Chapter 953 — Where the Mind Reaches, All Becomes Real
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Why did they all die in the Great Void, and Your Highness alone come out alive? " Yun Chuxiu showed a smile of pure innocence, lovely enough to stir the heart; she even puffed out her chest, the cloth at her collar drawn taut, her charms straining to burst forth, and said with a laugh: "What is Heavenly Venerable Mu trying to say? " Shen Mu paid no heed to her alluring manner, and said with a faint smile: "What I mean to say is that in such great terror, the surviving soldiers of the Divine Martial Army had already lost their reason, panicked and unmoored; and Your Highness could not know the thoughts of others, so the surest path to self-preservation was to kill the others, so that they could think no more.
What the mind conceives becomes reality — once they were dead, they could conceive nothing more. " His gaze fixed hard upon the girl's fair face, and word by word he said: "And so Your Highness killed them. And Your Highness did not trust the two Celestial Masters either, and so killed them as well. By this means alone did Your Highness walk alive out of the Great Void. " Yun Chuxiu giggled, her bosom heaving in waves: "Heavenly Venerable Mu, you and I are indeed of one kind! You guessed at once how I left the Great Void.
Perhaps you and I are truly a pair! " Shen Mu paid no heed to her seductions, and said indifferently: "Your Highness, we are not a pair, nor could we ever be of one kind. I will never abandon my companions, still less strike a deadly blow against them!
It is only because I have seen too much darkness that I can guess at Your Highness's scorpion heart. " Yun Chuxiu sneered: "Heavenly Venerable Mu, you are too much the idealist. They were not my companions, only slaves and servants.
Either they died or I died — so it could only be they. When you reach the Great Void and face the same straits I faced, your choice will be as mine! You and I are fellow travelers, now and always! Even if we are not now, in time you will become as I am!
" Shen Mu frowned. The tower ship sailed out of the Northern Heavenly Gate and passed over the Heavenly River. Below lay the Heavenly Court's military encampment, Beiluo Shimen. There were stationed gods and demons and warships beyond counting; world upon world encircled the stars around Beiluo Shimen, and these worlds nourished Beiluo Shimen, supplying the grain and stores the barracks required. Shen Mu gazed at the encampment, its divine light surging to the heavens, vast across a million li. The Heavenly Court was too powerful.
Never mind the Ten Guards — Beiluo Shimen alone could annihilate Jingping ten thousand times over!
"Ever since I revealed the secret of the Great Void, the Heavenly Court has devised all manner of methods to keep its mind empty of thought. Among them the Buddhist art of neither-perception-nor-non-perception is the most famed. " Yun Chuxiu said: "Neither-perception-nor-non-perception lets one's thoughts dwell between having and not having, so that the Great Void cannot turn one's thoughts into reality. This is the art created by Great Brahma.
Have you studied it?
" Shen Mu shook his head. Yun Chuxiu showed a bewitching smile, gazing at a smear of radiance that appeared in the dark starry sky.
Luo Wushuang walked toward them and said in a low voice: "Then, Heavenly Venerable, what do you fear most? " Shen Mu turned to look at him and smiled: "I have the Overlord Body; there is no terror in my heart. What does Divine Blade Luo fear most?
" "With the divine blade in my hand, I fear nothing," Luo Wushuang said indifferently.