Chapter 1062 — All of You Are My Disciples
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
"Heavenly Venerable Mu, ignorant whelp!
I did not go looking for you, yet you dare come here to court trouble with me!
Are you trying to turn the heavens upside down?
" Shen Mu's sword qi had barely reached the front of Lingxiao Hall when it shattered against an invisible wall. "Do you think that with your lofty cultivation and realm, you can climb onto my head and lord it over me? " The Divine Emperor Langxuan stood there, four faces and eight arms, high and aloof, looking down at Shen Mu and the others as they approached the divine palace, and sneered, "You nine Heavenly Venerables opened up the Divine Treasury and the Heavenly Palace and created fourteen cultivation realms—but such realms have existed for less than two thousand years! " His palm reached out and struck toward Shen Mu's party.
"Let me tell you something. Two thousand years ago, what ruled the primordial waste was not the Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace or such realms, but blood! Blood determined your strength; blood determined your status. And I am the first demigod in the world, a being at the very top of all species!
" His palm arrived before Shen Mu—not a spell formed of primordial qi, but pure physical might.
As the firstborn son of the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor, he had inherited not only the bloodline by which the Heavenly Emperor controlled the Great Dao of the world, but also the bloodline of Divine King Gongyun, one of the three Divine Kings of the Creators. His palm was pregnant with the natural laws of the Great Dao.
As his five fingers pressed down, Heavenly Venerable Moon, Long Qilin, and the others looked up from below and saw that the lines on the Divine Emperor Langxuan's palm looked like mountain ranges and river valleys formed by the Dao, while his five fingers seemed to be the very laws of the Five Phases—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, arrayed in mutual generation and mutual conquest, forming a Five Phases formation! Between his fingers and palm, the divine arts created by the nine Heavenly Venerables of the human race were like grains of rice. In scope and in understanding of the Dao, none of the divine arts of the human Heavenly Venerables could compare with his even to this day. The cultivation realms had been founded by the nine human Heavenly Venerables: Spirit Embryo, Five Luminaries, Six Harmonies, Seven Stars, Heavenly Human, Life and Death, Spirit Bridge, Venerable God, True God, Jasper Terrace, Deity Execution Terrace, Jade Capital, Lingxiao, Emperor's Seat, and Heavenly Court—fourteen realms in all.
To this day, the seven Divine Treasury realms had been established for nearly two thousand years, and the seven Heavenly Palace realms for just over a thousand, but most divine men were still groping through the latter, trying to discover where the boundaries of the Heavenly Palace realms truly lay. Even the Heavenly Venerables were still pushing these realms to their limits. Yet in the boundless epochs before those two thousand years, the demigod race had already begun studying bloodlines and had formed a unique civilization of its own.
Demigod power was inherited from the Ancient Gods. The Ancient Gods mastered mighty laws of the Great Dao; the demigods inherited the blood of the Ancient Gods, and as they grew, their mastery of the laws of the Great Dao grew ever stronger. This was the reason the demigod race had flourished for hundreds of millions or even billions of years, and it was also a major reason why, in the million years that followed, after learning the Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace system, they had been able to suppress the human race and other races that came after.