Chapter 1531 — The Peerless Divine Artisan
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
At the same time, Granny Zhu hurried to the Land of No Worries to invite Emperor Shitian and Yan Yunxi. Shen Mu stood on the Heavenly Court's Heaven-Watching Platform, searching. The Heaven-Watching Bureau dared not speak much, and could only stand to one side, watching obediently.
Shen Mu located Jiang Baigui and Emperor Yanfeng, and set out at once to find them.
Jiang Baigui and Emperor Yanfeng had already come to the rear of the Ancestral Court and passed through the North Heavenly Gate, comprehending the Dao principles within. This was the fourth Heavenly Gate. When the two emerged from the gate, Jiang Baigui let out a long whistle, and Heavenly Palaces rose one after another from the ground, their treasure halls vying in splendor; a perfect and flawless Great Heavenly Court had at last taken shape!
He felt the Heavenly Court was firm, never to be shaken again!
Jiang Baigui exhaled a long breath of true essence, which turned into sword qi and became a long rainbow across the sky.
Seeing this, Emperor Yanfeng was both delighted and envious. The path Jiang Baigui walked was different from his own; he could not cultivate it.
The two walked out of the Ancestral Court's North Heavenly Gate and saw Shen Mu waiting outside.
Shen Mu explained the matter of forging his sword. Jiang Baigui said, "My foundation is not yet complete. I must make a trip to the Jade Terrace. Will I be in time?"
Shen Mu said, "I await your esteemed arrival! Three months from now, we meet in the Heaven Yin Realm."
The two departed.
Only then did Shen Mu hurry to the Heaven Yin Realm, where he met the Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, and explained his idea.
The Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, hesitated. "The Eastern Emperor, the Azure Dragon, and I shared but a fleeting affair. In those years I could not even protect myself, and wishing to join hands with him, I muddled my way into bedding him, and bore Yan'er. I would rather not see him. But little brother, you are my benefactor, and since you have asked, I will certainly invite the Azure Dragon to lend his strength."
Shen Mu bowed in thanks. The Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, summoned Yan'er. "Come with me to see that heartless, faithless father of yours." The two women hurried off.
In the Heaven Yin Realm, Lady Heaven Yin sat by the sea, chin in hand, staring listlessly at the water, from time to time snatching up a mountain peak and tossing it into the sea.
Her form was too vast; to her, a mountain peak was no more than a pebble.
These days, her Heaven Yin Realm grew ever more clamorous. Strange folk in outlandish dress kept arriving from Jingping and the Ancestral Court, making a great racket, and she was not quite used to it.
Some of these fellows were deities, some were power-wielders of the Heavenly River realm. The blacksmiths liked to go bare-armed, loud-voiced, and mighty; those who cultivated formations liked to run hither and thither, measuring everything; and some stared at her, meaning to measure the Heaven Yin runes on her body.
As for those sword-cultivating fellows, they were even more hateful, flourishing their swords there day after day, streak after streak of sword light disturbing her peace.
By now the Jingping gods and demons who had come running to her Heaven Yin Realm numbered thirty or fifty thousand, and more kept arriving in an endless stream.
Some days later, King Yama arrived. Only then did Lady Heaven Yin perk up. After all, King Yama had once fought shoulder to shoulder with her, and counted as an old acquaintance; at last there was someone to chat with and relieve her boredom.
But King Yama was a man of few words, hiding under his cloak every day, and spoke little with her.
A few days later, Emperor Shitian Li Youran arrived. Lady Heaven Yin glanced at this handsome man and felt his looks were no less than Yin Tianzi's. At once she found him detestable and could not be bothered with him.