Chapter 1375 — The Hope of a Heavenly Venerable to Come

Hua Xuanxiu wore garments of beast hide, short trousers and a short jacket, and carried over her shoulder a beast bone so absurdly large it was the thigh bone of the Pillar-Two Ancient God. The girl looked like a little wild child raised loose in the forest, a snot bubble still swelling from her left nostril.

"Three-Eyed Big-Bone Uncle!

" Hua Xuanxiu cried, beside herself with delight.

Shen Mu's face darkened slightly.

"Call me Grand-Uncle-Master! I am your grandmaster's junior fellow disciple!

" Hua Xuanxiu stuck out her tongue. The girl was about ten or so, and unlike the divine-ability practitioners of Jingping, she was filled with an untamable wildness.

In those years, when her soul had scattered, Shen Mu had not borrowed the power of the Lord of Heaven, but had used his own strength and the power of Tubo to gather and reshape her soul, restoring her to life.

For that very reason, her soul was far stronger than that of an ordinary divine-ability practitioner. When Shen Mu had let Yu Chudu take her away, the girl had been a timid little thing; now she had grown into a creature of wildness through and through, which left Shen Mu rather uneasy.

What he did not know was that Yu Chudu's road to Jingping with Hua Xuanxiu had been anything but smooth; on the contrary, it had been full of pursuit and counter-pursuit. The pursuers from the Western Heavens were exceedingly powerful, and Yu Chudu had walked a road of blood and slaughter, living like a savage, and only thus had he brought Hua Xuanxiu alive to Jingping. Having been through so much, Hua Xuanxiu had become a little savage herself; when the two of them arrived at Jingping they were covered in blood and filth, clad in beast hides — a thoroughly bedraggled pair. "Your three realms of Mingde, Danfeng, and Chengtian are most interesting.

" Shen Mu said with a kindly countenance, "If these three realms are established, you will be the Heavenly Venerable of this age! " "Big-Bone Unc.

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Grand-Uncle-Master!

" Hua Xuanxiu hastily corrected herself, then laughed: "Those three realms are fake. My master and my grandmaster have both tested them, and everyone else in the Wendao Academy has tested them too — they are not realms. I was only speaking off the cuff; you must not take it seriously.

" Shen Mu was stunned. Suddenly something struck his heart, and tears poured down like rain, startling both Yuchenzi and Hua Xuanxiu. Hua Xuanxiu hurried forward, set the big bone aside, and crouched down to comfort him in a small voice: "Don't cry, Grand-Uncle-Master.

You are such a grown man, and still crying — aren't you ashamed? " Shen Mu wept aloud: "What I weep for is that even with a being like my eldest senior brother, even with a holy ground like the Wendao Academy, even with an enlightened place like Jingping, they can still mislead the young and nearly ruin a Heavenly Venerable! What I grieve for is this education; what I grieve for is that in a million years of history, how many outstanding talents have been dismissed with a single sentence, and lost, one after another, achievements that could have remade heaven and earth! " Hua Xuanxiu and Yuchenzi could make neither head nor tail of it.