Chapter 1114 — Merit and Fame Have Their Own Meeting with Wind and Cloud
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Chi set his feet in motion. Behind him, his primal spirit of three heads and six arms unleashed battle might and dharma power beyond all measure, bearing up his clansmen on high; his mortal body grew taller and taller, his strength greater and greater, until he became a giant who crossed mountains and forded rivers, striding toward the land where the sun rises. Out of these ruins, the Chiming Era rises!
That giant, hair loose and unkempt, will lead the human race of the ruins and compose another magnificent epic.
The Longhan Revolution has not yet succeeded. The Chiming Revolution has only just sprouted.
The Heavenly River races on, the years slip away; there is no changing of time itself, only people coming and going, only matter transforming.
The brave men in the front have fallen, and still the brave men behind pick up the banner and press bravely on.
The ghost ship sails on through history; beyond its hull it is now blazing bright, now dark, and one turn from light to dark is a single year.
Shen Mu circulated the Mystic Body Three Cinnabar Art, and his heart felt light; he looked bright and radiant indeed.
"Junior brother, you seem to have set down a whole heap of worries and grown cheerful now," Wei Suifeng said with a smile.
Shen Mu laughed.
"I have always been cheerful.
" Wei Suifeng shook his head.
"When you boarded the ghost ship, I saw it at once: your cheerfulness was a cheerfulness you put on deliberately. In truth your heart held anxiety, held sorrow, and held the desolation of never being understood by others, like a great black cloud shrouding your dao heart. Only now are you truly cheerful. " He smiled faintly.
"Your eldest senior brother may have no particular talents to speak of, but he reads people accurately.
" Shen Mu laughed heartily, then after a moment said quietly: "I used to feel that no one understood me, that no one knew me or comprehended me, that no one could spur me on, and so I gave myself over to a little self-pity. But now I know that someone does understand me, knows me and comprehends me, supports me and spurs me on. " He shook his head and laughed. "Even if that person lives in the past, even if that person is already dead, even if death and life stand between us, he is still my friend on the Way.
To have one true friend in a lifetime is enough! " Wei Suifeng clapped his hands in admiration, then changed tack.
"You still have two chances to return to the past. Where do you intend to go?
" Shen Mu rose to his feet and said with a smile: "Nowhere at all! I intend to set both chances aside and go back to Jingping first. I cannot live forever in the past; I should fix my eyes on the future!
Eldest senior brother, once I have decided where I want to go, I will come find you again. " Wei Suifeng gave a muffled snort and muttered: "I am not your boatman, to come at your call and be waved off at your whim.
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" Then, gathering himself, he hurriedly summoned Long Qilin and Yan'er, and said in haste: "Quick, bring out the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner. Before you leave, let me look at it a few more times! " Yan'er fetched the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner and set it upright on the deck. Wei Suifeng paced back and forth around it, examining it over and over, praising it without end, then suddenly burst into tears; stroking the treasure gently, he choked out: "Parting today, who knows when we shall meet again?
My lovely treasure.
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