Chapter 1052 — The Maiden of the Far Western Heaven Domain
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Tianzun Hong could not help but laugh.
"The Grand Emperor?
Who is the Grand Emperor? " Shen Mu smiled and said nothing. Tianzun Hong chuckled. "Daoist brother has returned from the Great Void, and at his side there is now this young lady — yet this young lady is not the Empress.
There are Creators in the Great Void, and so I made bold to guess that the lady is a Primordial Divine King. As for the Grand Emperor, that was something Daoist brother himself said. " He sighed with feeling.
"Daoist brother said the Grand Emperor is hidden among us Ten Tianzuns, yet Daoist brother did not say just who the Grand Emperor is, so that we all suspect one another.
Daoist brother surely does not suspect that the Grand Emperor is me? " Shen Mu said in admiration, "Tianzun Hong's explanation is seamless.
Truly admirable.
" Tianzun Hong laughed heartily, looked at Divine King Langwan, and said with a smile, "Then is this young lady a Primordial Divine King? " Divine King Langwan shook her head and said softly, "I come from the Ancient Age, not the Primordial Age. " Tianzun Hong said, "The Primordial Age and the Ancient Age are divided by the first years of Longhan. In the first years of Longhan the Heavenly Court was founded, and civilization entered the Ancient Age. By the era of the Crimson Emperor it was the High Antiquity: the Ancient Age lasted five hundred sixty thousand years, the High Antiquity four hundred thousand. Then came the era of Kaihuang, which is the Recent Antiquity, also called the Old Age, and the Recent Antiquity lasted twenty thousand years.
From the fall of the Kaihuang era down to the present is the Modern Age, a million years in all. Can it be that the lady is a Creator born in the Longhan era?
" Divine King Langwan smiled a radiant smile, and in that instant everyone in the chariot had heart and spirit drawn to her smile. "Why does Tianzun insist that I am a Creator? " Tianzun Hong stroked the thumb ring on his thumb and said with a smile, "Because the lady came here from the Great Void, and in the Great Void, apart from the Creators, there is only the Land of No Sorrow. You were born in the Primordial Age, whereas the Land of No Sorrow of Kaihuang was established twenty thousand years ago, when the Recent Antiquity met the Modern Age. So you are certainly not one of the Land of No Sorrow.
" The Western Emperor had been staring fixedly at Divine King Langwan all along, and at these words she could not help but grow anxious again.
Shen Mu laughed heartily and said unhurriedly, "Tianzun Hong, the reason I invited you here this time was not to discuss where my elder sister comes from. Since you are not the Grand Emperor, then whether she is a Creator, whether she is a Divine King, has nothing to do with you. I asked you here to sit awhile only to tell the Western Emperor that if she had attacked your Heaven Rampart City just now and seized your divine artifact Yutianzun, she would by now be a dead tiger. " The Western Emperor's heart tightened, and she fell silent. Ever since he had stepped into the treasure chariot, Tianzun Hong had held the initiative throughout, setting aside the matter of his plotting to stab Shen Mu in the back and instead successfully stirring up conflict between Shen Mu and Divine King Langwan. And now Shen Mu had successfully steered the conversation back.
Facing these two figures, each as crafty as an old fox, the Western Emperor felt it best to say nothing at all for the moment.
The more one said, the more one erred; the more one did, the sooner one died. Even Divine King Langwan, who had all along betrayed no emotion, she felt she could not see through. There were four people in the treasure chariot, and only now did she realize that she herself was the most innocent of them all.
Shen Mu rose to his feet.