Chapter 192: Leaving Western Desert
The water in the pool burbled, the water temperature also rose rapidly.
"Traitor, what the hell did you do?!" The rank three guard glared and grabbed Fang Yuan's neck.
"Are you going to talk or not? I will kill you if you don't speak!" The rank three Gu Master was almost spewing fire from his eyes because of anger.
The water temperature continued to rise, already at a level which an ordinary person could barely endure.
The rank three Gu Master held Fang Yuan's neck and floated to the water surface, then he exerted strength and directly jumped ashore.
"They're back!"
"This is the traitor?"
"A backstabbing traitor! Speak, who ordered you?"
The clan's higher-ups were already gathered on the shore, the elders, the clan leader with rank four cultivation, and even the old and retired clan leader was present.
Fang Yuan was completely soaked, he was immediately restrained as soon as he got ashore. He was then repeatedly interrogated, with no strength to resist or struggle.
Fang Yuan only coughed, remaining silent.
"The pool is already boiling, there is red light coming from inside!" At this time, someone cried out in surprise.
Several breaths later, the red light passed through the pool's surface and soared to the sky, dying the sky above the oasis red. The light could be seen from the surrounding hundred li.
The clan's higher-ups appeared to be caught by surprise, how could they stop this without even knowing the reason?
The clan leader had a malevolent expression on his face as he was about to interrogate Fang Yuan again, but was suddenly stopped by someone.
It was the old clan leader.
The old clan leader's legs were gone due to injuries from battles, his upper body floated before Fang Yuan.
He gave a deep sigh and persuaded kindly: "Child, you were likely enticed by someone. If the clan has wronged you before, I will apologize to you. I will agree to whatever compensation you want. This matter before us is not a small thing, it concerns the lives of all our clansmen! Tell us everything you know. If there is an accident, many families will die."
Fang Yuan remained silent.
"Damned bastard! How could the clan have produced such a vile spawn like you!!" The clan leader was furious at Fang Yuan's attitude, he immediately kicked him down.
Fang Yuan chuckled coldly: "Yes, kill me! Kill me and you won't know anything!!"
"You!!" The clan leader immediately stiffened.
"Kekeke! My good grandson, grandpa likes this inner nature of yours." Sha Xiao's mad laughter rang in Fang Yuan's ears.
"It can't be helped." At this moment, the old clan leader stopped the current clan leader. He looked at Fang Yuan, his affable look from earlier replaced by a cold and cruel expression: "This kid is unrepentant, use soul search methods on him. Even if his soul gets destroyed, no one will be blamed."
"Yes!" Immediately, a rank three elder went forward and grabbed Fang Yuan's head, soul searching him with no hesitation.
Intense pain spread, Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk and his whole body started shaking from the pain.
The dream realm started wearing down his soul at an intense rate.
After falling from one hundred desolate soul to sixty desolate soul, the dream realm's corrosion stopped abruptly.
This was because there was another change in the pool, the glaring red light shot out, completely evaporating the water in the pool. The enormous red light turned into a pillar of light that charged towards the skies.
The sky suddenly turned dark as dark clouds appeared above.
The earth shook like a behemoth that had woken up underground.
The old clan leader immediately said in a decisive voice: "Retreat! Don't bring anything, just save your lives!"
Before even finishing his words, he flew away, even without legs, he escaped quicker than others!
The other Gu Masters gave cries of alarm before quickly running away as well.
Only Fang Yuan remained behind in the pool.
Soon, Fang Yuan lost his control and turned into an observer once again.
Young Thieving Heaven slumped down on the ground in fright, crying tears of regret.
"What did I do?"
"What in the world did I do?!"
"How could I do such a thing! I am worse than a beast!!"
Slap slap slap.
Young Thieving Heaven slapped himself.
"How could I be this kind of person! Sob sob…" His cheeks were red and swollen. Looking at his similarly red hands, he began to cry.
Rumble!
Thunder crackled, the red light suddenly flashed intensely
In an instant, the enchanting red light covered several thousands of li, shining upon the stupefied clansmen as well as the quickly escaping ones.
Then, the red light suddenly retracted, as if thousands of arrows were shot out before flying back to the bows like time was reversed.
Such a bizarre scene caused young Thieving Heaven to stare, dumbfounded.
"This is…"
"How could this be?!"
In the blink of an eye, the red light's changes finished. However, the people who the light had contacted, be it mortals or Gu Masters, found to their horror that they had turned extremely old.
Then they took one last breath before all of them fell to the ground, dead.
Young Thieving Heaven was no exception, he had turned from a young boy to an old man with wrinkled face and grizzled hair.
"I should die, all my troubles will end once I am dead!" Young Thieving Heaven closed his eyes and waited for death, but Sha Xiao's voice resounded in his ears.
"Hahaha, you want to die? You are the owner of steal life Immortal Gu, how could you die?"
"Demon, what do you mean?"
Young Thieving Heaven shouted in his mind, just at this time, the red light concentrated into a lump of essence, turning into a scarlet bee that flew before him.
Young Thieving Heaven immediately sensed a close feeling, he and this bee had the most intimate connection!
He involuntarily extended his palm, and when the bee entered his hand, his extracted lifespan returned to his body.
Young Thieving Heaven turned young once again!
Sha Xiao laughed sinisterly: "My good grandson, this rank six Immortal Gu is grandpa's gift to you. Take it and roam the world. This world is big while you are too insignificant. If you truly want to return home, make use of this opportunity well!"
"Immortal Gu?! Who are you? What are you trying to do?" Young Thieving Heaven did not feel any joy of obtaining an Immortal Gu, instead cold sweat soaked his body.
Sha Xiao's voice, however, gradually turned faint: "When the time is ripe, you will know…"
At this point, the third stage of the dream realm concluded.
Fang Yuan returned to reality, his soul returning to his body.
After this exploration of Thieving Heaven's dream realm, Fang Yuan's Theft path attainment remained the same but his attainment in Dream path rose to Grandmaster from Quasi Grandmaster.
Next, Fang Yuan said his goodbyes to Tang Fang Ming, having a regretful tone: "Something urgent happened, I need to go and settle it. I will explore Thieving Heaven's dream realm next time!"
Tang Fang Ming asked earnestly: "I wonder what is the matter, can my Tang clan assist you?"
Tang Fang Ming was not being kindhearted, he was following the agreement between Tang clan and Fang Yuan, if he provided Fang Yuan assistance, he would gain an appropriate reward in return.
"It is fine, I can settle this myself." Fang Yuan nodded, his reply made Tang Fang Ming very disappointed, his gaze turned downcast.
But soon, Fang Yuan took out an information path mortal Gu and handed it to Tang Fang Ming.
"This, is this?" Tang Fang Ming had a feeling, he excitedly received this information path mortal Gu with both hands.
"Within this Gu worm, there are some shallow insights that I learned in exploring dream realms, I hope it can help you." Fang Yuan smiled, he started to leave, while Tang Fang Ming sighed in admiration behind him.
The following events played out just like Fang Yuan's previous life like Fang Yuan going to western desert, getting attacked by Qing Chou and stealing the rank eight Soul Beast Token Immortal Gu.
Next he flew for several days and arrived at southern border.
After arriving at southern border, Fang Yuan used the Immortal killer move Qi Luck Sensation to find the location of his upper extreme heavenly eagle.
"The southeast direction…" Fang Yuan stopped qi luck sensation as he flew into the clouds at lightning speed.
Southern Border, southeast direction.
Yellow dragon river was to the north, while Bai Shou Mountain was to the south.
This was originally a mountain range with varying contours, but it had split apart now, a huge Earth Trench had been created here with immeasurable depth.
The great era was arriving, the five regions were becoming one, the first step was the turbulence in earth qi, and the connection of earth veins. Southern Border had the densest earth path dao marks in all five regions, therefore, after the first earthquake, several more huge earthquakes occurred throughout the region.
This time, the earth vein tremors created Earth Trenches, countless Southern Border Gu Immortals invested themselves into this, trying to scavenge for resources and make up for their losses while raising their strength.
At this moment, in this newly developed Earth Trench, a group of Gu Masters were setting up a mortal Gu formation and setting up camp.
The leader had rank five cultivation level and was a woman.
It was none other than Shang clan's current leader, Shang Xin Ci.
This field was deep within Earth Trench, it was extraordinary, the soil was black and firm like iron, colorful smoke was rising up from the soil, floating towards the sky and forming into clouds.
"The great power of nature, this is truly incredible!" Shang Xin Ci sighed, feeling deeply moved.
A white robed young man was standing beside her, he had a heroic stature, sword-like sharp eyes and brows, a small eagle was resting on his shoulder, it was Ye Fan.
Ye Fan spoke: "This field is not simple, if I am not wrong, this is a smoky warm jade field, it can produce immortal material smoky warm jade, it is extraordinary. This field is actually a few square kilometers worth of land, it has extremely high value!"
"So this place is called smoky warm jade field, thank you young master Ye for the explanation. I finally know why the immortal ancestors in our clan want me to lead the group to guard this place." Shang Xin Ci expressed her gratitude.
"Report—! Hou clan and Tie clan have sent large groups of troops of an unprecedented scale, directly towards us." At this time, an investigative Gu Master reported.
A beautiful female Gu Master beside Shang Xin Ci said: "Clan leader was right, we set up a Gu formation and expanded our base, we triggered the bottom lines of these two clans."
Shang Xin Ci nodded, smiling: "The Gu formation has been set long ago, we are pretending to set it up now so as to lure these two clans to attack us, so that we can take them down at once."
"If I can defeat the two old clan leaders from Hou clan and Tie clan here, my reputation will rise sharply, when I return to the clan, things will change." Saying so, Shang Xin Ci's lips curled up as she said loudly: "I hope everyone can put in their effort and claim victory now."
Everyone responded positively.
"Shang clan leader, what is the meaning of this?" A moment later, Tie clan leader arrived.
Next, Hou clan leader also arrived with his men, questioning Shang Xin Ci: "Little lass, are you trying to take over this entire place by expanding your base?"
Shang Xin Ci smiled lightly: "Clan leaders, we have already wasted a lot of time here. Why don't we decide the victor now, what is the point of stalling?"
Hou clan leader's pupils shrunk.
Tie clan leader laughed heartily, showing Shang Xin Ci a thumbs-up: "Good, you are an amazing junior. The truth is, I am quite frustrated with being here for so long, let's have a huge three-way battle today and decide the victor."
Thus, all three sides sent out their troops and fought.
Shang Xin Ci, Ye Fan, and the other higher-ups were standing on the spot, waiting for the results of the battle.
"Activate the Gu formation." Shang Xin Ci instructed.
The formation path Gu Master beside her was hesitant: "Isn't it too early to activate the Gu formation now? They will have a lot of time to react to it."
Shang Xin Ci shook her head: "Go ahead and set it up."
The Gu formation activated as light filled the battlefield.
Hou clan and Tie clan's Gu Masters immediately panicked.
Shang Xin Ci spoke loudly: "This formation can protect the lives of those heavily injured, Gu Masters from Hou clan and Tie clan, go ahead and fight."
Tie clan leader laughed loudly: "I've heard of Shang clan leader's kindness long ago, it seems to be true after all, alright, let us fight until the end."
Hou clan leader snorted coldly, thinking: "This lass is truly formidable, she said the incredible ability of this Gu formation to put our resolve in chaos, would we still get rid of the formation after hearing that? I truly underestimated her!"
The Gu formation activated, under its effect, whenever a Gu Master suffers great injury, they would be enveloped by light and sent out, safe from harm.
At the same time, the Gu formation amplified the power of Shang clan's Gu Masters.
Tie clan and Hou clan had Gu Masters trying to unravel this Gu formation, but before they succeeded, Shang clan's Gu Masters would have a huge advantage.
"Kill!" Xiong Tu, Xiong Huo, and Xiong Feng joined the battlefield, the three worked together closely, most elders were not their match.
Soon, three elders from Hou clan suffered heavy injuries and were sent out of the battlefield by the light.
"Damn it!" Hou clan leader clenched his fist: "I already convinced a crucial person in Shang clan to sabotage Shang Xin Ci, to think that she would initiate battle now. This Tie clan leader is too rash, he actually agreed and fell into her schemes. Hmm?"
At this time, a female Gu Master walked out of Tie clan's formation, she was fearsome!
She fought valiantly, rampaging the battlefield unhindered.
The three Xiong brothers wanted to stop her, but they were sent out of the battlefield rapidly by her unstoppable advancement.
Hou clan leader's eyes were bulging, he finally realized: "So Tie clan has such a person! Amazing, too amazing, even if I go and fight, I am not her match."
At the moment of crisis, Ye Fan entered the battlefield, standing in front of this female Gu Master: "Lady, may I know your name?"
That woman's eyes flashed like lightning as she assessed Ye Fan, showing a hint of sternness, she said in a cold tone: "Tie Ruo Nan!"