Chapter 1509 — The House Wrecker and the Muddlehead
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Shu Jun looked, and could not help but shudder. He had indeed seen a living person, sitting beneath a tree and gazing at them with a smile.
The two men's faces turned ashen. They saw that the figure was a woman of peerless beauty, who rose from beneath the tree and beckoned to them from afar.
They looked again, and the woman had vanished; upon the withered tree of a moment before there now hung an additional fruit.
"A Dao Fruit!"
Their hearts pounded wildly. It was a Dao Fruit; though it looked shriveled and wrinkled, it was still filled with a rich Dao resonance.
"Could that woman just now have been a soul hidden within the Dao Fruit?"
At last, the Wind of Cold Silence died away.
Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun exchanged a glance, then together set their feet in motion and walked toward that Dao tree.
When they had drawn near, the two halted. They saw the Dao Fruit revolving gently upon the tree, and then the shriveled patterns upon it grew ever clearer, ever more distinct.
Wei Suifeng was on his guard, secretly wary.
Gradually, in their eyes the Dao Fruit swelled until it was as vast as a star. Every pattern upon it appeared incomparably coarse, and these patterns were composed of finer patterns, their structure endlessly complex.
Yet within the finer patterns there were still finer patterns!
Layer by layer they gazed, and the patterns upon the surface of the Dao Fruit revealed endless detail; the finer they looked, the more detail there was, the more mystery, the more profundity, the harder to comprehend!
Unconsciously the two were intoxicated by it, as though sunk in a puzzle game of strange charm; unable to restrain their curiosity, they kept observing ever finer detail.
Yet what they did not notice was that from the outside, the Dao Fruit had not changed in the least; it was they themselves who were changing!
Their two bodies were shrinking without cease, drawing ever closer to the Dao Fruit, smaller and smaller, nearer and nearer, until it seemed they would be swallowed into it!
Suddenly, Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun saw the most minute recess of the Dao Fruit, and there lay a woman of peerless beauty, not a stitch upon her, lying thus at the very center of the Dao Fruit.
She was sleeping within the Dao Fruit, sweet, alluring.
"Old Wei!"
Shu Jun's consciousness abruptly erupted, and he shouted, "Do not be bewitched by this woman!" With that, his consciousness struck Wei Suifeng's mind and jolted him awake.
Wei Suifeng was left forlorn and bereft, murmuring, "Another kind of beauty, no less than Jue Wuchen's..."
Then he came to himself: "How is it that this fellow Shu Jun was not bewitched? Can his Dao heart be stronger than mine?"
He did not know that Shu Jun's aesthetic sense was unlike other men's, and he did not find the woman beautiful in the least.
At this moment the two noticed that they had come into the interior of the Dao Fruit. Looking back, they saw endless Dao patterns entangled, sealing them within this strange Dao Fruit!
Standing here, they could see almost no light from the outside world, only endless Dao patterns!
Dao patterns shot in from all directions like chains, and the power contained in those patterns made even a being of Wei Suifeng's caliber, at the Imperial Throne Great Perfection realm, tremble and feel despair in his heart!
Shu Jun too sank into despair, and cried himself hoarse: "Shepherd Heavenly Venerable, you saved my life, and I cannot repay you with a life of my own!"
Boom—
Countless Dao patterns submerged them. Shu Jun closed his eyes, thinking himself dead, yet all around came an incomparably terrifying pulse, resisting the Dao Fruit's strangling patterns!
"Wei Suifeng is this formidable?"
Shu Jun was both startled and delighted: "I never would have guessed he had such ability..."