1061 The Death of Luo Xiao (2/2)
”Next stop?”
Qin Mu's gaze was faint. He said while being visibly calm, ”I want to find South Deity Vermillion Bird. I haven't met her yet, but I still have to find her. Can this ship go back to an even more ancient era? I want to see her in the first year of the Dragon Han Era.”
”No.”
Wei Suifeng said, ”Unchanging substance can only allow the ship to go as far back as the era in which it was built. It can't go to eras before that. That's because there was no such boat then. It's the same for Celestial Venerable Ling's divine art. The celestial river mist can only take you to the era after Celestial Venerable Ling was born. She can't do anything about prior eras. The ship was built around a thousand years after the first year of the Dragon Han Era. The oldest era you can go to is the one you just went to.”
Qin Mu lightly nodded and said, ”Thus, let's stay in the Dragon Han Era.”
Wei Suifeng looked at him and asked, ”I see that you're slightly depressed. What's wrong?”
”I met a brother. He was honest and sincere, yet I couldn't save him.”
Qin Mu said quietly, ”I knew his end, and I tried to change his fate again and again. However, again and again, I found out that his end was destined. I'm wondering where he is now and what dangers he'll face. I'm still thinking about whether he'll go mad when he meets me again. Maybe he'll hate me for lying to him…”
The ship floated on the river and was about to leave the mist behind.
Wei Suifeng hastened him, saying, ”You should move now. Lift your spirits. You are Celestial Venerable Mu!”
Qin Mu rejuvenated himself and got on the carriage.
Wei Suifeng went forward and held the leash. He looked up and said, ”You are tired after your travels. I should allow you to rest here, but I can't. We became one with the ship. We became unchanging substances. The longer you stay here, the more likely you are to be assimilated. By then, you won't be able to leave. In the end, you'll be like us, wild ghosts of time and space.”
Qin Mu's gaze fell on his face. He calmly asked, ”How many more times can I use it?”
”No more than five.”
Wei Suifeng said, ”You will be assimilated during the sixth time. By then, we'll be doomed to eternal damnation! Brother, you must cherish these chances. After these chances, I'll send you back to Eternal Peace!”
Qin Mu nodded.
The carriage drove off the ship and into the mist.
Outside of the sacrificial altar at the ancestral court, Luo Xiao experienced countless attacks. He escaped time and time again from the siege of the Celestial River Navy and Southern Sect Army.
'I wonder how Brother Mu is.'
He escaped into the river, groggy-minded and about to die. He could barely hold on. His corporeal body was about to die. He had escaped there by relying on his conviction.
He wanted to go back to the Great Void to tell his people about the prophecies.
He crawled onto the void beast's back and felt death approaching him, step by step.
'I must return alive. This is our last hope…'
His gaze was blurry. The death of his corporeal body slowly made him blind. He could use his third eye to observe his surroundings, but it was blurry.
The young master of creation felt enemies coming again. He drove the void beast away with the last bit of his consciousness.
In the end, he faintly saw a ship approaching him on the celestial river. The void beast ran out of energy too, and it collapsed on the surface of the water.
The ship stopped, and a young man came from it.
”Who are you?” Luo Xiao heard his voice asking.
”I am Yun. Others call me Celestial Venerable Yun.”
The young man said, ”Your injuries are too serious for me to save. What last wish do you have, Brother?”
”Celestial Venerable Yun!”
Luo Xiao felt himself grabbing onto his wrist with his ice-cold hand. Two lines of tears fell from his eyes. They were cold too.
His heart had stopped. His body was cold.
However, he remembered the first prophecy.
”Celestial Venerable Yun, I will tell you where the Great Void is. Bring me there and meet my people. My consciousness is about to die. It will be awakened there!”
Luo Xiao stared at him, yet his eyes were grayish-white. ”I will dig out my third eye and give it to you. It's an Origin Stone, a keepsake of my people. They will believe you when they see it!”
”What about your body?” Celestial Venerable Yun asked.
”The Celestial River Navy and Southern Sect Army are hunting me down. They won't stop until they have my body.”
Luo Xiao stood up and raised his palm, coalescing his last bit of consciousness and digging out his eye. He held it in his hand and told him where the Great Void was, then bowed and said, ”Please, Celestial Venerable Yun!”
He ran out of breath as he stood on the celestial river.
Celestial Venerable Yun looked at him, stunned. He received his Grand Primordium Divine Stone and said, ”I promise you, warrior.”
Luo Xiao revealed a smile and fell on his side. His body was washed downstream by the celestial river's water.
Celestial Venerable Yun returned to the ship with the divine stone. The void beast followed him onto the boat and squatted down quietly.
Celestial Venerable Yun glanced at him, shook his head, and treated it as Luo Xiao's mount.
After a few years, Celestial Venerable Yun finally found the Great Void. He entered it and found some honest masters of creation.
He retrieved the Grand Primordium Divine Stone from Luo Xiao's eyebrows and gave it to the chiefs.
The masters of creation received him politely. They held a large-scale worshipping ceremony to make Luo Xiao's consciousness into a spirit ancestor.
”He's a hero.”
Celestial Venerable Yun met a cute girl that was a master of creation too. She worshipped Luo Xiao and Celestial Venerable Yun greatly.
”Only a heroic master of creation can tame a large void beast like that!”
She was small, though she was taller than Celestial Venerable Yun. She watched the void beast that followed Celestial Venerable Yun into the Great Void. She delicately said, ”When I grow up, I want to be a master of creation like Spirit Ancestor Luo Xiao.”
”What's your name?” Celestial Venerable Yun looked at her pure smile and was caught off guard.
”Lang Wo!”
”You're pretty.”
”Yep, everyone says that!”