Chapter 1550 — Beauty Has Grown Old
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Qiang Tianfei's heart tightened. She looked around, but the river was vast and murky with chaos; wherever her gaze reached, there was only chaos qi, and she could not see what lay within.
Shen Mu, however, was far more cautious.
He no longer steered the boat in a straight line, but wound across the river as though avoiding something in the chaos. Qiang Tianfei's sight was not as powerful as his.
In a low voice she asked, "Mu Tianzun, what do you see? " Shen Mu said quietly, "There is someone in the chaos.
" Qiang Tianfei's heart turned cold. "Who?
" "A living person. I meant to avoid him, but he is always ahead.
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" Shen Mu had barely spoken when a cold, desolate wind blew out of the long river of chaos.
It rose in the river, churning the long river like boiling water.
Qiang Tianfei's face changed drastically. "Mu Tianzun!
" Shen Mu gritted his teeth and drove the boat forward at full speed, no longer avoiding the person ahead.
Behind the boat, that cold, desolate wind was extraordinarily fast, and everything it passed turned to nothingness, even the chaos qi drifting up from the river's surface.
Shen Mu drove the boat forward in silence. Qiang Tianfei was less than a zhang behind him, and her hair was already stretched by the wind into impossible length and impossible width.
Every strand was infinitely wide, infinitely long, yet infinitely thin. This was the ultimate void! "Mu Tianzun, faster!
" Cold sweat broke out on Qiang Tianfei's forehead as she urged, "If we do not go faster, we will both turn to nothingness!
" Shen Mu clenched his teeth, surged with all his cultivation, and charged ahead.
Suddenly the boat seemed to strike into something.
In an instant all fell silent.
There was no long river of chaos below, no pursuing wind of cold desolation behind, and no pervasive chaos qi around. The boat drifted on an utterly serene blue lake, but not on the water; it moved quietly above the surface. Qiang Tianfei was stunned for a moment, then greedily breathed the air. This place was like a pure land within the chaos field, unpolluted and unassailed by the great kalpa of destruction.
Shen Mu, however, became even more frantic and raced forward. It was then that Qiang Tianfei saw a great tree standing above the quiet lake, with lush branches and dense leaves.
It was a Dao Tree, and a few Dao Fruits hung sparsely among its boughs. An emperor-like figure sat beneath it, a scroll in one hand, his eyes fixed on the scroll, while the other hand plucked at the strings of a zither.
The book was probably a zither score, and the piece seemed difficult to play, for he had to read the music as he played.
"There is a powerful being in the chaos, one who has survived the great kalpa of destruction! " Qiang Tianfei's eyes twitched without cease, and she secretly bemoaned her plight.
Judging by the Dao Tree of this emperor beneath the tree, he was an invincible powerhouse, using the Dao Tree to guard himself and form a pure land, a pure land not assailed by the great kalpa of destruction. Such a mighty existence that even the cold, desolate wind could not blow here!
Why had he not gone ashore?
What was he waiting for?
Had Shen Mu been steering the boat on a winding course all this time just to avoid this emperor? The little boat rushed past the Dao Tree. The intermittent zither music beneath the tree stopped abruptly.
Qiang Tianfei's heart tightened, and she turned to look at the emperor under the tree.
At that moment, the woman in the battered Dao Fruit on Qiang Tianfei's shoulder opened her mouth and uttered Dao language of unknowable meaning, saying a few words to the emperor beneath the tree.
The emperor showed surprise, looked at Shen Mu and Qiang Tianfei, nodded to them with a smile, and said two sentences in Dao language back to the woman in the Dao Fruit.
The woman in the Dao Fruit inclined her body slightly, and the little boat continued on. Qiang Tianfei was uneasy.