Chapter 801 — The Great Dao Is One
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
"Someone entrusted him to me. But even without that bond, I would never tolerate anyone treating him as a tool, as a thing to be traded.
" Yan Qiling looked at him, tilted her head in thought, and said, "There is something very wrong with you.
You seem to be more than the Cult Master Shen of Jingping. If you were merely Cult Master Shen, you would not feel so much for Yutian Zun. " Shen Mu said calmly, "Fat Dragon, take the others farther off.
" The Dragon Qilin felt as though a weight had lifted. It hurriedly led Gongsun Yan, Yutian Zun, and the Water Qilin away from the place, whispering, "The Cult Master is angry. Let us leave quickly, lest we be caught up in it. " Gongsun Yan asked curiously, "Why not all charge in together and beat up this fake Earth Mother disciple?
Wouldn't that defeat her?
Why do we have to leave? " The Dragon Qilin whispered, "Have you forgotten that there are other young ladies beside that smiling young lady? " Gongsun Yan was stunned for a moment, then understood: the young ladies he meant were the maidservants at Yan Qiling's side.
The Dragon Qilin said, "The abilities of those young ladies are likely no inferior to Feng Qiuyun's. Otherwise, how could Yan Qiling have come here alive?
She would long since have been shattered by the aftershocks of the two Earth Mothers' divine arts. Those young ladies are probably nearby as well.
If we rushed up, could they sit still? In a brawl, we would certainly not be their match.
The Cult Master means for us to leave this place at once and not wait for him! " The Water Qilin said, "But just now he told us to go farther off; he did not tell us to leave. " The Dragon Qilin sneered. "You do not understand the Cult Master's mind. Saying that was only to make those young ladies relax their guard. They will not know we have slipped away while they are off guard, and by the time they notice, we will be long gone.
The Cult Master does this, in truth, for your master's safety.
" Yutian Zun said worriedly, "Then will my brother be in danger? " "Of course there is danger, but we need not ask him about it. " The Dragon Qilin spoke rapidly. "The one in danger now is that girl.
The Cult Master has roused his killing intent.
" Gongsun Yan blurted out, "That little sister just now was so pretty — he could really bring himself to do it?
" The Dragon Qilin led them away at speed.
"In the Cult Master's eyes she is not pretty at all, so of course he can. " Gongsun Yan said earnestly, "But she really is beautiful.
She makes me ashamed of myself. " The Dragon Qilin hid their forms behind one toppling mountain after another, shaking its head.
"Her chest is small.
The Cult Master does not consider small-chested girls beautiful. " Gongsun Yan's eyes went wide.
She looked down at herself, tightened her clothes, and looked somewhat downcast.
Beneath the crooked peak, Shen Mu's breath was steady, not the slightest aura leaking out, no blood-and-qi leaking out either — utterly plain and ordinary. Yan Qiling's beautiful eyes blinked.
She did not understand why Shen Mu had suddenly become so ordinary, as though he were a mere mortal. Then all at once she understood: "Complete withdrawal!
It is the martial dao!
" Scarcely had the thought come to her when a thunderous boom sounded at her ear. Shen Mu crossed a hundred zhang in a single step and arrived before her.
The air between them was compressed into substance, then shattered like glass. Behind the shattered wall of air was Shen Mu's face, still as an ancient well, without the slightest ripple of emotion. Yan Qiling was startled.
She flew backward, rising slantwise like a startled swan, and came to the summit of the crooked peak. She laughed. "Are you not the Earth Mother's disciple?
Why do you use the divine arts of the martial dao? " She had barely landed on the summit when her back suddenly grew warm: Shen Mu was already pressed against her back, arriving at the summit almost at the same instant she did!