Chapter 55: If you win, I will give my life to you; otherwise, I want your body. (1/2)

Translator: DragonRider

As soon as the hoarse voice rang, the long sword held in Mu Chen’s hand was stimulated by the killing intent of its owner and buzzed instantly. The man was wearing a black robe, his face hidden behind a silver mask. Though his voice had changed, Mu Chen still recognized him at a glance.

Mu Chen raised his head and looked at the entrance, his fair eyes slanting a bit upwardly now full of pitiless killing intent, which made people around him feel a sudden shock in both their heart and spirit. Therefore, most of them drew back stealthily, afraid of being killed accidentally.

“You intended to kill my disciple that night, didn’t you, Wei Huaitong?” The cold voice with strong killing intent, presented a special sense and struck deep in everyone’s heart. The overwhelming force of the Demigod Stage unconsciously burst out, which made some cultivators who didn’t have enough time to withdraw kneel on the ground directly. Unable to bear this force, they trembled badly.

Seeing the man in black, naturally Mu Chen regarded Wei Huaitong as the one who attacked Gu Yunjue.

Twice!

Wei Huaitong licked his mouth feverishly, thinking that the reaction of Mu Chen was merely on account of knowing he planned to kill Gu Yunjue. If he destroyed Gu Yunjue, how painful and heart-broken Mu Chen would be!

“Since we parted 69 years ago, I’ve been missing you every second. Therefore, hearing that you, my dear brother, has apprenticed a disciple, I’m certainly obliged to visit you.” The malice was revealed in his hoarse voice. His words indirectly proved that it was he who intended to assassinate Gu Yunjue that night. His original intention was to put pressure upon Mu Chen. Therefore, now he surely would not deny it.

Seeing the look of Mu Chen turning colder and colder out of anger, Wei Huaitong was trembling excitedly. In his eyes, Mu Chen looked like a delicate doll with slim body and pure skin that could be broken easily, still this junior brother just could stand peerlessly against any kind of pressure with the back unbending all the time. At that moment he was so eager to make his little lovely bother into a doll which would become the most perfect collection in his lifetime! Irreplaceable!

Mu Chen pursed his lips, with a lively and beaming face of a juvenile popping into his mind.

That boy was called Fu An, who was the first attendant of Mu Chen in Lofty Cloudy Sect. Because Fu An wasn’t endowed with great talents, he couldn’t reach the superior cultivation manual but have to work as an attendant. However, Fu An didn’t resign himself to his fate. Assuming that he would be outstanding as long as he was diligent in cultivating, he forged ahead with great enthusiasm and practiced harder than anyone else. He once told Mu Chen his parents were so old that he cannot bear to cut off the fetters of this world after he stepped into the immortal world. He was a positive and filial teenager who usually ran down the hill secretly to send his parents necessities. Yet one day, he never came back after he had left.

Half a year later, Mu Chen found little Fu An in the basement where Wu Huaitong concocted pills. He should become a monster with full-mouthed tusks like neither a man nor a demon nor a ghost, howling constantly and biting anyone approaching him. If not for the protective talisman his mother gave him hanging on his neck, who would recognize him?

In order to concoct pills, Wei Huaitong went so far as to harm a child without any enmity toward him and tested pills on the tens of innocent disciples who finally died of poison!

More infuriatingly, he was now tagging Mu Chen’s disciple. It was a threat to let him live even one more day.

Furiousness filling his eyes, Mu Chen forgot the ban on fighting formulated to protect pill alchemists in Pill City. Only the blood can wash away the sin of Wei Huaitong.

With a faint smile, Wei Huaitong stepped forward. The overwhelming force emerging from him should be comparable to Mu Chen’s cultivation. He said, “So Fickle you are. The moment we meet, you just want to kill me. If we fought, both of us should suffer great losses. What about a bet instead?”

Mu Chen stared at Wei, disdain appearing in his eyes. He held his sword tighter, killing intent in his body not decaying a bit. Obviously he didn’t want to listen to the nonsense but to chop the man with his sword.

Wei Huaitong took out a black Soul Suppression Stone where a transparent figure was curling up into a ball but his appearance could be seen clearly. The deep voice of Wei Huaitong showed his confidence that he would certainly win, “I took the bother to keep the soul of that child cultivator. It seems that you don’t care about his reincarnation at all!”

“Fu An!” Mu Chen’s pupils constricted instantly.

“In this Pills Concocting Competition, if you lose, I want your body; if you win, I will give my life to you, plus this soul,” Hardly had his voice faded away, everyone took a breath back in shock. Asking for the body directly… Everyone showed pities self-consciously while looking at Mu Chen.

Nevertheless, Mu Chen knew that Wei just wanted to make the body into a puppet, or into another shell for hiding. His cool eyes brimming with disdain and contempt, Mu Chen was confident that he would never lose, but he didn’t believe Wei Huaitong would keep his words.

“I shall swear before God if I go back on my words, my soul and spirit will scatter and fade away!” Vows for cultivators meant fatal restraints. Anyone who betrayed his promises would suffer the wrath of heaven. Clearly, Wei Huaitong planned to give Mu Chen a guarantee. As for what he wanted to do, only he himself would know.

Gu Yunjue bowed his head down, a slightly cold light flashing by his eyes and a brutal killing intent surging instantaneously before going calm. The corners of his thin lips lightly curved into a smile as he looked down at the man below as if he was looking at a lifeless thing. Such a clown should dare to covet his precious?

Suddenly, Wei Huaitong felt a chilly and freezing intention of killing. As he raised his head, he just caught Gu’s eyes which were amorous normally but became deadly solemn when smiles disappeared, as if a demon devouring people was hibernating inside. The surroundings turned quiet suddenly as a vacant space and only the breathing of himself could be heard. Wei Huaitong subconsciously drew back, looking at that juvenile astonishingly. Gu Yunjue reached out his hand just as Wei had done toward him that night and grasped in the air…

At once, Wei Huaitong felt a hand grabbing him so tightly by his throat that he was almost suffocated. He could just haul it by his two hands, struggling to free himself from this damned suppression. Then the Soul Suppression Stone held in his hand fell off instantly.

Mu Chen, who always had constant vigilance to Wei Huaitong, crooked one finger and drew the Soul Suppression Stone to his hand. Seeing the man in front madly grabbing himself by the throat as if he was strangling himself to death, Mu Chen lifted his eyebrows and stabbed the sword at him without hesitation.

When dealing with such vicious persons, never hesitate to slaughter, for they might have murdered others before you planned to compete with him openly and aboveboard. There was no need to talk nonsense if you had the chance to strike first. No matter why he seized himself by the throat, just kill him.

His heart was impaled by one sword blow. Nine Yang Dark Fire burned through his chest instantly without sparing his divine soul and turned him into a transparent figure.

“Mu Chen, you...” Wei Huaitong glared at Mu Chen fiercely, with eye sockets almost cracking. Mu Chen should have planned to kill him directly!

Mu Chen said coldly, “So opinionated you are. I haven’t promised you to have a competition.” Seeing the intention of killing and resentment in Wei’s eyes, Mu Chen indifferently said, “I hate troubles and you are just a trouble.”

Therefore, killing him was the simplest to save trouble.