"Gu Yue First Generation, does it look good?"
A questioning voice resounded between heaven and earth, the loud noise penetrating thick stone walls and crimson blood water, causing waves several meters high to surge in the Blood Lake. Gu Yue First Generation suddenly looked up.
"Heaven and Earth Great Sound Gu!"
A white-haired old man stood before him, wearing a mask on his face.
Gu Yue First Generation flapped his bat wings and flew straight out of the Blood Lake. From Cold Iron Blood's determined eyes, he felt a intense killing intent.
"Tie Clan Junior! You are injured, yet you still dare to provoke me? Just wait until I take your dog head!"
With a wave of Gu Yue First Generation's hand, countless Blood Droplets flew out of the Blood Lake, shooting rapidly towards Cold Iron Blood.
"Righteous Qi Gu!"
With a thunderous boom, a wave of noble righteous qi surged from Cold Iron Blood, and over a thousand Blood Droplets were directly repelled by this righteous qi.
A dizzying sensation of the world spinning hit Gu Yue First Generation. He immediately summoned even more blood dropper swarms and Blade Wing Blood Bat swarms to pounce on Cold Iron Blood again.
Cold Iron Blood snorted coldly. Under the enhancement of the Heaven and Earth Great Sound Gu, his voice transformed into world-shaking sound waves:
"Gu Yue First Generation, is this all you have? So many Blood Path Gu worms and such a Blood Lake—it truly is a Blood Calamity."
Each of his words condensed into powerful sound waves. The Blood Droplets and Blade Wing Blood Bats couldn't even get close, and hundreds of Blood Droplets were even shaken to death on the spot.
"Tie Clan Junior, you have some skill! Come and trade a few blows with me, so I can teach you what it means to respect your Elders! Blood Lightning Gu!"
As he spoke, a meter-long bolt of blood lightning flew from Gu Yue First Generation's palm. Cold Iron Blood didn't dodge or evade; in the next moment, countless rocks gathered together, transforming into a giant by his side.
"This is the Hill Earth Puppet Gu! How can this Tie Clan Junior have so many Rank Five Gu! No! This boy is still holding back, and my Blood Droplets and Blade Wing Blood Bats will surely suffer heavy losses. My clan's Juniors, I'm counting on you."
Thinking this, Gu Yue First Generation triggered a mechanism. Gu Yue Village suddenly erupted in an earthquake, blood water seeped from the ground, and the villagers fell into a panic.
"This aura is... it's actually the Blood Calamity! Father!"
Tie Ruo Nan suddenly rushed out of her room. Seeing that the light was still on in her father's room, she breathed a slight sigh of relief.
"As long as Father is okay."
She pushed open the door quietly, but the room was empty.
"Father?"
A feeling of unease instantly flooded Tie Ruo Nan's heart.
"Tie Clan girl, come with this Clan Chief."
Yuan Fang's voice suddenly rang out from behind her. Tie Ruo Nan was slightly stunned, and before she could react, Yuan Fang, with a gloomy expression, raised his hand and struck her slender neck with a vicious knife-hand strike, knocking her unconscious on the spot.
At the same time, the ground in Gu Yue Village shook violently, countless houses collapsed with a crash, and both Gu Masters and Mortals were thrown into a panic.
In the Medicine Hall, the Elder Medicinal Consort was hit by falling bricks and debris while protecting her grandson Gu Yue Yao Le, but she only let out a muffled groan and desperately protected her grandson as they fled the Medicine Hall.
The once prosperous streets were now filled with blood water, reflecting the sky in a blood-red hue.
At this moment, countless flying cranes arrived, circling in the air and continuously launching attacks on the village.
"Is heaven truly going to destroy my Gu Yue Village?"
The Elder Medicinal Consort was filled with terror. Just then, a roar shot into the sky as Gu Yue First Generation flapped his wings, seemingly fleeing in panic.
Behind him was a giant formed from stone, as large as a hill, pursuing him relentlessly, each punch smashing down with great force.
"Juniors of my clan! Come and help me! I am your First Generation Ancestor; only by helping me can you have a glimmer of hope for survival!"
Gu Yue First Generation turned his head sharply and began to tangle with Cold Iron Blood. As a Blood Path Gu Master, he was certain his descendants could recognize him through their Bloodline connection.
Sure enough, after a moment, someone appeared to "champion the underdog." Yuan Fang pointed at Cold Iron Blood's mask and cursed angrily:
"Cold Iron Blood! I treated you as a Senior of the Righteous Path and showed you hospitality, yet you are ungrateful and have conspired to harm my Gu Yue Ancestors!"
As he spoke, Yuan Fang raised his hand and unleashed a five-clawed bone dragon, pouncing straight at Cold Iron Blood. Cold Iron Blood neither defended nor dodged; the giant formed by the Rank Five Hill Earth Puppet Gu raised its hand and blocked the bone dragon.
Only a few pieces of rubble fell from the giant's body, and it was restored to its original state in an instant.
"Hmph! Gu Yue brat, the whole Family is black-hearted! Fire Dragon Gu!"
A giant Fire Dragon suddenly appeared from Cold Iron Blood's right hand. "Oil Dragon Gu!" He summoned a thick Oil Dragon from his left hand.
Whether it was the Fire Dragon Gu or the Oil Dragon Gu, both were Rank Five Gu worms.
Cold Iron Blood sprayed a flow of oil from his left hand and spat flames from his right. With oil poured on the fire, the flames became even more fierce and violent.
The soaring tongues of fire covered a range of over ten meters, sweeping straight towards Gu Yue Village.
"Ungrateful thief! How dare you! treasure moonlight king gu!"
With a thought from Yuan Fang, the location targeted by the fire was immediately covered in a defensive golden light. After a deafening muffled sound, he barely managed to withstand the attack.
Gu Yue First Generation saw Cold Iron Blood actually attacking his descendants—these were all his "reserve Aptitude," after all—and he immediately cursed in rage:
"Cold Iron Blood! You actually dare to attack the younger generation? You are simply not human, a disgrace to the Righteous Path!!!"
Gu Yue First Generation roared, and the blood dropper swarm charged forward like a tide, unafraid of death, but they were useless against Cold Iron Blood's Heaven and Earth Great Sound Gu.
High in the sky, Heavenly Crane Venerable sat on the back of a flying crane, silently watching everything with a nostalgic smile flickering across his face.
On the ground, the three were locked in a chaotic battle. Gu Yue First Generation's Blade Wing Blood Bat swarm had been completely wiped out, and Cold Iron Blood grabbed his Blood River Python, giving its body a vicious beating.
Yuan Fang still held something back, keeping the Thousand-Mile Earth Wolf Spider in his aperture. He only activated the Stars Arching Towards the Moon Killer Move, joining forces with Fang Zheng, Clan Leader, Qing Shu, Red Mountain, Desolate Dust, Red Snake, Medicinal Consort, Chi Zhong, Mo Yan, and twenty other Elders to besiege Cold Iron Blood.
Seeing this, Heavenly Crane Venerable rose from the back of his flying crane and waved his hand. The crane flock flooded towards Gu Yue Village, covering the sky. Among them were both Ten Thousand Beast Kings and Thousand Beast Kings; in just a short time, hundreds of people in Gu Yue Village had been killed or injured.
"Junior Brother! You're actually not dead either!"
Gu Yue First Generation was furious and immediately drove his blood dropper swarm to battle the crane flock. Heavenly Crane Venerable ignored everything else and flew straight down to take on Gu Yue First Generation.
Yuan Fang immediately controlled the Stars Arching Towards the Moon Killer Move to crash into Heavenly Crane Venerable. The latter had no time to dodge and was sent flying.
"Rank Three wood charm gu, Rank Three Pine Needle Gu, Rank Three Flying Leaf Gu, Rank Two Whirlwind Gu, Killer Move—Forest Wind!"
As the words fell, Gu Yue Qing Shu instantly transformed into a wood charm tree spirit. A whirlwind blew by his ears, and countless pine needles and flying leaves condensed into a green dragon along the wind, shooting towards Heavenly Crane Venerable.
Under the amplification of the wood charm gu, even a Rank Three Killer Move erupted with power far exceeding the norm. Even a Rank Five expert like Heavenly Crane Venerable suffered quite a few injuries.
"Blazing Tiger Gu!"
With a thought from Heavenly Crane Venerable, a giant Blazing Tiger covered in raging flames appeared out of thin air, charging fiercely towards the crowd.
Just as the Blazing Tiger was about to crash into the crowd, one of Fang Zheng's Killer Moves boomed out in time, forcibly blocking it.
"Clansmen! This thief is from the Central Continent and has a Rank Five Peak cultivation. He is extremely strong, so do not hold back! Use all your trump cards!"
Yuan Fang shouted loudly, and everyone immediately displayed their Killer Moves—offensive Killer Moves were all blasted towards Heavenly Crane Venerable. Heavenly Crane Venerable dodged left and right, his expression gradually turning unpleasant.
This "turtle shell" was truly hard; it might be difficult to break through in a short time.
At that moment, the ground shook violently as Yuan Fang's Ten Thousand Beast King, the Cunning Lightning Wolf, suddenly made its entrance, followed by thousands of wolves charging straight at the Central Continent crane flock.
The Cunning Lightning Wolf caught the crane flock off guard. A lightning ball accurately struck Heavenly Crane Venerable's Ten Thousand Beast King mount, knocking it out of the sky, and then pounced on it, pinning the mount to the ground and tearing at it.
"It's actually an exotic beast! Although my crane flock can fly, they are definitely no match for it."
Heavenly Crane Venerable simply rushed to the ground to attack the Cunning Lightning Wolf head-on. He didn't know that the Cunning Lightning Wolf was stronger than an ordinary Thunder Crown Head Wolf not because of its Physical Body, but because of its wisdom which far surpassed its peers. This move played right into the Cunning Lightning Wolf's hands.
(The reason Heavenly Crane Venerable doesn't recognize the Cunning Lightning Wolf here is because they don't exist in the Central Continent.)
The Cunning Lightning Wolf opened its mouth and spat, activating the Rank Four Wolf Smoke Gu, instantly shrouding the surroundings in rolling wolf smoke.
Heavenly Crane Venerable remained unfazed, calmly activating a Light Path Gu worm to disperse the surrounding wolf smoke.
The moment the wolf smoke dispersed, the full moon representing "Stars Arching Towards the Moon," carrying ten starlight points, came crashing down, mixed with a massive amount of Killer Moves.
Heavenly Crane Venerable immediately activated a defense Gu, entering a standoff with Yuan Fang and the others.
"Lord Clan Chief, my primeval essence is almost exhausted," Desolate Dust said, panting.
Yuan Fang made a prompt decision, telling Desolate Dust to step aside and recover, and ordered Gu Yue Chi Lian, who had just recovered his primeval essence, to take his place.
What made it even harder for Heavenly Crane Venerable was that Desolate Dust stepped aside and began absorbing natural primeval essence from primeval stones while resting.
"Lord Clan Chief, I only have three hundred primeval stones left; I'm afraid it won't be enough to hold on," Red Mountain said while absorbing natural primeval essence from a primeval stone.
Hearing that everyone's primeval stones were running low, Yuan Fang immediately took out the Elder Gu and provided the primeval stones stored within for everyone to use freely.
"Gu Yue Qing Shu, you've been using the wood charm gu for a long time; stop and rest for a moment. Gu Yue Chi Zhong, you take his place."
"Got it! Fang Zheng's move was beautiful; that old ghost Heavenly Crane Venerable must have suffered a lot!"
"Gu Yue Shi! Don't even think about slacking off! Although you are the School Elder and once taught me, I will absolutely not tolerate you slacking off here!"
Yuan Fang and the twenty Elders worked together to fight a war of attrition against Heavenly Crane Venerable.
The Elders rotated continuously; those whose primeval essence was exhausted would step down to rest, while only Yuan Fang's offensive never stopped from beginning to end.
Heavenly Crane Venerable had intended to wait until Yuan Fang's primeval essence was depleted, but he never expected that someone in this world could activate Killer Moves while simultaneously absorbing natural primeval essence from primeval stones.
He also didn't know that during the battle, Fang Zheng was using the bone flesh reunion gu to continuously pour primeval essence into Yuan Fang's aperture. This recovery speed was comparable to a Rank Four heavenly origin precious lord lotus.
If the Rank Three heavenly origin treasure lotus from the Rock Crevice Secret Cave was added, Yuan Fang could almost use primeval essence as he pleased.
It had to be said that although the Fourth Generation Clan Leader was shameless, he was indeed quite talented to have constructed such an exquisite Rank Five Killer Move.
The Stars Arching Towards the Moon Killer Move was both offensive and defensive. If not for the limited number of Gu worms, Yuan Fang would have even wanted to consult Fang Yuan on how to build a mortal gu house with the Stars Arching Towards the Moon Killer Move as its core.
The principles of a mortal gu house and an immortal gu house were similar, except that an immortal gu house had more complex functions and used immortal gu as its core. However, building a mortal gu house was by no means easy.
Not to mention that a mortal gu house required thousands or even tens of thousands of Mortal Gu, its terrifying primeval essence consumption rate alone was enough to cause a massive headache.
On the other side, Gu Yue First Generation was still in a life-and-death struggle with Cold Iron Blood. Gu Yue First Generation was, after all, a Senior of the Demonic Path from a thousand years ago; victory or defeat was decided the moment Cold Iron Blood coughed up blood due to the relapse of an old injury.
The situation of the battle completely reversed; Gu Yue First Generation took the opportunity to attack fiercely, and Cold Iron Blood could only defend passively, no longer able to counterattack.
On the ground, the defeat of Heavenly Crane Venerable's Ten Thousand Beast King mount was also certain.
It was pinned down by the Cunning Lightning Wolf, its feathers scattered everywhere, and it didn't even have a chance for passive defense, let alone resisting the Cunning Lightning Wolf's attacks.
High in the clouds, a giant white snake dozens of meters long circled and flew. Bai Ning Bing sat on the snake's back, looking down coldly at the chaotic battle below.
Due to the characteristics of the Northern Darkness Ice Soul Body, her cultivation was increasing on its own and had now reached the Rank Four middle stage.
This white snake was Bai Ning Bing's Rank Five mount Gu. It was naturally clean and fed on the water of the origin spring; it was the White Phase Immortal Snake—a Gu worm left behind by the Bai Clan ancestors.
Legend had it that as long as it recognized a member of the Bai Clan, it would take them to the ancestral Legacy land in the sky.
This Legacy was also mentioned in the original work; it was the grotto-heaven left by the Rank Eight Gu Immortal White Phase, and also the blessing of the first generation ancestor of the Bai Clan.
Later in the original work, Bai Ning Bing relied on the power of the Shadow Sect to inherit the White Phase grotto-heaven and even used the Dragonman Gu Refining Method to refine herself into a dragon girl.
(White Phase: "What is the most desperate way to die?")
White Phase, one of the famous Heaven Surveying Five Phases, was once such a heroic figure, yet his descendants had fallen to this state.
As descendants of a Rank Eight Gu Immortal, the Bai Clan now didn't even have a Rank Five Gu Master, let alone a Gu Immortal, and could only huddle in a corner of Qing Mao Mountain, living at the beck and call of the Gu Yue Clan.
The White Phase Immortal Snake had not recognized Bai Ning Bing; it was only attracted by the aura of the Northern Darkness Ice Soul Body on her, so it temporarily stayed by her side.
"Green mountains and the setting sun, autumn moon and spring breeze, what a beautiful sight."
Bai Ning Bing took a deep breath. The setting sun spilled over her white clothes, her flesh and blood actually transforming into ice and snow, and a layer of light white frost condensed on the eyelashes over her blue eyes.
She knew her time was running out.
"Then before I die, with burning ambition, let's have a grand battle of life and death!!! Fang Yuan, at the critical moment, you'll have to look at me!"
"Hahaha! At the critical moment, you still have to look at me!!!"
(Next Chapter: Backstab. Updating again this morning, the author needs to sleep.)