Chapter 124


    <strong><em>Life and Death in the Blink of an Eye</em></strong>


    “Mu Yu, make sure you find a way out of Moyun Mountains.” Feng Haochen lunged out in front of Mu Yu.


    “Don’t!” The anguish of relying on others to bail him out every time awakened the grey qi in Mu Yu’s eyes.


    “Don’t let your bloodlust take over.”


    Feng Haochen used hisst ounce of spiritual energy to wake Mu Yu’s conscious and stop thetter’s bloodlust. Feng Haochen knew Mu Yu’s bloodlust mode was more frightening than Gui Yin. However, when Mu Yu came to, the glowing orange Empyrean Revtion intercepted Gui Yin’s spear.


    “You would dare to kill True God? Aren’t you afraid of Third Heaven’s wrath?” brayed Tian Ran, standing between the two sides.


    “Nobody will know Sword Shadow Dust Gale died here.” Gui Yin was careful around Tian Ran due to her cultivation level. To get to Mu Yu, he had to go through to Tian Ran.


    “My Empyrean Revtion? How are you and Miao Yuyan rted?” Feng Haochen asked in a surprised voice.


    “Elder, Miao Yuyan is my shifu. I will not let Ghost Gate have their way,” Tian Ran answered with a sweet smile.


    “You’re runningte, don’t you think?” Mu Yu griped.


    Tian Ran questioned, “How did you get here before me?”


    Gui Yin thrust his spear at Tian Ran before Mu Yu could answer, forcing Tian Ran to respond. Tian Ran intercepted the spear with her sword. She then manifested lotuses in her free hand and guided them using Empyrean Revtion. She formed an enclosure around Gui Yin with the battles, plunging him into an illusion where he couldn’t seem to muster strength.


    “Red Lotus Technique, you’re with Secr Sect,” remarked Gui Yin.


    Gui Xuanyue ridiculed, “Gui Yin, you’ve only just recovered. You’re no match for her. You need my help to kill him.”


    Because Gui Yin was hesitant, Gui Xuanyue added, “We’ll lead our own lives after we kill Sword Shadow Dust Gale, deal?”


    Unable to fathom any winning strategy besides the suggestion, Gui Yin nodded. “Fine. Help me kill him and True God. Then, we’ll go our separate ways.”


    Gui Yin retreated and spat Gui Xuanyue back out. Wasting no time whatsoever, Gui Xuanyue charged toward Mu Yu and Feng Haochen.


    “Not happening!” brayed Tian Ran.


    Gui Yin discharged ghost qi to cut Tian Ran off. Meanwhile, Gui Xuanyue summoned his ck sword again and tried to spear Feng Haochen, his priority.


    Tian Ran fired off a series of lotuses, blowing away the ghost mist surrounding her. With no way of deflecting Gui Xuanyue’s blow in time, she jumped in front of Feng Haochen, taking it on her chest, thankfully stopping it mere centimetres away from Feng Haochen! She swung her sword to force Gui Xuanyue to back off, but his yin qi that invaded her body left her limp on the ground.


    Tian Ran turned to Feng Haochen and forced a smile. “True God, my shifu said you cannot die.”


    Feng Haochen and Mu Yu were too dumbfounded to respond.


    Tian Ran carried on. “Shifu said you are a good man. Good people should not die…”


    “That was silly of you…”mented Feng Haochen, watching Tian Ran go paler by the second with pity. Feng Haochen would’ve been heartbroken if his disciples took a blow for him, but an outsider taking a blow for him was unfathomable.


    Mu Yu’s brain was overwhelmed with the influx of information in such a short window. He shook. He decided to give in to his bloodlust no matter what Feng Haochen said. He was dead set on killing the enemies before them to protect the two. His body radiated green. Grey light flitted across his eye. His left eye eventually turned pure white, while his right eye was jet ck. His ck eye contained death qi, while his white eye produced qi for life. He clutched Shadow Splitter Sword’s wood spirit. White and ck energy ejected from his body, moulding in with the green glow. “Die.”


    The surrounding trees started growing out of control as Mu Yu wielded Wood Spirit. Leaves snapped off their branches and wreathed around Mu Yu. Some leaves turned yellow and possessed death qi attributes, while others stayed lush and embodied life.


    “Your tricks won’t save you.”


    Gui Yin shot a breaker of his energy to shred the leaves. As soon as he shredded one set, another set grew and encroached upon him. He fired another burst of energy to break the leaves’ siege, but more grew instantaneously.


    Commanding leaves with his hands, Mu Yu fired a wave of condensed leaves at Gui Yin, shaving off thetter’s spirit soul. Within the blink of an eye, Gui Yin’s body was transparent and barely still in existence.


    Gui Yin dove back into the ghost general’s body. He sted golden streaks at the leaves around him. s, the branches of the trees in the valley had grown dozens of metres more,pletely incarcerating him.


    “Death is decided in the blink of an eye.” Mu Yu shut his eyes. Once his right eye flew open, he fired a ck st at the ghost general, restraining it in ce. One small split on the ghost general’s body started to turn into more and more splits. The trees started to swallow him until he had no means of escape.


    Mu Yu shut his right eye and opened his left eye to fire a white st at Feng Haochen and Tian Ran. The trees in the vicinity shone green light onto the two, healing their wounds and expunging the death qi in them.


    Though he had healed, Feng Haochen was aware Mu Yu was unable to control the power.


    The Heaven and Earth Formation’s patterns spread once again. Instead of the usual, nheless, they gathered on Mu Yu. Simply put, Mu Yu stole ownership of Celestial Prison’s formation core from the ghost general after obliterating thetter and transferring it to himself.


    Spirit soul insignias of Moyun Mountains’ poption gushed into Mu Yu’s mind, allowing him to see the benevolence and maleficence in their souls. Upon seeing the cultivators’ greed and desire to kill others for their own gains, he decided to enthrone himself as a judge, one who presided over life and death.


    Mu Yu harboured a burning lust for blood. If he could y his enemies in the blink of an eye, he had a justified reason to rule over the world as its sovereign. Moreover, he could “cleanse” it, restarting human life in Celestial Prison and moulding them into characters he preferred.


    Mu Yu howled as he fired a ck and white beams from his eyes, killing all insects and beasts in Dragon Tiger Valley with his ck beam, erging and strengthening with his white beam. He soared hundreds of metres up from the ground and peered toward Pine City. It was time to have its citizens bow to him. The dream was only a blink away. As the formation core to Celestial Prison, he was its sovereign. He wore the smile of a monster and awoke an inhumane emotion.


    “You will only be allowed to live if I deem you worthy,” Mu Yu asserted.