Tumultuous Night at No-Man’s Cemetery (Part 2)
A red rope was tied around both Elder Xus’ necks, respectively, and the scratch Xiaoshuai inflicted had been repaired.
“Kekeke, I heard you can distinguish between us. Let’s see how you do it again.”
Both Elder Xus were suspended in mid-air, and the spiritual qi ring marker Xiaoshuai set was nowhere to be seen. Both of them wore identical expressions, quaked in their boots and were deathly pale. Mu Yu couldn’t identify a single defining feature to distinguish between the real Elder Xu and fake one.
“Xiaoshuai, can you tell who the real one is?”
Mu Yu peered out of the two holes in Mu Yu’s shirt and took a long look. “No. They don’t have the spiritual qi mar around their neck, and the smell of roast goose is gone.”
“Kekeke, I’m going to eat the brain of the human who divulged my secret. That said, I’ll let you choose who dies and who is spared. Choose wisely.”
The red rope around their necks morphed into claws and clamped down onto their heads.
“I’m the real one, Sir Mu Yu. He is the fake.”
“No, I am the real one. He is the fake.”
Mu Yu didn’t know Elder Xu well enough to figure it out; surface-level traits weren’t cutting it, either.
“If you don’t choose, I’ll kill one at random.”
“Sir Mu Yu, do you remember helping me drive off the pests in my paddy?” Elder Xu on the left cried.
“Sir Mu Yu, do you remember treating my rheumatism and breathlessness issue? You also lifted the corpse for me,” Elder Xu on the right reported.
Xiaoshuai popped his head out. “Old Man, how many spoons of salt did you put in my roast duck, and how long did you roast it for?”
“One and a half spoons of salt. I roasted it for forty-five minutes!”
Hearing the two respond in synchrony, Xiaoshuai popped back inside.
“Did it work?” queried the dragon vine.
“No, I was just asking for the next time I roasted a duck myself.”
“Oh, for crying out loud!”
“Nothing they say will be helpful because sorcery can perfectly clone anyone, including their memories. The sorcery also hides the wood traits, so there’s no way of differentiating. Remember Elder Zhao? Yeah, exactly. Mu Yu, you get what I’m saying?”
“Yeah, I’m thinking!”
Mu Yu focused his eyes and spawned braches beneath the two Elder Xus to restrain and invade their bodies with death qi. The one on the right went lifeless, and yin qi shielded him in response. Mu Yu tugged the Elder Xu on his left toward himself and broke the red rope about to strangle Elder Xu with his fist.
“Thank heavens, you have the right one, Sir Mu Yu,” thanked Elder Xu, touching the red line on his neck.
Mu Yu ran his finger over the chilly qi on Elder Xu’s neck and planted a formation in Elder Xu. “Elder Xu, stay here. Dragon Vine, I’m entrusting him to you.”
“Roger that,” responded the dragon vine, slithering over to Elder Xu’s shoulder.
“Who was that? Sir Mu Yu, who is ‘Dragon Vine’?”
“Me,” replied the dragon, vine, tapping Elder Xu’s face with its tail.
Elder Xu sluggishly turned his head and screamed, “A snake! A snake!”
“Hahaha, it’s not a snake. It’s an earthworm.”
“I’m a dragon, you blind rodent!”
The dragon vine enlarged itself to create a barrier around Elder Xu and lowered its head down in front of Elder Xu’s face. “Call me a snake one more time, and I’ll chomp your head off.”
“Y-y-y-y-”
“Call me ‘Dragon Lord’.”
“Dragon Lord. Dragon Lord. Dragon Lord…” Elder Xu mumbled, scared witless.
Mu Yu dove into the darkness and slashed at a rock upon shining a light. A black silhouette wormed away, shining a red light as they moved.
“You worried your ugly looks will blind me?”
“Those are some special plants. I don’t remember anything plants being able to melt my cold qi at Third Heaven.”
All of Mu Yu’s plants gradually melted the condensed qi on the walls.
Mu Yu teleported behind his target, prompting the individual to block Mu Yu’s strike with a long red hook. The individual released corrosive crimson spiritual energy onto Shadow Splitter Sword, which Mu Yu easily shook off. Mu Yu continued ramping up teleportation surprise attacks consisting of plant attacks and sword qi. Nevertheless, the individual remained unfazed in the slightest.
“You think you’d still be alive if I recovered my original qi?”
“There are no ‘ifs’ in combat. You expect me to wait for you to do you warm ups, too?” Mu Yu criticised, mounting an all-out offence.
“Mu Yu, let’s roast some bums!” Xiaoshuai suggested.
Mu Yu activated Gentle Wind Interlinked Hearts Formation, and Xiaoshuai took to the field.
“Xiaoshuai’s Heavenly Lightning Strike!”
At the same time, Mu Yu cast Lightning Swift Snakes, zapping away the yin qi around the individual. Combined with Xiaoshuai’s overpowering swing, the individual thundered as they illuminated red energy to counter. Red hooks fired off as if they were arrows, then curving to slay Mu Yu’s lightning snakes. Not even Xiaoshuai’s lightning sword could cut the red hooks.
“Lightning doesn’t work on this punk,” bemoaned Xiaoshuai.
“Neither does it work on you.”
“But I’m handsome! Looks like I need to resort to my Lightning Blast.”
Xiaoshuai conjured blue sparks and turned it into lightning clone of himself. His clone then manifested two electric-spark swords instead of the usual single lightning sword and whipped them.
“Do you need to be so flashy?”
“It makes it look wicked. Give me a hand; you know what I have in mind.”
Although Xiaoshuai’s electric-spark swords looked fragile, he wielded them with power and speed. The individual performed a swipe with their red hook, cutting Xiaoshuai’s swords into several pieces.
“Now!” Xiaoshuai commanded.
Mu Yu teleported himself above the exposed individual.
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