Chapter 1555 — That Young Master
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
" Shen Mu's heart stirred; his curiosity about the Lingxiao Treasure Hall grew even stronger, and he wished he could slip inside at once and see how it was arranged. But in Miluo Palace, besides the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and the Taishang Hall, there were other halls as well, each with its own use, no doubt. "If one took some other hall as the Lingxiao realm, could one also cultivate to an extremely high level? " Shen Mu asked again. The woman in the dao fruit said, "Naturally. But the master of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall is the Third Young Master, and his strength is exceedingly great; cultivating through his hall will raise your strength far more.
" Shen Mu frowned. The master of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, the Third Young Master?
Earlier, when he and Qiang Tianfei had shared a boat, they had encountered a Fourth Young Master. Were all the Dao-Achievers here addressed as Young Master?
If there were a Third Young Master and a Fourth Young Master, then were there also a Second Young Master and a Fifth Young Master? And who were they?
Could they be the sons of the Master of Miluo Palace? When he had met the Fourth Young Master, the man had been upon the seventh Chaos River, seemingly unharmed, waiting for the chance to come ashore, and also wanting revenge for having been beaten by Tai Yi.
But because Shen Mu and his companions were guests of the Master of Miluo Palace, the Fourth Young Master had let them go.
The woman in the dao fruit halted before an ancient hall and spoke into it in the tongue of the dao.
After a long while, the hall gave out a creaking, grating sound, and a doorway beyond ancient opened; a breath of rot and decay struck his face, and at the same time Hongmeng qi gushed from within the hall, lifting his spirits, as though the death and withering brought by the Great Calamity of Destruction had vanished as well. "Hongmeng purple qi!
" Shen Mu swallowed and his scalp went numb.
"As I thought — this is a Tai Yi, the Tai Yi of the first universe!
" Purple qi hung thick, and the purple light rippled like water, so that he could not see clearly what lay within the hall.
The woman in the dao fruit said, "The Master of Miluo Palace permits you to go and see him. Go, Young Master Mu. " Shen Mu's heart shook violently; he turned to look at her, and after a moment he said softly, "Which Young Master am I?
" The woman in the dao fruit was expressionless.
"The Seventh Young Master. " Shen Mu steadied himself, steeled his nerve, and walked into the Hongmeng qi, vanishing into a stretch of purple light. The hall creaked shut, sealing him off from the outside world. The hall seemed to have no floor; he walked in a void.
Shen Mu looked around and saw only purple radiance, bright in some places, dimmer in others.
That radiance too was flowing, and he could not tell where it came from. Even when he opened the vertical eye at the center of his brow, he could not see what was inside the hall.
After walking a long while, Shen Mu dimly made out, within the purple light ahead, a towering figure seated there; no matter how far he walked forward, the distance between him and that towering figure did not shorten by a hair.
Shen Mu halted, bowed, and said, "This late-born junior, Shen Mu, Mu Tianzun of the seventeenth universe, pays his respects to the Master of Miluo Palace.
" He used the tongue of the dao.
To converse with a being so ancient, one must use either divine sense or the tongue of the dao; in any other language, flaws of meaning were apt to appear.
"Mu Tianzun.
.
. " From that towering figure came a voice of immense weight, echoing back and forth across that vast place.
"You have come to see me to ask about the Jade Capital Trap?
" Shen Mu bowed slightly.
"Precisely. " "Jade Capital is no trap. " The voice of the Master of Miluo Palace came.
"It is a shortcut to help you achieve the dao. " Shen Mu raised an eyebrow and smiled.