Chapter 583

Hei Xiu Yi urges Lord Chang Shan Yin to step in as the fox and eagle groups suffer losses. Fang Yuan scoffs at the idea. By the battle arrangement he strikes first and the two groups take over after him, each holding fifteen minutes, and they have not served half their time. Entering now would only send the wolf group to cruel slaughter, so he is very willing to watch on the fence. Hei Xiu Yi, furious, says Tang Miao Ming and Hei Qi Sheng are fighting with their lives while Fang Yuan watches by the side, and asks if this is too much. ^{ch. 583}

Fang Yuan frowns, his killing intent surges, and a monstrous arm grows from his back. Hei Xiu Yi, a defensive Gu Master whom Hei Lou Lan once sent to protect Fang Yuan and who abandoned him on the battlefield, puts up three lines of defense. The arm smashes all three and hits his chest, crushing his rib bones. He crashes into a mound several hundred steps away, half embedded, unconscious and without battle strength. ^{ch. 583}

Everyone gasps. Hei Xiu Yi is one of the three commanders of the black banner army and an important Hei tribe higher-up. Attacking him openly taunts Hei Lou Lan. A split with Chang Shan Yin would doom this battle and throw the sacred palace into political turmoil. Hei Lou Lan comes over to question Fang Yuan with an expression like still water, calling him Wolf King instead of Brother Shan Yin to show his anger. Fang Yuan stares back unafraid and snickers that Hei Xiu Yi lacked respect and disregarded seniority, so he punished him on behalf of Hei Lou Lan. ^{ch. 583}

Hei Lou Lan, the Black Tyrant, rages inwardly. He decides to endure, since an argument now would waste everything. Beneath the dark path he shows, his real cultivation is strength path from his Great Strength True Martial Physique, but using it would accelerate the disaster of one of the ten extreme physiques. Killing the flying bear phantom this time would clear this floor and make his owner token one-edge, letting him inspect the reward of any round on any floor and hunt his strength path Immortal Gu. He therefore laughs loudly and says brother Shan Yin did a good job teaching such a disrespectful person a lesson. ^{ch. 583}

The eagle and fox groups face great losses, Hei Qi Sheng bleeds from the nose, and Tang Miao Ming sways pale. Tai Bai Yun Sheng orders them protected, and Hei Lou Lan consoles the two, promising great rewards for their huge contribution. The flying bear charges the crowd, yet Fang Yuan folds his arms while his wolves retreat faster than anyone. Hei Lou Lan grits his teeth, since forcing Fang Yuan and being rejected in public would bring a huge hit to his reputation and deep humiliation. He shouts for the second step of the plan. ^{ch. 583}

White Fairy Xi Xue makes snow descend with her rank five flying snow Gu. Gu tribe leader Gu Guo Long sends rocks flying with rank five flying sand moving rock. Trapped between snow and sand, the bear slows sharply and its sight blurs, and its own attacks only stir the sand and snow more intensely. Hei Lou Lan orders the third step, and almost ten experts of rank four peak stage or rank five charge in. Among them are Bian Si Xuan, Hao Ji Liu, Pei Yan Fei, Gao Yang, Shu Zai, Dou E, Nie Ya Qing, Tao You and Lu Shuang. ^{ch. 583}

Pei Yan Fei combines swallow wings Gu, golden coat Gu and rainbow transformation Gu into Golden Rainbow Strike, cutting a huge wound across the bear’s chest from left shoulder to right waist. Nie Ya Qing tears at its eyes, nose and mouth with iron hook silver slash Gu, and Bian Si Xuan leaves a ten meter long wound on its right leg. Ye Lui Sang builds a growing fireball, and when the bear charges at him, Dou E, Gu Guo Long and Tao You hit it with exploding teeth, rock statues and earth energy meteors. Ye Lui Sang then drops the giant fireball, and the explosion leaves a huge crater. The bear curls up in the five interchanging lights of its rank five five element bear skin Gu, which greatly reduces damage from metal, wood, water, fire and earth path Gu. Even so, it is covered in injuries, some so deep that bones show. ^{ch. 583}

Sun Shi Han reminds the Gu Masters that it still has grand chaotic dance Gu, a rank five wild Gu that sends it into a frenzy, greatly increasing its strength and speed. Anyone caught might be turned into meat paste within a few breaths. Hei Lou Lan shouts that with Old Sir Tai Bai present there is nothing to fear and that whoever charges first will be heavily rewarded. Hao Ji Liu shouts that he will do it and charges. At three hundred steps the bear shoots out an invisible air bubble that swells over both of them, then contracts and vanishes completely. In an instant, both are gone. ^{ch. 583}