Chapter 310 — The Venerable One Is Sagacious
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
"You and I are now joined in wholehearted cooperation and must trust one another; let it stay with you for the time being.
This time, follow me—I have already worked out the mystery of this tower ship's rooms, by the method of matching tracks.
" Shen Mu admired him from the heart.
"The Grand Venerable is sagacious!
" The two made themselves ready and stepped out of the cabin door. The ship was empty and silent; there were no other people, not a living thing to be seen—only some green-glowing slime upon the deck.
The treasure ship was vast; White Bat, the dragon qilin, and the Grand Shaman and the Shaman King whom Ban Gongcuo had brought, along with the officers and men of the Man-Di kingdom, must still be trapped in those rooms.
Both swallowed some spirit elixirs and strove to recover their cultivation, then walked shoulder to shoulder into the room by which they had come. Shen Mu worked the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art to hasten the medicine's power, and recovered two or three tenths of his cultivation; the wounds on his flesh, having been smeared with dragon saliva, began to scab and peel.
Ban Gongcuo's injuries had improved somewhat as well; his spirit medicines were in no way inferior to Shen Mu's. Suddenly Shen Mu again saw that old man from the painting flash past upon the wall; his heart stirred, and he hurried in pursuit. Ban Gongcuo cried out in alarm, "That way is wrong!
" But Shen Mu had already opened another door and rushed into the room!
Ban Gongcuo braced himself and followed, seething inwardly: "If there were not still a use for you, I would have finished you long ago! You little wretch—once you fall into my hands, I will not let you die so easily!
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