Chapter 1649 — The Number Forty-Two

By this time even Taishi could no longer understand Shen Mu's calculations. The little fatty sat on the ground like a plump egg with a head piled on top, both hands propping up his cheeks, staring blankly at a single formula.

After a while, he abruptly jumped up, like a big ball with a small ball leaping into the air, and exclaimed joyfully, "I understand!

" But once he landed, his face fell, and he stammered to Shen Fengqing, "I think I calculated wrong. .

. " Shen Mu was still calculating madly, but as time went on he solved more and more slowly. His expression grew grave, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Sweat poured like a spring and soon soaked all his clothes.

Shen Fengqing paced anxiously, murmuring, "Are you done yet?

Have you figured it out. . .

We have reached the Southern Heaven!

" He hurried to the prow and looked down; he saw the Southern Heaven's magnificent main continent and its many beautiful and majestic heavenly star domains appearing beneath the golden ship. The Golden Ship of Deliverance sailed through the void of the Southern Heaven like a ghost, sliding past silently.

Shen Fengqing, with horns on his head, peered downward. His features were identical to the young Shen Mu's, as if stamped out of the same mold, and his face still carried the youthful immaturity unique to Shen Mu in his younger years.

The only difference was the pair of horns atop his head—the horns of Tu Bo. Shen Fengqing kept looking around until his heart suddenly trembled at the sight of a heavenly world being contorted into a huge wheel.

The distortion was terrifying beyond measure—boundless magical power was twisting the space of an entire heavenly world, and even its star regions were being twisted into a ring!

That heavenly star domain contained a galaxy, with countless suns and planets, all forcibly twisted into a ring. In this present age, only a few people possessed such formidable magical power! Apart from the Dao-achievers Emperor Haotian, Taichu, Cloud Heavenly Venerable, and the Guixu Goddess, perhaps only the Ancestral God King, who held the body of the Heavenly Duke, and Fire Heavenly Venerable could do it!

"I see Fire Heavenly Venerable!

" Shen Fengqing grew alarmed. Not daring to look directly at Fire Heavenly Venerable for fear of being noticed, he said in a low voice, "Has my little brother not finished calculating? Stupid!

" Splash!

The Nether Capital's Heavenly Gate appeared, and the Nether Sea gushed out from the gate. The Yin Heavenly Emperor sat on the threshold, mocking Fire Heavenly Venerable, and was then blown apart by a single finger from Fire Heavenly Venerable.

"That is Little Yinzi?

Fire Heavenly Venerable's divine power is strong, but it seems unable to kill him. " In the Great Void, Shen Fengqing had fought the Yin Heavenly Emperor more than once. At first their strength had been about the same, but later Shen Fengqing devoured the divine demon primordial spirits of those who had fallen in battle in the Heavenly Court, and his strength gradually came to surpass the Yin Heavenly Emperor's. But the Yin Heavenly Emperor had countless tricks, especially his cycle-of-reincarnation divine ability, strange and uncanny, and every time he could escape death by a hair. Therefore Shen Fengqing knew the Yin Heavenly Emperor's methods extremely well.

Inside the Heavenly Gate of Reincarnation, the Yin Heavenly Emperor revived once more, exultant, and said to Fire Heavenly Venerable, "I know you have always looked down on me—how could the lofty Fire Heavenly Venerable think anything of a base villain like me?

But you do not know that your weakness has long been held in my grasp! " Standing within the Heavenly Gate of Reincarnation, he declared with great elation, "Fire Heavenly Venerable, killing you costs me no effort at all! " Shen Fengqing clenched his fists and was about to study the Yin Heavenly Emperor's path of reincarnation when suddenly a voice came to his ear: "The Yin Heavenly Emperor is about to die. Emperor Haotian cannot tolerate the Great Sun Star Lord, so how could he tolerate the Yin Heavenly Emperor, who knows even more of his shameful secrets?

" Shen Fengqing hurriedly turned his head and saw Shen Mu standing behind him, having arrived at some unknown moment. He hastily looked behind Shen Mu and asked hurriedly, "Little brother, have you worked it out?

" All he saw were runes covering the sky, all kinds of numerological symbols, but he could not understand them, nor did he know whether Shen Mu had found an answer. At this point, only Taishi still sat there, chin propped on both hands, listlessly staring at a formula. Shen Mu, somewhat weary, nodded and said, "I have worked it out. It is feasible.

I even calculated the year in the future in which Kai Huang will appear.

" He lightly flicked, and a rune flew over.

The rune transformed into the characters "forty-two. " "Forty-two years from now.

" Shen Mu smiled, his expression somewhat haggard. "He will appear on this Golden Ship of Deliverance.

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