Chapter 1090 — Seven Hundred Thousand Years of Slaughter
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Que Feiyin's soul drifted in a daze, wafting and wandering, drawn by some nameless force to fly onward.
Before long, she saw in an expanse of darkness a vast Nether Sea surging, and in the midst of that sea stood a gateway more than half built. Beneath the gateway stood a handsome man with a gourd slung upon his back; a great many gnats came flying and dropped into the gourd.
"So you are here. " The handsome man saw her and could not help smiling, "This is your hundredth death.
After this, the Southern Emperor's divine soul will be sealed completely, never to wake again, and I shall have done all that Hao Tianzun entrusted to me.
" Que Feiyin was drawn toward that incomplete gateway, flew through it, and went off to be reborn. "These insects are truly not bad—worthy of the Heavenly Emperor's family treasure. Yet Hao Tianzun obtained so many fine treasures and gave me only a packet of insect eggs, stingy indeed!
" The handsome man was none other than Yin Tianzi.
He patted the gourd and fell into thought, "Primordial Divine Insects are too hard to rear. If I could use the Northern Emperor Xuanwu's Five-Thunder Jar to rear them, the might of the divine insects would surely be greatly increased!
The Northern Emperor is loath to give it to me, but Crown Prince Youming is a reckless hothead, rich and free-handed; perhaps I can get a Five-Thunder Jar out of him. . . " Suddenly he knit his brows, sensing that something was strange when Que Feiyin passed through the Nether Capital's Heavenly Gate—her final shred of consciousness had not been wiped away.
He was vaguely uneasy and murmured, "The last step was not completed, and I know not where the problem lies. .
. Well, next time, then. The Southern Emperor's divine soul has already turned foolish; killing her is no hard thing. Henceforth there is no need to spend much thought on her.
So stupid—the Primordial Divine Insects will suffice to kill her. " Que Feiyin's soul drifted on and on, and she knew that she was dead. Yet suddenly she felt that her mind was a little clearer, her thinking quicker than before, and she wondered to herself, "Could it be that after passing through that gateway just now, I have become cleverer?
" Ten months later, Que Feiyin was born, and the moment she came into the world she understood all the circumstances of her previous life. She remembered that she was Yue Tianzun's disciple, named Que Feiyin, and she remembered how she had died.
Yue Tianzun ordered her disciples to search for her, and after more than ten years of searching they had still not found her. Yet Que Feiyin had already found her own way to the Heavenly Court of the Empyrean, astonishing Yue Tianzun, who thought that her Vermilion Bird divine soul had awakened. Only, when Yue Tianzun examined her, Que Feiyin had still not awakened the Vermilion Bird divine soul.
Although Que Feiyin had grown much more intelligent, she was still not intelligent enough; it took her four or five hundred years to cultivate to the Divine Realm.
Having reached the Divine Realm, she found that humanity and the demigods had just gone to war. Que Feiyin charged onto the battlefield and had her life taken by a great mosquito. After death, Que Feiyin saw again that Nether Sea, that Nether Capital's Heavenly Gate, and passed through the gate.
No sooner had she passed through than she was startled—she had actually recalled the memories of yet another lifetime!
"How strange!
" Ten months later, the reborn Que Feiyin wore her hair in a pair of little braids stuck straight up, stood barely five feet tall, and was still a yellow-haired little chit; she took a boat all the way to the Heavenly Court and went hopping and skipping to seek Yue Tianzun.
Yue Tianzun tested her once more, and Que Feiyin had grown cleverer still. Clicking her tongue in wonder, she said, "Every time the Southern Emperor's reincarnated body dies, the veil of the womb thins by one degree.
What is the reason for this?