Chapter 820 — The Imperial Guard's Crossing of the Boundary
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" Shen Mu's heart leapt as he looked toward the boat, and there he saw Zhe Huali among them, the only one sound in both arms. At that moment flames blazed across the river, and as Shen Mu and the village chief watched from beneath the water, they saw a great fireball rolling close above the surface, boiling away the waters of the Star River.
From underwater they could not see clearly, yet as the fireball drew near it suddenly plunged into the water and became a seven-colored phoenix swimming through the depths toward the ghost ship. Upon the seven-colored phoenix's back rested a stone coffin, a most uncanny sight.
Shen Mu's heart stirred, "Can it be Feng Qiuyun?
She still lives, not slain by Qi Xiayu, and her skill is indeed formidable!
Why then has she come here, unless at Earth Mother Yuanjun's command?
And the stone coffin on her back. .
. can it be a coffin from the Nine Emperors Mausoleum?
" He could not help but shiver.
If the coffin Feng Qiuyun bore was indeed a stone coffin from the Nine Emperors Mausoleum, then what lay within must be one of the Shanghuang Celestial Emperors of the northbound Shanghuang Court! Why should Earth Mother set such store by this ghost ship as to dispatch even an imperial coffin from the imperial mausoleum? When she fought her rival Earth Mother, she had not brought out an imperial coffin!
Suddenly a rope of light shone down from the sky, and Shen Mu looked up to see a silver cord hanging from Jingping's moon, wrinkled like a flower, falling squarely upon the ghost ship's flagpole where it tied itself in a knot.
Several figures slid swiftly down the silver cord and soon landed upon the flagpole. One of the gods untied the cord and shook it, and the cord fell from the moon in the sky and burrowed like a spirit snake into his sleeve.
From the moon to the earth is a hundred thousand li, yet when the cord slipped into his sleeve, the sleeve showed not the slightest bulge.
Having gathered the cord, this god bowed to another youth, who nodded, and the party leapt from the flagpole to the mast and slid down the mast spinning like civet-cats before slipping into the ghost ship.
"Those who came down from the sky, can they be gods from the Celestial Chart? No, the gods of the Celestial Chart were left here by the outer Heavenly Court to delude all living beings.
Bound by duty, they dare not leave their posts.
" Shen Mu's heart stirred, "Then they are visitors from the Heavenly Court! Strange, Luo Wushuang's Lingxiu Army also comes from the outer Heavenly Court, so why did they not come together?
" At that very moment a great star appeared in the sky, a star like an apple with a bite taken out of it, the anomalous star of the Chiming remnant clan.
Light flickered upon the alien star, a red beam fell from heaven onto the ghost ship's deck, and as the light dispersed the figure of the Chiming Divine Son appeared there. "The Chiming Divine Son has come too!
" Shen Mu laughed, "Village Chief, the Chiming Divine Son is friend, not foe, and I know the One-Armed Divine Blade Luo Wushuang as well, while that phoenix is my sister. And that old man with the dragon-headed staff I have met once before, called the Ancestral Dragon King.
We will be in no danger if we go aboard. " The village chief glared at him with an unkind look, his face dark, "The Chiming Divine Son may not be a friend at all.
And that phoenix must be Earth Mother's creature, no? As for the One-Armed Divine Blade, I heard his name in Taihuang Heaven, and he is plainly an enemy!
As for the Ancestral Dragon King, he must be a leader among demigods, no? What meeting have you had with him!
Not a soul who just boarded that ship can be trusted!