Chapter 1837 — Through Fire and Water for a Kindred Spirit
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Shen Mu continued: "The Dao-attainers under Old Man Wuya grow ever more numerous.
Though we and Yujing City have ceaselessly attacked the World Tree and uprooted a portion of his power, he has sixteen cosmic eras at his back, and followers flow to him without end. The reason he can bring these followers to attain the Dao in the Seventeenth Era is that he has yet another ally. " Yuetianzun's heart stirred.
She wanted to raise her head and look at the sky, yet dared not look directly upward, for fear of alarming that person. "Young Master Wuji is helping him, and he too is helping Young Master Wuji break free of her bonds. " Shen Mu said: "Between me and the Third and Fourth of Miluo Palace, it is a contest of ideals, of governing the world and saving it.
Even if the Third and Fourth beat me to death, they will not make things hard for Jingping, nor for the myriad heavens and worlds. They will only carry on along the Master of Miluo Palace's ideals.
But Wuji is different.
Wuji would destroy the world, annihilate everything, and create a perfect world. That is why I went to see the Third and Fourth. " Yuetianzun's voice dropped: "You have allied with them?
" Shen Mu nodded lightly: "Young Master Wuji is a calamity the Third brought about; he must bear it. I have sensed the red rope knot seal I mended. Of my runes, Young Master Wuji has not touched a single one; so what Old Man Wuya helped her refine must be the remaining runes within the red rope knot.
If the other runes have been dissolved by her and Old Man Wuya, then breaking my runes will be easy for Wuji.
" Yuetianzun said: "Then the greatest peril does not come from Young Master Zixiao's zither. " Shen Mu nodded: "The greatest peril comes from Wuji. Whether for us or for Miluo Palace, Wuji's escape will be a devastating blow. This time, our aim is to draw out Young Master Wuji.
I, the Third, and the Fourth will join hands to suppress her, to seal her once more, or even to kill her!
" Yuetianzun shivered: "But Wuji cannot be killed.
" Shen Mu said: "There are only two who can kill Wuji: one is the Master of Miluo Palace, and the other is Old Man Wuya. " His gaze turned grim: "This time we borrow Old Man Wuya's hand to kill Wuji, and to kill Old Man Wuya. That temptation the Third and Fourth will surely not pass up. " Yuetianzun asked, perplexed: "Then what is your purpose in keeping me here? " "I cannot let Wuji and Old Man Wuya die now.
If they die, the whole of the Ancestral Court's Yujing City, along with the Third and Fourth Young Masters, can descend, and I cannot let them descend.
" Shen Mu turned his head and looked at her, saying softly: "I need you, at the critical moment, to interfere with Young Master Zixiao. But you may die. " Yuetianzun fell silent, then suddenly raised her head: "Tell me what to do. " Shen Mu looked at her quietly, and a faint smile appeared: "But I will not let you die. If you trust me, I will return from the future to the past, to this very moment, and save you.
Yue.
" He took Yuetianzun's hand. Her heart fell into confusion. Shen Mu said softly: "We will meet again in a past cosmos. " Yuetianzun drew her hand from his, and nodded silently.