Chapter 1374

Fang Yuan judges that Spectral Soul’s main body is still not to be underestimated. Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable created divine concealment and ghostly concealment, permanently active methods that consume no immortal essence. The inheritances handed over by Purple Mountain True Monarch leave Fang Yuan’s gains greatly surpassing his earlier expectations. Never narrow-minded in this life or his last, he understands why Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan and Black Tigress each betrayed him in the past. He decides to keep them as allies who now have no other choice. He stores Purple Mountain True Monarch’s will in his sovereign immortal aperture, where without immortal essence or Immortal Gu its threat is close to zero. He resolves to give it no resources unless he has no choice. ^{ch. 1374}

Needing a faster, tougher escape than the risky reverse flow protection seal, Fang Yuan asks the will how to control the upper extreme heavenly eagle Purple Mountain True Monarch had described. His borrowed reputation restriction Immortal Gu, rank seven, likely cannot master a rank eight beast. The method is an enslavement path killer move named for its creator, Hundred and Eighty Slaves, an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal who rose from slavery to become an absolute genius of enslavement path in his generation. He ruled higher status beasts through lower status ones, the reverse of normal enslavement path methods. Eastern Sea’s Zombie Alliance later held and sold portions of his inheritance. Shark Demon bought one such portion, meaning to rule the one finger flow shark with groups of sharks, but Blazing Heaven Demoness routed him. With Shadow Sect scheming against Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance’s headquarters, both Shark Demon and his wife Su Bai Man became Gu materials for refining sovereign immortal fetus Gu. ^{ch. 1374}

Shadow Sect’s foundation runs extremely deep, and Purple Mountain True Monarch, a first generation split soul, definitely holds more than one way to enslave the eagle, yet only this method remains available. Fang Yuan already has the needed Immortal Gu and can buy the common mortal Gu, judges that Shadow Sect had already modified the move, and lacks only eagle type desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts. He openly offers Immortal Gu, worth more than the beasts, in exchange for eagle type desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts in treasure yellow heaven, causing an uproar. Onlookers call the trade foolish, since Immortal Gu are extremely difficult to refine while desolate beasts are easy to raise. Through curt bargaining he gathers over four hundred eagles, most of them desolate beasts and a fifth ancient desolate beasts, for four Immortal Gu, three rank six and one rank seven. Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven notice but cannot interfere in the neutral market. ^{ch. 1374}

Fang Yuan fails three times to activate the killer move Hundred and Eighty Slaves on the eagle. The first backlash injures him, destroys large amounts of mortal Gu and drains his mental energy, and Man as Before restores him at once. On the fourth attempt the eagle submits to his command. Warned by Hei Lou Lan that she is losing control of the Gu formation, he releases the upper extreme heavenly eagle at once. As Fairy Zi Wei vows he will not escape, Fang Yuan hands the purple will immortal essence and a few Immortal Gu, and it tells him to leave before hurling a killer move into the super Gu formation. The upper extreme heavenly eagle carries Fang Yuan and the others through space and out of the formation. Two beats of its wings lift it into the sky and shrink it to a dark dot beyond everyone’s vision. ^{ch. 1374}