Chapter 40: Afraid of Death ?
Fang Yuan was in a long crystal hallway.
"I am finally inside the treasure room." Fang Yuan's lips curled into a smile, as he walked forward with huge strides.
Fang Yuan's mind entered his two apertures.
I again got the reward of eighteen spring egg Gu.
After checking his aperture Fang Yuan started to move ahead.
After walking for a little longer, Fang Yuan stopped his footsteps.
The hallway ahead of him looked endless. But a stele was blocking Fang Yuan's path.
The stele was squarish and smooth, it was about the height of Fang Yuan's knee. There were two words written in northern plains' script— guest halt!
Immediately, he took out a Gu worm, and it shot into the stele.
The guest halt stele in front of him, after a specialized Gu worm entered it, gave off a faint yellow light.
Fang Yuan stretched out his palms in the meantime, injecting his aperture's primeval essence into it.
At the same time, his will entered the guest halt stele, following the primeval essence.
Fang Yuan's brows were tightly knotted as his mind entered the stele.
Once Fang Yuan's will entered, he felt that he was in a sea of darkness.
In this endless darkness, there was a sun-like existence. It gave off a weak light, which moved in waves like that of breathing.
It was the will of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Fang Yuan continued to inject primeval essence, slowly and carefully.
As the primeval essence entered the guest halt stele, the amount of his will that was inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building increased.
Four hours passed, Fang Yuan pulled back his palms from the stele.
He was extremely tired, mostly from the mental stress, it was more precarious than walking on a tightrope.
"I finally succeeded."
He again tried to enter the guest halt stele and this time he succeeded.
He walked ahead for some time until he found a crystal wall in which layed an owner token.
Fang Yuan sat cross-legged on the ground and concentrated.
Gu worms after Gu worms moved at his will and struck the owner token non-stop.
Ding ding ding…
A pleasant music sounded from the collision, and the owner token gradually floated into the air. Every strike would create a layer of halo over the owner token.
When it was covered with thirty-eight halo, the dull color on its surface suddenly dispersed and revealed the words - 'owner token'.
The halo then started to burst like air bubbles.
The owner token lost its buoyancy and fell down, and was immediately caught by Fang Yuan.
He quickly bit his finger and let the blood drip onto the owner token.
The moment his blood seeped into the owner token, the metallic token suddenly became a translucent glass. Fang Yuan had seen Hei Lou Lan's owner token and was able to immediately be aware that there was a great difference between his token and the original owner token.
"Now, as long as I hold the glass owner token, I can freely enter the treasure room. There is no need for any high grade evaluation!"
Fang Yuan tested the owner token and almost instantly, Hei Lou Lan's group's figures appeared in his mind.
After crossing the fifty-fourth round, they had already charged to sixty-first round. Right now, they were having a fierce fight with a golden-white tiger phantom.
Hei Lou Lan had numbers on his side, but their defeat was imminent.
Fang Yuan looked closely for a while and inwardly commented: 'If there is no accident, Hei Lou Lan and his group will only be able to last for less than forty-five minutes, before they have to retreat. I don't have a lot of time!"
The glass owner token shook slightly, and the next moment, Fang Yuan disappeared on the spot.
"This is the central control room!"
When Fang Yuan opened his eyes, he had arrived at a secret room.
Fang Yuan sent out a Gu worm which flew to air and turned into black smoke that fell down to the sand table.
The sand table was contaminated by the black smoke and rapidly turned into black color.
The black color gradually condensed, forming into a large patch of sticky liquid that slowly flowed on the sand table.
Fang Yuan looked at a spot where the black liquid had formed a funnel shape and as if there was a hole below, the surrounding black liquid was slowly entering it.
"Now, I just need to enlarge this hole and refine the glass owner token into a one-edge owner token."
Time always seemed to move faster when one was pondering deeply.
Hei Lou Lan and his group were defeated by the golden-white tiger phantom, and were sent out of the tower. To not attract any suspicion, Fang Yuan could only use the glass owner token to get out of the tower.
A group of people suddenly appeared at the entrance of the first floor of the tower.
Hei Lou Lan and the group all looked battered and exhausted or were covered in blood.
Although they had failed, they had made much progress and gains as they were even able to push forward for over ten rounds.
However, the situation this time was special, Hei Lou Lan and others' gazes landed on Fang Yuan, revealing the intent of probing, curiosity, doubts and investigating.
"Hahaha, everyone worked hard and contributed highly for this expedition, especially Wolf King who can be said to be the number one in contribution this time. After returning, organize a banquet immediately, we will celebrate for three days!" Hei Lou Lan laughed loudly and lightly patted Fang Yuan's shoulder, showing off their close relationship.
High grade evaluation made Fang Yuan's worth rise by another level in his heart.
"I gained some insight from this trip, I need to undergo closed cultivation to consolidate them. I hope Lord Hei Lou Lan would not blame me." Fang Yuan lightly smiled and directly turned down Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan's smile froze before immediately recovering the next moment and said it was not a problem, showing the disposition of a magnanimous leader.
As for how furious he was inwardly, or how much the others were envious, Fang Yuan did not care.
Six days later.
Fang Yuan pushed open the window and looked down at the sacred palace.
However before coming here Fang Yuan had used many Gu's to defend against Mo Yao's will and decieve it into believing that everything was under her control.
But he didn't enter any deeper and left.
Sixteen days later.
In the hall, Hei Lou Lan showed the demeanor of the 'Black Tyrant' to the fullest, shouting fiercely and wantonly venting out the anger in his heart.
As of today, there were already three Hei tribe elders who were heavily beaten by him and were still bedridden.
"Lord tribe leader, it is not us slacking in our duty, but this seventy-eighth round is truly too difficult. The golden-white tiger phantom guardian is too strong and has thirty percent of the desolate beast's powers. With our mortal bodies, no matter how much we try, we can only harass it and have no way to harm it heavily.
Moreover, if the golden-white tiger goes on the offense, our Gu Masters would not be able to resist it."
Hei Lou Lan glanced at him and cursed: "Your words are bullshit! Golden-white tiger phantom might have strong attacking prowess, but as long as we all unite and disregard the sacrifices, we can definitely defeat it before the time limit! You guys are all afraid of difficulties, tarnishing my Hei tribe's reputation of bravery!"
Hei Lou Lan's words were actually not without reason.
It was already not the first time in dealing with the golden-white tiger phantom.
If they truly disregarded sacrifices, and people were willing to be cannon fodder and fought to give others an opportunity, even at the cost of their own lives under the claws of the golden-white tiger phantom, then Hei tribe's offense, although powerless, would accumulate with time, and could be like groups of ants biting an elephant, eventually defeating the golden-white tiger phantom.
But the truth of the matter was when the golden-white tiger phantom attacked, everyone feared for their life and was afraid of going forward, causing Hei Lou Lan's advancement in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to stop at this round, unable to progress any further.
After Hei Lou Lan vented his anger once more, he sat down on the main seat with a gloomy expression.
Hei Lou Lan sighed inwardly and spoke: "Since it is so, then I can only open up Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and gather everyone's strength to charge through the rounds."
Requesting outside help required guest tokens.
But right now, besides Hei tribe, there were also other Huang Jin tribes like Ye Lui tribe, Ma tribe and so on in Imperial Court blessed land.
One could imagine that once Hei Lou Lan opens up Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to them, these people would definitely charge forward madly. With this, they could be the cannon fodder.
The first elder Hei Pei stepped forward: "Lord tribe leader, this is a clever method but we need to keep up our guard. These people might have the old ancestor's bloodline running through them, but they are not of our Hei tribe. When they pass the rounds and get the benefits, I am afraid they won't hand over anything."
"Hmph!" Hei Lou Lan raised his brows, "Since our troops are strong, why are we not able to challenge even one golden-white tiger phantom? You group of dogshit trash, only cherishing your lives dearly, but when I want to bring in outsiders to stake their lives for us, you are afraid of them taking the benefits? Do you think there is such a good thing in this world?"
Due to Hei Lou Lan's might and terrifying reputation, the elders could only choose to compromise.
The first elder Hei Pei said with worry: "Opening Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to others is like letting in a torrent, once its momentum increases, it will definitely cause disastrous losses. I suggest we place some limits. Wolf King Chang Shan Yin was a lesson that is right before us."
"First elder Hei Pei, since you mentioned this, then let's hear it." Hei Lou Lan spoke.
Hei Pei slightly smiled and said with confidence: "There is no problem in opening Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to the outside from tomorrow. But before entering the building, no matter who it is, they would need to pay a fee. There will only be a quota of eight hundred entrants every day and the fee for entrance will increase according to the order of the entrants.
At the same time, they must use poison vow Gu and agree to give fifty percent of all their gains to Hei tribe."
He paused before continuing: "As for outsiders that want to enter the tower, they need to pay a high price to purchase our guest tokens!"
Hei Lou Lan swept over the scene once before leaning back on his chair, slowly closing his eyes: "Alright, this matter shall be done as Hei Pei says."
Hei Pei was exulted: "Lord tribe leader is wise and powerful, thank you lord tribe leader for your appreciation."