Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei's corpse fell within the isolated space. There was a thin hole in his brain, and brain matter had leaked out through this hole.
Fang Yuan moved, ignoring Star Lord Wan Xiang, and dug into Shi Lei's body before extracting his immortal aperture. The land spirit was about to form, and if the blessed land was given some time, it would explode and its dao marks would be absorbed by Starry Sky grotto-heaven.
Fang Yuan held the immortal aperture and sealed it before looking at Star Lord Wan Xiang. Star Lord Wan Xiang's body was in a miserable state, his arm had been severed and was hanging by a large piece of skin. His bones were broken in several places, and strength path dao marks had been carved onto his body, making recovery extremely difficult.
Fang Yuan recalled what had happened before Shi Lei broke through the formation.
Both Shi Lei and Star Lord Wan Xiang entered Starry Sky grotto-heaven through the loophole.
The super Gu formation activated, and heaven and earth transformed into an empty space. Star Lord Wan Xiang panicked and shouted nervously."Sir, who are you?."
He was an intelligent person, and had always considered the possibility that Starry Sky grotto-heaven had an owner, or that there was some heavenly spirit. And in that case, his chances of survival were low.
But so what?, he was a lone Gu Immortal in Central Continent, without cultivation resources, he would not be much better off than a dead man.
The ten great ancient sects controlled eighty percent of Central Continent's resources, while the remainder was divided among the smaller righteous path forces and demonic path and lone Gu Immortals.
But resources were extremely scarce.
And if Star Lord Wan Xiang did not want to take risks, would he ever accomplish anything in life?.
Star Lord Wan Xiang retreated several steps and inspected his surroundings. With just one glance, he realized that this was a formation space, and if he wanted to escape, he would have to break through a loophole in the formation.
But he only had an extremely low formation path attainment level, and in this situation, his star path attainment was useless.
"Who is behind this formation, is it the heavenly spirit?..I don't think so, the heavenly spirits of grotto-heavens that have absorbed a fragment of the immemorial nine heavens possess low intelligence..Is there truly an owner of this grotto-heaven?." Star Lord Wan Xiang thought as a bad feeling emerged within him.
Suddenly, an immortal zombie appeared before him, Star Lord Wan Xiang wanted to speak, but the immortal zombie pointed his open hand toward him and quickly clenched it.
"Even if you have a formation to trap me, you are merely a rank six immortal zombie?." Star Lord Wan Xiang sneered and revealed a rank seven aura!.
Fang Yuan was surprised inwardly, but he did not withdraw his attack.
Immortal killer move—Soul Battle Body!.
A soul identical to Fang Yuan appeared beside Fang Yuan with its eyes closed. When Star Lord Wan Xiang saw this, he felt a bad premonition.
"What is he doing?." Star Lord Wan Xiang wanted to know, as starlight shot out like a long ribbon toward Fang Yuan.
But his body suddenly stopped moving.
The split soul beside Fang Yuan suddenly opened its eyes and charged forward, crashing into Star Lord Wan Xiang's body and soul.
The surroundings turned cold as Star Lord Wan Xiang's soul resisted Fang Yuan's split soul.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's soul would have possessed the advantage if the difference between their soul foundations had not been so enormous. Fang Yuan's split soul suppressed Star Lord Wan Xiang's soul with overwhelming force. Within a few moments, Star Lord Wan Xiang's soul shattered into fragments and was "devoured" by Fang Yuan's split soul.
Fang Yuan laughed inwardly when he saw that his split soul had succeeded in the soul body battle.
The concept of this immortal killer move was both brilliant and dangerous, making it extremely powerful when used.
The killer move used the enemy's body as a battlefield and forcefully immobilized it in place, making it easy for the user's soul to launch into a battle of souls. This immortal killer move might give the enemy the advantage if both sides possessed souls of equal strength. But if someone like Fang Yuan possessed an extremely powerful soul, it would not matter even if the enemy had the home ground advantage within his own body.
An example was what had just happened. Star Lord had the home ground advantage, but he lost before the sheer strength of Fang Yuan's split soul.
Fang Yuan returned to reality and looked at his first star path split soul. Earlier, they had truly fought, otherwise, how could they deceive Shi Lei and catch him off guard?.
Having a split soul was extremely useful, Fang Yuan could completely trust his split soul, after all, the split souls were Fang Yuan himself.
"Having a rank seven star path split soul. Not bad at all, but this will leave even more flaws behind." Fang Yuan felt a headache regarding this matter.
Fang Yuan thought for a while before transmitting his thoughts to the split soul.
"Will this really succeed?." The split soul asked doubtfully.
Fang Yuan shook his head."Heaven's will is present within this grotto-heaven, and there is a large amount of it here, it can easily transmit information to the outside world. If we want to resolve that, we must cleanse it, which is almost impossible with our current resources…Escaping is a good method."
The split soul looked at Shi Lei's corpse as Fang Yuan also looked at Shi Lei's corpse, after some planning, he moved toward Shi Lei's corpse and began refining it.
Both refinement path and transformation path specialized in processing materials and changing their forms into something entirely new. Fang Yuan possessed supreme grandmaster attainment in refinement path and quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment in transformation path.
Upon death, all of a Gu Immortal's dao marks would transfer into their immortal aperture, leaving their body almost completely devoid of dao marks. For this reason, Fang Yuan was completely confident in his ability to transform Shi Lei's corpse into an exact replica of Star Lord Wan Xiang.
Otherwise, with Shi Lei's extremely dense dao marks as a rank seven Gu Immortal, even if Fang Yuan tried his hardest, he would need to expend an enormous amount of resources, thoughts, and immortal essence to refine Shi Lei's corpse.
Fang Yuan spent the entire day refining and modifying Shi Lei's body until it looked exactly like Star Lord Wan Xiang. Meanwhile, his split soul spent the same time healing his injuries, and with Fang Yuan's cooperation and their shared attainment levels, the injuries could be treated and alleviated to a great extent.
The severe injuries became only somewhat serious, while most of the minor injuries were healed. Relatively speaking, Star Lord Wan Xiang recovered a large portion of his battle strength.
After finishing the refinement of Shi Lei's corpse, Fang Yuan looked at his split soul and handed him several transformation path, earth path, and wisdom path Immortal Gu.
Star Lord Wan Xiang smiled and accepted the Immortal Gu, and within a few moments, his appearance completely transformed into Immortal Monkey King.
Fang Yuan inspected his aura and appearance and shared his thoughts with his clone, after some adjustments, the two were completely prepared.
"Let's begin." Fang Yuan declared before attacking "Shi Lei".
Shi Lei dodged and activated his methods to "break" the formation.
"Shi Lei, if you are a man, fight me for three hundred rounds!." Fang Yuan chased from behind while shouting.
The giant strength path hand struck Shi Lei's back and sent him "accidentally" into the loophole.
Shi Lei quickly escaped, and Fang Yuan was unable to pursue him. The formation was completely destroyed, while "Star Lord Wan Xiang's" corpse lay there.
Fang Yuan returned to collect the remains of the Immortal Gu that had remained intact before turning his gaze toward Starry Sky grotto-heaven.