Chapter 1591 — The Myth Crumbles
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
The Moon Heavenly Venerable still found it hard to believe—Ling Heavenly Venerable had appeared before her, alive and in the flesh. She wanted to smile, but the moment the smile surfaced, tears fell with it.
How many years had it been?
How many years since she had lost this old friend?
Their friendship had begun in the early years of the Longhan Era, through the War of the Three Heavenly Courts, fighting and striving side by side, back to back, bathed in blood.
In the final years of Longhan, they had sunk into despair together; then, at the end of the Chiming Era, seeing the withering and decline of the human race, they resolved to emerge once more and do something for their people.
It was these two women who, joining hands, founded the Shanghuang Era!
When the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign gathered the world's demigods, ruled and enslaved all humankind, and dominated the Yuanworld, it was these two women who stepped forward to oppose the Earth Mother, raising up the Southern Shanghuang Heavenly Court and establishing a glorious age that lasted three hundred thousand years, spanning fifteen generations of Shanghuang Heavenly Emperors!
They had supported each other, and the hardships they endured were beyond words—only they themselves understood the taste of it, the bitterness and sorrow.
Ling Heavenly Venerable was the coldest of the two; she devoted nearly all her body and soul to researching the Unchanging Divine Power. In the Way of Creation, her achievements were unmatched by anyone, and the mysteries of the Unchanging Divine Power were built upon the foundation of the Creation Divine Power, demanding all her painstaking effort to study.
Yet it was she who, seeing the misery of the human race after the fall of the Red Emperor Era, resolved to return.
When the Chiming Era collapsed, the Yuanworld fell into chaos, the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign rose, restoring the savage rule of the ancient gods, replacing civilization with blood sacrifice—and the declining human race became the finest offerings.
To be a slave, or to be a sacrifice—that age could be called the darkest period for humankind in the Yuanworld.
It was she who found the Moon Heavenly Venerable and asked her to emerge once more.
Beneath her cold exterior was a burning heart, unable to bear seeing her own people continue to struggle in suffering.
And the Moon Heavenly Venerable, after the death of the Cloud Heavenly Venerable, had been utterly despondent, living in seclusion, originally intending never to emerge again—but Ling Heavenly Venerable's arrival made this woman resolutely break her own vow and emerge once more!
Ling Heavenly Venerable was in truth ill-suited to participate in the struggles for power. Throughout the long Shanghuang Era, it was mostly the Moon Heavenly Venerable who managed everything, supporting the Southern Shanghuang Heavenly Court and contending against the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign of the Northern Shanghuang Heavenly Court.
Without the Moon Heavenly Venerable, Ling Heavenly Venerable would have found it hard to accomplish anything.
Without Ling Heavenly Venerable, the Moon Heavenly Venerable would not have had enough courage to sustain her onward march. Ling Heavenly Venerable was her support, her pillar of strength.
Ling Heavenly Venerable was resolute, the Moon Heavenly Venerable gentle; the two supported each other, making those three hundred thousand years of the Shanghuang Era the most brilliant and dazzling star in history!
Though there were many extraordinary women in this world, they were the legends among legends!
Ling Heavenly Venerable also remembered that battle to eradicate the Earth Mother, when the Moon Heavenly Venerable, to protect her, fell into dire straits and was gravely wounded by the Fire Heavenly Venerable, Hao Heavenly Venerable, Xiao Heavenly Venerable, and others.