Tussle
“Again? Really?”
Gui Ximing didn’t commit to killing Mu Yu. Instead, he feinted to test Mu Yu. Once Mu Yu revealed his branches, Gui Ximing remarked, “Gui Han was right. I need to take a different approach to kill you.”
“You going to fight or just spit?” provoked Mu Yu, confident Wood Spirit could neutralise the six twins if needed be.
Gui Ximing hiked up the corner of his lips and triggered the soul energy within Gui Yuzi’s skull, granting him and his twins soul energy!
“Ah, crap!”
Mu Yu swiftly unleashed a qi breaker. Alas, Gui Ximing thwarted the attack. Mu Yu was quickly put on the back foot, teleporting using Heavenly Star Formation to evade the concerted onslaught Gui Ximing mounted.
“Xiaoshuai, Dragon Vine, time to work!” commanded Mu Yu, summoning Shadow Splitter Sword.
“On it!” responded Xiaoshuai, hopping into position. “Xiaoshuai’s Heavenly Lightning Strike!”
“Gentle Wind Dragon Vine’s Roar!”
Gui Ximing felt threatened upon seeing the formation Mu Yu activated and five fragments of Xiaoshuai’s lightning sword for their power was a force to be reckoned with. Plus, lightning was one of the other elements that could counter ghost qi.
“Surround him!” commanded Gui Ximing, dispatching his arm twins.
Mu Yu compressed the five sword fragments into five blue pearls and scrapped one of them with the tip of Shadow Splitter Sword, imploding the compressed electricity! The electricity of justice transformed into swords, driving the twins back into Gui Ximing.
Gui Ximing threw his axe he cast soul energy on, ploughing through the electricity, before making his retreat. Gui Ximing could feel the electric currents zapping him every now and then. Nevertheless, he was more than capable of shutting them down instantly.
“Already struggling against just one ball of electricity?” Mu Yu jibed, hinting at the four balls still circling him.
The key to their compression combo was Xiaoshuai as opposed to Mu Yu for the reason that Xiaoshuai’s tough body was the only one that could stand the compressive pressure of electricity.
Sure, Gui Ximing could overwhelm Mu Yu if he worked together with all six of his twins. The dilemma arose when he had to factor in their other priorities; he didn’t walk around with six twins solely to raise his combat prowess.
Suddenly, the island’s alarm went off, and the first person Mu Yu thought of was Qiao Xue. Gui Ximing had no cares to spare for who landed on the island, and Mu Yu was distracted with wondering which side of the island she arrived on. Thus, Gui Ximing quickly sneaked over, then generated a ghost banner from the skull’s soul energy.
Mu Yu returned to reality to see the ghouls Gui Yuzi collected from his lifetime dauntlessly racing toward him.
“I shall release you poor souls of your misery.”
After exploding another electric ball, Mu Yu manipulated the lightning into a lightning net to capture the souls. While Mu Yu compressed the net the squealing souls were in, Gui Ximing zipped past the net and hammered down at Mu Yu’s head. Left with no time to slip the attack, Mu Yu raised his arm to guard, receiving a fracture as he went reeling.
Gui Ximing gave Mu Yu no time to breathe, forcing Mu Yu to fight through the pain and bat a third electric ball back at Gui Ximing’s hand. Gui Ximing forced himself not to shy away from the electricity ball and rammed his hand down on Shadow Splitter Sword. As a consequence of Mu Yu failing to cancel Gui Ximing’s attack, Shadow Splitter Sword ricocheted off Gui Ximing’s hand, piercing through the chest of a cultivator statue on one of the stone pillars!
The stone pillar’s formation activated, coating it in white light, and prompting the others to come to life. More pillars sprouted of the ground in columns, totalling eight-one pillars in total, positioning the two in the centre. The pillars started to rearrange themselves, separating the two in one maze each.
Mu Yu thought he’d take the opportunity to make a break for the palace, only for the pillars to move in the way. When he finally stopped trying to outsmart them, he discovered he was going further and further away from the palace.
“All right, maze, you win that round.”
Gui Ximing’s attempts to destroy the pillars were futile for his spiritual energy would just vanish into the pillars.
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