Future Plans, Clear Sky's Visit

Clearly, Fang Yuan's words were not enough to make Xiao Wu lower her guard and bow her head in submission.

But just as Fang Yuan had said, since there was no other way, why not choose to believe?

Xiao Wu's expression was conflicted, her rabbit brain overloaded. After absentmindedly bidding Fang Yuan farewell, she headed toward the dormitory.

Fang Yuan watched Xiao Wu's departing figure with a calm gaze.

If he were to speak with what little conscience he had left, Fang Yuan had indeed considered seizing this rabbit and refining her in an instant.

If he did that, then he would undoubtedly tear all pretenses apart with the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, the two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. He would have to eradicate them completely.

Although doing so would grant him hundred-thousand-year soul rings and soul bones, greatly increasing his strength, Fang Yuan still had matters he had to consider.

That was the butterfly effect.

As everyone knew, the greatest advantage possessed by those who were reborn was their grasp of the future's course and their knowledge of unknown information.

Yet a splash raised in the upper reaches of the river of time could become raging waves downstream.

The earlier one made drastic changes, the more likely the world's future was to become unrecognizable.

For this reason, Fang Yuan decided not to act against Xiao Wu for the time being.

After all, the information advantage granted by his rebirth was still one of his greatest strengths. If he could avoid changing the future, he might gain even more through careful planning.

As for the hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone, Fang Yuan already had a plan in mind.

He had not lied to Xiao Wu. After consuming a pill refined from the Velvet Sky-Piercing Chrysanthemum and Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Fang Yuan's physical constitution had been greatly strengthened.

Absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring at rank eighty was not impossible.

Hundred-thousand-year soul beasts were rare in this world, but with his information advantage, finding one would not be much of a problem.

As long as he could find one and obtain its hundred-thousand-year soul ring, then according to Fang Yuan's plans for his eighth soul ring's two soul skills, his future soul rings and soul bones would be secured.

Should he prioritize immediate gains, or try to plan for a more distant future?

With the information advantage of rebirth, Fang Yuan chose the latter.

He did not know whether he would regret this decision in the future, but at this moment, it was a choice he could be satisfied with.

After seeing Xiao Wu off, Fang Yuan returned to his residence and began his research.

After returning to Notting City, Fang Yuan had already made plans for the period ahead.

Aside from cultivating and teaching his two disciples, Fang Yuan had two more matters on his agenda.

One was to find people to enter his Supreme Immortal Aperture and develop and manage this internal space of his.

Having an internal space rich in resources would naturally be of tremendous help to Fang Yuan.

He would gather a group of ordinary people, as well as soul masters skilled in farming and cultivation, regularly provide them with necessary supplies, and capture some lower-year soul beasts to place inside the immortal aperture.

Then, with the immense difference in the flow of time between the immortal aperture and the outside world, it would not take long in reality for the Supreme Immortal Aperture to undergo considerable development.

That was the first matter. The second was soul tools.

Although Fang Yuan did not know the specific circumstances ten thousand years later, he still knew the overall course of this continent's development.

Soul tools would undoubtedly be a major focus of development in the coming ten thousand years.

In this era, these highly convenient devices still existed with the status of ancient technology.

Soul masters could only excavate them from ruins, knowing nothing of their principles or methods of manufacture.

Fang Yuan intended to seize this opportunity and devote himself to researching soul tools, striving to make use of this technology that was ahead of its time.

With soul tools in hand, he would undoubtedly have an overwhelming advantage against these soul masters who knew only the result but not the reason behind it.

Of course, relying on Fang Yuan alone to fully understand soul tools would naturally be as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

Though his attainments in refinement were extraordinary, one person's strength was ultimately limited. Soul tools differed greatly from the Gu insects of his previous life, and how much of his Gu refinement knowledge could be applied remained an unknown.

But that was fine. The Supreme Immortal Aperture would handle it!

With a time flow sixty times faster than the outside world, it could become the most suitable research environment in the entire world.

As long as he allowed people with talent in soul tool research to enter the Supreme Immortal Aperture and conduct their studies there, progress would undoubtedly be swift.

Fang Yuan only needed to point them in the general direction he knew, helping them avoid a few detours, and that alone would be of enormous assistance.

Looking up at the sky outside, a faint smile appeared on Fang Yuan's face.

"Spectral Soul, you truly gave me a tremendous gift."

Gazing at the bright moonlight outside the window, Fang Yuan's eyes flickered slightly. A faint, almost imperceptible feeling of being watched suddenly arose in his heart.

"I wonder which esteemed guest has arrived. Forgive me for failing to welcome you properly." Fang Yuan's expression remained unchanged as he called out loudly.

A moment later.

A black shadow flashed past the window and entered the room in the blink of an eye.

Its speed caused Fang Yuan's expression to shift slightly.

This black shadow had moved so fast that he had barely noticed it. If not for the Supreme Immortal Embryo, his martial soul, which greatly enhanced his senses, Fang Yuan likely would not have been able to catch sight of this person's figure.

There were not many people on the entire continent with such strength.

As for who would visit Fang Yuan at this time, he already had a guess.

"You must be His Majesty Clear Sky Douluo. Fang Yuan greets you."

Fang Yuan rose to his full height and gave the black shadow before him a slight bow.

"Oh?"

The black shadow seemed rather surprised. He raised a hand and lowered the hood over his head, revealing the weathered, unshaven face of a middle-aged man. His eyes were murky, as though he were already in the twilight of his life, carrying an air of indifference toward existence.

It was Tang Hao.

As Tang San's father, Tang Hao had begun to pay great attention to him after Tang San awakened the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul.

Naturally, Tang Hao also knew that Tang San had taken Fang Yuan as his master.

When Fang Yuan brought Tang San to Sunset Forest to obtain his first soul ring, Tang Hao had not followed them.

In his view, for a Soul Emperor-level expert to travel to a place without hundred-thousand-year soul beasts and obtain a mere century-old first soul ring for his son was an utterly certain matter. There had been no need to secretly follow them.

However, the moment he learned that they had returned to Notting City, Tang Hao immediately sought out Fang Yuan under the cover of night.

Tang San was not only his son. His twin martial souls and innate full soul power, especially the Clear Sky Hammer, also represented the future hope of the Clear Sky Sect.

As his father, Tang Hao naturally had some things to make clear to his son's teacher.

"You know me."

Tang Hao's voice was hoarse and devoid of emotion.

Fang Yuan nodded. "On the way to Sunset Forest, Tang San showed me his second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer. That was when I guessed he was your son."