Chapter 1697 — Yours Truly Raises the Standard of Revolt
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Shen Mu let out a breath and stepped out through the gateway. In his shadow, Shang Jun followed him out. No one barred their way; only that obelisk drifted quietly past them and into the gateway.
Shen Mu looked back and saw the obelisk come to its original position and settle down.
Shang Jun, in the shadow, said hesitantly, "Young master, Old Monster and the others..."
Shen Mu frowned slightly and raised a hand to stop him from going on.
With the settling of that obelisk, the old man and the old woman of that little village, Zhu Santong and the rest, would surely be suppressed once more, sealed within the obelisks one by one with no way to escape!
Moreover, the obelisk array was now whole again, without a gap. Should Shen Mu return to this place in the future, he would have no choice but to break the array by sheer force!
And that would require fighting strength on the order of Taiyi's!
"Strength on the order of Taiyi..."
Shen Mu's eye twitched, and he said silently in his heart, "I do not have it now, but I will in the future!"
Suddenly the two broken door leaves within the gateway flew up and joined together, becoming a single whole door, and with a click they were set into the gateway.
The two doors closed; Hongmeng runes flowed across them, locking the gateway fast.
"Eldest Senior Brother, you cannot do as the Master did!"
Shen Mu turned and departed, his voice echoing through that abandoned place: "Walk on along the Master's road, and even if you do exactly as the Master did, you cannot escape the Master's end. The Master has already failed! Why not try another road?"
No one answered in the abandoned place.
Shen Mu led Shang Jun far away.
When they had left the abandoned place, Shang Jun finally voiced the doubt in his heart: "Was the First Young Master there just now?"
"He did not truly descend."
Shen Mu shook his head. "He may be the one among the seven young masters of Miluo Palace most like the Master of Miluo Palace, but only like. His every action, even his philosophy, is the same as the Master of Miluo Palace's. I have never met him, but from the fact that he studies the Hongmeng runes, his character can be seen. He suppresses his own nature to make himself more like the Master of Miluo Palace. That being so, he will surely follow the Master of Miluo Palace's instructions and return to the cosmic epoch that belongs to him; therefore he could never descend here."
Shang Jun was somewhat perplexed.
He found it hard to understand a man like the First Young Master of Miluo Palace.
"He descended only as a projection."
Shen Mu said, "When Old Monster and the others attacked his Dao tree, they did after all disturb him, and so he sent a projection to take a look. I had to appeal to his feelings and reason with him; otherwise he would have sealed me in the gateway along with the rest. Precisely because he imitates the Master of Miluo Palace, his temperament has a flaw, and so long as we grasp that, we can get away."
He let out a long breath. "If it were not you following me but Old Monster and the others, we could not have escaped... We go to the Ancestral Court, to establish the ultimate void that corresponds to the world tree!"
He took his bearings and set off for Great Black Mountain of the Ancestral Court.
Youdu.
Yuji, Shixiu, Lingshu, and Lingyuan were sacrificed one after another, transformed into energy that entered the past cosmos, and the Dao tree of the Lord of the Lingguan Hall thereby grew ever clearer, and the Dao fruit upon it ever stronger.
Now ten years had passed. Once the sacrifice of the Lingyuan heavens was complete, he could recover to the peak of his sixteenth-epoch days, and then this cosmos would hold no rival for him.
The Lord of the Lingguan Hall waited quietly. Today was the day the sacrifice of the Lingyuan heavens would be completed, and the day his Dao tree would fully descend.