Hideous
Mu Yu asked Gu Chaofeng, who he had restrained, “How can you hear my voice when I have Sky-Shrouding Blood Guardian active?”
“Hahaha, even though it’s a tricky formation, we’ve figured it out. As to why I can hear you, I’m not telling. Ku Mu can no longer protect you, nonetheless, hahaha.”
Mu Yu amplified his qi inside Gu Chaofeng, sending the latter into an epileptic state. If Gu Chaofeng could, he would have had reached behind to strange Mu Yu. Continuing, Mu Yu had Wood Spirit Sword grow twigs around Gu Chaofeng’s nerves, locking down the latter’s ability to mould spiritual energy.
As Gu Chaofeng’s white energy faded, it revealed he was a man in his thirties. Instead of having green veins, he had black and white wriggling veins under his skin. The more his white energy receded into his body, the drier his skin became.
“I won’t say anything!” Gu Chaofeng uttered from behind his teeth.
“Let’s see your bravado without your soul energy.”
“Argh! Mu Yu! Stop! Stop!”
Mu Yu paused the extraction of Gu Chaofeng’s soul energy. “Answer the question.”
Breathless, Gu Chaofeng requested, “Let’s make a deal. Let me go, and I’ll tell y-”
Mu Yu resumed draining Gu Chaofeng’s soul energy. “No deal. I’ll find out even if you refuse to speak.”
Gu Chaofeng’s skin started to peel off, revealing a white, sticky skin polluted with red blisters. His face shape lengthened as did his ears, turning pointy. As his nose flattened, his eyes took on a yellow colour.
“So this is what Old Furry meant by your hideous appearance. I mistook his comment for the white light you envelope yourself in.”
Lie Shang approached Gu Chaofeng. “Why do you resemble some insect in human skin?”
“I’ll bury the both of you!”
“You use soul energy to hide your hideous appearance and turn yourself into revered existences?”
“I commend you for being able to accept this appearance in order to become strong,” Lie Shang mocked. “I’ll make him talk.”
Lie Shang engulfed Gu Chaofeng in a unique type of white flame that did not create a change at the surface level, but Gu Chaofeng’s cries were a sign it worked.
“Stop!” Gu Chaofeng plummeted to the ground, where he squirmed.
“Bone Flames are flames that won’t burn your skin but your bones until there is nothing left. At least, you’ll look better like that.”
“My shifu still alive?”
“I’m not telling you anything.”
Lie Shang spawned a corporeal white flame on his hands. “If you prefer, I can also combust your soul.”
“I won’t say a word. You two can’t possibly save him, anyway, hahaha!” Gu Chaofeng’s body hardened while his skin turned brown. An indomitable energy started to surface from deep within him, one that not even Mu Yu could stop.
“He’s trying to self-destruct!”
Mu Yu withdrew Wood Spirit to take cover in it, while Lie Shang barricaded himself in flames. Gu Chaofeng’s explosion took Mu Yu’s eight trigrams formation with him, devastating the area and clearing the sky.
Mu Yu and Lie Shang could emerge from their barricades despite the spiritual energy still rampaging in the atmosphere.
“He’s wrong. We will save Shifu,” Mu Yu asserted, inhaling deeply. “He’s ranked eighteenth on Ultimate Immortals Rankings.”
Mu Yu crushed the ultimate immortal symbol that came to his hand.
“What did you find out?” questioned Lie Shang.
“He can detect my malice even if I don’t utilise bloodlust energy.”
“In other words, Ultimate Concealment Bloody Guardian is negated if you express a desire to kill anyone from Third Heaven Palace?”
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