Eerie White Bones
Qiao Xue felt Wood Spirit relieving her of the cold and nursing her split skin. Next, she felt Mu Yu’s arms and hand on her head. The two elements were the raft she needed while she was clinging to the last snapping straw, instilling life and energy back in her.
“Don’t thoughtlessly use your ability and hurt yourself, okay?” Feeling Qiao Xue’s thumping heart, Mu Yu teased, “You like my hugs? I can give you them every day.”
With a beet-red face, Qiao Xue broke out of Mu Yu’s embrace, getting back on her feet. “Stop with the jokes. We have to fight off Ghost Gate’s duo first.”
“They really are a nuisance.”
Gui Ximing locked his eyes onto Mu Yu. “You sure make things more convenient, Mu Yu.”
“Okay, cockroach,” Mu Yu fired back, trying to concoct a strategy as soon as possible.
Gui Ximing suddenly flitted back Long Xingyun’s way, leading to the latter crying, “Qiao Xue, help me!”
Qiao Xue looked away, indicating to Mu Yu that she had given up on Long Xingyun because of him turning his back on her.
“I’m the fiend race’s pr-”
“It makes no difference,” Gui Ximing cut in, diving into Long Xingyun’s body.
Long Xingyun’s body started to peel apart layer by layer until his soul scurried out, still consciously frantic. Gui Ximing caught Long Xingyun’s soul, complimenting, “Thought so. It’s not a pure dragon vine’s blood, but it’ll do.”
Gui Ximing modified Long Xingyun’s body to resemble his original body and began testing out the body.
“We should’ve saved him,” Qiao Xue verbalised.
“I’ll agree on that one. That said, it would’ve been impossible. If there’s a ‘what if’ scenario, you should’ve let me kill Long Xingyun long ago.”
Gui Ximing, leaving Long Xingyun’s soul trapped above him, mocked, “Mu Yu, do you two know the significance of these pillars and balls?”
Mu Yu and Qiao Xue squinted.
“How are you going to search for Ocean Archfiend’s presence without Blood Domain Demon Skull? How about I show you hope that you can never catch before I kill you?” Gui Ximing inhaled through his nose. “That would feel amazing.”
Gui Ximing stopped once we got as close to a pillar as he could before it would move and fired a red beam from his hand, sending blood souls from the beam to the pillar. Strangely, the pillar didn’t move no matter how close the blood souls approached. The blood souls clawed, dug and bit the pillar until they revealed the white skeleton of a fiend with a tail!
“This place is a cemetery for Ocean Archfiend. He is amongst these various fiend skeletons, kekeke,” informed Gui Ximing, repeating the same process on numerous pillars simultaneously.
Unlike the bones found on the island, the bones sealed in formations on this floor gave the impression that they were markedly sturdier.
“Which one do you reckon belongs to Ocean Archfiend? Kekeke.”
“He’s also a skeleton?” Mu Yu asked.
“Why do you think there are only bones and souls on this island?”
Gui Ximing started humming in his terrible voice, yet the melody he hummed that was devoid of rhythm or musical sense excited the blood souls, sending them through the seals to latch onto the bones. As a result, the bones turned red and oozed the stench of blood.
“Blood Domain Demon Skull, I rule all skeletons!”
The skeletons howled at the firmament in freaky, high-pitched voices. Mu Yu and Qiao Xue sealed their ears using their spirit energy, yet it wasn’t enough to stop their voices rummaging in their heads.
Eyes red and corner of his lips curved up, Gui Ximing questioned, “You know which one is Ocean Archfiend?”
It didn’t take long for Mu Yu to identify a set of bones that gave off a different vibe to all the others. The skeleton surprisingly verbalised, “Someone has finally come here, huh?” Mu Yu was dead certain that was Archfiend’s Yujiang’s voice!
Archfiend Yujiang scanned everyone around, then remarked, “Blood Domain Demo Skeleton, Ghost Gate?”
“Kekeke, you do know your stuff, huh? This one is impressed.”
“… How many high-level fiend beasts did you slaughter to create it? How many people did you kill? How many bones from fiend beasts and humans did you collect?”
“Not many, only 9999, kekeke.”
“hat was what they were collecting fiend beasts for! Mu Yu finally realised.
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