Chapter 1376

Riding the upper extreme heavenly eagle, Fang Yuan reasons that the more desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts he holds, the more freely he can control it. He resolves to keep buying and raising eagles. Treasure yellow heaven still calls his recent trade of Immortal Gu for eagles foolish, a mistake forced only by urgency. Inspecting his sovereign immortal aperture, he finds desolate and ancient desolate eagles already flying free. He also holds eagle nests looted from Northern Plains’ Hei tribe, whose raising method would mature their baby eagles into desolate or ancient desolate eagles, though his own slowed time path methods make that growth very slow. He decides to keep buying from outside for now. ^{ch. 1376}

With over four hundred eagles he can barely order the upper extreme heavenly eagle to fly, and though weak opponents pose no problem, it refuses strong enemies like Zuo Ye Hui and might even turn on him. Raising them will require a complete food chain of a large scale, though his aperture’s vast, sparsely populated space allows it. With over a hundred thousand immortal essence stones, he also plans to improve reverse flow protection seal. It only lets him stand before rank eights and block their attacks. But endless attacks would consume Reverse Flow River completely in the end. The eagle lacks enough intelligence to serve as well as acting himself, and hundred and eighty slaves is an enslavement path killer move that can be unraveled. Shadow Sect’s heavy defeat and Spectral Soul’s capture make Fang Yuan the greatest eyesore to Heavenly Court whether or not he takes the leadership, and Purple Mountain True Monarch had called him a complete otherworldly demon that Heavenly Court absolutely needs to kill. ^{ch. 1376}

Fang Yuan accepts the responsibility. He plans to devour immortal apertures and reach rank eight for some respite, though that advance would enlarge his sovereign immortal body’s flaw, which is hard to resolve. Reading Purple Mountain True Monarch’s records, Fang Yuan judges the Pure Dream Reality Seeker bodies defective and not worth nurturing. Purple Mountain True Monarch had refined them only to screen Spectral Soul’s main body, and his own remnant souls inside them cannot be separated and vanish when the bodies self-detonate into dream realms. Ying Wu Xie, the original Pure Dream Reality Seeker, can freely leave his own body. Fang Yuan releases the nearly ten such bodies he captured with the super Gu formation, since they have become his own men. Of the five usable Gu Immortals he rates Bai Ning Bing strongest through Bai Xiang’s true inheritance but only an ally, and calls Fairy Miao Yin, who holds the Profound Sound true inheritance, a reliable rank seven among Southern Border’s three great fairies. ^{ch. 1376}

Black Tigress dissolves into Lady White Rabbit before him. Her cultivation has fallen from rank seven to rank six after recovering. Purple Mountain True Monarch’s inheritance lets Fang Yuan understand the Black Tigress true inheritance, which stores strength for bursts beyond her usual limits but splits her into two personalities sharing senses and memories. A weak innocent side holds during ordinary life, and a strong dark side surges only briefly when her life is threatened or her mood is intensely agitated. He then reveals his true identity as Fang Yuan, trusting both sides to stay loyal. Lady White Rabbit already admired him under the name Wu Yi Hai, and Purple Mountain True Monarch had separately recruited Black Tigress. He rates Black Tigress first rate among rank seven but unstable. ^{ch. 1376}

Fang Yuan calls Hei Lou Lan the most loyal, a rank six whose Great Strength True Martial Physique is wasted on fire path. Through the exquisite Blazing Heaven true inheritance her battle strength barely reaches first rate among rank sevens, and she is definitely the weakest. Turning to Ying Wu Xie, slumped and dark though lead soul into dream could put his battle strength stably at the very top, Fang Yuan orders him to surrender his Gu worms. Ying Wu Xie gives no response. As Fang Yuan is about to force the matter, a strong pressure erupts overhead and an Immortal Gu House appears. A voice declares that Yi clan has found the Shadow Sect remnants. ^{ch. 1376}