Treacherous Waters (Part 2)
Qiao Xue reacted the strongest of everyone as she was at Ghost Gate’s mercy on Second Heaven. Lu Xiong and Gui Dingtian pulled Mu Yu behind them, adamant on protecting the dragon vine. The winning fish returned to Qiao Xue’s body. The dragon vine made the wise decision, hiding inside Mu Yu’s clothing. The fact that even Body Synthesis Realm fiends were under heavy tension in the face of Gui Yeming’s qi meant that he had ascended beyond Body Synthesis Realm.
“I thought it’s about time I allocate your reward for tailing me all this time.”
Gui Dingtian called for his shell, covering everyone inside as it flitted past them.
Gui Yeming slammed waves against the shell, rocking Gui Dingtian, then remarked, “Pretty tough shell you have there.”
Gui Yeming slammed down on one side of the shell, flipping it onto its side and cracking it. Blood seeped out from the teeth Gui Dingtian clamped together to resist the impact. Owing to his link to his shell, Gui Dingtian’s back suffered the same damage that his shell did.
Lu Xiong and Qiao Xue hurried to Gui Dingtian’s aid, while Mu Yu fed him healing pills, hoping that the pills designed for humans would work for fiends.
“I-I’m fine,” assured Gui Dingtian, straightening his legs with Lu Xiong’ assistance.
Crack! At the same moment the shell cracked open, Gui Dingtian’s legs crumbled beneath him, and everyone inside the shell was thrown out. There was nowhere to run inside the prison of water bars.
“Into the water!”
The fiends dove down, disregarding whoever gave the direction. They thought they would get away since they were a team familiar with wet terrains. Alas, Ghost Gate wouldn’t set a trap that didn’t take diving into the equation. Ghost Gate cast their ghost qi into the water, creating a barrier that bounced back the fiends who tried to dive.
Mu Yu stuck Wood Spirit into the water, hoping to erase the energy. The problem was the energy would take a long time – too long in their case – to erase.
Even though Lu Xiong was carrying a comatose Gui Dingtian, the former still stuck to Mu Yu’s side in order to protect the dragon vine.
“Mu Yu, protect Lord True Dragon. I will cut open a path!”
Lu Xiong passed Gui Dingtian to Qiao Xue and transformed into a five-metre-tall brown deer with sharp antlers two-metres long. Lu Xiong concentrated all of his spiritual energy to his antlers and pelted into the waves, creating an opening and holding it open with his fiend energy.
“Now! Go!”
Gui Yeming ignored the fiends bolting through and, instead, seized Lu Xiong’s antlers with ghost qi hands. “You’re a nuisance, although you do have some praiseworthy courage.”
“Go!” Lu Xiong roared one last time before the opening closed.
“Elder Deer!”
Mu Yu caught Qiao Xue, who tried to run back to Lu Xiong’s rescue, only to then be faced with another wave acting as a wall.
“Did you curs think you’d actually escape my Thousand Waves Wall?”
Expediting the growth of despair taking hold of his prey, Gui Yeming hurled Lu Xiong, without his long antlers, onto the surface in front of his prey. Mu Yu raced over to help Lu Xiong, who reverted to human form upon landing and was barely conscious.
“Unforgivable!” Qiao Xue thundered, body trembling with boiling rage.
Mu Yu pulled the water spirit around Qiao Xue’s sword over and fused it with Wood Spirit. Wood Spirit on its own couldn’t nullify ghost qi, while Water Spirit couldn’t control water because of Gui Yeming’s ghost qi contaminating it. Water, at the end of the day, was water, though. As long as Qiao Xue wasn’t afraid of the ghost qi, she could seize authority over the ocean again!
As the two linked their minds again, they came to realise that they could sense the ocean’s movements thanks to Wood Spirit’s death qi.
“Death by Water and Wood.”
Mu Yu unleashed black and white qi, spurring Wood Spirit to sprout black branches in the ocean, thereby sucking up the ghost qi to clear it.
“Get in!”
Mu Yu grabbed the two elders and raced into the big bubble to dive.
Though surprised the water and wood combo could overcome the trap he engineered, Gui Yeming had faith in his overwhelming cultivation and, therefore, spawned a hand in the water to smack the bubble! Green leaves in bubbles emerged from exterior of the bubble, erasing ghost qi as the overpowering ghost qi deleted the leaves one by one. Nonetheless, kill one leaf, and ten more emerged.
Gui Yeming launched another hand at them, crushing the bubble too fast for Mu Yu to react. The fiends reverted to their fiend forms to swim more efficiently. Long Xingyun and Long Yeli clung to the hippopotamus since the two of them weren’t as proficient as the others when it came to swimming.
Qiao Xue’s water spirit tied her to Mu Yu, who manage to catch only Lu Xiong in a last-ditch effort; however, a vortex spawned out of the blue and sucked all of the fiends in.
Gui Yeming chased them over to the vortex and brayed, “If it wasn’t time to catch my ferry, I’d maul every single one of you!”
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