Chapter 227

Chapter 227

Fiend King Core

“Why didn’t you say so sooner?”

“Wouldn’t she just run off with it?”

Given Secular World Sect’s influence, Mu Yu wouldn’t fight Qiao Xue for the core. Xiaoshuai, on the other hand, would never accept somebody stealing his food.

“If you eat the core, the eight sects won’t stop until they kill you. I don’t want any part in that.”

“You make it sound as if we’ve never been chased before. We escaped Floating Celestial Island in the end, didn’t we?”

“Where did you get the ‘we’ from? I fought on my own. Plus, Gramps isn’t around to bring up the rear this time.”

“Fine, if I can’t have it, it can rot here. Everyone has their own approach, right?”

Xiaoshuai couldn’t technically be indicted. At the end of the day, humanity’s issue with the fiends wasn’t his issue.

“The elemental demons give me enough grief as it is. I don’t want to have to deal with fiends, too. You can’t talk your way out of everything in life. If I don’t have a roof over my head and food on the table, I have no business boasting about changing the world.” Mu Yu inwardly rationalised. He then said, “All right, have it your way. Do you know where the exit is, then? We can’t waste too much time here.”

“Well, if I can eat the core, I might have the energy to get out.”

Mu Yu drawled, “Oh, you little...”

Whoosh! Mu Yu unsheathed Shadow Splitter and guarded his back. By the time he looked over his shoulder, the assailant had returned to hiding in the grey mist. He turned back and spotted a sharp tail thrusting toward his heart. Therefore, he shifted his sword in front of him and charged forward. His attacker was a fiend sporting a lizard form!

“Where the devil did this fiend come from?”

Mu Yu slashed forth a green blade, amputating the sharp tail. The sword qi reduced it to smithereens. Surprisingly, there was no blood. Without even so much as flinch, the lizard mounted another attack. Mu Yu effortlessly impaled the fiend through the chest. He finally realised it wasn’t an actual fiend but one of the statues he saw before.

“Statues coming to life now? What else don’t I know?!”

Mu Yu reduced the statue to dust, only for more statues to initiate a charge toward him. They didn’t cultivate, but they were able to unleash their full combat prowess. The grey mist didn’t show any signs of slowing them down. They used their sharp tales to stop Mu Yu producing spiritual energy, thereby forcing him to rely on his sword.

“Xiaoshuai, where are you?”

“Mu Yu, the big honey pea is over here. I need a hand. It’s too fast!”

Mu Yu turned back and chased down Xiaobai’s voice before it was gone. Xiaoshuai was amidst trying to ensnare the core within a spiritual qi cage. The plan didn’t bode well as the core just crashed into the walls.

Qiao Xe appeared in the mist and extended her blue ribbon toward the core. The core aggressively sucked in the grey mist. As the mist clear, the core extended arms, a head, a torso and leg from the core. In no time at all, a complete white ape had emerged. It thumped its chest and landed a heavy punch on Qiao Xue.

“Don’t tell me the core can come back to life,” Mu Yu griped.

“It’s just a self-defence mechanism the fiend race installed in the core. The ape won’t last long. We need to capture it!”

Qiao Xue flung her blue ribbon along to intercept the white ape. Unfortunately, the statues refused to remain statues. They weren’t dangerous, but they successfully stalled Mu Yu.

The white ape charged straight out of Qiao Xue’s trap and, with a spiritual qi parting punch, put its weight between a straight cross. She managed to step back out of its reach, but the gale generated blew her back. Safe to say, the white ape fiend king was as strong as a Body Severing Realm cultivator.