Fang Yuan vs Giant Sun's will (1/2)
Fang Yuan thanks the fairy for saving him from death, and his battle intent surges as he loosens his joints and readies himself. Mo Yao’s will tells him that if he wants to repay her he should return Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House, and urges him to fight quickly. Fang Yuan agrees with a laugh and jumps up in his six arm heavenly zombie king form, green eyed and fanged. The water armor shrinks into a helmet over his head, so Giant Sun’s will’s mental attacks can no longer reach him. He steps forward and punches at Giant Sun’s will. The expected impact never comes. ch. 640
Giant Sun’s will, far too experienced to trade blows directly, turns its sword into a golden ribbon that coils lightly around Fang Yuan’s wrist before flying off like a flash of light. It cuts his hammer like fist away at the wrist. Even six arm heavenly zombie king’s defense cannot match Giant Sun’s will’s sharpness. Fang Yuan rolls away and quickly picks up his severed hand. Pressing it back onto the oozing green wound, he watches the flesh mend and the bones join together, the strong regenerative power of six arm heavenly zombie king. ch. 640
Giant Sun’s will gives him no time to recover, turning into a rainbow sword and charging again as Fang Yuan shoots into the sky, chased relentlessly. He activates four eagle rise Gu at once. But the sword rainbow is faster and closes the distance. Activating wind flower Gu again, so many times now that he has lost count, changes his direction rapidly, but the sword rainbow is even more agile and uses the moment to catch up instead of falling behind. The two clash intensely in the air, the sword rainbow circling and striking Fang Yuan again and again. Fang Yuan is completely outmatched, since six arm heavenly zombie king’s strong defense proves extremely weak against it, and flesh keeps falling from the sky, all cut from his own body. Only his lost sense of pain from six arm heavenly zombie king, together with Water Pavilion’s helmet blocking Giant Sun’s will from his mind, keeps him fighting at all. ch. 640
Mo Yao’s will grows anxious, telling him he is making no progress. Fang Yuan snaps back that it is easy for her to say, his gaze turning more ruthless. Giant Sun’s will is unlike an ordinary enemy, since it carries almost no mass and turns with a speed Fang Yuan’s own flying attainment cannot match. It holds no fixed form, becoming a sword rainbow to cut, an axe to chop, a rain of needles for a wide attack, or a hammer for a heavy blow. Most troublesome of all, it can split and re-form at will, dividing into two or three sword rainbows for a pincer attack or combining a hammer with a sword so one strikes his defense while the other shoots like lightning. Every combination is used flexibly and without error. It could be said this fully displays a will’s advantages in battle. ch. 640
Fang Yuan, reborn onto the strength and enslavement paths, is built for fighting head on, matching fists with fists and using numbers to overwhelm an enemy, and has no method against a foe like this. Taking hits passively is only natural against it. In the sky, his green black figure clashes against Giant Sun’s will’s golden rainbow, forming a battle arena of its own, while the countless Gu worms still flying about instinctively give the two combatants room and dodge the formless hands. Ye Lui Sang, his own injuries mostly healed, raises his head and sighs that he cannot imagine how many Immortal Gu formed Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, given how many Gu worm groups remain even after so many have already flown out. His standing as a super tribe’s leader wins him help from other Gu Masters at the crucial moment. ch. 640
Some Gu Masters point out that few formless hands remain, and that with so many Gu worms still filling the air they can capture enough to regain their battle strength. Others quickly agree they must work together and move fast, since the wind veil of assimilation keeps thickening and the space inside keeps shrinking. Hei Lou Lan, walking over while looking at the unconscious Tai Bai Yun Sheng, warns that the wind veil is beyond what mortals can handle and that only Ancestor Giant Sun’s strength can save them. Everyone falls silent, watching the furious combat above. They are too frightened by both fighters’ terrifying strength to think of interfering. Hei Lou Lan’s warning is true all the same, since however many mortal Gu they subdue, they cannot break through the wind veil themselves. ch. 640
Hei Lou Lan presses on. He asks how this scoundrel could match Ancestor Giant Sun, pointing out that the ancestor has held the upper hand throughout, which the visible battle confirms to everyone watching. He explains that although the ancestor has the advantage he cannot turn it into victory, since that scoundrel has taken all of the ancestor’s immortal essence, leaving him more than a dozen Immortal Gu he cannot use. Everyone nods, accepting his analysis, and when Ye Lui Sang asks what to do next, Hei Lou Lan laughs and holds up Tai Bai Yun Sheng, naming him the captive senior brother of that scoundrel and their closest bond. He proposes that since their own strength is too limited to do more than assist the ancestor, everyone should capture Gu worms to rebuild their strength and openly report what they already hold so they can cooperate, and he offers to go first. ch. 640
Gu Masters normally keep the Gu worms they own secret, since the information could be used against them and cost their lives. But with their lives already on the line, everyone reports them anyway to raise their odds of survival. The chapter states that Hei Lou Lan is a natural leader with a fierce reputation, and he leads by exposing his own Gu worms first, prompting the rest to follow and letting him fold these Gu Masters back under his command. His ambition is to ascend to immortal, for which he needs a strength path Immortal Gu from Giant Sun’s will. These Gu Masters are the pawns serving that goal. ch. 640
In the sky the battle reaches its climax as Fang Yuan howls that he has caught it, his six steel hard arms grabbing for the sword of Giant Sun’s will at lightning speed. But Giant Sun’s will instantly splits apart. His long awaited counterattack destroys only a sliver of its thoughts. Cursing, Fang Yuan finds himself with no way to counter something that splits and gathers so freely, reduced to a punching bag making no real progress. ch. 640
Mo Yao’s will sighs that if there is no other choice they will have to settle into a drawn out battle. Giant Sun’s will has no source of energy, so its own thinking during the fight only speeds the collision and expenditure of its thoughts. Fang Yuan refuses while still fighting. He reminds her that six arm heavenly zombie king only lasts thirty minutes before its backlash turns him fully into a zombie, cutting off both apertures’ life force and his cultivation with them. Mo Yao retorts that he underestimates himself, since a strength path Gu Immortal’s qualitatively changed life essence stretches that limit far past thirty minutes, to roughly an hour by her estimate. Fang Yuan answers that they still cannot delay, since the shrinking wind veil keeps closing in and his own methods cannot counter the special will, and asks whether Water Pavilion has any answer. ch. 640
Mo Yao sighs that Water Pavilion, though rank seven, is suited to concealment and movement rather than attack. Her main body left behind only twenty or so beads of red date immortal essence, of which just five remain after years of sustaining the Gu House. She warns him to give up on Water Pavilion turning the fight around. Then she suddenly cries out a warning, too late. Giant Sun’s will had feigned its attack to draw Fang Yuan’s attention before circling behind him and striking brutally. ch. 640
Fang Yuan vomits green zombie blood as his eight eagle wings are smashed to pieces and his spine shatters, his back caving in and his chest caving out from the impact. The force sends him plunging rapidly. He tries to mobilize his Gu worms to fly clear, but Giant Sun’s will gives him no such chance, coiling the golden rainbow around him as he curls up behind his eight arms, barely able to protect himself. Giant Sun’s will shifts freely between slashing, cutting, slamming, and piercing, destroying his eight arms and leaving his zombie king body torn from front to back. Only his six arm heavenly zombie king form spares him a death his human body could not have survived, and only by keeping the form active without pause can he barely keep up with Giant Sun’s will at all. ch. 640
