Chapter 1058 — The Deep Recesses of the Peach Grove
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Inside the hall, the Celestial Venerable Moon remained behind the screen, showing no sign of herself, and spoke through it: "How do you know that I can keep watch on every stir in the great heavens of the Primal Realm? I am a cripple now, my heart as dead as ashes; even if I had the ability, I would have no energy left to keep watch over the myriad heavens and the Primal Realm. " Shen Mu looked at the shadow upon the screen and gave a grunt of "Oh? ": "Truly?
" The woman behind the screen sighed: "False, of course.
When you went to the Heavenly Court, I asked the Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, to carry my peach blossoms there and make my position clear. The Southern Emperor meant to use death to slip free this time, and he told me as much; naturally I could not truly have gone into seclusion and turned my back on the world. " Shen Mu said: "If the Celestial Venerable truly turned her back on the world, then your peach grove would not link the tens of thousands of heavens of the Primal Realm. " "Indeed.
My divine power is the art of space. I had already laid my plans long before the Celestial Venerable Yun fell in battle; in those days my power was not yet great, my art of space had not reached its summit, and it could link only a dozen or so heavens.
" The Celestial Venerable Moon behind the screen said: "But by the end of the Longhan era, my peach grove linked more than a hundred heavens, and by the end of the Shanghuang era, the peach grove had joined the tens of thousands of heavens of the Primal Realm into one. Cripple though I am, by now the Heavenly Court, Xuandu and Youdu, even the Four Pole Heavens, all lie within the perception of my divine power. What I have never broken through are the forbidden zones formed at the birthplace of the ancient gods, and Guixu.
" Shen Mu said: "You are unwilling to accept it. " "Of course I am unwilling. " The Celestial Venerable Moon's voice was very calm, yet hidden beneath that calm surface was a profound unwillingness: "The Five Elders of the Heavenly Alliance aimed to win the human race the right to survive, to let the people live better lives. Yet the Heavenly Alliance has rotted; the founding purpose of the Alliance is long gone; the Alliance has become a place that shelters filth and harbors corruption, a place where demigods and ancient gods and even the Creators carve up their interests! Of course I am unwilling. " Shen Mu watched the shadow on the screen in silence, and the Celestial Venerable Moon went on: "When the Heavenly Alliance was first founded, the Celestial Venerable Yun laid down its first principle: one must not be too good to the wicked, nor too harsh to the good.
Yet how hard it is to put into practice.
People are always too harsh upon the good, holding that a good man must never make the slightest mistake; once he errs he is no longer good, he is beyond salvation, he must be struck down and trampled underfoot.
And people are too good to the wicked: let a wicked man do a thousand evil deeds, so long as he does one good deed he will be praised, all but lauded as a sage! Celestial Venerable Mu, we failed to achieve it. Can you? " Shen Mu mused, then said: "It is very hard. But I am trying.