Chapter 1055

Three iron crown eagles charge at Fang Yuan, and his cast of Sword Marks Targeting Death fails, its backlash drawing blood from his mouth. He has owned the move too short a time. In an unfocused emergency, its failure rate surges. The nearest eagle pounces, and Fang Yuan dodges through a phantom image of light illusion bat wings, though its claws tear through his wind shield. ^{ch. 1055}

He tries the move again, and it succeeds, the sword light piercing the eagle’s back. Cold wind at his back warns of another threat, and Fang Yuan flees upward on sword escape Immortal Gu, narrowly avoiding a second eagle and gaining more than ten li of distance. The pierced eagle crashes and dissolves into snow and ice. ^{ch. 1055}

The remaining two eagles chase him, and Fang Yuan retreats rather than face them directly, since his superb body is not as tough as his immortal zombie body. Sword path favors offense over defense. Sword escape Immortal Gu outpaces even flying sword Immortal Gu, pulling him clear. ^{ch. 1055}

Fang Yuan circles back to retrieve flying sword Immortal Gu, charging it with more than a hundred Gu worms while the two eagles chase him. He fires it through both, killing the first and piercing the second without losing momentum. The first breaks apart in flight. The second stays intact, charging as if driven by an immense grudge. ^{ch. 1055}

As Fang Yuan reaches to recall the Gu, his mind shudders under a burst of true meaning: this is Reckless Savage’s infusion, and his guess was right. Killing the earlier snow monsters brought none, but killing this eagle has, confirming his killer move can draw the infusion inside his immortal aperture, not only at ascension as history records. The feeling is of becoming an eagle himself. It raises his strength path and transformation path attainment, with a slighter rise in his flying attainment. ^{ch. 1055}

He reflects that only dream realms otherwise raise attainment so easily, and that in essence a dream realm’s reward is also true meaning infusion. Fang Yuan dodges the last eagle and creates distance. He kills it cleanly with Sword Marks Targeting Death. Checking his immortal essence, he finds some left, not as desperate as during his travels. ^{ch. 1055}

No enemies remain in the sky. Fang Yuan looks down to find more snow monsters than before. Green wind blades and dark vortexes rain down, thinning their numbers after dozens of breaths. Only the desolate beasts remain, unthreatened by mortal methods, while small ones keep emerging. ^{ch. 1055}

Fang Yuan keeps killing desolate beasts with Sword Marks Targeting Death and small ones with mortal methods, but gets no further infusion. He judges the calamity unrecorded in history, surpassing even Hei Lou Lan’s ascension. Spirals in the blizzard release nine palace cranes, nine desolate beasts in all. Killing the first restores the infusion, exciting him into the fight. ^{ch. 1055}

Pushed back at first, he gains ground as he kills more. Eventually he destroys all nine, though it takes longer than the eagles did. His attainment rises again, an intoxicating feeling of growing stronger. Looking down again, Fang Yuan finds over a dozen desolate beast snow monsters become fifty or sixty, the small ones still proliferating and the desolate beasts nearing ancient desolate beast level. ^{ch. 1055}

Fang Yuan commits to his third sword path killer move, Triple Layered Sword Wave. Activating it takes more than five hundred mortal Gu at once and more supplementary Gu worms as the cast runs on, far harder and slower than Sword Marks Targeting Death, so he cannot use it often. He draws out wave sword Immortal Gu, which shifts between blade and water as it expands into a circular wave. Before he can strike, a huge figure descends. A giant ruin bat fills the sky, an ancient desolate beast able to fight rank seven Gu Immortals, and as a space path beast capable of shattering the aperture’s walls if it rampages inside. ^{ch. 1055}