Chapter 156: Six Paths · Dust-Sealed Gate

What a waste, to target a young lady as outstanding as me. Why did you have to pick on me?

Mu Zixi tilted her head back, her eyes wide and filled with an undeniable sense of regret as she gazed up at the sky.

But the expected violent explosion didn't happen. Puzzled, she lowered her head.

"Explode!"

She clapped her hands, but all she heard was a "pat-pat" sound, with no response from below.

What was going on?

"Explode!!!"

Her palms stung from the clapping, yet the area below remained completely silent.

"Awkward..."

A few birds flew overhead, their calls sounding abruptly out of place in the dead silence.

Mu Zixi's face turned ashen with anger, almost making her want to lash out at the birds.

"Why isn't it exploding?" she wondered, puzzled.

Not to mention the hundreds of ancient trees fused into this "Mu Bei" below, even if she really wanted to detonate the entire Senluo Milin...

Ahem, that might be a bit much, but blowing up a small section would be no problem at all.

So why no reaction?

As she pondered, a faint noise seemed to emerge from the "Mu Bei" below. Mu Zixi tilted her ear to listen.

Crunch, crunch...

Crunch, crunch, crunch—

The strange sounds grew louder, and Mu Zixi's pupils contracted. She could feel that something inside the "Mu Bei" was being rapidly destroyed, as if a trapped beast was breaking free!

In the next instant, wood chips exploded outward, and a calm, unhurried figure in a green skirt emerged vaguely.

Still holding the small bronze furnace, with purple sandalwood incense rising gently, she appeared as light as the breeze and clouds, undisturbed and emotionless.

Mu Zixi's eyes widened in shock.

"Unharmed?"

Even if the key explosion didn't go off, after being bombarded by hundreds of ancient tree trunks, shouldn't you at least be a bit flattened?

Why were you still like this?

And she looked completely unfazed, with just a few more wrinkles on her dress...

"Is the power of the seal really this terrifying?" Mu Zixi's heart sank, and her earlier joy vanished in an instant.

Mo Mo looked up, saying little, as seals formed rapidly in her hands.

Mu Zixi felt a chill at the back of her neck. She had seen this woman fight Xu Xiaoshou and knew that once she started forming seals, the battle would almost certainly become one-sided.

She didn't have any innate sword intent, let alone that weird, controllable kind, so turning the tables would be difficult.

"Oh no, why did I pick a fight with you? I don't want to fight anymore..."

Mu Zixi was starting to think about running away. This fight was totally unnecessary—if she won, she might get nothing, and if she lost, she'd probably have to hand over a "Shengming Lingyin" on top of it.

"Hmm, no more loss-making deals!"

After boldly giving herself that excuse, she grabbed a handful of seeds just in case and suddenly leaped back to escape.

Mo Mo remained unhurried, stopping her seals mid-air and suspending them in the void.

"Da Feng Shuo!"

As the words fell, the heavens and earth changed dramatically. The entire "Senluo Milin" became treacherous and shifting, as if an eerie wind was whispering through it.

Whoosh, whoosh—

Mu Zixi looked up, black clouds pressing down, filling her with alarm.

Influencing the environment like this—wasn't that something only Zongshi-level experts could do?

She focused and saw that the woman in front of her had only just entered the Xiantian realm...

"Zongshi Lingji!"

That was the only explanation, and not just any Zongshi Lingji—it had to be an ultra-advanced one.

But ultra-advanced Zongshi Lingji were extremely rare, even in Tiansang Linggong!

"Shijie Mo really has quite the background..."

A hunch from long ago was now confirmed, but Mu Zixi felt no joy at all.

She hadn't gotten far before the massive wind sealed off everything.

In that moment, Mu Zixi felt all her connections to the "Senluo Milin" being severed... no, sealed.

She couldn't communicate any useful information anymore, and she couldn't even use the plants and trees as her eyes to gauge the situation—that wasn't the worst of it, though...

As the wind grew stronger, everything in front of her blurred completely, and her field of vision shrank inch by inch.

Soon, Mu Zixi could only see a few steps ahead.

The rest was all a hazy blur!

Swoosh!

Her leap suddenly halted, and Mu Zixi forced herself to stop, not even daring to lower her half-raised foot.

The wind swept by, and a faint gray light gate appeared before her.

She threw the seeds in her hand toward the gray gate. The seeds began to crack and turn into ancient trees, but the process only halfway finished before they completely petrified and then crumbled into dust.

Mu Zixi: ???

She stumbled in mid-air, catching a whiff of death approaching.

"Big sister Mo! Stop, I'm not worth it!"

Her voice scattered before it could travel far. Mu Zixi knew everything around her was sealed by the wind, so her heartfelt plea probably wouldn't get through.

"Is Mo Mo really this strong?" The young girl blinked, feeling a bit lost.

When she fought Xu Xiaoshou, she wasn't this powerful...

She immediately turned to try another direction, but her foot didn't move; she stopped again.

There was another gray light gate on the left...

And another on the right!

Mu Zixi circled back and forth, finally realizing that the gray light gates had sealed off everything—up, down, left, right.

Was she surrounded?

"Help!"

Her desperate scream echoed only in her own lonely soul.

Outside the wind.

Mo Mo crossed her fingers, suspending them in the void, her voice emotionless as she intoned.

"Liudao · Chenfeng Zhi Men!"

The dust settled, and the six gray light gates from all directions fused together, forming a six-sided gray mist crystal that trapped Mu Zixi inside.

"Dissipate!"

The wind faded, and the world brightened once more.

Mo Mo's body swayed slightly; this sealing technique had taken a considerable toll.

But it was the only way to trap the enemy without causing harm.

"This is..." Inside the gray mist crystal, Mu Zixi stared in shock at the space around her, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

She had never seen this technique before, but somehow, she understood everything about it instantly.

Even stranger, a title she had never heard popped into her mind...

Now that she could see Mo Mo again, her voice should reach out.

"Fengtian Shengdi..."

Mo Mo swayed, clearly exhausted from the Lingji.

"Who?" Mu Zixi asked curiously.

"Liudao Fengyin Shu?" Judging by Mo Mo's reaction, Mu Zixi was sure the terms that had suddenly appeared in her mind were real.

They were probably connected to her lost memories...

"Shijie Mo, who are you really? Sealing attributes are already rare, but your sealing techniques... who did you learn them from?"

Mu Zixi grabbed her twin ponytails and relaxed once she saw that Mo Mo had no intent to kill.

As long as she didn't try to leap out of this "Chenfeng Zhi Men," she should be fine.

Of course, if she couldn't find a way to break it, she'd be trapped forever.

Mo Mo swallowed a pill and didn't answer Mu Zixi's question. Instead, she said, "You can't beat me, and I don't want to hurt you."

"I'll say it again: I can trade treasures for the 'Shengming Lingyin.'"

Mu Zixi fell silent.

She tried to connect with everything outside the gray mist crystal, but it was futile.

A seal—this was some kind of energy, right? Thinking that, she pulled out the "Shengming Lingyin," connected with it using her spiritual sense, and a surge of vibrant life force flowed into her body.

She reached out and touched the gate.

Crack, crack—

Her palm instantly turned to stone, but as the life force pushed back, the petrification receded immediately.

Mu Zixi winced in pain, but her spirits lifted again.

"Big sister Mo, this can't hold me!"

Mo Mo was a bit surprised; she hadn't expected the "Shengming Lingyin" to break the seal like this—this little trickster...

"Don't try it!"

Seeing the girl about to jump out, Mo Mo quickly formed a hand seal, and the gray mist inside the crystal surged wildly. Mu Zixi suddenly felt utterly weak, her spiritual energy completely sealed.

How annoying...

The young girl struggled to keep from falling into the gray mist gate below, but with her spiritual energy sealed, she couldn't fight back at all!

Was she really going to have to hand over the "Shengming Lingyin" obediently?

Mu Zixi was reluctant; if she did, hadn't her earlier outburst been for nothing?

Mo Mo took out a ring and said calmly, "Give me the item, and the ring is yours."

"I..."

The power of the seal was too overwhelming; resisting would only delay the inevitable. Just as Mu Zixi was about to give up and speak, a hearty laugh echoed from afar.

"Hey, things are getting lively! Count me, Xu Xiaoshou, in on this!"