Chapter 1300 — Shifting the Calamity Eastward
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He could scarcely conceal his elation, and murmured: "The grievance between the Emperor Venerable and me has run from the most ancient times to this day. Now part of the primordial stone lies in my hand and part in his; the hour for settling our grievance must be near at hand! How I look forward to it..."
Shen Mu returned from the Heavenly Court to the Yuan Realm, back to Jingping.
Without the Taichu Primordial Stone, he felt his divine consciousness had lost its former nimbleness. Though his cultivation of divine consciousness remained, the force and intensity of its outbursts were far inferior to before.
"In borrowing the Taichu Primordial Stone for cultivation, the longer the time, the deeper the entanglement with the Heavenly Emperor Taichu. To give this stone away is not necessarily a bad thing." He exhaled a breath of turbid air, though there was still some regret in his heart.
"I still have a Taiji Primordial Stone. Since the Taichu Primordial Stone is gone, I wonder what the effect would be if I used the Taiji Primordial Stone in place of the pupil of my vertical eye?"
He acted on the thought at once, taking out the Taiji Primordial Stone and intending to stuff it into the gap in the Shen-Character Continent.
At the center of the Shen-Character Continent was a great gap, like the pupil of an eye. The Taichu Primordial Stone had once been lodged there; now it was empty, and the might of his Sacred Pupil was greatly diminished.
The ancient god within the Taisu Egg laughed: "You have only just freed yourself from the Taichu Primordial Stone, and now you mean to torment yourself with the Taiji Primordial Stone? The ancient god in the Taiji ore vein has not been dug out; these years he has drawn on the power of the vein and grown mighty. To use his primordial stone may indeed raise your strength, but I fear you will make an enemy of him!"
"Brother Taisu, what you say is very true."
Shen Mu thought for a moment, then sent out a thread of mana that rolled up the Taisu Egg and stuffed it into the gap in the Shen-Character Continent.
The Taisu Egg, wedged in the gap and unable to move, raged: "Heavenly Venerable Mu, you have made an enemy of me!"