Newborn Sacrifice
“Qiao Xue, we believe we can’t get near the balls because we aren’t closing in fast enough. As a 90% true dragon, I can try using my secret technique to raise my speed,” Long Xingyun opined in a loud voice for Mu Yu to hear.
“Young Master, that would cause you a lot of damage, though,” Long Yeli objected.
“Yes, but it’s negligible if we can liberate Ocean Fiend King.”
Body shining grey, Long Xingyun powered up to zip toward the closest cylindrical pillar. It was a foregone conclusion that he would never reach it, though. How was he ever going to move faster than Reverend Xuan Jizi when his cultivation was inferior? If relying on dragon blood purity worked, Mu Yu would have had the dragon vine do so already.
“Moron,” Mu Yu commented, dangling a straw from his mouth.
“Qiao Xue, where are you going?!” Long Xingyun hollered upon seeing Qiao Xue run off to seek Mu Yu’s help after spending hours and getting nowhere.
“Keep thinking. I’m going to take a breather,” replied Qiao Xue, going to the linden tree. She looked up to where Mu Yu was lying to query, “Can I come up?”
“Suit yourself,” Mu Yu responded, extending a branch from his side for Qiao Xue.
Joining Mu Yu at his side, Qiao Xue expressed, “Sorry, I didn’t know if Xingyun was genuinely injured or not. He’s always been that arrogant and pushy. Don’t take it to heart.”
“I won’t waste my time on his kind.”
If Mu Yu wanted an easy payday, he would have had opted to slap Long Xingyun around over Gui Ximing any day.
“We don’t know enough Ocean Fiend King, so we will have to pray Elder Lu can make it here. He might know how to release Ocean Fiend King… Could… you try again? I know I’m asking a lot of you, b-”
“Let me spell it out for you: it makes no difference how many times I try if there’s someone waiting to sabotage me each time. The fiend king is secondary to stopping me from one upping him.”
Honestly, Qiao Xue was equally frustrated with Long Xingyun’s attitude. She knew he wasn’t cut out to be a leader. If he was in power, the fiend race could never harmoniously interact with humans. Sadly, she couldn’t just let Mu Yu butcher him as a fiend.
“I’m going to go search for Pagoda Spirit in order to control the entire pagoda,” stated Mu Yu.
“You said it could be on any floor, however, so how will you find it?”
“Testing my luck is more pragmatic than wasting my time here. That’ll save me the hassle of defusing the formation, as well.”
“… Okay. I came here to release Ocean Fiend King, so I’ll keep brainstorming here.”
Mu Yu hoped Qiao Xue would come along. Nevertheless, he didn’t want to force her if she had a task to complete. He packed away Wood Spirit to leave, promising, “Stay safe. I’ll notify Elder Lu if I bump into him.”
“We not going to put that scoundrel in his place?” questioned the dragon vine.
“Yeah, you already know where Open Marsh Shore’s weakness is. We could give him a teeth-dislodging face slap. I just love to see him defeated,” added Xiaoshuai.
“I’m not trying to be a hypocrite. If I had to slap everyone who offended me, I’d be the same kind as him. If he doesn’t want me interfering, I have no reason to. Let him make a fool of himself.”
Mu Yu started entering floors randomly to search for Spirit Pagoda; however, his exploration trip on the was cut short when he saw two Body Synthesis Realm cultivators pass by him in a forest.
“Senior Brother Gui Bao, I have obtained Divine Lunar Stone; however, a Zi Yue possessed Gui Han, killing him,” Gui Die reported in a frigid voice.
Gui Bao scanned the surroundings for eavesdroppers. “Gui Han shouldn’t have used it. It’s impossible for their phantoms to fight without a sacrificial offering. I’m not surprised he died a sacrifice. Don’t repeat his mistake if you don’t want to die.”
“I understand. Why didn’t we bring the newborns onto the island? If we did, the lunar gods could use them to return to life. Wouldn’t it be easier for them to find Ocean Fiend King?”
“Never ever forget that lunar gods don’t obey us. Infants may be ideal sacrifices, but they’ll be too weak to fight for some time upon taking over the infant.”
“Understood. I have completed my mission and am preparing to leave the pagoda to pass the stone on to our lord. What about you?”
“Come with me to the forty-sixth floor first.”
“What for?”
“Gui Ximing notified me that he was stuck there. We need to wait here for an hour for the passage to connect,” answered Gui Bao, leaning on a tree next to the exit.
“Why would he be trapped?”
“Mu Yu’s credit, apparently. He also told me that there’s an active formation there that we need to be wary of.”
All of you to deserve to die, Mu Yu raged in his mind.
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