Chapter 1785 — World-Shaking Giants
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
At her fingertip a peach blossom bloomed, its petals drifting down, more and more of them, until by the time Li Shu and Cang Yancui had dispersed the peach blossoms, Shen Mu and Yue Tianzun had vanished without a trace. "The four Elders of Fengshu are truly fierce. " Yue Tianzun brought Shen Mu outside the Heavenly Court and looked back: the four Elders of Fengshu were battling the Master of the Hall of Joy and Emperor Haotian, a scene of utter carnage, the fighting having nearly reduced the Heavenly Court to a wasteland.
"These four Elders are men of surpassing ability, but they are still no match for that lute string of the Fourth Young Master's.
" Shen Mu gazed into the distance, worry on his face.
"What troubles me is that the Fourth Young Master slaughtering all before him will only make Miluo Palace descend the sooner. " When the Fourth Young Master first plucked the string, it had been breathtaking beyond measure, a single strike annihilating even a Dao-Achiever.
That, of course, had been a blow gathered and released with accumulated force, not his ordinary means.
But even so, the four Elders of Fengshu were in no way the Fourth Young Master's match, and there was still the Master of the Hall of Joy to reckon with besides. Just then came a clatter of tap-tap-tap, and the chest came running briskly out of the Heavenly Court to Shen Mu's side, nuzzling affectionately against his shin.
Shen Mu smiled slightly, took out the lower half of the Chu Ge Hall Master's body, and said with a laugh, "Want it?
" The chest hopped about in a fluster, trying to take this treasure into itself, yet always falling a little short. Shen Mu laughed heartily, then glanced at the unfamiliar man approaching: a man with a full beard, very burly, and not of the human race, scales of a lizard upon his face and several upright lizard bone plates atop his head.
"Xing'an," Shen Mu said with a smile. The man studied the lower half of the Chu Ge Hall Master, his gaze strange, his pupils vertical slits.
"The body of a Dao-Achiever?
" "The Chu Ge Hall Master, one of the seventy-two hall masters of Miluo Palace, perhaps the most powerful of them all. " Shen Mu said, "To deal with him, I went to no small trouble.
" Xing'an nodded.
"I will take it.
What do you want me to do? " Shen Mu set down the Taiyi Coffin. "Open this divine coffin and release the one inside, safe and whole.
" Xing'an stepped forward and examined it.
"This coffin is far more perfect than the one I forged for you. In times past, I too could not have opened it.
" Shen Mu frowned.
Xing'an went on, "But this coffin has had a layer shaved off it by the Fourth Young Master's lute string; there is a flaw now.
Give me half a year, and I will undo the coffin.
" Shen Mu frowned.
"Half a year is too long. What of three months?
" Xing'an said indifferently, "In three months, I can guarantee you only a broken one. " Shen Mu's head ached; he ground his teeth and said, "Then half a year!
Whatever it takes, he must be rescued whole!
" He handed over the body of the Chu Ge Hall Master and said, "Take the coffin with you.
Half a year from now, I want to see the one in that coffin.
If I do not, you know what I am capable of. " Xing'an paid his threat no mind at all.
His gaze strange, he said, "The quality of this coffin is superb. Even if you searched the Ancestral Court for several thousand years, you would not find the materials to forge its like. Are you truly willing to give this coffin to me? Are you not afraid I will keep it for myself?
" Shen Mu laughed despite himself.
"Daoist friend, could you really seize this coffin and lie down in it yourself? " Xing'an thought it over, then nodded, staring at the coffin.
"I would very much like to try. The quality of this coffin is very fine.
" Yue Tianzun's expression turned odd; she studied Xing'an and thought, "This body of Xing'an's is surely not his true body, is it? What does he really look like? " Her curiosity only grew.