Chapter 849 — The Puffed-Up Youth
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Yu Hongxiu was deeply wary of him. Compared with an upright gentleman like Dao Master Lin Xuan, Shen Mu seemed somewhat sinister, and she was naturally unwilling to join the Heavenly Saint Cult.
Dao Master Lin Xuan was delighted, stealing glance after glance at Shen Mu, unable to hide his smugness.
Many of his people had been poached by Shen Mu: many Daoists of the Dao Sect had run off to Jingping to take office, others to the Heavenly Saint Cult to study, while most of the younger generation entered the Heavenly Saint Academy, and far fewer went on to the Dao Sect Academy. Even he, a Dao Master, had been unwittingly won over by Shen Mu; for a time he could not steady his dao heart and wanted to join the Heavenly Saint Cult. One could well imagine how hard it was to poach anyone from Shen Mu.
And now, at last, he had achieved something. Qingyun Heaven.
When the Qingyun Hierarch saw them hurry back from outside, he was rather surprised; Lin Xuan told him of their experiences over this time, and only then did his doubts dissolve.
"Yuchenzi has already gone to prepare the matter of framing the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign, sending the corpses deep into the Earth Mother's heartland, arranging traces of battle over several hundred li along the way and setting the bodies in place, so that even if the Howling Heaven God Clan comes to investigate, they can only conclude that a demigod under the Earth Mother's command ambushed them.
" The Qingyun Hierarch said, "Rest assured. Yuchenzi is meticulous, and his mastery of the calculation arts is exceedingly high.
He handles such matters seamlessly and leaves no loose ends. " Shen Mu nodded. Qingyun Heaven was a branch of the Dao Sect, devoted to the cultivation of the calculation arts; when the Heavenly Court wished to forge a Heavenly Chart, it too had to call upon the Daoists of Qingyun Heaven to take up the task.
As a figure even the Qingyun Hierarch held in esteem, Yuchenzi was surely supremely accomplished in the calculation arts; one who could unravel even the most complex of calculations would naturally do things seamlessly. "Only, how to let Young Friend Xiao and Young Friend Yu feign death and slip away, that is somewhat difficult.
" The Qingyun Hierarch glanced at Xiao Chunfeng and Yu Hongxiu. "You two have names and surnames in the Heavenly Court.
Should the Heavenly Court wish to investigate your whereabouts, it need only employ the Book of Life and Death to learn whether you live or die. The only way to sever the Book's sensing of you is to use the Book itself to strike out your registry of life, and then you cannot be found out.
Even if the Heavenly Court searches with the Book, it will find only that the two of you are already dead.
Only, a treasure like the Book of Life and Death is rare in this world. . . " "That is simple. " Shen Mu laughed. "A Book of Life and Death?
I have one here as well.
" With that, he brought it out.
The others stared at him in shock, and Xiao Chunfeng blurted, "You have a treasure like that too?
" Shen Mu laughed. "Is the Book of Life and Death so precious?
This was given to me by two of my dao brothers in Jingping, the Great Venerable and Xing An. I have even seen such a treasure at the residence of the Yin Son of Heaven's disciple. " The others were left speechless.
Yu Hongxiu thought to herself, "Was it not said that the lower realm is a poor, out-of-the-way place? How is it that treasures like the Book of Life and Death lie everywhere there, and can even be given away? Which is poor, then, the lower realm or the Heavenly Court?
" "The true Book of Life and Death is a treasure refined by the Earth Lord Tubo from the great dao rules of Youdu. There is only one in all the world, and it rests in the hand of the Heaven-Aligning Benevolent Sage King.