Chapter 801 — The Great Dao Is One
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"The Heaven Alliance — that nest of traitors and villains?
" Shen Mu was deeply suspicious.
The Earth Mother Yuanjun had once said that it was the Heaven Alliance that had killed her, and that her earthly soul had hidden among the roots and escaped. The Earth Mother Yuanjun had revealed another piece of information as well: that after killing her, the Heaven Alliance had cut down the Primeval Tree and carried it away.
From these two facts Shen Mu had concluded that the Primeval Tree had fallen into the hands of the Heaven Alliance, and that the other Earth Mother Yuanjun was the product of a wondrous method developed by some formidable figure within the Alliance out of the Great Brahma Heaven King Buddha's art of entering the Dao through dreams — a method that had caused a new Earth Mother Yuanjun to be born from the Primeval Tree. And yet this girl called Yan Qiling said that she did not come from the Heaven Alliance! If she did not come from the Heaven Alliance, then the other Earth Mother Yuanjun had not been cultivated by the Alliance, but by someone else! That was strange indeed.
Could it be that the one who had slain the Earth Mother Yuanjun in those years had not been the Heaven Alliance?
But how could the Earth Mother Yuanjun have mistaken the identity of her killer? "Or is it that the Heaven Alliance did kill her, but someone snatched the Primeval Tree from the Alliance's hands and cultivated another Earth Mother Yuanjun?
" Shen Mu was utterly bewildered.
Since the Heaven Alliance could slay the Earth Mother Yuanjun, its strength was plainly extraordinary.
Who could have seized the Primeval Tree from the Heaven Alliance?
"Still, from this girl called Yan Qiling, I may be able to find a thread to follow! " Shen Mu raised his head and looked at the crooked peak.
To him, so long as Yan Qiling used the divine art she was most accomplished in, that in itself would count as leaving a trace — and through those traces he could discover who truly stood behind her! Yan Qiling came down from the mountain and said with a smile, "Cult Master Shen, you need not keep guessing where I come from.
However clever you are, you will never guess my origins.
I came to see you this time for another matter as well — I have come to take someone away. " The light in Shen Mu's eyes abruptly withdrew. He said mildly, "Take whom? " Yan Qiling's gaze drifted, moving from his face to Gongsun Yan's, then to Yutian Zun.
"Lan Yutian. Yutian Zun. " She laughed softly. "Following you, Yutian Zun has no future; it would only waste his talents.
But with me, I can find him the finest of teachers and fully develop his potential!
In the future he is certain to shine brilliantly! " She was very beautiful, with looks that yielded nothing to Granny Zhu or Di Yiyue, like a goddess fallen into the mortal dust.
Yet Shen Mu looked at her as though he did not see her.
A moment before, the divine light in his eyes had been drawn inward; now even his aura began to withdraw. The Dragon Qilin shifted uneasily, its dragon scales quivering, and quietly backed away two steps. No one knows the master like his familiar. The Dragon Qilin knew Shen Mu deeply: the more Shen Mu withdrew into himself, the heavier his killing intent.
This very beautiful woman had touched Shen Mu's bottom line and roused his murderous intent. Shen Mu, withdrawn into himself, was like a fierce beast that had fixed its eyes on prey, ready at any moment to leap up and kill! "You know a great many things. " Shen Mu's tone was stiff and dry.
"Many things that someone your age should not know.
They make me all the more curious as to where you come from. " Yan Qiling raised a hand and smoothed the hair at her temple, smiling.
"I defeat you, and I take Yutian Zun away.
How does that bargain sound?
" "Yutian Zun is not a commodity for trade.
He is the person I respect most. " Shen Mu's tone grew stiffer still.