Chapter 1714 — The Young Lord Descends
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Shen Mu's eyes flickered. "In years past, when you had nothing at all, you contrived the deaths of the Great Emperor and Taichu, those two supreme sovereigns. Now that we have so many Heavenly Venerables, can you contrive a way to kill the Second Young Master?"
Heavenly Venerable Yun's brows lifted; he looked straight into Shen Mu's eyes and said in a low voice, "To contrive the Great Emperor's death, I sacrificed a million creators, and only then was the Great Emperor slain. Langwan hates me to this day for my ruthlessness. To contrive the death of the ancient god Heavenly Emperor Taichu, I did not scruple to hand half the strength of the Heaven Alliance to Heavenly Venerable Hao, so that later the Heaven Alliance split, with consequences for hundreds of thousands of years after. To achieve my ends I stop at nothing. Are you certain you want me to contrive the Second Young Master's death? How many would you sacrifice?"
Shen Mu's eye twitched.
Heavenly Venerable Yun said bleakly from his divine platform: "Heavenly Venerable Mu, you are not me, after all, nor are you a Heavenly Emperor of a generation. The Heavenly Emperor Yun of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court can sacrifice everything, sacrifice every soul around him, myself included, to achieve his ends! And you are not that kind of man."
He smiled. "So you are Heavenly Venerable Mu, and not Heavenly Emperor Mu. How to be rid of the Second Young Master—I will think of something; you need not trouble yourself over it."
Shen Mu rose. "Once you have thought of something, you must tell me. You must not act on your own!"
Heavenly Venerable Yun smiled. "You may set your mind entirely at ease."
Shen Mu gave him a long, deep look, then turned and descended from the Great Luotian.
In the Heavenly Court's camp, at the Heavenly Emperor's annex palace.
In the end Heavenly Emperor Hao could not hold himself back; he set about cultivating the method of the Mirror of the Abyss of Return.
"I must ask you, Brother of the Dao, to guard me."
Heavenly Emperor Hao was cautious after all, and summoned the Lord of the Lingguan Hall. The Lord of the Lingguan Hall said in a low voice, "Set your mind at ease, Your Majesty. Do you fear the Seventh Young Master will seize the chance to strike? With me here, he cannot kill his way in."
Heavenly Emperor Hao shook his head. "It is not Heavenly Venerable Mu I fear. What I fear is the Retired Emperor and the Empress Mother."
The Lord of the Lingguan Hall was slightly taken aback, then said indifferently, "You creatures of the Seventeenth Epoch are too filthy by half—you must guard against even your own kin. Set your mind at ease; they will not dare to run wild."
He sat down in meditation, and Heavenly Emperor Hao was reassured. He set about cultivating the Mirror of the Abyss of Return, dissolving the cultivation of his Abyss of Return body.
The Mirror of the Abyss of Return that Yuanmu had taught him proved unexpectedly easy to cultivate, and Heavenly Emperor Hao's Abyss of Return body was possessed of immense cultivation, the very pinnacle of Heavenly Venerables. Once all his cultivation was dissolved, the Prime Embryo Divine Treasury would be extinguished with it, leaving only a pool of chaos within the Abyss of Return!
The Chaos Pool was like a bright mirror. Heavenly Emperor Hao employed his own Dao Heart and gazed into the Chaos Pool.
And as he gazed, upon the Chaos Pool in the great abyss another face was reflected.
Boom—Heavenly Emperor Hao's mind reeled: "I have been tricked! The one who taught me the Mirror of the Abyss of Return was not the Empress Mother, but the Empress!"
Scarcely had the thought formed when his mind went suddenly dim and muddled!