Chapter 913 — The Earth Mother's Rings
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Yan'er at once worked her magic, laying an Azure Dragon Seal upon the bottle's body, an azure dragon coiling about the jade bottle, and then laying a Vermilion Bird Seal at the bottle's mouth. Shen Mu said hopefully: "And now? " The Earth Mother fell silent once more, and after a long while said: "One bottle. " Shen Mu was disappointed, and was about to speak when the Earth Mother said coldly: "One bottle, and no bargaining! " Shen Mu had no choice; with his primal qi he guided one jade bottle into the coffin. The jade bottle flew out filled with Hongmeng Primal Liquid.
Shen Mu hurriedly put it away and stored it carefully. "How long do you need to recover to your peak? " the Earth Mother asked. Shen Mu said: "About a hundred years. " Suddenly a roar came from the Emperor's Coffin, and out of the darkness behind the Hongmeng Primal Liquid strode a majestic imperial corpse, bellowing again and again.
"Ten years at the shortest! " Shen Mu said decisively.
That Supreme Heaven Emperor corpse stared at him coldly.
The Earth Mother's remnant soul in the liquid gave a humph.
"I give you ten years only. Ten years from now, if you have not revived me, I will let my son wash Jingping in blood!
" The coffin shut with a bang, sealing the Supreme Heaven Emperor's corpse and the Hongmeng Primal Liquid inside, and the great flower began to close.
"Wait!
" Shen Mu said hurriedly: "Earth Mother, my cultivation is not yet restored.
If someone kills me, will it not make all your efforts vain?
I beg the Earth Mother to grant me a weapon to my hand.
" The great flower stopped closing, and from the coffin came the Earth Mother's angry voice: "Half dead as you are, you do not hide yourself honestly and refine the Hongmeng Primal Liquid, but instead mean to flaunt yourself everywhere and seek your own death? " Shen Mu said gravely: "I have no more fear for my life now, and I mean to make a foray into the Heavenly Court.
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" Bang— The coffin flew open.
From it thrust an imperial corpse's head the size of a mountain range, its blood-bowl mouth gaping as it roared at Shen Mu—Shen Mu, the dragon qilin, and Yan'er could not have filled the gaps between its teeth! The foul stench blasted Shen Mu's face into wrinkles and he could not keep his footing; the Yong River behind him burst open, almost cut off in mid-flow!
After the roar, the imperial corpse's head shrank, and it glared at him viciously.
"You mean to go to the Heavenly Court?
" The Earth Mother said in a fury: "Why don't you go and die?
" Shen Mu's expression did not change.
"I must make one trip to the Heavenly Court. As the Earth Mother says, I am the Undying Great Dharma Master of Ten Thousand Kalpas; though this journey is perilous, the ancient gods in the Heavenly Court will protect me, and with my standing as Heaven Venerable Mu, a founding elder of the Heaven Alliance, I will be all the safer. Only, a spear in the open is easy to dodge, an arrow from the dark is hard to guard against, and I have no weapon to my hand.
My sword elixir is only a primeval weapon, not a divine weapon.
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. " The imperial corpse withdrew into the coffin, and after a moment came out again, in its hand a straight wooden staff three zhang long.
"Only this wooden staff? " Shen Mu showed disappointment.
The Emperor's Coffin closed with a boom, and the Earth Mother said coldly: "This is the heartwood of the Yuan Wood, one of the strongest divine weapons in the world.
Look closely at its rings!
" Shen Mu looked to the staff's tip, and saw that the wood bore countless circles, fine and dense beyond measure. He was just about to count them when the great flower closed, the Emperor's Coffin sank into the Yuan Wood's roots, and then the roots spanning the Yong River contracted at furious speed and vanished without a trace!
"Truly stingy—afraid I would ask you for more treasures.
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" Shen Mu shook his head and counted the rings carefully; after a good while he had still not finished.