Chapter 303

Chapter 303: Bai Mu Mu’s Soul-Sacrifice Rite Saves Master Ling Xiao

At the same time, on Thunder-Scale Peak, Feng He Yun and Lu Shi Qing stared nervously at the tribulation cloud and prayed for Master Ling Xiao.

Feng He Yun pressed his hands together and whispered: “Master, please succeed.”

Even though so much had happened and they were close to breaking with Master Ling Xiao, they were still his disciples. When their Master crossed a Tribulation, of course they worried. Also, if Master Ling Xiao succeeded, Shen Sang Ruo could come back.

Far away in Fumeng City, Luo Chu watched the sky too. In the Disciplinary Tower, Wen Xuan kept his senses locked on the rising storm.

None of them knew that their Master was thinking about killing them.

Bai Mu Mu calmly polished her nails. She did not panic at all. She tipped her face up to the sky and asked in a low voice: “System, what is my Master’s state right now? It should be time, right?”

[System: Master Ling Xiao is completely out of control now.]

[System: If Host goes now, it is the best time to complete the task.]

She smiled with lazy confidence: “Good. Send me by Teleportation right away.”

She was sure Shen Dao Chen and the other Elders would be in chaos and too busy to notice when she appeared.

On the round platform, thunderbolts crashed again and again onto Ling Xiao’s true body. He did not react at all. Black mist kept pouring off him, almost smothering his flame.

He flicked his sleeve. Several Elders in front of him were blasted off the platform at once, spat blood, and fell unconscious.

The remaining Elders broke ranks in a panic, shouting over one another: “Master Ling Xiao has entered Devilization! Run! Run!”

Shen Dao Chen’s mind went blank. His junior brother, the brightest Cultivator in the Cultivation World, had truly Devilized? He had been so close to waking him, so how did it become like this?

He could not accept it.

[What will happen to the Flying Cloud Sect? Sang Ruo is not back yet. It is over. Everything is over.] For a moment, he felt completely lost.

As he struggled with his thoughts, a terrible sense of being hunted fell over him. A chill ran down his back.

He jerked his head up and locked eyes with Master Ling Xiao, who was drowned in killing intent.

Master Ling Xiao’s lips moved. Shen Dao Chen’s ears rang, but he clearly understood what those lips formed: “You deserve to die. I will kill you.”

The last word had barely fallen when Master Ling Xiao rushed at him, a crushing attack gathering in his hand. He meant to take Shen Dao Chen’s life himself.

Shen Dao Chen’s feet felt like they were filled with lead. He wanted to run, but he could not move. Even if he ran, he could never outrun Master Ling Xiao in Devilization, and he felt how fierce that killing intent was.

He stared, eyes wide, as the attack closed in. [Is this where my life ends? I still have so much to do. I have not even recognized Shen Sang Ruo as my daughter again.]

A cry cut through the thunder: “Master, don’t!”

A familiar figure flashed into view. Bai Mu Mu sprang from nowhere, threw herself in front of him, and took the blow. In Shen Dao Chen’s eyes she flew away like a cut kite.

He shouted, voice raw with pain: “Mu Mu!”

No matter how much trouble Bai Mu Mu had caused the Flying Cloud Sect, in that instant it was wiped clean in his heart. He wanted only one thing: for his daughter to live.

But how could Bai Mu Mu, still at Qi Refining, survive a full-force strike from Master Ling Xiao?

He staggered after her, eyes red: “Why did you block it for me! My daughter, my daughter!”

He raced to where she fell. To his shock and joy, Bai Mu Mu was alive.

She pushed herself up, blood at the corner of her mouth, and tried to smile: “Father, I am fine. Only the Cold Echo Pearl you gave me shattered.”

It was not only shattered. The Cold Echo Pearl in her hand had turned to powder. The treasure had absorbed most of the attack, and with the System backing her, she was not badly hurt.

Shen Dao Chen hugged Bai Mu Mu like something precious returned from death: “You are alive, that is all that matters. Do not ever do something so foolish again.”

[Ding: Shen Dao Chen favorability +10, current favorability: 74.]

His relief lasted only a breath before new fear struck him. He loosened his hold and urged in a rush: “Run. Mu Mu, run!”

He pushed her toward the slope: “Your Master has Devilized. He will kill you. I will hold him off. You must go, now!”

He remembered Master Ling Xiao’s vow to kill everyone who had hurt Shen Sang Ruo.

He spoke fast, like giving his last wishes: “Run as far as you can. Come back only after the Hall of Myriad Spirits settles this. If I am gone, you must find your elder sister and bring her home. Do not let her remain with another sect, do you understand?”

Bai Mu Mu did not expect that even now his mind was still on Shen Sang Ruo, even to the point of asking her to fetch Shen Sang Ruo back. She swallowed the anger that rose in her chest and gripped his arm.

She said firmly: “No, Father. I will not go. I will save Master.”

She met his eyes without fear: “Master has not fully fallen into Devilization. There is still a chance. Do not give up on Master, Father.”

While they spoke, Master Ling Xiao had already beaten the other Elders into heavy injury and unconsciousness. In his eyes, everyone here deserved to die.

Shen Dao Chen shook his head, helpless: “But your Master…” He glanced at the red-lit sky. “There is no time. Go!”

Bai Mu Mu’s voice was steady and sure: “Believe me, Father. I have a way. I will wake Master, and we will all walk out alive.”

[Ding: Shen Dao Chen favorability +10, current favorability: 84.]

They likely could not escape now anyway.

He drew a breath and nodded once: “Father will listen to you.”

She explained as she stepped toward Master Ling Xiao: “When I learned Master was going to break through, I searched the ancient books for ways to face a Heart Devil Tribulation.”

She lifted her hands, eyes calm: “I finally found a method. A Soul-Sacrifice Rite can wake someone who has just entered Devilization.”

Shen Dao Chen realized what she meant and cried out to stop her: “Mu Mu, you must not!”

But Bai Mu Mu raised her voice over his: “My attribute is ice and snow. My power is pure. If I perform the Soul-Sacrifice Rite, I can save Master.”

She began forming hand seals. Divine Soul Power surged out of her, coating her body in a pale blue cold light. Her face turned visibly white.

Master Ling Xiao’s eyes were full of blood and rage. His reason had been replaced by killing intent. Seeing Bai Mu Mu gather power, he struck at her without hesitation.

Shen Dao Chen hurled himself forward like a madman, gathering his Spiritual Power to block the blow. In the next instant, both he and Bai Mu Mu were blasted away again.

Bai Mu Mu did not care. She pushed to her feet, steadied her breath, and continued the Soul-Sacrifice Rite.