Chapter 1184 — The Ebony's Rings of Years
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
The ancient god egg within the Azure Heaven Canopy and the Taishi Egg had already brushed against much of the world's affairs; both eggs had been dug out at a very early time, and Shen Mu keenly perceived that the two ancient god eggs were no longer pure. The ancient god egg of the Azure Heaven Canopy granted every request; it was a treasure unearthed by the Nüxin Clan, and having passed through the calamity of the Creators' downfall, it fell into the hands of the Northern Emperor Xuanwu, who refined it into the Azure Heaven Canopy.
As for the Taishi Egg, which branch of the Creators had dug it out was unknown, but later it too fell into the hands of the Heavenly Emperor Taichu. Because the Heavenly Emperor Taichu had been imperfect at his own birth, he dreaded the coming of an egg-born ancient god born perfect, and so he sealed the Taishi Egg away and hid it within Zhaoyang Hall.
Once unearthed, they had tasted the treachery of human hearts.
The Heavenly Emperor Taichu, an egg-born ancient god himself, had nonetheless become a ruthless ruler; and so Shen Mu felt that the ancient gods within these two eggs might be nothing like the two in the Taiji Vein, so placid and detached, nor like the ancient god in the Hundun Vein, so aloof and transcendent. Ever since the two ancient god eggs had begun to commune with one another, they had always avoided him; plainly they were scheming something.
"Before long I shall decipher the Dao tongue of the Taishi Egg, and from the language in which they converse, I shall then decipher the Dao tongue of the ancient god egg in the Azure Heaven Canopy. Once both tongues are broken, I will know what they are saying to each other. " Shen Mu strode out of the vein, setting aside for the moment the question of how to deal with the two ancient god eggs, and hurried down the mountain. Summoning Dragon Qilin and Yan'er, he said, "We are leaving this place.
" Dragon Qilin and Yan'er were astonished.
"Sect Master (Young Master), what a treasure ground this is! Why give it up? " Shen Mu glanced at the Void Beast beside him and smiled.
"Heaven-sent treasures go to the fortunate and are dwelt in by the virtuous. My fortune and virtue are insufficient; if I seize this place by force, calamity will surely follow.
" Dragon Qilin and Yan'er were utterly bewildered.
In the past Shen Mu had always cleaned a place out when he could; how could there be any sense in entering a mountain of treasures and returning empty-handed? All the more so since this was one of the five supreme veins of the Ancestral Court, and the five veins held five different powers, one might even say five different systems of cultivation, five different directions, five different paths!
Relying on the Taichu godstone alone, the race of Creators had developed the art of creating through divine sense, ruled the universe of the Primordial Era for countless eons, and even enslaved the ancient gods!
If the Taichu godstone alone was so formidable, the other godstones could hardly be inferior; to hold one treasure vein would open up far greater possibilities in the future. But Shen Mu meant to leave, and so they could only follow him.
"What a pity, those few mu of fields I had only just planted. .
. " Dragon Qilin looked ruefully at the land he had reclaimed, thinking, "Vast as this world is, it cannot hold even a few mu of good farmland.
" They entered the Black Sand Desert once more and made their way outward.
Ahead, black sand filled the sky, the wind and grit raging so fiercely that they had to raise the Azure Heaven Canopy over themselves.
Shen Mu glanced back without thinking, and froze.
The Black Sand Desert they had crossed had become a vast starry sky; countless stars formed rivers of stars, and the surging black sand was the surging of those stars, like the tides. He drew back his gaze and looked ahead: the desert met the sky, all darkness, so black he could not see his own fingers.