Chapter 1594 — Walking Into a Dead End
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
The Wheel of Myriad Daos shook—plainly Shen Mu was resisting the Dao light of the fruit—and the crowd's spirits rose. Even Hao Tianzun could not help but regard Langxuan Divine Emperor with new respect, silently praising the power of his Dao Fruit. This Dao Fruit was a treasure hidden within the fragments of the Daluo Heaven beneath the Jade Pool of the Ancestral Court: a single Dao Tree, and a coffin burying a prehistoric Dao-achiever.
Shen Mu had helped Langxuan Divine Emperor find the Daluo Heaven fragment, cut the Dao Fruit from the Dao Tree, and trample the coffin back into the prehistoric Great Calamity of Destruction. The powerhouses of the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court all huddled together for warmth, riding out the Great Calamity of Destruction within the city; but the master of this Dao Fruit had driven the Daluo Heaven fragment directly, attempting to cross the calamity and enter the present universe to win rebirth—which showed what manner of man he was. His Dao Fruit was no ordinary thing; its power was enough to make the heart tremble, and now that the fruit had revived, its might was climbing straight upward! Within the Wheel of Myriad Daos, Shen Mu was being refined until he screamed again and again, and those screams fell on the crowd's ears as sweet music, drawing endless admiration.
Inside the wheel, Shen Mu sensed the fatal threat as well, and so, even as he screamed, his divine consciousness rippled out and touched the Dao light of the fruit: "Fellow Daoist of the prehistoric age, I am the Seventh Young Master of Miluo Palace. If you offend me, it will do you no good! I will not hold it against you—if you will stay your hand, I will lend you my strength, help you seize Langxuan's body, and let you live again!
" The Dao light's momentum slackened slightly, and an obscure ripple of divine consciousness mingled with the light: "I do not trust the young masters of Miluo Palace. You will not deceive me!
" Shen Mu laughed in fury. "Go and ask around all the heavens and myriad worlds—who does not know the fair name of Mu Tianzun?
My word is worth a thousand gold; I cheat neither the old nor the young! If you do not trust me, I will write you an IOU. With the IOU in hand, what fear have you that I will renege? I cannot smash my own golden-lettered signboard! " The consciousness within the Dao Fruit hesitated, its divine consciousness threaded through the Dao light: "It was you who helped Langxuan strike me back into the Great Calamity of Destruction.
Had I not used the Dao Fruit to transfer my consciousness, you would have destroyed me. Langxuan now guards against me and gives me no chance to seize his body.
What power have you to help me? " Shen Mu's heart stirred. "You are the Taichu of the Sixteenth Era? " The consciousness in the Dao Fruit said, "The Sixteenth Era had no Five Primes.
The Five Primes were dug out and refined before they were even born. I entered the Sixteenth Era rather early, and so I seized the Taichu Divine Egg and refined it to be reborn. I am called Venerable Lingyu. " Shen Mu laughed.
"Venerable Lingyu, you know well enough how I conduct myself; you may set your mind at ease.
Besides, Langxuan is my enemy—one of us must die. Are you my enemy? You give me a peach, and I will repay you with jade.
" Venerable Lingyu in the Dao Fruit said, "I do not believe your words. You must swear an oath upon my Dao Fruit. " Shen Mu swore upon his Dao Fruit, and Venerable Lingyu was reassured: an oath upon his Dao Fruit was an oath upon his Dao, an oath to him.
If Shen Mu meant to break his word, he would have no end of means to deal with him!
"Swearing upon a Dao Fruit is something I have never done, though I have sworn upon the teaching rod of the Primordial Sage of Miluo Palace—and did I not do that Primordial Sage to death in the end? " Shen Mu thought nothing of it.
The Dao Fruit's power grew weaker and weaker.