"Little Beast King, he's actually this terrifying! With so many of us, we still can't take him down!" Tie Mu was treating wounds while staring at the battlefield, his expression shifting unpredictably.
"His battle strength has skyrocketed—he's become this powerful!" Tie Daoku watched the ongoing fight, feeling he could no longer intervene.
"No wonder he was arrogant enough to block us… But even if you're this ferocious, what can you do? Two fists can't beat four hands, and after all this fighting, we're still seven people! That's the power of teamwork! Fang Yuan, without a doubt, you've already lost this battle." Tie Ruonan stood atop a high rock, surveying the battle.
In her line of sight, Tie Baxiu and the other five surrounded Fang Yuan, locked in combat. Around the group, a vast green area showed the dense ranks of vine armor grass soldiers forming a tight encirclement.
Meanwhile, some vine armor grass soldiers were merging together to form rank four grass sword elite soldiers.
"It's over, Little Beast King. Look around you! You're completely surrounded. Will you still cling to your delusion? Surrender, and maybe you'll live!" Tie Xianhua rose to her feet, trying to break Fang Yuan's will.
Her wounds had been healed by Tie Mu, and she was ready to fight again.
"Fang Zheng, there's no escape for you. This is the price of your overconfidence!" Tie Mu stood beside Tie Xianhua, chiming in.
"Oh? No escape?" Fang Yuan suddenly exerted himself, temporarily pushing back Tie Baxiu, a mocking smile appearing on his face. "Is it really impossible to escape? Then I want to try."
With a whoosh.
A sharp pain came, and a pair of pitch-black bone wings, gleaming with metallic light, spread freely behind Fang Yuan!
"This is…"
"He actually has them?"
"What!"
Under the astonished gazes of the Tie family, Fang Yuan flapped his wings, his body easily lifting off the ground. He kept rising, soaring into the air.
Tie Mu hadn't expected his own words to come true and stood there stunned.
"Intelligence said the Little Beast King didn't have a flight Gu… This is clearly a rank four flight Gu. How did he get it?" Tie Xianhua's eyes widened, utterly puzzled.
Flight Gu, as a type of movement Gu, were quite valuable and rare. Few Gu masters could possess one.
"Fang Zheng can fly?! No wonder he was arrogant enough to block us." Tie Daoku suddenly realized.
Tie Ruonan's expression also darkened. Her vine armor grass soldiers had no anti-air capability. With Fang Yuan flying, the encirclement she had painstakingly built immediately revealed a huge gap.
"What are you panicking for!" Tie Baxiu bellowed.
This rank four peak strength path Gu master, the pillar of the Tie family, his eyes flashing with sharp light. His rich life experience enabled him to 'see through' Fang Yuan's weakness.
"Is flight Gu so easy to control? Humans are born with feet on the ground. To fly in the sky, freely soaring, how much practice is needed! To use flight in battle, how much sweat and effort must be put in day and night! Even Tai Ri Yang Mang, the son of the human ancestor, died from flying. How long has it been since Little Beast King got his flight Gu?"
Tie Baxiu's words jolted the Tie family members awake, and their eyes lit up with renewed spirit.
"That's right, intelligence says Fang Zheng didn't have a flight Gu. He must have gotten these bone wings only recently!"
"Flying requires a lot of practice; you can't use it immediately. The Little Beast King is too naive."
"When it comes down to it, having Elder Tie Baxiu here is reliable."
The Tie family recovered their fighting spirit.
"My long-range attacks are insufficient. You take him down. Fang Zheng, this move of yours is extremely stupid! If you had fought steadily on the ground, you could have lasted a while. Now you're walking into your grave." Tie Baxiu shouted again.
"Oh? Is that so…" Fang Yuan smiled faintly, a trace of pity in his eyes.
"Little Beast King, you won't be arrogant for long. Golden Needle Mosquito… uh." Tie Aokai was about to use his signature technique, but suddenly his expression froze.
In the previous battle, his Golden Needle Mosquito Gu had been completely exhausted.
Because he had realized that Fang Yuan never defended against the Golden Needle Mosquito's attacks, making it very effective. The fierce fight had also made him forget how quickly the mosquitoes were consumed.
"No, my Star Arrow Gu has been destroyed by the Little Beast King!"
"Damn it, I only have two Flower Rain Gu left…"
Similar situations were occurring to varying degrees among the others.
Tie Baxiu's heart sank. It turned out that the Little Beast King had been targeting them all along, hiding his schemes deep.
"It's okay, I have the Blade Qi Gu for long-range combat!" Tie Daoku stepped forward.
"I have the Snowball Gu, which can make the Little Beast King more than he bargained for." Another Tie family Gu master stepped up.
There were seven Tie family Gu masters, and they had a variety of methods. Even if Fang Yuan had targeted some, he couldn't cover all.
"Little Beast King, come down!" Tie Daoku launched a blade qi.
The blade qi screamed toward him, and Fang Yuan easily flapped his wings, dodging it.
Three snowballs were fired in succession, sealing off Fang Yuan's retreat.
Fang Yuan folded his left wing, performing a nimble spin, slipping through the gaps between the snowballs unscathed.
Seeing this, Tie Baxiu's heart clenched, a bad feeling flashing: "He dodged easily—was he just lucky?"
Soon, Fang Yuan's skilled and elegant dodging under a barrage of attacks left the Tie family members stunned and helpless.
"He controls the flight Gu so well!"