Ancient Secret
Gui Ximing wasn’t under any restriction in Mu Yu’s domain, and the separation from his twins was all an elaborate act! Even his supposed struggle against Mu Yu was a ruse to lull Mu Yu into a false sense of security, all in order to trap Mu Yu within his ghost qi domain.
“You want to know why your domain doesn’t impact me?” Gui Ximing asked from the sky.
“Couldn’t care less,” Mu Yu blandly answered, surprising Gui Ximing.
Gui Ximing swung his long axe drenched in blood as a threat. “Last chance. Show me the way out, or I’ll kill you and use your soul to find my way out.”
“There’s only one way out. Knowing you, you wouldn’t try it.”
Mu Yu’s gentle hand swimming across his body signalled for the white light to erase the ghost qi.
Gui Yuzi pointed his axe at Mu Yu, yet not a drop of blood fell from it. “Let’s hear it.”
“Repent,” Mu Yu mocked.
Gui Ximing cackled. “I repent after every kill. Repenting improved my cultivation. I kill and repent.”
“That’s the difference between us.”
“Correction: the difference between us is that I can kill you.”
Gui Ximing had no idea what Mu Yu was blithering about. Regardless, a problem murder could solve wasn’t a problem. Mu Yu didn’t bother reacting to Gui Ximing’s axe coming down. Gui Ximing sliced Mu Yu in half, only for a white light to manifest where his wounds were, healing them instantly.
“You know what Reverend Xuan Jizi’s domain is?” Mu Yu asked.
“I couldn’t give a toss!”
Gui Ximing cleaved Mu Yu again.
“When will it finally dawn on him that he’s just killing an illusion the formation is spawning?” questioned Xiaoshuai, laughing.
“I just hope they have fun,” sarcastically answered Mu Yu, watching Gui Ximing try to cleave him from a distance
“How are we getting out of here?” Xiaoshuai asked.
“Haha.”
Once Mu Yu resumed crossing the bridge, Gui Ximing emerged where Mu Yu was and watched the fight Mu Yu was watching.
“Mu Yu, did you really think I couldn’t tell it was an illusion? You want to play? Let’s play!”
***
After learning of the situation on Sacred Island, Seahorse Taotao chased after Lu Xiong’s group and opened another path to the west side of the island, thereby costing them a few days’ delay.
“Young Master Xingyun, did you really not meet Qiao Xue?” sternly questioned Lu Xiong, confronting the prince at night.
Long Xingyun quickly consulted his accomplices with a glance and then explained, “We saw her with Mu Yu, but he sacrificed her to the mermaids in order to escape!”
“That’s absurd. Mu Yu wouldn’t abandon her,” argued Lu Xiong, growing suspicious of the prince.
“You can never tell what someone is truly thinking. Elder Lu, don’t forget that you’re a fiend and that Mu Yu is a human!” asserted Long Yeli.
“Qiao Xue will be fine. You are better of researching this Fiend-Sealing Pagoda so that we can rescue Ocean Fiend King!” commanded Long Xingyun, even posing as a commander.
Lu Xiong had no means of opposing Long Xingyun without allies or his cultivation.
Bulldemon King, one of the fiend souls’ six leaders, said, “We can’t go near the pagoda as souls. Not even the humans have figured out how to get inside, so it is on your generation.”
“I am not your junior. I told you I’m from your era. I’m old enough to be your grandpa,” fumed Lu Xiong.
“Sorry, I forgot. We never met at Second Heaven, did we?”
Lu Xiong did a lap of Fiend-Sealing Pagoda, then reported, “The domain energy inside it is forbidding me from getting too close. We can’t open it. Only someone of White Ape Fiend King’s calibre would be able to get through.”
“Is there no alternative?” Long Xingyun inquired, frowning.
Lu Xiong stopped grabbing his beard. “We need a human with formation energy on par to Xuan Jizi. According to what you told me, the energy is sealed inside the imperial city.”
“Tell us something we don’t know,” grouched Long Xingyun.
“Prior to his departure, White Ape Fiend King trusted me with something that can help Ocean Fiend King. However, it is compulsory for us to discuss with the humans how to enter the pagoda.”
“Discuss with humans? Get out of here!” brayed Long Xingyun.
“The pagoda isn’t used solely for sealing Ocean Fiend King. We have no choice but to cooperate with them to achieve our goal. White Ape Fiend King made it clear we aren’t just here to rescue him.”
“What other secret is there? Why didn’t you tell us earlier?”
“An ancient secret that requires us to rescue the fiend kings. Humans also know about it.”
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