Peaches and Blood Souls
“I… don’t know,” Mu Yu responded, realising he had neglected Tian Ran.
“That’s it? That’s how you’re going to avoid the problem?”
“Neither of us had control over our actions, but I do know that I must take responsibility for my actions. I swear to protect you from all harm henceforth. As for Tian Ran, I will explain to her.”
“You still like her, don’t you?” Qiao Xue bit down on her lip.
“I…” Mu Yu’s unsettled eyes answered for him.
“Pretend it never happened.” Qiao Xue pursed her lips and also averted her gaze, adamant it was wrong, as well as unfair, on everyone if she forced Mu Yu into a relationship with her.
Unable to answer to her, Mu Yu slapped his head and moved on. “Let’s pull ourselves together to handle Gui Ximing first.”
“You cultivate. I stay on lookout,” stated Qiao Xue, summoning her winning fish.
Mu Yu didn’t know what Qiao Xue was thinking. In fact, he didn’t even have his own feelings sorted out. All she wanted was a proper relationship built on mutual affection.
When approximately fifteen minutes remained, Xiaoshuai gave the duo a holler, and they filed into the exit, returning to the eighty-ninth floor.
Though the souls’ cries were creepy, nothing was as creepy as Gui Ximing’s appearance. Floating in the red sky above the contaminated plants, he questioned, “You all back to face your deaths?”
“You trying to prove you’re an idiot?” Mu Yu swivelled around and bound toward the stone down door.
Gui Ximing wiped his smirk off his gaunt face with half of his bones showing and eyes that looked as though they’d drop out of their sockets. By the time he stood up, Mu Yu had already erased the door. Inflamed, he had his blood souls swoop down at the pair.
“Let’s go!”
Being the one who knew where the other exit was, Qiao Xue led the way, jumping, then whooshing off to the left.
Gui Ximing discovered the rocks didn’t show signs of repair, sending him into a flying rage. He, like everyone else, wasn’t informed the doors could be destroyed. The path he left behind to catch up to the two resembled a river of blood.
“You may have ruined the path and my plan, but you’ve also ruined your life. Now you have nowhere to escape to.”
Although Mu Yu could see the other exit behind Gui Ximing, the latter wouldn’t let them pass without a tough fight. Thus, the two combined their water spirit and wood sprit, generating a water barricade. Seeing Gui Ximing’s incoming axe, Mu Yu ejected death qi from his left hand, contaminating the axe. Still, it wasn’t enough to stop the force of the swing. Mu Yu, therefore, absorbed the axe with his hand. Mu Yu, consequently, had to withdraw his death qi in case it went wild again.
Simultaneously firing ice picks, Qiao Xue shook off the blood souls, then turned her water screen into water spheres, incarcerating the blood souls. She quickly froze them before they could break free. All of that effort, nevertheless, was for naught when Gui Ximing snorted since it crumbled her ice poisons, freeing them. Riposted, Qiao Xue hopped back into her mist to join Mu Yu.
Having bypassed Gui Ximing, the two dashed to the exit. Gui Ximing just wouldn’t let up, though, converting his blood souls into picks that he could fire as though a unit of archers fired them. They flitted far too quick for Mu Yu to do anything but grit his teeth and bear with the pain of them impaling him. To the surprise of Gui Ximing and Mu Yu, the picks passed straight through Mu Yu.
“Ow! Ow! Eh?” Xiaoshuai popped out, confused as to why he didn’t feel any pain when the picks were supposed to pierce him. Noticing not even Qiao Xue had any holes in her, he remarked, “Is this because of the intimate act you two engaged in?”
Mu Yu flicked Xiaoshuai on the head.
“It must be the peaches we ate from World Manifestation Samsara Cycle Mountain,” the dragon vine asserted.
“I think it must be due to World Manifestation Samsara Cycle’s own settings. I’m assuming its energy is circulating inside us now. Since only souls can enter the cycle of reincarnation, it must be a tool for protecting souls,” Xiaoshuai hypothesised.
“How long do the effects last?”
“I don’t have an exact number, but not very long, so we better get a move on.”
Mu Yu watched Gui Ximing’s blood souls go straight through his body and chortled. “Perfect.”
“Yes, perfect for me to bisect you!” sarcastically said Gui Ximing, cleaving down with his axe.
Mu Yu had no time to answer with anything besides raising Shadow Splitter Sword. By a stroke of luck, the organ-rumbling blow launched Mu Yu toward the exit, and Qiao Xue immediately raced over in Wood Spirit.
“Gui Ximing, you’re going to have to do better than that if you want to kill me,” Mu Yu provoked, running through the exit with Qiao Xue.
“Don’t worry, you will die in here!”
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