Chapter 1098 — The Blood Imprint Left by the Years
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
On this day, the Shepherd Venerable opened the books of history, and history was dripping with blood.
In those years, on the Yong River, Shen Mu had summoned a ghost ship with a peachwood hairpin, making history rise again and the Heavenly River reconnect, and the deed startled Yin Tianzi; when Yin Tianzi saw it, he spoke a line that became a classic: "Just who is it that is digging up the old debts of history? " The reason the history of the Longhan era had been erased was that the old accounts in this history were filled with blood and conspiracy. On this day, the Heavenly Emperor fell.
This first ancient god in all history, this invincible being who had ended the chaos of the Creators' wars among themselves and united the universe and the primeval wilds, died without a sound at the hands of demigods and the Venerables of the human race.
He had had a chance to escape; his strength was immense, and even with all of them joining hands it would have been hard to keep him there.
Yet when he broke through the encirclement and tried to flee that place, he met a divine sense of incomparable strength; the divine sense came crashing down and forced him back. "Gong Yun!
" Chuxiao, muddled and dazed, was blocked once more by Cloud Venerable, Hao Venerable, and the rest, and lost his last chance at life.
"Gong Yun. Heh heh.
So it is you!
" Chuxiao laughed aloud, fending off the crowd, then looked again at Jue Wuchen, who was charging in, and the absurdity in his heart only deepened.
He had never imagined that the ones who would put him to death would be two women he had once loved.
Gong Yun did not show herself; from the shadows she watched this scene coldly, watching how the man who had betrayed her died.
Chuxiao was near madness, and the divine abilities he unleashed were mightier than those of the other Emperor Throne realm beings; reincarnated body though he was, in single combat his battle power still stood far above the rest.
He broke through the encirclement once more and cried out at the top of his voice: "Earth Mother Yuanjun, save Us at once!
Whatever terms you demand, We will grant them all! " The Yuan Tree stood lush and verdant, its branches swaying, and around Earth Mother Yuanjun were gathered many ancient gods born of the Yuan Realm, most of them phoenixes, divine dragons, qilins, and the like.
Those ancient gods all turned their eyes to the Earth Mother; Earth Mother Yuanjun seemed neither to hear nor to see, watching the scene coldly, and a faint smile even rose on her face as she said to the ancient phoenix god beside her, "In those years, when my spirit awareness was born from the Yuan Tree, it was the Heavenly Emperor who pulled me up. At the time, when I first came into being, I had not yet put on any clothes; how mortified I was.
" Then her face turned to frost, and she said coldly, "And yet, once the Heavenly Court was built, he wanted to seize my Yuan Realm! " Chuxiao despaired and tried to break through the Yuan Tree's blockade, rushing for the sky.
Behind him came the crowd in pursuit. "Great Sun Star Lord! " Chuxiao cried out. "Great Sun Star Lord!
Hurry, come save Us!
" But his voice could not reach beyond the Yuan Tree's canopy.
"Tubo!
I know you can see this, Tubo!
" Chuxiao cried, his expression in panic.
"We know We were wrong.
I beg you, friend, for the sake of old times.
.
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" In Youdu all was silence. Chuxiao fought as he went, battling his way up to the Heavenly River, trying to hurry back to the Heavenly Court; the waters of the Heavenly River were dyed crimson by his blood.
Whoo— Chuxiao dodged strike after strike in midair, and in his haste glimpsed, on the Heavenly River, a youth with a qilin's head and a human body and a plump girl standing there, along with six divine beings with dragon heads and human bodies.