Chapter 1781 — Enemies Everywhere
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Shen Mu refused Lang Wan outright and said to the woman, "This journey is exceedingly dangerous. The other side has five who have attained the Dao, all of them formidable, and there are beings such as Celestial Venerable Hao and the Hall Master of Joy. Celestial Venerable Hao also carries one of the Fourth Young Master's zither strings. As long as we do not tear away the mask of civility, all is well; but if we do, I cannot protect you.
" A shadow of dejection crossed Lang Wan's face.
Seeing her expression, Emperor Yanfeng grew only more certain: "The Creator wants to poach from my Ling family! Imperial Preceptor Jingping has been bought off by her! But my son-in-law is a man of true worth; he was not seduced, he did not fall.
" Lang Wan had always been cold by nature; to put on such a girlish manner now, she must be scheming something. A veteran of the world like Emperor Yanfeng saw it clearly enough.
Though Lang Wan was a Divine King of the Creator race, wide in experience and knowledge, in matters of the heart she was a blank page, and her doings easily left traces behind. Shen Mu, utterly unaware, went on, "This time, Celestial Venerable Yue will come with me.
The Fourth Young Master's string is terrifying, and the path the Hall Master of Joy walks seems to be the same path as Celestial Venerable Yue's. With Celestial Venerable Yue present, this journey will not be very dangerous. " Celestial Venerable Yue murmured assent.
Emperor Yanfeng grew anxious again and said to Jiang Baigui, "Imperial Preceptor Jingping, do you think Celestial Venerable Yue means to poach from my Ling family as well? " Jiang Baigui said indifferently, "Your Majesty, there was once a man who lost his axe and suspected his neighbor of stealing it.
However he looked at the man, the neighbor seemed to him the thief. Later he found the axe in his own house, and when he looked at the neighbor again, however he looked, the man was no thief at all. " Emperor Yanfeng laughed loudly, turned his face away, and his expression darkened: "Imperial Preceptor Jingping really has been bought off! " Celestial Venerable Yue went to pack her things.
Shen Mu said to Celestial Venerable You, "Can you find any trace of Xing An?
" Celestial Venerable You stirred the Book of Life and Death and slipped into Youdu.
The Book shone over the great chiliocosm, and after a long while Celestial Venerable You appeared again and shook his head: "In all the worlds there is no sign of Xing An.
Only the Ancestral Court remains, and because the prehistoric stowaways have sealed it, we cannot enter to search. " Shen Mu was surprised and looked toward the Ancestral Court: "Could Xing An have gone there? " Celestial Venerable Yue came hurrying over, her hair tied up, changed into crisp, practical clothes, her ancient zither slung on her back. She asked, "That Hall Master of Joy, is she also cultivating the Ultimate Void?
" Shen Mu boarded the Golden Ship of Salvation with her.
He shooed Lan Yutian off the ship; the dragon qilin tried to come aboard and was shooed off too. Shen Mu said, "I am not too clear about her techniques and divine powers. But when she dealt with my divine powers, what she used was the path of space.
I tried to draw her into an illusion with my divine-sense powers, and she broke that as well. She must have cultivated other paths. " Celestial Venerable Yue thought it over. Divine-sense powers did indeed counter the path of space; in the past, in order to deal with her, the Ten Celestial Venerables had sent Divine Emperor Langxuan, master of the path of divine sense, to strike first. Shen Mu had used divine-sense powers against the Hall Master of Joy precisely to strike at her weakness, yet she had broken them.
That showed the Hall Master of Joy did not possess the path of space alone. "Every hall master of Miluo Palace has secrets of their own.