Chapter 725 — The Southern Domain Emperor Lord's Face
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
Di Yiyue came beneath the statue and said softly, "So it is a junior sister of the Southern Emperor's school. Junior sister, you may go back and report to the Southern Emperor, and say that your senior sister Di Yiyue is now in Jingping, and that this calamity-bringing business ends here. " The bird-headed goddess statue gave no response at all.
Di Yiyue laughed softly and said, unhurried, "You should be able to hear my voice.
Your fleshly body is here, and your primordial spirit remains with the Southern Emperor; whatever I say here, you can hear. " From the bird-headed goddess statue suddenly came a clear, shrill birdsong, and the birdsong turned into a human voice, saying, "You too are of the Southern Emperor's school?
Since you are my senior sister, then why do you help outsiders? Senior sister, it is not that I do not give you face, but if I were to leave because of a single sentence from you, where would my own face be? " "It is because I give you face that I am asking you so gently to leave. " Di Yiyue smoothed the hair at her temples and said, with a smile that was not quite a smile, "You entered the school very late, I think.
No doubt you do not know that you have such a senior sister, nor what methods I command.
" The bird-headed goddess statue suddenly stirred; the bird's head drooped, and its petrified eyes fixed on Di Yiyue. "I beg your instruction?
" Di Yiyue raised a hand and pressed the air. With a thunderous boom, the bird-headed goddess statue, huge as a hill, vanished from sight, leaving behind only a shattered hole in space at the spot; from the hole came a piercing cry of birds!
Di Yiyue hooked her hand backward and pulled. The bird-headed goddess statue came howling back and, with a boom, returned to Bazhou City. The stone statue shook and quivered without cease, and the fragments of space behind it clattered and pieced themselves together, swiftly repairing the hole in space until no trace of it could be found!
And the bird-headed goddess statue's flesh and blood began to grow with astonishing speed; in a short while it changed from a divine statue into a living deity. The bird-headed goddess stood where she was, an expression of shock on her face, her body trembling; she dared not make the slightest move. She had turned her own fleshly body into a stone statue, for only thus could she send that statue to Jingping; but her primordial spirit contained far too much energy and could not pass through the world's barrier to descend into this world.
Therefore she could only wait for offerings of blood and flesh and the exchange of energy, and only then could she let her primordial spirit descend and revive her fleshly body; only so could she send down calamity upon Jingping and destroy the world.
Yet just now Di Yiyue had reached out and pressed, and sent her fleshly body straight back to her palace in the other world.
Not merely sent back to its native place, but driven her primordial spirit back into that fleshly body as well! Di Yiyue had hooked and pulled with her hand, and had actually drawn her fleshly body, together with her primordial spirit, back to Jingping; that was why she had been able to revive!
Such dharma power, such terrifying strength, was simply the match of her own honored master, the Southern Emperor! She had never heard that there was such a senior sister among the fellow disciples of her school!
Di Yiyue said calmly, "Junior sister, this is what it means not to give you face.
Just now I left you a very great deal of face.
Do not force me. " The bird-headed goddess hastily took a step back, bowed, and said, "I obey the eldest senior sister's decree.
" She was about to leave when she suddenly froze.
She had now been drawn into the world where Jingping lay, and between her and her own world still stood the world's barrier; with her strength alone she could not pass through it.
Cold sweat broke out on the bird-headed goddess's brow; she looked at Di Yiyue. Di Yiyue smiled.