Huai Beiya’s Gift
Ku Mu was marginalised. Everyone silently watched Mu Yu take step by step down the stairs. The only sound came from the duo. There was a path deliberately left vacant for the revered hero until a man stepped in to confront Mu Yu.
The scruffy man, Ling Jueding, carried some serious muscle on him. “You True God’s disciple?”
Mu Yu palmed his face. “Then, you are… Sorry, who are you?”
Ling Jueding flashed the back of his hand – rank eighty. In his booming voice, he announced, “I am a disciple of Hope Peak Sect. My name is Ling Jueding, rank eighty on Ultimate Immortals Rank. I request a match with you.”
“I suggest you get back on your medication. Why are you targeting someone lower than you, for laughs or to prove you have mental issues?”
“They say you defeated ten opponents on your own. I may rank higher than you; however, I wish to see the skills of True God’s disciple.”
“I soloed ten people? Since when? Whoever started the lie, show yourself!”
“The rankings are initially based on numerous accomplishments and information. Hence, they are only an approximation. Combat is subject to change by the second. Therefore, I cannot declare myself superior to you until I beat you in actual combat.”
“Are you telling me you’re going to challenge everyone ranked below you? Why don’t you duke it out with Han Jiangxue from yesterday? You want to spar with him?”
“Beating you means I have beaten him. Do you not have the courage to face me? You are desecrating True God’s name!”
This trick again? These guys need to work on their originality instead of challenging people to fights,”
“My shifu never cared about no bloody Ultimate Immortals Ranking. Did the nine leaders lead humanity to victory? Were the nine of them your hope?”
Mu Yu had a point. Even so, he was defaming the rankings that everyone was emotionally attached to. It was no different to poking their egos.
“All the more reason why I have to see how formidable an adept who doesn’t care for the ranking is!”
“For crying loud!”
Ku Mu relished Mu Yu’s misery.
Mu Yu rammed his fist back at Ling Jueding’s fist. Neither of them could shake the other. The force knocked some of the ground and broke the wooden steps behind Mu Yu. Ku Mu managed to run back upstairs, thereby escaping the damage. The most pitiful individual, of course, was the proprietor.
“Did you forget about my other shifu?” A subtle smile crept up onto Mu Yu’s face.
“You’re Eternally Youthful disciple. Your p-“
Ling Jueding lost his feelings in his hands. A red spot surfaced on his arm, then turned green and then turned blue. He jerked his shaking hand back. His face turned deathly pale.
“My point is. I sometimes supplement with poison.” Mu Yu dusted his hand.
In a duel where both cultivators were of equal level, one couldn’t inject poison into the other. Ling Jueding was careless and let Mu Yu get too close, giving Mu Yu a free win.
“Scram!” Mu Yu kicked Ling Jueding out of the inn via his gut. He turned to the others and took out a purple ball. “Who else wants a round? I’m as confident in my proficiency with poison as I am with swordplay. Any volunteers? There’s no rule against how I win, is there?”
Crack! Mu Yu dropped the purple ball, releasing a purple mist into the atmosphere!
“It’s Eternally Youthful Ku Mu’s poison! Run!”
The cultivators in the inn fled helter skelter. Some people were so desperate that they violently smashed their way out. By the time they felt safe and turned around to look back, Mu Yu was already gone.
“Why did you use a non-venomous purple mist? You should’ve just used glaze.”
The duo bid the city farewell and continued their journey to Twenty-Five Kilometres South Garden.
“Hehe, that’d be a waste. What happens if I hurt my eyes? We only needed to shake them up.”
“Mu Yu, the number on your hand has changed to eighty,” Xiaoshuai prompted.
Mu Yu checked the crest on his hand. “You serious? I doubt I would’ve had such an easy time against Ling Jueding. He just wasn’t as tough as the rhinoceros.”
“Mu Yu, might I be able to have a moment of your time?” A maiden suddenly got in Mu Yu’s way. She was the one who watched Mu Yu the entire time yesterday.
Mu Yu contracted his brows. “You also here to challenge me?”
The maiden removed her veil. “I dare not. Would you happen to remember me?”
“Hello, Miss Beiya. How can I help you?”
The dragon vine seethed when it saw Huai Beiya. It still hadn’t gotten over the memory of them kidnapping it to Floating Celestial Island.
Huai Beiya dimpled. “It is an honour you remember me. I am here to offer you a humble gift. I hope it is acceptable.”
Huai Beiya gently clicked her finger, summoning a jadeite piece the size of a thumb for Mu Yu.
“This is?”
Comprehensive information on all of the Ultimate Immortals travelled from the piece of jade to Mu Yu’s mind instantaneously. His own profile read:
Name: Mu Yu
Rank: Eighty
Age: Nineteen
Home: Moyun Mountains
Teacher: Sword Shadow Dust Gale and Eternally Youthful Ku Mu
Magical items: Shadow Splitter Sword, one of the nine celestial swords
Style: Sword Shadow Dust Gale’s Celestial Swords Nine Summons
Accomplishments:
- Huge potential as a cultivator and alchemist.
- Completed an incomplete rank seven pill as a Primordial Infant Realm cultivator, therefore hailed as Pill Cauldron Sect’s greatest alchemy prodigy.
- As a Primordial Infant Realm Ninth Layer cultivator, defeated three Primordial Infant Realm Ninth Layer fiends and ascended to Body Severing Realm afterwards.
- Defeated a Body Severing Realm Ninth Layer fiend immediately after ascending to Body Severing Realm.
- Defeated a Spirit Severing Realm alchemist as a Body Severing Realm cultivator.
- The first individual to escape from Ku Mu Valley.
There were also reports on Mu Yu’s feats at Floating Celestial Island.
The take-home message from the detailed profiles was simple: Huai Beiya’s, rather, Million Company’s, intelligence gathering abilities were exceptional, to say the least. The only information missing from Mu Yu’s profile was what transpired at Second Heaven.
One piece of information particularly perturbed Mu Yu. He raised his alertness level and questioned, “How do you know I came from Moyun Mountains?”
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