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Chapter 121
Chapter 121
Chapter 121
Third Heaven Continent’s True God
Feng Haochen had no intent on leaving. He pulled Mu Yu behind him and watched Gui Xuanyue with a smile. “You were originally a citizen of Moyun Mountains. Not bad. Not bad. It’s unfortunate you left Moyun Mountains. Celestial Prison has erased your spirit soul insignia. You are now an outsider. I assume you’re aware you can’t kill me.”
“Obviously. Shizun told me you are still peerless despite your cultivation regression.”
Gui Xuanyue’s respectful mannerisms contradicted his attitude toward human life. Aside from that, Mu Yu was astounded to hear his shifu was still without equal.
“What do you seek me for?”
“Celestial Prison’s spiritual qi will run out in a decade, meaning everyone within will die, including you. If you are all doomed, why not let us collect the spirit souls here?”
“I could ask you why you refuse to wait for another decade. Why the rush?”
“Haha, I do not think I need to explain Heaven and Earth Formation, do I?”
Feng Haochen raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Let’s hear what you know.”
“Heaven and Earth Formation is sentient. It suppresses its formation key’s cultivation to protect itself. I assume it has taken one realm from you. When you became Celestial Prison’s formation core, everyone could enter. When your cultivation gradually regressed, the conditions for entry were stricter. You have now regressed to Golden Core Realm. In order to control you, it has to stay at Primordial Infant Realm and vanquish all those who exceed its power. Put another way, only Primordial Infant Realm cultivators can enter.”
“You sound as though you are well informed.”
“… You will lose all your cultivation in another ten years, reverting you back to an ordinary human. The formation’s energy will drop to Qi Condensation Realm’s equivalent. That means all Golden Core and Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators will be vanquished, leaving just Qi Condensation Realm cultivators. By the same token, only Qi Condensation Realm cultivators will be able to enter. Qi Condensation Realm cultivators don’t have what it takes to cross the vast mountain range. How are we supposed to collect spirit souls without worry even if we could enter?”
“How did you find out I was at Moyun Mountains?”
Gui Xuanyue played with his fingers. He had spent months at Moyun Mountains searching for Feng Haochen, and he was confident his prey wouldn’t escape him, so he wasn’t in any rush, especially since he knew nobody at Moyun Mountains could stop him.
“We thought you secluded yourself in Third Heaven Palace, so we didn’t dare to target it. That was why we could only set our sights on Moyun Mountains but couldn’t act. A few months ago, shizun learnt from someone there that you had been at Moyun Mountains for over a decade. Shizun sent me because I came from Moyun Mountains. Still, I must admit you made me search for months on end.”
Feng Haochen nodded. Nobody at Third Heaven Continent knew he was at Moyun Mountains. Only one person knew his true identity and left Moyun Mountains.
“Lie Shang!” Mu Yu rolled his fingers, stabbing his fingernails into his palms.
“You can’t kill me, which means you plan to control me. Let’s see… slave pill, correct?” rhetorically asked Feng Haochen.
“You live up to your reputation. Well, it’s not as if you can fight back at your current level, hahaha.” Like his frigid demeanour, Gui Xuanyue’s ghost qi dropped the temperature in the valley.
“What do you gain from controlling me?”
“Controlling you is the equivalent of controlling everyone at Moyun Mountains. I can force you to remove Celestial Prison’s protection so that I can collect spirit souls. I also know you are capable of creating a formation that goes under Heaven and Earth Formation’s radar, allowing those beyond Primordial Infant Realm to enter. You also carry a secret on you that everyone would die for.”
“Let me guess: you want to cross through Moyun Mountains to collect the fiend souls at Ghost Island, am I right?”
“Exactly. So, what will it be? Will you forfeit, or will I have to force you into submission?”
Gui Xuanyue flicked a red pill containing fiend energy over to Feng Haochen. If Feng Haochen consumed it, he would be enslaved to Gui Xuanyue’s will.
“Shifu, don’t consume that!” Mu Yu leapt over to the slave pill. If he could destroy the one and only slave pill Gui Xuanyue had, the latter’s plan would hit the dump. No matter what secret his shifu hid, it didn’t justify letting him be at the mercy of another.
With nothing but a snort, Gui Xuanyue had Mu Yu blast blood from his mouth, cutting the latter off. Gui Xuanyue moulded the ghost qi next to him into a hand and caught Mu Yu. He snickered. “Your disciple has guts. I can’t kill him, but I can erase his cultivation, can’t I? Are you going to resist or watch me turn your disciple into a cripple?”
Seeing Gui Xuanyue aim his hand at Mu Yu’s dantian, Feng Haochen sighed. “It seems I’m out of options.”
Feng Haochen grabbed the pill and ran his eyes over it. He shook his head and glanced up at Mu Yu. “I never thought there’d come a day I’d have to consume a slave pill.”
Helplessly watching his shifu consume the pill, Mu Yu cried, “No! No! No! Shifu, don’t!”
Mu Yu couldn’t stop his shifu. Feng Haochen’s body jolted. A red beam fired from his body and into Gui Xuanyue’s body just as what happened when Daoist Qing Song consumed a slave pill.
“Yes, this is the feeling! Yes! Let’s see… shall I have True God kneel to me? My first command is, kneel to me!” Gui Xuanyue was thrilled. He was the only man who could tell the world True God knelt to him.
“Nooooo!” Mu Yu cried, eyes bloodshot and enraged at his powerlessness.