Chapter 1563 — Merged Into One
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Shen Mu might not even be able to escape them.
A cold gleam flashed through Shen Mu's eyes. His right hand settled on the hilt of the Calamity Sword, finger after finger closing around it, and the sword slipped soundlessly from its sheath.
Just then the two ancient gods suddenly halted. The white-haired Ancient Sun God said with a laugh, "Is that Heavenly Venerable Mu?"
Shen Mu's brows lifted in a smile, and he said leisurely, "Did you two Dao-brothers sense my killing intent?"
Lady Taiyin laughed. "Heavenly Venerable Mu is mistaken. We did not sense your killing intent; we saw the Heavenly Venerable riding a golden ship."
Shen Mu was all the more astonished. "You saw me while you were still on the river? Then why did you not stop to exchange a few pleasantries?"
The two ancient gods laughed. "We did not dare. We are old and feeble now, and we feared that if we stopped to greet you, we would be done away with by the Heavenly Venerable. So we had no choice but to pretend we never saw the Heavenly Venerable or that ship, and simply walked past you."
"And we were gambling, too — gambling on whether Heavenly Venerable Mu's curiosity was really as strong as the rumours say. If it truly was, then you would certainly not strike at once, but would follow along in person, to see with your own eyes how Yuanmu and the Empress merge, and how they attain the Dao."
Shen Mu's face darkened. He kept striding toward them and said sourly, "You two Dao-brothers certainly know me well. Well then, Dao-brothers, I am no longer curious. Right now I only want to be rid of Shiqiluo and Yan Tianfei."
The two ancient gods turned as one to face Shen Mu. The little old man, the Ancient Sun God, chuckled. "Those two Heavenly Venerables, Shiqiluo and Yan Tianfei, no longer exist. What exists now is only the Guixu Goddess."
The power of the Calamity Sword in Shen Mu's hand rose steadily. He smiled. "Guixu Goddess or Shiqiluo and Yan Tianfei, I mean to kill them today. I ask you two Dao-brothers not to stand in my way."
The little old woman, Lady Taiyin, hunched over, a sly light in her small eyes, and chuckled. "Heavenly Venerable Mu, do you know what my brother and I are best at?"
Shen Mu started, and an uneasy feeling rose in his heart.
"My brother and I — what we are best at is forgery!"
The little old man and the little old woman spoke as one, laughing in unison, "Before we were even born, we forged a Taiji vein and fooled every one of the Creators — even the Great Emperor, even the Three Kings of Antiquity were taken in by us! And now we have fooled Heavenly Venerable Mu as well!"
Shen Mu's expression shifted. He thrust out his sword, but before the blade-light could reach the two ancient gods, the two gods, the Dao Tree, and the great cocoon upon it blew apart with a bang, dissolving into yin and yang qi!
"Dao-brother Taishi, look at that — now that is an old hand of the world!" Shen Mu could not help but exclaim in admiration, addressing the Ancient Taishi God who was inside his Primordial Fetus Divine Treasury, striving to absorb the Taishi vein.
His divine consciousness erupted, sweeping in all directions as he sought to locate the two ancient gods; but Jade Capital City was perilous in every corner, filled everywhere with winds of heat-death and winds of cold-death, and his divine consciousness was swiftly torn to shreds.
Shen Mu soared into the air. The golden Ship of Salvation flew out from between his brows and swelled with a roar, and Shen Mu landed neatly upon its prow. The Ship of Salvation went barrelling through Jade Capital City, and Shen Mu stood at the prow scanning all around.
The golden ship ignored the winds of heat-death and the winds of cold-death, ignored every uncanny thing in Jade Capital City, and crushed its way forward, while Shen Mu aboard it remained unharmed, no strangeness of any kind able to invade the ship.