Chapter 1060 — The Immortal Court Above the Nine Heavens
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" The Celestial Venerable Moon, dashing and valiant, very charming, said to the Celestial Venerable Ling: "Sister Ling, stop your delving into that divine ability of yours, the one about matter not changing and time not existing, and come help us. " She was plainly the backbone of these people. The Celestial Venerable Ling, as ever, was unkempt, the same as when Shen Mu had seen her before, wearing a leopard-skin skirt, shuffling along in straw sandals, forever muttering to herself words no one could understand. Mahabrahma had grown fatter still, a smile fixed on his face, a golden alms bowl held in his hand, ever ready to beg. The Celestial Venerable Moon was about to marshal her mana and use her divine ability to draw upon the Heavenly River, to make it send off a branch channel to hold up the human celestial palace, when at that moment she saw the Heavenly Dragon jeweled carriage upon the Heavenly River, and saw Shen Mu upon the carriage.
Shen Mu smiled and walked toward them.
The Heavenly Dragons shrank themselves and, pulling the jeweled carriage, followed behind. "Celestial Venerable Yun, how is it that you have taken on the look of that Celestial Venerable Mu, Mu Qing? " The Celestial Venerable Moon waved a hand and said in surprise: "Did you not go to look for the Celestial Venerable Fire? Did you not find him? Where did this carriage come from?
Eh, what six handsome great dragons!
And a pretty girl besides. You have been philandering again, picking up some girl from who knows where.
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. " The Celestial Venerable Ling looked over, her gaze falling on Shen Mu, then withdrew it, and she gave a snort: "A counterfeit.
" That said, she sank back into her own world. Suddenly she shrieked: "Where has my hairpin gone?
Who has seen my hairpin? " Shen Mu stepped forward, his heart surging with hot blood, and said with a smile: "Everyone, it has been a long time. " As he spoke, his eyes reddened; he could scarcely keep back the tears, but he forced them down at once.
The Celestial Venerable Moon and the others took him for the Celestial Venerable Yun; no doubt by this time the Celestial Venerable Yun had already begun acting under his name.
"How is it a long time?
You have only been gone half a year. " The Celestial Venerable Moon complained: "Did the Celestial Venerable Fire not come back with you? Is he still following the Celestial Venerable Hao? More than a thousand years have passed, and still he clings to his delusion that he must rely on the power of the demigods.
Does he not know that the Celestial Venerable Yu died at the Celestial Venerable Hao's hands? We should never have drawn him into the Heavenly Alliance.
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Who is this? " She looked at Luo Xiao with a doubtful air.
"This is Luo Xiao.
" Shen Mu said with a smile: "A fellow Daoist I met by chance, an honest man.
Do you mean to raise the Xiaohan Heavenly Court into the air? " "Xiaohan Heavenly Court? Have you gone and named our human Heavenly Court on your own again? " The Celestial Venerable Moon said angrily: "Naming things at random, and not pleasant to the ear at all!
The Heavenly Court of our human race was won by all of us together, so we should all name it together and choose the best.
Is that not so, Sister Ling?
" The Celestial Venerable Ling, her hair unbound and disheveled, for with her peach-wood hairpin gone her hair was all in disorder, tucked it behind her back and said: "It makes no difference what it is called. Xiaohan is a fine name.
Rising into the heavens, is that not just what it says?
" The Celestial Venerable Moon was helpless, and said to the Dao Ancestor: "Old Daoist, have you finished your reckoning? " "Almost, almost. Do not hurry me.
" The Dao Ancestor said, put out: "Women are a true nuisance. I have no standing at all before you. In this life I shall certainly never take a wife, lest it hinder my research!
" Mahabrahma, beaming beside him, chuckled low: "Women are indeed a nuisance.