Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way

do now.

Pfft! As if someone had pressed the pause button on them, all of them stopped trying to run at the same time and they turned to look at Li Guang, who had been sent flying ten meters away from them and was now pinned to a tree, dying with his eyes wide open in horror.

All of them gulped and felt a chill down their spines as they broke into a cold sweat.

“My fellow cultivator of the Way! You don’t have to hide and launch secret attacks like this! Tell me what you want and I will bring your message back to the Seven Kill Sect!” Senior Brother Mu began to panic a little when he saw the 1.5-meter-long arrow that had pierced Li Guang.
If he weren’t poisoned by the Qi Dispelling Powder, this arrow wouldn’t have been a threat to him at all.
But he was now left with less than half his dantian worth of Qi.
Surviving this attacker was becoming a problem now.

SWOOSH! Another arrow tore through the air loudly, pronouncing its judgment on them as it pinned one more disciple to a tree.

This time, they saw what happened clearly.
That incredulously long arrow had pierced through Senior Brother Mu’s Murderous Qi like a needle piercing a bubble and had even made it past the Steel Strength Talisman on themselves.
The arrow had stabbed into that disciple’s flesh as if he was merely a fruit, sending blood and flesh flying for a good ten meters.

Crazier still, the one who got hit had died before he even got the chance to scream.

“Now, each one of you shall choose an opponent and you shall fight until only one of you is left standing.
Alternatively, all of you can die here.
The Seven Kill Sect? Who cares about that?”

A hoarse and sinister voice screeched at them suddenly like the voice of a vengeful spirit that had died a wrongful death, making their eardrums hurt as they shuddered in fear.

But what the voice said made them feel even more queasy inside.
This person seemed to have a feud with the Seven Kill Sect.
His voice was filled with disdain and hatred.

“The Seven Kill Sect disciples are united in heart and spirit, so there’s no way we’ll agree to fight one another like that!” Senior Brother Mu yelled back with gritted teeth.

“United in heart and spirit? HAHA!” The voice mocked Senior Brother Mu contemptuously before threatening them again, “If that’s the case, why don’t you guess who’s next to die?”

As the other party spoke, Senior Brother Mu shouted, “Extinguish the Fire!” The Qi he expelled immediately snuffed the fire in front of him out and he began making several hand seals.

Everyone immediately understood what Senior Brother Mu was doing, so they also put out any fires around them and hid behind a tree.

“Shadow Over the Sky!”

Wisps of gray smoke began to rise from the ground, gradually blocking the light from the moon and stars, so everything within a few hundred meters’ radius was now shrouded in a dark and opaque fog.

“Everyone, find a hiding place and get rid of the poison in your bodies! This spell will last for 15 minutes!” said Senior Brother Mu before quickly disappearing into the forest.

“What an idiot.” Gu Suihan sniggered as he watched all the fires suddenly go out and a gray shadow covered the whole place.
He kept his longbow away and took out his saber instead.

He quietly came down from the tree branch he had been standing on all this time and headed straight for where Senior Brother Mu and the other disciples were without a sound, like a snake slithering among the grass to hunt its prey down.

Zhou Tuo was trembling in fear as he hid on a branch of a large tree and frantically opened his bag to look for a pill that could counter the poison in his body.
But Senior Brother Mu’s Shadow Over the Sky spell had blocked out even the slightest bit of light.
He hadn’t activated his Qi nor learned any sort of spell that could help him see in the dark.
It was impossible to get the correct pill out.

He laughed sadly at himself as he clutched a few white jade pill bottles and didn’t know what else he could do.

Forget it, he thought.
He figured that if he just kept quiet, the probability of him getting shot by their attacker when there were a dozen others with him would be quite low.

He had been really traumatized earlier.
He had been right next to Li Guang when the arrow hit him, and Li Guang had been one of his best friends too.
All he had heard was an ear-piercing whoosh, and the next thing he knew, his best friend had been shot by an arrow and pinned to a tree.
Li Guang’s flesh and blood had sprayed all over him, frightening him so badly that he nearly peed himself.

Suddenly, a familiar voice whispered in his ear, “Why are you here? It’s very dangerous out here.
Go hide over there.”

Zhou Tuo froze for a moment before realizing that this voice belonged to Senior Brother Mu.
His face lit up and he was about to turn around to respond when he felt a terrible pain in his chest.
As he felt his life drain out of him, he realized what just happened.
“You…you’re not Senior Brother Mu.”

“Daylight Illumination,” chanted Gu Suihan quietly as he cast a spell that helped him to see in the dark.
The area that was covered by Senior Brother Mu’s spell was no longer shrouded in darkness to him.

He looked at the dried-up corpse on the tree branch with a flicker in his eye.