Chapter 969 — An Old Acquaintance in the Eye
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At the time, Shu Jun had also been on the battlefield in the Bloodrust Zone and had seized the chance to hide his divine consciousness within one of the fragments of the Primordial Stone. That fragment was later found by Wei Suifeng, who never discovered Shu Jun hiding within it, and so left the stone to Shen Mu.
"The Tai Emperor lost his Primordial Stone and was no longer as formidable as before, which is why he was trapped and could not escape. But that still does not hold together, because even without the Primordial Stone, his power was still extremely formidable. Shu Jun said he possessed the most powerful physical body in all history—with that body alone, these Creators could not have stood against him.
" Shen Mu thought to himself: "In other words, someone must have helped these Creators deal with the Tai Emperor Juyushi!
Who was that helper, then?
And what was his purpose? " He racked his brains but could make no sense of it, and thought: "Shu Jun must know the hidden truth of that battle in the primeval age and the Bloodrust Zone, and must know why the Primordial Stone shattered. It is a pity that Shu Jun seems unwilling to speak of that matter.
" Shu Jun was utterly dazed. The Tai Emperor had been buried here along with these Creators; from the look of things, the Creators of Taixu had besieged the Tai Emperor and worn him to death in this place. It was precisely because the divine abilities of the Creators were so beyond all reason that Shen Mu and the others had encountered so many bizarre occurrences upon arriving here.
What puzzled them, however, was why the Tai Emperor Juyushi had come to blows with the Creators here in the first place. "This is the place. " The little point of light that Yue Tingge had become snickered. "It was I who lured Fire Heavenly Venerable and Void Heavenly Venerable here and sent them to their deaths.
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" "How could Fire Heavenly Venerable and Void Heavenly Venerable have died here? " Shen Mu laughed despite himself and looked all around—when suddenly his heart shook violently.
He had actually truly seen Fire Heavenly Venerable! Fire Heavenly Venerable stood in that eerie battlefield ahead, not far from the Tai Emperor Juyushi's brow; there was no mistaking him.
Fire Heavenly Venerable was an old acquaintance of his, habitually dressed in robes covered with flame patterns; most telling of all, behind his head was a wheel of fire, utterly conspicuous!
At this moment, Fire Heavenly Venerable, like those Creators and the Tai Emperor Juyushi, seemed fixed in that strange spacetime, unable to move, as if already dead.
After all, he was a Heavenly Venerable, vastly powerful, and had not been assimilated into a point of light; his body still retained the posture of one striding forward.
"Can even a Heavenly Venerable at the Heavenly Court realm be killed by this place? " Shen Mu's heart was in a fluster, but he steadied himself and searched all around for Void Heavenly Venerable, yet did not find him.
He was momentarily taken aback.
Had Yue Tingge not just clearly said that he had tricked both Heavenly Venerables into coming here to die?
Why, then, was only Fire Heavenly Venerable to be seen, and not Void Heavenly Venerable?
It was then that he noticed a bizarre thing—Fire Heavenly Venerable was actually moving! It was only that, relative to Shen Mu and the others, Fire Heavenly Venerable moved at a speed so slow as to be maddening!
Yue Tingge and the others had already been transformed into little points of light by the strangeness of this place, yet Shen Mu had kept his third eye unconverted. This Sacred Eye possessed extraordinarily keen perception; even the most infinitesimal changes, he could detect!
He noticed the flame patterns surrounding Fire Heavenly Venerable.
Within these flame patterns, exceedingly tiny flame runes were undergoing substitutions too subtle to perceive, only the rate of substitution was extremely slow.