White Bone Chariot
An hour later, Fang Yuan lands carrying Ge Yao. Shadow crows and earth spike rats made the flight precarious, and she killed at least a hundred crows. She now knows he is a grand expert in flying, comparable to Dong Po Kong, Song Qing Yin and Wu Ye, first-rate in northern plains. She wonders what kind of person he is, this man she knows as Chang Shan Yin. ch. 430
Fang Yuan’s rank four bone wings Gu has only rank three effectiveness in northern plains, and carrying a person cuts his agility. Still, he judges that her water arrows, water dragon and water armor were worth more than the burden. His own suppression will ease as he assimilates, but southern border Gu worms cannot adapt, and rank four ones are inferior here to rank three northern plains ones. Killing her would offer only a very small chance of getting her Gu worms, so he keeps using her. His southern Gu worms are the greatest flaw in hiding his identity and must be replaced. He has to reach a certain battlefield. ch. 430
He injects dusty Gu with primeval essence, and it bursts into grey smoke that covers bright pearl Gu. The aura of Fixed Immortal Travel, sealed inside, diminishes again. In his previous life he set off the five region chaotic battle, and Gu Masters fighting in other regions created this method to hide their identities. Ge Yao asks what he is doing, but he pockets the pearl without answering. ch. 430
The poison fog thickens, and a crack underfoot turns out to be a human skull. Fang Yuan says it is a battlefield and walks on faster. Ge Yao sees skeletons of humans and wolves and judges the battle at least twenty years old. Watching him search, she realizes he entered this grassland for the battlefield. ch. 430
She recalls adults in her father’s tent praising Wolf King, an enslavement path Gu Master heavily nurtured by Chang tribe and extremely filial. Wolf King’s mother had been struck by a unique poison that only snow wash Gu from inside the spiraea could cure, so he defied all objections and entered poison grassland alone. The talk called it a huge scheme by his enemy Ha Tu Gu. In that talk, Wolf King killed Ha Tu Gu and all the bandits with him but lost his life there. ch. 430
Ge Yao asks whether Fang Yuan is Wolf King Chang Shan Yin. She dismisses it: Chang Shan Yin would be at least forty if alive, and his appearance and accent are completely different. She guesses instead that Fang Yuan is Chang Shan Yin’s son, since Chang Shan Yin, whose mother died of poison after him, was already married and left a grown, talented son. Fang Yuan laughs and is about to answer when a sound like old wheels rolling comes near. ch. 430
A large white bone wheel emerges from the purple fog, as tall as two men and 1.5m wide, with bone spikes. Fang Yuan warns that it is Ha Tu Gu’s rank five Battle Bone Wheel. His golden dragon Gu is smashed, and golden coat Gu cannot stop the wheel from sending him flying. Ge Yao’s three spiral water arrows hit, and the wheel turns on her. She dodges with water trace Gu and water armor while striking back, and Fang Yuan joins in. ch. 430
The wheel is Ha Tu Gu’s core Gu, a wild Gu since his death that eats white bones and often crushes opponents into meat paste. Suppressed and without a rank five Gu, Fang Yuan cannot face it directly. He had planned to avoid it and find Chang Shan Yin’s corpse, but with Ge Yao’s help he fights. After four hours of his kiting tactic, the wheel falls over. Even Spring Autumn Cicada and Fixed Immortal Travel cannot instantly refine a rank five Gu, but the wheel is almost broken. With his hundred man soul and firm will, Fang Yuan injects primeval essence for fifteen minutes and subdues it, obtaining a rank five Gu. ch. 430
