Chapter 1379 — How Is My Beauty?

Yun Chuxiu hurried away.

Shen Mu watched her go far off, and only then let out a breath of relief and returned to the tower ship.

Wei Suifeng asked quietly, "Was that Lady Yuanmu? Why did she look like a cat that had had its tail stepped on?

" Shen Mu told him the whole affair, cause and consequence, and said, "If Her Majesty the Empress were to obtain her body, she would be in deadly peril. They are ancient gods born of the twin lotuses on a single stem. " Wei Suifeng recalled that twin-stemmed lotus in the great abyss of Guixu, and said abruptly, "Could Her Majesty the Empress and Lady Yuanmu merge into a single ancient god?

" Shen Mu was struck dumb for a moment. Wei Suifeng's notion was strange, yet it was not without possibility.

If Her Majesty the Empress or Lady Yuanmu obtained the other's body and fused the Way of Guixu into one, would it not mean that the power of these two Way-born ancient gods was wholly merged, and that they would leap at a bound to a being no less than Tiangong and Tubo?

Perhaps even stronger! Shen Mu suddenly thought of the crux of the matter: Yan Tianfei, in whom Her Majesty the Empress was reincarnated, and Shi Qiluo, in whom Lady Yuanmu was reincarnated, were both beings of the Ten Heavenly Venerables' level. Even if the number of their heavenly palaces fell short of Heavenly Venerable Hao's or Heavenly Venerable Xiao's, it could not be far behind! If one of them swallowed the other, she might straightaway attain a complete Heavenly Court realm and become an invincible being!

"But back then, when Lady Yuanmu killed Her Majesty the Empress, why did she not devour her outright and rise at one stroke to a being like Tiangong and Tubo?

" Shen Mu was deeply puzzled. "The chance was rare. Why did she instead beg you, Senior Brother, to place the Empress's corpse aboard the ghost ship? " Wei Suifeng shook his head.

"She had no chance. The Empress died before my eyes.

I commanded the mightiest of the Yulin Army; I would never have given her the chance to devour and refine the Empress's corpse. And what is more to the point, she did not obtain the Empress's primordial spirit.

Though the Empress died, her primordial spirit fled. Even if Yuanmu had gotten the Empress's corpse and swallowed it, she could not have merged the two into one.

" Shen Mu thought it over and nodded. In the Longhan Era the arts of the Way and divine powers were not as flourishing as they are now; even a being like Lady Yuanmu could be beaten by Wei Suifeng and the Yulin Army until she flung away helmet and armor. "These two sisters have fought all their lives, and I fear they will fight on. Only, who knows which of the two will laugh last and rise at a stroke to be the mightiest being of all? " he thought to himself. The tower ship entered the Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge and hurried toward the Ancestral Court.

And Yun Chuxiu, clever and strange as she was, came skipping and bouncing to Wendao Academy and found Yun Jianli.

The sight of her gave Yun Jianli a headache; to think that this sworn sister of his was Lady Yuanmu set him muttering inwardly. Yun Chuxiu clung to him and would not let go, pleading, "Brother, there's a little slut who wants to snatch your sworn sister's treasure.

You must stand up for your sister! " Yun Jianli shuddered with dread. "Auntie, let go, quickly!

Whatever it is, just say it.

Who is this little slut?

I'll go tear her apart! " Yun Chuxiu gnashed her teeth.

"That little slut Yan Tianfei! " Yun Jianli gave a shudder and begged for mercy.

"How would I dare provoke a Heavenly Venerable? Spare me, Auntie, I beg you!

" "Then you dare provoke me?

" Yun Chuxiu's face darkened, then brightened again into a smile. "Don't worry.

This time the little slut sent her kitten to make trouble for me.

That kitten is only of the Lingxiao realm; he won't be hard to handle. Besides, I have little sisters of my own. The Earthly Virtue Primordial Lady and Emperor Yanxiu are my sworn sisters. I'm going to them, and you're coming with me. " Bold as Yun Jianli had always been, even he could not keep the color from draining from his face as she dragged him off to find Gongsun Yan.

When Gongsun Yan heard what they had come for, she said, "I must guard the Earthly Virtue Heavenly Palace, so I cannot go with you, Sister. But I have here a great expert of the consummate Lingxiao realm, named Feng Qiuyun.

If she goes with you, she should be able to deal with that corpse demon. " Yun Chuxiu then meant to go to Ling Yuxiu, but Gongsun Yan laughed. "The experts of Jingping have all been taken to the Ancestral Court by Heavenly Venerable Mu. Even if you saw Fourth Sister, she could not send any expert to your aid.

" There was nothing for it but to let the matter drop. When Feng Qiuyun arrived, they set out at once. More than ten days later they came to a battlefield, the place where two great heavens had gone to war.

The fighting had not yet begun; the ranks of both sides stood in perfect order, and a killing stillness hung over all.

The three were about to fly over it when they suddenly froze. Every god and demon and power-wielder on that battlefield was, astonishingly, a headless corpse!

"What demon is at work here? " Yun Jianli blurted.

Yun Chuxiu sighed.

"It is the corpse demon in my own flesh at work. I fear the little demon has comprehended a portion of the great laws of the Way within my flesh; only so could she take so many lives without a sound. " Her long sleeves drifted; she bit at her fingernail, the very picture of a young girl.

Yun Jianli and Feng Qiuyun both felt a chill.

Feng Qiuyun, a woman of wide experience, seized on the crux and said gravely, "Then, Heavenly Venerable, as mistress of Guixu, is your flesh charged with destruction or with creation?

" Yun Jianli came to his senses and looked at Yun Chuxiu. She giggled. "Creation, of course!

" "The Heavenly Emperor Taichu will only take to wife a goddess who holds creation in her hand; he will not wed a goddess who holds destruction. " Yun Jianli said, "The Empress is the ancient god of creation.

You are the ancient god of destruction! " Yun Chuxiu giggled again.

Yun Jianli frowned and warily scanned his surroundings, thinking, "A corpse demon born from the body of the ancient god of destruction must have an overpowering hunger to destroy!

" They passed through the battlefield, headless bodies on either side, enough to make the blood run cold. Suddenly Yun Jianli saw a white cat slip through the mass of corpses. His heart stirred, and he threw a glance at Feng Qiuyun and Yun Chuxiu.

The three followed quietly.

The white cat leaped and flew; they followed it to the heartland of the Yuan Realm, where gods and men grew gradually more numerous. All were searching for something, and even the Howling-Heaven Divine Hound was abroad!

Three-legged golden crows flew across the sky as well! Yan Tianfei was not the only one with her eye on Yuanmu's flesh. "Am I beautiful?

" A voice came suddenly.

Yun Chuxiu hurried after it, but arrived a step too late: several deities who had tracked this far lay dead, their heads gone!

"Am I beautiful?

" The voice came again. Before they could reach it, a scream rang out; then the question came again and again, and all around the screams multiplied, rising and falling!

Cold sweat broke out on Feng Qiuyun's brow; Yun Jianli too was on his guard as against a great enemy.

Suddenly a cat's cry came, and a white cat leaped over their heads and fled in panic! "Even Yan Tianfei's cat is no match for the corpse demon! " Yun Chuxiu's face changed too.

All around was dead silence, not a sound. The three steadied their breath as best they could and did not move. After a long while, a voice came suddenly from beside Yun Jianli's neck.

The woman's breath blew on his neck and stirred the hair at his ear: "Am I beautiful?