Chapter 1633 — Victory and Defeat in the Space of a Lightning Flash
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
Shen Mu arrived before the Karma Fire Stele Forest, his gaze flickering. He said in a low voice, "Where are A'Chou and the Earth Earl?"
Langxuan Divine Emperor still sat atop the Karma Fire Merit Stele, swinging his legs. He laughed and said, "You ask only about A'Chou, and not about the Heavenly Lord? Mu Tianzun, A'Chou and the Earth Earl have fallen into my hands, and the reincarnated Heavenly Lord has also fallen into my hands. If the Heavenly Lord heard your words, he would be heartbroken."
Shen Mu smiled faintly and asked, "Then where is the Heavenly Lord?"
Langxuan Divine Emperor waved his hand, and suddenly a golden rope dropped down from midair. The Heavenly Lord, his hands bound behind his back and tied together with his legs, was suspended in the air by that golden rope.
Below him was the karma fire of the stele forest, burning ceaselessly, just high enough to scorch the Heavenly Lord.
Shen Mu looked up. Though the Heavenly Lord was burned beyond recognition, he was at least still alive. So Shen Mu continued, "Then what of A'Chou and the Earth Earl?"
Langxuan Divine Emperor clapped his hands again, and another golden rope dropped down from the sky, suspending A'Chou and the Earth Earl, bound in the same manner as the Heavenly Lord.
Shen Mu could not help but laugh. "Serves them right!"
Langxuan Divine Emperor said curiously, "Mu Tianzun seems not the least bit worried about them."
"Worried?"
Shen Mu said leisurely, "Back then they actively sought death, courting it in every possible way, and never once asked my opinion. They forced me not only to risk my own life for them, but to drag my friends' lives into the bargain as well. If it were only my own life, so be it, but making my friends risk their lives for those two old bastards—that I am not happy about. Divine Emperor, do you have a whip? Whip them a few times for me!"
Langxuan Divine Emperor's gaze fixed on him. A divine whip slid from his sleeve, and without turning his head, he lashed it with a crack onto the Heavenly Lord's body.
"Well struck!" Shen Mu cheered.
Langxuan Divine Emperor released his palm, and the divine whip flew up on its own, cracking endlessly against the suspended Heavenly Lord and A'Chou.
Shen Mu's three eyes blazed with light, and he cheered again and again, feeling a surge of delight in his heart.
Langxuan Divine Emperor saw that he did not seem to be feigning, and said suspiciously, "Mu Tianzun, you do not seem to feel any pain for them."
"Pain? Bah!"
Shen Mu said angrily, "Those two old things courted death themselves. If they had died, so be it—but at the very least, after rebirth your strength should be roughly what it was before! Yet the two of them, even after rebirth, are the sort to be captured in a single move by you. Truly a great disappointment!"
The Heavenly Lord was overwhelmed with shame.
His current strength was indeed far from what it had been in his previous life.
As for A'Chou and the Earth Earl, because their three souls had scattered and Shen Mu had not yet revived them, there was no consciousness or thought within their bodies, and so they felt nothing at Shen Mu's words.
Langxuan Divine Emperor's gaze flickered. He laughed and said, "How about I just kill them, then?"
Shen Mu did not seem to mind. He waved his hand and said, "Divine Emperor, by all means kill them. I have been honored by the ancient gods as the Great Dharma Master of Myriad Kalpas Immortality. If you kill them, I can still revive them. At most you destroy their physical bodies and their cultivation—they will simply start over."
Langxuan Divine Emperor raised an eyebrow. Using this method to force Shen Mu into submission seemed rather difficult.
"Then I shall kill them!"
Langxuan Divine Emperor laughed and said, "I would very much like to test whether my Primordial Divine Ability can shatter your myth of Myriad Kalpas Immortality!"
"Oh?"