Chapter 1098 — The Blood Imprint Left by the Years

On this day, the Shepherd Venerable opened the books of history, and history was dripping with blood.

In those years, on the Yong River, Shen Mu had summoned a ghost ship with a peachwood hairpin, making history rise again and the Heavenly River reconnect, and the deed startled Yin Tianzi; when Yin Tianzi saw it, he spoke a line that became a classic: "Just who is it that is digging up the old debts of history? " The reason the history of the Longhan era had been erased was that the old accounts in this history were filled with blood and conspiracy. On this day, the Heavenly Emperor fell.

This first ancient god in all history, this invincible being who had ended the chaos of the Creators' wars among themselves and united the universe and the primeval wilds, died without a sound at the hands of demigods and the Venerables of the human race.

He had had a chance to escape; his strength was immense, and even with all of them joining hands it would have been hard to keep him there.

Yet when he broke through the encirclement and tried to flee that place, he met a divine sense of incomparable strength; the divine sense came crashing down and forced him back. "Gong Yun!

" Chuxiao, muddled and dazed, was blocked once more by Cloud Venerable, Hao Venerable, and the rest, and lost his last chance at life.

"Gong Yun. Heh heh.

So it is you!

" Chuxiao laughed aloud, fending off the crowd, then looked again at Jue Wuchen, who was charging in, and the absurdity in his heart only deepened.

He had never imagined that the ones who would put him to death would be two women he had once loved.

Gong Yun did not show herself; from the shadows she watched this scene coldly, watching how the man who had betrayed her died.

Chuxiao was near madness, and the divine abilities he unleashed were mightier than those of the other Emperor Throne realm beings; reincarnated body though he was, in single combat his battle power still stood far above the rest.

He broke through the encirclement once more and cried out at the top of his voice: "Earth Mother Yuanjun, save Us at once!

Whatever terms you demand, We will grant them all! " The Yuan Tree stood lush and verdant, its branches swaying, and around Earth Mother Yuanjun were gathered many ancient gods born of the Yuan Realm, most of them phoenixes, divine dragons, qilins, and the like.

Those ancient gods all turned their eyes to the Earth Mother; Earth Mother Yuanjun seemed neither to hear nor to see, watching the scene coldly, and a faint smile even rose on her face as she said to the ancient phoenix god beside her, "In those years, when my spirit awareness was born from the Yuan Tree, it was the Heavenly Emperor who pulled me up. At the time, when I first came into being, I had not yet put on any clothes; how mortified I was.

" Then her face turned to frost, and she said coldly, "And yet, once the Heavenly Court was built, he wanted to seize my Yuan Realm! " Chuxiao despaired and tried to break through the Yuan Tree's blockade, rushing for the sky.

Behind him came the crowd in pursuit. "Great Sun Star Lord! " Chuxiao cried out. "Great Sun Star Lord!

Hurry, come save Us!

" But his voice could not reach beyond the Yuan Tree's canopy.

"Tubo!

I know you can see this, Tubo!

" Chuxiao cried, his expression in panic.

"We know We were wrong.

I beg you, friend, for the sake of old times.

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" In Youdu all was silence. Chuxiao fought as he went, battling his way up to the Heavenly River, trying to hurry back to the Heavenly Court; the waters of the Heavenly River were dyed crimson by his blood.

Whoo— Chuxiao dodged strike after strike in midair, and in his haste glimpsed, on the Heavenly River, a youth with a qilin's head and a human body and a plump girl standing there, along with six divine beings with dragon heads and human bodies.

They were holding up lanterns and looking his way. Chuxiao opened his mouth, and in a daze he saw that in the halo behind the plump girl's head there was a tree, and beneath the tree sat a youth.

"Shepherd Venerable.

. .

" He could not help but lose himself.

Boom!

Cloud Venerable unleashed the Purple Empyrean Azure Void Art and struck him down; Chuxiao plunged into the Heavenly River, then burst out of the water, and all around him figures swayed and closed in, surrounding him on every side. In the distance, within the halo behind Yan'er's head, Shen Mu sat beneath the Dragon Blood Treasure Tree, gazing at this scene from afar, moved beyond measure.

The Heavenly River had broken apart; one mighty figure after another came and went like lightning, divine abilities of every hue blazing forth in splendor, a sight to make one gasp in admiration!

By the middle and late Longhan era, the power of dao arts and divine abilities had already grown considerable; the powerhouses who had entered the dao were by and large all gathered here, fighting together for the future of the demigods and the post-heaven living beings!

Shen Mu's blood seethed; he wanted to rise to his feet and join this battle, but his divine sense was scattered, and he could only watch as they drifted farther and farther away. Chuxiao fled, breaking through the encirclement, when suddenly another wave of divine sense surged and forced him back.

Shen Mu sensed that divine sense at once and hurriedly roused his remaining divine sense: "Yan'er, the Divine King Gong Yun is nearby! " Yan'er rejoiced and hastily looked all around; with difficulty Shen Mu raised his palm and took out the one and only Taichu divine stone, the very stone he had obtained in the Bloodrust Zone.

"Long Pi, use this divine stone!

" The Taichu divine stone flew out; Dragon Qilin hurriedly caught it and pressed it to the point between his brows, and Shen Mu's last remaining stone flew over, teaching him how to mobilize and borrow the divine stone to strengthen his own thoughts. Dragon Qilin had, after all, studied Shu Jun's Three Enclosures Higher Consciousness, and had also studied the Three Primes Indestructible Consciousness; he got the knack at once, and with the help of the Taichu divine stone he unleashed his divine sense.

He visualized the Three Enclosures Higher Consciousness, and above the Heavenly River there at once appeared the stars of the Purple Forbidden Enclosure, the Supreme Palace Enclosure, and the Heavenly Market Enclosure. Just then, a vast and mighty divine sense came surging in, transforming into a woman's voice: "Divine King Shu Jun?

" Shen Mu sat beneath the Dragon Blood Treasure Tree, panting for breath; he used his remaining divine sense to touch Gong Yun's divine sense, and smiled.

"Do you still remember the old friend who led you out of the Ancestral Court? " That divine sense flew like the wind into the halo behind Yan'er's head, coursed once around his body, and then in his mind became the phantom of the Divine King Gong Yun, who said, "It was the Great Emperor who caused your wounds.

Back then, the one who blocked Dahong outside the Xiaohan Heavenly Court was you, was it not? You gravely wounded him.

I arrived one step too late and found only his corpse.

" Shen Mu was startled.

"Dahong is dead? " "Who knows whether he died at the hand of the Lord of Heaven or at the hand of the Earth Mother; even his divine sense was ground away to nothing.

And yet, dead, he does not fall; his divine sense will be cast down from the Ultimate Void and he will be reborn. Only, Dahong's memories are surely gone. Whoever struck that blow was truly formidable. " The Divine King Gong Yun spoke swiftly: "You have done me a kindness, and I will repay it.

Only, Taichu is not yet dead; wait until I have helped them finish off Taichu, and then I will come find you!

" Gong Yun's divine sense departed swiftly: "Be wary of the Great Emperor. Unless the brand of his divine sense in the Ultimate Void is destroyed, he will never die. I sense that he is lurking nearby!