Chapter 1354 — All Ways Return to One
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Though the Purple Empyrean Azure Vault Art and Shen Mu's Mystic Body Three Cinnabar Art differed greatly, they shared one trait: both excelled at absorbing other schools and other arts, taking their strengths for their own use. That Shen Mu had been able to fuse eighteen heavenly palaces so quickly and raise the Mystic Body Three Cinnabar Art to the level of the Great Heavenly Court was owed to the foundations of the Mystic Body Three Cinnabar Art.
The Purple Empyrean Azure Vault Art possessed this same strange quality. The Emperor Throne arts contained within Heavenly Venerable Xiao's sword were many, yet between the different Emperor Throne arts there was not the slightest friction in their operation!
He examined it for a long while, hesitating and unable to decide, his expression shifting between light and dark.
The Alchemist waited quietly to one side. Shen Mu rose to his feet and paced back and forth, then suddenly halted and said, "Heavenly Venerable Yue, I need two people to assist me.
One is Emperor Yunluo, Wei Suifeng; the other is Yun Jianli, a descendant of Heavenly Venerable Yun. Both are in Jingping at this moment.
" His spirit-consciousness rippled, and Wei Suifeng— Heavenly Venerable Yue said, "Wait a moment. " Not long after, Heavenly Venerable Yue summoned a palace maid and instructed her, "Two honored guests have arrived in the peach grove outside and are searching for a path. Go to the palace gate, take down a lantern, and invite them in.
" The palace maid assented and went out, took down a lantern, and came into the peach grove. There she heard the voices of two men, exclaiming in astonishment, "Strange!
Strange! What place is this?
How did I suddenly arrive here?
" "Which divinity has acted to bring us to this place? We beg the divinity to show himself and grant us a meeting! " The palace maid raised the lantern, and its light fell upon the two men's faces.
Outside it was already night; Wei Suifeng and Yun Jianli stood in the peach grove, looking wary.
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A moment later, Wei Suifeng and Yun Jianli followed the palace maid into the palace. Seeing Shen Mu and the Alchemist, both were startled, but neither spoke. Shen Mu said, "Brother Yun, Senior Brother, this is Heavenly Venerable Yue.
She is afflicted with wounds and needs your help.
" Yun Jianli hurried forward and performed a kowtow, saying, "In my ancestor's dying instructions, it was said that should I ever meet Heavenly Venerable Yue, I must perform the great rite of kowtow, to thank the Venerable One for risking life and death to lend her utmost aid in those years! " "Rise," said Heavenly Venerable Yue, sighing faintly, and once more she recalled the past.
Wei Suifeng also stepped forward to pay his respects, saying, "Heavenly Venerable Yue opened the Seven Stars Divine Treasury, a great grace and virtue to all who came after!
" Heavenly Venerable Yue smiled. "I merely perceived the shortcomings of Heavenly Venerable Yu, Heavenly Venerable Hao, and Heavenly Venerable Ling, and made slight repairs—nothing of such great merit.
Emperor Yunluo need not stand on ceremony.
" Shen Mu described the sword wound inflicted by Heavenly Venerable Xiao, then said, "Senior Brother has collected the most Emperor Throne arts, and Brother Yun is the orthodox heir of Heavenly Venerable Yun. The two of you are best suited to decipher the dao patterns contained in this sword strike of Heavenly Venerable Xiao!
" Wei Suifeng and Yun Jianli had long since come to know each other in Jingping.
They exchanged a glance, and Wei Suifeng coughed once, saying, "Junior Brother, those geographical maps I left you—you did go searching, didn't you?
Surely you didn't fail to dig up those Emperor Throne arts I hid? " Shen Mu's face reddened slightly, and he tried to bluff his way past it.