Skeleton Soldier Tussle (Part 1)
Mu Yu used the principles of Shadow Puppet Formation when he used will to control the stars during his entrance exam to Formation Sect, specifically when he was solving the third hexagram. Therefore, casting it onto bones was even easier now that he had learnt the formation.
Mu Yu constructed the five-metre tall skeleton soldier Xiaoshuai designed, a round body and tiny head.
He Liankong glided over to query, “Don’t tell me this ugly thing is the design you came up with after all that time?”
“Is there a problem with it?” Mu Yu asked.
“Usually, skeleton soldiers are ten metres tall. Yours is only five metres tall. Won’t you consider adding some height? We still have plenty of bones if you need them.”
“I think this is good enough. The more compact it is, the more agile it can be.”
“Yes, but…” He Liankong pointed over to the rowdy and confident fiends. “Take a look at their skeleton soldier. Their skeleton soldier today looks, at least, fifteen-metres tall, has two big, sharp claws on its back and claws a metre long. To be fair, their naturally larger bones means their skeleton soldier is always bigger. We have to build one relatively close to match theirs.”
Mu Yu lifted the corner of his lips. “Don’t worry, Elder. I won’t risk your femur.”
“… All right, then. Use your first bout as an intelligence collection opportunity even if you lose. Be careful, nonetheless, for you must be in the heat of the battle as a commander. One more thing: your cultivation is inadequate, so you can’t take their soldier down using spiritual energy. Their bones are from Body Synthesis Realm fiend beasts and above. Your only chance of winning is relying on our soul items.”
“This ignorance is a joke,” insulted Gui Yuzi.
“I don’t see you laughing,” Mu Yu remarked.
“That’s because it’s a bad joke. I’d rather find something more useful to do with the bones than watch you embarrass us.”
“Gui Yuzi, just butt out of it. We’ve agreed on a bet, so stay in your lane.”
“You sound eager to give me your soul item,” responded Gui Yuzi, smirking as one would expect from a villain.
Upon setting foot in the one hundred square metre arena at the border, where exit was only possible once someone lost, the fiends burst out guffawing at Mu Yu’s skeleton soldier.
Bulldemon King, one of the fiends’ commanders, scoffed from the air. “I’m surprised there’s a living human here. In saying that, are you trying to be comical, hahaha.”
Mu Yu tapped his skeleton soldier and replied to the fiend with long bull horns, “Well, I find a clumsy, tall skeleton soldier considerably more comical.”
“I shall bestow benevolence and show you how to command a skeleton soldier,” responded Bulldemon King, returning into the skull of his skeleton soldier.
Mu Yu tapped his skeleton soldier again to activate it then created a chair to hop onto. Xiaoshuai sat among the bones on Mu Yu’s right hand side and enthused, “Let’s show the dumb bull how it’s done!”
Mu Yu was also eager to see the defeated look on Bulldemon King’s face.
Bulldemon King laughed as he swung his tail over. He Liankong clenched a fist and clutched it with his other hand. Gui Yuzi folded his arms and smirked.
Mu Yu’s skeleton soldier sprouted wings, wings with formations imbued on them to empower the skeleton soldier with a flight ability! Mu Yu’s skeleton soldier used the tail as a launch platform to get around the back of the fiends’ skeleton soldier and ripped off the tail! Mu Yu’s strategy was a demonstration of timing, accuracy, using momentum to produce extreme output and aiming for one of the tree fatal spots on the fiends’ skeleton soldiers.
“Time for you to go down, Big Bull!” exclaimed Xiaoshuai.
“I underestimated you, but I won’t make the same mistake twice!”
Bulldemon King tried to snatch back his tail, but Xiaoshuai used his knowledge of their soul items weak spots and stomped it to bits.
“Divine Bull Skeleton Soldier? You think you can match my almighty Transformer?! Hahaha!”
When Divine Bull Skeleton Soldier swung its claws, Transformer hopped back, then instantly transformed into Xiaoshuai! Mu Yu certainly didn’t want to go with that form. Howbeit, Xiaoshuai insisted.
“A rodent?”
“Who you calling ‘Rodent’?! My name is Xiaoshuai, ‘xiao’ as in ‘small’ and ‘shuai’ as in ‘handsome!”
Transformer vaulted up.
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