Late Wind

To mortals, a hundred thousand years was enough time for seas to turn into fields and civilizations to rise and fall.

To Immortal powerhouses, it was merely the duration of a single period of seclusion.

But for the entire Human Race, those hundred thousand years had been a storm that swept across the universe.

Fang Yan leaned against the cockpit seat of the Footless Bird, gazing through the porthole at the distant planet shrouded in purple mist, his eyes slightly unfocused.

A hundred thousand years had passed.

Humanity's wars had never ceased, from Cold Nest in the Southern Border Star Domain to the Northern Link Star Domain, then to the Central Star Domain...

The Human Race's battle flags had been planted in every corner of the surrounding star domains.

Eight hundred and forty-one ordinary races had been exterminated, along with twenty powerful races.

Fang Yan remembered some of those names, while others had already faded from memory.

The Spirit Magpie Race, Bone Spirit Race, Gold-Eating Race, Shadow Race, Frost Giant Race...

One race after another, races that had once held a place in the Primordial Universe, had been uprooted by the Human Race over these hundred thousand years.

Over those hundred thousand years, humanity's territory had doubled.

They were cold numbers, but behind them lay the wails of countless living beings, the extinguishing of endless starlight, and civilizations vanishing utterly from the universe one after another.

"Master, you're getting sentimental again."

Little Fox Fairy's phantom leaped out of the sensor and perched on Fang Yan's shoulder, her tail brushing across his cheek.

"You're like this after every battle, yet when it comes to looting spoils, you're more enthusiastic than anyone."

Fang Yan sighed.

"You wouldn't understand. This is called... a sense of ritual."

The Footless Bird hovered in the void at the edge of the Purple Feather Star Domain, surrounded by millions of densely stationed warships.

This was the Fang Family Army's fleet. After a hundred thousand years of warfare, it was no longer the ragtag force that had just started out back then.

The flame totems on the hulls gave off a dim red glow beneath the starlight.

At the very front of the fleet, three war fortresses stood in a triangular formation. The fortress main cannons atop them had already finished charging, and the light gathering at their muzzles shone like three stars on the verge of exploding.

This was the Purple Feather Star Domain, once the ancestral homeland of the Purple Feather Race.

But now, it was merely their final death struggle.

Fang Yan stood before the Footless Bird's porthole, his gaze sweeping across the battlefield below.

He leaped out, his figure weaving through the purple mist like a ghost.

A hundred thousand years of war had made hunting down fleeing Immortals second nature to him.

Time Pause, assassination, withdrawal.

Three steps, clean and efficient.

If he could not win, he would ambush them with God-Killing Powder. Simple and effective.

Just as Fang Yan prepared to seek out a target, a terrifying aura suddenly erupted behind him.

"Human..."

The voice was low and hoarse, carrying an indescribable hatred.

"How many of my people have you killed? Today, I'll make you repay those blood debts in blood!"

Fang Yan turned around and saw a Purple Feather Race Immortal standing a hundred zhang behind him.

He was a Peak Marquis powerhouse, three parts more terrifying than the Spirit Magpie Race Marquis Fang Yan had encountered in the Southern Border Star Domain.

"Repay blood debts in blood?"

Fang Yan smiled.

"It's war. How could there be no deaths?"

"You!"

The Purple Feather Race Marquis trembled with rage. His four pairs of wings snapped open, and he shot toward Fang Yan like a streak of purple lightning.

Fang Yan raised a hand and snapped his fingers.

"Time Pause."

Everything within a hundred li froze in that instant.

The Purple Feather Race Marquis was suspended in midair, the furious distortion still fixed upon his face.

Fang Yan unhurriedly spread his Wind-Following Wings and flew behind the Purple Feather Race Marquis. The Replica Windbearing Divine Spear slowly thrust forward.

But at that very moment, bone-chilling glints suddenly flashed from three directions.

Those three glints came from different directions, and killing intent at the King level locked onto him simultaneously.

An ambush!

Fang Yan's pupils contracted slightly as the thought flashed through his mind.

The auras of three King-Level Immortals erupted at once. The purple mist was torn to shreds, while three colossal pythons that seemed capable of devouring stars sealed off every route of escape.

Cracks began to appear within the range covered by Time Pause under the impact of the King-level powerhouses' divine power.

"Die!"

The Purple Feather Race Marquis directly ahead wore a savage grin.

He had gambled that Fang Yan would try to assassinate him, and the moment Fang Yan acted, the trap would close.

"Fang Yan!"

Flame Ruins King's furious roar came from the distant horizon, but it was clearly already too late.

Yet at that very moment, Fang Yan's gaze suddenly became incomparably calm.

He did not withdraw his spear, did not evade, and did not even look at the three deadly blade lights.

A speck of azure light quietly lit up at the tip of the Replica Windbearing Divine Spear, like a firefly carried in by the wind.

"Immortal Dao Killing Move—Late Wind!"

Fang Yan's lips moved softly.

Without any warning, the divine bodies of the three Purple Feather Race King-Level Immortals lost between 1% and 2%.

Then they felt a light breeze brush across their faces, and a spear radiance stretching ten thousand zhang was already before their eyes.

The Law of Wind and the Time Law intertwined at that moment.

There was no explosion, no roar. The spear radiance was like an evening breeze passing over a lake, impossibly gentle.

The Marquis Immortal serving as bait took three consecutive strikes from Fang Yan. After losing 80% of his divine body, he fell directly into slumber.

The faces of the three Purple Feather Race Kings also turned deathly pale at that moment.

One strike had caused an Initial King to lose 1% of his divine body. Was this really a World Lord?

The entire battlefield fell silent at that moment.

Flame Ruins King, who had just arrived, forcibly halted in midair and stared at Fang Yan with an expression as though he had seen a ghost.

A human World Lord was facing King-level powerhouses head-on!

Flame Ruins King snorted as he looked at the three Purple Feather Race Kings.

Then scarlet blade lights filled the sky. For an Invincible King to kill Initial Kings was no different from slaughtering dogs.

"Good lad! With this move, you should be about ready to break through to Immortal, right?"

After the battle, Flame Ruins King looked at Fang Yan with a broad grin and, just like Fang Lie, slapped Fang Yan's armor until it rang loudly.

Fang Yan shook his head helplessly.

"It's still always just a little short of the power of a top-tier secret technique."

This move, Late Wind, had embodied the painstaking effort of Fang Yan's two lives.

He had integrated the principles behind his previous life's Immortal Dao Killing Moves into his spear technique, combining them with the insights of Chaos Conjecture and Time Illusory Martial Arts.

Only with the talent of a grandmaster of the wind path and a grandmaster of the time path, together with these hundred thousand years of war, had he managed to create this embryonic top-tier secret technique, Late Wind, which fused the Law of Wind and the Time Law.

Once Late Wind was unleashed, the damage arrived before the spear radiance. It could only be called insidious.

This was very Gu World...

Following the great victory in the Purple Feather Star Domain, Flame Ruins King and the others had been celebrating jubilantly.

Yet that jubilation lasted less than three days.

Three days later, intelligence from the Demon Race's territory descended like an icy tide, chilling the Human Race's enthusiasm from top to bottom.

The Demon Beast Lord had broken through to become a Universe Strongest.

He was hailed as the Beast Ancestor!