Chapter 470 — Palaces in Heaven
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
A great noise came from behind the hall, and then came the sound of chewing.
Liu Zhenqing was frantic with anxiety and hastily ordered the other Liu family members: "Pull the chains, hurry, drag the old thing back! Do not be afraid, he has the White Tiger Pearl in his mouth, he is suppressed by the White Tiger Pearl! Hurry! Hurry!"
Among the many black coffins, Liu family experts strained to haul on the chains bound to the golden coffin; the chains clattered loudly. After a moment, a burly divine corpse was dragged back out of the hall by them.
The divine corpse was still struggling with all its strength, trying to break free of them. Liu Zhenqing and Liu Ruyin also went forward in person, doing all they could to drag the divine corpse back into the coffin.
Liu Zhenqing climbed onto the divine corpse's head, raised her little fist, and hammered at the corpse's nose, saying in a crisp voice: "Spit it out, spit it out quickly!"
The divine corpse's mouth was bulging; clearly something was hidden inside.
The divine corpse glared viciously at this audacious little girl, looking as though it might devour her at any moment, but its four limbs were locked by chains and it could not move.
And what was in its mouth was precisely the White Tiger Pearl, which it had just swallowed together with that True Heaven Palace expert; but only after the White Tiger Pearl entered its mouth did it learn how terrifying it was. It had nearly been assimilated by the White Tiger Pearl and had failed to swallow the pearl down into its belly.
Liu Zhenqing beat the divine corpse until blood streamed from its nose. The divine corpse could bear it no longer, opened its mouth and spat out the White Tiger Pearl, and sprayed a stream of corpse poison, biting at Liu Zhenqing.
Bang.
The coffin lid closed. Liu Zhenqing swiftly pasted the sealing talismans back in place, picked up the White Tiger Pearl that had fallen to the ground, her brows and eyes full of delight, and jumped back onto her own little coffin lid, pulled out her candied hawthorn and licked it, then said to Shen Mu with a smile: "Brother Shen, we are going back. When you have time, come to Spirit Burial Valley and play with us mother and daughter!"
Shen Mu laughed heartily and waved to them.
"Let us go!"
The coffin lid flipped over with a bang, covering the little girl inside the coffin. From within came Liu Zhenqing's muffled voice, tinged with pride: "No more fighting, back to Spirit Burial Valley! Our Liu family did not come to the True Heaven Palace to carve up power. With this White Tiger Pearl, our Liu family's Spirit Burial Valley can also become a holy land of the Western Land!"
A great host of coffins, escorting the golden divine coffin, howled away and withdrew from the True Heaven Palace.
"Little sister Liu Zhenqing is no small matter. Perhaps she really can forge a holy land of the corpse cultivators."
Shen Mu continued deeper into the True Heaven Palace, thinking: "But I cannot call her little sister either. Her years should be about the same as her mother Liu Ruyin's—she must be four or five hundred years old."
Deep within the True Heaven Palace, the might of another spirit treasure, the Vermilion Bird Pearl, was terrifying; wherever the Vermilion Bird's true fire passed, everything was burned to ash, and only the halls of the True Heaven Palace could still survive.
People of the great families were rushing toward the place where the Vermilion Bird Pearl's power had erupted, clearly intending to get their hands on this Vermilion Bird Pearl before Xiong Xiyu and her daughter.
"So it is Sect Master Shen."
From a hall on the other side, Imperial Preceptor Jingping walked out, and for once showed a smile, nodding to Shen Mu.