Chapter 482

Ge tribe’s wolves storm Pei tribe’s walls under fire, golden light, lightning, and vines, the night lit like fireworks. Fang Yuan, riding as Chang Shan Yin, has already lost the night wolf myriad wolf king after fighting through Bei and Zheng tribe earlier the same night, and the leaked warning has left Pei tribe’s defenses tight. With only the turtleback and wind wolf myriad wolf kings left to him, he finds he can commit no more than one at a time. The reason is one man. Pei tribe leader Pei Yan Fei, eight feet tall and marked by two rank four swallow wings Gu grown into his eyebrows, rampages through the wolf group and kills three Ge tribe elders, one of them beheaded in view of the whole field, deliberately avoiding the myriad wolf king so his hands stay free. His speed alone is enough to pin the wind wolf king back every time Fang Yuan tries to send it forward, and Fang Yuan privately calls him a fierce general. ^{ch. 482}

Watching the field, Fang Yuan judges his own beast group still short of what the fight needs. A truly mature wolf group would run to at least a hundred thousand beasts, he reflects, well below what he commands, and far short of the hundreds of thousands that the north’s three ruling enslavement masters already field, mutated beasts included. He throws a concentrated wave at Pei tribe’s camp, and the exchange turns vicious: Pei tribe elders raise tornadoes that fling wolves fifty to sixty feet into the air to their deaths, while Ge tribe answers with ghost flame Gu, which burns its victims’ souls rather than their bodies for pain that is extremely intense, fist stone Gu, which cracks a stretch of the wall, and lightning net Gu, which paralyzes the Gu Masters caught under it, some resisting and some scorched dead outright. Both sides burn through their primeval essence fast and stop to recover. Fang Yuan seizes the pause, using wolf smoke Gu to heal the wolf group and wolf howl Gu to rally it before throwing a fresh wave at the wall’s fist-stone-cracked stretch, and the turtleback myriad wolf king smashes it through. ^{ch. 482}

Wolves pour into the breach and start cutting down Pei tribe’s Gu Masters. Pei Yan Fei flies back at once and unleashes his killer move, Golden Rainbow Strike, fusing golden coat Gu, a second pair of swallow wings Gu, and rainbow transformation Gu into a single golden blast that pierces the turtleback myriad wolf king clean through, leaving a hole a person could see through. The strike also leaves Pei Yan Fei’s own face pale. ^{ch. 482}

Ge Guang urges an immediate push, convinced Pei Yan Fei’s primeval essence should be exhausted. Fang Yuan knows better: Pei Yan Fei carries a rank five Do or Die Gu that can refill his reserves in an instant, at the cost of a step in his cultivation. That alone would not be reason enough to hold back, but he asks Ge Guang whether any bad news has come yet from Ge tribe’s own camp, or from the Zheng and Bei tribe camps they hold. None has. Reading that silence as suspicious, Fang Yuan orders a retreat, telling Ge Guang only that Ge tribe’s own strength has fallen while Pei tribe’s losses run heavier still. ^{ch. 482}