Escape
An hour on, the lava crocodile king cries out a last time and goes silent. The Xuan Yuan Divine Pheasant’s huge appetite is not satisfied, and Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing hear white apes, a poison swallowing toad, and bee groups cry out all night. Only at evening does the pheasant fly off. They dare to leave the cave. In the valley, which is half destroyed, the crocodile king lies belly up with its stomach pried open and its flesh and intestines eaten. A red glass fragment is all that remains of its flame stomach Gu, which it activated for defense and the pheasant broke. ch. 208
The lava explosion Gu and accumulating ash Gu are nowhere to be found, because Gu worms leave and roam once their host dies. Accumulating ash Gu would have been a very ideal healing Gu for Fang Yuan, but missing it is within his expectations. From the scraps the pheasant left, the two cut out all the meat and store it in the tusita flower. It is enough to feed the crocodile strength Gu for three months. ch. 208
In the white apes’ territory, broken trees and ape limbs cover the ground, and the pheasant has left only two or three hundred of the thousand beast group. The last few hundred beast king white apes are all injured. Bai Ning Bing wants to attack while they are weakest, but Fang Yuan stops her. He warns that the apes would attack in rage until the two are dead, and that the injured beast kings are still more than she can deal with alone. She gives up the plan. ch. 208
The rotten swamp, ravaged by the pheasant, has had its living environment greatly destroyed, and poisonous beings kill each other in chaos. At its fringe the two watch three fights: a scorpion stabs a snake to death, a toad and a poison powder moth kill each other, and ants completely devour a spider. The two leave at once. ch. 208
At the frenzy needle bee nest, the house-like beehive has collapsed completely and no bee is left. Fang Yuan says frenzy needle bees make no honey, but the sesame-scented hive is a great Gu refinement material and food humans can eat directly, and he eats a piece. Bai Ning Bing suggests collecting hives in the tusita flower, since their salted meat and dry biscuits are running out. Fang Yuan, slightly worried, says they must move quickly. Then a thick cloud of frenzy needle bees comes for them. The pheasant’s attack did not reduce their numbers much, and the fury they felt toward it is completely transferred to the two eating their hive. ch. 208
Fang Yuan runs, and Bai Ning Bing, without a movement-type Gu, is quickly caught. Her Sky Canopy Gu takes almost a thousand attacks in a moment, and rank three frenzy needle bee Gu pierce it. Her back is pierced and bleeds. Fang Yuan activates his Carapace Gu into crocodile skin armor that ordinary bees cannot penetrate, and the few bee Gu go after her. After fifteen more minutes Fang Yuan sees a lake ahead, and both jump in. The bees dive after them, and Bai Ning Bing swims toward the deeper water under intense pain. ch. 208
They emerge on the opposite shore with the hive smell washed off, while the bees attack the water out of frustration. Bai Ning Bing curses, her expression ugly. She cannot deal with the pheasant, the white apes, or the bees, and had the pheasant found her the night before, she would have become its meal. Rank three cultivation is the bottom of the hierarchy in this cruel world of nature. Fang Yuan tells her to be quiet and half-squats, a finger on the remains of a fire put out earlier. Bai Ning Bing frowns deeply, for these are undeniably traces left by humans. ch. 208
