Chapter 1373 — A Game of Mutual Destruction
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When the Dark Emperor and the Martial Emperor saw their son, a natural warmth rose in them both, yet they forced it down, and took charge of the divine gold and divine ore of the Ancestral Court that Crown Prince Youming had brought. The Martial Emperor said, "Mu the Heavenly Venerable is thoughtful indeed.
. . And how have you been faring in Jingping? " Crown Prince Youming bowed his head and said, "I have been very well in Jingping.
I have made many new friends, and every one of them treats me with a true heart and has never schemed against me.
It is only that Emperor Yanxiu thinks my daos and divine arts out of date and ordered me to study at the Academy of Hearing the Dao. There I exchange daos and divine arts with my new friends; they are honest with me, and I am very happy. " The Martial Emperor's heart eased and he smiled.
"So long as you fare well, my mind is at rest.
" The Dark Emperor said gravely, "Though we husband and wife have severed our ties with you, you are still of the younger generation, so we cannot help giving you a word of instruction.
In all your dealings, keep an extra eye open; if others treat you with a true heart, repay them with a true heart of your own.
" Crown Prince Youming choked, knelt and bowed in assent. The Martial Emperor grew restless and waved his hand.
"Go, go quickly.
" Crown Prince Youming's tears fell; he rose and bowed his farewell. The Dark Emperor and the Martial Emperor watched him go far off, and said, "Our foolish son is still at his studies.
To my eye he has grown far steadier than before, no longer the careless boy with no depths to him at all. " "His cultivation is far deeper and more vigorous than before; Jingping has made him grow.
" Husband and wife exchanged a smile.
"Our son, too, is one with the makings of a Heavenly Venerable; he merely lacks a Heavenly Venerable's wisdom. But with Jingping at his back, it may be that he can live on.
" The two examined the treasures Emperor Yanxiu had sent, and could not help clicking their tongues.
The treasures Yanxiu had sent were exceedingly many, the gesture exceedingly grand, enough to let them forge a treasure to suppress the fortunes of the Northern Pole Heaven.
"Mu the Heavenly Venerable has grown rich in the Ancestral Court.
" The Dark Emperor murmured, "I hear our Glazed Azure Heaven Banner was taken by him to suppress the Ancestral Court.
The boy is likely using these baubles to curry favour with us. " The Martial Emperor said, "It was he who saved Youming and the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace back then. If he borrowed it, there is no harm in it.
" Meanwhile, Heavenly Venerable Hao's deterrent came tardily at last. That deterrent was a head like a planet — the head of the Great Emperor!
That head was one of the only three parts of the Great Emperor's body that remained!
Ever since the Great Emperor escaped his bondage, all things had gone against him.
In his battle with Heavenly Venerable Hao, Hao severed one of his arms and devoured one of his heads; after he obtained the Taichu Primordial Stone from Shen Mu he restored his fleshy body, but neither the head nor the newly grown arm was as it had been before.
Next, in the Ancestral Court, the Great Emperor was set upon by four Heavenly Venerables, dismembered by them, and his body was sacrificed upon a hidden altar in the Ancestral Court, becoming nourishment for the mighty ones of the prehistoric epoch. Only one fist of his fell into the grasp of Lady Earth Mother and was preserved.
The head that had fallen into Shen Mu's hands had merely been created from the Taichu Primordial Stone, and could not compare with his original head.
And this head, together with another arm of the Great Emperor, had fallen into the hands of Heavenly Venerable Hao.