Chapter 1402

Holding the initiative, Fang Yuan prepares and after some failures activates enslavement after victorious fight in advance, then sustains it very easily, unlike most moves he is unfamiliar with. Cored on the rank seven Immortal Gu Fight, a rule path Gu that gains unique value from wisdom path supplementary Gu, the move gives any life form he defeats a high chance of enslavement. Immortal zombie Da Li created it. He is a second generation split soul of Spectral Soul, the Martial Duel Heavenly King, who cultivates strength and wisdom path together and holds the Great Strength True Martial Physique. Da Li rose to lead Shadow Sect once Purple Mountain True Monarch, the first generation split soul, became a purple gold rock. He later lost an intense battle to a Gu Immortal marked with a Red Lotus insignia and was suppressed by Immortal Gu House Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, and that history is the origin of the move, which joins strength and wisdom path profundities. ^{ch. 1402}

While the move runs, Fang Yuan multitasks with year beast summoning, cored on rank eight Immortal Gu Years Flow Like Water, to pull an army of year beasts from the tributary, a move Hei Fan created. Unlike Spectral Soul’s soul beast summoning, which can force a soul beast to fight to the death, year beast summoning leaves its beasts free to retreat when injured or outmatched. Hei Fan is a time path great expert but far inferior to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. Fang Yuan blocks the retreat with strength path giant hands. He slams the beasts down, subduing most into slaves under enslavement after victorious fight, though very few stay adamant once Feng Jiu Ge has already worn them down. Some die under the force of the hands, but Fang Yuan keeps every corpse, since even dead they remain rank six and seven immortal materials. After Feng Jiu Ge kills most of the beasts on the field, Fang Yuan summons another wave and captures them using Feng Jiu Ge’s own strength while the Gu formation hides him. ^{ch. 1402}

He gathers seventy to eighty year beasts and judges his soul foundation can enslave about a hundred at most, so he considers selling his eagles instead. A strong, aged aura rises from the tributary behind him, an immemorial tiger year beast lured by the Years Flow Like Water he never stored in his sovereign immortal aperture. The tiger’s aura frenzies the beasts, multiplying Feng Jiu Ge’s difficulty with submission song. The tiger’s huge claw crashes at Fang Yuan through the water, but he has already stored the year beasts and his Shadow Sect immortals and flown clear, so the claw only destroys his formation. Sensing Years Flow Like Water leaving, the tiger roars and slashes at the tributary’s walls to force its way out, but it is too huge and its foundation too deep for so small a space. The tributary widens under the assault and loses its balance as a resource point, and it will eventually return entirely to the main River of Time. ^{ch. 1402}

Fang Yuan looks trapped between Feng Jiu Ge and the tiger. But he is smiling, extremely confident, and reactivates Years Flow Like Water. Its light wakes a huge Gu formation that had stayed perfectly hidden, fused flawlessly into the surroundings. Feng Jiu Ge’s pupils shrink at the rank eight Immortal Gu, but a man who took over Shadow Sect would normally hold such an inheritance. The formation turns the tributary into a flood that surges toward the main river, engulfing Fang Yuan and then Feng Jiu Ge, who cannot outrun it and is completely submerged. Fang Yuan alone breaks free and calls the formation to break apart, and the flood, already past the tributary’s limits, is drawn into the main river, sweeping Feng Jiu Ge with it while the tiger, wanting out, is obstructed by the main river. Within a few breaths the tributary vanishes completely, leaving only a wide area of time ripples flickering, the year beasts all return to the river, and Fang Yuan collects his Gu worms and bids Feng Jiu Ge farewell before leaving. ^{ch. 1402}