Chapter 372 — The Silent One's Wooden Box
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Shen Mu had quickly explained the situation, and Silent Craftsman had withdrawn his flying boat. The boat turned into a pile of silver pellets that fell into the wooden box, and he told Shen Mu to put the Heavenly Emperor Jade Tablet inside as well. "Ah," Silent Craftsman said indifferently.
"Grandpa Silent Craftsman, you must not underestimate him. " Shen Mu's expression was grave; he felt Silent Craftsman was being too careless.
He said: "By the way, the village head said you went to chase a ship. What ship?
Did you catch it?
I also encountered a ship, and on board I saw my father.
" The smile vanished from Silent Craftsman's face. Looking somewhat dejected, he picked up the wooden box and walked forward. Shen Mu hurried to follow him: "Grandpa Silent Craftsman did not find that ship?
" Silent Craftsman remained crestfallen.
He made a series of gestures, meaning that the ship had gone to a world he could not enter, and that he had been driven back by a powerful figure from that world.
After a moment, a voice suddenly rang out, startled and delighted: "Human Emperor Shen, what are you doing here? That dragon qilin of yours is truly remarkable — it actually ran ahead of us!
" Shen Mu looked toward the voice and was slightly taken aback. There sat Wang Muran, Long Yu, and Mu Qingdai upon a great deer, travel-worn and dusty, making their way toward him.
The dragon qilin was smug beyond measure, its tail shooting straight up like a flagpole, casting a disdainful glance at the great deer from Little Yujing. The great deer's eyes went wide, its mouth fell open, and its little tail, which had been raised, immediately pressed flat against its rump, tucked tight, its expression one of awe.
When the great deer saw the flood dragons large and small around Shen Mu, all trailing after the dragon qilin, its awe deepened further. Shen Mu was astonished: "It took you more than three days to get here?
" In those three days, he had run from the capital to the Taibai Sword Sect, then from the Taibai Sword Sect across eighty or ninety thousand li straight to the center of the Ruined Wasteland, and then run all the way back! But if he said this aloud, these three probably would not believe it.