Chapter 1381 — The Crown Prince and Dragon Mountain
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" Crown Prince Youming descended to their side in a towering rage, yet with the two before him, he could not bring himself to strike. To be sure, Long Qilin and Yan'er had stolen the Glazed Azure Heaven Canopy and caused him to be suppressed by the Northern Emperor Black Tortoise and his wife for six hundred thousand years; but they had also saved the hundreds of thousands of Black Tortoise clansmen of the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace and had pulled him back from the brink of death. More critically, the Northern Emperor Black Tortoise's suppression of Crown Prince Youming had little to do with the theft of the canopy.
In those days, those around Crown Prince Youming were all people of the Nether Emperor's ilk, forever plotting to murder him, to murder the Northern Emperor, and to scheme for the Northern Pole Heaven.
Had Crown Prince Youming not been locked away, he would have died long ago. That he had been able to shake off his suppression was also due to Shen Mu's intercession; after getting free, he left the Northern Pole Heaven, only to meet the Nether Emperor again on the Heavenly River and nearly be framed by the man once more, nearly stuffed into the Heavenly Emperor's harem. Fortunately, the divine art Shen Mu had left him exerted its power, letting him see the Nether Emperor's true face and sparing the Northern Pole Heaven from catastrophe.
"Please, both of you, rise. " Crown Prince Youming had once more recovered his equanimity.
He helped them both up and smiled.
"I lost my composure just now. I was originally a rich man's son, accustomed to using money to make friends, knowing nothing of sincere friendship. Only after I came to Jingping did I understand what friendship truly is. Though the two of you took my Glazed Azure Heaven Canopy, you also did me a great kindness. There is no need for this.
" Long Qilin and Yan'er rose accordingly. Crown Prince Youming smiled.
"The Glazed Azure Heaven Canopy may be heavy, but in my heart it no longer weighs so heavily. " Wei Suifeng came to his side and said, "Your Highness, your state of mind has climbed yet another step.
Truly the most outstanding figure of the Longhan Era. " In the Longhan Era, when Crown Prince Youming attained the Imperial Throne realm, there were no more than ten existences at the Imperial Throne realm in all the world. The figures of immense renown in later ages—Celestial Venerable Xiao, Celestial Venerable Hong, Celestial Venerable Gong, and Celestial Venerable Yan—had all been obscure nobodies back then.
Those who could keep pace with him in those days were only a countable few: Celestial Venerable Yun, Celestial Venerable Hao, Celestial Venerable Huo, Divine Emperor Langxuan, the Ancestral God King, and a handful of others. The Northern Emperor Black Tortoise had suppressed Crown Prince Youming for six hundred thousand years; the nobodies who had once been inferior to him were now famous throughout the world and had become Celestial Venerables, and even the Nether Emperor had become the ruler of the Northern Heaven, lofty and aloof.
To have undergone such tremendous rises and falls and yet remain in an ordinary frame of mind—Crown Prince Youming's equanimity won Wei Suifeng's admiration. Crown Prince Youming smiled. "Had I not been suppressed by the Northern Emperor, I would not have lived to the end of the Longhan Era.
Even staying alive would have been impossible, let alone becoming an existence like the Ten Celestial Venerables. The wisdom of today's Ten Celestial Venerables is far beyond what I can match; only an existence like Celestial Venerable Mu can trade blows with them.