Chapter 751 — The Fall of Sovereign Yu
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"What is so astonishing about Sovereign Yu being dead.
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" Old Ox walked on, and sneered: "These ancients are hardly men who have never seen a corpse. The racket is enough to split my skull. . .
Sovereign Yu is dead? Sovereign Yu is dead!
" He could not hold back a shout; forgetting all about fetching Shen Mu, Kai Huang and the rest, he bolted out of Fenghua Tower, and saw that the clamor outside had not yet subsided. Some were weeping aloud, some stood there woodenly, some ran to question others, and, their fears confirmed, sank down onto the ground and stared, dazed, at nothing. Old Ox's heart was all confusion; he felt as though the ancient worthies who had come to the gathering had lost their backbone in an instant.
He stared blankly at the noisy, panicked crowd outside.
While Sovereign Yu lived, this place had been a golden age in the midst of transformation; and now that word of his death had spread, everyone had become headless flies at once.
A golden age that was about to arrive had dimmed in an instant. The death of a great leader had struck the people of this age far too hard. Old Ox's own heart was a muddle too: "How could he simply die?
How could he die like this? Impossible, surely? It is a joke, is it not? This joke has gone a little too far.
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" Footsteps came from behind him: Shen Mu, Kai Huang and Sovereign Ling walked over, their faces equally blank. Inside the tower they had heard the weeping and the noise outside; the shock of Sovereign Yu's death was beyond imagining.
Shen Mu and Kai Huang had crossed over into this age and had had little contact with Sovereign Yu, only a single conversation, but their impression of the man was very good. In their hearts they held Sovereign Yu in deep respect, taking him for an ancient leader of world-spanning talent who would lead the post-heaven beings in opening up a new age. Their esteem for Sovereign Yu was exceedingly high; and yet such a young leader, still waiting to unfurl the ambitions of a lifetime, had died just like that, and neither Shen Mu nor Kai Huang could accept it.
Sovereign Ling could accept it even less.
Shen Mu and Kai Huang had had few dealings with Sovereign Yu; she, by contrast, had grown up on his legends. Later she had met him, and he had looked after her like an elder brother, giving her much encouragement. After she opened up the Divine Treasury of the Six Universes, she turned to researching the nonexistence of time, resolved to prove it by divine art.
Sovereign Yu did not believe her research could succeed, thought she had gone down a crooked path, and yet he remained wonderfully kind to her. Sovereign Yu's death struck her a heavy blow. Her face was ashen; she staggered forward.
Shen Mu said in a low voice: "Follow her.
Go and see just what happened! " The three of them immediately followed Sovereign Ling.
Ahead the crowd was a sea of people; the detached palace was packed with them everywhere, all sunk in grief, and in the sky a number of demigods were looking on as well. "How could Sovereign Yu die so suddenly?
" Kai Huang said quietly: "For a being like him, no divine-arts practitioner could kill him.
Unless a demigod or an ancient god made a move, there was no way to put him to death, was there? " Shen Mu was thinking of something else.
He mused: "Why kill him before Sovereign Yu made public the way to godhood? Killing him was not about removing him; it was about removing the way to godhood! " Old Ox said softly: "Is it possible Sovereign Yu faked his death?
If he had faked it, he could set the demigods and the post-heaven beings at odds with the Heavenly Court. .
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" Shen Mu and Kai Huang shook their heads together.
Old Ox was baffled. Shen Mu explained: "To fake death before the Heavenly Court is utterly meaningless. With Tu Bo and the Lord of Heaven present, he could never fake it.