Chapter 1137

The third ancient eagle hound carries an Immortal Gu, the only way it could have blocked Fang Yuan’s sword marks targeting death. He resolves to take down the whole eagle hound group, boasting that his sovereign immortal aperture is very big. He also means to take the hound’s wild Immortal Gu, curious what exemplary defensive Immortal Gu it will prove to be. He rules out blood path killer moves in front of the hairy man Gu Immortals, who know blood path’s terror through treasure yellow heaven. Hei Fan’s own killer moves are too risky without practice. He claps and activates myriad self instead, the convergence of enslavement and strength path that is his own creation and best offensive method. ^{ch. 1137}

Strength path phantoms fill the sky and the hairy man Gu Immortals cry out in shock. Sixth Hair, unsurprised since he already knows of myriad self, suddenly blurts that Fang Yuan has vanished. Fang Yuan has used familiar face to disguise himself as an ordinary phantom hidden within the army as it charges the third eagle hound. The hound reveals a second wild Immortal Gu. Its wing shadows spike its speed, and it dodges the army’s attacks again and again, somewhat out of Fang Yuan’s expectations. Extremely cunning, it slips his encirclement several times. Sixth Hair judges Fang Yuan’s enslavement path attainment has increased slightly, and expects the hound, distracted by the rest of the pack, to be captured soon. ^{ch. 1137}

Several groups of the myriad self army finally besiege the hound from every side. Fang Yuan’s true body, hidden among the phantoms, closes the distance and strikes with the sword path killer move Dark Assassination, which leaks no Immortal Gu aura and is extremely stealthy. The blow opens a bloody wound on the hound’s neck, which heals within moments. The hound turns berserk, destroying phantoms and sending Fang Yuan’s true body flying, though bloodstained conqueror’s robe keeps the injury light. The hairy men and Sixth Hair are stunned that a wild beast has the intelligence to use an immortal killer move at all. ^{ch. 1137}

Fang Yuan reasons the hound was once a transformation path Gu Immortal who transformed too many times or held the eagle hound form too long, losing the way back along with human wisdom and memory. Such cases are not rare in history. The same risk faces any transformation path cultivator who takes another shape, much as refining Gu carries its own risk. The hound still carries a Gu Immortal’s battle instincts, but it has no human wisdom left and only falls back on its old killer move by reflex at the edge of life and death. ^{ch. 1137}

The fight settles into a stalemate. Every sneak attack misses the hound’s fatal points, which Fang Yuan credits to its battle experience, a unique Immortal Gu, or most likely heaven’s will. Somewhat troublesome, the hound still cannot escape the dominant position Fang Yuan has held from the start. The myriad self army, its quantity holding the absolute upper hand despite poor quality, knocks the rest of the pack from the sky one by one. The hairy men retreat to the edge of the battlefield and, without noticing, begin to call him Elder Fang Yuan. Twelfth Hair feels it hardest, bitter at how shallow his own enslavement path attainment looks beside Fang Yuan’s. ^{ch. 1137}

Fang Yuan pulls his true body back from the fight to a safer spot, gathering nearly all his remaining focus for a new killer move. He activates rank seven year Gu, then its supplementary mortal Gu. The immortal killer move Year Beast Summoning calls an ancient year beast from a phantom image of the River of Time. An enormous bestial figure leaps out, wings unfurling as it descends to the battlefield. ^{ch. 1137}