Chapter 1404 — He Too Wants a Share
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Shen Mu smiled. "Naturally I came here to break through. Let me inform you all that I am already of the Yao Pool realm!
" Zu God-King said coldly, "I am on the verge of cultivating a true heavenly court!
Is attaining the Yao Pool realm anything to boast of? " Langxuan God-Emperor said with kindly warmth, "For Heavenly Venerate Mu to attain the Yao Pool is still worthy of pride.
Heavenly Venerate Mu is fifty this year, is he not?
To cultivate to the Yao Pool realm by fifty and become a heavenly god is already a rare speed. " Shen Mu kindly reminded him, "I have just turned seventeen. " Zu God-King laughed.
"Fifty is already long life for a mortal man, and apart from Jingping and Nantian, few of the human race live to fifty.
Even among Jingping folk, common men live only to eighty.
Heavenly Venerate Mu is already an old man, with thirty years of striving left.
" Qiang Heavenly Consort smiled.
"Has Heavenly Venerate Mu met Long Xiao? " Shen Mu shook his head.
"I have not seen him. I had thought to pick up a bargain, to wait until Your Ladyship and the other Heavenly Venerates had gravely wounded him and then snatch the kill cheaply, but after I found my way here my vital energies suddenly stirred and I broke through, attaining the Yao Pool.
I attained the Yao Pool at seventeen. . .
" At the words 'pick up a bargain,' Heavenly Venerate Hao and Qiang Heavenly Consort both felt inward displeasure.
They were the ones Shen Mu had once bargained off, one chased by Shen Mu for six hundred thousand li until he had to borrow Lady Taisu to save his life, the other with his head seized by Shen Mu and refined into a treasure seal. Clearly Shen Mu had also meant to pick Long Xiao's bargain, but had failed only because he had to break through. Zu God-King coughed and reminded him, "Heavenly Venerate Mu is fifty, a man grown old. " Shen Mu's face darkened.
At that moment Heavenly Venerate Xu flew up from the Nine Prisons Platform with a strange look and said, "There is something uncanny inside.
My dao heart was suppressed within, but thanks to my deep cultivation I passed through without peril. " The other Heavenly Venerates exchanged glances and entered the Nine Prisons Platform together. Heavenly Venerate Xu glanced at Shen Mu and said softly, "Why did Heavenly Venerate Mu choose to break through here. " "The feng shui here is superb, a treasure land born of heaven.
The moment I came here I felt this place was fated for me.
. .
" Heavenly Venerate Xu had long known his love of wild talk, with not a true word in his mouth, and paid it no mind.
Not long after, the other eight Heavenly Venerates rose from the Nine Prisons Platform, saying one after another, "Uncanny indeed.
A pity it cannot suppress a Heavenly Venerate, else even a Heavenly Venerate could be imprisoned in this place!
" Heavenly Venerate Hao suddenly said, "As for the back of the Ancestral Court, how does Heavenly Venerate Mu think it should be divided? " Shen Mu smiled. "Naturally I too want a share.
" The other Heavenly Venerates each raised their brows, and at that very instant the sky shook violently as a Divine Artifact Yu Tianzun fell from the heavens and crashed down upon the back of the Ancestral Court!
The nine Heavenly Venerates stared tongue-tied, exchanging looks full of startled doubt.
"Who dispatched a divine artifact to this place? " Heavenly Venerate Hao asked in a low voice.
Heavenly Venerate Hong shook his head.
"This divine artifact comes neither from us nor from Heavenly Venerate Xiao. Can it be the one in Tu Bo's hands? " Shen Mu gazed at that Divine Artifact Yu Tianzun, startled and uncertain, then suddenly said, "It could also come from an eleventh Heavenly Venerate among the Ten Heavenly Venerates!
" Hearing this, the nine Heavenly Venerates felt a chill in their hearts and hastened away, swiftly vanishing, while Heavenly Venerate Gong's voice drifted back from afar.