Chapter 742 — Altering One's Appearance

When day broke, Bai Qu'er and the whole Shanghuang Era drained away and vanished like black sand. Will this world be the same as that one — vanishing at dawn and returning to the Wasteland. . . " Old Ox coughed, cutting off his reverie: "Junior Brother, I'm afraid there's no night here. " Shen Mu was stunned.

He looked up at the sky, where sun after sun hung high, and indeed this ancient Heavenly Court could not possibly have night! Old Ox said: "Kaihuang once said that he too had gone through a bizarre incident and vanished for several months.

I suspect the bizarre incident we've run into this time and the one Kaihuang ran into are one and the same! That is to say, we may well be trapped in this era for several months, just as Kaihuang was in his youth.

" Shen Mu mused: "The time Kaihuang met with the bizarre must have been thirty or forty thousand years ago. He is not of our era. I don't know whether meeting him will bring about something even stranger. Senior Brother Sanduo, does Kaihuang recognize you? " Old Ox was slightly taken aback: "Of course he recognizes me.

Kaihuang was very good to me. Several times he asked me to take charge of a heavenly palace, but I dislike trouble, so I declined. " "When did the two of you first meet? " Shen Mu asked.

Old Ox thought it over: "I always followed the master. In his early years the master herded cattle for a wealthy household, and I was one of the oxen he tended. I saw the master secretly learning boxing, and I learned along with him.

One day I opened my mouth and spoke, which gave the master a fright, and so we became good friends.

When the wealthy household learned that their family's secret art had been learned by a cowherd, they wanted to kill him. So I carried the master and ran. We fled for a long time, and then we met Kaihuang. He beat off our pursuers, and the master and I followed him from then on. At that time he was only a divine-power wielder of the Seven Stars realm. " "Then that was very early on. He will certainly recognize you. " Shen Mu jumped down from his back, opened the Taotie Pouch, and took out a sheet of yellow memorial paper: "Senior Brother Sanduo, first take human form.

" Old Ox transformed into a god-man with an ox's head and a human body.

Shen Mu stuck the yellow memorial paper to his forehead and said: "This is the Lord of Youdu's yellow memorial paper. Worn on the body, it keeps others from seeing your true face.

That way, we needn't worry about Kaihuang recognizing you. I have only this one sheet. When I snatched it, the Benevolent Sage King of Tianqi chased me for a long while, so it must be a good thing. " Old Ox peeled off the yellow paper and asked curiously: "Does it work if you stick it somewhere else too? On the forehead it feels strange, and it blocks my view. " "I've never tried sticking it elsewhere.

" Shen Mu studied him, and sure enough could not see his face. He ventured: "How about you give it a try?

" Old Ox took off the yellow paper and tucked it away on his person: "Can you see my face?

" Shen Mu still could not see his face; he could only make out vaguely that he seemed to be an old man. He laughed: "The Lord's yellow memorial paper can actually be used this way?

When he stuck it on my face, I thought it could only be stuck on the face.

Now — let us chase down Kaihuang! " He roused the Art of Creation and altered his own features until nothing of his original appearance could be seen. Old Ox circulated his magic power and bore him along swift as wind and lightning, and soon caught up with the kun ahead. A flash of light, and the two landed on the kun's back.

Pressed down by Niu Sanduo, the kun sank sharply, plunging headlong from the sky!

"Which exalted god is playing such a joke on this humble deity? " The kun cried out in alarm: "Get off, get off!

The exalted god's body is too heavy — this humble deity cannot bear it!

" Old Ox's face reddened slightly, and he hastily circulated his magic power, holding himself up with vital essence.

The kun, on the verge of striking the ground, suddenly found the weight lifted, and hurriedly beat its fins to pull itself up, sweeping slantwise past a mighty deity with a bird's head, a human body, and wings like clouds. That deity was wreathed in sacred fire, as though standing within a blazing sun, and looked curiously at the people on the fish's back.

It was none other than the Great Sun Star Lord Shen Mu had seen earlier. The kun passed between palace after palace, then dove down, slipped under a flying bridge, pulled itself up again, and shot up into the clouds, only then steadying itself. It laughed: "Exalted god, you boarded midway and didn't pay like the others, so you'll have to give a few more spirit pills. " Old Ox's face flushed red, and he mumbled: "What spirit pills?

" The passengers on the fish's back were all watching the suddenly appeared Shen Mu and Niu Sanduo. One young man among them laughed: "Kun love to eat Jade Dragon Pills. The Heavenly Court is vast, so the Kun Spirit carries passengers roaming the Heavenly Court to collect a few Jade Dragon Pills to fill its belly.

If the two of you have no Jade Dragon Pills, I have some here and can advance them for you. " Shen Mu thanked him: "Then many thanks, senior brother. How should I address you, senior brother? " The young man was extraordinarily handsome.

He laughed: "My surname is Yin; I am called Zhaojin.

How should I address you, senior brother? " Shen Mu's gaze flickered: "Yin Zhaojin? Yin is a rare surname. Senior Brother Yin, do you know someone called Yin Tianzi? " The young and handsome man was startled, then laughed: "Am I that famous?

To tell the truth, in our little backwater I called myself Yin Tianzi.

But that was all countryside joking among ourselves. So you are Brother Shen!

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