Disguise
“Is that him?”
“I think so. We going for it?”
“There are too many people. Let’s keep waiting.”
Sick and tired of people targeting him already, Mu Yu kicked his speed up another notch and headed for the forest to take cover in one of the trees before anyone caught up. His excitement got to his head after he escaped the valley and plundered Ageless Ku Mu’s room. As a consequence, he ended up going in the wrong direction – specifically to Yaning City, a city not too far from Floating Celestial Island. He lodged there for a few days to mentally prepare himself for Floating Celestial Island. To his dismay, a group of people he didn’t recognise tried to apprehend him.
Mu Yu couldn’t fight them off since the group included two Primordial Infant Realm cultivators. He managed to use trees to shake the group off. By some stroke of bad luck, he bumped into another Primordial Infant Realm cultivator straight after. He thought he was done for. Had they not been on a lawn, he wouldn’t have been able to use a rock as cover to slip into the crass. It didn’t end there, though. The cultivator tried digging up the lawn, forcing Mu Yu to race to Floating Celestial Island without any pit stops. He stopped at a small town after a long run, yet two more Primordial Infant Realm cultivators started tailing him when he went for a stroll in town.
Mu Yu flopped onto his bed at the inn after shaking off his two pursuers. “Why in the world does it seem as if they all recognise me?”
“Why are they after you? Do they know about you plundering Ageless Ku Mu’s place?” asked Xiaoshuai, continuing to eat.
“I don’t know. Maybe they’re jealous of my good lucks,” jested Mu Yu, pulling his blanket over his head.
“They should be targeting me, then.” Xiaoshuai placed his chicken drumstick down. “Wait… They’re not after me, are they?”
“Maybe. Maybe they want to experiment on a spiritual beast with a sturdy body, hehe.”
Mu Yu read through “Profound Formations” out of interest for formations. Knowing close to nothing about them, he would figuratively pat himself on the back for triumphing over Ku Mu Valley’s formation.
Mu Yu tossed the book aside and pulled out another one. The next book he took out was old – based on the yellow pages, tattered pages and smell. The book was labelled “Spiritual Energy Disguise Technique”. It detailed how cultivators altered their appearance through manipulating their spiritual energy. It was the best tool he could’ve asked for in his predicament.
“Beginners are recommended to begin with altering the back of their hand in case of damaging their skin. Disguise requires the practitioner to collect spiritual energy at specific spots to alter the shape of one’s skin… I didn’t know this was possible.”
“Collect your spiritual energy at specific spots to alter the shape of one’s skin… Like this?” Xiaoshuai aerated his cheeks.
“No!”
Mu Yu further studied the spiritual energy manipulation technique and gathered a small amount of spiritual energy at his hegu, the fourth acupuncture point on the large intestine meridian in traditional Chinese medicine, but his shoddy control just created a big lump that hurt whenever he moved his hand. “It’s going to take me two hours to get rid of this lump. Damn, am I just going to be less a hand for two hours? I’m glad I didn’t get ahead of myself and experiment with my face first.”
“That’s what happens when spiritual energy is stuck in your body. You’re painfully clumsy. Here, I’ll give you a hand.”
Xiaoshuai placed his chicken drumstick down and scratching his oily the back of Mu Yu’s hand with his oily hands, much to the latter’s annoyance. It only took a brief while for Xiaoshuai to reduce the swelling and direct the clogged spiritual energy into Mu Yu’s meridian to reduce all the swelling.
Mu Yu practiced Disguise on the back of his hands dozens of times before he started to get the knack of it. He decided to take out a mirror and said, “I’m going to start with my eyelids.”
Xiaoshuai fell backward. “Hahahaha, one of your eyes is bigger than the other. People are going to think a bee stung one of your eyes!”
“Shut up. This is currently the trend. Higher noses, smaller and pouty lips are all the rage nowadays. Should I try making my chin sharper?”
“You speaking as if you’re a girl. You want to turn your chin into a stabbing weapon or something? Hahaha, girls aren’t as repulsive as you are, either. If you go out with that appearance, you’ll escape your pursuers, but the city guards will arrest you and charge you with terrorising the city’s appearance.”
“Oh, shut up. I’ll start over.”
Mu Yu checked himself in the mirror and had to admit Xiaoshuai was right. Mu Yu dispersed the spiritual energy in his face and started over. None of Xiaoshuai’s following suggestions were constructive in any capacity. Mu Yu wasn’t happy with any of the results, either. Unfortunately, he had to reluctantly stick with one in the end.
“I don’t look as good as I originally do. I look as if I’m a dullard.”
“What about your hair? You going to dye it?”
“Surely there’s a method for altering hair, brows and whatnot. Let me take a look.” After flipping through the entire book, Mu Yu read, “As for hair, it is suggested you use hair dye. You can add plants to alter the colour.”
Helpless, Mu Yu gave up on hair colour manipulation and searched for a technique to alter his voice using spiritual energy. Mu Yu’s first attempt ended in utter failure – completely muting himself. Xiaoshuai held his belly as he helped Mu Yu fix the mute setting. The second attempt resulted in an effeminate voice that’d give people goose bumps. Xiaoshuai, however, rolled on the ground laughing.
“This is so bothersome. I think we can’t just run forever. We need to capture some of them to find out why they’re tailing us,” Mu Yu stated.
“You’re telling me you’re planning to capture a Primordial Infant Realm cultivator and interrogate them?”
“… Toss it. Let’s go back to Disguise.”
Mu Yu did his hair up scene style and used water to spike it up. It was too much even for his eyes. In the end, he opted for a hat and changed his clothes.
When the duo stepped out of the inn with their luggage, they spotted two Primordial Infant Realm cultivators who previously chased them coming out from another inn. Mu Yu decided to put his disguise to the test, strutting straight past the two.
It worked. I need something to give myself a beard. It’s a pity Xiaoshuai’s fur is white.
Celestial Bo Lake was a large lake located outside and underneath Floating Celestial Island, which floated in the sky at the centre of Celestial Bo Lake.
“There are two people duelling by the lake.”
“Usually, only Primordial Infant Realm youths fight there, right?”
“Yeah. Ximen Buxing is teasing Jade Sect’s Miss Meng Xin.”
“They’re the ones fighting?”
“No, Solitude Sect’s Liu Fengliu decided to step in and defend her.”
“Who’s winning?”
“Hard to tell. Neither of them is considered weak. Liu Fenglu is Solitude’s Sect’s best prodigy in the last century, after all.”
Mu Yu: Ximen Buxing is around? All righty, I guess he’s my key to entering Floating Celestial Island.
Mu Yu picked up Xiaoshuai, who still had a chicken drumstick in his mouth and rushed out of the town.
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