Selfish Fiend
For the last twenty hours, the dragon vine hummed a tune to itself as it followed Mu Yu’s directions, while Xiaoshuai, who could understand the formations popping into Mu Yu’s head, kept imagining a variety of dishes. Qiao Xue was thoroughly impressed with Mu Yu’s ability to comprehend all the complex patterns gushing in rapidly.
Long Xingyun suddenly spun to the passage behind him and cracked a smirk. “Halt, you two! This is no place for Ghost Gate’s people to be wandering into.”
Mu Yu obviously heard Long Xingyun when the latter deliberately turned up the volume. Mu Yu looked over, losing his train of thought for a split second. Nevertheless, Mu Yu turned back to his task since he judged Long Xingyun was strong enough to stop the two intruders.
Hearing Long Xingyun engaged in battle in his fiend form, Mu Yu knew what was coming. Hence, he warned, “Long Yeli, stay put!”
“My young master is in danger!” disputed Long Yeli, stopping before he ran through the pillars, which would’ve sabotaged Mu Yu’s efforts up until now.
“If he can’t even handle two Spirit Severing Realm Seventh Layer weaklings, he deserves to die! If you screw up and disrupt Ocean Archfiend’s release, I hope you have excuses ready for when your king questions you,” argued Mu Yu.
“How about I go give him a hand just in case?” proposed Qiao Xue, trying to stop Long Yeli from letting his emotions drive him.
“You’re too far away. If you move around thoughtlessly, you’ll throw the pillars into disarray.”
“Argh!”
Long Xingyun suddenly flitted over, landing near a fingertip-sized rock, thereby moving it. As a consequence, the others started moving.
“Xingyun!” cried Qiao Xue.
Mu Yu teleported over to the two intruders and poked new holes in their throats using Appose Horizon Formation before Qiao Xue could. Then, he teleported to Long Xingyun and held Long Xingyun at sword point. “I warned you already.”
“Mu Yu, don’t kill him!” Qiao Xue yelled.
Long Xingyun reverted to his human form and fled behind Qiao Xue, feigning fear. “What are you trying to pull?!”
As a result of Long Xingyun moving about, he messed with the formation yet again, sending Mu Yu off the rails.
“You can’t beat two measly Spirit Severing Realm Seventh Layer cultivators?” Mu Yu rhetorically questioned, fully aware Long Xingyun threw the fight to sabotage him.
Long Xingyun checked Qiao Xue’s reaction, then started breathing heavily. “Of course I can, but don’t forget you injured me a few days ago. I can’t beat them in my current state. If anyone’s responsible for this, it’s you.”
Mu Yu didn’t buy Long Xingyun, a prince, didn’t have a single healing pill on him, and he was lying to someone educated on pills and poison.
“Don’t blame me just because you can’t figure out the formation. See the sort of man he is, Qiao Xue? He’s falsely accusing me.”
“Really?” Mu Yu uttered, eyes narrowed.
“Yeah, you’re just grasping at straws to excuse your failure,” framed Long Xingyun, stopping at nothing to try and liberate the fiend king as a means of raising his standing.
Qiao Xue, who couldn’t tell if Long Xingyun was lying or not, inquired, “Mu Yu, have you solved Open Marsh Shore Formation yet?”
“No.”
“Qiao Xue, he’s just fooling you. We don’t need a human’s help. We can liberate Ocean Archfiend as long as we three work together,” persuaded Long Xingyun, resisting a grin.
“I’m done,” Mu Yu declared, walking off and making a linden tree out of Wood Spirit to rest under.
Xiaoshuai and the dragon vine hopped onto the tree and resumed their apple party.
Qiao Xue could tell Mu Yu was livid and understandably so. She wanted to implore him to help again, but she refrained from doing something she deemed shameless. “Let’s come up with something else, then.”
“Mu Yu, why don’t you help Qiao Xue?” Xiaoshuai queried via Gentle Wind Interlinked Hearts Formation.
Mu Yu, who took issue with Qiao Xue defending Long Xingyun deep down, shook his head, expressing, “We’ll see.”
“You know how to solve it, don’t you?” inquired the dragon vine.
Mu Yu pretended he was deaf.
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