Chapter 1379 — How Is My Beauty?
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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.