Chapter 725 — The Southern Domain Emperor Lord's Face

Di Yiyue came beneath the statue and said softly, "So it is a junior sister of the Southern Emperor's school. Junior sister, you may go back and report to the Southern Emperor, and say that your senior sister Di Yiyue is now in Jingping, and that this calamity-bringing business ends here. " The bird-headed goddess statue gave no response at all.

Di Yiyue laughed softly and said, unhurried, "You should be able to hear my voice.

Your fleshly body is here, and your primordial spirit remains with the Southern Emperor; whatever I say here, you can hear. " From the bird-headed goddess statue suddenly came a clear, shrill birdsong, and the birdsong turned into a human voice, saying, "You too are of the Southern Emperor's school?

Since you are my senior sister, then why do you help outsiders? Senior sister, it is not that I do not give you face, but if I were to leave because of a single sentence from you, where would my own face be? " "It is because I give you face that I am asking you so gently to leave. " Di Yiyue smoothed the hair at her temples and said, with a smile that was not quite a smile, "You entered the school very late, I think.

No doubt you do not know that you have such a senior sister, nor what methods I command.

" The bird-headed goddess statue suddenly stirred; the bird's head drooped, and its petrified eyes fixed on Di Yiyue. "I beg your instruction?

" Di Yiyue raised a hand and pressed the air. With a thunderous boom, the bird-headed goddess statue, huge as a hill, vanished from sight, leaving behind only a shattered hole in space at the spot; from the hole came a piercing cry of birds!

Di Yiyue hooked her hand backward and pulled. The bird-headed goddess statue came howling back and, with a boom, returned to Bazhou City. The stone statue shook and quivered without cease, and the fragments of space behind it clattered and pieced themselves together, swiftly repairing the hole in space until no trace of it could be found!

And the bird-headed goddess statue's flesh and blood began to grow with astonishing speed; in a short while it changed from a divine statue into a living deity. The bird-headed goddess stood where she was, an expression of shock on her face, her body trembling; she dared not make the slightest move. She had turned her own fleshly body into a stone statue, for only thus could she send that statue to Jingping; but her primordial spirit contained far too much energy and could not pass through the world's barrier to descend into this world.

Therefore she could only wait for offerings of blood and flesh and the exchange of energy, and only then could she let her primordial spirit descend and revive her fleshly body; only so could she send down calamity upon Jingping and destroy the world.

Yet just now Di Yiyue had reached out and pressed, and sent her fleshly body straight back to her palace in the other world.

Not merely sent back to its native place, but driven her primordial spirit back into that fleshly body as well! Di Yiyue had hooked and pulled with her hand, and had actually drawn her fleshly body, together with her primordial spirit, back to Jingping; that was why she had been able to revive!

Such dharma power, such terrifying strength, was simply the match of her own honored master, the Southern Emperor! She had never heard that there was such a senior sister among the fellow disciples of her school!

Di Yiyue said calmly, "Junior sister, this is what it means not to give you face.

Just now I left you a very great deal of face.

Do not force me. " The bird-headed goddess hastily took a step back, bowed, and said, "I obey the eldest senior sister's decree.

" She was about to leave when she suddenly froze.

She had now been drawn into the world where Jingping lay, and between her and her own world still stood the world's barrier; with her strength alone she could not pass through it.

Cold sweat broke out on the bird-headed goddess's brow; she looked at Di Yiyue. Di Yiyue smiled.

"Has junior sister forgotten something?

" The bird-headed goddess understood at once and stirred her mind.

In the imperial treasury of the capital, a calamity-bringing divine weapon sealed beneath layer upon layer of seals suddenly shook with a boom, shattering the seals to pieces. Among them a vermilion-red gourd soared into the air, blasted open the treasury, and flew in a streak of light all the way toward Bazhou.

Before long, the bird-headed goddess raised her hand and caught the vermilion-red gourd.

With a respectful manner she said, "Senior sister, may your little sister go back now?

" Di Yiyue smiled faintly. "My junior brother of the Northern Emperor's school came to bring down calamity, and besides carrying off the Northern Emperor's divine weapon, he also left behind one of his own arms. " The bird-headed goddess's expression changed drastically.

Suddenly the wing behind her rose like a blade of fire, and with a swish she cut off her other wing. The wing streamed with fire, the flames incomparably gorgeous and dazzling, as though woven from countless feathers of divine script.

The bird-headed goddess endured the pain, laid her wing down, stepped back, and was reverent in the extreme. Di Yiyue smiled.

"Junior sister, that will do. When you go back, tell our master that senior sister Di Yiyue is here, that for twenty thousand years I have not paid my respects to our honored master, and kowtow once to her on my behalf.

" The bird-headed goddess's brow streamed with sweat from the pain, and she said in a hoarse voice, "Your little sister will certainly go before our honored master!

" Di Yiyue smiled.

"Tell her that if she comes to bring down calamity in person, I will not hold back. Go.

" She flicked a finger.

The bird-headed goddess was suddenly seized and spun madly against her will, tumbling into the depths of space and vanishing. Di Yiyue raised her hand and brushed lightly at the hole in space; the space smoothed over, and not the least trace could be seen.

Shen Mu said with concern, "Elder Sister, by making her leave a wing behind before she went, might you be leaving trouble for later?

She will surely bear a grudge against you.

" Di Yiyue laughed. "Trouble for later there certainly is, but the grudges of these little junior brothers and junior sisters do not weigh on my heart.

It is my several masters who are ruthless characters. Mainly it is that I am lazy, too lazy to go searching out these stone statues one by one. When the little junior brothers and sisters have suffered a loss, they will surely go back and tell the Northern Emperor and the Southern Emperor. Once the Northern Emperor and the Southern Emperor know that I am here, they will know that they cannot bring down calamity, and that forcing their disciples to bring down calamity will surely cost them dearly. So they will recall the other stone statues, sparing every disciple from losing an arm. And I, too, am spared the trouble of seeking out those stone statues one by one. Two birds with one stone.

" Shen Mu picked up the goddess's wing, and Di Yiyue cried hastily, "Don't touch it!

That is the Vermilion Bird's Sacred Fire. . . " Shen Mu had already picked the wing up.

Astonished, Di Yiyue examined his palm, and saw that Shen Mu's vital essence had turned into a small and intricate flame of runes, like a crystal, which precisely blocked the Vermilion Bird's Sacred Fire; however fierce and unyielding the Sacred Fire's power, it could not harm him in the least.

"This is the Xuandu Heavenly Fire?

" Di Yiyue said in astonishment. "The Heavenly Fire Great Dao you calculated out with the Taiwei Calculation Scripture? " Shen Mu nodded and smiled.

"I have been used to a hard and frugal life since I was small. That elder sister just now should be an expert of the God-Slaying Platform realm, and her wing ought to forge a rather good divine saber and divine sword, so I will put it away first.