Fang Yuan wipes Chang Ji You’s tears and tells him that as Wolf King, Chang Ji You is his son who can shed blood but not tears. Being called son shakes Chang Ji You like a lightning strike. Joy floods him because Fang Yuan has called him son with his own mouth. The grievances, pressure, anger, shame, and grief at his adoptive father’s death that had built up in him all dissolve at once. He bites his lips against Fang Yuan’s words, but the tears keep flowing. He wants to call Fang Yuan father but does not dare, and can only sob an apology. ch. 589
Fang Yuan asks Chang Ji You if he knows his greatest deficiency, then tells him it is that he is not strong enough. He hands him two relic Gu, a yellow gold relic Gu strong enough to advance him to rank four peak stage and a purple crystal relic Gu that will speed his advance to rank five. Chang Ji You accepts them in a daze, filled with gratitude. He kneels again before Fang Yuan and calls him father. Fang Yuan tells him an eagle chick cannot grow strong wings without wind and frost, and a horse foal cannot run without falling, so he must go through such tempering, take control of Chang tribe, and build his own might. Fang Yuan says he has heard of Chang tribe’s misfortunes but will not involve himself in them, and will only watch from behind. Chang Ji You answers that he is ashamed, moved by the attention of his “blood related father,” feeling both excited and afraid. ch. 589
Fang Yuan says he will raise Chang Ji You’s aptitude and also teach him a strength path killer move that will raise his strength to an unimaginable level. He adds that this technique is his own special skill, and that even in the decisive battle of Imperial Court he used only thirty percent of its power. Chang Ji You is shocked and happy. His father can raise aptitude and is passing him a strength path killer move. He recalls that even against Ma tribe in that decisive battle, father used only thirty percent of the killer move’s power. He tells himself his father is his father after all, and that this bond of blood runs deeper than anything his godfather Chang Biao gave him. ch. 589
Fang Yuan tells him to relax his mind and sleep. He secretly uses hypnosis Gu. Worn out and trusting Fang Yuan completely, Chang Ji You soon falls asleep under the Gu worm’s effect. ch. 589
Fang Yuan then smiles and takes out a blood skull Gu. The Gu has a crystal-like texture, is the size of an infant’s skull, and can be held in one palm. It is now full from drinking blood and shines with a demonic blood light. That blood was drawn from Chang tribesmen Fang Yuan had secretly killed in recent days. ch. 589
Chang Ji You sleeps on with a happy smile, never suspecting that the killer of those tribesmen is the same “blood related father” he loves and respects most. Even Hei Lou Lan and the other outsiders remain in the dark, with no doubt toward Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan wills the blood skull Gu to fly from his palm, circle Chang Ji You, and stop above his head, where it opens its mouth and puffs out foul-smelling blood. The blood sinks through Chang Ji You’s skin and hair, follows his veins, and converges in his aperture, which begins to steadily advance. By the time Chang Ji You wakes, Fang Yuan has already gone. ch. 589
When Chang Ji You wakes, the encounter feels like a dream and leaves him doubting it happened. But the Gu worms and food left on the ground are proof enough that it was real. Checking his aperture, he finds his aptitude has advanced to ninety-six percent. He shouts with joy. ch. 589
A message in Fang Yuan’s voice tells him to stay and cultivate for a few days, using all the relic Gu left behind to reach rank five upper stage. Fang Yuan says he is temporarily lending him the other Gu worms on the ground, including an east window Gu recording the killer move’s contents. Chang Ji You vows that he will become a rank five Gu Master and master the killer move. Full of fighting spirit, he sits down and begins absorbing the yellow gold relic Gu into his aperture. Fang Yuan secretly watches him. ch. 589
In his mind, Mo Yao’s will sneers that Fang Yuan chose well, since he wrote the six arm heavenly zombie king’s flaws into the east window Gu and left the lent Gu worms untampered. She asks if he is not afraid Chang Ji You will grow cautious and avoid fully transforming into a heavenly zombie. Fang Yuan answers with confidence that he knows how to grasp people’s hearts. He says Mo Yao has never used the six arm heavenly zombie king and does not know how intoxicating its strength feels, admitting even he was intoxicated by it. Chang Ji You is young and lacks control over his heart, so he will naturally seek out wolf groups to battle as he practices. Since this is Fang Yuan’s own territory, Fang Yuan will simply lead more wolves toward him when the time comes. ch. 589
Mo Yao calls humans sinister and crafty, saying inkmen would never refine an evil Gu like the blood skull Gu to harm their own people. Fang Yuan, not angry, asks why she did not stop him. She is a fairy of Spirit Affinity House and a representative of the righteous path. She answers that she has no ability to stop it, and that she would not interfere in a fight among humans anyway, since she would rather see the whole human race die so that variant humans could have room to survive. Mo Yao is a past generation’s fairy of Spirit Affinity House with an unusual bond to Bo Qing, and she is also an inkman rather than a purebred human. Watching humans fight each other gives her the same feeling humans get watching snowmen or beast groups turn on their own kind. Fang Yuan quietly holds back his own doubt about whether she truly lacks the ability to stop him. ch. 589
Three days later, Chang Ji You finishes using all the relic Gu and advances to rank five upper stage. He then begins practicing the six arm heavenly zombie king. Just as Fang Yuan expected, he becomes addicted to the killer move’s vast power and gradually forgets its flaws. Under Fang Yuan’s deliberate manipulation, he fights an intense, prolonged battle and loses track of time. Only when the battle ends does he discover that he has completely transformed into a heavenly zombie. ch. 589
Two days later, Fang Yuan appears before him again. Chang Ji You kneels and begs him to save him, terrified by his own monstrous form. Fang Yuan reacts with shock and rage, asking how he could forget the warning never to use the killer move past its limit. Chang Ji You says he is ashamed, that he grew muddled and lost track of time, and that by the time he noticed it was too late. His only hope now rests in Fang Yuan. ch. 589
Fang Yuan tells him that even yin-yang rotation Gu could not treat his condition. The killer move’s extreme power carries equally severe after-effects, and even he has no way to fix it. Chang Ji You is stupefied to learn this is an immortal killer move, since Fang Yuan told him he once braved a Gu Immortal’s inheritance alone, risking fatal danger, to obtain it. As Chang tribe’s former young tribe leader, Chang Ji You had some familiarity with Gu Immortals and recognizes Fang Yuan pales beside one. He wails that he was wrong to seek instant gains, kowtowing and sobbing that he has failed to live up to his father’s hopes. ch. 589
Secretly pleased, since this is exactly the outcome he wanted, Fang Yuan outwardly supports Chang Ji You and tells him not to cry. He says part of the fault is his own, since he has been absorbed in exploring a maze these past days and neglected him, and he promises they will find a way together to turn him back into a human. Chang Ji You is thoroughly moved, since he had not expected his “father” to keep him at his side and take the blame despite the fault being his own. A spark of confidence returns to him. Fang Yuan tells him to stay and recuperate, promising to personally manage Chang tribe himself while Chang Ji You rests. Chang Ji You answers that he will listen to his father. ch. 589
