Chapter 892 — Seeking Aid by the Map
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"Ling Tianzun's hairpin was actually meant for me, yet it was Senior Brother who pulled it out."
Shen Mu hurried to the spot where Wei Suifeng had vanished; the hairpin had vanished along with him, and he could not help but frown.
By the time he realized the hairpin had been left for him by Ling Tianzun, it was already a step too late—Wei Suifeng had gone to the ancient past in his stead.
"Senior Brother will remain in the ancient Longhan Era for who knows how long, and become the Right Lang General of the Yulin Guard of the Longhan Heavenly Court. Only when the case of the assault on the Empress Consort and the Ghost Ship case erupt will he return."
Shen Mu laid the corpse of the Empress's younger sister back into the crystal coffin and waited in silence, thinking, "When he returns from the Longhan Heavenly Court, he ought to appear here again. I can wait for him to come back. Perhaps Ling Tianzun will tell him certain things before he returns."
On the other side, there was no movement whatsoever in the Dark Flower World. Long Qilin had gone to find Yan'er and still had not returned; there was no telling how the fighting fared.
Shen Mu kept watch beside the crystal coffin, took out his mirror, and continued sorting through the ancient god runes while he waited for Wei Suifeng to return.
He waited several days, and never once saw Long Qilin or Yan'er come back. Only then did worry take hold of him, and he rose, meaning to go search for the two of them.
He came to the edge of the Dark Flower World. Just as he was about to step into the darkness, he abruptly halted, cold sweat springing out on his forehead.
"The Flower World of the Great Abyss has no cycle of day and night, and yet the Red Flower World and the Dark Flower World do have day and night!"
He gazed at the Dark Flower World, which held not a glimmer of light, took out a piece of jade, and with light flowing at his fingertips carved upon it the words "Wait for me," then cast it into the Dark Flower World.
But the moment the jade fell into the Dark Flower World, it vanished in an instant; not even the sound of it striking the ground came back.
That vanishing was a complete and utter disappearance from this era!
"The Red Flower World belongs to day, and the Dark Flower World belongs to night. Walking from day into night, the crossing halts, and one returns to one's original age. Fatty Long and Sister Yan'er have both gone back to the era we came from. Only I did not walk into the darkness, and so I remain in Senior Brother's era."
Shen Mu drew back his foot and sat down again beside the crystal coffin. So long as he did not willingly step into the Dark Flower World, he would not return to the age he had come from.
But to be safe, he first sorted out the Great Way runes of the Great Sun Star Lord, transforming his yuan qi into a sun that he hung in the sky of the Flower World.
Day after day passed. Shen Mu had already recalculated the runes of the true gods of the celestial stars among the ancient gods' Great Way runes using the Taiwei Calculation Sutra, and the beard on his face had grown all the more flourishing.
The time he had spent in this era now exceeded the time he had spent in the Longhan Era.
During this span, several more remnant stars fell into the Great Abyss, triggering eruptions of the undercurrents and the blooming of the Great Abyss's flowers; yet the place seemed to have fallen entirely to ruin, and no one came in.
One day, as he was sunk in research and calculation, heedless of all else, the female corpse in the crystal coffin slowly opened her eyes.
The corpse soundlessly turned her head and quietly took Shen Mu's measure.
Over these months, the wound at the back of the corpse's head had somehow healed without his noticing.
Shen Mu suddenly felt a stir in his heart and turned to look, only to find the corpse still lying quietly there, no different from before.
"Strange. I clearly felt a gaze upon me."