Chapter 1330 — The Divine Venerable Descends into the World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
You did very well. The Void Mother Beast is indeed of the utmost importance. Since Langxuan has come to the Ancestral Court, and the Ancestral Court has now been blasted open, a great hole torn through it — that is to say, the Void Beasts may leave the Ancestral Court. I have a task for you: take all the Void Beasts out of the Ancestral Court and go to the Great Void! " Long Qilin was startled, and ventured, "The Sect Master means for me to lead the Void Beasts against the Celestial Court in the Great Void?
" Shen Mu nodded.
"With that army of Void Beasts, the Celestial Court's hosts are no match for you at all! But the Void Beasts must be moved with care; God Emperor Langxuan is a Heavenly Venerable, after all, and exceedingly formidable. Take heed lest he sense anything amiss. " He walked round and round the Void Mother Beast, musing, then said, "Through the Mother Beast you will give the order for the Void Beasts to gather in the Sixteenth Void; then, at the hour, burst out all together. I fancy God Emperor Langxuan will not have time to react!
" Long Qilin assented. "Here I will have the Mother Beast summon the Void Beasts; there I must still make a trip to Yuanmu, to fetch Yan'er and bring her along.
" Shen Mu laughed. "Naturally. " At his laugh Long Qilin lowered his head and looked at his own claws.
"Long Pi has grown up. " Shen Mu said it with feeling, and left the Seventeenth Void with him, hastening toward the Great Black Wood and the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains. And in the Seventeenth Void, the Void Mother Beast kept shaking the mountain of bone upon its body, giving out strange shrieks, summoning the Void Beasts of the Ancestral Court.
Shen Mu and Long Qilin had scarce stepped out of the Void when Long Qilin's face changed drastically and he cried out, "Sect Master, I can no longer sense the Void Mother Beast! " "Do not shout.
" Shen Mu's expression did not change; he smiled.
"Keep walking on.
Once we reach the Great Black Wood, we may count ourselves safe.
" Long Qilin was bewildered. The smile on Shen Mu's face did not fade, and he said softly, "The Grand Emperor is watching us. " A chill ran through Long Qilin, and his heart filled with dread. "The one who hunted you was God Emperor Langxuan, but the Grand Emperor has come as well.
God Emperor Langxuan's attainments in divine consciousness should be above mine, though a little beneath God King Langwo's. Had he truly hunted you down, you and the Void Mother Beast could never have escaped, and the Seventeenth Void was no safe place either.
There is only one explanation for your escape.
" The smile on Shen Mu's face was bright as sunlight, making him seem utterly innocent, and unhurried he said, "Some being with an even stronger divine consciousness interfered with God Emperor Langxuan's. In this world, the only one with the means to do it without stirring Langxuan's notice is the Grand Emperor; not even God King Langwo could.
The Grand Emperor was roused by Long Xiao, and so he has come to the Ancestral Court. " Long Qilin was about to stir his divine consciousness and speak with him through it, when Shen Mu smiled.
"Do not use your divine consciousness.
Use it, and the Grand Emperor will sense it. Having obtained the Taichu Primordial Stone, his consciousness is now unfathomable. " Long Qilin split his great jaws in a grin and said in a muffled, rumbling voice, "The Sect Master means the Grand Emperor has been beside me all along? " Shen Mu smiled, the smile somewhat stiff. "Just now he was beside us.
" Long Qilin wanted to shiver, but dared not; he whispered, "Then the Void Mother Beast. . . " "Was long since under his control. " Shen Mu could not help rubbing his face, stiff with smiling, and went on smiling.