Fiend Island Guardians (Part 2)

"How dare you make light of Turtle Fiend King Ancestor's secret technique!" Ol' Turtle blustered.

Mu Yu couldn't care less about whatever divination technique it was. He turned to Ol' Deer since Ol' Turtle addressed the former as his senior. "Elder Deer, are you saying you will not let me through unless you can confirm everyone's status quo using your divinations?"

Ol' Deer asserted, "You have no right to trespass. We drove off two imperious humans yesterday. You best know what's good for you and wait for the divination's completion. I will decide what happens after!"

Said two humans were none other than Gui Xuanyue and Si Wusheng. As they weren't permitted entry, they resorted to an ambush technique.

Mu Yu couldn't object as he was the one who needed their help. Having said that, waiting around for the divination of all those who died would take an eternity. Hence, he suggested, "How about I bring you a few fiend corpses for you?"

On his way back to the battlefield, Mu Yu cursed, "Bloody hell. They're one step away from twiddling their thumbs to kill time!"

"What happened to all the poor fiends?" queried Xiaoshuai.

"Gui Hongyu!" shouted Mu Yu.

Mu Yu theorised Gui Hongyu came back to destroy all the evidence of Ghost Gate's shady activities because she was the only one who supposedly went to fetch Gui Xuanyue's corpse when everyone else returned to Third Heaven straight away. He tried his luck at searching for corpses to no avail. He cursed, "Why are they erasing evidence here?! When did those crooks learn to clean their mess?"

"Why are you back?" Ol' Turtle fumed.

"Please continue. If possible, may I implore you to work faster?" Mu Yu asked from his flying sword.

If there was a race for the slowest people around, Ol' Turtle would thrash Ku Mu's stuttering skills. Xiaoshuai dozed for four hours before they heard another report. Mu Yu ended up sleeping through the night on his sword.

"What? We lost another one?" thundered Ol' Deer, waking Mu Yu from his slumber.

The sun was up, yet Ol' Turtle was still divining. Mu Yu inquired, "How many have you got to?"

"Five have died, damn it," cursed Ol' Deer, melancholic.

"Why are you two so darn stubborn? I said only White Ape Fiend King and Qiao Xue escaped."

"His Majesty escaped?" exclaimed Ol' Deer.

"I told you that yesterday."

"Don't you know I have poor hearing? Can't you repeat important things?"

"Dementia sure is scary… I pray I never understand why these two are the sentries."

"Ol' Turtle, you can stop now. I don't think the kid is lying."

"I thought as much when I confirmed three deaths," Ol' Turtle responded, stroking his beard primly.

Mu Yu:What did you keep flipping divining for, then?!

Mu Yu took a big breath and wore on a friendly smile. "Elders, since you have confirmed I am not lying, may I enter now?"

"No, only fiends can enter," stated Ol' Deer.

"Qiao Xue isn't a fiend."

"She grew up with us, so it's different."

"Doesn't this water spirit prove our friendship?"

"How can I confirm you didn't steal it from her?"

"… You never planned to give me entry permission, did you?"

"Yeah, haven't I repeated myself three times?"

"You only said it twice!"

"Only fiends may enter Sacred Island. There's three."

Hearing Ol' Turtle muttering something again, Mu Yu thought to himself, "I deserve a prize for patience."

"Mu Yu, I think I have to give him my Shameless King crown. I think you need to let Punctured Sword off his leash," Xiaoshuai whispered.

Mu Yu hurled Wood Spirit at Ol' Deer. Ol' Deer activated the formation, repelling the sword back using the island's spiritual energy. Ol' Turtle slowly wore his shell back on and rhetorically asked, "You think we're pushovers when we've been guardians for so long?"

"Guess we're about to find out."

Mu Yu caught Wood Spirit and discharged vitality breakers. The formation, nonetheless, nullified his attacks. Ol' Deer extended his walking stick and gathered the formation's runes onto his stick. His downward swing raised the water level, revealing the bottom of the ocean.

"Guess we found out." Mu Yu jumped into Wood Spirit and retreated fifty kilometres. "That strike would've crushed a Body Severing Realm cultivator, sheesh!"

"You're a fast runner; I'll give you that. I took a lot of lives in our last expedition against humanity," said Ol' Deer, as the water filled the ocean again.

Mu Yu exited Wood Spirit. "He hid his abilities well."

Xiaoshuai patted his chest. "Scared me back there. If he had a physical body, he'd probably be even deadlier."

"I surmise he died a long time ago and is living in the formation for sustenance. I reckon the only chance of winning against them is destroying the formation. I don't see myself accomplishing that from the outside of it, though."

"I can tell you they're not the only two dangerous ones on the island."

"You're making me wonder if the fiend race relies on the island to survive."

Unlike humanity's teleportation formation, the fiend's didn't have a tool linked up so that travellers could teleport back promptly at any time the way humans had the jade pieces.

Mu Yu didn't know much about the fiend race, but he believed many of their secrets were hidden on the island.

"Mu Yu, what are you going to do?"

"I was hoping somebody could tell me what to do."

Mu Yu stowed away Wood Spirit and Water Spirit. Forcing his way through wasn't going to fly. One way or another, he was going to have to persuade the two dodgy guardians.