Chapter 962 — Two Sisters Bound by Deep Affection
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Luo Wushuang's face turned pale—he felt he had heard things he ought not to have heard.
For all that he was habitually cold-eyed and cold-faced, almost never smiling, bearing the look of one steeped in bitterness and grievance, the revelations that slipped from Yun Chuxiu and Lian Huahun's lips were so appalling that they stunned him senseless. "Behind these two women stand two Heavenly Lords? And who are Hao and Qi?
Hao couldn't be Lord Hao, could he? And Lord Yu—that woman actually dared to call him a pretty boy.
. .
" Luo Wushuang made a snap decision, ducking into the shadow cast by the building below and waving to Shen Mu, signaling him to take cover as well before the two women spotted them. Shen Mu was equally dumbfounded by what he had heard. Luo Wushuang rushed out, dragged him into the shadows, and lowered his voice: "Do you have a death wish? !
If we're caught after hearing secrets like these, we're dead!
I've heard that in the old days there was an ancient god in the Heavenly Court who knew too many secrets and was shot in the back as he charged onto the battlefield!
" Shen Mu followed him into the shadows, his heart churning with shock. In the early years of the Longhan era, he knew, Empress Dihou had supported Lord Yu. The Empress had been enraged because her younger sister, Lady Yuanmu, had committed adultery with the ancient god the Heavenly Emperor and given birth to Lord Hao—and what infuriated her all the more was that Lord Hao was exceptionally brilliant, having opened the Five Radiance Divine Treasury to attain the rank of Heavenly Lord, a glory her own son had never achieved.
To secure her own position, she had therefore propped up Lord Yu to suppress Lord Hao.
What Shen Mu had never expected, however, was that the remark about keeping a pretty boy named Lord Yu should have come from Lian Huahun's lips—yet it had actually been uttered by Yun Chuxiu! All along, he had assumed Yun Chuxiu was Empress Dihou, but reality had been turned completely on its head!
Yun Chuxiu was Lady Yuanmu, and Lian Huahun was the Empress!
Shen Mu had been flirting with Lady Yuanmu—Lord Hao's own mother!
"That day at the Jade Pool, when I fought Yun Chuxiu, I forced her to use her signature technique.
Since she was impersonating the Empress, that technique she revealed couldn't possibly be genuine. " Cold sweat streamed down Shen Mu's forehead.
This, too, was a trap—a grand snare!
Whoever believed that was her true technique would die a most miserable death.
"And when she saw Lady Yuanmu's corpse in the crystal coffin and immediately helped me, it wasn't out of fear that Lady Yuanmu might revive—it was fear that her own identity would be exposed! " Sweat poured from Shen Mu like rain.
Had he performed a soul-summoning for Lady Yuanmu at that moment, he would likely have summoned Yun Chuxiu instead, exposing her on the spot! And the truth that Lady Yuanmu was not dead would have been revealed to all.
"That little vixen.
.
. " Shen Mu gnashed his teeth.
The two men moved stealthily through the shadows. The Creators' city was built on a colossal scale, which made it easy for them to slip through undetected by the two women battling overhead. Above, Yun Chuxiu and Lian Huahun fought with terrifying might. Towering structures were hewn apart by their divine arts, and boulders the size of small hills came crashing down.
Shen Mu and Luo Wushuang watched with scalps gone numb—if any of that debris were to strike the Brand of the Lord of Blazing Flame or that drop of divine blood, the entire city, including themselves, would surely be annihilated! Strangely, however, the debris dissolved in mid-air before it could fall, vanishing into strange torrents of spiritual consciousness that surged back toward the heavens, and the destroyed structures were restored anew, as though an invisible divine power were rebuilding them.
Such was the marvel of the Creators' city!