Third Heaven Palace’s Stepping Stone
The rumbling thunder’s volume turned up, contrasting with the gently flowing river in the valley. The water would burble every now and then, but that soon came to a halt. Blood from Wan Tianmiang’s neck trickled into the river. The crest on his hand shot into the sky as a ray of light and left him.
“Gramps, we need to hurry out of here.” Mu Yu needed to hide Ku Mu before Third Heaven Palace could locate him instead of chasing Tian Budai.
Ku Mu exhaled. “It’s pointless. They already know where I am and what I’ve done. Their executioner will soon find me.
“Don’t give me that crap, Gramps. I won’t let them lay their hands on you.”
“You can’t stop them; nobody besides Feng Haochen at his peak could, cough, cough.” Ku Mu’s breathing was erratic.
“There will be a way! I can’t just watch them kill you!”
Ku Mu pushed away Mu Yu’s hands as the latter tried to treat his wounds with spiritual energy. “Don’t waste your spiritual energy. I’m done for.”
“I don’t have any quit in me. I can testify you didn’t kill Wan Tianming! I won’t let them execute you!” Mu Yu frantically looked around for somewhere to hide Ku Mu.
“You’re wrong. Third Heaven Palace’s formation guardian planned this. Tian Budai is only one of their pawns. I anticipated this would happen when I chose to help Feng Haochen set up Celestial Prison.”
“What was that?!”
“I won’t be around to hold your hand for the rest of the journey. Swear to me you won’t seek vengeance until you reach Spirit Severing Realm.”
“Why does Third Heaven Palace want to kill you?!”
“They’ve been waiting all this time for Celestial Prison to kill Feng Haochen so that they could retrieve his immortal body. I unknowingly became their stepping stone. I helped you find dark herb and happen to know about Celestial Prison. That’s why I turned myself into a thorn in their side.” Ku Mu heaved a heavy breath.
“I don’t get it. Why do they insist on killing you just because you helped Shifu cast the formation? You’re only at Golden Core Realm; you can’t stop them.”
“Looking down on me again, you brat! Third Heaven Palace’s formation guardian is inferior to me as a formation caster. For as long as I’m alive, he won’t be able to fumble with Celestial Prison. He wants to get rid of me as he knows I will continue to hinder his plans.”
“Damn it! Moyun Mountains! Yeah, Moyun Mountains! Shifu will protect you!”
“You won’t make it. You’ll need five days to get there from here. That’s more than enough time for them to find me.”
“I have windrider pills.” Mu Yu moved his hand to his mouth.
Mu Yu would’ve needed three days even with the windrider pills. That was still too slow. Ku Mu was cognisant of that and remained level-headed. He exclaimed, “Listen! Are you not going to listen to your shifu anymore?!”
Mu Yu snapped out of his flustered state. Hearing Ku Mu so serious disturbed Mu Yu. He could feel his unease permeating in the atmosphere.
“He’s here. I can sense Third Heaven Palace’s enforcer. This is it for me. Be careful, and don’t be rash. His only target is me.”
Ku Mu flashed the back of his hand, revealing an ultimate immortal crest that burnt his hand. It was worth nothing that his crest differed to Mu Yu’s. The crest was forced onto his hand after he killed Wan Tianming.
Someone tore open a void, making way for a white light to travel through. The white light turned out to be a human glowing white from head to toe. Visage stoic, he announced, “Eternally Youthful Ku Mu killed rank ninety-two, breaking the rules of Ultimate Immortals Ranking. Under the name of Third Heaven Palace’s formation guardian, I hereby announce the verdict: execution.”
The enforcer was waiting around for the moment he could execute Ku Mu on justified grounds.
Mu Yu pulled Ku Mu behind him. Though he was shaken in front of the most intimidating individual he had ever met, he appealed, “Tian Budai forced his hand using a slave pill. He didn’t kill Wan Tianming of his own volition!”
“Ku Mu personally killed him. He must pay the price for breaking the rules. Nobody is permitted to challenge Third Heaven Palace’s dignity!”
“Is Third Heaven Palace corrupt? Does the truth not matter to you?”
“Ku Mu personally killed him. He must pay the price for breaking the rules. Nobody is permitted to challenge Third Heaven Palace’s dignity!”
“I said, Tian Budai is the culprit, not Eternally Youthful Ku Mu. Where is the justice in this? Doesn’t it occur to you that it makes no sense for a Golden Core Realm cultivator to kill a Body Severing Realm cultivator?”
“Ku Mu personally killed him. He must pay the price for breaking the rules. Nobody is permitted to challenge Third Heaven Palace’s dignity!” The enforcer then pointed at Mu Yu and repeated, “Ku Mu personally killed him. He must pay the price for breaking the rules. Nobody is permitted to challenge Third Heaven Palace’s dignity!”
The enforcer fired a lethal white ray at Mu Yu’s chest when he pointed. Mu Yu looked down, expecting to see blood or something, but he didn’t feel a thing for the blast passed through him to impale Ku Mu! The blast went straight through and left no traces of it behind.
Mu Yu spun around to Ku Mu. Alas, Ku Mu was already bleeding out and unable to support himself on his legs. Mu Yu caught Ku Mu before the latter dropped to the ground and tried to staunch the bleeding. “Gramps! Gramps! Xiaoshuai! Xiaoshuai! Help him! Help him!”
Xiaoshuai silently stared at Ku Mu’s wound for a while before shaking his head. “Sorry, there’s nothing that can be done to reverse the damage, not even if you give him a heart transplant, because all of his meridians have been destroyed. As origin restoration modified his body, his body is different to the standard human body. He only has about fifteen minutes left.”
“Don’t lie!”
Mu Yu’s energy started to run rampant, yet the enforcer entered the void and left without a care to spare.
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