Chapter 1613 — A Young Hero Unrivalled in All the World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 5 of 5
Madam Yuanmu bit her lower lip with her pearly teeth and said with a titter, "However shall I repay Lord Shen?"
Shen Mu turned around, his eyes full of affection. "How does my lady wish to repay me?"
"Naturally..."
Madam Yuanmu, shy and timid, kneaded a corner of her garment—then suddenly raised her hand, summoning an abyss to cap them, and laughed: "Naturally, to send Lord Shen to the Western Paradise! While you live, I cannot be at peace!"
The two were so close, and her strike so swift, that Shen Mu had no time to react.
Yet at the very moment she moved, Shen Mu seemed to have long expected it. The vertical eye in his brow opened, and a wheel of light came whirling out of it with a howl, striking into Yuanmu's brow.
"Awaken, Empress!"
Within Madam Yuanmu's body, the consciousness of the Empress, who through countless cycles of reincarnation had found no way out, was at once freed from the cycle of rebirth and fought Madam Yuanmu for mastery of the body.
Madam Yuanmu's blow arrived above Shen Mu's head, yet could not fall; her face showed consternation. "You really did leave a trap..."
The twin lotus rose slowly in the tide, coming to the space above the abyss. Light shone through; the waters of the River of the Dead surged and swelled.
Shen Mu looked at Madam Yuanmu's face and sighed.
His right hand spread open, he pressed it over Madam Yuanmu's face and turned away.
"Yuanmu, Empress, the divine art I have comprehended cannot kill the two of you; therefore I can only suppress you. If fate allows us to meet again in the future... farewell."
His five fingers lifted from Madam Yuanmu's face, and he stepped out of the flower chamber of the twin lotus.
Shen Mu raised his head and looked upon the waters of the River of the Dead.
"The Red Rope Knot," he said softly.
Swish—
Five Dao Chains passed through Madam Yuanmu's five features; five red ropes rose slowly from the flower chamber, weaving and crossing, knotting themselves into a Red Rope Knot.
The twin lotus slowly sank and vanished into the great abyss of Guixu.