Chapter 541

The pressure on Hei Lou Lan’s side grows as heavy as a mountain, and Ma tribe, knowing it is finished if it loses, throws itself fully into the chase after Wolf King, drawn on by Ma Shang Feng’s reward. The black banner troops are called forward to reinforce the defense. Hei Lou Lan calls Pei Yan Fei, Zhong Fei You and Tang Miao Ming to reinforce Wolf King’s guard. The fighting shifts entirely around Fang Yuan’s safety: rank four Gu Masters are reduced to a supporting role, and rank five experts can no longer fight freely. Even Hei Lou Lan and Ye Lui Sang, who were watching over Wolf King, are soon too pressed to spare him any attention. Assassin Wu Ming watches from a distance, judging the battlefield too chaotic and its Gu Masters too indiscriminate in their killing for him to close in safely, and decides Wolf King is likely to die without his help anyway. ^{ch. 541}

Wu Ming’s eyes brighten when he sees Cheng Hu, struck from behind by an unseen attacker, sent flying toward Fang Yuan. Bian Si Xuan, who had been guarding Fang Yuan’s side, broke off to intercept the encroaching Fei Sheng Cheng rather than risk herself further for him. Cheng Hu turns to charge back the way he came but freezes mid-stride at the sight of Fang Yuan within reach. He then grins wide. Seeing him as a path to five million battle merits and lasting fame, he transforms into the slant-eye tiger to pounce. ^{ch. 541}

Fang Yuan meets the tiger’s teeth with two bronze arms that have grown from his sides, grabbing its neck and then its slashing claws, and its whip fast tail strike leaves its own tail numb without marking his head at all. This is Four Arm Earth King: no fewer than fourteen Gu worms, including rank five amplify effect Gu, more than quadrupling his defense, his strength reaching eight hundred jun and still climbing the longer his feet stay on the ground. Fang Yuan taunts him calmly. Real fear finally reaches Cheng Hu, who is usually carefree about his own bravery. As Cheng Hu readies a last sound wave attack, Fang Yuan sighs that it would be kinder for him to die. The bronze hands tear the tiger in two, its body reverting to a slain man’s as Fang Yuan lifts the severed head by its skull. ^{ch. 541}

Fang Yuan’s gaze moves to Yang Po Ying. He flaps his eagle wings and flies straight for him, smashing through the protecting thunder eagles like a hot knife through butter. He lifts Yang Po Ying by the head and crushes it as easily as a watermelon, and the eagle group falls apart at once, scattering back into the open sky. The sight that Wolf King has personally killed Eagle King draws shouts of disbelief across the field. ^{ch. 541}

Wu Ye and Xi Xue fly in together to pincer him, but Fang Yuan shakes off Xi Xue and drives through Wu Ye’s defensive barrier, which collapses in half a breath. Even Wu Ye’s master level flying skill, which lets him dodge attacks no one else can, cannot save him against a fellow flying master, and half his body is smashed to pieces as he dies and falls from the sky. Fang Yuan moves on toward Ma Zun without a glance back, only for Cheng Long, Cheng Hu’s brother, to block him in full dragon form, swearing to make him pay for the killing. Fang Yuan calls him a noisy earthworm and rams into him at speed. Fang Yuan’s body swells to twice its size. Cheng Long’s dragon body crashes to the ground in a giant pit, a horn broken off in Fang Yuan’s hand, unable to take even one blow. ^{ch. 541}

Ma Shang Feng cannot believe that even Cheng Long fell in a single strike. Fang Yuan tells Ma Zun that Wolf King will now take his life, and Ma Ying Jie begs him to flee while he holds Fang Yuan back, the guards around them echoing the plea for both to escape. ^{ch. 541}