Chapter 167

Bai Ning Bing forms an iceblade storm, combining his Iceblade Gu, Swirl Gu and Fierce Wind Gu, and sends it chasing Fang Yuan across the valley. Fang Yuan outpaces it on his thunderwings. The storm slams into the dying thunder crown wolf instead, shredding its armor and flesh so thoroughly that no loot is left worth taking. The Gu Yue clan curses Bai Ning Bing for wasting the kill. The Bai clan Gu Masters only look pained. ^{ch. 167}

Wild Gu worms that had lived inside the thunder crown wolf scatter as it dies, and clan elders from both sides scramble to catch them, hindering each other as they go. Fang Yuan lacks a recon Gu with real vision, so he can only judge each worm by approaching it. He passes over one that reveals itself as an attack-type Gu, then a second that turns out to be a defensive Thunder Shield Gu. Bai Ning Bing corners him before he can search further, and Fang Yuan is forced to grab the Thunder Shield Gu instead. He tames it with the Spring Autumn Cicada’s aura and refines it on the spot, gaining Stealth Scales Gu. ^{ch. 167}

Stealthed, Fang Yuan evades Bai Ning Bing’s Lightning Eye Gu by hiding in the forest, then sits down and uses the tusita flower to refill his nearly spent primeval essence. When he emerges after several minutes at full reserves, five clan elders lie dead: three from the Gu Yue clan, two from the Bai clan. The two clan leaders are locked in an increasingly vicious duel. He watches a Bai clan Gu Master’s Water Cage Gu burst open under a Gu Yue moonblade, freeing a captured worm and drawing curses from both sides. Before Fang Yuan can chase the last two free worms himself, a wolf’s horn call rises and a fourth thunder crown wolf appears, leading fresh waves of lightning wolves down on the valley. ^{ch. 167}