Chapter 1596 — The Unfathomable Human Heart
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
In submitting to him, we may still preserve our interests. " "And the victor spares the other's life also because he knows that, their interests being the same, the other will not betray him, that keeping the other alive is the more useful course. This is why, after my victory, I did not put Heavenly Venerable Gong to death, did not put the Ancestral God King to death, did not put my elder brother, the Divine Emperor Langxuan, to death.
" He smiled: "This too is why Heavenly Venerable Gong has not betrayed me. Your attempt to talk her into surrender was a grave mistake.
Not only can you not win her over — among the other Heavenly Venerables, you can win over none at all.
" The Goddess Taisu's face was ashen.
Within the Wheel of Myriad Daos, Shen Mu fell into thought. He too had once believed that among the Ten Heavenly Venerables one or two might be persuaded to surrender, that one or two might come over to his side; hearing Heavenly Venerable Hao's words, he realized that he had been somewhat naive.
The Ten Heavenly Venerables were a community of interests; however fiercely they contended among themselves, they remained one body still.
"A pity, Aunt — you are not one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables.
You share no common interest with us. " Heavenly Venerable Hao sighed: "And again you are so full of yourself, so lofty in your own esteem, thinking yourself one of the five innate primordials, high above all, forever incapable of learning your lesson.
How am I ever to rest easy?
" Despair filled Taisu's heart; of a sudden she urged on her life-bound supreme treasure, which transformed into the Taiding Cauldron and came pressing down upon Heavenly Venerable Hao. She herself fled backward at flying speed, away from that place, crying harshly: "Heavenly Venerable Hao! Without me to add the final heavenly palace for you, you will never become a Dao-achiever!
If you kill me, you cut off your own road to the Dao! " Heavenly Venerable Hao let the Taiding Cauldron press down upon him.
That cauldron too was battered and broken, covered over with the dao-wounds Shen Mu had left upon this life-bound supreme treasure.
The Taiding Cauldron could bring Heavenly Venerable Hao no threat whatsoever.
He raised his hand, and the cauldron was crushed smaller and smaller beneath an immense pressure, until it fell helplessly into his palm.
He clenched it hard, and the great cauldron gave out a creaking, groaning sound and twisted into a lump.
Bang! The cauldron burst apart and became a mass of Taisu qi, and within that Taisu qi the rhyme of the great Dao flowed — it was Heavenly Venerable Hao repairing the damage to this life-bound supreme treasure with the Way of Taisu that he had forged from his own comprehension!
In the distance Taisu fled, only to find that she could never escape this divine city.
Heavenly Venerable Hao stood within the city, and with him at the center it was as if an absolute, inward-collapsing spacetime had formed, endlessly caving in toward him!
She looked back and saw the magnificent vision of thirty-six heavenly palaces taking shape behind Heavenly Venerable Hao's head; without borrowing her power, relying only upon his own comprehension, he was already able to form a complete Heavenly Court! Not only that — she saw another Heavenly Court as well, thirty-six heavenly palaces headed by the Way of Guixu.
Two Heavenly Courts, one upright and one inverted, one in eternal daylight, one in eternal darkness!
And more terrible still, she saw the Taisu qi in Heavenly Venerable Hao's palm, and within it the Way of Taisu.
Her heart sank deeper and deeper; she had still underestimated the Nine Heavenly Venerables of Longhan.
Of the nine Heavenly Venerables of the Longhan era, Heavenly Venerable Yu was foremost and Heavenly Venerable Hao second; Heavenly Venerable Yu had opened up the Womb of Origin divine treasury, Heavenly Venerable Hao the divine treasury of the Five Luminaries.