Biao
Xue San Si refuses to believe that little beast king would challenge her with the three kings inheritance days from opening, but she investigates and finds it true. She has never offended the black and white demons, and after thinking it through thoroughly she classifies Fang Yuan as a lunatic. The two are rising stars of the demonic path who have created huge problems on San Cha mountain. Tyrant Heng Mei, one of the Ten Tyrants, visited Fang Yuan out of goodwill and was killed, and Fei Li begged for mercy but was beaten into meat paste. Both were rank four middle stage, while Fang Yuan used initial stage cultivation. ch. 342
Xue San Si is also rank four middle stage and judges her strength about the same as theirs, so she feels a trace of fear. She reads the challenge as Fang Yuan stepping on seniors to build his reputation. She did the same when young, but only killed rank three Gu Masters. She does not want the fight, but her godfather is in closed cultivation refining a Gu, and refusing would ruin the reputation she built over many years. She accepts, and they choose a wide valley. ch. 342
Three days later she sees Fang Yuan for the first time and is shocked. He looks gentlemanly, with eyes dark like an abyss and extremely peaceful. Calling her Sky Tiger, he recounts how she was exiled by her clan, killed beast kings and returned to kill the elders who framed her, and says he admires her. Fang Yuan proposes a different sparring method, in which he stands still and takes three hits from her, then returns one. She finds it alluring and agrees. ch. 342
On her first move, her arms turn into two tiger claws and hit Fang Yuan so hard that he vomits blood and flies into a huge rock. He stands laughing, at least four ribs broken and his intestines bleeding, and endures the intense pain. Xue San Si sees his plan, since the more injured he is, the more strength he can use. She decides to use all her strength and kill him in three hits. ch. 342
On her second move, her body grows to over twice its size, with brownish-yellow tiger fur, tiger eyes and fangs. A winged tiger phantom appears behind her, a Biao, whose strength is five times a tiger’s and whose beast phantom can suppress three to four of Fang Yuan’s ordinary ones. He flies several hundred steps like a shooting star and crashes into a mountain wall, which collapses on him. He walks out with his arms completely crippled, his iron bones broken, his steel tendons mushed and his bronze skin torn. He can now definitely unleash eight beast phantoms. He activates self-reliance Gu, whose healing now far surpasses flesh-bone Gu. ch. 342
Anxious to deny him time to recover, Xue San Si makes her third move. Wings grow from her back, and she flies about one kilometer up, her limit, before diving. The Biao image overlaps her actual body this time, until she seems a true Sky Tiger. She growls that he is finished, paying a huge price for activating two Biao phantoms in a row, and she is confident of killing him. Fang Yuan looks up at her and activates golden shield Gu, a rank three Gu that may not block her strongest attack. ch. 342
