Chapter 1218 — Plucking Off the True Dragon Scales
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
The Yulin Army obeyed orders to the letter, an army that hearkened wholly to its commander, and Wei Suifeng was that commander, so at a single command the Yulin soldiers sat motionless with no other thought in their hearts, their discipline so stern it struck awe into beholders. Lin Xiao the plumed fire pheasant dragon had been brought to heel by Wei Suifeng and dared make no wayward move.
As for the Longbo King, Feng Qiuyun, and the others, they grew restless, and ever more fretful as time wore on, though fortunately each time they stood on the verge of explosion they came to themselves again. "Longbo King!
" Shen Mu rose at last and summoned the Longbo King, saying with a smiling squint, "I need some energy bodies of the Longbo to test whether what I have gained these past days can undo our present state.
" The Longbo King's face shifted slightly as he sneered, "Junior, you would use us for experiments?
What manner of thing are you. .
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" "A lofty Heavenly Venerable, and in your mouth merely what manner of thing? " Wei Suifeng strode over and said coldly, "Longbo King, you grow too bold.
" The dragon skin on the Longbo King's face quivered, for he harbored fear of Wei Suifeng, since it was Wei Suifeng who had led the Yulin Army to destroy the Longbo Kingdom and quell the Longbo rebellion, beheading countless Longbo as offerings to the Longhan Heavenly Court!
Even he himself had been taken captive by Wei Suifeng. "Mu Heavenly Venerable is one of the Nine Heavenly Venerables of Longhan, who bestowed the grace of teaching the Dao upon all living beings under heaven.
For a million years from ancient times to now, whoever meets him, even one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court, must address him as Dao brother!
" Wei Suifeng said evenly, "He has saved your life, yet far from repaying the debt you speak rudely to him. You are no true descendant.
" The Longbo King's expression eased somewhat as he said, "I am the sovereign of the Longbo Kingdom, a holy being born of the dragon vein of the Ancestral Court, my station a hundred times more honored than any so-called Heavenly Venerable!
At the grand feast of the Heavenly Court in those years, the Heavenly Emperor invited me to the banquet, while the Nine Heavenly Venerables of Longhan were but trifling figures sporting in the Jade Pool, not worth my regard.
But since the commander of the Yulin Army has spoken, I will grant you this face.
" He mused a moment, then called over a Longbo and said, "Pluck off one of your dragon scales for this Mu Heavenly Venerable's trial. " That Longbo felt humiliated, and at the Longbo King's cold snort the king reached out and tore a scale from his body himself.
The Longbo's face twitched as he stood aside in grievance.
Shen Mu took the scale and at once urged the Taiji divine stone to test his new attainment, paying no mind to the mockery in the Longbo King's words. Wei Suifeng and the Longbo King watched that scale in anxious haste, their hearts surging inexplicably, and hurriedly pressed down their feelings.
As Shen Mu drove it, the Taiji divine stone seemed to lose fixed form and turned into two currents of yin and yang qi, one black and one white, circling the dragon scale, while a wondrous power burst from the stone to alter the scale's physical structure.
The scale was but an energy body in the shape of a dragon scale, with no matter to it, yet under the working of the yin and yang qi it gradually took on matter! The onlookers could scarce suppress the excitement in their hearts, yet suppress it they must, and the effort was bitter. When the scale was more than half transformed, suddenly the passage from energy to matter reversed in an instant, turning from matter back to energy! The scale blazed with light, ever brighter and more dazzling!
Wei Suifeng's face changed greatly as he hastily swept and shook his sleeve, rolling up the scale and sending it high into the sky.
Boom!