Chapter 1066 — The Five Luminaries' Omen of Doom Descends Upon the World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" He did not reveal that he was a Creator, and spoke with great caution; one who did not know his identity could not know what place the Ancestral Court he spoke of might be. "The Ancestral Court? " Shen Mu's heart gave a great shock. It came to him suddenly that the Creator Xiu Zhong had once said that a million years ago Luo Xiao left Taixu and went to the Ancestral Court, and journeyed there a long while, receiving from the divine consciousness of the ancestors of the Ancestral Court three prophecies concerning the fate of the Creator race! So then: the Creator spirit Luo Xiao's purpose on this journey was in fact the same as that of the God-King Langwan — to seek the Ancestral Court!
Presumably he had come from Taixu to the Yuan Realm, found that the Yuan Realm was not the Ancestral Court, and so meant to go on to the Heavenly Court to see whether the Heavenly Court might be it. Yet so far as Shen Mu knew, neither the Yuan Realm nor the Heavenly Court, nor Youdu, nor Xuandu, nor the Four Extremes Heavens, was the Ancestral Court. The true Ancestral Court was in fact sealed upon the reverse side of each great world! On this journey, Luo Xiao was fated never to find where the Ancestral Court lay!
Luo Xiao gazed out, his eyes dark and deep.
He was a brave young Creator: knowing full well that this journey might be one from which he never returned, he had still walked out of Taixu without a backward glance. "Have you found any of your people?
" Shen Mu asked. Luo Xiao shook his head.
"For a moment, I thought you were one of my people; and for another moment, I thought the Divine Emperor Langxuan seemed one of my people. In the end I found that neither of you was. " He forced a smile and explained, "My people have a strange eye at the center of the brow.
You have one too, but I observed you closely, and you are not one of us. I also sensed the blood of my people in the Divine Emperor Langxuan, but he is not one either.
Perhaps there may be some of my people in the Heavenly Court; if there are, then through them I may be able to find the Ancestral Court of our race.
" Shen Mu thought for a moment, then said, "If there are any of your people in the Heavenly Court, they are enemies too. " Luo Xiao's body gave a slight shudder. He was about to ask what he meant by that when the five-colored radiance suddenly burst upon their sight. The Heavenly River heaved violently, and nearly every boat was swatted away by the hurricane raised by that five-colored light!
A few boats were not swept away, but the demigods aboard them gave shrill, agonized screams; they were aging at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon became doddering old men and women, white-haired and chicken-skinned! "Lord Zhenxing, you flaunt your Dao-might so wantonly it's ruining the flavor!
" A voice came down from above; then the five-colored radiance descended with a swish before the Heavenly Dragon carriage, a dozen or so li away. One after another, incomparably mighty ancient gods descended, and behind them a host of thousands upon thousands of gods and demons.
The foremost of them, an ancient god with red hair and a serpent's body, reached out a hand and seized up the few remaining boats, drew them in, and laughed. "Lord Suixing, you have the greater skill — make them a bit more tasty. " Another, an ancient sage with a bird's head, a man's body, and bird's feet, shot light from his pupils; the demigods aboard, so aged and failing, seemed to run backward through time, swiftly growing young again.
Soon the old women became maids in their prime, and the old men became handsome youths.
"Now that is how they'll taste right! " The red-haired, serpent-bodied ancient god laughed heartily, drew up the demigods from those boats in one breath and swallowed them down; then he turned to look at the Heavenly Dragon carriage, which had now halted, and chuckled.
"Tianzun Mu, you're found out!