Poison Beard Wolf

Ge Yao says her big stomach horse was eaten by poison beard wolves, with her primeval stones and rations stored on it. Hundreds of them appear and many charge at her; she kills three at once and injures five or six more, and a dozen come charging at her in the same moment. Fang Yuan charges through the pack in a layer of golden light armor, every collision sending large numbers of them flying, and whichever wolf touches his fists or kicks has its skeleton shattered. The wolf king of this pack is very strong, lightning flickering around its whole body, shooting out green venom now and then, and so fast it leaves an afterimage. Fang Yuan keeps moving and uses the ordinary wolves to hinder the king instead of meeting it head on. At last he smashes its defense with a beast phantom and beats to death this king, which was close to becoming a thousand beast king. ^{ch. 427} Ge Yao repels a poison beard wolf pack again and says the wolves should get lost. ^{ch. 428}

Deep in the poisonous grassland the purple fog thickens until even poison resistant wild beasts such as poison beard wolves rarely appear. Creatures at the lowest rung of Zi Du blessed land slip out when its entrance opens every few years, which is why large numbers of poison beard wolves live in the poisonous grassland, rampaging around the outskirts of the poisoned lands. About a hundred of them pounce on Fang Yuan and Ge Yao. Fang Yuan subdues their hundred beast wolf king with a rank two wolf enslavement Gu, and the pack it leads becomes his, the second wolf group he has subdued. ^{ch. 433}

A large group of poison beard wolves, drawn by the bonfire, rapidly approaches Fang Yuan and Ge Yao, and wolves resting beside the fire clash with them in an intense battle. Ge Yao calls the incoming wolf group a thousand beast group. Ge Yao takes on its thousand beast wolf king alone and returns with its head, and with their king lost the invading wolves collapse and flee. ^{ch. 435}

Fang Yuan uses poison beard wolves as an ambush for a male hump wolf, and a large group surrounds it from every side. Under his manipulation they do not fight the hump wolf head on but work together, taking turns to drain its stamina. Around the hump wolf lie sixty or so poison beard wolf corpses, while Fang Yuan reckons he would need to sacrifice only thirty of them to kill it, but he wants it alive. Wolf smoke Gu heals the injured poison beard wolves along with the hump wolf, and on Fang Yuan’s will the wolves eat the corpses of the dead. Three days earlier Fang Yuan killed Ge Yao and ordered the wolves to devour her corpse, and her only remains are likely what the poison beard wolves excrete. ^{ch. 436} Fang Yuan later leaves the poisonous grassland riding the hump wolf’s back, surrounded by restless poison beard wolves, which are adapted to hunting in the dark and lose much of their battle strength in sunlight. He thinks the group is only temporary and will be eliminated sooner or later. ^{ch. 437}

A poison beard wolf pack under Fang Yuan’s will charges at wind wolves that have encircled Ge tribe Gu Masters, and the Gu Masters ask why poison beard wolves are outside the poison grassland, where they believe the wolves only move around. Ge Guang counts fewer than a thousand of them, and another Gu Master notes that they are weaker under sunlight and slightly inferior to the wind wolves. Fang Yuan howls like a wolf, and poison beard wolves within eight hundred steps turn frenzied and gain twice their battle strength; the Gu Masters recognise the rank four wolf howl Gu, which can raise a wolf pack’s battle strength for a time. Over a dozen wind wolves are sacrificed for the life of one poison beard wolf, and the wind wolves retreat. Fang Yuan’s poison beard wolf kings are only hundred beast kings while the wind wolf king is a thousand beast king, yet several of them form a barricade that it cannot break through. ^{ch. 438}

A Gu Master reports that Ge Yao’s torn clothes were found in the poison grassland and that poison beard wolves killed her. ^{ch. 442} Fang Yuan tells the Gu Masters that he subdued many poison beard wolves after leaving the poison grassland, slept on their fur on cold nights, and that one of them likely ate the leader’s daughter and passed the smoke to him. Chase smoke Gu shows that a few of the poison beard wolves carry much thicker smoke than Fang Yuan does. Ge tribe leader takes them for his daughter’s murderer, and Fang Yuan hands those wolves over to him to deal with. ^{ch. 447}

Fang Yuan holds poison beard wolves and wind wolves, and he notes that poison beard wolves are hard to replenish and, being weak in sunlight, are destined to be eliminated. ^{ch. 442} Man tribe schemers count a thousand poison beard wolves among Fang Yuan’s trump cards. ^{ch. 450} A poison beard wolf king is among the hundred beast wolf kings in the army Fang Yuan builds on a battlefield. ^{ch. 453} Yan tribe Gu Masters read poison beard wolf footprints among the wolf tracks and conclude from the mix of wolves that a Gu Master controls the group. ^{ch. 469} Fang Yuan’s wolf group includes a few poison beard wolves obtained from the poisonous grassland, and he later buys five thousand more. ^{ch. 476}

Because of the poison beard wolves, Fang Yuan also chooses earth skin pigs, which he puts in the eastern part of Hu Immortal blessed land. ^{ch. 476} Fang Yuan sends poison beard wolves and water wolves to Hu Immortal blessed land through the stargate. ^{ch. 477} The number of earth skin pigs there would be thirty to forty percent higher were it not for water wolves and poison beard wolves. ^{ch. 490} With poisonous blood now contaminating Hu Immortal blessed land, which did not suit poison beard wolves before, Fang Yuan plans to buy a small number to form a catfish effect with the blood stripe foxes, and small quantities of them come to live among the western part’s blood lakes. ^{ch. 826} In Fang Yuan’s immortal aperture, a huge grassland whose blood sickle grass and red axe flowers came from Hu Immortal blessed land holds poison beard wolf groups beside fox groups, water wolf groups, and earth skin boar groups. ^{ch. 1291}