Chapter 958 — The Demonic Thought Takes the Form of the Heavenly Emperor
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Had Shen Mu been aboard the ship, those words would have made him leap up in fright.
He had long suspected that Yun Chuxiu was none other than Her Majesty the Empress, and every manner of sign had pointed to it: that the Empress had been the true author of it all, that she had murdered her own younger sister, Lady Yuanmu, and seized Lady Yuanmu's flesh to return to the Heavenly Court. The Empress had then taken the form of Jue Wuchen to lure the Heavenly Emperor into reincarnating, and murdered him in the dark; slain by Heavenly Venerable Ling, she had seized the moment to reincarnate in turn, slipped into the Heavenly Alliance, and become one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables.
He had likewise guessed that Lian Huanhun was Lady Yuanmu reborn — had even wondered whether Lady Yuanmu, dead yet not dissolved, had also wormed her way into the Heavenly Alliance and become one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables. The ground on which he built these guesses and believed them beyond all doubt was this: Yun Chuxiu knew that he had once summoned the Empress's soul aboard the ghost ship.
And yet that single utterance of Lian Huanhun's — 'Sister' — had turned his whole conjecture upside down!
A pity, then, that Shen Mu was not aboard; and a greater pity still that Luo Wushuang had no notion of the origins of these two women and felt not the least interest in their sisterly quarrel, for he was looking up above the star river.
There, the figures of Shen Mu and his companions flew swift as streaming light, while one god after another came snapping at their heels in pursuit.
"If Shen the Overlord Body runs out past the corpsewalkers' shroud, the inner demons will be roused in him — so why must he be so reckless, so bent on provoking these strong men aboard the ship? " Following the star river with his eyes, Luo Wushuang suddenly felt his heart lurch: in the dark void, at the very end of the star river, a boundless continent had appeared.
"The Land of the Great Void.
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So that is it. He has seen the Land of the Great Void!
" Two blades of light shot from Luo Wushuang's eyes and crossed in midair with a ringing clash that startled everyone on the tower ship awake; he bellowed: "Drive the ship at once — make for the Land of the Great Void!
" The twenty or thirty people left aboard hurried to urge the tower ship on, quickening its pace, and Yun Chuxiu and Lian Huanhun each turned their eyes away and lent the vessel their strength as well. The Land of the Great Void was a continent floating in the Great Void, discovered by Emperor Yunluo, Wei Suifeng; there were no uncanny, unfathomable inner demons in that place.
This time, Heavenly Venerable Fire and Heavenly Venerable Void were leading a great host of disciples roving through the Great Void, intending to plumb the secrets of the Land of the Great Void and seek out the traces of the Land of No Sorrow and of Kaihuang.
The tower ship at once gathered speed in pursuit of Shen Mu and his party, and Luo Wushuang himself poured in his vital essence and drove the vessel to the utmost limit of its speed. Swiftly the tower ship overtook the pursuers ahead, and Luo Wushuang called out in a loud voice: "The Land of the Great Void is here — come aboard! " Streaks of light wheeled and fell from above the star river, alighting one after another on the tower ship.
Killing intent boiling from them, the crowd looked ahead to Shen Mu running along the surface of the river, each readying divine arts and summoning divine weapons, waiting only to catch up with him and strike him down across the River of Heaven. Just then cold sweat broke out on Luo Wushuang's brow, and his voice came out somewhat hoarse: "There are no more corpsewalkers ahead. .
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Stop the ship! Stop the ship, quickly!