Chapter 387

Bai Ning Bing advances through the rounds with the land spirit’s help, while Wu Shen Tong, a grand rank four peak stage Gu Master, dies without seeing her appearance. She and Fang Yuan are cooperating. Fang Yuan needed Wu Shen Tong’s aperture, and she needed the dead man’s enslavement path Gu worms and dog groups; his dogs now swell her huge army by ten percent. Fang Yuan judges the vast group able to snowball through King Quan Inheritance to the final round. He warns her that its last rounds hold lion mastiffs, mutated beasts and King Quan’s trump cards, plus two dog emperors, each able to match a rank five Gu Master, which she must subdue. ^{ch. 387}

The land spirit says the immortal essence portions suffice for only two more kills, and Fang Yuan names Zhang San San. Two more kills would lift beast placenta Gu from eighty-nine to ninety percent aptitude, the limit set by Fang Yuan’s first aperture. Zhang San San is only rank four upper stage, a stage below Yi Huo and Kong Ri Tian, but Fang Yuan counts him the most threatening enemy, an enslavement path Gu Master second only to Wu Shen Tong and Wu Gui. Bai Ning Bing, a complete newbie at commanding dogs, will only hold a huge battle formation around the main hall, which is extremely rigid against such an expert. Fang Yuan kills Zhang San San very smoothly. ^{ch. 387}

From Zhang San San’s aperture comes a rank five slavery Gu, which can control a rank five Gu Master and is very precious and extremely rare. Fang Yuan guesses Zhang San San had saved it for a rank five target, since using it on a rank four Gu Master would be a huge loss. One more kill would reach ninety percent aptitude, and the portions allow only one. He regrets not killing Zhang San San first, since the Gu could have subdued Tie Mu Bai, Wu Gui, Ku Mo, Wu Lan Shan or Chou Jiu, all now dead. Using it on a rank four Gu Master wastes its value, yet he will, for a second rank four Gu Master beside him would make refining the second aperture Gu safer against enormous risks. ^{ch. 387}

Among the rank four Gu Masters present are Yi Huo, Kong Ri Tian, Long Qing Tian, Yi Chong, Li Fei Le, Tao Zi, Feng Tian Yu, Yan Jun, Li Xian, Hu Mei Er and Tie Ruo Nan. After long thought Fang Yuan has the land spirit transport him. Feng Tian Yu kneels and greets him as master. Fang Yuan reminds Feng Tian Yu that his rank five Gu, refined at rank three, died within half a day, and that his clan now dwindles toward extinction. Enslaved by the Gu, Feng Tian Yu becomes a loyal slave and is ordered to keep charging through the rounds and bring undefeated hundred battles Gu from King Xin inheritance. In Fang Yuan’s memories Feng Tian Yu obtained that Gu, so Fang Yuan means to take both Gu and owner, and counts two of the three kings inheritance as already his. The main reason for choosing Feng Tian Yu is his innate refinement path talent, a huge help in refining the second aperture Gu. ^{ch. 387}

For the last kill Fang Yuan first thinks of Tie Ruo Nan, not Yi Huo, Hu Mei Er or Tao Zi, since a genius sharpened by trials would become a huge threat if allowed to grow. Yet she threatens him far less than Yi Huo. Killing Yi Huo would absolutely help the refining more. ^{ch. 387}

The land spirit interrupts with a trace of panic: a rank four Gu Master has found a weak area, seriously damaged by earth calamity, where one Gu can be used, and is spreading poison with a rank five Gu. He will open a passage to the outside world in about eight minutes. Such a hole doubles the immortal essence expenditure and, unrepaired, grows until it attracts winds of assimilation, which destroy the blessed land. The land spirit has cut off most weak areas, but three crucial ones remain, and he bumped into one. The land spirit shows Fang Yuan a thin Gu Master in a dark blue robe with a gloomy gaze: Long Qing Tian, activating his sole rank five poison Gu, jade sky. Jade sky Gu is his core trump card from the immemorial times, fundamentally extinct now, and it earned him a terrifying reputation across Southern Border for poisoning countless people. Now he is poisoning this part of the blessed land. ^{ch. 387}