Chapter 533

Black banner and grand white, rivals for hundreds of years, clash and unleash their killer moves without either side gaining a clear edge, and Hei Lou Lan’s expression turns pitch black at seeing his last trump card deadlocked. Liu Wen Wu laughs with pleasure, though he is no better off. Gao Yang and Zhu Zai are visibly losing to Ouyang Bi Sang and Mo Shi Kuang, who despite poor teamwork outmatch them individually, and the pair can only defend, unable even to use their usual two-on-one chemistry. If they fall, Ouyang Bi Sang and Mo Shi Kuang would be free to reinforce other battles, and Hei tribe’s small disadvantage would snowball into a rout. ^{ch. 533}

Seeing this alone in his tent, Hei Lou Lan moves to kill Bei Cao Chuan directly, since he lacks a lurking soul coat Gu and is easy to pick out; his death would collapse the grass army and reset the fight. But Liu Wen Wu, a light path rank five with a long, undecided rivalry against the dark path Hei Lou Lan, blocks him first, smiling that today’s battle turns on a single point. The grass army will fall soon, but Hei tribe’s higher ranks will falter faster, and he calls their two armies nearly evenly matched. The two collide with thunder and light. ^{ch. 533}

Hidden nearby, Fang Yuan wonders whether his own presence has changed history, since in his previous life Hei tribe defeated Liu tribe, yet Liu tribe now holds the edge. He is an enslavement-strength dual cultivator who has shown neither path in full, and could end the grass army instantly with wolf howl Gu and rank five amplify effect Gu. He holds back anyway. ^{ch. 533}

His attention stays on Ouyang Bi Sang and Mo Shi Kuang, since revealing himself risks drawing them. He is confident enough in his strength path to face both in close combat. But he reasons that the fight for the Imperial Court is a contest run by Gu Immortals. Any full display now would leave him with no hidden cards once the losing side calls in Gu Immortal reinforcement. Recalling that Tai Bai Yun Sheng holds a rank five Gu called man as before, he decides to show as little strength as possible and save a single fatal blow for later. Amid screaming and corpses he counts the dead only as numbers, and feels a strange serenity rather than horror at the carnage around him. ^{ch. 533}

Mo Shi Kuang shouts out his killer move, World Devouring Qi, and traps Gao Yang and Zhu Zai in air grown as dense as walls. Zhu Zai bursts out with the strength of three grand emperor boar to punch Gao Yang clear of the trap before the crushing air squeezes him into meat paste; Mo Shi Kuang himself coughs blood from the strain of the incomplete move. Ouyang Bi Sang hurries over, holds him aloft and rebukes him: the killer move was not yet complete and he should not have activated it so casually. Liu Wen Wu declares it the start of Liu tribe’s winning streak. ^{ch. 533}

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng answers. He turns his silver beam on Zhu Zai’s remains, and man as before restores him whole, without a wound, to exactly the state he held before the battle. The sight stuns Liu Wen Wu, Mo Shi Kuang and Ouyang Bi Sang along with everyone watching. ^{ch. 533}

Fang Yuan judges the moment right. He rises on rank four eagle rise Gu and combines rank five amplify effect Gu with rank four wolf howl Gu. He howls out a call that swells his mutated beasts’ bodies, reddens their eyes, and multiplies their battle strength five times over. The wolf tide crashes down like a tsunami and shreds Bei Cao Chuan’s grass army within moments; he cannot escape before a frenzy wolf and then three white-eyes wolves tear him apart. Fang Yuan then turns the freed wolves against the grand white troops, still locked with the black banner, striking them from behind and inflicting heavy losses. Hei Lou Lan crows that he has the last laugh, but Liu Wen Wu refuses to accept it and turns into a streak of white light, shouting for his brothers Ouyang Bi Sang and Mo Shi Kuang. ^{ch. 533}