That Wasn’t Even One Exchange
“Man, he’s cunning,” Xiaoshuai griped.
“What next?” the dragon vine inquired.
“Nothing but to wait for the connecting passage to change and then rush to the ninety-ninth floor. I’m worried about Qiao Xue. Based on my calculations, we’ll need twelve hours to get there, at the very least, while Gui Ximing only needs roughly eleven and a half hours,” answered Mu Yu, who then proceeded to try breaking Divine Lunar Stone using a myriad of methods to no avail.
“Xiaoshuai, catch. Try breaking this stone with your claws.”
Slice! Though Xiaoshuai impressively sliced the stone, it’d automatically stitched itself up just as Gui Ximing could. Hopeless, he proposed, “Since the flesh-winged horny monsters fear sunlight more than anything, let’s see if the sun can melt it.”
“Or, maybe we can deploy Dad’s ‘Eternal Forbidden Zone’ to lock it up forever,” Mu Yu added, recalling Ku Mu suggesting sealing the monsters in “Eternal Mystic Spirit” after killing them.
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“Qiao Xue, I just remembered a method Grandpa taught me. I’ll show you.”
Long Xingyun, coating his arms in dragon scales, fired golden love hearts from his scales to the pillars, a circus trick he commonly used to woo girls back home, including Qiao Xue. Usually, she’d clap; this time, she was in no mood. As a matter of fact, his jokes got on her nerves because they weren’t helping when she stayed behind only to try and help free the fiend king.
Seeing Mu Yu standing in the ripples, Qiao Xue shook her head, aware she was imagining things because she yearned for him.
“What do you think, Qiao Xue?”
“Mm,” Qiao Xue absentmindedly replied.
Long Xingyun popped down next to Qiao Xue. “Rest assured. We’ll get him out of there. Didn’t Elder Lu mention White Ape Archfiend entrusted him with an item to rescue Ocean Archfiend? We just need to wait for Elder Lu’s arrival.”
When Long Xingyun tried to hold Qiao Xue’s hand, she reactively jerked her hand away, irritating him since she let Mu Yu hold her hand. She cast her eyes on the entrance and led the conversation back on track. “I hope he make sit here soon, then.”
In truth, Qiao Xue was waiting for Mu Yu.
Long Yeli approached the two and suggested, “Why don’t we search for him? We should find out what’s holding him up?”
“Mu Yu said the exit paths could change at any moment. If we leave this floor, there’s no telling if we can even come back without Mu Yu navigating. We should wait here,” contested Qiao Xue.
“What would a show off know? If he could solve the formation, he would’ve solved it already. A few days my foot.”
“Xingyun, the owner of this pagoda is a formation caster just as Mu Yu is. If you’re asking who has the best chances of liberating Ocean Archfiend, it’s Mu Yu.”
“Hmph.” Long Xingyun suddenly spun to the entrance and sprang to his feet. “Ghost Gate members have come seeking death.”
“The fiends are already here, huh? Nice,” sarcastically complimented Gui Ximing, whom Long Xingyun marginalised.
“Xingyun, be wary of Gui Ximing. None of us are his match,” warned Qiao Xue.
“I’ll kill them,” declared Gui Bao.
“Relax. I need them in one piece,” Gui Ximing advised with a grin.
Bridled, Long Xingyun morphed his hands into black claws, leading to Qiao Xue advising, “Don’t be rash, Xingyun.”
“Hahaha, relax, Qiao Xue. Unless they’re an Ascension Realm cultivator, they’re just fodder to me. Long Yeli and I will put them to rest,” Long Xingyun declared, shooting for Gui Ximing, while Long Yeli went for Gui Bao.
“Gui Bao, capture them alive. If I retaliate, they’ll resemble an echidna’s prey. Fiends’ souls are quite potent.”
“It will be a walk in the park.”
Long Yeli caught the black chains Gui Bao and his twin spawned, expecting to snap them with his proud claws. Instead, Gui Bao sent a chilly qi into Long Yeli’s body that scared the latter enough to cry, “Young Master, run!”
Long Yeli transformed into a dragon and burst away from the ghost qi, only to find that Gui Bao’s ghost qi had shut down his fiend energy. Long Xingyun hurtled past Long Yeli, using the latter’s capture as his opportunity.
Qiao Xue fired ice picks at Gui Bao in desperation, only to have her picks turned to puddles of black water. Some of the splashing water stained Long Xingyun, dropping him to the ground due to his fiend energy shutting down.
“That wasn’t even one exchange,” mocked Gui Bao, staring down at Long Xingyun. He looked up to Qiao Xue, who was fighting off ghost qi and questioned, “Gui Ximing, whose body do you want?”
“Those two have dragon vine souls, but the Body Synthesis one’s dragon soul is weak, and his body isn’t in as good shape as the young one. As for that girl, I wanted her body from the moment I saw her with Mu Yu. I can control her body perfectly using ghost qi. It’s a pity she’s a girl. What a dilemma.”
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