Chapter 1225 — Newcomers Drive Out the Old
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
" Wei Suifeng led the Yulin Army and Feng Qiuyun, King Longbo, and the others away; and from afar Feng Qiuyun saw a Primal Tree lush and verdant, its canopy spreading over an immense range, and joy swelled in her heart. "Heavenly Venerable Mu and the others said Earth Mother is dead; that must be a lie to deceive me, to make me betray Earth Mother! Now that I have come to Earth Mother's domain, I will still be given weight, and my Feng clan will still be given weight! " Closer and closer they drew to that Primal Tree, and from afar they saw a Heavenly Palace under construction.
That Heavenly Palace floated amid the crowns of the Primal Tree, where Jingping's celestial craftsmen and formation masters were designing formations and raising the palace, already more than half finished. To forge a Heavenly Palace was no easy thing.
The Heavenly Court assembled every skilled artisan of the heavens and myriad worlds to forge its palaces, while Jingping had never had such experience; yet to forge a Heavenly Palace on the strength of one nation alone, such potential made men turn and stare! Wei Suifeng brought them to the vicinity of the Primal Tree, where Jingping's soldiers at once came to question them; after a round of inquiry, they hurried off to report within the Heavenly Palace.
Feng Qiuyun studied the Primal Tree, doubt in her heart, and saw beneath it a capital city of grand scale, and upon it another capital city of grand scale, crowded with people coming and going, exceedingly bustling.
As for the Heavenly Palace, luxurious and magnificent though it was, it was not so bustling as those two capitals. "Earth Mother has always despised the human race and dealt harshly with them; why should she now treat humans so well?
" Before long, Jingping's divinities invited them into the Heavenly Palace, and Wei Suifeng led a portion of his officers, together with King Longbo, Feng Qiuyun, and the rest, up the path toward the Lingxiao Hall. When they came before the Lingxiao Hall, the company straightened their robes, their faces solemn, and followed the divine officials into the hall to pay homage to the Earth Virtue Venerable. Feng Qiuyun stealthily raised her head, and at the sight of that Earth Virtue Venerable she was struck dumb and cried out despite herself: "Yan'er!
" Gongsun Yan saw her too, and was both startled and delighted; heedless of propriety, she rose swiftly from her seat and said with a smile: "Sister Qiuyun! " Feng Qiuyun said in a fluster: "How did you come to sit in that seat?
Come down at once! You—" She suddenly understood, and cried out in shock: "You are the Earth Virtue Venerable?
" Her mind rang like thunder: that little sister who had once trailed at her heels, turning round and round, had become the Earth Virtue Venerable who ruled half the Primal World?
She still remembered Gongsun Yan of those days, so endearingly naive that no one could help but feel fond of her.
She had been born from a fruit of Earth Mother, yet Earth Mother did not look kindly on her own child and sent her out to keep a gate. Gongsun Yan bore no complaint; she even planted an orchard outside, busy from morning to night, watering and catching insects.
Who could have imagined that that girl would hold such a station today? Gongsun Yan came down from her seat and said joyfully: "No phoenix has ever perched on this branch of mine, and now Sister Qiuyun has come at last!
" Feng Qiuyun was in a daze.
She had been trapped aboard the ghost ship only ten or twenty years, and she had never imagined such tremendous upheavals. "Earth Mother?
Where is Earth Mother?
" Her heart was a blank waste.
Elsewhere, Shen Mu came to the Dao Sect, and Dao Lord Lin Xuan hurried out to welcome him and invited him within. Shen Mu gazed far off at the peach grove beside the Dao Sect, and Dao Lord Lin Xuan smiled: "Does Sect Master Shen wish to see the Mistress of the Peach Garden?