Treacherous Waters (Part 1)
Ghost Gate resumed their voyage once Elder Chi Long gave directions and the wind picked up after stalling for an hour. Mu Yu’s characters stalked them for a visual, while Gui Dingtian moved the shell. Ghost Gate soon stopped again. They continued moving and stopping on the boundless body of water for three days before they knew it.
The waves they encountered on the fourth day qualified as violent, and the fluff in the sky in that part of the ocean was grey. Though the shell saved them from any rocking, the gloomy mood still got to them.
“Why has Ghost Gate been sitting around meditating all day? Are they lost?” muttered the dragon vine.
Ghost Gate’s teams showed admirable discipline, meditating without letting anything distracting them. Gui Hongyu took care of the nine crying infants unable to stand the sounds of the violent waves as best as she could. She jumped into the water to fetch a dolphin and used an unknown method of holding it in the air to feed the nine infants with its milk.
“Gui Hongyu isn’t so bad, after all, is she?” asked Qiao Xue.
“Yeah, at the very least, the nine infant r-” – Qiao Xue nudged Mu Yu – “Ghost Gate always do things with some evil goal in mind. They’d kill the infants the moment the nine were no longer useful. If we don’t save them, they’ll die.”
“You don’t need to explain. I know what you’re thinking,” responded Qiao Xue, fiddling with her Wood Spirit.
“I can’t stop Ghost Gate from imposing their will on the nine kids. If their nine lives can help us reach Sacred Island, sacrificing even ninety human infants would be worth it,” Long Xingyun chimed in.
Mu Yu looked to Long Xingyun through the corner of his eyes and insulted, “Not surprising, coming from a scumbag.”
“Don’t you dare insult me!”
“Don’t you dare speak up as if you’re a scumbag. You insult the term.”
Long Xingyun took a swing, only for Qiao Xue to step in between, scolding, “Xingyun, remember these words: an infant is an infant regardless of their race. We must rescue those nine infants. No matter what Ghost Gate has planned, our aim is to sabotage them!”
Long Xingyun cast his gaze beyond Qiao Xue to Mu Yu. “Now you need a girl to defend you, coward?”
“If you haven’t realised it, she’s protecting you from me.”
“You want to go, do you?!”
While Long Xingyun publicly churned spiritual energy, Long Yeli furtively released his own energy to shake Mu Yu up.
“Roar!” The dragon vine emerged on Mu Yu’s shoulder and condescendingly snubbed, “Son of filth.”
Every fiend on board with dragon blood flowing in them was affronted as it was taboo to them. If the others not present heard the insult, they’d be equally incensed. Teeth grinding away, Long Xingyun brayed, “Your death wish is granted!”
Mu Yu caressed the dragon vine’s tail and decided to clean up its mess. “You half-breed dragons not listening when a true dragon is teaching you to wise up?”
Long Yeli, once again, had to stop Long Xingyun from flying off the handle.
“Stop fighting,” chided Gui Dingtian. “Ghost Gate is moving again.”
The waves started rising as high as a hundred metres. Thankfully, Mu Yu helped them weave away. That being said, there wasn’t much he could do about the waves destabilising his formation. Ghost Gate’s ship no longer sailed smoothly; they couldn’t do anything to stop water splashing on them.
“Something isn’t right! When did the infants stop crying, and why are they docilely sitting in their cage despite the water drenching them?” Mu Yu exclaimed, exchanging eye contact with Qiao Xue. “Everyone, wait here!”
Mu Yu and Qiao Xue ran over to Ghost Gate’s ship and stopped inside a one-hundred-metre tall wave to spy. They saw the next wave split Ghost Gate’s ship in two and the members aboard be swept into the ocean as ghost qi.
“They’re fakes?!”
The other fiends rushed over to hear Mu Yu explain, “They must’ve noticed we were tailing them. Damn it, they got us good!”
“If they noticed us tailing them, why didn’t Gui Yeming address us? He’s strong enough to stop all of us. Why did they need to set up this trap?” queried Lu Xiong.
“Maybe it’s because Qiao Xue has the terrain on her side,” guessed Gui Dingtian.
Qiao Xue removed her water spirit from Mu Yu’s sword and converted it into a sky-blue screen, placing it into the water. Her eyes enlarged as she informed, “Something is wrong with this water. I can’t control the water!”
“Of course you can’t.”
Black mist gushed forth from the water surface, pulling the water around the group of fiends a hundred metres above them, forming a water prison!
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