Frosted World
“Why do you want to fight me all of a sudden?” queried Mu Yu.
Mu Yu neither wanted to fight nor hurt Qiao Xue. Ironically, he was finally alone with her for the first time since discovering her ability, a scenario he yearned for since learning of it so that he could clarify their similarities, yet there was an audience watching them closely.
Heart palpitating fast, Qiao Xue questioned, “Why do you have Water Spirit’s aura?”
Shall I reveal myself to her? How would I get out of here after?
As a victim of circumstance, Mu Yu pointed his wood spirit at Qiao Xue. “Beat me, and I shall tell you.”
Suddenly, the water spirit separated from Shadow Splitter Sword and returned to Qiao Xue’s side, excitedly coiling around her. She should’ve been happy to reunite with her old friend, but she had other concerns on her mind. “Why do you have my water spirit? Where is he?”
Qiao Xue manifested mist across the blue ocean and transformed it into ice picks. She deployed them and, at the same time, asked, “Who are you?!”
“Why the water control ability now?”
Mu Yu ran as he shattered incoming ice picks. There were far too many and timed too closely together for him to launch a counter. He was worried rumours would arise because of Qiao Xue ability. He had been warned to not use his ability in public. And, as predicted, cultivators caught on.
Cang Wanzi thundered, “Water element? You fiends have allied with the elemental demons?!”
The fiend king burst out in laughter. “You can’t differentiate between elemental demons and humans now? Good grief, do they no longer teach you that Formation Sect and Talisman Sect can use the five elements? Do they teach you the two sects are elemental demons’ dens nowadays?”
“They use spiritual energy to imitate the five elements. She’s controlling water itself. You think I’m blind?!” Cang Wanzi could tell Qiao Xue was human, but he could also tell she wasn’t a disciple of either sect.
“I finally understand why you humans can’t exterminate the elemental demons and always suffer miserably when they join the party. If you have people who could control the five elements among you, you don’t mean to tell me you’d kill your own kind even during a war against the elemental demons.”
The fiend king hit the nail on the head. Mu Yu also witnessed humans giving up on each other when the elemental demons raided Mist City.
Cang Wanzi: Could she be one of the five in legends?
Similarly to other humans, Cang Wanzi believed the five individuals should’ve been offed while they were young. Humanity didn’t want any unpredictable variables in the midst of war, after all. Even though it still was mere speculation, he deemed Qiao Xue a target for elimination.
“Why aren’t you retaliating?” asked Qiao Xue, having transformed her ice picks into an ice dragon, thereby lowering the temperature in the area.
Mu Yu stepped off to the left and jumped off the dragon’s head to close in. He quietly said, “Don’t use your water control ability! Thank you for lending me your water spirit. It has been a blessing since it has accompanied me.”
Qiao Xue juddered. She recognised the voice and the playful look in his eyes. Despite that, she refused to believe it was Mu Yu because she never heard any news of him returning to Third Heaven.
“How do you know about that?”
Qiao Xue formed an ice sword from her mist and whipped it. The uproar down below didn’t deter her from prying the truth out of Mu Yu. Mu Yu locked swords with her and adamantly clung on, resulting in their duel coming to a standstill. She couldn’t shake off the feeling he was familiar, but it wasn’t his face.
“I always wanted to tell you that we’re the same.”
Qiao Xue redirected he force up, forcing Mu Yu to back off.
“Frosted World.”
Qiao Xue outstretched her arms. Her sword reverted to mist. She ushered the water from the village’s wells out and toward her. She trapped herself inside a spherical water barrier with Mu Yu. She froze the water barrier trapping them. As a result, nobody from outside could see anything more than silhouettes inside.
Cultivators gulped, wondering if they were watching an elemental demon’s abilities. Cang Wanzi decided to make a pre-emptive strike and charged toward the ball. Sadly for him, the white ape fiend cut off his advance immediately.
“What are you doing, old man? Stay where you are and watch unless you want me to rip your bones out of you!” Although the fiend king kicked the cultivators out previously, he wasn’t so imposing when he did so.
Cang Wanzi had to brake hard to stop himself crash landing despite the fiend king pulling his punch. “White Ape Archfiend, I can accept you throwing your weight around, but don’t you been unreasonable! Humanity cannot control her ability. She’s not an ordinary human; she’s a water elemental demon! I don’t know how she turned human. Regardless, your race has always stood alongside us against their race. Don’t you dare shelter an elemental demon!”
“I know better than anyone if she’s an elemental demon or not. Her abilities surpass that of water demons. If water demons want a piece of us, she alone would fare better than a thousand of you humans. You humans are too self-righteous to accept her, but we accept her.”
“On the flipside, she would be an even worse enemy if she chose to run rampant, no?”
“Our race may hate humans. In saying that, we hate the elemental demons as much as you do. If she ever allies with them, we will stop her before you do. We have our own plans. You just mind your business!”
Mu Yu and Qiao Xue couldn’t hear anything outside of the ice barrier. Nobody outside could tell what took place inside.
“Nice to see you again.” Mu Yu removed his disguise.
Voice quavering, Qiao Xue remarked, “It really is you.”
“Yeah, haha,” responded Mu Yu, fidgeting.
Qiao Xue had prepared her denial and even reiterated in her mind many times before. In the end, nonetheless, all that escaped her lips was an emotional, “How have you been?”
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