Chapter 579

That evening Ma Ying Jie takes Ma Hong Yun to Chang tribe’s banquet, and afterwards Chang Biao keeps Ma Ying Jie for a talk in the study. Chang Biao asks what insights he has in six arm heavenly zombie king. Ma Ying Jie says frankly that he is an enslavement path master with no strength path affiliation and plans to sell the move untested. Chang Biao and Pan Ping are stupefied but find it reasonable, since Ma Ying Jie holds the enslavement inheritance that made his master Ma Zun a regional ruler, along with Dragon Horse Spirit, a powerful killer move from a Snowy Mountain Gu Immortal. ^{ch. 579}

Chang Biao admits that he and Pan Ping have tested the move and that its might is astonishing and overwhelming. Somewhat hesitating, he asks Ma Ying Jie to keep it secret, so that others do not receive the reward for clearing the round. Ma Ying Jie understands that Chang Biao, now only a great elder, would definitely have to hand the move over if the true decision maker, Wolf King Chang Shan Yin, asked for it. From their expressions he knows the move is absolutely extraordinary. Ma Ying Jie agrees to keep it secret. ^{ch. 579}

Pan Ping and Chang Biao want to pull Ma Ying Jie into their faction, while he wants their tribes’ help to grow his own, so the three address each other as brothers. Near midnight they set the engagement of Ma Hong Yun and Chang Li. Pan Ping laughs that the marriage will force Ma Ying Jie to help against the Wolf King later. Chang Biao shakes his head slightly. He judges it too early to recruit him, but once they declare war on Chang Shan Yin, as long as the Wolf King treats Ma tribe as an enemy, Ma Ying Jie will have to join them to protect his tribe. ^{ch. 579}

In the carriage Ma Ying Jie tells a stunned Ma Hong Yun that the first day of next month will be a celebration day for him and Chang Li. He gives Ma Hong Yun three red steel relic Gu as a reward for his loyalty, enough to take him to rank two peak stage with rank three within reach, and appoints him deputy elder. Ma Hong Yun kneels and thanks him. Privately, Ma Ying Jie thinks six arm heavenly zombie king seems really powerful and that he may try it too. ^{ch. 579}

In the central control room of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Fang Yuan casts ink transformation with the shower technique taught by Mo Yao, which quickens refinement by at least thirty percent and raises quality by twenty percent. She warns that the technique demands full concentration, and that overuse brings dizziness and failed refinement, or at worst soul injury, memory loss and possibly dementia. The owner token flies up into his palm with five edges, meaning five casts. ^{ch. 579}

With the one-edge owner token Fang Yuan chose the seventh floor, where Gu Masters had broken through to the eighty-ninth round, whose reward was five immortal essence stones. Holding the floor in secret, he kept the stones for himself when Chang Biao, Pan Ping, Ma Ying Jie and others cleared that round, and gave each of them a downgraded six arm heavenly zombie king as their reward. The genuine move has borrow strength Gu as core and the six great flying zombie Gu for backbone, but the downgraded one uses overlord Gu as core, greatly reducing its strength. Old earth chief zombie Gu replaces Mo Yao’s modified Gu, and intention Gu is added among the support Gu worms to secretly gather information on how Chang Biao, Pan Ping and others use it. No one doubts the reward. They test the move in place of Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 579}

Half a month after the distribution, Fang Yuan asks Mo Yao’s will about catching the fish in a net, and she says to take away two sets first. With the five-edge owner token he finds Chang Biao and Pan Ping running in the ninetieth round of the seventh floor. After seven days they have seen only walls, and Chang Biao reasons that the round tests scouting and movement and is an extremely large maze. They guess correctly. But Fang Yuan now controls the floor, and after he discovers them, everything is going to be different. ^{ch. 579}