Chapter 1136

Eagle hounds have a wolf’s body, an eagle’s head and eagle wings. Their dao marks are mostly dark path. They reproduce by infection rather than mating, their poison turning any dog or eagle beast into an eagle hound once it takes hold. Individual strength therefore varies greatly by the beast infected, desolate beast level, ancient eagle hound, or, rarely, immemorial. ^{ch. 1136}

The moment the first eagle hound appears, Fang Yuan understands the connection: this pack has been grooming the falling star hound, confined in Tai Qiu to grow, meaning to poison it into an ancient eagle hound once it matured. That the hound was found near the teleportation Gu formation he reads plainly as heaven’s will. Two of the pack are ancient eagle hounds, the rest desolate beast level. Fang Yuan senses no Immortal Gu on any of them, which reassures him. ^{ch. 1136}

Only now do the hairy men react: the eagle hound Fang Yuan struck earlier was only knocked unconscious by a rank seven strength path giant hand, not strange against a desolate beast level foe. Twelfth Hair had never seen Fang Yuan fight seriously before. He thinks retreat wiser, but Fang Yuan is already moving. Using sword escape Immortal Gu, he crosses from the battlefield’s edge to its center in an instant, and Sixth Hair guesses what it is, Bo Qing’s own Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 1136}

Fang Yuan closes on the ancient eagle hound that had downed the diamond bear, blinded the yak and blown back the tiger. It charges at him, and Fang Yuan beats it down with a strength path giant hand until its skeleton cracks and it lies buried, motionless. The hairy men are struck speechless. Fang Yuan had charged into the pack’s center without minding their numbers, and killing this ancient eagle hound took ten or so giant hands in all. The other eagle hounds are dazed, and deathly silence hangs over the battlefield. ^{ch. 1136}

Fang Yuan then turns to the eagle hounds still hovering above, the second ancient one among them, and charges into the sky. They shriek and scatter, and Twelfth Hair feels as if he is dreaming. Most escape, since eagle hounds are fast, but Fang Yuan catches the second ancient one, slamming it from the air into the ground with Myriad self first style, giant hand. Sword escape Immortal Gu paired with the giant hand covers the hand’s own slow speed, and Fang Yuan had already activated bloodstained conqueror’s robe as a precaution. He uses that tactic only because he senses no wild Immortal Gu on either ancient eagle hound. ^{ch. 1136}

Tai Qiu’s giant grass cushions the fall, but the ancient eagle hound’s body stays sturdy. Just as he moves to press the chase, his expression changes. A vision flashes from his own pre-activated immortal killer move, three breaths future vision. It is a time path investigative move from Hei Fan’s true inheritance, cored on after Immortal Gu, and it shows a Gu Immortal what will happen within the next three breaths. It shows a third ancient eagle hound ambushing him as he charges down, catching him unprepared and clawing him to the ground. Blood pours from his seven orifices, every bone is fractured, his bloodstained conqueror’s robe breaks and blood asset Immortal Gu is injured past use. ^{ch. 1136}

Fang Yuan is not shaken, he is satisfied. Heaven’s will’s plan was never going to be this simple, he reasons, and here is the ambush proving it. His bloodstained conqueror’s robe, though an immortal level defense, runs on only the rank six blood asset Immortal Gu as its core, slightly weak against an ancient desolate beast. The ambush is useless now that he knows of it, and he fires sword marks targeting death at the hidden spot instead of chasing. ^{ch. 1136}

The strike rings against something unseen. It reveals the third ancient eagle hound that had been lying in wait. The hairy men cry out in shock that a third one had been hiding all along, and wonder how Fang Yuan could have sensed it. Fang Yuan raises his eyebrows slightly, staring at this third ancient eagle hound, unharmed by the strike, and remarks that blocking sword marks targeting death like that suggests it carries a wild Immortal Gu of its own. ^{ch. 1136}