The storm of pink light in my mind gradually subsided. I had expended nearly 3,500 Joyful Thoughts of the 10000 i made to finalize this military blueprint, leaving exactly 65% of my thoughts hovering safely in my mind for later use. The sheer processing speed of the joyful thoughts produced by Ecstatic Thought Gu was terrifyingly efficient; what would have taken a normal group of people thinking for weeks of logistical planning had been optimized in mere minutes and better than what any group thought they could have ever come up with. Wisdom was the essential diffrence making us stand at the peak of this world as humans , the most important reason for us being stronger than variant humans in this world , despite them being born more adaptive to an special type of dao mark since birth.
I spent the rest of the night in the yurt, laying out the small details of the expedition with my two most trusted pieces on the board: Yue Yin and Hei Ziyu. Hei Ziyu would act as our ultimate physical vanguard, her greatest strength provided by her great strength true martial physique providing the brute force necessary to crack open stubborn beast formations. Yue Yin would utilize her stealth and follow us not participating she is my shadow scout, spotting anomalies before they could spot us the battle could be left to hei ziyu , me and the wolf rider units , she should not expose her strength to others.
The next morning, the camp was a flurry of organized chaos. Armed with the heavy iron token of temporary command, I requisitioned two of the tribe's elite Wolf Rider Units. Sixty seasoned Gu Masters capable of battling in a fast formation atop wolfbacks , they were mounted on heavily armored wolves, a strong combat unit had formed up behind me.
We marched into the frozen plains around the tribe. Our objective was simple: first finding the exact place of the wolf packs in my list , second mass collection and the rapid enslavement of a balanced, perfectly synergistic wolf army capable of protecting the flank without taking out too much force out of the tribe during battle.
The operation took three full days. For the most part, reality adhered flawlessly to the blueprint my Joyful Thoughts had mapped out, showing the importance of information processing the joyful thoughts helped with . We swept through the canyons and ridges, effortlessly incorporating packs of Wind Wolves and Night Wolves into our growing formation. My 30-man soul, wise planning, aided by the *Battle Disk Gu*, and the strong momentum of the group , allowed me to manage the captures with zero unnecessary casualties.
But it seems the Northern Plains does not simply hand you perfection without throwing a curveball. It's like a thirsty person hoping for rain but dying because of hail in a desert , the importance of luck is immeasurable.
On the third day, the anomaly arrived.
We were navigating a series of deep, icy ravines, searching for the heavy, footsteps traces and tracks of a Steel-Back Thousand Beast King ,wanting to enslave it to act as the "Anvil" of my army. Instead, my Dog Shit Luck Gu began to vibrate with a warm, rhythmic thrum—the purr of a massive, destined opportunity although probably much sooner.
We didn't find a Steel-Back Wolf. We stumbled upon a mutated Shark Fin Wolf , a young thousand beast king level one at that .
It was a magnificent, terrifying specimen. It was the size of an elephant, its body covered in smooth, shiny crocodile-like scales that provided the absolute greatest defense among all mutated wolves. A row of sharp, deep blue shark fins extended down its spine. It was an amphibious nightmare boasting genuine probably peak Rank 3 battle strength.
The battle that ensued was fierce and chaotic. The beast was cornered but fought with a desperate, cornered ferocity. It took the combined effort of the Wolf Rider units and Hei Ziyu's overwhelming physical strikes to finally grind it down. During the chaotic clash, the mutated beast managed to break through our defensive line, severely injuring two of the Rank 3 Gu Masters commanding the Wolf Rider units before Hei Ziyu slammed it into a rock wall.
With the beast battered, tired , and weakened enough both in body and mind as it didn'tsee hope of victory over the large number of gu masters alone, I stepped forward. I activated one of the precious Rank 3 Wolf Enslavement Gu I had extorted from the treasury in the name of loan. The thick smoke poured into the beast's head, and after a brief contest of wills against my soul, the massive predator lowered its head in submission.
However, linking with its mind revealed a surprising truth. This was a young, inexperienced King. It had recently been violently driven out of its pack by a rival , a slightly stronger older wolf.
I looked at the tired, panting beast, and a cold smile touched my lips. "Take us to your den," I ordered as the groups several owner of wolf smoke gu a healing gu used to heal units wolves injuries to heal it back to original .
In no time we marched directly to the vicinity of the Shark Fin territory. There, reigning over a massive frozen lake, was the true alpha of the mutated wolf pack an older, scarred Thousand Beast King surrounded by its massive pack.
Instead of ordering my army to swarm it, I ordered my newly enslaved, inexperienced Shark Fin Wolf to step forward and challenge the alpha in single combat.
The young wolf hesitated, but my will was absolute. As the two elephant-sized beasts clashed, the older alpha clearly had the advantage in brute strength and experience. But the young wolf had something far superior: it had me.
Through the usage of Battle Disk Gu and the connection of the Enslavement gu , my mind fused partially with the young King's instincts. I didn't let it fight like a wild beast; I puppeteered it like a seasoned martial artist. Ordering it to what it should do at the nick of the moment *Duck left. Absorb the blow on the thickest part of your scales. Pivot. Strike the exposed joint.*
With my spot-on tactical advice and concentrated management of its movements, the young, inexperienced but having great potential wolf systematically dismantled the older alpha. In a final, brutal exchange, my wolf took the opportunity through the unsuccessful attack of the other to tear apart the current alpha's throat out, claiming the throne.
The resulting spoils were staggering. By helping the young king assert dominance, the entire pack submitted without us having to shed a single drop of our own blood. We gained a massive aquatic and land-based heavy infantry unit: 9 Hundred Beast Kings and nearly 950 subordinate Shark Fin wolves. My "Anvil" was now complete, and it was far deadlier than the original Steel-Back wolves. They were mutated wolves .
But the calculus of gu world demands maximum efficiency. A dead Thousand Beast King is not trash; it is a treasure of great importance and can be of use because of it's dao marks .
I immediately approached the corpse of the defeated alpha to harvest the loot. Wild beast kings naturally attract wild Gu worms, and this one was a treasure trove. I extracted two high-quality Gu: the incredibly rare healing-type Rank 3 *Water Recovery Gu*, the offensive Rank 3 *Water Cutting Gu*, adding them to the gu that my wolf originally had on it's body the aggressive Rank 3 *Keen Teeth Gu*,and the Rank 3 *Water Vapor Gu* it made the battle power of the shark fin wolf to reach amazing height maybe even capable of battling rank four gu masters for a while.
"Nothing is wasted," I murmured to Yue Yin, who stood watching my bloody work.
Using the fresh blood, the whole body, and the intact brain of the dead Thousand Beast King as the core refinement materials, I immediately set up a refinement circle on the frozen lake. Tapping into my Joyful Thoughts to bypass the complex deduction hurdles and reduce the failure probability due to inexperience, I processed the raw materials as the fire inside the formation burned them and .
In less than an hour, the bloody mass condensed into a pulsing gray beetle my primival essence has halved through the usage of. I had successfully refined a brand new Rank 3 *Wolf Enslavement Gu*, perfectly recouping the one I had spent to enslave the young shark wolf fin Thousand beast king , there are a large number of diffrent refinement methods for the wolf enslavement gu , in our tribe alone there should be 30 or 40 diffrent refinement methods for rank 3 wolf enslavement gu the most efficient being this one only using the wolf body of the according level wolf and some auxiliary materials burned in a formation , formed by the same wolf blood it is an ingenious method even captaining a little blood path mystery.
I stood up, the new Enslavement Gu shot out of my palm and into my aperture to rest till it's usage time arrives, looking out over the massive sea of armored, crocodilian wolves awaiting my command. The board was nearly set. Let the Hei Tribe come. I will not be defenseless against incoming tribulations.