Chapter 1407 — Hostilities Have Begun
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Thirteen thousand attended.
These must be the heads and leaders of every world, all of them members of the Heaven Alliance; the Heaven Alliance could well be called the most colossal power in this world!
Even the Heavenly Court was only the nominal ruler — the true sovereign of the myriad heavens and all worlds was still the Heaven Alliance!
A million years ago, when Shen Mu returned to the early years of Longhan and proposed to Ling Tianzun that they found the Heaven Alliance, what he had in mind was to overthrow the Heavenly Court, to let the later-born living beings — the human race above all — possess the right to live, so that tragedies like that of Yu Tianzun would never come again, and the people would no longer endure the wretched life of the Longhan age. Such too was the purpose with which Ling Tianzun, Yun Tianzun and Yue Tianzun had founded the Heaven Alliance. And today the Heavenly Court still stood, never overthrown, while the Heaven Alliance had hollowed it out and become the ruler in truth.
Only this age was no better than the Longhan age.
And the Heaven Alliance had evolved into a ruler even harder to contend with, harder to overthrow, than the Heavenly Court of Longhan! He put away the invitation.
Of the five founding elders of the Heaven Alliance, Yun Tianzun was dead; Yue Tianzun had barely recovered from his wounds, yet had already turned rebel; Ling Tianzun cycled between life and death; and Kaihuang had become a treacherous subject, a usurping traitor.
Only he, Mu Tianzun, could still show his face within the Heaven Alliance. "Therefore, whatever it takes, I must go!
" On the Heavenly River, tower ship after tower ship, great vessel after great vessel came sailing in from the myriad heavens and worlds, hastening toward the Heavenly Court.
Ever since Mu Tianzun devised the spirit energy translocation bridge, the Heavenly River had not known such commotion for a very long time.
The translocation bridges linked the myriad heavens and all worlds; every great heaven, down to the remotest Four Extremes Heavens, had translocation bridges to connect it, so that one might come and go from the Heavenly Court in the shortest possible time, saving untold hours. By devising the spirit energy translocation bridges, Mu Tianzun had raised the Heavenly Court's dominion over the great heavens to heights never seen before!
In the past, whenever the Heavenly Court's divinities descended upon another heaven, it was a devastation for that place: their mighty divine might crushed the world's barriers and bled away the heaven's spiritual power and qi. Now they need only descend through a translocation bridge, and far more swiftly, leaving the great heavens almost no chance of rebellion.
Travel among the great heavens grew more intimate as well, and in a mere dozen years or so trade had reached a prosperity once beyond all imagining.
It could be said that in the seventeen years since Mu Tianzun ascended to the Heavenly Court, the total commerce of the great heavens had matched the commerce of the hundred-odd thousand years before.
This time the lords of the myriad heavens and all worlds came to the Heavenly Court by ship upon the Heavenly River rather than straight through the translocation bridges, chiefly to flaunt their rank and standing.
After all, those qualified to sit in the councils of the Heaven Alliance were the lords of heavens; naturally they wished for a grand, clamorous show.
Yet it was precisely the frequency of that trade that had brought about a concentration of currency.
Especially in recent years, resources and wealth had begun to gather into the hands of the deity clans that commanded trade in each great heaven.
And the wealth of the myriad heavens and all worlds as a whole had begun to gather into the Origin World.