Chapter 1618 — Heavenly Venerables Honor Their Promises, the Supreme Unyielding
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" Kaihuang said coolly, "That was before. Before, the ten Heavenly Venerables could not break your Dao of Space, but the Heavenly Court of today has many divine powers capable of breaking your arts. However exquisite your Dao of Space, can it escape the all-seeing eye of the Duke of Heaven's body? " Venerable Moon recalled how Shen Mu, in those years, had come into the peach grove to see her, guided there by the Duke of Heaven, and her heart sank.
The Ancestral God King who held the Duke of Heaven's body could break her Scripture of the Ultimate Void with ease! And then there was Venerable Fire, who, when he had held the ancestral land of Dao Fire, had used the Nine-Heaven Dao-Fire Altar to shatter her Scripture of the Ultimate Void; she could no longer be sure of preserving herself. Kaihuang was utterly calm. "Venerable Ling's strength rises and falls.
At its height she can slay those who have attained the Dao; at its lowest, even a Heavenly Venerable can put her to death. " Venerable Ling said, "Venerable Mu saved my life. And besides, no one can kill me.
" Kaihuang smiled coldly. "At worst you will be trapped for another forty thousand years? " Venerable Ling said nothing. "The Nether Venerable has strength, but is he stronger than Venerable Fire?
Not necessarily. " Kaihuang continued, "Venerable Cloud has only just been reborn.
Even if you return his body to him, it will be frail, at most a body of the Imperial Throne realm.
He may have a mighty Dao Tree and Dao Fruit, but after all they are not of his own cultivation; it will take time before he fully masters the power he obtained from Taidi. " He weighed the strengths of the two sides. "It is even possible that through the long years to come he will never fully master Taidi's power.
I can hold off Venerable Hao, but I cannot hold off Venerable Hao and Taichu at once! Let Taichu slip free of me, and any of the others may die at his hands! The Taichu and Venerable Hao of today are each of them no weaker than Taidi was in his day!
" Shen Mu said, "There is also me. .
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" Kaihuang said, "Can you withstand Venerable Hao, or Taichu?
The Earl of Earth is of no use either; he seeks only death!
And beyond that, at Taichu's side stand two Taiji Ancient Gods. Who will hold them off? " Shen Mu frowned. Kaihuang said in a heavy voice, "The battle of the Nether Capital is a trap — not a trap to destroy the Earl of Earth, but a trap set for us! Venerable Hao's ascendancy is already established; he means to use the destruction of the Earl of Earth as his pretext and wipe us out in a single net while he is at it!
Even if we suffer grievous losses, we cannot win; we can only watch the Nether Capital fall into enemy hands! " His tone eased. "The Earl of Earth seeks only death, to be free of the bonds of the Great Dao of the Nether Capital. That battle is in no way necessary for us. We have finally come together again, and we have hope of victory — and now we would smash that future advantage to pieces over a war that need not be fought. That is the act of a fool. " Shen Mu fell silent.
After a moment he said, "If we do not move, the Heavenly Court's advantage grows greater.
If we go to war, there is still a chance to retake the Nether Capital. Retake the Nether Capital, and in the future we will have room to maneuver. If the Nether Capital falls, then in the future we will have no room to live at all.
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. " "And if you cannot retake it? " Kaihuang looked straight into his eyes. His words were like his sword dao, pressing in step by step, granting him no chance to defend himself, striking straight at the weak place in his dao heart. "If in this battle, no matter how hard you strive, you cannot retake the Nether Capital?