Chapter 889

Chapter 889

Alchemists and Formation Casters

“Sorry, but I can’t come home yet, First Brother,” Mu Yu uttered, scattering the divine will retrieval herbs into the air as dust. “I still need bloodlust energy to take down Third Heaven Palace. You haven’t returned home, either, have you?”

Mu Yu might have progressed fast as a cultivator, but even a prodigy would need time to nurture his talent. Jin Xiyun and Gu Chaofeng, Ascension Realm cultivators, were in their thirties, while it had only been around a decade since Mu Yu started. Third Heaven Palace was not going to give him the luxury of time, and they would improve as he did. The only way he could surpass them, then, was to gamble on bloodlust energy.

***

Cheng Yan, sitting on the edge of a cliff located fifty kilometres north of the cavern Mu Yu stayed at, sighed to himself. He looked down at the grey divine will retrieval herb sitting in a jade bottle beside him. A snow eagle soared freely above him, yet that freedom appeared awfully lonely against the expansive, yet empty, backdrop.

“I know where home is. I’ve never left home. I’ve always been waiting for all of you, waiting for you to come home.”

Cheng Yan, who had been walking his path solo all this time, ran his finger across the grey leaf, turning it golden.

***

Upon returning to the cavern, Mu Yu found Yao Wuji reeking of smoke and in tatters. Thus, Mu Yu asked, “What happened?”

Yao Wuji anxiously cried, “Elder, Greater Heaven Caster Lu is out of his mind!”

Mu Yu pieced together what happened based on the fact that Lu Deyi’s fists had crackling lightning bolts. “Greater Heaven Caster Lu, did I not make it clear that you were not to hurt him?”

“I was just practicing my lightning formation. We need to diligently train in this time and age. I cannot be blamed if he decided to run into my formation.”

“You purposely attacked me!”

“So what if I did? Are you claiming you didn’t deliberately hurt our patriarch?” snapped Lu Deyi, electricity crackling again.

If Lu Deyi meant to, he could have disabled Yao Wuji already, yet he held back. That was the reason Mu Yu did not flip straight out.

“Enough. You are all respected gentlemen, so let’s carry ourselves as people who live up to the respect we’re given,” Mu Yu asserted.

“Of course, Sir. The onus is on them to watch where they walk, though,” replied Lu Deyi.

Yao Wuji took a deep breath to quell his fury. “Sir, I am a level six alchemist from Pill Cauldron Sect. We are indebted to you.”

Lu Deyi glanced Yao Wuji’s way again. “Sir, as formation casters, we do not fear anyone, correct? Now that elemental demons are running amok, alchemists’ era is up; it is our era now. All alchemists can do is be yes men now. As a senior among formation casters, would you agree?”

This old man doesn’t give up once he starts building momentum, does he? Mu Yu mused, amused. “You are correct. That being said, alchemists are valuable in their own way. They are medics and can provide combatants short-term boosts.”

Yao Wuji immediately verbalised, “That is right. We need not worry about elemental demons with you assisting.”

“Bootlicker,” insulted Lu Deyi, throwing ad hominem.

“I actually have studied some alchemy and am connected to Pill Cauldron Sect,” Mu Yu stated, turning Lu Deyi’s face to clay.

Yao Wuji effused, “It would be our honour to host you.”

“He’s not even one of you, so wipe that smug grin off your face,” Lu Deyi muttered under his face.

Yao Wuji, all smiles, knew he had Lu Deyi in check after what Mu Yu stated. Refusing to be resigned to defeat, Lu Deyi subsequently queried, “Would you happen to know Grandmaster Chen Tiandao, Sir?”

“I do. We’re quite close, actually.”

Amplifying his volume, Lu Deyi verbalised, “You must be Grandmaster Chen’s close friend he often mentioned!”

“Sir, you are friends with one of our elders, are you not?” inquired Yao Wuji, refusing to back down.

“Che, you know already, don’t you?” scoffed Lu Deyi.

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