Chapter 980 — The Lure of the Swimming Fish
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Shen Mu had entered his dream, and those tiny Shen Mus were jabbering away in his dreamland, exchanging what they had found; their study of Yuanmu's flesh proceeded quickly. What he was doing differed from the charting done by the Heavenly Court's Daoists. When the Heavenly Court's Daoists charted an ancient god, they had to chart every rune of that ancient god's great dao, and chart the structure of its flesh as well, recording every aspect of the ancient god's great dao without reservation and analyzing each secret within it.
He, by contrast, was merely sorting out the basic runes upon the surface of Lady Yuanmu's body; those basic runes were all he needed to arrange.
Much as he was interested in the great dao of Guixu, charting out the complete Guixu dao would take far too long; working alone, even in a dream, he would need a thousand years to accomplish it.
Shen Mu's aim was simply to evolve Guixu within his own Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, and understanding the basic runes of Guixu was enough to achieve that. Of course, if he could obtain detailed data on Yuanmu's flesh and the rune arrays of the Guixu great dao, it would greatly benefit his perfecting of Guixu within the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury.
Therefore the detailed charting of Yuanmu's flesh and the Guixu great dao he intended to leave to the divination-skilled divine power users and god-demons of Jingping.
After a long while, Shen Mu woke from his dream, and the dream world shattered. He returned Lady Yuanmu's crystal coffin to his third eye as before, then looked toward Yun Chuxiu and Lian Huahun.
The two girls lay on the ground, their figures exquisite, alluring beyond words.
Lian Huahun was cold as ice; sensing his gaze, her body went rigid, yet her beauty was lovely still. Yun Chuxiu was more uninhibited, even deliberately striking all manner of alluring, wanton poses; biting her lower lip, she giggled, "Heavenly Venerable, my sister and I cannot stir a muscle now — how does the Heavenly Venerable mean to deal with us?
" Shen Mu's heart swayed; he smiled and said, "The Empress and Lady Yuanmu are so naughty — naturally I shall lay you over my knee and spank you soundly.
" Lian Huahun's face went pale, while Yun Chuxiu twisted her body on the ground and giggled, "Come on then, come and spank me!
" She was like a fish cast up on shore, making one want to pounce and catch her. Though Shen Mu knew it was unseemly, he could not help wanting to pounce and catch her, and in his heart he hesitated: "The Empress and Yuanmu cannot be spared.
.
. " Yet when it came to striking the killing blow, he could not help hesitating as well.
Just then a blade-light flashed, and with a single stroke Luo Wushuang cut Yun Chuxiu in two!
Shen Mu was startled.
Luo Wushuang raised his blade again and slew Lian Huahun as well; lifting his hand, he wiped the blood from the blade and said darkly, "The Heavenly Venerable Mu is not yet two years old, and these two fiends dared to seduce him.
Death is too light for them.
" Shen Mu looked at the beauties' corpses on the ground, the corner of his eye twitching, and shot Luo Wushuang a glance.
Luo Wushuang said without expression, "The Heavenly Venerable's dao heart is firm; he would certainly not be seduced by two witches.
I have overstepped.
But these two witches slighted the Heavenly Venerable, and I could not help drawing my blade to vindicate him. I ask the Heavenly Venerable's pardon.
" Shen Mu said haltingly, "Brother Luo need not be so.
Just call me Cult Master Shen. You are right — these two witches dared to tempt me.
. .
I am well versed in the arts of creation; if I were to rejoin their bodies, perhaps they might yet live. . .