Chapter 974 — The Supreme Beyond the Clouds
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
The Tai Emperor's altar floated before the Yun Heavenly Venerable's body, and Shen Mu said softly, "Fellow Daoist Yun, we are going home.
"
Yue Tingge and Luo Wushuang suppressed the shock in their hearts, stepped forward, and each exerted their magic power to lift the Yun Heavenly Venerable's body, slowly sending it onto the Tai Emperor's altar.
Shen Mu examined the wounds upon the Yun Heavenly Venerable, but strangely, there was not the slightest wound upon his body; his soul, however, had vanished without a trace.
"The Yue Heavenly Venerable said the Yun Heavenly Venerable is dead, so the Yun Heavenly Venerable is truly dead. Fortunately, even a dead man, I can bring back to life!
" Shen Mu examined him closely and found no trace of the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness. After a moment's thought, he made his decision: "I must ask you two to send him into the space between my brows.
Within my brow is hidden a Youdu; I will conceal his corpse there for now. "
Yue Tingge and Luo Wushuang had a thousand doubts in their hearts, but still they did as instructed, sending the Yun Heavenly Venerable's body into the space between Shen Mu's brows, where it came to rest upon the Shen-Character Continent.
Shen Mu let out a long breath of relief, and set the Tai Emperor's altar in motion, beginning the return voyage. The Tai Emperor's altar passed once more by the Fire Heavenly Venerable's side, and Luo Wushuang could not resist glancing at Shen Mu again.
Shen Mu, helpless, halted the Tai Emperor's altar and said, "How about this—you two turn him around? "
Luo Wushuang sneered.
"What use is turning him around?
Would he not still be trapped in the Supreme Divine Consciousness domain? "
Shen Mu said, "If he turns himself around, it will take him two hundred years or more to succeed.
If we turn him for him, we can free him two hundred years sooner.
"
Luo Wushuang frowned, about to speak further, when Shen Mu said, "Luo Divine Blade, can you guarantee that after the Fire Heavenly Venerable breaks free, he will not kill me, will not kill the Yue Heavenly Master? "
Luo Wushuang said no more, and together with Yue Tingge, turned the Fire Heavenly Venerable around.
The Tai Emperor's altar continued flying outward. After a long while, the altar crossed the abyssal void and came beneath the star-ring.
The three men and one dragon leaped down from the altar.
Shen Mu put away the Tai Emperor's altar, keeping only the Tai Emperor's Seal, and looked with doubt at that divine dragon. This divine dragon had been quiet the whole way, unlike before, when it had always made a great fuss, crying "Maha, maha" without cease. Suddenly Yue Tingge's voice trembled: "The Fire Heavenly Venerable has taken a step!
"
Shen Mu was startled and hastily looked—and indeed saw that the Fire Heavenly Venerable had taken a step in their direction!
"This is bad!
" His scalp went numb, and he fled in panic toward the outside of the Supreme Divine Consciousness domain, with Luo Wushuang, Yue Tingge, and that divine dragon hastily following.
The closer to the core of the Supreme Divine Consciousness domain, the stronger the suppression; but once the Fire Heavenly Venerable had taken the first step, the next would come faster still, for he was walking outward!
With each step he took, the pressure grew less!
With his strength, breaking free would likely be the work of but a short time. Shen Mu's scalp numb, he charged outward with all his might, striving to escape this place before the Fire Heavenly Venerable broke free.
Just then, he heard footsteps.
Those footsteps shook heaven and earth, trampling the void into collapse, bursting forth with a tremendous roar like mountains crumbling and the earth splitting.
Shen Mu looked back, and saw flames surging to the heavens within the Supreme Divine Consciousness domain.
Suddenly another footstep came, the sound even more resounding, the flames higher still, melting the very sky!