Chapter 1407 — Hostilities Have Begun
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
In the Heavenly Court, in the Yao Pool, at every holy site, boats came and went; divinities of every rank laughed and talked, delicacies of every kind flowed to the tables like water, wine cups crossed and clinked, beauties gathered like clouds. Every grand gathering of the Heaven Alliance in ages past had been held upon the Yao Pool, and the Hall of the Heaven Alliance likewise stood on an island in the Yao Sea.
Rumor said that was where the Heaven Alliance had been founded — that in those years, after Ling Tianzun took his leave of Mu Tianzun and Shen Tianzun, he met Yue Tianzun and Yun Tianzun upon the Yao Pool, and there the several of them founded the first Heaven Alliance and drew up its most ancient laws.
At this moment, in a side hall of the Hall of the Heaven Alliance, the Second Heavenly Master, Meng Yungui, was going through the dossiers sent in from the great heavens. Below him sat tens of thousands of Daoists of the Heavenly Court's Daoist order, each with dossiers piled mountain-high at his side; every heaven had two or three Daoists well versed in the arts of calculation to tally the trade records the heavens had sent over the past decade, sorting and reckoning them, then passing the tabulated results up to Meng Yungui for review.
The dossiers around Meng Yungui had piled up until they all but buried him.
Suddenly the Heavenly Master split into eight, becoming eight bodies; then with a shake each body grew three heads and six arms — four heads and eight arms apiece — palms flying, eyes racing across the pages. Tens of thousands of Daoists of the Heavenly Court's Daoist order and Meng Yungui shut themselves in that side hall and spent more than ten days before they had gone through the trade records sent from the myriad heavens and all worlds.
Meng Yungui clapped his hands and said in a low voice, "My thanks to you all, colleagues.
You have worked hard; go down and rest. " The Daoists bowed to him and filed out, until only the old Daoist Master of the Heavenly Court's order and Meng Yungui remained in the hall. The old Daoist Master, kindly of face and eye, smiled: "What has the Heavenly Master Meng discovered?
" Meng Yungui rubbed his crimson eyes, stretched himself, and said with a grave face, "A great calamity. " The old Daoist Master was astonished, and smiled: "The Taixu is pacified now; Wuyou Township and the Creator are pinned in the Void on the Far Shore at the end of the Void Bridge, with no chance of rising again.
The situation has never looked better. Why does the Heavenly Master speak such mournful words?
" Meng Yungui glanced at him and said sternly, "Teacher, you were the first to instruct me, and your mastery of the arts of calculation reaches to heaven.
If even I can see it, could you not?
" With a flick of his sleeve, countless dossiers flew up into the air and unrolled with a clatter.
The old Daoist Master of the Heavenly Court looked at those dossiers, and saw that on countless of them were marks Meng Yungui had drawn in cinnabar red.
He looked closely, and saw that the places Meng Yungui had marked were all trends in the flow of heaven coins among the great heavens. Heaven coins were the currency of the Heavenly Court, issued by the Heavenly Court's Heavenly Palace of Commerce; every heaven coin bore a unique Heavenly Court imprint that none could counterfeit.
The total stock of heaven coins was not fixed.
Especially in recent years, as trade among the great heavens flourished, the Heavenly Palace of Commerce issued more heaven coins, buying from the great heavens all manner of divine materials, divine metals and divine ingredients, spirit elixirs and wonder drugs, divine arms and keen weapons, tower ships and great vessels — even slaves.
And the trade among the great heavens themselves was conducted in heaven coins as well.
"Teacher, what do you see?
" Meng Yungui asked.