Chapter 934 — The Heavenly Palace Casts Off the Old and Brings In the New
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
Shen Mu looked deeply disappointed. Yun Jianli had been wounded by him, and his body was failing by the moment; yet though that sword had severed his Immortal Bridge, he remained composed, as though it were not he who had been hurt, and showed no trace of loss at the ruin of his Immortal Bridge treasury. He smiled and said, "To establish your authority, Heavenly Venerable, why strike at the younger generation? " Shen Mu laughed heartily.
"You are right. Only, my realm is not high.
Were any Venerable God at all to make his move, I could not withstand him. " Yun Jianli coughed again and again, and said to the crowd, "Do not believe him. He means to kill Venerable Gods to establish his authority.
If you go back and fetch your senior brothers, most likely they will die at his hands as well.
" The crowd stared, and said nothing. Supporting Yun Jianli, Shen Mu passed among them. Qi Jiuyi hurried to follow and caught hold of Yun Jianli, grumbling under his breath, "Sect Master Shen, you were too heavy-handed! Brother Yun's Immortal Bridge is severed by your hand. Can the old grannies of his family ever let you off?
Who in the Heavenly Court does not know that the widows of the Yun family are the hardest to provoke?
You have laid hands on their precious darling; if you do not lose eight layers of skin, you will lose your life! " Yun Jianli smiled bitterly.
"Are my family's great-grannies and great-great-grannies truly so hard to deal with? " Qi Jiuyi sneered. "You do not know it yourself?
Ask anyone else, then. Who in the Heavenly Court does not know that the Yun family's grandmothers will defend their own to the death?
Sect Master Shen, you have kicked a hornet's nest!
" Shen Mu said, "Severing Brother Yun's Immortal Bridge was deliberate on my part. With his Bridge severed, he can try the fruits of the Jingping Reform; he can try the Heavenly River treasury. Come over here as well, all of you. " He turned and beckoned with a wave of his hand, smiling. "In those years I set up an altar here and expounded the Dharma, teaching the world the way to godhood. A million years later, I preach here once more. " The crowd from the Azure Splendor Roll and the Divine Splendor Roll exchanged glances, then, summoning their courage, followed him into the Manhui Corridor Pavilion.
After Shen Mu had seen to Yun Jianli's wounds, he smiled and said, "In those years Heavenly Venerable Yun opened up the Immortal Bridge treasury because, after Heavenly Venerable You had opened the Life-and-Death treasury, there was no road ahead; he wished to build a bridge and lay a path.
Thus Heavenly Venerable Yun opened the Life-and-Death treasury. And the Life-and-Death treasury gave illumination to Heavenly Venerable Yu, who opened the great realm of the Heavenly Palace, and from that came the saying that one ascends to the Heavenly Palace and becomes a god. The Immortal Bridge treasury is of the utmost importance; without it, there is no Heavenly Palace realm beyond. Heavenly Venerable Yun's merit is beyond measure.
" Yun Jianli said, "You spoke just now of the Heavenly River treasury.
What is it?
" Shen Mu explained, "The Heavenly River treasury is the fruit of the Jingping Reform. The Immortal Bridge treasury links what came before to what comes after, but it is not indispensable.
The Heavenly River joins all the realms, opens the passage of life and death, and connects to the Heavenly Palace. If the Immortal Bridge treasury is destroyed and the Heavenly River opened in its place, then the Heavenly Palace and all seven of the divine treasuries are threaded into one; the seven treasuries become a single treasury! " Yun Jianli's eyes lit up. The others in the Manhui Corridor Pavilion also trembled slightly, grasping the crux of what Shen Mu had said.