Chapter 948 — The Sea Right Before My Eyes
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Heh heh—I killed Heavenly Venerable You. The human race hates me to the bone; you hate me to the bone. Yet I joined the Heaven Alliance and became one of its elders! Because Heavenly Venerable Yun wanted to work with me to deal with my Imperial Father—" He watched Shen Mu's expression, trying to find disappointment and loss on his face, but there was none. "I conspired with him and laid the grand plan to eliminate my Imperial Father.
At the same time, I kept inserting demigods into the Heaven Alliance to counterbalance him. I meant not only to eliminate my Imperial Father, but also to seize the Heaven Alliance! " He smiled.
"I succeeded. He failed. " The words were simply put, but behind them lay one heart-stopping episode after another. Shen Mu smiled. "Even if you succeeded, the Heaven Alliance did not fall entirely into your grasp. You suffered your second failure in this life—again because you encountered me. " The Shen Mu opposite did not deny it. He nodded. "I had never seen your true face. I forged Heavenly Venerable You into my strongest weapon—a divine armament of the Heavenly Court realm—and sent him down to the lower realm to eradicate Mother Earth Yuanjun.
I never expected that the great sorcerer who revived Mother Earth would be you. You borrowed Mother Earth to draw your sword, unleashing the very move that once left me bedridden for a hundred years.
The shadow in my heart rose again, and so I was wounded by Mother Earth and taken advantage of by others, and I lost the Yuan Realm. But that was no more than a surprise attack. " He seemed as light as wind and clouds, his tone indifferent.
"In my eyes now, you no longer carry the weight you once did.
Over the long ages my cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds; my comprehension of the Dao has deepened more and more.
Looking back on that battle at the Jade Pool, I can only smile with scorn—at my own youth and callowness in those days. " He gazed at the waves of the Jade Sea, unhurried. "I now bear you no hatred at all.
The hatred I display is only to blind others. You hold no place whatsoever in my Dao-heart; you are merely a tool to be used. And moreover. . . " A smile bloomed on his face, growing broader and broader. "And moreover, you are going to die today. I have prepared a perfect death for you.
" "Do you see the palace maids in the Jade Pool? On the night of the Jade Pool incident, the divine officials and the army of gods and demons who came to announce the Heavenly Emperor's decree—they were sent by me. The palace maids in the Jade Pool were all replaced at my instruction, including the divine turtles in the Jade Sea that bear the divine mountains on their backs, and the flower spirits in the lotuses—they are all my people. " He turned around, the smile on his face deepening. "The people at your side—I sent them all away.
I have planted agents in the Yun Manor, the Red Emperor Manor, and the Southern Emperor Manor; drawing the people around you away was easy enough. If I kill you here, no one will know. The Heavenly Duke and Tubo will not know either, that the true Heavenly Venerable Mu is already dead. " Shen Mu sighed.
"Heavenly Venerable Hao, I never imagined your scheming ran this deep. It seems I cannot escape this calamity.
But—are you certain that this Heavenly Venerable Mu you have manufactured is necessarily a match for me? " He smiled. "You expended great effort and care in manufacturing this Heavenly Venerable Mu. To ensure he was identical to me, to avoid arousing the suspicion of the other Heavenly Venerables and ancient gods, you had to keep him at the Spirit Bridge realm. Such a body cannot contain your primal spirit—your primal spirit is too powerful.