Chapter 1434 — The Age of Great Strife Approaches
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It was precisely because the Taiji ancient gods could do nothing to him, and because he had planted his sword on the altar and threatened them, that they felt a certain fear of him.
Of course, the gods in the egg would never tell the Empress such a thing.
"Brother Dao, why have you summoned me?" the Empress asked.
A male voice rose from the egg, laughing: "Some years ago, Taisu came seeking me, wanting me to leave my mountain and scheme great matters together. I refused. But she would not relent, and since she was born earlier than we, we could do nothing with her, and in the end had no choice but to tell her to go find Hao Heavenly Venerable."
The Empress was shaken inwardly: "The other egg-born ancient god has gone to Hao Heavenly Venerable? If Hao Heavenly Venerable has the support of such ancient gods, he will be all the harder to deal with!"
Then a female voice rose from the egg: "This time the Ancestral Court has opened completely, and our quiet place will hardly stay quiet. So we too need a fellow Daoist. Having once suffered at the hands of a certain postnatal being, and having been threatened by him into giving up Taiji primal stones, we do not trust postnatal beings."
Shen Mu rubbed his nose, and again wanted to draw his sword and plant it on the altar, thinking: "I must forge another divine sword!"
"So we wish to find among the ancient gods a fellow Daoist we can trust."
The male voice came from the altar: "Taiji is the Dao of yin and yang, of ceaseless generation and transformation, without end. Among all the ancient gods under heaven, the one whose Dao accords with ours and complements it is you, my lady."
"You are an ancient god born of the Dao; and Guixu is the place where all things end, and the place where all things are born."
The female voice came from the egg: "Twin lotuses on a single stem — one stands for the Dao of destruction, a goddess of destruction who delights in chaos; the other stands for the Dao of life, an ancient god who nurtures all beings. This is why the ancient god Taichu chose you as Empress."
"Yuanmu's Guixu is an abyss that devours all; your Guixu is the Mysterious Female that gives birth to all. One destroys, one begets."
"With your aid, our yin-yang transformation can be perfected; and with our aid, you can harmonize life and death, fuse with Yuanmu, and become a unique being."
"Little sister, the Ancestral Court has reappeared in the world — which means the age of great contention is at hand. The struggles to come will be so ferocious, so magnificent, that they will surpass the War of Destruction in high antiquity a hundredfold!"
"Facing a war a hundred times that which destroyed the Creator, anyone may fall! Ancient gods, Heavenly Venerables, ourselves — even those who have already attained the Dao may perish!"
"Join hands with us, prepare early. What say you?"
The Empress's body trembled violently. A hundredfold the ferocity and grandeur of the Blood-Rust War? How could that be?