Fang Yuan sat cross-legged on the ground, opened his Immortal Orifice, and withdrew the Eight-Armored Immortal Zombie's physical body.
Then, under Langya Earth Spirit's watchful gaze, he detached his soul and slipped into the zombie's flesh.
The Immortal Zombie's body slowly opened its eyes and rose to its feet.
Fang Yuan glanced at the Supreme Immortal Body, then turned to face Wisdom Gu.
"Wisdom Gu," he spoke, his voice hoarse and grating. "Do you remember the agreement between us?"
Wisdom Gu had been playing around, but upon hearing this, it froze in place, hovering in midair, staring at Fang Yuan without a single movement.
Time trickled by. Fang Yuan found himself holding his breath involuntarily.
Even though he was now inhabiting an Immortal Zombie body, and breathing was no longer necessary.
Wisdom Gu seemed puzzled. It began circling around Fang Yuan.
Round and round it went, observing him ceaselessly. After a while, it settled down on a massive leaf nearby.
Then...
A halo of multicolored light, small at first and gradually expanding, radiated outward from Wisdom Gu's body.
The Wisdom Halo!
"It worked. It finally worked!" Fang Yuan was overjoyed and burst into hearty laughter.
Langya Earth Spirit, standing to the side, was so shocked his jaw nearly hit the ground. This was the first time he had ever witnessed such a sight.
"The Wisdom Halo! This really is the Wisdom Halo..." Langya Earth Spirit walked into the halo's range and immediately felt his thoughts become extraordinarily sharp.
In an instant, he became incredibly intelligent.
But soon enough, he cautiously retreated from the halo's coverage, then stared at Fang Yuan within it with an expression of envy and jealousy.
"Fang Yuan actually managed to summon the Wisdom Halo. Incredible — this kid, he's truly something else now!"
After the initial shock subsided, Langya Earth Spirit regarded Fang Yuan with a complicated expression, his gaze distant.
Though he was a dual earth spirit, his memories were shared.
Langya Earth Spirit still remembered that only a few years ago, Fang Yuan had been nothing more than a Gu Master — a mortal, virtually insignificant — when he first came to the Langya Blessed Land.
Yet in just these few short years, Fang Yuan had not only become an Immortal Gu Master but had risen to fame across the world, capable of standing against Eighth Transformation powerhouses!
And now, he could even summon the Wisdom Halo and put it to use!
A meteoric rise. This was nothing short of a meteoric rise.
If Fang Yuan had not inherited the Shadow Sect's True Inheritance, regaining the Wisdom Halo would have been, at best, adding wings to a tiger. But with the Shadow Sect's True Inheritance in his possession, the boost the Wisdom Halo provided was beyond imagination.
Langya Earth Spirit had lived through countless ages and seen every manner of person, yet now he found himself utterly unable to predict Fang Yuan's trajectory.
He could not predict it at all.
He had absolutely no way to forecast Fang Yuan's future cultivation and development!
Any achievement Fang Yuan attained from this point onward would be understandable and acceptable.
Fang Yuan quickly reined in his laughter.
He calmed himself and said to Wisdom Gu: "Alright, Wisdom Gu, please stop for now. Let me rest."
The Wisdom Halo gradually shrank until it vanished completely.
Fang Yuan took a deep breath, then spoke again: "Wisdom Gu, let's continue."
And so, in the very next moment, the Wisdom Halo radiated outward once more.