Chapter 1125 — The New Earth Mother Yuanjun
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
" Simple as he made it sound, the difficulty was plain to see. Black soul-sand might be called the finest of all particles; to carve upon each grain, to brand it with runes, that alone was a task all but impossible to accomplish! The Jingping reforms had begun to touch upon micro-carving and micro-branding, yet of all the myriad races of the myriad heavens and worlds, not one had ever set foot in this domain.
"Beyond the micro-carving on the black soul-sand, I feared I could not at any moment make the Earth Mother Yuanjun's soul and spirit collapse and scatter, so I also borrowed a divine ability of Heavenly Venerable Ling's, also very simple.
" Shen Mu's gaze was sincere. "It was simply the Unchanging Divine Ability. Upon that altar, before I remade the Earth Mother's three souls, I had already cast the Unchanging Divine Ability upon her three souls in their black-sand form. Thus I had a double safeguard: by either one, I could make the Earth Mother die utterly cleanly.
" Tubei and Tiangong were silent.
Tiangong coughed, reached out and picked up the Yuanmu core, and said with a smile, "Yuanjun, your frame is weak just now. Why not come first to my Xuandu and recuperate for a time?
Stay here in the Yuan World and you will be in peril morning and night. In my Xuandu there is a Heavenly Pool that can restore your mortal body; not, perhaps, to your full prime, but it is no small thing either.
" The Earth Mother Yuanjun said, "I am troubling you, Daoist brother. " Tiangong bowed slightly to Shen Mu and departed with the Earth Mother Yuanjun. Shen Mu bowed in return, and watched them fly up into the high sky.
Molten Lava Tubei looked at Shen Mu in silence, and after a moment said, "You are no longer the simple Shen Mu you once were. " Shen Mu laughed. "Does Tubei not wish to see me grow? " Molten Lava Tubei shook his head. "Of course I wish to see you grow.
It is only that I recall how Tiangong and I once appeared in your eyes.
Those times cannot be returned to. " Shen Mu said with feeling, "No, they cannot be returned to. " Molten Lava Tubei bowed, and his body sank into the earth. Shen Mu bowed to see him off, and straightened only when he had vanished. Long Qilin and Yan'er hurried over.
Shen Mu wiped the sweat from the back of his neck and said with feeling, "Standing as an equal with beings like Tiangong and Tubei, I am still somewhat faint of heart.
" Yan'er came quietly behind him and peeked, and sure enough, gooseflesh had risen on the back of Shen Mu's neck; he had only been forcing himself to seem calm.
Gongsun Yan was still bewildered, and rather at a loss.
Seeing that Shen Mu meant to leave, she caught hastily at his sleeve. On the verge of tears, her voice full of dread, she pleaded, "Young Master, don't go yet.
My heart is all in a fluster.
The Earth Mother is my mother, and then she tried to seize my body, and Tiangong and Tubei call me Fellow Daoist and talk about the Yuan World and Xuandu, and I, I. .
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" She bit her lip, weeping like pear blossoms in the rain.
"I only wanted to plant trees here and lure phoenixes and vermilion birds to nest!
If you are short of water I can water you, I can fertilize you and catch your insects, I have never met with anything like this. .
. " Shen Mu patted her on the back, waited for her to finish crying, and said with a smile, "Yan'er, do you still not understand?
You are no longer the you of before. You are now the new Earth Mother Yuanjun of the Yuan World!