Controlling Fiend-Sealing Pagoda
“If I don’t have control over the pagoda, how am I supposed to know which floors my death qi has spread to?”
“I can tell you.”
“You think it’s easy to recollect death qi? It doesn’t spread systematically. The only one I can tell how far it’s spread and where it has spread is if I have control over the pagoda; that’s the only way I can analyse what the quickest way to stop it is. You should be smart enough to realise this.”
The spirit pagoda contemplated Mu Yu’s argument.
Looking at Mu Yu through the corner of her eyes, Qiao Xue questioned, “I’m starting to suspect you of lying to girls. Is this how you coax girls into trusting you?”
“No, don’t overthink. I only ever accidentally lied to you.”
“I’m not overthinking.”
“You are.”
Finally, the spirit pagoda conveyed, “All right. I shall acknowledge you.”
“Now we’re talking. I’m not trying to be your master; we’re merely trying to achieve our agendas,” Mu Yu responded, thinking, Xiaoshuai is way smarter than you.
The spirit pagoda ambled over to top Mu Yu in the centre of his forehead, transferring fragmented memories of cool qi into his mind. Whilst he was learning how to control the pagoda from the memories, the spirit pagoda suddenly looped her arms around him. Mu Yu curled his arms up to reciprocate the gesture; however, she faded into his body as a stream of light.
Mu Yu stretched his back out to hide the awkwardness. “Today sure is a good day.”
“Yeah?” remarked Qiao Xue, smiling sarcastically.
“Pretend I never said anything.”
Ever since the spirit pagoda entered Mu Yu, he could oversee the entire pagoda in addition to whatever was taking place within its grounds. Seven floors had been wiped out already. He noticed the death qi showed signs of slowing down, however, therefore attributing it to Contiguous Horizon Formation, which extended its radius from the eighty-first floor to protect other floors as a safety mechanism. It was only a matter of time before the death qi inexorably devoured Contiguous Horizon Formation, nevertheless.
No wonder why Qiao Xue could step on my foot, Mu Yu thought to himself.
“Our minds are connected, you know?” Qiao Xue responded.
Ghost Gate’s duo had split up whilst running. Gui Yuzi couldn’t escape the pagoda due to the exits collapsing. Still, as a veteran, he quickly found a way down to the first floor. Mu Yu couldn’t change the exits’ functions. Fortunately, he could travel freely from floor to floor, inspiring an idea to tackle the duo and lunar gods.
“I need to give our two friends a hand. Qiao Xue, wait here for me.”
Mu Yu jumped to the eighty-first floor prior to Gui Yuzi and destroyed the exit to disrupt Gui Yuzi’s plans and then left. Upon arriving less than half an hour later, Gui Yuzi raced down the mountain to the hut, only to find the hut buried under snow. Fearing the death qi would soon reach the floor he was on, he raced back where he came from. Try as he may, all of the routes he tried would be off limits.
“Could that kid be sabotaging me? No, it can’t be. He can’t game the pagoda’s system, either.”
Mu Yu couldn’t force Ghost Gate’s duo onto the forty-sixth floor, where Spirit Void would cancel out the cultivation advantage, since he couldn’t control the death qi, which was the priority, and Gui Yuzi was still in Ocean Archfiend’s body.
By the same account, he could only imprison the lunar gods on the floor with Primordial World Creation – for the reason that it was less taxing to conjure things now that he had control over the pagoda – then deal with them once he figured out how to use his death qi on them. The excited lunar gods peered at the sun “outside” the pagoda, waiting for it to set so that they could leave the pagoda.
“Keep waiting, freaks. My sun never sets,” jibed Mu Yu, reconfiguring the formation so that the lunar gods couldn’t conjure anything with their thoughts.
“Mu Yu, are you sure you can recollect the death qi?” asked the dragon vine.
“Nope. It starts expanding whenever it devours anything. If I absorbed that huge volume back in, I might end up its next victim.”
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