Chapter 651 — Ruthless Means
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Chixi, after all, possessed profound cultivation; he at once tried to resist being assimilated by the Wheel of Creation, but his consciousness swiftly grew dim, and he could no longer call upon his vital essence. The three-headed, six-armed body of the Crimson Bright era, renowned as the mightiest battle-flesh, had scarcely any strength to resist this power of creation; soon he had become a great fish with three heads and six fins, flopping and bounding to and fro upon the ground.
At this moment in the garden, apart from Shen Mu at the very center of the Wheel of Creation, only the Primordial Human Emperor remained untwisted by the power of creation, still able to keep his own awareness. The garden was everywhere filled with great fish, sea trees, octopuses, sea anemones, sea beasts, jellyfish, and sea serpents, reducing the whole place to chaos. Fortunately, before testing the Wheel of Creation, Shen Mu had already ordered high walls built all around to block its radiance, and so the Wheel had not affected anyone outside.
"Human Emperor Shen, that is enough! " The Primordial Human Emperor hurriedly called out in a loud voice, "The power of this treasure is no small matter.
There is no need to test it further. Be careful lest you inflict irreparable damage upon their primordial spirits!
" Within the wheel, Shen Mu ceased channeling the Wheel of Creation, and one ring after another stopped turning. The fish scales and gills upon the Primordial Human Emperor gradually vanished, while the others in the garden still bounced about all over the ground, not yet restored to their true forms.
Shen Mu waited a while, but these people still could not revert to their original shapes.
He mused, "This is a kind of seal. Once cast upon them, it seals both body and primordial spirit, and they cannot undo it themselves…
" He took out paper and brush and wrote down his thoughts.
The Primordial Human Emperor could not help but urge, "Hurry and release them. If it drags on too long, their soul and primordial spirit will be assimilated!
" Shen Mu put away the paper and brush and set the Wheel of Creation turning forward. One unsealing rune after another, as the rings revolved, shone out in every direction, undoing the various seals of creation within the bodies of the crowd.
Boom, boom, boom—a series of bursting reports rang out.
The bodies of the crowd shifted, and soon each was restored as before; even Emperor Yanfeng watched this weighty treasure with a face full of dread. Regret filled the god-man Chixi; his heart twisted and bled, and his expression shifted like weather as he gazed at the Wheel of Creation.
He badly wanted to demand it back, but he also knew that Shen Mu's aim from the very start had likely been this Wheel of Creation, and not the hundreds of thousands of other divine weapons on the list! Shen Mu would absolutely never return the Wheel of Creation to him—not even if he brought out the Crimson Bright Heaven-Suppressing Tower in trade!
The value of this Wheel of Creation far exceeded that of the Crimson Bright Heaven-Suppressing Tower! "A veteran old thief, truly a veteran old thief…
" A veteran old thief has a pair of incomparably ruthless eyes, able to tell what is a treasure; even if you yourself do not know what treasures lie in your house, he can dig them out and then buy them at an absurdly low price, or simply steal them outright. Such an old thief often possesses a reverse turn of mind that others lack, keenly perceiving what others fail to notice. A pearl lies under dust, and the old thief can make it shine with pearl luster once more.
In Chixi's eyes, Shen Mu was plainly just such a veteran old thief!
He himself had failed to see the Wheel of Creation's greatest function, treating it merely as a key for unsealing, but Shen Mu had thought in reverse and treated the Wheel of Creation as a lock!
In truth, Shen Mu was not much different from any ordinary youth: fond of play, prone to mischief.