Chapter 1555 — That Young Master
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
"I should have let you die with more dignity.
" Shen Mu rose to his feet, his face blank. "To die in a decisive battle against me would have let you die like a Tianzun. But I will not give up this chance, and still less will I gamble away the chance to rescue Ling Tianzun. Next time, Tai Di.
Next time, I will let you, as Tai Di, die an honorable death at my hands! " All at once a woman's voice sounded at his side: "Mu Tianzun, have you always been this hypocritical, this false?
" Shen Mu turned and looked at the woman within the dao fruit floating in the air, and smiled. "Perhaps I am a hypocrite. But did you not also see me coming, and neither warn Qiang Tianfei nor go to her rescue? If it comes to hypocrisy, you and I are the same kind.
" He took out the God-Slaying Platform, summoned up the two God-Slaying Mystic Blades, and set them upon the platform to be nourished.
Though these two divine blades had fallen into his hands and would no longer be invaded by the breath of the Great Calamity of Destruction, neither could they recover to their peak; only by being slowly nurtured upon the God-Slaying Platform could they be restored to what they once were. The woman in the dao fruit said, "First, it was my own idea to lure her here; it was not the Master of Miluo Palace who invited her. So her life is not as important as you, or she herself, imagine.
If she truly were important, then never mind Mu Tianzun — even if every powerful being in your universe joined hands, they could not kill her. Second. . . " She paused, then said, "My own strength has been depleted far too greatly.
Guarding her the whole way here, my strength is no longer a match for Mu Tianzun. So, for the sake of my own life, I will not risk being slain by you in order to save her. " Shen Mu raised his eyes and surveyed the towering palace complex ahead; the magnificent Miluo Palace appeared before him.
Miluo Palace broadly referred to Jade Capital City — not only the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, but the Jade Capital Cities of the universes of the past.
Yet Miluo Palace could also mean, specifically, the palace before his eyes, where the Master of Miluo Palace dwelt. Shen Mu was slightly startled; his gaze was drawn, against his will, to a great hall. That was the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, more majestic and magnificent than the Lingxiao Treasure Hall of the Heavenly Court; seen from afar, it seemed the very foundation of the myriad daos.
Around it the light of the dao hung thick, like lotus blossoms one after another, holding up the hall, letting it rise and sink amid the chaos without being devoured by it.
When Shen Mu saw this Lingxiao Treasure Hall, he understood why the Heavenly Court had made the Lingxiao Treasure Hall its center of power, and why gods and demons had taken this hall as the name of the two great realms, Lingxiao and the Emperor's Throne. "When Tai Di and Tai Chu broke into the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court in those years, they must have seen this hall.
How did they get here? " Shen Mu looked around.
Sixteen Chaos Rivers blocked the way of Tai Di and the others; by rights, they could not have crossed those Chaos Rivers back then. Many riddles of history remained unsolved, shrouding his path ahead like fog, so that he could not see clearly.
"Yes — the Master of Miluo Palace needed Tai Di to come here, to pass on the layout of Jade Capital City and complete the Jade Capital Trap. There must have been a Dao-Achiever from prehistoric times who guided Tai Di here and let him see the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
" He had just thought this when the woman in the dao fruit said, "Mu Tianzun, after you. " Shen Mu steadied himself and walked forward, glancing about, and said carelessly, "Might I ask how I should address you, elder sister?
" The woman in the dao fruit sneered.
"Elder sister? Mu Tianzun, so smooth-tongued — worthy of the name Mu Tianzun. " Shen Mu halted and looked at her, half-smiling.