Chapter 1608 — The Wheel Turns Without a Sound
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
The reason they had become as they were was that the ancient god of Taiji had run wild and forcibly fused them. But if this Second Young Master of Miluo Palace could resolve their hidden peril, then all the power, wealth and standing in the world would be within easy reach! Shen Mu smiled slightly. "Second Sister, you make empty promises and give us nothing, yet you would have us climb up and sell our lives for you. As for whether we can come back alive, that is only your word.
How are we to know you are not deceiving us?
" "Silence, you old villain!
" The Empress scolded. "Heavenly Venerable Mu, how dare you speak so to your senior?
" She turned and saluted the woman beneath the Chaos Sea. "Senior, do not blame him. Heavenly Venerable Mu speaks without thinking and has no gate on his mouth, but his words are rough, not wrong; he has voiced the doubts of us sisters as well.
" Lady Yuanmu turned around and said with a smile, "Senior, you tried just now to trick us into our deaths.
It is hard to believe you will not trick us again.
Pray, Senior, first teach us the method to resolve our affliction, and then we shall climb up and help you out of your plight. " The Empress said, "Though we have cultivated the Great Heavenly Court, our attainment of the dao is incomplete. We beg Senior to teach us how to plant the dao tree, open the dao flower, and bear the dao fruit.
" Yuanmu took up the thread: "If Senior would guide us, we sisters would be endlessly grateful, and would go through fire and water without a thought! " Shen Mu could not get a word in at all; the two sisters had already said everything he meant to say, and he was left staring open-mouthed, secretly admiring them: "The Empress and her sister — not one of them is easy to deal with! " He thought a moment, then added, "Second Sister, they have their demands.
We may be true brother and sister born of different fathers and different mothers, but little brother has a demand of his own. I want a twin lotus flower.
You see. .
. " The woman beneath the sea looked at them coldly, and for a long while said nothing. The Empress and her sister and Shen Mu grew uneasy at heart, thinking, "Have we opened our mouths too wide?
" They were about to ask for less when the woman beneath the sea said indifferently, "So you are still so primitive. Heh heh, who says that attaining the dao requires planting a dao tree, opening a dao flower, and bearing a dao fruit? "