Chapter 967 — Frenzy and Demonic Possession
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
Aboard the ship, Yun Chuxiu had once spoken of it: in those years she had led the Heavenly Court's two great Heavenly Masters, the Divine Martial Army of the Heavenly Court's Ten Guards, and a great many of her prized disciples into Taixu, and the slaughter had been grievous. The Divine Martial Army had been wiped out to the last man; not one of her disciples had returned alive; and both Heavenly Masters had been buried in Taixu. She had mentioned that one of those two, a Master Yue, had fathomed the secret of Taixu's inner demons — and yet even Master Yue had not walked out of Taixu alive.
Yet Shen Mu had seen through her all the same.
To save her own skin she had killed those Divine Martial soldiers and her own disciples, and even the two Heavenly Masters! If this wicked Daoist, Yue Tingge, was the Master Yue of whom Yun Chuxiu spoke, then how had he survived the slaughter wrought by a Heavenly Venerate?
And how had he fled in here?
"Anyone who can become a Heavenly Master has powers beyond all reckoning. Yue Tingge must have had some means of escape.
Yun Chuxiu once said that both Heavenly Masters were great masters at the Great Perfection of the Emperor Throne. .
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" Cold sweat started on Shen Mu's brow. Just now he had revealed himself as the Heavenly Venerate Mu, and this Yue Tingge had come storming over to kowtow to him. If instead of kowtowing he had come to kill.
. . "Then by now my corpse would already be cold," he thought.
Luo Wushuang too was shaken beyond measure, and could not steady himself for a long while.
Of this Heavenly Master Yue Tingge he knew little.
Among the Heavenly Court's high ranks, few went by their true names; each chose a title for himself, and only those of no great standing did their business under their real names. He therefore did not know the true names of the Heavenly Court's Four Great Heavenly Masters. Nor, for that matter, was any of the present Four Great Heavenly Masters named Yue Tingge. The Heavenly Court's Four Great Heavenly Masters, Four Great Heavenly Kings, and Four-Colored Great Emperors were not fixed posts.
Their standing looked lofty, but to the Ten Heavenly Venerates they were expendable — when one died, another was swapped in.
Luo Wushuang's standing, both then and now, had never been high; he had only glimpsed Master Yue once from afar. What was more, Yue Tingge had been "dead" for more than ten thousand years, and the Heavenly Court's Heavenly Masters had long since been replaced. And where the Yue Tingge of old had cut an elegant, ethereal figure, his face was now that of a murderous fiend, unkempt and slovenly, with nothing left of his former look — which was why Luo Wushuang had not recognized him at first glance.
How had this Heavenly Master, "dead" for over ten thousand years, come to appear here? "Master Yue, there are a few questions I would like to ask of you. " Shen Mu stepped forward and addressed the wicked Daoist: "May I ask how you survived?
And the Heavenly Venerate who led you into Taixu — which of the Ten Heavenly Venerates was it? " The wicked Daoist Yue Tingge rose to his feet, shot him a glance, hoisted that roast beast's leg onto his shoulder, and strode out, saying in a savage voice, "It is out of respect for you as a Heavenly Venerate of the Longhan era that I do not kill you. Keep your nose out of other men's business!
" Shen Mu followed him out of the city, pressing on: "Where are the Creators of this place?
Why have I not seen them?
Have you met the Fire Heavenly Venerate, the Void Heavenly Venerate? Do you know where the Sorrowless Land lies? Have you come across the Heavenly Venerate Shen here?
" Yue Tingge showed a strange smile, somewhat crazed: "The Fire Heavenly Venerate and the Void Heavenly Venerate? They have come to kill me, haven't they? It must be so!
They have come to kill me! So I lured them into that death trap of a place, heh heh heh. . .