Chapter 1556 — A Teardrop
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Silence hung over Miluo Palace.
Shen Mu stood there in silence, long without uttering a sound, and the Master of Miluo Palace did not go on either, as though waiting for him to come back to himself from his shock. "Hahahahaha!
" All at once Shen Mu burst into laughter, and the laughter reverberated back and forth through Miluo Palace; only after a long while did it slowly die away.
"Daoist brother, do you think I would believe you? " His expression hardened, and he said solemnly, "Tai Yi is not the true Tai Yi—what proof do you have?
If he were not the true Tai Yi, why would he risk coming here to find you?
Why would he leave behind a geographical map and let me follow it to rescue him? Was he not afraid that I might come here, meet you, and have you expose his identity? If he were a Dao Achiever who had already come ashore, why would he obstruct other Dao Achievers from coming ashore? Why endure his bitter vigil at the severed World Tree—why endure it there for billions of years? " The voice of the Master of Miluo Palace drifted over, unhurried: "Is there any need for me to deceive you, Mu Tianzun? If I harbored ill intent, why should I bother to deceive you?
I have already struck Tai Yi down into the Fourth Universe—could you possibly be stronger than he? " Shen Mu clamped his mouth shut, pursed his thin lips, and said nothing. Compared with Tai Yi, he was indeed very weak, and indeed the Master of Miluo Palace had no need to deceive him.
If he harbored ill intent, he would simply kill me!
"If you want proof, then go look for it in the mining district at the outermost edge of the World Tree.
When a Dao Achiever steals passage through the World Tree, he leaves behind a mine pit.
Go to the outermost edge of the World Tree—the pit where he came ashore is still there. " The Master of Miluo Palace said unhurriedly, "As for his risking a visit to me, that is because the appearance of Miluo Palace made him realize that his identity was in danger of being exposed, and so he had to come here no matter what. He had only one purpose—to make you afraid to come.
" Shen Mu was taken aback and said, "But I came anyway. " "Even a Dao Achiever of his strength has fallen here; anyone else would certainly not dare to come and search out the truth. And he left you a geographical map so that you would follow it to rescue him. If it had been anyone else, they would surely have searched far and wide for the place marked on the map.
But you are different.
" The Master of Miluo Palace went on, "You are the one he could not see through. He thought you would not dare to come; he never imagined that you would still come, passing through every kind of peril to reach my side and expose his identity. He never imagined that your courage would be so great. " Shen Mu thought for a moment.
From a logical standpoint, what the Master of Miluo Palace said was indeed possible. He walked forward, trying to pass through the incomparably dense Primordial Vital Breath and draw near to the Master of Miluo Palace; he wanted to see the person within the purple qi. Yet no matter how long he walked, no matter how far he went, he still could not draw near to that figure within the purple light. In the divine arts, no one in the entire universe—the Ten Tianzuns included—could match the subtlety of his arts; yet he could not even make out what art the Master of Miluo Palace was employing.
"As for his blocking other Dao Achievers from coming ashore, that is even simpler.
He has witnessed the Great Destruction of the universe, and he does not want this universe to repeat the same fate. And the more Dao Achievers there are, the faster a universe perishes.
Not only did he have to block Dao Achievers from coming ashore, he also had to block others from achieving the Dao.
" The Master of Miluo Palace said, "Your universe has existed for 6. 1 billion years now, and in all that time there has been no Dao Achiever apart from him.