Chapter 223

Chapter 223

The Abyss

“Are you all right?”

Qiao Xue couldn’t help Mu Yu for the pain still bothered her and restricted her ability to collect spiritual energy.

“God damn it, you insects!” Mu Yu howled.

Mu Yu discharged a potent green vitality from his body shocking the fiend souls off him and erasing the spooky ambience in the cave. The wood spirit ejected from Shadow Splitter. The green wood spirit followed the fleeing fiend souls.

“Punctured Sword, vanquish them!” raged Mu Yu.

The wood spirit hovering in the air sent out vitality breakers. It healed Mu Yu and company. Meanwhile, the holes in it fired green beams that sucked the fiend souls into the holes. The fiend souls put up a fruitless struggle. The vitality was the greatest nourishment they could’ve asked for, yet it was their undoing if it exceeded the potency that they could store. As previously, the fiend souls absorbed sealed the holes in the sword. Once its mission was complete, it fused with Shadow Splitter again.

“What’s that?” Qiao Xue sat up and inquired.

Mu Yu still felt exhausted after wrestling with the fiend souls. He grouched, “Damn thing should’ve helped from the beginning. Why did I have to put up with all that biting?”

Little did Mu Yu realise he should’ve been grateful to be the only human to survive fiend souls gnawing at them.

“The sword seems special.”

“It’s just junk I happened to change upon. What’s next?”

Mu Yu came to learn the tree elder didn’t give him the full story behind the sword because the elder claimed he needed to take cultivators’ lives to repair the damaged sword, yet Mu Yu just witnessed it repair itself using fiend souls.

“Careful, don’t alert the bloodbats.”

“The honey pea aroma is coming from the right. The right!”

Mu Yu and Qiao Xue gave each other a nod and then proceeded to the right. Their footsteps were audible. Hence, they opted to fly.

The width of the abyss was approximately two hundred metres. The wall to the right was coarse, cold and moist. There were no bloodbats within the vicinity.

“There’s nothing here,” said Qiao Xue.

“No, there is something odd.” Mu Yu lighted up the wall. He ran his finger across the wall then moved back to take in the bigger picture. “It’s a stone door.”

Elated, Qiao Xue moved back to stand side by side with Mu Yu. “Can you describe the outline of the door?”

Mu Yu drew a rectangle on the wall using his sword. The door was roughly five metres wide and twelve metres tall. At the very top, there was a carving of a savage... fiend beast? The savage look knocked a year or two off his life.

“How do we open it?”

Mu Yu kept his sword on the fiend beast carving. He didn’t know the name of the fiend beast, but he illustrated it as a gorilla with a fang extending all the way down to its jaw.

A look of disbelief came to Qiao Xue’s face. “Mm... I know how to open it.”

“How?”

The door was too heavy to knock down physically. Further, the bloodbats would spring if they made a ruckus.

Carrying a disgusted undertone in her voice, Qiao Xue responded, “Second Heaven’s primitive fiend race likes sacrifices.”