Retaining Control
“Xiaoshuai, can blood counteract Blood Domain Demon Skull’s control?”
“Beats me. All I know is that blood souls will latch onto bones, which make blood souls fear bones. I don’t know if Blood Domain Demon Skull can be controlled.”
“I remember you saying Blood Domain Demon Skull is the king of bones, which is why it can control any bones. Despite that, our bodies are fine because we have blood protecting them. That must be it!”
“That means we’ve avoided Gui Ximing controlling His Majesty if we wiped our blood on his bones,” lamented Qiao Xue.
“Did you forget the formation absorbs water? Blood is liquid; it never would’ve travelled into the pillar. After he broke out, we never had a split second to attempt that.”
Mu Yu cut his finger, dripping his blood onto Helian Kong’s soul item that had, unfortunately, been cracked quite badly. Amazingly, though, Mu Yu’s blood mended the crack. “Soul items can absorb blood and even mend themselves now?”
“Your blood contains potent vitality that can repair damage to soul items, so it can seep into soul items!” Xiaoshuai cheered.
“Hey, just wanted to let you know my blood is designed to mess up you freaks,” Mu Yu taunted, feeling his cultivation shoot up to Body Synthesis Realm again.
“You have a soul item, so what?”
“So you’re done.”
Mu Yu bound toward Gui Ximing, Qiao Xue following along, armed with her own soul item that Mu Yu asked Helian Kong for. Mu Yu activated a green formation, firing Shadow Splitter Sword at Gui Ximing.
Though the fiend king didn’t retain his cultivation, his speed was a force to be reckoned with, allowing him to still deliver fatal punches that neither Mu Yu nor Qiao Xue wanted to try blocking.
Xiaoshuai, the dragon vine and winning fish decided to jump into the fray, tackling the fiend king on their own. Although the lightning didn’t rattle the fiend king, Gui Ximing and Gui Bao backed off as soon as the duo deployed their lightning attacks.
Xiaoshuai joined the two winning fish to confront Gui Bao, the former initiating with his lightning sword and his two allies boosting his lightning attribute with water in the surroundings. The dragon vine joined forces with Qiao Xue to stall the fiend king. Mu Yu faced off against the deadliest foe, Gui Ximing, giving him a taste of Lightning Swift Snakes.
“Only lightning attacks works against ghosties.”
Activating the red energy in his ghost broadsword, Gui Ximing summoned his ghost general above them using North Sea Nine Evils’ Ghost General Summon, having the ghost general absorb all of the lightning snakes for him.
While the ghost general handled Mu Yu’s attack, Gui Ximing attempted to blitz Mu Yu with his axe, bringing their fight into close quarters. Mu Yu found it a challenge to predict Gui Ximing’s strikes for the sounds of each strike and spiritual energy activity originated from the ghost general every time. Thanks to the extra speed boost Blood Domain Demon Skull provided, Gui Ximing’s speed was taken up a notch, empowering him to cut Mu Yu across the chest.
Mu Yu let his life qi heal him whilst pressing the attack. Once Gui Ximing backed off, Mu Yu cast Mesmerising Swallow Returns Formation, summoning black sparrows in hopes of counteracting the ghost general’s diversion tactic and finding his target. Thanks to his improved proficiency, Gui Ximing’s blood souls couldn’t vanquish the phantasmal swallows swooping in. That being said, Gui Ximing could dodge them and counterattack simultaneously.
Mu Yu had to manually direct the sparrows owing to the ghost general’s ability, so it was more time consuming than it needed to be. Nonetheless, Mu Yu soon fused ten swallows to catch Gui Ximing out of left field. Gui Ximing, who made light of them, started flying toward the rocks, then scurried upward frantically when he suddenly saw the swallows coming from his right. Alas, that was also a feint Mu Yu set up to catch Gui Ximing from above, demonstrating his heightened understanding of natural energy, and combined it seamlessly with Mirror Formation.
Gui Ximing discharged ghost qi, hoping to expel the swallow that entered his body, yet he couldn’t feel anything presiding within. The rest of them no longer concerned him for they disappeared from sight.
“All that flashy formation amounts to is that?”
“Never learnt formations for a day in his life, yet passing judgement.”
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