Chapter 1549 — Utterly Shameless
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
My body has already entered middle age, yet you look exactly as you did before we crossed the river — not the slightest change in your features. Even I cannot escape growing old; why is it that you can stay forever young?
" Shen Mu's heart skipped. He looked at Qiang Tianfei, and only then did he realize that she truly was growing old.
They had been crossing rivers for half a year now; her looks were nothing like they had been, her youth had faded, and her fleshly body had entered middle age.
Shen Mu rose to his feet and looked into the chaos qi behind the boat.
There, Hao Tianzun, Langxuan Shenhuang, Zu Shenwang, and the other Tianzuns were all aging as well. Five long rivers of chaos in succession had set their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits aging without cease. Previously, the bodily functions and primordial spirit states of these Tianzuns had all been at their absolute peak; now their bodily functions and primordial spirit states had reached old age. This was the doing of the kalpa of destruction.
This Jade Capital City itself stood above the sixteen cycles of the universe, brimming with the afterwaves of the kalpas of destruction of the past sixteen universes; once inside the city, one discovered that one's boundless lifespan had an end.
But the Tianzuns were mighty, and a year or two within the city had shown little sign of aging in them; once they came out onto the rivers, however, their aging had greatly accelerated. "I can even feel that the great Dao I forged within my body is aging, growing old.
" Qiang Tianfei still stared fixedly at him. Within the halo behind her head, one heavenly palace after another emerged; the palaces linked together to form a Heavenly Court.
She said: "Look at my heavenly palaces and my Heavenly Court — what do you see?
" Shen Mu's gaze went to the back of her head. Those heavenly palaces and that Heavenly Court had once been incomparably sacred, radiant with layered divine light, majestic and solemn; but now the divine light shrouding them had dimmed, and the sound of the Dao had gone hoarse.
Nor was that all: the buildings within those palaces were covered in rust and dust, the Jade Pool was turbid, the Heavenly Gates looked as though they had borne the vicissitudes of a vanished age, and some palaces had already fallen into ruin.
"This is the consequence of one's own great Dao aging and decaying. But you have not. " Qiang Tianfei stared into Shen Mu's eyes: "I can feel that within my fleshly body — muscle, blood vessels, bones, skin, even the strands of my hair, even my origin qi — everything is aging from moment to moment.
I can feel the domain inside me slowly crumbling; I can hear the sound of dao chains snapping, the faint ripples of dao patterns breaking apart. I even sense that my great Dao runes are dissolving, that my spirit consciousness is collapsing without cease.
But you have not.
You are still young; nothing has changed. Why?
" Shen Mu touched his own cheek and said sheepishly: "Probably because I take good care of myself. . .
" "Bullshit! " Qiang Tianfei flew into a rage and roused her God-Slaying Mystic Sabers; two blood-colored dragons whirled around Shen Mu, howling, ready to cut him down at any moment.
"Bullshit!
Mu Tianzun, you must have some treasure that lets you evade the assault of the kalpa of destruction! " Qiang Tianfei, reeking of killing intent, snarled: "Even my God-Slaying Mystic Sabers have begun to lose their aura in these rivers! I refuse to believe you can fend off such an assault with your cultivation alone! Hand over your treasure! " Shen Mu slowly drew his sword and said mildly: "Tai Di, you are not even a woman — why care so much about your looks? That I can avoid death is my own ability; that you cannot is your incompetence.
" Qiang Tianfei sneered: "Mu Tianzun, don't imagine I don't know what you are planning.