The white-brow elderly Gu Master, riding a white crane, vows to start his revenge on the descendants of the one he hates. His crane cries out, and over ten thousand flying cranes answer. Fang Yuan hears it first through Earth Communication Ear grass and feels a strong sense of danger. The flock dives on the arena like a rain of arrows. More than half of the Gu Masters are killed in the first attack, since the wilderness offers nothing like a fort. ch. 191
Attacked too, Fang Yuan sees only white fog and dodges with the ear grass. Gu Yue Bo, a rank four expert, comes to protect him and easily kills or repels the ordinary cranes. Fang Yuan is puzzled by the clan leader’s changed tone, and cannot conjecture that Tie Ruo Nan took him for a ten extreme physique. Gu Yue Bo proposes retreating to the village under the clan’s protection. Fang Yuan agrees, knowing the village is the most dangerous place for him but that the cranes are worse. ch. 191
A giant crane descends, and the white-brow old Gu Master on it declares that no one can escape. Gu Yue Bo shouts that the newcomer is a rank five Gu Master. Fang Yuan guesses this concerns First gen Gu Yue and bets on it, since only a rank five can deal with a rank five. He tells Gu Yue Bo that the First gen ancestor has fully awakened and the village will be safe. Shocked but resolute, Gu Yue Bo speeds toward the village with him. Hundred beast kings and thousand beast kings block the path until Gu Yue Bo, fighting with his life, is trapped in the encirclement. ch. 191
When the fog vanishes, corpses lie everywhere and the crane flock is greatly damaged as well. Fang Yuan recognizes the Iron Beak Flying Crane of the Middle Kingdom, and sees a myriad beast king crane carrying the rank five old man. Gu Yue Bo, full of injuries, takes blows he could have avoided rather than let them reach Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan urges him to gather the Gu Masters the cranes have divided. Gu Yue Bo shouts that Gu Yue village has a method to deal with the enemy, and the former enemies gather around him. ch. 191
The white-brow elderly sees they are his senior brother’s descendants and lets them flee back, to finish them together and use them as a threat. He first flicks three balls of light at the three rank four clan leaders, who could interfere in the battle, and each is slowed below a snail’s speed. Gu Yue Bo cannot shake off the light covering him. He orders the Gu Yue clansmen to protect Fang Yuan at all costs as the only one who knows the method, and turns to face the elderly. Fang Yuan looks at him deeply, and the clansmen surround Fang Yuan with healing light and speed buffs. The three clan leaders, who hated each other, fight together with their lives on the line but die one by one as the elderly flicks his sleeves. ch. 191
Flying cranes gradually force their way into Gu Yue village. Inside, bamboo buildings have fallen, the clan main pavilion is half devastated and the square is covered in blood water, because the fierce combat between Tie Xue Leng and First gen Gu Yue shook the mountain. Gu Yue Yao Ji sees the injured remnants of the three clans return without Gu Yue Bo and asks what is going on. The flock of cranes behind them is the answer, and the village falls into chaos once again. The white-brow elderly calls on his senior brother to come out and meet him. Blood water gushes in a ten metre fountain in the square, and the bright red coffin appears upright with First gen Gu Yue standing inside as a blood wight. He hatefully says the elderly did not die, asks how he found the place, and accuses him of instigating the Gu Master earlier. ch. 191
