Chapter 394

Bai Ning Bing, hidden, mobilizes the dogs with all her strength and, helped by the land spirit, gradually stabilizes the situation. The Gu Masters push halfway through the ordinary dogs and run into the circular formation of the five great mountain dogs, heavy tai, green hua, smoke song, light heng and star heng. Very powerful and very reliable, it blocks them like a huge dam, and both factions take heavy casualties. The crowd still charges on, fanatical about the immortal treasure. ^{ch. 394}

Meng Tu holds up the bleeding Jiao Huang. Jiao Huang borrows his strength to barely keep moving with the crowd. Jiao Huang sighs that they have made a huge loss, having accepted Shang clan’s assignment to take Fang Zheng’s head and then fallen into desperate straits over the immortal treasure. Both are rank three peak stage famous demonic assassins who once killed rank four Xiao Fu Lu. Hoping to join Shang clan, they had meant to secretly handle Fang Yuan, but found no good chance on the way. ^{ch. 394}

Tie Ruo Nan, shocked at the madness, slows down inside the protective formation of Tie clan’s four old-timers. Their head says it probably has to do with Mo Wu Tian, a soul path Gu Master who has secretly used his Gu to make everyone more fanatical. She wants all demonic path members put to death, but an old-timer warns that Mo Wu Tian is a rank five expert and not their objective. Tie Ruo Nan heavily nods, saying little beast king Fang Zheng still matters most. ^{ch. 394}

Mo Wu Tian leads the charge laughing, since the joint charge goes better than he expected. Bai Ning Bing is a newbie, and the complexity now exceeds what she can take, which shows flaws to a Gu Master of his level. He scouts for her with his Gu, since killing her would make the dog formation fall apart. He finds her hiding place. He turns into purple demonic fog and closes to a thousand steps in a few breaths. ^{ch. 394}

Bai Ning Bing sends Ba Huang, a hill sized enormous dog emperor, which leaps over a hundred feet and smashes into him. Its bark silences the battlefield and flares the dogs’ morale, so Gu Master casualties become more intense. With its wild Gu it can contend against a rank five. Mo Wu Tian is stopped. ^{ch. 394}

A silver light then flashes before her and turns out to be Xiao Mang, a rank five righteous path expert. Bai Ning Bing sends out Ying Ming, the second dog emperor, whose wild Gu makes clouds under its feet so it can fly. Xiao Mang scoffs, but after a few lightning fast exchanges he drops his contempt and fights cautiously. She knows the block is only temporary and sees there is not much time. ^{ch. 394}

Inside the bronze hall, Fang Yuan gasps heavily with blood flowing from his seven orifices, while Feng Tian Yu lies unconscious. He has succeeded in refining divine travel Gu, and only one step remains before second aperture Gu. The extremely weak land spirit Ba Gui praises him as a future Gu Immortal and says the hardest step is now behind him. It is happy that the recipe works but sorry it cannot see second aperture Gu, and its body fades until it completely disappears. The blessed land has mostly collapsed and stands at the brink of extinction. Worn out by aiding the refinement and Bai Ning Bing’s defense, Ba Gui has what can be called a proper death, unlike its desperate end in Fang Yuan’s previous life. Its death means immortal essence can no longer be used, but Fang Yuan is not nervous, since the final step can use large amounts of primeval stones. ^{ch. 394}

Fang Yuan judges that an earlier shock to the hall almost wasted everything, and that a failure would definitely have killed his mortal body through backlash. This step’s extreme demand on the mind could be met only because he chose to enslave Feng Tian Yu. He also had the land spirit’s help, divine travel greatly reduced the difficulty, and the mysterious Gu Immortal had perfected the recipe. Fang Yuan notes that third watch Gu comes next and is much simpler, then calms his mind and hears the commotion outside. Bai Ning Bing warns that a rank four Gu Master has broken through the dog formation and is coming toward him. Fang Yuan slowly stands up. ^{ch. 394}