Chapter 1224 — Fellow Cultivator, Wait a Moment
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
With Earth Mother dead and Moon Venerable gravely wounded, only Ling Venerable remained, one support unable to hold up the whole. Yet Ling Venerable's divine powers were vast, her abilities inconceivable, and especially in the final years of the Supreme Emperor Era, once she unleashed her divine power, none could stand against her. But a spear in the open is easy to dodge, while an arrow from the dark is hard to guard against.
Ling Venerable was ambushed by the Heavenly Emperor, and in the end she met her death in the Heavenly River.
A flourishing dynasty that had lasted three hundred thousand years thus became a thing of the past.
That year, a girl of the White Dragon Clan, carrying a long sword on her back, led countless ragged remnants of the Supreme Emperor Era through untold hardships, evading the pursuit and slaughter of the gods and demons of the Outland Heavenly Court; cutting a path through the wilds, she endured countless sufferings before at last reaching the East Sea. She led the Supreme Emperor's remnants out to sea. After a time none could measure, they came upon a floating island on the sea, and upon that island peach blossoms were in full bloom, exquisitely lovely.
The master of that place received them.
The master had a strange temper: he would not meet outside guests, and only hid behind a screen.
The master of the peach garden said to the White Dragon girl, "I can send you into a hidden heaven to take refuge.
When the Supreme Emperor Tribulation has subsided, you may return to this land.
" The White Dragon girl thanked him. She often danced with sword-light, and the master of the peach garden would be wheeled out in a chair by a girl, face veiled, gazing pensively as she danced with her sword.
Her sword was like fish and dragons dancing, mirrored in the East Sea.
The White Dragon girl discovered many strange things about the floating island. Wandering at random in the peach grove upon it, she would sometimes come to other heavens, sometimes into the Primal World, and sometimes even reach the Nether Capital or the Mystic Capital.
She also found that the master of the peach garden had a strange habit: he was forever asking that girl called Yan'er where the peach grove had grown to.
The White Dragon girl heard that this strange peach grove had been planted long ago by the master of the peach garden from a single peach branch, and only after a thousand years had it grown to its present size. She also heard Yan'er say that the master of the peach garden was waiting for someone. Only when the peach grove had filled the myriad heavens and worlds would that person appear.
In the end, the White Dragon girl led her clansfolk through the peach grove into a hidden heaven, where they settled and multiplied and lived on. And the White Dragon girl often came out to walk the world, teaching the people of the Primal World the arts of the Dao and divine powers, spreading the ideals of the Supreme Emperor Era.
She was reverenced by the people as the Supreme Emperor's Sword God. She would still often pass through that peach grove.
The grove had little by little grown into many heavens, yet the master of the peach garden had still not waited for the person she awaited. The White Dragon girl met a youth named Shen Ye; met Wen Tiange, who could fell firewood; met Di Yiyue, ill-tempered; and met Yan Yunxi, dashing and elegant, who dressed as a man.
She still walked the world. The master of the peach garden was waiting for someone, and she too was waiting for someone.
Before anyone knew it, twenty thousand years had passed.
The Heavenly Court of Kaihuang had turned to dust; past glory had become ruins.
The master of the peach grove had still not waited for that person, and she had not found that person either. Another twenty thousand years of dark years passed, and the White Dragon girl searched bitterly for clues to that person.