Chapter 892 — Seeking Aid by the Map
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Shen Mu came back to his senses and at once shouldered the crystal coffin on his back and walked toward the Dark Flower World.
Inside the crystal coffin, Lady Yuanmu's corpse grinned, watching expectantly as the Dark Flower World drew nearer and nearer.
Though she was a product of corpse transformation, the Dark Flower World was, after all, the place of her birth, and it held an immense attraction for her. Moreover, once she entered the Dark Flower World, she could marshal the Great Ways of that world to break Wei Suifeng's suppression and this crystal coffin.
Shen Mu stood before the Dark Flower World, set down the crystal coffin, and undid the willow leaf between his brows, calling out loudly, "Heaven Lord, keep close watch on this corpse for me—do not let my brother eat her!" With that, he stuffed the crystal coffin into the Shen-character Continent.
The corpse flew into a towering rage.
Shen Mu was unmoved. He leaped into the Dark Flower World and vanished into the darkness.
When his feet touched ground and he opened his eyes, he saw at once that he was in the Dark Flower World, while Long Qilin's voice came from the Red Flower World, scolding Yan'er: "...I told you not to eat so much, not to eat so much! And you went and ate anyway! Let us see how you explain this to the Cult Master when you get back!"
Shen Mu hurried toward the two palaces at the meeting point of the two worlds. Long Qilin caught sight of him and was both startled and delighted, calling out loudly, "Cult Master, we received the jade tablet you carved and have been waiting here all along! Sister Yan'er ate the beauty snake, and she seems to have become..."
"Shut up!" Yan'er's voice came.
Shen Mu dimly made out a round, plump green sparrow perched on Long Qilin's head. He had no time to look closely, and at once rushed into the Black Palace, searching it swiftly.
Suddenly his gaze fell upon an altar in the Black Palace.
Around the altar flew star sand, forming a river of stars.
Shen Mu said furiously, "Again!"
He calculated swiftly, worked out the flaw in the star river formation, and at once plunged into the formation, reaching out to snatch up the red cloth upon the altar. Beneath the red cloth lay a peachwood hairpin.
Beneath the hairpin was also a sheet of parchment, upon which a line of writing was inscribed.
Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief. Without pausing to read the writing on the paper, he hastily grabbed the peachwood hairpin, thinking, "Senior Brother is as good as his word—but what was that round, plump green sparrow just now?"
Just then his gaze fell upon the parchment. The handwriting was Wei Suifeng's, and there were only four words: "Follow the map and save me!"