Chapter 1572 — Fighting Our Way Out of the Land of Comfort
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Seeing the smile on his face, Shen Mu could not help but smile too.
After Kaihuang stepped down from the God-Slaying Platform, the two God-Slaying Mystic Blades upon it slowly drew themselves back together and were restored as before. Yet they had once been severed by Kaihuang's supreme sword dao, and though they had now recovered, the two blood-fiend dragons were spent and listless, no longer wearing their former ferocity.
Shen Mu felt a secret pang of regret and said, "On my journey to the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court, I also took all the dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao from the Langxuan God-Emperor. Add to them the heavenly bale within the God-Slaying Mystic Blades, and that makes fifty Heavenly Daos. I mean to fuse the fifty into one and forge a supreme treasure of the Heavenly Dao, one of a kind in all the world. Do you think it can be done?"
Surprise crossed Kaihuang's face. "You slew the Langxuan God-Emperor as well?"
"I would not dare claim I slew him," Shen Mu said modestly. "I merely defeated the seven Heavenly Venerables. The seven of them joined hands to besiege me, so I gave them all a thorough drubbing. Langxuan was only one of them. Of course, I never had the chance to kill Langxuan, so I had to settle for wresting forty-eight dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao from him."
Kaihuang's astonishment deepened. "You defeated the seven Heavenly Venerables? And they were besieging you together?"
Shen Mu was not a little pleased with himself.
Kaihuang mused, "There must be something strange about the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court. It restrained the strength of the seven Heavenly Venerables but did not restrain yours. They had no power to resist, and that is why you were able to defeat them. The Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court... I have never been there myself."
"I did not come here to hear you analyze the reasons," Shen Mu said, disgruntled. "Have you a way to forge a supreme treasure of the Heavenly Dao or not?"
Kaihuang shook his head. "Every craft has its master. The Heavenly Dao is not my forte."
Shen Mu hesitated. The one in all the world most skilled in the Heavenly Dao was, of course, the Lord of Heaven. But the reborn Lord of Heaven was now within the Dark Capital, suffering in the fire of karma.
And Shen Mu, of all men, could not set foot in the Dark Capital.
"The Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court," he said. "I want to go and have a look."
Kaihuang said, "I sense that within the Ancestral Court there are two places that hold a powerful pull for me, one who has attained the Dao, places that lure me to go. One of them is your domain. The other is the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court."
Shen Mu's expression shifted slightly, turning grave, and he said flatly, "You do not want to go to the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court!"
Kaihuang glanced at him, doubt in his eyes.
"Taiyi went there," Shen Mu said heavily, "and ended up stranded in the Fourth Universe, unable to return. The Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court is far more terrible than you imagine. There are Divines there, and the dao trees of those Divines hang with seven or eight dao fruits apiece! If you go there, you will likewise never come back alive!"
Kaihuang fell silent a moment, then laughed. "Rest easy. I know my limits."
Shen Mu glared at him ferociously. Kaihuang said, "I truly will not go. If you say I am not to go, then I will not go."
Shen Mu snorted and let out a foul breath. "You are like a silly roe deer: the more one tells you not to go, the more surely you will go. If you must go, then that is up to you. But you may only go after we have rescued Heavenly Venerable Yun and Heavenly Venerable Ling. After that, go, and die however you please."