Chapter 715 — Heaven Sets the Fire
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
"Then why do the three of you not let me try? Perhaps I can snatch men from the Nether Capital. Perhaps I can even find the Black Emperor a flaw in the Nether Capital, one that will be convenient for you to patch. " Fu Yanqi walked up behind him. "Divine Son of the Dark Capital, there is no use trying to stall.
This time it is our honored master himself who has taken an interest in the affairs of Jingping. Our master is the Black Emperor of the Nether Capital; that he should personally concern himself shows how much weight he places on Jingping, and it also seals Jingping's fate. " Shen Mu's heart sank by degrees. The Dark Son of Heaven had taken a personal interest?
No wonder the Woodcutter Sage and the First Ancestor Human Sovereign had fallen into the trap! The Dark Son of Heaven's cultivation and strength were unfathomable. If he personally presided over the descent of tribulation upon Jingping, then Jingping truly had no way to live.
"My master wishes to see you. He has no interest in Jingping; his interest is in you alone. He once sent our junior brother Qi Jiuyi to deal with you, but junior brother Qi was useless. So he ordered us to come.
" Lou Yunqu said, "That mirror with which junior brother Qi Jiuyi meant to seal you, you still have it, do you not?
" Shen Mu kept secretly rousing his Undying Consciousness, trying to seize his brother's power, but without success.
Just then he suddenly felt wave after wave of power surging toward him from the center of his brow. His heart leaped, but he showed nothing on his face.
"The mirror the three of you speak of, the one I took from Qi Jiuyi? " Shen Mu rummaged in the Taotie Pouch. "Wait a moment.
Let me look for it.
" Lou Yunqu smiled. "That mirror was made to seal you. Our master refined it specially for you.
All you need do is take it out and look into it, and you will freeze yourself in place, saving us a great deal of trouble.
" Shen Mu took a mirror from the Taotie Pouch, looked into it, and shook his head.
"Not this one. " With that he tossed it aside and rummaged again. "Nor this one.
" He took out another mirror, looked into it, shook his head, and threw it aside. Lou Yunqu and the others waited patiently. In a short while Shen Mu had taken more than a dozen mirrors from the Taotie Pouch, looking into each one, and not once had he been frozen in place.
The patience of Lou Yunqu and the others wore thin.
Shen Mu threw out more and more mirrors, and still the mirror refined by the Black Emperor of the Nether Capital did not appear. "What does a grown man like you carry so many mirrors for? " Fu Yanqi, hot-tempered, shouted.
"I am handsome; what can I do? I must carry a few extra mirrors.
" Shen Mu looked up, abashed. Fu Yanqi snorted in anger.
"The human body is nothing but a stinking skin bag.
Die this life, live the next. Is a stinking skin bag worth such cherishing? Look at my hand. The Imperial Preceptor of Jingping hacked it down to a single finger, and I am not half so precious about it as you!
" He raised his right hand.
Only the thumb remained. Shen Mu did not answer.
He took out a mirror, looked into its face, and suddenly his body went rigid, motionless. Lou Yunqu and the other two breathed a sigh of relief. Kui Qingpei said, "So it is this one.
The calamity gods of the various realms who came to bring down tribulation are nearly revived. This is no good place; let us leave quickly and return to the Dark Capital, lest we be dragged down with it. " There was a stone statue near the Yongjiang Academy as well.
At this moment the stone was slowly receding from it, flesh and blood color gradually returning, and wave after wave of dreadful divine might poured off it, sending ripples through the space around it.
Lou Yunqu and the other two sensed the waves coming from the statue, and their hearts went cold.