Chapter 1086 — Old Friends Reunited in the Wuming Palace
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Yun Tianzun nodded and said: "I went to your clanspeople and saw their methods of cultivation. Truly strange, and different from ours. Your clanspeople do not understand schemes and intrigues, do not understand the treachery of the human heart. They do not understand deception. People communicate by touching divine consciousness — a gentle touch, and each knows the other's mind. It is like a pure land. I go there from time to time; it brings me inner peace. But you are different. You would deceive me."
He suddenly felt something in his heart — clearly he had also sensed Hao Tianzun slipping into the Wuming Heavenly Palace. His divine consciousness was not as powerful as Shen Mu's, but neither was it weak. A powerful divine consciousness can grant foreboding and precognition.
Shen Mu also felt a deep longing for that Great Void he spoke of. But that Great Void had already been destroyed by the Tai Emperor, and he himself was no longer that Luoxiao who could not deceive.
"That giant beast that followed at my side when I died on the Heavenly River — what of it?" he asked.
Yun Tianzun said: "I sent it into the Great Void."
Shen Mu sighed inwardly. The Tai Emperor had, in the end, learned the location of the Great Void.
His divine consciousness rippled and passed into Yun Tianzun's mind: "I cannot go back. Then I must trouble you to take the Primordial Stones of the Great Beginning to my clanspeople and help them forge the Void Bridge and the World of the Other Shore. These Tai Emperor Seal and Tai Emperor Altar — you surely know their origins and uses as well. I lend them to you. In the future, you will return them to me."
He abruptly turned, his gaze sweeping toward the place where Hao Tianzun was hidden, and his divine consciousness exploded outward.
Hao Tianzun was struck dumb on the spot. All the scenery before his eyes vanished, leaving only a towering, incomparably majestic ancient god — the Heavenly Emperor — standing before him.
Hao Tianzun trembled with dread, then realized at once that this was an illusion. He bit down hard on his tongue, and a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out.
His blood contained the bloodlines of two great ancient gods, and it immediately melted away Shen Mu's consciousness illusion, breaking Shen Mu's divine consciousness technique!
At the same moment, a Primordial Stone of the Great Beginning appeared in Yun Tianzun's hand, along with the Tai Emperor Seal and the Tai Emperor Altar.
He flipped his palm and put away the three items. When he looked up again, Shen Mu had already left.
Yun Tianzun's eyes were full of suspicion and confusion. This Luoxiao seemed different from the Luoxiao who had died in battle on the Heavenly River. This Luoxiao's divine consciousness was, to be sure, also extraordinarily powerful, but his character did not seem to be that of the same Luoxiao.
Hao Tianzun walked over, looking this way and that, but could find no trace of Shen Mu either. Suspicion filled his heart.
"I know that the third person in the hall was you, Yun Tianzun," Hao Tianzun said leisurely.
Yun Tianzun said calmly: "And I know that one of them was you."
Hao Tianzun's eyes flickered with curiosity: "Then who was the other? To seize with such precision the opportunity of Achou-Tubo's rampage through the Heavenly Palace — that there should be a third person besides you and me cannot but make me curious."
"Strange men and extraordinary figures are beyond counting in this world. Most likely it was some remarkable person. The struggle between Crown Prince Qi and Tubo — was that a trap you set? Very elegant."
Yun Tianzun praised him with sincerity: "You schemed against Tubo, schemed against Crown Prince Qi, and schemed against the Heavenly Emperor's treasure vault as well. Hao Tianzun, you are truly remarkable."