Chapter 527

Hei tribe’s main tent is stifling, with almost everyone, Hei Lou Lan included, injured. Cunning Gentleman Sun Shi Han sighs that Liu tribe fields rank five experts Liu Wen Wu, Luo Bo Jun and Nie Ya Qing. Mo Shi Kuang and Ouyang Bi Sang, both at rank four peak stage, carry rank five battle strength. Sun Shi Han adds Pei Yan Fei, Chang Biao and other strong experts, a lineup the last ten Imperial Court contests rarely saw. Even a super force openly fields only two or three rank five Gu Masters. Hei tribe has three rank five experts and over twenty at rank four, yet Ouyang Bi Sang alone slaughtered five rank four Gu Masters and twelve rank three elders today. Liu tribe cut Hei tribe’s rank four Gu Masters to almost half, and Hei tribe must quickly answer Liu tribe’s enormous dominance. ^{ch. 527}

Hei Lou Lan sighs that he needs time to annex armies and subdue experts, and he hates Liu Wen Wu for attacking before that. Tai Bai Yun Sheng offers to write to Gao Yang and Zhu Zai, twin demons of demonic path at rank four peak stage who owe him a rescue and once killed a rank five expert together. Hei Lou Lan, eased, says their help would only slightly narrow the gap. He credits Wolf King for exterminating large numbers of low ranked enemy Gu Masters, an enormous loss that made Liu Wen Wu hesitate and retreat. ^{ch. 527}

Fang Yuan, unhurt, earned the most battle merits by commanding the wolf group from hiding. He has searched his past life memories for how Hei Lou Lan prevailed over Liu Wen Wu and finds nothing. He says Liu tribe’s strongest enslavement expert, Bei Cao Chuan, commands grass soldier troops of no importance, so each side has its strength and today ended in a draw. Victory needs the enemy’s Gu Master experts restrained by strong wolves as trump cards. But the rank four lurking soul coat Gu on him could then no longer hide his soul fluctuations, and he would become a target. Of the five beast kings, Ma Zun holds mutated pegasus, Yang Po Ying mutated thunder eagles, Jiang Bao Ya mutated mountain drilling rats and Nu Er Tu glimpse leopards, but Wolf King Chang Shan Yin has no mutated beast group. Making one takes too long, so the only way is to ask Hei tribe’s Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 527}

Hei Lou Lan says vaguely that he will give it a try, and everyone understands he means to ask the Gu Immortal behind him. Sun Shi Han, jealous, reminds Fang Yuan that his battle merits rank last. Fang Yuan answers that he will exchange battle merits for the group and borrow more, though he has already borrowed one million and three hundred thousand. He also demands a rank five lurking soul coat Gu, since refining one has too low a success rate to risk fusing his three rank four Gu. Hei Lou Lan gnashes his teeth but nods and promises to do something. ^{ch. 527}

In Liu tribe’s tent, Liu Wen Wu weeps that Wolf King Chang Shan Yin is the biggest problem, since at least thirty thousand Gu Masters died in the wolves’ mouths. Mo Shi Kuang and Ouyang Bi Sang offer no method. Bei Cao Chuan proposes using Wolf King’s blood ties to Chang tribe, his original tribe. After Chang Shan Yin disappeared, his best friend Chang Biao, now Chang tribe leader, married his wife and raised Chang Shan Yin’s three year old son, Chang Ji You, now young tribe leader. Liu Wen Wu likes the idea. ^{ch. 527}

Fang Yuan returns to his large lizard house Gu, expecting a huge chance of success. He knows Hei Lou Lan’s entry into Imperial Court was inseparable from the support of the Gu Immortal behind him. He expects the two sides to rest at least three days, in which Hei tribe’s Gu Immortals will receive Hei Lou Lan’s request for help. Fang Yuan smiles at his great plan. ^{ch. 527}