The End of an Alliance Between Two Sects
Feeling pressure that rivalled his own from Ximen Buxing, Huang Quan stressed, “I was careless. Regardless, let me give you a friendly reminder, Mu Yu: Cheng Yan’s actions has wronged us, and we won’t let him go unpunished. It’s not just us who want to harm him.” Huang Quan then summoned yellow water at his feet, bringing it up to envelope his body. Once the water descended into the ground, he was gone.
“Fast runner, eh?” Ximen Buxing took his fan out and commented.
Who else is after Cheng Yan? Mu Yu pondered. “We need to get out of here. We don’t know if Third Heaven Palace’s people might show up after all this chaos.”
The group stopped on a mountain peak after flying west for two hours, Mu Yu, Tian Ran and Gu Youjiang needing to meditate.
“So that’s what you did at Red Flower Green Willow Brothel and Panyinlian?” Xiaoshuai queried.
“Yeah. The girls there are smoking; you could pinch water out of them. Their best girl’s skills, tsk, tsk, man…” Ximen Buxing replied.
“Their stuff tasty?”
“You bet, but the girls are better, especially their best girl, Huahua. Her skills ar-”
“What are their best dishes? Beef meat cakes? Do they have roast beef? Do they have a lot of meat cakes?”
Ximen Buxing found himself stumped, unable to keep up with Xiaoshuai’s thinking.
Mu Yu overheard the two conversing upon ending his meditation, thereby bursting into laughter. “Ximen Buxing, stop talking crap to Xiaoshuai. He doesn’t care about the girls but their food.”
Ximen Buxing shook his head. “You’re doomed to be single forever, little guy.”
I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion. Forget human girls, even fiend beasts like the guy, Mu Yu thought. “Ximen Buxing, why did you come to Ghost Gate?”
Ximen Buxing started fanning himself. “An Apotheosis Realm guy forced me to go. He told me you might be in danger. Why me, man?! Why do I have to wipe your cornhole whenever you cause a mess?”
“Who was he?” Mu Yu questioned.
Ximen Buxing rolled his eyes. “He threatened me with lightning. You tell me who he is.”
“Reverend Nilei?”
“Who else?”
“Why did you agree?”
“Hehe, I care for you.”
“And the non-bs version?”
“He saved my life in the past. We don’t fear anything besides owing people.”
Xiaoshuai voiced, “I thought you’re nicknamed The Cockroach. Your life would be endangered?”
“A cockroach isn’t going to last against Third Heaven Palace! They sent a darn Apotheosis Realm member after me. I nearly died.”
“Where is Reverend Nilei?” Mu Yu inquired.
“He pulled me out from the embrace of a woman to tell me to go search for you and then left. How should I know where he is?”
Who is Reverend Nilei, and how does he know what I’m up to? Is he keeping surveillance on me? Why is he hiding if he’s so strong? Mu Yu inwardly questioned. “Do you have any news on Lie Shang?”
“He’s busy with something very scary,” answered Ximen Buxing.
“And that is?”
“Don’t know. When he visited me, I noticed he had changed… How shall I put it…? He shook me? He’s as strong as hell now. That bloodlust on him is sinister.”
“More sinister than you?” Xiaoshuai asked.
“Hell no.”
Ximen Buxing should be an Ascension Realm Ninth Layer cultivator now, if not higher, yet Lie Shang could shake him? I wonder what Xiang Nan is up to, mulled Mu Yu. “What did Lie Shang say to you?”
Ximen Buxing rubbed his chin as he shifted his eyes to Tian Ran.
***
Nobody ever worried about elemental demons overrunning Martial Hill City for there were six Ascension Realm adepts stationed there until today, when Tian Yuehen, a seventh Ascension Realm cultivator, showed up. If Tian Yuehen showed up two hours ago, the cultivators would have assumed he was there to lead the next battle against elemental demons. Not this time, though, as ghost qi had shrouded half of the city already!
“Tian Yuehen, I have not attacked you out of respect for your status, but that is not a license for you to attack me!” Gui Xiaochen, Ascension Realm Second Layer elder of Ghost Gate, thundered outside Martial Hill City. Gui Xiaochen ran into Tian Yuehen on his way back to Ghost Gate to find out why he had to kill his dissenting twin moments ago.
“And what license do you have to destroy our sect? Patriarch, kill him!” Tian Houyang blustered, attacking Gui Xiaochen again alongside Tian Yuehen.
“Tian Yuehen, Third Heaven Palace won’t allow this!” Gui Xiaochen cried, too exhausted to possibly hold his ground against the two.
Though the mention of Third Heaven Palace rendered Tian Yuehen hesitant for a second, the rage quickly took over, impelling Tian Yuehen to go forward with his spear.
Tian Houyang cleaved through Gui Xiaochen’s skull with his broadsword when the latter tried to continue with his threats. “Patriarch, we must kill the other Ghost Gate members in the city!”
Celestial Star Sect and Ghost Gate were in complete disarray, let alone the others who witnessed Tian Houyang butcher Gui Xiaochen, Tian Houyang being the one who suggested they kill Gui Xiaochen, and then declare he would return to the city to slaughter every other Ghost Gate member with Tian Yuehen. News from Martial Hill City stated that Celestial Star Sect and Ghost Gate wiped each other out.
On his way back to Martial Hill City, an overwhelming presence frightened Tian Yuehen pale, impelling him to rush to the Ultimate Immortals Hall branch outside of the city.
“Tian Yuehen, do you realise what you have done?!” Palace Guardian thundered at Tian Yuehen, who was trembling on his knees.
“This one is sorry. This one let his anger go to his head. The fact is that Gui Mohan infiltrated this one’s sect and killed our elder, however. This one personally witnessed it. This one and Elder Tian Houyang killed Gui Xiaochen in retaliation because they were angry,” explained Tian Yuehen.
“I did not kill Gui Xiaochen. Patriarch, the one who fought alongside you against Gui Xiaochen was not me. I only just arrived from Martial Hill City,” Tian Houyang said from the sideline.
“What?” Tian Yuehen looked up at Tian Houyang.
Palace Guardian elucidated, “That was Zhuge Xiaosheng! How did you let him fool you?! Have you lived all these years for nothing?!”
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