Chapter 889 — A Beauty Among the Flowers, Fair as Jade
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
"Your handmaid was charged by my sister to guard this place, and has been lonely for many tens of thousands of years.
" The neck behind Her Highness the Empress's face coiled about Shen Mu's body; her cheek touched his cheek, rubbing gently back and forth, and she said with a giggle, "Sister Empress always makes me watch the house, always makes me stand guard here until I'm bored to death.
I waited so long, and at last a handsome young brother has come. " She put out her tongue, and that tongue was no young girl's little fragrant tongue but a forked tongue, long and soft and nimble, and licking Shen Mu's cheek she laughed, "Has young brother come on our sister's orders?
" Shen Mu betrayed nothing.
"I have indeed come on the decree of Her Highness the Empress. " The face suddenly pressed itself to Shen Mu's chest to listen to his heartbeat, and chuckled, "Your heartbeat's rhythm has not changed, nor has the pressure of your blood flow. If you are lying, then you must be an expert liar.
" Shen Mu laughed. "Sister, how would I dare lie?
" The beautiful serpent burst out laughing.
"Sweet of mouth. The password.
" Shen Mu's heart sank, and the corner of his eye twitched; the beautiful serpent's expression changed drastically, and with a swish she cinched tight around him, raising her head high and laughing, "So you truly are an expert liar!
You nearly fooled me!
Hee hee, I have been longing to eat you this while, and now at last I can break my fast on meat! " Her mouth split apart, wider and wider. Just then Yan'er's clear, ringing voice came over, carrying boundless delight: "What a cute.
. .
big bug!
" The azure sparrow flew over on beating wings, her body grown immeasurably vast, and seized the beautiful serpent's neck in her beak, tearing at it with all her strength.
Shen Mu, half strangled, hastily turned his body into a shadow to slip free of the bonds, clung to the ground, and fled at flying speed.
The beautiful serpent, caught by the neck in the azure sparrow's beak, let out a shrill and piteous cry: "Little bird, I am no bug! " Yan'er clenched down on her neck and kept retreating, and one step back carried her more than ten li; the beautiful serpent was stretched longer and longer as more and more of her body was drawn out of the flower wall.
Shen Mu had scarce freed himself from the shadow state when he saw the azure sparrow stride over above his head, the beautiful serpent stretched taut as a bowstring.
"Sister Yan'er, that is no bug, it is an ancient god!
" Shen Mu hastily called out, "An ancient god of Guixu!
" "It's a bug!
" The azure sparrow revealed her true form, manifesting her dragon tail and becoming the full dragon-sparrow shape; her bird claws too became thick dragon talons, and she strained backward with all her strength, meaning to drag this "big bug" wholly out of the flower wall and devour it, crying, "It's a big bug! A bug has grown inside this flower! " Shen Mu and Dragon Qilin shuddered with dread: the beautiful serpent had already been stretched several hundred li long and still was not fully drawn free.
"Then it is an ancient-god bug!
" Shen Mu said in a fury of exasperation.
Suddenly, within this world inside a flower, the soft stamens swayed and writhed, and atop the stamens one face after another of Her Highness the Empress emerged, crying prettily, "It hurts—" "Little bird, you're hurting me! " One after another the stamens, their height beyond reckoning in li, twisted their bodies like snakes, darting to and fro, and pounced at the dragon-sparrow swift as lightning!
Yan'er was instantly elated: "This bug has grown so many heads!
And it's bigger than I imagined, enough to eat for a long while!