Chapter 701 — Clash of Two Heroes
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
The two young women nodded gently.
That day seemed to stretch on without end; even the sun appeared to hang stubbornly in the west, unwilling to go down. They waited with growing impatience until, at last, the sun slowly sank beneath the horizon. Shen Mu turned anxiously toward the broken cliff—and saw darkness spewing out from it, flooding over them in an instant and sweeping across the entire Wasteland. Shen Mu's heart plummeted. "The Lady has lost..."
At that very moment, the human skin beside him suddenly tore free of its constraints and unfurled. The Kaihuang Divine Being swelled as if inflated, blinking and staring about in curiosity.
Yan Jingjing's entire body blazed with divine light, holding the darkness at bay. She looked at Shen Mu's face and saw the young man's features dim, tinged with hurt and melancholy.
The Kaihuang Divine Being examined his own neck—a bizarre necklace hung there—and beside him lay a wooden tablet with a charcoal stick. "What happened?" He scribbled a line on the tablet, then raised it.
Shen Mu was silent. The Divine Being raised the tablet again: "How went the battle? Who won?"
Shen Mu sighed and walked alone into the darkness. The Kaihuang Divine Being looked baffled and raised his tablet: "What did I miss?"
No one answered him.
He was about to raise the tablet once more when, in the darkness, Shen Mu's frame trembled slightly and his eyes suddenly blazed. "There are very few famished ghosts in the dark!" he laughed.
Yan Jingjing, He Yiyi, and the Kaihuang Divine Being were each taken aback. Yan Jingjing was about to speak, but the Divine Being had already raised his tablet: "What do you mean?"
"This one talks too much!" Yan Jingjing and He Yiyi were both amazed. And this was only what he wrote on his tablet; if he could speak directly, the others probably wouldn't get a chance to say a word.