On Fang Yuan's side, the blue lightning dogs took the lead, supplemented by gray hedgehog dogs and orange chrysanthemum Akita dogs. The armored dog pack on the other side was a heavy mass of black.
Fang Yuan moved the big lightning dog to the front line. With a light wave of his hand, the dog pack sent out a vanguard to initiate the attack.
The big armored dog barked once. Seeing the big lightning dog appear, it also moved into the field.
The armored dogs around it followed closely. A pitch-black mass, like an ominous cloud descending from the hill, imposing in its momentum.
The dog packs collided. Fang Yuan's vanguard was limited in number and was immediately engulfed by the massive armored dog pack.
However, due to the presence of the big lightning dog, the armored dog pack could not easily swallow this hard bone.
After all, the big lightning dog was a hundred-beast king. Amidst the siege, it charged left and right, extremely fierce. Ordinary armored dogs were no match for it.
Woof!
The big armored dog stepped forward and finally curbed the fierce charge of the big lightning dog.
Only a hundred-beast king could stop another hundred-beast king.
In the intense battle, the big lightning dog began to falter. After all, it had just gone through a battle and was already wounded, not at full fighting strength. Moreover, its advantage had always been speed. Now, pitting against the big armored dog, which excelled in defense, it naturally fell into a disadvantage.
Seeing this, Fang Yuan sent his remaining dogs into the fray.
The fresh troops rushed into the battlefield like a torrent, causing chaos.
But the armored dogs were strong in defense and were most adept at this kind of combat.
Although Fang Yuan had dispatched most of his forces, leaving only a few dogs for his own protection, he still couldn't turn the tide.
Whether between the hundred-beast kings or between the packs, he was at a disadvantage.
But Fang Yuan was not anxious at all.
In fact, this was exactly the result he had been working toward.
He was waiting.
Waiting for the weapon that could restrain the armored dog pack to appear.
Woof!
Unable to withstand the big armored dog's assault, the big lightning dog suddenly let out a loud bark and spat out a mouthful of blue fluid.
A second-turn plasma gu!
"This is it." Fang Yuan's eyes flashed, and the corners of his mouth curled up sharply.
The armored dog pack had gathered around their king, simultaneously assaulting the big lightning dog while also being compressed by Fang Yuan's dogs from the outside. As a result, their formation was extremely dense, forming a tight black bucket array.
The blue plasma splattered across the ground.
A large number of armored dogs covered by the plasma trembled and emitted howls. Their combat power dropped drastically, and the entire pack's formation was greatly hindered.
The armored dogs were not undeserving of their reputation. Their hide armor contained metallic iron, which gave them much higher defense than ordinary dogs. However, this also made them more vulnerable to lightning attacks.
The attack power of the plasma gu was not formidable. But when used against armored dogs, it was quite effective.
The big lightning dog continuously sprayed, covering the battlefield with patches of plasma, greatly weakening the armored dogs' fighting strength.
The originally impenetrable formation suddenly became weak under the effect of the plasma gu.
Fang Yuan saw the opportunity and urged his dogs to rush in. The dogs from the outside coordinated with the big lightning dog in the center, unleashing powerful killing force.
Seen from above, the ground that was initially covered in black was first tainted by patches of blue, then rapidly devoured by the surrounding multicolored dogs.
Black decreased more and more, while blue, yellow, and gray persisted and grew.
The battle situation shifted quickly. Soon, Fang Yuan reversed the tide, killing most of the armored dogs and encircling the big armored dog.
Sensing its crisis, the gu parasites on the big armored dog began to erupt.
The big armored dog became stronger, and many black spikes protruded from its body.
After the time it takes to burn an incense stick, the big armored dog was bitten through its throat by the big lightning dog and fell unwillingly. Blood flowed all over the ground, and it never got up again.
The battle was over.
Of the two gu worms on the big armored dog, one was destroyed in the battle's aftermath, and the other flew away into the distance.
Fang Yuan's expression was somewhat gloomy. To kill this hundred-beast king, he had paid a huge price. The entire dog pack was reduced to less than half, making the subsequent path through the trials precarious.
After the twentieth round, beast kings would appear.
With a beast king present, the dog beasts showed much stronger combat power. At the same time, the beast king itself was a huge threat.
The more gu worms a beast king had, the stronger its power, which was worse for the gu masters attempting the trials.
Fang Yuan was unlucky this time. The big armored dog he encountered had two gu worms. Especially one of them allowed it to excel in both offense and defense, causing Fang Yuan heavy losses.
Exploring the Three Kings' inheritance also depended on luck.
The armored dog pack had been Fang Yuan's best choice this time. But his luck was a bit off.
A second-turn dog-taming gu descended from the sky as a reward into Fang Yuan's hand.
Without using the Spring and Autumn Cicada, with the help of the heaven and earth's power, he refined the gu in an instant.