Chapter 453 — The Floating Sky City
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
During the journey, Shen Mu had witnessed all sorts of peculiar sorcery in the Western Territories. Besides using mountains and rivers as weapons, Western sorcerers also raised spirit creatures.
They would enlighten exotic beasts, awaken their spiritual intelligence, and nurture them from youth, so the beasts grew up with them and were extremely loyal. Moreover, the beasts served as their primordial weapons, offered up like magic treasures. Compared to mountain spirits and earth spirits, such beasts were far more agile and versatile. The philosophy of "all things have spirits" in the Western Territories was truly eye-opening.
The dragon-qilin ran swiftly, drawing ever closer to Yun City. The terrain was mostly mountainous, and they occasionally encountered sorcerers traveling through the air, mostly riding flying exotic beasts.
Shen Mu raised an eyebrow, noticing that quite a few Western sorcerers were monitoring his movements. "We are being watched again. It seems I cannot enter Yun City.
There must be an ambush waiting inside. I have to go through the wilderness. " Shen Mu sent a pulse through his spiritual sense and, using the telepathy of the Skyfeather clan, signaled the dragon-qilin to prepare. Then he took a long breath, inhaling for quite a while until his lungs were full.
Whoosh—he breathed out, and instantly dense fog filled the surroundings, stretching to the heavens and covering more than a dozen li above and below.
The dragon-qilin immediately dived down into the mountain forest. The Western sorcerers rushed into the fog and searched everywhere, but by the time the mist dispersed, Shen Mu and the others were long gone. "The Young Master is coming!
" a sorcerer suddenly cried in alarm.
A jeweled carriage flew over, drawn by a rainbow phoenix. Seated within was a youth, somewhat plump but not obese, surrounded by a bevy of women.
Strangely enough, although the Western Territories were matriarchal, before this youth even the women of Zhentian Palace could only attend to him with due deference. The gathered sorcerers saluted one after another: "Young Master Yu!
" The Young Master Yu surveyed his surroundings and laughed.
"So he escaped again? That is hardly surprising.
Back then, when I led my men to hunt down Nai Kui, he was the one who interfered, allowing Nai Kui to get away. That place was the Wild Ruins, not the Western Territories, where I could not act as I pleased.
But here in the Western Territories, this is not his Wild Ruins.
If he thinks he can slip through my fingers this time, he is being rather naive. " He was none other than Yu Bochuan, the son of the current Palace Master of Zhentian Palace, the very one who had hunted Xiong Xiyu and her daughter.
Though young, he was ruthless and full of schemes. Xiong Xiyu had been the Palace Master of Zhentian Palace, overthrown by the Yu family.
Yu Bochuan's own cultivation was not supremely high, yet he had been able to lead a band to pursue Xiong Xiyu, an existence at the sect-master level, driving her to the brink of death and watching her strong protectors fall one by one.
That testified to Yu Bochuan's ability. His depth of scheming was extraordinary. Yu Bochuan nodded slightly. One of the Zhentian Palace women rose into the air and performed a mystical technique. The white clouds in the sky suddenly writhed and formed an arrow shape, pointing downward.
The carriage descended toward the mountain forest below. Another woman stamped her foot.
Many rocks on the mountain rolled together, coalescing into a stone giant, which raised its hand and pointed in the direction Shen Mu had gone. "That man rode off on a giant beast, heading that way. " The woman dismissed her technique, and the stone giant collapsed into a pile of rubble. The rainbow phoenix pulled the carriage onward.
Sitting inside, Yu Bochuan said with a smile, "In the Western Territories, no one can escape the tracking of my Zhentian Palace.