Chapter 16: Poison Grassland
With the death of the wolf king, the wolf pack's morale collapsed and they all started fleeing in disorder.
A fierce battle ended so abruptly.
After the battle ended Ge Yao followed behind Fang Yuan and bent her back to look at him, exclaiming in praise: Warrior Chang Shan Yin, you are a true expert. Father has always told me that going into battle by just relying on one's cultivation is stupid. I saw you charging into the wolf pack, it was such a dangerous situation, but you moved skillfully like it was a simple task.
I finally understood that what father said was true."
Fang Yuan snorted and stood up.
He glanced at Ge Yao and said gruffly: "Stupid? Do you think you are just stupid? You are utterly stupid!"
Ge Yao was immediately stifled: "Hey! Why are you so blunt!"
"Hmph, earlier, your careless attack attracted most of the wolf pack and almost screwed up my control of the situation. Do you have the brains of an ox?" Fang Yuan snorted and blamed.
Ge Yao knew that it was her mistake, her aura immediately weakened and she lowered her head, looking at her feet: "I know you attracted most of the wolf pack away for me. But I also wanted to help you."
Fang Yuan heaved a sigh: "Forget it, I will let it go this time. I will try to make an effort to teach you what you have to do to, so that you will not impede me again in the future."
"Who needs you to teach?" Ge Yao turned around and snorted with dissatisfaction. …
""You need to be calm when activating spiral water arrow Gu. If you just recklessly shoot them, you would simply be wasting your precious primeval essence rapidly."
"Water dragon Gu wastes a lot of primeval essence, don't use it if it is not necessary. This is why you are always running out of primeval essence!"
"Don't use spring rain Gu, that is a large scale healing Gu that is not worth it for just the two of us."
"Warrior Chang Shan Yin, you are a sage. Your guidance is much more amazing than my tribe's three top elders. Even if you don't take a fancy upon me, I want to invite you to be a guest of our Ge tribe. If you are interested, I will do my best to persuade father to make you an external elder!"
Ge Yao turned around and walked to Fang Yuan's side, and invited him with a sincere expression.
"I can become a guest of Ge tribe, but I don't have any interest in becoming an external elder." Fang Yuan walked forward while shaking his head to refuse.
Ge Yao persuaded him several times, but Fang Yuan's attitude was firm.
The girl sulked and followed behind Fang Yuan, looking at his back with an angry gaze.
"Do you think you are amazing just because you can teach? Hmph. I used such an urging tone, yet you remain unmoved. No interest to become my Ge tribe's external elder? Are you looking down on my Ge tribe?"
"Chang Shan Yin, you scoundred!"
Ge Yao gritted her teeth in hatred while having a doubt in her mind: "But this name Chang Shan Yin, it is really familiar, where in the world did I hear it?"
Poison grassland was covered with dark clouds all year round, and in this dusky light, the two walked for some distance.
Fang Yuan stopped.
Infront of him were ghost face sunflower.
This sight caused Ge Yao to immediately hold her breath and grab Fang Yuan's sleeve, whispering in a very soft voice: "A lot of people definitely died here, with many ghosts wandering around, it led to the growth of so many ghost face sunflowers. Every ghost face sunflower is a ghost that died unjustly.
Let's detour around this place, there are definitely many ghost cry Gu living in these ghost face sunflowers and there could even be ghost face Gu."
"It is such a large field of ghost face sunflowers, how long will we take to make a detour?" Fang Yuan concentrated on this sea of sunflowers.
He lightly removed the girl's hand on his sleeve and squatted down. He put his palms on the ground and then activated a Gu in his aperture.
Soon, green underbrush grew out from the ground.
The lush underbrush rose little by little and the slender grass and leaves coiled around each other, gradually forming into a puppet.
Enslavement path, rank three grass puppet Gu.
After a while, close to a thousand rattan shell grass soldiers started clearing the way in front of him.
Fang Yuan pulled Ge Yao's hand and under the protection of another hundred rattan shell grass soldiers, they walked into the sea of ghost face sunflowers.
"Yaaa—!"
"Mieee~~~"
"Dieee…"
Every ghost cry Gu let out a sharp screech; the rattan shell grass soldiers ahead collapsed. The voices the ghost cry Gu let out were not the same. Some were sharp frightened sounds; some were like the bleating of sheep; and some seemed to be recounting hidden bitterness.
"Ghost… ghost faces are rising." The girl shook as she looked at the pale, terrifying ghost faces fly out from the sea of sunflowers.
Fang Yuan gently patted her hand and then calmly organised the puppets.
Soon, some rattan shell grass soldiers left the main group and sacrificed themselves to lure the ghost faces away.
The two got through sunflower sea safely.
Ge Yao looked behind her, breathing out deeply, her worried heart finally settled.
"To think that we got past the sea of ghost face sunflowers so easily."
After regaining her composure, the young girl looked at the grassman puppets around her.
"These Gu, although they do not have high combat strength, the greatest advantage is to use them as fodder. Chang Shan Yin came prepared indeed." Thinking so, the young girl diverted her gaze towards the person beside her.
The more she spent time with Fang Yuan, the more curious Ge Yao got, and the greater her determination to find out more about him.
"What sort of person is he? Entering poison grassland, what motive does he have? Chang Shan Yin, Chang Shan Yin… this name is so familiar, I've heard it before. Ah!"
The young girl's face turned red.
When they had crossed the sunflower sea earlier, Fang Yuan held her hand. Those ghost cries and scary ghost faces made her frightened, she got closer to Fang Yuan and was almost hugging his arm, but she did not notice.
Ge Yao quickly let go of Fang Yuan's arm, getting free of his hand.
"It is time." Fang Yuan's gaze concentrated towards fixed immortal travel Gu on his shoulder.
He took out bright pearl Gu.
"Go." He injected his primeval essence, and the bright pearl Gu turned into a warm white light, floating onto fixed immortal travel's body, covering it completely.
Fang Yuan expended almost all his primeval essence before he successfully sealed the fixed immortal travel Gu.
Perhaps due to that sunflower sea, not a single poison beard wolf appeared.
The two continued to venture deeper, as the poisonous fog on the grassland became thicker, until one could clearly see the purple fog in the air.
When the two started coughing, they would stop moving and take out their Gu worms respectively, getting rid of the toxins that accumulated in them.
"How much deeper are we going?" Ge Yao could not help but ask.
"Soon." Fang Yuan replied plainly as he walked slower, until he stopped.
"Are we there? It's here?" Ge Yao asked happily.
Fang Yuan did not say a word, he squatted down and moved away some poisonous shrubs that had a weird appearance, as a hole that was hidden by the bushes appeared before him.
This hole was the size of a large bowl, it has a smooth edge. Inside the hole was pure darkness.
Ge Yao saw this and her eyes were fixed on the hole, breathing roughly: "This, this is a hole dug by a earth spike rat. They live together in thousands and even ten thousands, forming into a huge group. They live under the grass inside the soil, as long as there are vibrations in the ground, they would attack from below.
"We cannot go forward anymore. Once we get encircled, there will be no way to survive. We will be submerged by endless rats. Along the way, we met no poison beard wolves, this shows that the earth spike rats are the lord of this area. Who knows, the earth spike rat king might be a myriad beast king!"
"No, my destination is further ahead." Fang Yuan stood up.
"Chang Shan Yin! Excessive bravery is courting death. You cannot walk over this. In fact, in just a few steps, you will get attacked by the rats." Ge Yao quickly explained.
But Fang Yuan smiled lightly: "Who said I am going to walk over?"
Just as he said so, pitch-black wings grew on his back.
"This…" Ge Yao stared with wide-opened eyes, before she reacted, Fang Yuan already carried her up.
After a while, the young girl reacted, and laughed heartily in Fang Yuan's arms: "Chang Shan Yin, to think that you can fly. Father has a flying cloud Gu, he used to bring me to play in the sky when I was young. Sigh, sadly flying cloud Gu is a rank four Gu, I cannot use it. But even if I could, father would not allow it, he would be afraid of me falling from the sky."
Ge Yao recalled, before asking curiously: "Chang Shan Yin, what flying Gu is this? Why have I not seen it before?"
Fang Yuan did not answer.
The young girl did not give up: "This is the rank three eagle wings Gu? Such speed and altitude is similar to eagle wings Gu, but this does not look like it."
Fang Yuan sighed: "You ask too many questions. Rather than asking me useless questions, why don't you spend your effort on the shadow crows ahead of us."
"Shadow crow?" The young girl reacted, seeing three shadow crows in front flying towards them soundlessly.
The young girl's expression paled, her voice trembling: "Chang Shan Yin, how good is your flying technique? If you are not good, let's land and defend on the grassland."
"No worries." Fang Yuan's voice was emotionless: "I'm carrying you, I cannot attack. Next, it will depend on whether your spiral water arrow is accurate."
"What? Ah!"
Ge Yao could see a shadow crow enlarging quickly in her vision, as they got close, the shadow crow brandished its dagger-like sharp claws.
Seeing that the sharp claw was about to hit her, Ge Yao's body turned cold from fright, her fingers and legs were stiff as she was immobilized.
"We're going to collide, I am going to die!" Just as she had this thought, Fang Yuan kept his wings and they descended quickly, narrowly avoiding the shadow crow's claw.
Next, he stretched out his wings and flapped hard, making a zigzag turn, flying up and chasing behind the shadow crow.
"Fire quickly!" Fang Yuan shouted.
The spiral water arrow shot the shadow crow, piercing its body and causing a trail of blood.
The shadow crow was killed on the spot, like a kite with its strings cut, it fell onto the ground with a loud thump.