Chapter 1426 — Ground That Every Strategist Must Contest
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
To lose one opportunity may be to lose everything. Jingping cannot afford to miss any opportunity!
" He pondered a while. The Ten Celestial Venerables were migrating people to the Ancestral Court right now, and the situation there must be one of chaos, each faction seizing precious lands, seizing places where it could dwell and grow.
Jingping had to go, and had to go early.
He mused a moment longer, then wrote a letter in his own hand and ordered it sent to Jingping, to be delivered to Ling Yuxiu. More than a month later, Divine Emperor Langxuan had his tower ships ready, a fleet of several hundred tower ships, each one like a floating continent, with city walls and buildings aboard, able to sustain hundreds of thousands of people!
What was more, each tower ship had a complete ecosystem, capable of farming and husbandry, and even god-made suns and god-made moons, rising and setting, revolving around the ship! A single such ship could support hundreds of thousands of people drifting through the cosmos for several thousand years, could even maintain an ecological balance! Such a fleet, holding a hundred and fifty million people, was enough to sustain the migration of a whole myriad-heaven population!
Shen Mu could not help but marvel at the Celestial Venerable's wealth. To build such a fleet had cost countless divine metals and divine materials; an ordinary myriad heaven could never sustain such a fleet!
Divine Emperor Langxuan saw his expression and smiled. "Celestial Venerable Mu, you are still young, you still have your chances. You need not envy us. By the way, how many people does Jingping intend to send to the Ancestral Court? " Shen Mu considered, then said, "I have sent word to Emperor Yanxiu to prepare people, the more the better. I do not know how many she has readied.
" Langxuan laughed. "Jingping is rich and has wealth enough, but its craft for building such tower ships is still wanting.
In the world today, the finest ships, apart from the Ark of the Other Shore of the rebels in the Land of No Sorrow, are the great ships of the Heaven Alliance.
There are only two Arks of the Other Shore; with the wealth of Kaihuang's Heaven Alliance, two Arks drained its whole reserves. But tower ships like these, the Heaven Alliance has beyond counting!
" Shen Mu knew he was boasting, but he could not refute it; after all, Jingping could not yet build even one such great ship.
Just then, a visitor from Jingping came hurrying in, asking to see Shen Mu.
The divine official who announced him wore a strange look. "The one who has come is a black-faced fellow with many faces and many hands.
" Langxuan glanced at Shen Mu and smiled.
"Bring the envoy of Jingping in. " Something stirred in Shen Mu's heart, and at once he knew who it was.
After a moment, Demon King Dutian, four-faced and eight-armed, came hurrying in, one hand holding up a small jade bottle, his other arms saluting Shen Mu and Divine Emperor Langxuan respectively. One of his faces said, "Dutian, a commoner of Jingping, pays his respects to Divine Emperor Langxuan!
" Another of his faces said to Shen Mu, "Dutian pays his respects to the Sect Master. Sect Master, the Emperor bade me bring the people of Jingping, to accompany you to the Ancestral Court.
" He had four faces in all, looking in all four directions, able to speak with different people at once without the slightest confusion. Shen Mu laughed.
"His Majesty is indeed perceptive, to send you. Divine Emperor, my people have arrived; we can set out. " Divine Emperor Langxuan looked Demon King Dutian over and smiled.
"Jingping means to migrate a single person?
And a demon god at that? " Shen Mu took the jade bottle from Dutian's hand and smiled. "Jingping has no such great ships, so I had no choice but to put the people to be migrated in this bottle. I am no match for the Divine Emperor's wealth.