Chapter 1241 — Carrying the Coffin Around the City
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
The Woodcutter Sage was sorely displeased, and snapped, "You are making mischief again! You bear the fate of Jingping on your shoulders.
If you showed yourself on the battlefield, would the Ten Heavenly Venerables still suffer Jingping to live?
Go back! " Shen Mu laughed.
"I have mastered the art of Creation. Do you think it would be so hard to keep anyone from recognizing me? " The Woodcutter Sage choked on his fury.
"The Heaven Court beyond the borders teems with gods and men; there is no want of men of talent, and those who cultivate this or that Holy Pupil are hardly few.
Do you truly imagine no one can see through your art of Creation?
" Shen Mu tried to soothe him. "Set your heart at ease, Master.
Even if they do see through me, so long as I refuse to admit it, what can they do?
We shall bicker, and that is all. Besides, this time I go to fight you rebels; I will not run wild.
Mu, Heavenly Venerable of the Heaven Court, his honor reaching the clouds, young in years yet daring to plunge into the front lines, who beat down the traitors Shen Ye, Lang Wan, and their kind.
" The Woodcutter Sage glared, eyes wide; after a moment he said, helpless, "You have learned to bicker?
Enough. I cannot govern you.
" Shen Mu remained aboard the Ark of the Other Shore, and all at once the Ark slipped into the void and vanished from Youdu. Shen Mu could not help but marvel at the foundry-craft of the Kaihuang age. Every age in history has its own genius.
The Longhan age was the age of awakening, when divine powers and arts of the Dao poured forth in endless succession, and the system of the Divine Treasury and the Heavenly Palace took shape and grew in that time.
The Chiming age excelled in body and primordial spirit, refining both to incomparable strength. The Shanghuang age was the age in which the arts of the Dao and divine powers came to their full flower; it threw up more Emperor Throne powerhouses than any other, the Primal World alone possessing no fewer than thirty.
The Kaihuang age left behind one mighty artifact and god-weapon after another: the Carefree Land, the Carefree Sword, the Ark of the Other Shore. Heavenly Craft carried tremendous weight in that age.
The present Jingping age has lasted but a short while, and does not flourish as the four ages before it did. In the Land of the Great Void, since only the Fire Heavenly Venerable and the Void Heavenly Venerable hold it, the war between the two sides has settled into a tug-of-war, a war of attrition; both sides build cities, and both sides attack.
Because they must face the two great powers Shen Ye of Kaihuang and the Divine King Lang Wan, the Fire Heavenly Venerable and the Void Heavenly Venerable dare not act rashly either; and since the Land of the Great Void holds the Great Void Youdu, whose Little Earth Lord is a man of favoritism, without taking the Great Void Youdu they can only grind each other down. The Creators of the Carefree Land and the Othershore Void are far fewer in number than the Heaven Court's, and in a war of attrition it is Shen Ye and Lang Wan who cannot bear the cost.
Yin Tianzi led the armies of Northern Heaven and the Nether Capital into Little Youdu to overawe Shen Fengqing, the battle line stretching away to the Great Void Youdu; while across the Land of the Great Void more armies lay scattered like stars, each pitching its camp and fashioning its divine city. The four Celestial Masters and the four Heavenly Kings of the Heaven Court each commanded an army, and the Celestial River Fleet drew down the waters of the River of Heaven, bringing the Celestial River into the Great Void and attacking by water.
Once the Celestial River entered the Great Void, the transport of supplies became far easier; only, the Heaven Court still had to keep heavy troops guarding the river, using newly forged artifacts of the Four Emperors to suppress the collapsing void, at enormous cost in wealth and manpower.