Chapter 595: Green vines blocking the round, Fang Yuan’s backstab


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    Hei Lou Lan gazed ahead at the troops making slow progress in the dense jungle.


    The intense battle had alreadysted for over six hours.


    This was the second round; the weather here was hot and damp, and the terrain was a vast ancient


    rainforest.


    To cross this round, Gu Masters needed to traverse through the whole jungle and reach a stone pce


    at the other side.


    However, this jungle could not be taken lightly.


    There might not be any beasts in the jungle but it was full of green vines.


    These green vines were coiled around tall trees and piled up on the damp ground. Every green vine


    had the thickness of a king-sized bowl and length of seventy to eighty feet in the minimum.


    Themon green vines among these were called green snake vines which had snake scales growing


    all over their surface. And when Gu Masters neared them, the vines would suddenly move and coil


    around the Gu Masters, constricting them to death.


    In every one hundred paces of the rainforest, there were about a thousand green snake vines, filling


    the whole area.


    The difficulty in progressing forward was thus extremely high.


    The whole journey was filled with green snake vines attacking from all sides; some shot down from sky,


    some creeped through the ground and some ambushed from under the ground, causing the group to


    struggle and not be able to defend properly.


    The group’s progress was met with attacks from the green vines at all times, seemingly like they were


    among an ocean of green vines.


    The green vine had powerful attacks and quick speed. Even more dangerous were the wood path Gu


    worms that lived on their bodies. It was precisely because of these Gu worms that the group had


    suffered huge casualties.


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    “Reporting, we have discovered a green snake vine king ahead. Currently, Lord Ye Lui Sang is already


    in a fight with it.” After a while of moving forward, an investigative Gu Master returned from the front


    group to report to Hei Lou Lan.


    Hei Lou Lan nodded, still continuing with his slow movement.


    In every group of green snake vines, there was a green snake vine king which had the battle strength


    of a rank four Gu Master.


    However, Ye Lui Sang was a rank five peak stage expert, the current tribe leader of the super force Ye


    Lui tribe, and the fire path he cultivated subdued wood path Gu wormspletely. There was also the


    fire path support type Immortal Gu on him, taking care of a green snake vine king was a cinch.


    Sure enough, after a while, the report of victory came from ahead: “Lord Ye Lui Sang has eliminated


    the green snake vine king and has now retreated from the front lines. Lord Chang Shan Yin has


    switched with him and is leading the wolf group to open the path.”


    “Okay.” Hei Lou Lan lightly replied.


    Wolves were good at offense and not at defense, and were not a good match for the vines. But Chang


    Shan Yin had defense specialized wolves like turtleback wolves. He also had vermillion fire wolves


    upon which lived fire path Gu worms. In this situation, they were a sharp weapon to cut open the path.


    ‘Wolf King is truly powerful, he can even be said to have the number one battle strength. Especially


    when he also has the flying bear phantom Immortal Gu, a mere minor round cannot obstruct him.’ Hei


    Lou Lan pondered while walking.


    ‘Flying bear phantom Gu and flying bear strength Gu, if the two are paired up, that would be perfect.


    Hmph, I will first make Chang Shan Yin pour in his utmost effort for me and when the time is ripe, I


    must make him hand over that flying bear phantom Gu! As long as I be a Gu Immortal, wouldn’t a


    mere Wolf King be mine to toy with?”


    ‘This second round seemingly tests the Gu Master’s strength in doing prolonged battles, but more than


    that, it is actually testing investigative ability. In this jungle, there are not only the green snake vine


    groups, but also green dragon vine groups. Green dragon vines are dozens of times more terrifying


    than green snake vines, they are mutated beings among nts! The path we took avoided these green


    dragon vines as much as possible. There are only one or two territories of green dragon vines in this


    path, and presumably there will be one or two tough battles, and that will be the greatest difficulty of


    this round.”


    Hei Lou Lan felt proud: ‘We are getting closer to the finish line, at this speed, we will cross this round in


    an hour!”


    He had just thought of this when suddenly a change urred.


    Swish swish….


    The green snake vines around the group suddenly prated the air with terrifying speed, even


    producing sonic booms!


    The offense of the vines had suddenly increased by dozens of times.


    The previous battles were the ones where the Gu Masters fought with the green snake vines nearby


    while the vines outside the range stayed still.


    But now, the green vines within a hundred li, no, a thousand li, were engaging in the battle, surging out


    crazily like a tsunami as they pounced towards the Gu Masters.


    The Gu Masters were caught unprepared, immediately suffering heavy losses. Countless Gu Masters


    were killed within a few moments of time.


    “How could this happen? The green snake vines are rioting all of a sudden!” The experts shouted in


    fright.


    “Someone, save me quickly!” Surrounding Gu Masters were wantonly constricted and twisted apart by


    the green vine group.


    “Imand all troops to attack, hold them off no matter the consumption! If we can’t hold them back, it


    will be our death!!” Hei Lou Lan shouted and rose to the air, attempting to control the situation.


    Soon, a hundred or so green dragon vines rose to the sky, charging towards him.


    Hei Lou Lan gave a shout of fury and used his dark path abilities, killing twenty to thirty green dragon


    vines instantly before moving towards the ground.


    But the ground was also not safe, countless green snake vines and green dragon vines broke through


    the soil, trapping the entirety of the troops.


    “How can this be? The scouting had been done properly, how could we encounter a green dragon vine


    group here?” The corners of Hei Lou Lan’s eyes were threatening to tear as he could not make sense


    of this no matter what!


    Green vines were strongly territorial. But as long as one does not encroach upon their territory, they


    would remain still and not take the initiative to attack.


    These green vine groups, however, hadpletely gone crazy, pouncing upon the Gu Masters like


    they had killed their father.


    Green vines possessed strong vitality and even if they were cut into five to six parts, these five to six


    parts could still attack before dying. Hei Lou Lan even saw many green dragon vines struggling free


    from their root systems, and flying out to attack.


    ‘This, how is this possible? What the hell is happening?!’ Hei Lou Lan could not make sense of it no


    matter how he thought. By cutting off their own roots, these green dragon vines were looking for their


    own death.


    All living things possessed survival instinct.


    How deep a hatred was it for them to erupt in such bitter suicidal attacks?


    Therge army was broken apart, each fighting for themselves while slowly starting to retreat bit by bit;


    in a moment, many youths lost their lives.


    “Could it be this second round is actually a giant trap?! This is too strange, this is only the second


    round, how could its difficulty be so high?!” Hei Lou Lan was dumbstruck, a huge doubt rising in his


    heart.


    This was indeed a huge trap.


    But the one whoid this trap was not Eighty-Eight True Yang Building but the one in control of this


    floor – Fang Yuan.


    He had been patient, ordering the green vines everywhere in this round to stealthily move here. He


    then epted themand to participate in the front line and switched with others from time to time,


    intentionally lowering the speed of progress to stall for time.


    Whenrge numbers of green vines had gathered, Fang Yuan immediately ordered a surprise attack


    without any hesitation.


    The Gu Masters suffered disastrous losses because of the ambush!


    Fang Yuan was an envement path master; the green vines which had lower intelligence than beasts,


    coordinated together under his control, and disregarded their own lives to burst out with a hundred


    times their normal strength!


    Especially for the experts like Hei Lou Lan, Ye Lui Sang and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he had paid even


    more attention and mobilized green dragon vines which wereparable to mutated beasts, to


    obstruct them.


    “Retreat, retreat quickly.”


    “There are green vines everywhere around us, if we continue on, the casualties will be even more


    severe!”


    “Lord Hei tribe leader, my tribe leader requests to retreat!”


    Severalrge tribes hurriedly sent their representatives.


    Anyone could see they hadnded into an ambush by the green vine groups. How could the green


    vines be so sinister? Right now, no one had the time to tackle this issue.


    Hei Lou Lan fiercely gnashed his teeth, his face showed a struggling expression several times before


    he squeezed out a word: “Retreat!”


    He also knew the situation was already out of control, the green vines were charging without fearing


    death and had already led the formation to turn chaotic. And the experts were not able to fight properly


    for the fear of hurting their own men.


    If they suffered such serious casualties in the second round, then how could Hei Lou Lan have the


    power to seize the Immortal Gu in thest round?


    Retreat was naturally a wise move, but it would depend on whether Fang Yuan would allow it.


    He was in control of this floor, sealing the exit and entrance was only a small thing.


    Soon, everyone made a terrifying discovery – they could not leave!


    This discovery was huge blow on the morale.


    The whole army seemed to be about to crumble apart.


    At the crucial moment, Hei Lou Lan felt the situation going awry and stood up, his voice spreading


    everywhere: “All of you, persevere. I will use the killer move grey meltdown to forcibly cross this round.


    If we persevere, we will win, we will survive!!”


    The despairing Gu Masters heard these words and felt like they were drowning men who had found a


    life saving straw.


    The morale that had fallen to the bottom did not crumble in the end and instead stabilized.


    Everyone again started fighting, opening a path and forming a tight and connected formation.


    Under the heavy protection from all the troops, Hei Lou Lan led a group of refinement path Gu Masters


    to form a round formation and began to use the killer move grey meltdown.


    “Lord, if we forcibly activate it, we will probably lose thirty percent of our men.” An old refinement path


    Gu Master who was familiar with the inside information advised Hei Lou Lan with a pale face.


    The killer move grey meltdown naturally had its limitations.


    This killer move relied on the coordination of the inside and outside; this required the reward of the


    round to be Gu worms deliberately provided by either Hei tribe’s Gu Immortals or Xue Song Zi.


    But Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would not coordinate, it only chose the suitable Gu worms from


    those absorbed and refined them to form the rounds.


    The first round’s reward were Gu worms that came from Hei Bai. Thus, Hei Lou Lan could use the killer


    move grey meltdown to exploit Giant Sun’s will still not having fully refined the Gu worms, to forcibly


    refine them. Like this, he would get the reward and pass the round.


    But the second round’s Gu worm reward was wild Gu. Hei Lou Lan was unable to connect with these


    wild Gu and the killer move grey meltdown could not be used.


    The second round could only in ordance with this bepleted by going through its requirement.


    But the current situation was critical, Hei Lou Lan was left without a better option but to forcibly activate


    killer move grey meltdown to skip through the second round and connect to the Gu worm reward of the


    third round.


    The third round’s Gu worm reward came from Xue Song Zi. The Gu worm was only half-refined, thus


    still contained most of Xue Song Zi’s will.


    As Hei Lou Lan was working together with Xue Song Zi, Xue Song Zi’s will approved him. He could


    thus use grey meltdown to connect to the third round’s reward and refine it.


    As such, the third round would be passed. And when the third round is crossed, the second round


    would have no foundation, copsing apart. Because when Eighty-Eight True Yang Building condensed


    each floor, it would first form the hundredth round, then ny-ninth round, ny-eighth round….


    However, if Hei Lou Lan did so, the killer move grey meltdown’s power would increase by several


    times, far surpassing the amount these refinement path Gu Masters could bear.


    Whether it was sess or failure, a portion of the refinement path Gu Masters would not be able to


    bear it and die.


    “Tens of refinement path Gu Masters dying is better than the whole army dying!” Hei Lou Lan gritted his


    teeth, his eyes filled with chilly and cruel light. The situation had forced him to choose the lesser of the


    two evils.


    The old Gu Master did not say any more and retreated back to the formation.