Chi Yue
Not a single drop of water landed outside the valley even though the water was crashing against the walls.
“Hahaha, all you have to remember is I am Chi Yue, your god.”
“God? God of mental illness,” the dragon vine insulted.
“Chi Yue? ‘Chi’ means crimson, yet you’re wearing black,” added Xiaoshuai.
“Is Chi Yue a soldier from hell? Is the long hook she wields used to take souls?” Elder Xu inquired, quavering.
“I couldn’t care less if she was Chi Yue or Gui Yue. I’ll take a hand for her deeds to start!” Mu Yu brayed, energising his sword in green sword qi.
Chi Yue created a wall of sinister water from her raging river to block Mu Yu’s strike, but Mu Yu forced his way through. The coffins glowed red and rose, somehow triggering bones from the river to surface and connect, forming crimson skeletons that cautiously caught Mu Yu in encirclement.
“I miss Desert Eagle Fiend King’s Yin Corpse Formation,” voiced Xiaoshuai.
“I have to admit that I agree. The yin corpses are cuter than these disgusting freaks,” expressed Mu Yu.
Mu Yu made short work of the skeletons, unleashing a breaker of sword qi, only for the river to elevate more skeletons on columns of water.
“How about we control them, you know, to teach them to dance or something?” Xiaoshuai proposed.
Mu Yu triggered growth of black branches and plastered the skeletons’ joint gaps with the green leaves. Branches sprouted from their joints to stretch their reach to the skeletons’ entire body. Surprisingly, Wood Spirit Sword was unable to bring them under control.
“How are you going to control my netherworld spirit soldiers?”
“You seriously from hell?”
Chi Yue spawned hands from her river. Bang on them as he may, Mu Yu couldn’t erase the rancid water.
“Wood Spirit can’t control them? There shouldn’t be any dead entity that dark herb can’t control… Oh, I know what the river is now!” Xiaoshuai exclaimed.
“And that is?”
“Corpse water,” Xiaoshuai answered, acting grossed out.
“This much?! How many corpses were dumped here?!”
“Anyway, bones soaking in corpse water aren’t considered dead since their soul will be trapped in the river. That explains why Wood Spirit can’t control them.”
“And how do we stop this disgusting water?” Mu Yu asked, slipping, manoeuvring and deflecting attacks.
“I don’t know. Hey, watch out! Incoming clerks and whip!”
Mu Yu managed to break through the whips and bat the four clerks away; however, they didn’t take any damage. Tentacles rose from the river to catch and return them to the coffins they stood on.
When the coffins glowed red, it seemed to trigger some mechanism that gave the clerks a boost in power.
Chi Yue sat on a hand made from bone, absorbing yin qi from the river and Chen Erzhuang whilst commanding Chen Erzhuang’s four clerks to charge with reckless abandon.
Spotting a woman leading seven people up the valley, Elder Xu shouted, “Isn’t that Xing Hua’s mother who was buried last night? Why is Xing Hua, her son and daughter following behind her dead mother?!”
“Taking the lives of their descendants after spurring on their natural death,” muttered Mu Yu, exasperated.
The old woman jumped into the river, her family following suit. Over a dozen coffins rose to the surface of the water, allowing the dead inside to crawl out, revealing their rotten bodies. All of the dead elders were able to stand on water as they listlessly awaited orders. Chi Yue morphed her hook into a thin snake-like weapon and wrapped it around their necks. Next, she spawned two thin hooks on top of her long hook to stab into their necks. By the same token, that was where the two marks on Elder Zhao came from. A white entity travelled along Chi Yue’s hook back into her body.
“I-isn’t that Ol’ Niu from our neighbouring village? That’s Ma’am Yu, who died two months ago! H-h-have they all been resurrected?” Elder Xu inquired.
“That chick eats their brains out to strengthen herself,” explained Xiaoshuai.
“Wh-what? She ate their br-” Elder Xu couldn’t resist barfing.
“Don’t puke on me,” warned the dragon vine, wriggling to avoid being covered in Elder Xu’s dinner.
“Look after Elder Xu. I’ll go kill that freak.” Mu Yu instantaneously closed the gap and attempted to split Chi Yue’s long hook in half. Her corpse water formed a wall, driving him to stop and hover, splitting Shadow Splitter Sword in nine to execute Regenesis.
“Damn it!” Not expecting Mu Yu to penetrate her wall and continue through to her, Chi Yue pulled Chen Erzhuang forward to shield her as compensation for her inability to move in time.
Chen Erzhuang’s red hook was no match for Mu Yu’s power, taking both the hook and Chen Erzhuang in one swipe. Mu Yu muscled his way through after cutting through Chen Erzhuang, cutting through Chi Yue’s hook and finally cutting her across the chest.
“Mu Yu, you just cleaved two mountains apart!” Xiaoshuai praised.
“Shut! Up!”
Finding her footing again, Chi Yue howled, “You will pay!”
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