Big Honey Pea
Mu Yu couldn’t care less how Xiaoshuai found out about the honey peas but assumed it was just his glutton prowess at work. He believed it was edible if Xiaoshuai took a liking to it.
“What does you mean we have to exchange some small honey peas?” Qiao Xue inquired in an affable tone.
“The fiend race cast the formation using their special method. As such, we must defuse it using their means. To do so, we need to provide an offering, which happens to be small honey peas.”
“You don’t mean fiend spirits, do you?” Mu Yu asked, catching on.
“Exactly. We need the tastiest fiend spirits,” answered Xiaoshuai, showing his new love for fiend spirits after feasting on so many.
“Doesn’t that mean the fiends had to kill their own kind to enter the formation?”
“Humans like to kill other humans. Fiends are no different. Fiends look down on fiend beasts as cultivators look down on ordinary humans,” asserted Qiao Xue. She showed five level four fiend spirits and queried, “How many do we need?”
“I knew you had food on you. Can I have one as a snake?” Xiaoshuai pleaded affectionately.
“Mm… Okay. Here.”
As Xiaoshuai joyously chomped away, he elaborated, “We’ll have big honey peas to eat soon.”
“The pills are imprisoned within… Does that mean the big honey peas, rather, an ancient fiend’s fiend spirit, is trapped in there?” inquired Mu Yu, extrapolating from Xiaoshuai’s definition of a small honey pea as a fiend spirit.
In that case, a level seven or even level nine fiend could’ve been sealed below. A fiend beast’s fiend spirit carried their lifetime of pure spiritual energy. Accordingly, they were significantly more valuable than spirit stones. The purple and gold spirit stones Mu Yu used in the past were arguably their only rival. Subsequently, high-level fiend beast’s spiritual energy were ideal for use in formations and alchemy.
“Correct!”
The only piece of the puzzle left was figuring out how to turn fiend spirits into offerings. In his search for clues, Mu Yu scrutinised the light beams crossing over each other. He noticed they only gave the impression they crossed one another. In reality, they went around each other, creating a vacant spot. A light switched on for him. The key wasn’t the characters in the light beams but the vacant spots.
“We killed dozens of rank four fiend beasts, but Xiaoshuai ate a few fiend spirits, so we only have five remaining. Qiao Xue has four. Damn, we’re short three. Xiaoshuai, you shouldn’t have eaten them. Man, now we’re going to have to go hunt a few more.”
“No need, no need, Sister Qiao Xue still has plenty. I can smell them.”
“I do have a few more. How many are required?”
Qiao Xue summoned over a hundred fiend spirits onto the ground. Level three fiend souls were red, level four were orange and level five were gold. The majority of her collection comprised of level three and four fiend souls.
“Wow, so many honey peas. Sister Qiao Xue, I want to marry you so that I can give you a Xiaoshuai Junior.”
Mu Yu asked, “You collected these from Second Heaven?”
“Don’t worry about how I got my hands on them. Just take as many as needed.”
Mu Yu grabbed seven level four fiend spirits based on his estimation of what was required. He saved the level five ones just in case. The level three ones, he deemed unlikely to be accepted.
Mu Yu inserted the twelve fiend spirits into the light beams’ intersections. The formation jolted. Golden light turned scarlet. The fiend text seeped into the fiend spirits. The red light dyed the orange fiend spirits red. The twelve light beams receded into the fiend spirits. The twelve fiend spirits imploded, generating violent gales. The red light gradually dissipated, replacing it with freckles of red light in the walls.
“Did it fail?” Annoyed there was no further motion, Qiao Xue furrowed her suggested, “Level four fiend spirits aren’t enough? Let’s try level five fiend spirits.”
Mu Yu couldn’t explain why the formation didn’t activate when nothing appeared out of place.
“I smell big honey peas outside.”
Mu Yu and Xiaoshuai followed after Xiaoshuai, returning to the entrance. The scenery outside was completely different to their memories. The stone bridge connecting the waterfall and cave as well a section of the waterfall was missing. There was a black line crossing through the light above.
Mu Yu posed the question, “The bridge is above us. That’s the waterfall’s exit. How did we end up below the bridge?”
“It’s a fiend formation. The formation manipulated the cave.” Qiao Xue tried to fly up, but a force hindered her.
“Really? We can’t fly?” Mu Yu attempted to fly to no avail. “Curiosity kills the cat. Why did I follow you?!”
Qiao Xue peered down at the dark abyss. “What’s the plan now?”
Mu Yu knocked on his head as he replied, “I thought you knew this place. You’re asking the wrong person. You’re more qualified to be the tourist guide than I am.”
Xiaoshuai sniffed the air and peered down. “The big honey peas are down here.”
Mu Yu could feel the dark and cold breeze against his face upon looking down. He, apparently, heard a high-pitched voice coming from below, but he didn’t hear it once he honed in on it. “Do we really have to go down there?”
“Of course. How are we going to eat the big honey peas if we don’t go down?”
Qiao Xue answered with action.
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