Chapter 1338 — A Storm Rises Anew
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"To make the Ancestral Court an altar, and the living beings of the Ancestral Court the offering — a stroke indeed to astonish the world and confound the vulgar! Who in the world contrived it?
" Shen Mu frowned deeply.
What being had such magical power and such wisdom as to reduce the Ancestral Court to this state? Judging by its present condition, the place was fit for no one to dwell in; it must be sealed, and no one whatsoever allowed to set foot here!
Where there are people, there is strife; if the warfare of the Heavenly Venerables were to erupt a few times more, then even Tai Yi, I fear, could not hold those prehistoric beings back from descending! "If the sky falls, Tai Yi will hold it up.
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. " But was the Great Emperor alive or dead?
It seemed his head had not yet come plummeting down.
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. Shen Mu looked about in every direction, and still he saw no head of the Great Emperor falling to the ground.
Earth Mother was still searching far and wide; across the churning earth, tentacles kept thrashing about — those were Earth Mother's roots. She could not have had time, it seemed, to find more than one fist of the Great Emperor; everything else had been offered up in sacrifice, turned into the offering. "How wretched the Great Emperor is.
" Shen Mu sighed ruefully: "A pity he did not fall into my hands. . .
While the four Heavenly Venerables are still hunting down the Great Emperor's head, let me first make for the Sea of Chaos and fish up the Taichu Primal Stone! " The Sea of Chaos had once been Tai Yi's own ore vein, a place which the sacrificial power of the previous universe could never reach. It was filled with chaos qi, so dense and ponderous that it could very readily assimilate all other things into chaos qi.
If the hand of Heavenly Venerable Xiao fell into the sea, it would not become an offering; in all likelihood it would not soon be assimilated by the chaos qi either; and the Taichu Primal Stone was even less liable to assimilation. So long as he could plunge to the depths of the Sea of Chaos, he would find those fragments of the primal stone.
"The last time I walked out of there alive, I owed it to the Glazed Azure-Heaven Banner, which answered every plea.
Unluckily, Taisu has already come forth into the world, and the Glazed Azure-Heaven Banner can no longer answer every plea; but I still have the two eggshells my Dao-brother Tai Yi left to me. " Shen Mu was full of confidence — with Tai Yi's eggshells, he would surely be able to enter the Sea of Chaos and find the fragments of the primal stone and the hand of Heavenly Venerable Xiao.
The fragments of the primal stone were precious treasures; the hand of Heavenly Venerable Xiao was a heavy treasure of no small account!
He sped toward the Sea of Chaos with the speed of wind and lightning, when all at once the earth before him heaved and writhed. Countless roots burst through the soil, like so many burrowing dragons, drilling in and out of the ground as they raced after him in a frenzy!
"Earth Mother again! " At the flicker of a thought, Shen Mu employed his great divine art, the Ferry of the Other Shore Divine Ark; he set foot upon a divine ark and sailed far away, vanished into the void, and flung Earth Mother far behind.
Countless roots followed him into the void, piercing one layer of the void after another, like a host of demons dancing madly; but as Shen Mu pressed deeper, Earth Mother's roots began to struggle.
In the end, she could not overtake him and had no choice but to retract her roots.
Shen Mu emerged from the void with a cold laugh, and his form came to rest upon the surface of the Sea of Chaos. At that very moment, four thunderous crashes rang out in succession, and Shen Mu's body stiffened — around him, four figures of prodigious stature had appeared.
With difficulty he lifted his head and saw Heavenly Consort Yan; then he saw Heavenly Venerable Xiao, the Ancestor God King, and Divine Emperor Langxuan.