Chapter 376

The three light pillars of red, blue and yellow have dimmed greatly, and their size has shrunk to less than half of the original. The blessed land, at its final moments, is starting to collapse under countless Gu Masters’ plundering. Wu Lan Shan cups her fists and offers Tie Mu Bai the first entry. He is the strongest of the rank fives present, the number one on San Cha mountain, and even Ku Mo and Wu Gui must admit it. He accepts and takes the lead into King Xin Inheritance. Wu Gui and Ku Mo exchange a look and decide to avoid him there, saving their true abilities for the final battle. ^{ch. 376}

Wu Lan Shan, Wang Xiao and the others choose entrances, and Yi Huo is the first rank four peak stage Gu Master in. Then a commotion spreads: the black and white twin demons are back. Onlookers recall that one of them was trapped by Tie clan old-timers for months without falling, while the other fought seven Tie clansmen alone and killed Tie Ba Xiu. Some say Fang Zheng is really daring to return, and that he showed himself only after Tie Mu Bai entered. ^{ch. 376}

Many gazes fall instead on Tie Ruo Nan, who stands among the rank four Gu Masters as the rules require. She shouts Fang Zheng’s name at Fang Yuan in an extremely agitated tone, and her fists clench and loosen as she struggles against her hatred. At last she breathes out deeply and tells the little beast king that he need not fear the old clan leader’s attack. His life is hers, she says, and one day she will offer it to the heroic spirits of her Tie clansmen. She then enters the light pillar, and some onlookers take her for afraid. ^{ch. 376}

Fang Yuan frowns deeply, surprised that she controls her fury. He feels a rare threat from someone of his own generation and thinks he cannot let her grow further. Suppressing his killing intent, he walks toward the entrance. ^{ch. 376}

Yun Luo Tian, Yun clan’s young clan leader in white clothing, blocks the way and says that Fang Yuan won unfairly by killing Tie Ba Xiu, a righteous Gu Master, with a flying Gu. Fang Yuan nods, laughs and admits he used a loophole, adding that he is sorry. Yun Luo Tian is stunned by the reply; he had wanted to challenge Fang Yuan to build his reputation, but the courtesy leaves him no opening. He says they let Tie Ruo Nan go first out of admiration for Tie Mu Bai and tells Fang Yuan to stand down, since many heroes and geniuses are waiting. Fang Yuan steps back, calls it his fault and lets them go first. Yun Luo Tian laughs and enters, expecting word to spread that he scared the demonic rising star into retreat. ^{ch. 376}

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing then enter King Bao Inheritance together. Under a grey-white sky, red eggmen with round red eggs on their chests climb out of the volcanic rock of the light red ground. These variant humans call the place Hong Dan village and shout that the devil has descended again. Fang Yuan can use only one exploding egg Gu, and the inheritance’s aim is to make him use it to exterminate the eggmen and advance. He does not move and lets them attack, and the accumulated blows injure him heavily. Bathed in blood, with death creeping up, he knows even the exploding egg Gu now would not change the situation, yet he smiles and says that this moment has finally arrived. ^{ch. 376}