Ironbeak Flying Crane

Lord Sky Crane flies in on an ironbeak flying crane king. The crane king has already returned after killing the blood river python it flew off with earlier. Fang Yuan then self-detonates, and Spring Autumn Cicada carries him back to an earlier moment. ^{ch. 196}

Gu Yue Fang Zheng last remembers the three clans competition, when ironbeak flying cranes filled the sky and the people near him fled. He held off the cranes with Moon Raiment Gu. Then one crane broke through his barrier and pecked his forehead. ^{ch. 199}

On the bamboo raft, Fang Yuan judges that the raft cannot match the ironbeak flying crane king in speed, but that the crane king needs rest. In his memory Lord Sky Crane returned alone after killing the Gu Yue first head, so he thinks the crane king is likely already dead. ^{ch. 200} Images recorded for Immortal Crane Sect show the heavily injured crane king cutting off First gen Gu Yue’s escape. Its corpse falls as Lord Sky Crane’s pincer attack destroys the blood wight. ^{ch. 211}

At Immortal Crane Sect on Fei He mountain, ironbeak flying crane sits among named crane types such as fire pellet crane, tailwind crane, cloud mist crane, and stellar light crane. Fang Zheng fields an ironbeak flying crane group in a sect examination, large enough that watchers call it a myriad beast king level force. ^{ch. 334}

Fang Zheng controls an ironbeak flying crane group ten thousand in number, though he cannot control them perfectly. The elite disciples sent on his mission are amiable to him because of it. The narration calls such strength respectable. ^{ch. 335}

Ten thousand flying cranes carry Fang Zheng and the other elite disciples of Immortal Crane Sect toward Tian Ti mountain. The ironbeak flying cranes cry out when they need food, and Fang Zheng lands the group to feed them. A larger crane group demands more food. Ironbeak flying cranes can eat anything, and sometimes eat stones to fill their stomachs, so they are easy to raise. Fang Zheng rides down on the ironbeak flying crane king, and ten thousand ironbeak flying cranes charge past him at the four great obscenities. The four flee. ^{ch. 336}

Fang Zheng spars with Wei Wu Shang at the foot of Tian Ti mountain. Ten thousand cranes float around Fang Zheng. Wei Wu Shang’s injury wind Gu sends countless ironbeak flying cranes crashing to the ground as if their wings were broken. Wei Wu Shang reckons that Fang Zheng, who commanded the flying cranes to battle from the start, spent relatively less primeval essence. ^{ch. 341}

The narration credits Fang Zheng’s ironbeak flying crane group, with Lord Sky Crane’s guidance, for carrying him through each round of the great competition to a rather high ranking. ^{ch. 365} Fang Zheng says almost all his ironbeak flying cranes died in that competition. ^{ch. 366}

He Feng Yang keeps iron beak flying cranes mixed with other crane types in his immortal aperture. The iron beak group blocks an ambusher’s trapping threads with their bodies. ^{ch. 702} In that battle the iron beak flying cranes are black as steel, with increased defense, and charge without fear of death. ^{ch. 703}