Chapter 995 — Heroic Spirits of the Ancients (Second Update)
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"Worthy of reverence," Shen Mu said, struck with awe. Langwan the God King set him down, rippled her divine consciousness, and roused the ancient Creators, telling them of the Holy Infant.
The twenty-seven Creators awoke; abstruse divine consciousness wove and collided among them as they exchanged their views.
Shen Mu stood in the void, his heart ill at ease. He even began to doubt whether, if those ancient thoughts and divine consciousnesses resolved to kill him, Langwan the God King could withstand them.
Would the twenty-seven Creator leaders listen to her words? A vast thought rippled softly and turned into a voice that resounded through the Ancestral Spirit Realm.
In that instant, Shen Mu felt as though countless gazes had fallen upon him, seeing through everything he was, leaving him not a single secret.
"A child of an alien race becoming the Holy Infant of our Creator race — this is nothing short of absurd. Yet the prophecy did not come from an empty cave; the consciousness of our forebears in the Ancestral Court never said the Holy Infant must be a Creator.
" That vast thought went on, unhurried: "Since the God King and the clansmen have sent you here, you must possess something remarkable with which to win them over. " Another vast thought said, "Still, the Holy Infant is one who bears the wisdom of our race, one who must not only face our enemies but also lead our people to revival.
We have some questions we would have you answer, to see whether you truly possess such wisdom.
" Shen Mu assented.
A weighty thought said, "A man named Shen Ye came to the Other Shore World.
He had ties of old with Yun the Heaven Lord, our race's benefactor, and came asking for a sword's-breadth of land; in the end, with a single stroke of his sword, he cleaved away nearly half the territory of the Other Shore World and established the Carefree Territory.
The enmity between the Creators and the Carefree Territory has lasted nearly twenty thousand years.
How will you rid the world of Shen Ye and the Carefree Territory and restore peace to the Other Shore World?
" Shen Mu said, "I can restore peace to the Other Shore World, but I will not destroy the Carefree Territory. " "Pray, elaborate. " Shen Mu said, "I am the hundred-and-seventh-generation descendant of Shen Ye of Kaihuang.
Once I am the Holy Infant, I can preside over the peace between the Creator race and the Carefree Territory. " One by one, the towering figures shook, causing the Ancestral Spirit Realm to tremble violently; a terrible storm of thought erupted throughout it, divine consciousness sweeping and seething without rest.
Langwan the God King frowned faintly, inwardly vexed that Shen Mu had revealed his identity so soon. Had he been able to win the ancestral spirits over gradually, and only then disclosed who he was, even if they wished to strike they would have hesitated.
To reveal his kinship with Shen Ye of Kaihuang at this moment was rather rash. "You are of another race and a descendant of Shen Ye besides — are you perhaps a spy? " Another vast thought shook, saying, "We will give you a chance to explain.
If you cannot satisfy us, then perhaps we would rather do without this Holy Infant.
" Shen Mu said, "May I ask you ancestral spirits: what is a Creator? What is the Creator race? " The towering figures each started. Shen Mu said, "I now possess the Primordial Origin Stone; my divine consciousness is vast, and I can create things.
Am I a Creator?
" One ancestral spirit's divine consciousness rippled: "You may indeed be called a Creator.
" "Since an outsider like me can become a Creator, can become one of your own kind, why then must you cast out Kaihuang and insist on the downfall of the Carefree Territory? " Shen Mu asked, perplexed.