Reverend Insanity Chapter 2329 - Fang Yuan’s Scheme To Blow Up Heavenly Court
The massive explosion struck with such abruptness and ferocity that it caught everyone completely off guard!
In an instant, the winds howled and the clouds were shredded, causing the very heavens and earth to shift in color.
Heavenly Court had been shattered!
A multitude of grotto-heaven fragments scattered in every direction, resembling shards from a volcanic eruption. Scarcely half of the immortal aperture entrance remained intact, leaving behind jagged gaps and holes that sat exposed within the depths of spectral heaven.
Amidst the swirling smoke and debris, the true state of Heavenly Court was impossible to discern.
An untold number of Gu Immortals had met their end.
The only certainty was that the mountain-sized qi harvest fruit had been entirely obliterated.
"I have succeeded..." From his position in Central Continent, Fang Yuan gazed toward the former site of Heavenly Court and exhaled a long, steady breath.
He had begun deliberating over this precise contingency long ago.
Back then, he had found himself trapped in a perilous situation, surrounded by threats on all sides.
The rapid time flow within his sovereign immortal aperture had forced Fang Yuan to face constant tribulations. Although he had repeatedly employed the killer move endless trouble to postpone these calamities, even this technique could not bypass the inevitable arrival of the chaotic disaster.
Once Fang Yuan was forced to undergo tribulation, he would be required to anchor his sovereign immortal aperture within spectral heaven and keep its entrance open for an extended duration.
This would create a massive vulnerability, inviting Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to strike, and perhaps even drawing the unwanted attention of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!
Beyond the immediate peril of his tribulations, Fang Yuan also faced the gnawing agony of hunger.
It was the insatiable hunger of the sovereign immortal body.
Constructed by the sovereign immortal fetus Gu, the body possessed a critical flaw: it required the consumption of an immortal aperture of an equivalent rank to the Gu Immortal once every so often.
Now that Fang Yuan had attained the status of a venerable, he was obliged to annex a rank nine immortal aperture!
These two crises had plagued Fang Yuan with great anxiety.
As the saying goes: if one remains free of major concerns, they will surely be plagued by minor ones.
Possessing incredible foresight, Fang Yuan could anticipate the trials of the future. Rather than deferring these problems, he decided he must begin resolving them immediately!
Fang Yuan was not one for passivity; he thrived on seizing the initiative, launching the first strike to assert command over the unfolding events.
Fang Yuan had gained knowledge of one of Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's primary revival methods.
The logic was straightforward.
It stemmed from the killer move stealing heavenly secret.
In the past, Fang Yuan had utilized the immortal ascension of his own Gu Immortal seeds to trigger natural inspiration, allowing him to employ stealing heavenly secret to survey all the clandestine workings hidden within Heavenly Court.
He understood that the profound mysteries embedded within the qi harvest fruit were designed solely to facilitate the resurrection of Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable.
Even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable lacked a precise grasp of the specific details regarding the qi harvest fruit revival method.
However, Fang Yuan’s clear insight into Heavenly Court, combined with his attainments as a great grandmaster of qi path, allowed him to conduct deep research and deductions with the assistance of wisdom Gu.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had made meticulous and precise arrangements within the star array calculation formation, intending to leverage both Embroidered Tower and the Star Constellation Chessboard to ensnare a pseudo-venerable.
Since these preparations were made in secret, Fang Yuan remained unaware of them.
Yet, he did not need to guess; he knew with certainty that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable would strive to revive Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable.
Had he been in her position, he certainly would have prioritized the resurrection of the other two Immortal Kings of Heaven.
While overt actions were fraught with difficulty, clandestine maneuvers were far easier to execute. Once Star Constellation Immortal Venerable committed to a plan, her every movement would inevitably betray her true intentions.
Heavenly Court possessed immense foundations, sustained by the rule of its three Immortal Kings. While this represented Heavenly Court's greatest strength, to Fang Yuan, it was also their most glaring weakness.
Thus, Fang Yuan devised a scheme to sacrifice Qi Sea Ancestor as a deliberate lure, baiting Star Constellation Immortal Venerable into prematurely triggering her qi harvest fruit revival method.
Even if Qi Sea Ancestor was merely his clone, so what?
In the relentless pursuit of eternal life, what could he not possibly sacrifice?
For the sake of his grand objective, would Fang Yuan ever hesitate over such a sacrifice?
The scheme to intentionally surrender Qi Sea Ancestor as bait for Primordial Origin’s revival stood a high chance of success.
The difficulty lay in finding the proper opportunity to insert him into the heart of the enemy's formation.
He could not act overtly.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable reigned supreme in the path of wisdom; Fang Yuan had tested the limits of her intuition countless times. She frequently saw through his schemes even as they were in their nascent stages. A clear example was the previous incident involving Fang clan.
Should his maneuvers appear too conspicuous, she would surely detect his intent and turn the plan against him, resulting in grievous losses for Fang Yuan.
Consequently, he waited patiently for the optimal opening.
The emergence of the heaven path dream realms provided exactly that perfect timing!
For Fang Yuan, although these heaven path dream realms offered a chance to increase his heaven path attainment, he was in no hurry to claim them.
As long as he denied others the ability to exploit these dream realms, he could continue refining rank nine Immortal Gu in secret, steadily bolstering his strength and widening the gap between himself and the other venerables.
The more time he bought, the more formidable Fang Yuan became.
However, the fierce contest over these dream realms acted as the perfect smokescreen to hide his strategy of surrendering Qi Sea Ancestor to the enemy!
Fang Yuan had weighed his options heavily and made difficult sacrifices.
He could not act too eager; everything had to appear perfectly logical.
Star Constellation's intelligence was unfathomable, yet it was precisely this wisdom that Fang Yuan turned into a weapon against her!
Consequently, Fang Yuan maneuvered Qi Sea Ancestor into the reach of the star array calculation formation without appearing to do anything out of the ordinary. Subsequently, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable ‘aided’ Fang Yuan by completing the arrangements herself, effectively capturing Qi Sea Ancestor.
Throughout this entire ordeal, even Qi Sea Ancestor remained completely in the dark regarding Fang Yuan's true intentions.
Neither he, nor Wu Shuai and Zhan Bu Du, had any inkling of the truth.
It paralleled how Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had manipulated the five immortals of Heavenly Court concerning the plot to seize Lin Jian Xing's otherworldly sword path dao marks.
But Fang Yuan proved even more ruthless, for he had effectively deceived even himself.
Surrendering the Qi Sea clone was not enough; to fully convince Star Constellation, he had also parted with vital qi path Immortal Gu and the land known as Hu Land.
What did it matter if he lost those qi path Immortal Gu?
Provided he achieved his ultimate goal, Fang Yuan was willing to discard even his rank nine Immortal Gu!
And Hu Land... was it not merely a secluded domain of heaven and earth?
If its sacrifice could deceive Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, he would gladly surrender three such domains if necessary.
In Fang Yuan’s estimation, so-called Immortal Gu and secluded domains of heaven and earth, regardless of their rarity, were nothing more than instruments to be used in his pursuit of eternal life.
Since they were merely tools, he would sacrifice them without a second thought if it served his purpose!
Fang Yuan felt no hesitation.
While Star Constellation held only a fragmented understanding of the qi harvest fruit revival method, Fang Yuan understood its mechanics perfectly.
As a refinement path venerable, he was also highly proficient in the arts of resurrection.
Viewing it through the lens of refinement path, the qi harvest fruit revival was simply a process of using the fruit as a primary material, alongside Primordial Origin's existing preparations within Heavenly Court, to facilitate the construction of a new soul and body.
Was this process any different from the standard practice of Gu refinement?
Not at all!
With that realization, Fang Yuan made his own arrangements.
He first treated Qi Sea Ancestor as a refined qi path material, preparing the structure well in advance. Naturally, the corresponding memories had been meticulously excised from Qi Sea Ancestor.
It was much like how Star Constellation had altered the memories of the Gu Immortals entering her derivation formation.
Qi Sea Ancestor’s entire physical form had been tampered with; yet, because it utilized the peak refinements of the path, Star Constellation could detect nothing, even after multiple examinations.
Star Constellation possessed her own refinement path attainments, but Qi Sea Ancestor appeared entirely normal on the surface. Her traps would prove disastrous only once he was utilized as an immortal material for the qi harvest fruit revival method.
As the revival progressed, those hidden problems would only intensify.
Since Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not hold complete mastery over the qi harvest fruit revival process, the stage was perfectly set for Fang Yuan to capitalize on every opening!