Chapter 1608 — The Wheel Turns Without a Sound
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
When you were wreaking havoc upon the world, I saw it all with my own eyes. To think that a youth such as you should command such powers, able to hoodwink even those who attained the dao in Guixu, to rewrite their memories — no wonder you can stir up such storms! " The Empress and Lady Yuanmu were bewildered past understanding.
Yuanmu laughed: "Senior, perhaps you do not know him.
He is Heavenly Venerable Mu, a villain of the first rank! " The woman beneath the sea laughed aloud, a bleak and shrill sound: "Look at his face. Is it this face? " Empress and Yuanmu looked at Shen Mu.
He had a commanding, handsome countenance; though he wore a full beard, he was full of manly savor. His skin was a healthy wheat color, every muscle carved as if by knife and axe — this was the very Heavenly Venerable Mu they knew so well.
"That is right, he is Heavenly Venerable Mu.
" Lady Yuanmu laughed. "How many times have I fought this brat?
How could I forget his face? I do so love a man with such flavor!
" The Empress said coolly, "Handsome as Heavenly Venerable Mu may be, I cannot appreciate such beauty.
A stinking man — nauseating. " The woman beneath the sea laughed in fury: "He has used the divine art of reincarnation to rewrite your memories, and you do not even know it.
You too are gods of Guixu, yet you have thrown away the face of our whole Guixu line! " Shen Mu blinked, and quietly took a step back.
This Second Young Master of Miluo Palace was more formidable than he had imagined: she could even remember what had happened before the divine art of reincarnation took hold, which caught him somewhat off guard. "Old Seven, will you break the art yourself, or shall I?
" said the woman beneath the sea coldly.
Shen Mu forced a smile. "Second Sister, what are you saying?
I do not understand.
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. " The two faces of Empress and Yuanmu, one behind the other, blinked, deeply suspicious, not knowing what had happened.
Boom!
In the Chaos Sea of Guixu, countless beams of light rose slowly from the sea and came crashing over; that light was fearsome beyond measure, twisting time and space, wrenching the surface of the sea violently about, spinning it round! The next moment, all the surging fell still.
Shen Mu stood upon the lotus leaf, no longer Big-Beard Shen the Scourge but restored to his true face, and Lady Yuanmu and the Empress abruptly recalled the earlier scene, and could not but be seized with dread, staring at him in panic! "This one must not be left alive! " Lady Yuanmu cried shrilly.
The Empress said coldly, "I said as much long ago, yet you would set yourself against me and shield him again and again.
" Both of them remembered all that had just happened: from the woman beneath the sea declaring that she knew Shen Mu, to Shen Mu casting the divine art of reincarnation and carrying them through a cycle of rebirth, changing his appearance and rewriting their memories, to the whole scene replaying itself until Shen Mu was exposed by the woman beneath the sea — all of it had been the work of Shen Mu's divine art!
Such an art filled them with terror beyond words. Shen Mu scratched his face sheepishly; only now there was no beard upon it. "Old Seven, enough. I did not mean to fight you.
" The huge woman's face beneath the sea said indifferently, "If I wished to kill you, it would be as easy as turning my hand, but erasing you would profit me nothing.
On the contrary, I need your strength to help me out of this plight.
" Shen Mu relaxed, his eyes shifting, and smiled.
"Second Sister, you mean. . .
" "With only the crippled goddesses of Guixu, to climb up above and cut the red cords, they will surely die; the divine arts of the master of Miluo Palace will strangle them, and they will never return alive.