Chapter 1379 — How Is My Beauty?
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
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.