Chapter 523 — The Village Elder Returns to the City
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
"I am twenty-three this year.
" Shen Mu answered with complete honesty, "Twenty-three years squandered, and to this day I have accomplished nothing. Speaking of it, I cannot help but heave a sigh and shed tears.
" "Divine Physician Shen, to have achieved so much at twenty-three is already no small feat.
" Xing An turned around and raised the mirror in his hand, praising with utter sincerity, "At twenty-three you are not only the Hierarch of the Netherworld Demons, commanding a million divine ability users, but you also hold high office as the Grand Libationer of the Heavenly Sage Academy, and you are a Human Emperor—wealthy beyond measure, with connections far and wide. How many in this world could achieve what you have at twenty-three? You alone! " He raised the mirror and peered into it, but Shen Mu's reflection did not appear. He was slightly taken aback—then heard Shen Mu's voice come from afar: "Fat Dragon, Fat Dragon! Tell the newcomers with divine abilities that this is the Wasteland.
When night falls they must not wander about, or they will die! Get a few loud-voiced ones to shout a couple of times and warn the ability users not to leave the city at night! " Xing An put away the mirror and strode after him. When Shen Mu had steadied himself, he again took out the mirror, turning his back to Shen Mu to take a look—but once more, Shen Mu's figure was absent from the glass. Shen Mu's voice came again from the distance: "Yuxiu, can you find several dozen court painters?
Senior Brother Xing An gave me a painting. I need a thousand copies made and distributed everywhere. " Xing An's brows rose slightly.
He thought to himself, 'If the person Lu Li is searching for is him, then he surely would not copy the jade pendant in the painting. Could it be that I am truly being overly suspicious? But why does he avoid me?
' He caught up with Shen Mu once more, his gaze flickering: 'If he runs again, I will suppress him with my magic power and freeze him in place! ' Just then, the somewhat plump young woman from the Ling family tilted her head to examine the painting and said in surprise, "That jade pendant on it—I think I have seen it before! " Xing An gave a start.
Forgetful of using the mirror on Shen Mu, he quickly said, "Princess of the Ling family, you truly have seen it? " Ling Yuxiu had been in charge of military intelligence on the northern frontier for the past few months.
Raised on the northern snow plains, she had grown quite fair, and being at an age when the body develops, her face had lengthened a little, making her features even more delicate—though her figure remained plump. She had returned to the capital this time to report on her duties. Now that Shen Mu had established the Between Life and Death, she had seized her free time to come to Crimson Dragon City—not only to meet her sweetheart, but also to enter the Between Life and Death for some training.
"I have seen it once. " Having been tempered by military life in the north, Ling Yuxiu was much more mature than before.
She still preferred men's clothing and carried a dashing air. She said, "I saw it in a ruin in the Wasteland. " "The Wasteland! " Xing An was greatly shaken and quickly asked, "Was that person a youth?
" Ling Yuxiu said, "Not exactly. It was writing of that kind in the Wasteland ruins. There was also a small swaddling cloth and a little wooden horse in the ruins, as if a child had once lived there.
" Shen Mu looked at Xing An, who fell silent for a moment, evidently communicating with that strange eye in the Divine Treasury of Life and Death.
He looked at the mirror in Xing An's hand, deeply curious about it. Xing An had been trying to use the mirror on him just now—that was why he had dodged. "Senior Brother Xing An, you also like to carry a mirror?
Could this mirror be some extraordinary treasure?
" Shen Mu's gaze flickered as he reached for the mirror.