Chapter 698 — Grandmaster of Law and Dao
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
The seawater crowded and surged into her body; the earth flowed as well, reassembling her bones. Lady Tianyin's fleshly body grew ever more solid and true, and her strength soared madly. "What does the Great Mage seek?"
Shen Mu's face reddened slightly. "Your Ladyship need not call me Great Mage. I am not even a god; I only did what I could. I am unworthy of the word 'great'. My study of the three souls is not even the equal of Granny's..."
"You are worthy of it."
Lady Tianyin smiled. "The word 'great' comes just below 'heaven'—one stroke short of heaven. Your divine powers and Daoist arts are such that even Lord Heaven does not possess them. And you would say you are unworthy of 'great'?"
Shen Mu was thoroughly ashamed. He thought for a moment, then said, "I come from Jingping, in the outer world. May I ask whether Jingping might form an alliance with Your Ladyship?"
Lady Tianyin smiled. "That is only proper."
Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief. "The Mystic Capital has set up a stronghold here, controlling the black sand and throwing the human world into disorder. Is Your Ladyship able to control the flow of the black sand?"
Lady Tianyin shook her head. "I have only just been reborn; I cannot yet command the whole of the Tianyin Realm. For now I have no power to control the soul black sand here."
Her gaze turned somewhat grim. "Ghosts ground down into the finest particles become black sand—but black sand is still ghosts; its essence has not changed. Do you know what that means?"
Shen Mu's eye twitched. Countless ghosts ground to pieces and mingled together—in such a case, they would form a single, unimaginably vast soul-body!
The whole Tianyin Realm lay in darkness; which is to say, the Tianyin Realm itself was one unimaginably vast corpse!
"We are all in the belly of that corpse."
Lady Tianyin said, "This is the Yin Sovereign's device. Now that I have been reborn, the Yin Sovereign will soon learn of it, and this monstrous corpse that is the Tianyin Realm will revive, attack me, and kill me again. But this time he will not succeed. I will fight him once more, and teach him that the shade of Heaven is no place for him to set foot!"