Chapter 1115 — The White-Robed Heavenly Master Appears
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Gradually, a strange and uncanny power spread out on every side; his divine art reached out to sense every wandering soul between heaven and earth, every mote of black soul-sand, threading through one heaven after another, one world after another, up to Xuandu on high and down to Youdu below, its span stretching to the farthest, shrouding the four poles of the cosmos. His thought and spirit seemed to pass through all these worlds, sensing the traces left behind by the Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, and little by little, in the Southern Pole Heaven, he found motes of drifting black soul-sand: a shattered portion of the Southern Emperor's soul. He drew this black soul-sand back toward the Yuan Realm, and just then he sensed another portion of the Southern Emperor's soul.
Yet this soul was resisting his Soul-Pulling! Puzzled, Shen Mu let his thought and spirit follow that strange pull, through one world after another, until he came to the Heavenly Court, and following the sense of it arrived at the Heavenly Court's West Heavenly Gate.
His mind followed that sense into a heavenly palace, through layer upon layer of gates and halls, into a Lingxiao Hall, and there he saw a female emperor gazing at 'himself' with a face like frost.
That female emperor gave a cold laugh, reached out a palm and pressed it down, cutting off Shen Mu's Soul-Pulling Art, and said in fury, "Yin Tianzi, you mean to plot against me again?
Have you not yet taken your fill of your grandaunt's iron fists? " Shen Mu withdrew his spirit, raised a hand and seized the Vermilion Bird's plume, gave it a light shake, and gathered all the surging black soul-sand into it, and said in astonishment, "Yan'er, your mother's reincarnation is in the Heavenly Court; she has become the Heavenly Master of Qionghua Palace at the West Heavenly Gate!
" Disbelief came over his face, and the words slipped from him: "The Heavenly Master of Qionghua Palace at the West Heavenly Gate is one of the Heavenly Court's Four Great Heavenly Masters, named Bai Yuqiong! Third among the four Heavenly Masters!
Your mother, reincarnated in this life as Bai Yuqiong, is already of the Imperial Throne realm, and holds high station and great authority in the Heavenly Court! " Yan'er's eyes went wide and she stammered, "That Heavenly Master Yuqiong in the Heavenly Court is my mother, the silly muddle-headed Que Feiyin of those years?
" Shen Mu nodded, paced to and fro, and muttered, "It seems I miscalculated after all. Yin Tianzi did not manage to kill her the full ninety-nine times, so her Vermilion Bird soul still has not awakened.
This time it is bad, truly bad. . .
" The veins at his temples bulged out one by one, throbbing without cease.
"The Vermilion Bird's reincarnation has already cultivated to the Imperial Throne, and could become the Heavenly Court's third Heavenly Master; she must be incomparably clever, incomparably formidable. To make her die one more time will be harder than hard!
And the crux of it is that I do not know how many times she has already died, or how far short of ninety-nine she still falls. . .
" He clenched his fist hard and cursed in fury, "Yin Tianzi, you good-for-nothing wretch, you cannot even kill this one woman; you are unworthy of the name of Beauty Killer! " Long Qilin pursed his lips and thought, "It was plainly the Cult Master himself who let things get out of hand, yet he insists on laying the blame at Yin Tianzi's door.
The Cult Master only thought to borrow Yin Tianzi's hand and make my mother-in-law's reincarnation clever, so that she might live on from the Longhan Era; he never reckoned that under Yin Tianzi's tempering she would grow so clever that she cannot be killed at all! " He could not help shaking his head. Shen Mu was somewhat scorched and battered, his brows knit with worry.
Heavenly Masters, and the Heavenly Court's Heavenly Masters above all, which of them is not a figure cunning as a ghost?