Chapter 435 — An Eerie Affair at the Door
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Plainly it was setting beside oneself a great engine of slaughter that might take one's life at any moment! And placed in the dragon lair, in a space so vast, the thunder would have no way to discharge outward. If the Five Thunder Jar's power erupted, even a deity, surely, would be struck dead by the Five Great Cloud Thunders!
"Besides tempering the body, this Five Thunder Jar is a fine thing for wiping out a whole house. When you meet someone you cannot beat, just give it a pat and perish together!
" Shen Mu thought to himself. Together the crowd worked the Five Ghosts Transposition Art and sent the Five Thunder Jar into the True Dragon Lair, wholly unaware that their Sect Master harbored such a perilous notion. Shen Mu thanked them all, summoned the Flood Dragon King God and the Dragon Qilin, and was about to hurry off to the Divine Severance Mountains to have a look when Si Yunxiang said in alarm, "Sect Master, the Emperor is on his way. In seven more days he will reach Redbud City.
Will you not wait for him?
" Shen Mu's eyes went wide and his voice failed him for a moment: "You did not tell him he need not come? " Si Yunxiang shook her head. "You only said he need not be waited for; you did not say he need not come. This time the Emperor has flown the whole way aboard the Sun-Shooting Divine Cannon.
The medicinal stones consumed along the route are beyond counting — he is in a tearing hurry. .
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" Shen Mu's scalp went numb; he could almost see Emperor Yanfeng sharpening his blade, ready to take his head. "Send word to him at once — tell him he need not come!
" Shen Mu turned and leapt onto the Flood Dragon King God's back.
Si Yunxiang said in a fluster, "The Emperor would not dare take your head, but he would certainly dare take mine! " "Can you not tell bad news in a good way?
" Shen Mu rode the dragon into the distance, his voice drifting back from afar: "Put it another way — he will even reward you!
" "Tell bad news in a good way? " Si Yunxiang was stunned for a moment, then the light dawned. She hastily asked Elder Sigong to take her to greet Emperor Yanfeng. Emperor Yanfeng stood upon the cannon platform, civil and military officials attending him, imperial guards posted all around, awesome in his majesty. On the great cannon fifty-six pill furnaces burned day and night, consuming no one knew how many medicinal stones, and still it pressed ceaselessly on toward Redbud City.
When Si Yunxiang arrived, Emperor Yanfeng was issuing orders, commanding men to go to the cities ahead and requisition medicinal stones. The stones brought along on the platform had long since run short; they could only be replenished from the cities along the way. "Congratulations, Your Majesty!
" Si Yunxiang submitted her report: "The rebel deity of Heaven Above, White Gap, moved by the vast majesty of Your Majesty's heavenly might, dared not raise rebellion or stir chaos, and so submitted.
He has now surrendered to Jingping and become the mountain god of Hundred Year Mountain in Lu County, to guard Your Majesty's realm and aid Your Majesty's rivers and mountains to stand unchanged for ten thousand ages, and the altars of state to endure forever! " Emperor Yanfeng's dragon countenance was greatly pleased. He looked around at the civil and military ministers to either side and laughed heartily: "This rebel deity White Gap actually knows when to advance and when to retreat. Learning that We are leading the campaign in person, he knew he could not possibly withstand Us, and so simply surrendered — truly, he has left Our fist striking empty air.