Chapter 152: Wu Yi Hai
Wu Yi Hai was extremely shocked, he had no time to dodge.
Clang!
With a sharp metallic sound, a small, round and golden shield appeared in front of Wu Yi Hai at the moment of life and death.
The dragon breath made of sword light landed on the golden shield, in the blink of an eye, this shield broke as the remaining power shot towards Wu Yi Hai's face.
But with this golden shield, Wu Yi Hai gained a precious amount of time to save his own life.
Light shone, Wu Yi Hai vanished on the spot, a huge tortoise appeared in his place.
"What amazing dragon breath! The horned divine tortoise that I transformed into is an ancient desolate beast, it has a tough shell, it is top ten even among Eastern Sea's ancient desolate beasts." Wu Yi Hai was very shocked: "It seems that the enemy is stronger than all the earlier ambushes! Now, it will depend on Uncle Zhang and Brother Leng."
Wu Yi Hai placed his hopes in Uncle Zhang and Brother Leng, but Uncle Zhang was spitting out blood.
The golden shield was Uncle Zhang's defensive killer move, after it was broken, Uncle Zhang suffered a backlash, he immediately spat out blood.
Uncle Zhang was spitting blood, Brother Leng was flying forward.
He charged fiercely and imposingly.
In the blink of an eye, he turned from a human into a lightning flash giant wolf.
Once the lightning flash giant wolf appeared, it brightened up the dark purple miasma in the area.
It followed the path formed by the dragon breath, and charging forward.
Seeing this, Uncle Zhang relaxed his mind.
In a few breaths of time, he suppressed his injuries as his body shone in a bright light.
In the blink of an eye, he turned into a golden sword teeth tiger, his size was twice as large as the lightning flash giant wolf.
Soon, Uncle Zhang saw the lightning flash giant wolf running back!
Behind the lightning flash giant wolf, there were streams of dragon breath made of sword light shooting towards him, inside the thick dark purple miasma, dragon roars could be heard.
"What is going on?" Uncle Zhang was shocked, he knew that the Brother Leng was very courageous in battle, he would not retreat without a reason. There has to be a reason why he was running!
"Don't fight, retreat." Brother Leng saw the golden tiger and spoke human words.
Uncle Zhang was even more shocked now, why did Brother Leng want to avoid battle.
He was about to ask, when he finally saw the culprit that attacked them.
A sword dragon penetrated the dark purple miasma, appearing before them.
"Is this a wild ancient sword dragon?!" Uncle Zhang opened his eyes wide, unable to believe it.
"Why are we so unlucky? So coincidentally, we encountered a wild ancient sword dragon, roaming in the regional wall?"
"I am guessing that this ancient sword dragon is likely to have been lured here by certain Gu Immortals, to obstruct us!"
While escaping, Uncle Zhang and Brother Leng conversed.
Soon, they met with the horned divine tortoise that Wu Yi Hai had turned into.
Wu Yi Hai was informed of the situation as well, he quickly transmitted: "Try not to fight with this ancient sword dragon, it might have been lured here, with the purpose of draining our immortal essence and battle strength as we fight it!"
"Then what do we do?"
"Retreat, leave the ancient sword dragon alone and try not to aggravate it, but we also have to display great strength. Wild beasts have little intelligence, but if it knows that the prey is powerful, it will give up."
Less offense and more defense, they allowed the ancient sword dragon to trail behind them, using its sword light dragon breath.
The three Gu Immortals retreated, they were on the back foot against the dragon breath, unable to raise their heads.
"What do we do, this ancient sword dragon seems to be locked onto us!"
"Maybe I aggravated it earlier when I used a lightning path killer move."
"I have an immortal killer move that can reduce the anger of this fierce beast, but I need to change my killer move."
The three immortals quickly discussed, they soon decided that Brother Leng and Uncle Zhang would defend while Wu Yi Hai would change his transformation to appease the ancient sword dragon.
Wu Yi Hai carefully changed back to human form.
He hid behind the two immortals, using his methods to get rid of the dao marks on him, before using another transformation.
As a wild beast, the ancient sword dragon would have little intelligence, it constantly attacked the huge wolf and golden tiger instead.
Uncle Zhang and Brother Leng thus endured the attacks of the ancient sword dragon, defending with much difficulty. They were both injured, but to chase this ancient sword dragon away, they did not use their offensive techniques, to prevent the situation from worsening and falling into their enemies' trap.
"It is almost ready, my immortal killer move is… uh!" Wu Yi Hai's joyous tone turned into a shocked gasp.
Because he saw that the golden tiger that Uncle Zhang had turned into had its head pierced by an immortal killer move, dying on the spot.
Sword path killer move — Dark Assassination!
Next, that ancient sword dragon burst out with unparalleled speed in an instant, flying forward like a silver bolt of lightning, leaving behind vague silhouettes in the immortals' eyes as it vanished on the spot.
Brother Leng was shocked!
"We fell for their trap! Oh no!!"
He turned around, only to see that Wu Yi Hai's head was shattered into pieces, his white brain matter was flowing out. His headless corpse was grabbed by the ancient sword dragon, stuffed into its immortal aperture.
"How can this be? This ancient sword dragon has an immortal aperture, it is not wild, it is a Gu Immortal's transformation!"
"This should not be! If it is a transformation path Gu Immortal, why is it not affected by the regional wall?!"
The ancient sword dragon roared as it charged at him.
Brother Leng tried to defend himself, in order to save his own life.
The ancient sword dragon craftily dodged all of his immortal killer moves, spitting out streams of dragon breath at the lightning flash giant wolf as it flew around it.
A moment later, the ancient sword dragon found a flaw and sent dragon breath at the lightning flash giant wolf's stomach.
The lightning flash giant wolf's defenses crumbled, its stomach was penetrated, its intestines and blood flowed out of the huge wound that was created.
The ancient sword dragon attacked using this chance, even though the lightning flash giant wolf dodged left and right, it could not resist the attacks of the ancient sword dragon, it fell on the ground with many holes in its body, it turned back to human form and died in a pool of blood at the hands of the ancient sword dragon.
The ancient sword dragon quickly cleaned up the battlefield, moving with great familiarity, as if it had gone through this countless times.
Soon, Uncle Zhang and Brother Leng's corpses were stuffed into the immortal aperture, before it destroyed the battlefield entirely and flew away.
After flying for some time the ancient sword dragon turned back into a human and he was indeed Fang Yuan.
He quickly took out Wu Yi Hai's corpse and began to heal it.
After some time, when the corpse was fully healed, Fang Yuan took out a lump of soul and stuffed it inside the corpse.
The next moment Wu Yi Hai stood up and nodded at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan gave him some immortal Gu and ordered him to go to Southern Border at Wu clan's base.
Wu Yi Hai took the Immortal Gu worms and flyed towards Wu clan, following the orders.
Why did Fang Yuan revive Wu Yi Hai ?
Why did Fang Yuan gave him Immortal Gu ?
Why did Wu Yi Hai followed Fang Yuan's orders ?
It turned out that Fang Yuan had used Split Soul Immortal Gu and created a split soul, he had stuffed this split soul inside Wu Yi Hai's corpse and created another clone.
This was the reason why Wu Yi Hai became alive once again and followed Fang Yuan's orders, as for the immortal Gu worms, Fang Yuan had given him them to explore some dream realms and advance his attainments in other paths with less attainment and also to deceive heaven's will.
Next Fang Yuan annexed Uncle Zhang and Brother Leng's blessed lands.
This allowed his calamities and tribulations to move ahead by a large number, he had already passed a grand tribulation.
A few days later.
Southern Border was in an uproar.
Wu Yi Hai's disappearance was known to the whole of Southern Border.
It was unknown if he was alive or dead, Wu clan chose to remain silent. The forces had their guesses, although they were inclined to believe — Wu Yi Hai was dead, but it was unknown who did it.
There were many forces who acted in the dark, most of them were righteous path forces, this matter was known to everyone.
These forces were not going to foolishly admit they were the ones who killed Wu Yi Hai, of course.
Regarding this problem, there was a rumor that was entering everyone's ears.
That was — the true culprit who murdered Wu Yi Hai was none other than Wu clan rank eight Gu Immortal Wu Yong!
There were many versions of this rumor, but the central claim was, Wu Yong wanted to take Wu Du Xiu's inheritance for himself, thus, he went ahead to murder his half-brother.
Undeniably, this was a severe blow to Wu Yong.
Wu Yong also chose to remain silent, he did not clarify anything.
Wu Du Xiu's condition was getting worse every day, the entirety of Southern Border was in a commotion.
Over in Northern Plains, the blood battle martial competition was still ongoing. Without Liu Guan Yi, Chu Du's side was completely suppressed. But soon, the situation changed, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu personally invited three rank seven lone immortals and they won consecutively, helping Chu Du's side reach a deadlock with the righteous path alliance.
Liu tribe Gu Immortal Liu Chang had been announcing that he wanted Liu Guan Yi to fight him, otherwise, he was a coward, a chicken and more.
Not only was Liu Chang seeking to trouble Fang Yuan, the same went for other forces like Ye Lui tribe. But Liu Guan Yi had vanished without a trace, as if this person had never existed in Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world!
On a certain day, half a month later, Wu Du Xiu summoned Wu Yong and several other Wu clan supreme elders to her house.
At her dying moments, Wu Du Xiu spoke with unprecedented clarity, she said: "I have three regrets in life."
"The first regret is that I failed to exterminate the Seven Fierce Gorge Ghosts, I only destroyed their den."
"The second regret is that I did not managed to find enough dry clear qi to refine eight-faced prestige wind Gu."
"The third regret…"
Saying this, Wu Du Xiu paused.
"Is that I did not get to see my son Yi Hai. Back then… I hated his father, I killed him, but I should not have placed that hatred and anger on a pure and innocent child, he is blameless. I want to make it up to him, but it is too late."
In the house, nobody made a sound, it was silent.
Wu Du Xiu sighed, sitting up on her own.
She got into a half sitting position with much difficulty, leaning on the head of her bed, she waved to Wu Yong weakly.
Wu Yong understood her intention, he quickly pulled the curtains apart and stepped forward, getting to Wu Du Xiu and kneeling down reverently.
Wu Du Xiu looked at her eldest son and smiled after a long time: "Yong Er, you are good, I am not disappointed."
Wu Yong's body shuddered, he raised his head, his eyes were red, tears were sprinkling down.
"I am handing Wu clan to you, I can rest assured." Wu Du Xiu continued to say.
"Mother." Wu Yong opened his mouth, his voice was hoarse, tears were streaming down his face.
Wu Du Xiu continued: "My child Yi Hai was unable to come here, that is fate. Forget it, I will hand these Immortal Gu to you. You cultivate wind path as well, I hope you can cherish them and put them to good use."
"Mother, I don't want your Immortal Gu, I just want you to live!" Wu Yong sobbed.
"Silly child, who can avoid dying? Even Immortal Venerables and Demon Venerables with immense strength die in the end. Eternal life is but a fantasy of fools."
Saying this, Wu Du Xiu's Immortal Gu flew out of her immortal aperture, going towards Wu Yong.
The transfer was smooth.
Aura of Immortal Gu faded into Wu Yong's body one by one.
Wu Du Xiu looked outside the window.
Wu Du Xiu.
Wu Du Xiu.
"Hehe." Wu Du Xiu muttered her own name twice, before laughing lightly.
Her body began to shine with white light, countless white specks were flying out of her shriveled old body.
The specks of light were the dissipation of her soul and body.
A moment later, there was nobody left on the bed, the reputable and powerful rank eight Gu Immortal, Wu Du Xiu, a legendary person who had exerted her influence on Southern Border for thousands of years, had at this moment, vanished from this world.