Chapter 400 — The Supreme Divine Pupil
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"The reason Zi Qing failed for a hundred years is that she had already realized that to create the two wells of sun and moon, she would have to sacrifice her own holy pupils. Once the wells were made, she would go blind.
So she spent a hundred years in unrestrained pleasure.
" Shen Mu groped over the sun's surface, and after a while found a raised circular pattern.
His vital essence surged out, and the pattern was at once lit by it and began to spin without cease. At the same time, the dozen or so arrays inside the sun that held the chains began to rotate, loosening their grip. Shen Mu looked up. "Only when the emperor flew into a rage did she devote herself wholly to refining the wells, and in the end she gouged out her own eyes and lit the Dawn Spring and the Soul Spring.
" Before him, the structure within the sun changed ceaselessly as the arrays were unlocked, giving off great clanging booms, while the complex patterns on the sun's surface lit up one after another, and great plate after great plate of its outer layer withdrew backward, layer upon layer! The half-sun seemed to come alive, frightening everyone into retreating again and again, startled and uncertain. The sun's structure kept changing, and after a moment this half of the enormous sun shrank into a solid wall of metal standing upright before them.
Shen Mu went to the other half of the sun and did the same; that half changed as well, becoming another metal wall. The two walls stood before them, a hundred zhang tall and several li long, ancient and golden. "The goddess Zi Qing knew she must sacrifice her holy pupils to the wells before she could complete the task the emperor had given her, so she spent a hundred years in pleasure, and then fifty more to fulfill the emperor's charge.
What a remarkable woman. " Shen Mu sighed in admiration, and gazing at the two metal walls, his face showed reverence.
He said softly, "Her name was Zi Qing: Zi means elder sister, and Qing is her given name — it means she was the elder sister in the family who loved to wear blue-green robes.
What a pity that I have no chance to meet such a remarkable person. .
. What is the matter with you all? " He turned to look, and saw everyone staring at him dumbly, mouths agape.
Shen Mu could not help feeling puzzled, and explained, "Zi as in sisters, Qing as in blue robes.
Zi Qing means 'the elder sister who wears blue robes. '" "Not that!
" an elder stammered. "Prince, you have unlocked the sun's arrays!
" Shen Mu understood all at once and laughed.
"Unlocking them was not difficult. I have done some study of divine arts like the holy pupil. In the Jingping Kingdom I even forged a holy pupil of similar structure myself — though of course it was not as intricate as this sun.
Zi Qing was truly formidable! " He raised his head and gazed up at the two walls. "I have learned a great deal.
I truly wish I could enter the wells and look upon her eyes.
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