Chapter 1078 — Old Tales of the Sovereign of Yore
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
Luo Xiao, full of misgivings, followed after them and said, "We truly cannot barge in so lightly. This place is exceedingly dangerous.
Let me lead the way!
" Shen Mu blocked him and said with a smile, "Dangerous? Where is this danger you speak of?
" Luo Xiao was briefly startled.
Strange to say, ever since they had entered the Taichu Divine Stone lode, they had truly met none of the dangers rumored of it; on the contrary, it was eerily still. "Could it be that the clan chief and the others merely spoke offhandedly, and in truth there is no danger in this lode at all?
" he wondered inwardly.
Gu Xiao and Dahong walked shoulder to shoulder; the Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot brought up the rear, and Yan'er stood upon it holding a lantern, letting its light shine ahead. Dahong turned his head and said with a smile, "Brother Mu, Brother Luo, keep closer.
" Shen Mu steeled himself and went forward. Luo Xiao hesitated: "I still want to go look whether there are ancestral spirits deep in the void.
. .
" Gu Xiao turned back and said with a smile, "The nineteenth void is guarded by the void mother-beast. Your divine consciousness cannot pass beyond the nineteenth void. There is no need to hurry, Brother Luo. " Luo Xiao thought it over, and indeed that was so. The void mother-beast was so powerful that if his divine consciousness reached the nineteenth void, it would surely be detected and devoured by her.
Rosy radiance drifted among the grass and trees all around. Luo Xiao looked this way and that, murmuring, "How strange.
This place matches the clan chief's description, so why is there no danger? This is the Taichu Divine Stone lode; the divine consciousness within the lode, upon meeting a person's thoughts, transforms into one true-seeming illusion after another. Even the mightiest Creator may fall prey to it.
. .
" Shen Mu's gaze fell on the backs of the two figures ahead, and he reminded him, "Perhaps some powerful being is suppressing this lode. " A chill went through Luo Xiao's heart. His gaze fell on the golden coffin ahead, and he said in a low voice, "You mean the one buried in that golden coffin is so powerful that he suppresses this entire lode?
What sort of person has such cultivation? Could it be. . .
" His eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands abruptly: "I know! It is the Great Emperor! The golden coffin must hold the Great Emperor's corpse! " He said excitedly, "I heard the clan chief and the others say the Great Emperor died in the Blood Rust War.
Surely the Ancient God Heaven Emperor, fearing his resurrection, ordered his corpse suppressed here! The Great Emperor is dead at last! " Gu Xiao's voice came from ahead, faint and distant: "The Great Emperor, the mightiest divine consciousness since the beginning of history — how could he die?
I have heard that in the Blood Rust War, only the Taichu Origin Stone in his brow was shattered; he did not die.
From that time on he was a dog without a home, hiding here and there, living in constant dread.
" Dahong laughed: "I too have heard that the means by which the Heaven Emperor defeated the Great Emperor were far from honorable — it was not the Heaven Emperor who shattered the Taichu Origin Stone, but the Great Emperor's wife, the Goddess King Gong Yun.
And moreover, the Heaven Emperor burned the bridge after crossing the river: once he had defeated the Great Emperor, he killed the Goddess King Gong Yun, to preserve his glorious, towering image.
" Luo Xiao blinked his big eyes and said with a smile, "Elder brothers, where did the two of you hear such things?
Even I, a Creator, know nothing of these matters, and the clan elders and the clan chief have never spoken of them.