Fang Yuan rides an azure wolf king and watches his wolf groups massacre their way through the blessed land, indifferent to it. Mo Yao’s will, lodged in his mind, frowns slightly at the casual killing, as a fairy of Spirit Affinity House would. She rates him dauntless and crafty for entering Imperial Court blessed land in disguise despite the watching Gu Immortals of northern plains. She finds him fated, possessed of extraordinary methods, and extremely shrewd for bowing the moment things cannot go his way. His origin puzzles her. ch. 572
Since leaving Water Pavilion she has read many of his thoughts, but he took preventive measures that slowed her greatly. She therefore knows only a limited amount, including what he revealed of his own accord. She still does not know that he holds Spring Autumn Cicada, nor that he is a transmigrator. Only a portion of her will remains. It cannot use Gu worms and can only exploit his low attainment in wisdom path. Judging him absurdly firm in willpower and extremely opinionated, she resolves to guide him to return Water Pavilion first and urge him toward good once they reach Spirit Affinity House, then falls quiet. ch. 572
Fang Yuan has three reasons for the massacre. The blood should draw the earth chief beast groups out of the ground. The dead also yield souls, which soul burial toad gathers for Dang Hun mountain, and while that mountain is not completely dead, the more souls he has, the better. Third, he is probing the will in his mind. He welcomes rather than fears the repercussions, having announced the consequences publicly, and as Wolf King Chang Shan Yin he holds that individual strength outweighs public sentiment here. ch. 572
A fifty feet tall earth chief myriad beast king bursts from a mound, and Fang Yuan sends the wolves against it. They split into groups to surround it, it rampages, and many wolves die. Mo Yao is slightly shocked at his enslavement path attainment, calling it master level, though it is nothing more than a slight shock. Other earth chief beasts jump out of the ground and join in, as he expected. He splits the thousand li battle into dozens of battle circles and takes them in turn. The beast king dies of its heavy injuries, and Mo Yao judges him still far from grandmaster level. ch. 572
Fang Yuan skins the beast king and refines Gu beside the pool of its blood, wolves around him. Mo Yao’s modified earth chief zombie Gu needs the freshest flesh, myriad beast king best, thousand second and hundred last, so he killed this one personally. The refinement lasts three days and three nights and succeeds perfectly. He sends most of the wolves off to hunt in the wild and returns to the sacred palace with only the elite mutated beasts. ch. 572
A bloody man crawls out of a hill-sized blood forest wolf corpse on the silent battlefield and asks whether he is still alive. He is Ma Hong Yun. Jiang Dong had knocked him unconscious, and the old beast king chasing Jiang Dong ignored him. When the wolves engulfed the area, the blood forest wolf swallowed him whole along with that king’s corpse. This blood forest wolf later died in the fighting with its chest and belly torn open, which lets air in, and he wakes and drills his way out. ch. 572
Born and raised in Northern Plains, he has survival common sense deeply ingrained and knows the blood odor will draw wild beasts, so he sets off toward the sacred palace. He stops at a wild Gu on an earth chief beast corpse, held back by a fractured bone and unable to fly away. He cannot recall its name but believes it rank two and worth many primeval stones. He walks over and easily grabs it. ch. 572
