Chapter 511 — Posing a Deafening Question
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
What then? " "Then let conduct share one code! " "The writing differs, the divine arts differ. What then? " "Then let writing share one script, and open schools!
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. Suddenly the twenty-eight former leaders burst into laughter together.
They bowed to Shen Mu and saluted him.
"Cult Leader Shen may be called a sage!
You are worthy of the name of Holy Cult Leader!
We have tested you on Cult Leader Li's behalf—and you have passed! " Shen Mu returned the salute, utterly sincere.
"I thank you, Cult Leaders, for your deafening questions, which opened my mind.
This junior has learned much!
When I return to the world of the living, I shall have a path for reform.
If in the future my reforms achieve anything, and the impassable becomes a thoroughfare, then every one of you Cult Leaders will have had a hand in it!
" Everyone laughed heartily and rose to their feet.
The young patriarch was glad for them as well.
Shen Mu had been at bitter odds with the past leaders, and now the old grudges were swept away—that, too, gladdened him. Suddenly from beyond the hall came the voice of the bird-headed god-man Chixiu, crying, "Cult Leader Shen, King Yama means to interrogate you himself. Are you not coming out? "