Chapter 1417 — The Banners Change Atop the City Wall
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 5 of 5
Shen Mu rubbed his hands again and again and stamped his foot, saying, "What is to be done? What is to be done? Today is the Heaven Alliance council; His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor himself decreed that we be harmonious and at peace — how has it come to this? I am young and cannot handle such matters. If only another Heavenly Venerable of high virtue and prestige, a leader of the Heaven Alliance, would descend and help me solve this difficulty, that would be wonderful..."
"There is no need for Heavenly Venerable Mu to worry."
Suddenly a clear, crisp woman's voice came drifting over, unhurried, "Heavenly Venerable Yue of Longhan, one of the five founding elders of the Heaven Alliance, has come to relieve Heavenly Venerable Mu of his troubles."
Shen Mu was overjoyed, so stirred that he choked and wept; through the blur of his tears he saw a woman striding over, treading the second tier of the Heavenly Court to come to him.
As she walked, the sound of a zither arose.
The zither music was strange; it harmonized with the Great Dao of everyone's Heavenly Palace, and when the music sounded, the Dao arts and divine abilities of the crowd burst forth with all manner of Dao sounds and Dao rhythms.
Shen Mu said hurriedly, "Heavenly Venerable Yue, Brother Dao Yue, come up quickly and solve my present difficulty — the Ancestral God King, Heavenly Venerable Hong, and Heavenly Venerable Huo mean to fight it out with Heavenly Venerable Shen!"
Heavenly Venerable Yue smiled: "I too am one of the five founding elders who founded the Heaven Alliance, unworthily one of its leaders, and I founded the Seven Stars realm as well; it is only that I have not shown myself for so long that most likely many in the Heaven Alliance no longer know me. Heavenly Venerable Mu sits in the seat of honor; I would dare only, like Heavenly Venerable Shen, to take the second seat."
Shen Mu hurried to ask her to be seated, choking on his words, "I heard that you were wounded by villains, Brother Dao, and withdrew from the world to hide from it; I sought you always and never found you. And now you have come forth at last? Is your injury healed, Brother Dao? Who had such wondrous hands and such a compassionate heart as to cure you?"