Chapter 401 — Angling for the Blazing Sun

Shen Mu was slightly startled.

"Ziqing's Divine Pupil! " That eye was as dazzling as a sun, and it seemed to be gazing at him, giving Shen Mu a strange sensation. Caught in the gaze of that eye, he suddenly felt layer upon layer of runic brands appear within his own eyes!

This sensation did not last long before the Xizhou submerged his eyes.

"Found it! " Shen Mu's spirit surged. He sensed the peculiar touch conveyed by his vital energy, and immediately roused all his magic power.

Vital energy poured down through the four chains in a mighty torrent, frantically striking the mechanism on the sun's surface!

With a series of crackling sounds, the arrays on the sun's surface rotated open, and the four chains drilled into the sun, locked layer by layer by the array patterns.

Within the Xizhou, Shen Mu suddenly felt a vast and surging power flow from the sun into the Xizhou. At that moment, the Xizhou had completely swallowed him, leaving only the tip of his nose! Whoosh — The four chains pulled a sun out of the well.

The sun floated high, pulling the chains taut. Outside the Xiquan, the old clan chief and the others watched the pillar of light with extreme anxiety.

"Too long, too long. The prince may not be able to hold on. .

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Any later, and I fear he will not be able to escape the Xizhou!

" Suddenly, the Xiquan blazed with light, and a sun rose slowly from the pillar of light, forcing everyone to retreat continuously as rolling waves of heat swept in all directions. Then the massive hull of the Xizhou sailed out of the well, its twelve legs slowly touching the ground. Boom.

The hull landed, the earth shook, and magma surged, carving out channels in every direction. The Xizhou came to rest.

The old clan chief and the others hurriedly flew up, boarded the ship, and rushed into the center of the four pillars.

There they saw Shen Mu lying there, barely clothed, motionless!

The Xizhou had taken too much of his life force.

Though he had captured a sun and been rescued from the Xizhou, the life force that had been devoured could not be restored.

"Move aside, all of you, move aside! " Snow Fox came running, her bare feet scorched by the searing ground, wisps of green smoke rising from them.

"I have medicine here! " The old clan chief and the others hastily cleared a path.

Snow Fox dashed to Shen Mu's side, heedless of the blisters forming on the soles of her feet, and hastily stuffed into Shen Mu's mouth the elixir he had refined for Yan Jingjing.

Using her own vital energy, she guided the elixir into Shen Mu's belly and activated its medicinal power. When the medicine took effect, Shen Mu slowly regained consciousness.

He felt utterly weak, without even the strength to open his eyes, and could only breathe feebly. Snow Fox breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did she feel the pain in her feet. She hastily leaped onto the old clan chief's forehead, tears streaming from the pain. The old clan chief and the others hurriedly lifted Shen Mu up and shouted, "Quick, carry him to the lake!

" After a moment, on the small island in the center of the Xizhou Lake, Shen Mu was placed by several people into the hot spring at the island's center. Beside him was a frail little girl, also soaking in the water.

"Little cowherd brother. " The frail girl revealed a weak smile.

"My feet are hurt too!

" Snow Fox sat on the old clan chief's forehead, not daring to let her feet touch the ground, and demanded self-righteously to soak in the hot spring. The old clan chief was helpless and could only place her in the spring, saying, "Little ancestor, this hot spring is not ordinary water but condensed from pure yang energy. You may soak in it, but you must not pee in it.

" "Bah, you're the one who pees!

" Snow Fox sat down happily and felt wave after wave of power surge from the water, nourishing every limb and bone, every divine treasury, spirit fetus, soul, and spirit — all suffused with comfort. She looked at the frail girl beside her and said joyfully, "Sister Jingjing of the Yan clan, so you are here too.

Young Master, why don't you open your eyes? Oh, right — when you were lying there just now, your backside was showing! " Shen Mu slowly opened his eyes.

The two girls felt the world before them turn blindingly white, as though countless suns had erupted with intense light at once, stabbing their eyes until tears streamed down their faces!