Chapter 1580 — Forty Thousand Years of Storm and Song
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
" His Dao heart was in disorder; in all the world there was but one man who could unsettle his Dao heart, and that man was Shen Mu. At the Jade Pool Gathering a million years ago, Shen Mu had left him a shadow that could not be erased; though Heavenly Lord Hao had cultivated to the Dao Realm of the thirtyfold heaven, his Dao heart steeped to the highest degree, in no way inferior to Shen Mu's, still, when he faced Shen Mu, his Dao heart would waver.
"Not dead yet.
" Shen Mu's voice came, and Heavenly Lord Hao's pupils suddenly contracted; he stared, and his expression changed drastically—there stood Shen Mu before him, whole and sound.
But not one Shen Mu—more than twenty thousand Shen Mus.
These Shen Mus were arrayed in a single line, as though they ran through a river of time forty thousand years long. "Heavenly Lord Hao, when you crept stealthily into the Heavenly River to track me, just how many of my phantom shadows did you pass through?
" More than twenty thousand Shen Mus turned to look at him at once, strange smiles on their faces: "As many phantom shadows as you passed through, so many of me there are.
Those phantom shadows of mine were not the Unchanging divine ability left for you and the Great Emperor—they were the Unchanging divine ability I left for myself.
" Heavenly Lord Hao looked with difficulty and found the desert gone, the Heavenly River restored; Lord Ling and Heavenly Lord Xiao were nowhere to be seen.
On this long river there were only he, Taisu, and more than twenty thousand Shen Mus.
He had been caught.
He thought silently to himself. The moment he had stepped onto the Heavenly River and passed through the mist, he had already been caught.
"Heavenly Lord Hao!
" The first Shen Mu bowed low, still that move, One Qi of Primal Chaos, Journeying the Dao Together, and said in a loud voice: "Let us see whether you can slay these twenty-six thousand four hundred twenty-three of me from forty thousand years past, or whether you, an existence who attained the Dao through force, will die at my hands, slain by me within these forty thousand years of time!
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