Chapter 1171 — A Bosom Friend in the Boudoir
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Something stirred in Shen Mu's heart, and he said gravely, "You mean the void beasts were made by someone?"
Divine King Gong Yun shook her head. "I cannot be certain. But I once cut open a void beast's body and found within it the organs of all kinds of other giant beasts. Stranger still, these void beasts have no sex at all, and no capacity to breed."
Shen Mu was dumbfounded.
Divine King Gong Yun said, "Strange, is it not?"
Shen Mu nodded. "No male or female, which means the void mother beast reproduces asexually. Still, if the mother beast were killed, that ought to put an end to the void beasts."
Divine King Gong Yun shook her head. "A void mother beast has been killed before. After the mother beast is killed, the most vigorous of the void beasts grows reproductive organs and becomes the mother beast."
Shen Mu was struck dumb. "That reminds me of a kind of divine artifact..."
"The Creation Divine Artifact!"
Divine King Gong Yun said, "The Creation Divine Artifact occurred to me as well. But I have also seen a Creation Divine Artifact made by Ling Heavenly Venerable, and that artifact could not create complete life."
Shen Mu frowned and ventured, "Then could it have been made by the Great Emperor?"
Gong Yun shook her head. "It was not the Great Emperor's doing. The void mother beast he controls is already the seventh generation of void mother beast. When the void mother beast first appeared, he was still young and had no such cultivation."
She came to the void beast Shen Mu had subdued, gently stroked the void patterns upon its body, and said, "Look at these patterns. Do they not resemble one kind of the runes of the great Dao?"
Something stirred in Shen Mu's heart. He too had long since noticed that the void patterns on the void beasts were magnificent and very like the runes of the great Dao, and he had even meant to comprehend their mysteries and grasp the void runes.
"Knowledge of the Dao of runes is knowledge the Creators did not possess. For our era, it was far too advanced."
Divine King Gong Yun said, "Only the Ancient God Daosheng bore such runes, but the Creators could not understand them."
Shen Mu pondered a moment, then said, "The Supreme of Ten Thousand Daos, the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor, should be well versed in every kind of great Dao. Could the void beasts have been made by him?"
"It was not him either. He cannot control the void beasts, and he is not omnipotent."
Divine King Gong Yun gazed up at the sky. "In this Ancestral Court, there is more than us and the void beasts."
Shen Mu shivered. More than us in the Ancestral Court?
What did that mean?
Could something else have been sealed within the Ancestral Court by the ancient gods of the primordial age?
"Mu Heavenly Venerable, you must be careful. The danger does not come only from the void beasts and the Heavenly Venerables here."
Divine King Gong Yun meant to see him off. Shen Mu, hearing the note beneath her words, understood, and leapt back onto the bone mountain behind the void beast's head. To Divine King Gong Yun below he said, "Divine King, I would like you to owe me one more favor. How does that sound?"
Divine King Gong Yun raised her eyes to him. "That depends on whether your information is worth it."
Shen Mu smiled faintly and said unhurriedly, "I hear your relations with Hong Heavenly Venerable are poor."
Divine King Gong Yun's face turned cold. "I have beaten him several times. A pity I never managed to beat him to death. Why do you bring this up?"
"Hong Heavenly Venerable is not the Great Emperor."
Shen Mu said with a smile, "Your bosom friend of the boudoir, Qiang Heavenly Consort, is the Great Emperor."
Divine King Gong Yun was struck dumb, then said flatly, "Impossible!"
Shen Mu laughed heartily. "That little hussy, is she not on rather good terms with you? Always coming to find you over this and that?"
As if possessed, Divine King Gong Yun nodded.