Chapter 1428 — Yao Pool Reappears

" The overseers seemed not to hear, and that same overseer went on crying: ".

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We will never breathe a word that it was Mu Tianzun who robbed us, having lost the divine ore the Divine Emperor will have us executed anyway, so we must flee.

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. " Shen Mu had to repeat himself before they understood, and the overseer rejoiced: "The Tianzun has not come to rob? Heaven has eyes, the Tianzun has changed his nature, no more robbing.

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. " Shen Mu's face sank as he shouted: "I was invited here by your Langxuan Divine Emperor, enough chatter, get it done!

" The overseers rushed off, bawling orders for the mine slaves to lend their hands, laying the mined divine jade between the eight veins, and Shen Mu said in a low voice: "Do not stand idle either, hurry and help. " The overseers smiled apologetically: "Tianzun does not know, these mine slaves are sly as foxes, they will only work with the whip upon them.

With no one whipping them they will shirk and cheat!

" Shen Mu seized the whip and lashed several overseers crack crack crack, and the other mine slaves seeing it cheered and applauded. The overseers, whipped till the blood ran, hastened to work.

Shen Mu waited quietly as range after range of jade mountains slowly closed, and after a long time the last range was joined at last. Hum!

As the final piece of jade fell into place, suddenly the great Dao of heaven and earth roared, and in the sky the rosy light of the great Dao descended with a hum, like the aurora of the polar lands, coursing like dragons along the run of the ranges!

Nor was that all, for beneath these eight ranges the rosy light of the great Dao welled up from the earth to meet and merge with the light from the sky.

The sound of the Dao shook and thundered, like great bells, like the measure of zithers, like long flutes, like pipes and drums, the mingled music of the Dao ringing long.

The overseers and the many mine slaves gaped at the sight, stunned.

One overseer muttered: "The sun has risen in the west, Mu Tianzun has not come to tear down the Yao Pool but to rebuild it. .

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Is the sky about to change?

" Langxuan Divine Emperor and the gods upon the flagship were startled as well, rising one after another from the tower ship to gaze from afar.

Then came a still more fearsome sight, for where the eight ranges neared the Yao Terrace, the dragon heads spewed forth streams of purple vapor, and the vapor surged toward the Yao Terrace! The whole Yao Terrace was suffused with a strange aura of the great Dao, all manner of natural runes kindling upon it, steeping the terrace in wondrous rhythm of the Dao, while long melodious laws of the Dao sounded from the terrace!

Stranger still, upon the Yao Terrace drops of Hongmeng Yuan Liquid began to fall from the jade, drop by drop, plunging into the Yao Sea!

Langxuan Divine Emperor stared in shock at this scene, though lord of this place, he had never known the Yao Pool could change thus! Shen Mu had only just arrived, yet had conjured so dreadful a spectacle!

"The Yao Pool, this is the true Yao Pool, my Yao Pool. .

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" He murmured, unable to help striding toward the Yao Terrace: "This is Hongmeng Yuan Liquid, quicker than what my formations yield, here shall be the treasure ground where I cultivate to the Supreme.

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" His gaze fell suddenly upon Shen Mu, a glint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes, for murder had risen in him toward Shen Mu. He had held this land so long without ever discovering the secret of the Yao Pool, while Shen Mu upon first coming had restored the primeval Yao Pool to its glory of old, and he could not but be moved to kill!

"Mu Tianzun is a mighty threat!

" He came unbidden to Shen Mu's side, yet saw Shen Mu neither gathering the Hongmeng Yuan Liquid upon the Yao Terrace nor comprehending the Dao, but gazing with keen interest into the earth. Standing beside him and looking down, Langxuan Divine Emperor asked curiously: "What is Mu Tianzun looking at?

" The vertical eye between Shen Mu's brows already open and fixed upon the depths, he smiled: "I am looking to see what thing destroyed these eight ranges and severed the life of the Yao Pool.

" Langxuan Divine Emperor could not help asking: "Then have you seen it? " "I have," Shen Mu nodded.