Chapter 1474 — A Fair Silhouette Stands at the Water's Edge
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Once Shen Mu, Zaifu, and the other three had departed, leaving behind those Sun Guards and the common folk of Xuandu, a moment passed before they began to set sail for the Yuan Realm, and every heart among them was a tangle of a hundred flavors. They would settle in the Yuan Realm, and the story of Shen Mu, Zaifu, Zhe Huali, Luo Wushuang, and Tian Shu would surely be passed down from generation to generation.
Zhe Huali let out a long breath, shot Shen Mu a glance, and laughed, "After that bout of cursing, I feel a good deal easier in my heart. Heavenly Venerable Mu, you're an honest man.
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" He hastily added, "Honest to the bone. You're only sly and treacherous toward your enemies; but face to face with your own people, with ordinary folk, you're far too honest. You cannot bear to harm your own, cannot bear to harm ordinary people, and you won't even speak a single sentence in a slightly harsh tone — you don't want to say it.
I'm not like you. " His spirits soaring, he declared loudly, "If I have something to say, I say it; if I've been wronged, I pour it all out! When I do good, I proclaim it. I won't let good people swallow injustice, and I won't let the wicked strut and crow! These bastards are far too harsh on good people!
A villain may be rotten in ten thousand ways, yet if he has one shred of good in him they trumpet it to the skies; a good man may be good in ten thousand ways, and for a single flaw they curse him to death!
I simply can't stand it! " Tian Shu laughed heartily, "Zhe Huali of the Demon Blade — his thoughts run clear and free, peerless in splendor as his own blade! " Zhe Huali tightened the demon blade Dragon Fang on his back and smiled with easy grace, "I only don't want the friend I respect to bear a name of infamy! Cult Master Shen, Heavenly Venerable Mu, the Beast, Shen the Demolisher, Mu the Thief — call him whatever you please, he is my friend, a man I hold in respect.
He has all manner of petty faults, but on matters of great right and wrong he has never once erred!
" Shen Mu's eyes reddened, and yet he laughed.
Luo Wushuang smiled, "My disciple.
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" He hastily added, "Formerly. " Zaifu glanced at him, "He was your disciple once, but you taught him to be far too well-behaved; only after a spell with me did he learn properly.
" Luo Wushuang's face went dark, and he said no more.
Shen Mu looked at them, smiling: these people were all his friends, and one of them was his elder, yet more like a good teacher and a candid friend — to have friends such as these was a fortune beyond measure!
His cultivation was recovering swiftly; the Jade Terrace of the Ancestral Court, and the Jade Terrace stages within each of his heavenly palaces, made the speed of his recovery frightening. Of course, his cultivation was now so deep that even at such a pace it would take several days to return to his peak.
Shen Mu also took out spirit medicines gathered from the Ancestral Court and refined elixirs to swiftly restore his vital essence, working both ends at once, lest Heavenly Venerable Hong come hunting him and he be unable to flee. Heavenly Venerable Hong was set on obtaining the Heavenly Net Dao Soldier; there were forty-nine Dao Soldiers of the Heavenly Dao, and even if he gained forty-eight of them, without the Heavenly Net Dao Soldier they were no more than individual treasures of great power.
Only by gaining the Heavenly Net Dao Soldier could he fuse the might of those Dao Soldiers into a single supreme treasure of the Heavenly Dao — a treasure mightier by far than anything the Ancestral God King had forged!
"So Heavenly Venerable Hong will not chase down the Xuandu folk; he will come after us.
" Shen Mu's gaze flickered, and the five of them flew together toward the Heavenly Duke.
The Heavenly Duke was of matchless stature, his full form beyond sight.