Chapter 571: Deserves death without pity
Boom boom boom…
The earth rumbled, wolves charged out like tides, they were endless like the flood water, charging forward relentlessly.
Tens of thousands of wolves sprinted, the wolf group was in chaos. There were wind wolves running like they were flying, water wolves with their snow-white bodies, night wolves who were slim and stealthy, turtleback wolves who were stable and sturdy, vermillion flame wolves who were burning fiercely.
Hundred wolf king, thousand wolf king, and myriad wolf king led the army along with the mutated wolves, they were travelling in packs and were very conspicuous.
Like the blood forest wolf, with a bone forest on its back, tall as a mountain. The shark fin wolf with with skin like that of an elephant, while being amphibious. The frenzy wolf with three silver-grey eyes, being a battle maniac.
Inside Imperial Court blessed land, in the light golden sky, there were azure wolves running in the air, howling as they gave off a strong aura.
Fang Yuan sat on an azure myriad wolf king's back as the strong winds could not affect his determined and resolved expression.
His eyes were dark like the abyss, he was looking down with his thoughts unpredictable.
Although the wolves were scattered when he first entered Imperial Court blessed land, Fang Yuan had been handing out missions to others and had been recalling the old wolves as well as recruiting new wolves since. By now, he had about five hundred thousand wolves running below him like the tides of the sea.
At this point, he was truly at the peak of the mortal realm.
During the Imperial Court contest, he was one of the five beast kings together with Jiang Bao Ya, Ma Zun and others. After the Imperial Court contest, just looking at northern plains alone, he was the current generation's number one enslavement master.
Other than his enslavement attainment, he also displayed great technique in his strength path cultivation, and was also a flying master, it was truly a shocking achievement.
Who did not respect and revere the great Wolf King Chang Shan Yin?
In the entire northern plains, how many could actually put up a challenge before him?
But at this moment, in Fang Yuan's mind, there was a voice 'discouraging' him.
"Hehehe, young man, you want to combine strength and enslavement, that is really a tall order. I would advise you to give up on that as soon as possible."
Mo Yao's will continued: "Strength and enslavement are very distinct from each other. The combination of strength and enslavement has been an age old problem. It was not easy for you to even dual cultivate them, why don't you change them now while it is early, there is no need to do something so meaningless and troublesome, I had gone through this back in my days. You need to know, there are countless paths and ways to be a Gu Master, our strength is not reliant on the number of paths we are on, but the depth of our attainment."
Mo Yao explained to him patiently, but Fang Yuan scoffed, arrogantly refusing: "Problems are meant to be solved, what is there to be afraid of? Enslavement-strength dual cultivation is an age old problem, that is because I had not been born back in those days. I will eventually have the world in my palms, my name will go down in history, just like Star Constellation, Red Lotus, Paradise Earth and others."
Star Constellation, Red Lotus, Paradise Earth were all rank nine venerables. In the long history of mankind, the river of time flowed endlessly, but there were only ten of them throughout the ages.
Fang Yuan was a mortal, but he was aiming to be such a person, it was like an ant trying to become an elephant.
Such lofty ambitions and tone, even Mo Yao's will was tongue-tied when she heard it.
…
"Howl!"
"Kill, kill all of these earth chief beasts!"
"Where is the healing Gu Master? Someone is injured, quickly come and help!"
The beasts were growling, the Gu Masters were shouting, a small-scale fight was reaching its climax.
On the relatively small battlefield, there were holes on the ground, broken limbs and blood everywhere. Five to six Gu Masters were surrounding the earth chief beast king, engaging in fierce combat. There were large numbers of earth chief beast corpses surrounding them.
These earth chief beasts had a humanoid body and a snake tail, their face resembled bats, and their nose were pointed up. They had large ears and a black body covered in flesh armor. All around their chests, there were five to six flesh whips, ranging from tens of centimeters to meters long.
The whips were like hands, agile like snakes as they flung with huge force, both offensively and defensively.
The earth chief beasts lived underground, but they only lived near the surface and not deep underneath.
They had great value, be it their eyes, fur, or tail, they were rare and valuable Gu refinement material. What was most rare was their flesh whips, the longer they were the better, whips that were six meters or longer were often priceless, almost none were sold in the market.
Right now in northern plains, earth chief beasts were almost going extinct. But in Imperial Court blessed land, they lived in huge numbers, for example at this area, for the surrounding ten thousand li, there were earth chief beast groups living underground.
Money moved people's hearts, because this was close to the sacred palace, many Gu Masters often gathered in groups and hunted at this place.
This battling group was one of them.
The Gu Masters in the group had hunted down the earth chief beasts for several times already, they were quite experienced.
But this time, they encountered trouble. Although they attracted an earth chief beast group, there were only a hundred of them which was manageable for them. However, the beast king was not an ordinary hundred beast king, but an old thousand beast king. Although this old beast king could not battle and was old and sickly, it had many wild Gu in it, and had truly the battle strength of a rank three.
Among mortal Gu Masters, rank one were students, they had just started and were weak, being the most commonly seen ones. Rank two were the foundation of tribes, the main source of manpower, they were quite common.
Rank three were elders, they were the pillars of support for the clan, and were much more rare than rank two Gu Masters. Rank four were the leaders, capable to leading ten thousand men. Rank five was the peak of the mortal realm, they were the rarest of the mortal Gu Masters.
Earth chief thousand beast king was not a problem by itself, but the rank three that it had were too much for this group to handle.
During the start of the battle, the leader Jiang Dong was decisive and had great experience, ordering his group and bringing some people to break into the beast group, stalling the earth chief beast king, while the others slaughtered the earth chief beasts. Otherwise, the group would have crumbled already.
"Everyone, put in more effort! This old beast is going down, we will win if we can endure!" Jiang Dong shouted to raise the group's morale.
Everyone replied quickly, raising their concentration and mental focus.
From the start of the battle until now, an hour had passed. The Gu Masters were almost out of primeval essence, but because of northern plains' culture, these Gu Masters all cultivated strength path as well.
The Gu Masters fought bravely, using close combat primarily, only using their primeval essence when they had no choice to save themselves or others.
Howl!
Right at this time, the old beast king swung its snake tail, causing the air to crackle. The snake tail hit one of the Gu Masters and sent him flying. When he landed, this Gu Master's chest was smashed and his bones were all broken, he was beyond dead.
Humans had intelligence, beasts had their craftiness too.
The old beast king was really weak, but that did not mean it was powerless. When it burst out its remaining strength, it killed one person immediately.
The Gu Masters were stunned, their morale fell rock bottom.
"Oh no, we were already at a stalemate earlier, that that we are one man down, and my primeval essence is less than twenty percent left, what will we do?" Jiang Dong's eyes rolled as he thought of escaping.
This hunting group was only established at a whim, although running away would ruin his reputation, what was reputation compared to death?
Northern plainsmen were battle lovers, it was true that they were ferocious and brave, but they were not stupid.
"In the past, life was tough and I could only fight desperately to survive. Now that I am inside Imperial Court blessed land, with ample resources lying around, I should be accumulating my foundation and soaring into the sky. How can I sacrifice my precious life here?"
"I have parents and children back at home, although these hunting gains were good, the primeval stones are only enough to sustain my own cultivation. That rascal at home will be starting his cultivation journey in half a year… thus, sorry everyone!"
Jiang Dong's gaze shone for a while, as he retreated suddenly, using all his remaining primeval essence on his movement Gu.
He tore through the air, with a 'swoosh' sound, he vanished like the wind.
The remaining Gu Masters were stunned again, the leader ran away in battle, what can they do now?
Immediately, everyone scattered as morale became non-existent.
The earth chief beast king growled, chasing after them.
"The f*ck!" Jiang Dong looked back and cursed, his soul almost flew into the nine heavens.
This old earth chief beast king chose to chase after him out of all the people, most likely his ruthless attacks and fierce offense enraged the old beast.
"Oh no, my life will be over at this rate!"
The two ran and chased, as time passed, his primeval was expended and Jiang Dong fell into despair.
"Lord Jiang Dong, please run!"
At this time, a voice could be heard from afar.
Jiang Dong turned around and saw a young man at the left, it was Ma Hong Yun who had joined the group not too long ago. He had rank one cultivation and was a support Gu Master with little battle strength. From the start of the battle, he had been dispatched and was used to investigate the area.
"What a foolish lad!" Jiang Dong was overjoyed, he changed directions and ran towards Ma Hong Yun.
Ma Hong Yun's eyes were wide open, he saw the old earth chief beast king chasing Jiang Dong and had the urge to remind him. To think that Jiang Dong actually lured the old beast king towards him.
Ma Hong Yun ran immediately, but Jiang Dong was even faster, in a few breaths' time, he got close to him.
Jiang Dong laughed loudly: "Lad, you saved my life today, your death is not in vain."
Saying so, he used his Gu worm and knocked Ma Hong Yun unconsciously, stretching out his hand and tossing him behind.
But the old earth chief beast king ignored that free meal and still chased after Jiang Dong non-stop.
Jiang Dong's laughter came to an end, his mood went from heaven to hell.
Just as old earth chief beast king got close to him, he could hear rumbling in his ears as the ground started to shake.
Next, from far away in the sky, a line was getting bigger and clearer.
Wolves!
Why are there so many wolves?!
The wolf tide rained down from the sky, the grand aura it gave off was like flood water that was engulfing the world.
The old thousand beast king froze, after being in a short daze, it shuddered and turned around to run away.
"Vermillion flame wolves, turtleback wolves… such a wolf group, that's right, there was an announcement, Wolf King was going to hunt at this area! Ahahaha, my life is not meant to be over, I am saved!"
Jiang Dong cheered loudly after his initial shock. He sat on the ground, his body shivering in excitement, the hope after despair was making him feel great relief as tears flowed out of his eyes.
But the next moment, the wolf tide came without slowly down, charging like a waves as it tore him into pieces in a few seconds.
In the golden sky, atop the azure wolf, Mo Yao's will spoke in Fang Yuan's mind with a sorrowful sigh: "Fang Yuan, you allow these wolves to kill every living thing in their path, be it enemy or ally. Your killing intent is too strong, are you not afraid of going against the natural order, are you not afraid of other Gu Masters' opinion?"
"Hmph, I announced my hunt long ago. These people are overwhelmed by greed, they are like ants, there is no pity for them when they are blocking my path." Fang Yuan replied plainly.
ChibiGeneral He's absolutely right, they were informed with adequate response time. No pity at all.
Chapter 572: Successfully refining the Earth Chief Zombie Gu
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The wolf groups were like a tsunami leaving trail of blood wherever it went in the blessed land.
Fang Yuan was sitting indifferently on the back of an azure wolf king, turning a blind eye to the massacre happening in front of him.
In his mind, Mo Yao's will frowned slightly.
She was a fairy nurtured by Spirit Affinity House, a person of the righteous path; she was naturally not happy at Fang Yuan's casual massacre.
"This young man could disguise his identity and sneak into Imperial Court blessed land under the eyes of northern plains' Gu Immortals; he is a dauntless and crafty person. He also deciphered the clues of my inheritance and refined the Immortal Gu, he was not only fated but also had extraordinary methods. Even more importantly, he knows to bow and submit, when he knows that things cannot always go his way, he immediately compromises, this person is extremely shrewd as well! What is his origin?"
Mo Yao's will could not help but wonder about that question.
She had just recently come out of Water Pavilion and resided in Fang Yuan's mind; she had analyzed many of Fang Yuan's thoughts and immediately learned many of his secrets.
However, Fang Yuan's response was quick and immediately took preventive measures, making her progress slow down greatly.
Thus, Mo Yao's will learnt of Fang Yuan's secrets but what she knew was limited.
Among them included the secrets Fang Yuan revealed to her of his own accord.
She still did not know that Fang Yuan possessed Spring Autumn Cicada, thus she had no way of knowing Fang Yuan's biggest secret of being a transmigrator.
This was the world of Gu.
Mo Yao had already perished and what was left was only a portion of her will. Unable to use Gu worms, Mo Yao's will could only take advantage of Fang Yuan's low attainment in wisdom path.
"I had just recently awakened, I do not know what his background is. This young man has absurdly firm willpower and is extremely opinionated. I should just bide my time and guide him to return Water Pavilion to the sect first. It will not be too late to persuade him to do good once we arrive at Spirit Affinity House…"
Mo Yao's will had inherited some intelligence of the main body and immediately kept quiet when she realized any persuasion would be in vain.
There was no resistance at all; Fang Yuan's dark and eerie gaze slowly retracted, closing his eyes to rest on the wolf's back.
He was not someone who slaughtered willfully.
There was a reason for letting the wolves massacre at full force today.
One was to attract the earth chief beast groups underground. earth chief beast was a wild beast, the thick smell of blood would attract and stimulate their savage nature, making them risk emerging from the ground.
Second was that the massacre would produce large numbers of souls. Since the start of the Imperial Court contest, Fang Yuan had been using soul burial toad to collect the souls. He had Dang Hun mountain, and as long as Dang Hun mountain did not die completely, the more souls he had, the better it was for him.
Third reason was aimed at Mo Yao's will in his mind, he was trying to probe her.
As for the nasty repercussions from wantonly killing Gu Masters, Fang Yuan was happy instead of afraid.
Not mentioning that he had already made a public announcement, making the consequences clear to everyone, even if the public stirs and the resentment and hatred towards him rises, so what?
He was at the peak of mortals, the famous Wolf King Chang Shan Yin! He was no longer the minor character several years ago who had to act cautiously.
In this Imperial Court blessed land where Gu Immortals could not enter, his one shout could cause countless Gu Masters to tremble. His stomp could shake the sacred palace. With one thought, the wolf groups would instantly create a bloodbath.
There was a famous saying on Earth — Political power comes from military strength.
A strong fist is power and power is the truth!
But on Earth, power was concentrated in the masses. Besides violence and fists, one needed to use righteousness to conceal the truth and compromise according to the public sentiment.
But here, individual strength was far above the group. Public sentiment and righteousness were much weaker. Not mentioning anyone else, just take the current Fang Yuan as an example — who cares about your dogshit hatred and grudges, whoever comes will face decimation! Whoever is not pleasing to the eyes, they can be slaughtered with no care at all!
Looking disdainfully at all lives, trampling on the public sentiment, without restraints and free like the wind!
But in Fang Yuan's pursuit of the Great Dao, he had no interest towards casually slaughtering ants. Today's large scale massacre was no more than a small step towards his majestic target.
As he thought of this trip's goal, Fang Yuan slowly opened his eyes.
Howl!
A beast roar echoed to the skies.
A mound bulged up from a distance before bursting open; mud and stones splattered around as a fifty feet tall earth chief myriad beast king jumped out.
Fang Yuan's eyes flashed with a chilly light as he sneered: "You shall be the one."
At once, he commanded the wolf group to attack, endless thoughts flew about in his mind like an endless drizzle.
If one looked from a high altitude, one would see an extremely spectacular scene of innumerable wolves rushing forward like an endless tide.
As they neared the earth chief myriad beast king, the wolves suddenly split into several groups like ants trying to climb up an elephant. At the same time, azure wolves howled and flew down, spiralling around earth chief myriad beast king like birds.
Earth chief myriad beast king jumped towards the wolf group and started rampaging, soon, wolf blood splattered and wolf corpses covered the ground. Its giant legs would leave behind terrifying blood pits in its trail.
Fang Yuan had a smile as he observed the battle from the skies.
Under his control, the wolf groups advanced and retreated, sometimes slowly and sometimes fast, as they charged forward waves after waves, forming a situation of ants devouring an elephant.
Earth chief myriad beast king roared again and again while valiantly charging all around, causing large numbers of casualties in the wolf groups.
In Fang Yuan's mind, Mo Yao gave a soft exclamation of surprise, slightly shocked at Fang Yuan's enslavement path attainment.
"Wow, I had not expected this kid to have so much talent at this young age, commanding these wolves as naturally as breathing, and with such ease like he is moving his arms, he has mastered the art of attrition battle of enslavement path, fighting the strong with a weak force, this is a master level attainment…"
But it was nothing more than a slight shock.
Mo Yao had seen and experienced a lot in her life and was not an ordinary Gu Immortal, but a certain generation's fairy of Spirit Affinity House; her horizons were broad and masters as young as Fang Yuan were not few in her memory.
The battle lasted for a while, earth chief myriad beast king was roaring again and again, its energy was consumed by the wolf groups and could no longer display its fierce might…
Large numbers of earth chief beasts jumped out of the underground and joined the battle.
Fang Yuan chuckled indifferently, commanding the wolves with ease as he had already expected this.
The outcome of this large battle was foreordained from the start. How could a myriad beast scale earth chief beast group be his match?
Such a large battle covered a range of a thousand li, but this was ingeniously divided into dozens of sections of battle circles by Fang Yuan; using the weak wolf groups to surround and then using the strong and vigorous mutated beasts to form an arrow head that charged forward.
The first section of the battle circles was taken down by the wolf group, as they joined with the next group to destroy the second section, the third section; the dominance accumulated and the scales of victory was inclining more and more towards Fang Yuan. Finally, the wolf group's annexing speed increased faster and faster till they butchered earth chief myriad beast king.
"This kid's enslavement path cultivation is indeed not ordinary. Although his commanding ability is exquisite and bold, using sharp and mild tactics together, he is still far away from grandmaster level attainment." Mo Yao thought inwardly.
Gu Master raised, used, and refined; no matter which aspect, they were all very profound and deep.
Gu Masters might be using the same Gu worms, but some Gu Masters' performance would be extremely outstanding to the point that it could be called an art. These people were known as masters!
Master could be discovered but not sought, and could not be cultivated just by investing resources. Not only did it require innate talent, the Gu Master also needed to have capability.
But above master was grandmaster.
Comparing master and grandmaster was like comparing grass and tree. Besides talent, aptitude and resources, grandmaster attainment also required fortuitous opportunities and comprehension.
As long as one reached grandmaster level, they could gain comprehension about any path using their own as a foundation, they could understand about yin-yang and heaven and earth, they could learn about the profoundness of the universe, surpassing the mortal realm and become immortals among immortals, sages among sages.
Mo Yao was a refinement path grandmaster, although she had perished, her broad vision still existed.
She had seen countless masters in her life; the main reason why she felt Fang Yuan's attainment was impressive was because of his young age.
Not long later, earth chief myriad beast king fell down loudly, having died due to the heavy injuries.
Blood flowed out rapidly and soon formed into a pool of blood beside it.
Fang Yuan descended and personally skinned it, immediately started refining Gu next to the blood pool with wolf groups surrounding him.
Mo Yao's modified earth chief zombie Gu required the freshest flesh, with the flesh of earth chief myriad beast king being the best, thousand beast king being the second best and hundred beast king being the last option.
Thus, Fang Yuan moved out in a large scale and personally killed the earth chief myriad beast king.
The Gu refinement continued for three days and three nights before succeeding perfectly.
Fang Yuan reached his goal, thereafter he dismissed majority of the wolf groups to hunt in the wild, only taking the elite mutated beasts with him as he returned back to sacred palace without stopping.
The battlefield fell into deathly stillness; suddenly, a bloody person made his way out of a hill-sized blood forest wolf corpse.
The bloody person swayed unstably as he moved and had only walked a few steps before falling down to the ground.
He gasped roughly, an incredulous look in his eyes as he muttered: "I am still alive?"
He vigorously rubbed his face, revealing his face.
It was none other than Ma Hong Yun.
After he had been knocked unconscious by Jiang Dong, he had remained down on the ground.
That old earth chief beast king ignored him and chased after Jiang Dong.
But soon after, wolf group engulfed the area and slaughtered all living beings, and Ma Hong Yun ended up in a wolf's mouth.
If it had been an ordinary wolf like turtleback wolf, water wolf or wind wolf, Ma Hong Yun would already have been torn into pieces and would be lying in the wolf's stomach.
Fortunately, it was the hill-sized blood forest wolf that had eaten him.
This wolf opened up its large mouth and with one lap of its tongue, directly licked the ground within a hundred steps. Ma Hong Yun along with the old earth chief beast king's corpse went down into the blood forest wolf's stomach.
If it had continued normally, Ma Hong Yun would already have been digested by the blood forest wolf sooner or later and turn into a pile of wolf faeces.
But following the battle with the earth chief beast group, this blood forest wolf was attacked from all around and died on the battlefield; its chest and belly was torn open which allowed air to flow in.
Ma Hong Yun dizzily woke up and hurriedly drilled his way out. At this time, the battle had already ended and the battlefield was covered with beast corpses. Occasionally, some wild beasts that were at their final moments would gasp for air, emphasizing the deathly stillness in the surrounding.
After Ma Hong Yun breathed enough, his strength started to gradually recover and the thick bloody odor assailed his nose.
He realized the situation was anything but reassuring: "I need to leave this place quickly, wild beasts will be attracted by the odor of the blood not long later."
Ma Hong Yun had been born and raised in Northern Plains, this survival common sense was already deeply ingrained in his bones.
He immediately stood up and made sure of the direction towards sacred palace and immediately set off.
But he had just taken few steps when he stopped.
His sight was attracted by a Gu worm.
This was a wild Gu on the corpse of an earth chief beast.
The earth chief beast had died, the wild Gu on it should have perished or flown away, but this wild Gu was unexpectedly held back by a fractured bone and could not fly away.
"This should be a rank two… something something Gu." Ma Hong Yun could not remember it clearly, but it did not hinder him from knowing the value of this Gu.
"Good Gu worm, this is a good Gu worm, after getting it, even if I can't use it for myself, I can sell it for a lot of primeval stones."
Ma Hong Yun felt a rush of excitement and immediately walked over, easily grabbing the Gu worm.
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Chapter 573: Human Experimentation
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
The silver light shone on the garden where the plants were swaying gently.
In a pavilion, Fang Yuan was fiddling with earth chief zombie Gu.
This Gu's shape appeared like an earthworm, bright yellow in color and was the size of an infant's forearm. Right now, it was twining around Fang Yuan's fingers like a wriggling snake.
Through Mo Yao's improved recipe and the flesh of earth chief myriad beast king's corpse, its refinement was successful.
But Fang Yuan had not used it.
He was cautious in nature, this earth chief zombie Gu was refined from a modified recipe, what would he do if there was a problem?
Although he had reached a compromise with Mo Yao's will, Mo Yao was a fairy of the righteous path's Spirit Affinity House as well as a refinement path grandmaster; he could not put his guard down.
'But grandmasters are truly worthy of their name, my refinement path attainment has already reached the master realm, but when compared to Mo Yao, I am young like a child.'
Recalling the process of refining earth chief zombie Gu, Fang Yuan was still feeling moved.
During the whole Gu refinement process, Mo Yao only spoke three sentences, but they were the crucial guides, the vital finishing touches. Fang Yuan was able to gain a lot of insight from them.
He, however, did not know Mo Yao was also inwardly moved at this moment.
'Double master attainment… I had not expected this kid to not only be an enslavement path master but also refinement path master. Double master attainment at such a young age, such aptitude and talent are rare even in my memory. No wonder he has such grand ambitions of wanting to rise to the realm of venerable, equal to Thieving Heaven, Paradise Earth, Giant Sun….'
'It is also natural to be arrogant and conceited after getting success at this young age.' Mo Yao still scoffed at Fang Yuan's 'goal' of being equal to venerables, but she understood.
'Becoming a master can't be done with just talent and aptitude, it also requires sufficient resources and even guidance from great teachers. It seems this kid's background is quite deep.'
Previously, Mo Yao already knew the secret of Fang Yuan possessing Hu Immortal blessed land. Now, with the intel of 'double master attainment', she sensed the deep origin of Fang Yuan.
"Lord Wolf King, Ge tribe's and Chang tribe's leaders have come forward to have an audience." Right at this time, a servant reported from outside the door.
Fang Yuan collected his thoughts, these two had been called by him. He indifferently said: "Let them in."
"Yes." The servant respectfully retreated.
Not long later, two people came forward and kneeled, kowtowing three times to pay their respects, an extremely respectful and fearful expression could be seen on their faces.
Going through the baptism of Imperial Court contest and being at a high position with no lack of resources, under the shade of a large tree like Wolf King, Ge Guang and Chang Ji You were already rank four Gu Masters.
Fang Yuan glanced and asked without allowing them to rise: "Have you completed the things I told you a few days ago?"
After Fang Yuan succeeded in his expedition and returned to the sacred palace, he gave an order to the two tribe leaders to gather all their tribe's Gu Masters to clean up the battlefield.
"As per Lord Wolf King's words, the battlefield has been cleaned up, altogether…" Ge Guang was about to report the gains, but was interrupted by Fang Yuan.
He did not care about these battle spoils, asking: "How many Gu Masters did you arrest?"
Ge Guang did not reply this time, instead signalled Chang Ji You who was at the side, with his eyes.
Everyone knew Chang Ji You was Chang Shan Yin's own son, and after Fang Yuan took control of Chang tribe, he appointed Chang Ji You as the tribe leader.
Ge Guang was letting Chang Ji You reply to Fang Yuan's question, in light of this relation and to express his goodwill to Chang Ji You.
Chang Ji You spoke with a respectful expression, his gaze revealing a crazed fanatical worship: "People's hearts are unfathomable with insatiable greed. Despite lord father's public announcement, there were still many Gu Masters who sneaked into the battlefield to steal beast corpses or wild Gu. Over these few days, I and tribe leader Ge Guang combined our strength and were able to arrest over one hundred and eighty Gu Masters who are locked up in the prison now. But there were still many crafty and treacherous scoundrels who took advantage of when we were not on guard to sneak in and make some free gains. I have interrogated the prisoners and have much intel on them already. As long as father commands, I will definitely spare no efforts to lock up all these escapees!"
Although Chang Ji You was kneeling on the ground, his upper body was upright as he spoke in an unafraid tone; his aquiline nose, dark brows, broad back and thin waist gave him a heroic aura.
Fang Yuan smiled, he had no interest in capturing these escapees: "The battlefield is vast and is not restricted with doors or obstacles, you have already done great by capturing so many Gu Masters. As for the others, it is their skill that they were able to escape, there is no need to chase after them. You can leave now, and bring those detained captives here."
"Yes, this subordinate (this child) heeds your command!"
Not long later, the two escorted close to two hundred captives to Fang Yuan.
With Fang Yuan's command, a large hall had been created to lock up these Gu Masters.
"You guys go out and close the door, guard the entrance and don't let any outsiders enter within a hundred steps. If some experts arrive, inform me in advance." Fang Yuan dismissed everyone, the hall now only had him and the captives.
The door was locked and as no lanterns had been lit, the hall sank into darkness.
This no doubt increased the unease and anxiety in the captives' hearts.
"Lord Wolf King, what are you intending to do by capturing us? I am a Hei tribesman and talking of relation… Hei Lou Lan is my older cousin!" Among the captives a young Gu Master shouted.
Fang Yuan sneered and with a snap of his fingers, activated a Gu.
Tch. A soft sound was heard and the young Gu Master's head burst out like a watermelon, spurting out white brain matter.
A huge clamor instantly occurred as the captives were terrified and fell into panic.
Soon, someone took the lead and the others also followed suit, kneeling down one after another.
"Lord Wolf King, I deserve death!"
"I shouldn't have gone to steal lord's battle spoils, my conscience was blinded!"
"Lord, please forgive us, lord have mercy…"
Fang Yuan had a terrifying reputation, and now he casually killed without even saying a word.
None of these Gu Masters were experts, most having only rank one or rank two cultivation. Their background was not good and they were unable to enter Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, facing a rank five peak stage expert like Fang Yuan and trying to resist would only be looking for death, so they could only ask for forgiveness.
"Noisy". Fang Yuan shouted in a soft voice, but his voice echoing in the hall.
He casually waved his hand, killing the person that was begging in the most mournful voice, even though they were quite far apart.
"I will kill anyone who dares to make more noise." Fang Yuan indifferently said, his voice was not loud but it lingered in the captives' ears.
The whole hall instantly fell into deathly silence out of fear; even the sound of a pin dropping could be heard.
Fang Yuan only then felt satisfied and asked Mo Yao's will in his mind: "Now how should I experiment?"
Mo Yao chuckled: "This is easy, little brother just needs to arrange Gu worms according to my instructions."
She directly addressed Fang Yuan as 'little brother, giving a feeling of intimacy. Fang Yuan snorted inwardly, but did not retort and followed Mo Yao's instructions.
Every time Mo Yao notified, Fang Yuan would respond by sending out a Gu worm.
These Gu worms were the Gu worms to form six arm heavenly zombie king killer move; earth chief zombie Gu, asura zombie Gu, heavenly demon zombie Gu and so on. Some were thrown towards the roof and some were placed in the corners.
As the Gu worms made an arc through the air, trails of colorful light appeared in the captives' eyes.
These people were very anxious, but they did not dare to ask anything. They stood on their spots without even daring to move a little just like little whelps.
The headless corpses of the two captives Fang Yuan had killed were still around them, the odor of blood gradually pervaded the hall as the blood flowed out of the severed necks.
After arranging these Gu worms to their spots, Fang Yuan successively started to pour primeval essence into them according to Mo Yao's instructions.
This process of pouring the primeval essence was quite specific; one moment, he had to choose a Gu worm in the southeast and the very next moment, it would be northwest, and suddenly, it would be the Gu worms to the sides. The main Gu at times, and the supporting Gu worms at times.
Even Fang Yuan felt baffled and had inwardly put up his guard.
When all the Gu worms were activated, the light from them gradually linked together and soon formed a pale yellow light house that covered the hall, including all the captives within.
"This is?!" Fang Yuan's thoughts shook and his pupils widened.
Mo Yao's will softly smiled as she explained: "This is a Gu house."
Fang Yuan involuntarily blurted out: "Is the essence of this six arm heavenly zombie king a Gu house?"
Mo Yao chuckled: "Foolish kid, could it be that you don't know the true nature of a Gu house is a killer move? … Six arm heavenly zombie king is a killer move, a Gu house is also a killer move, their essence is the same, so they naturally can be mutually switched."
Fang Yuan's eyes flashed brightly as he sensed the unspoken implication of Mo Yao's words, immediately asking: "From your words, couldn't all killer moves turn into Gu houses?"
"Of course." Mo Yao unhesitatingly replied, "Man is the spirit of all living beings while Gu is the essence of the world, carrier of the Great Dao. A Gu worm has one ability. What is a killer move? It is an assembly of different Gu worms stacking their abilities; it can raise the strength of one ability to a very high level or produce multiple abilities which can handle different aspects."
Mo Yao did not explain further, whether Fang Yuan could have some comprehension from this was his own matter.
Fang Yuan stared blankly, inspirations started flashing incessantly in his mind!
Mo Yao's words seemed to pierce through a paper window, allowing his insight to rise to a whole new height.
"Right! A Gu house's essence is a killer move which has solidified. For example, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building can be compared with Water Pavilion. The former covers the Imperial Court, influences northern plains, plunders resources and holds inheritances. The latter can be concealed, and has the ability of defense and storage. These functions were not provided by just a single Gu worm, but were the result of Gu Masters assembling these Gu worms."
"From another perspective, a Gu house is just one form of manifestation of a killer move. Since six arm heavenly zombie king can only take effect on me, one person, why can it not form into a Gu house and simultaneously take effect on many people?"
At this thought, Fang Yuan looked ahead.
In the Gu house, those Gu Master captives' bodies were already beginning to show changes.
"Wha… what is happening to me?!" Everyone was shouting in fright as they saw golden scales growing out rapidly on their skin.
"Ahhh, it is painful, it is painful!""It itches, it is too itchy, I can't endure this, just kill me!" Soon, they fell down to the ground one after another; some madly grabbed their skin and tore off their clothes, while others bent their body like shrimps, covering their chest tightly as blood flowed out of their mouth and nose.
"This, what is this thing? Why is there a monstrous arm growing out of my back!" Not long later, the alarmed screams reached the peak, the soundwaves even shaking the roof.
All sorts of arms started growing one after another; some were dark green, some dark purple, some yellow, and their thicknesses were also different, the deformities looking very unsightly.
But Fang Yuan had never bothered with these minor details to external appearance, his eyes slightly squinted when he felt the dangerous aura the Gu Masters started releasing; he felt very happy as well as apprehensive —
"Mo Yao's understanding of killer moves is extremely profound. But why do others have no such comprehension? Is it because most Gu Masters and even Gu Immortals don't have the skill to casually transform killer moves into Gu houses? Refinement path grandmaster… this is truly a terrifying realm!"
Chapter 574: Mo Yao's weakness
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
In the deeply secluded hall, only Fang Yuan was standing.
There was a deathly silence.
The faint yellow light merged into one, forming the shape of a Gu house, inside the house of light was a floor of corpses.
Almost two hundred Gu Masters died a terrible death.
Among these corpses, some had scales on their bodies, some were hard as steel, some grew weird limbs and had a grimacing expression, some self-detonated and caused their broken limbs to fly all over the place.
Fang Yuan's expression was grim, he questioned Mo Yao in his mind: "This is the killer move that you thought of?"
Mo Yao replied with unphased confidence: "These Gu Masters were certainly going to die. Six arm heavenly zombie king is a strength path killer move, it has high requirements towards the body. Now it seems, even with your strength path foundation, it is unable to endure such an intense move."
Fang Yuan scoffed, expressing his unhappiness: "This is your explanation? You think I could not tell? This killer move has so many flaws, initially fifty to sixty people died, midway about a hundred had died, and towards the end we were only left with six to seven Gu Masters. There are at least seventeen flaws! Do not forget that we have an agreement."
"Hehehe." Mo Yao chuckled, she felt nothing from being threatened, as she replied: "Little brother, don't be so rash, six arm heavenly zombie king has only been created roughly, it is normal to have flaws. As we continue to improve on it, it will eventually meet our expectations."
She replied to Fang Yuan as she thought: "This lad is not simple, he could detect seventeen flaws… with his refinement master attainment, he should only be able to find eleven at most, it seems that his strength path attainment has also reached the edge of master level."
Mo Yao did not know that Fang Yuan was playing mind games here.
"I could only see seven flaws, I purposely added ten in order to probe her, it seems that this killer move's flaws are more than just seventeen." Fang Yuan assessed in his mind.
Mo Yao was testing out his level of attainment, but Fang Yuan was also probing her foundation as well.
Six arm heavenly zombie king was full of flaws, all of the Gu Masters used for the experiment were dead, but Fang Yuan was happy instead of being worried.
"Logically speaking, Mo Yao has refinement grandmaster attainment, even if it is a roughly made killer move, there cannot be so many flaws! But while Mo Yao is indeed a refinement grandmaster, this is only a part of her will that she left behind…"
Fang Yuan's compromise was real, but he had never given up on his goal to get rid of Mo Yao's will.
Through his current probing, he found out one weakness of Mo Yao's will.
"Although I am not familiar with wisdom path, I had spent a great fortune and bought much costly information from treasure yellow heaven, they are valuable knowledge."
"Wisdom path seeks the path of knowledge, it is split into 'thought, 'will', and 'emotion'. Thought is the foundation, when a person thinks, thoughts are created. When many thoughts are gathered, will is formed. With many wills intertwined, emotions would form. Thoughts are like weeds, they can be easily created or destroyed, will can be everchanging, firm as steel, empty like vacuum, or fierce like fire… As for emotions, they are like water, a small stream when thin, but cannot be cut easily or steered by reason. When deep, they will be like the sea, having great control and power over oneself."
"Out of these three, emotion is the hardest to get rid of, while thoughts are most easily destroyed and created. I should be glad that what is inside my mind now is Mo Yao's will and not Mo Yao's emotions."
"When a person thinks, thoughts are created. When thoughts collide, they either get destroyed or fuse. The eventual thought would be the result obtained from thinking. Then what about a portion of a person's will? Hehehe."
Fang Yuan thought of the brilliant part and he snickered in his heart continuously.
Wills do not form by just gathering randomly scattered thoughts together. But will is truly the linking together of countless thoughts.
When a will thinks about a question, it will use its own thoughts to fuse and create new thoughts, getting the results of their thinking.
"Mo Yao is a refinement grandmaster, her will also inherited her grandmaster attainment, but the flaws created in thinking about six arm heavenly zombie king were not due to her limited abilities, but because she did not dare to think too deeply as she had to worry about her own safety."
By now, Fang Yuan had discovered Mo Yao's weakness!
A living person would feel weakness in their body if they thought about things non-stop, not to mention a simple will?
The more a will thinks, the more damaged they would get, and the weaker they would be.
If Mo Yao was alive, the expenditure that her will incurs would be replenished by her main body. But now — Mo Yao was already dead!
Why did her will sleep inside Water Pavilion, only awakening when Fang Yuan entered?
That was because her will could not stay awake all the time, one thinks extensively when they are awake, the more she thought the weaker her will would be, and the faster it would perish.
Look at Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, this majestic rank eight Immortal Gu house, containing Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's will.
Even for someone as strong as Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, the will that he left behind was also slumbering!
Be it Giant Sun's will or Mo Yao's will, they were without a power source, they could not be replenished and could only weaken as time passed.
"While my wisdom path attainment is low, I have the greatest advantage in that I am alive! At this point, I cannot contest with Mo Yao's will, but as long as I have enough time to stall it out, I will definitely win."
After pondering to this point, Fang Yuan stopped this train of thought.
After all, Mo Yao's will was inside his mind. Reflecting for overly long would create more thoughts, although he could use space thought Gu to hide them, there was no guarantee that Mo Yao would not find a way around it.
"Sigh…"
In the grand hall, Fang Yuan's sigh could be heard.
Mo Yao was a huge burden, Fang Yuan had to be wary all the time when he thinks.
Originally, getting into Imperial Court blessed land and taking Immortal Gu Landscape As Before was already taxing on him, having to make so many considerations. Coupled with such a huge enemy now lurking inside his brain, Fang Yuan had to be very careful of the danger while attempting to solve it, every time he thought about a problem, he would have to mix in some random thoughts to conceal his intentions.
This kind of thinking would be easily achieved in the past if his heart was calm. But now, Fang Yuan felt that it was very taxing, he felt a strong mental fatigue.
Mo Yao's will heard this sigh and misunderstood Fang Yuan, consoling: "Hehehe, little brother, you are so young, but already so hardworking, why are you sighing? I have revised the killer move, you need to change six Gu worms and add in three more."
"Oh?" Fang Yuan's brows rose, he said expressionlessly: "I am listening."
Mo Yao told him the details.
Fang Yuan had Hu Immortal blessed land in his possession, it was not a problem to connect to treasure yellow heaven and exchange for a few mortal Gu.
At the same time, Fang Yuan instructed Ge Guang and Chang Ji You to secretly bring captured Gu Masters into the hall.
Three days later, another round of human experimentation begun.
The experiment's result was better than earlier, but there were still flaws.
Mo Yao summed up the results and gave another revised suggestion.
Fang Yuan acted accordingly, he showed no impatience even after many rounds. He knew clearly: Mo Yao's will had refinement grandmaster attainment, but the more she thought, the weaker she would be, the rounds of experiments were so that they could replace the strain on her thoughts by using test subjects.
But even so, Mo Yao's will had to think of the revision herself. When she thinks about this, thoughts would generate!
The more she does this, the weaker her will would be.
Fang Yuan did not intend to alarm her, he was prepared for a drawn out battle.
After half a month, during the fifteenth experiment.
In the hall, corpses were scattered everywhere.
Fang Yuan kept the dozens of Gu worms used for six arm heavenly zombie king, looking around and giving a satisfied nod.
The test subjects had low cultivation level, they could not endure such a strong killer move like six arm heavenly zombie king, they were sure to die.
But how they died, and what happened to them after they died was the important thing.
Right now, among these corpses, some has turned into zombies, some had yellow scales, some had six arms on their backs, some had sharp spiky scales, some had thick arms with bulging muscles, some had pitch-black claws on their hands, created by their sharp nails.
"Six arm heavenly zombie king uses borrow strength Gu as the core, and the six flying zombie Gu as the foundation, with eighteen Gu as the complements. Strictly speaking, this is a transformation path killer move, gathering the zombie energy to turn a person into a flying zombie. That way, the Gu Master's body becomes more than ten times as strong, and can hold even greater strength." Fang Yuan spoke slowly, concluding his gains from these previous days.
"But precisely because of this, the zombie energy is extremely dense and the backlash of this killer move is very severe. Even if we had three life force type Gu among the complementing Gu worms, we can only sustain the killer move for seven minutes. That's about it, right?" Fang Yuan asked Mo Yao's will in his mind.
Mo Yao laughed: "Little brother makes much sense, that is true indeed. Using borrow strength Gu to borrow the strength of the natural phenomena in heaven and earth, but even a rank five strength path expert cannot use it casually. Thus, I thought of using a zombie body as the strength of a zombie body surpasses living flesh, it has great regenerative abilities and complements borrow strength Gu really well."
"But Gu Masters are alive, while zombie energy is the power of the dead, the longer you maintain the six arm heavenly zombie king transformation, the more zombie energy would be in your body, and when it devours your lifeforce, you will turn into a zombie completely, unable to change back. That is the backlash of this killer move."
"Sigh, life force and death energy, they are entirely distinct from each other and like archenemies. The fusion of life and death is also an age old question, it is out of my capabilities. It was my limit to place three life force boosting Gu worms in the killer move. If we put more of these Gu, it will disrupt the zombie energy and the killer move's power will fall, or even completely collapse. If we use too few of them, the time you can use this transformation will shrink, and it will turn into an impractical move."
Fang Yuan heard this and nodded on the surface, expressing his agreement, but he was chuckling in his heart.
These words from Mo Yao were a suspicious change in topic.
The fusion of life and death was indeed an age old question, there had never been a case of a person being simultaneously dead and alive, the two could not co-exist.
But Mo Yao was a refinement grandmaster, could she not think of any other killer moves?
Why must she use six arm heavenly zombie king? That was because this could greatly reduce the thinking she had to do, since Fang Yuan provided the base of the killer move 'four arm wind king', she just had to improve on it.
Fang Yuan was almost certain, with her grandmaster attainment, Mo Yao could easily start all over again and think of a brand new killer move.
"Mo Yao is a variant human, she is an inkman. As someone of a different race, she definitely has a different standpoint. These days, we used up to a thousand Gu Masters to experiment, she is a righteous path person, the fairy of Spirit Affinity House, but she watched coldly by the side. Her lover is the great Sword Immortal Bo Qing, it seems that within her affection, there was also the element of being attracted to the strong?"
Bo Qing was the 'pseudo-Immortal Venerable who split the five regions with his sword', compared to him, Fang Yuan was only a mortal, in Mo Yao's heart, was he about the same as those test subjects who died?
"Thus, in this world, one has to depend on themselves. Only you yourself are the most reliable person." Fang Yuan sneered in his heart, but he did not point it out, he asked Mo Yao instead: "So, has the killer move six arm heavenly zombie king been completed?"
Mo Yao shook her head: "Not yet, we only experimented on low rank Gu Masters, we still need high rank Gu Masters, preferably rank five, if they are a strength path rank five, that would be the best."
"Rank five strength path?" Fang Yuan frowned, other than himself, there was nobody he knew who met the criteria.
Fang Yuan shook his head, he decided to put this matter aside: "No rush, I have already obtained the materials for ink transformation. It is time to explore Eighty-Eight True Yang Building again!"
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Chapter 575: Entering True Yang Building again
Fang Yuan entered the central control room once again.
As the name implied, the central control room was the important control center of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
The secret room was round and its walls were flickering with starlight, with a white jade round table at the center. There was an exquisite model of the whole Imperial Court blessed land on the round table, just like a military sand table.
Not only did it depict mountains and rivers and the sacred palace at the center, even the small towers in the blessed land were clearly visible.
"I have returned once again." In Fang Yuan's mind, Mo Yao's will sighed with deep emotions.
Fang Yuan ignored her and looked towards the white jade round table.
He had first used the guest token to enter Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, then passed with high grade evaluation which allowed him to enter the treasure room. He then refined the guest halt stele and found the glass owner token, using it, he then entered the central control room.
But because of Di Qiu inheritance, he chose to momentarily halt his plans for Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, eventually refining calamity beckoning Gu.
All in all, Di Qiu inheritance provided both benefits and harm to Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan was able to obtain an Immortal Gu, but its ability was quite unique in that it harmed oneself to benefit others.
And then there was Mo Yao's will which had sneaked into his mind; Fang Yuan could not get rid of it and as such the internal pressure on him was huge. But undeniably, the pointers given by Mo Yao's will reaped him much gains, not mentioning the insights regarding refinement path, just the six arm heavenly zombie king and ink transformation killer moves along with the improved earth chief zombie Gu recipe were extremely valuable!
Besides these, there was also an enormous benefit; Mo Yao's will would be of huge help to Fang Yuan's plans in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
After all, Mo Yao was a refinement path grandmaster who had researched Eighty-Eight True Yang Building in-depth. She was a legendary character who, back then, had infiltrated into Imperial Court blessed land and created a loophole where she set up Di Qiu inheritance!
Fang Yuan had his previous life's memories along with the video of the central continent Gu Immortals attacking Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, he also had first hand information from Lang Ya land spirit and now, a great assistant was with him in the form of Mo Yao's will.
As such, he was fully confident in this trip.
But shortly after, his gaze paused as he let out a surprised gasp.
He clearly remembered that the sand table on the round table had been covered with a layer of sticky black liquid and the black liquid had formed into a whirlpool which then slowly entered towards a hole in the sand table.
This hole was none other than the location of Di Qiu inheritance.
But now, there was no trace of the black liquid on the sand table and the location of the Di Qiu inheritance was also completely restored in the sand table, with no trace of any hole.
This sight was like a heavy punch to Fang Yuan's confidence.
His mind was jolted and as he was about to make guesses, Mo Yao's will chuckled, already knowing his intent: "If there are gains, there will be losses as well. Little brother, you have already taken Di Qiu inheritance, and with Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's might, it was bound to have fixed that flaw; the cave in Di Qiu inheritance exists no longer and a small tower should have been reinstated there."
"Without the loophole, how can I refine the glass owner token into one-edge owner token?" Fang Yuan asked for advice.
"If there is no loophole, then just create a new one." Mo Yao proudly smiled, "Why did I impart you the refinement path killer move ink transformation? You should have already guessed it, the black liquid covering the sand table you saw back then was caused by ink transformation killer move."
"If there is no loophole, make a new one?" Mo Yao's words revealed the bearings of a refinement path grandmaster, causing Fang Yuan to raise his brows.
Although it sounded easy from her words, how should he create the loophole?
At least, Fang Yuan who was a refinement path master did not have such ability.
Mo Yao continued: "The loophole cannot be casually created. Carelessly doing it will only awaken the slumbering Giant Sun's will. If his will awakens, then we will face a tragic end. Fortunately, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building has gone through many changes, it is already no longer as perfect as before, time has created all kinds of blemishes in it; back then, I chose the Di Qiu location because the blemish in it was the largest."
"So it was like that." Fang Yuan nodded, inwardly happy.
Mo Yao's will was like a water without a source, if they wanted to look for the blemishes and the loopholes, it would require large amounts of thinking, and this would cause her will to be greatly exhausted.
But Mo Yao did not satisfy Fang Yuan's intention and instead said: "Little brother, use your mind to explore the sand table according to my instructions, I will tell you the secrets of the workings of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and help you find the blemishes."
"Okay." Fang Yuan's gaze flashed.
This action of Mo Yao was not out of his expectation.
She cherished her existence, but it was okay that she was not thinking. Fang Yuan could use this chance to learn from her and increase his understanding of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
The marvels of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building were extraordinary; as Fang Yuan entered the sand table with his mind, he felt like he was a small boat on an ocean, only sensing its limitless and unfathomable vastness. Every corner and side of it was a lesson to be learned and pondered upon.
He instantly felt that he was a minute existence and gasped in amazement.
According to Mo Yao's directions, Fang Yuan found a total of fifty-four blemishes, and thirteen blemishes among them were relatively larger, forming into flaws that were comparable to the Di Qiu location before.
This result made Mo Yao sigh: "So many years have gone by and even Eighty-Eight True Yang Building cannot escape the damage from the river of time. Thinking of back then, I could only find thirty-eight blemishes with only six that had formed into flaws."
Pausing for a moment, she then continued to give directions to Fang Yuan: "Little brother, now you can use the killer move ink transformation to refine these several flaws."
Fang Yuan followed her words and with frequent shifting of his mind, over eight hundred Gu flew out of his aperture.
There were Gu worms from rank one to rank five of metal, wood, water, earth, rule, soul, blood and other paths, among these dark path was of primary importance.
Although they were all mortal Gu, but for ten or so Gu worms among them, some were already extinct during Medieval Antiquity Era and some even went as far back as Remote Antiquity Era. Thus, they were extremely rare and were completely extinct from the five regions, with only some Gu Immortals having them in their collections.
Fang Yuan had to spend a considerable amount for these Gu worms, spending at least one and a half immortal essence stones.
Immortal essence stones were extremely valuable and could directly replenish a Gu Immortal's immortal essence and help them cultivate. At the same time, they were also a currency used by Gu Immortals.
Even during Fang Yuan's peak period in his previous life, he had only been able to collect just over sixty immortal essence stones.
In this life, he gained profits from risk, and since obtaining Hu Immortal blessed land, his highest amount of savings was twelve immortal essence stones.
Now, he only had two immortal essence stones left.
There was nothing he could do about it, too many fields required the use of immortal essence stones.
Purchasing wolf groups, gathering the intel on wisdom path, purchasing Gu worms and so on, all required immortal essence stones.
Close to a thousand Gu worms fluttered about in the air, like a light drizzle.
Fang Yuan put all his concentration in commanding and arranging these Gu worms and when the time was ripe, he shouted softly: "Ink transformation!"
The Gu worms turned into a dark cloud and rain started falling down from the cloud and made pitter-patter sounds as they hit the sand table, turning into drops of inky liquid.
The ink drops started to add up slowly and covered the whole sand table.
Fang Yuan's concentration was gathered towards a specific flaw, urging the inky liquid to flow towards the flaw.
The primeval essence of a rank five peak stage aperture rapidly decreased, and the inky liquid was also exhausted by over half before it was able to break through a layer of indistinct obstruction and formed into a whirlpool, slowly pouring into the hole in the sand table.
At this scene, Mo Yao spoke: "Throw in your glass owner token."
Fang Yuan did as told and threw in the glass owner token.
The glass owner token sank into the inky whirlpool with no trace to be seen, the inky liquid also started being consumed even more rapidly. After about an hour, the dark cloud was the first to dissipate. After four hours, the inky liquid disappeared completely, and a completely new owner token slowly flew out of the hole.
Fang Yuan grabbed this owner token that had already changed its appearance. On the edge of the previous surface, a sharp protrusion appeared like a horn.
"One-edge owner token, sure enough fits its name." Fang Yuan mumbled.
"In Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, after a descendant of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable passes a floor, the owner token will advance into one-edge owner token and be able to grasp control of a floor. At the same time, the descendant can enter the treasure room and take a treasure within, without the need to exchange. If the descendant can pass through ten floors, the owner token will become a ten-edges owner token which allows the descendant to retrieve a Giant Sun inheritance from the treasure room." Mo Yao introduced.
"Giant Sun inheritance?" Fang Yuan's heart thumped in excitement.
Mo Yao continued: "Right, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable made arrangements for his descendants, arranged the rules of the Imperial Court contest, set up Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and left behind eighty-eight inheritances in it. An Immortal Venerable's inheritance is naturally not a small thing. But in history, the Imperial Court winners who were able to pass ten floors were extremely few. When I was alive, there were still fifty-three inheritances left out of eighty eight, I am not sure how many remain now."
"Hehehe, speaking of this, even I am envious of your luck. There are altogether thirteen flaws we found. Every flaw after the ink transformation can advance the owner token by one edge. If you can use them all, you will obtain a thirteen-edges owner token and can totally take a Giant Sun inheritance! Sigh, it is not like back then, when there only were six flaws."
When Fang Yuan heard this, his fiery heart felt like it was doused with a basin of cold water, he bitterly laughly: "Using all the flaws? I won't conceal it from you, I only have two immortal essence stones now, I can only support one more ink transformation killer move."
"Oh, it was like that?" Mo Yao's gaze flashed.
While Fang Yuan was probing her, she was also probing Fang Yuan.
Immortal essence stones were one of the important standards of evaluating Gu Immortals. Fang Yuan might still be a mortal but with Hu Immortal blessed land, he was already treated as half an immortal in Mo Yao's heart.
"So this kid only has two Immortal essence stones? Are his words true or a lie?…It should be the truth. The temptations of Giant Sun's inheritance is not something normal people can resist. He is a refinement path master, he naturally knows the more flaws he refines and the higher grade his owner token is, the more convenient it will be for his plans towards Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. The most crucial point is I am hiding in his mind, it will be impossible for him to hide from me and secretly refine them."
"Now, he would ask for help from the forces behind him. Hmph, this brat conceals too deeply, he will have to reveal his background at that time, and I will be able to know a thing or two."
While thinking this, Mo Yao had a pleasant and benign expression as she gave an idea to Fang Yuan: "There is no need to hurry. Owner tokens can mutually annex each other. As long as you annex the current alliance leader Hei Lou Lan's owner token, who is to say you might not be able to gather ten edges?"
She indeed lived up to the name Mo Yao, knowing so many behind-the-scenes details.
Fang Yuan's gaze turned sharp and he intentionally said in a higher voice: "You want to make me go against Hei Lou Lan? Are you thinking of pushing me to my death? Although Hei Lou Lan is easy to deal with, the Hei tribe behind him is a super level force with many Gu Immortals looking after him!"
"Hey, you are an audacious lad, you can disguise your identity to infiltrate Imperial Court and yet you are afraid of mere Hei Lou Lan? Moreover, I did not say you have to kill him, you only need to take the owner token from his hands, that's all."
Fang Yuan's gaze changed: "Hei Lou Lan cannot be killed, killing him is like poking a hornet's nest, Hei tribe is not something I currently can provoke. But that owner token, he definitely treasures it as dearly as his life. Tell me, what should I do?"
'Can't provoke currently, isn't he saying it might be a different case in the future? This kid's ambition is truly big…' Mo Yao acutely sensed the key word in Fang Yuan's speech.
As for the problem Fang Yuan mentioned, she did not want to think too much, so she spread out her hands in Fang Yuan's mind: "How you take the owner token from him is your problem."
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Chapter 576: Killer Move Reward
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
"Kill!"
"Damn it, another myriad beast king!"
In the huge desert, the heat in the air was distorting one's vision, as sandworms crawled out from underneath the golden sand terrain.
The Gu Masters were occupying the small area of a sand dune, desperately defending themselves.
This was Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's seventh floor, the eighty-ninth round.
Every round was a new area entirely, filled with all sorts of tests.
A sandworm myriad beast king entered the battle, causing ripples to form in the Gu Masters' defenses.
"Hold on, just forty-five minutes more and we will get through this round!" Sole Blade General Pan Ping shouted as he tried to boost morale.
He was a demonic Gu Master who had joined Hei tribe to become their external elder.
He had great battle strength, but this round was focused on defense.
It required the challengers to stay on the specified dune for twelve hours, facing the attacks of the sandworms in waves. Unlike Gu Immortals, mortals had limited strength alone, thus it was the best if more people challenged the round.
But Pan Ping's words had little effect.
By now, there were great losses to the Gu Masters, they were all tired and reaching their limits.
"The f*ck, another myriad beast king, how are we going to survive?" Big Beard wiped the blood and sweat off his face as he shouted.
Nobody knew his real name, because his beard was really thick, he was simply called 'Big Beard'.
In the earlier rounds, he had gotten through the sixth floor's eighteenth round, thus becoming a little famous from his previously unknown background.
He was originally a rank two Gu Master, as common as a pebble in the sacred palace, a true fodder, but because of the reward for clearing the round, he rose to rank three realm.
It was different when a Gu Master becomes rank three.
Rank two were common, rank three were rare, they were mostly elders.
When Big Beard became rank three, his situation improved, and his high quality primeval essence caused his battle strength to surge, allowing him to obtain more battle rewards. Not only this, many middle-sized tribes gave him an offer to join — small tribes could not afford to have an external elder while large tribes had no use for him.
"This is the eighty-ninth round, if we get through this, the reward will be shocking! People like us will not obtain it, but the reward for the mission would allow me to obtain two rank three Gu."
Big Beard thought about this and his heart was burning with desire, as he battled, he looked at the higher-ups on the peak of the dune.
It was them who sent out this mission, gathering a thousand Gu Masters to get through this difficult round.
The sandworm myriad beast king rushed into the defensive line, engaging in fierce combat. Golden light, rain of arrows, flames, all sorts of attacks were unleashed on the myriad beast king, but the beast king's body shone with a yellow luster, as its defense rose and blocked these attacks easily.
It growled continuously, as it whipped up a storm while barging into the people's territory.
Chang Biao stood on the mound, frowning.
"The situation is a little out of hand." He spoke: "This myriad beast king has a rank five golden armor Gu, if we allow it to continue rampaging, our defenses would crumble."
By now, this was the ninth myriad beast king.
According to the Gu worms on the myriad beast kings, their battle strengths differed. This myriad beast king was comparatively problematic because of the good quality defensive Gu in it, but it did not have a strong area of effect attack.
In such a situation, usually Gu Master experts would choose to strike it themselves as that is the only way to hurt it.
After all, soldiers fight soldiers and generals fight generals.
Chang Biao had this intention as well.
Ma Ying Jie who was standing beside him stood up and spoke: "Then I shall do it."
No one objected.
During the appearance of the myriad beast king, everyone took turns to strike, this was what they agreed on, and according to the order, it was Ma Ying Jie's turn.
He was the worthily famous Ma Ying Jie indeed, when he personally struck, he led the pegasus group and easily blocked the sandworm myriad beast king, stabilizing the situation.
"Young Ma Zun is really impressive." On the sand dune, everyone praised.
"Brother Chang, what do you think of Ma Ying Jie?" Pan Ping secretly asked by transmitting his voice.
Ma Ying Jie was once Ma tribe's young tribe leader, his teacher was Ma Zun and after Ma tribe failed, Hei Lou Lan forced them to submit causing the current Ma tribe to be weak, only being a mid-sized tribe.
Chang Biao knew what Pan Ping was saying, he wanted to recruit Ma Ying Jie into becoming a member of the Wolf Killing Alliance.
The Wolf Killing Alliance was a secret organisation to deal with Fang Yuan.
After Pan Ping's inheritance was snatched by Fang Yuan on Xing Jiu peak, he felt extreme hatred on the inside and wanted to take revenge.
Chang Biao had the grudge of Chang Shan Yin taking his wife, it was absolutely irreconcilable.
Fang Yuan had incredible power, he could contest with Hei Lou Lan. Even though Pan Ping and Chang Biao had great gains in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and obtained much rewards, both being rank four peak stage now, they had a low chance of success in dealing with Fang Yuan, thus they needed more help.
Seeing Chang Biao keeping silent, Pan Ping continued: "Ma tribe lost terribly because of Chang Shan Yin! Ma Ying Jie's teacher Ma Zun was killed by him as well, he and Chang Shan Yin have a huge grudge too."
But Chang Biao shook his head, transmitting: "No, Ma Ying Jie is a very determined person, but he is also a great leader. In my opinion, he has placed all his efforts on his tribe now, trying to revitalize the dying Ma tribe, he would not oppose the Wolf King if his intention is this. In fact, he might try to mend their relationship. Wolf King has a huge force, our biggest advantage is that we are a secret organisation, we cannot recruit people recklessly, if not, we will expose ourselves."
Pan Ping was not willing to give up, he continued urging: "Brother Chang, how can we as high achievers worry so much?! Chang Shan Yin is a scoundrel, he has his myriad wolves to defend him, in the future when we fight, our strength might be drained by the wolf group. Don't forget about this person's high attainment in strength path! Ma Ying Jie controls a horse group, he is called Little Ma Zun now, he has the talent to become an enslavement master, we need such experts to deal with the wolf group."
Chang Biao gave Pan Ping a look, feeling unhappy.
Pan Ping was a demonic Gu Master, he was called Sole Blade General, he acted without restraints and was daring and cruel. This was foolishness and rashness in Chang Biao's opinion, he could not achieve anything in life.
Actually, Pan Ping was unhappy too, he felt that Chang Biao was too restricted, he worried too much and was not a true hero.
This was the difference in their personality.
Chang Biao was good at enduring, back then when plotting against Chang Shan Yin, he used another person to achieve his aims. He also loved his reputation, after so many years, he did not dare to acknowledge his son Chang Ji You.
As for Pan Ping, from the Imperial Court contest when he challenged the armies and rushed forward in battle, one could see his personality.
But despite their differences, be it Pan Ping or Chang Biao, they could tolerate each other because they understood clearly that Wolf King was not someone they could deal with alone.
"Pan Ping is from the demonic path, how can he understand the thoughts of us righteous path characters! He wants to take in Ma Ying Jie? Hmph, wishful thinking! The moment we tell him about the Wolf Killing Alliance, we might get betrayed by him the next second, in order to appeal to the Wolf King. Sigh, how can I convince him?" Chang Biao sighed in his heart.
But he was very witty, he immediately had a plan.
He transmitted: "Brother Pan, Chang Shan Yin killed Ma Zun, but don't forget, who was the one who killed Ma Ying Jie's father?"
"Urgh…" Pan Ping was stunned, he went into a daze.
Ma Shang Feng was killed by Pan Ping during the chaotic battle in the end, because of that, he made a great merit and was given many rewards.
The battle merit back then became his biggest obstacle in taking revenge now, this was something Pan Ping did not expect.
But Pan Ping was an obstinate man, he said: "It is true that I killed his father, but that was due to the fight between two armies, we were fighting for our respective masters. Since Brother Chang thinks that Ma Ying Jie cares most about his tribe, I will believe this judgement. In that case, if we use this as the premise and assume that Wolf King is the biggest obstacle to Ma Ying Jie when he wants to restore his tribe, wouldn't that be the best?"
Once he said that, Chang Biao was stunned this time.
He gave Pan Ping a look, thinking: "Wise people might have a moment of folly, while foolish people might have a moment of brilliance, to think that this Pan Ping would have a smart rebuttal for once."
Immediately, his mind worked quickly as he assessed: "Indeed, there is a possibility of that. Ma Ying Jie's weakness is Ma tribe! But how can we plan this so that Ma Ying Jie would willingly join the Wolf Killing Alliance?"
Chang Biao thought of this and had an idea, remembering a small detail that he had heard of earlier.
His gaze turned to the left defensive line.
There was a young rank two Gu Master there.
"He is Ma Hong Yun, he was originally Ma Ying Jie's servant earlier, but now he is one of Ma Ying Jie's most trusted aides. Not long ago, Wolf King hunted the earth chief beast group and Ma Hong Yun managed to escape with his life, he obtained not a small amount of battle gains and contributed it to Ma tribe, causing Ma Ying Jie to reward him with three green copper relic Gu, for his loyalty. He even returned all the Gu worms that were contributed, allowing Ma Hong Yun to keep them.
"This lad's luck is not bad! He managed to leave before Chang tribe and Ge tribe Gu Masters entered the battlefield, the green copper relic Gu is of considerable value too, after Ma tribe became weak, their morale was low and Ma Ying Jie used the green copper relic Gu that he could not use to demonstrate how his men could be rewarded by the act of a good role model."
"Ma Hong Yun obtained the green copper relic Gu that he needed most, getting to rank two realm in one night, that speed is something not even I could compete with."
Chang Biao thought of this and sighed at the mysteries of fate.
Compared to Ma Hong Yun, Chang Biao had a much higher starting point, he had huge amounts of resources provided to him, but even so, Chang Biao took about ten times as long to advance to rank two.
After all, green copper relic Gu were natural Gu, they were rare and produced at random places, it was thanks to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building that Ma Ying Jie obtained them as a reward.
"This lad Ma Hong Yun had prospered due to Chang Shan Yin, earlier, Chang Shan Yin had ordered Chang tribe and Ge tribe to capture some of the Gu Masters who tried to take advantage of the situation, what will happen if I release this information?"
Chang Biao pondered.
"No… just Ma Hong Yun, who is a rank two Gu Master, would be an ant in Chang Shan Yin's eyes. He is still too weak, there is no point in reporting him. Furthermore, Ma Ying Jie will not deal with Chang Shan Yin just because of this tiny Ma Hong Yun. We should continuing planning and waiting for this…"
Forty-five minutes later, the sand dune erupted into cheers.
"Victory, victory!"
"It was not easy, we finally got through."
"I wonder what the reward for this round is?"
Many curious gazes landed on Chang Biao, Pan Ping, Ma Ying Jie and others.
After passing this round, Chang Biao and the others' apertures suddenly had many new Gu worms.
Among them was an east window Gu, storing information.
"Six arm heavenly zombie king?" Chang Biao, Pan Ping, and Ma Ying Jie checked this information and looked at each other.
They had differing expressions.
To think that the reward would be a strength path killer move, according to the description, this killer move's power was phenomenal!
Chapter 577: Young Master, save me…
Bam!
A silhouette flew out like lightning, six arms were like heavy cannons crushing a huge helmet crab to death.
At once, fresh blood spewed in this secret room as limbs flew everywhere.
"Hahaha." Pan Ping combed his messy hair, laughing loudly as he ignored the blood and carcasses on the ground.
"Awesome, amazing! This six arm heavenly zombie king killer move is really amazing! Using the zombie body to avoid requiring my insufficient background in strength path, thus even with my mild cultivation in strength path, I can still use it."
Pan Ping's eyes shone brilliantly as he talked to himself, pondering about the killer move.
He was born from the demonic path, he lacked resources and did not have enough creativity, thus he had never owned a killer move. But one did not need to know how to cook in order to eat, after roaming in northern plains for so many years, Pan Ping's vision had expanded and he knew that this killer move 'six arm heavenly zombie king' really had what was in the description — unparalleled strength!
"As long as I have this, my chances of dealing with Wolf King will be higher by ten percent! Wolf King has a strength path killer move, but so do I! Wolf King, don't be arrogant, one day, I will return all the humiliation that you inflicted onto me by tenfold!" Pan Ping gritted his teeth, his eyes shining with hatred.
At the same time, Chang Biao was also testing this killer move.
"As expected of a reward from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, this killer move is too strong!"
The power of the killer move was very shocking to Chang Biao as well.
"If I have to mention a flaw, it would be that the appearance is too ugly and evil…" Chang Biao looked at the mirror with a dark gaze.
The Chang Biao in the mirror had green-grey skin, fangs were growing out of his mouth and his eyes were yellow. He has green-red messy hair, looking very horrifying. Especially the six monstrous arms on his back, they were of different shapes and sizes, each were ruthless looking and made people feel a chill when they saw them.
Pan Ping originated from the demonic path, he often lacked resources and lived in terrible conditions, with survival as his main goal, he did not care about appearance or image.
But Chang Biao was different.
He was born in Chang tribe, he was like a noble, a reputable figure in the righteous path, he loved his appearance and placed emphasis on his reputation, if he were to show this appearance to people, he would feel very uncomfortable in his heart.
"However, although this form is ugly, I can only resort to this when dealing with Chang Shan Yin!" Thinking of Fang Yuan, Chang Biao made up his mind.
"To speak the truth, this move is quite similar to his strength path killer move. His killer move creates four arms on his back, together with his actual arms, he would have six in total. Meanwhile, my killer move creates six arms, I would have eight in total. This is a difference in appearance, but also shows that my killer move is stronger than his by a level."
Chang Biao was assessing in his heart, his impression of Fang Yuan's killer move was still the one in the Imperial Court contest.
Suddenly, Chang Biao had an inspiration, he had a guess: "This is quite the coincidence, the two killer moves are so alike… maybe, my version is the original, and what Chang Shan Yin got by chance was only a remnant version that was passed on outside."
The more he thought about it, the more he confirmed his guess.
"Chang Shan Yin is already an enslavement master, with his talent in enslavement path, how can he also have such talent in strength path? Hehehe, in the future when I get rid of him, I wonder what expression he will make when he sees my killer move? I am looking forward to it."
Thinking so, Chang Biao's lips curled into a smile.
Right at this moment, a servant came and told him Pan Ping had arrived.
Chang Biao's mind clicked and he knew what Pan Ping's intention was, he instructed: "Bring him to my study room, attend to him with good tea, I will be there shortly."
Because he was testing the killer move, Chang Biao's clothes were tattered.
After changing his clothes, he came to the study and saw that Pan Ping was gulping the tea that was served to him.
"What a waste of my good tea." Chang Biao sneered in his heart, before cupping his fists and calling out: "Brother Pan, you look especially happy today, there has been progress in the testing of the killer move?"
"Hahaha, Brother Chang is right, that is exactly so. This killer move is simply outstanding." Pan Ping laughed loudly before changing the topic: "However, there are some problems with this killer move, I tested it for three times, and every time after I end the transformation, I would feel a great pain in my stomach area. In fact, the pain gets worse the more I use it. Is this the backlash of the killer move?"
"Oh?" Chang Biao heard this and his gaze concentrated: "My symptoms are different from you, you have a stomach ache while I feel dizziness, even temporary deafness and blindness. I was going to find you to discuss this problem."
The two talked about the issue, but they did not gain any insights.
They were neither expert strength path cultivators nor refinement masters, their so-called discussion was only based on their own experiments, they could not get to the root of the issue.
Pan Ping suggested: "There are three other people who cleared the round along with us. Why don't we invite them over as well to discuss this matter. Relationships are built by interaction, once our relationship improves, we can invite them to join the Wolf Killing Alliance!"
Pan Ping was adamant on recruiting more members into their alliance, Chang Biao laughed as he said vaguely: "I have plans for this already, it will take effect in the next few days."
…
Imperial Court blessed land. A thousand li away from the sacred palace.
In the lush and green forest, a group of Gu Masters were carefully moving ahead.
Crack.
With a light, crisp sound, Ma Hong Yun accidentally stepped on a twig.
Everyone's movements stopped, they sent their angry and frightened gazes towards him.
"You idiot! How many times have we told you to notice what you step on, look down!" The group leader suppressed his volume as he chided with his eyes wide open.
"Sorry, sorry, I did not mean to do that!" Ma Hong Yun quickly apologised.
"Shut up, shut up!"
"Shush, quiet, you idiot!"
The Gu Masters nearby were anxious, the people near Ma Hong Yun even covered his mouth quickly in fear.
The leader's expression was solemn, he was anxious and some killing intent leaked: "All of you shut up. If you alert the iron beak bird group, we will be finished. We are only here to steal the eggs this time, we are retreating once we do that, I will personally kill whoever ruins this!"
The leader was the only rank three Gu Master here, he had the greatest strength and naturally, authority.
Hearing his words, everyone nodded quickly, including Ma Hong Yun.
The leader looked around, his gaze paused at Ma Hong Yun for a second as he gave him a fierce stare, deciding in his heart: "Once we go back, I am kicking this idiot from the group. So what if he has rank two strength? I must be blind, looking at how complementary his Gu worms were, I agreed to let him into the group. If a Gu Master is stupid to this degree, so what if he has good Gu worms?"
Swoosh!
Right at this moment, there was a sound that resembled waves in the forest.
Largest numbers of iron beak birds flapped their wings as they soared into the sky from the tree branches.
The Gu Masters who saw this felt that they had sunk into an icy abyss.
"What's going on?"
"Oh no, the birds were alerted! Quickly run!"
"Ma Hong Yun, it is all your fault, if I survive this, I will definitely settle the score with you!"
Everyone were frightened and anxious, some were furious.
"No, the birds are flying south, it was not us who alerted them, it seems that there were others who accepted Chang tribe's mission!" The leader saw the situation and was overjoyed, screaming uncontrollably.
Everyone heard this and looked over, seeing this was the case, their moods changed.
"Save, save us!" A group of Gu Masters were flying quickly, towards them.
Looking at the densely packed bird group that were attracted over, the Gu Master's eyes were almost popping out.
"Don't, don't come over!" The leader shouted: "I will kill you first if you come closer!"
"Leader, looking at their clothes, they are Chang tribesmen." Ma Hong Yun said hesitantly.
The leader's eyes were wide open as he wanted to bash this guy up, shouting: "You idiot, do you still want your life? Go save them if you want to die!"
Ma Hong Yun thought of the time when they faced the earth chief beast group.
He only wanted to remind Jiang Dong, but he was nearly killed as a result.
"If not for my good luck…" Ma Hong Yun thought of this and shuddered, asking the leader: "What should we do?"
The leader gritted his teeth, seeing that the Chang tribe Gu Masters were not listening, rushing over intentionally, he stomped his foot: "What can we do? Split up and run!"
Everyone split up at once, as Ma Hong Yun was in a daze, quickly choosing a direction and running for his life when he realized what was going on.
"Lord, that is Ma Hong Yun, Ma Ying Jie's confidant." The Chang tribe Gu Masters who were running away might look pathetic, but they were all cool headed and had no fear.
Chang tribe group's leader was Chang Biao's confidant, he looked at Ma Hong Yun's figure as he was shocked: "Is this guy a fool? He is not using his movement Gu?"
Chang tribe was scheming, they naturally got all the details of Ma Hong Yun, they knew that he had a complete set of high quality rank two Gu worms.
"I, I am going to be caught, damn it, why are they so fast? They used a movement Gu, ah! Right, right, I have a movement Gu too!" As he ran, Ma Hong Yun patted his forehead as he quickly used his movement Gu, his speed rising drastically.
"He finally remembered, eh? Why is he still running towards the left?" The leader was shocked.
He did not know that Ma Hong Yun had a terrible sense of direction, back when Fei tribe was in turmoil, his father sacrificed himself to give him time to run, but he ran in a circle and turned back to the same spot.
Because of Ma Hong Yun's actions, the situation became more serious.
The leader quickly instructed: "You, you, you, quickly catch up with Ma Hong Yun and protect him. In addition, ask Lady Chang Li to go ahead and prepare!"
"Yes, lord."
Even though the Chang tribe Gu Masters were elites, Ma Hong Yun's random movement often got himself into dangerous situations, the Gu Masters had to attract the bird group while protecting him, they also had to avoid getting detected by him, it was a difficult position. Their plan which was guaranteed to succeed ended up with them sacrificing several elites!
"Sa… save me…" Chang Li was lying on the ground, she was weak and feeble, looking very vulnerable. Her clothes were torn, revealing her alluring shoulder. Her hair was messy and she looked very pitiful, like a fearful rabbit.
Ma Hong Yun ran over quickly, he was looking ahead as he desperately ran, he did not discover Chang Li at all!
Chang Li was stunned, at the last moment, she reacted and stretched out her leg when Ma Hong Yun was about to pass her.
Plop!
Ma Hong Yun fell face flat, he turned around and was shocked.
"What a beautiful lady…"
He was a dummy normally, but he was also at the age of being attracted to girls.
"Young master, please save me." Chang Li's beautiful voice made Ma Hong Yun's heart flutter.
"Oh, oh." Ma Hong Yun quickly replied, after some fumbling, he carried Chang Li and ran.
Chapter 578: Connection by Marriage
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
A day later.
During an evening banquet.
"A tribesman of your esteemed tribe saved my daughter, I, Chang Biao, am extremely grateful. This first cup is a toast to Ma tribe leader!" Chang Biao raised a wine cup.
Ma Ying Jie quickly lifted his cup and modestly replied: "That was only a chance encounter. I had not expected her to be Lord Chang Biao's beloved daughter, this is Hong Yun's honor."
"Hahaha." Chang Biao laughed heartily and drank the wine.
Ma Ying Jie also followed suit and downed the wine.
Ma Hong Yun who was sitting beside him had become the main character of the whole banquet at this moment and dozens of gazes gathered on him.
Feeling these probing, curious and doubtful gazes, Ma Hong Yun felt a little uncomfortable.
Chang Biao lightly placed down his wine cup and hinted Pan Ping who was beside him, with his eyes.
As they had already discussed properly, Pan Ping understood the signal, and looked at Ma Hong Yun: "Virtuous junior, if I speak so, aren't you like a hero saving the beauty?"
"I.. I…" Ma Hong Yun hesitated, speechless.
In truth, he also did not know how he had saved Chang Li. He had only been concerned about escaping from the endless iron beak birds chasing after him; the situation was so urgent, even if he had saved Chang Li, he did not think much.
Pan Ping stared with his eyes wide open at Ma Hong Yun who looked like he would not start speaking even till the cows came home.
Fortunately, Chang Biao had already calculated Ma Hong Yun's nature in his plan and at this moment, his gaze moved towards a certain person in the banquet.
This person immediately stood up and came to the center, cupping his fist towards Chang Biao: "Elder Chang Biao and all lords, I was one of the people involved in this matter and I was able to fortunately see the whole situation. Lord Ma Hong Yun is generous and modest, not claiming the credit and becoming arrogant, but I cannot endure a heroic deed being buried like this, so I summoned my courage by drinking to narrate the event to all lords."
Hearing these words, everyone knew this person was someone who was good at speaking.
Chang Biao nodded: "You can speak."
This person spoke with confidence, adding plentiful emotions and speaking in a way that echoed and added to their effects; he narrated in such a vivid way that it portrayed Ma Hong Yun as an aloof hero with an unwavering mind, with brains and brawn, not afraid of dangers.
As they listened to the narration, the crowd cheered and praised from time to time.
Their gazes towards Ma Hong Yun also started to change, becoming respectful, warm or appreciative.
Ma Hong Yun's eyes were wide open as he listened to this seemingly heavenly tale. He was feeling incredulous: "Is this person talking about me? When did I become so amazing? Did he mistake me for somebody else?"
There was one other person who did not dare to believe this – Ma Ying Jie.
Ma Ying Jie was Ma tribe leader, an outstanding hero of this generation. He was familiar with Ma Hong Yun's nature and character, how could he be deceived by these flowery words?
He had a faint smile on his face, and also nodded at the appropriate timings, looking at Ma Hong Yun approvingly; his mind, however, was in a state of deep thought: 'If say, Ma Hong Yun saved Chang Li by luck, there is nothing strange about it. But why would elder Chang Biao send a phony to explain things for Ma Hong Yun? What is he planning? In this banquet, although there are tens of distinguished guests, but the true main characters are only two in number, Chang Biao and Pan Ping.'
Ma Ying Jie was inwardly on guard.
Ma tribe had lost in the Imperial Court contest, falling down from their peak. Ma Ying Jie's master and father died in the battlefield, all these difficulties and setbacks caused Ma Ying Jie to quickly mature into an outstanding person.
He was secretly guessing Chang Biao's plan, but on the surface, he did not even bat an eyelid.
The current Ma tribe was declining, while Chang tribe was like the sun in the noon sky because of Fang Yuan! Pan Ping left demonic path and turned to Hei tribe, and was now an external elder of Hei tribe.
No matter which, they were both not people the current Ma tribe, the current Ma Ying Jie, could offend.
"Good, good, good." After that person finished narrating Ma Hong Yun's heroic deeds, Chang Biao repeatedly praised him.
"Heroes indeed arise from young people." Chang Biao looked at Ma Hong Yun, not stinting on his praise.
He paused, then continued: "Since ancient times, heroes love beauties and beauties are matched with heroes. I won't conceal it from everyone, ever since my daughter was saved, she has been silent, taciturn and her mind seems to be drifting off. I inquired her of the reason and only then learned her heart was somewhere else, worrying about the young hero who had saved her during the time of danger. I held this banquet to express my gratitude and also because of this."
The hall was in an uproar.
Countless gazes, mixed with admiration, envy, shock or unconvinced feelings, turned towards Ma Hong Yun.
"What bullshit luck does this kid have? He actually received Chang tribe's young miss' favor?"
"Chang Li is beautiful and pleasant, who could have thought she would prefer such a foolish kid. Sigh, if I had known this earlier, I would have also gone to the forest of iron beak birds."
"Chang Li might not be Chang Biao's own daughter, but he had taken her in and cared for her since she was young, she has always received Chang Biao's love and is a beloved daughter of elder Chang Biao. If this kid, Ma Hong Yun, marries Chang Li, his father-in-law would be Chang Biao!"
Instantly, everyone's mood surged.
Ma Ying Jie quickly reacted from his shocked state and rapidly thought with some suspicions: 'Is this the reason for Chang Biao entertaining us with such great fanfare? Although there is the tale of the Night Elopement of Su Xian, but isn't this going too well?"
There were even better things to come.
In front of everyone, Chang Biao took out two red steel relic Gu: "The new constantly replaces the old, Virtuous junior is a young hero of our northern plains, we cannot have him be unrewarded. These two red steel relic Gu are a little expression of my thanks to the benefactor, please accept them."
The commotion in the hall increased even more.
"Huh?" Ma Hong Yun quickly looked at Ma Ying Jie.
Ma Ying Jie nodded and pointed out with a smile: "We cannot dare to reject senior's gifts, Hong Yun, why are you not kowtowing and expressing your thanks?"
Ma Hong Yun immediately walked forward and kowtowed: "Many thanks for Lord Chang Biao's gift."
Chang Biao laughed heartily and also walked forward, personally putting the two red steel relic Gu in Ma Hong Yun's hand.
Under everyone's gazes, he amiably patted Ma Hong Yun's hand and asked: "I wonder how virtuous junior feels about my daughter?"
"Eh?" Ma Hong Yun raised his head with a flushed face, not knowing how to reply for a moment. After a while, he finally squeezed out a few words, "MIss Chang Li is beautiful, very beautiful."
"Hahaha." Chang Biao threw his head back and laughed, "This is good, this is good. Virtuous junior, please return to your seat."
They returned to their seats, and continued to enjoy the banquet.
The banquet continued from evening to late at night; only then the hosts and the guests had enjoyed to their fill and started taking their leave.
As the crowd dispersed, the matter of Chang tribe marrying off its daughter to the lucky kid Ma Hong Yun, also spread everywhere.
On the second day, Chang Biao again invited Ma Ying Jie and Ma Hong Yun to a banquet. The scale of the banquet would be smaller this time and only a few people were invited.
Ma Ying Jie gazed at the invitation card in his hand with a grave look.
After returning back, he had not slept the whole night and was pondering over this matter.
The small invitation card felt exceptionally heavy to him.
He placed the invitation card on the table and called his servant: "Go, call Ma Hong Yun to see me."
The servant immediately accepted the order and when he was arriving at Ma Hong Yun's residence, Zhao Lian Yun was in the process of instructing Ma Hong Yun: "You fool, what kind of bullshit luck do you have? But this matter is so good that it instead makes it feel hollow. I think tribe leader Ma Ying Jie will definitely call you to ask about this. At that time, explain everything clearly in full detail, don't hide even the smallest details!"
"Okay." Ma Hong Yun immediately agreed.
"Also." Zhao Lian Yun's large eyes turned, "Didn't Chang Biao reward you with two red steel relic Gu? When you meet the tribe leader, offer these two Gu to him."
"What?" Ma Hong Yun's eyes opened wide as he shouted, "This is something I risked my life for and obtained with great difficulty! And they were gifted to me by Lord Chang Biao, I will immediately advance to rank two upper stage after I use them. These are such good things."
"You fool!" Zhao Lian Yun kicked Ma Hong Yun's leg in anger.
Ma Hong Yun immediately held his leg in pain: "Why did you kick me?"
Zhao Lian Yun rolled her eyes and unhappily rebuked: "What do you understand? Even if you become rank two upper stage, what use would it be with your skill? What is the basis for us being able to stand up? It is not your rank two cultivation, but the friendship with tribe leader Ma Ying Jie. How did you advance to rank two? It is because tribe leader Ma Ying Jie gifted you with three green copper relic Gu. Offering the red steel relic Gu is an expression of loyalty, do you think the tribe leader will embezzle your red steel relic Gu? Hmph, he can't use it for himself, so he will definitely accept them then return them to you again."
"Eh, since he will accept them, why would he return them to me again?" Ma Hong Yun asked with doubt.
"Idiot!" Zhao Lian Yun again rolled her eyes, "Ma tribe has declined, there are very few tribesmen while there are many things to do. The whole tribe only has one rank three elder, Ma You Liang, and he is handicapped now. Ma Ying Jie has recently taken the tribe leader position and doesn't have any usable subordinates. He wants to revitalize the tribe and will be looking for talents to nurture into trusted aides. Although you were once surnamed Fei, now you are surnamed Ma, and you were once Ma Ying Jie's head servant. Ma Ying Jie knows everything about you and will be at ease in using you compared to other people. You will be showing your loyalty by offering the Gu worms, he will definitely be happy and accept your Gu worms; this is because he recognizes your loyalty."
"But Ma Ying Jie is not a petty and miserly master, accepting your Gu worms will only be as a gesture and he will definitely return them to you. Why? Because he wants to establish an example, from which the tribesmen can study and be encouraged to imitate your loyalty. I am certain, he will not only return your red steel relic Gu, he will even add in more rewards. Although you are insufficient in ability, you have loyalty. This is called buying horse bones with a thousand gold 1 . "
Ma Hong Yun was confused: "What is buying horse bones with a thousand gold ?"
"Sigh, you won't understand it even if I explain. Just do what I say and it will definitely be to your benefit."
"Ah." Ma Hong Yun agreed while scratching his head.
The two had just reached an agreement when Ma Ying Jie's servant came running over to summon Ma Hong Yun.
Ma Hong Yun followed Zhao Lian Yun's words and offered the two red steel relic Gu. But different from Zhao Lian Yun's estimation, Ma Ying Jie accepted them but did not return them back to Ma Hong Yun.
After Ma Hong Yun returned, he started complaining endlessly to Zhao Lian Yun.
"Could it be my estimation was wrong?" Zhao Lian Yun also felt some doubts.
Chapter 579: Deputy Elder
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
In the evening, Ma Ying Jie took Ma Hong Yun to Chang tribe's banquet.
When the banquet ended, Chang Biao urged Ma Ying Jie to stay and have a talk in the study while letting Chang Li entertain Ma Hong Yun.
"I wonder what insights might Ma tribe leader have in six arm heavenly zombie king?" After some discussion, Chang Biao changed the subject to the killer move.
Ma Ying Jie, however, had not tested the killer move, speaking frankly: "I am an enslavement path master and have no affiliation to strength path. I was quite disappointed for the reward in passing the eighty-ninth round to be this killer move. I plan to sell this killer move, thus haven't tested it. What happened?"
Chang Biao was stupefied, glancing at Pan Ping next to him.
The two had not expected this situation, but it was actually reasonable.
Ma Ying Jie was different from them, he had a concrete and comprehensive enslavement path inheritance. His master Ma Zun relied on this inheritance to make a name and be a ruler of a region.
This inheritance contained a killer move as well. And besides it, Ma Ying Jie still had the powerful killer move from Snowy Mountain's Gu Immortal — Dragon Horse Spirit.
He had yet to master these killer moves, why would he go cultivate a killer move of another path?
He had been cultivating enslavement path since his youth, and as long as he cultivated it properly, he could become a ruler of a region and revitalize his tribe. Cultivating side paths would instead divide his energy.
Since ancient times, Gu Masters prioritized one path, and very few cultivated two paths. Dividing energy and continually moving back and forth will only result in achieving nothing on both ends.
Fang Yuan could dually cultivate paths because of the accumulation of his previous life's experiences.
Ma Ying Jie also had to manage the tribe's affairs and had no extra energy to cultivate some strength path killer move.
"I won't conceal it from you, I and brother Pan Ping have been testing this killer move. Its might is astonishing and overwhelming. We might as well speak the truth to Ma tribe leader." As he said this, Chang Biao paused, considering his words while somewhat hesitating.
He looked at Ma Ying Jie with a sincere gaze and shockingly said: "I would like to request Ma tribe leader to keep this killer move a secret and not spread it to others. Spreading it outside means the reward for clearing the round will be received by others."
Chang Biao intentionally spoke evasively, Ma Ying Jie was smart as he suddenly understood everything.
"So it was like this! Chang Biao was once Chang tribe's leader, now he is only a great elder and the tribe leader is his adopted son Chang Ji You, and the true decision maker is Wolf King Chang Shan Yin. Chang Biao obtained this killer move and wants to keep it a secret. This is a normal practice of Gu Masters. But there is a problem, if Chang Shan Yin learns of this and asks him for it, he will definitely have to hand it over."
Ma Ying Jie observed Pan and Chang's expressions and intonations, and knew six arm heavenly zombie king was absolutely an extraordinary killer move.
Humans were selfish, who would be willing to hand such a valuable treasure for no purpose? Ma Ying Jie understood this point.
Seeing Ma Ying Jie's gaze flicker, Chang Biao continued: "I have already talked with the others, Ma tribe leader can rest at ease. We still need Ma tribe leader's strength for the coming round. Hehehe."
Ma Ying Jie's expression turned solemn: "Lord Chang Biao exaggerates, my ability is limited, it is my fortune to be able to cooperate with all the experts, making it a win-win situation. I am okay with this matter being done like Lord Chang Biao says."
Hearing Ma Ying Jie's answer, Chang Biao and Pan Ping both smiled.
"Sigh, what lord, Ma tribe leader can just call me by my name." Pan Ping saw the chance, and immediately tried to pull their relation closer.
Pan and Chang wanted to pull Ma Ying Jie to their faction while Ma Ying Jie also wanted to rely on Chang tribe and Hei tribe's help to grow his tribe. The three went out of their way to curry favor with each other, addressing each other as brothers.
The three discussed in the study till late at night, getting along with each other.
It was near midnight, the three separated after setting Ma Hong Yun and Chang Li's engagement.
"Brother Chang's plan is excellent. With this connection by marriage, Ma Ying Jie will be tied with brother Chang, and when we deal with the Wolf King later on, he would have to help out." After closing the door, Pan Ping laughed heartily.
Chang Biao, however, slightly shook his head: "Ma Ying Jie is not someone easy to fool, he knows when to bow and submit, and at the the time of danger, he will definitely make a quick decision. It is still not the time to recruit him now, but as long as we continue to be on good terms with him and let people know of our close relation, and put in some resources to support that Ma Hong Yun, we will be able to increase our control over Ma tribe. And when we declare war against Chang Shan Yin in the future, as long as Chang Shan Yin recognizes Ma tribe as an enemy, Ma Ying Jie will have no choice but to get on our boat to protect his tribe!"
At night in Imperial Court blessed land, the bright and warm silver light shone on the ground.
In a carriage, Ma Ying Jie and Ma Hong Yun were sitting opposite each other.
"Hong Yun, you truly are a lucky guy, actually getting the interest of miss Chang Li. Hehehe, I have already come to a decision with lord Chang Biao; the first day of the next month will be a day of celebration for you and Chang Li." Ma Ying Jie said with a smile on his face.
"Ah?" Ma Hong Yun had not expected this news at all, and was not able to react for a while.
"I have seen your loyalty, good, this is your reward." Ma Ying Jie patted Ma Hong Yun's shoulder while sighing with emotion as he took out three red steel relic Gu from his aperture.
"This…" Ma Hong Yun was astonished, and dazedly received the three red steel relic Gu.
"You will be getting married with lady Chang Li, if you don't have power and status, wouldn't it weaken my Ma tribe's name? You can advance to rank two peak stage with these three red steel relic Gu; it should not be a problem for you to advance to rank three with your aptitude. I will now appoint you as a deputy elder and your duty will be to handle the miscellaneous affairs of the tribe." Ma Ying Jie proclaimed.
"Ah?" Ma Hong Yun's eyes opened wide, looking at Ma tribe leader with a stupefied expression.
To him, this surprise was really too heavy and too sudden.
Ma Ying Jie intentionally looked solemn: "You are still not kneeling and thanking me?"
Ma Hong Yun's mind was in a mess, but his body subconsciously kneeled down on the ground: "Thank you lord for promoting me!"
"Yes, work well." Ma Ying Jie encouraged with a few sentences, his thoughts, however were on a different matter, "Six arm heavenly zombie king, this killer move seems to be really powerful. Since it is regarded with such importance by Pan and Chang, and also does not need too much attainment in strength path cultivation, how about I give it a try as well?"
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, central control room.
"Ink transformation!" Fang Yuan's gaze flashed with a sharp light as he softly shouted and pressed down his hands.
Immediately, all kinds of Gu worms sprinkled down like rain from air, rapidly mixing with each other as they fell down.
When they landed on the sand table, they had already turned into drops of inky liquid.
The inky liquid quickly accumulated and covered the surface of the whole sand table once again before soon finding a flaw; the liquid then turned into a whirlpool and converged together.
Mo Yao's will in Fang Yuan's mind satisfiedly commented at this sight: "Good, you have now become skilled at the refinement technique I taught you – shower. With this method, you can quicken Gu refinement process by at least thirty percent and raise the quality by twenty percent. There is nothing more I can teach you about this method now. You only need to remember the essence of shower lies in speed. But you cannot just go fast, you need to pour all your concentration during the whole process. Thus, this method cannot be used too often. If you use it over the limit, you will feel dazed and dizzy in the minor case, causing the Gu refinement to fail, and in the serious case, your soul can be injured, you can suffer memory loss and you might become demented."
Gu refinement had dangers and was not any safer than an intense battle.
Fang Yuan already knew this; he listened to Mo Yao's guidance while methodically throwing the owner token into the ink whirlpool.
In a flash, the ink liquid was depleted completely and the owner token slowly flew up before landing on Fang Yuan's palm.
Fang Yuan observed the owner token which now already possessed five edges.
This meant ink transformation had already been carried out five times.
Strange, Fang Yuan was scarce on immortal essence stones and should have only been able to use ink transformation once more, how could he use it for three extra times beyond that?
After Fang Yuan got the one-edge owner token, his authority was raised and he could learn the contents of rewards for every round of a single floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building through the one-edge owner token.
Fang Yuan did not hesitate and choose one floor on the spot.
This floor was the seventh floor.
One-edge owner token could allow the Gu Master to control one floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
The seventh floor had already been broken through to the eighty-ninth round by the collective efforts of Gu Masters. So why did Fang Yuan choose this floor instead of others?
It was because the reward for this eighty-ninth round was five immortal essence stones!
Fang Yuan secretly used the owner token to take control of this floor. Chang Biao, Pan Ping, Ma Ying Jie and others passed the round, and Fang Yuan was able to secretly take the five immortal essence stones, sending a downgraded version of six arm heavenly zombie king into everyone's aperture as the reward.
The genuine six arm heavenly zombie king used borrow strength Gu as its core, the six great flying zombie Gu as the backbone and many other Gu worms as support. Through modification by Fang Yuan and Mo Yao's will, the downgraded killer move used overlord Gu as its core, which greatly reduced its strength.
Although the other flying zombie Gu were not changed, the old earth chief zombie Gu was used instead of Mo Yao's modified Gu.
More importantly, the support Gu worms were also modified and some Gu worms like intention Gu were added to secretly gather the information on the use of six arm heavenly zombie king by Chang Biao, Pan Ping and others.
With this, it not only gave others no reason to doubt the reward being tampered with, it also made them test the killer move in place of Fang Yuan to find any insufficient areas.
"Half a month has gone by since the reward of the killer move was distributed. It is time to catch the fish in a net. What do you think?" Fang Yuan used a consulting tone to ask Mo Yao's will.
Mo Yao mumbled: "It has neither been too long nor too short, we can first take away two sets and see the results."
Fang Yuan grasped the five-edges owner token, and with a shift of his mind, he found two familiar figures in the ninetieth round of the seventh floor.
They were none other than Chang Biao and Pan Ping.
The two were currently running quickly.
Pan Ping shouted to Chang Biao while running: "It has already been seven days since we came here. Even if the time flow here is faster than Imperial Court blessed land, according to our speed, we should have already travelled an immeasurable distance but we have not been able to see anything other than walls."
The running Chang Biao nodded, his clothes fluttering in the wind: "In this place, we cannot fly to the sky nor can we escape under the ground, we can only move in these passageways along the walls. The passageways here spread in all directions, we have travelled so long but haven't encountered a single monster. Clearly, this round tests the Gu Master's scouting and movement ability. This round should be an extremely large maze."
The two guessed correctly, this ninetieth round was precisely a maze.
And just as Chang Biao guessed, it tested the Gu Master's scouting and movement ability.
But Fang Yuan had taken control of this seventh floor now and after he discovered these two, everything was going to be different.
Chapter 580: Perfecting the Killer Move
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Howl—!
Wolf howls suddenly echoed out, a large group of turtleback wolves appeared ahead.
"Wolves, how could there be a wolf group here?" Pan Ping's movement slowed down, shouting in surprise.
Chang Biao's expression sank. Because of the connection with Fang Yuan, the animal he hated the most now was the wolf.
But he had never even thought that Fang Yuan would be controlling this round, and said in a gloomy voice: "Our priority this time was to probe, now that there has been a new change, we should see what happens after killing these wolves."
"Okay!" Pan Ping nodded in agreement.
The two cooperated and started killing the wolves.
At first, the two were occupying the upper hand even to the extent that it could be called a slaughter; how could ordinary turtleback wolves be their match?
But soon, other species of wolf started appearing continuously in front of them – vermillion wolves, water wolves, wind wolves and so on. Even mutated wolf groups like frenzy wolves and white-eyes wolves started appearing.
The two were gradually becoming unable to endure this.
"How could there be so many wolf groups?"
"Could it be this round also tests the Gu Master's ability to fight?"
Large numbers of thousand wolf kings entered the battle along with myriad wolf kings; Pan Ping and Chang Biao's expressions gradually turned unsightly.
"This round is so difficult!" Pan Ping sighed woefully.
"In Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the difficulty keeps on increasing as one passes the rounds, with the ninetieth to hundredth rounds being the most difficult." Chang Biao responded.
After a while more, the two could not continue fighting much longer.
"We have already probed the situation, the ninetieth round not only has a maze, but also wolf groups!" Chang Biao summarized in a heavy voice.
"We have walls on both sides, the terrain is narrow, we already are restricting the large crowds attacking us, what else can we do? Pan Ping frowned.
"Let's talk after retreating." Chang Biao sighed.
He and Pan Ping did not have Giant Sun bloodline, and had used guest tokens to enter Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Guest tokens were precious, thus they had to spend a lot of resources every time they entered.
"Alright!" Pan Ping already had the thought of retreating, he glanced at the wolf groups with hate, "These damned wolf beasts, there will be a day when I will step on your Wolf King and humiliate him! Hahaha…."
He cursed and vowed, the 'Wolf King' he was speaking of naturally referred to Fang Yuan.
"Eh!" The next moment, Pan Ping's laughter suddenly came to a stop, shock and fear replacing it.
"What's going on? We can't go out?" Chang Biao who was at the side also discovered this serious problem.
The two had used guest tokens to enter the tower and could leave with just a thought. They had already entered and exited many times, and were very familiar with this.
But now, this floor was under Fang Yuan's control, the five-edge owner token was many times more powerful than a guest token. These two were like birds within a cage, trapped in a predicament.
"Damn it, what should we do? I only have thirty percent primeval essence remaining!" Pan Ping shouted in panic.
Chang Biao's expression was grim as he shouted: "Calm down!"
His condition was a little better than Pan Ping with fifty percent primeval essence remaining in his aperture. But even if their primeval essence was full, it would be exhausted sooner or later in front of these endless wolf groups.
"This situation is very rare, how could we not get out of this tower? This round is strange, what it might be testing is the Gu Master's courage! We cannot act cowardly!" Chang Biao thought for a while and shouted.
Pan Ping heard his words, and slightly calmed down his panicked mind. He remembered that there were indeed strange rounds recorded in the past history, testing none other than the Gu Master's mind. Often in these rounds, the more cowardly the Gu master becomes, the stronger the monster they would have to face.
Pan and Chang forcibly calmed down, and then tried to break through the wolf groups' encirclement.
But Fang Yuan was in control of this round and was clear of every corner of the maze.
He mobilized the wolf groups with extreme smoothness; no matter how Pan and Chang tried to break through, there would always be wolf groups encircling and cutting off their path.
"No, I cannot die here! Damned wolf beasts, take my killer move!" With no alternative, Pan Ping used up almost all his primeval essence to activate the killer move 'six arm heavenly zombie king'.
He turned into an eight armed zombie; his battle strength rose explosively, creating surging waves wherever he moved. The wolves suffered severe losses with none being able to resist his attacks.
Chang Biao took the valuable chance to preserve his primeval essence by following behind Pan Ping, and was able to save quite a bit of strength.
The good situation did not last long and soon, Pan Ping's primeval essence was thoroughly exhausted.
Chang Biao quickly moved to save him: "In this time of danger, we need to work as one to have the hope of escaping alive. Take a rest and use primeval stones to recover your primeval essence, I will protect you!"
Chang Biao also used six arm heavenly zombie king and firmly protected Pan Ping.
With this kind of assistance between the two, they were able to stabilize the situation.
Seven-eight days went by like this, Chang Biao and Pan Ping's primeval essence were completely exhausted, no longer able to carry on.
"Am I going to die here?" Pan Ping roared at the sky.
"Damn it, there is definitely a way out, definitely!" Chang Biao had lost his earlier demeanour as he started shouting and roaring.
Just at this time of despair, the two suddenly saw a large pile of primeval stones in the corner ahead.
"Primeval stones!"
"Such a mountain of primeval stones, I am not hallucinating, right?"
Finding a way out of death's door, the two were elated and summoned all their bravery to kill their way through. The situation was stabilized once again as they used the primeval stones to recover their primeval essence.
"I understand, I understand now, this round tests the Gu Master's endurance!" Chang Biao shouted with wild joy.
"So it was like that." Pan Ping also came to a realization.
The two were so happy they did not realize the strange changes on their bodies.
As they started using 'six arm heavenly zombie king' more often, their bodies were now growing some irrecoverable zombie speckles.
"This hill of primeval stones is sufficient to last us two-three months." Pan Ping pounced on the primeval stone hill, crying tears of joy.
"Quickly use this time to recover primeval essence. We can't just keep sitting idly, there should be other primeval stone hills. When thirsty, we can drink wolf blood, and when hungry, we can eat wolf meat, maybe we can pass this round if we persevere like this." Chang Biao's eyes shone brightly.
"Brother Chang, you are right!" Pan Ping stood up quickly, his face flushed red as he imagined the scene Chang Biao portrayed, "This round is so difficult, it is almost an absolute death ground. There should definitely be a great reward for passing it!"
Chang Biao resisted the wolf groups' offense, sighing: "I finally know why we can enter but not exit this round. If we could easily leave, how could this round test the Gu Master?"
It was truly a pity these two still did not know this primeval stone hill was intentionally arranged here by their great enemy Fang Yuan. His goal was to make them use the killer move more, and continue the experiment.
The situation was fully within Fang Yuan's control. Even if these two had not been willing to use the killer move and only used their own moves, Fang Yuan would have controlled the wolf groups to continue attacking them, creating a dangerous set of circumstances where these two would have no choice but to use the killer move.
Fang Yuan's worry was unnecessary in this aspect.
As these two used the killer move, they started gradually becoming dependent on it, using it more and more. And in the following battles, they rarely used their own methods.
When their zombie speckles became denser and seriously affected them, they came to their senses.
But it was already too late.
"I don't accept this, I don't accept this, dying right here! Wolf King, I won't let you go even as a ghost!"
Pan Ping was the first to die.
Before he died, he cursed Fang Yuan.
Several days later, Chang Biao also died with exhaustion in the battle.
He died with grievance, mumbling to himself as he neared death: "Exit, where the hell is the exit?"
He had a lot of worries, too many things he could not let go.
Wolf Killing Alliance was only just being set up, the scheme of forcing Ma Ying Jie to join it had only just started, but even more than these, what made him the most unreconciled was his own son – Chang Ji You.
Truthfully speaking, Chang Biao was a pitiful person.
For his reputation, he dared not admit his own biological son and was only able to hear Chang Ji You call him 'godfather', 'godfather'…
Even so, he did not feel secure and to cover it further up, he adopted several orphans as his adopted sons and daughters. Among them was Chang Li.
He had made such painstaking efforts, laid low his whole life, planned so much, but now as he faced death, nothing had come to fruition.
He was unreconciled, full of regrets and annoyance, but what could he do?
"I really… really wanted to hear him call me father…" At this moment of death, his intense thoughts burst out as a sorrowful and regretful voice, passing away with the light of his life.
"The killer move was activated two thousand three hundred and eleven times, although he was exhausted in death, the main reason for fatality is the accumulation of zombie energy in his body." Fang Yuan appeared beside Chang Biao's corpse out of thin air.
He slightly smiled, the experiment had attained the expected purpose, but he found a problem —
Even if the killer move was used every time, it could not surpass a certain time limit, but instead the more it was used, the zombie energy in the body would accumulate till it led to the Gu Master's death.
Whether it was Pan Ping or Chang Biao, they both died because of this.
Fang Yuan took out the Gu worms from the two's corpses and stored them in his storage pouch.
This round was under his control, making it impossible for Pan and Chang to detonate their Gu worms even if they wanted to.
Chang Biao possessed a set of wind path Gu worms, all of them of excellent quality. Pan Ping's Gu worms were also not ordinary, but with Fang Yuan's current scope and capital, they were only considered better than nothing.
Only that sole blade Gu had some collection value, making Fang Yuan look at it for a moment.
Several days later.
In a study, Fang Yuan was thinking with his eyes closed while grasping an east window Gu.
"Hostile intent Gu can condense hostile intent. The hostile intent is strong and fiercely encroaching as fire, but it somewhat lacks flexibility and does not have the power to persist for long."
"Sharp intent Gu can condense sharp intent. The sharp intent is very sharp like swords and spears, however it can be subdued through soft tactics and is very difficult to restore."
"Reckless intent can condense reckless intent. Nothing is a taboo for the reckless intent and it can easily spread unchecked, but it is difficult to control and can easily injure the Gu Master."
This east window Gu, which Fang Yuan had purchased from treasure yellow heaven, recorded a fairly intact wisdom path inheritance. He paid all his small savings of immortal essence stones for it.
But it was worth it, Fang Yuan made some gains after reading it.
Fang Yuan pondered: "This inheritance records fourteen wisdom path Gu worms with six that touch upon the aspect of intent – hostile intent Gu, sharp intent Gu, reckless intent Gu, changing intent Gu, cold intent Gu and chaotic intent Gu. The first three are used to condense will, with each having their own pros and cons."
Wisdom path was the most mysterious among Gu Master paths, extremely broad and profound. It originated from Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and had existed from Remote Antiquity Era. The Gu Masters who cultivated it were extremely few in numbers, but it still remained and passed down till today, never declining.
"Then what is Mo Yao's will classified as – hostile intent, sharp intent or reckless intent?"
Fang Yuan was researching these wills to guard against and deal with the enormous hidden danger in his mind.
"Hostile intent is fierce like fire, sharp intent is sharp like a spear, reckless intent is flamboyant and difficult to control, but Mo Yao's will is mysterious like the sea, hidden and indistinct. From the confrontations I had with her, it felt like I was not able to display my strength, like punching cotton."
Fang Yuan carefully analyzed and perceived Mo Yao's will was not any one among this list.
This inheritance he had gathered was only a corner of wisdom path; there were definitely many other wisdom path Gu worms.
"It seems I still need to continue gathering information on wisdom path…" Fang Yuan inwardly sighed.
Fang Yuan was not able to easily use his methods against Mo Yao's will because he was not familiar with wisdom path, and did not know her trump cards.
"As the proverb goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will go unscathed through a hundred battles. I need to bear with this for the moment, make her think continuously and wear herself down, while also using her to help in exploring True Yang Building."
Right as he was thinking, Mo Yao's will appeared with her indistinct figure in Fang Yuan's mind.
"It is done, the six arm heavenly zombie king this time is truly perfected, there are no more unsuitable factors." Mo Yao said with a weak tone and exhausted expression.
'Looks like she had been worn down a lot from all the thinking over these days." Fang Yuan was inwardly happy, and as he looked at the modified killer move, this hidden happiness gradually turned into exultation!
Chapter 581: Advance to six-edge, difficulty finding a Gu tester
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Fang Yuan was a vigilant person, he had always felt that everyone else in this world was unreliable, the only dependable person was himself. Thus, he researched the six arm heavenly zombie king killer move the moment he obtained it.
This killer move was originally created based on the foundation he provided, furthermore during these few days, with Mo Yao's guidance, his refinement path attainment was deepening, and his perspective had widened greatly.
Right now, he had a great understanding of the concept of six arm heavenly zombie king, it was clear as water to him.
At this moment, he looked at the completed killer move, without any experiments, he knew that this killer move was close to perfection.
Mo Yao had reduced many supplementary Gu worms from the original base, while keeping the core and the six zombie Gu unchanged, only adding several supplementary Gu worms in.
Sensing the ingenuity of this, Fang Yuan praised endlessly.
In his mind, Mo Yao's will explained: "This is all thanks to the intention Gu on Pan and Chang. With their experience and insight, I could refine this move to such an extent, we have reached an extreme level of perfection. As long as the time does not exceed thirty minutes, no matter how many times you activate the killer move, it will not accumulate zombie energy in your body and cause zombie speckles to grow."
Fang Yuan nodded, knowing that Mo Yao's words were true.
This killer move was truly refined to its limits, according to this line of thinking, it had already reached its strongest potential. Unless he added Immortal Gu in the future, or changed the core Gu.
But if he added Immortal Gu in, this would destroy the original coordination of the Gu, he would need to reassemble it and the move would become completely different, it would truly be a situation of 'pull one hair and the whole body moves'.
If he changed the core Gu, that would be going into another line of thought. The new killer move would be completely different, rather than calling it 'six arm heavenly zombie king', he might as well give it another name.
In all, the killer move six arm heavenly zombie king, be it the core Gu, the zombie Gu or the supplementary Gu, they were being used to their fullest potential, there was no way to refine this further.
Even though there were still backlashes from using it, if one exceeded thirty minutes, the zombie energy would cause great damage to the Gu Master's body, if the time was too long, the Gu Master might even turn into a zombie.
But this was a problem caused by inappropriate usage by the Gu Master, it could be avoided. The reason was that even if this move was used many times, it would not accumulate the zombie speckles. If the Gu Master activated the move multiple times in a period of time, they could potentially sustain the killer move for a long duration.
Except, Fang Yuan was still not satisfied with this huge result.
"If you have any other ideas to refine this killer move, this grandmaster here is willing to listen." Mo Yao laughed eerily.
"At this point, six arm heavenly zombie king is at its limit, there is nothing to improve. But there is still one part that I am not satisfied with, that is the backlash of the killer move." Fang Yuan said.
"After the improvement, the current six arm heavenly zombie king's power has doubled, and the duration has reached thirty minutes, it is sufficient for you to handle anything in this mortal realm. What are you dissatisfied with? You must know, any killer move represents the combination usage of Gu worms, since it is the use of Gu worms, there has to be weaknesses. A killer move's backlash cannot be avoided, they are only different in terms of severity. This strength path killer move's power is at the top five of killer moves in my memory. Don't be too greedy." Mo Yao lectured.
Fang Yuan snorted.
His potential enemies were Gu Immortals, beings who surpassed mortals!
With six arm heavenly zombie king, even if Fang Yuan abandoned his enslavement path, he could still dominate the mortal realm, but it was far from sufficient to deal with Gu Immortals.
Battling an immortal as a mortal, this aim was too arrogant, it was too much for people to believe. Fang Yuan had no intentions of informing Mo Yao about this.
Immediately after, he said: "Preparedness ensures success, and unpreparedness spells failure. If one day, because of a peculiar situation, I overuse the killer move and become a zombie, what happens? I am also clear that the killer move six arm heavenly zombie king cannot be improved further, but now, my goal is to resolve this weakness."
Mo Yao finally understood Fang Yuan's intention, she sunk into silence.
Fang Yuan was young and arrogant, Mo Yao did not expect that he had such a cautious side. To speak the truth, Mo Yao was looking at him in a different light now —
"This lad, he has talent, resources, and opportunities. He has great perseverance and is able to lower his head when needed. On one hand, he advances bravely, while on the other hand, he is cautious and vigilant, always considering all sides of the matter. This lad, one day, he will definitely shake the world."
She was silent for a short time, soon, Mo Yao said: "It is very troublesome to resolve this backlash. Six arm heavenly zombie king is not an ordinary zombie, the zombie energy is extremely thick, once the Gu Master transforms, they cannot even use Yin-Yang rotation Gu!"
"As a refinement grandmaster, is there nothing you can do?" Fang Yuan did not believe her.
Mo Yao did not fall for his taunting, she spoke in a calm manner: "I need a rank five Gu Master to fully transform into the six arm heavenly zombie king, after which I will experiment on their body. I need this test subject to cooperate with me fully, and I need to have full control over their condition, in terms of body, mind, and personal experience… These are all important information that I need to consider."
Mo Yao did not want to ponder about this deeply as it would expend too many of her thoughts, she used the same method again, planning to use people as experimental fodder. They would replace her thinking and undergo the most crucial steps for her.
Fang Yuan frowned: "Rank five Gu Master? And a fully cooperative one?"
"That's right, it would be best if they are willingly doing it. Because if slavery Gu is used to control them, their emotions would be affected, their experience and feelings when turning into a zombie would be ruined."
This was troublesome!
If Fang Yuan wanted to resolve the problem of six arm heavenly zombie king, he would need to find a rank five Gu Master, and they would need to be cooperative and listen to Fang Yuan, risking their lives to undergo this experiment.
Where was Fang Yuan going to find such a person?!
Three days later.
Central control room.
From the ink whirlpool, the owner token rose up and flew into Fang Yuan's hands.
Activating the refinement path killer move ink transformation once again, five-edge owner token had transformed into six-edge.
Fang Yuan was both happy and worried.
Happy because he had the six-edge owner token, once Hei Lou Lan's owner token becomes four-edge, he would be able to snatch it and form the ten-edge owner token.
With a ten-edge owner token, he could obtain one of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's true inheritances!
An Immortal Venerable inheritance had a huge attraction to almost anybody.
Worry was because Fang Yuan had expended almost all his resources to undergo this sixth ink transformation. In order to accumulate funds, he had sold the Immortal Gu remnant recipes again and caused these remnant recipes to have no value left.
At the same time, he sold large numbers of rockmen, fox groups, wolf groups, Gu worms, and even the precious hairy men and some air bubble fish.
Like the rank four emotion poetry Gu, golden dragon Gu, golden breeze Gu, as well as rank five Gu including multiple spring egg Gu, vajra stare Gu, turn gold Gu, soft bones Gu, pitch black Gu, and hints and clues Gu.
"Right now, I only have the enslavement and strength path Gu worms left in my aperture. In Hu Immortal blessed land, I have Blood Sea Ancestor's true inheritance, rank four blood skull Gu, as well as rank three bone flesh unity Gu and the yang Gu left after using yin Gu of the yin-yang rotation Gu. Other than that, I still have some stargate Gu, hole earth Gu, connecting heaven Gu, divine sense Gu, burial soul toad, and some supplementary Gu."
These Gu were all of utmost importance, they could not be sold. Some were absolutely necessary, he needed them in the future.
"Hu Immortal blessed land was almost squeezed dry by me, it needs to recover. But now that I have the six-edge owner token, I can control six floors in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building as I wish. All of the rewards in these six floors can be taken by me. These rewards are extremely valuable, if I take them all, my wealth would grow by at least sixty times that of my current foundation!"
Fang Yuan had his plans.
But currently, he could not touch these rewards.
Hei Lou Lan had gathered some experts, and was at the final round of the fifth floor.
Soon, he was going to obtain a one-edge owner token.
With this token, he could check any floor's round rewards in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
If Fang Yuan took the rewards, wouldn't he reveal himself?
"At the final moment, when Imperial Court blessed land is about to close and everyone gets sent out, I will take the rewards then, by that point, nobody would know a thing."
…
Bam!
The bear paw smacked and the earth quaked, rocks were sent flying like shrapnel.
As the smoke dispersed, a huge bear paw the size of five to six horse carriages was lifted, showing a huge crater.
The rank four Gu Master who was unfortunately hit by the bear paw had turned into a pile of mushy flesh, mixed with some bone shards and brain matter.
"Too fast! We cannot react to it."
"The final round is truly harder than ascending to heaven…"
"This is only the phantom image of a flying bear, it only has half the strength of the true body. If this was really the desolate beast flying bear, we would not even be able to escape!"
The Gu Masters on the battlefield were all injured, they were in a pathetic state and felt great lingering fear.
It was the phantom image of the desolate beast flying bear that was guarding the fifth floor's hundredth round.
It had a huge body, like that of a mountain, it had white, snowy fur, and a full set of Gu worms in it, each were elite Gu worms. It attacked fiercely, but moved just as agilely, it could dart around like lightning, which was ironic due to its huge bulky figure. After fighting for only thirty minutes, the Gu Masters had already suffered huge losses.
"Lord tribe leader, we should retreat. Our motive this time is to probe it, now that we have understood most of the Gu worms on the flying bear, we have actually achieved our goal already." Sun Shi Han stood beside Hei Lou Lan, advising.
Hei Lou Lan frowned, looking around the battlefield.
He was an expert in leading men to wars and battles, he knew that his troops had low morale now.
"Since I started challenging the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, this flying bear phantom is the strongest opponent I've met. To defeat it, our strength is not enough, we need even more helpers."
Hei Lou Lan assessed in his heart before snorting and saying one word: "Retreat."
Sun Shi Han felt relieved in his heart, and not just him, the other Gu Masters already had the intention to retreat, but because of the Black Tyrant's fierce reputation, no one dared to suggest it.
Chapter 582: Fighting flying bear, Wolf King gets fifty percent
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Everyone retreated from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, as Hei Lou Lan gave an order to recruit experts that night.
He was the alliance leader that won this contest, according to the rules, the entire army was his to mobilize. Everyone knew about the Black Tyrant's fierce reputation, together with him opening Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to everyone without any cost, they were deeply grateful to him.
With both authority and gratitude, Hei Lou Lan's influence reached its peak.
With this order, it created a huge commotion as everyone who was called showed up without fail.
Wolf King Chang Shan Yin, Water Demon Hao Ji Liu, Twin Demons Gao Yang and Zhu Zai, Little Ma Zun Ma Ying Jie, Fox Commander Tang Miao Ming, White Fairy Xi Xue, Shadow Sword Expert Bian Si Xuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Lu Shuang, Tao You, Gu Guo Long, Dou E, Nie Ya Qing, Ye Lui Sang…
On the day of the alliance meeting, the hall was filled with shining stars as heroes and conquerors whipped up a huge storm.
"Old sir, with you here, it is like having a giant pillar of support, we do not have to fear about low morale, hahaha!" Hei Lou Lan sat grandly at the main seat, looking around and laughing with great ambitions.
Among those who were present, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had the greatest reputation, he healed people all over the land, countless people were indebted to him, even Hei Lou Lan or Chang Shan Yin could not compare to him.
But the person who sat next to Hei Lou Lan was not Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but Wolf King Chang Shan Yin.
Reputation was something, but battle strength was another aspect.
After the Imperial Court contest, everyone agreed that Fang Yuan's battle strength was the greatest. Dual path cultivator, flying master, enslavement master, all these auras gathered into one person, it was dazzling and overwhelming, thus no one had any disagreements regarding Fang Yuan's position.
Thus, after Hei Lou Lan talked to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he turned around to Fang Yuan: "Brother Shan Yin, we will need to count on you for this battle! If we get through, you will earn half of the rewards."
He understood Fang Yuan's nature, he would not act without benefits, thus he gave such a tempting offer.
The final round's rewards were nothing ordinary. Once Hei Lou Lan spoke, he gave half the benefits to Fang Yuan, this meant that he, along with the others, would have to share the remaining half of the rewards.
As their interests were concerned, some discussions could be heard in the hall.
Many people were indignant regarding this allocation, but no one had the guts to openly oppose Black Tyrant's arrangements and offend the grand Wolf King in this hall.
"Very well, we will go with that." Fang Yuan nodded, his arrogant gaze swept the hall, as the voices came to a stop.
"Why has elder Pan Ping not arrived yet?" Hei Lou Lan asked around.
Pan Ping was born in the demonic path, nowadays he had entered Hei tribe and become an external elder. As the current Hei tribe leader, Hei Lou Lan's orders did not summon Pan Ping, Hei Lou Lan was extremely displeased by this.
Actually, not just Pan Ping, Chang tribe's first elder Chang Biao was not present either.
But Chang Biao was a Chang tribesman, Hei Lou Lan had to ignore it because of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan did not react.
The information regarding the deaths of Pan and Chang had not been spread yet.
Challenging Eighty-Eight True Yang Building normally took several days or even half a month, the tougher the rounds, the longer it would take. Especially someone like Pan Ping, as a person without Giant Sun bloodline, he would incur huge expenses when he entered Eighty-Eight True Yang Building using the guest token. Precisely because of this, these outsiders treasured their opportunity in entering the building, if possible, they would not leave it unless they had no other choice.
Hei Lou Lan's words had just been spoken, when his attendant Hei Shu stood up and reported: "Reporting to lord tribe leader, elder Pan Ping and Lord Chang Biao had gone into the seventh floor not long ago, I have sent people to inform them, but the seventh floor's layout is very confusing, it is like a huge maze. The maze prohibits the use of letter Gu, and there are even wild wolf groups deep inside. The servants have tried to find them for many days, but they only found some battle traces, they could not find the two lords."
Hei Lou Lan snorted as he waved his hand: "Then forget it, we will not wait for them, the guest tokens are ready, we will depart tomorrow morning!"
By the second day, everyone grandly charged into the fifth floor.
This was the largest force that had gathered to enter Eighty-Eight True Yang Building since it was formed, it attracted countless gazes in the sacred palace.
The final round of the fifth floor was a barren and desolate mountain.
Brown soil, hard as steel rocks, with no grass or plants.
The moment everyone entered, the flying bear phantom was alerted and growled, tearing through the air, and causing a thunderous noise.
Swoosh!
They saw in the dark yellow sky, a white whirlwind come crashing down.
The experts retreated at once.
The flying bear phantom crashed on the ground, with a loud bang, the earth shook as intense winds blew, causing many to lose their balance.
"Ferocious indeed!" Pei Yan Fei's expression was solemn, if he had been hit directly, he would be heavily injured if not dead.
"It was thanks to tribe leader Hei Lou Lan's reminder, if not, the moment we came in we would've been attacked by this bear." Gu Guo Long looked at the howling flying bear inside the crater and said with lingering fear.
"This is called learning from past experiences, the last time we came here, we were sneak attacked by the flying bear, five experts died on the spot!" Hei Xiu Yi gritted his teeth, saying with deep hatred.
"Brother Shan Yin, the rest is up to you guys." Hei Lou Lan urged.
According to their battle plan earlier, the first wave of attack should be unleashed by the enslavement path Gu Masters, in order to wear down the flying bear phantom's battle strength.
Without any words from him, large numbers of wolves came from all directions, from the sky and land, charging and attacking the flying bear phantom.
In the sky, there was the azure wolf group, on the ground, there were the white-eyes wolves, frenzy wolves, blood forest wolves and others.
Ordinary wolves numbered to over four hundred thousand.
At once, the wolves engulfed the area, charging like the huge waves of the great sea, submerging the island-like flying bear phantom.
Roar!
The flying boar roared, shaking heaven and earth.
Howl!
The wolf groups were not to be outdone, howling in a similar fashion.
The battle ensued, whipping up a bloody storm.
The flying bear phantom's four paws slammed, killing at least dozens of wild wolves with one strike. The ordinary wolves could only be a disturbance to it, only the mutated beast groups could pose a threat and cause injuries to the flying bear phantom.
But the essence of enslavement path had always been to overwhelm quality with quantity, expending the enemy's energy to their greatest limit.
Fang Yuan manipulated the wolf group, attacking as freely as the wind, or as crushing as the snow, the flying bear phantom seemed to have sunk into a deep swamp, even with its frenzied attacks, it could not break through the encirclement.
"Now this is a master level attainment."
"Wild beasts are beasts, without a human's intelligence, they are being toyed around by Chang Shan Yin."
"The beast groups are like a work of art under Wolf King's control!"
Everyone was in a daze, the enslavement Gu Masters Tang Miao Ming and Hei Qi Sheng could see the brilliance of his actions, feeling a strong sense of admiration and adoration towards Fang Yuan.
But the good situation did not last, the flying bear phantom suddenly stopped its actions, opening its mouth and exhaling.
With this, the world changed colors, as starlight shone brilliantly to form into a river.
Rank five — star river Gu!
The star river poured down, like a dragon or python, it engulfed the places it went, be it frenzy wolf or blood forest wolf, they were swept away by the star river, some were holding their ground desperately with their defensive Gu, but those that did not have defensive Gu were turned into stardust.
At once, the wolf group suffered huge losses.
Fang Yuan's gaze was unmoved, it was as if the losses did not affect him, and he did not stop for now.
Only until half the wolves were left, did he order them to retreat.
Tang Miao Ming and Hei Qi Sheng quickly ordered their beast groups to replace the wolves.
These two, one was called Little Fox Commander with quasi-master attainment, in terms of enslavement attainment, she was second to Fang Yuan alone in the sacred palace.
The latter was an enslavement path Gu Master nurtured by the super force Hei tribe, although he had not attained master level skill, he had deep foundations and great strength.
Tang Miao Ming controlled the fox groups, while Hei Qi Sheng controlled the eagle groups, one dominated the sky while the other was on the ground.
But the flying bear phantom was getting more ferocious, after the star river had fully looped around in a ring, it clapped its paws together, roaring again as an intense wind blew, and clouds formed from nothing.
In an instant, the intense wind turned into tiger-shaped wind tigers, while the clouds turned into dragon-shaped cloud dragons.
Rank five — wind tiger cloud dragon Gu!
Thousands of wind tigers and cloud dragons charged forward, facing the foxes and eagles head on.
At once, the battlefield was in chaos as blood rained and the pungent smell spread.
"Oh no, at this rate…" Tang Miao Ming's forehead was full of sweat, her head was hurting as she was gritting her teeth desperately.
The battle was too intense, she wanted to preserve her fox group, thus she manipulated them very meticulously, it caused her soul to be greatly worn out, and she was reaching her limit.
As for Hei Qi Sheng, his situation was even worse than hers.
The fox group could still resist the enemy, but a large proportion of Hei Qi Sheng's eagle group had already been killed by the wind tigers and cloud dragons, they were in disorder and he could not attend to one aspect without neglecting another.
The other Gu Masters retreated time and time again, but they did not show any surprise.
Star river Gu and wind tiger cloud dragon Gu were exposed in their previous probing, everyone was prepared for them.
"Have you finished the investigation?" Hei Lou Lan asked an investigative Gu Master beside him.
The investigative Gu Master was very nervous, he sat on the ground as he activated his Gu worm wholeheartedly. His forehead was folded into a frown as he replied with a trembling voice: "Star river Gu's location has been found, it is in the flying bear's mouth, on the largest tooth on the left side. As for the other Gu worms, we have to continue searching."
It was different to deal with beasts compared to Gu Masters.
All the Gu worms on the wild beast are wild, they can be captured. Gu worms on Gu Masters were usually refined already.
Hei Lou Lan ordered his men to search for the location of the wild Gu because of this.
As long as they can capture the wild Gu on the flying bear's body, it would be much easier for them to destroy the flying bear phantom.
Even if they could not capture it, it would suffice if they destroyed the Gu.
Gu worms were very fragile on their own, even for Spring Autumn Cicada which was rank six, Fang Yuan just needed to squeeze lightly to squish it.
Wild beasts did not have apertures, the wild Gu resided in their bodies, this was a huge weakness.
Hei Lou Lan snorted, shouting: "Continue searching!"
He was not pleased with this result, the star river Gu was inside the flying bear's mouth, the difficulty to capture it was too high.
During their conversation, the battlefield's situation was getting worse.
"Tang Miao Ming and Hei Qi Sheng are slowly becoming unable to resist!" Pei Yan Fei said with a heavy expression.
"The flying bear's attacks are too ferocious, luckily the wild beasts are attracting its attention. But even if the foxes and eagles die, we can replenish them, our motive of weakening the enemy has been achieved." Sun Shi Han stroked his beard as he evaluated.
Chapter 583: Killing flying bear, Accident at the final moment
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Although wild Gu absorbed energy from the air directly, being able to use their abilities freely without any limits on primeval essence.
But during an intense battle, towards the end, the wild Gu would become more and more passive, if they sensed that the battle was going south, they would leave their host and escape on the spot using their instinct of sensing danger.
Thus, when attacking a wild beast, especially beast kings or desolate beasts, during the first half of the battle, it would usually contain the most firepower, after a while, the attacks would slowly become weaker and less oppressive.
"Even so, we cannot allow the fox group and eagle group to suffer such losses, we should invite Lord Chang Shan Yin to step in." At the side, Hei Xiu Yi said.
"Step in… to what end?" Fang Yuan folded his arms, scoffing arrogantly as he heard this: "According to our battle arrangement, I will strike first while the two of them take over after me, with such intervals, we have to each hold on for fifteen minutes. Right now, they have not even been there for half the allocated time, it is not time for me to step in yet."
If they entered the battlefield now, the wolf group would only face the cruel slaughter of the flying bear phantom, although it would weaken the flying bear phantom as intended, if he could reduce his losses, Fang Yuan was very willing to watch on the fence.
As for the others' losses, was that Fang Yuan's problem?
Hei Xiu Yi was furious upon hearing this, but because of Fang Yuan's status, he could only hold in his anger: "Lord Wolf King, everyone is putting in their full effort for this battle, right now Tang Miao Ming and Hei Qi Sheng are fighting with their life, but lord is watching by the side, isn't this too much?"
"Hmm? You dare to lecture me?" Fang Yuan frowned as his killing intent surged.
Although he was folding his arms, a monstrous arm grew out from his back.
The monstrous arm was extremely powerful and strong, but it also moved extremely fast, directly assaulting Hei Xiu Yi.
Never in Hei Xiu Yi's dreams did he think that Fang Yuan would dare to publicly, and especially during such an important battle, try to kill him?!
Before the fist hit, he felt the intense winds blowing towards him, causing his face to feel pain already.
An incomparable feeling of fear and danger instantly filled his heart.
At the crucial moment, his battle senses from many years of fighting saved his life successfully.
He reacted before even thinking, activating his defense Gu and putting up three lines of defense.
He was a defensive Gu Master originally, and because his specialty was defense, Hei Lou Lan had once sent him to Fang Yuan as a form of protection.
But during the battle, Hei Xiu Yi cherished his own safety and forgot about his mission, abandoning Fang Yuan on the battlefield.
The monstrous arm was unstoppable, it smashed the three defenses quickly and hit his chest.
Crack.
A crisp sound could be heard.
Hei Xiu Yi's rib bones were all crushed, the monstrous strength sent him flying like a cannonball.
He vomited blood while flying in the air.
Then with a rumble, he crashed on a small mound several hundred steps away.
When the sound of the impact was heard and the dust settled, he was half embedded into the mound, falling unconscious and losing his battle strength.
"Lord Wolf King?!"
"What happened? What happened! Why did they fight?"
"Hei Xiu Yi urged Lord Wolf King to battle, the two could not get along and Wolf King suddenly burst into anger, sending Hei Xiu Yi flying!"
Seeing such a shocking event, everyone was gasping.
Internal conflicts were always so sudden, so severe.
Hei Xiu Yi's identity was not simple, he was one of the three commanders of the black banner army, an important person within the Hei tribe higher-ups. Fang Yuan attacking him with such intensity was no different than openly taunting Hei Lou Lan.
Once Hei Lou Lan and Chang Shan Yin stood on opposing sides, this battle would not only end up in failure, the entire sacred palace would also fall into political turmoil!
"Wolf King, what happened? I would like to hear your explanation." Hei Lou Lan's expression was like still water as he came over to question Fang Yuan.
He usually called Fang Yuan "Brother Shan Yin" to show their close relationship, but now that he called him "Wolf King", it showed his anger.
But no matter how angry he was, would Fang Yuan be afraid?
Immediately, Fang Yuan stared back at him with no fear, his killing intent dispersed as he snickered: "Tribe leader Hei Lou Lan, you came at a good time, your subordinate was truly stepping out of line, he dared to lecture me? Such a lack of respect with a complete disregard for seniority, I punished him for you, no need to thank me, don't forget about our friendship after all."
Using "disrespect" and "seniority", he sent two reasons over just like that.
His final sentence mentioning "our friendship" had even deeper meaning.
It was like he was trying to say that they had a great friendship, but it could also mean that they had no friendship at all!
Hei Lou Lan stared furiously!
"This Chang Shan Yin is too arrogant! He dared to hit my man! Looking at his lawless manner, does he really think I cannot do anything to him just because of his great battle strength?" Black Tyrant roared in his heart.
He was cultivating dark path on the surface, but in truth, because of the Great Strength True Martial physique, his real cultivation was in the strength path.
His battle strength was superb, but he could not use his strength path methods because that would accelerate the disaster of one of the ten extreme physiques.
"I'll endure it! Right now, we are at the crucial moment of attacking the flying bear phantom, if we get into an argument now, it would all go to waste! What is most important now is to find my strength path Immortal Gu and ascend to become a Gu Immortal!"
As long as they killed the flying bear phantom this time, Hei Lou Lan would be able to get through this floor and his owner token would immediately become a one-edge owner token.
With the one-edge owner token, he would be able to inspect the reward of any round of any floor, the one with a strength path Immortal Gu would be his focus and target.
Precisely so, it was extremely important to kill the flying bear phantom, even with Hei Lou Lan's temper and cruelty, he had to endure it.
"I'll let you be arrogant for once! One day, I will make you kneel down at my feet and lick my toes, if I tell you to shut up, you will keep quiet. If I ask you to bark, you will wag your tail!"
Hei Lou Lan was extremely furious, veins were popping on his forehead, but his eyes were fixed on Fang Yuan intensely.
Just as everyone was feeling a heavy atmosphere from this silence, and were feeling uneasy, Hei Lou Lan suddenly raised his head and laughed loudly: "Good, brother Shan Yin did a good job, such a disrespectful person should be taught a lesson indeed."
This was akin to Hei Lou Lan taking a step back, those who knew his poor temper were all shocked.
"His tribesman was beaten till he was unconscious in public, Hei Lou Lan actually agreed with him?"
"Wolf King is too strong, he did not care about the super force Hei tribe, now even Hei Lou Lan need to take a step back."
"Bullshit, this is tribe leader Hei Lou Lan caring about the big picture! He did not want to stoop to the level of Chang Shan Yin! Chang Shan Yin beat us Hei tribesmen, one day, he will pay the price."
Everyone had their comments as they conversed in secret.
Roar!
The flying boar's roaring attracted everyone's attention again.
The eagle and fox groups were facing great losses.
"I have let down all the lords." Hei Qi Sheng's nose was bleeding, his face was full of shame.
Tang Miao Ming's expression was pale, as her slim body was swaying with weakness.
"Protect the two of them." Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted.
"Both of you have had a huge contribution to this, I can see your sincerity. After this battle, you will be greatly rewarded." Hei Lou Lan had an amicable expression as he came forward to console them.
The flying bear lost its obstacles and charged forward towards everyone.
By right, the wolf group should be charging up to continue weakening the bear.
But Hei Lou Lan looked at Fang Yuan who was folding his arms arrogantly, not saying a word, in fact his wolves were retreating faster than anyone on the battlefield.
"I'll endure! One day, I will make you pay a huge price!" Hei Lou Lan gritted his teeth, knowing that he could not make Fang Yuan do anything, if he forced Fang Yuan and got rejected in public, he would take a huge hit to his reputation and be deeply humiliated.
Thus, Hei Lou Lan shouted loudly: "Strike, initiate the second step of the plan!"
"Go!"
Immediately, two people flew out like lightning.
One was a slim and elegant person wearing a fluttering blue dress, it was White Fairy Xi Xue.
The other was muscular and stable, wearing a yellow robe, it was Gu tribe leader Gu Guo Long.
White Fairy Xi Xue flew into the air, her sleeves were waving as she shouted in an alluring manner, causing snow to descend immediately.
It was her signature rank five Gu worm — flying snow Gu.
Gu Guo Long ran on the ground, his legs were moving like turbines, everywhere he went, smoke rose as rocks were sent flying.
It was also a rank five Gu, called flying sand moving rock.
At once, white snow was floating in the air, while sand and rocks were rolling on the ground.
The giant mountain-like flying bear phantom was stuck between the snow and sand, its speed reduced drastically as its vision was also obscured.
It roared loudly, waving its paws in the snow and sand, but the air currents generated from its attacks made the sand and snow even more intense, blurring its sight.
Seeing this, Hei Lou Lan laughed cruelly, ordering: "Third step!"
This time, almost ten people charged into the battlefield.
Every one of them was an expert, there was Bian Si Xuan, Hao Ji Liu, Pei Yan Fei, Gao Yang, Shu Zai, Dou E, Nie Ya Qing, Tao You, Lu Shuang…
These Gu Masters were either rank four peak stage or rank five experts.
Adding in Gu Guo Long and Xi Xue, they were truly a powerful formation.
They drilled into the snow and sand, attacking furiously towards the flying bear phantom.
The flying bear phantom roared continuously, it was very agitated and attacked randomly, but had little effect.
On the other hand, the Gu Masters had used their investigative Gu worms from the start, their vision was clear as they constantly avoided the bear while unleashing strong attacks.
Pei Yan Fei grew wings as his swallow wings were like scissors tearing through the sky.
Swallow wings Gu.
Golden coat Gu.
Rainbow transformation Gu.
Killer move — Golden Rainbow Strike!
He turned into a golden flash of lightning as he charged down with fierce crackling.
The flying bear roared in pain, blood was spewing as a huge injury appeared on its chest, from the left shoulder to its right waist.
Nie Ya Qing followed closely after.
He was a rank five Gu Master, using the iron hook silver slash Gu.
His palm formed into an eagle claw shape as he aimed at the flying bear phantom, slashing with his fingers.
Immediately, several flashes appeared in the air, some were as dark as steel while some were shining like silver.
His claws continued to tear at the sky, as countless flashes attacked the flying bear phantom's eyes, nose, and mouth.
Nie Ya Qing attacked its weak points, causing the flying bear to take the hit passively.
"Overlapping shadow." Bian Si Xuan shouted lightly, as the shadow sword in her hand waved.
A dark sword shadow flew several hundred steps and attacked the flying bear's right leg noiselessly, leaving a ten meter long wound.
"Protect me." Ye Lui Sang shouted, raising both his palms as a fireball appeared above him, growing and expanding at a rapid speed.
The fireball became larger and larger, as the battlefield was dyed red, the light from the fireball could not be concealed by the snow and sand.
The flying bear felt the danger too and struggled, charging towards Ye Lui Sang who was in the air.
But the next moment, it was attacked by Dou E, Gu Guo Long, and Tao You.
Dou E was a transformation path Gu master, turning into a giant crocodile as he battled and retreated.
He opened his mouth, shooting out his teeth one by one.
The teeth hit the flying bear's body and were embedded into it, in a few breath's time, they exploded, causing the flying bear's body to be covered in flesh and blood.
Gu Guo Long waved his sleeve and dozens of Gu worms flew out.
These Gu worms landed on the ground, causing the earth to grow into a mound.
The mound broke and rockmen-like giant statues appeared, standing up and attacking the flying bear phantom.
Tao You was an earth path Gu Master.
But he and Gu Guo Long had different methods, he continued to absorb the earth energy as he gathered it into himself.
Next, he punched consecutively, with each punch shooting out earth energy. Flying in the air, they transformed into meteors and crashed onto the flying bear's body.
Bam bam bam…
As the intense meteors collided, the flying bear's attacks towards Ye Lui Sang slowed.
Finally, Ye Lui Sang was finished with his charging and he pressed his palms down, as a giant fireball was sent down like a descending mountain, hitting the huge flying bear phantom without regard for its welfare.
Bam—!
With an intense explosion, ears were deafened.
The intense wind stirred, spreading everywhere, blowing the snow and sand away to the edge of the battlefield.
The Gu Masters who were there were blown by the intense winds, getting shocked as their clothes and hair were pulled along by the wind.
When the dust settled, a huge crater formed on the battlefield.
All around the deep crater, a sand-like surface could be seen due to the strong heat from the fire.
The flying bear phantom was curled up into a ball, making no sounds. Its body was covered in five lights that were interchanging, black, white, red, yellow, and azure.
Rank five — five element bear skin Gu.
This Gu could greatly reduce the damage from metal, wood, water, fire, and earth path Gu worms, but under the attacks of so many experts, the flying bear's body was covered in injuries as blood spewed everywhere, and some injuries were so deep bones could be seen.
Gu Masters were standing at the edge of the crater, watching the flying bear.
Although the flying bear was strong, after two rounds of battle, such results had been obtained.
"Be careful, do not forget that it still has the grand chaotic dance Gu." Sun Shi Han reminded.
The Gu Masters had a serious expression as some nodded lightly.
Grand chaotic dance Gu was a rank five Gu, it could cause the flying bear to go into a frenzied state, increasing its strength and speed greatly, at the same time its four limbs could be twisted at will.
Once this wild Gu was activated, the flying bear's danger level would surge, if one was not careful and got caught, they might be turned into meat paste in no more than a few breath's time.
"What's there to be afraid of, don't forget we have Old Sir Tai Bai here, whoever charges first will be heavily rewarded by me!" Hei Lou Lan shouted, his promise of rewards made the Gu Master's eyes shine brightly.
When great rewards are offered, brave people emerge.
"I'll do it!" Hao Ji Liu shouted, whipping up a wave as he charged towards the flying bear.
Under everyone's gazes, he advanced towards the flying bear quickly.
A thousand steps, five hundred steps, three hundred steps!
The flying bear suddenly raised its head, its eyes were blood red as it growled loudly, shooting out an invisible air bubble.
The bubble expanded at lightning speed, covering both Hao Ji Liu and the flying bear, as it contracted quickly and vanished completely.
In an instant, the flying bear and Hao Ji Liu both vanished!
Chapter 584: Demise of Water Demon, Fang Yuan's enlightening words
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With such a sudden event, everyone's expressions changed.
"What happened? Where did they go?"
"He vanished!"
"Don't tell me this round has some secret behind it?"
Everyone was guessing as they discussed among themselves.
Hei Lou Lan was frowning, feeling very perplexed.
Sun Shi Han's expression was grim and uncertain, he seemed to have thought of something as he spoke in a hesitant manner: "Is it the battle space Gu?"
"Battle space Gu?" At once, everyone's attention was focused on Sun Shi Han.
Hei Lou Lan's eyes shone with brilliance as he said deeply: "This is indeed a space path Gu worm, but if it is the battle space Gu, then elder Hao Ji Liu is in trouble."
"Battle space Gu vanished for so many years, to think it would reappear here today." Tai Bai Yun Sheng sighed, it seemed he had confirmed it.
He had obtained an Immortal inheritance from the old beggar, he naturally had great knowledge.
"What is the battle space Gu?" Everyone asked.
Ye Lui Sang's gaze was grave, he was the current tribe leader of Ye Lui tribe, a super tribe, but because they lost, he had to join Hei tribe.
He owned a mysterious fire path Immortal Gu, he was well-learnt and had a wealth of knowledge, at this point, he started explaining: "The battle space Gu is a rank five space path Gu worm. Once activated, it can send both the enemy and the user into a unique space. In there, they will fight to the death, so only when the winner is decided, or when the time runs out, would they be released from that space."
"Sigh, to think that the flying bear had such a Gu worm hidden!" Hei Lou Lan sighed as he looked at the sky, speaking with a hateful tone.
Everyone's expression was grim as ever, expressing their worry towards Hao Ji Liu's safety.
The flying bear phantom was so strong, even with everyone's combined strength, they could not kill it, how could Hao Ji Liu face it all on his own?
The result of this match could be easily predicted by anyone — the flying bear wins and Hao Ji Liu loses.
Although Hao Ji Liu had first rate escaping methods like water image Gu, Ye Lui Sang had already said that the space created by battle space Gu would only close when one side has a clear victory, decided by life and death.
Even if Hao Ji Liu used all his escaping methods, he would be captured and killed by the flying bear phantom eventually.
Unless he had an opposing space path Gu.
But Hao Ji Liu was a water path Gu Master, everyone knew that.
Even among all the experts present, none of them were in the space path, thus there was nothing they could do to the battle space Gu.
"Maybe there is still some hope, tribe leader Ye Lui Sang said earlier that 'only when the winner is decided, or when the time runs out', this 'time runs out' means?" Tang Miao Ming asked.
Ye Lui Sang sighed deeply: "Sigh, this time restriction is for Gu Masters. To maintain the battle space Gu, primeval essence will be expended constantly. If a Gu Master uses it, the battle space would vanish when their primeval essence is completely used up."
At this point, everyone lost their hope.
The flying bear phantom's battle space Gu was a wild Gu.
Wild Gu absorbed the primeval energy in the air, and as the primeval energy in the air was continuously supplied, there was no way for the 'time limit' to end.
"If we can absorb all the primeval energy in the air, would that work?" Bian Si Xuan gave a very good suggestion, everyone's eyes were shining.
But it was no use.
After discussing for a while, everyone found that to deal with the invisible and formless primeval energy, qi path methods were required.
But qi path was an ancient path, it had once flourished but had been replaced later by the rising strength path.
By now, strength path had declined, not to mention qi path.
Qi path had been near extinction for a long time.
It was extremely rare to see a qi path Gu Master.
Even though Tai Bai Yun Sheng had roamed northern plains for so many years, he had only see three qi path cultivators. The most recent one, who was also the strongest, was Liu Wen Wu's sworn brother — the variant human Mo Shi Kuang.
But this person had followed Liu Wen Wu since long ago, he was part of Liu tribe, why would he serve under Hei Lou Lan?
Even if he could help, he was an attack type Gu Master, he might not have the ability to deal with the primeval energy. In any case, no one could enter Imperial Court blessed land anymore at this point.
"Qi path is not the most important. The most crucial thing is to break the connection between the primeval energy and battle space Gu, we do not need to get rid of the primeval energy in this area." Tai Bai Yun Sheng said as he stroked his beard.
But this was something no one could do.
Breaking the connection between the primeval energy and wild Gu was the signature ability of restriction path.
Restriction path was also a rare path, there were very few restriction path Gu Masters.
Among everyone present, no one was a restriction path Gu Master.
"Sigh, earlier when I obtained a high grade evaluation and entered Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's treasure room, I found the restriction path primeval break Gu, it could be used in this scenario. But who could I have predicted this, I ended up exchanging something else." Lui Shuang patted his thigh, expressing his regret.
Fang Yuan was folding his arms, expression and not speaking as he stood at one side.
"Think harder, there has to be a way." Hei Lou Lan had just spoken, when the space shook, the huge body of the flying bear phantom appearing before them.
It opened its mouth and roared, showing its frenzy nature.
Everyone's heart sank, quickly looking for Hao Ji Liu's traces.
If he is alive they must see him, if he is dead they must at least see the corpse, but they could not find it anywhere.
"Quick, look at the flying bear's mouth!" Sun Shi Han was an investigative Gu Master, he was the first to find the trace.
Everyone looked over and saw that the flying bear's mouth had traces of blood, and there were some cloth stuck in between its teeth.
This cloth was very familiar to them, everyone pondered about it and quickly realized, wasn't this Hao Ji Liu's clothing?
They understood at once.
Hao Ji Liu was eaten by the flying bear!
What a pity for Hao Ji Liu, the great demonic path expert, known as the "Water Demon", displaying great brilliance in the Imperial Court contest, yet he died at this very place.
Fate was full of uncertainty, the cruelty of reality made everyone feel a strong sense of pity and dread.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng could do nothing either.
Although he had man as before Gu, but it needed a target to use it on, right now Hao Ji Liu's corpse was chewed up by the flying bear, and swallowed into its stomach.
How could he be saved?
The Gu Masters' morale fell.
"The flying bear phantom is too ferocious, how can we fight it?"
"It is so cramped inside the battle space, the flying bear has the five element bear skin Gu, wind tiger cloud dragon Gu, star river Gu, and grand chaotic dance Gu, if we fought it alone, who could be its match?"
"We could never have expected this final round to be difficult to this degree!"
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's rounds got harder towards the later stages, and the final, hundredth round was the hardest.
Right now Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had already created more than ten floors, the Gu Masters were working hard to clear all the rounds for rewards, but most of them were stuck at the ninetieth or so round.
This final round was the first one everyone had arrived at.
"Damn it, morale is so low, it is hard to fight anymore, do we return empty handed this time?" Hei Lou Lan's expression was grim.
This time, they created a huge party for this challenge, yet they lost an expert without gaining anything. This was a huge blow to his reputation and prestige.
Disregarding that, what Hei Lou Lan wanted was a strength path Immortal Gu, meaning he needed a one-edge owner token.
If he could not clear this floor, he would only have an ordinary edgeless owner token.
If he gave up on this floor and chose other floors to challenge, he would need to expend a lot of time.
Time waits for no man, and this too went for him, Hei Lou Lan!
Just as the troop's morale was sinking, Fang Yuan slowly said with a calm expression: "What difficulty is there in killing the flying bear?"
Once he said so, dozens of gazes turned around to look at him.
But soon, they lowered their gazes.
Wolf King was no longer the Wolf King in the rumors.
In the past, Wolf King Chang Shan Yin was a great heroic character in northern plains, a legend who exterminated Ha Tu Gu and his band of bandits.
The current Wolf King was a flying and enslavement master, the number one fierce general publicly recognised in this current Imperial Court contest. During the final battle, he took down the enemy's commander easily from amidst the army, showing his great strength!
He had become even more arrogant and aloof, even becoming cruel and ruthless, striking as a means of persuasion. Hei Xiu Yi who was nearly killed by him was a prime example.
Looking back in time, there was another example, Sun Shi Han.
He had once been attacked by Chang Shan Yin in public, his entire face was trampled on the ground under everyone's watchful eye, he had lost all his pride and face.
Only Hei Lou Lan's gaze approached him, only the 'Black Tyrant' had no fear towards the unrestrained and arrogant Chang Shan Yin.
"Brother Shan Yin, I would like to hear your brilliant plan!" Hei Lou Lan cupped his fists.
Fang Yuan laughed lightly: "It is not a brilliant plan, there is no harm in saying it."
He paused before saying: "This battle space Gu is quite special, but it is only rank five, there has to be restrictions on it, particularly in range. In my opinion, as long as we fight it from afar and avoid the range of battle space Gu's effect, we will be fine."
Hei Lou Lan was shocked, these words truly made him feel as though he was waking up from a dream!
Everyone's eyes were shining, some patted their head as they said excitedly: "I was too frightened by battle space Gu's reputation."
Indeed, any Gu worm had its range of effect.
The battle space Gu's range should not be wide, otherwise, it would not have waited for Hao Ji Liu to get close before activating it.
Of course, battle space Gu was a wild Gu, so the range had to be assessed more carefully.
"Next, I will manipulate the wolf group and encircle the flying bear, you guys will attack from afar using long range methods." Fang Yuan commanded.
Hei Lou Lan was overjoyed, he could not command Fang Yuan to move, now that Fang Yuan was voluntarily entering battle, he quickly said: "We will do as Wolf King says!"
Battle ensued again.
The wolf group was inside trapping the flying bear. The Gu Masters were outside unleashing a rain of attacks from afar.
Like this, the scene of a group of ants eating an elephant was formed.
Flying bear roared continuously, using star river Gu, wind tiger cloud dragon Gu, grand chaotic dance Gu and others, causing great casualties to the wolf group.
In contrast, the Gu Masters were all safe and sound, no more deaths occurred.
Hei Lou Lan was initially afraid of Fang Yuan withdrawing due to huge casualties in the wolf group.
But Fang Yuan showed a strong attitude, he did not retreat even though he was having losses, he even disregarded the wolf corpses.
Hei Lou Lan was perplexed, but after thinking about it, he attributed Fang Yuan's reason for not retreating no matter what to his earlier promise — once they cleared this, Wolf King would get fifty percent of the reward!
What he did not know was, Fang Yuan's true motive was his owner token.
Hei Lou Lan wanted to elevate his owner token, that suited Fang Yuan's interests, after his owner token becomes four-edge, Fang Yuan would snatch it away and form the ten-edge owner token, obtaining a Giant Sun true inheritance.
Because of Fang Yuan's intervention, the scales of victory tilted towards the Gu Masters.
Flying bear's injuries became heavier, as blood flowed down the mound like a waterfall.
Roar!
Suddenly, the flying bear roared again, shooting out another invisible bubble.
The rank five battle space Gu was activated once again.
The Gu Masters were prepared for this, retreating quickly, but the bubble was targeted at a blood forest wolf.
Swoosh.
With a light sound, the flying bear and the blood forest wolf vanished.
"Using the same move again, what's the use?" Someone saw this and laughed.
"As long as we do not get closer, why would we be afraid of the battle space Gu? Hahaha!"
"All of you shut up!" Hei Lou Lan screamed furiously, showing a very annoyed and irritated expression.
Not just him, Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng and the others also had a grim expression.
Chapter 585: Finally getting through, Fang Yuan requests for an Immortal Gu
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
This time, the battle space lasted much longer than before, lasting half a day before it dispersed. The hill-sized giant flying bear phantom appeared once again before everyone.
"Damn it, just like we thought!" Sun Shi Han cried out involuntarily.
"Hmph!" Hei Lou Lan was also not looking well.
There were no injuries on the flying bear phantom's body, a dazzling halo flowing through its snow-white fur. Its eyes were bright and its battle intent soared high; it had seemingly made a complete recovery
Flying bear had a rank five healing Gu which had already been investigated clearly.
As for its opponent – the blood forest wolf – which had been pulled into the battle space, only a pile of white bones remained.
"Can we still fight it?" Even Pei Yan Fei with his raging battle intent, felt indecisive at this moment.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng stroked his beard and muttered: "No matter how serious the flying bear phantom's injuries are, as long as it uses battle space Gu to enter the battle space, it can recover back to its prime state in half a day. And during this time, we can do nothing but to just look on."
"Right, battle space Gu might only be a wild Gu and not under the flying bear's control, but a wild Gu's sense of danger is very sharp, and when it senses danger, it will casually choose a target to pull into the battle space to protect its host."
"Doesn't this mean the wolf groups also cannot be used? Wolf groups have to engage in close combat, surrounding the flying bear, aren't they just the best targets to pull into the battle space?"
"Looks like only us Gu Masters should attack now!"
When someone said this, the scene suddenly quietened.
Throwing out the wolf groups and making Gu Masters assault the flying bear phantom was also not feasible!
The flying bear could quickly pull a Gu Master into the battle space. The Gu Master was sure to struggle bitterly to their last breath, using every method they had to keep on living.
There was a very simple way to break the battle space and not give the flying bear enough time to heal: the Gu Master that was pulled in to the battle space needed to immediately suicide.
But no one would want to kill themselves, survival instinct was human nature.
Even Tai Bai Yun Sheng would not be able to save them; Water Demon Hao Ji Liu's bloody tragedy was a clear example of it.
"The final round is really too difficult. We have gathered so many people with many heroes, but we are actually helpless against this flying bear phantom with our combined strength!"
Flying bear quietly lied down on the ground, vigilantly looking at the crowd. It did not attack and only let out low roars.
"It should not be like this, the crucial thing is we have no way to restrain battle space Gu. We don't have methods of restriction path and qi path."
"Hei tribe leader, I suggest we change the strategy." Ye Lui Sang was also a tribe leader of a super force, others might not dare to speak up, but he could talk bluntly.
Hei Lou Lan gave a snort but did not reply.
His thoughts moved like lightning: 'Looking at this situation, it is almost impossible to resolve the problem of battle space Gu. It seems like there is only one way, that is for me to go into battle and make the flying bear pull me into the battle space. In the battle space, I can use my strength path killer move and kill the flying bear!"
His strength path killer move was extremely powerful, it was a secret technique of Hei tribe.
Hei Lou Lan could not take care of the flying bear with just the dark path cultivation which he showed on the surface. But if he used his strength path abilities, with the amplification from his Great Strength True Martial Physique, it would not be difficult for him to kill the flying bear.
But if he did so, he would be breaking the sealing effect of Immortal Gu Dark Limit, which would quicken the appearance of the disaster of one of the ten extreme physiques.
"The time I have is already not enough, now if I use my strength path killer move to kill the flying bear, this time will shorten even more. And in this short period of time, I still need to attack another floor, clear a hundred rounds and obtain a strength path Immortal Gu, this difficulty is too large!"
"But if I don't cross this round, I won't have a one-edge owner token, so how could I know about the position of the strength path Immortal Gu? Whether I change the strategy or ask for support from the tribe, they both require time!"
"The worst situation will be if I use the strength path killer move, kill this flying bear, obtain a one-edge owner token, but there is no strength path Immortal Gu in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building…"
Hei Lou Lan was hesitating.
This matter concerned his life and death while the path ahead was filled with darkness, even he could not avoid being indecisive and helpless.
"It is not difficult to break the battle space."
One astonishing sentence resounded in the place.
Everyone followed the voice towards its source; it was none other than Wolf King once again.
"Brother Shan Yin, you have another method?" Hei Lou Lan immediately asked.
Fang Yuan smiled: "I should also be making an all-out effort for the fifty-percent reward, right? My plan is divided into three steps. First, we will use long-range methods to exhaust the flying bear's energy as much as possible. Second, we will send a death warrior to engage in close combat; he will have to immediately suicide if he is pulled into the battle space. Third, the flying bear will have no time to take a breather, and we continue with long-range battle; we will definitely be able to kill this beast once we maintain this plan!"
"Good plan!"
"How could I have not thought of it?"
Some people cheered; some people slapped their thighs loudly in pleasant surprise; while some people inwardly muttered of this plan's cruelty.
But no matter what they commented, everyone knew this method could solve the problem.
In northern plains where battles occurred frequently, every single tribe possessed death warriors; it was only a matter of whether they had many or few, whether they were elites or ordinary.
Hei tribe was a super force, the death warriors they cultivated were not only many in number, but were also elites.
"This way…" Tai Bai Yun Sheng slightly frowned, disturbed by this plan.
Sun Shi Han's eyes flashed with brilliance as he looked at Hei Lou Lan without speaking.
Dying in battle and taking the initiative to throw away one's life were two completely different concepts.
The former was the honor of the brave, while the latter was those in power bringing disaster to other's lives for their benefits.
If this plan was really to be carried out, Hei Lou Lan, this Hei tribe leader's reputation would be completely destroyed.
This was against the values of the righteous path.
Being in the righteous path, their biggest concern was reputation.
Those with bad reputation would have a limited achievement in the righteous path. Demonic path was different, no matter what the reputation was, its main value was strength! Thus, within the demonic path, there was the plague-like Hao Ji Liu, as opposed to the life-savior Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Because of this, Sun Shi Han did not attempt to advise this matter.
He was a smart man and knew no matter how he said it or persuaded, it would not be appropriate.
He had even thought of this method earlier, but did not suggest it.
He did not dare.
The current Sun Shi Han was already an external elder of Hei tribe. Once he suggested this, it would be asking to soil his reputation, would he still be able to stay with Hei tribe then?
"Probably only this sinister and cruel Wolf King can say it without any misgivings." Sun Shi Han secretly glanced at Fang Yuan with hatred and fear, his cheeks seemingly twitching in pain.
But what Sun Shi Han did not know was — to Hei Lou Lan, what use would reputation be when his own life was about to be over?!
When Hei Lou Lan heard Fang Yuan's plan, he immediately decided to use it.
But he still frowned and thought for a long while, hesitating, pitifully sighing and showing a profound 'merciful' expression. Finally, he heaved a long sigh and spoke a pile of erudite words.
The main idea was: They were forced to use this plan. The tribesmen who die will be given grand burial by him as a brother, and he will personally take care of their family, give compensation, and so on.
Everyone knew it, but they could not point it out, this was the game rule of the righteous path.
After going through this process, Hei Lou Lan immediately summoned Hei tribe's death warriors to enter the battle.
These death warriors from Hei tribe were all of rank two cultivation and had been brought up by Hei tribe since youth, imbued day and night with the ideology of loyalty to the tribe.
As for rank three death warriors, it was not that there were none of them. But once they reach rank three, they would become a precious resource and almost every one of them would be free from the status of a death warrior.
Only super forces would have a number of death warriors of rank three and even rank four cultivation, but they would not use them so lightly.
Hei Lou Lan was this generation's Hei tribe leader and if he sent these death warriors to their deaths, they could not refuse him.
If the emperor wants his subjects dead, the subjects need to die no matter what, regardless of their will!
This was the system.
The following battle went without any accidents.
The battle persisted till more than ten death warriors were sacrificed, and the flying bear phantom finally collapsed on the ground, breathing its last.
But when everyone wanted to deliver the final strike, they suddenly discovered they could not even budge.
"What is happening?!"
"It is Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's power making us not able to move!"
"This, isn't this too shameless. Only a move more and we could kill this flying bear!"
Everyone shouted and raged at this stupefying situation.
Only Fang Yuan's expression was tranquil, he had a six-edge owner token and knew that this round was over.
Hei Lou Lan also felt this and immediately took out his owner token, fixing his gaze at it and saw an edge gradually emerging from the originally round owner token.
At the same time, a strong sense of fortune entered the depths of his heart, letting him know that he was in full control of this floor.
'So we had no need to kill the flying bear in this final round and only needed to beat it to near death!' Hei Lou Lan was exulted inwardly, but showed a mournful expression on his face, sighing, "Everyone, do not fret, the battle has ended, we were successful, this round is crossed. Sigh… what happened to my Hei tribe's children was truly a pity. If not for the battle space isolating the connection between the inside and outside, I would have definitely used puppets or wild Gu to replace them."
"Passed… we passed?" Everyone was shocked and excited.
"Tribe leader Hei Lou Lan, I wonder what the rewards for this round are? Is it possible to let this old man broaden his horizons." Tai Bai Yun Sheng inquired. The motive for him entering Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was lifespan Gu. However, lifespan Gu was rare and precious and could only appear as the rewards for ninetieth or above rounds.
Hei Lou Lan revealed a peculiar expression at the inquiry and pointed at the dying flying bear phantom: "That is this round's reward."
"What?"
"This flying bear phantom?"
"How could it be?"
Everyone was shocked once again, only Fang Yuan knew clearly.
He possessed a six-edge owner token, and knew the rewards for any round of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's current floors like the back of his palm. Before even tackling this round, he knew of this round's reward – it was a rank six phantom path Immortal Gu with a simple to understand name – flying bear phantom Gu.
Sure enough, at the next moment, under everyone's astonished gazes, the dying giant flying bear gradually turned into an enormous ball of white light.
The white light shrunk rapidly, finally turning into a speck of light that flew towards Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan quickly received it and carefully observed it.
He was the master of the owner token, the reward for passing this round was his. He had just come into contact with this flying bear phantom Gu, but easily refined it because of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's power.
Fang Yuan's six-edge owner token was different. It was created from exploitation and could only receive the floor's rewards after taking control of the floor. Naturally, it was not like it could not contest against Hei Lou Lan's owner token, but once they contested, Giant Sun's will would awaken which would cause a great loss to him, or even face a tragic end.
This risk was better not taken if possible.
Flying bear phantom Gu was looking very dim, its aura was weak like it was near death, its condition was extremely poor.
But Hei Lou Lan was unable to take his eyes off it. What was this?
'This is an Immortal Gu!'
He had just sighed with emotions inwardly when a voice sounded in his ears: "This Immortal Gu, give it to me."
The tone of the voice was flat, but it could not suppress the determination within.
Hei Lou Lan immediately frowned, he did not need to look around to know who the speaker was.
Who else had guts to mention such a request besides Wolf King Chang Shan Yin?
Chapter 586: Using flying bear, Mo Yao speaks of phantom path
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
When Fang Yuan publicly requested the flying bear phantom Gu, Hei Lou Lan's immediate reaction was to object immediately.
This was an Immortal Gu!
Even an ordinary Gu Immortal would not obtain one easily. No matter how amazing Wolf King was, he was only a mortal, he dared to make such an absurd request?!
Moreover, this flying bear phantom Gu was extremely easy to use.
With just a single thought, and a toss of the Gu, one could make the Gu worm transform into the flying bear phantom and engage in combat.
Although the flying bear phantom's battle strength was not as terrifying as the desolate beast flying bear, it definitely had half-immortal battle strength, with this Gu, one could easily dominate the mortal realm.
If during the Immortal Court contest, Hei Lou Lan had such an Immortal Gu…
There would be no place for Fang Yuan to display his abilities!
Fang Yuan opened asked for it, it was very rude. However, even though Hei Lou Lan was furious, he felt that this was only natural.
After all, only a person like Chang Shan Yin would have the guts to make such a request in public.
Looking at the flying bear phantom Gu in his hand, Hei Lou Lan slowly calmed down.
"Not good, the flying bear phantom was half beaten to death by us, this Immortal Gu's condition is extremely poor, it cannot be used now, it has to recover for some time."
"An injured Immortal Gu needs an Immortal Gu to heal it. Other than that, it can only self recover, but during that period it would need to consume lots of food, unceasingly."
"If I did not remember wrongly, this flying bear phantom Gu's food is the desolate beast flying bear's flesh and blood. This is problematic! How can I have such a thing? I have to seek help from the tribe's immortals."
The more Hei Lou Lan thought about it, the more his anger subsided.
He was of the ten extreme physique's Great Strength True Martial Physique, he needed a strength path Immortal Gu to ascend to Gu Immortal realm and escape the threat of death.
The flying bear phantom Gu was not something he needed, what he desperately wanted now was a strength path Immortal Gu.
"My most important priority at the moment is to find a strength path Immortal Gu. Immortal Gu are often only given at the final round of a floor, during the process of completing this, I will need everyone's strength."
Although Hei Lou Lan was not afraid of Chang Shan Yin, if he forcefully kept the flying bear phantom Gu, then the Wolf King would definitely become enemies with him. With that gap between them, there was no way he could utilize the Wolf King's strength again.
He might as well give this Immortal Gu to him, to exchange for his strength, and truly help and benefit Hei Lou Lan himself.
This way, Hei Lou Lan's reputation could be preserved as well, no one would say that he went back on his words.
Hei Lou Lan made many considerations, but this was only a moment in real time.
"Hmph hmph," Sun Shi Han snickered, " Lord Wolf King, this is an Immortal Gu, you want to take it just like that? My tribe leader promised you half the rewards earlier, but that does not mean we need to give you the Immortal Gu."
"It seems the lesson I gave you earlier was not enough." Fang Yuan heard this and frowned lightly, his gaze turned ice cold as his killing intent was released fully, towards Sun Shi Han.
Sun Shi Han's expression changed instantly, and he could not help but move closer to Hei Lou Lan.
No one questioned if Fang Yuan would have the guts to directly execute the killing blow.
The ferocity of Wolf King was ingrained in everyone's hearts.
"Hahaha." Hei Lou Lan laughed loudly, walking towards Fang Yuan as he patted his chest: "A true gentleman never goes back on his words! Earlier, I promised the Wolf King half the rewards, then it shall be fifty percent. It was all due to brother Shan Yin's brilliant plan that allowed us to get through this round, I will add another ten percent of reward, but the Immortal Gu is unique, its value is immeasurable, even with your sixty percent reward, in what way are you going to compensate the remaining forty percent to us?"
"That's right, we put in much effort too!"
"I have heavy injuries now, I did not retreat amidst the fierce combat, everyone can be my witness. Even Lord Water Demon Hao Ji Liu died because of this!"
"I believe Lord Wolf King will give us a good solution."
Everyone said in agreement, it was all targeted at Fang Yuan.
Even though Fang Yuan had great strength, but wealth moved people's hearts, everyone was filled with envy, jealousy and hatred upon seeing that an Immortal Gu was going to fall into his hands. Thus, they pushed all of their unhappiness towards Fang Yuan.
Under everyone's gaze, Fang Yuan frowned deeper and deeper.
Hei Lou Lan laughed secretly: "Wolf King, oh Wolf King, even with your ferocious reputation and outstanding strength, you will still eventually be captured by me."
Seven days later.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's seventh layer, the ninetieth round.
In the maze, the flying bear phantom was roaring at the sky.
Its body was covered in wounds, blood was oozing at its mouth, and several of its sharp teeth had broken. Its right eye was blinded, hanging outside its socket like a grape, it was in bad shape.
But it only had one enemy.
He was floating in the air, with six arms on his back, compared to the hill-like flying bear phantom which had a massive body, he was very small.
But the flying bear phantom was serious and vigilant like it was facing a strong enemy. After they had battled for fifteen minutes, it could deeply feel how powerful this 'tiny' enemy was.
"Flying bear phantom Gu, it is deservedly an Immortal Gu! Even after turning into the flying bear phantom, it retains much wisdom, and is quite shrewd, in the future when I face strong foes, I can use it to restrain them and that can help me save a lot of energy."
Fang Yuan looked at the flying bear phantom below him as he evaluated in his heart.
Seven days ago, Hei Lou Lan gathered the band of experts and broke through the final round of the fifth floor, obtaining the flying bear phantom Immortal Gu.
Fang Yuan was blunt and unrestrained, as he immediately asked for it.
Even though the other Gu Masters were jealous and envious, trying to come up with endless excuses against this, Fang Yuan announced that he was willing to compensate the remaining half of the Gu's worth, while giving an unrelenting attitude. Eventually, Hei Lou Lan gave this Gu to Fang Yuan.
With this Gu, Fang Yuan went to Hei Lou Lan that night and borrowed resources, establishing a contract with him in secret.
After returning, he used Hu Immortal blessed land to connect to treasure yellow heaven, exchanging for the relevant Gu worms and food, and during the sixth day, the flying bear phantom Gu was restored to its healthy state.
By the seventh day, Fang Yuan secretly entered the seventh floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, personally testing the flying bear phantom Gu and the finalized killer move six arm heavenly zombie king.
Fang Yuan ordered the flying bear phantom Gu to attack him without holding back, while he himself used the six arm heavenly zombie king to fight back.
Flying bear phantom Gu was an Immortal Gu, it had half the battle strength of the flying bear, but it was not Fang Yuan's match when he was in six arm heavenly zombie king mode.
Fang Yuan was very satisfied with this result.
He thought about it in his mind: "The killer move six arm heavenly zombie king is indeed formidable! It uses borrow strength Gu as the core to borrow the natural strength of heaven, earth, fire, water and others, sustaining itself by allowing a steady and endless torrent of strength to be supplied."
"Most amazingly, it can transform my body into a zombie's body temporarily, this way, my body will be in a half-dead state, my recovery speed will increase greatly and my sense of pain will reduce, I would be in the state of near unlimited energy and strength, I can do anything!"
If it was an ordinary living body, constantly using strength would tire it out. But by becoming a heavenly zombie, Fang Yuan could avoid such a weakness.
This kind of strength and feeling was intoxicating for Fang Yuan, but it also made him more alert.
"I can only maintain this form for a short period of time, during intense battle, I will have to commit to the battle fully and I would not recognise the flow of time. Although this killer move is great and gives me a good feeling, it is easy to get addicted and lost when using it. I must never forget the time limit of this killer move, otherwise the consequences would be severe!"
The killer move six arm heavenly zombie king was powerful, but had a time limit. Once the time limit was exceeded, the Gu Master might turn into a real zombie from over usage.
The severity of this surpassed even the ten extreme physique's disaster, even if he used the yin-yang rotation Gu, he could not recover.
Fang Yuan wanted to get rid of this weakness, but Mo Yao's requirements were too strict, Fang Yuan could not find a suitable person to test the Gu.
"Actually, you have not fully unleashed the true power of this flying bear phantom Gu." At this time, Mo Yao's will in Fang Yuan's mind spoke.
"Oh, what do you mean?"
Mo Yao had some understanding regarding phantom path: "Phantom path, it focuses on the forms of phantom and solid, during the initial stage from rank one to five, phantom is the foundation, using phantom form to avoid attacks. Thus, phantom path Gu masters often lack attacking power, but have ample defensive measures. But at rank six and above, phantom path Gu Immortals have both offense and defense, by turning into phantom and solid form at will, they can go into the defensive phantom mode, nullifying all forms of attacks, and also turn phantom into solid, attacking people when they least expect it."
"The flying bear phantom Gu is a phantom path Immortal Gu, it was created by killing the desolate beast flying bear and using all of its skin, bones, flesh, blood, and soul to refine it. Just the flying bear phantom Gu alone has half the strength of the real flying bear. But if it was given accompanying Gu worms, like the battle space Gu, grand chaotic dance Gu, five element bear skin Gu and others, its battle strength would surge greatly."
Mo Yao's words made Fang Yuan nod repeatedly.
He recalled the fight when they were at the final round, precisely because of the flying bear phantom's Gu worms could it have a huge boost in battle strength, even causing the band of experts to be helpless.
But after the battle, battle space Gu was taken by Hei Lou Lan, and the remaining Gu worms were also taken by other people.
Fang Yuan was fighting the flying bear phantom alone in secret, the flying bear phantom had no Gu worms left, thus, Fang Yuan could have the upper hand when fighting.
He had some degree of comprehension in this: "Looking at it from another angle, complementing the flying bear phantom Gu with other Gu worms is exactly like using multiple Gu worms at once. Isn't this a killer move?"
Killer moves are a Gu Master's unique creation, using many Gu worms at the same time together to create an effect greater than when used individually, unleashing great strength.
Mo Yao nodded in agreement: "Your comprehension is completely right, that is so. However, what truly complements the flying bear phantom Gu are only phantom path Gu worms. Forget the rest, just a single turn phantom Gu would allow the flying bear phantom Gu to turn from solid to phantom form, evading all sorts of attacks."
"Turn phantom Gu?" Fang Yuan's heart shook uncontrollably.
He could completely imagine that when the turn phantom Gu is used with the flying bear phantom Gu, it would become an extremely troublesome enemy.
This could transform the usage of flying bear phantom Gu completely, achieving a true qualitative change to a degree.
Mo Yao laughed lightly, saying: "Lad, as long as you return Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House properly, I will tell you the details of three phantom path inheritances, among them, one is likely to be a phantom path Gu Immortal inheritance."
"We'll talk about that later." Fang Yuan calmed down, replying in a plain tone.
He had never removed his alertness towards Mo Yao.
Although Mo Yao did not displayed any hostile intentions, Fang Yuan had always felt a sense of danger in his heart.
Chapter 587: The vast difference between immortal and mortal
Time passed by rapidly and a month had passed.
Northern plains.
The wind raged and snow fluttered around.
The world was a scene of white as the white snow covered the large grassland. Bone chilling wind blew everywhere; occasionally, it would form into a tornado and occasionally, it would lift the deep snow on the ground.
Every ten years, the blizzard disaster devastated the whole of northern plains. Living beings lamented and all things turned destitute. At a few limited places, the surviving humans and animals were struggling for their lives.
They not only had to overcome the frigid climate, but also needed to engage in fierce combat against snow monsters and other battles.
However, in such a cruel environment, snowmen were like fish in water, moving very frequently and becoming extremely lively.
The ice cold blizzard was merely a warm spring wind to snowmen.
They hunted in this blizzard, and large numbers of wild snow path, ice path and water path Gu worms started to live one after another on their body.
The snowmen tribes who were hunted by the Gu Masters, beaten down and sold during normal times, were now experiencing enormous growth. Their forces expanded rapidly.
In the raging blizzard, two dark figures appeared.
The dark figures stood on a cliff, overflowing with immortal aura; they were Hei tribe's two Gu Immortals — Hei Bai and Hei Cheng.
They looked down towards the valley under them.
The blizzard was still wild, but it was not even able to sway the two's clothes. The snow fluttered madly, but was not able to obstruct the two's probing gazes.
In the valley, many ice houses were built, packed together with the numbers reaching several tens of thousands.
A group of heroic snowmen warriors had just returned from their hunt. They had returned with great harvests once again.
Rank six wood path Gu Immortal Hei Bai frowned: "Hmph, this group of snowmen is taking advantage of this time period to grow so rapidly! In these three days, this is already the seventh tribe we have seen of such a scale."
Those who are not my race have different motives, although snowmen had men in their name, they were still variant humans.
When the blizzard ends, northern plains' tribes would actively start developing which was bound to result in many large battles with these snowmen.
To human tribes, such a large number of snowmen meant their enemy was more in number and stronger.
Hei Cheng patted Hei Bai's shoulder, smiling: "Virtuous brother should be happy. Looking at it from another angle, these snowmen are our wealth! We can take these snowmen as captives and not only exchange them for immortal essence stones with other Gu Immortals, we can also give Xue Song Zi something to cry about."
The corners of Hei Bai's lips raised to an arc: "Elder brother thinks in a comprehensive way. If not for Xue Song Zi, the wooden chicken Gu would have already been in my hands. And he even meddled in the last Imperial Court contest. These days, we have been hunting snowmen everywhere and selling them in treasure yellow heaven. Hehehe, I really want to see how Xue Song Zi's expression is like now."
But the moment he finished saying this, his smile disappeared and his gaze revealed a trace of anxiety: "Elder brother, Hei Lou Lan has already been in Imperial Court for so long, and according to the time, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building should have already formed over twenty floors. Why is there still no trace of wooden chicken Gu?"
Hei Cheng laughed: "Do not fret, do not fret. Eighty-Eight True Yang Building has altogether eighty-eight floors, this is not much. Hei Lou Lan, this kid might have a irascible temper, but he is meticulous when it comes to the big picture. He hasn't broken off the contact with us since he entered Imperial Court, isn't that right? Moreover, he now already has one-edge owner token, as long as wooden chicken Gu is involved in the creation of a new floor, Hei Lou Lan can sense it, and we will receive the news."
Hei tribe was a super force, although they did not have ability in exploiting the flaws that could match the level of Fairy Mo Yao, they had their own ways to use Gu worms to transfer messages inside and out.
Hei Bai sighed: "Imperial Court blessed land and northern plains' outside world have differing time flow. A day here in the outside world is equal to over twenty days in Imperial Court blessed land. I am somewhat worried Hei Lou Lan's notice will be late, and if so, the help we can provide will be small."
Hei Cheng comforted with a smile: "Virtuous brother, the more you worry, the more frantic you will get. Relax, according to Hei Lou Lan's strength, getting through three or four floors would not be a problem. Before this, we'd better take care of this group of snowmen."
"Okay." Hei Bai's worry was slightly relieved, as he nodded.
The two shot down like lightning, directly charging into the snowman tribe within the valley.
Hei Cheng chuckled.
Instantly, an unrestrained laughter shook the world, stopping even the moving clouds! The whole valley buzzed from the tremor and the majestic snowfall also slowed.
Crash crash crash….
The soundwave swept through the valley, crushing countless ice buildings into fine powder.
The snowman tribe instantly suffered serious losses!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"A strong enemy has appeared. Warriors, it is time to protect our homeland!"
"Protect our homeland. Remember, we cannot fall down, behind us are our wives, children and parents!"
Snowmen were in an uproar, and after a short moment of panic, they prepared to resist.
"Hmph, overestimating your strength." Hei Bai looked at the snowmen flocking together while floating in midair, his gaze apathetic like he was looking at a group of ants.
He lightly waves his sleeve – buzzz buzzz buzzz…..
A black mass of Gu groups flew out. First the number was in hundreds, then thousands, then it reached tens of thousands.
Finally, the several hundreds of thousands of Gu hovered over the valley like dark clouds pressing down on a city.
The snowmen looked at the sky, their expression filled with terror and lifelessness. The fighting spirit and heroic feelings they raised up just a moment ago, froze completely in front of a Gu Immortal's might.
At this moment, they were truly able to feel the bone-piercing chill of the blizzard.
Gu Immortals possessed immortal essence, a bead of immortal essence could be regarded as unlimited primeval essence. This meant every single Gu Immortal could control large numbers of mortal Gu, and would never be lacking in primeval essence.
The snowman tribes might be flourishing, but in front of a Gu Immortal's battle strength, they were like lambs waiting for slaughter and could only let themselves be trampled upon.
Next moment, Hei Bai lightly pointed and the Gu groups pounced down loudly.
Mournful sounds started resounding and echoing endlessly in the valley.
A dozen or so days later…
Imperial Court blessed land.
Hei Lou Lan slowly put down the letter Gu in his hand, sneering.
The letter Gu came from Hei tribe' Gu Immortal, its content was the same as before, still urging Hei Lou Lan to speed up the search for wooden chicken Gu.
There was originally no way to send messages from or to Imperial Court blessed land, but after so many years had gone by, even if it was an arrangement by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, it could not stand the erosion of the river of time, and a few flaws appeared.
Although they did not have capability in exploiting this on Fairy Mo Yao's level, the super forces like Hei tribe and Liu tribe had polished the methods to send the message.
"Once a Gu Master advances to an immortal, their physique would thoroughly raise to a higher level and would possess immortal essence. Mortals simply cannot be an immortal's opponent, to deal with Gu Immortal requires a Gu Immortal!"
"Strength path Immortal Gu…"
Hei Lou Lan softly muttered then slowly stood up from his seat and walked towards the window.
He looked up at the gorgeous aurora moving at the summit of the sacred palace. Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's newest floor had condensed at this moment.
"Thirty-eighth floor." Hei Lou Lan sighed. Having seen this scene so many times, he no longer had the excitement like before when he saw it for the first time. But his esteem towards Old Ancestor Giant Sun, had now reached the level of prostrating himself in admiration before the old ancestor's heavenly methods every time he saw the scene of True Yang Building condensing a floor.
"Only with Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and Old Ancestor Giant Sun's power, I can take my revenge!" Hei Lou Lan took out his owner token.
So much time had passed by but his owner token was still one-edge owner token.
Hei Lou Lan knew of history and also knew his own strength.
The current forces, compared to the past winners of the Imperial Court contest, were not bad but also could not be considered too good. Taking everything into account, it was only enough to cross three-four floors.
Hei Lou Lan wanted to acquire his strength path Immortal Gu, but also had the tribe responsibility of getting wooden chicken Immortal Gu. This meant the quota for two clearances was already filled.
Hence, these days, he restrained himself from taking action, making recuperation his priority, and at the same time, he still opened up Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, letting Gu Masters increase their strength as much as possible.
Naturally, he did this to make the Gu Masters, outside of Hei tribe, thankful and admire him. And naturally, many among Hei tribe were dissatisfied and puzzled by it, but mindful of Black Tyrant's fierce reputation, none dared to speak up.
"Messenger." Hei Lou Lan softly called.
His trusted aide Hei Shu immediately appeared before him and quietly kneeled down, speaking with a lowered head: "Lord tribe leader, please instruct."
"How is the recent situation?" Hei Lou Lan rubbed the owner token, his gaze still at Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
"The situation looks to be steady recently, but undercurrents are starting to surge. Chang tribe's Gu Masters have repeatedly been killed, many Gu Masters have mysteriously disappeared when going out. Chang tribe leader Chang Ji You has personally moved out, searching everywhere to capture the killers, but no gains have been made. Instead, the attacks on Chang tribe's Gu Masters have become even more serious." Hei Shu reported.
"Eh, who has such guts?"
Hei Shu revealed an ashamed expression: "Subordinate is still investigating."
Hei Lou Lan slightly nodded, his tone revealing some slight joy in another's calamity: "No need to hurry, hehe, we shouldn't hurry in this matter. Chang Shan Yin's actions are too sinister and cruel, losing favour with people, and now he is tasting the bitter consequences. A few months ago, he wiped out the earth chief beast group and assigned Chang tribe's Gu Masters to capture many Gu Masters, and he actually killed all of them! Hmph, this had already aroused public anger, but fearing Wolf King's reputation, no one dared to take actions though they had the heart for revenge."
Hei Lou Lan remembered this clearly.
Because, among these unlucky Gu Masters Fang Yuan captured to do experiments on, were some people who had some relations to Hei Lou Lan.
Wolf King actually did not give him face and killed these people; Hei Lou Lan had secretly been bearing this grudge all this time.
"Tribe leader is wise, subordinate and others also think this is the case." Hei Shu flattered and said in agreement, "Chang tribe leader might be Chang Ji You, but he is Wolf King's son and was appointed as the tribe leader with one sentence from Wolf King. He is too young and cannot appease the tribesmen. The whole of Chang tribe's affairs actually lie with Chang Ji You's adopted father Chang Biao."
"But not long ago, the death of the two lords Chang Biao and Pan Ping while roaming seventh floor's ninetieth round, had spread. There was an indistinct commotion within Chang tribe and Chang Ji You has been finding it hard to maintain Chang tribe's situation. The avenger saw this great opportunity, and maybe because they had received a great increase in strength from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's rewards, they have been killing Chang tribe's Gu Masters everywhere."
"Hmm." Hei Lou Lan nodded, Hei Shu's analysis was similar to his own thoughts.
"Quickly investigate this person. Taking revenge wholeheartedly in spite of Wolf King's fierceness, this is bravery. Killing Chang tribe's Gu Masters and not being found even after so many days, this is scheming. This person is brave and can scheme, they should be taken into my Hei tribe. And also, only my Hei tribe can protect their life." Hei Lou Lan instructed.
"Yes, lord."
"Are there any movements from Chang Shan Yin?"
"Ever since Chang Biao's corpse was found and delivered to Chang tribe, maybe Wolf King found some clues from the corpse, he entered Eighty-Eight True Yang Building that very day and has yet to come out now. Subordinate had sent people to inquire, Wolf King should have gone to seventh floor's ninetieth maze round. Ever since he entered, people have often reported hearing the howls of wolf groups." Hei Shu reported.
Hei Lou Lan frowned.
Chang Biao, Pan Ping and Water Demon Hao Ji Liu's deaths were something he had not wanted to see.
But since they were already dead, Hei Lou Lan could only accept this fact.
He could complete forecast once Wolf King exited the tower and knew of Chang tribe's misfortunes, he would fly up in rage, searching for the killer. At that time, the whole sacred palace might be turned upside down.
Hei Lou Lan was looking forward to Wolf King attracting every more public anger, but he worried Wolf King would even implicate the innocents and start massacring everywhere which would greatly weaken the forces to mobilize in passing the rounds.
Hei Lou Lan must prevent this from happening. But how to prevent it?
Hei Lou Lan fell into silence as he started thinking.
Hei Shu was calmly kneeling down, patiently waiting for Hei Lou Lan's next command.
Hei Lou Lan did not think for long before an amazed expression appeared on his face.
His gaze instantly turned sharp as he once again looked at Eighty-Eight True Yang Building on the summit of the sacred palace.
There, the thirty-ninth floor was slowly condensing into shape.
Although it had yet to form, Hei Lou Lan was able to know the Gu worms in this floor through his one-edge owner token.
'Wooden chicken Gu! Wooden chicken Gu has finally appeared!'
Hei Lou Lan's mind was shaken, but soon he calmed down and his gaze quickly moved towards Hei Shu.
"Go, summon Ma Ying Jie to see me. Immediately!"
Chapter 588: Each with their schemes
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Ma Ying Jie heard the summons and quickly hurried to pay a visit.
As Hei tribe's greatest opponent — Ma tribe had suffered disastrous losses in the decisive battle. Ma tribe's experts were almost completely annihilated, but the young tribe leader Ma Ying Jie was luckily rescued and bravely rose to take the great responsibility of a tribe leader.
His original plan had been to hole up in warm pond valley and recover as much as possible. But Hei Lou Lan brought his army to the valley and forcibly annexed Ma tribe.
Thus, Ma tribe had not alternative but to follow Hei tribe to Imperial Court blessed land.
Ma Ying Jie had thought Hei Lou Lan wanted to get rid of Ma tribe's name and completely swallow Ma tribe. For this reason, he expended great effort and even accepted outsiders, giving them the surname 'Ma'.
But the situation he had anticipated never happened. Not only this, Ma tribe did not receive any severe duties from Hei Lou Lan's side even after arriving at Imperial Court blessed land, instead they were treated without discrimination. Hei Lou Lan selflessly opened up Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to the public from where Ma tribe had obtained many gains. Right now, the whole of Ma tribe was able to recover favorably and the tribe's forces were prospering day by day.
However, there was no free lunch in the world, Ma Ying Jie had been on tenterhooks because of this.
With Hei Lou Lan's sudden summons, the unease in his heart immediately increased several times, reaching the extreme limit.
Hei Lou Lan smiled when he looked at Ma Ying Jie: "Ma tribe leader, has Ma tribe been well these days?"
Ma Ying Jie was on guard inwardly and immediately replied: "It is good. We must thank you, lord tribe leader, for disregarding previous enmity and being magnanimous. Ma tribe was on its last breath, but now has recovered some vitality."
"If I am not wrong, Ma tribe received help from Snowy Mountain blessed land's demonic path immortal Xue Song Zi in this contest, right?" Hei Lou Lan asked amiably.
Ma Ying Jie was tongue-tied, cold sweat started flowing down from his body, and he was not able to speak a word.
Ma tribe, who possessed Huang Jin bloodline, privately joined hands with a demonic path Gu Immortal, this undoubtedly broke the rules Ancestor Giant Sun had set.
'Is Hei Lou Lan looking to settle the score at this time? Damn it, right now, he holds the knife while I am the fish, he only needs to casually say a sentence and Ma tribe would be finished!" Ma Ying Jie was very nervous, revitalizing Ma tribe was his wish, Ma tribe was what he cherished most in his life.
"Hahaha." Hei Lou Lan laughed heartily, his laughter resounding in the study, "Ma tribe leader, no need to worry, as long as you cooperate obediently, glory and riches will come gushing forth."
"Tribe leader, please explain." Ma Ying Jie gnashed his teeth.
A wise man submits to circumstances; with such a pressing situation, he had no choice but to lower his head.
"What?"
However, Hei Lou Lan's next words shocked Ma Ying Jie, his dumbstruck expression frozen like a statue. …
Snowy Mountain blessed land.
The lofty Snowy Mountain peaked through the clouds. The clear blue sky shone with dazzling brilliance.
On the fifth branch peak of the mountain range.
Within the Ice Lake Palace, a negotiation was reaching its end.
Xue Song Zi's expression was worried as he looked at Demon Lord Long Dan, saying impatiently: "Demon Lord, don't forget who it was that lent you immortal essence stones and settled your debt during your emergency. It was me! Now I have some small troubles and am asking you for help, but you are using all sorts of excuses, isn't this too disappointing? Is the grand Demon Lord Long Dan such a petty person?"
Demon Lord Long Dan sipped his tea with a smile, his tone calm: "Lord Song Zi, please speak cautiously. The friendship from before, I still remember and have not forgotten even a little. But this time, Lord Song Zi, your troubles are not small. If I helped you, it would be offending Hei tribe's Gu Immortals. My business at treasure yellow heaven has just recently taken somewhat of a turn for the better, it cannot endure such an attack."
Xue Song Zi made a living out of selling snowmen and had made a lot of wealth. But in these recent months, his business at treasure yellow heaven was intensely impacted by Hei tribe.
Hei tribe's Gu Immortals wantonly hunted snowmen and sold them at low prices, destroying the established standards and benefits of selling snowmen slaves.
This was an unconventional confrontation and would implicate extensively on him. Xue Song Zi could only take up the challenge to protect his source of revenue, and was barely able to draw a stalemate against Hei tribe's Gu Immortals.
Although he had riches, but he was after all only a lone force.
To a super force like Hei tribe which had been engaging in business over thousands of years, he paled by comparison.
Thus, he was gradually unable to bear it and began to request help from the surrounding Gu Immortals.
Demon Lord Long Dan's calm appearance made Xue Song Zi angry and anxious: "Demon Lord, don't beat around the bush, speak up, how can I make you take action?"
Demon Lord Long Dan laughed heartily, his bright eyes stared at Xue Song Zi: "Lord Song Zi, I know you have a hundred year lifespan Gu in your possession. As long as you give it to me, I will definitely use all my strength to help you!"
Xue Song Zi immediately stood up from the seat and pointed at Demon Lord Long Dan: "Do you feel no shame in making such a request?"
Demon Lord Long Dan raised his brows and said with a gloomy voice: "Why would I feel shame? Who would make a move without good cause? Xue Song Zi, I persuade you to not be impulsive, if you point your finger at me again, I will start to get angry."
"Hmph." Xue Song Zi knew he was not Demon Lord Long Dan's match and lowered his finger with a snort, then he flicked his sleeve and left.
Demon Lord Long Dan also did not make him stay, looking darkly at his receding figure before letting out a snort. He had already disliked Xue Song Zi for his ordinarily arrogant attitude whilst holding plenty of spare wealth.
Back then, when he asked for immortal essence stones from Xue Song Zi, Xue Song Zi actually dared to lend at an exorbitant rate of interest.
Demon Lord Long Dan had suffered a big loss and had always been keeping it in his mind.
Xue Song Zi returned to his seventh branch peak with an ashen expression.
He sat on a mat, and with no others present, his tight expression finally relaxed as he heaved a deep sigh.
"If I had known this before, I would not have meddled in the Imperial Court contest." He regretted it deeply.
Winner takes all.
Previously, he had invested a lot in the Imperial Court contest, but received no gains. Now, Hei tribe's Gu Immortals were making it difficult for him, and he was not even able to guard his own financial source which was the basis of his status.
"In the end, it is still the righteous path who are united while demonic path has separated minds. Snowy Mountain blessed land has so many demonic path Gu Immortals, but I cannot obtain the help from even one. In contrast, Hei tribe's Gu Immortals involve the assistance of many forces and are suppressing me together."
"Sigh, in this battle, my many years of accumulation have all been used up, resulting in serious losses to me. The water in the Imperial Court contest runs too deep, it is not something I can tread upon. So many demonic path Gu Immortals had involved themselves in Imperial Court contest before, but how many obtained a good ending? Sigh, I got greedy because of wooden chicken Gu and thought that since I had already offended Hei tribe's Gu Immortals, I might as well directly go further and meddle. But I did not know how many demonic path Gu Immortals were mocking me behind my back. Sigh, it is time to reflect upon myself!"
Xue Song Zi kept on sighing and just when he was going to finish pondering his painful experience in attempting to learn from it, a letter Gu travelled through space and appeared in front of him.
"Eh, isn't this the letter Gu I gave to Ma tribe to contact me?"
Xue Song Zi was baffled. He held the letter Gu and searched it with his mind before immediately revealing an astonished expression: "What, what does this mean? Hei Lou Lan actually wants to cooperate with me?"
Xue Song Zi scoffed in disdain: "Using wooden chicken Gu as the bait, do you think I will be fooled? Maybe this is another scheme of Hei tribe! Huh, wait a moment, this actually….does Hei Lou Lan really want to work with me? Interesting, hahahaha, interesting!"
After over half a month….
"Mother! Mother!" Hei Lou Lan suddenly woke up on the bed.
He was panting and his body was soaked with cold sweat.
A good while later, his eyes gradually recovered their focus.
The nightmare once again.
Since long ago, this nightmare had been tormenting him.
This nightmare was like a pile of firewood that ignited the fire of revenge in his heart, every time it occured.
Recovering his breath, Hei Lou Lan got up from the bed.
His body was obese like a black bear. His triangular eyes began flickering with terrifying sharp light. Only his face had the expression of heavy exhaustion.
But by the time he pushed open the window, this exhaustion was already concealed by him, replaced by a savage and tyrannical aura.
He gazed up at Eighty-Eight True Yang Building while pondering over the cooperation with Xue Song Zi.
In the letter, he had taken great risk, speaking his greatest secret, and delivering crucial Gu worms as a pledge, before he was able to obtain Xue Song Zi's trust.
Now, the thirty-ninth floor had already been formed for quite some time. The cooperation between him and Xue Song Zi was progressing very well. Benefitting from this demonic path Gu Immortal's help, Hei Lou Lan was able to smoothly break through the rounds in the thirty-ninth floor.
His action was betraying Hei tribe.
Hei tribe's Gu Immortals would absolutely not let him go.
Hei Lou Lan did not even have the confidence of being able to conceal this matter for long.
But he knew clearly, he was safe as long as he was within Imperial Court blessed land. Imperial Court blessed land prohibited the entry of Gu Immortals.
At this stage, he was no longer able to turn back and could only move forward until his death. But the most crucial thing in Hei Lou Lan's plan, the strength path Immortal Gu which could change the whole situation, was yet to appear.
He could only continue to wait. …
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, seventh floor.
Ninetieth round.
"Chang Ji You pays respects to Lord Supreme Elder." Chang Ji You kneeled down with an ashamed expression.
"Do you know why I called you?" Fang Yuan stood in front of him, and said in an indifferent tone.
"I am ashamed, I failed to live up to Lord Supreme Elder's trust. I am extremely incompetent, letting the killer get away with it to this day, muffled thuds sounded out as his forehead smashed on the ground.
Soon, blood could be seen on his forehead.
Fang Yuan snorted: "You know yourself and know your incompetence. Don't kowtow anymore, stand up and answer."
"Subordinate, subordinate does not dare."
"Get up." Fang Yuan emphasized once again, his tone was calm but it was filled with a will that could not be disobeyed.
Chang Ji You stood up with his head lowered, blood slowly flowed down his cheeks, making him look very miserable.
"Sigh." Fang Yuan sighed softly before touching the wound on Chang Ji You's forehead.
White light appeared, and under the power of a healing gu, Chang Ji You's wound rapidly healed without even leaving a scar.
Chang Ji You's body trembled, his eyes couldn't help but release two flowing lines of warm tears.
Ever since the "father and son" had met, this was the first time Chang Shan Yin had done such an intimate action to his son Chang Ji You.
Chapter 589: The bond between father and son, real and fake affection
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Fang Yuan wiped Chang Ji You's tears and said with a mild tone like a spring wind: "What are you crying for, I am Wolf King and you are my son, you can only shed blood and not tears."
Chang Ji You's mind shook fiercely like he had been struck by lightning, when he heard the word 'son'.
An enormous joy engulfed Chang Ji You's mind like a tsunami: 'Father finally recognizes me as his son, he called me son with his own mouth!"
The grievances that had accumulated in his heart, the pressure he felt, the anger and shame he had put aside, the sorrow at his adoptive father's death, everything was dispelled at this moment.
He involuntarily was about to cry tears of joy but Fang Yuan's words lingered in his ears and he endured painfully, his expression twisted and he even bit his lips, but the tears still flowed out with no end.
He opened his mouth, wanting to call out 'father', but did not dare, and could only keep on apologizing as he sobbed: "Sorry, I am sorry…"
Fang Yuan lightly patted his shoulder and warmly said: "Do you know what your greatest deficiency is?"
Chang Ji You was slightly shocked.
Fang Yuan continued with a decisive tone: "Your greatest deficiency is that you are not strong enough."
"Not strong enough?" Chang Ji You stopped sobbing, his eyes that were hazy with tears looked at the imposing figure in front.
"This is a yellow gold relic Gu, enough for you to advance to rank four peak stage. Also a purple crystal relic Gu which will help you advance rapidly in rank five." Fang Yuan took out two relic Gu and handed them to Chang Ji You.
Chang Ji You dazedly accepted it, soon a surging grateful feeling filled his wild heart.
"This, isn't this paternal love!? So many poets praised paternal love to be as heavy as a mountain and as deep as the sea…..I can finally enjoy it today!"
"Father…" Chang Ji You was choked with emotions, he gazed at Fang Yuan before kneeling down again.
"An eagle chick cannot grow firm, iron-like wings without going through the tempering of wind and frost. A horse foal cannot run like the wind without experiencing falling down. I have already heard of Chang tribe's misfortunes, but I will not concern myself with it. Become strong, go through such temperings, take control of the tribe, use this pretext to establish your might, this is something you need to do. I will be watching you from behind."
"Lord father, son, son is ashamed…" Being given such earnest attention by his 'blood related father', this made Chang Ji You excited and also brought a fearful feeling in him.
Fang Yuan waved his hand: "I know your misgivings. You are worried your aptitude is not enough and you cannot break through to rank five, right? No problem, I will now raise your aptitude and also impart you a strength path killer move set which will increase your strength to an unimaginable level! This is father's special skill and even at the decisive battle of Imperial Court, I only used thirty percent of its power."
"Ah?" Chang Ji You involuntarily opened up his mouth, shocked and happy.
Father actually had ways to raise aptitude, moreover was also imparting a strength path killer move!
Even during the decisive battle with Ma tribe, father only used thirty percent of this killer move's power!
'My father is after all my father. Godfather Chang Biao might have treated me very well, but that is nothing compared to my father. This is the deepest bond between blood. Lord father is nurturing me with all his efforts!' After the shock, Chang Ji You felt a surge of happiness.
"Now I am going to raise your aptitude. Relax your mind, pacify your heart. Sleep, sleep, take a good sleep first." Fang Yuan spoke gently while secretly using hypnosis Gu.
Chang Ji You's mood was not stable and he had already been exhausted, and with his extreme trust in Fang Yuan, he soon fell asleep under the effect of Gu worm.
Fang Yuan lightly smiled as he took out blood skull Gu.
This Gu had a crystal like texture, the size of an infant's skull and could be held by a palm.
But right now, it was full from drinking blood and shone with a demonic blood light.
This blood was absorbed from the Chang tribesmen Fang Yuan had secretly killed over these days.
The sound asleep Chang Ji You had a slight smile on his face, a happy smile. He had never even expected the killer who had assassinated Chang tribesmen in these days was his most loved and respected 'blood related father'.
Even Hei Lou Lan and other outsiders were also in the dark, not having the least bit of doubt towards Fang Yuan.
"Go." Fang Yuan willed and the blood skull Gu slowly flew out of his palm and circled around Chang Ji You.
The blood skull Gu then stopped over Chang Ji You's head; it opened its mouth and puffed out blood with a thick stench.
The blood directly sunk in through Chang Ji You's head, skin and hairs, followed his veins and finally converged in his aperture.
Chang Ji You's aperture began to slowly but steadily advance.
By the time Chang Ji You woke up, Fang Yuan had already gone away.
The previous encounter was like a dream, making Chang Ji You feel doubts.
But the Gu worms on the ground and plentiful food left behind, were the best proof that everything was true..
"Heavens, my aptitude really advanced, now it is at ninety-six percent!" Chang Ji You shouted out with joy after he checked his aperture.
"Stay here for few days and cultivate properly. Use all the relic Gu father left behind, your cultivation will reach rank five upper stage with these. I am temporarily lending the other Gu worms on the ground to you. Among them is an east window Gu which records the contents of the killer move, read it and practice it."
A message echoed into Chang Ji You's ears.
Chang Ji You was extremely excited: "Ahh, this is father's voice. Lord father, son will not disappoint you. Son will definitely become a rank five Gu Master and master this killer move!"
Chang Ji You felt extremely bold and was filled with fighting spirit. He sat down cross-legged on the spot and took a yellow gold relic Gu into his aperture.
Fang Yuan was secretly observing this.
"This is the Gu tester you chose? He is truly a good choice." In his mind, Mo Yao's will let out a cold sneer, "It is only that you clearly indicated the flaws of six arm heavenly zombie king in the east window Gu. And you have also not tampered with the Gu worms you lent him, are you not afraid he will worry about the flaws and be careful, not completely transforming into a heavenly zombie?"
"Hehe, Mo Yao, you don't need to worry. I still have the ability to grasp people's hearts. You haven't used six arm heavenly zombie king, so you don't know how intoxicating the feeling of endless strength you get when transforming to the heavenly zombie state can be. Even I was intoxicated. Chang Ji You is young and does not have enough control over his heart. When he practices the killer move, he will naturally search for wolf groups to battle with. This here is my territory, I will just lead more wolves towards him when the time comes, no need to be afraid he won't change into a heavenly zombie!" Fang Yuan spoke with confidence.
"Hmph, you humans are so sinister and crafty. This blood skull Gu you used, we inkmen would absolutely never refine such an evil Gu worm which is used to harm our own people." Mo Yao sneered.
Fang Yuan was not angry, instead smiling: "Eh, aren't you Spirit Affinity House's fairy, a representative of the righteous path? Why didn't you stop me?"
"That is possible only if I had the ability to stop it. Moreover, why would I stop the internal conflicts between you humans? Hmph, I would rather the whole of your human race died. Then, us variant humans can have space to survive." Mo Yao rolled her eyes.
Her identity was special, she was a past generation's fairy of Spirit Affinity House with an extraordinary relationship with Bo Qing. However, she was also an inkman and was not a purebred human.
The feeling with which she looked at humans fighting each other was the same feeling humans had when they watched internal strife between snowmen or beast groups.
'Just that, you truly don't have the ability to stop me?…' Fang Yuan suppressed this doubt within his heart.
Three days later, Chang Ji You finished using all the relic Gu and succeeded in advancing to rank five upper stage.
Immediately afterwards, he began to practice the killer move six arm heavenly zombie king.
Just like Fang Yuan expected, he was addicted to the vast power of the killer move and gradually began to forget its flaws.
Under Fang Yuan's intentional manipulation, he fought an intense and prolonged battle.
Chang Ji You rampaged around to his heart's content in the battle, forgetting the time.
Only when the battle ended, did he make a frightening discovery; he had already completely transformed into a heavenly zombie.
Two days later, Fang Yuan appeared before him again.
"Father, save me!" The monstrous Chang Ji You kneeled on the ground and begged with terrified expression.
"Son, how did you become like this?!" Fang Yuan asked in great shock and rage, "I clearly warned you to never use this killer move over the limit. You, you, how could you forget such a crucial thing!"
"Father, son is ashamed, I was muddled for a while and forgot time. By the time I discovered it, it was too late for regret!" Chang Ji You was extremely ashamed as he looked at Fang Yuan with tear filled eyes while kneeling.
Right now, he had transformed into this monstrosity, his only hope rested in Fang Yuan.
"Sigh… this is difficult. Your appearance, even if we use yin-yang rotation Gu, it won't be able to treat it. This killer move has extreme power, but also because of this, the after-effects are very severe. Even father does not have a way." Fang Yuan held out his hands, showing an expression filled with sadness and anger.
"Ah?! Even father does not have a solution?" Chang Ji You walked towards Fang Yuan on his knees with despair and fear on his face.
Fang Yuan lamented again and again: "This killer move's origin is not simple. Father took extreme risk and charged through a Gu Immortal's inheritance alone, risking a fatal danger before I was able to luckily obtain this immortal killer move."
"This is an immortal killer move? No wonder, no wonder it is so powerful!" Chang Ji You was stupefied, Fang Yuan might have a lofty figure in his heart, but there was no doubt he paled in comparison to a Gu Immortal.
Chang Ji You had been Chang tribe's young tribe leader, he had not been familiar with Gu Immortals, but was also not completely unfamiliar.
"I was wrong, I made a big mistake, how could I seek instant gains!" Chang Ji You wailed, his wail was sharp and unpleasant like a night owl's.
Suddenly, he started kowtowing to Fang Yuan and sobbed: "Father, son failed to live up to your hope. Son made a mistake, son has disappointed you!"
"No, it is this, I needed you to transform into this.' Fang Yuan was laughing inwardly while on the surface, he supported Chang Ji You.
"My son, I told you so many times, don't cry! You cannot cry! Although you made a mistake, the fault lies within me as well. I have only been exploring this maze round over these days and did not look after you. Father believes there is always a way out, we will research together and find a way to turn you back into a human! There is definitely a way, believe in father and believe in yourself!" Fang Yuan said with emotions, with tears in his eyes.
"Father!" Chang Ji You wailed again.
He was thoroughly and completely moved.
He had become a monster and he, himself, did not not dare to see his face. But his father, Chang Shan Yin, did not loath him. It was clearly the son's fault, but he took the blame upon himself.
Now that his son had changed to such an appearance, he still did not give up on him.
"This is the most profound bond between father and son!"
"This is my father, my dad!"
Chang Ji You was extremely moved, a spark ignited in his despair filled heart, giving him the confidence to continue living.
"Son, stay here and let father think properly on how to change you back. As for Chang tribe, father will personally manage it. You don't need to worry, just recuperate here, with us father and son working hand in hand, what is there to fear about a measly killer move's zombie transformation?"
Fang Yuan's words made Chang Ji You feel a source of assurance in his heart.
"Yes, son will listen to father!"
Chapter 590: Endurance, Shatter, Death
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Ah—!
The pitiful scream was so shrill that it could pierce eardrums.
Chang Ji You was in so much pain that he was shivering from head to toe, his muscles were exploding, as the six arms behind his back were dancing around chaotically, making loud sounds like that of stirring wind and rolling thunder.
But Fang Yuan only needed one hand to hold him tightly in the air.
At this moment, his eyes were like lightning as he manipulated his Gu worms, shouting loudly: "My son, endure it! Now is the time!"
Chang Ji You was about to lose his sense of reasoning due to the pain, this was an inhuman pain.
Even though he transformed into a heavenly zombie and almost lost his sense of pain, he could still feel every single piece of his skin and every muscle tearing and breaking ruthlessly.
But Fang Yuan's words were like cold spring water that were sprinkling on Chang Ji You's heart.
Chang Ji You was forcing himself to his limit, just as he was about to faint, the intense pain dissipated like a subsiding tide.
"Su… success?!" Chang Ji You breathed roughly, his head was hurting intensely and he barely managed to open his eyes, seeing that the skin on his arm had already turned back into living flesh and blood.
In fact, the six arms on his back were also slowly shrinking.
There was nothing more attractive to Chang Ji You than turning back into a human.
This moment, he was almost going to cry of joy.
"Oh no!" Suddenly, Fang Yuan spoke, his tone extremely solemn.
Chang Ji You's newly recovered arm turned back into the heavenly zombie state in an instant, like that of a rotting log.
The six arms on his back grew back as well, becoming tougher and stronger.
"No, no! Why did I change back?! Father…" Chang Ji You was screaming in fear, subconsciously turning towards Fang Yuan for help.
But when he saw the intense fatigue that Fang Yuan was pretending to show on his face, Chang Ji You could not say a word.
"Father is tired! That's right, these days, he had been helping me, thinking of hundreds of methods to solve this without any rest or sleep. He expended countless Gu worms in the process. I saw at least seventy to eighty rank five Gu! What reason do I have to blame father? This is all because I was too careless, and committed a grave mistake! Father, this son has not lived up to your expectations and nurturing…"
Chang Ji You was heartbroken and ashamed, he had a sensation of bliss from being taken care of by Wolf King as his child, like a small strand of grass being shielded by a tall tree.
"Damn it, this heavenly zombie form is really stubborn. Even this method is not working!" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth secretly, he asked in his mind: "Mo Yao, what other ideas do you have, tell me!"
The dozen ideas that Fang Yuan came up with were all proven to be useless one by one.
The current experimental method was all Mo Yao's idea.
This was also one of Fang Yuan's schemes.
On one hand, he was experimenting on Chang Ji You continuously and attempting to find a way to restore him back to human. On the other hand, he was trying to get Mo Yao's will to think and expend her limited energy.
Mo Yao was silent for a while before saying: "There is still a way, but it is quite dangerous, the person testing the Gu will endure three times the pain as before! Most likely, he would die from the pain alone!"
"He is a heavenly zombie, he is technically dead. How can he feel pain?" Fang Yuan was confused.
"He is only half dead. The body is dead, but his soul still remains in his body. Unless his soul was absorbed into the door of life and death, then he would truly be considered dead." Mo Yao explained.
The door of life and death was a secluded domain of heaven and earth, it was very famous and was recorded in .
But the current era was different from the immemorial era.
The life and death door had vanished, and after going through numerous owners, its control over souls of the demised had weakened greatly. This was the reason for the existence of monsters like zombies.
Mo Yao's idea carried huge risks, it could shatter the person's soul due to pain, breaking into irrecoverable pieces.
Once Chang Ji You's soul shatters, he would be truly dead.
Mo Yao urged: "Lad, when there is gain, there is also loss. The killer move has unrivalled attack power, thus the flaws will be extremely hard to get rid of. These few days, you have experimented so many times, and spent a huge fortune, even borrowing extensively from Hei tribe, I'm sure you understand the difficulty of this now."
"This is my final method, I cannot guarantee that it will work. Moreover, this method is extremely dangerous, there is barely a chance of success! You can decide whether or not to do it. Your 'son' has already turned into a heavenly zombie completely, he has good battle strength. He listens to your words obediently, it is too wasteful to sacrifice him like this. I would suggest that you keep him by your side as a helper."
Fang Yuan was silent and did not reply.
"Father, please rest more, I am not anxious…" At one end, Chang Ji You muttered.
Fang Yuan concentrated and looked over, although Chang Ji You had turned into a heavenly zombie, and looked very ugly, his eyes were crystal clear, showing great admiration and love for Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan smiled lightly: "Son, I have thought of a good method. But this method is extremely dangerous, your life will be in danger. The success rate is very high though, thus father cannot decide…"
"Sigh…" In his mind, Mo Yao sighed deeply.
Although Fang Yuan said this, Chang Ji You who hated his current self and wanted to recover would only make one decision.
As expected, once Chang Ji You heard this, he hesitated for a moment before his eyes shone brightly: "Lord father! Please use this method, living in my current form is simply worse than death!"
Fang Yuan stared at Chang Ji You's eyes intensely: "But, you are my only child…"
"Father!" Chang Ji You cried, he kneeled on the floor as he hugged Fang Yuan's leg: "I cannot bear to part with you either, father. But son really cannot live with such an appearance, even if there is some bit of hope, I will work hard and fight for it!"
Fang Yuan was silent for a while, before sighing a long, deep breath: "Alright. Humans should live according to their own wishes. Father is unwilling to see you live in such agony as well! Go rest for a few days, father will go prepare. A few days later, we will go with the final try!"
A few days later.
"Ahhhhh…"
Chang Ji You's screaming voice had already turned hoarse.
"Endure it for a bit more." Fang Yuan's gaze was warm, but his heart was cold as ice, as he encouraged.
But the next moment, Chang Ji You's screams and cries came to a stop.
This was the three hundred and seventh time he had fainted from pain.
"Hmph, completely useless!" Fang Yuan's expression was dim as water, he snorted unhappily as he stopped using the Gu worms.
This experiment had to be undergone when Chang Ji You was conscious and awake, otherwise it would not work.
Chang Ji You fainting meant that his soul was already forming cracks and chips, he was at the brink of collapsing.
Fang Yuan had to stop and use soul path Gu worms to nourish and heal his soul.
"I said before, this method has little hope, it is better to preserve his life." In his mind, Mo Yao spoke in a sad tone.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, squinting as a cold light flashed across his eyes: "One more try, we will try it one last time!"
Chang Ji You slowly woke up, his vision turning from blurry to clear. He looked at Fang Yuan beside him, in his eyes, his 'father' was extremely worn out and exhausted.
This made his heart tighten as tears flowed down his eyes again in shame, he choked as he said: "Father…"
"Let's try again, don't lose hope." Fang Yuan laughed as he encouraged.
"Father, if I still faint this time, then stop trying it. Father, this was all my fault, you really need to take a rest." Chang Ji You said.
"Yes, after trying this, it is really time to rest." Fang Yuan sighed, the precise deeper meanings in his tone were not able to be perceived by Chang Ji You.
First, three rank five Gu worms were activated together.
Next, more Gu worms were added, these Gu worms were all floating around the face of Chang Ji You, some drilled into his skin while others mixed into his blood, flowing towards his heart.
"Ah…" The intense pain assaulted him again, Chang Ji You gritted his teeth in pain but he soon opened his mouth and growled, his expression twisting from the pain.
Fang Yuan's movements were smooth and methodical as he continued adding in Gu worms.
The more Gu worms that were added in, the more intense the pain Chang Ji You felt. He struggled desperately, his eyes rolling as he felt pain to the point of losing reason, almost as if he was becoming deranged.
"Stop, his soul cannot take this." In his mind, Mo Yao urged.
But Fang Yuan acted like he did not hear it, continuing to add Gu worms regardless of what was going on.
"Enough, this amount has exceeded all our previous attempts, he is really going to collapse." Mo Yao could not bear to see this.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, not saying a word.
"This is too much, if you continue messing around like this, he will really die!" In his mind, Mo Yao's will protested.
"What can we achieve if we do not take risks?" Fang Yuan laughed coldly, adding more Gu worms until it was the limit.
His eyes were shining with an excited light: "Just three more Gu worms and we will see the effect. This is the first."
"Alright, this is the second!"
"Fantastic, this is the final one, success or failure will depend on this…. eh!"
Fang Yuan's expression froze, the surrounding Gu worms were breaking apart like the scattering of fireworks.
Chang Ji You no longer struggled, he was floating in the air motionlessly.
He was dead.
His soul had shattered and dissipated from the pain.
His expression however, was very calm.
The surroundings became dead silent.
"You've killed him." In Fang Yuan's mind, Mo Yao's will spoke coldly.
"Yes, I've killed him." Fang Yuan's brows lifted, laughing lightly: "He did not die in vain after all, at least I got to find out how stubborn this killer move's flaw truly was."
Mo Yao did not speak, she did not want to respond to Fang Yuan's cold and unscrupulous nature. She hid her form and vanished from Fang Yuan's mind.
Fang Yuan's smile gradually vanished.
He was progressively discovering how big of a threat this will of Mo Yao in his mind was.
Did she know about the way to resolve the flaw of the six arm heavenly zombie king killer move or not?
Did she know the method, but was unwilling to say it, or was she not thinking so as to preserve herself?
Especially when this killer move's flaw is so severe, if Mo Yao's will attacks Fang Yuan's mind during the crucial moment and cause his thoughts to become chaotic, he would not be able to stop the killer move even if he wanted to.
"What was the Gu used to create this will of Mo Yao's? These days, I have been collecting information on wisdom path, and purchased many wisdom path Gu worms that could create wills. But I have not found any Gu worm which can allow her to hide and completely conceal herself like this, this is such an unfathomable will!"
"Sigh, I don't have much time left. Right now Eighty-Eight True Yang Building has formed about sixty floors already. Hei Lou Lan is attacking the thirty-ninth floor right now at full force. It seems his target is the wooden chicken Gu."
"I have to work faster, I cannot wait anymore!"
Chapter 591: Sacrifice (Double Chapter)
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
It had been so long since Fang Yuan had come to Imperial Court blessed land, and he had entered Eighty-Eight True Yang Building so many times, but he had never forgotten his original intention in coming to northern plains.
That was to save Dang Hun mountain.
He needed landscape as before Gu to save Dang Hun mountain.
There were many difficulties and challenges to obtain this Gu, the main thing was it was with a person. This person was Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Ever since Tai Bai Yun Sheng joined Hei tribe army, Fang Yuan had been placing his attention on him.
Several months ago, Fang Yuan uncovered some information:
When Hei Lou Lan obtained the one-edge owner token, he was able to explore the rewards of every round; Tai Bai Yun Sheng had gone to visit him and inquired about the existence of lifespan Gu.
But at that time, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building did not yet have lifespan Gu.
When the fifty-fifth floor had condensed, Hei Lou Lan informed Tai Bai Yun Sheng he had discovered a fifteen year lifespan Gu.
After the fifty-fifth floor completely formed into shape, Hei Lou Lan investigated the location of the lifespan Gu and could precisely tell it was the reward for clearing the eighty-fifth round.
From then on, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had put all his energy in the fifty-fifth floor. He called up many Gu Masters, forming an enormous group and forcibly crashed through the rounds. Relying on his might, prestige and enormous rewards, along with repeatedly requesting Hei Lou Lan and other experts, he was actually making fast progress.
Hard work paid off, Tai Bai Yun Sheng spent all his wealth and finally was able to reach the eighty-fifth round.
Fang Yuan naturally did not wish to see Tai Bai Yun Sheng obtaining what he desired.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was old, and did not have much lifespan left; it was natural behavior for him to increase his lifespan with lifespan Gu.
But if he really obtained this lifespan Gu, he was definitely not going to risk advancing into an immortal. If he did not risk advancing to an immortal, there would not be the inspiration from heaven and earth that would form the Immortal Gu Landscape As Before.
If there was no landscape as before Gu, how would Fang Yuan save Dang Hun mountain which was about to completely wither away?
Especially the past few days, he had learned more information: Tai Bai Yun Sheng had attempted many times to pass the round and he had already found hope. He did not stint on borrowing from Hei Lou Lan and even agreed to Hei Lou Lan's condition of becoming an external elder of Hei tribe.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was then able to use Hei tribe's resources to recruit large numbers of experts and form a powerful lineup, charging into the fifty-fifth floor to make the final attack.
Despite Tai Bai Yun Sheng taking the risk to advance to an immortal in the memories of his previous life, Fang Yuan was cautious and did not dare to take the risk, deciding to personally intervene.
Time waits for no man.
Fang Yuan had intended to get rid of Mo Yao's will first, dealing with the internal problem before attacking the external problems. But this matter had not made any progress, so now, he used his owner token to secretly infiltrate into the fifty-fifth floor.
The situation of the fifty-fifth floor had already been probed out by Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
There was a majestic and grand blood river flowing here, and in the depths of the river, there was a legendary and mythical blood palace erected.
The blood palace had three great halls and sixty-nine auxiliary halls.
Every hall contained large numbers of blood path Gu worms as well as blood beast guards.
The large groups of blood path Gu worms were of huge strength, but as long as they were killed one by one over a period of time, there would be a point when they are all slaughtered.
The problem was the blood beasts.
Even after these blood beasts were killed, they would absorb blood and resurrect within a short moment. One could say that they could be killed but not killed, there was no way of reducing their numbers.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's several attempts at passing the round had all been thwarted by these blood beasts.
But at the last attempt, he had unintentionally discovered a pleasant surprise: as long as they keep on charging forward to the depths of the great hall and take out the command token hanging on the main beam, they could make the blood beasts dissipate.
This discovery birthed a strong confidence in Tai Bai Yun Sheng. He was thoroughly poor now, and did not hesitate to sell himself to Hei tribe, borrowing funds and forming a Gu Master group to charge through this round.
When Fang Yuan secretly entered this floor, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's group had already charged through thirty-three side halls and were presently in a fierce battle to reach a towering main hall.
Fang Yuan took out the six-edge owner token, and with a thought, immediately had complete control over this floor.
The six-edge owner token could let Fang Yuan control up to six floors of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Fang Yuan had already used it once to control the seventh floor. Now, he was using it a second time to control this fifty-fifth floor.
Hei Lou Lan had a one-edge owner token and the floor he controlled was the fifth floor.
With a shift of thought, Fang Yuan's figure disappeared on the spot and appeared on the main beam of the great hall.
He leisurely sat on the main beam, and not far from him was that crucial command token.
With a bit of concentration, the battle scene of Tai Bai Yun Sheng and his group appeared in Fang Yuan's mind.
The deeper they went towards the great hall, the more blood beast guards there were, and the battles that occurred were extremely intense. This group of Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not even have fifty people now.
They had been charging forward the whole way, suffering disastrous casualties which left behind a trail of corpses along the way.
Two great rank five Gu Master experts Zhu Zai and Gao Yang took turns as the front vanguard of the group.
Meanwhile Tai Bai Yun Sheng, as the number one healing Gu Master of northern plains of this generation, was protected in the center of the formation. He continually used man as before Gu; rays of light shooting forward and shining upon the corpses, resurrecting the Gu Masters, or shone upon live Gu Masters, healing their injuries and recovering their primeval essence in an instant.
But even Tai Bai Yun Sheng, a rank five peak stage Gu Master, was in a very sorry state.
Gu Masters were falling down time and again, and although he used all his strength, he truly could not save everyone.
The countless blood beasts surged out of every corridor near the great hall and every room, blocking the group's way with very dense numbers.
The closer they got to the main command token, the stronger the blood beasts became.
And blood beasts could absorb blood to quickly recover and resurrect.
By the time Tai Bai Yun Sheng and the group charged to this place, the blood beasts they had killed on their way had once again resurrected and chased them, blocking their way back. The situation was getting very dangerous.
"No wonder Tai Bai Yun Sheng risked advancing to immortal in my previous life. This round's difficulty is rather high, unless a blood path Gu Master works with them." Fang Yuan was in control of this place and could see the actions that Tai Bai Yun Sheng took as easily as reading the lines of his palm.
To a blood path Gu Master, this round was no less than a paradise. With so many blood path wild Gu to subdue and blood beasts to devour, their blood path cultivation would strengthen rapidly.
It was a pity blood path could not be easily revealed. Because of Blood Sea Ancestor, a blood path Gu Master would be hunted persistently by the righteous path the moment they appeared.
And because blood path Gu Masters could quickly increase their battle strength, even demonic Gu Masters widely feared it.
Often, when a blood path Gu Master was discovered, not only would they be hunted down by the righteous path, they would also suffer sneak attacks from demonic path Gu Masters.
There was not even one blood path Gu Master among Hei tribe army. Even if they existed, they were hidden deeply and would not appear for Tai Bai Yun Sheng's use.
Fang Yuan ascertained for a moment and knew clearly that the chance of Tai Bai Yun Sheng succeeding was extremely minute.
The worry in his heart immediately dissipated by more than half.
Fang Yuan laid back on the beam and took out , passing the time while paying attention to Tai Bai Yun Sheng's progress.
Death was possible when advancing through Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Fang Yuan was scheming for landscape as before Gu, and could not allow Tai Bai Yun Sheng to die at the moment.
"Kill, we must break through this siege! Otherwise, we are all going to die!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's face was filled with blood stains, roaring loudly to raise the morale.
Waves of blood beasts roared and snarled, before pouncing on the group like a blood colored giant wave.
…
The great hall was a scene of tranquility.
Fang Yuan leisurely flipped through the pages while adjusting his posture to make himself more comfortable.
…
Grrr!
A blood beast with the head of a tiger and body of a horse madly snarled while rampaging in the group of Gu Masters.
Two Gu Masters met its attack; one died while the other was heavily injured.
"Man As Before!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted and raised his palm; a white light immediately shot out and shone upon that injured Gu Master.
The Gu Master immediately recovered his previous uninjured state. The terrifying injuries from the blood beast's attacks disappeared without a trace.
The Gu Master panted roughly, he was still frightened, retreating back behind the frontlines. The defensive gap he left behind was immediately filled up by another Gu Master.
But that dead Gu Master's corpse was swarmed by the blood beasts and roughly dragged away.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not make a move.
Without advancing to an immortal, even a rank five Gu Master would have limited primeval essence and have to use it cautiously.
Moreover, that dead Gu Master's Gu worms were severely damaged, his defensive Gu worm was even pierced and destroyed. Even if he was resurrected, he would be killed again.
The remaining Gu Masters grieved and cursed, but they could only look as their companion's corpse was madly torn apart by over ten blood beasts.
Blood beasts were extremely sensitive to blood and even a bit of bloody odor could make them go crazy. By swallowing stronger organism's blood, they could strengthen themselves.
Soon, the dead Gu Master's blood was completely absorbed by the blood beasts. The whole corpse became a dried up mummy, creating a wretched spectacle.
The beasts that had absorbed his blood started to grow human like forms. Some grew human like eyes; some grew several human ears; and some grew agile human arms.
But when they were spending time in absorbing the corpse, the pressure on Tai Bai Yun Sheng and the group greatly reduced and they took this valuable opportunity to break through and moved forward tens of steps.
…
Fang Yuan flipped through to chapter three, section fourteen.
Northern Dark Ice Soul awakened his elder sister Desolate Ancient Moon, and the two again asked for advice from cognition Gu on how to save their father.
Cognition Gu said: "Humans, Cheng Bai mountain has disappeared, who knows when it will form again. I am also not clear on other ways to bring your father back to life. But no need to be dejected, you can try asking wisdom Gu. I am its mother, wisdom is the crystallization of cognition."
The student surpasses the master; the things cognition Gu did not know, wisdom Gu might not necessarily be unknowing of.
Under cognition Gu's directions, Northern Dark Ice Soul and Desolate Ancient Moon found wisdom Gu.
Wisdom Gu had somewhat of a connection with Ren Zu, back then Ren Zu had used rules and regulations Gu to capture it. But it was able to escape in the end.
At first, wisdom Gu was not willing to help Northern Dark Ice Soul and Desolate Ancient Moon.
But seeing that they were introduced by its mother cognition Gu, it reluctantly said: "Oh humans, I can show you the right path. But I need remuneration, one of you need to hand over your middle age to me."
"I will give my middle age to you." Desolate Ancient Moon immediately replied with no hesitation.
She was awakened by her little brother Northern Dark Ice Soul and had been bestowed with the meaning of her life which was to bring her father, Ren Zu, back to life. Thus, she replied immediately without the intention of passing it to others.
Northern Dark Ice Soul was not able to argue with his sister and could only let her offer her middle age.
This meant, once Desolate Ancient Moon's youth had passed, she would directly skip middle age to reach old age.
But to save her father, she did not have many misgivings.
Wisdom Gu obtained Desolate Ancient Moon's middle age and gave her directions: "In the center of the golden desert in the west, there is a still blue sea with no ripples, as flat as a mirror. That is the source of all living beings, all lives in the world originates from there. And in the depths of the blue sea lie many life Gu shining upon all living beings. You need to infiltrate the sea, catch a human shaped life Gu and bring it to shore. This human shaped life Gu can bestow your father a new life. But remember, you cannot spend over fifteen minutes in the sea, otherwise you will be assimilated by the sea.
Wisdom Gu added another sentence in the end: "It is extremely difficult to find human shaped life Gu. Only a person who has truly comprehended the truth of life can do it. If you are not able to do it, don't blame my solution for not being easy to use."
Desolate Ancient Moon wanted to ask something, but Wisdom Gu quickly flew away and did not give the siblings any chance to make inquiries.
…
The clamorous shouts and cries resounded everywhere.
The blood beasts surged forward like sea tides. Tai Bai Yun Sheng and the group were like a reef, resisting the attacks of the blood beasts time and again, while also moving forward step by step with difficulty.
"Almost there, we are only three hundred steps away from the great hall door!" Someone shouted, boosting the morale.
"Careful!" Suddenly, a Gu Master at the side warned.
That Gu Master who had tried to boost morale was dazed and the very next moment, a blood beast with the head of a dragon and body of a bear fiercely smashed into him.
Crack.
The Gu Master's ribs instantly shattered from the crash, and the blood he puffed out contained pieces of internal organs.
His body was sent flying from the smash, the Gu Masters behind tried to stop him with all their strength; in an instant, the formation turned chaotic and there was a crisis of it collapsing apart!
"Hold on, continue to hold on!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng, his face stained with blood, shouted furiously with extreme anxiety.
In such a battle situation, if the Gu Masters scattered, they would immediately be torn to pieces by the surrounding countless blood beasts. Only with the Gu Masters working in a tight formation, could they have a chance at survival!
But the Gu Masters were retreating step by step, large numbers of blood beasts broke the defense line and fiercely pounced upon them.
Miserable screams started rising continuously.
Many Gu Masters were still recovering their primeval essence as much as possible. Being caught unawares, they were immediately torn to pieces by the blood beasts.
A mantis-like blood beast brandished its sickle arms and charged in the very front.
Swish!
A Gu Master's head was slashed apart; blood started spurting out of the Gu Master's neck and the head flew high, but before it fell down, it was grabbed by a blood beast flying in the air and with a 'gulp, was swallowed down.
But the red hot blood fell down, splashing right at Tai Bai Yun Sheng's face.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly wiped away the blood and was barely able to open his eyes; the dense bloody stench assailed his nose, and agitated a group of blood beasts.
"Finished!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart sank to the bottom, but right at this time, a figure pounced down like a tiger getting off the mountain.
BOOM BOOM BOOM.
After several rounds, the figure killed the mantis blood beast and finally stabilized the formation at this final juncture.
It was Zhu Zai!
A rank five Gu Master, a famous expert of the demonic path!
Everyone was saved, feeling like they were dragged back from the cliff.
But Zhu Zai also paid a price, there were three new wounds on his body, all of them so deep one could see his bones.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly activated man as before Gu to heal him.
Zhu Zai recovered his previous state and the new injuries completely vanished. At the same time, his intensely depleted primeval essence recovered back.
It was only that the several expendable Gu he had used to gain a burst in his battle strength earlier could not be restored.
Man As Before could only target human bodies and had no effect on Gu worms.
…
"This Man As Before has marvellous effect, but unfortunately, it cannot be used on one's own body." Fang Yuan sighed before gazing back to the book in his hand once again.
Desolate Ancient Moon and Northern Dark Ice Soul travelled an arduous journey through the golden desert and arrived at the center of the desert where they saw the blue sea.
The blue sea was so beautiful that nothing more beautiful than it could be imagined.
Just like wisdom Gu said, even strong winds could not cause the slightest of a ripple on the blue sea.
With the soft golden sand surrounding it, it looked like a deep blue gemstone embedded on this golden cloth.
The siblings infiltrated into the depths of the sea and sure enough found large numbers of life Gu packed together in the sea depths.
These life Gu were like blue gems. But they were of different sizes and shapes.
Some looked like a colt; some like a tiger or leopard; some like an eagle or dove; while some like a snake or flood dragon.
The siblings were dazzled from the sight. They saw all kinds of life Gu from flowers, birds, fishes, insects, beasts, snowmen, hairy men and all other shapes, except the human shaped life Gu.
Helplessly, the siblings could only get out of the sea and back to the shore.
The moment they had left the blue sea, a deer shaped life Gu Northern Dark Ice Soul had been holding, let out a soft light before jumping on the sand and turning into a fawn.
This was the birth of a life!
The siblings looked at this sight in wonder, with their eyes wide open.
Only when the fawn had hopped far away, the elder sister Desolate Ancient Moon suddenly comprehended: "No wonder wisdom Gu flew away immediately after speaking and did not let us question it. I have understood the truth of life."
"The truth of life, what exactly is it?" Northern Dark Ice Soul quickly asked.
Desolate Ancient Moon pointed at this blue sea in front of them and asked in return: "Tell me, if we were to really find a life Gu, a human shaped blue gem, and we bring it back, what will it transform into?"
Northern Dark Ice Soul thought for a moment and replied: "It should be like that fawn and turn into a real active life form, right?"
He suddenly looked distracted.
Desolate Ancient Moon looked at him with a smile: "It seems you have also understood. We are these life forms. We were formed from life Gu! We, ourselves, are human shaped blue gems!"
Northern Dark Ice Soul completely understood, where did humans come from?
Wisdom Gu had already made it clear before: This blue sea is the source of all living beings, all lives in the world originate from here.
Humans, naturally also originated from here.
Their father Ren Zu was once a blue gem in the depths of this sea. By some opportunity and coincidence, it was able to come out from the sea and form a zestful life form that roamed the world, surviving with difficulty and reaching this stage.
But humans were the spirit of all living beings, so how many human shaped gems could there be in such a large sea?
It was definitely extremely few, and it was very possible Ren Zu was the only one.
Searching for a small blue gem in such a vast sea, how big of a project was this!
This was innumerable times more difficult than Desolate Ancient Moon looking for the only success Gu in Cheng Bai mountain.
"I know a method which can get us a human shaped life Gu quickly." Desolate Ancient Moon suddenly said.
"What method?" Northern Dark Ice Soul had a bad feeling.
Desolate Ancient Moon smiled: "That is… I will go into the bottom of the sea and assimilate with this blue sea, returning back to a life Gu."
Although Desolate Ancient Moon had transformed into a monster, she was intrinsically a human.
The essence of her life had not changed.
Since she was a human, once she was assimilated, she would form a human shaped blue gem like life Gu.
This speculation was not wrong.
No wonder wisdom Gu said: But remember, you cannot spend over fifteen minutes in the sea, otherwise you will be assimilated by the sea.
Wisdom Gu's words did not have any superfluous words.
Wisdom Gu had also said: If you are not able to do it, don't blame my solution for not being easy to use.
One could analyze from this sentence — it was extremely likely there were no human shaped blue gems in the blue sea. If the siblings were not willing to sacrifice themselves, they would not be able to obtain human shaped life Gu. As such, don't blame me, the wisdom Gu, if you are not able to do it.
"No, you can't sacrifice yourself like this, elder sister." Northern Dark Ice Soul immediately dissuaded.
Although he wanted to bring his father back to life, he did not want to sacrifice his own sister.
"I need to do it, the meaning of my life is to bring father back to life." Desolate Ancient Moon replied tranquilly.
Northern Dark Ice Soul suddenly could not say anything.
It was him who gave this meaning to Desolate Ancient Moon's life, and Desolate Ancient Moon was living for this. In other words, if her father could not be brought back to life, there would be no meaning in her life. Then what would be the use in continuing to live?
As long as she sacrificed herself, she could bring her father back to life; this was the greatest meaning of Desolate Ancient Moon's life!
"Humans originally were gems of the world. It is only that whether the gems are bright or not require us to polish them. Every effort we make, every choice we take, are all polishing each of our gems."
"And humans can only obtain life by sacrificing life."
Desolate Ancient Moon leisurely spoke before sinking into the blue sea.
Northern Dark Ice Soul tried his best to stop her, but he was not able to. Desolate Ancient Moon had become a monster with incomparable strength, and he was not her match.
After fifteen minutes of time, Desolate Ancient Moon was assimilated by the blue sea and turned into a human shaped blue gem.
But this blue gem was not of a healthy human shape but a badly damaged, less than half a proper human shape.
This was because Desolate Ancient Moon had given her 'middle age' to wisdom Gu.
Humans, in the process of understanding what life was, would often have already used up half of their lives.
Northern Dark Ice Soul held this blue gem with tears in his eyes, and left the golden desert.
He did not have any of the happiness of success, but instead sank down into extreme remorse.
From a certain perspective, it was him who had killed his elder sister.
…
"There are still fifty steps left!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted with all his strength.
They pushed forward with difficulty with a companion falling down every short moment, the intense and bitter battle had left them with only five people now!
But success was right in front of their eyes!
"Just a little more of a push…"
"I will tear these blood beasts into pieces!"
Zhu Zai and Gao Yang protected Tai Bai Yun Sheng from left and right; they also shouted to raise the morale.
Thirty steps!
Two more fell down, leaving behind Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Zhu and Gao.
The surrounding blood beasts brandished their claws and fangs, looking extremely malevolent. They advanced wave upon wave in their endless numbers.
Ten steps!
Zhu Zai and Gao Yang used all their strength, suffering disastrous losses to their Gu worms because of excessive use, and their primeval essence was also almost depleted.
"This old man owes both of you a favor, I swear I will definitely reward you heavily sometime in the future!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes shone brightly, his tone extremely earnest and sincere.
"Old sir, what are you saying! We were saved by you back then, without old sir, we would not be alive today!"
"Old sir's life saving favor is as heavy as a mountain! Even if we die today, it can be considered repaying your favor."
Gao Yang and Zhu Zai replied, full of emotions.
There existed two-faced hypocrites in the righteous path, and demonic path likewise was not without true heroes!
Five steps!
"Save me!" Zhu Zai shouted and without caring for defense, pounced on the blood beasts blocking the way forward, perishing together with them.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng stretched out his palm but the white light did not come out.
He shouted out involuntarily: "Not good, my primeval essence is finished!"
This bad news immediately made Gao Yang's expression turn pale white.
All along, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had served as the core of the group. Only with man as before Gu's continuous support, everyone was able to push forward this deep.
"It doesn't matter, no blood beasts will enter the great hall. As long as I can enter the great hall, I can recover my primeval essence quickly and save Zhu Zai!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted.
Gao Yang's spirits rose.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was right, blood beasts might tear apart the corpse, but their main priority was absorbing the blood. As long as most of the corpse was intact, there was hope of saving Zhu Zai.
Snarl!
Next moment, a strong blood beast that looked like a giant python suddenly moved in from behind and swallowed Gao Yang in one bite!
Two steps!
The great hall's door was very close; with a body filled with injuries, Tai Bai Yun Sheng staggered forward through a small gap among the blood beasts.
At the crucial moment, he used up his final precious bit of primeval essence to summon a golden armor which resisted the blood beasts' attacks.
He reached!
"Humans can only obtain life by sacrificing life. Gao Yang, Zhu Zai, I will remember your sacrifices!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng exerted all his remaining strength to push open the door.
He fell down inside the great hall, the blood beasts behind him roared, snarled and brandished their claws, but did not dare to enter the great hall.
It was just like what Tai Bai Yun Sheng had investigated before.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng lay down on the ground with no strength left in his body. The injuries all over his body were continually transmitting intense pain.
He took a few strong gasps of breath, and suddenly started laughing heartily, but his laughter contained a sobbing tone.
Tears were overflowing on his face.
"This round has three great halls and sixty-nine side halls! If one crosses the round completely within a certain time period, they can obtain high grade evaluation. Passing two great halls and forty-six side halls will be considered middle grade evaluation. I surpassed twenty-three side halls and one great hall, I can only obtain low grade evaluation. But regardless, I have obtained lifespan Gu!"
"Fifteen year lifespan Gu can increase my lifespan by fifteen years. A whole fifteen years…"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was exclaiming with deep and boundless emotion, when suddenly, his eyes blacked out and he fainted.
Chapter 592: Deep Dark Shadow
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Fang Yuan lowered his head, observing Tai Bai Yun Sheng who had already fainted and lost consciousness.
He was the culprit who caused Tai Bai Yun Sheng to fall unconscious.
At this moment, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's body was bathed in blood, he was lying on the ground and within his deep eye sockets, his eyes were tightly shut.
There were lots of injuries on him, his snow white hair had stuck together because of dried blood, he no longer had the demeanour and appearance of the number one healing Gu Master in northern plains.
Merely a few steps away, outside the main hall's doors, a sea of blood beasts were growling, the messy overlapping noises were sent over with great force.
Fang Yuan raised his head, staring at them as he opened his mouth and said lightly: "Shut up."
Almost immediately, there was silence outside the hall.
The blood beasts all became quiet, lying prostrate on the ground like obedient cats or dogs, staying motionless.
Fang Yuan made use of the six-edge owner token to control this floor, he was the master of this floor, these beasts were all his to control, they listened to his commands and moved according to his will.
Fang Yuan shut his eyes, his mind entering this floor's control system as he let his senses observe the area.
At the moment, in this particular round, there were many Gu Masters remaining.
Among these Gu Masters, some were Gu Masters recruited by Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but during the earlier fighting they had been separated from the main party. Another portion were the information gatherers of all the different forces, they were all investigative Gu Masters. They came from Hei tribe, Ma Tribe, Ye Lui tribe, and all the other large forces, with the intention of observing whether Tai Bai Yun Sheng failed or succeeded.
As for this hall and its surroundings, within them, other than those rotten and dried corpses, only Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were left now.
Fang Yuan closed the great hall's door, half squatting on the ground as he stretched out his right palm, grabbing onto Tai Bai Yun Sheng's skull.
His Gu worms had been prepared long ago, he activated them one by one.
Very soon, above Tai Bai Yun Sheng's head, a weak shining white light was formed, becoming the only source of light in this dark and dim great hall.
As the light got more and more intense, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's face gradually showed a painful expression, and his brows were frowning more intensely.
After a moment of stillness, Fang Yuan suddenly opened his eyes!
His eyes had no pupils, it was pure white in color.
The whites of his eyes gave off a weak light as at the same time, a large number of images flashed across in Fang Yuan's mind.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's life, from his old age all the way until he was young, all the memories had been extracted by Fang Yuan.
…
An old man was walking in northern plains, the sky was vast and the wilderness was boundless, the winds blew as the grass was drooping in response, wolf groups were howling freely.
…
"Old sir, we brothers will never forget the kindness you have displayed by saving our lives!" Gao Yang and Zhu Zai kneeled down together before Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
…
A purple haired old beggar opened his mouth, showing his remaining few teeth, laughing in a weird manner: "What kind of Gu Master do you want to become? Hehehe, I happen to have three complete sets of inheritances with me here!"
…
"Mm, this lad has a passable appearance, we will choose him." In the inkmen city, an inkman was pointing at Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was in his youth as he laughed loudly and said.
Even further back, during the time when he was even younger…
"Why, why did you betray me?!" On the night of their joyous wedding, Tai Bai Yun Sheng fell weakly on the ground as extremely loud shouting and fighting noises resounded outside the tent.
As for his wife, she had an expression full of coldness and hatred, she slowly got close to him as her eyes shone with a ruthless light, she gritted her teeth as she said: "Tai Bai Yun Sheng, if you want to blame someone, blame your parents. They were the ones who devoured my tribe, they killed my parents, I want to exact revenge for them!"
During the time of his childhood…
"My son, you are the next generation tribe leader of our Tai Bai tribe! You are not allowed to cry, do not have the heart of needless sympathy! To survive in northern plains, we need to have a tougher heart, a tougher stance! After all in the future, you have to lead our Tai Bai tribe." His father was scolding him in a very strict manner.
…
"Ahhh…" Fang Yuan was screaming from the intense pain.
In his mind, countless images were flashing, they were depicting Tai Bai Yun Sheng's entire life, a legendary tale. Such a huge amount of information had a large impact on Fang Yuan's mind and caused great damage to him.
Thankfully, the images were not endless and unceasing, there came a time when they finally ended.
After browsing through Tai Bai Yun Sheng's entire life, Fang Yuan immediately stopped using his Gu worms, sitting down on the ground to rest.
He was breathing roughly and panting, his entire body was coated in sweat. A long time later, his pupils regained their original color.
Soul searching, this was not an easy action. Especially when Fang Yuan was concerned about Tai Bai Yun Sheng's safety and did not want to cause harm to his life, he could only endure most of the pressure of the soul search himself.
After stopping the soul search, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was still sound asleep, but his tightly knitted brows had slowly eased as he relaxed. His breathing was more stable now, and his expression was rather peaceful.
In contrast, Fang Yuan's brows were starting to frown instead.
"I did not find it!" He heaved a long sigh in pity.
"What did you not manage to find?" In his mind, Mo Yao's will could not hold in her curiosity as she asked.
Fang Yuan's actions were very strange, it made her very curious.
Fang Yuan did not answer her, he only frowned even more as time passed. The matter of landscape as before Gu was related to his grand scheme after rebirth, how could he possibly tell this to Mo Yao?
Landscape as before Gu was an Immortal Gu that Tai Bai Yun Sheng obtained only after he became an immortal.
Rumors said: This Gu was created naturally on its own when Tai Bai Yun Sheng became an immortal, and heaven and earth resonated with him, causing it to spontaneously condense.
But there was another possibility, that within Tai Bai Yun Sheng's mind, he had the Immortal Gu recipe for Landscape As Before from the start.
If he really had the Immortal Gu recipe, then Fang Yuan could steal this Gu recipe, along with river as before Gu and mountain as before Gu, bringing to Lang Ya blessed land and asking Lang Ya land spirit to help by refining this Immortal Gu on his behalf.
This way, he did not have to take a risk and seize the food from the tiger's mouth, it would greatly reduce his danger.
But after this soul search, Fang Yuan obtained a horrible result.
Fang Yuan did not manage to find the Immortal Gu recipe for Landscape As Before, this indicated that the rumors were really true. Landscape as before Gu was indeed a product of the resonance of heaven and earth during the moment when Tai Bai Yun Sheng became a Gu Immortal.
That also meant that: If Fang Yuan wanted to obtain this Immortal Gu, he would have to snatch this Gu by force from Tai Bai Yun Sheng who had already become an immortal by then.
Fang Yuan was still not a Gu Immortal, as for battling an immortal as a mortal, Fang Yuan had never heard of any examples of success in his life, it was no doubt tougher than ascending to heaven!
But what other choices did he have?
Back then, among the three options, this was no doubt the easiest way. He had already invested time and effort into this plan, although Fang Yuan did not have absolute confidence of success, he had no choice but to continue making preparations and take a risk to try it anyway!
…
Outside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's image appeared slowly.
"He is back, he is back!"
"How was the result? Someone saw Tai Bai Yun Sheng fighting his way into the main hall."
"Oh no, Lord Tai Bai Yun Sheng is motionless, it seems he has fallen unconscious!"
The surrounding Gu Masters immediately went over as a crowd.
After taking a look, all of their expression changed mildly. Tai Bai Yun Sheng's body was filled with extremely serious injuries, they were all secretly stunned in their hearts.
"He is still breathing!" Someone stretched out his finger and placed it below Tai Bai Yun Sheng's nose, shouting loudly: "Quick, who is a healing Gu Master, quickly stabilize Old Sir's current injuries!"
"I will do it, I will do it!"
"I am also a healing Gu Master!"
Many healing Gu Masters quickly helped out, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's reputation and extremely kind hearted nature had already been ingrained in everyone's hearts.
There was no doubt that he was much more popular and loved by people compared to Hei Lou Lan and Chang Shan Yin.
"Even Lord Tai Bai Yun Sheng suffered injuries to such a grave extent, sigh, it seems that this time, the round might not have been passed." Someone sighed.
"The time for the challenge has already ended, but most of the Gu Masters did not return safely, we have truly suffered a huge loss this time!"
"Among all of you, has anyone seen Lord Gao Yang and Zhu Zai coming out?" Someone jolted abruptly, suddenly asking.
Everyone started looking around frantically, but they just ended up staring at each other.
No one saw the figures of Gao Yang and Zhu Zai, meanwhile in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, that round was still intact and available for challengers. Except that in this short period, Gu Masters were not allowed to enter again.
Everyone was very clear about what this implied.
Ever since Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had formed, five rank five experts had already been sacrificed.
Such grave casualties and losses, it caused the entire area to go into deep silence.
When Tai Bai Yun Sheng opened his eyes eventually, he found himself lying on a bed, his entire body was feeling weak to the point where he even had difficulties sitting up.
Seeing that he opened his eyes, a servant nearby who was attending to him shouted immediately out of joy: "Old sir, you are finally awake, you have finally woken up! Someone quickly come, someone quickly come, old sir has woken up!"
Very soon, Tai Bai Yun Sheng could hear a large number of footsteps rushing over towards him.
A group of healing Gu Masters came to his side, checking his body's condition for him collectively.
"Lord elder, rest assured, your injuries are no longer a problem. Except that you are of old age, so the injuries this time have affected your physical condition. From now on, you have to recuperate carefully, especially for the next few months, your body is weak and lacking in nourishment, you need to rest and recover slowly." The head of the healing Gu Masters urged him in a gentle tone.
In order to get a team to challenge the round, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had no choice but to agree to Hei Lou Lan's request and had already become an external elder of Hei tribe.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze was completely unfocused, ever since he woke up, he had been in a daze, after hearing these words, he regained some of his senses as he asked: "Where is this place?"
"Replying to lord elder's question, this is Lord Hei Lou Lan's residence. Ever since lord elder failed in challenging the round, and returned barely alive, our tribe leader has been very concerned, he personally brought you here to receive treatment. The servants have already reported your awakening, I believe that very soon, lord tribe leader will be here to see you." The leader of the Gu Masters once again replied.
"Failed in challenging the round, and returning barely alive?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng frowned slightly, the memories in his mind were slowly surfacing, as he recalled that final scene that had happened —
He expended his final portion of primeval essence, activating his defense Gu as he successfully charged into the great hall amidst the attacks and rampaging of the blood beasts.
But soon after, he fainted and fell unconscious, losing perception of all his senses!
When he woke up, he found that he was lying here.
"Does that mean, I really failed in challenging the round?!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's tone suddenly turned sharp, as his gaze became sharper than ever.
"Lord elder…" The healing Gu Masters around the bed all looked at each other, they wanted to offer words of consolation, but they could not bring themselves to say a thing.
Thus, they could only lower their heads silently.
The room suddenly became completely quiet.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze was staring into the distance, after being silent for a while, he suddenly raised his head and laughed: "Haha, so I failed after all. All that sacrifice for nothing, all that sacrifice for absolutely nothing!"
He could not get up now, so he could only use his palm to slam the side of the bed with all his strength, laughing maniacally.
"Lord elder, lord elder!" The healing Gu Masters were frantic, they quickly tried to calm him down.
"My pitiful Gao Yang, my pitiful Zhu Zai, they sacrificed their lives in order to protect me!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes were overflowing with tears, his laughter was filled with pure agony.
"My condolences to lord elder, there is a limit to what a person can do, lord elder had already done his best!"
"Lord elder, the fact that you managed to survive is already the greatest fortune among misfortunes."
"People die when they are killed, the dead cannot be resurrected, old sir, you have to stay strong for all of us…"
Everyone spoke one after another, trying to calm down the unstable Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
But these words felt like utter sarcasm when they entered Tai Bai Yun Sheng's ears. They were like needles stabbing into his heart one by one.
At the final crucial moment, Tai Bai Yun Sheng preserved his primeval essence and did not choose to save Gao Yang and Zhu Zai. It was for himself, to activate the defense Gu and charge into the main hall.
That was him, for his own selfish gains, he had ignored the sacrifices of his comrades.
Was this still Tai Bai Yun Sheng?
Was this still that admirable and publicly recognised figure in northern plains who helped and saved the injured, healing people everywhere, the Tai Bai Yun Sheng who eliminated pain and suffering?
Why did he do that?
But at that crucial moment, he had no time to think about it carefully, he chose to do it in an instant!
Purposely sacrificing Gao Yang and Zhu Zai to obtain a chance for himself to obtain that fifteen year lifespan Gu which was the reward for passing the round! It was for his own purpose of extending his life!
Such a decision made Tai Bai Yun Sheng feel very unfamiliar with himself, he felt extremely ashamed, extremely inferior, and extremely regretful!
Back then, there was no hesitation, he did not think about it, that decision had transformed his morals into a whip, interrogating his soul and lashing at his conscience!
Tai Bai Yun Sheng shut his eyes in great pain, his fists were tightly clenched.
"Lord tribe leader has arrived!"
"Subordinate pays respects to lord tribe leader."
The entire room kneeled, as Hei Lou Lan carried a smiling expression and walked towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Seeing Tai Bai Yun Sheng's pained expression, Hei Lou Lan frowned lightly, but soon his frown vanished: "Elder Tai Bai, I am very glad that you are awake. I have already heard about the situation, you, Gao Yang, and Zhu Zai had displayed the bravery and courage of us northern plains men, although you failed, it was an admirable attempt! As long as you learn from this attempt, I'm sure you'll be able to pass this round in the future, overwriting failure with success and washing away the humiliation."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not open his eyes, he did not speak a word as his expression remained painful.
He had already understood the reason why he failed.
After he charged into the main hall, he had successfully avoided the attacks of the blood beasts as he fell on the main hall. But after succeeding, he laughed wildly in great joy, and because his state of mind had been greatly volatile and fluctuating, together with his grave injuries, he lost consciousness.
To get through this round, there was a time limit as well.
Once the time was up, his unconscious self was sent out forcefully along with the other Gu Masters at the fringe of the battlefield.
He was obviously a single step away from success, but he failed because he had fallen unconscious.
Such an ironic ending, this was not the source of the intense pain in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart.
His pain was because he had abandoned his comrades for his own selfish gains.
Was this still Tai Bai Yun Sheng?
His memories flashed in his mind one by one once more.
From youth, he had always believed in the power of love.
Since he was a child, he had been reputed to have a kind heart.
When Tai Bai tribe devoured other tribes, he saw that his childhood friend was going to suffer the horrible fate of becoming a female slave, thus he stepped up and requested to marry her. Because of this, the batch of captives were also spared.
But on the night of their wedding, his wife betrayed him. The captives contacted outside enemies and assaulted his tribe, causing his parents to die from this incident.
His slave life after that was extremely tough and pitiful, and he had always been suffering the intense guilt and regret in his heart.
Finally, one day, he gave an unacquainted old beggar a bowl of water out of kindness, and the old beggar gave him three immortal inheritances to choose from.
The first could allow him to bathe in flames and step on fire, surpassing the mortal realm.
The second could allow him to control wind and fly in the air, roaming the world freely.
The third could allow him to surpass life and death, gaining the ability to assist the world's people.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng chose the third inheritance.
From then on, it was as if he found the light in the darkness, his heart was no longer in turmoil as he had no regrets anymore, he had been completely reborn!
After so many years, the old beggar's laughter was still ringing in his ears.
Surpassing life and death, gaining the ability to help people, this had become his life's goal.
And indeed, he truly achieved this in his life later on.
Countless people felt gratitude towards him, his kind reputation had spread widely, his light was shining over the entire northern plains.
He was a living legend.
But right now!
He had failed!
His failure was not in that he did not receive the lifespan Gu. But because he betrayed his comrades, he betrayed the way of life that he had set for himself!
But the most ironic thing was, all these were done by his own subconscious.
He spent almost his entire life to establish a way of life for himself that he believed in. But that at moment, he completely destroyed his own ideals.
He had seen the other side of himself, his own selfish nature.
He had once thought, he was the person everyone knew him as — walking on the grassland under the setting sun, helping and saving people throughout the region, the savior of the world.
But now, in his heart, this image was slowly leaving him, it was limping away from him.
In the brilliance of the setting sun, his shadow was stretched out and extended into the horizon.
The shadow was extremely dark…
Chapter 593: Appearance of the strength path Immortal Gu
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Hei Lou Lan's brows furrowed as he walked out of Tai Bai Yun Sheng's room.
"An expert cannot become conceited by success nor discouraged by failure; who could have thought the grand, renowned Tai Bai Yun Sheng was no more than this." he was very dissatisfied with Tai Bai Yun Sheng's mental state.
"Tai Bai Yun Sheng is the number one healer, if his state is not good, the difficulty for me to cross the rounds will increase by a lot." Hei Lou Lan raised his head and looked above.
On the summit of the sacred palace, the bright aurora was surging majestically.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had already condensed sixty-seven floors and was currently condensing sixty-eighth floor.
Hei Lou Lan gazed at Eighty-Eight True Yang Building with an obsessed look, a cold light of ambition flashing in his eyes.
In the sixty-eighth floor there existed a strength path Immortal Gu!
Hei Lou Lan possessed an one-edge owner token, this strength path Immortal Gu was assimilated into Eighty-Eight True Yang Building just moments ago, and he could immediately perceive it.
This was a rank six strength path Immortal Gu called flying bear strength Gu.
The flying bear was a desolate beast with battle strength that could match Gu Immortals.
Flying bear strength Gu could allow the Gu Immortal to have a definite probability of bursting out with a flying bear phantom during battle and strike with the divine strength of flying bear.
This was the Immortal Gu Hei Lou Lan wanted. With it, he could advance into a strength path Gu Immortal!
"I must get this Immortal Gu in my hands. My plan for revenge only has hope if I have it!" Hei Lou Lan unconsciously clenched his fists, but soon relaxed.
His trusted aide Hei Shu came towards him in short, quick steps, and kneeled before him.
Hei Lou Lan's expression quickly changed back to normal.
Even in front of his trusted aide, he did not reveal even a trace of his true emotions.
Every day, during this time, Hei Shu would come to report on the movements of every great expert in the sacred palace: "Lord Chang Shan Yin is still at the ninetieth round of seventh floor and has still not made any progress. Lord Ye Lui Sang is at the forty-ninth floor, he has crossed the eighty-first round, thirty percent of the Gu Masters with him have perished…."
Hei Lou Lan had completely opened up Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to everyone; it was a generous move that was rarely seen in the history, attracting a craze in everyone to explore Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Even though every owner token's price was raised to a sky-high amount, there were still countless people scrambling for them madly.
Humans die for wealth and birds die for food; blinded by greed, many had lost their lives.
Adding the casualties from the attempt of Tai Bai Yun Sheng, five rank five experts had died already – Chang Biao, Pan Ping, Hao Ji Liu, Gao Yang and Zhu Zai. This was an enormous loss to Hei Lou Lan.
The smaller the forces he could mobilize became, the harder the difficulty in getting flying bear strength Gu.
Of course, there was also a certain benefit by completely opening up Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. As long as the participating Gu Masters could survive, most would be able to experience rapid increase in strength.
There were also not a small number who were able to successfully advance, creating many new rank four and rank five Gu Masters.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was originally arranged by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable for the benefit of his descendants.
"This sixty-eighth floor is the main focus of our tribe, it even far surpasses winning over the thirty-ninth floor. This is a task specially handed to me by a certain supreme elder of our tribe. Thus, every bit of strength in the sacred palace needs to be treasured. Hei Shu, make this news public: Starting now, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building will be closed and everyone will listen to my arrangements. After breaking through the sixty-eighth floor, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building will be opened again." Hei Lou Lan instructed, his tone containing a will that could not be questioned.
When Hei Shu heard this was actually a task given by the tribe's supreme elder, his body shook and his expression turned extremely solemn.
"Get to work." Hei Lou Lan waved his hand.
Hei Shu accepted the command and retreated.
Every Imperial Court contest was a chess game played by Gu Immortals. Even the stronger Gu Masters were no more than chess pieces.
To seek some kind of Immortal Gu, Gu Immortals would provide support to certain tribes participating in the Imperial Court contest. This was a common set of circumstances.
Hei Lou Lan was sure that everyone would be dissatisfied by his decision to close Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, but under the pressure of a Gu Immortal's reputation, no one would dare to raise an issue.
"Tai Bai Yun Sheng's injuries are too severe, but I can make him participate in the battle after he rests for about half a month. After all, he is a healing Gu Master and will be in the rear of the battlefield. He needs lifespan Gu, I can start from this aspect to mobilize him."
"Chang Shan Yin is fighting the seventh floor. Hehe, his days have not been easy because his son suddenly perished in this round. To get back his reputation, he must pass this round. But he demanded flying bear phantom Immortal Gu from me before, taking loans and owing me a great deal of resources. I can mobilize him."
"There is also Ye Lui Sang, he has a fire path support type Immortal Gu and would be of strong help to me. I can entice him with heavy bait…of course, the crucial point will still be using the strength of the three Gu Immortals, Xue Song Zi, Hei Cheng and Hei Bai. Hehehe, I should send them letters."
…
Hei Bai was extremely excited after reading Hei Lou Lan's letter: "I waited so long and now finally the wooden chicken Gu has appeared, I did not think it would be within the sixty-eighth floor."
He did not doubt the contents of this letter in the least.
After all, Hei Lou Lan was Hei Cheng's son, and was the current Hei tribe leader. If his loyalty was doubted, then was there anyone in the world who was worth trusting?
Hei Cheng smiled brightly: "Virtuous brother, every cloud has a silver lining, hard work will eventually pay off. Did the letter mention anything about strength path Immortal Gu?"
Hei Bai's face flushed red: "I am ashamed, I was only thinking of wooden chicken Gu and forgot about nephew's situation. Nephew has Great Strength True Martial Physique, he must have a strength path Immortal Gu to advance to Gu Immortal. Nephew has mentioned about this in the letter, but unfortunately a strength path Immortal Gu has yet to appear in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building."
"Still no strength path Immortal Gu?" Hei Cheng frowned.
Previously, when Hei Bai had been worried about wooden chicken Gu, he was consoled by Hei Cheng. This time, it was Hei Bai's turn to console Hei Cheng: "Brother, no need to worry, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building has altogether eighty-eight floors, there are still twenty floors that have not condensed yet."
Hei Cheng nodded, sighing: "Immortal Gu Dark Limit won't be able to mask his physique any longer, this can almost be considered as my son's final chance at life. Sigh… Man proposes and God disposes, we can only leave things to the will of heaven."
Hei Bai's heart was fervent as he changed the topic back to wooden chicken Gu. He reminded: "Brother, time waits for no man, let's quickly prepare to give some help to Hei Lou Lan!"
"Yes. This matter demands immediate actions, which place did the letter mention?" Hei Cheng slowly stood up from his seat.
Hei Bai also followed suit and stood up: "It is near Demon Blood Hill."
"Let's go."
The two Gu Immortals were very straightforward as they immediately set off.
Not long later, they arrived at the sky above Demon Blood Hill.
Demon Blood Hill was a famous area in northern plains where four great tribes of the righteous path had allied to annihilate a gang of demonic path bandits who had been ravaging around northern plains.
The demonic path bandits were extremely fierce because of their deep background, with demonic path Gu Immortals secretly supporting them from the dark.
After the intense battle, the bandit gang was completely annihilated while the righteous path also suffered serious losses. The blood of demonic path Gu Masters dyed the whole hill red, and thus later generations called the hill 'Demon Blood Hill'.
Hei Lou Lan had requested help in the letter.
Hei tribe's two Gu Immortals had already prepared for a long time and were ready to leave at any time; this was to help Hei Lou Lan to clear the floor as fast as possible.
But Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was located in Imperial Court blessed land, why would the two Gu Immortals from Hei tribe come here?
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's structure needed to be mentioned for this.
The previous ink text had explained: Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was a rank eight Immortal Gu house formed from innumerable small towers, with divert disaster Gu as one of the main cornerstones.
There were gaps of several li between each small tower, covering Imperial Court blessed land in accordance to each region of northern plains. During ordinary times, the small towers would be taking in the wild Gu within Imperial Court blessed land. As every ten year period arrived, these small towers would start to sink one after another, sacrificing the wild Gu inside them while also resonating with the blizzard in the outside world to achieve a miraculous power.
This power would carry out an enormous plundering of the whole of northern plains, taking in the precious Gu resources of northern plains to above the sacred palace in Imperial Court blessed land, and thus condensing floor after floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
These floors would form on top of one another, finally forming the complete Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!
Back then, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's plan had been rejected by Long Hair Ancestor. Long Hair Ancestor was a refinement path supreme grandmaster, and thought of an exquisite plan with a different approach, refining the current Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Every time Eighty-Eight True Yang Building formed was a process of refining Gu once again.
It not only made use of the wild Gu in the small towers but also the Gu worms absorbed into it.
For example, looking at the sixty-eighth floor, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building first absorbed flying bear strength Gu and refined it, using the strength of the Gu to form the hundredth round.
Again, absorbing other strong Gu worms to form the ninety-ninth round. Following was the ninety-eight round, ninety-seventh…..
It was like building a high building, one must first build a strong foundation.
If there were not qualified Gu worms, then Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would replace it with Gu recipe, primeval stones, inheritance secrets and so on.
Everyone knew the harder the rounds in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building were, the more bountiful the rewards would be. Conversely, the more bountiful the rewards or stronger the Gu worms, the more difficult the round would be.
One could say every Gu worm assimilated into Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was a part of its structure.
Countless Imperial Court contests passed by while countless generations of sagely immortals had been probing before the workings of this mechanism of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building were finally discovered.
Originally, there were no flaws in this.
But with the passing of time, changes started to appear which created a loophole, allowing northern plains' Gu Masters to exploit it.
This loophole was in the aspect of 'refinement'.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building plundered northern plains and absorbed Gu worms, 'refining' them and using their strength to form rounds.
What did Gu refinement rely on?
Will!
Back then, how did Fang Yuan refine the liquor worm?
By using primeval essence as a carrier for the Gu Master's will to continually wear down the Gu worm's will, until the Gu worm was filled with the Gu Master's will, thoroughly turning into the Gu Master's tool.
When Fang Yuan refined Gu, he had used Immortal Gu Spring Autumn Cicada to get the desired result at the least expense.
If the Gu worms differ by two ranks or more, there would be suppression. Fang Yuan used Spring Autumn Cicada's aura to force the lower ranked Gu worm's will to curl up at a corner, and then poured in his primeval essence and will straight into the Gu worm, swallowing the withdrawn Gu worm's will.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was not a Gu Master, how could it refine other Gu worms?
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, thus, intentionally left behind his will!
Giant Sun's will!
Fang Yuan had seen Giant Sun's will when he was refining the guest halt stele before. It was genuinely majestic and vast like the sun.
Comparatively speaking, the will Fang Yuan left behind after refining the guest halt stele was as minute as an ant.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building refined Gu worms by using Giant Sun's will.
Immortal Venerable were unrivalled, their wills were also similarly unrivalled and could easily extinguish other wills.
Thus, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had never encountered any problems when refining Gu worms.
However, there was a problem.
Wills were formed from thoughts, if there was not a soul to act as the carrier, continuous thinking would only lead to unceasing consumption.
To resist such astonishing consumption, the will would often choose to hibernate.
When Fang Yuan entered Water Pavilion, Mo Yao's will which was stored inside had awoken from her hibernation.
Giant Sun's will might be vast as the Sun, but Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had passed away for countless years now; the will was gradually unable to resist the power of time and also chose to hibernate!
When Giant Sun's will went into hibernation, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's Gu refinement speed slowed down.
This reduction in speed caused a loophole to appear in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Chapter 594: Plan activated!
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Strong winds blew and snow wreaked havoc.
Demon Blood Hill which used to have dark red grass growing all over was now a scene of whiteness.
The lofty hill also had surrendered to the power of ten year's blizzard, appearing weak as a baby.
Roar Roar Roar….
Enormous figures that were as tall as thirty feet, appeared and disappeared in the blizzard. These were monsters that only appeared during the blizzard — snow monsters.
These snow monsters were stronger the larger their size.
A thirty feet tall snow monster could battle a rank three Gu Master. Forty feet tall had the strength of a rank four Gu Master. And fifty feet tall had the terrifying power of a rank five Gu Master.
Following the blizzard, the snow monsters began to devastate the whole of Northern Plains.
They slowly converged together and attacked several surviving areas of Northern Plains, bringing destruction to the dying humans and living beings.
But there is a weakness to everything, snow monsters were snowmen's prey.
Snowmen could rapidly propagate by devouring snow monsters' meat and blood, even prolonging their lifespan.
Hei Bai and Hei Cheng stood on the summit of the Demon Blood Hill for a while.
Their black robes were exceptionally conspicuous in the white snowy land.
Beside them were corpses of hundreds of snow monsters. Unless snow monsters that had reached the height of sixty feet appeared, even in great numbers they could only be trash throwing away their lives when fighting Gu Immortals.
Hei Bai and Hei Cheng had already waited for a long time now.
Suddenly, Hei Bai's expression shook as he got a response, his sharp gaze looking at his left.
There, maelstroms of wind and snow started to form in the air.
Within a blink of an eye, they turned one by one into whole giant hands formed from wind and snow — flying snow hand.
After the enormous flying snow hands condensed completely, they grabbed at Hei Bai and Hei Cheng.
"Haha, we have been waiting for you." Hei Bai laughed brightly and flicked his finger repeatedly, sending out large numbers of rank five Gu worms.
Hei Cheng also made his move.
The enormous flying snow hands grabbed Gu worms and soon each of them clenched tightly. The snow hands crumbled apart while the Gu worms inside disappeared without a trace, captured tightly by a power that took them into Imperial Court blessed land.
Hei tribe's two Gu Immortals did not resist in the slightest and let the Gu worms be taken by the flying snow hands.
Such a situation lasted for a whole hour before all the rank five Gu worms were captured away. Hei Bai and Hei Cheng only then stopped, looking at each other with a smile before flying away rapidly, disappearing into the horizon in a blink of an eye.
"Support has arrived!" After some time, Hei Lou Lan got a response, his gaze burned as he gazed above at Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
At the peak of the sacred palace, an aurora was shaking.
The sixty-eighth floor was still condensing with the hundredth round already being formed before. The still not formed sixty-eighth floor was only in its embryonic stage, the aurora around it continually shook like liquid, holding the large numbers of Gu worms captured just before from outside the blessed land.
A part of these Gu worms were wild Gu whereas a portion came from Hei Cheng and Hei Bai, two Gu Immortals.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building chose the strongest among them to form the ninety-ninth round, ninety-eighth round….
Hei Lou Lan carefully sensed it for a while before slightly frowning: "The two from Hei tribes have already made their move but that Xue Song Zi is still biding his time, hmph!"
He had bribed Xue Song Zi to reach an agreement. One of the contents of the agreement was Xue Song Zi help him at a designated time period.
However, Xue Song Zi was not showing any signs of movement at present.
Hei Lou Lan was displeased, immediately sending a letter through a Gu worm.
Soon, he received the reply.
In the letter, Xue Song Zi complained about how the two Gu Immortals from Hei tribe were pressuring him these days and how his snowman business had taken a dive, already running at a loss. He also added how he had already supported Hei Lou Lan with many rank five Gu for wooden chicken Gu some time ago. And it was beyond his power to send support now.
"Lies!" Hei Lou Lan was furious, almost pinching this letter Gu to death, "There is indeed no one good in the demonic path, they all are treacherous and sly bastards."
But soon, Hei Lou Lan's anger subsided.
Truthfully, he had predicted this.
After all, he was only a mortal while Xue Song Zi was a lofty Gu Immortal. A mortal dealing with a Gu Immortal was like an ant negotiating with an elephant.
The two were simply not at the same level. If the Gu Immortal refused to acknowledge and reneged back on the promise, the mortal could do nothing about it.
Hei Lou Lan was secretly worried.
The sixty-eighth floor was in the process of condensing and the longer the time went by, the weaker the effect of a Gu Immortal's support would be.
"It seems, I need to first obtain wooden chicken Gu to make Xue Song Zi help me!" Hei Lou Lan sneered, immediately sending an order to convene everyone.
Wooden chicken Gu was on the thirty-ninth floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
For months now, Hei Lou Lan's efforts had been concentrated on this floor. He also had Xue Song Zi's help, thus the progress was very smooth, succeeding in pushing to the last round.
Wooden chicken Gu was exactly the reward for this final round.
This last round; it was difficult in a sense, but it was also very simple.
What it tested was patience in putting in effort over a long period of time.
Hei Lou Lan had personally led people and attempted the round for forty to fifty times altogether, now already having grasped its details. Every time, he would progress slightly and the accumulation of such progress gave shocking results. He was only a paper-thin distance away from success.
"This is good too. Grasping this thirty-ninth floor would raise the morale for when we tackle the sixty-eighth floor." Hei Lou Lan thought for a while and immediately took action.
The next day, he mustered large numbers of people, convening all the Gu Masters in the sacred palace, and held a pep rally.
That very evening, he led everyone and successfully broke through the hundredth round, obtaining rank six Immortal Gu Wooden Chicken.
Just like Hei Lou Lan expected, the breakthrough of the round raised morale and fighting spirit greatly, sweeping away the haze of Tai Bai Yun Sheng's defeat.
With Immortal Gu Wooden Chicken, Hei Lou Lan's confidence rose greatly and he used it to lure Xue Song Zi into helping him.
Seven days later, the sixty-eighth floor had completely taken form.
Hei Lou Lan impatiently led everyone to charge into the floor.
However, after arriving at the floor, he did not tackle the rounds anxiously, instead commanding the Gu Masters to spread out.
Over a hundred refinement path Gu Masters were included in the troops.
These people were all carefully selected and their loyalty could be trusted. Although they had not attained master level, they were elites.
The refinement path Gu Masters formed a round formation upon which Hei Lou Lan slowly walked into the center.
He sat down cross-legged and took out the two-edge owner token.
The two-edge owner token slowly flew into the air and at the same time, Hei Lou Lan's body also began to let out grey light.
The light rays were sharp as needles, piercing into the air.
Not only Hei Lou Lan, the remaining refinement path Gu Masters also let out sharp grey radiance.
These needle sharp light rays continued to strengthen, becoming thicker and longer, flooding the whole round formation.
The individual needle sharp rays started to touch each other, instantly linking together. A giant grey radiance slowly stretched out from the round formation, directly piercing into the two-edge owner token which was floating in the air.
Outside the round formation were large numbers of Gu Masters spectating this while guarding against emergencies.
"What are they doing?" A young Gu Master asked in confusion.
An aged senior beside him patted his shoulder: "Hehe, this is the ability of super tribes! Kid, watch properly, the next scene will make your eyes open and jaw fall down."
As he was saying this, the owner token suddenly shook.
The tremor was weak, but following the dissemination of the giant sharp grey radiance, the scope of the tremor quickly increased.
By the time this tremor spread to the round formation, it had already become a heavy tremor.
The grey light rays condensed in the round formation like a light lake. From this heavy tremor, the lake suddenly erupted with dazzling light, forcing everyone to narrow their eyes.
The grey light shone on every corner of the first round's area.
Just like the melting of snow, the world in the round gradually started turning transparent before completely dissipating.
It was like a cover had been lifted, and as if the second layer underneath was revealed, Hei Lou Lan and the group arrived at the second round.
"This is?!"
"We actually passed the round without even making a move?"
After a moment of silence, many young Gu Masters started making a big fuss.
That young Gu Master from just before had eyes wide open and his jaw hanging down: "What in the world is this method?"
The aged Gu Master beside replied with satisfaction: "This is a refinement path killer move that all super tribes have — Grey Meltdown. It can be used to rapidly pass rounds in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Kid, the scope of your vision should have expanded, right?"
The young Gu Master whose vision was expanded, nodded his head nonstop and praised: "Amazing! Truly an amazing method! But, what do they need us for with such a method in their disposal?"
The aged Gu Master's smile turned forced: "This method is not effective every time. Some rounds can be crossed with this method, while some cannot."
"Tsk tsk, this trick is quite interesting…" In Fang Yuan's mind, Mo Yao revealed her body.
Her posture was enchanting and her eyes had a hint of seduction. She mumbled to herself in an analytical way: "This should be digging into the hibernating will of Giant Sun's control, attacking with coordination from both outside and inside. The Gu Masters outside the blessed land would release Gu at certain places, and these Gu worms would be absorbed into Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, refined into the rounds. But Giant Sun's will is hibernating, so the speed in refining the Gu worms has become slower. At best, they could only be considered half-refined."
"The so-called killer move grey meltdown uses the owner token to connect with the half-refined Gu worms. As such, the core of the round will be directly refined. The round will naturally not be able to continue anymore and switch to the next round."
"To do this, the crucial key is time. The state of the half-refined Gu won't continue for long. Even if Giant Sun's will is hibernating, as long as there is sufficient time, it will completely refine these Gu worms. In the case that these Gu worms are refined, the Gu Masters tackling the round cannot induce any reaction and the chance to forcibly refine them would be thoroughly lost."
"Hehehe, you are indeed a refinement path grandmaster, being able to analyze so thoroughly with just a glance." Fang Yuan laughed in his mind, not stinting on his praise towards Mo Yao.
To speak bluntly, this method was fighting with Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to refine the Gu worms.
If Giant Sun's will was awake, the Gu worms would be refined instantly, not leaving behind any opportunity.
But it was hibernating now, the refinement had become slow and as such, there was a loophole that could be used.
Fang Yuan was from the future, thus he knew this clearly.
In his previous life, after central continent's Gu Immortals had broken through Imperial Court blessed land, they had shown this method in the image clips they had disseminated everywhere.
But this method could only be used as support.
What central continent's Gu Immortals truly relied on was still the glass owner token.
This secondary owner token could be considered a divine treasure! Who knew how much energy and resources central continent's forces had to spend for it, and now it was in Fang Yuan's possession, raised to six edges.
Taking advantage of everyone concentrating on the second round, Fang Yuan secretly took out the six-edge owner token.
He stroked the six edges of the owner token and sighed, muttering inwardly: "Such a long time of planning and now it is finally time for the plan to begin in full. Flying bear strength Gu with my flying bear phantom Gu, isn't that what it should be? Hehe, I also think so."
With that and a thought in his mind, he instantly grasped control over this floor!
Chapter 595: Green vines blocking the round, Fang Yuan's backstab
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Hei Lou Lan gazed ahead at the troops making slow progress in the dense jungle.
The intense battle had already lasted for over six hours.
This was the second round; the weather here was hot and damp, and the terrain was a vast ancient rainforest.
To cross this round, Gu Masters needed to traverse through the whole jungle and reach a stone palace at the other side.
However, this jungle could not be taken lightly.
There might not be any beasts in the jungle but it was full of green vines.
These green vines were coiled around tall trees and piled up on the damp ground. Every green vine had the thickness of a king-sized bowl and length of seventy to eighty feet in the minimum.
The common green vines among these were called green snake vines which had snake scales growing all over their surface. And when Gu Masters neared them, the vines would suddenly move and coil around the Gu Masters, constricting them to death.
In every one hundred paces of the rainforest, there were about a thousand green snake vines, filling the whole area.
The difficulty in progressing forward was thus extremely high.
The whole journey was filled with green snake vines attacking from all sides; some shot down from sky, some creeped through the ground and some ambushed from under the ground, causing the group to struggle and not be able to defend properly.
The group's progress was met with attacks from the green vines at all times, seemingly like they were among an ocean of green vines.
The green vine had powerful attacks and quick speed. Even more dangerous were the wood path Gu worms that lived on their bodies. It was precisely because of these Gu worms that the group had suffered huge casualties.
"Reporting, we have discovered a green snake vine king ahead. Currently, Lord Ye Lui Sang is already in a fight with it." After a while of moving forward, an investigative Gu Master returned from the front group to report to Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan nodded, still continuing with his slow movement.
In every group of green snake vines, there was a green snake vine king which had the battle strength of a rank four Gu Master.
However, Ye Lui Sang was a rank five peak stage expert, the current tribe leader of the super force Ye Lui tribe, and the fire path he cultivated subdued wood path Gu worms completely. There was also the fire path support type Immortal Gu on him, taking care of a green snake vine king was a cinch.
Sure enough, after a while, the report of victory came from ahead: "Lord Ye Lui Sang has eliminated the green snake vine king and has now retreated from the front lines. Lord Chang Shan Yin has switched with him and is leading the wolf group to open the path."
"Okay." Hei Lou Lan lightly replied.
Wolves were good at offense and not at defense, and were not a good match for the vines. But Chang Shan Yin had defense specialized wolves like turtleback wolves. He also had vermillion fire wolves upon which lived fire path Gu worms. In this situation, they were a sharp weapon to cut open the path.
'Wolf King is truly powerful, he can even be said to have the number one battle strength. Especially when he also has the flying bear phantom Immortal Gu, a mere minor round cannot obstruct him.' Hei Lou Lan pondered while walking.
'Flying bear phantom Gu and flying bear strength Gu, if the two are paired up, that would be perfect. Hmph, I will first make Chang Shan Yin pour in his utmost effort for me and when the time is ripe, I must make him hand over that flying bear phantom Gu! As long as I become a Gu Immortal, wouldn't a mere Wolf King be mine to toy with?"
'This second round seemingly tests the Gu Master's strength in doing prolonged battles, but more than that, it is actually testing investigative ability. In this jungle, there are not only the green snake vine groups, but also green dragon vine groups. Green dragon vines are dozens of times more terrifying than green snake vines, they are mutated beings among plants! The path we took avoided these green dragon vines as much as possible. There are only one or two territories of green dragon vines in this path, and presumably there will be one or two tough battles, and that will be the greatest difficulty of this round."
Hei Lou Lan felt proud: 'We are getting closer to the finish line, at this speed, we will cross this round in an hour!"
He had just thought of this when suddenly a change occurred.
Swish swish….
The green snake vines around the group suddenly penetrated the air with terrifying speed, even producing sonic booms!
The offense of the vines had suddenly increased by dozens of times.
The previous battles were the ones where the Gu Masters fought with the green snake vines nearby while the vines outside the range stayed still.
But now, the green vines within a hundred li, no, a thousand li, were engaging in the battle, surging out crazily like a tsunami as they pounced towards the Gu Masters.
The Gu Masters were caught unprepared, immediately suffering heavy losses. Countless Gu Masters were killed within a few moments of time.
"How could this happen? The green snake vines are rioting all of a sudden!" The experts shouted in fright.
"Someone, save me quickly!" Surrounding Gu Masters were wantonly constricted and twisted apart by the green vine group.
"I command all troops to attack, hold them off no matter the consumption! If we can't hold them back, it will be our death!" Hei Lou Lan shouted and rose to the air, attempting to control the situation.
Soon, a hundred or so green dragon vines rose to the sky, charging towards him.
Hei Lou Lan gave a shout of fury and used his dark path abilities, killing twenty to thirty green dragon vines instantly before moving towards the ground.
But the ground was also not safe, countless green snake vines and green dragon vines broke through the soil, trapping the entirety of the troops.
"How can this be? The scouting had been done properly, how could we encounter a green dragon vine group here?" The corners of Hei Lou Lan's eyes were threatening to tear as he could not make sense of this no matter what!
Green vines were strongly territorial. But as long as one does not encroach upon their territory, they would remain still and not take the initiative to attack.
These green vine groups, however, had completely gone crazy, pouncing upon the Gu Masters like they had killed their father.
Green vines possessed strong vitality and even if they were cut into five to six parts, these five to six parts could still attack before dying. Hei Lou Lan even saw many green dragon vines struggling free from their root systems, and flying out to attack.
'This, how is this possible? What the hell is happening?!' Hei Lou Lan could not make sense of it no matter how he thought. By cutting off their own roots, these green dragon vines were looking for their own death.
All living things possessed survival instinct.
How deep a hatred was it for them to erupt in such bitter suicidal attacks?
The large army was broken apart, each fighting for themselves while slowly starting to retreat bit by bit; in a moment, many youths lost their lives.
"Could it be this second round is actually a giant trap?! This is too strange, this is only the second round, how could its difficulty be so high?!" Hei Lou Lan was dumbstruck, a huge doubt rising in his heart.
This was indeed a huge trap.
But the one who laid this trap was not Eighty-Eight True Yang Building but the one in control of this floor – Fang Yuan.
He had been patient, ordering the green vines everywhere in this round to stealthily move here. He then accepted the command to participate in the front line and switched with others from time to time, intentionally lowering the speed of progress to stall for time.
When large numbers of green vines had gathered, Fang Yuan immediately ordered a surprise attack without any hesitation.
The Gu Masters suffered disastrous losses because of the ambush!
Fang Yuan was an enslavement path master; the green vines which had lower intelligence than beasts, coordinated together under his control, and disregarded their own lives to burst out with a hundred times their normal strength!
Especially for the experts like Hei Lou Lan, Ye Lui Sang and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he had paid even more attention and mobilized green dragon vines which were comparable to mutated beasts, to obstruct them.
"Retreat, retreat quickly."
"There are green vines everywhere around us, if we continue on, the casualties will become even more severe!"
"Lord Hei tribe leader, my tribe leader requests to retreat!"
Several large tribes hurriedly sent their representatives.
Anyone could see they had landed into an ambush by the green vine groups. How could the green vines become so sinister? Right now, no one had the time to tackle this issue.
Hei Lou Lan fiercely gnashed his teeth, his face showed a struggling expression several times before he squeezed out a word: "Retreat!"
He also knew the situation was already out of control, the green vines were charging without fearing death and had already led the formation to turn chaotic. And the experts were not able to fight properly for the fear of hurting their own men.
If they suffered such serious casualties in the second round, then how could Hei Lou Lan have the power to seize the Immortal Gu in the last round?
Retreat was naturally a wise move, but it would depend on whether Fang Yuan would allow it.
He was in control of this floor, sealing the exit and entrance was only a small thing.
Soon, everyone made a terrifying discovery – they could not leave!
This discovery was huge blow on the morale.
The whole army seemed to be about to crumble apart.
At the crucial moment, Hei Lou Lan felt the situation going awry and stood up, his voice spreading everywhere: "All of you, persevere. I will use the killer move grey meltdown to forcibly cross this round. If we persevere, we will win, we will survive!"
The despairing Gu Masters heard these words and felt like they were drowning men who had found a life saving straw.
The morale that had fallen to the bottom did not crumble in the end and instead stabilized.
Everyone again started fighting, opening a path and forming a tight and connected formation.
Under the heavy protection from all the troops, Hei Lou Lan led a group of refinement path Gu Masters to form a round formation and began to use the killer move grey meltdown.
"Lord, if we forcibly activate it, we will probably lose thirty percent of our men." An old refinement path Gu Master who was familiar with the inside information advised Hei Lou Lan with a pale face.
The killer move grey meltdown naturally had its limitations.
This killer move relied on the coordination of the inside and outside; this required the reward of the round to be Gu worms deliberately provided by either Hei tribe's Gu Immortals or Xue Song Zi.
But Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would not coordinate, it only chose the suitable Gu worms from those absorbed and refined them to form the rounds.
The first round's reward were Gu worms that came from Hei Bai. Thus, Hei Lou Lan could use the killer move grey meltdown to exploit Giant Sun's will still not having fully refined the Gu worms, to forcibly refine them. Like this, he would get the reward and pass the round.
But the second round's Gu worm reward was wild Gu. Hei Lou Lan was unable to connect with these wild Gu and the killer move grey meltdown could not be used.
The second round could only in accordance with this be completed by going through its requirement.
But the current situation was critical, Hei Lou Lan was left without a better option but to forcibly activate killer move grey meltdown to skip through the second round and connect to the Gu worm reward of the third round.
The third round's Gu worm reward came from Xue Song Zi. The Gu worm was only half-refined, thus still contained most of Xue Song Zi's will.
As Hei Lou Lan was working together with Xue Song Zi, Xue Song Zi's will approved him. He could thus use grey meltdown to connect to the third round's reward and refine it.
As such, the third round would be passed. And when the third round is crossed, the second round would have no foundation, collapsing apart. Because when Eighty-Eight True Yang Building condensed each floor, it would first form the hundredth round, then ninety-ninth round, ninety-eighth round….
However, if Hei Lou Lan did so, the killer move grey meltdown's power would increase by several times, far surpassing the amount these refinement path Gu Masters could bear.
Whether it was success or failure, a portion of the refinement path Gu Masters would not be able to bear it and die.
"Tens of refinement path Gu Masters dying is better than the whole army dying!" Hei Lou Lan gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with chilly and cruel light. The situation had forced him to choose the lesser of the two evils.
The old Gu Master did not say any more and retreated back to the formation.
Chapter 596: Preparations from long ago, Mo Yao's shock and suspicion
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
The refinement path Gu Masters had solemn expressions while quickly moving into formation. Grey rays of light gradually blossomed and merged into one.
Under everyone's expectant gaze, Hei Lou Lan waved his hand and threw the two-edge owner token into the air.
The owner token floated in midair, and the giant grey radiance which had been condensed in the round formation shot towards the owner token.
The grey radiance was so dazzling that one could not look at it directly.
"Haha, this is the moment." Fang Yuan had been observing this from the outside, and sent a thought at this time.
The two-edge owner token immediately disappeared, landing in his hand the next moment.
He was in control of this floor, teleporting a small owner token was as simple as breathing.
Without the owner token, the grey radiance immediately collapsed and the killer move grey meltdown forcibly ended; the refinement path Gu Masters in the round formation gave a frightened howl, puffing out blood, with almost all of them dying from the backlash in that instant.
Spurt.
Hei Lou Lan, who was in the center of the formation was no exception to this, spurting out a mouthful of blood and retreating back several large steps like he had received a heavy impact.
"My owner token!" He lost his self control and howled with an extremely shocked, angered and doubtful expression.
Everyone was also stupefied by this change.
Sun Shi Han was baffled, Tang Miao Ming covered her mouth and Pei Yan Fei was also despondent.
Even Mo Yao's will was raving in Fang Yuan's mind: "Brat, what did you do? His owner token has no more than two edges now. Adding in your six edges, it is only eight edges! What are you in such a hurry for? Wouldn't it be good if you had waited for his owner token to rise to four edges?!"
"You don't know shit." Fang Yuan sneered and under the cover of his large sleeve, calmly put away the two-edge owner token.
The whole process happened under the bystanders' gazes, but it was completed in total secret without incurring any suspicion.
"This, what the hell happened!" Ye Lui Sang rushed towards Hei Lou Lan with a fretful expression and asked, "Where is the owner token?"
"I… how would I know!" Hei Lou Lan's eyes seemed to shoot out flames of anger, his voice raised an octave higher as he burst out with foul language, "What the f*ck happened?!"
In the past records of history, there had never been a situation where the owner token suddenly disappeared!
Grey meltdown had been used so many times by all the large forces and the winners in the past, how could it suddenly fade away in Hei Lou Lan's hand?
"Damn it, how do we go on without the owner token?" Fang Yuan also hurried over at this moment, his brows were furrowed into a knot and he had a genuine and heavily anxious expression, making others sympathize with him.
The killer move which everyone had placed high hopes on failed at the crucial moment. The two-edge owner token was also inexplicably lost.
The green vines' offensive was becoming more fierce like a flash flood, not giving anyone the time for a breather.
Morale had fallen to the abyss and many started fleeing in disorder.
"It's over, we are done for." Xi Xue mumbled.
"Will I die in this place? Is this the final ending?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed bitterly. In this recent period, he was being tormented by his conscience and his body looked extremely weak and thin.
However, the next moment, someone shouted in joy: "We can leave, someone left! We can leave!"
Fang Yuan did not want to get rid of all these people in one go and left a lifeline, allowing the Gu Masters to freely enter and exit this floor.
If Hei tribe was completely annihilated, he would definitely attract the all-out revenge of Hei tribe's Gu Immortals.
Moreover, Fang Yuan still required Tai Bai Yun Sheng to refine landscape as before Gu.
Therefore the collapsed and despairing army started retreating.
"I am actually alive!"
"This time was too terrifying, I don't want to enter there again."
"Boo hoo hoo….father, you died so miserably."
The plaza around the True Yang Building became a scene of gloomy misery.
Hei Lou Lan had convened a large army and entered the tower with grand and vigorous momentum, but such a change while leaving the tower was beyond the expectations of almost everyone.
Hei Lou Lan's expression was ashen as he glanced at the plaza before leaving without any words.
Hei tribesmen followed behind him, silent and heads lowered.
Ye Lui Sang heaved a long sigh and shook his head, leaving the plaza.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a complex expression as he looked at Hei Lou Lan's receding figure: "After this expedition, it will probably be difficult to form a presentable party within a short period of time."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was wrong.
The very next day, Hei Lou Lan again formed a large army and attacked the second round.
So what if he lost the owner token?
Even if he could not use grey meltdown, he could use brute force to pass the round!
Hei Lou Lan had deceived two great Gu Immortals in his pledge to take revenge; he could no longer turn back.
He must force himself to continue on!
However, during the night of the defeat, Fang Yuan had quietly entered Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
"You are too impatient, you now only have eight edges. What can you do now!" Mo Yao sneered in his mind.
Fang Yuan walked slowly along the secret treasury corridor while gently touching the crystal wall, looking on as treasure after treasure swept past his gaze.
He had a slight smile on his face, replying calmly to Mo Yao's will: "You are an impressive refinement path grandmaster, a fairy of Spirit Affinity House, just speak clearly if you want to ask, why probe so superficially?"
Mo Yao heard this and immediately changed her expression, smiling coquettishly: "Young man, looks like you already have a plan…"
"That goes without saying." Fang Yuan's steps paused and he lightly stroked the right crystal wall, taking out a treasure stored within.
Ever since he had refined the guest halt stele, he could take out any treasures around this distance.
Fang Yuan walked a few steps further and took out three Gu worms on top of that.
He then moved to the left crystal wall and took out the objects within.
As this went on, Fang Yuan had taken out tens of Gu recipes, over a hundred Gu worms, all kinds of information on inheritances and over twenty documents on cultivation insights.
Fang Yuan kept around eighty of the Gu worms outside while sending the rest into storage Gu worms.
Mo Yao had observed the whole process quietly, getting more curious as time went on. These Gu worms that Fang Yuan left out here did not match together, she really could not tell what he was doing.
The video of central continent's Gu Immortals attacking Imperial Court blessed land in his previous life appeared in Fang Yuan's mind.
There were altogether eleven Gu Immortals who attacked Imperial Court blessed land, men and women, each with extraordinary presence.
A female immortal was the leader, a domineering aura lingered around her which pressured people; other Gu Immortals were cautious and respectful towards her.
She was known as Fairy Black Moon. A half-mask covered her nose, mouth and cheeks, only revealing the upper half of her face which showed her strong contours, sharp and long brows, bright eyes and a heroic aura. A dark gold armor covered her whole body, bringing a heavy feeling of suppression on any that looked at it.
Fang Yuan's current actions were replicating Fairy Black Moon's actions to the smallest details.
The treasures he took out were actually of great background. Countless years back, central continent's Gu Immortals sent outstanding Gu Masters to infiltrate into northern plains; the Gu Masters would pass some rounds with high grade evaluation, entering the treasure room and arranging these treasures here.
The whole process consumed close to a millenium.
Fang Yuan walked past the guest halt stele, and walked over three hundred steps into the long crystal corridor before stopping.
"It is here." He looked around him and after confirming it, began to put the Gu worms he had taken earlier into the crystal wall. Whether it was left or right, top or under his feet, they were placed in a certain pattern.
As for the original treasures within the crystal wall, Fang Yuan took some, left some and shifted the position of some.
"This, could it be…." Mo Yao was bewildered; she had been watching carefully and had gradually inferred some clues with her refinement path grandmaster attainment.
In the range of tens of steps, after Fang Yuan's adjustments, the Gu worms in the crystal wall had ingeniously formed a formation.
"Right, this is precisely the refinement path killer move grey meltdown. No, to be even more exact, this killer move originates from grey meltdown but its effects are much stronger!" Fang Yuan chuckled.
"What in the world are you trying to do?" Mo Yao asked.
Fang Yuan's gazed eerily, a confident smile appearing on his face: "Just watch."
He then sent out several Gu worms which floated in the air.
The Gu worms in the surrounding walls started to shake slightly one by one.
Dust seemed to rise up in the air.
The dust gradually became denser till it formed a thick grey fog.
The grey fog kept on accumulating and soon entirely submerged Fang Yuan; he could not even see his own hands.
Fang Yuan stood within the grey fog with his eyes closed and his right hand clutching the six-edge owner token, as he tried to carefully sense something.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes and shouted: "Come back, Fixed Immortal Travel!"
Rumble!
The crystal corridor shook strongly and Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had a sudden tremor.
The twenty-first floor where seventeen rounds still remained, disintegrated into nothingness.
The rewards for the seventeen rounds penetrated through space and appeared before Fang Yuan.
Among them, one Gu worm was dispelling a rank six aura, shining with a green gem-like luster, and flying elegantly like a green jade butterfly.
Its powerful presence pushed the rest of the Gu worms to the side.
What else could it be but Fixed Immortal Travel?
"Immortal Gu! This is Fixed Immortal Travel?!" Mo Yao blurted out.
Fang Yuan stored the other rewards into storage Gu worms while the Immortal Gu Fixed Immortal Travel was left outside, sitting on his shoulder.
Immortal Gu Fixed Immortal Travel was a rank six Gu and at its peak state, his mortal aperture could not store it.
Fang Yuan had not stored flying bear phantom Gu either, instead directly holding it in his pocket.
"There is one more." Fang Yuan licked his lips in excitement.
Another explosive sound rang out.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building shook greatly, the twelve remaining rounds of the thirty-fourth floor were immediately passed!
The rewards appeared in front of Fang Yuan out of thin air and one Gu among them, an Immortal Gu that looked like nothing special, just like a lump of earth, it was —
"Immortal Gu Gruel Mud!" Mo Yao's will blurted out the name.
Fang Yuan laughed and stored the other rewards while putting the Gruel Mud into his pouch.
Back then, he had buried Fixed Immortal Travel and Gruel Mud deep under the ground, waiting for this precise moment.
When Eighty-Eight True Yang Building condensed, it plundered the whole of Northern Plains. This was the arrangement of an Immortal Venerable, his might extended up into the heavens and down into the abyss, nothing could stop his overwhelming force.
Immortal Gu Wooden Chicken had escaped the pursuit of Xue Song Zi and Hei Bai, but was still captured by Eighty-Eight True Yang Building in the end.
The wild Immortal Gu ended up like that while Fang Yuan's meticulously buried Immortal Gu did not even have the will to resist, and were naturally collected by Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
After the capture, they were placed separately as the last rewards for the twenty-first and thirty-fourth floor. But due to Giant Sun's will being in hibernation, the two Immortal Gu had all along been in a half-refined state, just as Fang Yuan had planned for.
"Brat, who in the world are you? Hmph, this is not a small arrangement. You were actually able to mobilize two Immortal Gu. Tell me, which region are you from, which force sent you here?" Mo Yao was unable to hold back after she saw this, and began to ask questions after questions.
Chapter 597: True Inheritance Secluded Domain, Unexpected Event
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
The appearance of two great Immortal Gu was way out of her expectations, Mo Yao was very surprised.
What was even more scary was, Fang Yuan had made ample preparations!
The Gu worms he used were originally treasures kept inside the crystal walls. His killer move was even more perfect than grey meltdown, and had stronger effect.
To get to this point, it was not something a single person could achieve, in fact, this could not be achieved with merely decades of set up. Huge amounts of strength and effort needed to be invested, at least hundreds of years of infiltration in order to hide all the Gu worms inside the crystal walls, and to prevent the Gu worms from being taken away by people, they needed to prepare several of each Gu.
All in all, this was not something a person or an ordinary force could accomplish, it had to be a super force with Gu Immortals at least!
Against Mo Yao's suspicion, Fang Yuan smiled lightly and did not speak.
All these were the set up of central continent's Gu Immortals. But Mo Yao had died long ago, her will was slumbering within Water Pavilion and was unaware of the changes in the outside world.
Fang Yuan was someone who had been reborn, he had a huge advantage, using the Gu Immortals' set up, he could accomplish all of this successfully!
To speak the truth, he should thank those central continent Gu Immortals who went around to distribute the footage.
Without the guidance of this clip, Fang Yuan would not be so sure of the inside information of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
His method was inherently the same as Hei Lou Lan's, but Fang Yuan was sensing his own Immortal Gu, while Hei Lou Lan was sensing other people's mortal Gu.
Refining an Immortal Gu was at least a hundred times as difficult as refining a mortal Gu, thus, Fang Yuan was not in such a rush for time unlike Hei Lou Lan. The two Immortal Gu were constantly in a state of half-refinement.
Most importantly, the refinement path killer move that Fang Yuan activated was the revised version of grey meltdown that central continent's Gu Immortals had painstakingly researched in, it had an amazing effect, freeing the Gu Master and saving them the trouble of facing backlash as Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would be the one enduring the pressure.
At the same time, he had to thank all of the Gu Masters who charged through the rounds enthusiastically. If the rounds were intact, Fang Yuan would need to traverse a hundred rounds to communicate with the Immortal Gu, it would be filled with difficulty.
But there were only seventeen rounds left on the twenty-first floor, and the thirty-fourth floor had even fewer rounds, at twelve.
After Fang Yuan successfully took the two Immortal Gu, these two floors were passed automatically.
He took out the two owner tokens, the glass owner token was still at six-edges, after all it was a cheat item and was not authentic.
Meanwhile, the owner token snatched from Hei Lou Lan had turned from two-edges to four-edges.
Combining the two, they were — ten-edges!
Ten-edges, that meant that Fang Yuan had met the minimum requirements to receive an Immortal Venerable Inheritance.
"Immortal Venerable Inheritance…" Fang Yuan chuckled, according to what was shown in the footage, he combined the two owner tokens and created the ten-edge owner token.
Swoosh.
The next moment, he vanished on the spot.
The scenery before him changed drastically, when Fang Yuan finally reacted, he found himself in an area of void.
The surroundings were pure darkness, there was neither heaven or earth, Fang Yuan was floating silently in the air.
Several traces of green or red starlight shone from far away.
"This is Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's true inheritance secluded domain, to think that after so many years, I can come here again!" Mo Yao's will was surprisingly dejected and downcast, as she muttered to herself.
"Eh? You've been here before?" Fang Yuan's heart jumped.
"Back then… hmph, I'm not going to talk about it. It is your greatest fortune to be able to come here! Although with ten-edges, you can only receive the lowest grade ordinary true inheritance. But this will not hinder you from gaining some knowledge and experience. What you are going to see will surely broaden your vision, you will never forget it!" In just a moment, Mo Yao's will went back to normal.
Fang Yuan laughed, Mo Yao's arrogant tone did not make him angry, in fact he nodded in agreement: "Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, I cannot compare to him yet! Today, this will indeed hugely broaden my vision."
Saying this, he waved his hands like he was swimming in water, moving his body forward slowly.
In the video from central continent in his previous life, there were many details omitted during this period.
Central continent's Gu Immortals invested more heavily than Fang Yuan, they used more than ten Immortal Gu to raise the owner token to forty-three edges.
They gained a lot, but all of the gains were concealed, such an act was no doubt a defensive measure to prevent attracting the greed of the viewers. This, however, increased Fang Yuan's interest and anticipation towards Giant Sun's true inheritances.
He followed after a blood red starlight, getting closer to it.
As he got closer, the starlight became brighter, and eventually, Fang Yuan stopped before a round circular light.
This lump of red starlight was the size of a bowl, silently floating around.
"This is an ordinary true inheritance, if you want to understand the contents, you just need to let your consciousness enter it." Mo Yao advised at the appropriate timing.
Fang Yuan was carefully navigating with his mind, as images flashed before him.
A grand and huge ancient forest!
Ancient and tall trees, beasts at the size of mountains!
"Hahaha!" A person with a broad shoulder and thin waist was laughing with his head facing up.
His image was blurred, but his skin was covered in rainbow colors, as ancient totems of every description were carved on it, his dominating presence pervaded heaven and earth!
He stepped on the grey clouds and treaded strong winds, his purple hair was fluttering as there were seemingly flames burning within his double pupil eyes.
Fang Yuan saw this and his heart was pounding, he could feel difficulty breathing. He recognised this person immediately: "This is one of the three Demon Venerables of the olden antiquity era, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable! He is facing the immemorial desolate beast — Primordial Ash Owl! Strange, why is there a Demon Venerable's item within Giant Sun's inheritances?"
"What's so strange about this? Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was the venerable of an era, the supreme ruler of heaven and earth, the invincible being in the universe. He searched the entire world and obtained an item of Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, placing it inside his building for his descendants, this is very normal." Mo Yao said.
Immemorial desolate beast, overlords that had existed within heaven and earth since the immemorial era, they had rank eight Gu Immortal battle strength.
This primordial ash owl had a bird head and beast body, it had two pairs of golden pupils and a dragon's horn on its head. Its muscular body was covered in thick rainbow feathers, its bestial aura could overwhelm the world.
Its limbs moved quickly, and could easily destroy mountains and rivers. With one growl, its voice could travel ten thousand li, causing ripples in the air of the entire world.
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable praised: "Good beast!"
The primordial ash owl had intelligence that could rival men, it got angry upon hearing that, shooting out thunder like that of the heavens from its mouth, the blue thunderbolt shot out and pierced ten thousand li into the sky, instantly arriving before Reckless Savage Demon Venerable.
Fang Yuan's expression changed, the magnitude of the lightning and thunder was beyond his imagination! Right now he was like an ant, but even if it was his Gu Immortal self from his past life, he could not survive for three breaths' time from this!
But Reckless Savage Demon Venerable did not move at all, he allowed the frenzied thunderbolt to hit his body directly.
From within the electricity, his bronze colored body was intact, shining brightly. His muscles were like stone blocks, and all the totems on his body were like living beings, as all sorts of fierce beasts were roaming on his body.
From within the exploding lightning plasma, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's face showed an expression of enjoyment. He laughed heartily as he punched with his right fist.
Bam — !
Immediately, heaven and earth changed colors, as winds and clouds moved violently.
The lightning vanished slowly, mountains were trembling, and forests were weeping.
With just one punch, the intense winds blew like an apocalypse, the clouds in the sky vanished, the heavens were stripped bare, and permeating sunlight dispelled all darkness!
Just one punch.
With the intensity of the force that repelled ghosts and deities, the primordial ash owl was crying out pitifully!
It was an immemorial desolate beast, an overlord of a region, it was untamable and wild earlier, giving off a strong aura, but the next moment, its bones were crushed to bits as its rainbow feathers floated in the air, its golden pupils were full of fear and it laid on the ground, like a dead dog.
Fang Yuan was completely moved, this was the first time he had seen the attack of a venerable.
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, with the prowess of rank nine, he was truly invincible in all heaven and earth!
"Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-ninth ash owl." Reckless Savage Demon Venerable said plainly, opening his palm and grabbing the air.
The next moment, the primordial ash owl was held by a formless strength. It was like a chicken that was grabbed by a butcher, it was helpless and was shrieking for help.
"Transform." Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's body shuddered, he expanded along with the wind, becoming a giant in an instant!
What a true giant.
He was as tall as heaven and earth, as if he could grab the sun if he wished. No tribulations could move him, as he could barely be held by the universe itself!
The giant slowly opened his mouth, as the primordial ash owl struggled intensely, and yet to no avail as it was sent into the giant's mouth.
The giant swallowed in one mouthful, chewing several times with a sound as if a mountain collapsed, lightning striking everywhere, it was loud as thunder.
With a gulp, the giant sent the primordial ash owl into its stomach.
He actually ate an immemorial desolate beast, a rank eight level existence, just like that.
The prowess of Reckless Savage, it was truly terrifying!
After eating this rank eight desolate beast, the giant patted his stomach, the sound was loud as thunder but his expression was like he did not have enough.
And on his belly, there was a new totem, in the form of the primordial ash owl, but among the innumerable totems on his body, it was not eye catching.
The giant seemed to have sensed something as he suddenly turned around and looked straight at Fang Yuan!
Urgh!
Fang Yuan fell on the ground like he had suffered a huge blow, vomiting out a mouthful of blood in the process.
His soul was trembling intensely, a strong sense of dizziness assaulted him, only recovering after a long time.
Gasp, gasp, gasp…
He breathed roughly, barely opening his eyes.
His eyes could not take it either, as two streams of bloody tears flowed out, flowing from his face towards the ground.
But thankfully, this place did not restrict Gu worms, such an injury could be easily healed with Gu worms.
"This is the test of the inheritance?" Fang Yuan healed himself as he asked.
"Hehehe, what sort of test is this?" In his mind, Mo Yao was gloating, replying in an arrogant tone: "This inheritance has a trace of Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's will within it, only Gu Immortals could withstand it. But after getting this inheritance, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had already modified it such that mortals could endure it. You owe it to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's mercy that you are still alive."
Fang Yuan snorted coldly: "His mercy is only towards his bloodline descendants, what does that have to do with me? Anyway, Giant Sun true inheritances are not so easy to obtain, there is great danger inside."
"That is of course the case. But you have already survived this test, and remember that this true inheritance is only an ordinary true inheritance. With the ten-edge owner token, you already have the authority to inherit it." Mo Yao said.
As expected, when Fang Yuan's mind entered, the red light lump opened its 'doors', as Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's figure did not appear again.
"Primordial ash owl transformation…" Fang Yuan realized now that this was a transformation path killer move. This killer move could allow a Gu Immortal to transform into the primordial ash owl, gaining a huge boost in strength.
Reckless Savage Demon Venerable was the progenitor of strength path, but he was also the creator of transformation path.
His strength could shake heaven and earth, he was the fiercest venerable out of the ten. At the same time, he could transform into countless fierce beasts, having an endless number of transformations, and he could even revive from a drop of blood.
Fang Yuan did not hesitate, he let go of the red light lump and allowed it to fly away from him.
Although the true inheritance was precious, it did not suit him currently.
Fang Yuan was very calm, and held even more expectations.
To think that within Giant Sun's true inheritances, there would be something involving Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, and this particular inheritance was only the lowest grade ordinary true inheritance.
He could not imagine what other ordinary true inheritances there could be. As for the even greater unparalleled true inheritance, what would they be?
He moved his arms, and swam towards another area within this silent and dark void.
Chapter 598: Three Olds, Three True Inheritances, Using Will Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
Fang Yuan worked hard to swim towards a jade light.
This lump of jade light was harder to get closer to compared to the red light from before.
It was flying slowly, continuously twisting and turning, as Fang Yuan chased after it for a while before managing to grab it.
It was also as large as a bowl, and Fang Yuan's consciousness carefully entered it.
An unspeakable force of vibration spread from the jade green light into Fang Yuan's body.
"Be careful, this is Old Immortal Kong Jue's item!" In his mind, Mo Yao's will recognised this item and warned.
"Don't worry, it cannot escape!" Fang Yuan's tone was certain, he grabbed onto this light lump tightly.
"Idiot, I am not referring to that. Quickly let go." Mo Yao said this, but it was already too late.
The mystical vibration spread from within the jade light, all the way into Fang Yuan's aperture.
Fang Yuan's aperture started vibrating.
In his ninety percent filled aperture sea, waves were crashing violently.
Swish swish swish…
The huge waves crashed on the surrounding aperture walls, the rank five peak stage crystal clear walls were starting to develop cracks from the pressure of the waves.
Fang Yuan was shocked!
This true inheritance's test was very peculiar, it was hard to defend against, it actually directly affected the Gu Master's aperture.
"Lad, quickly cut off your arms using Gu worms. Only by making a sacrifice can you save your life!" Mo Yao's will shouted in Fang Yuan's mind.
"Cut off my arms?" Fang Yuan's expression sank, sweat was forming on his forehead.
He tried letting go of it but this lump of jade light gave off an extremely strong suction force, keeping Fang Yuan's hands tightly attached to it.
Fang Yuan could not get free from it, and the vibrations in his aperture were getting stronger.
"I got it!" In the moment of crisis, Fang Yuan had an inspiration as he quickly moved the primeval essence in his second aperture into his first aperture.
The vibration moved into the second aperture through the primeval essence.
The second aperture also started vibrating uncontrollably, but this way, the two apertures were enduring this together, and the first aperture's crisis was soothed to a great extent.
Mo Yao gasped.
As the jade light became dim and the vibrations vanished, it seemed that Fang Yuan had passed the test.
"What is going on, you have two apertures?" Mo Yao said.
With two apertures enduring the test together, although the aperture walls were cracked, they did not break.
"Lad, you hid this very deeply, you actually have two apertures! Second aperture… to think that the rumors that had been going around have been confirmed by you." Mo Yao said with deep emotions.
Fang Yuan was not willing to talk about this, he asked instead: "You mentioned Old Immortal Kong Jue earlier, is it that refinement path supreme grandmaster from the olden antiquity era?"
"That's right, it's him. Refinement path supreme grandmaster… even throughout human history, since ancient times, there had only been three. Future generations called them the 'Three Olds'. They were the remote antiquity era's Old Eccentric Tian Nan, olden antiquity era's Old Immortal Kong Jue, and medieval antiquity era's refinement path supreme grandmaster Long Hair Ancestor."
Mo Yao continued recounting: "Among them, Old Eccentric Tian Nan had a weird personality, he tried to refine the sky and ended up losing his life. Old Immortal Kong Jue had the deepest research in apertures, he created the , and helped the ten extreme physiques to become immortals. Before him, there had never been any cases where a person of the ten extreme physiques rose to become an immortal. As for Long Hair Ancestor, he had the longest lifespan and refined the most Immortal Gu. Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was refined by him. In fact, there were rumors that he could refine lifespan Gu, causing Old Ancestor Giant Sun to attack Lang Ya blessed land, although there were no results from that."
Mo Yao talked about many famous pieces of information.
Three old beings, three supreme refinement grandmasters, each of them was a legend.
They were the three peaks of refinement path in human history, even rank nine venerables could not mask their glory and reputation.
"Old Immortal Kong Jue's inheritance tests the fated person's aperture. You actually had two apertures, you managed to get through luckily. Look, this inheritance is very good, it will be a huge help to you." Mo Yao continued.
Fang Yuan's consciousness went in again.
This inheritance was known as the 'immortal ascension vital information', it recorded Old Immortal Kong Jue's understanding of the immortal ascension process of all the different paths of Gu Masters, all the difficulties they might face and how to deal with those difficulties, it listed the most crucial points for rising to immortal.
Fang Yuan assessed in his heart: "Although this is not a Gu recipe or an Immortal Gu, it has a huge value in terms of theoretical guidance. If Gu Masters get it, it will not only help themselves but even allow them to understand other paths, it is truly an important treasure."
"This immortal ascension vital information dates back to long ago, it might not be useful for the currently trending paths. After all, these years of development have caused the rise of many new paths, it is no longer as dull and simple as back in the olden antiquity era. What I want to remind you is, the essence of this inheritance is not the immortal ascension vital information itself, but Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's notes when he read through it. His assessment is like the summary of the most important points, it gets right to the point and is truly worth more than a thousand gold." Mo Yao gave another shocking revelation.
Old Immortal Kong Jue was a refinement path supreme grandmaster on par with Long Hair Ancestor.
His research, along with the Immortal Venerable's notes, truly has immense value.
When a Gu Master reads it, it will greatly increase the chances of them successfully rising to immortal. In addition, using the perspective of an Immortal Venerable, they can develop in the right direction, their Gu Immortal journey would be guided and they could avoid many pitfalls along the way.
This inheritance had really shocking attraction. Especially for geniuses like Fang Yuan who desired to take one more step and was not satisfied with being a mortal.
But Fang Yuan did not choose it.
He had his previous life's experiences, he could repeat his run on the blood path.
He had other motives for coming into the true inheritance space.
Thus, Fang Yuan let go and allowed the jade lump to fly away from him, at a speed faster than the red light as it went into an unknown zone.
"You are really giving it up? When you think about this in the future, don't regret it." In his mind, Mo Yao sighed.
"Regret? Hehe, there is no such word in my life." Fang Yuan laughed lightly, continuing his search.
He swam in the darkness for a while, discovering the third light lump.
This light lump was shining with a grey light, its speed was even faster than the first two light lumps, it was like a shooting star. As it flew in the space, there was a frost colored tail trailing behind it.
Fang Yuan tried to get close to it, but Mo Yao said: "Actually, you don't have to take such a risk every time, since you have already collected many wisdom path Gu worms, why don't you display their true value?"
"Oh? What do you mean?" Fang Yuan's speed did not get any slower.
"Lad, thank me well, the move I'm going to teach you will allow you to avoid the test of the true inheritance and search for the content of the true inheritance directly."
Mo Yao's method was not very complex.
After Fang Yuan found the true inheritance light lump, the first step was for his consciousness to enter the lump, and that would trigger the test of the inheritance.
Mo Yao's advice was, to use wisdom path Gu worms to create wills. By injecting this will into the true inheritance, he would wait for a while before recalling it.
This way, he would be able to avoid intimate contact with the true inheritance, it was a opportunist method.
"Wisdom path has thought, will, and emotion. The so called mind is made up of heart sense and divine sense. When your mind enters, your thoughts are exploring and interacting. Thoughts are like water droplets, they are the easiest to create, and also the most fragile. Because the numbers are huge, the droplets will merged into a river and enter to do the investigation. During this process, the Gu Master's mind has to continue creating them without any pauses. As for will, they are superior to thoughts, like an ice cube. They have greater defense but are harder to create. They can however, move independently, and recalled when needed." Mo Yao explained.
Fang Yuan was silent.
"Lad, at this point in time, why are you hesitating? Hehehe, I know you have been collecting information on wisdom path, and also purchasing those wisdom path Gu worms. Your special will Gu, deliberate will Gu, play will Gu, keep will Gu, and new will Gu are all useless now, when will you use them?" Mo Yao laughed alluringly.
Pausing for a while, she continued urging: "Right now, you must already be clear: My will is residing in your mind, it is already deeply connected to you. When you use these Gu to create wills, they would be pure and flawless, I cannot infiltrate them. Haven't you been wary of me? This method has a huge advantage, you can use it to avoid those true inheritance tests and check the secrets of the unparalleled inheritances. Unparalleled inheritance, they have much greater value than ordinary inheritances."
"What are you…" Fang Yuan's gaze was hesitant.
All along, he had never been so outspoken about his situation with Mo Yao. To think that Mo Yao would talk about it openly like this now.
What was her true intention? Was it really like what she said, she only wanted to return the rank seven Immortal Gu house Water Pavilion back to Spirit Affinity House?
Mo Yao's honest expression created ripples in Fang Yuan's heart.
Maybe he was too vigilant, and was too wary of Mo Yao? But wills were not like thoughts, thoughts were simple and were not good at deception. A land spirit formed from obsessions only spoke the truth.
But wills were different. They were the product of many thoughts fusing together, they were much more complex than thoughts. Thus, they could lie to others.
Fang Yuan shook his head, sending these chaotic pieces of information out of his mind, now was not the time to think about this.
Honestly speaking, Mo Yao's words were truly useful in Fang Yuan's viewpoint, he was successfully convinced to attempt it.
Fang Yuan took out the wisdom path Gu worms that he had bought.
He had the land spirit little Hu Immortal and could connect to treasure yellow heaven at any time. Standing on the foundation of a Gu Immortal, it was extremely easy for him to purchase mortal Gu.
Right now, the eight wisdom path Gu worms in his hands could produce wills, but they were all different.
Special will Gu could produce special wills, it could only be activated under special circumstances.
Deliberate will Gu could create deliberate wills, when such a will is produced, it would be like carvings on a steel board, extremely difficult to get rid of compared to other wills.
Play will Gu, creates playful wills. It is the will that is most capable of creating 'emotions'.
There are also keep will Gu, new will Gu, battle intent Gu and others…
What was worth mentioning was that these wisdom path Gu worms could produce different types of wills that were effective against other wills.
For example, special will Gu can produce special wills, but can also devour special wills. Deliberate will Gu can create deliberate wills, they were hard to get rid of but if one uses the right methods and finds the deliberate will Gu, it can be easily removed.
Why did Fang Yuan buy these Gu worms?
It was because of this.
He wanted to deal with Mo Yao's mysterious will. But he had already bought so many of these Gu, and discovered that none could deal with Mo Yao's will.
With the current situation, choosing which will Gu to use was not important.
He casually chose the special will Gu, injecting primeval essence as a will was formed.
The appearance of the will was similar to Fang Yuan, he looked like a youth with dark eerie eyes, but different from the main body, his face was more manly and had a more decisive expression.
"Wills can only reside within the soul, if you want to send this will out, you will need a small soul worm." Mo Yao reminded.
Small soul Gu was a rank one Gu in soul path, it was very common but was the foundation of soul path. Many higher rank soul path Gu worms were refined step by step with it as the foundation.
Mo Yao's reminder was redundant.
Before she finished speaking, Fang Yuan summoned a Gu worm.
It had no solid body, it was palm sized and looked like a butterfly, flickering like light and shadow. If someone grabbed it, they would not be able to catch its hollow body.
It was the rank two big soul worm.
Fang Yuan patted it lightly, sending his special will into the big soul worm's body. Next, he used the big soul worm and made it fly to the closest lump of green white true inheritance light lump.
The big soul worm's speed was much faster than him moving alone.
In just a short moment, it entered the true inheritance light lump and a while later, the big soul worm with a tattered body flew back while wavering.
Fang Yuan retrieved his will and looked.
This third true inheritance was also an ordinary true inheritance, but to some Gu Masters, or even Gu Immortals, it had much greater value than the first two true inheritances!
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599 Longevity, Hard, Hard, Hard
Translator:ChibiGeneral | Editor: ChibiGeneral The third true inheritance had huge value, because it talked about the method of extending lifespan.
The saying goes: Better to live a bad life than have a good death.
Unless there were special reasons, there was nobody who wanted to stop living or not live longer.
Gu Masters, although they could cultivate, and reaching rank six would improve the essence of their life, they could not gain lifespan directly.
Ever since the way of Gu had developed, countless talents had tried all sorts of methods to create a method to extend their own lifespan.
Like First Gen Gu Yue on Qing Mao mountain who chose to become a zombie. Or the demonic path Gu Master in southern border Century Boy, using the return to childhood Gu on himself to maintain a child's appearance and reduce the speed of the loss of his lifeforce.
These were only mortal methods, Gu Immortals had even more mystical methods.
This third inheritance was a lifespan increasing method targeted at Gu Immortals. The person who created it was none other than Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
A lifespan increasing method created by an Immortal Venerable! One could imagine the value of this true inheritance!
According to the content, on a certain year, month, and day, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had an inspiration, and it created a brilliant idea.
He named this immortal art — Possession.
The core was a rank six possession Immortal Gu! Other than that, there were about three thousand rank five mortal Gu of all kinds.
"To think that possession Immortal Gu's origin is actually here." Fang Yuan looked at this with a palpitating heart, in his previous life, during the chaotic battle of the five regions, possession Immortal Gu had been extremely well-known, many high ranking Gu Immortals managed to extend their lifespan and that changed the situation of the five regions battle.
Although possession Immortal Gu was rank six, it was a crucial Gu worm that could change the very structure of the world!
In an instant, Fang Yuan had a sudden urge — this is the origin of the possession Immortal Gu, as long as he took it and grasped the origin, in the future during the five region battle, he would be able to sell this possession Immortal Gu and gain a terrifying profit!
Especially with his previous life's memories, he knew who had the greatest need for this possession Immortal Gu, as long as he planned properly, the benefits were unthinkable!
But soon, Fang Yuan calmed down.
The special will on the big soul worm sent even more information.
This true inheritance was only an empty shell, the possession Immortal Gu inside along with the three thousand mortal Gu had all been taken away by someone already.
Inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, there were eighty-eight true inheritances that were set up by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
But after so many years, a portion of them had already been taken by people. Mo Yao had once said, during her time, when she explored Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, out of the eighty-eight true inheritances, only fifty-three were left.
Mo Yao was an expert from ten thousand years ago, as Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's rounds were hard to pass, for every ten years of the Imperial Court contest, there were very few occasions in which a winner reached ten-edges. But even so, after so many years, there were some capable individuals who managed to enter the true inheritance secluded domain.
The number of true inheritances left now was definitely smaller than fifty-three.
"Eh? This is…" While communicating with the special will on the big soul worm, Fang Yuan's pupils expanded suddenly.
Although the true inheritance was taken away, Fang Yuan's special will still made some shocking discoveries.
"Using the soul to take over a body, it is nothing but a struggle at death's door, death is still unavoidable. To extend one's life, lifespan Gu is the best option. The road of a Gu Immortal is filled with calamities and tribulations, it is hard for the body to resist them, and it is hard for the soul to exist independently, the maintenance of longevity means the defiance of heaven… it is hard, hard, hard!"
Inside the true inheritance, there was such a paragraph.
These words directly criticized Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's method of possession, the tone was simply too arrogant! After looking at multitudes of lifespan extending methods, lifespan Gu still remained as the best choice. The final three 'hard' words, were truly filled with emotions.
Finally, the person who wrote this also left his name — Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!
Seeing this name, one would feel that it was only natural for the criticism to exist.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had the same status, they were both rank nine Gu Masters. But Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was an Immortal Venerable during the medieval antiquity era, while Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was a Demon Venerable who appeared after Giant Sun.
Two hundred thousand years after Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's demise, the demonic path venerable Spectral Soul who had the greatest nature for murder was born. Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had such a huge reputation, when Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was invincible in the world, he naturally found his way into Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, it was nothing strange.
"Don't tell me possession Immortal Gu was taken by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable? No, the possibility is very slim. Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was the creator of soul path, he was the greatest expert in terms of souls, not even Giant Sun Immortal Venerable could match him in that. From the words that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable left behind, he had no interest in the possession method at all. He wanted to exist alongside heaven and earth, but he as one person was facing increasing difficulties one after another, seeing that a predecessor had also searched for a longevity method, he felt some deep emotions and left behind these words." Fang Yuan analyzed.
Even rank nine venerables invincible in the universe during their time could not resist the flow of time.
Time was the greatest enemies of heroes and beauties.
Lifespan Gu was hard to find, their location was fixed, and they were produced in limited supply, only heaven and earth could create them naturally.
The rank nine venerables searched the lands, using up all of the lifespan Gu, but failed to find new lifespan Gu, thus they can only find new ways to extend their lives.
The number one people in this world, behind their invincible authority, there was the sadness and anxiety towards their limited lifespan.
Thus, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's possession technique made Spectral Soul Demon Venerable lament about the difficulty of longevity.
"Even Immortal Venerables or Demon Venerables, such invincible beings, cannot escape the fate of death. Sigh… the wheel of fortune goes round and round, they may rule for generation after generation, but after their primes they will inevitably break down, and those at rock bottom can have their fortunes reverse. In this world, can there be any eternal existences?" In his mind, Mo Yao had a heavy emotion as she sighed deeply.
But this was not what Fang Yuan thought.
He had an eerie gaze: "The Great Dao of heaven and earth focuses on the balance of all beings, and the restraints they place on each other. But when a Gu Master cultivates, they search all over the world and gather resources, using them to promote the growth of oneself, thus this is really the path that defies the way of heaven. Maybe this is why tribulations and calamities occur. But precisely so, eternal life that surpasses longevity is the goal that is worth my pursuit!"
Thinking so, there was a fire burning in his heart, becoming brighter and hotter!
Immortal Venerables and Demon Venerables could only have a long life, but his goal was the greater level of eternal life! This was a realm that venerables could not reach.
Using a phrase from Fang Yuan's previous world, that would be 'competing against heaven, competing against earth, competing against humans, the joy is endless!'
Water can only produce beautiful waves when they hit on rocks, people can only feel the joy in life when they engage in competition.
In Fang Yuan's previous life, he was only rank six, close to seven.
Towards the rank nine existences, he had never looked up to them, he only felt a strong aspiration in his heart.
Here, he saw another side of the venerables: fatigue, weakness, helplessness. These made his fighting spirit surge to another level!
The true inheritance ahead of him was empty, it was not worth wasting time for.
Fang Yuan continued searching.
Next, he found two ordinary inheritances, they were all involving wisdom path.
These two true inheritances had two rank six Immortal Gu respectively.
One was 'false emotion fake will Gu', and the other was 'loving affection Gu."
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's wisdom path attainment was very profound, this was a well known fact. Especially in terms of emotion Gu, he had expanded it and created many new Gu recipes.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable created a harem and collected beauties, making girls all over the world fall for him, this showed the power of his emotion Gu.
These two inheritances were not what Fang Yuan wanted, he chose to let go.
"Strange, didn't you say that there were not only ordinary true inheritances, but also unparalleled inheritances in this secluded domain? After searching for such a long time, why haven't I found one?" Fang Yuan was confused and asked Mo Yao.
During this period, Mo Yao had not said a word, she seemed to have taken a blow from the possession immortal art, her fighting spirit had dwindled and she had hidden in Fang Yuan's mind without showing herself.
Hearing Fang Yuan's words, she showed her figure and said plainly: "Hmph, how long has it been, you are already impatient? Back in my day, I searched for a whole three months. The secluded domain is extremely huge, and all the inheritances are moving around, there are only a few unparalleled true inheritances, it is normal that you have not found one. Have some patience, lad."
Fang Yuan asked again: "Actually, you came here before, what good inheritances did you find, give me some details about it."
This was his true question.
"Hmph, I saw many inheritances of course, but here, the true inheritances fly around random with no pattern, there is no use in telling you, you can only rely on your luck to search. Heh, beware of the time, the more inheritances you come into contact with, or the longer you stay here, the faster these true inheritances fly, and the more dangerous your situation becomes. Back then, with my Gu Immortal realm, I could only stay for three months, and nearly died here."
As Mo Yao said this, her tone was filled with lingering fear.
"Even you almost died here?" Fang Yuan saw the main point in her words.
"Lad, you are a mortal, you are too weak. I estimate that you can only check eight true inheritances, and can stay for at most a month. Right now, you have already seen five inheritances, you have to be careful!" Mo Yao vaguely reminded him.
"What was it that threatened the life of a grand Gu Immortal like yourself?" Fang Yuan asked.
But Mo Yao only smiled tenderly, saying, "If you are fated for it, you will know when you experience it," before concealing herself.
Fang Yuan's expression turned slightly grim.
He had always held a suspicion.
In the video in his previous life, there were eleven Gu Immortals from central continent, but after they entered the true inheritance secluded domain, after the omitted parts, there were only nine of them who reappeared, all with injuries.
Does that mean, the two missing had died in the secluded domain?
Sometimes, having this Mo Yao's will was advantageous.
Fang Yuan had gotten Mo Yao's reminder and became more careful, slowly investigating.
Three days later, he got close to the sixth true inheritance, and used the special will Gu and big soul worm to obtain the information inside the true inheritance.
This inheritance came from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, it was similar to the third inheritance in that they were both lifespan extending immortal arts.
It involved a new path that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had created from researching Ren Zu, he called it 'yin-yang path'.
To use this method, two Gu Immortals, one male and one female, have to cooperate and copulate, to achieve the result of one of their lifespans increasing.
But there was a flaw.
If one gains lifespan, the other must lose the same amount.
In other words, it was transferring the lifespan of one person to another.
This inheritance had also been taken by others already.
The popularity of lifespan extending methods could be seen clearly here.
"This is the sixth true inheritance." Fang Yuan muttered, thinking of Mo Yao's reminder.
According to Fang Yuan's endurance, he could see eight true inheritances at most, beyond this number, a huge crisis would descend upon him.
If he wanted to obtain a true inheritance, Fang Yuan needed to be careful now.
After all, he only had two chances left, and at the same time he needed to be wary of the inheritance being emptied out already.
Thirteen days later, Fang Yuan found the seventh true inheritance.
This true inheritance light lump was the size of a washing basin, it was shining brightly in white light and had a stronger aura compared to ordinary inheritances.
"Lad, this will broaden your vision, this is an unparalleled true inheritance!" In his mind, Mo Yao said.
ChibiGeneral ChibiGeneral TRANSLATOR Longevity through yin-yang path ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) No wonder it's hard hard hard.
Chapter 600: Supreme True Inheritance!
Translator: ChibiGeneral Editor: ChibiGeneral
"Unparalleled true inheritance!" Fang Yuan's gaze brightened upon looking at the lump of burning white light in the distance.
He quickly took out special will Gu and a big soul worm. He condensed a will and moved it into the big soul worm, looking as it flew towards the true inheritance light lump.
"Unparalleled true inheritances far surpass ordinary true inheritances, I want to see what is so different about it." Fang Yuan was waiting expectantly.
But an unexpected thing happened.
As the big soul worm approached closer to the true inheritance light lump, Fang Yuan sensed his connection with the big soul worm was weakening.
When the big soul worm had not even reached three hundred steps from the light lump, the connection between it and Fang Yuan had thoroughly broken.
"This… What is this situation?" Fang Yuan was startled, looking at the unparalleled true inheritance flying away leisurely in its original orbit. And the big soul worm he had released showed no signs of movement, being completely still. Saying it was dead was also not appropriate, but no matter how Fang Yuan commanded it, it quietly hovered without the slightest bit of response.
"Eh? This unparalleled true inheritance is not simple, be careful." Mo Yao's will also gave a sound of surprise and warned Fang Yuan.
"What is going on?" Fang Yuan curiously and cautiously approached the big soul worm, picking it up for examination.
There was no signs of injury on the big soul worm, but the will that had been instilled into it was completely gone.
Big soul worm was a rank two Gu; and its wild will was removed after being refined by Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's will occupied its body, thus he could maneuver it like moving his fingers.
But right now, Fang Yuan's will that was in it, refined into special will by using special will Gu, had inexplicably disintegrated with not even a trace remaining.
The big soul worm had become completely ownerless, anyone would be able to send a trace of their will and instantly refine it.
This was also the reason why Fang Yuan could not command it regardless of what he did.
The previous several times, Fang Yuan had exploited special will to probe out true inheritances, ingeniously avoiding the test of the true inheritance. This method had been proved successful time and time again, he had never expected it to fail before even verifying the unparalleled true inheritance.
What was this unparalleled true inheritance hiding that could completely clear Fang Yuan's will?
"Ah, I remember! So it was this." Just as Fang Yuan was hesitating, Mo Yao suddenly spoke up.
She laughed coquettishly: "Kid, should I say it is your good luck or bad luck? There are not many unparalleled true inheritances but there are not few either, and what you are encountering now is the most special among them."
"Please advise me." Fang Yuan's expression turned calm.
"I saw this true inheritance before and it also left behind a deep impression on me. Back then, even I had to expend a lot of effort to approach it. Hehehe, inside it is a rank seven Immortal Gu Giant Sun Immortal Venerable personally refined, called human qi Gu. Its ability is mysterious and could even be said to be strange, even I had to spend a lot to investigate it clearly." Mo Yao sighed.
While Mo Yao was alive, she had been a rank seven Gu Immortal, a fairy of Spirit Affinity House with awe-inspiring reputation.
However, she had to pay a considerable price to approach this true inheritance. Fang Yuan was only a mortal now, it was natural for him to not even be able to approach it.
"Human qi Gu…" Fang Yuan pondered over this crucial name.
He had a realization and asked: "Could it have some relationship with the three elements of immortal ascension?"
"Lad, your guess is correct." Mo Yao sighed and explained, "In the advancement to Gu Immortal, the three qi of heaven, earth and human are particularly crucial. When advancing into a Gu Immortal, you would need to completely shatter your aperture and take in the heaven qi and earth qi. The more heaven qi and earth qi you can take in, the higher your chance of succeeding. But heaven qi and earth qi cannot be accumulated limitlessly, they need to be on an equal level with human qi."
"And human qi is the sum of the Gu Master's own accumulation. The Gu Master's battle strength, toughness of their physical body, the depth of their soul, familiarity with Gu worms, understanding of heaven and earth, awareness of their own nature as well as luck, talent, aptitude, fortuitous encounters, insights and so on would transform into human qi when advancing to Gu Immortal."
"The more the Gu Master has accumulated, the more man qi they would have. The more man qi there is, the more heaven and earth qi they can take in, and the higher their chance of advancing to Gu Immortal. And this man qi Gu's purpose is to take in the man qi of other people, purify them and add it to oneself when advancing to Gu Immortal, thereby greatly raising the chance of the breakthrough, as well as deepening the foundation and the potential of Gu Immortals."
Mo Yao's words greatly broadened Fang Yuan's vision.
He could not help but praise: "There is actually such an Immortal Gu, created with such an idea! Terrific!"
In human history, Gu Immortals had always been in extremely few numbers. The difficulty of advancing to a Gu Immortal, among numerous famous rank five Gu Masters, there might only be one who could successfully advance.
Among the crucial keys of advancing to a Gu Immortal, one was at the top – the Gu Master's accumulation.
Many Gu Masters don't have deep accumulation; the man qi they could condense when advancing to Gu Immortal would be very little but the amount of heaven and earth qi instead appears in very high amounts. As such, the balance would not be reached, heaven and earth qi would suppress and swallow the man qi, finally the Gu Master would be assimilated by heaven and earth and perish.
But if there was man qi Immortal Gu, this difficult test would be eliminated.
By collecting other's man qi, purifying them and gathering it into one's body; even if the accumulation is not enough, it would not matter.
One could say, with man qi Immortal Gu, the chances of advancing to Gu Immortal would increase to the extreme, raising the numbers of Gu Immortals.
And raising the numbers of Gu Immortals would mean a distinct increase in a region's strength.
No doubt, this was a Gu that could change the battle situation of the five regions! As long as the news was leaked, all super forces would fanatically rush over like ducks.
However, man qi Immortal Gu was too strong, it was at rank seven, higher than the Spring Autumn Cicada currently.
Fang Yuan had a mortal body, he could not endure the might of man qi Immortal Gu.
His will had been devoured by the Immortal Gu before it was even able to approach it, purified into a negligible amount of man qi and stored.
If not for Mo Yao giving the information, Fang Yuan would still be in the dark and unknowing of what happened.
"Man qi Gu is definitely good, but it does not suit me." Fang Yuan regretfully glanced one final time at the burning white light lump and sighed, shaking his head before leaving in another direction without the least bit of reluctance.
Man qi Gu's realm was too high, Fang Yuan simply did not have the qualifications to control it.
Man is the spirit of all living beings; Gu are the essence of heaven and earth. To Gu Masters, Gu were tools. But man qi Immortal Gu was too strong; if it was an ice blade, Fang Yuan was an infant, he would be frozen by the cold aura let out by the ice blade before he even approached it.
"The most crucial point is that I cannot use man qi Immortal Gu. I need to breakthrough from mortal to advance to Gu Immortal, before that I simply cannot handle man qi Gu. And if I become a Gu Immortal, what would I need man qi Gu for?" Helping others?"
Man qi Immortal Gu was not suitable for the lone Fang Yuan. Only those super forces would need it.
Unless Fang Yuan formed his own force.
He slowly flew around in the true inheritance secluded domain.
Fang Yuan gradually comprehended something and said after a moment of silence: "Mo Yao, I realized the danger you spoke of."
"Hehehe." Mo Yao smiled, not surprised, "When Gu Masters enter the true inheritance secluded domain, every time they come in contact with a true inheritance or the longer the time they stay here, the faster these true inheritances would move around. Thus, urging the Gu Masters to quickly choose a true inheritance. By the end, the true inheritances would move as fast as meteors, Gu Masters simply would not be able to capture them. Because of this, the Gu Masters could lose their lives at any minute."
Pausing a while, Mo Yao continued: "And the danger to life originates from the true inheritances. You saw the unparalleled true inheritance just before. Your will had not even neared it before it was refined into man qi by man qi Immortal Gu. Think about it, if it crashes into you with the speed of a meteor, you won't have any time to dodge, what will happen then?"
Fang Yuan lightly snorted.
He could completely imagine that scene.
If a mortal body was struck by the burning white light lump, no matter their physical body, soul or will, everything would probably disintegrate and be refined into man qi.
"Like I said before, you are too weak, only at the mortal realm. Even the tests of the ordinary true inheritances are a difficult hurdle to you. Unparalleled true inheritances are even more troublesome. Let me tell you, there is a higher level of inheritance above unparalleled true inheritance – Supreme True Inheritance." Mo Yao revealed a sensational piece of information.
"Supreme true inheritance?!"
"In this whole true inheritance secluded domain, there are only three supreme true inheritances." Mo Yao sighed with deep emotions, seemingly immersed in the depths of her memory, "It is simply impossible for a mortal to receive these three supreme true inheritances. The difficulty of an unparalleled true inheritance is already extremely high, moreover Imperial Court blessed land prohibits the entry of Gu Immortals. This is also the reason for Eighty-Eight True Yang Building being able to stand tall for so long, among the eighty-eight true inheritances, there are still over half remaining."
Fang Yuan carefully pondered and approved of Mo Yao's words.
Entering true inheritance secluded domain was extremely difficult, and the opportunity was very uncertain. First of all, one needed to be the winner of the Imperial Court contest held every ten years. Secondly, they needed to complete at least ten floors of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Finally, after entering, they still needed to successfully pass the test of the true inheritance.
In other words, every ten years, among the many heroes of northern plains, there would only be one who would rise above others and take control of the owner token.
Simply relying on the owner token was still not enough, the winner must have a strong force which should not be exhausted too greatly in the Imperial Court contest, and also should have enough experts beside him. His force should have enough talents in all fields and involving a wide range of paths, only then could he hope to pass ten floors.
After fortunately being able to enter true inheritance secluded domain, the tests of the true inheritances would further wipe away a batch of these winners.
The tests were very difficult, even Fang Yuan, a reborn old monster, almost suffered a setback, let alone these people.
What was more absurd was that even if they passed the test, would that true inheritance be coincidentally suitable for them?
Not necessarily.
Those who could reach this step were usually dragons among dragons, phoenixes among phoenixes, heroes among heroes, with all three aspects of aptitude, talent and fortuitous encounters. Such characters would have extremely high aspirations, and would naturally think about it a lot and look through more options.
As such, by the time they could no longer stay within true inheritance secluded domain, it would be too late for regret.
Who is to say they might not die here?
"The true inheritances' flying speed is getting faster, you have one more chance left. No matter which true inheritance it is, take it quickly and leave… eh?! Not good, leave!" Just as she was persuading him, Mo Yao's tone suddenly changed and let out a startled cry.
Fang Yuan turned his head around to take a glance and saw a true inheritance, the size of an adult man, blossoming with all kinds of mysterious colors, whizzing towards him. In the dark secluded domain, it had a very long dazzling and burning tail trailing behind it.
A light lump the size of a large bowl was an ordinary true inheritance.
A basin sized light lump was an unparalleled true inheritance.
Then what was a light lump the size of an adult?
Fang Yuan instantly thought of the name – Supreme True Inheritance!
In the whole true inheritance secluded domain, only three supreme true inheritances existed, and now, one was heading towards Fang Yuan!