Chapter 514 — Greed Befogs the Heart
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
" Daoist Lingjing watched him go into the distance, then hid the gold coins away carefully, thinking, "A few hundred more years of this, and I too can buy a house in Fengdu. .
. " The god Chi Xiu returned to the Shen King Hall, and saw that the collapsed hall had been restored to its former state.
It walked in warily, and saw Yama standing at the back of the hall, watching the flames beyond the door.
"The visitor from the Land of No Worries is most interesting.
" Yama suddenly laughed.
"Though he was not born in the Land of No Worries, his blood is after all that of Kaihuang, and there is much in him that is extraordinary. In this brief moment together, I have come to expect a great deal of him.
If his father had come, my expectations would have been great, but afterward my heart would have gone cold. Yet with his coming, though I was at first deeply disappointed, my expectations only grow greater. " The god Chi Xiu, puzzled, said, "This Cult Leader Shen, this Human Emperor Shen, is of a most restless and irrepressible temper.
Why should Yama expect anything of him?
He has spent most of the day in our Fengdu: he beat the Human Emperors of every generation, he smashed the palace of the Zuyang Cult Leader, he beat the Nether Demon Cult Leaders of every generation. Just now he ran off and extorted from the patriarchs one and all, then demanded the Boundary Between Life and Death, meaning to join the netherworld to the world of the living and do some sort of business! Is this not sheer folly? " Yama turned around and laughed. "Fengdu is too desolate. Let him stir things up; perhaps he will bring a change beyond all imagining.
I have never seen a man so amusing, so full of ideas; perhaps he can do what others cannot. And the secrets upon him are not so simple as he imagines—which makes me look forward to him all the more. . . " The god Chi Xiu was startled. "Does Yama truly indulge him, letting him link Fengdu with the world of the living and do business? " Yama waved a hand and said no more.
In the unfathomably dark Youdu, though the sun had already risen, all was still darkness: no sky, no land, no sun, moon, or stars. Xing'an drifted through the darkness, until a faint, spectral voice sounded and woke him. "Xing'an, wake up. . .
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