Chapter 990 — Old Friends Reunited
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Divine King Langwan was still stunned that Shen Mu had, with one light stroke of a peach-wood hairpin, broken open the Supreme Consciousness Domain that had beset her for countless tens of thousands of years; she scarcely heard a word he said. So shocking, so staggering was it: to an outsider, Shen Mu had spent more than a year breaking the Supreme Consciousness Domain, yet to her he had merely stood in thought for a brief moment and then shattered that invincible domain with a single hairpin!
"Who killed Heavenly Venerable Ling? " She said blankly, "And who is Heavenly Venerable Ling? " Shen Mu paced the altar in a fever of excitement, laughing aloud.
"The Great Emperor!
It was the Great Emperor!
The one who seized the Heavenly Emperor's body and murdered Heavenly Venerable Ling — that was the Great Emperor! " Divine King Langwan was still bewildered.
"Who is the Heavenly Emperor?
" Shen Mu was beside himself. Now he clenched his fists, now he brandished the peach-wood hairpin, circling her again and again. "Heavenly Venerable Ling's Material Immutability happens to counter the Great Emperor's Supreme Consciousness Domain.
Not merely counter it: it breaks it completely! " "The Supreme Consciousness Domain congeals time and space with consciousness, so that time stands still while the world outside passes through ages of change. Anyone who enters his domain is all but frozen in place. But Heavenly Venerable Ling's Material Immutability denies the very concept of time's existence — the so-called passage of time is only an illusion produced by the alteration of matter.
" "Their divine abilities — one holds that consciousness determines matter, the other that matter determines consciousness.
Two extremes. " "The Great Emperor believed he had comprehended the great Dao of controlling time, but Heavenly Venerable Ling's ability told him that his strongest technique was nothing but an illusion, a delusion conjured by the alteration of matter!
" "His Supreme Consciousness Domain was a mere illusion, easily pierced by Heavenly Venerable Ling's Material Immutability!
" "So Heavenly Venerable Ling had to die!
" "While Heavenly Venerable Ling lived, he could not be counted invincible!
" "Many Heavenly Venerables in the Heaven Alliance had reason to kill Heavenly Venerable Ling, but none so pressing as his. Therefore the one who killed Heavenly Venerable Ling and was then trapped within the body of the Heavenly Emperor in the Heavenly River must be the Great Emperor!
" Divine King Langwan shook her head; she could hardly keep pace with his reasoning.
Still, what Shen Mu called consciousness determining matter was indeed the very essence of the Creator race; that single phrase could describe the divine abilities and the civilization of the Creators. And matter determining consciousness struck her as quite novel as well.
Shen Mu looked up at the sky, his eyes flickering, and said softly, "Then why did the Great Emperor borrow the Heavenly Emperor's body to assassinate Heavenly Venerable Ling?
It means that without the Heavenly Emperor's body, he could not deal with Heavenly Venerable Ling. It also means he is hidden in the Heavenly Court, that he is one of the heads of the Heaven Alliance. By assassinating Heavenly Venerable Ling he could also destroy the Heavenly Emperor's body, that great weapon — and then no one in the Heavenly Court would remain who could threaten him. " Divine King Langwan looked at this creature not yet two years old, and found that the little fellow was, when unraveling a mystery, rather captivating. "A moment ago the Divine King said that the Great Emperor possesses an eternal, indestructible consciousness and can survive in any form.
Then I have a conjecture. The Great Emperor trapped in the Heavenly Emperor's body in the Heavenly River is not the whole of him — perhaps only a part.