Chapter 344 — Little Jade Capital's Hidden Mystery
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Li Zheng was silent.
Qingyou the Hermit sighed. "Your ambition was not worn away when your hands and feet were severed, but not everyone is you. We feel we are quite well off here. You are not the fish, how do you know the joy of the fish? I am not you either; I cannot feel your joy."
Li Zheng picked up the teacup and drank his tea, sip by sip.
Qingyou the Hermit looked at Shen Mu and said with a smile, "Human Emperor Shen, I have heard your name. You are also the Holy Sect Master of the Heavenly Sacred Cult."
Shen Mu's heart stirred slightly. "Since you are immortals who contend with no one, why do you still inquire into worldly affairs?"
Qingyou the Hermit smiled faintly and offered no explanation, with a certain air of keeping people a thousand li away. "Once the Human Emperor has drunk his tea, please leave Little Jade Capital."
Shen Mu did not drink. He took out the golden book and precious scroll and said, "Please, immortal, take a look at this book. I wonder if it might move you?"
Qingyou the Hermit opened the golden book. His expression changed slightly, his aura suddenly surging, then slowly calming again. He turned to the second page, the third page.
After a moment, Qingyou the Hermit closed the golden book, pushed it back to Shen Mu, and said with a smile, "It is indeed moving. Human Emperor Shen, please go back."
Shen Mu was stunned. Anyone who saw the golden book and precious scroll would find it hard to remain so calm, and harder still to hand it back to Shen Mu; yet this Qingyou the Hermit seemed utterly unmoved, leaving all his arguments useless!
"Immortal Qingyou..."
He had only gotten that far when Qingyou the Hermit gave him a deep look and said, "Human Emperors of every generation share the same temperament; it is very hard to make one retreat. Since that is so, I will speak plainly to you, Human Emperor."
He stood up and said, "Does Human Emperor Shen find Little Jade Capital somewhat familiar? Does it not resemble the Heavenly Sacred Cult's Sacred Advent Mountain?"
Shen Mu was slightly startled, and could not help rising to his feet as well. He did indeed feel a sense of familiarity; at the very least, Little Jade Capital's formation that borrowed the law of heaven and earth was almost identical to Sacred Advent Mountain's!
"That is because Little Jade Capital and Sacred Advent Mountain came from the same source."
Qingyou the Hermit gazed out over Little Jade Capital's towering immortal mountains and said softly, "The Heavenly Sacred Cult was founded by a Sage, and the founder of our Little Jade Capital was a man of the same era, who came out from the same place. And not only the Heavenly Sacred Cult and Little Jade Capital..."
He turned back to look at Li Zheng and said, word by word, "The first Human Emperor of the Human Emperor Hall also came out from there! Moreover, Little Jade Capital, Sacred Advent Mountain, and the Human Emperor Hall are all fragments of the same place! As for what place that is, brother Dao, who has been to the Human Emperor Hall, should know very well, should you not?"