A few days later, in Black Fan Grotto-Heaven.
Hard hooves thundered against the ground as a pitch-black desolate beast stallion, wreathed in a tremendous gale, charged straight at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan sighed inwardly.
He could have dodged, but behind him was a trench filled with the Variegated Gall plants that Chu Du had once planted.
After these Variegated Gall were planted, they needed to absorb sufficient earth energy and nutrients before they could be transplanted. Forcible transplanting would certainly kill them.
As a result, many of the resources in Black Fan Grotto-Heaven had already been relocated by Chu Du into his own Immortal Aperture. But a small number of resources, like the Variegated Gall, could not be collected in the short term.
After Fang Yuan had delivered the two Immortal Gu to Chu Du, he had been assigned to this location to stand guard and protect the Variegated Gall as best he could.
Of course, this was not without compensation.
Chu Du had already promised Fang Yuan that afterward, however many Variegated Gall could be saved, half would be given to Fang Yuan as payment.
Flying Bear Transformation!
Fang Yuan's body suddenly blazed with searing light.
After the radiance faded, he had transformed into a massive white bear, using his chest to firmly block the desolate beast stallion's charge.
The Flying Bear Fang Yuan stumbled back five or six steps, nearly falling to the ground.
The desolate beast stallion, however, remained in place, shaking its head, feeling dizzy.
"Quite the punch," Fang Yuan said, the pain in his chest making him grimace. But when the words left his mouth, they came out as a series of bear roars.
The Flying Bear Fang Yuan panted a few times. Seeing that the desolate beast stallion was still dazed, he lunged straight at it.
Boom!
Dust and debris erupted into the air as the surrounding ground trembled.
The Flying Bear Fang Yuan pounced the desolate beast stallion to the ground in one move, then raised his enormous paws and hammered them down relentlessly against the horse's head.
The stallion screamed in pain, struggling violently beneath Fang Yuan.
The beast was incredibly strong, but Fang Yuan held firm, pinning the stallion down with all his might.
"If my Flying Bear Transformation killer move hadn't incorporated the power of the Flying Bear, truly granting me the Flying Bear's strength, I wouldn't have been able to suppress this desolate beast stallion at all."
Fang Yuan rejoiced inwardly, his hands moving even more swiftly.
Before long, the desolate beast stallion had been beaten by Fang Yuan until blood foamed from its mouth and its eyes rolled back. It fell unconscious.
Fang Yuan chuckled, deactivated his killer move, and reverted to human form. Then he opened his Immortal Aperture and stuffed the desolate beast stallion into the Supreme Blessed Land.
"That's the third desolate beast already," Fang Yuan murmured, his gaze somewhat distant.
This was the rear area. Dao Marks were relatively concentrated and dense here. When Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord released the desolate beasts, he naturally wouldn't waste effort by choosing this location.
Fang Yuan had learned the secrets of the Crazed Demon Den and expressed his willingness to join, further deepening his relationship with Chu Du.
To protect the interests of his own people, Chu Du assigned Fang Yuan to defend this area.
Although the battle was fierce, Fang Yuan's position was relatively quiet.
Over the past few days, three desolate beasts had leaked through from the front lines to his location — two desolate beast stallions and one desolate beast fish-fin wolf.
Fang Yuan used them as practice targets for his Transformation Path.
He had killed two and successfully captured only this most recent desolate beast stallion.
"That last desolate beast stallion cast no shadow beneath it — it should be a Shadowless Horse, unique to the Northern Plains."
As the name suggested, a Shadowless Horse had no shadow. This feature was quite obvious, and even though Fang Yuan had never seen this type of desolate beast in person, it was easy to identify.
Although the Shadowless Horse was merely a desolate beast, it was still rather rare.
Even in the Treasured Yellow Heaven, there weren't many for sale.
The main reason was that Shadowless Horses were simply few in number to begin with.
This Shadowless Horse belonged to Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord. After Fang Yuan stored it in his Immortal Aperture, he immediately used the Dao Ke Dao Immortal Gu to examine it.
Sure enough, Fang Yuan discovered that the Shadowless Horse's body bore not only Darkness Path and Light Path Dao Marks, but also many Servitude Path Dao Marks.
Fang Yuan tried several times but found himself unable to remove these Servitude Path Dao Marks. With great reluctance, he gave up and killed the Shadowless Horse outright.
This kind of Shadowless Horse was forever loyal to Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord. Leaving it in his Supreme Blessed Land would only let it continuously destroy the surrounding environment.
It was better to kill the Shadowless Horse and sell the horse bones, horse meat, and other immortal materials in the Treasured Yellow Heaven to earn some profit.
A living Shadowless Horse would have been worth more, but since it belonged to Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord, no one else could subdue it.
The other Gu Immortals weren't fools — they naturally wouldn't buy such a troublesome item.
Furthermore, openly selling this Shadowless Horse would definitely be discovered by Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord, who might even use his connections to indirectly buy it back.
Not only would this attract the attention of an Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal, but it would also be strengthening the enemy. So Fang Yuan simply killed it.
After butchering the Shadowless Horse and giving it a preliminary processing, Fang Yuan placed a portion of it into the Treasured Yellow Heaven.
He noticed that the two desolate beast corpses he had deposited in the Treasured Yellow Heaven days ago had indeed attracted no interest whatsoever.
These two desolate beast corpses were the Monkey King corpse and the Tree Python corpse that Fang Yuan had scavenged from the Crazed Demon Den.
Before putting them up for sale, Fang Yuan had also used the Dao Ke Dao Immortal Gu to examine them.
He discovered that the Monkey King corpse and the Tree Python corpse bore all manner of different Dao Marks. Under normal circumstances, the Dao Marks on a desolate beast's body were mainly concentrated within a single Path.
The reason for this unusual situation was naturally the demonic sound within the Crazed Demon Den.