Chapter 994 — Twin Serpents Chant, Flower Fragrance Assails
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
In the Azure Feather Hall, Langwan the God King, her figure ethereal and graceful, visualized an azure serpent. She stood upon its head as the great snake lunged and struck, battling Shen Mu.
And Shen Mu likewise stood upon the head of a white serpent he had visualized, conjuring all manner of divine powers to fend off her attacks, fusing the Dao arts and divine powers he had learned and comprehended in the past with visualization to strengthen their might.
As the two unleashed their various visualized divine powers, a wave of the hand sent blossoms raining from the heavens; a single stroke burst the starry sky into being. At one stir of divine consciousness, heavenly fire descended and flame consumed the world; at another, meteors fell from the sky and the earth shook and the mountains swayed.
They visualized gate after gate, and within each gate lay a world. Borne by the two great serpents, azure and white, they threaded through the gates, roaming among the worlds they had visualized, over high mountains, across vast oceans, through glaciers and great marshes, appearing and vanishing like ghosts.
At last the azure and white serpents twined tail to tail, their bodies coiling, lifting the two ever higher and drawing them ever closer, while visualized divine powers danced around them, transforming into strange phenomena that clashed and annihilated one another without cease!
Shen Mu's visualized divine powers were endlessly varied, fusing visualization with the Great Dao of the ancient gods and with the acquired Great Dao; so many were his methods that even Langwan the God King was dazzled.
The entwined azure and white serpents drew them ever nearer, and the collisions of their divine powers grew ever more violent.
At last they were close enough to touch, the two coiled serpents making them like twin stars revolving about each other; their exchanges grew fiercer still, divine powers pouring forth without end.
Suddenly a flower bud was visualized into being in Shen Mu's hand. The flower slowly bloomed, gorgeously hued in purple and crimson, utterly enchanting.
Its petals were many, unfurling outward one after another; the stamens emerged, and a fragrance assailed the nose.
Langwan the God King spotted the opening and raised a finger to press upon Shen Mu's brow, her divine consciousness invading his body.
But at that very moment the delicate, vivid flower was offered up before her, and Shen Mu said with a smile, "For you."
Langwan the God King was taken aback for a moment. She withdrew her finger and pulled back her divine consciousness, saying coolly, "This is a contest. I meant to test the progress of your cultivation over these two days, yet you let your mind wander. You disappoint me."
She took the vivid flower from Shen Mu's hand, turned away, and held it to her lips to smell it; the sweet fragrance seeped into her heart.
A faint smile appeared on Langwan the God King's face. Barefoot, she stepped down from the azure serpent's head, and her voice drifted back: "You must not do that again... Well, are you not coming? The hour of the Grand Sacrifice draws near."
Shen Mu hastily leaped down from the white serpent's head and followed in her steps.
Behind them the azure and white serpents still twined and lingered together; then of a sudden they parted, necks crossing, and swam off into the forest of the Azure Feather Hall.
Shen Mu came to the pool of Hongmeng Primordial Liquid and fetched several jade bottles, intending to fill them with some of the liquid. Seeing this, Langwan the God King shook her head. "Your bottles are too small. How much could they hold? I sense upon you the aura of the Cangshan Clan's Gourd-Heaven Bottle. Just use the Gourd-Heaven Bottle to draw some."