Chapter 675

Fang Yuan’s immense skill in close combat overwhelms Plump Lady, who can only parry and never retaliate. He finds an opening, coils his eight arms around her, and tears off the sand giant’s two arms. He then flies above her, smashes her head apart with his knee, and chops through her body with his leg before it can regenerate. Martial sand armor breaks apart; Plump Lady vomits blood and falls. Fang Yuan chases her down and slams her into the desert, tearing open a crater a thousand steps wide and thirty meters deep. ^{ch. 675}

The corpse in the crater disintegrates into sand: only a body double. Plump Lady’s real body, hidden nearby, floods the crater with yellow sand and traps Fang Yuan underneath using her killer move burial dragon sand coffin, a move she values at least three immortal essence stones in treasure yellow heaven. A horned dragon statue forms on the now-flat desert and gathers the sand into pressure from every side. She says a trapped enemy cannot move until it is crushed to paste, as the desolate beast evil dragon once was. Believing she has won, Plump Lady relaxes, though the punch that broke her armor has already injured her heavily. ^{ch. 675}

Underground explosions soon shake the desert. The dragon statue cracks, completely disintegrates, and a huge figure bursts free. Fang Yuan emerges wearing hair armor, a black, spiked, very fearsome defensive killer move built on rank five Indestructible Steel Mane Gu with several hundred assisting Gu. Hair armor will be the chaotic five regions war’s most common defensive killer move, cheap and easy to replenish. His immortal zombie hair, already tough as steel, makes the armor stronger than on an ordinary body, letting him take burial dragon sand coffin without injury. Plump Lady cannot recognize a move four hundred years early, but she judges it stronger than her own martial sand armor and worth two and a half immortal essence stones in treasure yellow heaven. ^{ch. 675}

Plump Lady tries to defuse the fight, naming herself Mo clan’s Gu Immortal chasing a thief and claiming a misunderstanding. Fang Yuan speaks for the first time in the battle, his voice hoarse and terrible, promising it would be enjoyable to kill her regardless of Mo clan’s standing as a western desert super force. Sensing incredible battle strength for a rank six Gu Immortal, Plump Lady grows more afraid as black bat wings sprout from his back. Fang Yuan shoots forward with the movement killer move light illusion bat wings, and Plump Lady screams in immense fear before bursting away with her own killer move, light sand escape, at even greater speed. A second activation cannot catch her, and she vanishes over the horizon. ^{ch. 675}

Far off, Ling Hu Xu, hidden in a sand dune, judges that Plump Lady has suffered a huge loss and that her foundation will suffer for using light sand escape at all. Fang Yuan searches the battlefield with investigative Gu for a long time and finds nothing, while Ling Hu Xu holds his breath under the sweep. He leaves, secretly returns once more from the clouds to check, and finally leaves for good. Ling Hu Xu, cold with sweat, decides Fang Yuan is too dangerous to trail. He keeps the immortal essence stones he already holds and drills underground in the opposite direction, his movement killer moves keeping his speed close to an ordinary Gu Immortal’s flight. ^{ch. 675}

Fang Yuan returns to Sha Jing oasis, now lit and noisy with mortals still panicked by the battle, and ignores them to find Han Li again with luck inspection Gu. This time, extremely alert, he uses connect luck Gu carefully in secret, and the connection goes smoothly. Han Li’s monolith luck shrinks rapidly, fills with cracks, and crumbles. His luck falls to an ordinary mortal’s smoke-trace level, and the trace turns from grey-white to black. Fang Yuan’s heart sinks at the sight. At that same moment, Han Li is eating dinner with his newly returned parents, extremely hungry, while his mother, very concerned, urges him to eat slowly. He suddenly chokes on his food; his parents panic but cannot save him, and he dies. ^{ch. 675}