Negotiation
Seething and shaking, Mu Yu inhaled deeply to stay rational for the sake of all the other lives riding on him besides Helian Kong.
“Mu. Yu. Don’t… come out… You have a long journey… ahead of you… Stay safe…”
I keep trying to grow stronger so that others don’t have to protect me, but it’s always me who needs to be protected in the end, inwardly grieved Mu Yu.
Qiao Xue grabbed hold of Mu Yu’s shaky fist. “I know what you’re thinking. If you want to show yourself, I’ll be there with you all of the way.”
“You don’t need to throw away y-”
Qiao Xue affirmatively dimpled. “I’m willing to go down with you.”
Stuck in a dilemma again, Mu Yu’s rage stirred his black and white spiritual energy. In the end, he decided to cuff Qiao Xue in a formation.
“Mu Yu, let me go!”
“They’re after me. I’m the root of this, so I shall see it through to the end on my own.” Mu Yu set Xiaoshuai and the dragon vine next to Qiao Xue. “If I don’t make it back, stay with Qiao Xue.”
“Hell no. People are going to think I tucked tail,” objected Xiaoshuai.
“You do realise you’re not speaking to Long Xingyun here, don’t you?” rhetorically questioned the dragon vine.
“… Xiaoshuai, I need you to find Revered Ni Lei for Walk-in Heart Genesis in order to revive Dad. Take his soul to Pill Cauldron Sect. Dragon Vine, follow Qiao Xue back to Archfiend Green Dragon to learn to cultivate.”
“Ku Mu can’t return to his usual self without your Life and Death in the Blink of an Eye, Mu Yu,” reminded Xiaoshuai.
“Dad invented Soul Fixing Formation for Miao Yuyan to grant souls immortality similarly to Reverend Xuan Jizi’s domain. He can stay with Elder Leng,” argued Mu Yu, passing Formation Sect’s jade piece to Xiaoshuai.
“I’m not going to watch you go down,” asserted the dragon vine.
“I’ve made up my mind. I can’t have Elder Helian Kong suffering for my sake; I’ll never live it down.”
“If you don’t make it, I have no reason to live on,” Qiao Xue warned.
Mu Yu stared at Qiao Xue long and hard. Forcing a smile, he assured, “Gui Yuzi will have to think twice about killing me.”
Mu Yu affixed Xiaoshuai and the dragon vine to Qiao Xue’s side before he exited Wood Spirit. He scattered seeds again to hide where he moved Qiao Xue off to.
“You finally decided to man up?”
Mu Yu strolled across several intersections to confront Gui Yuzi.
Helian Kong, trembling, meekly remonstrated, “Mu Yu, what are you doing? R-”
“No one is talking to you,” interjected Gui Yuzi, choking Helian Kong.
“Let him go,” demanded Mu Yu.
“What makes you think you can make demands of me?”
On his way over to Mu Yu, Gui Yeming abruptly halted upon hearing, “Walk-in Heart Genesis.”
“I’ll take it off you after capturing you all the same,” scoffed Gui Yuzi.
“Thousands of years of life and you have the brain of a kid still playing in the mud. You think I walk around with it on me? Serious? Let him go, or you can keep dreaming about it.”
Gui Yuzi narrowed his eyes and stopped to think. “I’ll just take your memories from you soul after I’m through with you.”
“What are you waiting for, then?”
Is he trying to bluff me? Did Sword Shadow Dust Gale give him some sort of ace? pondered Gui Yuzi.
“My old man sealed Walk-in Heart Genesis, and I’m the only one who can unlock it. You think you could solve his formations?”
“Who could give two tosses about your old man’s formations?” taunted Gui Yuzi, unaware Mu Yu was referring to Ku Mu.
Gui Yeming whispered to Gui Yuzi all about Ku Mu, reminding the former of what Gui Ximing reported.
“Where is it sealed?” Gui Yuzi questioned, pulling the chains out of Helian Kong’s shoulder.
“Remove the Blood Soul Silk now.”
“Hand over Walk-in Heart Genesis, and we’ll consider our score settled,” responded Gui Yuzi, pretending he didn’t hear the question.”
“Remove the Blood Soul Silk now.”
Gui Yuzi gruffly removed the red thread from Helian Kong. Helian Kong, therefore, flew straight to Mu Yu’s side.
“You shouldn’t have shown yourself,” He Liankong expressed.
“I don’t want to implicate you, Elder. Head into your soul item to heal for now,” urged Mu Yu, passing over the soul item.
Since he would only be dead weight if he stuck around, Helian Kong took up Mu Yu’s offer. “Be careful. I can’t help you anymore.”
“Walk-in Heart Genesis.”
“Ku Mu Valley is over fifty kilometres away from here, genius.”
“Let’s go there now. If you’re fooling me, I promise your family in Clearwater City will join Helian Kong,” threatened Gui Yeming.
Mu Yu silently headed to the exit.
“I’m going to erase your cultivation just in case,” Gui Yuzi asserted, cackling.
“And I won’t be able to undo the seal, genius. By the way, my old man’s formations are designed specifically to keep your filthy hands off things. If you try to use your skills, they’ll automatically lock up. His formation skills are on par with Sword Shadow Dust Gale. How do you think you compare to them?”
“I’m going to control you, then,” stated Gui Yuzi, wrapping Blood Soul Silk around Mu Yu.
“What is this? Help m-, ah! It’s devouring me!” cried a lunar god.
“Help!”
“What is this qi doing here?”
“What did you do?” Gui Yuzi asked, planting Blood Soul Silk into Mu Yu.
Mu Yu contracted his brows.
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