The Curtain Falls on the Battle in the Desert
Mu Yu regretfully looked at his brothers; he didn’t feel their opinions differed enough to be fighting each other.
“I won’t hurt any of you,” stated Xiang Nan.
The best proof Xiang Nan had no intention of hurting his brothers was the fact that he avoided using Stargazer Sword and mainly used his sand against them.
“Shifu sacrificed himself for the world and people he wanted to protect, and what did he get out of that? Are you positive you want to protect this sort of world?” Xiang Nan questioned.
In order to take out their mutual hatred on Third Heaven Palace, they had to think outside of Third Heaven Palace’s box to outwit the enemy. Xiang Nan decided to distort the rules and use his extreme approach. Mu Yu only wanted to revive Ku Mu and harboured no desire to participate in the game. Cheng Yan and Lie Shang wanted to continue the game in their shifu’s stead and protect the cultivators in the game.
“I won’t change original intent; I will follow Shifu’s wish,” asserted Cheng Yan.
Lie Shang gyrated his lips as he glanced Cheng Yan’s way but chose to keep to himself in the end.
“I want to revive Dad.”
The four swords returned to their owners. Xiaoshuai returned to Mu Yu’s shoulder. Cheng Yan heaved a heavy breath, feeling powerless to stop his brothers.
Xiang Nan reminded, “First Brother, I know you want to stop me, but you alone are not strong enough as you are not complete. You must accept Ru Shou if you are to have any chance.”
Xiang Nan discharged energy, reinforcing his point. None of them had ever felt so stuck in the mud before. “I don’t want to fight you. None of you can match me. If you want to stop me, see if you can stop them first.”
Xiang Nan twirled his hands, waking up the cultivators in sand, who proceeded to collapse the building. “These one hundred cultivators will return to their everyday lives on my orders and work for me as informants whilst climbing Ultimate Immortals Ranking. When the time is ripe, they will coordinate with me to usurp Third Heaven Palace’s rule. I doubt you can stop all of them from escaping.”
The cultivators took off, heading to Clearwater City or heading to the exits of the desert. The one hundred or so remaining were those deemed too weak as hosts. The only reason Sikong Qiwen was chosen back when he was a Golden Core Realm cultivator was that Xiang Nan needed to draw attention to Clearwater City, and an unprecedented rise was the best strategy to the ends he was after.
“We all have goals to achieve, don’t we?” Xiang Nan queried, regarding Mu Yu with his gaze.
Xiang Nan climbed onto the stone coffin the fiend king’s heart was stored in and levitated it.
“You’re not going to control my family, correct?” Mu Yu inquired.
“I will never hurt any of you, you family and friends. That, of course, includes the formation casters under you. Your cousin, Mu Qingfan, should have come to by now. I will have everyone in Clearwater City watch over your family so that you can venture out without any concerns… I don’t want you to lose your family as I have.”
Xiang Nan hid his teary eyes behind a veil of sand and gradually the rest of his body. Once the sand recovered to the ground, he was gone. The fiend king’s altar joined its master in his slumber.
“Thank you,” expressed Mu Yu, recollecting his trees and making his way back to Clearwater City after regarding his two seniors one more time.
Cheng Yan and Lie Shang let Mu Yu go since they knew he wouldn’t leave Clearwater City so soon as long as his family still resided there. Nonetheless, Lie Shang started to foster doubt in his mind, unable to shake off Mu Yu’s questions prior. He always believed helping Cheng Yan was the right thing to do until Mu Yu forced him to question if “right” and “wrong” were such clear-cut concepts and as important as he believed them to be.
Cheng Yan sighed again and then cut the sand statues with thing blades he controlled him. He departed with Lie Shang and Ximen Buxing in tow, the latter of whom only watched from the sidelines the entire time.
The cultivators Cheng Yan freed still had their conscious, but they had no recollection of what happened after Xiang Nan captured them.
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