Chapter 1260 — The Peerless Emperor
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Heavenly Venerable Xu was clad all in black, her long robe like a black waterfall, cinched at the waist and then spreading wide like a skirt to sweep the ground. Atop her head two horns rose high, like rivers of magma, twisting through nine bends and eighteen turns, striking to the eye. Her eyes shifted, her gaze settling on Meng Yungui, and she said softly, "What makes you say that?
" Meng Yungui reached out and gave a light wipe through the air; one after another, portraits of Shen Mu flew up and floated before Heavenly Venerable Xu.
"Please look, Heavenly Venerable. " He displayed the portraits one by one, analyzing Shen Mu's character.
"In this painting, I had told him I went to see the Yin Son of Heaven, and that the Yin Son of Heaven could not praise him enough.
He humbly said it was a trifling matter — and yet in the painting the corner of his mouth lifts slightly, and his pupils are a little dilated. That is the outward sign of secret smugness. " He took up another painting and went on. "This is from when he heard me ask what countermeasures we should take. His gaze flickered, and he steered the conversation elsewhere.
" Painting after painting, he analyzed on, every point neatly reasoned. Heavenly Venerable Xu listened in silence.
Then, all at once, Meng Yungui swept his palm; every portrait burst into flame and swiftly crumbled to ash.
Heavenly Venerable Xu was taken aback. "And yet all of it is false!
" Meng Yungui said coldly.
Heavenly Venerable Xu tilted her head and looked at him.
"What makes you say that?
" "Every subtle expression in these paintings, every flicker of inner feeling — all of it is false! Even when I exposed his aim and named his design — to steal the Primeval Wood and carry off the divine artifact, Heavenly Venerable Yu — and he laughed loudly to cover it, that too was false! " Meng Yungui said in a low voice, "He only said such things on purpose to blind me, to manufacture an illusion for me, to make me think his depths are not unfathomable. Not one expression on his face can be trusted!
In my presence he has never once let slip what he truly thinks! To bring that off, he must have been trained from childhood, raised from childhood to make a habit of disguise! " Heavenly Venerable Xu asked, "Then why do you say Heavenly Venerable Mu must die? " Meng Yungui's eyes flashed with keen light. "Heavenly Venerable Mu is by no means a man who can be changed; more than that, he is changing the situation in the Heavenly Court. After the divine artifact, Heavenly Venerable Yu, was forged, did you not think then that the world was about to know peace?
" Heavenly Venerable Xu nodded slightly.
"And yet? " Meng Yungui continued, "It is precisely because Heavenly Venerable Mu came up to the Heavenly Court that the Ten Heavenly Venerables fell out among themselves. On the surface there is no split, but I can see that a great rift has opened between the Ten Heavenly Venerables. And beyond that, there is the return of Heavenly Venerable Shen.
Had there been no Heavenly Venerable Mu, Heavenly Venerable Shen would not have returned!
And had Heavenly Venerable Shen not appeared, Taixu would not be in its present state, the Heavenly Court would not have been split open by a single sword stroke from Heavenly Venerable Shen!