Chapter 1634 — No Choice but Death
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
When you and I made that alliance within the Myriad Dao Heaven Wheel that day, it was said that I would aid you in possessing Langxuan Divine Emperor, and just now I did indeed aid you in possessing Langxuan, and did not break my oath. " (see Chapter 1558 for details) From within that Dao fruit the thought of Lingyu High Venerable spread forth, sneering.
"Seventh Young Master of Miluo Palace, your reputation is indeed deserved.
You did aid me in possessing Langxuan, but at the same time you left this strange knot seal within Langxuan's body. What is more, you seized the chance to pierce my Dao fruit with a sword and tried to slay me.
" Within the Myriad Dao Heaven Wheel Shen Mu glowed with triumph. "That sword was an accident, for I did not know you would be so hasty, and so my hand slipped. The red cord knot seal, however, I have long plotted.
You are an attainer of a former age, and to let you descend upon this universe would leave no way alive for the rest, so I had no choice but to strike ruthlessly. What I did not expect was that after allying with me you would ally with Hao Tianzun as well. Your skill at double dealing is not bad either.
" Lingyu High Venerable mocked. "Seventh Young Master, it was not I who sought out Hao Tianzun, but Hao Tianzun who sought out me. " Shen Mu said in surprise. "Brother Hao, it was you who sought him? " Hao Tianzun wore a smile.
"Fellow Daoist Mu, if you can seek him out, why can I not?
That day when you were suppressed by me within the Myriad Dao Heaven Wheel, you took the chance to study the Dao arts and divine powers of several Tianzuns, and I too took the chance to study their Dao arts and divine powers.
" The smile on Shen Mu's face slowly faded. Hao Tianzun went on. "The secret within Langxuan's Dao fruit could not be hidden from me, nor could your dealings with Lingyu High Venerable be hidden from me.
If you can reach an agreement with Lingyu High Venerable, naturally so can I.
To cooperate with me is to cooperate with the Third and Fourth Young Masters of Miluo Palace, and in any case that is far stronger than cooperating with an untrustworthy Seventh Young Master of Miluo Palace, is it not? " Shen Mu's face darkened and he asked. "Then how did you shake off Kaihuang and come here? " Hao Tianzun said leisurely.
"Who said I shook off Kaihuang?
Mu Tianzun, that I could live from Longhan to the present means more than you can imagine, and that the Third and Fourth Young Masters support me is also more than you can imagine. I am one body with two faces, Kaihuang is held fast by my Dao-attainment self, while my Guixu self has gone to Youdu to preside over the whole. " "Since the Third and Fourth Young Masters support me and I have their power, why should I not use it? " He said calmly.
"In the battle of Youdu you seem to hold the great advantage, but in truth nothing has yet escaped my control.
" The Heavenly Lord took up A'Chou and the Earth Earl and quietly drew back.
He sensed that things had gone wrong, for the present state of affairs had clearly passed beyond Shen Mu's reckoning, and Hao Tianzun's hidden cards had also passed beyond Shen Mu's reckoning, and if he did not leave now he feared he would never leave.
Hao Tianzun looked past him as if he were nothing and smiled. "Mu Tianzun, you are indeed the thorniest figure I have ever met, and in both wisdom and planning you have greatly surprised me.
But your time has been too short, too brief, and had you been given three or five hundred more years you could truly have turned the tables. Only now you are not yet there, and in our struggle you have always lagged by a thread. That thread is the difference between victory and defeat. " He raised his hand, and his voice shook and boomed through Youdu and spread to every corner of Youdu, so that Xu, Ling, You, Zu, Huo, Yue, Langwan, Taiji, Taishi and the others who were fighting and slaughtering heard it with perfect clarity.