Chapter 442

At a market shop, Fang Yuan researches strength path Gu and learns of Shi Wu, a bone path Gu Master from the recently absorbed Shi tribe now serving as Man tribe’s external elder, who has bought up all the bone bamboo Gu in the market for a recipe he claims to be researching. Weighing that his wolf enslavement path is vulnerable to an enemy killing off its controlling leader, and that his Chang Shan Yin identity needs to blend into northern plains, Fang Yuan buys a rank four strength of ten jun Gu. ^{ch. 442}

He then studies the soul path Gu on offer and picks wolf soul Gu, since its effect stacks and refining his hundred man soul with it will help him enslave wolf packs. Judging a single rank three wolf soul Gu insufficient on its own, he buys out the shop’s entire stock, all eight. ^{ch. 442}

Over the following days he buys wolf enslavement Gu, more wolf soul Gu, and thick back wolves to round out his wolf pack’s defense. Word spreads through the market by the third day that a rank four expert is buying in bulk. On the ninth day he finds and buys a young mutated beast hidden among a group of water wolves. By the fifth day he has spent over five to six hundred thousand primeval stones, and across the market’s thirteen days he buys more than a thousand water wolves along with Gu refinement materials and feed, leaving on the tenth day with three thousand primeval stones left. ^{ch. 442}

Back at Ge tribe’s camp, Fang Yuan cultivates, using wolf soul Gu on his soul while refining Gu on the side. After two failures, he refines the rank three golden back wolf skin Gu into a rank four azure wolf skin Gu. ^{ch. 442}

Finishing a session of soul refinement, he hears crying outside his room. A guarding Gu Master reports that a search team found Ge Yao’s torn clothes in poison grassland, and that poison beard wolves killed her. ^{ch. 442}