Chapter 826 — Beyond All Scrutiny
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The demonic nature within that Cauldron of Slaughter grew ever more ferocious, and face after face without any thickness surfaced within the demonic qi, flying around the big-headed doll. "Ah Chou," they called out to Shen Fengqing.
"Old Buddha, come back down!
" The Lord of Heaven called out loudly, "If we join forces, we can still suppress this fat little brat!
" The Great Brahma Heaven King Buddha yawned, slowly lay down, and said in a leisurely tone, "We cannot beat him.
I shall sleep a while first. Pray for yourselves.
" Outside, Shen Mu's gaze flickered. Li Zheng's thoughts were his own as well — Jue Wuchen was the Empress.
As the Heavenly Emperor's queen, she knew the Heavenly Emperor's temperament intimately; the Heavenly Emperor did not even understand himself as well as she did. That was precisely why she could lay this trap targeting the Heavenly Emperor. "The Heavenly Alliance's Cloud Heavenly Venerable was involved in this — then what of the Ling Heavenly Venerable?
" Shen Mu sat staring blankly, lost in thought.
Jue Wuchen's beauty was unmatched; to create such a body required a transcendently sage-level comprehension of the arts of creation. In the era of Longhan, the only one who could possess such unfathomably profound arts of creation was, in all likelihood, the Ling Heavenly Venerable.
Moreover, the incident of the Feather Forest Army's traversal through time occurred when the Feather Forest Army, on their way back to the Heavenly Court, encountered the Ling Heavenly Venerable performing his arts — and it was for this reason that the ship became a ghost ship traversing through time and space. And it was for this very reason that the Feather Forest Army could not carry the Empress's fleshly body back to the Heavenly Court, and all evidence aboard this ship vanished utterly.
The timing of the Ling Heavenly Venerable's appearance upon the Heavenly River was far too coincidental — he could not help but let his imagination run wild. "Perhaps the Ling Heavenly Venerable imparted his divine arts to the Cloud Heavenly Venerable — after all, at that time the Cloud Heavenly Venerable was the leader of the Heavenly Alliance. .
. " He comforted himself: "Perhaps things are not as bad as I imagine.
. .
" Li Zheng's injuries had improved somewhat. He barely managed to rise and said, "When you summoned the soul, the Empress sensed you.
She should have been able to sense you, and in all likelihood can find you.
This place is not fit for staying long. . .
" He furrowed his brow again.
As things stood, they were trapped aboard the ghost ship and had no way to leave at all.
"Rest easy, Li Zheng. The Empress cannot find this place. " Shen Mu took out some spirit medicines and refined elixirs on the spot to treat the wounds of Li Zheng's primal spirit. He smiled and said, "The Empress's divine powers are vast, but the Feather Forest ghost ship traverses through time and space.
By the time the Empress finds this place, this ship will long since have arrived at some unknown era. " Li Zheng was taken aback for a moment, then relaxed.
"This ship is so uncanny and unpredictable, and so perilous — how are we to leave this place?
" "Li Zheng need not worry. " Shen Mu finished refining the elixir, had him take it, and helped him catalyze its medicinal power. He said, "The Feather Forest ghost ship is not without a way to break through. This ship must exist within a strange divine art — most likely one that I, when I was the Mu Heavenly Venerable, created together with the Ling Heavenly Venerable. It was only in its embryonic form then. I need to find more clues before I can hope to break her divine art.
" Li Zheng laughed. "In our village, you were the most learned and talented — our teachings were not wasted on you. Since it is a divine art you created together with that Ling Heavenly Venerable, then it should not be able to stump. .
. wait, what did you just say?
The Mu Heavenly Venerable?