“Damn, another Beast King!”
The vast desert, the hot air distorting the line of sight… On the golden sea of sand, sandworms continuously emerged from underground.
The Gu Masters held a single sand dune with difficulty.
This was the seventh floor of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the eighty-ninth trial.
Each trial was a brand new small world with various tests.
A Sandworm Beast King joined the battle, immediately causing the Gu Masters’ defensive line to waver.
“Hold on! Just hold on for another three-quarters of an hour, and we can clear this stage!” Pan Ping, the Single Saber General, shouted loudly, boosting morale.
He was from the demonic path but had now officially joined the Hei clan, becoming an external clan elder.
His personal combat strength was exceptional, but this trial tested defensive warfare.
The trial required the challengers to hold a specific dune for six shichen. Facing the tide-like attacks of the sandworms, unless one was a Gu Immortal, the power of an individual mortal was insignificant. Therefore, the more people challenging, the better.
But Pan Ping’s words had little effect.
By now, the Gu masters had suffered heavy casualties, were exhausted, and had almost reached their limit.
“Dammit, another Beast King! How the hell are we supposed to survive this?” Big Beard shouted strangely, wiping the blood and sweat from his face.
His real name was unknown. Because of his thick beard, he was directly called “Big Beard.”
In the previous challenge, he had cleared the eighteenth trial on the sixth floor and thus rose to prominence. From being obscure, he now had a small reputation.
He was originally only a rank two Gu master, a small fry who couldn’t be found even in the Saint Palace. But because of the reward for clearing the stage, he was elevated to rank three.
Once a Gu master reached rank three, it was different.
Rank two was common, but rank three was rare. They were generally clan elders or elders.
Once Big Beard reached rank three, his circumstances immediately improved. High-quality true essence boosted his combat strength. The increase in combat power brought rich spoils of war. Not only that, many medium-sized tribes extended olive branches to him—small tribes couldn’t accommodate or support an external elder, while large tribes still looked down on him.
“This is the eighty-ninth trial. If we clear it, the reward will be incredible! Someone like me can’t get that, but the reward for this task is enough for me to exchange for two rank three Gu.”
Big Beard thought, his heart burning with passion. While fighting fiercely, he couldn’t help but glance at the big shots on the top of the sand dune.
It was they who issued the mission, gathered nearly a thousand Gu masters, and came to break through this difficult trial.
The Sandworm Beast King charged into the defensive line, immediately triggering a fierce battle. Golden light, rain of arrows, flames—all kinds of attacks landed on the Beast King. The Beast King’s carapace suddenly turned golden, greatly increasing its defense and blocking all these attacks completely.
It roared and charged into the crowd, causing bloodshed.
Chang Biao stood on the sand dune, frowning.
“The situation is grim,” he said. “This Beast King actually has a rank five Golden Armor Gu. If we let it rampage unchecked, the defensive line will eventually be completely torn apart.”
By now, this was the ninth Beast King.
Depending on the wild Gu inhabiting them, the combat power of Beast Kings also differed. This Beast King was quite troublesome because its excellent defensive Gu rendered group attacks ineffective.
In such situations, it was usually up to the strongest Gu masters to personally intervene to be effective.
As they said, soldiers fight soldiers, generals fight generals.
This was exactly what Chang Biao was implying.
Ma Yingjie was standing by his side. At this moment, he stepped forward and said, “Then I’ll do it.”
No one objected.
When Beast Kings appeared, they would take turns to strike—this had been agreed upon from the start. According to the order, it was exactly Ma Yingjie’s turn.
As expected of Xiao Ma Zun. He personally acted, commanding the Heavenly Horse herd, easily intercepting the Sandworm Beast King and immediately stabilizing the situation.
“Xiao Ma Zun is truly extraordinary,” the people on the sand dune praised in unison.
“Brother Chang, what do you think of Ma Yingjie?” Pan Ping transmitted secretly.
Ma Yingjie was once the young clan leader of the Ma clan, a disciple of Ma Zun, but the Ma clan failed and was forced to submit by Hei Lou Lan. Now the Ma clan, having risen and fallen, was merely a medium-sized force.
Chang Biao knew what Pan Ping meant. He wanted to recruit Ma Yingjie as well, making him a member of the Kill Wolf Alliance.
The so-called Kill Wolf Alliance was a secret organization against Fang Yuan.
Pan Ping had lost his inheritance on Star Vulture Peak to Fang Yuan and harbored deep hatred, seeking revenge.
Chang Biao, on the other hand, had an irreconcilable hatred for Chang Shan Yin over the theft of his wife.