Ancient Battlefield
“He really is smarter than the other ghosties we’ve come across,” complimented Xiaoshuai occasionally looking over his shoulder.
“He is, but I’m still in charge of this domain,” responded Mu Yu, creating a fork up ahead and heading down the path on the right.
“Let’s get out of here,” suggested Xiaoshuai, frustrated with Gui Ximing’s constant tailing.
“He will find the way out if we leave. I don’t think I can defeat him outside.”
Mu Yu had figured out how to use natural energy and was getting closer to figuring out domain formations.
The dragon vine yawned. “Illusions aren’t cutting it, so what’s the plan?”
Mu Yu smirked. “Who says illusions don’t work on him?”
Mu Yu forged another fork in the road and turned left.
“Why is the soul item indicating Mu Yu went left instead of right? It’s never done this before… As long as I keep an eye on him, Mu Yu will have to show me the way out once he’s out of energy. I’ll send ghost qi down the right path while I tail him on the left path to be safe.”
Being the cautious type, Gui Ximing constantly cast ghost qi down the alternative path he didn’t take. Hence, he never lost track of Mu Yu. After tailing Mu Yu for another hour, though, he furrowed his brows. “That’s my illusion that’s still fighting Mu Yu… Am I back to where I started? The skull is indicating where Mu Yu went…”
Gui Ximing didn’t encounter any forks when he tried going straight, yet he was back to where he was after two hours of walking. “Tch!”
“Hahaha, Dad’s Mirror Formation had me good back then.” Mu Yu commented as he watched Gui Ximing shake with anger. “Every trait can be exploited. His soul item is still going to show him the correct direction because I’m outside. All righty, let’s get out of here now.”
Mu Yu cast another Mirror Formation and then leaped off the bridge. People would never find the exit for they were afraid of falling when the exit was below them the entire time. On his way to the ground, the formation around fluctuated similarly to water. The fact that the stone bridge was now behind him was a clear sign that he had successfully crossed it.
“Wow, the eight pillars are actually made from underwater lava. The white formation lines on them are the beginning of where the water flows and ends.”
For Mu Yu to make sense of the formation text, he needed to use his own approach to deduce the entire formation since the significance of the text required him to comprehend for himself.
Mu Yu could dip his hands into the white formation lines. Upon circling around the stone pillar, the palace was replaced with an ocean, him suspended in the sky. Since he wasn’t among the humans and fiends present below, he understood he was in an illusion formation.
“This must be the battlefield when the fiend race and human race waged war on this island.” Mu Yu saw the elder, who was dressed in white, standing next to him creating enormous changes to the landscape with a wave of his hand. “Is that Reverend Xuan Jizi?”
The current four human leaders watched Yujiang, a middle-aged man in green riding waves, through the battlefield.
“Xuan Jizi, are you humans really going to proceed with this act of treachery?!” belted Fiend King Yujiang.
“Your race was the one who crossed the boundary, so you must pay the price,” replied Reverend Xuan Jizi, voice clear and business only.
“So, because humans don’t want to fight back, we have to also yield?!”
“Have you not learnt a thing after what happened in Second Heaven? White Ape Fiend King’s actions ruined the entire heaven. We won’t allow you to ruin Third Heaven, too.”
“Unlike you, we don’t want to live in ignorance for all of time! If you want to stop us, we’ll have to settle this by force!”
Fiend King Yujiang summoned a myriad of fiend beasts from his ocean. Xuan Jizi swung his arm down, signalling for cultivators to sally forth. The two leaders watched each other while their allies fought the opposition to the death. The pressure from their energy prevented the water within a hundred square kilometres from moving an inch. Their allies took their fight elsewhere, lest they were caught in the fight between titans.
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