Chapter 904 — The Dark Night Approaches
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The roots writhed beneath the ground, and upon the surface mountains ten thousand li long rose up in ridges. The sight was like a grand and magnificent mountain-building movement, or something more magnificent still: the vitality stored within the Primordial Tree made these suddenly appearing mountains, flowers and grasses grow wildly, turned trees into forests, and left hills bright and waters fair.
This strange spectacle gave full display to the power of the Earth Mother, yet the one who wielded that power was not the Earth Mother but the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor.
That "Heavenly Venerable Yu" came walking over and said to the Four Emperors of the Heavenly Court: "Withdraw, all of you. He is no longer the Divine Son of Youdu. " Qi Xiayu and the others were taken aback.
Yin Tianzi said: "This boy is one of the Three Outstanding Men of the Jingping Reform, and the renowned Overlord Body of Jingping, a remnant of Kaihuang. He cannot be left alive.
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" "Heavenly Venerable Yu" glanced at him, half smiling: "Yin Zhaojin, he has another identity. It is Heavenly Venerable Mu.
" Yin Tianzi's face went deathly pale in an instant. "Heavenly Venerable Yu" said calmly: "Heavenly Venerable Mu's merits cover the world.
He preached the Dharma at the Jade Pool, and his grace has flowed down through ten thousand generations and ten thousand times ten thousand more. How many in this world are qualified to kill him?
Kill him, and you will only shoulder the infamy.
Withdraw. He is ruined now. He has no soul, only spirit and flesh.
He is no longer an Overlord Body. " Yin Tianzi was dazed.
He wanted to look Shen Mu over carefully, but because of the guilt in his heart his gaze shifted and dodged, and he did not dare let his eyes meet Shen Mu's. Though he was the Black Emperor of the Heavenly Court, an existence of the Emperor Throne realm, governing Mingdu with power that swayed the whole court, the moment his eyes met Shen Mu's he could not keep himself from thinking back a million years.
Shen Mu, for his part, was untroubled.
The Ancient God Heavenly Emperor had not been wrong: he had no soul left now, only a spirit fetus and a physical body. He himself had come into being as a consciousness born within this body after Shen Fengqing was sealed; strictly speaking, even the body was not his own but Shen Fengqing's.
From first to last he was nothing but an orphan. On that night thirty-two years ago, when Granny Zhu lifted him out of the basket by the river, his consciousness had only just been born.
Shen Mu: that was the name the village headman had given him.
Yin Tianzi turned and departed. Qi Xiayu's gaze rested on Shen Mu, and after a moment he too spread his wings and left. "Heavenly Venerable Mu? Shen the Overlord Body? " The Azure Emperor and the White Emperor shook their heads and drifted away, indifferent: "Ruined.
" "Heavenly Venerable Yu" held Shen Mu in the palm of his hand, examined him left and right, and shook his head: "A man without a soul, how could he possibly help me win back my physical body?
Heavenly Venerable Mu, it is very hard for Us to trust you. " Shen Mu put away the peach-wood hairpin and sat down in his palm, saying calmly: "Indeed.
Had I not cultivated the Undying Consciousness, I might well have died when I dug out my third eye, my consciousness scattering away. It is only natural that Your Majesty should be uneasy. But Your Majesty must take one gamble.
" "Heavenly Venerable Yu" smiled: "We seldom gamble.
But after meeting you, We gambled right.
Threats to the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Alliance are few now; the descent of the strongest divine treasures this time is merely the Heavenly Court's distribution of spoils. We have come to carve up the benefits. Someone has gained Youdu, someone Xuandu, someone Guixu, and some have gained the Four Heavenly Poles.
But I have snatched the Primordial Realm out of Heavenly Venerable Yu's hands!