Chapter 373

Tie Mu Bai has suppressed San Cha mountain for most of the year, and his old demonic enemy Wu Gui, also rank five peak stage, cannot beat him. Ku Mo, equally rank five peak stage, then appears, and two demonic Gu Masters pincer Tie Mu Bai. Tie Mu Bai can suppress Wu Gui but cannot fight both, yet the two allies stay guarded against each other. The three enter a stalemate. ^{ch. 373}

A four clawed golden dragon tears the black clouds, and Ku Mo, scorning it as merely a rank four golden dragon Gu, brings it down. A golden whirlwind heals it, and the spectating Li Xian recognizes a rank four golden breeze Gu. Wu Gui cuts in with an extremely ear-piercing cry, and a jet-black halo explodes the dragon. The blast buries many Gu Masters alive. ^{ch. 373}

Three figures confront each other in the sky. Tie Mu Bai wears rank four golden coat Gu as chainmail and rank four golden aurora Gu as flying light. Wu Gui stands on a dark cloud with lips like a black beak, and Ku Mo flaps bone wings. They attack at once, and the absolute majority of people can only hear the unceasing explosions. ^{ch. 373}

A golden light cuts a gorge, mincing nearby spectators. A raven’s caw bursts the heads of hundreds of Gu Masters, and bone spikes pierce many more through, ending their lives. The crowd flees San Cha mountain, even Li Xian and Hu Mei Er. Only the rank four peak stage Yi Huo, Kong Ri Tian, Long Qing Tian, Yi Chong and Wu Shen Tong stay. They too must go once the three use their rank five Gu. ^{ch. 373}

Tie Mu Bai’s turn gold Gu turns whatever it shoots through into golden sculpture with its life force extinguished. Ku Mo’s soft bones Gu turns bones within fifty miles into a puddle of bone paste. Wu Gui’s pitch black Gu spreads darkness. Any Gu worms under rank six that touch it receive different degrees of restrictions. Rank five Gu practically do not circulate, and each rank six Immortal Gu is one of a kind. Fang Yuan reached rank six in his previous life, yet the only rank six Gu he could refine was the Spring Autumn Cicada. From a far corner, Bai Ning Bing clenches her fists, deeply aware of the gap between her and the three. ^{ch. 373}

She asks Fang Yuan whether this is the show he waited for, expecting a complete change in which demonic path suppresses righteous path. Fang Yuan shakes his head. He says a rank five Gu Master’s strength is set by the rank five Gu he holds, and these are very rare. Ku Mo and Wu Gui hold one or two, while Tie Mu Bai, with the huge background of Tie clan, should hold at least three. She asks whether Tie Mu Bai will win, and Fang Yuan again shakes his head: Tie Mu Bai will not easily expose all his trump cards, and from the start the battle has neither winner nor loser. ^{ch. 373}

Bai Ning Bing understands that the battle, however intense, is only a probe. Rank five peak stage Gu Masters stand at the peak of the mortal world, emperors among Gu Masters, and aim to break through to the rank six Gu Immortal realm for a longer life. The three chose San Cha mountain for the three kings inheritance, whose rank five Gu would each greatly increase their strength. Absent an extremely huge imbalance between the two sides, they would not fight carelessly, so the battle can only end in a draw. ^{ch. 373}

Fang Yuan stays calm, as if watching something of no concern. Bai Ning Bing rejects the thought that it is really no concern, for no one knows better how thirsty he is for the three kings inheritance. Despite that thirst he restrains his impulse, and her heart feels incomparably heavy as she wonders how she will take from him the yang Gu that can turn her back into a male. ^{ch. 373}