Several days later, Black Fan Grotto-World.
Hard hooves pounded heavily on the ground as a desolate beast stallion, completely pitch-black, charged toward Fang Yuan with a tremendous rush of wind.
Fang Yuan sighed inwardly.
He could have dodged, but behind him was a trench filled with Colorful Gall that Chu Du had once planted.
Once planted, these Colorful Gall needed to absorb sufficient earth qi and nutrients before they could be transplanted again. Forced transplantation would surely kill them.
As a result, many of the resources in Black Fan Grotto-World had already been relocated by Chu Du back into his own immortal orifice. But a few resources, like the Colorful Gall, could not be collected within a short time.
Ever since Fang Yuan had delivered the two immortal Gu to Chu Du, he had been assigned to this location to garrison and protect the Colorful Gall as best he could.
Of course, this was not without compensation.
Chu Du had already promised Fang Yuan that for every Colorful Gall saved afterward, half would go to Fang Yuan as payment.
Flying Bear Transformation!
Fang Yuan's entire body suddenly burst with blinding radiance.
After the light faded, he transformed into a massive white bear, using his chest to firmly block the charging desolate beast stallion.
Fang Yuan in his Flying Bear form staggered back five or six steps, nearly falling to the ground.
The desolate beast stallion, however, remained in place, shaking its head, feeling dizzy.
"That really packs a punch," Fang Yuan said, the pain in his chest making him grimace. But when the words left his mouth, they came out as the roaring growls of the Flying Bear.
Fang Yuan's Flying Bear form panted a few times, and seeing the desolate beast stallion still dazed, he lunged forward.
Boom!
Dust and smoke billowed up, and the surrounding ground trembled.
Fang Yuan's Flying Bear form tackled the desolate beast stallion to the ground in one swift motion, then raised his massive bear paw and hammered it repeatedly against the horse's head.
The stallion screamed in pain, struggling violently beneath Fang Yuan.
It had tremendous strength. But Fang Yuan stood firm, ruthlessly suppressing the stallion.
"Fortunately, I integrated the strength of the Flying Bear into my Flying Bear Transformation killer move, giving it the true power of a Flying Bear. Otherwise, I really wouldn't have been able to suppress this desolate beast stallion."
Fang Yuan rejoiced inwardly, his strikes growing even fiercer.
Before long, Fang Yuan had beaten the desolate beast stallion until blood frothed from its mouth, its eyes rolled back, and it collapsed unconscious.
Fang Yuan chuckled and deactivated his killer move, reverting to human form. He then opened his immortal orifice and stuffed the desolate beast stallion into his Supreme Blessed Land.
"That's already the third desolate beast," Fang Yuan murmured, his gaze slightly distant.
This was the deep rear area. Dao Marks were relatively concentrated here. The Hundred Foot Heavenly Lord naturally wouldn't waste effort deploying desolate beasts to such a troublesome location.
After learning the secrets of the Crazed Devil's Den and expressing his willingness to join, Fang Yuan's relationship with Chu Du had deepened further.
To protect the interests of his own people, Chu Du had assigned Fang Yuan to defend this position.
Though the fighting was fierce, Fang Yuan's position was relatively quiet.
Over the past few days, three desolate beasts that had slipped through the front lines had reached his location — two desolate beast stallions and one desolate beast fish-fin wolf.
Fang Yuan used them as targets to hone his Transformation Path.
He had killed two of them, and the only one he had truly captured alive was this desolate beast stallion just now.
"That desolate beast stallion just now — it cast no shadow beneath it. It must be the Shadowless Horse unique to the Northern Plains."
As the name suggested, the Shadowless Horse had no shadow. This trait was very obvious, and even though Fang Yuan had never seen such a desolate beast with his own eyes, it was easy to identify.
Though the Shadowless Horse was merely a desolate beast, it was quite rare.
It wasn't sold much in Treasure Yellow Heaven either.
Mainly because the population of Shadowless Horses was inherently small.
This Shadowless Horse belonged to the Hundred Foot Heavenly Lord. After Fang Yuan stored it in his immortal orifice, he immediately used the Dao Ke Dao Immortal Gu to investigate it.
Sure enough, Fang Yuan discovered that besides Dark Path and Light Path Dao Marks, the Shadowless Horse also bore many Slavery Path Dao Marks.
Fang Yuan tried a few times but found he couldn't remove these Slavery Path Dao Marks. Reluctantly, he killed the Shadowless Horse.
This kind of Shadowless Horse was forever bonded to the Hundred Foot Heavenly Lord as its master. Keeping it in his Supreme Immortal Orifice would only let it continuously destroy the surrounding environment.
It was better to kill the Shadowless Horse and sell its bones, meat, and other immortal materials in Treasure Yellow Heaven to earn some profit.
A living Shadowless Horse was more valuable, but since it belonged to the Hundred Foot Heavenly Lord, others could hardly enslave it.
Other Gu Immortals weren't fools — they naturally wouldn't purchase such a troublesome item.
Moreover, openly selling this Shadowless Horse would surely be discovered by the Hundred Foot Heavenly Lord. He might even use his connections to buy it back indirectly.
Drawing the attention of an Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal while supplying the enemy was not worth it. So Fang Yuan simply killed it.
After breaking down the Shadowless Horse and doing some initial processing, Fang Yuan deposited a portion of it into Treasure Yellow Heaven.
He found that the two desolate beast corpses he had deposited in Treasure Yellow Heaven days ago had indeed attracted no buyers.
These two desolate beast corpses were the monkey king corpse and the tree python corpse that Fang Yuan had picked up from the Crazed Devil's Den.
Before selling them, Fang Yuan had also used the Dao Ke Dao Immortal Gu to inspect them.
He found that the monkey king corpse and the tree python corpse bore all kinds of different Dao Marks. Under normal circumstances, the Dao Marks on desolate beasts were mainly concentrated in a single Path.
The reason for this was naturally the devilish sound within the Crazed Devil's Den.