Chapter 416

Several months later, the foxes mass into an army ringing Dang Hun mountain. Fang Yuan stands at the peak on the day of the sixth earthly calamity. Each earthly calamity is fiercer than the last, a cruel trial deciding the life and death of a Gu Immortal and his blessed land. Fang Yuan gained the blessed land only fifteen months before this calamity. He prepared by digging a river against the water and fire crisis, breeding more foxes, and holding Fixed Immortal Travel Gu ready for a retreat. The clouds and the blue charm lightning shadow in the west area he cannot deal with. ^{ch. 416}

A great white round door forms in the cloud sea, and a brown-yellow monster descends from it like a large rock. Fang Yuan recognizes a desolate beast calamity and hopes the beast carries no Immortal Gu, for with one its strength would surpass Gu Immortals. In such a calamity, desolate beasts charge a blessed land’s central control area, and unless exterminated in time they will raze even a large blessed land. The beast rises on nine pairs of chelipeds, and he names it a swamp crab. The land spirit restricts its Gu worms with heavenly power, so rank one to five Gu worms cannot display their abilities. A blessed land cannot restrict an Immortal Gu. Whether the crab holds one is the most important element of the battle. ^{ch. 416}

Fang Yuan sends the foxes rushing at the crab like tides, and the ordinary ones are stomped into meat paste. He directs them to keep giving up their lives, since they were bred as disposable pieces. The attacks of the fox beast kings blow the mud off its body, and for the first time it stops. It spews mud that forms a swamp, and a crab army of a million stands up from it. The swamp crab can breed at any time and place, so the crabs die in great numbers but never run out. Fang Yuan calls back the foxes hiding outside the mountain. He is thankful that he expended his estrus Gu to breed many foxes. ^{ch. 416}

Directing so many foxes leaves Fang Yuan dizzy, while the crab advances through its own army, crushing foxes and crabs alike. He asks Little Hu Immortal, the land spirit, whether she can teleport it away. Not every land spirit can teleport others, though Ba Gui of three kings blessed land could. She uses all her strength and one bead of green grape immortal essence to send it about nine thousand steps off. Five minutes later the crab returns, and she teleports it again with another bead. Seventy-eight beads are all that Hu Immortal blessed land holds. Fang Yuan used one to feed Fixed Immortal Travel Gu and has now used two more, and since Hu Immortal is dead, no bead can be replenished. ^{ch. 416}

Some crabs break through unguarded areas and charge up the mountain. He has the land spirit unleash the might of Dang Hun mountain, which leaves numerous crabs dead with bodies intact and souls completely destroyed. The beast’s own soul is strong and can last a while under the mountain’s pressure, so it must not reach and destroy the mountain. Fang Yuan does not fight, since his strength path Gu worms could not break the shell. The crab has not used an Immortal Gu yet, and he is uncertain whether it has one. The unknown is the greatest threat, so he dares not strike rashly. ^{ch. 416}

Just as the crab is teleported away for the third time, the land spirit’s expression changes. She grabs Fang Yuan’s arm, and they both vanish on the spot. A fierce lightning bolt lands where they stood and shatters the mountain rocks. It turns into a human-shaped lightning and growls, and this is the blue charm lightning shadow. ^{ch. 416}