Dual Cultivating Two Paths!
Fang Yuan crashes through Ma tribe’s pegasus group in the air, killing several outright, and reaches Ma Zun unblocked. Ma Zun tries to trigger his own killer move, but his nephew Ma Ying Jie stops him, arguing their tribe can lose him but not his uncle. Ma Ying Jie sacrifices a mass of horses. He raises the killer move Dragon Horse Spirit, turning them into mutated horse souls whose self-destruction matches the force of the shark fin wolf’s own soul explosion. ch. 542
Snowy Mountain’s Gu Immortal Xue Song Zi had prepared the killer move for Ma tribe in advance. Fang Yuan’s soul cultivation sits at only thousand man soul, too weak to survive three such blasts at once. Rather than meet the horse souls head-on, he uses wolf smoke Gu to heal his own wolves and wolf howl Gu to raise their battle strength several times over. He then sends the pack to grind the horse souls down. This spends wolves as cannon fodder in the enslavement path’s own logic of exhausting an enemy’s strength. ch. 542
Ma Zun tries to retreat, and Fang Yuan judges him, an enslavement path master, a hundred times more significant a target than Ma Ying Jie. He abandons the nephew and gives chase. Ma Ying Jie tries to intercept him in the air with more horse souls, but Fang Yuan is a flying master and easily outflies them. Cornered, Ma Zun raises his own Dragon Horse Spirit, its defensive line stronger than his nephew’s had been. ch. 542
Cheng Long, the giant transformation path dragon Fang Yuan had already beaten down once, charges him again in fresh rage. Fang Yuan dodges the dragon’s claws on the wing. He gouges out both its eyes with his bronze arms, and pounds its skull for twenty to thirty blows until it caves in. The dragon dies without reverting from its dragon shape, a mark of how far Cheng Long had carried his transformation path. Fang Yuan reflects that every life in every world exists to conquer, the enemy and itself alike. ch. 542
He turns back to Ma Zun, splitting his wolves into cone formations that tear apart the horse souls’ defensive line and force Ma Zun to cover two threats at once. Fang Yuan drives the wolf group three hundred steps forward through the gap, then breaks Ma Zun’s guard in three strikes: the first shatters his barrier, the second wounds him badly, the third kills him. Ma tribe’s horse group collapses and its army’s morale falls with it. Bystanders, who knew Wolf King only as an enslavement path master, call this the beheading the leader tactic. What stuns them is that he conceals a second path, cultivating strength alongside enslavement, so beheading the leader tactics hold no fear for him at all. ch. 542
