Rank Three Peak Stage once again
In a dark secret room of Nan Qiu garden, Bai Ning Bing transfers rank three peak stage snow silver primeval essence to Fang Yuan. He uses it as the primary force and blossom silver essence as supplementary, and surging waves cleanse his aperture walls until the water membrane settles into a thicker, more stable stone membrane. Fang Yuan advances from rank three middle stage to rank three upper stage. Bai Ning Bing withdraws her hands, knowing he still holds an unused white silver relic Gu and will reach her level, rank three peak stage, after tonight. ch. 312
She thinks him a cunning fox and extremely treacherous: finding no flaw in the poison vow does not mean none exists. Shang Ya Zi’s downfall is a grim reminder, and she starts to have doubts. Fang Yuan, as if knowing her thoughts, says he sincerely cooperates and the vow has no problems, and she replies coldly that she hopes so. He had expected this when he planned against Shang Ya Zi. Shang Ya Zi’s removal leaves a young master seat vacant and gives Shang Xin Ci a chance, but it cracks the collaboration of Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing and forces Shang Yan Fei to move. ch. 312
Just yesterday Ju Kai Bei and Yan Tu issued a forced challenge to Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing at the same time, causing a huge commotion in the battle stage. The seniors are rank four initial stage Gu Masters called half the sky of the battle stage, who have stopped many Gu Masters from becoming Shang clan external elders. Fang and Bai are rising stars who have never lost a match. Someone says the seniors feel uneasy at their advance and mean to eliminate the problem early, and another says Ju and Yan made a bet and are using Fang and Bai to settle it. Almost no one thinks Fang and Bai can win against rank four Gu Masters. ch. 312
Fang Yuan asks whether Bai Ning Bing needs his heavenly essence treasure lotus for tomorrow’s match against Yan Tu. She declines coldly, saying he is not the only one who improved, and leaves. The lotus is his and would not show her true strength, which she wants to check against Yan Tu. After she leaves, Fang Yuan smiles, thinking that a trace of self-doubt seems to have grown in her, very small, and maybe unnoticed even by her. ch. 312
He activates the white silver relic Gu, and about four hours later has leaped from rank three upper stage to rank three peak stage. Relic Gu raise a Gu Master’s cultivation by a small realm, give a stable foundation and have no side effects. Overjoyed at reaching rank three peak stage again since his rebirth, he notes that on Qing Mao mountain stone aperture Gu cost him his future prospects, whereas now he keeps his enormous potential for development. The Spring Autumn Cicada, after over two years of recuperation, is recovering rapidly and pressing on his aperture, but his rank three peak stage aperture bears it with ease, unlike the truly pressing situation at Qing Mao mountain. Still, his cultivation must outpace its recovery, or the same situation recurs. ch. 312
Next day, on a super-size grass terrain stage, spectating Gu Masters say Bai Ning Bing is certain to lose to Lord Yan Tu. Yan Tu is a thin old man in rags with long unkempt hair, like a beggar. He calls her beautiful, and she tells him to stop his shamelessness. At the bell, four white icicles and three fire pellets fly at each other, and one icicle melts, but its fire pellet keeps flying with greatly fallen power. Her icicle Gu is only rank two while his fire pellet Gu is rank three. She thinks only ice explosion Gu detonating her icicles could suppress the pellet, at a great cost in primeval essence this early, and she dodges instead and sends three icicles. Yan Tu dodges and runs while forming dense fire pellets, she strikes back, and the match’s intensity surpasses everyone’s expectations. ch. 312
