Desert Burial
As sand Cheng Yan scooped up ran through the gaps in his fingers, he remarked, “We’ve been tricked.”
“We need to hurry to Mu Yu!” Lie Shang insisted.
For the first time ever, Ximen Buxing wasn’t grinning disrespectfully and followed the pair without a word to Rock of Death.
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“Anyone know what he means by ‘desert burial’?”
The cultivators looked around, hoping someone could answer, but nobody could. One thing they could see in one another’s eyes was fear creeping in. Sandstorms were just another natural phenomenon that cultivators didn’t need to fret about because they could just discharge spiritual qi to stop it from affecting them. This time, though, the raging sandstorm that gave birth to over a hundred tornadoes warranted concern.
“Where are these tornadoes coming from?”
“Everyone, let’s drive off the tornadoes together.”
Everyone concurred and blasted the tornadoes with their weapons, yet the tornadoes didn’t scatter back to the ground as they expected. Instead, the tornadoes absorbed their spiritual energy to expand their circumferences!
“What the?”
The cultivators tried again, resulting in the tornadoes expanding even further.
“Something’s not right. Run!”
Not everyone was lucky enough to escape the wrath of the tornadoes. Advanced cultivators managed to outrun the tornadoes, but less-advanced cultivators could only flee helter-skelter and pray in vain.
“I have to charge a fee for putting on a performance, don’t I? You can all become my pieces of art in my museum,” sarcastically said Sikong Qiwen, cackling in a booming voice.
“What the hell is he, an earth elemental demon?!”
“Can earth elemental demons even spawn so many damn sand tornadoes?!”
“You shall all be resurrected as citizens of Desert Eagle Archfiend, Hai Dongqing, after your desert burial. Feel honoured, kekeke.” Sikong Qiwen’s eyes turned brown.
“What did he just s-, argh!”
There went another victim, bringing the death toll to one tenth of the entire audience in that short period.
“Let’s work together to escape. There has to be hope of escaping!”
“Why would you run away after I invested so much time promoting this match? Kekeke.”
This is the reason he set up the fight? What exactly does he bloody want?! Mu Yu pondered, struggling to stand. “Vitality. I need vitality, Wood Spirit.”
Mu Yu clutched Wood Spirit Sword to try and borrow vitality from it, but it only vibrated once and stopped. It couldn’t provide him with actual vitality after death qi got into it.
“Damn it! There aren’t any plants around for me to drain vitality from, either!”
Sand under Mu Yu’s feet started swirling up to surround and sink him. Xiaoshuai, therefore, snatched Shadow Splitter Sword over and informed, “Mu Yu, the vitality you need is in Shadow Splitter Sword. Your vitality didn’t just evaporate when you used the formations. All you did was transfer it to Shadow Splitter Sword!”
Xiaoshuai scratched Shadow Splitter Sword, and it glowed in response. He then threw it over to Mu Yu, who could feel the vitality transferring back to him. Though Mu Yu regained his vitality gradually, he was too deep into the sand to escape; even his formation was doomed.
“Hold onto me, you two!”
Mu Yu dove into Wood Spirit Sword with Xiaoshuai and the dragon vine right before Wood Spirit Sword was swallowed.
The sandstorms calmed down, revealing two hundred thousand human-sand statues frozen in their running fleeing postures. Sikong Qiwen checked on his sand status and cried into the sky, stirring the dormant desert again. The wriggling sand wriggled faster and faster. Rock of Death moved away from where it stood, leaving a sand vortex at the centre of the desert.
A red pagoda with strange carvings no it rose from the quicksand, revealing the seven floors one by one. Each floor was an astounding ten metres high. The carvings on the walls illustrated the scene of elemental demons versus fiends versus humankind. Sikong Qiwen admired his pagoda, grinning from ear to ear. The pagoda was the signature property of Desert Eagle Archfiend – Desert Eagle Brilliance!
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