Chapter 1695 — The Mystery of This Man's Origins
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Someone used the divine art of the Immutability of Matter and Energy to preserve his soul, so that though he died at the hands of the master of Miluo Palace, he lives on in the future. Yet when two identical souls meet, one of them must vanish. " The others were utterly bewildered. The old man had some guess; he hurried to look at the paralytic and cried out, "You mean to say he has come back?
" Shen Mu nodded. "Yes, he has come back. But he cannot draw near the paralytic. When he was outside and had not yet uprooted the first obelisk, he and the paralytic were in different space-times, and there was no harm; but once the first obelisk was uprooted, the seal was broken, and he and the paralytic were in the same space-time.
Therefore he vanished at flying speed — that is why you felt his momentum and breath plunging.
" The old man was greatly stirred, his voice hoarse.
"He sensed that he was about to vanish, knew that he could not save himself, and so withdrew of his own accord! Yet he still left us a thread of a chance at escape; he carried away that obelisk! " Shen Mu said, "After that he continued to guard the Ancestral Court, waiting for his moment. When I appeared and the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court reappeared, he tricked me into guarding the Great Black Mountain of the Ancestral Court and blocking the prehistoric mighty ones from smuggling through, while he went straight to Miluo Palace to reason with the master of Miluo Palace, and was struck down by him into the fourth epoch. " He did not go on.
Taiyi had gone not only to reason with the master of Miluo Palace, but also to ascertain one thing. Whether the master of Miluo Palace was dead. Whose argument prevailed between the two, no one knew, but the master of Miluo Palace was indeed dead.
"This man is Taiyi. " Shen Mu said meaningfully, "Old Monster, the man I wish to rescue is also him. But at present I have urgent matters and cannot go to the sixteenth epoch to seek him. Is there a way you can?
" Old Monster paced back and forth, then suddenly stopped, and said urgently, "Young Master, though I do not know the Immutability of Matter and Energy, if he was suppressed in the void of the sixteenth epoch, he would never have been ground away by the sixteenth epoch's great kalpa of destruction; therefore he must have survived into the seventeenth epoch!
While he was not lost, the him suppressed in the void of the seventeenth epoch was vanished, unobservable; but when he was struck down by the master of Miluo Palace into the fourth epoch, then the suppressed him must surely appear in the void of the seventeenth epoch!
" Shen Mu's heart shook slightly; he laughed heartily.
"No wonder he left the map behind, to have me rescue him!
But.
. .
" He knitted his brows. "But this is the distribution map of the Dao trees of the ultimate void of the sixteenth epoch, and it is not the same as the ultimate void of the seventeenth. . . " Shang Jun suddenly said, "The ultimate void has no matter; only Daluo Heaven can exist there. Therefore the ultimate void of every cosmic epoch is the same — a single blank. " Shen Mu's eyes widened, his heart pounding violently.
"That is to say, so long as I have the distribution map of the Dao trees of the sixteenth epoch, I can find where Taiyi is imprisoned!
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