Chapter 953 — Where the Mind Reaches, All Becomes Real
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
At that time I led the Heavenly Court's Divine Martial Army, a hundred thousand strong, with two of the four Celestial Masters of the Heavenly Court, and my most favored disciples, intending to explore the Great Void. " Shen Mu's heart jumped.
The Divine Martial Army was one of the Heavenly Court's Ten Guards, ranked with the Feathered Forest Army; only the mightiest gods and demons were chosen to fill its ranks, every one of them tested in a hundred battles! He had seen the soldiers of the Feathered Forest Army on the ghost ship — nearly every god and demon there was a dreadful being of the Jade Capital realm, or stronger still!
That the Empress should lead one of the Guards, the Divine Martial Army, to explore the Great Void — her purpose must have been not exploration but conquest! "The Great Void is a ruin within this cosmos, a zone of radiance.
But once you enter it, you find a different world hidden within. " Yun Chuxiu leaned on his shoulder, recalling the past, and said softly: "Then, after we entered that zone of radiance, strange things happened again and again — grotesque and bizarre occurrences, imagined creatures, endless and unceasing.
" She knit her brows: "We were assailed by every kind of uncanny event and suffered grievous losses; not one in ten of the Divine Martial Army survived. Even I and the two Celestial Masters were gravely wounded. It was only later that Celestial Master Yue suddenly awoke to the truth, and fathomed the secret of the Great Void.
It is this: what the mind conceives becomes reality. " Shen Mu's heart quivered: "What the mind conceives becomes reality? Celestial Master Yue means. .
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" "He means that what attacked us and killed the soldiers of the Divine Martial Army were in truth the great horrors conceived in our own minds. The things we dread become real in the Great Void. " Yun Chuxiu said: "Someone imagined being struck dead by lightning, and truly a dreadful thunder came.
Someone imagined a demon god with a thousand heads and ten thousand arms slaying him, and truly such a demon god appeared. Someone feared the sky would fall and the earth would sink, and truly the sky fell and the earth sank and stars plunged from the heavens. Great horrors came upon us without cease, until the mightiest army of the Heavenly Court was scattered and routed, and we had to turn back without ever seeing the true face of the Great Void. In the end, of all who walked out of the Great Void alive, I alone remained — and I was gravely wounded, at death's door. The two Celestial Masters. . . " She sighed, and said bleakly: "Both Celestial Masters were beings of surpassing wisdom, great masters at the perfection of the Imperial Throne — and yet neither came out alive.
" Shen Mu narrowed his eyes. What Yun Chuxiu described was terrible indeed.
Was the Great Void truly such a dreadful place?
"What great horror wounded Your Highness?
" Shen Mu asked.
"The Heavenly Emperor.
The true Heavenly Emperor. " A look of dread came over Yun Chuxiu's face, and her voice rasped a little: "Though I killed him, he is also what I fear most! In the Great Void he appeared again and came killing toward us, and I was afraid.
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. " She shuddered several times, cold with terror. Shen Mu said suddenly: "Then how did the two Celestial Masters and the other survivors die? Since Celestial Master Yue had fathomed the secret of the Great Void, knowing that what the mind conceives becomes reality, he must have kept everyone's minds empty of thought. For beings such as they, that should not have been difficult.