Soul Slaughter (Part 1)
Coming back to reality, Mu Yu stretched out his back, leading to him discovering his spine had healed up. He frantically scanned his surroundings to see Qiao Xue, still sitting, primly watching him. “Hehe… We didn’t do anything, did we?”
“Were you hoping we did?”
“No, no, it’s best if we didn’t stray,” Mu Yu fibbed to avoid Qiao Xue giving him the inexplicable look again.
Qiao Xue tugged a brow up. “Didn’t stray?”
Mu Yu started fidgeting. “I… admit I don’t know how to describe our relationship status anymore.”
“You don’t need to feel so awkward. Nothing happened,” Qiao Xue informed, giving Xiaoshuai a hug as her winning fishes on her shoulders flapped their wings.
“Oh…”
“You sound as though you have regrets.”
“We should get moving as soon as possible to catch up to those ghosties. How long did we cultivate for?”
“Eight hours,” the dragon vine answered, yawning.
“Only eight hours?!” Mu Yu blurted, springing to his feet. Unable to control the corner of his lips rising, he joked, “See, I told you we had a lot to gain from cultivating togeth-, ahem, we should chase the ghosties now.”
“Dense,” Qiao Xue remarked in response to Mu Yu’s misunderstanding of her facial expression.
Qiao Xue did not need guidance to leave Open Marsh Shore Formation since the pillars did not drift away when leaving.
“How am I dense?” Mu Yu muttered, gesturing for the dragon vine to climb back onto his shoulder to leave the formation.
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It’d be nice if I could see the current world of cultivation one last time before I move on. I don’t know how I feel about not seeing all my old friends again and having to face their graves, Helian Kong, who had been waiting for days outside Fiend-Sealing Pagoda, repeated in his mind. He checked on Gui Yuzi, who he deemed awfully suspicious, rationalising to himself, It should be all right. After Reverend Xuan Jizi’s domain is defused, I can use my soul item to keep my soul here for another two hours to help Mu Yu escape the island before Ghost Gate can harm him.
Rumble! Fiend-Sealing Pagoda’s colourful door appeared again, drawing eyes toward it. Helian Kong was hoping Mu Yu and Qiao Xue would be the first ones to walk out. To his dismay, Gui Bao was first to come out sporting a wry smile. Gui Ximing, who opted to skip stopping by the thirty-ninth floor due to the time constraint on his body, freaked everyone out with his mangled body. Most importantly, Long Xingyun’s different aura perturbed Helian Kong.
“How?” Helian Kong verbalised without realising it upon seeing Long Xingyun.
“Brother Helian, why does that fiend have Ascension Realm cultivation?” Mu Mengfei approached to ask.
“I also want to know why he has Ghost Gate’s aura on him. I’m dead certain he was only a Spirit Severing Realm cultivator prior to entering the pagoda. Even if he obtained something Reverend Xuan Jizi left behind, I can’t imagine anyone skipping over an entire realm. This is mind boggling.”
“Xingyun, did you attain all of Reverend Xuan Jizi’s inheritance? That’s an impressive jump in cultivation,” complimented Ox Demon King, leader of the fiends.
Upon raising his head, Long Xingyun’s scarlet eyes incited crippling fear in Ox Demon King. “Elder Ox Demon King, are all of you willing to do anything for Ocean Archfiend?”
I can’t believe I couldn’t maintain my conscious in Long Xingyun’s presence when our cultivation is equal. It would be good for us if a fiend inherited Reverend Xuan Jizi’s inheritance, but knowing Reverend Xuan Jizi, there’s no way he’d pass anything beneficial on to the likes of Long Xingyun, Ox Demon King analysed in his mind. Adopting a serious demeanour, he questioned, “Xingyun, why do you have ghost qi in you?”
“You didn’t dignify my question with an answer, Elder Ox Demon King. I’ll ask again: are you willing to do anything for Ocean Archfiend?”
“That is a foregone conclusion. As Archfiend Yujiang’s subjects, we will do anything for our king.”
Long Xingyun’s lips started to creep the fiends out. “Even dying?”
“Death is nothing to fear when we have already died once.”
“I now need you all to sacrifice your lives for Ocean Archfiend again. I need your souls.”
“What are you talking about?” Ox Demon King asked in a low voice and through his peripherals.
As soon as Long Xingyun bound toward Ox Demon King, the latter erected a soul energy shield around him. Somehow, Long Xingyun was able to absorb the soul energy using his ghost qi, rendering Ox Demon King immobile.
“What did you do to me, Long Xingyun?!”
Long Xingyun turned Ox Demon King into a blob of white light and crushed it in his grip, scattering the smithereens into his body via his seven orifices.
“Long Xingyun, how dare you kill Ox Demon King!”
The fiend race’s second leader, Golden Spear Spirit Turtle, an Ascension Realm cultivator, marched on Long Xingyun in anger. Long Xingyun arrogantly smirked as he discharged ghost qi, seizing control of his aggressor. Long Xingyun posed Golden Spear Spirit Turtle in a star jump posture and muttered, “Boom.”
Golden Spear Spirit Turtle whisked into Long Xingyun’s body just as Ox Demon King did.
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