Fiend Prison
The individual in the yellow robe’s face was hidden under his hood and concealed his cultivation. Tian Budai and company’s vision was blocked due to the horde of yin corpses, yet they could sense the individual in yellow. Based on Tian Budai’s crew’s reaction, they weren’t allies with the individual. Thence, Mu Yu, by process of elimination, hazarded a guess that he could’ve been the fiend race’s ally. The individual’s aura differed from that of Ghost Gate, Life and Death Sect and the fiend race, nonetheless, put the proposition into question.
“Regardless of who you may be, none of you are going to have your way on my watch.”
Mu Yu directed a number of yin corpses to stop the individual in yellow from entering the city. The individual didn’t have Third Heaven Palace’s signature white glow; however, Mu Yu didn’t want to let the individual capture the desert eagle fiend king in case he was another person seeking immortality. If possible, Mu Yu would’ve preferred for the fiend king to remain sealed for eternity as it’d save them a plethora of grief.
The individual conjured a spiritual energy field, thereby keeping the yin corpses at bay. He levitated and summoned a red pagoda.
In the meantime, Tian Budai broke free of the encirclement as the enemy numbers thinned out. He exclaimed, “How does he have the key to opening Desert Eagle Imperial City?”
“Shall we stop him?” inquired Tian Jiancheng.
“Mm… No. Since he has Brilliant Blood, he will save us the trouble of offering sacrifices to enter the city.”
Mu Yu had never heard of Brilliant Blood.
The individual in yellow fired two beams of red energy onto the eyes of the eagle on the city doors. The eagle came to life and took to the sky! The eagle soared above the city and cawed as if it was warning foreigners not to act rash. Once it left the city, the individual darted through the ajar doors.
“After him!” commanded Tian Budai, slaughtering his way into the city.
The yin corpses couldn’t pursue Tian Budai into the city as the Yin Corpse Formation’s boundary ended there. Mu Yu, therefore, had to enter the city to stop the fiend king’s resurrection. He shone the emerald piece controlling the formation to find a path leading into the city. There was a staircase leading up to somewhere in a corner of the cave.
Mu Yu ordered the yin corpses to stop and climbed the stairs, Xiaoshuai reluctantly following behind. Not many people knew of Xiaoshuai’s existence, so the risk of him leading to the exposure of Mu Yu’s identity was slim, but it was better to be safe than sorry. Consequently, he tucked Xiaoshuai into his shirt, adding, “I need to change my appearance. We’ll be in trouble if we bump into them, and they realise we’re with Formation Sect.”
Mu Yu occasionally passed by fiend statues and skeletons as he climbed the stairs. They weren’t such a big deal after beating the yin corpses.
“Serious? Three paths? How am I supposed to choose?”
“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, I choose left!” declared Xiaoshuai.
Mu Yu took Xiaoshuai up on his offer, only to run into another fork in the road.
“Is this a maze or something?! The walls are solid rock, so we can’t dig our way through. Toss, let’s go right…”
They ran into another fork in the road before long.
“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, I choose you!”
Mu Yu didn’t question Xiaoshuai’s decisions as he figured they’d eventually find their way out as long as they continued heading up, but… he ended up in another cave. Stalactites littered the ceiling. Puddles littered the floor. Strangely, there was a gentle white light coming from the water and spirit qi coming from up ahead.
“Yes! We found it!” cheered Xiaoshuai.
“Found what? Xiaoshuai, you deliberately led me here, didn’t you?”
“No, I didn’t. The delicacies called us here,” smugly replied Xiaoshuai.
Mu Yu palmed his face…
Under the puddles of water were fiend souls, the type that deserved a gasp.
“Woo! Level six and seven fiend souls!” Xiaoshuai jumped into the water, but there was a formation that preventing him from swimming down to take the fiend souls.
The formation was the type that placed the formation foundation and core inside the formation. Without specific formation lines, it was impossible to trespass.
The formation bounced Xiaoshuai up to a stalactite on his fourth attempt to dive down. “Hey, I can see three big characters and small characters on the stalactite. Big Earthworm, what does this fiend text say?”
“Fiend Prison. When Desert Eagle Fiend King returns, the fiend race shall rise!” the dragon vine read out.
“There’s text over there, too. Read it out.” Xiaoshuai was just after the instructions to obtain the fiend souls.
“More importantly, are we going to sabotage Celestial Star Sect’s plan or not?” reminded the dragon vine.
“Well… Thanks to Xiaoshuai, we’re lost – completely. I have no doubts they’re after Desert Eagle Fiend King. I do doubt they won’t find him so easily. Let’s see if there are any clues here that could help us locate him before they can.”
The dragon vine translated all of the fiend text on the stalactites. The origins of the fiend souls and their functions were also recorded there. The fiend souls belonged to dead high-level fiend beasts that didn’t develop intelligence. After Desert Eagle Fiend King was sealed, they were killed, and their fiend souls were sealed in the fiend spirits, further reinforced with a formation. Once the fiend king re-emerged, he could revive them and create a mighty army at his disposal.
“Xiaoshuai, how many level six and seven fiend spirits are here?”
“1092 level six fiend spirits and 813 level seven fiend spirits.”
“Damn, that’s the equivalent of 1092 Spirit Severing Realm fiend beasts plus 813 Body Synthesis Realm fiend beasts. They could probably squash the eight great sects with that force. If they had more fiends, they could take on the entire continent!” Mu Yu rubbed his chin and said, “Well, seems we need to loot this place.”
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