Light is a Lethal Weapon
The dragon vine wreathed around Mu Yu’s shoulder. “What’s the plan Mu Yu?”
“Isn’t it obvious? Worst comes to worst, devour some more lightning and exorcise them!” Xiaoshuai responded, still clutching his lightning sword. “Good timing. I was looking to test my sword.”
Mu Yu stealthily cast a formation at his feet and turned his brain cogs, contemplating what the best escape route was. The formations he activated before were history, and he also had to take Elder Xu along with him.
A gentle breeze announced the end of a night, and a golden petal on the horizon announced it was day time.
“The sun! I can’t survive without my corpse water! Hurry!”
Gui Han immediately shrouded Chi Yue in ghost mist, yet Chi Yue shrilled at the top of her lungs. The other members of Ghost Gate hurriedly enveloped Chi Yu in their ghost qi. The sun gave no cares and continued to mercilessly shine through the layers of mist and qi, sending whisks of crimson smoke up into the air.
“I need corpse water!”
Chi Yue, who turned into pure crimson energy, suddenly snatched a Body Severing Realm cultivator over and ripped him asunder, creating corpse water out of him. Nonetheless, the sun instantly evaporated the yellow corpse water again.
“Unless it’s corpse water from someone who died a natural death, it won’t be able to shield me from the sun! Argh!”
Ghost Gate’s members were so busy praying they weren’t the third sacrifice after witnessing Chi Yue snag another Body Severing Realm cultivator that they forgot about Mu Yu. The Body Severing Realm cultivators’ reflexes had them trailing back. Even Gui Han, who wanted to ensure the mission’s success, scurried back and verbalised, “Your Lordship, you cannot kill us. Tell me what I have to do.”
“Find me someone who died a natural death! A soul or corpse will do!”
Where am I going to find either one all of a sudden? Massacring an entire village doesn’t count, pondered Gui Han.
“Hurry up!”
“What did you do?!” Gui Han yelled at Mu Yu, only to discover Mu Yu was nowhere to be seen.
Thinking Mu Yu would wait around and give them hugs… Well…
Mu Yu continued stealing glances back at the valley even though he already fled with Elder Xu.
“The hell is that thing? Sunphobia is a thing now?”
“I reckon it’s just too ugly that even the sun finds its existence blasphemy,” commented the dragon vine.
“I reckon I know that freak from somewhere,” claimed Xiaoshuai.
“Oh yeah, it your long-distant relative?” Mu Yu scrubbed Xiaoshuai’s head jovially. “At least, you’re cute.”
“That’s ‘handsome’, for you,” rebuked Xiaoshuai.
“S-Sir Mu Yu, is the monster dead yet?”
“I have no clue. Are you hurt anywhere, Elder Xu?”
Elder Xu grazed his hands when he tripped during their break. Luckily, Mu Yu had a potion on him to treat it and dropped Elder Xu off at home.
Mu Yu cast an invisibility formation on himself to race back to the valley because he needed to confirm Chi Yue’s status quo.
Had it not been for the rumours surrounding No-Man’s Cemetery, Ghost Gate’s team never would’ve located Chi Yue. Their job was to make contact. Therefore, they weren’t prepared for the sudden sunphobia situation. They contemplated moving Chi Yue back into the dark valley; the problem was they didn’t have the ability to move her.
Boom! After an hour of suffering at the mercy of the sun, Chi Yue turned bright red and went out with a boom, blasting all of the Body Severing Realm cultivators to smithereens.
“Well, that was anticlimactic,” Mu Yu uttered from a safe distance.
“We’re leaving! We can’t let anyone know about our mission,” commanded Gui Han, returning to see nothing but environmental devastation.
“Given how weak the cultivators of Moyun Mountains are, can we not just kill them?”
“No. We were told to avoid killing here at all costs. You’re dangerously downplaying Moyun Mountains.”
Elder Xu was saved thanks to Chi Yue’s demise. More and more cultivators went to the valley to investigate after hearing the deafening eruption. Unfortunately, they weren’t at a point where they could pick up on the various spiritual energy signals or fathom how the valley was disfigured. Rumours of the gates of hell opening for fiends from purgatory to invade the human realm spread and incited fear, unsurprisingly.
Mu Yu resumed tracking down Ghost Gate’s team. “I still can’t figure out what Ghost Gate is capturing fiend beasts and teaming up with that freakshow for. I don’t have the faintest idea what they will set upon once they reach Ghost Island.”
Previous Chapter l Next Chapter
