"As far as Liu Yong knows, if the Liu family is going to come after me, it would most likely be Liu Chang. But the opponent is a Light Path Gu Immortal—even if I kill him, I can't temporarily merge his blessed land. Why take that risk?"
Fang Yuan, transformed into an ancient sword dragon, flew westward at top speed.
As he flew, he continued soul-searching Liu Yong's soul.
This time, Fang Yuan was withdrawing.
If he kept stirring up trouble, he'd definitely run out of time. There was no need to fight the Liu family's Gu Immortal head-on. That would mean high risk with minimal reward.
Throughout the flight, Fang Yuan continuously activated the Sword Escape Immortal Gu.
It had to be said—red date immortal essence was truly durable. In the past, when Fang Yuan only had green grape immortal essence, how could he have afforded such prolonged usage?
Somewhat to Fang Yuan's surprise, throughout the entire retreat, he never once caught sight of a Liu family Gu Immortal.
He didn't know that Liu Chang had wasted considerable time escorting his sister back, and by then it was too late to catch up. As for the other two Liu family Gu Immortal, they had indeed given chase first, but they couldn't match Fang Yuan's speed.
After Fang Yuan re-entered the Tai Qiu region, the two Liu family Gu Immortal could only give up.
Using the Gu formation, Fang Yuan returned to the Lang Ya blessed land.
"Fang Yuan is back!" Mao Liu immediately received the news.
His emotions were complicated.
Because he now knew about Fang Yuan's killing of Yelü Qunxing. What was crucial was that Fang Yuan had transformed into an ancient sword dragon using his own combat power—not the Supreme Extreme Sky Eagle!
"How did his combat strength explode so much? And lately, he's been constantly rushing around, coming and going. What is he doing?"
Mao Liu's heart was uneasy.
Seeing how busy Fang Yuan was, he felt as though he could only watch Fang Yuan's retreating figure—watching him sprint ahead down the great road.
Mao Liu wanted nothing more than to yank Fang Yuan down, to strangle his development in the cradle. But he was powerless.
Whenever he thought about Fang Yuan having the Supreme Extreme Sky Eagle by his side, he couldn't help but lose heart.
An Eighth Transformation combat strength!
Mao Liu still didn't know the truth, and could only pin his hopes on Fang Yuan running out of Heavenly Crystals, making it impossible to feed the Supreme Extreme Sky Eagle.
"The best outcome would be for that Supreme Extreme Sky Eagle to starve to death!" Mao Liu could only think this way.
"Indeed, the Heavenly Crystals are running low." When Fang Yuan returned to his own cloud city and inspected his blessed land, a sigh rose from the depths of his heart.
Mao Liu's thinking wasn't entirely without merit.
Heavenly Crystals were an Eighth Transformation immortal material—barely anyone in the Treasure Yellow Heaven sold them.
Fang Yuan had never been well-stocked on this front. A large portion had been traded from Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord using resources.
The Supreme Extreme Sky Eagle had been continuously growing, and his Heavenly Crystal reserves were nearly depleted.
"It doesn't matter. I'll use sect contributions to exchange for a batch first, then use an Immortal Killer Move on the Supreme Extreme Sky Eagle to slow its growth rate."
In Black Fan's true inheritance, since there was a method to accelerate the Supreme Extreme Sky Eagle's growth and push it toward rapid maturation, there naturally existed a corresponding method with the opposite effect.
However, Fang Yuan would temporarily just spend some sect contributions to exchange for Heavenly Crystals, without using an Immortal Killer Move.
He wasn't yet proficient with this killer move. For one thing, he needed to practice it several times in advance. Otherwise, a failed activation would not only harm Fang Yuan but also injure the Supreme Extreme Sky Eagle. For another, this Immortal Killer Move required three continuous days of activation to complete. Fang Yuan's time was a bit tight.
Fang Yuan left as soon as he arrived.
Using the super Gu transmission formation, he headed to yet another corner of the Northern Plains.
It had to be said—the super Gu formation arranged by the Lang Ya Earth Spirit was extraordinarily convenient. Fang Yuan had lost the Fixed Travel Immortal Gu, but through this formation, he could enjoy a similar level of convenience.
Choosing an unpopulated corner, Fang Yuan tossed out Liu Yong's corpse.
He let the blessed land land, then entered it.
Liu Yong had left behind an Earth Spirit—a black, curly-haired dog. The requirement to recognize a master was: gather twenty dog-type desolate beasts for this blessed land.
Fang Yuan accomplished it with ease.
A few days later, he successfully merged this blessed land. Another territory had been added to his Supreme Supreme Blessed Land.
Speaking of which, Fang Yuan had merged quite a few blessed lands recently.
The entire space of the Supreme Supreme Blessed Land had grown by a small section.
But since the Supreme Supreme Blessed Land was already enormous to begin with, the spatial growth was not particularly noticeable.
One significant change that accompanied it was the Earth Spirits.
Fang Yuan's Supreme Supreme Blessed Land now contained more than ten Earth Spirits—snake-shaped ones, star-core-shaped ones, black-dog-shaped ones, of every description, scattered across various locations.
Each of them managed its own territory. Fang Yuan had left behind quite a bit of immortal essence for them, along with Gu worms.
Much of the immortal essence was left over from their original owners' bodies—not Fang Yuan's own green grape or red date immortal essence.
Others' immortal essence was called alien immortal essence, and its range of use was extremely narrow.
Its greatest application was powering Immortal Gu Houses.
Back then, when Fang Yuan had obtained a massive amount of Ju Yang immortal essence, he had spent almost all of it powering the Jing Hong Luan Dou Platform, earning spectacular glory within the Yi Tian Mountain. But after the soul swap, the residual Ju Yang immortal essence had all ended up in Ying Wu Xie's hands.
It should be noted here that while an Immortal Gu House's capabilities were fixed in nature, its power would fluctuate dramatically depending on the type of immortal essence consumed.
After fully absorbing Liu Yong's Slave Path blessed land, Fang Yuan discovered that his calamity had only advanced by one step!