Chapter 999 — Overawing the Realm of Wuyou (Third Update, Begging for Votes!)
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You do not think of saving him, yet you would flee for your own life—your mother is ashamed of you! " "Don't pull, don't pull!
" Shen Fengqing followed her back toward the front lines, crying, "I'm a grown man now—stop pulling my ear all the time. Everyone in Wuyou Township respects me; having my ear pulled is a loss of face. That bad little brother of mine won't die.
I've never once seen him die.
He's probably hiding among the tasty ones right now, snickering at us. . . " Princess Consort Zhen dragged him to the front lines, where Kaihuang was laughing to Qin Hanzhen and the others, "These heavenly palaces—they look just like the real thing. Quite frightening.
" About Kaihuang, one great expert after another blazed with surging might, soaring into the heavens and transforming into all manner of marvels, all of them surveying the Creator host outside.
"They do indeed look real—a pity there are so many duplicates. " Yan Yunxi said with a grin, "The heavenly palaces behind these Creators come in fourteen kinds, and some are even incomplete. Plainly someone showed these Creators fourteen kinds of heavenly palaces and had them visualize the palaces as their own, to frighten us.
" Qin Hanzhen said with a smile, "The divine armor and weapons on their bodies are visualized too, not real. Each Creator army's armor patterns and weapon forms differ; a thousand Creators to an army, and the million split into a thousand divisions, each with armor and weapons of a different construction. Simply to design such armor and weapons would require knowledge beyond measure. This puts me in mind of someone.
" Yan Yunxi and the others nodded one after another, saying with smiles, "We are put in mind of someone too.
" "Wentian Ge, Celestial Master Wentian. His learning runs deep, his vision is lofty, and he is the cleverest man under heaven. In all he does, he has ever demanded perfection. If he were to set this stage, he would design it flawlessly.
" Kaihuang said, "That is the man he is. But it is also what has limited his achievements.
His learning is too scattered, so that he cannot fuse all his knowledge into one—his cultivation struggles to advance. " Yan Yunxi said with a smile, "Your Majesty does not know—he took three disciples, each of whom inherited a part of his strengths and his flaws.
All three share one trait: the demand for perfection.
The second disciple is one of your old Shen family. " Qin Hanzhen's eyes took on a strange light. "What does Celestial Master Zixi mean to say. .
. " Yan Yunxi said with a smile, "The Shen boy was not beheaded and sacrificed to the banner after all—he truly became the Holy Infant of the Creators, and has become the leader of the Creator clan. " Qin Hanzhen's voice faltered. "You mean the one who set this whole stage is Shen'er? " Kaihuang said calmly, "The one in charge among the Creators is him. Heh heh, a great host at the borders, a spectacle of such scale—this fellow has colossal nerve.
If you meet him, remember to address him as Heavenly Venerable Mu, not as the Shen boy.
" Everyone was startled, puzzled at his meaning. Kaihuang said, "He has the blood of the Shen family, but the Shen family gave him no nurture, no teaching—and the debt of birth he has already repaid to the Shen family. He is, after all, a Heavenly Venerable; to address him by his honorific is a mark of respect.
" Qin Hanzhen frowned, sensing that the old ancestor was somewhat angered. And no wonder Kaihuang was angry. Those who could see that the Creators' heavenly palaces were visualized were few—a handful at most.
Everyone else had been frightened out of their wits by the Creator host beyond the heavens; even Shen Fengqing had been scared into wanting to run. And all of this had been wrought by Shen Mu. How could Kaihuang not be furious? Beyond the heavens, fourteen heavenly palaces floated behind Shen Mu.