Chapter 36: Assassination Attempt
Fang Yuan was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, his body shrouded by the light from strength of ten jun Gu.
A long time passed.
"I can still use it twice." Fang Yuan silently evaluated.
A night of cultivation without rest gave him a slight feeling of tiredness.
He pushed open the secret room's door. The two rank three Gu Masters guarding in front of the door immediately greeted him.
One of the Gu Masters gave good news to Fang Yuan: "Lord Wolf King, our Gu Masters were fortunate enough to capture a shark fin wolf in the wild. We have locked it within a cage, tribe leader has told me to inform lord, when you finish your cultivation, to go to the supply camp to subdue it.
After a while, Fang Yuan entered the supply camp.
"Tu Bo greets Lord Wolf King." A rank three Gu Master hurried over to welcome Fang Yuan.
At Tu Bo's lead, Fang Yuan and others soon saw that shark fin wolf in a wooden cage.
"Congratulations to lord. Shark fin wolf is the mutated wolf with the strongest defense. With this wolf's protection, lord will be like a tiger that has grown wings."
"What's rarer is that shark fin wolf can not only fight on land, but has even more battle strength underwater!"
The two rank three Gu Master guards looked at this divine steed shark fin wolf and commented while congratulating Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan smiled and looked at this shark fin wolf, his eyes slightly narrowed as he absent-mindedly asked: "How many people were sacrificed to capture this mutated wolf?"
Tu Bo knew Fang Yuan was asking him, immediately replying: "We had to sacrifice four rank three Gu Masters and at least over two hundred rank two Gu Masters. If not for Wang tribe leader and Fang tribe leader's timely reinforcement, this shark fin wolf would have escaped."
Fang Yuan nodded, his eyes squinting to a slit: "This shark fin wolf is riddled with injuries but it looks like it had old injuries?"
"Yes. If not for its old injuries, the investigative Gu Master might not have been able to escape alive and hurry back to report. I can see that Lord Wolf King has obtained the blessing of Longevity Heaven, sending you an injured shark fin wolf before the great battle." Tu Bo flattered.
Under the surrounding Gu Masters' anticipating looks, Fang Yuan took out a rank four wolf enslavement Gu.
"Here take it, subdue this mutated wolf." What was unexpected was Fang Yuan did not personally make a move, instead gave the wolf enslavement Gu to Tu Bo.
"Lord wants me to use it?" Tu Bo was astonished, "But I am only at rank three…"
"Speak less nonsense and use it quickly." Fang Yuan impatiently shouted, forcibly handing the wolf enslavement Gu to Tu Bo.
Tu Bo was helpless, he did not know what eccentric temperament a lord like Wolf King had, but due to Fang Yuan's prestige, he could only start pouring primeval essence into the wolf enslavement Gu.
Wolf enslavement Gu turned into a mystical light and descended on the shark fin wolf's body while flickering.
"Sigh…" A regretful sigh of a female suddenly resounded in everyone's ears.
At that instant, Fang Yuan immediately retreated.
A trembling feeling instantly engulfed the souls of everyone present.
Almost at the same moment, Tu Bo suddenly opened his mouth and let out a miserable cry before dying on the spot!
The two rank three Gu Master guards were overwhelmed with shock, they simply did not know how Tu Bo lost his life. Subconsciously, they followed Fang Yuan and quickly flew back.
But soon, one of them suddenly shuddered, losing all life while still in mid-air.
"Soul explosion…" A light flashed past Fang Yuan's mind as he blurted out.
"Lord Wolf King sure enough has extraordinary insights." A woman's soft sound echoed beside his ear followed by surging shadows.
Rank four — multiple sword shadow Gu!
Cling Clang!
Immediately, concentrated sounds echoed, blending into one.
Multiple sword shadows struck Fang Yuan's body, producing dazzling sparks like gold colliding with iron.
Fang Yuan's skin turned dark-green and if one carefully observed it, they would see patterns over his body like that on a turtle shell.
Rank five — turtle jade wolf skin Gu!
"Female scoundrel!" The remaining rank three Gu Master roared when he saw Fang Yuan being attacked, and changed his direction to help out.
The female Gu Master who was mounting a sneak attack on Fang Yuan snorted, ignoring him as she made the multiple sword shadows go more berserk.
At the same time, she spat out a thin snake.
The snake was like a black thread that passed by the sword shadows and directly moved towards Fang Yuan's ear.
Fang Yuan was expressionless, his gaze as cold as an icy mountain. He suddenly moved his right hand and grabbed the rank three Gu Master guard who came to assist him.
"Lord Wolf King!" The rank three Gu Master was startled, he had come to protect Fang Yuan and had never imagined Fang Yuan would actually grab him.
While he was astonished and dazed, Fang Yuan pulled him towards his right side, right in between Fang Yuan and shark fin wolf.
Almost at the same time, the rank three Gu Master gave a short pained groan, his whole body twitched, his eyes rolled and he foamed from his mouth!
The thread-like snake took this chance to slitter into Fang Yuan's ear.
Fang Yuan gave a stuffed snort, he then let go of the rank three Gu Master and started to pound the sword shadows.
The female Gu Master could perceive the enormous strength contained within these punches. She softly chuckled and did not receive the punches forcibly, instead called back the multiple sword shadow Gu, her body then turned into a black shadow as she swiftly retreated twenty steps away.
The black shadow landed on the shadow of a tent and turned back into a woman.
"Junior Shadowless Sword Bian Si Xuan greets Lord Wolf King." The woman slightly bowed towards Fang Yuan. She was in the enemy camp with enemies surrounding her, but she looked calm and at ease.
Bian Si Xuan bowed once more, her tone full of sincere admiration: "Senior could actually perceive Lord Dong Fang's meticulously planned fatal trap and even avoid most of the force of soul explosion, junior is truly in admiration. Taking senior's life will be junior's greatest honor, farewell."
Immediately afterwards, she turned into a black shadow and ran through the shadows of the buildings.
"She's shadow sword expert!"
"Damn it, block her."
Many Gu Masters who had hurried because of the noise, shouted furiously and attacked at the shadows, but Bian Si Xuan's black shadow had already disappeared.
The worried crowd quickly surrounded Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's body did not suffer heavy injuries but his skin and hair were slashed by the sword shadows, making him look quite miserable.
"What could happen to me? A group of incompetent trash, no one realized that the other party had infiltrated the camp! All of you get lost!" Fang Yuan shouted in anger.
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"We did not succeed after all…" Dong Fang Yu Liang looked at the rain outside the window with his arms behind his back, sighing.
"His reputation matches his abilities, as expected of the Wolf King who shook northern plains." Dong Fang Yu Liang heard Bian Si Xuan's report and raised his evaluation of Fang Yuan.
"Wolf King…" Dong Fang Yu Liang muttered, his heart becoming heavier.
"Dong Fang alliance leader does not need to worry. Although Chang Shan Yin used a meat shield at the last moment, he was still obstructed by me and was within range of the soul explosion. Furthermore, he was afflicted by my brain explosion Gu, even if this Gu didn't take his life, his battle strength would be greatly affected. We can say that Wolf King is basically crippled now."
At a corner of the study room, Bian Si Xuan wore black clothes as she stood among the shadow, saying in a cold voice.
"Brain explosion Gu?" Dong Fang Yu Liang was stunned, this was the first time he had heard of this Gu.
Bian Si Xuan laughed lightly, explaining to him the origin of this Gu.
"So that's it…" Dong Fang Yu Liang heard this and his eyes shone, he sighed as he thanked Bian Si Xuan: "It was all thanks to Shadow Sword Expert's help this time, but you lost a great trump card in the progress."
Bian Si Xuan did not speak.
Actually, her heart was bleeding too.
Ever since she had tested the effects of brain explosion Gu, she had kept it as one of her trump cards. Many of her assassinations succeeded because of it.
But when she assassinated Chang Shan Yin, the situation was urgent and she could not kill Chang Shan Yin on the spot, thus she could not retrieve it. When the enemy forces came, she had to retreat to protect herself.
"This is the reward that you were promised earlier." Dong Fang Yu Liang took out a Gu worm from his aperture.
Bian Si Xuan's gaze landed on overlapping shadow Gu, showing some desire and anxious emotion. Although she had multiple sword shadow Gu, the attacks were dispersed and she would face a tough battle when fighting against a defensive opponent.
If she could have overlapping shadow Gu, she could overlap the sword shadows together, and form a strong attack. It would be a huge boost to her battle strength.
But quickly, Bian Si Xuan retracted her gaze, not taking the overlapping shadow Gu.
In the shadows, her cold voice could be heard carrying some arrogance: "This overlapping shadow Gu will be kept by alliance leader for now, after the Wolf King dies, I will come and take it."
Saying so, she fused into the shadows, vanishing.
Dong Fang Yu Liang was slightly stunned, he kept the overlapping shadow Gu back into his aperture.