Trapped
“True God’s disciple, are you? It’s time you pay for constantly sabotaging us,” Gui Han announced.
Mu Yu could erase the pressure the quintet gave him thanks to Wood Spirit Sword’s death qi. Escaping, nevertheless, was another issue.
“You five want to violate the rules and attack an ultimate immortal?”
“They won’t know we’re the ones behind it,” replied Gui Han, wearing the antagonist smirk.
The ghost mist spreading lowered the temperature around dozens of degrees.
Mu Yu teleported outside the mist, only to bump into the five again.
“You seriously deluded yourself into thinking you could escape the five of us?” Gui Han mocked.
Gui Han manifested a black bone claw on his hand and reached for Mu Yu, creating booming winds. Triggering a formation underneath him, Mu Yu defended with an enlarged Wood Spirit Sword, sounding as if he hit metal. The ghost qi was nothing to be concerned about, but the heavy impact couldn’t be avoided.
Mu Yu let his arm heal and then spawned tree branches from underground to hide in one of them. He had no choice but to reveal his abilities if he was going to escape the five. Running into an invisible wall, he tried another direction, only to run into another one. The barrier wasn’t made of ghost qi but something else that he didn’t have the luxury of time to identify.
“You think we don’t know your ability?” Gui Wan commented.
Yes, it was a disturbing comment, but Mu Yu had no time to worry about it.
“Let’s see you hide from this!”
Gui Wan hit the ground with spiritual energy, trapping Mu Yu in a bowl. From there, Mu Yu could see that the barrier wasn’t a formation but a transparent spiritual energy wall that the five erected. Since they didn’t use ghost qi, Wood Spirit Sword couldn’t neutralise the walls.
“When Gui Xuanyue came back from Moyun Mountains and suspected you of being one of the legendary five, we brushed it off as his excuse. You just went and proved his suspicions, you cur. You think we have no counter for your trees?”
Cornered, Mu Yu emerged from Wood Spirit Sword. The initial plan was to take shelter in it since they wouldn’t be able to destroy it. If they took off with it, though, he’d be their captive for eternity.
“Sounds like I underestimated you lot.”
“You think we fear wood elemental demons after being around for millenniums? If we don’t use ghost qi, you can’t counter us with your trees’ life qi, putting it down to a question of purely cultivation. You’re done now.”
The five veterans dew their weapons again whilst monitoring Mu Yu unlike careless Gui Xiuluo. Branches and leaves automatically spawned to guard Mu Yu. Sadly, they weren’t even worthy of being called obstacles in the face of Body Synthesis Realm cultivators.
Mu Yu couldn’t come up with any ideas and fell prey to despair. He suddenly opened his eyes when a stream of energy came through the forest as though it was going to overrun everything in sight.
Neither side could identify where the energy was coming from or who it belonged to because it was coming from everywhere. The energy decimated the invisible wall, and Mu Yu instantly took the opportunity to race out inside Wood Spirit Sword as a branch.
The five smashed the ground apart, attempting to catch Mu Yu again. Unfortunately, the energy came around again and sent the five away effortlessly. Knowing they were outclassed, Gui Han ordered, “Leave him. Let’s go!”
Whoever intervened decided to let the five flee and departed themselves.
Mu Yu noticed the surroundings trembling but opted to bother with it later for it wasn’t an immediate threat during his four hour run. He returned to earth when he was out of energy and leaned against a tree to catch his breath, lest someone creep up on him from behind again.
“What just saved us?” Xiaoshuai queried.
“Don’t ask me. Some strong level seven fiend beast, perhaps?” Mu Yu scanned the surroundings and said, “Looks like we’re at the outer perimeter of some forest. All I see if mountains and more mountains.”
“It wasn’t a fiend beast; I can tell if it was a fiend beast or not,” corrected the dragon vine.
Peering through the silent forest, Xiaoshuai bounced up and verbalised, “I feel as though I’ve seen that mountain somewhere before. Hmm… Oh! I didn’t think we’d end up here.”
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