Thirty-three Heavenly Lights

In the Frosty Peak spar, with tortoise shell thoughts still proliferating, Xia Fei Kuai prepares this killer move, shouts its name, and challenges how many layers of heavenly lights the thoughts can stop. Narration states it is one of his trump cards, renowned throughout Southern Border. Xia Zhuo Mo recognises it as his area-of-effect method. Once activated, intense light shoots from him to the surroundings, and under that illumination all things receive light path injuries. The lights are like lights descending from heaven, which is why the move has this name. ^{ch. 1311}

At the first flicker the damage is not high and can at most kill some insects. The second can destroy plants and flowers. The third kills birds and animals. The fourth destroys large trees and crumbles boulders. The power keeps growing through later flickers until it threatens even desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts. The small tortoise shell thoughts are hard, but they cannot compare with desolate beasts and would be destroyed by the thirty-three heavenly lights. ^{ch. 1311}

The move is not practical: once it is activated the Gu Immortal has to stop moving, and if they budge even a little the killer move immediately stops and Xia Fei Kuai suffers backlash. Stopping before the tenth flicker inflicts light injuries, stopping between the tenth and twenty-third flicker inflicts medium injuries, and stopping after the twenty-third inflicts heavy injuries. After the thirtieth flicker the backlash is even stronger, and he might suffer fatal injuries. ^{ch. 1311}

On this cast the first two flickers leave Fang Yuan’s thoughts unmoved or still growing. The third starts them shaking. The fourth makes some crumble. The fifth collapses hundreds. The sixth destroys a thousand and the periphery starts to collapse. Before the seventh flicker, seventy to eighty thousand thoughts surge into the divination tortoise’s mind and withdraw from the valley. Only the enormous tortoise remains on the ground. The lights still run from the seventh flicker through the thirty-third. With the thoughts gone, those lights have no meaning against them, but Xia Fei Kuai cannot carelessly stop. After the thirty-third flicker he has spent a large amount of immortal essence. The mountain valley is turned into a flat land, the hills gone. Fang Yuan hides head, tail, and limbs inside the shell during the stronger flickers and takes no injuries. ^{ch. 1311}