Multitask Gu
Two dog groups stand at a stalemate, Fang Yuan’s lightning symbol dogs, hedgedogs and chrysanthemum akita dogs against a sea of black steel armor dogs. Fang Yuan sends the big lightning symbol dog forward as vanguard, and the big steel armor dog steps out to meet it. Both are hundred beast kings, and the big steel armor dog stops the assault. The lightning symbol dog weakens, still injured from an earlier battle, and its speed is outmatched by its rival’s defense. Fang Yuan sends in nearly his whole group, but the huge number of steel armor dogs holds the advantage. He has been waiting for the weapon that suppresses them. ch. 351
Unable to block the attack, the big lightning symbol dog shoots out blue plasma, a rank two plasma Gu. The dogs’ steel armor is metallic and cannot resist electricity, so the plasma, though weak in attack power, is formidable against them. Their formation breaks, and Fang Yuan commands a charge. His dogs kill most of the steel armor dogs and encircle the big one. Sensing danger, it gains strength and black spikes from a Gu worm, but fifteen minutes later the big lightning symbol dog tears its throat and it dies. Of the two Gu worms on it, one is destroyed in the battle and the other flies away. ch. 351
Fang Yuan pays a huge price, with only half his dog group left. Beast kings appear after twenty rounds, and the more Gu worms a beast king carries, the stronger it is. His luck was bad, for the big steel armor dog carried two, one good at attack and defense. A rank two dog enslavement Gu falls from above as his prize, and he refines it at once with heavenly power, without using Spring Autumn Cicada. ch. 351
In the next fog, shadows to the left, center and right show corpse dogs, Yin dogs and a huge number of hyenas. Beating the corpse dogs gives a white silver relic Gu, useless to him, and beating the Yin dogs gives two tasks at once Gu. Only yellow gold relic Gu tempts him, but it is heavily controlled even in Shang clan city, where Shang Yan Fei holds it back from the market, and the purple thorn token cannot get it for him. Joining Shang clan would earn him one, but he will not contest Shang Yan Fei, and in three kings inheritance one can come only after the fortieth round, and only by luck. Two tasks at once Gu, only rank two, splits the mind in two and is extremely effective for manipulating worm or beast armies. Higher ones run through three, four and five tasks at once and beyond, and multitask Gu is an enslavement path Gu Master’s most important tool. He can do four tasks at once himself and would reach six. ch. 351
The hyenas vanish, leaving a rough token carved with an ugly San Cha mountain as the reward. It is a King Quan travel token, and Fang Yuan forgets the other prizes. In his previous life such tokens later fetched the price of a rank four Gu. The hyena pack is huge with two dog kings, and winning would cost huge losses and the ability to advance. He decides to take the risk anyway, because the demonic path takes extreme paths for the biggest profit. ch. 351
Four hours later, dog corpses lie everywhere, and Fang Yuan stands on the mound slightly injured, unable to use his Gu in the Gu Immortal blessed land. He has won, but only a dozen or so dogs are left, and he sees no hope of advancing. The heavenly power sends him into the fog again, and he hopes to meet Bai Ning Bing, but all three directions lead to dog groups. He would definitely die without the travel token. He bites his tongue, spits blood on it and softly says woof, and the token tears through space and drags him away. ch. 351
