Chapter 177: Hope
"Purple Mountain True Monarch, what is the meaning of this?" Fang Yuan asked even though he knew very well what he meant.
Purple Mountain True Monarch explained: "Hehehe, Fang Yuan, no need to worry that this is a scheme, there is no such thing. Because I am about to die! Spectral Soul was captured, Duke Long is here personally, he will not let me off."
"The great era is coming, Fang Yuan!"
"Heavenly Court wants to be the leader of the five regions and rule all of humanity."
"Heavenly Court will not let you off, because you are not Zhao Lian Yun, you are a complete otherworldly demon, you have the sovereign immortal aperture as well as the luck path true inheritance."
"You do not belong to this world, you are a defier of fate, a source of chaos, the biggest uncertainty in heaven and earth."
"You are the target of Heavenly Court's extermination, if you do not get rid of Heavenly Court, they will eradicate you!"
"My Shadow Sect had once wanted to defy the way of heaven and become a venerable again. But Heavenly Court was our greatest obstacle, even though we lost, I would rather pass you everything than give them to our enemies. Hahaha."
Purple Mountain True Monarch said this and laughed.
Inside Shadow Sect's blessed land.
Duke Long was encircled by the soul beast army, his body was smaller than any of the soul beasts, but he had terrifying battle strength, even though the soul beasts were numerous, regardless of their cultivation level, they all fell to Duke Long.
Duke Long waved his dragon claws.
Swish!
With a soft sound, a claw mark could be seen, it almost pierced space, along the way, soul beasts were torn apart, without putting up any resistance.
"A bunch of trash, no matter how many you send, it is useless." Duke Long floated in the sky, his body was tall and straight, resembling the peak of a mountain, his dragon horns were sharp and ruthless, his dragon eyes were shining with a cold light.
With him at the center, in the radius of a thousand steps, there was no living beings, a vast number of soul beast corpses were piled up.
Purple Mountain True Monarch had already hidden in the soul beast army, his whereabouts were unknown.
"Door of life and death…" Duke Long pondered.
"After taking the door of life and death, when fate Immortal Gu recovers completely, any life form's soul upon death, without exception, would need to enter the door of life and death."
"By then, with this secluded domain of heaven and earth, Heavenly Court's rule will be absolute!"
From Duke Long's perspective, once he used a strong move like triple qi retraction, Shadow Sect's blessed land would be incredibly fragile.
But now, in order to not destroy the door of life and death, Duke Long decided to use another method.
Boom!
Duke Long flew out rapidly, he moved like a flying dragon, rampaging without fear, all the soul beasts around him were sent flying, before countless air currents sliced them into pieces.
"Just a tiny split soul, where do you think you're hiding?" Duke Long spoke as he slammed with his hand.
Rumble!
A huge translucent mountain created from air currents descended and pressed down immediately.
Purple Mountain True Monarch gritted his teeth, he had to show up and resist it.
Both sides fought as the air current mountain was expended by half, Purple Mountain True Monarch coughed out blood, he was tossed away like a kite with its strings cut.
"What are you resisting for? Do you still have hope?" Duke Long snorted coldly, he attacked again mercilessly with an imposing aura.
"Hope, huh…" Purple Mountain True Monarch knew that he could not survive this battle. This was his final moment in life. His gaze couldn't help but become slightly hazy.
Roar!
Duke Long spat out dragon flames and directly hit Purple Mountain True Monarch.
Purple Mountain True Monarch sacrificed his own arm to block his attack, before retreating.
Duke Long grabbed, Purple Mountain True Monarch felt intense pain in his heart. After some struggling, half of his skeleton was smashed to bits by Duke Long.
Purple Mountain True Monarch endured the pain, even though he could not move, he still tried to use Gu worms to dodge.
Duke Long's expression was still cold: "Want to know why you lost?"
Purple Mountain True Monarch coughed as he spat out some blood, looking at Duke Long: "I am listening."
Duke Long smiled coldly, vanishing on the spot before appearing in front of Purple Mountain True Monarch.
A tough fist!
Purple Mountain True Monarch's stomach was hit by the fist, the unparalleled force directly broke through his abdomen and created a huge hole.
Purple Mountain True Monarch was like a cannonball, crashing into the ground and creating a deep pit.
"You tried to partially assimilate with heaven's will, the truth is, Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had done that eons ago. She is the creator of wisdom path, how could you possibly play tricks before her very eyes?"
"The latter half of your life was spent doing one thing, that was to fight for pawns against heaven's will. But unfortunately, you were assimilated with heaven's will, you are one of heaven's will's pawns too."
Duke Long said this as he descended.
Purple Mountain True Monarch gritted his teeth, exerting his strength to fly out of the pit.
He flew backwards and landed on the ground, coughing out blood again.
Duke Long gradually landed on the ground, he did not pursue him, stretching out his index finger to point at Purple Mountain True Monarch.
Boom!
A grand beam of light shot out intensely.
Purple Mountain True Monarch's entire body was flickering with purple light, but under Duke Long's unstoppable attacks, he was thrown into the sky, before crashing onto the ground, his body covered by a pool of blood.
"As for the second reason you failed, I am sure you have guessed it. That's right, this dream realm has been taken over by heaven's will. The longer the dream realm manifests, the deeper the infiltration of heaven's will in this place."
"This time, my Heavenly Court was blessed to have gained the guidance of Star Constellation heaven's will, we have already understood the condition and location of Spectral Soul's main body.
"Oh, and that Fang Yuan, it is quite ironic, if he hid somewhere else, we would not have been able to find him, but because he was here to explore the dream realm, he was completely exposed to heaven's will."
"He attempted to defy the will of heaven, he deserves death, he will die today without doubt."
Duke Long stepped forward.
Getting to Purple Mountain True Monarch, Duke Long stood and observed Purple Mountain True Monarch by his feet.
Purple Mountain True Monarch lay on the ground, his arms were trembling, he was trying to sit up, he wanted to stand.
He wanted to continue fighting.
Thus, Duke Long looked at him quietly, seeing him exert all his strength to stand up against him.
But Purple Mountain True Monarch was too heavily injured, he had no way of fighting back.
Even the action of standing was too tough for him.
But just when he was about to fall, Duke Long attacked and grabbed Purple Mountain True Monarch's neck.
Duke Long used his pincer-like hand to grab Purple Mountain True Monarch, holding him up towards the sky.
"How does it feel to have your hopes dashed? Attempting to defy fate will result in such a pitiful ending. Even a venerable's soul is no different." Duke Long said coldly.
Purple Mountain True Monarch grabbed Duke Long's arms weakly: "Cough, cough, cough, I… indeed… have no hope… but that does not mean that others… have… no… hope… hehehe."
Duke Long's expression changed, his sharp dragon eyes gazed at Purple Mountain True Monarch's body.
"No wonder you are so weak."
"You sent a portion of your Immortal Gu away!"
"You are truly unrepentant."
"Even you could not succeed, what can the rest of Shadow Sect do?"
Purple Mountain True Monarch's face was purple, he could not breathe, he could not speak.
He could only think to himself: "This person, is different…"
"Oh Fang Yuan!"
"You are definitely different!"
"You are a complete otherworldly demon, the best person to resist fate."
"You are the greatest pawn chosen by heaven's will to deal with Shadow Sect, but now, you have already escaped the manipulation of heaven's will."
"I assimilated with heaven's will to spread hope in this world and influence fate. Unfortunately, I failed. Like what Duke Long said, I had unknowingly become the pawn of heaven's will. In the process of assimilating with heaven's will, heaven's will also assimilated me."
"I have no hope left, but Fang Yuan, you carry the biggest hope."
"Let me exert my final influence at the last moment of my life!"
"Hehehe, I am really curious, after gaining the entirety of Shadow Sect, how far can you go?"
"Go ahead and wreak havoc in this world, Fang Yuan!!"
All of his internal thoughts were transmitted to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan sighed deeply: "I understand you, even though we were enemies… I will accept this and become the leader of Shadow Sect!"
"Very good, very… good." Purple Mountain True Monarch closed his eyes weakly.
He grabbed onto Duke Long's hands in the end, even though his movement was stiff, he did not let go.
He did not go down without a fight!
At this moment, Purple Mountain True Monarch truly died from combat!
His messy purple hair was no longer shiny. After a hundred thousand years, his journey had come to an end.
Purple Mountain True Monarch had no more life force, he was now a corpse.
"What a clean death." Duke Long snorted, his cold dragon eyes could see both the inside and outside of Purple Mountain True Monarch.
Duke Long let go with his hand, as Purple Mountain True Monarch's corpse fell to the ground.
Soul beasts roared and surrounded Duke Long.
"As expected of the door of life and death, there are a great number of soul beasts here, even if I kill some, more will appear, they are endless." Duke Long sighed softly.
Duke Long did not pay attention to these soul beasts.
"Spectral Soul has been captured and most of the split souls are dead. It is time to go outside and sweep the battlefield."
But when he was about to move, the entire blessed land started shaking, cracks were forming in the sky, like a shattering mirror.
"Hmm?" Duke Long frowned slightly: "The entirety of Shadow Sect's blessed land is self-detonating? As expected of a demon."
Grrr!
The soul beast army growled with fear in their vocalizations.
More and more soul beasts went into chaos.
Duke Long went against the tide and slaughtered a bunch of soul beasts, ending up in front of the door of life and death.
At the same time, outside Shadow Sect's blessed land.
"We cannot take it anymore!" Several Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies flew out of dream realms one by one.
During the earlier chaos, Fang Yuan had came out of Wu Yi Hai's immortal aperture and took his place in controlling the super Gu formation, while ordering him to enter his sovereign immortal aperture.
"Greetings to Shadow Sect's new leader!" After seeing Fang Yuan, they paid respects to him.
Hei Lou Lan, Bai Ning Bing, Ying Wu Xie, Fairy Miao Yin, Black Tigress, they all came out of the immortal apertures of the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies.
"Miao Yin pays respects to lord sect leader!" Fairy Miao Yin spoke first.
"Lord sect leader!" Black Tigress followed.
Hei Lou Lan gritted her teeth, sighing deeply: "Hei Lou Lan pays respects to lord sect leader."
"To think that the day would come when we work together again." Bai Ning Bing stood alone, she crossed her arms as her dragon eyes shined with cold light, she sighed as she looked at Fang Yuan.
As for Ying Wu Xie, he was still in a dream realm.
Fang Yuan looked at these Gu Immortals.
Next, he said: "Hei Lou Lan, look after the super Gu formation for me, I need to wake Ying Wu Xie up."
Immortal killer move — Unravel Dream!
Fang Yuan succeeded in saving Ying Wu Xie, allowing him to escape the dream realm.
However, even though Ying Wu Xie was awake, his condition was not normal.
He was listless, he had no fighting spirit at all, he was lying down on the ground like his back was removed.
He had been completely broken.
Fang Yuan asked plainly: "Where are the inheritances that Purple Mountain True Monarch left in your immortal aperture? Pass them to me."
Even though Ying Wu Xie was dejected, he still acknowledged Fang Yuan's identity and opened his immortal aperture's entrance, letting out a purple will.
The purple will slowly formed into Purple Mountain True Monarch's appearance as he passed all of his immortal essence and Gu worms to Fang Yuan, like what he had promised earlier.
Immediately, Fang Yuan refined all of the Immortal Gu.