Chapter 699 — Flaming Firmament
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Then the Evil ghosts took the opportunity to burrow into my body through my wounds, gnawing at my flesh and blood. And he brought many powerful beings, who took the chance to attack me.
More and more Evil ghosts burrowed into my body, surging like black sand. . . " Shen Mu could imagine that horrifying scene. The wounded Lady Tianyin had to resist the attacks of the Yin Son of Heaven and the many powerful beings on one side, while countless Evil ghosts transformed into black sand madly burrowed into her wounds, gnawing at her flesh, blood, and soul!
At that time Lady Tianyin must have been beset within and without, utterly despairing in her heart.
"Why did you trust a stranger, Lady? " he could not help asking doubtfully. If Lady Tianyin had been on guard against the Yin Son of Heaven, she would not have been defeated so quickly and so miserably.
To Lady Tianyin at that time, the Yin Son of Heaven must have been a strange outsider; to trust him so unreservedly was somewhat rash.
Lady Tianyin's face reddened slightly.
"He was very handsome," she said. "He made one unable to muster any guard against him. " Shen Mu's expression turned strange.
Lady Tianyin said hastily, "I do not judge by appearances.
It was simply that he was so handsome that his hypocrisy could not be seen.
He helped me refine the treasure, and I truly needed his help, and so I was plotted against. It was only after meeting the Great Dharma Master that I learned that a handsome face does not necessarily mean a good person, and that a plain, unremarkable appearance may belong to a great good man. " She looked at Shen Mu in her palm and gave him an encouraging smile. Shen Mu gave a muffled snort, not much wanting to dwell on the matter of plain appearance. "Then why did the Yin Son of Heaven not take your pagoda away, but leave it here instead?
" Lady Tianyin reached for the massive hourglass.
"He wanted to," she said. "But my pagoda was refined from Tianyin Gold. After tempering, it became my thing.
I merged this treasure with the Tianyin Realm, so of course he could not move it. Though I died once, it was a blessing in disguise. Before, I could not comprehend the particle form of the soul, and was helpless against the black sand. But after I shattered and became soul particles, my former confusion was suddenly cleared. " She removed the hourglass. "This hourglass is the treasure that controls the black sand of the Tianyin Realm. It must have been refined by him.
He used this treasure to control the black sand and attack your world. " The hourglass refined by the Yin Son of Heaven represented his achievements in the system of the soul; with the hourglass alone he could control the soul black sand of the Tianyin Realm. And the fact that Lady Tianyin could remove this hourglass showed that she had indeed been blessed by misfortune; her death and resurrection had instead given her extremely profound comprehension of the soul.
Her death and resurrection had set her apart from beings born divine like Lord Earth and Lord Heaven; now she possessed the ability to learn other divine abilities and comprehend other Dao arts. This change was quite peculiar.
Shen Mu thought it worth studying, so he took out a small notebook and wrote it down. He thought, "Research in this area might solve the problem of those born divine being unable to change with the changes of Dao arts.
I only wonder whether Lady Tianyin would be willing to let thousands of experts proficient in arts and numbers climb over her body to study and record. . .
Probably not. " "The hourglass is called Tiandou. " The hourglass was enormous, but in Lady Tianyin's hand it seemed a tiny toy. Lady Tianyin toyed with it between her fingertips, half-smiling. "His methods of refining treasures are far superior to mine. This Tiandou is exquisitely refined, but now that it has fallen into my hands, he cannot take it back.