Chapter 1319 — Father and Son of Different Surnames
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
On the altar, Earth Mother Yuanjun gnashed her teeth in hatred, yet no matter how she urged the altar to summon Long Xiao, she could never call forth that colossal beast!
Long Xiao's strength was far greater than hers today, and even in those years Long Xiao had stood above her.
It was only because she was the Earth Mother and could command the giant beasts that Taichu had set her to deal with Long Xiao.
She had chosen not to kill him, but instead to hide Long Xiao and a number of other powerful giant beasts on the dark side of the Ancestral Court, and that too had been a plan for her own future.
Earth Mother Yuanjun harbored ambitions of her own: Tiangong and Tubo might hold themselves aloof, but she, the Yuanmu who had grown great upon the offerings of the Ancestral Court's Creators, had long since taken on the worldly airs of the Creators, and she meant to contend with Taichu for dominion over the cosmos to come. Yet Taichu was afterward exalted by all the gods, founded the Long Han Heavenly Court and inaugurated the Long Han era, and Earth Mother Yuanjun, seeing that the thing could not be done, abandoned the notion.
Later, in the War of the Shanghuang, she was set upon by Celestial Venerable Yue, Celestial Venerable Ling, Celestial Venerable Huo, Celestial Venerable Xiao and others, and was done away with before she could summon Long Xiao. Only today, with the Ancestral Court unsealed, had she gained the chance to summon Long Xiao — and yet Long Xiao would not deign to cast her a glance!
"Since you will be heartless, then blame no one if I am merciless!
" Earth Mother Yuanjun sneered, "If I cannot summon you, I can summon your sons and your sons' sons, summon every giant beast on the dark side of the Ancestral Court back to the Ancestral Court, to be driven by me, to fight for me!
With the blood of your countless descendants I shall pave this sovereign's road to the throne!
" She went on summoning the giant beasts on the far side of the Ancestral Court; beast after beast of every strange and monstrous shape came welling up out of the sky, each one landing with immense, towering bulk. In the void, Shen Mu stared until his eyes grew fixed: so many giant beasts, bodies of such immensity, hardly inferior even to the Void Mother Beasts.
Of course, the Void Mother Beasts combined the virtues of most giant beasts, had more means of attack, were more mysterious and unfathomable, and were still somewhat stronger than these beasts — otherwise they could never have left only themselves here. "In the Ancestral Court of old, the Creators lived in a world so perilous; had they not mastered the power of the Taichu God Stone, it would truly have been hard to survive in such a world.
" Shen Mu could not help but sigh in reflection: that the Creators obtained the God Stone was chance, yet it drew back the curtain on civilization.
From that time on the Creators grew ever stronger, gradually took command of the giant beasts, contended against heaven and earth and nature, and in the end became the rulers. To the races of later ages, the Creators were simply a pantheon of the most ancient gods.
Just then a sudden sense came over Shen Mu, and he hurriedly fled with the egg of Taishi into the depths of the void. Swoosh — a root tendril of unimaginable thickness shot past before him, and its keen root hairs abruptly swelled, like a great hedgehog; countless root hairs sprouted madly in every direction, piercing layer upon layer of the void and giving chase to Shen Mu!
"Celestial Venerable Mu, do you still think to hide?
" One root tendril abruptly grew, turned to flesh and blood, and soon there grew up not far from Shen Mu a woman in the likeness of Earth Mother Yuanjun; her voice was shrill as she sneered, "Long Xiao's dragon scales have long since mirrored your figure down to the last hair and thread.
And you still imagine you hide cleverly!