Nine Heavens Demon Sealing Formation
“You three don’t need to hide. Ku Mu is one of us. He knows about Mu Yu’s ability.”
Cheng Yan politely bowed. “Elder Ku Mu, I can control metal.”
Cheng Yan was able to manipulate the black metal spheres rotating around him at will, even attaching them to his arm as armour.
Lie Shang, enveloped in flames, wasn’t so polite.
“Relax. Why don’t you just immolate yourself if you like bathing in fire so much,” griped Mu Yu.
“Immolate you, as well?” Lie Shang fired back.
“Who else?” inquired Ku Mu.
Lan Ling’er ran over to kick Xiang Nan awake. Xiang Nan apologetically jogged over and greeted Mu Yu. To demonstrate his ability, he collected a few rocks from the flower garden and caused the flowers to wither.
“Those were my flowers!” Lan Ling’er gave Xiang Nan the boot again.
“I’m sorry. I’ll fix them up for you in a tick. You’ll have all your rocks and flowers back, promise.”
“Can someone explain to me what Nine Heavens Demons Sealing Formation is?” Mu Yu requested, feeling bad for not knowing when both of his shifus were authorities in the formation department.
“It was invented aeons ago to counter the elemental demons’ formations. There are lots of prerequisites that have to be met to set it up, and those requisites are tough to meet. As you might’ve already worked out, it suppresses their abilities,” Feng Haochen elucidated.
Ku Mu instinctively looked to Mu Yu as father figure. “The formation can suppress your unique abilities as your abilities aren’t pure. In a nutshell, it stops the spirit lords’ consciousness within your body from awakening, circumventing periods where you lose control.”
“How do we cast it?” Mu Yu inquired.
“We use your bodies as the formation’s foundation to seal the spirit lords’ powers. Not even elemental demons can defuse the formation. Mu Yu, your power is the least table. I can also sense that the power has continued to grow inside you. You’ve lost control more than just once or twice since parting with me, haven’t you? Your ability to control plants is more predictable now. I guess you’ve repaired your wood spirit to some degree. Haven’t you?” Feng Haochen expressed.
Mu Yu acknowledged he lost control after nothing would come out when he opened his mouth.
“It’s inevitable for you to use some of their powers for its part of your spiritual energy. It’s fine if the power is dormant. If it awakes too many times, on the other hand, their control over you will grow until they devour you and are fully awake,” reminded Feng Haochen, sternly.
Lie Shang pursed his lips tight. He, too, lost control a lot as Mu Yu did. Cheng Yan and Xiang Nan lost control he least number of times because of their personalities.
“Will I still be able to control plants after the formation is set?” queried Mu Yu.
“Yes. I just want to have security measures in place,” Feng Haochen answered.
“I don’t think the two of us can cast it with our cultivation. Who else do you have in mind to help?” questioned Ku Mu.
“Xie Bulao.”
“He’d help you? Surely he’d help you over your dead body.”
“Admittedly, I had to do a lot of talking to convince him to persuade the fiends to ally with us after the white ape fiend king returned. Third Heaven Palace wouldn’t have let Mu Yu off or acknowledged the fiend race, otherwise.”
“Thank you for watching my back,” Mu Yu said. “Shifu, why hasn’t Third Heaven Palace’s formation guardian helped free you from Celestial Prison when they know the elemental demons have escaped it?”
“Third Heaven Palace isn’t mankind’s saviour by any means. They’ll stop at nothing for victory, and they’ll exterminate anything that could threaten their reign. They don’t want me to restore my cultivation because they know I won’t let them go for not keeping their word. The guardian is afraid I’ll kill him, and he has every reason to be.”
The calm, yet imposing, tone surprised Feng Haochen’s disciples. Rarely was he imposing with them.
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