Chapter 1457 — Venerable Deep Pit Leaves Nothing to Chance
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" Shen Mu looked up at the Consort upon the God-Slaying Platform and ventured, "The Ancestral God King alone cannot yet overcome the Lord of Heaven. And if the Ancestral God King absorbs the Lord of Heaven's power, his cultivation and strength will likely leap by bounds, and he may in one stroke become a being at the full perfection of the Heavenly Court realm. By then, will the Ancestral God King still tolerate other Heavenly Venerables? Whence comes baleful aura? From slaughter. And the place in all the world heaviest with baleful aura is where the Heavenly Palace fell! Even the Heavenly Dao must stir up baleful aura for the Lord of Heaven! " Consort Qiang raised an eyebrow.
"Go on.
" Shen Mu's spirit lifted, and he said gravely, "When the Heavenly Dao stirs baleful aura, it will surely be violent beyond measure. If Your Highness brings the God-Slaying Platform and the two divine sabers, forges them into peerless supreme treasures, and overawes the host of heroes, then advancing you may take the Lord of Heaven's cultivation, and retreating you may preserve yourself. Why not? " Consort Qiang pondered.
Shen Mu's words had indeed moved her.
The battle in which the Lord of Heaven falls would surely be heavy with baleful aura, not a whit inferior to the baleful aura of the Blood-Rust War that destroyed the Creators in years past.
If she wished to restore these two God-Slaying Sabers to their peak, and even to shape them into a perfect state with form and substance, she must go to Xuandu! Her ambition went further still.
She even thought of seizing the moment of the Lord of Heaven's death to drive the two divine sabers into his body and rob him of all his qi and blood! By then the two divine sabers would surely reach perfection, transform into supreme treasures, surpassing what they had been by I know not how many times!
But.
. .
"Venerable Mu, you little wretch, would you give me counsel? " Consort Qiang said with a smile.
"When others give counsel, they dig a pit; when you give counsel, you dig a chasm!
And not one chasm, but a whole string of them!
Fall into your pit, and even if you do not die, you will lose several layers of skin! " She knew this from experience. After the Great Emperor escaped his bonds, he sought out Shen Mu, and fell into the chasm Shen Mu had dug.
Shen Mu promised him Taichu primordial stones to intercept Venerable Hao, and in that battle nearly the Great Emperor's very fleshly body was crippled!
Later, Shen Mu gave him only three-quarters of the Taichu primordial stones. And later still, in the Ancestral Court, Shen Mu gave the Great Emperor counsel again, telling him to use the Void Mother-Beast to lure the Divine Emperor Langxuan into striking, and to ambush Langxuan. As a result, Langxuan was indeed ambushed by him, but the Great Emperor was beaten by four Heavenly Venerables until only his head remained.
The Great Emperor's head went to Shen Mu to take revenge, and Shen Mu forged it into a great seal with the Great Seal of the Four Mines.
Even then, Shen Mu was still giving the Great Emperor counsel, with the look of a warm-hearted man. When Consort Qiang recalled these things, her teeth itched with hatred.
Yet even she had to admit that the counsel Shen Mu gave always looked like good counsel, but in the execution it would always go wrong in a hundred different ways, turning into a foul scheme that was one chasm after another.
Shen Mu protested his innocence: "Your Highness, what was wrong with the counsel I just gave? I was thinking wholly for Your Highness, from Your Highness's standpoint, with no selfishness at all! " Though she was most unwilling to admit it, Consort Qiang had to say that every counsel Shen Mu gave, though foul, was indeed always given from her standpoint, wholly for her sake, with seemingly not a shred of selfishness.