Chapter 1735: The Heavenly Feather Hundred Weave Painting
Lan Yutian examined this burial path divine coffin and couldn't help but praise, "Brother, this coffin is much better than your old one! The wood is exquisite, the materials are top-notch, and every nail is driven in the right place!"
Qin Mu was also very pleased and chuckled, "This coffin isn't bad at all, is it? Such a superior-grade coffin isn't something just anyone can enjoy. Even my own coffin is one or two grades inferior to this."
Lan Yutian nodded repeatedly. As he inspected it closely, he also saw the difficulty and said, "This coffin will be very hard to break open. It might take some time..."
Qin Mu said decisively, "Then there's no need to think of a way. We'll go directly to find Xing Han. My coffin was refined by Xing Han; if he can refine it, he can naturally break it."
Lan Yutian hesitated and asked, "Who is the person inside this coffin? If we don't do our utmost to rescue him, won't he be angry?"
"No. The person in the coffin is Tai Yi, and he has a very generous disposition."
Lan Yutian recalled Tai Yi's past actions, which indeed showed great magnanimity, so he also set his mind at ease.
Qin Mu calculated, "The problem is that Xing Han is not easy to find. When it comes to finding people, no one surpasses You Tianzun. You Tianzun can definitely locate him. However, You Tianzun has gone to the Ancestral Court to hunt down Hao Tianzun... There's no rush to find Xing Han to rescue Tai Yi. He has been suppressed for who knows how many billions of years; a few more days won't matter. The urgent task now is to send these three accomplished ones who came through blood sacrifices back."
With a thought, a sword light tore through the void and vanished.
Above the Yuan Realm, a sword light suddenly appeared, spanning millions of miles across the sky, a magnificent sight.
The sword light was so bright that it even outshone the sun, causing people to look up and stare.
In the Bazhou Supervisor's Factory of the Yan Kang, Shang Jun, who was working, looked up and gazed into the distance. Suddenly, the foreman shouted, "Xiao Shang, you're daydreaming again! Get back to work, or you won't get your wages this month!"
Shang Jun hesitated for a moment, wiped the grime from his face with a towel, and said to the foreman, "Mu Tianzun has released his sword energy and summoned me. Something major must have happened. I'll go over first. Just give me two days off."
The foreman laughed in exasperation: "Mu Tianzun summoned you? Why not say he invited you to go chop up some accomplished ones? You seem like an honest young man, but you're just a sly trickster! If you skip work again, your wages for this month will be docked!"
Shang Jun's face flushed red, and he stammered, "It really is Mu Tianzun summoning me. I never lie..."
The workers around them burst into laughter. Shang Jun was helpless. After arriving in Yan Kang, he had planned to experience life there. At first, it was quite pleasant, but unfortunately, Yan Kang didn't support idlers.
In the past, whether gods, demons, or even cultivators, they were all treated as lords by mortals, never worrying about food or clothing wherever they went.
But now in Yan Kang, merit was the only measure, and one had to live by their skills. There was no chance to freeload just by being a cultivator, god, or demon.
Shang Jun wanted to experience life in Yan Kang, but without money, it was impossible. He had no other skills, but he was strong and precise with his blade, so he found a job at the Bazhou Supervisor's Factory to earn some money and get by.
"Xiao Shang, the delivery is due in two days. If you leave, we won't finish on time."
The foreman waited for the laughter of the workers to die down before lowering his voice, "You're skilled. I'll have the factory supervisor double your pay..."
Before he could finish, the sky suddenly churned violently. A massive face appeared in the sky, covering half the eastern sky of Yan Kang. It was unmistakably the face of Mu Tianzun.
"Shang Jun! Shang Jun!"
The mouth of the face formed from primordial energy opened and closed, and Qin Mu's voice came through: "Prehistoric accomplished ones have descended. I need your help. If you're still in Yan Kang, come quickly to where the sword light appeared. I'm waiting for you!"
The foreman and the other cultivators working there were dumbfounded. They all looked at Shang Jun, thinking to themselves, "Could this 'Xiao Shang' really be the Shang Jun that Mu Tianzun is looking for?"
Suddenly, Shang Jun broke through the air, and thirty-five thunderous booms echoed across the sky. This "Xiao Shang" had started from within the factory and crossed thirty-five layers of void in a single step!
"I'll take two days off. I'll come back to finish the work!" Xiao Shang's voice came from beyond the heavens.
In the factory, everyone stared wide-eyed and open-mouthed, looking up at the sky, unable to snap out of it for a long time.
On the Ferry World Golden Ship in the thirty-fifth layer of void, Qin Mu and Lan Yutian waited quietly. Suddenly, a figure flickered, and an unremarkable young man appeared before them.
Qin Mu's spirits lifted, and he said, "Shang Jun is here. Yu Di, in this battle, the three of us will each handle one prehistoric accomplished one. Among us, the weakest link is you. You don't need to kill anyone; just hold that accomplished one off until either I or Shang Jun finishes our opponent, then we'll come to help you immediately!"
Lan Yutian hesitated and said, "Then you need to be quick. I absolutely cannot hold off an accomplished one from the Miluo Palace."
Qin Mu said decisively, "Don't worry. Shang Jun and I are fast enough! Shang Jun!"
His gaze fell on Shang Jun, and he said solemnly, "This time, we don't know who is coming from the Miluo Palace, but since the eight-year period hasn't fully ended, the one coming is certainly no small fry, likely at the level of a hall master. Your goal in this battle is to kill the opponent. If you can't kill him..."
Shang Jun understood his meaning and said, "I'll make sure he leaves crippled. Under my blade, leaving intact is absolutely impossible! After I leave him with a Dao wound, you can trace the mark of the Dao wound and find him easily!"
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "With your word, I'm reassured. Yu Di, the locations of these three Miluo Palace accomplished ones!"
Lan Yutian immediately used his primordial energy to form a geographical map of the Yuan Realm, marking the locations where the three Miluo Palace accomplished ones had descended. He said, "These three accomplished ones have almost fully descended. If we alert them, they will become wary and might escape. If an accomplished one gets away, finding them will be difficult. Worse, if they entrust their Dao to the void, their strength will return to its peak. At that point, none of us alone would be able to handle them."
Qin Mu studied the three marked positions on the geographical map and said solemnly, "So we cannot touch these sixteen blood sacrifice altars. Destroying any one of them will alert them. We need to reach all three positions simultaneously. Yu Di, you take the Ferry World Golden Ship to the farthest one. The ship will accelerate continuously along the way. By the time you get there, its speed will be at its peak. Just ram the ship straight into him! Shang Jun!"
His eyes flickered, and he said, "You go kill the nearest one. This accomplished one's landing spot is very peculiar—inside the city of Da You in the southwest of Yan Kang. Da You City has a large population, and judging by his landing position, he should be in a busy market district. Killing him without destroying Da You City or harming its people will depend on your skill. You're the closest to him, so you can adjust your aura and think of a strategy along the way."
Shang Jun nodded silently.
Qin Mu's gaze fell on the third position, and he said, "I will observe your speeds, calculate the optimal time, and go kill the third accomplished one. The moment you each find your opponent is also the moment I make my move!"
He stood up, stored Tai Yi's coffin into his divine treasure domain, and said solemnly, "Let's go!"
The Ferry World Golden Ship carried Lan Yutian and sailed out of the thirty-fifth layer of void first.
Qin Mu looked at Shang Jun, who took a step and walked unhurriedly toward Da You City.
Qin Mu calculated Shang Jun's speed, then urged the Ferry World Golden Ship to accelerate evenly. By the time Shang Jun reached Da You City, the golden ship would also arrive before the farthest accomplished one!
Having determined both their speeds, he flickered and vanished.
Half a day later, Shang Jun finally arrived at Da You City. The city was bustling with people, lively and crowded.
Da You City was not only home to the original inhabitants of Yan Kang but also a gathering place arranged by Yan Kang for the people of Wu You Xiang. There were also many people from the Chi Ming Floating Realm.
Trade here was thriving, with spiritual energy transfer bridges connecting to other heavens. This divine city was exceptionally lively.
Shang Jun walked through the busy market, carefully sensing the differences in this place. Before long, he stopped and looked across the street through the crowd at a cloth shop.
His gaze fell on a painting hanging on the wall directly opposite the shop's entrance. The painting depicted the Heavenly Feather Hundred Weave.
The Heavenly Feather Clan excelled at weaving and tailoring clothes. They could be considered the finest weavers under heaven. From Mu Tianzun down to the common people, everyone took pride in owning a garment made by the Heavenly Feather Clan.
Qin Mu's clothes were personally refined by Yu Zhao Qing, the chieftain of the Heavenly Feather Clan, and were used by the clan as a hallmark.
This cloth shop was run by a member of the Heavenly Feather Clan. Most of the customers coming and going were women, with very few men. They were selecting fabrics and haggling with the shopkeeper, creating a lively scene.
Shang Jun stared at the Heavenly Feather Hundred Weave painting and walked into the cloth shop. As the name suggested, the painting depicted a hundred women of the Heavenly Feather Clan weaving and dyeing cloth, each with a different expression.
However, at some point, a woman with a limp had appeared in the painting, hiding behind the other women.
This painting had hung in the cloth shop for so long that no one had ever noticed an extra woman had appeared in it.
Shang Jun's right hand bulged with veins, then subsided, then bulged again. As he walked through the crowd, his body movements constantly shifted as he sidestepped around the women.
By the time he reached the painting, his physical and bodily functions had been adjusted to their peak. Suddenly, he flickered and vanished!
At that moment, a man appeared in the Heavenly Feather Hundred Weave painting!
The other women in the painting remained motionless, but a man and a woman's figures crossed paths, clashing hundreds of times in an instant. In the cloth shop, the girls selecting fabrics still didn't notice this scene, captivated as they were by the exquisite fabrics of the Heavenly Feather Clan.
Chi—
A faint sound came from the Heavenly Feather Hundred Weave painting. Then a blush of red seeped out from the painting, and a streak of red light shot through the air and vanished.
Shang Jun stepped out of the painting and silently walked away.
Behind him, the hundred women of the Heavenly Feather Clan in the painting were still there, but the painting now had an extra pair of legs.
A woman's legs.
"If I go back now, I should still make it in time for work," Shang Jun thought to himself.