Under the pursuit of the Wuxiang Hands, he was running for his life.
"Return my Gu to me right now!" By a stroke of fortune, Hei Loulan finally managed to cut off Fang Yuan's path ahead.
Fang Yuan let out a cold laugh and activated the Wind Flower Gu.
A translucent wind flower immediately materialized around his body, carrying him into a swift change of direction.
Whoosh!
With the Wind Flower Gu aiding his turn, Fang Yuan maintained his speed while sharply altering course, evading Hei Loulan.
Hei Loulan, however, was elated: "It seems my luck has finally arrived! Of all places, you just had to come this way!"
Fang Yuan had barely flown a short distance before his speed plummeted.
"What is this..."
His expression changed as he realized he had sunk into a dark vortex.
It was a trap laid by Hei Loulan using consumptive Gu, designed specifically to ensnare enemies.
Behind him, the Wuxiang Hands were less than a hundred paces away.
Fang Yuan let out a cold snort, remaining calm in the face of danger. He activated the Blink Gu.
The Blink Gu carried his body into sudden disappearance, and in the next instant he reappeared five hundred paces away.
Having broken free, Fang Yuan immediately resumed his full speed. But before even a few breaths had passed, he once again sank into another dark vortex.
He activated the Blink Gu to escape once more.
But immediately after, he fell into a third dark vortex.
The True Inheritance secret realm was already shrouded in darkness, and the dark vortices were exceptionally well-concealed here. Before being triggered, they were perfectly calm, giving no hint of their presence. But once activated, they formed a gripping force, like sinking into mud or quicksand.
"You can't escape! Within a hundred li of this area, I've scattered Gu everywhere — the traps I've laid are innumerable!" Hei Loulan roared, rapidly closing in on Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan had suffered from his lack of scouting intelligence and was furious: "You're asking for death yourself, so don't blame me!"
With that, he activated the Six-Arm Heavenly Corpse King killer move, exerted a mighty surge, broke free of the vortex, and charged straight at Hei Loulan.
Hei Loulan's heart tightened, then quickly filled with joy. He wasn't afraid of Fang Yuan attacking — he was afraid Fang Yuan would keep fleeing, denying him any chance to fight.
New grudges and old hatreds piled upon each other; both wished nothing more than to grind the other to dust.
But before they could even clash, it was Hei Loulan who first veered sharply aside.
In the next moment, Fang Yuan's expression also changed, and he desperately flew backward.
It was terrifying!
A massive swarm of Wuxiang Hands came screaming down from the sky above — five or six hundred of them at least!
Their pale blue radiance stretched across a continuous band, casting everything in a pale blue glow.
The swarm of Wuxiang Hands split into two groups, each pursuing Fang Yuan and Hei Loulan respectively.
Fang Yuan was instantly plunged into the greatest crisis he had ever faced.
He absolutely did not dare to thread his flight between the Wuxiang Hands. With so many of them, a single slight movement could effortlessly seal off every possible route.
All Fang Yuan could do was flee at full speed, with a massive swarm of pale blue giant hands nipping at his heels.
"No, don't come over here!" Ye Lu Sang screamed in panic. He had been traveling with three other Gu Masters, helping one another, which was the only reason they had barely managed to keep hold of his Fire Path Immortal Gu. But now he suddenly saw Fang Yuan flying straight toward them!
When he spotted the swarm of Wuxiang Hands behind Fang Yuan, Ye Lu Sang nearly had a heart attack.
Fang Yuan was not only incredibly fast in flight, but his attacks were swift as well.
A barrage of long-range strikes sealed off the optimal escape routes for Ye Lu Sang and the others, drastically slowing their speed.
Then Fang Yuan gently adjusted his trajectory, bypassing them entirely and continuing to flee at full speed.
Ye Lu Sang and his companions ran desperately, but how could they possibly make it in time?
"No—!" The unlucky Ye Lu Patriarch let out a piercing scream as hundreds of Wuxiang Hands filled his vision, growing larger and larger.
It was like a gale sweeping past, or a swarm of locusts sweeping through.
The pale blue giant hands continued onward, still refusing to let Fang Yuan go.
As for Ye Lu Sang and his companions, they stood there in a daze. The Wuxiang Hands were simply too numerous — in the span of just a few breaths, every single Gu on their bodies had been snatched away.
In an instant, they had been reduced to complete paupers. Though there was still some True Essence remaining in their Empty Orifices, they had nowhere to use it!
"How am I going to explain this to the Supreme Elder when I return?!" Ye Lu Sang's heart was filled with terror and bewilderment.
The Fire Path Immortal Gu on his person had been specially lent to him by the Ye Lu Family's Supreme Elder, Ye Lu Lai, for the sole purpose of helping him seize the title of King of the Royal Court this year.
The preciousness of an Immortal Gu went without saying.
Having failed in his bid for victory, Ye Lu Sang had chosen to endure the humiliation of allying with Hei Loulan — even though he was a fellow super tribe patriarch — in order to protect the Immortal Gu on his person.
Now, because Fang Yuan had drawn disaster into their midst, the Fire Path Immortal Gu he had guarded with all his heart was finally lost!
Fang Yuan flew onward at breakneck speed, glancing back to see that the swarm of Wuxiang Hands behind him had thinned slightly. A faint sense of joy stirred in his heart.
This was all thanks to Ye Lu Sang's contribution.
Fang Yuan could now see a glimmer of hope for shaking off this swarm of Wuxiang Hands.
And that was to redirect disaster toward others!
He possessed the mastery of a flight grandmaster, but others did not.
"Hm? That's—" During his flight, Fang Yuan finally spotted traces of Ma Hongyun.
The Fortunes Path Supreme True Inheritance was shielding both Ma Hongyun and Zhao Lianyun as they dodged and flew in every direction, with a considerable number of Wuxiang Hands pursuing them as well. Of course, compared to the swarm behind Fang Yuan, their situation was a drop in the bucket.
Without the slightest hesitation, Fang Yuan immediately flew toward Ma Hongyun.