Chapter 173 — Washing Hands of the Golden Basin
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
" "If we prop it up with our magic power, one incense stick's time.
" Shen Mu set at once to recasting the pill furnace, Vermilion Bird primal qi in one hand and Black Tortoise primal qi in the other, sweeping countless fragments of the furnace up into the air, refining them with Vermilion Bird qi and melting them into molten iron, while with the other hand he cooled them with Black Tortoise qi, swiftly forging component after component of the furnace. The onlookers were dazzled. Suddenly the tower-ship gave a gentle lurch and began to descend.
Fan Yunxiao, with no time to watch Shen Mu forge, rushed out of the cabin and urged his fire gourd into a nine-headed phoenix to hold up the tower-ship. Though he was a powerhouse of the Seven Star realm with vast magic power, carrying the tower-ship in flight was still desperately hard. Time crept by, thread by thread; Fan Yunxiao's face flushed red, the pressure mounting, harder and harder to bear, and the people aboard were terrified — if Fan Yunxiao could not hold on, the tower-ship would fall from a thousand zhang in the air and smash them to pieces!
Fan Yunxiao had reached his limit and could hold no longer, when suddenly the two bronze beasts at the stern spouted fire, the flames swelling greatly, and the tower-ship shuddered violently, picked up speed, and flew onward.
Fan Yunxiao breathed out in relief and drew back the nine-headed phoenix, only to find the tower-ship going faster and faster, like a flitting gleam, three to five times as swift as before. As he stood there astonished and uncertain, he caught sight of Shen Mu coming out of the cabin and said hurriedly, "Brother Shen, what kind of furnace did you forge? " Shen Mu said, "I have never seen a diagram of a pill furnace's construction, so I forged it according to my own understanding; it may differ somewhat from the original. I only studied smithing for a few years.
. . " Before Fan Yunxiao could speak, a great boom sounded.
The tower-ship tore through the air faster than sound! "Brother Shen, who did you study smithing under?
" Fan Yunxiao was both shocked and delighted. "In future, when I go robbing, who will ever be able to catch me?
" Shen Mu now understood why the Dao Master of the Dao Sect had called his heart crooked.