Chapter 642

Fang Yuan tries to negotiate, telling Giant Sun’s will that without the immortal essence trapped in his aperture, it cannot use Immortal Gu or break through the wind veil of assimilation. Giant Sun’s will refuses. It laughs and dares him to destroy the immortal essence himself, confident because destroying it inside his own aperture would turn the foreign essence against him, while destroying it outside his body would instead help Giant Sun’s will activate Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 642}

Fang Yuan flees as the wind veil of assimilation creeps closer, shrinking the space he can run to. He suddenly stops inside the light of wisdom. He stops using worldly wave trace Immortal Gu and asks Giant Sun’s will whether it dares to come. Giant Sun’s will halts hundreds of steps away, unwilling to approach because the light of wisdom is its bane, and after the fight so far its remaining will is only the size of an adult man and cannot endure much more exhaustion. Standing there, Fang Yuan feels his lifespan draining without pause, and Mo Yao’s will warns him of it, but he says he has no other choice. Mo Yao’s will sighs that this is simply a struggle at death’s door, since wisdom Gu might stop sending out the light of wisdom in the next moment. ^{ch. 642}

Giant Sun’s will orders Hei Lou Lan’s group to attack, since most of Fang Yuan’s defensive Gu are already gone, and to force him nearer to wisdom Gu so its light burns his lifespan faster. Even Hei Lou Lan avoids close combat. With his Great Strength True Martial Physique, he joins the others in long range attacks instead. Fang Yuan counters from behind four to five layers of light barriers, tens of bone shields, and stone barriers rising from the ground, backed by unlimited primeval essence against Gu Masters who have none to spare. Hei Lou Lan and Ye Lui Sang, tribe leaders of Hei and Ye Lui, urge everyone to keep attacking without pause, since mortal Gu cannot be activated endlessly. ^{ch. 642}

Their hope fails. Fang Yuan’s Gu worms number far more than anyone expects, switching from one to another as if effortless. Giant Sun’s will recalls the stargate Fang Yuan opened inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and realizes he drew support through Hu Immortal blessed land, buying mortal Gu from treasure yellow heaven. He had given most of that stock to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but kept a large share for himself. ^{ch. 642}

Giant Sun’s will strikes past the light of wisdom toward the Gu worms instead, dropping a great pile of mortal Gu onto Hei Lou Lan’s group. It splits itself into about a dozen parts and pours into their apertures, refining thirty-eight Gu for each person and teaching a killer move through them. Giant Sun’s will says it made the move for amusement and had not named it. For now, it calls the move Thirty-Eight Sealing Arts. ^{ch. 642}

The move targets Gu worms, the way rank four problem nipped in the bud Gu and rank five pitch black Gu do, but is far stronger. It cannot seal Immortal Gu. The higher a mortal Gu’s rank, the shorter the seal lasts, and the purple light qi follows an activated Gu’s qi back to its source to seal it, offensive Gu and defensive Gu alike, where historically defensive Gu sealed easier. ^{ch. 642}

Struck by the purple light qi, Fang Yuan’s defensive Gu are sealed one after another, the stone barrier shield Gu going down with the stone barriers and the white bone shields dropping back into flying bone shield Gu. The wind blades he attacks with are touched by the qi too, and the wind blade Gu behind them are sealed inside his aperture. Short on defensive Gu, he takes the initiative to attack the qi instead. He chooses to lose more attacking Gu so his defense holds, worried that purple qi reaching his six arm heavenly zombie king form could seal the Gu worms that sustain it and break the killer move outright. His offensive thins and the crowd of Gu Masters presses him into disadvantage. ^{ch. 642}

Ye Lui Sang sends hundreds of fireballs that tear his skin open, and Gu Guo Long throws wind blades sharp enough to cut fresh wounds into him. More than ten survivors want to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Having lost tribesmen, relatives and friends after entering the blessed land for what should have been an enormous opportunity, their hatred runs deep. One flatters Giant Sun’s will as he curses Fang Yuan, and everyone is reminded not to harm wisdom Gu. ^{ch. 642}