荒墟牧神 - 第1333章 暗中操盤 - 墨香閣

"All Ways Return to One?

" Everyone in the palace was shaken to the core. Heavenly Venerable Xiao was the reincarnation of Heavenly Emperor Taichu, and his ambitions were immense: before his true body as Heavenly Emperor had even died, he had already split off a portion of his soul and sent it into reincarnation, becoming a young human prodigy named Xiao Weisu, who took Heavenly Venerable Yun as his master. Later he inherited Heavenly Venerable Yun's mantle and became the leader of the human race, and that was in the latter years of the Longhan era.

This meant that Heavenly Emperor Taichu had already realized, in the late Longhan era, that the Way of the Acquired was about to rise, and so had taken precautions, splitting off a soul early and becoming Xiao Weisu to lay his plans!

And the Way of the Acquired had not truly begun its rise in the later Chiming and Shanghuang eras; at the end of the Shanghuang era it had only begun to sprout, and it was in the Kaihuang and Jingping eras that it truly developed and flourished. In all of this, the Woodcutter Sage, Wen Tiange, deserved the greatest credit.

In other words, Heavenly Emperor Taichu had seen the scene four or five hundred thousand years hence, and that was how he had been able to lay his plans so far in advance! "Heavenly Emperor Taichu is no easy mark either; among the Ten Heavenly Venerables, not one is a soft touch! " everyone thought silently.

With Wei Suifeng and Yun Jianli's help, the dao patterns hidden within that one sword strike of Heavenly Venerable Xiao were quickly sorted out.

Wei Suifeng was vastly learned and wide-ranging in his reading, and of all people he had learned the most of the Way of the Acquired from the Woodcutter Sage; none of the Way of the Acquired in Heavenly Venerable Xiao's arts could stump him.

Yun Jianli, for his part, was the orthodox heir of the Purple Empyrean Azure Void Art, and the two of them worked together to excellent effect.

Once they had finished sorting it out, the two showed not the slightest intention of leaving; they stared eagerly at Shen Mu, the Alchemist, and Heavenly Venerable Yue, waiting to see how they would heal the wounds. Shen Mu was using his spirit sense to examine the dao wound in Heavenly Venerable Yue's soul, and without raising his head he said, "When we begin the healing, all five of those Heavenly Venerables who left these dao wounds will be alerted, and who knows which of them might strike at this place. " Wei Suifeng and Yun Jianli's expressions changed drastically.

Wei Suifeng bowed low, hands clasped, and said in a clear voice, "Heavenly Venerable, we were carried off from the Wendao Academy by you; there is still work unfinished at the academy, and we beg you to send us back!

" "Where righteousness lies, duty admits no refusal! " Yun Jianli declared with righteous solemnity, "We gave our word to Emperor Yanxiu, and we must do the thing handsomely!

We beg you to send us back to the Wendao Academy! " Heavenly Venerable Yue said softly, "My thanks for your trouble. Go out the palace gate and follow the lights in the peach grove; once you leave the grove, you will be in the capital of Jingping.

" As though granted a great pardon, the two hurried out of the palace, and sure enough they saw lights among the peach trees. They followed the lights onward, and when they emerged from the grove, they saw that the lights were those of the Lower Capital of Jingping. The two breathed a sigh of relief and hurried toward the Lower Capital.

Yun Jianli felt a little uneasy and said, "Leaving Heavenly Venerable Mu and the Medicine King God there to die, isn't that a bit short on loyalty?

" Wei Suifeng laughed. "Of course it's short on loyalty!

But my second junior brother loves to stir things up; he won't die. We, on the other hand, very well might!

Come, come, business first. " The two entered the capital.