Chapter 1030 — Ambushing That Heavenly Emperor
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Shen Mu nodded, a faint, enigmatic smile playing on his lips.
Five years ago, Xing'an had taken out the token of Heavenly Lord Shen to scheme against him, luring him to the Fallen God Valley. The valley was merely a passage leading to the High Sovereign's Heavenly Court, where Yi Shisheng, a disciple of Heavenly Lord Ling, had ceaselessly been collecting his master's remains.
When Shen Mu first came to the Fallen God Valley, the disciples of the Heavenly Emperor, Yan Qiling and Mu Qiubai among them, had also arrived there, along with the Heavenly Dragon King serving under the Earth Mother, and the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord, which had crept in covertly. On the hanging coffins in the valley was written "Opens on encountering Shen Mu," but in truth it meant "opens on encountering Heavenly Lord Shen and Heavenly Lord Mu.
" At the time, Shen Mu had pondered the matter: if he did not go to the Fallen God Valley, no one else went to explore it; but once he went, a whole crowd rushed over—surely too much of a coincidence.
Now he saw that it had merely been a scheme devised by the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor and the Grand Emperor against him, and, of course, the Primordial Earth Mother was also in on it. Five years ago, Shen Mu could not see through their design; only now did he understand the true meaning of that affair.
The Heavenly Emperor, the Grand Emperor, and the Primordial Earth Mother knew that only by assembling both the token of Heavenly Lord Shen and the token of Heavenly Lord Mu could the passage to the Fallen God Valley be opened, and so they had waited for Shen Mu to come and clear the way for them.
Yet sly and cunning as they were, none of them had anticipated that Shen Mu would destroy the Grand Emperor's divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord, and that Xing'an would then seal and suppress the Heavenly Lord's consciousness within the artifact, seize the artifact, and swagger off with it.
The entire company under the Heavenly Dragon King was wiped out to the last, and among the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor's disciples only Yan Qiling remained. The Primordial Earth Mother suffered heavy losses; the Heavenly Emperor failed to recover his own fleshly body; and the Grand Emperor could neither confirm whether Heavenly Lord Ling was truly dead nor reclaim the divine consciousness he had used to control the Heavenly Emperor's body.
Shen Mu gained no profit either; only Xing'an obtained the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord and suppressed the Grand Emperor's consciousness within it. On the surface, Xing'an appeared to be the greatest winner of that battle. But fate played an ironic trick: Xing'an, like a turtledove occupying a magpie's nest, took the divine artifact as his own body, yet he squandered five years on the runes of the Ancient God's Great Dao, and all that labor came to nothing.
As for the most crucial prize, the Grand Emperor's consciousness, he could not refine it at all, and in the end it fell into Shen Mu's hands.
Looking at the jade bottle, Shen Mu smiled. The smile grew broader and broader, until he could not help but burst into laughter, his laughter growing ever more joyful.
"Five years ago, who could have guessed that I would be the final victor? " He laughed aloud, while his vital energy and divine consciousness swirled around him, shaping into all manner of runes.
Shen Mu adjusted the runes, took out various computational instruments, and ceaselessly calculated and revised them.
Divine King Langwo watched him scribbling and emending, her expression stirring slightly. "Holy Infant, should I help you refine the Grand Emperor's consciousness? The consciousness in the jade bottle is very faint; refining it should not be difficult.
" "Not for now. " Shen Mu, absorbed in his calculations, said without raising his head, "Once I have perfected this divine art, I will ask Elder Sister Divine King for her trouble.