Chapter 1089 — One Beauty, Simple and Foolish Through a Hundred Lives
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Shen Mu burst into laughter and stepped out of the treasure carriage, saying, "Mu Qing pays his respects to Sister Southern Emperor!
" The girl in red was puzzled, her voice soft and sweet though her look was a little simple and dazed, and she said with a smile, "You may be Mu Qing, but I am certainly not your sister.
You fool, you have taken me for someone else. I am Que Feiyin, a disciple of Yue Tianzun.
" Doubt rose in Shen Mu's heart. "Could I truly be mistaken? This woman is clad all in red, her dress just like the Southern Emperor's, and the Vermilion Bird feather thrust in her hair is the Southern Emperor's own Vermilion Bird plume, about which I could not possibly be wrong! And the poem she just sang had a matchless spirit and breadth of heart, singing of holding a hundred rivers and being honored by all the stars, how could a simple-minded soul write such a piece?
" When he questioned her, the red-clad girl Que Feiyin said, "That is a poem by Yun Tiandi, not mine. I heard him sing it and learned it.
" Long Qilin said, "Miss Feiyin, my Cult Master is an old friend of Yue Tianzun and has come to pay a call.
Please announce us.
" Que Feiyin eyed them and said, "Master is not here. Master went out with Yun Tiandi and is not in the Celestial Court.
Are you really old friends of Master? I do not know you.
" Shen Mu walked out of the treasure carriage, the lids upon his brow slowly parting to either side to reveal his vertical eye, and in an instant he saw this woman Que Feiyin's former lives and present life with perfect clarity.
His holy pupil had fused with more of the Taichu primordial stones and held still more wondrous powers. He saw that tens of thousands of years ago, at the station of the Vermilion Bird Palace in the southern starry sky, a ball of fire fell from heaven into an ordinary household in the Yuan Realm.
Ten months later the mistress of the house bore a daughter, and when the infant was born red clouds filled the sky, and the red clouds turned into Vermilion Birds circling the birthing chamber.
After the girl was born and grew up, Yue Tianzun came, took her as a disciple, taught her Dao arts and divine powers, and brought her to the Xiaohan Celestial Court.
Yet in a battle with the Longxiao Celestial Court, the girl met Yin Tianzi in the fray, and in a single encounter Yin Tianzi seized her soul and struck her dead on the spot. Yue Tianzun was enraged, gravely wounded Yin Tianzi, and took the soul back.
That night Yue Tianzun found You Tianzun, who was gathering wandering souls upon the battlefield, and entrusted the woman's soul to him.
Ten months later another baby girl was born, and again Yue Tianzun took her as a disciple.
She was surpassingly bright, learning any divine power or Dao art at once, yet she had no memory of her former life and did not know who she was. The good days did not last, for on a journey she perished beneath a siege of demigods, when it was again Yin Tianzi leading demigods to invade human lands.
Shen Mu saw a third reincarnation, a fourth, a fifth. .
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Each time the woman reincarnated she would die without reason, each time perishing by the hand of Yin Tianzi.
Rebirth after rebirth slowly wore away her former quickness and memory, until in this life as Que Feiyin, already the hundredth life, Yue Tianzun still took her as a disciple and taught her with care, yet Que Feiyin had grown somewhat simple and dazed, and men called her Silly Que. "Yin Tianzi does it on purpose.
His Youdu Great Dao has reached perfection, so he can see through the root of the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird's single soul in reincarnation, and thus find her unerringly every time! " Anger stirred in Shen Mu's heart, for under the gaze of his vertical eye he had watched the reincarnated body of the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird die ninety-nine times, and in every death she either died at Yin Tianzi's hand or her death was tied to him!