Chapter 513

Bian Si Xuan and Dong Po Kong search the twin-headed rhino’s surroundings but find no trace of Fang Yuan. Elsewhere the dozen rank four Gu Master duels are still settling, Hei tribe ahead two matches to one. The elite troops are locked in a fight Dong Fang Yu Liang’s scheme is tilting against Hei tribe. The wolf group’s clash with the crocodile, crab and bat group remains deadlocked. Dong Fang Yu Liang accepts the decoy failed but tells Hei Lou Lan the loss is only delayed, since Fang Yuan’s own soul fluctuations will eventually give him away. ^{ch. 513}

Hei Lou Lan laughs off the taunt. His skin turns pitch black, smoke pours from his pores, and he becomes a human shaped cloud of black smoke that plunges into the dark vortex that seems to hold him. Dong Fang Yu Liang senses danger only after it is too late. The vortex shrinks, then bursts in a soundless explosion that swells to a radius of ten li. It corrodes every human and beast caught inside it to nothing, leaving only Hei Lou Lan in the air and Dong Fang Yu Liang alive in a crater at the center. Hei Lou Lan gasps that this improved killer move has been hidden even from his own kin. ^{ch. 513}

The move harms its user. Most of the Gu worms forming the dark vortex die in its use, and Hei Lou Lan spits blood even as he laughs. It still nets him an escape from the trap, pressure back on Dong Fang Yu Liang, and the deaths of Wei Xin, Jiang Wan Shan and E Xuan Ming, who hold the mixed beast group together in three hearts combination soul. With them gone the beasts turn on each other, exactly as Fang Yuan had predicted. Dong Fang Yu Liang had secretly arranged an escape for the three, but Hei Lou Lan had woven a space path Gu into the blast that locked down the surrounding space and voided it. ^{ch. 513}

Hei Lou Lan offers Dong Fang Yu Liang a pardon and a post as his first military advisor if he surrenders now. Dong Fang Yu Liang refuses, unwilling to serve a man who covets his sister Dong Fang Qing Yu, and answers instead with his own signature killer move, Seven Star Light. Seven lights of different colors rise and circle him, empowering his Star Thought Gu until tens of thousands of star thoughts pour out and merge into a single vast star cloud. It chases Hei Lou Lan, who dodges and heals himself rather than stand and trade, his movement too fast for the thoughts to catch. Some Gu Masters caught by the cloud are struck into idiocy. Most are left dizzy and unsteady, and only a few with firm willpower can fend the thoughts off. ^{ch. 513}

Unable to run Hei Lou Lan down, Dong Fang Yu Liang turns the star cloud on the elite troops instead. It tears apart Hei tribe’s blue butterfly troop and then its war dog troop, while their tribe leaders cry out in anguish. He hopes the losses will force Fang Yuan to reveal himself. Killing them drains the cloud badly, and strands of white appear in Dong Fang Yu Liang’s hair from the strain despite the seven lights’ support. Fang Yuan, watching through Wolf Care Gu from hiding, feels only satisfaction at the mounting deaths, since more souls will be his to collect once Hei tribe wins, and he does not come out. ^{ch. 513}