Chapter 301

Zhu Ba, the number eight expert in fourth inner city, is already bloodied by a newcomer when he throws both arms around Fang Yuan and traps him. Fang Yuan breaks his bones and pulps his flesh from inside the hold, but Zhu Ba keeps squeezing, afraid to let him out. Fang Yuan activates the all-out effort Gu, and a green bull phantom appears. Bai Ning Bing sees the new beast phantom and her heart sinks. Fang Yuan pulls the coiled arms apart, and Zhu Ba, shaken by a premonition of death, admits defeat. The hosting Gu Master separates them and announces that Fang Zheng wins. ^{ch. 301}

The crowd mocks Zhu Ba as a paper tiger, and the image he built over the years is completely tarnished. Bai Ning Bing judges that he is definitely strong, but his style of wasting an opponent’s primeval essence failed against a strength cultivator with endless primeval essence. The two seem to have swapped styles. Fang Yuan has become forthright and she has become scheming. ^{ch. 301}

Wei Yang congratulates Fang Yuan below the stage. He came to watch his first battle in fourth inner city. He is very concerned for Fang Yuan because of the clan leader’s orders and their friendship. At the banquet he says Fang Yuan may be born for the strength path, which he himself failed to walk, and urges him on. Fang Yuan knows his overnight fame has already drawn forceful challenges, mostly from strength path Gu Masters who covet his all-out effort Gu. ^{ch. 301}

His battle intent surges instead. Eight days later he fights Jin Bian Yuan evenly, then unleashes his beast phantoms, destroys the core defensive Gu worm and kills him on the spot. Ten days later he takes Liao Hua Dong, famed for aggressive attacks, down head-on, and Liao Hua Dong would have died without the hosting Gu Master. Seventeen days after that, Zhong De, with the strength of five tigers, is beaten until he lies motionless on the ground. Fang Yuan keeps winning and receives more primeval stones, and his name spreads as the strongest newcomer in history. ^{ch. 301}

Fang Yuan stays very vigilant. Wei Yang’s authority and Li Ran’s underground network give him information before each battle. He accepts only four matches a month and rests eight days after each to prepare. ^{ch. 301}

Three months pass, and in the secret room Bai Ning Bing injects her snow silver primeval essence into him through the flesh bone unity Gu. The white light walls of his aperture turn into thicker, stronger water walls, and he advances from rank three initial stage to middle stage. She feels no shock, being a former ten extreme physique, and refuses his offer to raise herself to rank four. Her aptitude has risen to ninety-two percent, and she asks when he will give her the Yang Gu. He answers that with him around her life is protected. She does not rebuke him, and sees that his gains are larger than hers. ^{ch. 301}

Over these months Fang Yuan has also gained the strength of a turtle and taken on the rank three bronze skin Gu, which gives his skin permanent defense and turns it bronze. With bronze skin, iron bones, steel tendon and golden shield Gu, his defense reaches initial success stage, enough for any strong foe even on the third inner city battle stage. He has already sold the canopy Gu, which overlapped with the golden shield Gu. As he advances to middle stage, Tie Ruo Nan arrives outside Shang clan city, knowing that Gu Yue Fang Zheng is inside, and Tie Dao Ku greets her. ^{ch. 301}