Encounter
“This place irks me just as I remember,” commented Mu Yu, back in the dark prison.
“Lowly humans? Where are our ghost slaves?” a blue lunar god slammed against its cage and fumed.
“The girl looks tasty.”
“I miss the texture of humans.”
“Prostrate yourself, lowly humans.”
“Rah, rah, rah, rah. What else you got, uglies? How do you get by in there, eat each other’s faeces?” Xiaoshuai fired back.
“Pfthahaha.”
“I’ll murder you, bug!”
“Come do it, fugly! I’ll jam your horns up your behind sideways!”
“Keep it down, Xiaoshuai. Gui Ximing might be lurking around. Stealth is the name of the game this time,” reminded Mu Yu, casting an invisibility formation over all of his allies and Gentle Wind Interlinked Hearts Formation to covertly communicate with each other.
“Where would Ghost Gate’s team be?” queried Qiao Xue.
“Beats me. I don’t have the foggiest idea how they brand their Divine Lunar Stones. That’s what we’re going to find out and, if possible, sabotage them,” answered Mu Yu. “Nobody carelessly utilise spiritual energy, or those monsters will start kicking up a fuss, and we’ll be detected. More pertinently, what are they making all that noise for? It’s like they’re having a carnival or something. I don’t remember them sounding so celebratory when I first visited this place.”
The group cautiously wadded their way through the prison to find where the voices were loudest, but they found that the voices were ubiquitous.
“What are Gui Ximing and company coming here for?” Qiao Xue questioned.
“Not entirely sure. Let’s find an exit now so that we can make a break for it if necessary.”
Though Mu Yu was directionally challenged, he did remember any paths he took once, thankfully.
Suddenly they felt an incredible pressure followed by high-pitched whistling – terrible whistling and an equally terrible piece.
“They’re still here. Let’s go see,” Qiao Xue urged.
“Halt! They’re Ascension Realm cultivators. There shouldn’t be anyone that advanced in the pagoda besides Long Xingyun.”
“Does that mean Gui Ximing has also ascended to Ascension Realm?”
“No… It’s not Gui Ximing’s voice; Gui Yeming and Gui Yuzi are the ones here.”
“Shouldn’t Elder Helian Kong be stopping them outside? Besides, souls on the island can’t enter,” Qiao Xue pointed out, also verifying Mu Yu identified them correctly.
“Drats! We incorrectly assumed Gui Ximing would come here. He headed straight out of the pagoda. I’m sure it’s gone to hell outside if those two are in here.”
“Gui Yuzi is still a soul, though.”
“Have you forgotten what Gui Bao mentioned? Blood Domain Demon Soul was intended for Gui Yuzi’s use. I bet Long Xingyun is toast. Why would Ghost Gate ever care about his life?”
“What shall we do, th-”
“Get out of this place, now. There’s no way in hell we could even intimidate them.”
“Okay. I think those two are on the move.”
“They are. Don’t speak aloud, and don’t fuse with Water Spirit, or they’ll pick up on us.”
They headed to the exit twenty-odd metres away, but Ghost Gate’s levitating duo was already within their sights before they could reach it.
The lunar gods reacted to the argent stone Gui Yuzi clasped as though they were thirsty men out of a desert. The duo performed a series of hand seals, transferring them to the stone that added red filaments to the argent stone. The red filaments subsequently entered the lunar gods’ bodies, spurring them into a state of madness, trying to reach out for the stone. Phantoms of those carrying the red filaments whisked out of their bodies into the stone, reconstructing their appearance within it.
“Do you have a plan? We’re going slow to avoid detection, but they’re going to bump into us at the rate they’re flying,” notified Qiao Xue.
“Stay calm. I’m going to try shrinking our invisibility formation. Hopefully, it’s enough to slip under their radar.”
Mu Yu held his breath, counting in his head, “Thirty-three centimetres, sixteen and a half, three… Maintain the formation now, Mu Yu.”
“Hmm?” Gui Yuzi suddenly stopped humming and moving, revealing an indescribable expression whilst fixing his gaze on Mu Yu’s hiding spot.
“Can he see me?”
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