Chapter 1381 — The Crown Prince and Dragon Mountain
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Everything Shen Mu had studied, practiced, understood, mastered, and realized, he had never once concealed from Long Qilin; in every field of knowledge, Long Qilin had at least some acquaintance. The Reverse Summoning divine art was a technique Shen Mu had founded by reforming the Creator's Summoning divine art.
The Summoning divine art used powerful divine consciousness to fix a target and, with oneself as the anchor, summoned a mighty beast to descend.
The Reverse Summoning divine art worked the other way around: with the beast as the anchor, it summoned oneself to the beast's side.
When Shen Mu first created this art, Long Qilin and Yan'er had been at his side, together with the ancestral spirit Luo Xiao; Da Hong, the Grand Emperor in a transformed body; and Gu Xiao, the Heavenly Emperor in a transformed body. Yet only Long Qilin had been able to help Shen Mu design and forge the summoning altar, and only Long Qilin had succeeded in learning Reverse Summoning.
Since Long Qilin had taught the Reverse Summoning divine art to Shu Jun, Shu Jun must surely have taken the First Ancestor, Lan Yutian, and Xu Shenghua with him, summoning them all to the far side of the Ancestral Court! "A pack of troublemakers who never give a man any peace! And is Long Xiao someone to be trifled with?
That is a being whose physical body stands on a par with a Celestial Venerable's. . .
" Shen Mu could not help shaking his head. This was certainly Shu Jun's rotten idea.
Shu Jun had long coveted Long Xiao, wanting to subdue him and make him his own mighty beast, but alone he had no confidence of success, and so he had called in the First Ancestor, Lan Yutian, and Xu Shenghua. "How long have they been gone? " Shen Mu asked.
"Three months now.
" "Three months?
" Hearing this, Shen Mu, instead, was no longer so anxious.
He had the ship's company go ashore to rest and recuperate. Wei Suifeng said, "Junior brother, are you not going to save them?
" "They have been gone for three months already. If they were going to die, they would have died long ago. If they have survived three months on the far side of the Ancestral Court, then they can certainly hold out for a while longer; there is no need to rush over this very moment.
" Shen Mu smiled. "I must make ample preparations first.
If I hurry over half-cocked, I will only end up sharing their fate. " Wei Suifeng was silent for a moment, then said in a hoarse voice, "I was trapped on that ghost ship for so many years, always asking you to follow the charts and rescue me. You never came, and you never followed the charts either.
Was that the very reason you just spoke of? " Shen Mu laughed heartily and walked off into the distance, saying in a clear, ringing voice, "Old Brother Taiyi!
Old Sister Taiyi!
Where are you?
Your little brother has come to pay his respects! " Wei Suifeng watched him go with a black face, grinding his teeth. "Shen the Beast!
" "Yes—an out-and-out beast! " Crown Prince Youming came to his side. He looked at the Glazed Azure Heaven Canopy, then let his gaze fall on Yan'er, and from Yan'er it moved to Long Qilin.
He fumed, "That shameless dog of a man and bitch of a woman!
So I have finally found you!
Dragon Mountain Recluse! " Long Qilin gave a frightened shudder, hastily turned around, and saw Crown Prince Youming bearing down on him. In a fluster he shook himself, transformed into the dragon-headed, human-bodied form of the Dragon Mountain Recluse, and fell to his knees with a thud, crying at the top of his voice, "I beg your forgiveness—" Yan'er also dropped hurriedly to her knees, kneeling side by side with Long Qilin: "My husband and I beg your forgiveness, Daoist brother!