Chapter 61 Mu Kui

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  Mountain waves surge, layer upon layer.

  Towering mountains, nearly ten thousand feet high, are wrapped in clouds, with peaks rising and falling in a strange and wonderful manner, as if they were the silent crouching of ancient giant beasts.

  At this time, it was dusk, the sunset glow poured down like a bloody halo, dyeing the clouds and mist, and the vast and majestic mountains were bathed in the sunset, outlining a magnificent and majestic landscape.

  "What happened?"

  "Where is this place again?"

  In front of a steep cliff with a height of thousands of feet, a young man was muttering to himself. His cheekbones were thin and clear-cut, his eyebrows were sparse and firm, and he had an air of tenacity like iron, which was Chen Tai.

  Cotton-like clouds drifted across the cliff, standing in the sea of clouds, the mountain wind howled, blowing his clothes fluttering and making a rustling sound, as if he was about to ride the wind away at any moment.

  But at this moment, Chen Xiao's eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and his eyes were filled with contemplation. "I clearly remember that when the immortal mansion collapsed, I was frantically fleeing like a mad fly, almost thinking I would die in it, how could I suddenly appear here?"

  "No need to think about it, a great being tore through the void and saved you." Ji Yu appeared quietly, standing at the edge of the cloud sea cliff, with a hint of surprise on his face.

  Tearing apart the void? The Great Power?

  Chen Xiao inhaled a mouthful of cool air, he really couldn't imagine what kind of powerful being would possess the terrifying ability to tear through the void.

  It wasn't until half a beat later that he noticed something, Ji Yu said the word "you" (plural), which went without saying, Chai Le Tian and Su Jiao were also rescued.

  "But why did that powerful person want to lend a hand?" Chen Tang asked.

  Ji Yu shook his head and sighed, "I also can't understand. Maybe he just happened to pass by, saw you on the verge of death, and lent a hand, accumulating some merit for himself."

  Accumulating merits and virtues, but it's also a bit too coincidental...

  Chen Xiao couldn't think of a reason, so he stopped thinking and sighed: "Fortunately escaped, but ended up in this vast mountain range, with one peak after another, seemingly endless. I don't know where to return to Songyan City."

  "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the hinterland of the 100,000-mile Nanman mountain range. Look over there, the demonic energy is surging into the sky and condensing without dispersing, clearly harboring a powerful demon with an aura that shakes the heavens." Ji Yu stretched out his hand to point at a distant majestic mountain peak that pierced straight into the clouds.

  Chen Xuan's heart skipped a beat, and he raised his eyes to look in the direction that Ji Yu was pointing. Indeed, on a distant mountain peak, there was a swirling black mist, like a straight-as-a-pen column of wolf smoke, condensed but not dispersing.

  The demon beast stepped into the prenatal, although it could transform into a human form, but the demonic energy on its body was irreparable, and the deeper the cultivation, the thicker the demonic energy.

  The surging aura of evil spirits gathering on the distant mountain peak undoubtedly proved that a powerful demon was lurking there, and as for its actual strength, even Ji Yu couldn't accurately judge it, let alone Chen Tai.

  "Huh?"

  It seemed that Ji Yu had sensed something, his eyebrows furrowed, and after a moment of silence, he relaxed his expression, shook his head and said: "Looks like you've indeed entered the treacherous land where the ferocious beast runs amok." As he spoke, his body swayed and he vanished into thin air.

  "It's actually... a human!"

  Before Chen Tang could understand the meaning of Ji Yu's words, a loud and rough voice suddenly rang out from afar, with awkward wording, as if he had just learned to speak.

  Chen Xuan stood at the top of a steep mountain peak, surrounded by clouds and mist, with a rugged rock face behind him.

  At this moment, a young man in black with an ugly face and a lean figure was standing there, his bright eyes releasing a fierce and cruel color without any concealment.

  "Heavenly Boundary Great Demon?"

  Chen Xiao had once beheaded a congenital great demon in the southern barbarian mountains, and was no longer an unknown name. Almost at a glance, he saw through the identity of this black-clad young man.

  "Hmm, indeed a human. I, Mu Kui, have cultivated for nearly a thousand years and this is the first time I've encountered a human. I've heard that human flesh is tender and delicious, but I don't know if it's true or not."

  The young man in black, who called himself Mu Kui, spoke to himself, becoming more and more excited as he spoke. He stuck out his scarlet tongue to lick his lips, revealing a mouthful of cold, sharp teeth.

  "Want to eat my flesh? A demon beast is a demon beast after all, no matter how it transforms into human form, it's hard to change its innate desire for blood."

  Chen Xiao shook his head, and with a swift movement, he stepped on the ground with the tip of his foot, treading the Heavenly Dragon Eight Steps. His body was like a hunting leopard pouncing out, as he charged towards the black-clad youth, Mu Kui, with a fierce attack.

  Mu Kui did not expect Chen Yao to make a move so quickly, and before he could even react, Chen Yao had already closed in on him.

  Bang!

  A simple and straightforward punch was thrown out, instantly knocking Mu Kui flying. Before he could even fall to the ground, Chen Xiao rushed forward again, bending his elbow and swinging his arm, with his fist like a drill punching downwards.

  With a loud crash, Mu Kui was directly smashed into the hard rocky ground, his body deeply embedded in it, and his mouth corner even flowed with a stream of deep red blood.

  Splash!

  Chen Xiao raised his fist again.

  "Stop, stop! I surrender, spare my life, senior! Spare my life!" Mu Kui cried out in terror, but deep within his eyes flashed a trail of ruthless anger.

  Think you can deceive me?

  Chen Xuan sneered coldly in his heart, completely ignoring Mu Kui's pleas for mercy, and continued to punch him with dozens of fists, each one striking with full force, until Mu Kui was battered and bruised, his bones shattered beyond recognition.

  For a moment, the entire mountain top was filled with the mournful wails of the wooden kui begging for mercy, the sound was sorrowful beyond compare, moving those who heard it to tears.

  "Now, are you still going to eat my flesh?" Chen Ting asked coldly as he looked at Mu Kui who was on the verge of collapse.

  He is not actually iron-hearted, and he has not reached the point of killing all the demon beasts. However, this Mu Kui is extremely cunning, and when it admitted defeat for the first time, it was clearly pretending, trying to deceive Chen Tang. If they don't beat it until it develops a deep-seated fear, who knows what might happen?

  The world of the demon beasts is actually more naked than that of humans, from the bones they have always followed the survival rule of the strong being respected, whoever has the bigger fist gets to call the shots, and doesn't talk about any reason or emotion.

  "I dare not, I dare not. A small person like me doesn't know Mount Tai, and I hope the elder will forgive my crime."

  His face was red and swollen from Chen's slap, making his already ugly appearance even more pitiful.

  "Alright, I'll ask you some questions. If your answers satisfy me, I'll let you go. Hmm, get up first." Chen Yu said with his hands behind his back.

  "I guarantee that I will definitely keep you informed, and I will definitely not hide anything from you. I must make sure that my seniors are satisfied." Mu Kui struggled to get up from the ground, enduring the intense pain all over his body as he nodded repeatedly.

  "Where is this?"

  "Reporting to senior, this is the land of Nanman, in the midst of the 100,000 Great Mountains. This mountain is called Bao Yue, and it's where I cultivate." Mu Kui indeed spoke without hiding anything, answering extremely concisely.

  "Oh, do you know how to get out of here?" Chen Xiao's expression remained unchanged as he continued to ask, making it impossible to discern his true thoughts.

  This appearance fell into Mu Kui's eyes and became even more profound and mysterious, and in his heart, he was even more convinced that Chen Xiao was a human strongman who had mistakenly entered this place.

  However, Chen's second question still made Mu Kui stunned, and he muttered: "How did the senior come here, don't you know yourself?"

  Chen Xiao nodded. The dissatisfaction in his voice scared Mu Kui, who shivered and replied with a difficult expression: "Senior, I've been cultivating here since childhood, and in the past thousand years, I've never left Baoyue Mountain's ten-mile radius. This question is also one that I'm unable to answer."

  "Alright, you can go." Chen Xiao sank into thought for a moment, then waved his hand.

  Mu Kui couldn't help but be stunned again, and just like that, he let himself go? He was a bit unbelievable, and for a moment, he didn't know what to do.

  Just at this time ——

  A loud, deep and muffled voice like a giant drum came from the foot of the mountain, "Mu Kui little boy, I must kill you today, hurry up and get out for your grandfather!"

  The sound was so loud that it boomed and exploded all over Mount Bao Yue.

  "It's over, that Lihǔ guy is here again......" Mù Kuí's face suddenly changed, becoming extremely gloomy, with a disheartened and listless appearance.

  "Is this guy really that formidable?"

  Mukui sighed weakly and said: "He's on par with me, but in my current state... I'm no match for him. Alas, if it weren't for that elder earlier..."

  "Are you blaming me for hurting you?" Chen Xiao interrupted coldly.

  Mu Kui was shocked and suddenly realized that the person beside him was even more ruthless than Li Hu, so he quickly explained: "Senior, please calm down, I absolutely didn't mean it, absolutely not!"

  "Why did Li Hu want to kill you?" Chen Tai just scared him for a moment, seeing him so tame, and didn't bear to make him suffer again.

  "Not even for the sake of snatching away my cultivation cave."

  "Senior, to be honest with you, I have a top-grade spiritual vein in my cave, but that fierce tiger somehow got the news and wants to occupy my cave, leaving me without a place to live."

  "Why are you telling me this, aren't you afraid I'll snatch it away?" Chen Tai looked at Mu Kui with profound meaning.

  Mu Kui also knew that his little thoughts couldn't deceive Chen Tai, so he frankly replied: "As long as Senior can help me kill Lie Hu, giving this cultivation cave to Senior is no big deal."

  "What about you?" Chen Tuo pressed on step by step.

  He knelt down to the ground with a loud thud, kowtowing repeatedly and said loudly: "I am willing to follow you, become your mount, and serve you for the rest of my life."

  Chen Xiao was stunned, never expecting Mu Kui to make such a sacrifice.

  When a demon beast acknowledges its master, it is equivalent to making a heavenly oath. For the rest of its life, it can only follow behind its master, with its life and death completely controlled by its master. Under normal circumstances, no spiritual beast would willingly do so.

  "Kui Xiaoer, you can't escape, come out and face your death!"

  A deep and powerful voice rumbled again, near the waist of Bao Yue Mountain, a fiery red figure was rushing towards the top of the mountain.