Chapter 1695 — The Mystery of This Man's Origins
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
"The distribution map of the Dao trees?
" Shen Mu's spirits surged. The place marked on Taiyi's map of the lands had long baffled him; nowhere in the seventeenth cosmic epoch had he found any such place, and earlier he had even supposed it might be the arrangement of the obelisk forest, and so had meant to go back and search it over again. He had never imagined that this young man called Shang Jun would actually recognize this map.
"The distribution map of the Dao trees of the ultimate void of the sixteenth epoch?
" Shen Mu was at once somewhat taken aback, and doubt filled his heart: "I have not gone back to a past cosmos, so why would Taiyi give me the distribution map of the Dao trees of the sixteenth epoch?
How is that supposed to help me save him? " Shang Jun said, "In the sixteenth epoch I once wished to kill a few more of those who had attained the Dao, and so I made a special study of the Daluo Heaven distributions of these Dao lords; that is why, when you brought out this map, I recognized it.
" Shen Mu could not help sizing him up a few more times, and on a sudden something stirred in his heart. He said, "In the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court, when I passed through the Long River of Chaos, I once saw a man attain the Dao through killing, who, before the kalpa of destruction arrived, slew those who had attained the Dao and thereby cultivated the thirty-sixth heaven of the Dao realm, branded the ultimate void, attained the fruit of the Dao, and in the end crushed the ultimate void underfoot. Was that man you?
" (See Chapter 1504. ) Shang Jun's face darkened; he nodded in silence. Shen Mu said, "You killed the sixteenth epoch of the cosmos, and all living beings were destroyed thereby; almost everyone died indirectly by your hand. No wonder your abilities are so formidable. " Shang Jun's vital breath withered away; he vomited a mouthful of blood, all life gone from him, and stood there wooden and motionless, as though he were about to dissolve into the Dao.
The old woman coughed once and said, "I have heard that when the Seventh Young Master kills a man, he slays the man's heart first.
Seeing it today, it is indeed so. Whether or not Shang Jun entered the Dao through killing, whether or not he attained the Dao, the sixteenth epoch would have been destroyed.
The cause of its destruction was not Shang Jun, but Miluo Palace. Had so many of Miluo Palace's Dao-attainers not smuggled themselves into the sixteenth epoch, how could that cosmos have been destroyed so quickly?
" Shang Jun's complexion improved somewhat, and his breath recovered a little. Shen Mu glanced at her and said, "The only difference lies in whether the sixteenth epoch was destroyed by the hand of Miluo Palace or by the hand of Shang Jun. If by the hand of Miluo Palace, then the killer is Miluo Palace. If by the hand of Shang Jun, then the killer is Shang Jun. " Shang Jun's breath withered once more, worse even than before!
"You!
" The old woman's forehead bulged with blue veins, her white hair fluttering. The old man hurried to check her, and said with a smile, "No wonder everyone says that the hardest one in all Miluo Palace to deal with is the Seventh Young Master. Seeing you today, we are convinced.
The Seventh Young Master seeks that man called Taiyi — but for what?
" "I owe him a debt of feeling, and every living being of the seventeenth epoch owes him a debt of feeling.
Therefore I must repay kindness with kindness, and save him no matter what. " Shen Mu concealed nothing. "Taiyi blocked the past Dao-attainers from smuggling through, and withstood Miluo Palace's invasion. Though he was the seventeenth epoch's first smuggler, this debt of kindness must be repaid!
He was suppressed by Miluo Palace and left behind this map; I intend to find him and rescue him. " "I never thought the Seventh Young Master would prove a man of sentiment and honor.