Chapter 799 — Immeasurable Cataclysm
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"This is the Earth Mother Venerable God," said the Molten Lord of Earth. "Beyond doubt. My eyes are keener than any Book of Life and Death; they see through to the essence of a soul, and I am not mistaken.
Her soul is the Earth Mother's soul. " The Lord of Heaven said: "This body is indeed the Earth Mother's body.
Were it false, it could hardly escape my heavenly eye.
Shen boy, the Earth Mother you met in the underground palace was certainly false.
" Shen Mu was at a loss. He shook his head: "But I myself summoned the soul of that Earth Mother in the underground palace, and gathered for her all the black soul-sand of her heaven soul and her god soul.
The Earth Mother Venerable God cannot have other souls scattered abroad. . .
Surely the Earth Mother does not have two souls? " Suddenly he came to himself and cried out: "Is the Earth Mother the Empress of the Longhan Heaven Court? Twin sisters?
Is this Earth Mother in truth the elder or the younger sister of the true Earth Mother? " The Lord of Heaven shook his head: "Your thoughts run too far.
The Earth Mother Venerable God is not one of that pair of twin blossoms. The Empress and her sister have another origin, and besides.
. .
" He did not go on, and said: "In any case, it is not them.
Strange, though. If this one is the Earth Mother, then who on earth was the Earth Mother whose soul you summoned in the underground palace? " The Molten Lord of Earth's voice was somewhat sinister, enough to make the flesh creep: "Shen boy, for whom did you summon a soul? " Shen Mu's mind rang like a struck bell; he stood dumb as a wooden fowl, and said with difficulty: "You mean I was caught in a snare?
That cannot be.
In the underground palace there were many demigods, all of them the Earth Mother's old subordinates.
If I was snared, surely they would not have been deceived as well? When the Earth Mother was slain, they all sank into silence in the underground palace together with her.
. .
" The company frowned.
The Crimson Emperor said: "Is it possible that another Earth Mother was born from the Origin Wood? " Seeing Shen Mu's confusion, he said: "The Earth Mother was herself transformed from the Origin Wood.
When I founded the Crimson Bright era I once paid her a visit, and I know her roots. " The Lord of Heaven shook his head: "The Origin Wood is dead; it cannot give birth to another Earth Mother to replace the original. Crimson Emperor, your words are somewhat appalling to hear. . . " "Appalling or not," the Brahma Heaven King Buddha said suddenly, "there is indeed such a method. And that method was created by me.
" Everyone turned to look at him. The Brahma Heaven King Buddha sighed: "My art took shape in the Longhan years.
To speak plainly, entering the Dao through dreams sounds too fantastical; in truth, it is to divide into thousands upon thousands of selves, to wander and be tempered in world after world, to pass through the red dust, to endure countless kalpas of tribulation. To me, that red dust is one illusory dream after another; yet those selves of mine have true souls, true bodies, true experience. Their cultivation, their experience, their Dao-hearts will at last return to my original body and become my dreams one by one. " The Lord of Heaven praised him: "The old Buddha's scripture has passed through immeasurable kalpas and seen through the red dust; that is why the Heaven Court covets it and wishes to take it for itself. " The Brahma Heaven King Buddha shook his head: "They do not want my art for the Buddhahood within it; in truth they are gathering Emperor-Seat level arts for the sake of the realm called the Heaven Court. To obtain a complete Heaven Court realm there is a simple method: find thirty-six Emperor-Seat arts that do not repeat one another, and combine them into a single Heaven Court art. Emperor-Seat arts are not few in this world, but many of them repeat, so it is a thousand times difficult.