Chapter 209 — The Gate of Kunyuan
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Better to refine him to death while we can. " Shen Mu said gravely, "I cannot go back on my word.
I said I would forge him an idol-automaton and let him take up residence in it, and I cannot break that promise. " Lord Huo said no more.
Shen Mu cleared the bed and had Lord Huo lie down, then took Lord Huo's arm from the medicine cauldron and set about reattaching it. He was deep in that work when suddenly a bolt of lightning flashed out from his brow and, with a crackle, fell upon the eight-armed, four-faced idol standing at the door.
The Lame Elder lifted an eyebrow and said with a smile, "This confounded Demon King - I will let you run eight hundred li first. " The Demon King of Dutian worked the idol, found it moved freely, and took to his heels, running outside.
He had barely run out of Shen Mu's courtyard and taken a dozen paces when, with a sudden crack, the joints of both his legs locked fast. Then the joints all over his body gave off a crack-crack of sound, as though lock after lock had snapped shut.
The Demon King of Dutian stood with his eight arms raised high and one foot lifted, unable to come down, his whole body rigid, unable to move an inch. "You rotten bastard, you laid a trap for me!
" came a furious, sputtering voice from within the idol.
Snow Fox poked a head out of Shen Mu's courtyard, glanced at the demon god statue frozen there, and said with a curl of the lip, "Did the Young Master not tell you long ago?
He was making you an idol-automaton - see, you have fallen foul of the mechanism, have you not?
By the way, would you say the Young Master is a male fox that has cultivated into a spirit? I rather think he might be. .
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