Chapter 403

Ten minutes into the assault the mound overflows with blood and corpses. Mo Wu Tian urges Chou Jiu to hurry, but Chou Jiu answers that the dog groups are huge and that going slowly makes the righteous path take more pressure. As Fang Yuan’s slave he wants most of all to keep stalling, though he could not stop Mo Wu Tian from ending the stalemate by cooperating with Xiao Mang. His manipulation pushes the righteous faction ahead to take more hits, while the demonic path loses less but risks being surrounded. ^{ch. 403}

Mo Wu Tian shouts that Chou Jiu is muddled and that a stopped group will be surrounded. Chou Jiu shouts back that Mo Wu Tian’s way lost many people and that the righteous faction must be weakened first. Most demonic Gu Masters support Chou Jiu. Mo Wu Tian screams that their opinions differ and charges alone toward the bronze hall for his immortal treasure. ^{ch. 403}

Thousands of Gu Masters resist the dog wave, Yi Chong as a scaled shark, Yi Huo as a god of fire, Yan Jun as a hollow shadow, Li Xian concealed and Kong Ri Tian as petals. Xiao Mang and Mo Wu Tian lead the charge. The dog emperors Ba Huang and Ying Ming block them as before. A few thousand steps from the hall, Tie Ruo Nan, guarded by Tie clan’s four old-timers, leaves the many dogs there to Tie Bai Qi. Tie Bai Qi shows the third eye under his hat, opens a black hole, and sends a white ape army toward the hall. Covered by the apes, Tie Ruo Nan leads the four old-timers in to arrest Fang Yuan alive for the clan. ^{ch. 403}

Fang Yuan, still refining, stops the land spirit from striking and orders Bai Ning Bing to block Tie Ruo Nan. Without Feng Tian Yu his progress is extremely slow, and he has only just thrown in the five hundred year lifespan Gu. The four old-timers join, and Bai Ning Bing, at a disadvantage, shouts for how long more he needs. The cloud smoke absorbs the lifespan Gu and becomes blood fields of golden wheat. Fang Yuan asks for a lot of time, but she announces she will self-destruct. ^{ch. 403}

Frost fills the hall and she turns to ice crystal, as when she self-destructed at Qing Mao mountain. Tie Ruo Nan is sealed in the ice. It spreads toward Fang Yuan, and Bai Ning Bing’s eyes thoroughly dim. Fang Yuan sends Yang Gu to her, but it turns back to his right hand, and the smoke becomes a peanut shell Gu in his left. The earlier fake second aperture Gu lived a week, but this one can survive forty years. ^{ch. 403}

He blocks the frost with liquid metal Gu and asks her whether she has acted enough. The frost stops, and she turns back into flesh. He lists that in Shang clan city she lost to Yan Tu on purpose and got Doctor Su Shou to remove the poison vow, then contacted Tie Ruo Nan and plotted with the four old-timers on San Cha mountain. She thinks she was extremely secretive, so he must have watched her act all along, but she did plant fixed star Gu. ^{ch. 403}

Tie Ruo Nan breaks out of the ice, and the four old-timers join her. Fang Yuan raises his left arm, names fixed star Gu, and asks what if he chops the arm off. The old-timers frown deeply, for their killer move would then only get his arm. Tie Ruo Nan laughs that the dogs cannot block both factions and that Xiao Mang, Chou Jiu, Mo Wu Tian, Yi Huo and Yi Chong will charge in soon. With Bai Ning Bing as witness that Fang Yuan killed many Gu Masters and plundered their apertures, she says he keeps his life only by surrendering to Tie clan. His life also depends on handing over the half-done Immortal Gu and the old clan leader’s Gu worms, then undergoing reform in the Demon Suppression Tower. ^{ch. 403}