Ge Yao opened her eyes tiredly when the noise and wolf howls entered her ears and woke her up. She had been extremely exhausted, barely sleeping during the past few days, and Chang Shan Yin had not allowed her to rest, saying that they needed to move quickly. She could only agree helplessly.
"I want to sleep, why is there so much noise?.. Eh?!" Ge Yao spat out her saliva, her face paling until it resembled the color of a corpse, and she could not help but tremble in horror.
At the front of Chang Shan Yin's wolf pack was another group consisting of twenty thousand wind wolves, and in the middle of the pack, a myriad beast king glared at them furiously.
"Elder Chang, what are you doing?!" Ge Yao could not help but ask fearfully as she looked at Fang Yuan's back.
"Oh, you're awake?.. I found this wolf pack, and since I lack a myriad beast king, I want to annex them."
Ge Yao was speechless. Although Chang Shan Yin's wolf group was impressive, their numbers were still smaller than the wind wolves.
"That's right, Lord Chang Shan Yin is a famous hero of our Northern Plains, and he is an enslavement path Gu Master as well as a great expert. He definitely would not take such a risk without confidence!" Ge Yao tried to calm herself while observing the battlefield below.
The larger and stronger wind wolves charged rapidly toward Fang Yuan's group, which mostly consisted of poisonous beard wolves along with a few night wolves and wind wolves.
But suddenly, Fang Yuan's wolf pack changed formation. The wolves in the center retreated while the wolves on the flanks spread outward, forming the shape of a sharp spearhead.
The wolves collided with each other. The wolves on the flanks staggered first, but they endured the tide and resisted until they actually forced the wind wolves backward!
Awooo!
Awooo!
When a large portion of the wind wolves and beast kings entered the gap in the center, Chang Shan Yin's howl echoed across the battlefield.
Ge Yao felt fear rising within her, her will to resist beginning to weaken as she only wanted to submit. Inspiration flashed amidst her terror. "This is an enslavement path killer move! Elder Chang actually has an enslavement path killer move that affects both humans and wolves?!"
Fang Yuan observed the battlefield and smiled faintly as the wolves on the flanks closed in on the wind wolves trapped in the center, surrounding them and inflicting heavy casualties. With his killer move, the wolves' formation collapsed, and their will to fight mostly dissipated.
"Now comes the wonderful part!"
Fang Yuan exhaled and used numerous rank two and rank three Wolf Enslavement Gu.
Wolf Enslavement Gu!
Wolf Enslavement Gu!
Fang Yuan's soul collided with the souls of the beast kings, shattering their fighting wills and subduing them within mere moments! Suddenly, more than half of the wind wolf pack turned against the myriad beast king, and the tide of battle reversed completely.
The myriad beast king opened its mouth and launched a massive pillar of wind toward Fang Yuan. But Fang Yuan extended his arm and punched forward. A hundred-foot dragon phantom appeared in the air and collided with the wind pillar, destroying it effortlessly.
Ge Yao gasped in shock when the dragon phantom appeared, stunned by its terrifying might. Chang Shan Yin was an enslavement path Gu Master, so how could he possess such a deep foundation in strength path?. She found herself thinking this, but soon her thoughts drifted toward other matters without her realizing it.
Fourteen thousand beast kings surrounded the myriad beast king wolf. Under Fang Yuan's manipulation, they formed an impregnable barrier and pushed the myriad beast king to the brink of despair.
Most of the thousand beast kings and hundred beast kings had already been enslaved, leaving only a few remaining under the command of the wind wolf myriad beast king.
The myriad beast king attacked from every direction, but each time it assaulted a wolf, the beast kings bombarded it with attacks, forcing it to retreat while covered in injuries.
When Fang Yuan found the opportunity, he used rank four Wolf Enslavement Gu. The smoke struck the myriad beast king. It resisted Fang Yuan several times more fiercely than the thousand beast kings had, but it still submitted to him easily.
Fang Yuan released a cold breath as he calculated his gains and losses.
"The gains are enormous. I only lost a few hundred beast kings and a thousand ordinary wolves in exchange for seventeen thousand wind wolves and several wolf kings, whether thousand beast kings or hundred beast kings. Most importantly, I obtained a wind wolf myriad beast king!"
These gains satisfied him greatly. Even though he had not used his full strength, the profits were several times greater than what any ordinary enslavement path Gu Master could achieve. Especially since Fang Yuan had been trying to preserve the number of wind wolves and did not want to kill them.
Ji Yao slowly approached Fang Yuan, the shock still visible on her face as she said, "Benefactor Chang, your skills and methods truly rival the heavens. I, Ge Yao, deeply admire you!.. But may I ask you to visit Ge Tribe as a guest?"
Fang Yuan smiled faintly as he placed his hand on Ge Yao's shoulder and leaned slightly closer than necessary. Ge Yao's heart tightened, but she did not stop him. Yet to her disappointment, Fang Yuan did nothing and instead spoke gratefully.
"Little Yao, I am grateful for your invitation. Then I shall trouble you and Ge Tribe." Fang Yuan's expression was sincere, gratitude clearly visible on his features, causing Ji Yao to forget her disappointment and feel delighted instead.
"If Ge Tribe can gain Benefactor Chang friendship, wouldn't that be a blessing for our tribe?" Ji Yao could not help but think so.
"Kill!"
Dozens of Gu Masters shouted atop a hill as they fought fiercely against more than a thousand wind wolves. The battle had already lasted for fifteen minutes.
"Damn wind wolves!" cursed the group leader, Ge Guang, as he swung the sword in his hand and severed a wind wolf's head. But the moment he killed it, two more wolves lunged toward him.
"Young tribe leader, beware of the spiral water arrows!" a Gu Master behind Ge Guang shouted anxiously.
Hearing the warning, Ge Guang bent down without hesitation, lowering his waist in what looked like an initiative to throw himself into the wolf's mouth. The wind wolf in midair opened its jaws, revealing its fangs as it prepared to bite off Ge Guang's head. A spinning blue water arrow shot out from behind Ge Guang, piercing through the wolf's open mouth and sending it to its death.
Ge Guang seized this opportunity to activate sword Gu and engage more wolves. The sword was extremely sharp, light flashing across its surface before it split a wind wolf into two.
But the expressions of Ge Guang and the others remained grim.
"Damn it, I don't have enough primeval essence!"
"There are at least three thousand wind wolves, it's too many!"
"Young tribe leader, we're completely surrounded. There's no hope even if we fight to the death… It would be better to break through from the east. The defensive line there is the weakest!"
The Gu Masters shouted one after another, and Ge Guang's expression became harsher each time they spoke. A ruthless light flashed in Ge Guang's eyes as he said after some thought, "No, there are ponds on the eastern side. The defense there appears weaker, but that is a trap prepared by the wind wolf king!"
"Then what should we do?!"
Ge Guang gritted his teeth and gave the order. "Turn around, we'll break through from the west!"
"But we still haven't found Lady Ge Yao. If we return like this, what will we tell the tribe leader?"
Ge Guang breathed heavily and wanted to speak, but at that moment, the howl of a myriad beast king echoed across the hills and grasslands.
Awooo!
Awooo!
The howls of thousand wolves and myriad wolves rose together, sounding as though they could shake the heavens themselves! The howls echoed through the air for a long time, to the point that both the wolves and the Gu Masters stopped fighting simultaneously.
The Gu Masters felt despair upon hearing the howls, but when they noticed the strange and chaotic behavior of the wind wolves, their expressions changed, and some of them spotted openings through which they could break out.
Ge Guang wanted to seize the opportunity immediately, but he froze in place when he looked eastward. "Ah!.. It's a sea of wolves!"
Like a tidal wave or a raging storm, a sea of wolves appeared. Whether poisonous beard wolves, wind wolves, or night wolves, all of them charged forward in perfect formation. At the top of the hill, the wind wolf myriad beast king stared at the wind wolf thousand beast king attacking Ge Tribe's group.
The wind wolf group immediately retreated under the pressure and assault of the larger wolf pack, and in the end, the thousand beast king was enslaved.
Ge Guang looked at the mysterious expert riding the myriad beast king as though it were his mount, and he could not help but feel admiration and awe.
"So this is how men should be!"