Chapter 1429 — Primordial Qi, Roaming the Dao Together
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Langxuan Divine Emperor waited a while, but Shen Mu said nothing of what he had seen. In the end Langxuan Divine Emperor could not hold back, and asked, "What did you see?
" Shen Mu smiled faintly and said, "I saw that beneath your Yao Pool lies a great thing that takes the Yao Pool's vitality for its own use. Even with the eight dragon veins now upon its surface, it will be destroyed again in the future. If you wish the Yao Pool restored to its full glory, I will show you how to find that great thing. Only, the Yao Pool's yield must be shared with me, one-tenth.
" A ripple passed through Langxuan Divine Emperor's divine consciousness, and between his brows it became a vertical eye. He looked down into the earth and sneered, "One-tenth for you? If I find that great thing myself and deal with it, would it not be better to give you nothing at all? Mu Tianzun, you are too greedy. You extorted Gong Tianzun, then you extorted Yan Tianfei, and now you have come to extort me!
Do you mean to extort all ten Tianzuns, one after another? You think far too little of the Ten Tianzuns!
" Shen Mu was astonished: the matter of his dealings with Gong Tianzun and Yan Tianfei, trading for the output of their mining districts, had actually reached Langxuan Divine Emperor's ears. It seemed that among the forces under Gong Tianzun and Yan Tianfei there were eyes of Langxuan Divine Emperor, watching every move the two Tianzuns made.
Still, among the Ten Tianzuns this was likely no secret.
The Ten Tianzuns were all wary of one another, and so they liked to plant spies and informants beneath the other Tianzuns' banners; this was one of the reasons they were able to cooperate, and so none of them exposed the others. Langxuan Divine Emperor searched for a time, and his expression gradually grew grave.
His divine-consciousness eye was matchless in power, yet he searched the depths of the earth and did not see the great thing Shen Mu had spoken of; he could not find even a trace!
This was truly terrifying! A cold bead of sweat rose on his forehead.
He soared up and continued his search along the eight jade-like mountain ranges.
Shen Mu paid it no mind and set off for the Yao Terrace.
Langxuan Divine Emperor's divine-consciousness eye could likely pierce through thirty-five layers of the void; apart from Grand Luo Heaven in the ultimate void, no secret could hide from it. His sage pupil could well be called the Void-Piercing Eye, the Eye of Insight. Divine consciousness entered every crevice; Langxuan could see into the deepest depths beneath the Ancestral Court, and could see treasures hidden within space itself.
Yet his sagely Void-Piercing Eye of Insight was still no match for Shen Mu's vertical eye.
Shen Mu's vertical eye had been empowered by the Lord of Heaven and the Lord of Earth, and with the strength of the sage pupil itself, plus the Taiji Primordial Stone and the Taiyi Eggshell, calling it first under heaven was no exaggeration. Though Shen Mu could not yet unleash the full might of this sage pupil, by the power inherent in it alone he could see through all things and perceive all things.
The sweat on Langxuan Divine Emperor's forehead grew thicker. He searched all eight ore veins and still could not find where that so-called great thing was hidden.
"Restoring the Yao Pool to its former glory matters more. Once that great thing is trapped and dealt with, the Yao Pool will be a great pool that can gather Hongmeng Yuan Liquid; beyond that it has little use.
That being so, sharing one-tenth of the Hongmeng Yuan Liquid with Mu Tianzun is not unacceptable. .
. " He looked toward Shen Mu and saw that Shen Mu was at that moment climbing the Yao Terrace, sensing the Great Dao contained within the Yao Pool, and so he did not go forward to disturb him. The Yao Terrace had become exceedingly sacred, like a holy altar for sacrifice to heaven and earth and the cosmos.