Tales of Herding Gods - Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Strolling On Water

Translator: Ninetales  Editor: Ninetales

Qin Mu ran just like the wind, his important qi rising stronger and stronger. Irrespective of what number of miles he sprinted, the inhabitants of Disabled Aged Village may at all times match his stride. Even Blind may sustain with everybody as if he had been steadily shifting throughout flat land.

Simply as Qin Mu entered a sure forest, a pitch black determine appeared and bellowed, “Die, younger’un…!”

It was the satan ape! It unleashed a livid bellow when it noticed Qin Mu, the “younger’un”, invading its territory as soon as once more.

One-armed Outdated Ma glanced on the raging satan ape.

This look was devoid of emotion. It terrified the humongous beast, making it really feel as if it will be useless within the subsequent second. In consequence, it didn’t dare to be smug, instantly abandoning its territory and fleeing as an alternative.

Qin Mu continued to dash all the way in which again, his important qi circulating and thriving as the remainder of the journey handed with out incident. Solely upon reaching Disabled Aged Village did he get up from his trance and uncover that he was coated in filth. With out him realizing, a thick layer of muck that was both black blood or dirty fats had caked his physique.

“Mu’er, go to the river and wash,” Granny Si stated. “Blind, go together with him in order that the monsters within the river gained’t take him away.”

Blind leaned on his bamboo cane and adopted Qin Mu to the river. Qin Mu instantly stripped bare and jumped into the water, washing away the filth.

Blind gently tapped the floor of the river together with his bamboo cane, alarming an enormous inexperienced fish that had snuck up on Qin Mu. It promptly leaped from the water and splashed a number of yards away. That fish spanned about six and a half yards in size, and its whiskers resembled eight tentacles that had been every three yards lengthy.

After washing himself, Qin Mu appeared on the waves of the river. Bravery swelled inside his chest, rising right into a raging blaze of emotion.

His important qi churned restlessly, surging up towards his throat till he unleashed a guttural cry. It appeared as if he had opened the temperament treasure vault of the gods!

The cry traveled all through the mountains and the forest, inflicting the floor of the river to tremble.

As he sustained the reverberating cry, Qin Mu rose from the water, immediately dashing throughout the floor of the river with nice strides!

With every step, the power of his ft fused with important qi that streamed down his legs to create a sudden burst of drive. Each time his ft hit the floor of the river, the water exploded in each path!

Earlier than the disturbed water may even fall again to the river, Qin Mu would already be a number of yards forward, operating throughout the water.

Faucet faucet faucet faucet faucet—!

The crisp sound of Qin Mu’s ft slapping in opposition to water resounded by way of the air. Quickly sufficient, he’d run over a mile throughout the river’s floor.

Qin Mu felt as free as a chicken, his cries rising increasingly ecstatic. He fortunately ran to his coronary heart’s content material, his broad strides and carefree footsteps taking him all around the river. It sounded as if heavenly music performed by a band of immortals had been descending from the sky, accompanied by the melodious cries of a dragon and a phoenix.

Qin Mu’s velocity was astonishing. In simply a short while, he had already managed to run from one aspect of the river to the opposite. A delicate wind blew throughout the river’s rippling floor as he already started making his method again to the aspect he had began from.

Blind propped himself up together with his bamboo cane because the wind swept over him from the river, ruffling his white hair. Listening to Qin Mu’s cries of pleasure, he gently nodded his head and smiled.

“While the monkey cried incessantly from one aspect of a river to a different, the dreadfully chilly wind froze his crotch!” he recited loudly. “Don’t you’re feeling chilly whereas fortunately roaming the river together with your rear uncovered, Mu’er?”

Qin Mu fell into the water with a splash, a cry of astonishment echoing from the middle of the river.

A second later, the youth swam ashore and exited the water in embarrassment, drying his physique in order that he may put his garments again on.

Qin Mu’s second of enlightenment on the financial institution of the river made him get forward of himself, inflicting him to fully overlook he was bare and begin sprinting throughout the river. But, as he did this solely bare, it had really been fairly cool and refreshing for him.

“It’s a superb factor that Grandpa Blind can’t see…” he thought to himself.

Qin Mu bought dressed and was in the course of adjusting his shirt when he immediately appeared up. Outdated Ma, Mute, and the remainder of the villagers had been standing within the forest in entrance of him. Even Granny Si and Village Chief, who was being carried on a stretcher, had come.

Qin Mu’s face turned beet crimson.

“G-granny! W-when did all of you get right here?” he requested, stuttering.

Granny Si burst into laughter and stated, “Mu’er, all of us have seen your butt numerous instances, so there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. We heard your energetic cries and came to visit to take a look.”

“Come right here, Mu’er,” Village Chief stated, coughing gently. “Because you had been chased down by 5 practitioners of the Spirit Embryo Realm, you most likely have some accidents which are tougher to note. Let Apothecary study you.”

Qin Mu stepped ahead and allowed Apothecary do an intensive examination of his physique.

Ending up, Apothecary shook his head and stated, “There aren’t any main issues. All of his wounds are superficial.”

Village Chief then carried out an examination of his personal, the indicated that Qin Mu may go away. Butcher instantly dragged him away to have him practice his knife talent.

Unhappy with how Qin Mu wanted to make use of over 5 thousand strikes to beat that Senior Brother Qu, Butcher had determined to place him by way of cruel coaching.

Apothecary watched Qin Mu’s vigorous knife coaching as he walked over to Village Chief’s stretcher.

“Did you uncover something?” he requested.

“The velocity at which his important qi cultivation is advancing… is awfully quick!” Village Chief exclaimed, hiding nothing. “The distinction between yesterday and at this time reveals that his progress is past my creativeness. His cries from earlier may have solely been made by having his throat resonate with important qi. They even possessed god and satan traits. Ignoring the truth that he has but to interrupt his Spirit Embryo Wall, even a Spirit Embryo Realm practitioner wouldn’t be capable of obtain god or satan resonance! If we had been extraordinary people like him, it will take us twenty years to domesticate our important qi to that time.”

The cries that Qin Mu had subconsciously launched as he ran throughout the river had been the results of his throat resonating with important qi. On the similar time, nonetheless, he had inadvertently infused his cry with features of the satan voice he had heard within the ruins.

The unusual factor was, he had additionally memorized the collective voice of the maidens whereas analyzing the satan’s voice. Due to this fact, he had dedicated each single a part of their god voice to reminiscence.

In consequence, his had additionally infused features of the god voice into his cries with out realizing it.

When the others heard Qin Mu’s cries, they thought of them regular as a result of they couldn’t detect the profoundness behind them. Nonetheless, since Village Chief may hear it clearly, it positively wasn’t a small matter.

“God and satan resonance!?” Apothecary jumped in shock. “How did he obtain such a factor? It’s just too terrifying to realize twenty years value of cultivation in a single day… may the blood of the 4 spirits have prompted this?”

Village chief shook his head. “Though the blood of the 4 spirits can enhance his structure and important qi, enhancing them to such a stage is unattainable.”

Apothecary thought deeply to himself, then replied, “May it’s that Mu’er is definitely a pure genius? May he have been the proper seedling for cultivation since he was born?”

“Why would a pure genius have the structure of an extraordinary human?” Village Chief frowned. “A pure genius would’ve been born with a Spirit Physique. Moreover, to really obtain god and satan resonance… which genius may do such a factor?”

“Is the god and satan resonance in his cries good or unhealthy?” Apothecary requested.

“I don’t know,” Village Chief replied. “I heard each god and satan resonance in his cries. The god voice and the satan voice inside them had been preventing in opposition to one another. I’m unsure if that’s good or unhealthy.”

Apothecary gaze faltered and he requested, “If that’s the case, the place did the god voice and the satan voice come from?”

“I don’t know!”

The heads of each males started to ache. It had been a very long time since they’d a headache as a result of they couldn’t perceive a state of affairs. The variety of issues they couldn’t perceive had solely continued to extend ever since they adopted Qin Mu who had floated down the river as a child.

Evening quickly fell, and Disabled Aged Village was as soon as once more shrouded in darkness. At a sure wood home, Granny Si slept in her room and Qin Mu slept on his personal.

Midway by way of the evening, a somber voice resounded inside the thoughts of the unconscious Qin Mu. A melodious voice echoed in response. These had been the god and satan voices from earlier than. They began to combat one another, their voices rising noisier and louder.

The resonance of the god and satan voices slowly intensified right into a conflict between darkness and light-weight. Inside his thoughts, Qin Mu immediately changed into a formless soul floating within the sky above that conflict, blankly staring under him.

The placement of this combat between darkness and light-weight appeared precisely just like the ruins the place he first witnessed such a spectacle. Nonetheless, this place was far more huge and majestic. The darkness resembled tentacles continually piercing by way of the sunshine, whereas the sunshine would immediately strike briefly bursts, wiping out the darkness.

Moments later, Qin Mu was lastly capable of clearly see what made up the darkness and the sunshine.. The darkness was really countless waves of devils swarming towards the sunshine like gushing tides.

The devilish voice wasn’t the voice of a single entity, however the battle cries of billions of devils!

This was the identical for the sunshine. It was really a sea of gods carrying golden armor crying out, swarming to combat the devils!

Qin Mu at present ‘stood’ excessive above this battle, making all the gods and devils appear to be tiny dots. He had thought it was the conflict between mild and darkness as a result of he was too removed from the battle to get a transparent look.

Now that he may see what was really taking place, shock and horror overwhelmed him!

Qin Mu immediately opened his eyes, his physique drenched with sweat. He realized that the vociferous voices of gods and devils had been filling his thoughts, threatening to separate his head in two.

Nonetheless, proper at that second, the jade pendant he wore at his chest slowly rose into the air, floating as much as the middle of his forehead and gently coming to relaxation there. A mushy, soothing feeling flowed into Qin Mu’s head, and the voices vanished.

Qin Mu sat up abruptly, respiratory deeply as confusion stuffed his coronary heart. He had no thought what had simply occurred.

Moments later, he left the home and walked by way of the village, evaluating his jade pendant and the ghostly glow of the village’s stone statues.

Darkness enshrouded all the things outdoors the village, so the jade pendant gave off a equally ethereal glow. Qin Mu stared on the pendant in a daze, his eyes shining with its glow. He gave the impression to be unable to take them off of it.

Unknown to him, Granny Si approached from behind and occurred to see this haunting scene.

“Though we of Disabled Aged Village raised him, he doesn’t belong with us,” she thought to herself, coronary heart aching terribly. “He’ll have to depart sometime…”

Then, impulsively, willpower appeared in her eyes as she resolved herself.

“The skin world is far more harmful than the Nice Ruins! He isn’t sturdy sufficient! Not but!”