Chapter 887 — The Longhan Cataclysm: Blood Stains the Heavens
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
This was the daily reality of the Longhan era.
Against such a Longhan Heavenly Court, against such an Ancient God Heavenly Emperor, demigod and post-heaven race alike wished nothing but to see them destroyed. " Shen Mu pulled himself together. When he had traveled back to the early years of Longhan, his stay had been far too short; it had been the time of the Heavenly Court's grand banquet, the Jasper Pool Banquet, when the court had gathered the chieftains of every race and the ancient gods in extraordinary clamor.
What he had seen was indeed the most prosperous and flourishing side of that age. He had not gone down to the mortal world, had not seen how the people of the heavens and myriad worlds lived.
And so he had felt little aversion to the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor, and when he judged that he could join hands with him, he had taken the initiative to contact the Emperor through Yan Qiling and forge an alliance.
Only now did he realize how naive he had been.
Although the Heavenly Alliance had been established at his suggestion, and he was one of its founding elders, he had never understood why the Heavenly Venerable Yun and the Heavenly Alliance had chosen at that time to join hands with the Longxiao Heavenly Court established by the Heavenly Venerable Hao — setting aside the mortal enmity between the two sides — and to scheme by every means to do away with the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor. Now it seemed clear: the Heavenly Court built by the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor had been monstrously cruel, plunging all races of the world into a terror that they might be wiped out at any moment.
The Longxiao and Xiaohan Heavenly Courts had likewise been his pawns for maintaining his dominion; he made these two lesser courts govern the mortal world in his stead, offering sacrifices to the lofty Longhan Heavenly Court on high, and he set them against each other so that they could never grow strong!
In those days, the contradiction between demigods and post-heaven races was not the primary contradiction at all — the primary contradiction was with the Longhan Heavenly Court! That was why the Xiaohan Heavenly Court and the Longxiao Heavenly Court had to join hands, why all races — demigod or post-heaven — had to unite, and why the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor had to be eliminated! This world is not a matter of simple black and white.
In hindsight, the Heavenly Alliance degenerated, replacing the ancient gods as the corrupt rulers of the Heavenly Court, yet at the time it still had people of noble hearts and lofty aspirations striving for the survival of every race. It was precisely because the Heavenly Alliance had schemed to destroy the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor that the ages that followed — the Chiming Era, the Shanghuang Era, the Kaihuang Era, and the present Jingping Era — came into being.
Otherwise, had the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor been allowed to rule on, the entire universe, the heavens and myriad worlds, would have sunk forever into that barbaric age, unable to develop! The later Heavenly Alliance may have decayed, but the earlier Heavenly Alliance did one great deed that affected all post-heaven races, demigods included.
To destroy the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor — that was a deed of boundless merit!
"So was it right for me to ally with the Heavenly Emperor? " Shen Mu mused.
In the ruins of Longbo Country, old Nether Emissaries rode paper boats, flying silently to and fro, ferrying the people of Longbo aboard. Some Longbo refused to board and flew about in all directions to evade capture.
The old Nether Emissaries raised their horse lanterns, and the lamplight fell upon the faces of these Longbo souls.
Once struck by the light, the Longbo souls lost consciousness and, dazed and passive, lined up to board the boats of their own accord. The boats, laden with Longbo, sailed into the Nether Capital and vanished.
Soon all was quiet again — dead silent.