Bai Ning Bing?
With the land spirit dead, Fang Yuan cannot see outside the hall, so he reasons from his previous life memories. The only two rank five experts, Xiao Mang and Mo Wu Tian, should be kept busy by the two dog emperors for some time. Among the many rank four Gu Masters, only Yan Jun, the young clan leader of Yan clan, can charge here. He obtained the ancient phantom path inheritance and specializes in hiding and attacking. Phantom path, which flourished in ancient times, seeks invincibility by dodging every attack. In Fang Yuan’s previous life, Yan Jun shone at the battle of Yi Tian mountain until Mo Wu Tian beat him into retreating. ch. 395
Fang Yuan judges the blessed land’s defense really thin, since only a bronze hall stands in its important central area, and his own blood sea blessed land was much better than this hall. He kicks Feng Tian Yu awake and coldly orders him to block the rank four phantom path Gu Master even at the cost of his life. Feng Tian Yu, who bore most of the pressure, obeys and walks out with almost no primeval essence left, and he is no specialist in intense battle. He is almost guaranteed not to return alive. Fang Yuan has no other force, and to him sacrificing a refinement path grandmaster is nothing much beside second aperture Gu. ch. 395
Second aperture Gu is now a mostly complete ball of light that cannot be moved, and after six hours without refinement all the effort would be wasted. Time runs three times faster here, so Spring Autumn Cicada recovers extremely fast and signs of tiny cracks appear on his aperture. Two more third watch Gu would make time nine times faster, and he wonders whether the aperture can endure. He planned meticulously and has a huge chance of winning this gamble, with backup plans for after he leaves the blessed land. He uses the first third watch Gu. He grasps that divine travel Gu broadens space while third watch Gu condenses time. The light ball changes rapidly and faintly solidifies into the shape of the final product. ch. 395
Bai Ning Bing warns that Tie Ruo Nan has broken the defense line. Fang Yuan cannot move and has no defender left. He furiously orders Bai Ning Bing to come guard him, since if he dies she dies too under poison vow Gu. He plans to escape later with his movement Gu, and her ending is not something he can consider now. ch. 395
Tie Ruo Nan pushes the hall door open, is dazed and then delighted, and attacks Fang Yuan, calling him little beast king and vowing to take his head. Tie Ruo Nan’s golden needles fly, but Bai Ning Bing’s ice wall blocks them. Bai Ning Bing then arrives covered in blood, with a cut from shoulder to sacrum, scorched hair and a poisoned purple left arm. Fang Yuan orders her to block Tie Ruo Nan, saying he needs only a little time. With under ten percent of her original strength she soon falls into disadvantage and is again heavily injured. Fang Yuan shouts that she must hold on even if she dies, and she curses that he would die too. ch. 395
Bai Ning Bing says she must self-destruct. Fang Yuan is startled that her aptitude has already returned to a hundred percent, sooner than he calculated. He tells her not to unless she cannot control it, but she answers that it is too late. The hall turns into a world of ice and snow, and she floats high in the air as ice crystal, as at Qing Mao mountain. Glaciers crush toward Tie Ruo Nan, who finds the door iced over and is sealed in ice like an insect in amber. The ice spreads toward Fang Yuan while Bai Ning Bing, nearly one with the ice, her eyes thoroughly dimmed, does not answer. ch. 395
Fang Yuan has to use Yang Gu on her, and its Yang aura and her cold form a whirlpool of primeval essence that stops the ice. The distraction almost makes the refinement fail, but he refocuses, and the light clouds condense into second aperture Gu. He is overjoyed at the very satisfactory outcome. Then a sharp ice blade pierces his heart from behind and comes out of his chest. He looks behind him with difficulty and cries out in disbelief at Bai Ning Bing. Tie Ruo Nan slowly walks over, her gaze filled with hatred, and says he has fallen into a trap at last. ch. 395
