to its limit. Years flow like water Immortal Gu forms its core, and the River of Time amplifies it into extraordinary power. Heavenly Court’s two rank seven Immortal Gu Houses match rank eight battle strength against most beasts, but killing them is pointless. The beasts keep coming while the warship exists, and the explosive killer moves drain immortal essence. This is an enslavement path tactic to consume Heavenly Court’s battle strength. ch. 1812
Instead of retreating, the warship charges into Shark Flow Lever, with Li Huang inside, and Heavenly Court’s two houses and Gu Liu Ru surround and attack the warship. The battle reaches an extreme level of intensity immediately as the warship takes the blows firmly. Gu Liu Ru sees that Fang Yuan means to delay them until the beasts surround them. He reminds Li Huang of the river suppression lotus sealing formation behind them, where many Gu Immortals control the formation cores. Its loss would cost many Immortal Gu and these rank seven Gu Immortals, and it drifts very slowly, so it cannot escape. Li Huang curses Fang Yuan as truly insidious and vicious. ch. 1812
Gu Liu Ru wants to recall the Gu Immortals inside the formation slowly, while Li Huang wants to kill Fang Yuan. Three immemorial year beasts reach the battlefield first, and Li Huang beats two of them to death within a dozen breaths with the huge sharks and the killer move of Shark Flow Lever. While he is busy, Fang Yuan bombards the formation with daybreak sword, and it turns unstable and crumbles in many places as the Gu Immortals inside the cores die at once. Gu Liu Ru and Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform cannot harm the warship, whose defense is extremely tough, and must block Fang Yuan’s attacks to cover the retreating Gu Immortals. Fang Yuan gains the initiative. ch. 1812
Li Huang detours to hit the warship from behind, but Fang Yuan has subordinates aboard to help. Spring scissors dodges Gu Liu Ru and beheads a female immortal, and Gu Liu Ru recognises Xia Cha’s trump card, modified to suit rank seven cultivation. Summer fan, also rank seven, blows more holes in the formation and destroys several Immortal Gu. When an immemorial year beast rams the warship, slightly tilting it, Li Huang and Gu Liu Ru realise that Fang Yuan can only lure the tide, not control it, and that the beasts target the warship itself. They have been blocking the enemy for him. ch. 1812
Fang Yuan has the warship cling to Shark Flow Lever or the platform, so the beasts’ rush also hits those houses. The beasts pack into a sphere so tight that the three houses have no room to move, and even an immemorial year beast is ground to death inside within a dozen seconds. The formation is destroyed completely, Heavenly Court’s effort is wasted, and most of the formation’s Gu Immortals die miserably at Fang Yuan’s hands despite every rescue attempt. Gu Liu Ru calls for leaving, or no one will survive. Fang Yuan rampages unhindered, and Heavenly Court’s battle tactics fail completely. ch. 1812
Torrential charge activates beneath the warship, and the daybreak swords around it pierce the torrent and explode with unimaginable speed. Li Huang cries out in shock, and the warship collides into the damaged Shark Flow Lever, destroying it and killing the remaining huge sharks. Li Huang activates verdant sun flame cloak, but the warship’s remaining momentum weakens it to a small flame. Fang Yuan attacks with summer fan and spring scissors, which Li Huang takes for rank eight until they reveal they are only rank seven. Li Huang roars that he was deceived, and the warship follows, extinguishing the cloak completely and caving in his chest. Countless silver swords pierce through his body. ch. 1812
Li Huang’s last thought before dying is disbelief that he is going to die here. Gu Liu Ru shouts for a retreat, unable to save Li Huang, who may be the stronger of the two but is definitely worse placed in the River of Time without an Immortal Gu House. Fang Yuan has prepared too long to allow a rescue. Gu Liu Ru controls Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform and leaves the battlefield rapidly. Fang Yuan gives chase, declaring that this will be the final resting place of Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals. Intent on escaping, Gu Liu Ru engraves this defeat in his heart as a disgrace, judging it wisest to preserve their strength and fight later, and thinks Fang Yuan may stay arrogant for now. ch. 1812
