Chapter 1206 — Interception at the Ancestral Gate
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Human Sovereigns of every generation were men who had cultivated the Heavenly River Divine Treasury, and seasoned by the reforms besides; at the same realm, their fighting strength was no weaker than that of Heavenly Venerate disciples such as these.
At last it came to the First Ancestor Human Sovereign. He walked forward, looked at Xiao Heavenly Venerate's disciples, then looked at Shen Mu; he opened his mouth, but said nothing.
Shen Mu understood, and said apologetically to Gao Huaitong, "This is the First Ancestor of the Human Sovereign Hall, and the hundred-generation ancestor of the old Shen family.
Though I have been struck from the family register, he is still my elder, and I must beat him. " With that he rose to his feet again.
Gao Huaitong was rather displeased at heart.
Ever since Shen Mu had come here to challenge, his own aura had been pressed down by Shen Mu's; Shen Mu had held the initiative throughout.
Only one who had never had dealings with Shen Mu could not know how mighty Shen Mu's aura was. In the past he had been posted abroad by Xiao Heavenly Venerate to serve as a feudal lord in a distant place; he had heard Shen Mu's name, but they had never crossed paths.
Like the other Heavenly Venerate disciples, he had taken Shen Mu for a young man who had merely gotten lucky, who by some chance had won the title of Heavenly Venerate; but after coming into contact with him, he knew that Shen Mu's fame was not unearned. "Heavenly Venerate, wait a moment.
" Gao Huaitong rose to his feet and said with a smile, "Since this is a wager, let this battle be mine.
The contests among your own sect — leave them until after this battle is done.
" He was bent on overpressing Shen Mu's aura, and his method was simple: to defeat the First Ancestor Human Sovereign cleanly and swiftly. So long as the First Ancestor fell to his hand, then even if afterward the First Ancestor challenged Shen Mu and lost to him, it could not dim his own brilliance.
Those who could cultivate to the Imperial Throne realm were none of them men of unearned fame; he saw it clearly.
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign watched Gao Huaitong coming toward him, and bowed slightly; then his body drew taut and straight, deep as a pool, towering as a peak, unmoving, unshaken, unstirring, standing there like the center of a great chiliocosm, with all the heavens and myriad worlds revolving around him. Gao Huaitong's heart skipped.
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign was not truly unmoving; what did not move was his heart of the Dao.
"Is this a man of Jingping?
Among all hearts of the Dao, his state of mind is the strongest.
When I returned to the Heavenly Court this time and spoke to my honored master Xiao Heavenly Venerate of Kaihuang's system of cultivating the Dao realm, he praised it highly. The road this First Ancestor Shen Wu walks must be the Dao realm system.
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