Chapter 1813 — Returning to the Miro Treasure Hall

The Dao-attainers were wary and did not draw near. They stood at a distance and observed, and saw that the World-Ferrying Golden Ship was empty.

After a moment, the doors of the great hall upon the golden ship suddenly opened. Shen Mu walked out, smoothing his clothes as he went, his face glowing with vigor.

He smiled and said, "Fellow daoists, there is no need for alarm. I have not come to kill anyone this time, but to see our teacher. Pray make way, all of you. " Ahead, the Dao-attainers silently parted to open a path.

The World-Ferrying Golden Ship rose and flew toward the depths of the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court. Ling Yuxiu came out from the golden hall, and saw that the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court was utterly desolate, withered dao trees everywhere, divine palaces and shrines collapsed, and the eerie, unfathomable winds of cold silence and heat death sweeping through. Apart from those few descended Dao-attainers, no living thing was to be seen.

Suddenly a dao fruit flew up onto the golden ship and hung before the two of them.

A woman within the dao fruit smiled and said, "Nan Xiang greets the Seventh Young Master. " Ling Yuxiu looked at Shen Mu.

He smiled and said, "Fellow daoist Nan Xiang, there is no need for such ceremony. This is my wife. " "Nan Xiang greets the Young Master and his lady. " The dao chains within the fruit revolved, faintly revealing a woman of exquisite beauty; but being within the dao fruit, she wore no clothes, and her lovely body was dimly visible.

Ling Yuxiu's face reddened slightly, and she stole a glance at Shen Mu.

Shen Mu remained perfectly composed, and smiled.

"Fellow daoist Nan Xiang, I have come to see our teacher. I would trouble you to announce me, so as to avoid any complications along the way. " The woman in the dao fruit burst out laughing.

"The Seventh Young Master is bold indeed!

Of the seventy-two halls of the Miro Palace, quite a few Hall Masters have already died at the hands of the Young Master and his partisans, and you still dare to come and see our teacher! You mean to destroy our teacher's lineage.

To say nothing of whether our teacher will tolerate you, who in all the Miro Palace could tolerate you?

" Shen Mu smiled faintly and extended a single finger, lightly touching the void.

There was a string there that no naked eye could see. This string stretched out from the Long River of Chaos, all the way to the World Tree of the Ancestral Court.

The string was drawn taut, its power ready to erupt at any moment.

"The Fourth will let me pass. " Shen Mu smiled.

"It is Hao Tianzun who draws this string. He is the only whole Dao-attainer in the Jade Capital City, though he attained the Dao through brute force. If the Fourth does not permit me to pass, I will use his string to unleash a divine art and strike Hao Tianzun dead on the spot. " Lady Nan Xiang's expression changed slightly, and she saluted from within the dao fruit.

"Pray wait a moment, Young Master!

" The dao fruit hurried away.

The World-Ferrying Golden Ship bore Shen Mu and his wife onward, and soon came alongside the first Long River of Chaos.

The river's winds were fierce and its waves swift; the long river stretched on and on, its end nowhere in sight, and all that could be seen was countless living beings struggling in the river, dying, being destroyed.

The golden ship halted.

Shen Mu and his wife waited a moment, and a dao fruit flew out from the Long River of Chaos. Lady Nan Xiang said to Shen Mu, "Young Master, my lady, the Fourth Young Master says the two of you may cross the river, and that he will not block you. But he can guarantee only that he himself will not act. Whether others act is no concern of his.

" Shen Mu bowed in thanks.

"My thanks to you, Nan Xiang.

" "You are too kind. " Nan Xiang returned the salute from within the dao fruit. "I will lead the way for the Young Master.

" When the World-Ferrying Golden Ship entered the Long River of Chaos, Ling Yuxiu looked on closely, and saw the dao fruit suddenly unravel as if its silk were being drawn away.

The woman within stretched her limbs, and stepped out of the dao fruit. The dao chains and dao patterns of the fruit transformed into a great robe of rainbow feathers, which draped itself over her, most splendid to behold. Lady Nan Xiang gathered the robe over her breast, leaving only a patch of snowy white, and smiled. "I had never heard the Young Master mention that he had a wife.

" Ling Yuxiu said with a smile, "We were only recently married.

Not long after my husband and I were wed, he destroyed the Heavenly Court.

" Lady Nan Xiang was astonished.

"So the lady married the Young Master in order to destroy the Heavenly Court. " Ling Yuxiu smiled. "We are thinking of having a child.

My husband said he wished to come to the Miro Palace to see our teacher.

The round trip takes about two years, and by the time we reach the Miro Palace the child will just be born. Perfect timing, in fact, to ask our teacher to name it.

" Nan Xiang felt a chill in her heart, and said no more. That he had married and then destroyed the Heavenly Court showed that Shen Mu held certain victory, and could therefore take a wife.

Now that Shen Mu meant to have a child, did that mean he was already confident enough to destroy the Miro Palace?