Dense fog flooded the surroundings. The ground itself was made from white-colored clouds. These clouds were not lumps of vapors but a soft surface a gu master could walk upon without using any additional gu worms. Collecting a fistful of the lump of clouds revealed properties similar to a fertile layer of soil. This was a sea of cloud soil, stretching as far as one could observed. The mist wasn't layered like ordinary morning mist which was dense near the ground and thinned at a higher altitude. The fog reduced everyone's visibility. Even gu immortals with extremely sharp eyesight failed to pierce through the veil of mist with their gazes.
This was Lang Ya Blessed Land.
The impressive twelve cloud buildings and various other structures perfectly concealed themselves within the fog. A few gu immortals moved around, exploring the strange fog. One of them concealed themselves in a dark, hooded robe. Another individual, a rank 6 gu immortal of ravishing beauty dressed in a purple dress accompanied a tall and cold-looking man wearing a martial attire. Most northerners usually wore leather and fur, decorating themselves with spoils of battles such as fang pendants and such. However, there were also some gu immortals who took to other regions' sense of clothing. Still, the duo revealed aura of northern plains' gu immortals.
In far distance moved a pair of rank 7 gu immortals. Both the men explored the fog and searched for their targets with gloomy expressions. One of them appeared wild while the other carried himself with a certain dignity and elegance.
There were three other rank 6 gu immortals exploring another region of the blessed land covered in a dense fog.
The trio moved together with closeness not found among the previous two rank 7 gu immortals, indicating their good relationship.
They couldn't help but glance at each other and communicate with their gazes.
This was Lang Ya Blessed Land, a territory they invaded. To be precise, it was a blessed land managed by a land spirit. Needless to say, the land spirit enforced its heavenly power to block the use of mortal gu worms for the enemies! The trio might be strong gu immortals but they did not possess any information path immortal gu worm or relevant immortal killer moves capable of facilitating communication! Still, years of experience allowed the trio to transmit their thoughts with their gazes and hand signals.
'To think Qin Bai Sheng would be so fierce. Sigh, why did we let greed overcome us? A legendary secluded domain of heaven and earth is not worth our lives!' One of them lamented with a sigh while looking around and seeing nothing but dense fog.
'Let's find the damn formation cores and destroy this formation. Even if we were caught… Qin Bai Sheng had no reason to promise us great rewards for completing the task. This might be a blessing in disguise!' The second gu immortal consoled.
'Indeed. Together we can erupt with a battle strength no worse than rank 7 gu immortal. Qin Bai Sheng is simply a monster… but we cannot entirely rely on his promise. Let's try getting some gains from this blessed land after we destroy the formation.' The third one gritted his teeth as he recalled earlier humiliation of being forced to submit to Qin Bai Sheng.
'The deductions made before invading the blessed land suggests that the formation cores are the twelve cloud buildings. We could have used mortal killer moves to deal with this mortal formation if not for Lang Ya Land Spirit restricting our use of mortal gu worms.' The second gu immortal inquired thoughtfully. 'Your immortal killer move is quite effective in this situation, Brother Lu.'
The first gu immortal restrained his emotions and shook his head after a moment's thoughts.
'My wind path immortal killer move can certainly make things easier, but isn't it a waste to use our immortal essence for a mere mortal method? Qin Bai Sheng clearly prepared for this invasion. Let's explore the blessed land as is and wait for Qin Bai Sheng's group to destroy a few cloud buildings and spend their immortal essence. The fog around us will weaken as more and more cloud buildings get destroyed, making exploration easier. We can use our immortal killer moves after that and deal with enemies swiftly.'
The three agreed with this plan when the fog around them trembled and fluctuated. The trio couldn't hear distant explosions but they certainly saw more clearly and realized that Qin Bai Sheng's group started attacking the cloud buildings.
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*Rumble*
The surrounding white walls shook as Chang Shan Yin observed the mysterious and hooded rank 7 gu immortal destroying one of the twelve cloud buildings through a mirror. He appeared stern and calculating before his gaze focused on the muscular and handsome rank 7 gu immortal in a martial attire accompanied by the rank 6 female gu immortal.
'Qin Bai Sheng… he also destroyed a cloud building.' Chang Shan Yin thinned his lips. 'He is the leader of this invasion. How did he collect so many strong gu immortals?'
"These bastards destroyed two cloud buildings! Ahh! They even killed my desolate beasts!" Old Man Lang Ya's pained howl reached Chang Shan Yin's ears but he paid the dramatic land spirit no heed and kept to himself.
He was merely tasked with defending one of the cloud buildings and stalling the weaker of the invaders for as long as he could for the previously negotiated rewards.
But Chang Shan Yin's eyes suddenly widened as Qin Bai Sheng moved with extreme speed and reached another cloud building. A desolate beast emerged from the cloud building but posed no threat to the metal path rank 7 gu immortal as the leader of the group singlehandedly suppressed the desolate beast, collected it into his immortal aperture, and destroyed the cloud building with the next strike!
'This…'
Chang Shan Yin couldn't help but stand up in shock while Old Man Lang Ya squeaked in surprise.
"He already deduced a method of locating the cloud buildings and destroying my twelve-wave cloud confusion formation? How is that possible?!"
But the truth was before their eyes. Qin Bai Sheng's shocking speed at nullifying the formation's threat left Chang Shan Yin stunned and Old Man Lang Ya flustered.
Not only Qin Bai Sheng and the hooded gu immortal, but the pair of rank 7 gu immortals and even the three rank 6 gu immortals started locating and destroying the cloud buildings. But their speed was slower than Qin Bai Sheng. Each cloud building housed a desolate beast and struggled against the gu immortals.
The three rank 6 gu immortals faced some challenges against their opponent but they coordinated well and soon killed the beast before destroying the cloud building. Meanwhile, the pair of rank 7 gu immortals had an easier time achieving the same as they were already collecting the battle spoils in the form of the desolate beast's remains.
The twelve cloud buildings were reduced to seven cloud buildings within a few short minutes.
As Chang Shan Yin observed, he realized that the three rank 6 gu immortals were approaching the cloud building he was tasked to defend.
His gaze flashed eerily as he transmitted to Old Man Lang Ya.
"Don't let the Desolate Ice Spike Divine Ape in the building out. Instead, let this beast out."
"Ah!" Old Man Lang Ya agreed instantly before reassuring. "Don't worry, as agreed, I will reimburse all the cost with twice the value in addition to your compensation for helping me defend the blessed land."
Chang Shan Yin didn't reply and opened the entrance to his blessed land by a sliver before letting out a majestic desolate beast.
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A wisp of jade-green light flickered and expanded into a massive vertical line. The edges of the ethereal glow radiated a strange coldness within the calm sea. The center of the glowing light widened and from within stretched out a pair of pale-blue hands. These hands were not connected to anything and gently grabbed the widening strip of light from the center before moving outwards like ripping a strip of clothing in half.
The long strip of light, pulled apart from the center, ripped open and revealed another scene. The scenery held within the gap between the flowing light was like looking into a strange mirror. Within the unnamed sea appeared a distant cave. The water from the sea did not immediately enter the strange cave and was repelled by a formless pressure.
The pale-blue hands grabbing one end of the light each trembled with every passing second. They turned more translucent as their grip weakened ever so slightly.
From within the unnamed cave stepped out an extremely aged man. He was thin and his wrinkled and dried skin stuck to his bones. The pale-blue hands of light let go of the edge of the door and exploded into a bluish mist that quickly covered and concealed the old man.
'Fixed Travel Thief Entry formation—success.' Lo Jik smiled as he felt the mist around his body thicken instead of weakening. Divine Concealment on his soul nurtured the fog and kept his arrival hidden.
From what?
He scanned his surroundings before grinning.
Lang Ya Blessed Land!
'Lang Ya Land Spirit failed to notice my arrival. Hehe…' He glanced up, his gaze piercing the sea and clouds before landing on the ongoing invasion. Lang Ya Land Spirit's restriction failed to affect Lo Jik since it never knew about his arrival. So, Lo Jik could still effortlessly use mortal gu worms to affect the surroundings in Lang Ya Blessed Land.
Instead of moving immediately, Lo Jik watched the door of jade-green light disappear.
'Chen Jiu… Xin Cheng and I had a similar idea of utilizing theft and space methods to invade Lang Ya Blessed Land. Possessing Fixed Immortal Travel Gu would have been great in this regard.'
Fixed Immortal Travel, Divine Travel, and Carefree Travel were the three great movement immortal gu worms.
Lo Jik possessed Divine Travel Immortal Gu Worm and was well-versed with its ability. It was once refined by Verdant Sun in <
Fixed Immortal Travel, on the other hand, allowed a gu immortal to travel anywhere in the world as long as they could clearly picture their destination.
Verdant Sun was greatly troubled by Divine Travel Immortal Gu since it took him to different locations randomly, introducing great dangers in these travels. Meanwhile, Fixed Immortal Travel did not have a similar weakness. Instead, it needed one's immortal essence and could not be used by mortals using primeval essence.
Among the three great movement gu worms, Carefree Travel Immortal Gu was best at avoiding attacks and had great uses in combat.
Despite possessing one of the crucial materials, Lo Jik could not refine Fixed Immortal Travel since he lacked several other immortal materials. However, he didn't really need to refine an immortal gu worm to access its ability.
Earlier, Lo Jik designed a pill path formation meant to refine human path pills. Back then, he realized that modifying the formation meant to refine pills to some extent may allow him to deduce it as a recipe to refine a pill path immortal gu. This was a similar scenario to famous teas, wines, and gourmet dishes being incomplete food path gu recipes. If these incomplete products could be refined into gu worms, then an immortal gu worm could also be deconstructed into such incomplete products in the form of a formation.
Using Divine Travel Immortal Gu and Divine Concealment as the core, Lo Jik designed this Fixed Travel Thief Entry formation!
Lo Jik used several poison, star, light, and space path gu worms and immortal materials to set this immortal formation.
The disadvantage of this method, of course, was the fact that formations were immobile. He could enter Lang Ya Blessed Land but couldn't bring the formation with him. Thankfully, he had several gu worms on his body acting as a sub-formation. He merely needed a thought to activate this method and make his escape back to Central Continent where he laid out the main formation!
Furthermore, Fixed Travel Thief Entry did not just allow Lo Jik to enter locations he could picture with great clarity, he also relied on the innumerable theft path dao marks on his soul to keep his arrival a secret!
Lo Jik looked around. The dense fog around his body did not impede his vision at all.
'This water… it's filled with refinement path dao marks.'
Lo Jik felt its overbearing pressure on the concealment fog around his body. It would have already dissipated if not for Divine Concealment being even more astonishing and powerful!
'I should have arrived at the general location and skipped many defensive layers meant to protect that gu worm. The treasures in Lang Ya Blessed Land are stored all over the region.'
This much was to be expected.
Lang Ya Blessed Land had many good things. Aside from the few obvious targets that attracted the dangerous forces beyond the clouds and kept Lang Ya Land Spirit busy, Lo Jik was more than happy to give up some advantages and focus on the rest. Sure, even he desired that immortal gu house.
Who wouldn't?!
But vying for the immortal gu house—rank 8 Refinement Cauldron—within Lang Ya Blessed Land meant competing against dangerous gu immortals filled with battle intent and a furious land spirit with untold depth and trump cards!
So, Lo Jik made schemes against the rest.
Lang Ya Land Spirit obviously didn't keep every immortal gu worm in one location. Instead, he made use of the immortal gu worms in formations or designed different ecologies for the immortal gu worm and sustain them. The many immortal gu worms that could not be fed properly were sealed and forced into hibernation, stored within several locations across the entire blessed land.
Lo Jik carefully swam towards a peculiar region after using a few investigation killer moves.
'Long Hair Ancestor had a great ambition when he designed this sea.' Lo Jik praised as he felt the overbearing number of refinement and water path dao marks. 'Alas, this sea is still being nurtured by a formation. And a formation of this level is too easy given my formation path attainment. Heh, not that it would have made any difference since I already know almost everything about this blessed land.'
Lo Jik started using several mortal gu worms and killer moves. He prepared several methods beforehand and planned extensively for this invasion. His so-called mortal killer moves all incorporated rank 5 Accumulation Gu Worms, displaying a level of strength far surpassing top-tier mortal killer moves. Multi-colored streams of light covered the small section of the sea before the surrounding water formed a shallow whirlpool. Faint sea currents materialized around Lo Jik as he suddenly struck using an immortal killer move with Accumulation Immortal Gu as its core.
*Bam*
A piercing silver light emerged from within the whirlpool alongside a domineering rank 8 aura!
Lo Jik's gaze brightened instead of feeling any fear.
He observed the rank 8 immortal gu worm in the center of the whirlpool and activated several dream path mortal gu worms alongside Accumulation and Disguise Immortal Gu Worms. This immortal killer move also utilized several supplementary theft and wisdom path gu worms. The theft path gu worms included Steal Will, Disguise Will, and such.
The essence of this killer move, however, remained dream path. It was just that Lo Jik spent a considerable amount of time activating this immortal killer move. The black-robed gu immortal beyond the clouds reached the first cloud building during this time and destroyed the first of the twelve formation cores covering the entire sky.
The 9000 dream path dao marks carved on Lo Jik's body instantly multiplied the strength of the immortal killer move by 900%!
A hazy pink stream of smoke blew out from Lo Jik's body and covered the rank 8 immortal gu worm.
This immortal gu worm was undoubtedly precious as the dream path immortal killer move quietly targeted and corroded the will inside the immortal gu worm.
Dream path, like pill, food, painting, and various other paths, had its own specialties.
One of the aspects of the dream path was its use of true meaning within the dream realms. Secondarily, dream path had a corrosive effect on methods of all the other paths!
Back then, the influence of the dream realm surrounding Bai La continued to corrode Fairy Yi and Feng Jiu Ge's methods. The best method to target instances of dream path was dream path itself.
Had Lo Jik simply used a dream path immortal killer move on the immortal gu worm, it would have damaged this precious entity. However, being a dream path great grandmaster, Lo Jik's immortal killer move was quite sophisticated and only targeted Lang Ya Land Spirit's will inside the immortal gu worm.
Immortal killer move: Dream Disguise Refinement.
This method was only something Lo Jik deduced after the initial Dream Refinement immortal killer move. Ordinarily, Lo Jik would never utilize this immortal killer move because it involved Disguise Immortal Gu. He needed to add thousands of mortal gu worms to balance the addition of a rank 8 immortal gu worm, which made the activation method quite complicated and time-consuming.
The actual Dream Refinement immortal killer move instantly converted the will inside the immortal gu worm into a trace of a dream realm. This was Dream Creation's profundity. However, the infusion of Lo Jik's will subsequently replaced this trace and successfully refined the targeted immortal gu worm!
Dream Disguise Refinement, meanwhile, didn't simply refine the immortal killer move.
The hazy dream-like smoke retracted its steps and returned to Lo Jik's first blessed land. He thinned his lips briefly as his stomach felt slightly stuffed. His strength path blessed land was already quite developed and he had more than six thousand strength path dao marks. Still, it felt pressured by the addition of a rank 8 immortal gu worm!
Rank 8 Water Refinement Immortal Gu Worm!
But…
As Lo Jik observed the silver light, he noticed another rank 8 immortal gu inside the opening.
Another rank 8 Water Refinement Immortal Gu?
This was the true use of Dream Disguise Refinement!
Lo Jik did not merely refine and steal a rank 8 immortal gu. As if this feat wasn't enough to shake the world and shock many rank 8 gu immortals, Lo Jik's immortal killer move left behind a perfect fake copy of the immortal gu worm that, obviously, could not be used to do anything. This immortal killer move did not destroy Lang Ya Land Spirit's will within the immortal gu worm but transferred it to this disguised copy.
Lo Jik used a few other methods and cleaned his tracks as the silver light vanished and the surrounding sea region regained its calm.
The waves in his heart, however, were far from calm.
'Water Refinement Immortal Gu! My second rank 8 immortal gu worm!' His gaze turned heated. 'I can use this immortal gu worm to thoroughly upgrade my Undefeated Refinement Cauldron immortal gu house. Ah! I could even add Roaring Dragon Water Light into the immortal gu house and transform it into an immortal killer move no worse than its origin.'
Lo Jik licked his lips. There was water all around him, but he still felt that his lips were turning dry from greed.
He had only explored Lang Ya Blessed Land for some time and had already acquired such a supreme treasure.
There was too much to gain here.
'Water Refinement Immortal Gu is the greatest treasure in this region. There are a few more supplementary immortal gu worms used to create this sea region.'
He already planned things clearly and directly left the sea region instead of hunting for other immortal gu worms. The sea region was vast and he already appeared close to Water Refinement Immortal Gu Worm. Approaching other supplementary immortal gu worms meant traveling for hundreds and thousands of kilometers.
How could he waste such a precious opportunity in this fashion?
'Next up, the storage reserves and other materials.'
The current Lo Jik's greatest restriction in refining immortal gu was none other than lacking materials. Lang Ya Blessed Land existed a long time before Immemorial Desolate Grotto-Heaven and its treasury far surpassed many grotto-heavens.
Lo Jik flew out of the sea region and entered a nearby island.
This island had a formation hiding and storing one of the many treasuries.
'So many luck path materials!' Lo Jik felt dazzled as he greedily used his methods to plunder and steal wantonly. His efficiency in stealing was surreal as he moved from one location to another in an unchecked manner.
The cluster of the islands in the regions only stored the treasures that Lang Ya Blessed Land could not grow and nurture. In reality, there were countless immortal materials all over the blessed land—part of several ecologies and supporting growth of other materials and beasts. Lo Jik had to give up on these treasures and focus on something even more alluring.
Right now, he entered a treasury filled to the brim with hibernating gu worms.
There were hundreds of thousands of mortal gu worms… and three immortal gu worms, each rank 6!
Lo Jik smiled gently, his expression unknown to the land spirit furiously defending its home.
Immortal killer move: Dream Disguise Refinement.
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Alternate Title: Smiling gently and scattering misfortune upon the world; Truly Thieving Heaven's inheritor… and lover?; Lo Jik about to give Chen Jiu (Xin Cheng) the beast foreplay of her life after the invasion; Invading blessed land; Enemies from all side; Lang Ya feeling Shadow Sect is the worst enemy… meanwhile, Lo Jik *Laughing in 'One skill to dominate all' dream path*; *Greedy noises*; Immense storage; Second rank 8 immortal gu; Water Refinement Immortal Gu; Dream path skills; Stealing rank 8 treasures; Immense benefits; Lang Ya about to be fucked from both sides; Chang Shan Yin's move; Qin Bai Sheng's strength; Seeing through Lang Ya's arrangement; Appearing without commotion; Sneaking and stealing, theft is divine
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