Chapter 884

As Dark Prison bears down, three of the giant’s arms transform. One palm grows a star cloud spiral, growing to five or six times an ordinary star cloud grindstone’s size and spinning fifty to sixty percent faster than usual, another folds into a navy shield, and the third grips a light yellow veil. The grindstone sucks Dark Prison in and explodes. Dark Prison charges out. The navy shield blocks it next, then breaks, leaving it with less than thirty percent of its original power. Weakened, Dark Prison strikes the earth veil, doing the giant’s chest only minor damage. ^{ch. 884}

While Hei Cheng alone activates Dark Prison, Heavenly Giant Solor works like an Immortal Gu House, growing stronger with more Gu Immortals. Unlike an Immortal Gu House, it works best when everyone shares one path, and these fighters do not, so it falls short of its true strength. Only the hairy men’s numbers let it form. Such demands are one reason battle formations vanished from history, while Immortal Gu Houses proved more convenient. ^{ch. 884}

Qin Bai Sheng keeps grabbing Gu worms from the broken sky, while the black robed Gu Immortal and Fairy Jiang Yu do the same. The land spirit screams in alarm. Losing Refinement Cauldron will collapse huge tracts of Lang Ya blessed land. The giant keeps blocking Dark Prison’s charges, but cannot stop it interrupting every approach to Qin Bai Sheng. ^{ch. 884}

Lightning flashes as an Immortal Gu appears in the broken space. Qin Bai Sheng seizes it by some special method, though it belongs to the land spirit and cannot resist him. The loss shakes Lang Ya blessed land violently, sending huge waves over its three continents and collapsing space elsewhere. ^{ch. 884}

Fang Yuan, shocked, forms his own guess. As Qin Bai Sheng keeps taking Immortal Gu, the blessed land collapses further under tsunamis, hurricanes and floods, and countless hairy men die, mortals paying for immortals’ fight. ^{ch. 884}

He knows an immortal aperture’s environment is shaped by the dao marks it holds. The land spirit has fused Immortal Gu into the aperture, letting their dao marks become its own and swell its space. Losing them to Qin Bai Sheng now shrinks it. Fang Yuan’s guess is correct. The rank eight Immortal Gu House Refinement Cauldron, fused into the aperture so its refinement range covered the world, let the previous land spirit nurture so many hairy man Gu Immortals. But moving it would shrink the blessed land drastically and cost many lives, which is why the land spirit fights with the formation instead of summoning it. ^{ch. 884}

The giant slaps Dark Prison away and charges Qin Bai Sheng, but Dark Prison crashes into its shoulder, unbalancing it, repeating more than a dozen times. Dragged in, Hei Cheng grits his teeth through Dark Prison’s mounting damage. He insists it is useless to destroy Dark Prison, since an Immortal Gu House needs only its core Immortal Gu intact to keep functioning, replenishing lost mortal Gu. ^{ch. 884}

The land spirit agrees that Hei Cheng is right. But Hei Cheng finds many of Dark Prison’s Gu worms, including two Immortal Gu, already refined by the land spirit. By his own logic, Refinement Cauldron works the same way, growing weaker as it loses Gu worms and even Immortal Gu, yet still refining others’ Gu as long as its core stays intact. ^{ch. 884}

The land spirit declares victory: fifteen minutes have passed, and Refinement Cauldron still has two hairy man Gu Immortals guarding it. But Qin Bai Sheng only smiles coldly and asks if he is sure. Two hairy man Gu Immortals descend to greet him as Lord Vice Envoy. The two left to guard Refinement Cauldron are Shadow Sect’s undercover agents. With them striking from within and Qin Bai Sheng’s side pressing from without, the loss of Refinement Cauldron is now a foregone conclusion. ^{ch. 884}