Chapter 1360 — On the Eve of the Descent
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Heavenly Venerable Xiao was a being of vast wisdom. In Heavenly Venerable Yu he had seen the future of several hundred thousand years hence: he had seen the rise of the acquired races and the demigods, unstoppable, and he had seen the ancient gods fall from their station.
He could not hold back that tide. Yet for the sake of his own rule, and for the rule of the ancient gods, he had to kill Heavenly Venerable Yu.
So long as Heavenly Venerable Yu was gone, he could still become the common lord of all under heaven!
Shen Mu pondered it. Surveying the methods of every Heavenly Venerable — beings of the order of Heaven Duke, Earth Count, and Earth Mother Yuanjun — none of them measured up to Heavenly Venerable Yu.
Not even the road Shen Mu himself now walked, the road of alliances and counter-alliances, came anywhere near him.
That road of alliances and counter-alliances was heavy with plots and schemes, heavy with reckonings upon the hearts of men; it had none of Heavenly Venerable Yu's grandeur.
The road Heavenly Venerable Yu walked was the road of kings, the road of emperors — a pity that the ancient god Heavenly Emperor had recognized his strength at the very first moment and struck him down.
His downfall lay in being too outstanding, while his strength could not keep pace.
The magnanimity of Heavenly Emperor Taichu was immense: he could tolerate countless people — Heaven Duke, Earth Count, Heavenly Consort Yuanmu, all of them he could tolerate, and even Shen Mu, that fellow who had tripped him up time and again, he could tolerate as well.
But let anything threaten his power, and he would tolerate nothing.
Let anything threaten his power, and whoever it was, he would root them out — even his own son!
"The dao wound left by Divine Emperor Langxuan has healed as well!" Master Dan cried out suddenly, elated.
Heavenly Venerable Yue's spirit surged. She drove her cultivation art with all her strength, and at once felt it circulate free and unhindered; she now had the confidence to stake everything on one fight!
Heavenly Venerable Xiao looked at her and shook his head. "You cannot escape now. Even standing within Heavenly Venerable Mu's domain, you cannot escape my grasp."
Heavenly Venerable Yue drew a long breath; her sleeves and skirts began to stream, ribbon after ribbon drifting slowly through the air, and with the ribbons moved strands of dazzling divine light.
Heavenly Venerable Xiao's brows lifted. Behind him, the divine artifact Heavenly Venerable Yu gripped the Yuanmu and gave it a gentle turn — and at once every heaven and every world of the Yuan World shifted along with the motion of the Yuanmu's branches, leaves, and crown!
Such power as even Earth Mother Yuanjun in her day had never achieved — and Heavenly Venerable Xiao could achieve it!
The displacement of the Yuan World's heavens and worlds altered space itself; Xiao's purpose was precisely to throw space into disorder, to leave Heavenly Venerable Yue no way to escape!
Shen Mu spread his five fingers and laid his palm flat. Heavenly Venerable Yue danced within that palm, slender and graceful, light as a swallow; one string of space after another surfaced, and these strings, plucked by the shifting heavens and worlds, gave out a tangled music.
Heavenly Venerable Yue's figure flitted upon string after string, yet however she leapt, she could never leap beyond the heavens and worlds, never leave the Yuan World — could not even leave the peach forest!
The space she could move through grew smaller and smaller, until nothing remained but the span of Shen Mu's palm!
Twang! Twang! Twang!