Time continued to pass. One after another, the Rank 5 experts used their final methods, but all of them failed. They were suppressed and killed within the formation. The Rank 4 Gu Masters suffered even worse losses, falling one by one.
The battlefield turned into a scene of destruction. Broken bodies, shattered Gu, and collapsing stone filled the area.
With the fall of these people, the entire Western Desert would soon be shaken. The scale of this loss was far too great.
In the end, only Zhang Fang, Xiao Jiu, and a few Refinement Path Masters remained alive. Their faces were pale, their expressions empty, and most of their Gu had already been destroyed.
Their lives had been deliberately spared by Sun Yue.
Of course, the price of this victory was the entire Gu formation had been damaged by seventy to eighty percent, with many parts already collapsing and losing control.
Sun Yue was drenched in sweat, her primeval essence almost exhausted. She raised her head and looked at Lin Yan, letting out a cold sneer. "You didn't make a move just now. Were you waiting to take advantage at the end? Or have you already thought it through and decided to submit and refine Gu for me?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Yan shook his head calmly and replied in an indifferent tone, "I have no hostility toward you. You don't have the authority to decide this matter. Call your grandfather, Sun Cu, out."
With a single sentence, he directly exposed her identity.
Sun Yue's expression shifted for a brief moment, but she quickly suppressed it. Her voice turned cold. "I don't understand what you're talking about."
On the barren desert, Lin Yan was about to speak when his expression suddenly changed. A middle-aged Gu Master appeared beside Sun Yue without warning. His face was square and stern, his yellow robe plain. Gray touched his temples, giving him a calm, weathered air—like someone who had endured many storms.
Sun Yue was slightly startled. "Grandfather, why are you here?"
Sun Cu spoke in a steady tone, "You cannot deal with this person. I will handle it."
In the distance, Lin Yan looked at Sun Cu, a faint look of confirmation crossing his face. He observed him carefully. Although he could not sense his aura, judging from the scale of the Gu formation, Sun Cu had not yet reached Immortal Ascension.
Lin Yan had long guessed the identity of the person in black. Only Sun Cu could be refining an Earth Path Immortal Gu at this time
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In the original timeline, Sun Cu happened to be undergoing Immortal Ascension around this time. As a common loose cultivator, he actually managed to refine the Transformation Stone Immortal Gu right at the moment of ascension.
One must know that in the first timeline, even Fang Yuan—who was a dignified Blood Path Grandmaster and once stood at the peak of Rank Six as a Gu Immortal—still could not obtain a single Immortal Gu.
Even with the manipulation of Heaven's Will, it was common for Rank Six Gu Immortals to lack even one Immortal Gu. This point had been mentioned repeatedly throughout the novel.
To obtain an Immortal Gu at the moment of ascension, there were only two possibilities: forming a large-grade blessed land, or possessing one of the Ten Extreme Physiques—like Hei Lou Lan, who formed a super-grade blessed land and was able to refine two Immortal Gu during her ascension.
Only such a blessed land could produce a vast amount of Heaven and Earth Qi, acting as a universal source that could substitute for various immortal materials. As long as one possessed an Immortal Gu recipe, refining an Immortal Gu would become almost certain.
So the question arises—As a mere loose cultivator, did Sun Cu truly have the qualifications to form a large-grade blessed land?
Lin Yan was not certain at first, but after seeing Sun Yue searching everywhere for people to refine Immortal Gu materials, he finally understood Sun Cu's situation.
That made sense. If Sun Cu could truly form a large grade blessed land, he would have become famous later. There was no way he would remain unnoticed.
After all, a loose cultivator might obtain opportunities, but their foundation could never compare to the Gu Immortal seeds of major forces.
Lin Yan judged that Sun Cu most likely had the confidence to form a medium grade blessed land, very close to a large one. However, With some leftover heaven and earth resources Qi that were not enough to refine an Immortal Gu directly
So he chose another path. Sun Cu planned to refine a semi-finished Immortal Gu in advance. Then, at the moment of Immortal Ascension, he would use the final surge of resources to complete it in one go and successfully refine the Immortal Gu.
This was a wise approach. Even Lin Yan felt some admiration when he thought about it and considered it worth learning.