Chapter 1272 — Calamity Approaches
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Behind the four of them the Heavenly Court burst apart with a crackling roar; countless structures within its heavenly palaces collapsed and crumbled, and a dazzling divine radiance shrouded a hundred thousand li around, so that even Shen Mu and Bai Yuqiong could see only shadows swaying within the light, hare bolting and falcon stooping, changing swift as lightning, unable to make out at all what was truly happening inside. "The Third Sacred Pupil! " Shen Mu at once opened the vertical eye at the center of his brow, driving it with all his strength to peer into the heart of the divine radiance, so excited that his whole body trembled and his fists clenched tight.
Bai Yuqiong could not see the details within the light, and gave up watching the battle; carefully she drove the lantern to govern the strings of light.
Seeing Shen Mu in such a state, she could not help shaking her head inwardly. "A mighty Venerable Mu, and yet so curious, like a moth darting into flame.
. . no, like a foolish roe deer in the snow, whose curiosity will be the death of him one day. " She resolved that once Shen Mu had satisfied his curiosity, she would tell him of this weakness of his.
At that thought Bai Yuqiong suddenly froze.
"Venerable Mu is plainly an enemy, so why should I tell an enemy of his own weakness? Would it not be better for me if he died?
" Her heart fell into confusion, for it could only mean that her own standpoint was shifting by degrees.
Once she had taken herself for the Heavenly Court's Celestial Master, thinking of everything for the Heavenly Court's sake; and though the Black Emperor, Yin Tianzi, was her implacable foe, never had she thought of betraying the Heavenly Court. Ever since she met Shen Mu, she had more than once nursed the intent to kill him, yet had never once struck.
But ever since she learned of the struggle between Fire Heaven Venerable and Shen Mu, and went running off to the South Heaven, she had gradually come to understand Shen Mu.
And because she understood him, she had unknowingly come to stand on Shen Mu's side.
Of Fire Heaven Venerable's South Heaven and Shen Mu's Jingping, she had never passed judgment on which was right and which wrong, which the better and which the worse; yet in her heart she had long since judged.
She did not consider herself the reincarnated soul of the South Emperor, but she had always affirmed that she was of the human race. It was from the standpoint of the human race that she chose to stand at Shen Mu's side.
Having thought her way through all of this, her heart was suddenly released, and a smile broke across her face.
As a Celestial Master, she was the Celestial Master of the human race, not of the Heavenly Court.
Shen Mu opened the vertical eye at his brow and at last caught the changes at the center of the radiance; and with Moon Heaven Venerable's qin strings to aid him, countless tiny Shen Mus in the dreamscape set to work diligently, hastening to decipher the Dao-sounds, to perfect the innate primordial qi, to crack the runes of the Taichu Great Dao.
If he could fully decipher the Taichu Great Dao runes upon the eggshell, then he would have come by half of the Taichu Great Dao itself; even what the Heaven Emperor Taichu had obtained might not exceed his share.
Not only so: his Innate Heaven Palace too was growing at furious speed, taking shape at furious speed, mansion after mansion, pavilion after pavilion rising from the ground, countless bricks and pillars flying about, palace after shrine after hall of the gods assembling themselves into being. And the Divine Consciousness Heaven Palace, thanks to this battle between the Grand Emperor and Hao Heaven Venerable, had grown more complete still, more imposing and extraordinary by far. In this battle of the Grand Emperor and Hao, others might not dare claim it, but Shen Mu was certainly the one who had profited most.