Chapter 1020 — Metamorphosing Into Fish and Dragon, Leaving No Trace
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 5 of 5
The Ten Heavenly Venerables have always been of one breath, branches of a single tree — since when do we grow so wary and suspicious of our own?
" The divine senses in the sky dispersed one after another, and stillness returned all around. Heavenly Venerable Hong frowned slightly, thinking, *With that moment's delay they cost me, that strange palace maid must have gone far by now.
That maid was the one who drove the fleshly body into the ancestral land — and to move with such stealth. .
. I fear the ancestral land. .
.
* He hurried out of the Hall of Nourishing Glory without delay and hastened to the Heavenly Lord's birthplace. When Heavenly Venerable Hong arrived, he found Heavenly Venerable Hao, Heavenly Venerable Gong, Heavenly Venerable Qiang, and Heavenly Venerable Yan already there. All wore grave expressions as they gazed into the ancestral land at that orb of light transmuted from the purple haze of the Great Dao — there, a piece of the eggshell was missing.
"Who took it?
" Heavenly Venerable Hao said in a voice like ice.
"Surrender it now, and I will let bygones be bygones! "