Chapter 1063 — The Mystery of the Heavenly Venerable's Disappearance

Heavenly Venerable Moon was somewhat unconvinced. "I am certain that is what it means! You are not the true Heavenly Venerable Mu, so how would you know I am overthinking it?

" Shen Mu shook his head and offered no further explanation.

The name Mu Qing had been taken from Shen Mu and Shen Fengqing; back then he had believed himself to be Shen Fengqing, and only now did he no longer think so. Heavenly Venerable Moon watched him, her gaze flickering. "He should not be Heavenly Venerable Yun," she thought.

"He should not be. .

. " When they returned to the Xiaohan Heavenly Court, Heavenly Venerable Moon at once ordered the gods of the human race to go to the territory of Divine Emperor Langxuan and relocate the humans living there. She sought out Heavenly Venerable Ling, only to find her beside the Heavenly River, still wholly absorbed in her study of the so-called divine art of immutability. "Sister Ling, Heavenly Venerable Mu has reached an agreement with Divine Emperor Langxuan. The humans within Divine Emperor Langxuan's territory can be relocated here, and we need your help.

. . You found your hairpin? " Heavenly Venerable Moon said in astonishment, looking at the hairpin in Heavenly Venerable Ling's hair.

Heavenly Venerable Ling came back to her senses and raised a hand to her head. Sure enough, her hairpin was there. "It was clearly lost," she said, puzzled.

"How has it appeared again? " She took the hairpin down and examined it over and over, her misgivings growing. The peach-wood hairpin had plainly vanished, and no amount of searching could turn it up; yet now it had reappeared for no reason at all, leaving her at a loss. She put the peach-wood hairpin between her teeth, freed both hands to coil her hair, and slid the hairpin back in.

"Moon, what did you say just now? I did not catch it. " Heavenly Venerable Moon had no choice but to repeat herself.

Heavenly Venerable Ling was rather reluctant, but this was a serious matter, so she set aside her intention to keep studying and went along with her. The two girls walked past Shen Mu, and Heavenly Venerable Ling asked, "How strange. When did my hairpin appear?

" "How would I know? " Heavenly Venerable Moon laughed.

"If you do not know yourself, then I certainly know even less.

Could someone have stolen it and quietly returned it to you? " Shen Mu watched them walk into the distance, his own heart full of doubt.

Two identical objects could not exist in the same space and time at once. Heavenly Venerable Ling's peach-wood hairpin truly ought to have vanished, so why had it appeared again? At this thought, he took out the peach-wood hairpin hidden within the Shen-character continent between his brows. In the distance, Heavenly Venerable Ling gave a cry of alarm, her hair falling loose.

"My hairpin has been stolen again! " she said furiously. Shen Mu's heart lurched, and he hastily sent the peach-wood hairpin back into the Shen-character continent.

A hairpin abruptly appeared once more in Heavenly Venerable Ling's disheveled hair. Heavenly Venerable Moon's voice drifted over. "Is it not still stuck in your hair? " Heavenly Venerable Ling felt for the hairpin and once again held it between her teeth, freeing both hands to fix her hair.

"It vanished all of a sudden just now," she said indistinctly. "I feel that the substance of this hairpin is extremely unstable. There is something strange about it. .

. " Watching this from afar, Shen Mu took the hairpin out once more, and the hairpin between Heavenly Venerable Ling's teeth vanished into thin air.

Heavenly Venerable Ling was furious.

"Damnation, who did that? Show yourself and die!

" Heavenly Venerable Moon had also seen the hairpin in her teeth vanish in an instant, and she started in fright, hastily looking around. Shen Mu hurriedly put the hairpin back into the Shen-character continent. Heavenly Venerable Ling found that the hairpin was still between her teeth and was stunned for a moment. Then something suddenly struck her, and she murmured, "Matter is immutable, matter is immutable. Could another identical object have appeared and replaced my hairpin. .

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I can calculate the principle behind it! " She crouched down, using the hairpin as a brush, and began writing and drawing on the ground.

Heavenly Venerable Moon was startled as well and looked this way and that. Shen Mu hastily hid behind the Dragon Qilin. Heavenly Venerable Moon found no one who had stolen the hairpin or returned it, and Heavenly Venerable Ling had fallen into her madness again, ignoring her completely.

She had no choice but to go find someone else. Shen Mu's expression was peculiar. "When two identical objects exist in the same world, one will displace the other," he thought. "In other words, if I return to the era in which I exist, then the other me will disappear. Only after I leave that world will the other me appear.

" He stared blankly into space. The vertical eye between his brows was equivalent to another independent space and time; within it were the Shen-character continent, the Primordial Stone, and the Heavenly Emperor's eggshell, forming another world. Once the hairpin was placed inside, it was cut off from the world of the Longhan era, and Heavenly Venerable Ling's hairpin would appear.

As soon as Shen Mu took the hairpin out, Heavenly Venerable Ling's hairpin would vanish. "My vertical eye also holds the corpses of Heavenly Venerable Yun and Yuanmu. If I take out Heavenly Venerable Yun's body, will the Heavenly Venerable Yun of this era disappear?

" Shen Mu blinked. "Taking it out for a short while should not matter, surely? " he thought.

"Why not give it a try? " The thought excited him.

He flew swiftly to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court and told Yan'er and the Dragon Qilin to guard the doors and let no outsider in. Shen Mu took out Heavenly Venerable Yun's corpse. The instant the ancient Heavenly Venerable's body appeared within the Lingxiao Hall, Heavenly Venerable Yun in the Heavenly Court, who had been speaking with Heavenly Venerable Fire, suddenly became transparent and vanished into thin air beneath Heavenly Venerable Fire's horrified gaze!

And within the Lingxiao Hall, Heavenly Venerable Yun's corpse slowly opened its eyes and looked around in bewilderment. "This place is. . .

Heavenly Venerable Mu? " he murmured. He saw Shen Mu and was utterly shocked.

Shen Mu paced excitedly around him, inexplicably stirred.

"So this really does happen. The other Yun disappeared, and his consciousness came into this Yun's body. If this Yun disappears, then the other Yun will appear. This is the immutability of matter. . .

Heavenly Venerable Yun, we meet at last. " Heavenly Venerable Yun rose to his feet and was about to speak when the vertical eye between Shen Mu's brows flashed with light and swept him away with a swoosh.

In the Heavenly Court, Heavenly Venerable Fire stared in horror as Heavenly Venerable Yun suddenly reappeared, as though he had seen a ghost, pointing at him and unable to utter a word. Heavenly Venerable Yun's eyes went wide with disbelief.

"Just now I seemed to enter another space and time, and I seemed to have grown much older. I even met an old friend. It was like a dream. .

. " Heavenly Venerable Fire suppressed the shock in his heart.