Chapter 1060 — The Immortal Court Above the Nine Heavens
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Shen Mu looked at the youth, his gaze flickering, and thought: "Luo Xiao, prophet of the race of Creators of Taixu, who carried three terrifying prophecies to the Creators of Taixu. Prophecy one: the Grand Emperor will invade, and a human Celestial Venerable Yun will go to help them stand against the Grand Emperor and see them through the crisis. " The first prophecy was fulfilled before long: the Celestial Venerable Yun went to Taixu, helped the Creators there lay their plans, trapped the Grand Emperor's mortal body, and cut down a portion of the Grand Emperor. The second prophecy of the Fore-Spirit Luo Xiao was the Void Bridge and the Other Shore World, and that too came to pass.
After the Grand Emperor's death, that great war left the land of Taixu unfit for any to live in, and so the Creators, led by the God King Langwan and other chieftains, envisioned the Void Bridge and forged the Other Shore World. Luo Xiao's third prophecy was that in the future of the Creator race a Sacred Infant would appear, born into the world bearing the Primeval Stone of the Great Beginning; from the very hour of his birth he would stand for the supreme authority of the Creators, the Grand Emperor's Seal in his hand, descending upon the Grand Emperor's Altar.
And that prophecy was Shen Mu.
Shen Mu watched Luo Xiao, who sat at his side, with a smiling look, and Luo Xiao grew so uneasy under that gaze that his eyes darted left and right, and he thought: "Can this man have seen through my origins? Impossible.
I gathered the divine consciousness of the strong ones of my race to envision this body, making my flesh no different from any ordinary man's; even a common ancient god cannot see my true form. . .
" The vertical eye at his brow had been hidden as well, leaving only a streak of red down the center of his forehead, and his clothes were not the garments of the Creator race but cut in the style of the people of this age.
"The one who told Luo Xiao these three prophecies must be none other than me. This young Creator takes me for the divine consciousness of the Creators' ancestors, and then goes back to Taixu and tells them these three prophecies. " Shen Mu blinked and thought: "One day in the future, when I enter Taixu and become their Creator, and go to the Fore-Spirit Realm to see him, it is only then, when he lays eyes on me, that he will suddenly go mad. If I do not tell him these three prophecies, will that change the future? But I must tell him these three prophecies; only so can I keep the Land of No Sorrow safe, and only so can I become the Sacred Infant of the Creator race and make the Creators serve my purpose.
. . " Luo Xiao was studying him in turn.
He saw that Shen Mu likewise had something at his brow like a scar, and beneath the scar lay an eye, and he thought: "This man called Shen Mu gives me a familiar feeling. Can he be a Creator too? But the people outside are a cunning lot, and I must not betray the slightest sign, for I am the sharpest of our whole Creator race.
. . " Shen Mu looked out the window and thought: "Luo Xiao left the land of Taixu a million years ago to see whether the outside world was safe. He asks me the way to the Heavenly Court, which means the Longhan Heavenly Court has already been founded; I simply do not know what year this is. . .
If this is the early years of Longhan, and I go to the Heavenly Court now, will I run into myself, the one who is even now raising havoc in the Jade Pool. . . " His face took on a strange cast. In those days he had appeared in the Heavenly Court wearing the face of Mu Qing, and had never used his true countenance.
If he truly met himself in the Heavenly Court, would that not mean two of him existed at once? By the rule that matter does not change, one of them must surely vanish, for two identical things cannot exist at the same time! Luo Xiao stole glances at him and thought: "Brother Shen Mu here is a strange one. . .