Chapter 460 — The Liu Clan Within the Divine Burial Valley
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Shen Mu looked around: it was an underground world, passages running every which way; upon the vaulted dome of the tomb were sun, moon, and stars, the constellations in their courses, and all around passage after passage connected tomb chambers great and small, while many coffins came and went through chambers and corridors. A small coffin floated over; its lid flipped up, and a little girl tumbled out, sat upon the lid, and said: "Mother, who is this? " Shen Mu looked at Liu Ruyin in doubt; Liu Ruyin's face fell, and she said in a low voice: "This is my little girl.
She died together with me; the elders here woke us both, and so we live here.
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. never mind that. Did you not want to meet Yu Ruyi? I will go call her and introduce you; perhaps the misunderstanding between you can be resolved.
Nannan, stay here and keep big brother company. " The little girl answered sweetly and looked Shen Mu over with curiosity.
But Shen Mu did not dare to slight this little girl: though she was Liu Ruyin's daughter, they had died together and been awakened together, and so the child's cultivation was most likely the same as Liu Ruyin's — a great expert of the Life-Death realm or the Spirit Bridge realm. He looked to the center of the Divine Burial Valley, where stood a golden coffin bound round and round with thick chains and plastered with yellow paper talismans covered in all manner of runes. Shen Mu asked curiously: "Who lies in this coffin? Why is it bound? " The little girl said: "My mother says there is a god inside.
The god's corpse has already become a spirit, but they feared he would do evil, so they bound him.
" "So that is how it is," Shen Mu smiled. "Nannan, Qi'er, let me do a magic trick for you. " With that he took from the Taotie Pouch a great jade eye and said with a smile: "This eye of mine can shine. " Nannan said excitedly: "How does it shine?
" Just then Liu Ruyin's voice came, laughing: "Ruyi, that is Sect Master Shen. If there is some misunderstanding between you, why not let me play the peacemaker.
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. " Another woman's voice answered, giggling: "Dissolve our grievance?
Very well — hand over the little princess, and it is dissolved.
" At that very moment a dazzling white light suddenly split the gloom of the Divine Burial Valley and vanished in a flash.
Shen Mu's laughter came: "How was that?
It shines, does it not?
" Liu Ruyin was struck dumb; then she saw that Yu Ruyi, beside her, had split cleanly open and been cut into two halves.