Chapter 403 — The Old Man's Sudden Change
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Before the Headman could answer, the burly Pill Master walked in. "While I was fleeing for my life, I met the Daoist Lingjing. He said that a godlike being was hunting him, wanting to take the divine blood from his body, and he begged me to dissolve that divine blood so that he might escape death. I questioned the Daoist Lingjing, and he said the man was in his day a being of the same renown as the Headman, and called himself a god."
The Headman let out a turbid breath. "His name is a single character: An. His surname is a strange one — Xing. A wildly arrogant man. And yet by rights he should be about my age, and his span of life should run out within the next year or two."
"And yet the Daoist Lingjing said he looks very young, like a youth."
The Pill Master's face showed worry. He asked, "From what you know of him, will he go looking for Old Master Huo? Old Master Huo is the Tathagata now, the four elements all void within him, and he did not come for the New Year. If he stays alone on Mount Sumeru, I fear he is in grave danger!"
Shen Mu could not help saying, "Is this Xing An really so strong? Strong enough to storm the Great Thunderclap Temple?"
The Headman's face was calm. "How strong he is now, I do not know. But this I do know: if a man spends his whole life and can train a single part of the human body to the divine realm, he can already rival a false god. If he trains every part to the divine realm, then he is not far from a true god. He will surely go to find Master Huo."