Chapter 1070 — A Sudden Upheaval
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Youdu. Demonic mist filled that boundless domain, where Tubo serenely ruled the shadowed side of all the heavens and myriad worlds. At a glance, the teeming beings of countless worlds fell into his eyes. The youthful You Tianzun floated before him and saw the battle upon the Heavenly River through the third eye upon Tubo's brow.
Tubo's great brow eye blinked, and the scene within vanished. "You, your age has come.
" From within his eye, Tubo's prime spirit walked forth and said to You Tianzun, "You should rejoice. You tiny lives are at last to become masters of the universe. I have already seen the waning of ancient god fortune. " You Tianzun bowed and said, "Does Tubo mean to destroy my race?
" Tubo shook his head, "I am transformed from the rules of the Way and govern the underworld.
All affairs of the underworld fall to me. Matters of the sunlit world are none of mine. Yet this transformation makes my still heart feel a touch of expectation. I think I see too far.
My thought seems to stretch to ten thousand or even a million years hence, to see the curtain fall upon the ancient god age and the born-of-later-days beings wielding mighty power of the Great Way.
I am glad.
I wish to change as you do. You.
" He actually smiled and said, "Perhaps one day I shall walk the sunlit world, live as a mortal, and seek a breakthrough. Grow quickly.
When I am reborn as a man, I shall need you to manage Youdu in my stead.
" Yuan Realm.
Earth Mother Yuanjun stood before her palace within the Yuan Tree, beside her the frightened ancient gods of Yuan Realm, Qilin, Phoenix, divine dragons born of dragon veins, Pixiu, Taotie, and other ancient gods born of Yuan Realm. They too had seen the battle in the Heavenly River and felt deeply the terror of death. Earth Mother Yuanjun glanced back at them and said, "An age of great change has already begun, yet you tremble with fear.
Such incompetence disappoints me.
" The ancient gods of Yuan Realm said one after another, "Once mortals mastered divine arts, they began to alter the geography of the earth, change the courses of rivers, reshape mountains and streams, dig mines, fell trees, even alter the growth of plants and catch wild beasts to tame. And now Mu Tianzun has slain the Five Luminaries Star Lords. We cannot but grieve as rabbits grieve for foxes. " Earth Mother Yuanjun smiled and said, "Though they begin to master the power of the Way, the Way they master is only the Way of us ancient gods. Can they conjure a Great Way from nothing? Ancient gods are uniquely blessed by heaven.
We need only fathom our own Way, find the end of our own Great Way, and bring our own Great Way to its utmost, and mortals and born-of-later-days beings can never surpass us. The Five Luminaries Star Lords were merely fools who fancied themselves born of the Way and so sank into seeking the source of their own power. Their deaths are no surprise.
" An ancient Qilin said, "But the born-of-later-days beings bear more than we do.
Their power to breed is too strong. " "Then bear more yourselves, as many as can be.
" Earth Mother Yuanjun smiled and said, "Numbers are the root of power.
The more children born, the firmer the rule. " In the Xiaohan Celestial Court, Yun Tianzun looked at the five stars hanging in the firmament, each but half, all broken god stars.
"Old Daoist, old Daoist! " He summoned the Dao Ancestor and said, "The five great calamity stars are dead and have left their ancestral god stars. There must be creation within. Can we go up?