Chapter 193

Sky Crane Lord aims a rain of feather arrows away from First gen Gu Yue, whose blood wight zombie body is hard to breach, and kills countless Gu Masters instead. Two white beams from his eyes sweep the village, collapsing the bamboo buildings and melting anyone they touch. A rank five Gu Master creates huge casualties with every move. Fang Yuan throws a man beside him into a feather arrow’s path, then rolls clear of an Ironbeak Flying Crane’s claw. Bai Ning Bing dodges nonstop, and each injury his Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique heals brings him closer to death. ^{ch. 193}

First gen Gu Yue shouts for Sky Crane Lord to stop. The clan members are the fruits of centuries of planning. With no choice, he gives up on the duel and orders the blade wing blood bat Gu and blood guillotine to defend the village. Sky Crane Lord laughs, for the Blood Sea Inheritance is focused on attack, not defense. Having understood his enemy very well, he had let the Gu Yue clan members go first and then attacked them, and so escapes the perilous situation he was in. ^{ch. 193}

Shadows of iron chains appear around First gen Gu Yue, turn real and bind his hands and feet, and a talisman paper sticks between his eyes. Unable to stretch his wings, he crashes to the ground. Sky Crane Lord names them the Demon Suppression Iron Chain Gu and the Problem Nipped in the Bud Gu, main Gu worms of the Tie family, and laughs that his senior brother will die today. The chains restrict movement and the talisman extracts Gu worms from a Gu Master and seals them away. Tie Xue Leng captured countless demonic path Gu Masters with this pair. ^{ch. 193}

First gen Gu Yue realizes that Tie Xue Leng used them on him with his dying blow, a bloodied palm struck lightly on his chest with minuscule strength that he completely ignored. His zombie body is not sensitive enough to have sensed it. Sky Crane Lord charges, and First gen Gu Yue falls into an absolute disadvantage. A phantom chain also seals his aperture, and resisting it makes his primeval essence expenditure extremely huge. Under nonstop attacks, both his arms are severed from the shoulders. ^{ch. 193}

When Sky Crane Lord seems about to really kill him, First gen Gu Yue gives an unearthly cry. Extremely ear-piercing sound waves hit like an enormous attack and send Sky Crane Lord flying dozens of steps, leaving his qi and blood in conflict so that he cannot move properly. Gu Masters’ attacks break on his light halo, and dozens of flying cranes snap their iron beaks on First gen Gu Yue’s body. Sky Crane Lord pushes Raise Eyebrows & Exhale Gu harder and greatly speeds up the drain on primeval essence. First gen Gu Yue is on the verge of death. Once his primeval essence is completely used up, his Gu worms cannot resist the chains, and Problem Nipped in the Bud Gu will extract and seal them. ^{ch. 193}

First gen Gu Yue shouts for the Gu Masters to grab the eyebrows and activate their primeval essence, and a large group from the Gu Yue, Bai and Xiong clans does so. The eyebrows coil up their arms to their bodies, and the rank two apertures dry up, crack and collapse. Many Gu Masters die on the spot. Though Tie Xue Leng is dead, the chains still carry his will and tighten into First gen Gu Yue’s skin and flesh, drawing primeval essence from the air through the berserk blood Gu’s infection. Gu Masters slow down, but Fang Yuan shouts that they will all die if the first ancestor loses and grabs the eyebrows himself. With the Thousand Li Earthwolf spider dead and the enemy’s flying cranes able to pursue him, he cannot escape alone, and if the two sides fight to death he might reap some benefits. ^{ch. 193}

His example spurs the other Gu Masters on, with Bai Ning Bing and Xiong Jiao Man joining. Fang Zheng, lost in the wild, has not escaped back to the village, and no one can be sure whether he lives, though everything bodes ill. Many Gu Masters die, and with only rank three Gu Masters holding their ground, the others begin to hesitate. Sky Crane Lord smiles grimly and says his victory is certain. The three rank four clan leaders were already killed by him. Problem Nipped in the Bud Gu draws a yellow ball from First gen Gu Yue’s nearly empty aperture, and the ball settles as a palm-sized crystal skull of a child, streaked red. Sky Crane Lord names it Blood Skull Gu and weeps tears of joy, extremely moved to see it again after hundreds of years. ^{ch. 193}