Life and Death Sect
Fiend bodies hit the ground one after another, leaving only the white ape fiend king and Qiao Xue standing. Nine Walk-ins Formation didn’t affect Qiao Xue as she was human. The white ape fiend king, on the other hand, succumbed and dropped to his knees.
“Using thousands of souls from people who died natural deaths to devour our souls, you lot are revoltingly sinister!” brayed the white ape fiend king, grimacing.
Had the white ape fiend king had his core, the formation wouldn’t faze him. Without it, he had nothing but brute strength at his disposal.
“Thousands of human souls can’t hold a candle to the white ape fiend king, can they?” Gui Xuanyue satirically commented. Preparing resentful souls to target Qiao Xue, he said, “As for you, traitor, I shall purge you on behalf of humanity!”
The white ape fiend king dashed over to shield Qiao Xue. The gnawing ghouls had him growling at the top of his lungs. Qiao Xue immediately repelled the souls and unleashed a hail of ice. Unfortunately, the ghouls broke through her attack.
“Give me my core now!”
“B-“
“We’ll all die here if we don’t gamble!”
“You wish.” Gui Xuanyue directed a tiny soul to snatch the core from Qiao Xue’s hand. “Tsk, tsk, a nice bonus for myself tod-“
A young man, hair sprawled and body attired in cloth clothing coloured half black and half white to match his hair, stepped into the formation. Gui Xuanyue turned around to meet the young man’s miserable smile.
“Gui Xuanyue, hogging the white ape fiend king for yourself is selfish, isn’t it?”
“Si Wusheng, you and the rest of your Life and Death Sect can take a hike!”
“We share the same goal as you and implemented the same strategy, offing other sect’s disciples and fiends so that we could lure the white ape fiend king here. You can’t hog him all for yourself now, can you?” rhetorically asked Si Wusheng, pointing his long yellow finger nail at Gui Xuanyue.
“How did you know he’d come here?”
“You had a kitty. You expect me to not have an insect?” Si Wusheng summoned a huge celestial silkworm next to him. The chubby celestial silkworm already had all of its blood drained out, and its pupils were lifeless. “How about we take what we need and go our own ways? You can have his soul, while we’ll take his corpse. All I demand is you don’t decapitate him. I don’t like refining headless corpses.”
While Ghost Gate concentrated primarily on souls for training, Life and Death Sect focused on corpses. Owing to Third Heaven Palace’s supervision, the two nurtured disciples the same way.
“If I refuse?” responded
“Come on, we’re family, aren’t we?” Si Wusheng’s stiff movements were a product of his style. The resentful souls and ghost mist were adverse to approaching him.
Gui Xuanyue stopped to consider the offer. The two of them were evenly matched in combat. Si Wusheng wasn’t going to take “no” for an answer if he crossed into the formation. Gui Xuanyue didn’t need the corpse. As such, Gui Xuanyue answered, “Deal.”
“What shall we do about the traitorous human?” Si Wusheng asked, cracking his neck.
Qiao Xue didn’t see any hope of winning against Gui Xuanyue and Si Wusheng. Howbeit, she was prepared to fight till her last breath. For some reason, Mu Yu came to mind. She erased the probability of him providing reinforcements as she took the core for herself. The guilt of deceiving him still ate away at her, but she had to make a decision. Besides, she declared she was a fiend. Humans and fiends weren’t allies.
Bleeding profusely and keeled over on the ground, the white ape fiend king verbalised, “Qiao Xue, leave Second Heaven now. Avenge us later on!”
“You’re going to ruin my puppet,” griped Si Wusheng.
“I know what I’m doing,” argued Gui Xuanyue.
Gui Xuanyue spun and rushed over to Qiao Xue in the blink of an eye. As he reached for her throat, she deflected his hand with her water spirit. By then, Si Wusheng was already behind her, and his nails were coming down toward the top of her head. Qiao Xue fused with her water spirit and scattered as droplets of ice. Lethal snowflakes belted down.
“How do you possess the power of water demons?” questioned Gui Xuanyue, shielding himself using ghost qi as armour.
Qiao Xue couldn’t escape the formation; therefore, she hid herself and bided her time for an opening.
Si Wusheng cracked his hands and neck. “You remember the rumour at Third Heaven? Five individuals will inherit the power of elemental demons, and they will be instrumental in the war against elemental demons.”
“I always assumed it was a mere rumour.” Gui Xuanyue actually knew all about it already when Mu Yu killed his twin.
“You believe her?”
“I only believe myself.”
Gui Xuanyue blasted all of the snowflakes. As he melted them, they’d become droplets of water contaminated with black qi, forcing Qiao Xue to reveal herself. Like Mu Yu, she couldn’t control the water at Second Heaven as freely.
“I wonder if I’ll also be able to control water after I turn her into my puppet.” Si Wusheng licked his lips and dashed toward Qiao Xue again.
Qiao Xue scrunched up her blue ribbon. As water wringed out of the ribbon, it transformed into water dragons. Gui Xuanyue’s ghost mist was able to nullify all of her water dragons just as he cancelled her ice rain. She could tell Gui Xuanyue had yet to show his true abilities or even call on his twin, but there wasn’t anything she could do.
“Die!” Gui Xuanyue closed the gap and trapped Qiao Xue in ghost mist.
Refusing to die an indignant death, Qiao Xue put everything on the line. Her eyes turned dark blue. Her energy went wild. Once the water spirit lord took over, she would lose herself.
Whoosh! The light in dark times, a blast sword qi stopped Qiao Xue and suppressed her berserk energy whilst cutting Gui Xuanyue off from her.
“Killing your own kind while masquerading as purging traitors for humanity?”
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