Chapter 149: Chapter 107: The Purifying Moon Mother Gu’s Severed Umbilical Tentacle
"Don’t think I don’t know you’ve been in contact with the Evil Blood Sect. We’re old acquaintances. You would never hand the Rule Deceit Embryo over to them."
Qin Ruyue spoke with absolute certainty, like an old cat that had just cornered a frantic mouse in a dead-end alley.
Her words prompted Shi Mi to take a combative stance, ready for a fight to the death.
Seeing Shi Mi’s stance, Qin Ruyue’s tone suddenly shifted.
"The Rule Deceit Embryo can remain with you. As they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
"The Starlight City officials are after both of us. Instead of fighting amongst ourselves, I think we should consider how to deal with them together."
"You can’t be willing to die here in Starlight City, can you? You must want to find a way to escape."
Qin Ruyue’s words gave Shi Mi pause.
He stared intently at Qin Ruyue, scrutinizing her for the slightest change in expression.
"Why should I trust you?"
"The Moon Purifying Gu in my body is about to activate. With it, you can easily track my location."
"In the end, I’ll still be captured by you."
"And even if we escape Starlight City, would you really let me go?"
Shi Mi’s words were defiant, but when he lowered his combat stance and his aggressive aura faded, Qin Ruyue knew the deal was as good as done.
Thinking of her current condition, Qin Ruyue steeled herself and summoned the Purifying Moon Mother Gu.
A palm-sized, crescent-shaped Poisonous Insect emitting a pearlescent white glow appeared in her palm.
Three fleshy, pliant tentacles grew from the Poisonous Insect’s body.
The moment the Purifying Moon Mother Gu was summoned, one of the tentacles immediately pointed toward Shi Mi.
Shi Mi could feel something inside his body resonating with the Purifying Moon Mother Gu.
"Go on, break the umbilical tendril that connects my Purifying Moon Mother Gu to the Child Gu inside you."
"Once you snap this tendril, the Child Gu parasitizing your body will enter a dormant state."
"You can then dispose of the Child Gu yourself. This is my show of good faith."
"However, after you break this tendril, you will follow my orders for all actions within Starlight City."
At this, Qin Ruyue’s voice dropped, yet it carried an exceptional weight.
"Otherwise, you know what I’m capable of."
Shi Mi hadn’t expected Qin Ruyue to actually offer releasing him from the Moon Purifying Gu’s control as a sign of good faith and a bargaining chip.
Overjoyed, Shi Mi immediately agreed and snapped the umbilical tendril that controlled the Child Gu inside his body.
Its tendril severed, the Purifying Moon Mother Gu thrashed violently in Qin Ruyue’s palm.
Qin Ruyue ignored its state and recalled the Purifying Moon Mother Gu directly into her Soul Base.
"Shi Mi, let your Centipede Bone Tomb Princess recover its Energy first."
"Thanks to the mess you’ve made, Starlight City is on complete lockdown."
"If we want to get out, we’ll have to find a special way."
Even after being freed from the Moon Purifying Gu’s control, Shi Mi still glared at Qin Ruyue with unconcealed hatred.
’It’s all because of her that I’ve ended up in this state.’
’If it weren’t for her, the Centipede Bone Tomb Princess would have already devoured this Rule Deceit Embryo, which is a perfect match for a Bone Element Deceit Beast.’
’I wouldn’t be on the run all over Starlight City with a warrant out for my arrest.’
Still, Shi Mi didn’t have the guts to attack Qin Ruyue. For one, a fight would undoubtedly attract the attention of Starlight City’s powerful authorities.
For another, he didn’t believe he was a match for her.
Qin Ruyue’s attitude toward Shi Mi was no different than usual, giving him no reason to suspect anything was amiss.
Even so, Shi Mi only gave her his verbal agreement.
’Just as she wants to use me, I’ll use her to create an opportunity for myself. I’ll use my Talent as a Deceit Beast Master to escape Starlight City.’
’In any case, the Rule Deceit Embryo is still in my hands.’
"What’s this special way?"
"Let me be clear. Even if we’re working together, I won’t be your cannon fodder or draw their fire."
"Those bastards from the Evil Blood Sect deserve to die. We should consider using them as meat shields instead."
Shi Mi was becoming more and more convinced that the Evil Blood Sect was to blame for his current predicament.
’If the Evil Blood Sect had just been willing to help me stir up some chaos in the Lower City District,’
’I might have already escaped Starlight City by now!’
’It would’ve been one thing if they’d just refused from the start, but the high-ranking member of the Evil Blood Sect I was in contact with seemed extremely interested.’
Hearing Shi Mi’s plan to drag the Evil Blood Sect into this, Qin Ruyue wouldn’t have objected in the past.
But now, with the Origin of her Deceit Beast, the Night-Cutting Spider, damaged, and the Evil Blood Sect having just promoted a Mythical Tier Deceit Beast...
A Mythical Tier Deceit Beast’s craving for the Rule Deceit Embryo was likely even stronger than Starlight City’s obsession with capturing her and Shi Mi.
"Shi Mi, the Evil Blood Sect now has a Mythical Tier Deceit Beast in its ranks."
"Do you really want to provoke them right now? Or have you decided you don’t want that Rule Deceit Embryo anymore?"
"If you want revenge, you can wait until after we escape Starlight City. Then you can come back and cause trouble for them in secret."
At this, Qin Ruyue’s expression turned serious.
"Shi Mi, you’ve been holed up in the Lower City District ever since you got to Starlight City, so you probably haven’t heard."
"An SS Level Celestial Destiny Seeker has appeared in Starlight City."
"If we were to kidnap this SS Level Celestial Destiny Seeker, do you think Starlight City would dare stop us from leaving?"
Shi Mi was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up.
"An SS Level Celestial Destiny Seeker!?"
"They’re treasures in every city of the Xin Xia Federation! But... how would we even find this SS Level Celestial Destiny Seeker?"
After Shen Xuan’s potential rating was confirmed, Lin Zhuo immediately announced his identity, as he was to take Shen Xuan to Starlight Academy.
It was unlike the case with Zhong Yi, whose identity as a Healing-type Celestial Destiny Seeker had been concealed.
Otherwise, if Qin Ruyue had known a Healing-type Celestial Destiny Seeker was in Starlight City, she wouldn’t have been puzzled as to why the city’s Celestial Destiny Seekers were willing to fight by trading blow for blow.
"Do you really think my scouting abilities are limited to these little spiders I’ve split off?"
"Others may not know my methods, but surely you do."
"I have cultivated three hundred Spider Slaves in Starlight City, all with different identities in the Upper City District."
"Although they only live for five days after being parasitized, more than ten of my Spider Slaves in the Starlight Army have already sent me word."
A torrential downpour lashed Starlight City all night.
The next morning, news had already spread that a Deceit Beast had gone on a rampage, slaughtering people in the city.
As the situation developed, the most furious were the Deceit Beasts controlled by the Deceit Holders in the Ghost Suppression Bureau’s Hidden Moon Division.
This vicious incident severely damaged the reputation of all the Deceit Beasts controlled by Deceit Holders.
It is incredibly difficult for a Deceit Beast to build a good reputation. The moment a major incident is caused by one of their kind, all the goodwill they’ve painstakingly built up vanishes into thin air.
Many Deceit Holders within the Hidden Moon Division volunteered to dispatch their own Deceit Beasts to join the operation.
Just then, a man in a flamboyant, multicolored, and stylistically complex outfit was walking down a street in Starlight City, his brow furrowed.
’What the hell? I’ve only been gone for a little over a month. How did such a huge mess erupt?’
’Damn it! The Purifying Moon Sect is nothing but trouble.’
’And that treaty between the Xin Xia Federation and the Purifying Moon Sect is completely unreasonable.’
’Why is it that when a conflict breaks out, if the other side doesn’t have a combatant above Mythical Tier, then we can’t deploy anyone above Mythical Tier either?’
As he muttered his complaints, the sole of his left foot began to glow with a faint green light that shone through his shoe.
In the next instant, his figure blurred into an afterimage like a gust of wind, and he appeared inside the meeting hall of the Ghost Suppression Bureau.
A grim-faced Lin Zhuo, along with four Deceit Holders wearing emerald-green Deceitful Moon Badges, including Chen Yin, were already seated at the table in the meeting hall.
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