Chapter 127: Demon Venerable's Might
More than half of Spectral Soul's thousand arms were already chopped off by the jade flying birds. His body was covered in wounds, but he was not resisting at all.
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"Sword Immortal Bo Qing is actually a split soul of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!" Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals cried out.
Among them, an old woman said in shame: "There is no denying it with the evidence in front of us. My Spirit Affinity House is at fault for failing to investigate properly."
"The methods of a Demon Venerable are almost impossible to defend against. Even in Heavenly Court, his split soul spies were lurking here, not to mention Spirit Affinity House. It was fortunate that Tower Lord noticed it and used Heaven Overseeing Tower to expose these shocking secrets, that gave us the chance to stop this terrifying demon!"
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortal exclaimed.
In this situation, even though they could not do anything, Spectral Soul's condition was not good either.
Every since grey memory descended, Spectral Soul had been standing still, allowing the myriad tribulation grand clear space to assault him, he was already covered in countless injuries.
After a long time the myriad tribulation grand clear space finally ended.
Spectral Soul did not put up any resistance, his entire body was hurt by the countless green birds, his mass had shrunk by one third.
At the same time, Heaven Overseeing Tower was prepared to strike, it seemed to be close to getting out of its phantom form.
The surrounding grey fog had dissipated by half.
This meant that the myriad tribulation, grey memory, was already half over.
But the tribulations from the sky still continued!
Another myriad tribulation was gathering on top of Spectral Soul's head.
Myriad tribulation — Dark Oil Poison.
From the sky, drops of sticky poisonous oil dripped down.
The oil seemed to be boiling hot, when they landed on Spectral Soul's body, there was a sizzling noise as smoke rose.
The oil entered the wounds created earlier, flowing in and corroding Spectral Soul's body, an intense process of rotting was occurring inside.
Soon, the poisonous oil turned from drops to streams, countless streams were raining down from the sky, over the surroundings.
Spectral Soul's huge body was bathed in poisonous oil, it was rotting at an observable rate, his body mass was shrinking rapidly.
But he did not do anything.
Ying Wu Xie, who was below, had an anxious expression.
He wanted to call out, but he was in the grand tribulation earth collapse, any movement or intense thinking would cause him to sink further.
"What is wrong with you guys, both of you are acting like this!" He grumbled, looking at immortal zombie Bo Qing beside him.
A very far distance away.
Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were assisting each other as they escaped.
Behind them, a group of Southern Border Gu Immortals were chasing them.
The xenophobia of the five regions' Gu Immortals was quite strong. Even in the most open Eastern Sea, foreign Gu Immortals did not have an easy time, they were often ostracized and bullied by Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
In the earlier battle, after Hei Lou Lan nearly killed a Southern Border Gu Immortal, the situation became uncontrollable.
The Southern Border Gu Immortals flew into a rage, these Northern Plains outsiders were so arrogant and bullying them, not only did they fight in Southern Border, they injured them. Where did they think they were?
Thus, the chasing continued, not just that, they even gathered their allies and reinforcements.
Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were not in good condition to begin with, they were injured. They battle as they retreated, under their skillful movement, they got farther and farther away from Yi Tian Mountain.
The myriad tribulation dark oil poison had already ended, Spectral Soul was now surrounded by another myriad tribulation.
This myriad tribulation was unknown, it had broken the limits of historical records.
It was formless and ethereal, only a mystical aura that could not be perceived was around.
The aura coiled around him, causing Spectral Soul's body to explode wherever it went. Spectral Soul was a soul, but it was so condensed it was like material, it was as if it was a soul beast.
With the explosions caused by the aura, the huge mountainous body vanished, only a framework of it was left, huge pieces of the soul were blasted away.
In the grey fog, another scene appeared.
Old Man Yan Shi coughed blood, he held heavenly secret Immortal Gu as he muttered: "So Fang Yuan has Spring Autumn Cicada. No wonder he could refine Fixed Immortal Travel and go to Central Continent's Hu Immortal blessed land and obtain Dang Hun Mountain. He then destroyed Imperial Court blessed land and caused the collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!"
"Since he is an otherworldly demon who possesses Spring Autumn Cicada, he has clearly escaped fate… hehehe, this can be the best tool against heaven's will. Fine, I will conceal the tracks of you and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, to prevent others from deducing matters about you."
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"Cough, cough, cough…" Old Man Yan Shi coughed continuously, his expression was pale, he was so exhausted that it seemed like he would die from being out of breath.
"I used heavenly secret Gu and consumed a hundred years of lifespan. But it was worth it, I deduced that Spring Autumn Cicada's condition is bad, it has already been used."
"Seeing that Fang Yuan went to Yi Tian Mountain in advance, he evidently knows about the battle of Yi Tian Mountain. With this, I can deduce that our main body has already failed once, thus, he had to use that Red Lotus true inheritance to make Fang Yuan rebirth, sending him back to the past to change the future. Heh, thankfully, Spring Autumn Cicada is only rank six, it is nothing scary."
"In that case, Fang Yuan is the best method of measurement. Looking at his future performance, I can deduce even more things."
"Would searching his soul directly be easier? Or would it affect the entire situation?"
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Seeing this, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals were shocked beyond words.
It turned out that Shadow Sect had already deduced the tribulations! That meant it was very suspicious that Spectral Soul was not moving inside the myriad tribulations.
The mysterious myriad tribulation had gone away, the next myriad tribulation descended.
Vine dragon tribulation!
Soon, millions of vines surrounded Spectral Soul tightly, forming a huge ball.
They coiled around him relentlessly, becoming tighter and tighter, stabbing into his body and using the Demon Venerable's soul as their nutrients!
"Something is wrong! Something is wrong!"
"He is doing this on purpose, look at that ten extreme formation!"
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals shifted their gazes around as they came to realizations.
Because Shadow Sect had deduced the tribulations, they could make arrangements around them.
Spectral Soul purposely did not put up resistance because he wanted to fuse his soul path foundation into this formation, as the nutrients for this formation.
"What is he trying to refine? He actually used his own demonic soul as Gu refinement material!"
"Not just that, with so many myriad tribulations around him, they are actually carving space path, poison path, qi path, and wood path dao marks on his body, to destroy his soul path dao marks. They could harm Spectral Soul because these dao marks were not weaker than the soul path foundation that he had accumulated for the last hundred thousand years!"
Gasp…
Sensing this, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals drew in deep and chilling breaths.
It seemed that Spectral Soul was not only refining himself, he was even using the power of the myriad tribulations to achieve his goals.
But what was his goal?
The ten extreme formation was at the final juncture. In the dark fog, the ball of light was becoming brighter and rounder.
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord's heart sank to rock bottom.
He had a determined expression, he said solemnly: "We cannot go on like this, we have to ruin Spectral Soul's scheme! No matter what he is refining, we have to destroy this ten extreme formation."
"But we are in phantom form."
"No, we have one chance to retaliate. This is something that generation after generation of Heaven Overseeing Tower Lords have created after researching. It has always been kept as a confidential secret!" Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord said.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals heard this and were joyful and surprised: "Why don't you use it?"
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord smiled bitterly, he told them the price for using it.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals fell into deathly silence.
A moment later, someone stepped up: "Since Shadow Sect can make sacrifices, why can't we of Heavenly Court do the same? I am willing to stay behind and manipulate Heaven Overseeing Tower!"
"I am willing too."
"Giving up this body to slay a Demon Venerable, what reason is there not to?"
More and more Gu Immortals stood up.
Of course, there were Heavenly Court Gu Immortals who had other opinions.
"In my opinion, the urgent matter now is to find out what Spectral Soul is trying to refine."
"The matter is not desperate yet, we should preserve our strength until absolutely necessary."
"Back then, when Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was still alive, he could not take down Heavenly Court. Now that he is dead, he is weaker than during life, what should Heavenly Court fear?"
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord waved his hand: "I have decided, those who want to stay will come with me to activate Heaven Overseeing Tower. As for the rest of you, I will send you to white heaven. Regardless of victory or defeat, you have to gather the remains of the Immortal Gu House and return to Heavenly Court."
After saying this, Heavenly Court's members came to an agreement.
Heaven Overseeing Tower shot out a bright light towards the sky, before a beam of light descended from the sky, covering the entirety of Heaven Overseeing Tower.
Spectral Soul was startled, he tried to control Heaven Overseeing Tower, preventing it from getting out of its phantom form.
But Heaven Overseeing Tower was not being manipulated to get out of its phantom form, in fact, its final attack required it to stay in phantom form the entire time.
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord's voice resounded over the surroundings: "Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, I will show you the newest and most powerful attack of Heaven Overseeing Tower!"
Boom!
With a loud sound, the surrounding scenery had a subtle change.
However unlike Fang Yuan's previous life Spectral Soul already knew about this method of Heavenly Court because Fang Yuan who right now in Ying Wu Xie's body had reminded him earlier about this saying he gained this information when he putted Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord in a dream realm.
As Spectral already knew about this method he had already prepared countermeasures and by using them he prevented the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals from interfering.
Because of this the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals died due to the backlash of the killer move.
In this life as Spectral Soul didn't need to protect the ten extreme formation his condition was much more better compared to Fang Yuan's previous life.
On the other hand as the Heavenly Court Gu Immortals weren't able to interfere with the tribulation the whole power of the tribulation went into the Gu formation.
Seeing the broken parts of Heaven Overseeing Tower going to white heaven Spectral Soul roared and stopped them throwing them all into the ten extreme formation.
Next Spectral Soul Demon Venerable used his soul foundation into the ten extreme formation.
At this moment the ten extreme formation had reached Quasi rank ten level but Spectral Soul's soul foundation was already finished.
At this moment the grand tribulation earth collapse dissipated.
A bright sword light flashed in the sky, immortal zombie Bo Qing had already flown towards Spectral Soul.
Mo Yao's remnant soul inside the body screamed: "Spectral Soul! Return my husband to me!!"
Spectral Soul quickly subdued Bo Qing's immortal zombie body and threw him including Mo Yao's soul in the ten formation.
The ten extreme formation finally reached the level of rank ten!