Clearly, Fang Yuan's words were not enough to make Xiao Wu let down 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 him?
Xiao Wu wore a conflicted expression, her rabbit brain overloaded. After dazedly bidding Fang Yuan farewell, she headed toward the dormitories.
Fang Yuan watched Xiao Wu's departing figure with calm eyes.
If he were to speak while touching what little conscience he had left, Fang Yuan had indeed considered grabbing that rabbit and refining her in an instant.
If he did that, he would undoubtedly tear all pretense of peace with the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. He would have to eliminate them completely.
Although doing so could grant him Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings and Soul Bones, greatly increasing his strength, Fang Yuan still had things he had to consider.
That was the butterfly effect.
As everyone knew, the greatest advantage of a reincarnated person 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 that reason, Fang Yuan decided not to make a move against Xiao Wu for the time being.
After all, the information advantage granted by his reincarnation 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 Spirit Rings and Soul Bones, Fang Yuan already had a plan in mind.
He had not lied to Xiao Wu. After consuming a pill refined from the Singular Velvet Sky 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 Spirit Ring at level eighty was not impossible.
Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were rare in the 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 Spirit 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 settled.
Should he focus on immediate benefits, or consider a more distant future?
Possessing the information advantage of reincarnation, 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 that satisfied him.
After seeing Xiao Wu off, Fang Yuan returned to his residence and began his research.
After returning to Notting City, he had already made arrangements for his plans over the coming period.
Aside from cultivating and teaching his two disciples, Fang Yuan had two other matters on his schedule.
One was to find people to enter his Supreme Immortal Aperture and develop and manage this internalized space of his.
Having an internalized space rich in resources would naturally be of immense help to Fang Yuan.
He would find a group of ordinary people, along with Soul Masters skilled in farming and cultivation, regularly provide them with necessary supplies, then capture some lower-year Soul Beasts and place them in the Immortal Aperture.
Then, under the enormous difference in the flow of time between the Immortal Aperture and the outside world, the Supreme Immortal Aperture would undergo considerable development before long in reality.
That was the first matter. The second was Soul Tools.
Although Fang Yuan did not know the exact circumstances ten thousand years in the future, he still knew the general course of this continent's development.
Soul Tools would undoubtedly be the foremost priority of development over the next ten thousand years.
In this era, these highly convenient tools still existed with the status of ancient technology.
Soul Masters could only excavate them from ruins, yet knew nothing about their principles or methods of production.
Fang Yuan intended to seize this opportunity and vigorously research Soul Tools, striving to make use of this technology that surpassed the era.
With Soul Tools in hand, he would undoubtedly be dealing a dimensionality-reduction blow to these Soul Masters who only knew how things worked, but not why.
Of course, relying on Fang Yuan alone to fully understand Soul Tools would naturally be as difficult as scaling the heavens.
Though his attainment in the Refinement Path was extraordinary, one person's strength was ultimately limited. Soul Tools differed greatly from the Gu worms of his previous life, and how much of his Gu-refining knowledge could be applied was truly unknown.
But it did not matter. The Supreme Immortal Aperture would take action!
Its time flow, sixty times faster than the outside world, could turn it into the most suitable research environment in the 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 toward the general direction he knew, helping them avoid a few detours. That alone would be an enormous help to them.
Fang Yuan raised his head and looked at the sky outside, a faint smile appearing on his face.
"Spectral Soul, you really gave me an incredible gift."
Gazing at the bright moonlight outside the window, Fang Yuan's eyes flickered slightly. A faint, almost imperceptible sense of being watched suddenly arose in his heart.
"I wonder which honored guest has come calling. Forgive me for failing to welcome you properly," Fang Yuan said aloud, his expression unchanged.
A moment later.
A black shadow flashed past the window and entered the room in the blink of an eye.
The speed made Fang Yuan's expression shift slightly.
That black shadow moved so quickly that he had barely noticed it. If not for the Supreme Immortal Embryo, his Body Martial Soul, greatly enhancing his senses, Fang Yuan likely would not have caught 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 in mind.
"Your Excellency the Clear Sky Douluo, I offer you my respects."
Fang Yuan rose to his full height and gave the black shadow a slight bow.
"Oh?"
The black shadow seemed quite surprised. He raised a hand and lowered the hood over his head, revealing the face of a weathered, unshaven middle-aged man. His eyes were cloudy, as though he were in the twilight of his life, carrying an air of indifference toward living.
It was Tang Hao.
As Tang San's father, after Tang San awakened the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul, Tang Hao had begun paying close attention to him.
Tang Hao naturally knew about Tang San taking Fang Yuan as his master.
When Fang Yuan took 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 take his son to a place without Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and obtain a mere century-old first Soul Ring was a sure thing, so there was no need to follow them in secret.
However, after learning at once that they had returned to Notting City, Tang Hao immediately sought out Fang Yuan under cover of night.
Tang San was not only his son. His Innate Full Soul Power, Twin Martial Souls, and Clear Sky Hammer also represented the future hope of the Clear Sky Sect.
As a father, Tang Hao naturally had some things to say 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 that he was your son."
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