Fang Yun controlled Flowing Current with his Divine Sense while probing his abilities, feeling thoroughly satisfied.
Flowing Current was immensely powerful. Apart from a sharp decline in strength at sea, he was formidable in any environment.
In ages past, three Half-Sages of the Flowing Current clan had intercepted an army of hundreds of millions of Demon Barbarians in the Sacred Bone Desert. They had held firm against ten times their number of Demon Barbarian Half-Sages for twelve days, until reinforcements finally arrived and routed the enemy.
Although the present Flowing Current was less agile than he had been in life, the abundant Sacred Qi nourishing him had made his body even stronger than at his peak. Only a few special innate abilities were unusable. The Flowing Current clan's strongest innate ability, Body Transformed into a Starry River, still remained within these Spirit Bones, but each use would drastically weaken his power.
Fang Yun took a drop of Flowing Current's blood and sent it into the Ancient Demon Literary Platform. A statue of Flowing Current appeared upon it.
The Ancient Demon Literary Platform released a strange power, connecting Fang Yun's Literary Palace to Flowing Current and lending his Emperor Spirit Bones a little more vitality.
Flowing Current flowed through the woods like a small river. Nothing seemed amiss wherever he passed: no plants broke, no leaves fell, and it seemed as though nothing had happened. Yet a hundred breaths later, every plant along his path showed faint signs of withering.
Flowing Current absorbed some of the moisture and life force wherever he passed.
The Ancient Demons had buried ten sets of Emperor Spirit Bones in the Blue-Earth Mountains. Fang Yun rode Flowing Current in search of them one by one, but ultimately found nothing. The other Spirit Bones had either vanished