Speed!
Fang Yuan sees a huge field of clouds ahead and slows, wary since the cloud beasts he met in Southern Border. He inspects it, finds nothing wrong, and flies in. The thick clouds swallow his sight, but sound and his own consciousness let him fly freely inside them. ch. 1086
His speed falls, and countless Gu worms stir in his aperture, forming a huge bloody tornado around rank six Blood Asset Immortal Gu, the core of the immortal killer move Blood Torrent. Blood-red light bursts from his body and turns into a river of bloody water that carries him through the clouds at a speed far beyond before. Leaving dragon elephant plain, inside a righteous path super force’s territory, he used only mortal killer moves, since most immortal ones leak a strong aura that draws attention. Past that ground now, he can finally use one. ch. 1086
His speed climbs, and the long bloody trail he leaves stays hidden by the clouds until he pierces through the whole field and stops using Blood Torrent beyond. Blood path draws attacks, so Fang Yuan wants no trouble with heaven’s will fixed on him. He has modified Blood Torrent again, reworking its mortal Gu to spiral inside his aperture instead of circling around him, fixing a major flaw. It is still very eye-catching, a long river of blood in the sky with a foul smell. Without cloud cover he will not use it at all. ch. 1086
He activates Sword Escape Immortal Gu instead, rank seven, flying like a sword and faster than Blood Torrent. Powering it with green grape immortal essence is inefficient, but speed is the whole point of this trip, so Fang Yuan stays firm on it. Heaven’s will cannot act on him outside a calamity or tribulation, and can only arrange situations through living beings, which takes time. The faster he moves, the less time it has. Lacking speed from Southern Border gave heaven’s will time to prepare, and knowing that now, he adopts the method Shadow Sect uses against heaven’s will. ch. 1086
Fang Yuan treats Shadow Sect and Spectral Soul as his best models against heaven’s will, enemies or not. He holds one advantage they lack: he is a complete otherworldly demon. Heaven’s will cannot influence a complete otherworldly demon at all. He keeps using Sword Escape regardless of its steep cost, since his resources survived intact and his daily earnings run high. ch. 1086
A growl of pain and fear cuts through the air. An ancient desolate beast flees for its life, chased by a wild rank seven Immortal Gu. Both enter his view and block his path, a horned six-winged pegasus ahead and, behind it, the Dragon Centipede, seven li long. Most wild Immortal Gu coexist inside a desolate beast or plant, but the Dragon Centipede is the only one of its kind and hunts such beasts and plants outright. ch. 1086
Fang Yuan reads this as heaven’s will at work again, since wild Immortal Gu have low intelligence and are easily swayed by it. The Dragon Centipede’s gaze settles on Fang Yuan instead. His aura reads weaker than the pegasus’s own, but his sword path aura, carried by Sword Escape, draws the Dragon Centipede toward him, since the Centipede itself is full of sword path dao marks. ch. 1086
Fang Yuan reacts at once, storing Sword Escape and erasing his aura. The Dragon Centipede is confused, but its long life of hunting keeps its focus on him. Countless figures appear around him as he activates Myriad Self, an enslavement and strength path killer move restored by Immortal Gu from his recent transactions. Lacking cleanse soul Immortal Gu, he substitutes other mortal Gu, weakening Myriad Self but still leaving it useful to confuse his enemies. The phantoms scatter, leaving the Dragon Centipede more confused, its speed falling for a moment before its body lashes out and destroys many of them, while the fleeing pegasus crushes still more. The Dragon Centipede turns back to the pegasus, and the two vanish from Fang Yuan’s sight. ch. 1086
Fang Yuan lets out a light breath as his true body descends, dismissing every phantom with a single thought. He activates Sword Escape again and flies into the sky, leaving the scene behind. ch. 1086
