Did You Skip Breakfast?
“Run!” Ku Mu shoved Mu Yu away.
The sounds of disciples rushing over were already audible. Every disciple carried a signal for emergencies. The signals were rarely used in years, but two had been fired in the last year, one when the white ape fiend king appeared and then there was Xu Ziye’s.
“You’re coming with me. How do I defuse this formation?”
“You can’t. Only the reigning patriarch can. You’ll never be able to escape once they all get here. It’s now or never, go!”
Putting aside the others who were stronger than Mu Yu, once Shi Dengtian arrived, Mu Yu would be forced to reveal his wood-control ability.
“I am the root of all this. You don’t need to stay here and put up with them.”
“You trying to anger me? You don’t want to rescue your jerk of a shifu?”
“You’re also my shifu. Stop cussing yourself all the time. It’s stressful. I’ll talk to them.”
“Wait. Take this.”
“Isn’t this…”
“Henceforward, you are Bamboo Peak’s master. If anyone tries to heckle you, show them the token. It’ll, at least, keep you alive.”
There were only five green octagon tokens with a cauldron carved on. Disciples were to bow their heads if they were ever to see one. Nobody was permitted to kill a faction leader. Nobody. That was why Ku Mu was spared and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mu Yu grinned. “Do I need to kowtow to you and pledge my loyalty to Pill Cauldron Sect or anything?”
“Scram. I don’t want your kowtow. Why are you still joking? You like being hit? Oh, I almost forgot.” Ku Mu went to the corner of his formation to grab a fiend spirit and tossed it to Mu Yu. “It was supposed to be for Shi Dengtian, but he sent Xu Ziye to be safe.”
“Ah, I get it.”
Pill Containment Formation was promptly surrounded. The sight of Mu Yu boldly exiting the formation and Xu Ziye’s bloody corpse infuriated the disciples. A Primordial Infant Realm disciple exclaimed, “Traitor!”
“You going to avenge him?” Mu Yu curtly asked.
The Primordial Infant Realm disciple stepped back immediately and shut his mouth. That didn’t stop more stepping forward to point fingers and call Mu Yu names. Mu Yu affronted, “I whooped a tough Body Severing Realm Ninth Realm monster before breakfast. If you think you’re tougher than the fiends, walk yourself over here.”
The disciples started pushing and shoving each other toward Mu Yu.
“I’m only going to speak to Patriarch.” Mu Yu looked around for Daoist Yun Dan, certain the latter would have to show up after such a fiasco.
“I’m first in line!” declared Shi Dengtian.
Shi Dengtian flitted across and brought his hand down from above, aiming to silence Mu Yu before Daoist Yun Dan could intervene. He raced out of the meeting as soon as he detected the signal, privy to the significance of Ultimate Immortals Ranking.
“I won’t just roll over and die!”
Mu Yu knocked back rank six pill “destiny skeleton sovereign pill” for the fifteen minute defence boost. He hoped to stall for long enough for the other elders to stop Shi Dengtian. Normally, Mu Yu wouldn’t have been able to control the sword spirit in his right arm even though he had ascended to Body Severing Realm. Supplementing with destiny skeleton sovereign pill, however, his body was sturdier than without it.
Mu Yu summoned the sword sprit and whipped out a wave of sword qi at Shi Dengtian’s palm strike! The spiritual energy blast produced blew everyone away. Shi Dengtian pummelled Mu Yu into Heart Refining Cliff, shaking the mountain.
Nobody noticed Shi Dengtian gritting his teeth to mask the pain in his hand. Not even he expected Mu Yu’s attack to inflict so much damage. Shi Dengtian pulled his hand back at the last moment to save it.
Shi Dengtian: I’m a Spirit Severing Realm cultivator. I’m an entire realm above him. How in the world did he hurt me? Calm down. I was just careless. Flukes don’t happen twice. His combat experience means nothing in the face of a realm’s difference.
“You killed our disciples, helped a fiend king abscond and now intend to break a criminal out of prison. You deserve the death penalty!” Shi Dengtian thundered.
Shi Dengtian checked out Xu Ziye through his peripherals and remarked to himself, “Good. Spares me the trouble.”
“Shi Dengtian, Mu Yu is Bamboo Peak’s new master! Don’t you dare attack him!” Ku Mu belted so that everyone could hear.
“It’s a pity that you can’t see outside. I’d love for you to see the sight of your dead disciple.”
“Congratulations Elder Shi!” cheered a disciple.
“Not only have I avenged my nephew but also ridded the world of a traitor! He should consider death a blessing.”
“Cough, cough, Shi Dengtian, did you skip breakfast or something? Was that supposed to tickle?”
Shi Dengtian flinched.
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