Whoosh!
Fang Yuan flew through the air like a great fireball, flames blazing all around him, trailing a long tail of dark grey smoke that stretched several zhang behind him. His presence was quite imposing.
The situation just now had been genuinely dangerous.
Fang Yuan had encountered Huo Kongtong. Although he possessed three Immortal Gu and some Soul Path and Dream Path mortal Gu, his collection was far from comprehensive. If a real fight had broken out, he would inevitably end up at a disadvantage.
Even if Fang Yuan had wanted to use an Immortal-level killer move to exchange souls with Huo Kongtong, he couldn't have pulled it off.
Before, when he had exchanged souls with Ying Wuxie, he had consumed quite a few mortal Gu.
All the Gu Insects he currently had couldn't even form a complete set.
But Fang Yuan, relying on his extraordinary acting skills, had not only turned danger into safety but had also swindled his way into obtaining four Fifth Transformation mortal Gu.
"In my previous life, I participated in the Battle of Yitian Mountain and joined the monumental gamble. I witnessed the infighting among Southern Border's Gu Immortals and gathered a great deal of valuable intelligence from it. Fortunately so—otherwise, how would I have known about the relationship between the Chai Family's Ninth Elder and Dongfang Xiongji?"
"The fact that I was able to deceive Huo Kongtong this time relied on the Attitude Gu!"
Although Fang Yuan had mastered the original version of An Old Acquaintance and even refined it into a new version with Attitude Gu at its core, supported by over a thousand mortal Gu, this killer move was naturally beyond his ability to use right now.
Just now, facing Huo Kongtong, he had used the Attitude Gu by itself.
"The function of the Attitude Gu is to conceal one's true inner emotions and express a false attitude, yet make others believe it to be genuine."
Reflecting on it, Fang Yuan found the Attitude Gu to be even more useful than he had thought.
It was precisely because he had secretly used the Attitude Gu that his performance had been flawless. Huo Kongtong kept feeling that Fang Yuan was in a state of anger and fury, and figured it was best not to provoke him further.
Another excellent aspect was that the Attitude Gu was of a high Transformation level, yet its usage requirements were extremely low—it only consumed mental energy.
Fang Yuan had just successfully reincarnated, so his Immortal Essence was naturally scarce, far less than the reserves he'd had before.
"It's a pity this Attitude Gu isn't mine—it has to be returned to Hei Lou Lan eventually." Thinking this, Fang Yuan felt a heart full of regret and wistfulness.
Although he had reincarnated into a different body, his soul remained the same—unchanged.
After his previous rebirth, he had immediately forged a new alliance with Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan.
This alliance agreement was highly binding, with virtually no loopholes, and naturally bound both the bodies and souls of all signatories.
Therefore, even though Fang Yuan had switched bodies, he still could not violate the alliance.
"But the power of the alliance should have been split into two parts. One part bound to the soul. The other to the body. Right now, I can at most be considered half an ally."
"Sigh! Even so, the damage from breaking the alliance is far too great. Even if it doesn't affect my body, my soul still can't bear the consequences."
"Hmm... this body probably contains quite a number of Wisdom Path Dao Marks as well!"
Mid-thought, Fang Yuan's mind suddenly turned, and he realized something else.
He remembered vividly: right after becoming an Immortal Zombie, his mind had been sluggish, like a decrepit old man on his deathbed. His thinking had been extraordinarily slow. Only later, with the help of Wisdom Path methods, had he managed to compensate for this deficiency.
Now, having switched to a living body, the moment he applied himself to thought, he immediately felt his mind become sharp and agile, swift as a flying horse. Inspiration surged forth like a gushing origin spring.
As he thought, ideas formed in abundance, like the beautiful spray of ocean waves.
"I finally don't need Wisdom Path Gu to make up for the deficiency in my thoughts!" At this moment, Fang Yuan's eyes nearly welled up with tears.
Before, he had needed the help of Gu Insects to generate thoughts and aid his thinking.
Now, with a living body, he could spontaneously produce a vast number of thoughts—and these thoughts came in all manner of varieties.
There were malicious thoughts, benevolent thoughts, longing thoughts, idle thoughts, battle thoughts, wicked thoughts, obsessive thoughts...
"As long as a person is alive, their mind naturally contains a bewildering array of thoughts—this isn't strange. It's just that my speed of thinking now far exceeds that of ordinary people. Even under the Wisdom Halo, I could hold out on my own for quite some time!"
Precisely because of this, Fang Yuan deduced that this body's Wisdom Path Dao Marks should be quite numerous as well.
Exactly how many there were, though, he still didn't have a precise count.
The clarity of his thinking was unprecedented. Even his previous body, before becoming an Immortal Zombie, couldn't compare—not even by a fraction.
"Apart from the Wisdom Path Dao Marks, the Fire Path Dao Marks certainly won't be few either!" Fang Yuan glanced at the flames around him, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.
The flame garment on his body was none other than the Fifth Transformation Flame Cloak Gu. Once activated, one's entire body would be engulfed in raging flames—harmless, but spectacularly dazzling and incredibly flashy.
Huo Kongtong had also used this Gu, but it only covered the body in flames that rose no higher than an adult's index finger.
But Fang Yuan's flames now not only covered his entire body but were also extraordinarily dense, with the height of the flames exceeding that of an adult man's forearm.
Besides the Flame Cloak Gu, Fang Yuan had also "borrowed" a Fifth Transformation Flying Smoke Gu.
Right now, Fang Yuan flying through the air was the ability of the Flying Smoke Gu.
Behind Fang Yuan, the dark grey smoke trailed for several zhang—setting that aside, the key point was that his speed had far exceeded the limits of the Flying Smoke Gu, even rivaling some mortal Path killer moves!
As he hurtled forward, the wind howled in his ears and the mountain ranges below retreated rapidly.
Fang Yuan grew ever more certain: "It seems there aren't just Fire Path Dao Marks—there are many more Dao Marks that enhance flight."
At last, he could fly!