Chapter 584 — Male Roe Deer Stamp Their Hooves in Chaos, Female Roe Deer's Eyes Grow Misty

Shen Mu drew out the Sun Jade Eye and the Moon Jade Eye swift as flight, setting one before him and one behind, while banners whirled around his body, drawing every living thing within ten paces into the patterns of their formations. They were teleportation banners. To use his teleportation divine ability took time, whereas the banners were far more convenient, able to activate in the blink of an eye and carry him much farther.

He had refined these formation banners precisely to guard against an assault by gods or demons, so that he would not be caught helpless as he had been in Vajra's clutches. The banners were only a hair faster than the teleportation divine ability, but a hair's breadth of time could save a life!

Yet no sooner had the banners begun to spin, no sooner had the runes on their cloth kindled, than banner after banner burst apart with a bang, the shredded cloth scattering like bright butterflies, leaving only bare poles stuck askew in the ground! "The gods and demons strike far faster than I reckoned!

" Shen Mu wasted no motion and no thought.

He activated the two jade eyes at once; the moon qi within turned to moonlight, the sun qi to sunlight, both unbearably fierce. He gripped the two jade eyes one in either hand, ready at any moment to meet the foe. The beams from the jade eyes were thick and broad, sweeping the surroundings with a humming drone.

When the pupils of the two jade eyes were at their widest, they held little power and served only for light.

But so long as Shen Mu's palm tugged at the nerve clusters within, he could shift the formations inside and gather the radiance of the sun and moon stars into a single line! Those two beams then possessed the power to wound a god! He had long since tested them on Lord Huanlong. Shen Mu watched his surroundings warily and said in a low voice, "Could it be the Honored Goddess Tianfeng Gou who comes?

" "It is I.

" A woman in white that outshone the snow walked slowly toward him through the moonlight of the Moon Jade Eye. She was indeed beautiful, her hair coiled into a Dawn Cloud Near-Incense bun, twin strands twined and pinned up, slanting ever so slightly. Her skirt was very full and her palace-style bodice loose, yet her waist was slender, a waist one could span with a single hand. She had a manner all her own, her eyes cold and indifferent, as though little in the world could stir or move her.

The corner of Shen Mu's eye twitched.

A woman like this, once she set her mind and fixed on a thing, would be very hard to turn.

The herd of silly roe deer around him feared the approaching Tianfeng Gou not at all; they were gnawing at the hem of his robe, rolling it with their tongues and feeding it into their mouths.

Several more lifted their heads and stared at him in curiosity, and one buck bleated back and forth at him, yoo-yoo.

Shen Mu faced her as though before a great enemy, staring at Tianfeng Gou in alarm, unwilling to miss any movement she made. But the deer tugged too hard, and he had no choice but to tug back at his collar and pull his robe from their mouths. "Yoo!

Yoo—" Several bucks grew angry, lowered their heads, and butted their horns at his backside: one butted, then backed off a few steps to gather force; another butted, then backed off a few steps to gather force.

Shen Mu stood steady as a mountain, unmoving, letting the deer ram his backside again and again. "No wonder the Great Honored One grafted deer legs onto himself.

These roe deer are utterly maddening! " Tianfeng Gou swept a glance over the deer butting Shen Mu, then let her gaze fall on the two jade eyes beside him.

"Will Sect Master Shen give me an accounting? " she said. "Why did you kill my disciples? And not merely kill them, but wipe out every one of my disciples?

I had only these few, taught with all my care, and all of them died at Sect Master Shen's hands.

Even if you are the Heavenly Master's disciple, you must explain yourself clearly. " "It seems the Honored Goddess Feng Gou does not know what her own disciples have done.

" The alarm on Shen Mu's face vanished; plainly he had let out a great breath of relief. His gaze earnest, he said, "Feng Gou, your disciple Guan He and those junior brothers of hers have already thrown in with the demon race and meant to do me harm.

I had no choice but to strike ruthlessly, or my life would not have been safe. " Tianfeng Gou gave a soft "oh" and said, "If Sect Master Shen says my disciples turned traitor, surely you can produce evidence? " Shen Mu picked up the two jade eyes and retreated slowly.

"Honored Goddess Feng Gou, please follow me. " He withdrew step by step, the two jade eyes still held steady in his hands, ready for any turn. The Dragon Qilin, carrying the little fox, was also retreating slowly, and behind their backsides the nine silly roe deer were still butting away at them, dogged as could be. Shen Mu retreated little by little to the small mountain village, into the village itself, and said in a low voice, "Feng Gou, look. " Tianfeng Gou looked at the corpse of the demon-race expert of the Heaven-Man realm, and her pupils narrowed slightly. Shen Mu said, "These traces left by divine abilities should all be the divine abilities of Feng Gou's disciples, should they not?

And not the divine ability of one person, but of five.

Guan He told me that she fought this demon expert and spent a great deal of effort before she cut him down. Then why are there traces of five people's divine abilities? " Tianfeng Gou said mildly, "It is also possible that Guan He claimed credit that was not hers. " "Can the Honored Goddess Feng Gou truly not see the fatal wound on the corpse?

You are a master of the sword; you should be able to tell. To pierce and slay the primordial spirit of this demon expert with a single sword in so short a time, the distance must have been extremely close.

" Shen Mu said in a low voice, "From the corpse's expression, he never imagined Guan He would strike at him; that is why his face shows astonishment.

Guan He was so close to him, and he was off guard, and she cut down his primordial spirit. Could that happen between enemies? Since they were not enemies, then they must have been friends. Do the Honored Goddess Feng Gou's disciples collude with the demon race?

Is more evidence needed? " Tianfeng Gou's eyes flickered.

"It is needed," she said softly.

"I am still somewhat puzzled. If she colluded with the demon race, then why did Guan He kill a demon? " "Because she needed this demon expert's head to win my trust. " Shen Mu went on, "Only so could she approach me without hindrance. Look again, Honored Goddess Feng Gou: is there any divine ability of the demon race here?

If this was a contest of blows, then why did this demon expert die without unleashing a single divine ability?

With your eye, Feng Gou, seeing this is not difficult. " Tianfeng Gou's face was expressionless. "And what else? " Shen Mu said, "The traces of divine abilities here make the fight look fierce, yet no divine ability destroyed this small mountain village, nor even touched it in the slightest.

That shows all five of them took part, and that four of them used their divine abilities here in this village to tamper with the scene. Surely this too counts as evidence? " Tianfeng Gou let out a turbid breath, and a faint smile appeared on her expressionless face. "Sect Master Shen sees the smallest detail," she said softly. "It seems my disciples did indeed throw in with the demon race. It was my failure of judgment in taking disciples, and it nearly bred a great disaster.

" The Snow Fox looked doubtful and glanced at Shen Mu. But Shen Mu was as though a heavy weight had lifted from him.

He smiled and said, "No blame attaches to the unknowing.