Chapter 913 — The Earth Mother's Rings
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From the flower hung the stone coffin, and from within it came the voice of the Earth Mother—very weak, yet seething with fury, sharp and stern: "You know it was the Ancient God Heaven Emperor who struck at me? You know he is not dead?
" Shen Mu's face was calm, and he waited for her to settle.
Seizing the moment, he studied the coffin closely.
It was the Emperor's Coffin of the Northern Supreme Emperor of Heaven; he had seen it in the underground palace.
He did not know how the Earth Mother's remnant soul had escaped the Ancient God Heaven Emperor's grasp, nor how she had found the Emperor's Coffin. At the time of the calamity, Heaven Venerable Hao had wielded the strongest weapon and fought a great battle with the Earth Mother; Shen Mu, using the Earth Mother's hand, had gravely wounded that strongest weapon, and afterward he had taken the chance to return to the Yuan Realm.
Later he was discovered by the Heavenly Court's army of gods and demons and caught in their encirclement, until beings at the Emperor Throne realm such as Qi Xiayu and Yin Tianzi appeared, forcing him to abandon his soul and spirit and send his brother Shen Fengqing back to Youdu. After that, the Ancient God Heaven Emperor descended with the strongest weapon and drove the Yuan Wood into the Yuan Realm—only then did he learn that the Earth Mother was dead. As for what had happened in between, he did not know, but he could guess that the Ancient God Heaven Emperor himself had descended into the world, driven off Heaven Venerable Hao, and slain the Earth Mother.
Even so, in such peril, the Earth Mother had still escaped as a remnant soul; such ability truly earned his admiration. The Earth Mother had nothing left: her forces were dead or fled, and uncounted of her surviving followers and the various heavens had been broken open and turned into slaves, into prisoners.
Yet even so, the Earth Mother still made him wary. A centipede dies but does not stiffen; the Earth Mother, mightiest of the ancient gods born of Yuandu, even reduced to a remnant soul, was still far beyond his power to contend with.
The coffin hanging from the flower was the Emperor's Coffin of the Northern Supreme Emperor of Heaven; he did not know whether the corpse of the Northern Supreme Emperor of Heaven still lay within.
At last the Earth Mother in the coffin calmed, and said coldly: "Heaven Venerable Hao withdrew, and the Ancient God Heaven Emperor rode the Heavenly Court's mightiest weapon and struck me down without mercy. The divine powers he worked through that weapon, though formidable, were not enough to kill me easily; in the end he still used the Emperor of Heaven's supreme art.
Only then did I know it was him!
" She grew agitated again: "Heh heh, in those years he reincarnated into the Yuan Realm and took that woman Jue Wuchen as his wife—never guessing that Jue Wuchen was of the Heaven Alliance. The Heaven Alliance surrounded and killed him.
I watched; I did not lift a hand. Who would have thought he did not die—that he was still alive!
Once he used his supreme art, I recognized him. He came for vengeance—vengeance against me! " "The Ancient God Heaven Emperor had a soul that did not disperse; afterward in the Heavenly Court he became one of the Heaven Alliance's heads. I learned of this only later.
" Shen Mu stared at the coffin. "Earth Mother, you stopped me because you want me to revive you again? To speak plainly, I am no longer the Divine Son of Youdu. " "But you are still the Undying Great Dharma Master of Ten Thousand Kalpas.
" The Earth Mother's voice came from the coffin: "Nearly all the ancient gods know your name; they know you have the power to revive ancient gods. The Undying Great Dharma Master of Ten Thousand Kalpas is you—not the Divine Son of Youdu.