Chapter 1194 — The Master's Yellow Talisman
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
When the clay statue's sight returned and it looked up, there was a sheet of yellow talisman paper stuck between the Imperial Heaven Venerable's brows, written all over in Nether Capital characters scrawled like ghost-script. "Nether Heaven Venerable!
" The clay statue flew into a towering rage.
The Nether Heaven Venerable's stroke was masterful indeed — a single talisman had sealed his Imperial Heaven Venerable, stopping every aperture of its body, so that he could no longer command it at all! "This talisman is not so easy to take off.
I must be careful.
" He sprang into the air, drew near the Imperial Heaven Venerable's brow, stirred up the magical power within the clay statue, and reached out cautiously toward the yellow paper. At that very instant, the sheet on the Imperial Heaven Venerable's brow abruptly flew up — it was two sheets of yellow paper after all!
With a swish, the other talisman pasted itself onto the clay statue's brow!
The clay statue instantly felt itself sealed on every side; neither primordial qi nor divine consciousness could leave the body and take form as a divine power.
Not only that — the body felt impossibly heavy and dense, and it plummeted from the air as though beyond all control!
After a long while, there came a heavy slap from below, the sound of something enormous striking the ground; the clay statue had smashed utterly, past all hope of being stuck together again!
Only then did the divine consciousness and primordial qi within it feel free once more — and there was the yellow sheet rising, with the Nether Heaven Venerable's ice-cold voice coming from it: "Do not provoke the Nether Capital.
. .
" Swish.
The yellow paper vanished from sight.
At the same time, the sheet on the Imperial Heaven Venerable's forehead fell away of its own accord as well and was seen no more.
"Nether Heaven Venerable!
" The Imperial Heaven Venerable clenched its fists, yet it refrained from striking into the Nether Capital.
By this time, Shen Mu had arrived at the Tianyin Realm.
Ever since the Primordial Realm broke its seal, the Tianyin Realm had lost all contact with the outside, and the fissure that had once linked it to the Wasteland was gone as well. Shen Mu entered the Tianyin Realm and, gazing into the distance, saw that many practitioners of the divine arts and gods from Jingping had already built divine city upon divine city here, living and multiplying apace.
Ever since Shen Mu discovered the Tianyin Realm, Emperor Yanfeng and Jiang Baigui, the former Imperial Tutor of Jingping, had sent some of Jingping's practitioners and common folk to live here — to help Lady Tianyin build up the Tianyin Realm as well. After all, Lady Tianyin had virtually no people of her own — only herself.
She was no longer an ancient god now, yet she possessed the might of an ancient god; and what was more precious, she had leapt clear of the Dao-shackles of the ancient gods and could cultivate other Great Daos.
Of course, when the Woodcutter Sage, King Yan, Xu Shenghua, and the others were invited by Shen Mu to decipher the Dao-runes of the Tianyin Realm, that had also helped Lady Tianyin awaken the divine powers of her own Dao and rid the realm of its twin scourges, the soul-black sand and the famished dead. The practitioners and common folk sent by Emperor Yanfeng were likewise meant to develop the divine arts of the Tianyin Realm — a benefit beyond measure to Jingping and to Lady Tianyin alike.
When the Jingping Cataclysm broke, however, this place was spared its ravages, a mercy of no small account. "That year, for reviving Lady Tianyin, for quelling the turmoil of the Tianyin Realm, and for deciphering its Dao-runes, Lady Tianyin gave each of us a pearl.
" Shen Mu looked into the distance and saw Lady Tianyin seated above the Sea of Tianyin, deep in cultivation. All the broken souls under heaven returned to the Tianyin Realm, every one of them subject to Lady Tianyin's divine power.