Interference
“Mu Yu, I ask that you stay out of this; I don’t want to be enemies with you. I will die protecting Thousand Inch Ocean Ruler,” Lu Xiong asserted, raising his guard against Mu Yu.
“Where did you find it? This floor?” Mu Yu inquired.
“Yes, on this mountain. What, you also covet it?” Gui Han questioned.
“Why are you asking the obvious?” Mu Yu ribbed, sweeping his gaze over Ghost Gate’s duo to the fiends.
The dragon tortoise and Lu Xiong reacted nervously for Gui Han and Gui Die were already giving them a hard time, though the same could be said for their opponents.
“Mu Yu, can you stay out of this out of respect for Lord True Dragon?” pleaded Lu Xiong.
Mu Yu fixed his gaze on Ghost Gate’s duo. “No.”
“Mu Yu, you…”
“Ol’ Lu, what now?” asked the dragon tortoise, clutching a soul item with a vice-like grip.
Lu Xiong shook his head, indicating they wouldn’t last.
Gui Han made an attempt at laughing cordially. “You plan to work with us, then? Never would I imagine there’d come a day where we set aside our differences. Either way, I like the idea. As for who gets to walk away with it in the end, we’ll let destiny take its course.”
Gui Die sprang for the dragon tortoise. Meanwhile, Lu Xiong vigilantly, yet despairingly, watched Gui Han and Mu Yu.
Mu Yu held Wood Spirit up, dispersing the ghost qi Gui Han discharged, and guarded Lu Xiong. Mu Yu asked Gui Han, “What makes you think I have to work with you?”
Gui Han tucked his chin and looked upward. “Mu Yu, we should be putting aside our differences when facing the fiend race. Are you saying you will betray mankind again?!”
“Betray? Again? Listen, you snake: I’m sticking my nose in this precisely because I’m human. I won’t let any of you ghost freaks harm any fiend king.”
“M-Mu Yu, you’re helping us?” stuttered Lu Xiong, assuming Qiao Xue was the only reason he’d stand up for them.
“For as long as I’m around, Ghost Gate won’t get their hands on Thousand Inch Ocean Ruler because it belongs to Fiend King Yujiang,” replied Mu Yu, basing his decision based off of everything he learnt about the fiend kings and the lunar race.
“They weren’t wrong when they labelled you a traitor to humankind.”
“Says the real traitor. Don’t get me started on you colluding with the lunar race. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the world is better off without Ghost Gate. I’ll purge you now!” Mu Yu declared, shooting Shadow Splitter Sword at Gui Han.
“Gui Die, we’re retreating!” commanded Gui Han, hurtling without hesitation.
Lu Xiong cut Gui Han’s path off. “Mu Yu, though I don’t know why you’ve chosen to help us, I don’t want you to be an extension of our problems. As long as we silence these two, humans won’t accuse you of betraying them.”
“Everyone ought to kill them! Xiaoshuai, Dragon Vine, it’s time to work.”
Xiaoshuai threw away a bone, then jumped up to Mu Yu’s shoulder, while the dragon vine took the other. As Mu Yu cast Gentle Wind Interlinked Hearts Formation, Lu Xiong jubilantly cried, “Dragon tattoos? Lord True Dragon, you have ascended to Spirit Severing Realm?”
“At least someone’s eyes work,” responded the dragon vine, raising his head to gobble Mu Yu’s sword qi.
Lu Xiong and the dragon tortoise entrusted Gui Han to Mu Yu while they confronted the attractive Gui Die.
“This is payback for the trap you set for me last time,” asserted Mu Yu, aiming Shadow Splitter Sword at Gui Han.
Gui Han huffed through his nose scornfully. “Did you really think you could defeat me?”
“You’re about to find out.”
Mu Yu unleashed the first wave of vertical sword qi. Gui Han, surprisingly, didn’t evade. Instead, he conjured rainbow energy on his hand, using it to shield himself in a barrier. Gui Han subsequently drew grey lines and then jabbed it, radiating a crimson beam from the drawing.
Realising what was taking form in the azure dome, Mu Yu shouted, “Where did you get the flesh-winged horny monster from?!”
“You dare disrespect one of our noble lunar gods? Hmph, I hope you’re ready to bear the consequences of your impudence.”
It was only a phantom, but there was no mistaking its power was on par to Chi Yue’s when Mu Yu fought it.
Chi Yue chortled. “You’re the elemental demon, human hybrid who just came in? I shall repay your insults in kind.”
“You’re one of the freaks locked in the prison on the thirty-ninth floor?”
Based off his education and experience on formations, Mu Yu was certain the prisoners couldn’t have escaped their cages when he couldn’t even get close.
“I didn’t want to reveal this, but since you’ve crossed His Lordship, you all must die.” Gui Han transferred yin qi into the flesh-winged horny monster, powering it up to Body Synthesis Realm!
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