Chapter 1695 — The Mystery of This Man's Origins
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" The girl called Yaya showed surprise. "That is not at all like the Seventh Young Master I have heard of. The Seventh Young Master of Miluo Palace I heard of was a villain who stopped at no evil, cunning and vicious — pus on his crown and sores on his soles; he has done every wicked thing there is! " Shen Mu's face flushed crimson, and stammering he protested, "That is slander!
Absolute slander!
Who among those who know me does not know that I delight in doing good and delight in helping others. . . " The pig's head coughed once — it was still set upon the platter — and said, "The Seventh Young Master need not explain further; our present state says everything.
If the Seventh Young Master were not the man of legend, we would not have fallen so miserably. " Shen Mu snorted and said, "This is my first meeting with you all; would I go so far as to deceive you?
As for this distribution map of the Dao trees of the sixteenth epoch, I must ask Shang Jun to point me the way. " Shang Jun was silent, and looked toward the others. The old man chuckled and said, "The Seventh Young Master said just now that Taiyi was able to save that paralytic?
Might you explain the reason in this? " Shen Mu smiled faintly and said, "Then let me ask you all: when did you first feel that you could escape from the obelisks?
" Everyone was slightly startled, and each fell to pondering.
"Your escape from the obelisks must have been a matter of this cosmic epoch, no? " Shen Mu said, "That man was Taiyi.
In those years Taiyi smuggled himself into this cosmic epoch, took possession of the chaos egg by soul-theft, and became Taiyi. After he attained the Dao he came straight to this abandoned place, found this gateway, and forcibly broke open the First Young Master's seal.
" The old man and the old woman exchanged a glance, and said nothing.
The girl and the woman were at a loss.
The woman asked, "Why would this Taiyi come to save us? " Shen Mu shook his head. "He did not come to save you.
He came to save the paralytic in your village.
" This time even Shang Jun and the pig's head were astonished.
The pig's head on the platter lifted a left trotter from another platter and scratched at its bristles, puzzled.
"The paralytic? You mean the paralytic in our village? " "That very paralytic.
" Shen Mu said, "The purpose of his journey was to save him.
He was the first to smuggle himself into this cosmic epoch, and the first to attain the Dao, blocking Miluo Palace's smuggling; he alone, of the whole cosmos, and therefore he could accomplish a great deed he had never had the chance to accomplish before! That deed was of the utmost importance! So he burst in here, blasted open the gateway with matchless momentum, uprooted the obelisk, broke the First Young Master's arrangement, and let you escape from the stone monuments! " Everyone looked at the old man. The pig's head cried, "Old Monster, your cultivation is the highest and you were the first to wake; it was you who roused us and let us walk out of the stone monuments. Was your escape from the monument as he says?
" The old man sighed and nodded silently. "It was indeed a thing that happened at the very beginning of this cosmic epoch's opening. You were suppressed and slept on, while I remained awake from the first moment of suppression; I had to watch over the paralytic.
The paralytic is of the utmost importance and must not be lost at any cost. At that time I sensed a mighty being of this cosmic epoch descend. . . " Shang Jun suddenly said, "Who is the paralytic?
" Everyone looked toward the paralytic in the room.
The little village had been all but razed to the ground, and the room where the paralytic lay had been destroyed as well; yet the paralytic still lay upon his bed, basking in the sun. The clash just now had been so fierce, yet he seemed touched by none of it.