Chapter 1318 — The Sneer of the Mighty
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Boyang's mount Long Xiao was a colossal creature even vaster and more terrifying than a grown Void Mother Beast, and its descent set the void where Shen Mu hid shaking so violently that he could scarcely keep his footing! It was an unimaginable titan, one that in the primordial age would have been worshipped as a god even by the Creators!
"There cannot be so powerful a creature.
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. no, there can!
" Shen Mu stared upward in a daze at this Long Xiao and murmured: "So long as the Creators sacrifice to Long Xiao as they sacrificed to Taidi, they can make a titan like Long Xiao this mighty.
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" At that very moment, far away in the Great Black Wood within the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains, God King Shujun felt a sudden stirring in his heart, looked up at the sky, and showed shock. "Boyang's mount, or rather the guardian god of the Wujia Clan, Long Xiao.
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" he murmured: "The primordial creature second only to Taidi, was it not already dead?
" That was the beast he had dreamed of taming in the primordial age, yet among the three primordial kings he ranked third, Boyang first, for Boyang was the most ancient and the first to discover the wondrous use of the Taichu God Stone. Gongyun came second, and God King Gongyun's Nuxin Clan was a dominant race, and though Gongyun's strength might not surpass Shujun's, she was the heroine among the women of the Creators.
That Shujun ranked third was only natural.
Though Shujun was strong, in power and influence he could not match those two, and though he often boasted before Shen Mu, that was only taking advantage of Shen Mu's ignorance of primordial history. Truly facing the other two, he still stood a head lower.
He had always wished to subdue God King Boyang's Long Xiao, but knowing he could beat neither Boyang nor Long Xiao, he had at last chosen only the Taipu Beast.
Now seeing the Long Xiao beast again, his heart could not help burning anew.
"Boyang is dead and Long Xiao has reappeared, and apart from Taidi and Gongyun, none can contend with me!
" He flew from the Great Black Wood and sped straight for the place of Long Xiao's descent, his heart ablaze: "My chance has finally come! " At this time, Yantianfei was also startled by the portents brought by Long Xiao's descent, and she walked out of her side palace and looked up at this colossus fallen from the sky, her lovely face changing slightly.
"Long Xiao.
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. " "That wretch Earth Mother Yuanjun actually did not kill Long Xiao, but hid this fierce god away!
" She flared into rage, and at the same time showed dread, for in the war between the Ancient Gods and the Creators, the Empress sisters had been charged with dealing with Boyang, while Earth Mother Yuanjun had been charged with dealing with Long Xiao. The two sisters had thrust Boyang into the Guixu Great Abyss to refine him until both form and spirit were destroyed, not even soul black sand remaining, even Boyang's divine consciousness wholly refined to ash!
That battle had cost them dearly.
Yet Earth Mother Yuanjun's handling of Long Xiao had seemed simple, and afterward she told them Long Xiao was dead.
Long Xiao was the mightiest titan of the primordial age, indeed the Ancient God among titans, a sacrificial Ancient God like Earth Mother Yuanjun!
Yet it had been created as a weapon of war to oppose the Ancient Gods!
Even the Empress sisters were filled with fear of this divine beast, for before Taidi rose, Boyang, foremost of the three primordial kings, ruled and enslaved the Ancient Gods, and he relied upon Long Xiao. This beast was the being longest sustained by sacrifice, and its battle power had absolutely reached the peak of that age!
More crucial still, it could command every strange beast in the Ancestral Court save the void beasts, and even Tiangong and Tubo had to fear it by three parts!