He also died
Wu Shen Tong, an enslavement path Gu Master heavily trained by the number one super clan of southern border, the Wu clan, counts this as his forty-eighth round inside the King Quan Inheritance. Once broad shouldered and strong, he has withered thin and pale-yellow since a battle left him poisoned by Long Qing Tian’s jade sky Gu. Divine Doctor Sheng Shou could save his life and cultivation but never fully clear the poison, so he returns for treatment at regular intervals. Rather than the safer path of fighting dog groups, he seeks out other Gu Masters whenever the inheritance offers the choice. He is confident that in enslavement path skill only Wu Gui and Zhang San San could threaten him, and neither seriously. He means to eliminate rivals and take the whole inheritance for himself. ch. 386
He guesses his next opponent is the twenty-third, and calls it their bad luck for goading him. From the fog, corpse dogs appear first, a type he dismisses as useful only early on and only to lesser enslavement path Gu Masters. Their growing numbers cost him only mild concern. Then chrysanthemum akita dogs join them, and he judges the combined formation brittle enough to break with a forceful charge. Hedgedogs follow, spiked enough to injure anyone who fights them, and he begins to suspect real skill or real luck behind them. ch. 386
When lightning symbol dogs also pour out in number, his planned pincer collapses, since the enemy can now outflank him just as easily. He resolves to improvise and readies his own trump card: around a hundred and twenty heavy tai dogs, twice the size of ordinary dogs, tough and disciplined enough to rival both the steel armor dogs and the chrysanthemum akita dogs. Out of the inheritance’s hundred types, only a few can anchor a main troop, and heavy tai dog is one of them. He has saved them for exactly this moment. ch. 386
But the enemy has heavy tai dogs too, in growing numbers, then a heavy tai dog king, a rank his own troop cannot match. His trump card is no more in an instant. He guesses at Wu Gui or Zhang San San, leaning toward Wu Gui, and admits to himself that even a win here would cost him too much to continue. ch. 386
Then green hua, smoke song, light heng and star heng dogs emerge as well, the four breeds ranked alongside heavy tai as the five great mountain dogs, each with its own dog king in tow. Wu Shen Tong cannot believe what he is seeing. Against such numbers his manipulation skill counts for nothing, and he grips his own token in dread as a figure finally steps out of the fog toward him. ch. 386
Before he can turn, Fang Yuan appears at his back and crushes his skull with a single grip of the palm. He dies instantly. Bai Ning Bing walks out of the fog after him, yawning, and asks how many rounds are left. ch. 386
