Chapter 163: Thunder Crown Wolf


    Trantor: Skyfarrow Editor: Skyfarrow


    As Fang Yuan looked at the Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus, many doubts in his heart was cleared.


    He could roughly specte what had happened.


    Going back in time, a millennium ago.


    A solitary Rank five Gu Master came upon Qing Mao mountain and incidentally found this underground


    natural spirit spring.


    He was exulted and settled down here. He began merging the mortal vigers living around the foot of


    the mountain together, forming the prototype of Gu Yue vige.


    He took in over a hundred wives and concubines, wantonly spreading his bloodline.


    He was the ancestor of Gu Yue n, the founder of Gu Yue vige.


    Time passed by, and he passed away ending the first generation, then it was the second, third until it


    reached the fourth generation.


    The fourth generation n leader possessed an A grade aptitude and cultivated to Rank five, creating


    another golden age for the n.


    One day, a demonic path Gu Master came to the vige.


    He was bald and muscr, dressed in pink clothes and moved alone; his favorite hobby was to defile


    innocent women. It was the famous devil of the demonic path: Flower Wine Monk.


    Who knew what fortuitous encounter this Flower Wine Monk had, to be able to know the recipe to


    refine Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus. After many preparations, he onlycked a natural spirit


    spring to refine this flower Gu.


    After looking all around, he finally chose Gu Yue vige’s spirit spring.


    At first, he used the pretence of buying moon orchid to slowly approach the Gu Yue n’s higher-ups


    and get the details on Gu Yue n.


    Afterwards, in the battle with the fourth generation n leader, he was able to achieveplete victory


    with his formidable strength. He had not only killed the fourth generation head, but also downed arge


    majority of the elders. However, his body was infected by the Moonshadow Gu.


    Moonshadow Gu’s ability was to restrict primeval essence and wasn’t enough to be fatal. However,


    Flower Wine Monk couldn’t wantonly ughter if he wanted to refine the Heavenly Essence Treasure


    Lotus, as that would attract a lot of attention and hinder the progress. Thus, he chose to do things from


    the dark.


    He used the Thousand Li Earthwolf Spider to dig out a tunnel, secretly advancing to this area. Due to


    the thorough preparations he had made before and with the sufficient materials, he was able to refine


    Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus in the spirit spring.


    The Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus has an extraordinary background. Its fusion recipe had been


    created many millenniums ago by a Gu Master of the righteous faction: Immortal Venerable Genesis


    Lotus.


    Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus was only a Rank three flower Gu, but it had its advancement route


    and could be the Rank six Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus, which was ranked sixth


    among the list of Top Ten Great Immortal Gu rankings. Its worth was about the same as the Spring


    Autumn Cicada!


    The Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus had a reputation as a portable spirit spring, because it could


    produce primeval stones.


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    However, its fusion process had an extremely high price.


    To refine the Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus, there must be a natural spirit spring. This spring


    should be full of primeval energy, and cannot be a spirit spring that has been used for many years, with


    its reserves drying out.


    After the fusion seeds, this spirit spring will be thoroughly useless and will lose its ability to produce


    primeval stones, bing just an ordinary spring.


    A natural spirit spring is extremely valuable. One only needs to look at how this spirit spring has


    sustained countless Gu Masters of the Gu Yue n for close to a millennium to realize this point.


    Refining a Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus wouldpletely destroy this spirit spring. But that was


    just the beginning. If it was to be advanced to Rank four, it would need seven spirit springs, nine at


    Rank five, and eleven for Rank six!


    Apart from this, many extremely precious Gu worms would be needed as auxiliary ingredients.


    “If I take this Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus, it would be like carrying a mini-scale spirit spring with


    me. The Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus is only a Rank three Gu, so its daily primeval stones


    production can’tpare to a normal spirit spring, but the amount will be enough to sustain my


    cultivation expenditure!”


    This was just one of its benefits.


    The primeval stones produced by Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus were a lot more than the earnings


    from the Nine Leaves Vitality Grass.


    Primeval stones can not only help in advancing cultivation – they are also an exchangeable form of


    currency.


    With the treasure lotus, Fang Yuan could decrease the amount of primeval stones he carried. The


    tusita flower could then be used to store various stuffs which could greatly decrease the burden on him.


    “However….I heard that the fusion process of the treasure lotus is quite mysterious; it appears from


    nothing during which it transits between the astral and physical form. Ordinary people can’t see it, and


    it can only be seen clearly through the crystal. This Gu is quite delicate and needs to be nourished


    within the spirit spring for nine days and nine nights until it grows out nine intact leaves, before it can be


    plucked and put into the primeval sea in the aperture. If one picks it up before the time is ripe, all their


    efforts would bepletely wasted.”


    Fang Yuan didn’t know the detailed recipe of Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus and only knew some


    insider rumors. He had no idea on how to advance it in the future.


    Even so, this Rank three Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus would be of an enormous assistance to


    him.


    He looked beyond the crystal wall and carefully observed; to his surprise, the flower only had eight and


    a damaged half leaf. There was only half a leaf left for the nineplete leaves.


    Fang Yuan wasn’t baffled by this.


    Centuries had passed, the spirit spring’s reserves had been consumed for four generations of time.


    This Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus condensed the majority of the spirit spring’s essence,


    constantly consuming the primeval stones produced by the spirit spring, and causing the spirit spring’s


    reserves to further decrease. As a result, the treasure lotus slowly began to reverse the absorption,


    instead replenishing the damage to the spirit spring. By doing this, it was damaging itself; this was the


    reason for the damaged leaf.


    “Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus must have nineplete leaves before it can be plucked. It only


    has eight leaves and a half now. I need to throw in primeval stones to the spring if I am to pluck it!”


    Primeval stones were the crystallization of the spirit spring, they could provide the nourishment to the


    treasure lotus and let it grow again.


    However, don’t underestimate this half damaged leaf. It was sure to requirerge amounts of primeval


    stones for it to grow back!


    “If I am not wrong, this crystal wall should be produced by a Moat Gu….” Fang Yuan tried to touch the


    wall, and found that this wall was real but also virtual, just like light and shadow; his hands went


    through the wall without any obstruction.


    But he quickly took back his hand and didn’t dare to go deep into the spirit spring.


    Spirit springs should never be polluted.


    He poured his primeval essence into the tusita flower and took out a primeval stone.


    He threw the primeval stone through the crystal wall. As if the wall didn’t exist, the primeval stone went


    through it and dropped into the spirit spring, striking onto the phantom figure of the Heavenly Essence


    Treasure Lotus.


    Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus transited between blue and white and started shaking like water


    ripples. It digested the primeval stone in almost an instant.


    After waiting for the flower to turn calm, Fang Yuan observe it attentively, but found no change in that


    damaged leaf.


    His expression was calm. He started throwing in dozens of primeval stones but there was still no


    change to the damaged leaf.


    Fang Yuan continued to throw in primeval stones while silently counting the number. When over five


    hundred primeval stones were thrown, the damaged leaf finally grew by a little.


    After the sight of this scene, Fang Yuan couldn’t help but feel slightly gloomy.


    From this calction, he had to throw in at least over fifty thousand primeval stones in at one time.


    If he did it in batches and the time gap was long, Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus would consume


    itself to replenish the spirit spring as the n continuously extracted primeval stones.


    “Over fifty thousand primeval stones…I only have just over ten thousand with me andck forty


    thousand more.”


    With his status as an elder, raising these forty thousand primeval stones wasn’t really a problem.


    The true problem, however,y elsewhere. Once he took out this Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus,


    the spirit spring would bepletely useless and this was bound to attract the whole n’s furious and


    frantic investigation.


    Fang Yuan had plentiful experience, but he had limited methods. If the n investigated without any


    considerations, they were sure to find some clues. In fact, the n’s higher-ups were already


    suspicious of him, but their suspicions were temporarily suppressed by the wolf tide.


    If the Flower Wine Monk’s inheritance was exposed, Fang Yuan would definitely be the primary


    suspect.


    Even if Fang Yuan secretly escaped, he would suffer the whole n’s reckless chase.


    “I can’t give up over the Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus. Even if I don’t have its fusion recipe, who


    knows what the future holds? The problem is that once I take this Gu, it is akin to stabbing a ho’s


    nest and bringing cmity upon myself.”


    Fang Yuan secretly considered every situation and decided he had to wait for the best opportunity to


    appear, to take this Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus.


    “This Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus should be thest inheritance of Flower Wine Monk. But there


    are many suspicious points to this; Flower Wine Monk would havee to this ce to refine the


    Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus, so what kind of ident did he encounter to be so seriously injured


    that he had to hurriedly set up this inheritance before dying?”


    Fang Yuan already knew the reason for the Flower Wine Monk to set up the inheritance.


    It was to take revenge against the Gu Yue n.


    If Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus was to be taken out of the spirit spring – whether it was a sess


    or failure – this natural spirit spring was bound to be useless.


    Without the natural spirit spring, Gu Yue n would have no foundation to stay here. It was only a


    matter of time before the n broke apart.


    “Forget it, I won’t make any headway in my doubts without any new evidence. I should return to the


    vige now.” In the end, Fang Yuan shook his head and began to return back the way he came.


    When he had just exited the rock crack, a loud and clear wolf howl continuously resounded.


    “This sound!” Fang Yuan turned grim and quickly moved.


    When he reached the riverbank outside of the rock crack, he could smell a thick odor of blood.


    Sounds of cries, yells, wolf howls and explosions could be heard even though there was still some


    distance to the vige.


    Fang Yuan concealed his figure and climbed a hill.


    It was early in the morning and the first rays of sunlight had just broken out of the sky.


    Countless wolf packs were rushing towards the Gu Yue vige like a flood.


    Fang Yuan’s gaze swept past them, then his body trembled.


    In the rearmost part of the wolf packs, he saw a lightning wolf that was asrge as a small hill.


    Myriad beast king: Thunder Crown Wolf!


    It was tall and slim, had strong limbs and its whole body was covered with eerie blue scales. Tufts of


    golden wolf fur could be seen on its ws and tail.


    The fur on its head were all stiff and upraised, forming a towering crown.


    It was crouching on the ground and was still like a sculpture. The frenzy lightning wolves and bold


    lightning wolves around it constantly howled, serving to show its elegance and nobility.


    Just by sitting there, it had already brought a great mental pressure to the Gu Yue n.


    “The myriad beast king has finally arrived, it is the decisive moment for the survival of the Gu Yue


    vige!” Fang Yuan gazed towards the vige; innumerable Gu Masters were in fierce battles, using all


    of their strength to block the frantic charge of the wolf tide.


    Suddenly, around ten figures flew out of the vige and rushed against the wolf tide, charging towards


    the Thunder Crown Wolf.


    They were all elders and in front of them was the n leader Gu Yue Bo!