Chapter 1687

Eagle Warrior climbs out of the deep crater and suspects the monster’s earlier attack was a combat technique. Fang Yuan, now a giant monster with a bull head and human body, casts an enormous shadow over him. Eagle Warrior decides he knows that technique and that a stupid large animal cannot understand his own, and his courage returns. The dead silent city cheers when he stands, and he takes to the sky. He shouts out the combat technique Silver Illusion, and his body splits into six lifelike illusory images that circle Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 1687}

The crowd roars that the monster looks dazed. Coolly, Eagle Warrior reasons that combat techniques cost huge stamina and cannot be repeated, so the monster cannot keep using its own. He means to make the monster waste its strength on illusions, and then he might capture it alive. Fang Yuan cannot sense that thought, but he sees through the illusions and stands without evading, since their attacks carry no real threat. ^{ch. 1687}

Fang Yuan finds this grotto-heaven somewhat interesting. Mortals and Gu Immortals are harmonious here, and the Gu Immortals are keen to act as guardian spirits, which he reads as a trace of a paradise. His opponent has merged with an ancient desolate beast, a silver-white giant eagle, and Fang Yuan sees a transformation path method with an extremely obvious advantage. A combat technique is the beast’s innate ability and costs no immortal essence, though it demands huge stamina and sometimes a body part or some lifespan. These abilities come from dense dao marks on the beasts, and the earliest immortal killer moves imitated their dao mark distributions. ^{ch. 1687}

He judges the advantages huge and far greater than the disadvantages, which are fixed abilities that are easily targeted and restricted. Mass produced Gu Immortal strength would likely win mid to low level battles, and the five regions would definitely welcome the method. Such fusion never prospered, its greatest obstacle being conflicting dao marks, but this grotto-heaven turns other dao marks into transformation path dao marks. This fusion matches Beast Calamity’s transformation method, and he wants that method even more. He is glad it never leaked in his previous life. ^{ch. 1687}

Fang Yuan activates a time path method, and time around Eagle Warrior slows by countless times, leaving his speed useless. He grabs the two eagle wings and tears them off, and blood gushes as the crowd cries out and some faint. With Fang Yuan’s hands on his head, Eagle Warrior feels an intense aura of death and shouts that many beast warriors are still coming to kill the monster. Fang Yuan crushes the head, and the headless corpse falls, raising dust. ^{ch. 1687}

Fang Yuan looks at the city, whose tall walls reach only his knees, and its huge crowd stays silent. When he moves toward it, countless people scream and flee through the four city gates. He ignores them, and his calf collapses the wall entirely. Even enlarged five or six times, the main street would sit under his heel, and buildings crumble like small paper boxes. Some unlucky mortals are stepped into meat paste. ^{ch. 1687}