Chapter 1021 — Reunion with the Old Demon of Dutian
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There were only two pieces of eggshell in all. In the years when the Heavenly Emperor's physical body still existed, the Heaven Alliance was even more riven by internal chaos; back then, one needed only to control the Heavenly Emperor's body to enter the ancestral land and carry the eggshells away.
But none of them at that time was willing to let the eggshells fall into another's hands. The fiercest opposition came from Venerable Hao; the other Venerables and the leaders of the Heaven Alliance, each for reasons of their own, likewise opposed taking the eggshells. By the time the Heaven Alliance was unified from within, and elders such as Venerable Ling and Venerable Yue had one after another passed from the scene, leaving only the faction of Venerable Hao and Venerable Hong, they found that there were no more objectors—yet the Heavenly Emperor's body was gone as well, and there was no longer any way to take the eggshells.
Though every one of them coveted the treasures in the Heavenly Emperor's ancestral land, not one of them had the strength to take the eggshells, and so they could only let the matter drop. Venerable Hao had tried several times as well, going so far as to pilot the divine artifact Yuzun Tianzun into the ancestral land, yet he could never draw near that altar. All along, he had regarded those two pieces of eggshell as his own, something already in his pocket.
Moreover, the Heavenly Emperor had been born from an egg; the Heavenly Emperor was his father, and in his heart the things of the Heavenly Emperor should by rights pass to him as inheritance. Yet to his astonishment, this time someone had, while they were all guarding against one another, stealthily slipped into the ancestral land and taken one of the eggshells away!
Venerable Hao looked around, suppressed the rage in his heart, and said in a low voice, "Fellow Daoists, it has not been easy for us to come this far together, nor easy to attain the station we now hold. So long as you return that treasure, we are still fellow Daoists.
But if it is not returned—heh heh—I fear the Ten Heavenly Venerables will become nine.
" The Venerables around him remained silent as before. They too coveted those two halves of the eggshell from which the Heavenly Emperor had been born.
Upon that eggshell were imprinted the most complete of the Heavenly Emperor's Great Dao runes; yet that was not its greatest use. The eggshell's finest purpose was, in truth, to seal away the Ancient God, the Heavenly Emperor!
Even if another Venerable obtained the body of the Ancient God, the Heavenly Emperor, so long as one held the eggshell, one could still seal the Ancient God, the Heavenly Emperor, within it and suppress him! If it could seal the body of the Ancient God, the Heavenly Emperor, then sealing the divine artifact Yuzun Tianzun was naturally no difficulty at all. With this treasure, one would hold the advantage among the Ten Heavenly Venerables. A pity only half now remained.
Who had taken the other half?
That was what the Ten Heavenly Venerables cared about most.
Venerable Hao swept his gaze once around the circle, then suddenly laughed in sheer fury, flicked his sleeve, and departed: "It seems the Ten Heavenly Venerables will not merely become nine—they will become eight! " He left in towering rage, leaving the other seven Venerables behind—yet those seven still remained silent.
Suddenly the Heavenly Consort Qiang broke the silence: "It was already like this when I arrived. That treasure was most certainly not taken by me.
I did, however, see a certain fellow Daoist piloting the Heavenly Emperor's body and entering this place together with Crown Prince Mingya.
" Venerable Xiao said, with studied indifference, "After leaving this place, Crown Prince Mingya hurriedly departed the Heavenly Court, and now his whereabouts are unknown.
He most likely knows something.