Chapter 655 — The Star Lord's Riddle
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So that is how it is. " Shen Mu laughed: "Do you understand now? " "This disciple underst—" The First Ancestor Human Emperor caught himself mid-word, shut his mouth in alarm, his old face burning red, and lifted his sleeve to hide it.
Shen Mu's teaching had made him unconsciously feel that a master was earnestly instructing him, guiding him on so patiently, so that he had been about to say, without thinking, "this disciple understands. " Fortunately, he had reacted quickly, and had not finished the sentence. Chi Xi swept the tower-ship, gathered back the various treasures that had been struck down, tossed the Fire Crow god-men's corpses off the ship, and came over: "The Fire Crow god-men have a strange spiritual ability; they can communicate across enormous distances. That these Fire Crow god-men found us means the Great Sun Star Lord is not far off either. The Fire Crow god-men we threw off cannot catch us, but the Great Sun Star Lord certainly can. We must leave at once!
" Shen Mu walked to the deck and looked back. The Fire Crow god-men whom the First Ancestor Human Emperor had sent flying were still in dogged pursuit, but this time they could not borrow the sun's power to accelerate, so that their distance from the tower-ship kept growing. "Abandon ship.
" Shen Mu said suddenly: "Fly to where the Fire Crow god-men cannot see us, then abandon ship, leave on another vessel, and let this one draw the Great Sun Star Lord's attention.
Do we have another ship? " Chi Xi shook his head; the First Ancestor Human Emperor shook his head as well. "Senior Chi Xi, you knew enemies would come hunting us — why not prepare a second ship?
If I were refining poison, for instance, I would prepare an extra dose, against the day it was needed.
" Shen Mu shook his head: "You people are far too unseasoned in your dealings. " Ban Gongcuo hastily produced a small notebook and wrote this down, thinking: "The more I understand him, the easier he will be to deal with!
" Chi Xi said: "My Chiming Divine Dynasty was destroyed.
To have preserved even one ship like this is already remarkable. " The First Ancestor Human Emperor pondered: "We cannot abandon the ship; we can only fight head-on.
Formidable as the Great Sun Star Lord is, we are not the sort to be trifled with either!
Only by gravely wounding him will we have any chance of shaking him off! " Chi Xi hesitated. The First Ancestor Human Emperor's earlier showing made plain that he had never been on a battlefield; faced with a formation's encirclement he had been at a loss, and had even been lectured by Shen Mu.
Of course, Chi Xi was no general of the battlefield either, and did not know how to answer a battle formation. Had Shen Mu not been through the slaughter of battle lines, and had he not mastered the First Ancestor Human Emperor's arts and divine abilities, then the Fire Crow Formation alone would likely have left them blackened with defeat.
The Great Sun Star Lord was a sacred one of great renown, long famous, his strength unfathomable.
If he caught up, the combined strength of the First Ancestor and Chi Xi would likely not withstand him. Ling Yuxiu said suddenly: "Look at that sun!
" Everyone aboard looked quickly. The sun they had flown away from was changing.
That sun was undergoing a wondrous transformation: its surface was collapsing, forming layer upon layer of complex rings, folding inward ceaselessly; looked at closely, those rings were formation patterns composed of unimaginably intricate runes.
Soon, from the sun's surface to its interior, an incomparably complex formation took shape.
The rings' patterns contracted, and seen from afar it was like a colossal pupil. "The Great Sun Star Lord has arrived! " Chi Xi said, panic-stricken, voice hoarse.