Chapter 584 — Male Roe Deer Stamp Their Hooves in Chaos, Female Roe Deer's Eyes Grow Misty
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
Shen Mu drew out the Sun Jade Eye and the Moon Jade Eye swift as flight, setting one before him and one behind, while banners whirled around his body, drawing every living thing within ten paces into the patterns of their formations. They were teleportation banners. To use his teleportation divine ability took time, whereas the banners were far more convenient, able to activate in the blink of an eye and carry him much farther.
He had refined these formation banners precisely to guard against an assault by gods or demons, so that he would not be caught helpless as he had been in Vajra's clutches. The banners were only a hair faster than the teleportation divine ability, but a hair's breadth of time could save a life!
Yet no sooner had the banners begun to spin, no sooner had the runes on their cloth kindled, than banner after banner burst apart with a bang, the shredded cloth scattering like bright butterflies, leaving only bare poles stuck askew in the ground! "The gods and demons strike far faster than I reckoned!
" Shen Mu wasted no motion and no thought.
He activated the two jade eyes at once; the moon qi within turned to moonlight, the sun qi to sunlight, both unbearably fierce. He gripped the two jade eyes one in either hand, ready at any moment to meet the foe. The beams from the jade eyes were thick and broad, sweeping the surroundings with a humming drone.
When the pupils of the two jade eyes were at their widest, they held little power and served only for light.
But so long as Shen Mu's palm tugged at the nerve clusters within, he could shift the formations inside and gather the radiance of the sun and moon stars into a single line! Those two beams then possessed the power to wound a god! He had long since tested them on Lord Huanlong. Shen Mu watched his surroundings warily and said in a low voice, "Could it be the Honored Goddess Tianfeng Gou who comes?
" "It is I.
" A woman in white that outshone the snow walked slowly toward him through the moonlight of the Moon Jade Eye. She was indeed beautiful, her hair coiled into a Dawn Cloud Near-Incense bun, twin strands twined and pinned up, slanting ever so slightly. Her skirt was very full and her palace-style bodice loose, yet her waist was slender, a waist one could span with a single hand. She had a manner all her own, her eyes cold and indifferent, as though little in the world could stir or move her.
The corner of Shen Mu's eye twitched.
A woman like this, once she set her mind and fixed on a thing, would be very hard to turn.
The herd of silly roe deer around him feared the approaching Tianfeng Gou not at all; they were gnawing at the hem of his robe, rolling it with their tongues and feeding it into their mouths.
Several more lifted their heads and stared at him in curiosity, and one buck bleated back and forth at him, yoo-yoo.
Shen Mu faced her as though before a great enemy, staring at Tianfeng Gou in alarm, unwilling to miss any movement she made. But the deer tugged too hard, and he had no choice but to tug back at his collar and pull his robe from their mouths. "Yoo!
Yoo—" Several bucks grew angry, lowered their heads, and butted their horns at his backside: one butted, then backed off a few steps to gather force; another butted, then backed off a few steps to gather force.
Shen Mu stood steady as a mountain, unmoving, letting the deer ram his backside again and again. "No wonder the Great Honored One grafted deer legs onto himself.
These roe deer are utterly maddening! " Tianfeng Gou swept a glance over the deer butting Shen Mu, then let her gaze fall on the two jade eyes beside him.
"Will Sect Master Shen give me an accounting? " she said. "Why did you kill my disciples? And not merely kill them, but wipe out every one of my disciples?
I had only these few, taught with all my care, and all of them died at Sect Master Shen's hands.