Chapter 17: Killing Chang Shan Yin
The grassland was silent for a moment before the ground vibrated, as numerous earth spike rats popped up from underground.
That shadow crow corpse was immediately dismembered and dragged into the holes made on the ground piece by piece.
The young girl became overwhelmingly nervous after seeing this. If she really fell, she would immediately get attacked by the earth spike rats, she would definitely die!
"What are you thinking? Shoot them!" Fang Yuan chided, interrupting the girl's thoughts as she hurriedly attacked, shooting over ten arrows before killing the two shadow crows.
The two shadow crows landed on the ground and were immediately taken by the earth spike rats, Ge Yao looked at this as cold sweat appeared on her face.
"Your accuracy is terrible, quickly use primeval stones to recover your primeval essence!"
As Fang Yuan scolded, Ge Yao took out one primeval stones, but because she was flustering, this primeval stones fell out of her hand and landed on the ground.
"You idiot!"
"So... sorry!"
The young girl apologised in a sobbing tone.
"Focus, calm down! Display your usual ability, there will be many shadow crows later, I have to depend on you." Fang Yuan's voice became more gentle.
"Yes, yes." Ge Yao nodded her head in succession, after Fang Yuan consoled her, her mind slowly returned to a calm state.
An entire hour later.
Fang Yuan carried Ge Yao as they safely landed on the ground.
During the flying process, she had killed at least a hundred shadow crows, she had felt that she was struggling at death's door during the process.
Fang Yuan spread his wings, twisted and turned, circled, dived, and rose into the sky under such attacks. Finding impossible opportunities, he managed to find a way out of the rain of attacks.
"I actually survived from facing such an insane number of enemies?" This was Ge Yao's first thought when she landed.
The relief of surviving an ordeal, an unbelievable feeling of happiness, and the after-fear of recalling the situation, after she had experienced all these, Ge Yao looked at Fang Yuan with a complicated expression, as he was healing the injuries on his body.
"The man before me, he has such skilled flying techniques, he is so strong. Inside that strong body of his, is there a flying eagle's soul? Such flying technique can compete with 'Lightning' Dong Po Kong, 'Water Immortal' Song Qing Yin, and 'Green Bat' Wu Ye! This is a first-rate flying technique in northern plains! Chang Shan Yin, Chang Shan Yin, what kind of person are you…"
Fang Yuan took out bright pearl Gu.
Fixed immortal travel Gu is sealed inside bright pearl Gu, like a beautiful amber.
In front of Ge Yao, Fang Yuan took out bright pearl Gu forthrightly.
Dusty Gu was like a cocoon, its body was dark grey, and felt like sandpaper. Fang Yuan injected primeval essence, and dusty Gu exploded lightly, turning into a grey smoke cloud.
The grey smoke moved towards bright pearl Gu as if it was sentient.
The originally shining bright pearl Gu was covered by this dust cover, and dimmed. The fixed immortal travel Gu's aura diminished once again.
"What are you doing?" Ge Yao asked curiously.
Fang Yuan did not answer her, he kept the dimmed pearl into his pocket and continued on his journey.
The two continued to advance, as the poison fog in the air became thicker, the thick purple color fog started to affect their vision.
The two had to stop more frequently, using Gu worms to eliminate the poison in them.
Crack...
A crisp sound came from the below their feet, like they had stepped on some twigs.
Ge Yao directed her gaze over in suspicion, before screaming and jumping back like a rabbit.
"Wh… why is there a human skull here?" She said with a trembling voice.
"Because this is a battlefield." Fang Yuan walked ahead of her, not turning back but instead walking even faster.
"Battlefield? Hey, wait for me, don't go so fast!" Ge Yao quickly followed after Fang Yuan.
"So many people died, who engaged in such a brawl here? But the trenches and pits have already been outgrown by poisonous grass, looking at the other traces, this battle took place at least twenty years ago."
Ge Yao was behind Fang Yuan, seeing him search continuously, like he was trying to find something, she understood.
"So Chang Shan Yin's purpose for entering this poison grassland is this battlefield. What is he looking for? Wait, twenty years ago, in the poison grassland, there was indeed a huge battle. Father had spoken with someone about this, I was beside him at that time…"
The memory of Wolf King Chang Shan Yin surfaced in Ge Yao's mind.
"Chang Shan Yin? You are Wolf King Chang Shan Yin!" Thinking of this, Ge Yao opened her mouth, staring at Fang Yuan fixatedly.
"Oh? You know about Chang Shan Yin too?" Fang Yuan replied lightly as he continued searching.
But Ge Yao quickly shook her head: "No, no way. Looking at his age, by now, if Chang Shan Yin is alive, he should be at least forty years old. How can he be as young as you. Furthermore, your appearance and accent are completely different. You are not Chang Shan Yin!"
"Hehehe, if I am not Chang Shan Yin, who am I?"
"Oh right, who are you? Why are you impersonating a dead Gu Master?" Ge Yao's mind was full of questions.
Suddenly, her eyes brightened up: "Wait! Although after Chang Shan Yin died, his mother also died of poison. But he was already married and had kids. His son is already grown up, and is quite a talented person. Don't tell me… you are Chang Shan Yin's son?"
Fang Yuan laughed, just as he was about to answer, he heard a strange sound near his ears.
Following this sound, a large white bone wheel appeared in the purple fog.
"Careful, this is Ha Tu Gu's rank five Gu — Battle Bone Wheel!"
Fang Yuan had just warned, when the wheel accelerated, crushing over with an imposing aura.
After a long fought battle Fang Yuan subdues the rank 5 white bone wheel and after some time successfully refines it.
Fang Yuan let out a heartfelt sigh and took out a bright pearl Gu from his pocket.
Bright pearl Gu was already dusty, its light was dim. Sealed inside was fixed immortal travel, the aura of the Immortal Gu was also fading.
Fang Yuan took out the dark toss Gu.
Fang Yuan transferred his primeval essence, the black silkworm cocoon wiggled up, ten tendrils twisted out, twisting like snakes, and climbed on the bright pearl Gu.
In just a short moment, the bright pearl Gu was enveloped by a black silkworm cocoon.
"Warrior Chang Shan Yin, you are trying to seal this beautiful jade butterfly?" Ge Yao stood to the side and gradually understood Fang Yuan's intention.
Fang Yuan gave her a mysterious smile and kept the dark pearl into his pocket and continued to be buried in his research of the battlefield.
"Hmm? I found it!"
His long search had finally come to an end.
Fang Yuan stepped forward and found a huge wolf tail on the grass.
He grabbed the wolf tail and forcibly pulled it out.
Suddenly, the land writhed, and a huge female wolf's body appeared out of the ground, its eyes were closed, the whole body covered in purple fur, with a white belly.
It was humongous; even while it was lying down, it was taller than a person.
Ge Yao hurriedly ran over, her face flushed with surprise: "What wolf is this, why is it so big? Ah, it looks like a female wolf, look at its belly, it must be pregnant!"
"It's not a wolf, it's a Gu." Fang Yuan said, taking out a sharp knife from moving perspective cup Gu.
He sliced open the belly of the wolf, causing a long gash to appear.
Immediately, the wolf's bulging belly was torn open, and a large amount of amniotic fluid, mixed with blood, spewed all over the ground; the lower part of Fang Yuan's body was soaked.
Ge Yao saw what was happening, and hurriedly jumped out of the way to avoid becoming a victim of the filth.
She then widened her mouth in surprise, crying out, "Why is there a man inside the wolf's womb?"
Without giving her any answer, Fang Yuan quickly squatted down and extended his hands. It looked like he was observing the injuries of Chang Shan Yin, but in fact, he secretly pinched the neck of Chang Shan Yin.
When Fang Yuan killed him, his body did not even tremble. Needless to say, since he was unconscious, he could not self-detonate his Gu worms.
Fang Yuan's mind entered his aperture and immediately found several tortoise breath Gu inside.
By leaking the aura of the Spring Autumn Cicada, Fang Yuan instantly refined these tortoise breath Gu.
He took all the tortoises out, and under the watchful eyes of Ge Yao, he crushed them all one by one to reveal the Gu inside.
There were a total of eight Gu from the enslavement path, all of which were precious rank four Gu worms. Some of them were even more precious than ordinary rank five Gu. Chang Shan Yin meticulously arranged this collection, and with this set of Gu, he made a reputation for himself in northern plains. Using this set of Gu, he killed rank five Gu Masters before.
And with the help of Spring Autumn Cicada, all of them became Fang Yuan's possession.
"And now, I finally have an excellent set of rank four Gu from northern plains!" The corner of his mouth curled into a faint smile.