Chapter 345

Two days of refining turn horizontal charge Gu and vertical crash Gu into a new rank four Gu, charging crash Gu. It doubles their joint charge from a hundred steps to two hundred. It also halves the delay between uses and costs a little more primeval essence. Fang Yuan now holds six rank four Gu, namely charging crash Gu, bitter strength Gu, nine eyes liquor worm, expend strength Gu, blood skull Gu and the yang Gu of yin-yang rotation Gu, while most others remain rank three. He cannot advance all-out effort Gu until he gets the undefeated hundred battles Gu from the three kings inheritance, and he has no recipe for strength qi Gu. He plans to raise golden shield Gu into golden bell shield Gu and tusita flower into tusita lantern Gu, while advancing heavenly essence treasure lotus to rank four must wait for spirit springs. His iron bone, steel tendon and copper skin Gu defend poorly at rank four, and his eight phantoms come from ordinary beasts and need replacing. ^{ch. 345}

He wanted Xue San Si’s Biao strength Gu, but he turned her into minced meat, and the Gu on her body were destroyed with her. Beating three rank four demonic Gu Masters in a row won him only expend strength Gu, which Fei Li surrendered of his own accord. Gu Masters rarely take Gu as spoils, since both sides fight all out and a single thought makes a Gu self-destruct. He sighs at the work ahead and leaves the cave. ^{ch. 345}

Bai Ning Bing waits at the entrance, gazing at the peak. The three kings inheritance has opened, and enormous light pillars climb from the three highest peaks of San Cha mountain. Fang Yuan expects the inheritance to perfect his strength path Gu, but he restrains his burning gaze, since his turn has not yet come. ^{ch. 345}

Four rank four peak stage Gu Masters charge out from the four directions and release their auras openly. Poison path Long Qing Tian comes from the east, righteous path Wu clan elder Wu Shen Tong from the west, demonic path Kong Ri Tian from the south and Yi clan elder Yi Chong from the north. They are the strongest on the mountain, hold the top caves nearest the inheritance entrances, and have faced each other for months without result. Wu Shen Tong and Yi Chong look like allies without being of one mind, while Long Qing Tian and Kong Ri Tian sometimes join forces when pressed. After a short stalemate, Kong Ri Tian chooses King Bao’s inheritance. Long Qing Tian chooses King Xin’s, and Wu Shen Tong chooses King Quan’s. Yi Chong hesitates, then also chooses King Bao’s. ^{ch. 345}

The watching crowd says to avoid Long Qing Tian, who trapped them last time, and that Wu Shen Tong is an enslavement path Gu Master already in the middle stage of King Quan’s inheritance. Rank four upper stage Gu Masters then ascend to the peak. Among them a boy in black gazes deeply at Fang Yuan. He is Century Boy, a strength path Gu Master and patron of Xue San Si, so Fang Yuan has offended him by killing her. Century Boy will settle it once the inheritance closes, and Fang Yuan secretly looks forward to that. ^{ch. 345}

Fang Yuan is almost unrivalled among rank four initial stage Gu Masters and can beat ordinary middle stage ones, but is only evenly matched with upper stage. With his Gu replaced by rank four ones, he believes he could beat upper stage and match peak stage. He activates charging crash Gu and charges toward the peak. The upper stage Gu Masters have all entered, and the three light pillars are already much dimmer. A group of rank four middle stage Gu Masters sees him and Bai Ning Bing charge at them and gets out of the way. Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing enter King Quan’s inheritance together. ^{ch. 345}