Chapter 1642 — The Loving Mother and the Filial Son
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
"Mother, do not worry. I will surely bring the finest divine physician to treat your wounds!
" Heavenly Venerable Hao took Lady Yuanmu onto his back and rose up from the Great Abyss of Guixu, plunging into Youdu. Youdu lay shattered.
The Heavenly Venerable Xu, the Yin Son of Heaven, and the other gods who cultivated the demonic path were doing their utmost to set Youdu in order, trying to stitch its broken worlds back together. Yet without Tubo, they had no way to restore it. "Your Majesty's filial devotion moves heaven and earth.
A loving mother and a filial son, a model for all the world!
" When the Yin Son of Heaven saw Heavenly Venerable Hao approaching with his mother on his back, he hurriedly kowtowed, choking on his words: "What kind of beast, utterly devoid of conscience, would dare wound the Empress Dowager?
He deserves death ten thousand times over! " Heavenly Venerable Hao said, "It was that old villain, the Heavenly Venerable of Mu, who wounded my mother. " The Yin Son of Heaven was filled with righteous fury, his eyes nearly splitting with rage, and he cried hoarsely: "He has wounded my ancestral grandmother!
I swear never to share the same sky with him!
Your Majesty, I beg you to order a campaign against Jingping. I am willing to serve as the vanguard and strike down the traitor Mu! " Heavenly Venerable Hao shook his head.
"Zhaojin, I know your loyalty has always been as clear as the sun and moon. But a dead Jingping is not the best Jingping. The Heavenly Court may seem at the height of its glory, yet I have not ascended the throne, and my father still reigns. Should anything change, I will still need Jingping to forge divine weapons and peerless blades for me, to put down the disloyal. Besides, the Celestial Master Meng has submitted a memorial, telling me of disturbances across the myriad heavens and worlds, a chaos that may sweep over half of them all. I cannot afford to be caught off guard. " He sighed, a desolate air about him. "My martial might is unmatched under heaven.
But conquering the world depends on martial might; holding the world does not depend on martial might alone. And governing the world is harder still. The ancient gods who ruled the world by brute force were long ago overthrown. The overturned cart ahead is a warning I cannot ignore. So no matter what, I must take Youdu and Xuandu. These two places can keep my realm unshaken. " The Yin Son of Heaven bowed and said, "This humble subject is puzzled.
" Heavenly Venerable Hao said, "If the myriad heavens and worlds should rebel against me, Xuandu can send down natural calamities, cutting off their sun, moon, and stars, so that no crops grow and no grain ripens.
The rebels will starve for a hundred years or so, and die out on their own. And if there are those who create things, who build the Boat of Dawn and the Boat of Souls, then I will strike at Youdu, stripping away their lifespans outright and taking the ringleaders' heads, and all under heaven will be at peace. Still, such deterrence is not enough. I cannot wipe out a few heavens every time I please. If all the common people are dead, whom would I rule? " The Yin Son of Heaven suddenly understood, and said, "Your Majesty means that these common folk will keep devising new ways to rebel against Your Majesty, and so still stronger measures are needed? " Heavenly Venerable Hao's eyes flickered. "The Dao-fire of the Southern Pole Heaven can be transformed into a Dao-fire calamity that burns all things to ash, turning ten thousand leagues to barren waste.