Blood Domain Sky Devourer
Mu Yu hurriedly reconfigured his aim as Gui Ximing and Gui Bao tried to bridge the gap, only for the branches to miss their target again. Mu Yu, therefore, strafed over to block Gui Ximing’s downward axe on Qiao Xue, using a formation to compensate for the difference in cultivation. Mu Yu then drew Shadow Splitter Sword from a void and cut into Gui Ximing’s shoulder. Unexpectedly, Gui Ximing, unfazed, uncoiled a punch, Mu Yu trading but reeling into Qiao Xue.
Seeing Gui Bao already waiting for them to land at his feet, Mu Yu hid into Wood Spirit with Qiao Xue, emerging again once they slipped past Gui Bao.
“Lass, can you summon ocean water?” asked Archfiend Yujiang.
“I can.”
“Mm… Find a way to come my way. I need ocean water.”
“Your Majesty, we have no means of crossing Open Marsh Shore.”
“Follow me, then,” Mu Yu instructed.
The skeletons started to move as Mu Yu and Qiao Xue entered Open Marsh Shore. Although there wasn’t anything to exploit due to the randomised arrangement, it didn’t mean they had changed. Moreover, Mu Yu already memorised their places, allowing him to use one to infer the others.
“You figured out how to pass through already?” inquired Qiao Xue.
“I just didn’t like Long Xingyun. Don’t fall behind. One wrong step and we’ll be separated.”
Qiao Xue didn’t complain for she realised it was a mistake to keep Long Xingyun alive.
Mu Yu soon found the entrance to Open Marsh Shore and timed his dash to a water fiend crimson tiger’s skeleton. Meanwhile, Gui Ximing and Gui Bao, who were hot on their trails, tried to catch them in a pincer attack from their left and right sides. Mu Yu cast Clinging Fire Sound Creation in his hand, bursting toward the skeleton only a metre away.
Clinging Fire Sound Creation was rarely used in fights since it was useless when combatants locked onto each other’s qi. Mu Yu used it as a means of overcoming Open Marsh Shore, however.
“Idiot, you can’t get close!” mocked Gui Ximing, reaching for Mu Yu.
“Keep telling yourself that.”
Mu Yu easily bounced off the pillar to reach the top of it, surprising Gui Bao.
Gui Ximing, vexed, tried copying Mu Yu – since it meant Gui Yuzi’s method wasn’t necessary – only to fail because Mu Yu installed formations into the pillars. Green formations surfaced on the pillars, speeding up their movements in addition to changing the path Gui Ximing hoped to follow. Mu Yu activated yet another formation, shifting the pillars away from Gui Ximing and ensuring they were always a metre away from the latter.
“You were saying?” Mu Yu taunted.
Obviously, Mu Yu wasn’t altering the formation but just giving them a stimulus as a foreign entity to move the pillars.
Gui Ximing halted and tried commanding the water fiend crimson tiger to assault Mu Yu. Mu Yu pinned the fiend down with a formation, questioning, “You think you can kill me using these skeletons? Serious? They would’ve escaped already if they could, halfwit.”
“Hahaha, I forgot you were a formation caster. You’re getting cocky too soon, having said that. You forget how I approached the pillars? I don’t know formations, but my ghost techniques will do the trick!” responded Gui Ximing, sending Gui Ximing’s terrified soul over.
“Mu Yu, why didn’t you help us when you knew how to get around the formation?” Long Xingyun’s soul asked.
Mu Yu palmed his face.
Gui Ximing ejected a red calabash overhead, ghost gate’s pattern running along it. He pulled off the cork through sheer will, releasing four white souls from within. The four previous Spirit Severing Realm cultivators started raging at him, only for him to scoff at them. He beamed four rays of red light into the souls, making them scream one last time.
“I didn’t sacrifice you lot to hear you ramble!” As Gui Ximing performed hand seals, ancient text poured out of the calabash, merging with the blood souls. “Blood Domain Sky Devourer!”
The four souls scowled upon opening eyes again, which was when the blood souls transformed from hideous entities into lights in their bodies.
Gui Ximing went up to Ocean Fiend king’s pillar. The four cultivators absorbed the red specks of light, expanding until one exploded into soul fragments that Gui Ximing fetched and blasted at the fiend king, covering the pillar in soul fragments.
“We can’t let him kill Ocean Archfiend!” Qiao Xue belted.
Making use of two pillars, Mu Yu jumped to another pillar, taking Qiao Xue with him as he crossed over to Ocean Archfiend.
The formations sealing the fiend king started corroding.
Boom! The other two souls exploded, turning into fragments for Gui Ximing to repeat the process. It was only a matter of time before he corroded the entire pillar trapping the fiend king at that rate.
“I can’t die. I can’t die…” Long Xingyun mumbled, scared witless after witnessing the other souls explode.
Finally landing on Archfiend Yujiang’s pillar in the nick of time, Mu Yu deployed Primordial Yin Yang from his body as a formation foundation to maintain the formation keeping Archfiend Yujiang detained and fixing the damage Gui Ximing did unto it.
“Mu Yu, why are you stopping him from escaping?” queried Qiao Xue.
“Because Gui Ximing can control his body!” Mu Yu enlightened.
“The boy is right. You two won’t be able to stop me if I’m released. Lass, you’re neither a water demon nor a fiend; why can you control water? Same with you Wood Controller.”
“That’s a topic too complicated to explain in this situation. How about you tell me how to prevent Blood Domain Demon Skull’s control? I can’t stop this corrosion much longer!” Mu Yu exclaimed.
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