Chapter 984 — Three Prophecies
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Shen Mu was dumbfounded, at a loss, unable to understand why these Creators were so elated.
"What is this about the Primordial Stone manifesting its divinity? And what is the Holy Infant? And what is this big-headed monster infant of Shen Ye's house?"
His face was blank with bewilderment. Xiu Zhong, seeing his expression, laughed: "Has that fool Shu Jun never told you?"
Shen Mu shook his head. "Teacher Shu Jun only taught me the cultivation method of Shangshi of the Three Enclosures. He taught me nothing else."
"That fool keeps his mouth shut tight."
Xiu Zhong laughed. "It is no harm to tell you. A million years ago, our forebears sent a youth out from Taixu to the Ancestral Court. The Creators of the Ancestral Court were slaughtered clean, but the divine consciousness of our ancestors remained there. The ancestors' divine consciousness saw everything. This youth wandered the Ancestral Court for a long time before he returned to Taixu. He was pursued by the Great Emperor, and arrived at death's door; he died soon after. But he brought back the Great Emperor's gemstone — the Primordial Stone."
Shen Mu's heart stirred.
The Primordial Stone?
The crystal in the third eye at his brow was itself a fragment of the Primordial Stone. Which meant the Other Shore also possessed fragments of the Primordial Stone!
"He died, yes, but he brought back terrifying news — three prophecies told to him by the divine consciousness of our forebears."
Xiu Zhong clenched his enormous fist. "The first prophecy: Taixu would suffer a great calamity, but a youth would come to help us survive it. And the calamity did come — the Great Emperor found Taixu and brought catastrophe, and we were nearly all buried in it. But as the prophecy said, a youth came from beyond, calling himself Heaven Venerable Yun."
Shen Mu's frame shook, and he murmured: "Heaven Venerable Yun!"
"This Heaven Venerable Yun was not of our clan, yet he helped us with all his heart. His wisdom was peerless, and he set a trap. He used the suppression of Taixu's heart-demon over the Great Emperor to limit the Great Emperor's cultivation, then lured him into the trap and struck him down."
Xiu Zhong continued: "The ancestors' second prophecy concerned the Other Shore. We survivors, in accordance with the prophecy, used the Primordial Stone to open up the Other Shore, melding the Stone into the Other Shore and creating that world. And the ancestors' third prophecy concerned the Holy Infant!"
He looked at Shen Mu, unable to conceal his elation. "The third prophecy said that one day, a Holy Infant born of the Primordial Stone would appear, and lead the clan back to the Ancestral Court! The moment I first laid eyes on you, I suspected you might be the Holy Infant of prophecy. Now the elders think so too — so you truly may be the Stone-born Holy Infant, sent by the Primordial Stone to save us!"
Shen Mu's eyes went wide, his mouth agape, and he could not speak.
"I really am not..." he said silently in his heart.
"Divine King Shu Jun, I am not the Holy Infant, am I?" he hurriedly asked Shu Jun.
Shu Jun gave a sullen snort, deeply displeased: "Of course you are not! If anyone is, it is I! That Primordial Stone is mine! My body was destroyed, my cultivation crippled — I was born from the Primordial Stone! I am the Holy Infant who will save the Creators! You are a human spy!"
"Heh heh." Shen Mu gave a simple-minded laugh.
Xiu Zhong said: "Whether you are the Holy Infant must still be confirmed by the ancestral spirits. That youth who brought the three prophecies, before he died, shaped the Realm of the Ancestral Spirits, so that the divine consciousness of our dead Creators might dwell there forever, undisturbed by worldly affairs. I am taking you back to the clan lands to notify the various clans and prepare for entry into the Realm of the Ancestral Spirits. Before you enter, you must pass through several trials — very simple trials..."