Chapter 1082 — The Deadlock of a Hundred Thousand Years
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
" She gave Shen Mu no time to answer but laughed out: "Both sides had their Ancient Gods, both sides fought until their eyes ran red, with hatred deep as the sea and irreconcilable as heaven and earth! And when everyone braced for a bloodbath beyond imagining, the Ancient Gods of the two sides actually negotiated—actually played the peacemakers! " Her face contorted with fierce mockery as she ground her teeth, each word squeezed from between them: "The two parties of gods, all harmony and goodwill, talked it over, and so decreed a pact of peace—made us lay down our hatred, and made the demigods who were on the verge of seizing the Xiaohan Heavenly Court withdraw! The demigods could hardly swallow it; they squabbled and clamored, until the gods ate a batch of them, and then they withdrew obediently.
Only then did we understand. . . " The mockery on her face deepened: "We were all food, all livestock—the entire Origin Realm is one vast stockyard!
Mu, this place is a stockyard! We are nothing but livestock raised by the Ancient Gods! In the old days they devoured us straight; now they have grown civilized, so they make us fight among ourselves, make us offer ourselves up for their table!
" As though genuinely drunk on tea, she collapsed onto the table and wept aloud: "Tianzun, my ass! Divine Emperor, my ass! Yun Heavenly Emperor, Hao Heavenly Emperor, my ass! They are all just bellwethers and hunting dogs! We are the bellwethers and hunting dogs who herd the flock for the Ancient Gods!
Mu, all these years, we have suffered so. . . " Shen Mu laid his hand on her shoulder and said gently: "I know all of it.
But I also know what is to come: the age of the Ancient Gods ends at your hands, and they shall never dare do such things again. " "Truly? " Yue Tianzun raised her head and looked at him through tear-misted eyes. Shen Mu nodded.
Yue Tianzun mustered her spirits, smoothed her slightly disheveled temples, and forced a smile: "This tea is far too intoxicating—I made a spectacle of myself. Pray don't take it amiss.
" Shen Mu gave a tender smile: "Without you, there would be no us in the ages to come.
" Yue Tianzun felt as though she had received immense comfort, and she was greatly heartened; she went on: "Yun Tianzun has become an emperor—the very first to achieve the Imperial Throne.
But the Ancient Gods' dominion over the Origin Realm and all the worlds of the heavens is still deep-rooted. Hao Tianzun's talent is heaven-defying; he, too, is on the verge of achieving the throne.
This time Yun Tianzun has gone to the Longhan Heavenly Court not only to plead our case against the demigods' bullying, but also to meet Huo Tianzun.
" Shen Mu's heart stirred again. Yue Tianzun watched his expression and said: "He means to use Huo Tianzun as a bridge to Hao Tianzun. Do you know what he intends to do? " The corner of Shen Mu's eye twitched. He nodded slightly, his voice husky: "To invite Huo Tianzun, Hao Tianzun, and even Emperor Langxuan and the Ancestral God King to join the Heavenly Alliance and overthrow the Ancient Gods together.
" Yue Tianzun nodded and raised her hand to smooth her temple again: "Are we doing the right thing?
" The corner of Shen Mu's eye twitched once more. He wanted desperately to tell her that if they did this, Yun Tianzun would die because of it in the future; he wanted to tell her that the Heavenly Alliance would cease to be what it once was, that it would fall into the hands of the demigods.
Even more, he wanted to tell her that it was precisely the decisions Yun Tianzun and Yue Tianzun made today that would allow the Heavenly Alliance to replace the Ancient Gods and become a monstrous ruler in their stead! But he opened his mouth, and the words would not come.
He could not tell them.