Two and a Half Ghosties (Part 1)
“Didn’t expect Gui Ximing to be able to communicate with his buddies. Damn that skull is something else.”
“Damn Gui Ximing. Why won’t he die?” muttered the dragon vine.
“There must be a drawback or flaw to Blood Domain Demon Skull. There’s no way it grants immortality,” Xiaoshuai verbalised.
“If he could control blood souls with it, I wonder if souls can also control the skull,” Mu Yu theorised. “Let’s follow them for now. We’ll kill the two of them on the forty-sixth floor, where their cultivation can’t carry them.”
Arriving on the forty-third floor, Ghost Gate’s duo stopped at the bottom of a waterfall, which was located at the end of the valley connecting the two floors. Gui Bao suggested, “Gui Ximing says the domain on the forty-sixth floor completely restricts spiritual energy utilisation. Therefore, you should stay on standby here to back us up if we need you. We’ll need to return to the previous floor to reach the ninety-ninth floor.”
“I’ll be waiting,” responded Gui Die, staying at the entrance while Gui Bao headed to the other exit.
“Damn, he’s not a brain dead one,” cussed Xiaoshuai.
“Yeah, we’re going to have to get rid of Gui Die if we want to follow after Gui Bao,” affirmed Mu Yu.
“Can we even beat a Body Synthesis Realm Third Layer cultivator?” questioned the dragon vine.
“No. We didn’t bury Gui Ximing that deep; I reckon Gui Bao won’t even need long to dig him up. If we can’t finish Gui Die before Gui Bao returns, we’re in deep trouble. Since they’re heading to the ninety-ninth floor, we’ll also have to head back there. I doubt the three there could take them. At the very least, I want to ensure Qiao Xue is safe. I can’t just destroy the exits since Ghost Gate knows how to navigate the pagoda.”
Gui Bao, who came back with Gui Ximing’s gruesome head, returned less than two hours later. “Your body parts have been sealed in various places. Do we have to find them? It’s going to take days to find them, you know?”
Gui Ximing, who was floating in the air, discharged energy, shaking off the dirt all over his head. “No need. As Blood Domain Demon Skull has merged with me, I am more than capable of subduing the fiend king in my current state. Let’s head straight to the ninety-ninth floor.”
Mu Yu lied in ambush in the woods back on the forty-third floor already, knowing Ghost Gate’s trio would also have to wait six hours there for the layover. “The next floor connecting here will be the sixty-seventh floor.”
“The Momo floor?” queried the dragon vine.
“Big Earthworm, can you stop Momo-ing everything?”
“Shut it, both of you. We might have to leverage Primordial World Creation Formation to slow down the two and a half ghosties.”
“You mean we can conjure things to stall them?” asked Xiaoshuai, perking up with energy upon hearing his favourite way of playing – watching people try to fight things as entertainment
“I bet Momo would scare the piss out of them,” opined the dragon vine, nodding.
“We could. In saying that, don’t imagine her cultivation, or we’ll exhaust ourselves trying to give her the output of a level seven fiend beast,” cautioned Mu Yu.
“I have a genius idea. You two follow my commands. We need to show strategy and finesse,” enthused Xiaoshuai.
Mu Yu linked up their minds using Gentle Wind Interlinked Hearts Formation to unify their manifestations and split their mental energy up. Though Xiaoshuai was creative, lots of ideas were impromptu ones, which was why Mu Yu occasionally smoothed out the edges and perfected them.
Mu Yu cast an invisibility formation on himself and followed Ghost Gate’s team to the sixty-seventh floor after a small delay. Ghost Gate quickly left the small island to search for the exit to the second exit on the floor.
“All right, everyone is in place. Let the show begin, hehehe,” enthused Xiaoshuai.
Gui Bao, who was leading the pack, asked, “How do we find the exit when this floor is so massive?”
“According to Elder Gui Yuzi’s information, the two exits only appear far because of the illusion formation. In actuality, they aren’t that far,” explicated Gui Ximing.
“Is that it?” inquired Gui Die, pointing to a levitating island that resembled the home of deities with a waterfall pouring into the ocean.
There was nothing to be surprised about at this point since they’d seen an assortment of scenery ever since entering Fiend-Sealing Pagoda.
“The island resembles Floating Celestial Island,” mumbled Gui Ximing.
“Formation Sect designed Floating Celestial Island; it’s reasonable to assume Xuan Jizi was the one who designed it, then. For all we know, Floating Celestial Island may be modelled after this one,” stated Gui Bao.
Ghost Gate’s team didn’t see the giant silhouette following them from depths of the ocean as they made their way to the island.
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