Chapter 134: First Earthly Calamity
Central Continent, Earth Abyss.
Ying Wu Xie looked at the rubble in front of him with an ugly expression.
Behind him were Hei Lou Lan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and the rank seven variant human Gu Immortal Shi Nu.
"What is going on?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked ahead and asked in puzzlement.
Shi Nu replied heavily: "Earth Abyss is not a tranquil environment, tremors will appear at times within the earth. The tremors might cause a great cave-in, like what is happening here."
A strange light flashed across Hei Lou Lan's eyes: "This cave-in is simply too terrifying."
Shi Nu nodded: "Yes, each cave-in in Earth Abyss would be gigantic, endless numbers of life forms would perish. The aftermath would be a huge amount of rubble stacked together, together with the grudge and death energy of the dead life forms and their blood, countless desolate level blood beasts, bone beasts, or even blood path and earth path wild Immortal Gu would be created.
Master, what do we do now?"
Ying Wu Xie looked ahead, after some time, he let out a breath.
He was gloomy internally, thinking: "This route is the safest way to leave Earth Abyss, previously created by Shadow Sect. I had just wanted to leave Earth Abyss, and at this timing, a cave-in happened. Coincidentally, it happened here, obstructing our path. Hehe."
Ying Wu Xie mentally sneered.
"This is the act of heaven's will!"
"My main body defied heaven to refine Gu, resisting heaven's will, causing heaven's will to be expended greatly. But now it seems, heaven's will has already mostly recovered."
"I still have Spring Autumn Cicada with me, it has a lot of heaven's will in it. Thus, I am like a torch in the darkness from heaven's will's perspective!"
"If I did not have investigative methods and did not slow down on purpose, I would be trapped inside the cave-in. Or if I was greedy in regards to the wild Immortal Gu here and refused to leave, I might be discovered by the Gu Immortals who came to investigate. Perhaps when I used the Gu formation earlier, the commotion was already detected by Heavenly Court, they have already started searching."
"Heaven's will is so troublesome, a large portion of the reason is due to that bitch Star Constellation!"
"My current body is ordinary, I need to refine Fixed Immortal Travel to travel over the five regions. By gathering the remnant forces of Shadow Sect, I can accumulate enough strength to attempt to save my main body."
After detouring around the collapsed area in Earth Abyss, he, along with Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Hei Lou Lan and Shi Nu had moved quite a distance before he could use a Gu formation to transport them to the eastern part of Central Continent.
Ying Wu Xie was standing at the riverbank, looking at the green willows and feeling the gentle breeze, however, he was feeling erratic inside.
This area was under the jurisdiction of Wind Cloud Manor, Ying Wu Xie had Fang Yuan's body and as such, was a criminal wanted by Heavenly Court and Central Continent's ten great ancient sects, however, he still risked staying here and even had been staying here for three days.
He was waiting for a person.
A green shadow approached them while flying at low altitude.
Ying Wu Xie's mind jolted, he went to welcome the person.
The green shadow landed on the ground and halted, it was not a real person but a puppet.
The green grass puppet looked at the Gu worm in Ying Wu Xie's hand and recognizing he was its objective, it hummed with a haughty tone: "My master was invited to participate in Ancestor Kong Kong's treasure appraisal event, so he could not come. If you want to see him, you will have to wait three more days."
"Wait for three more days?" Ying Wu Xie's expression slightly changed.
"What? If you don't have the patience, you don't need to wait, I will quickly go back to inform master." The green grass puppet spoke indifferently.
"I will wait." Ying Wu Xie hurriedly smiled, "I have already waited for three days, there is no harm in waiting three more days. It is just that three days later, it will be a whole six days. If I somehow am still unable to see your master, then I can only give up on this transaction."
The green grass puppet snorted before turning around and leaving.
After he left, Ying Wu Xie's expression immediately sank, his gaze flickering incessantly as he gazed at the receding figure of the green grass puppet.
When the green puppet's shadow was out of Ying Wu Xie's vision, three Gu Immortals appeared from the surroundings, gathering towards Ying Wu Xie.
They were Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Hei Lou Lan and Shi Nu.
"That green grass puppet just now, is it the rumored grass puppet avatar?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng asked in curiosity.
"Right." Ying Wu Xie nodded, "It is a grass puppet avatar, formed from the rank six grass puppet Gu with rank six battle strength. When Feng Chan Zi ascended to immortal, his grandfather, Old Man Bei Feng, gave this grass puppet Immortal Gu to him as a gift."
"Feng Chan Zi is wildly arrogant, we waited so long for him and he isn't even coming to meet us? He only sent a grass puppet avatar to meet us?" Hei Lou Lan was dissatisfied.
Shi Nu sighed, saying helplessly: "To refine Fixed Immortal Travel, we must have the light of the immemorial era, all Gu recipes of Fixed Immortal Travel revolves around this critical material. And the light of the immemorial era, such a rare Gu refinement material, is one of the treasures of Wind Cloud Manor. We have no choice but to put up with them."
Ying Wu Xie coldly snorted, but did not speak.
He inwardly thought: "Spring Autumn Cicada has already been sealed, it seems Heavenly Court has begun to investigate me. I can't stay for long in Central Continent, after I refine Fixed Immortal Travel, I need to hurry to Northern Plains and borrow luck from Longevity Heaven! Perhaps I can even make use of the power to conveniently get rid of Fang Yuan. Hmm?
No, considering the time, tomorrow should be the day Fang Yuan has his earthly calamity. The earthly calamity of sovereign immortal aperture won't be easy to pass. Heaven's will cannot affect Fang Yuan, but can still make arrangements to deal with him. Most likely, not only will there be calamities and tribulations, there could also be human disasters."
Northern Plains, Icy Plain.
"To think that I am back here again." Fang Yuan sighed internally, he stopped flying as he descended from the sky.
Memories flashed in Fang Yuan's mind.
The image was so vivid, like it was yesterday.
Now, that i have become Great grandmaster in both Transformation Path and Strength Path, the amount of help the true meaning here wouldn't do much but it is still better than nothing.
"Huff!"
Fang Yuan let out a breath as his body shook, a mystical change was occurring in his immortal aperture.
"Immortal aperture, fall here!" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, a mystical light shone in his eyes.
Following a loud sound, his vision changed, taking a glance, he was already inside his immortal aperture.
On the spot that Fang Yuan was originally standing, he had already disappeared. The immortal aperture was placed on the ice and entered a point in space, it could not be seen as it was linked to the empty space.
The blizzard was still blowing.
There were no changes, as if Fang Yuan had never come.
But at the next moment, when Fang Yuan opened the entrance of the immortal aperture, everything changed.
In an instant, the entire surroundings rumbled, the glaciers shook, endless heaven and earth qi rushed into the immortal aperture through the entrance
Soon, a vast amount of heaven and earth qi engulfed the place.
Blizzards and hail were converted into pure heaven and earth qi.
Next Fang Yuan willed and used a vast number of Gu worms.
Immortal killer move — Immortal Tribulation Tempering Aperture!
Large amounts of immortal essence were expended, over ten thousand were used, but it was just the start!
The core Immortal Gu of this killer move were mostly rank seven, Fang Yuan's green grape immortal essence were consumed rapidly.
Thankfully, he had already obtained a large amount of immortal essence stones from Lang Ya land spirit, he even borrowed Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus.
Two and a half hours later, the killer move was completed, and Fang Yuan's immortal essence was consumed by eighty percent.
"This expenditure has greatly exceeded the number from my previous life."
An hour later, the calamity descended.
The immortal aperture started to shake, heaven and earth qi appeared from every direction.
This was the heaven and earth qi inside the immortal aperture, in an instant, heaven and earth qi clashed as a blizzard formed.
Fang Yuan floated in the air as Gu worms flew around him, forming a defensive barrier, he shot out flying sword Immortal Gu.
Swoosh.
Flying sword Gu pierced through a snow monster's head, coming out from the back.
In an instant, it flew back to Fang Yuan.
The snow monster cried out, the injuries in its head healed on its own as it continued to charge at Fang Yuan.
The snow monster ran for a few steps before growling, its core had been destroyed, as if its bones had melted, the snow monster broke down and became a pile of snow.
Sword path immortal killer move — Five Finger Fist Heart Sword!
Even though Fang Yuan didn't have all the Immortal Gu worms needed to use this immortal killer move he supplemented them using large number of mortal Gu worms.
Not only this, he even made it so that the immortal killer move works on multiple targets using his Supreme Grandmaster in Sword Path.
First finger!
Fang Yuan raised the thumb of his right hand.
From the right fist that he held high in the air, multipe sword light shot out.
Immediately the sword light destroyed one tenth of the snow monsters.
Second finger!
Fang Yuan raised his index finger.
Another barrage of sword light shot out from his hand.
Another one third of the snow monsters were killed.
Third finger!
Vast amounts of sword lights shot out and killed more than half the snow monsters.
Fourth finger!
Fang Yuan raised the ring finger of his right hand.
Countless sword lights shot out and exterminated all the snow monsters.
Seeing the results Fang Yuan smiled lightly: In my previous life, i had struggled so much against these snow monsters and wasn't even able to kill all of them that time.
But this time I only used a single immortal killer move and killed all of them.
Right at this moment he gained some true meaning of Transformation Path, Strength Path and Flying Path.
Just as Fang Yuan was undergoing tribulation in his immortal aperture, someone else was also undergoing tribulation in the icy plain.
"Master, save me!" The Gu Master cried out, facing the attack of the frost lightning, he could not retaliate, he could only watch as death descended.
Bam.
A soft sound echoed.
At the crucial moment, a figure stood in front of the Gu Master undergoing tribulation.
"Master's cultivation level is so high!" The Gu Master sighed. Ever since the tribulation started, he had been sighing and feeling shocked, he was almost numb now.
"This is only the flying frost jumping lightning tribulation, it is not even one of the ten great catastrophes." Gu Immortal Chu Du was expressionless, he felt regret looking at the lingering frost lightning.
"Master, from your words, you are not happy with the intensity of the tribulation?" The Gu Master asked.
Chu Du answered plainly: "When Gu Masters ascend, they draw in heaven and earth qi, during this process, they would mingle with heaven's will. If they ask any questions regarding cultivation, heaven's will would give them an answer. This is also known as natural inspiration."
"But in the northern icy plain, when strength path Gu Masters undergo immortal ascension, they would trigger Reckless Savage's true meaning. Because of this, the Gu Master does not interact with heaven's will, instead, they will mingle with Reckless Savage's true meaning, and their strength path and transformation path attainment levels will rise sharply."
"The stronger the tribulation, the higher the quantity of Reckless Savage's true meaning gathered. I nurtured all of you disciples because I want the true meaning of Reckless Savage during your ascension. Obtaining the true meaning would allow my strength path attainment level to rise."
"So that's it." The Gu Master realized: "So this is what master meant regarding the need for my help when you made me your disciple back then?"
Chu Du was about to speak when a huge sound from a great distance was heard.
"Hmm?" Chu Du looked, he saw that far away, space was cracked, like a broken mirror, the scene of Fang Yuan fighting with the ancient ruin bats in his immortal aperture could be seen.
"This?!" Chu Du's body shook, his eyes were shining immediately.