Chapter 1800 — No Echo Remains in the Ruins
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Though Her Highness the Empress time and again broke their samsara divine arts and the Red Rope Knot Seal, the next time she would fall to them again, for their divine arts had taken on new variations.
Prodigies under heaven are many, countless as the stars in the sky; but those who can, in the midst of battle, ceaselessly comprehend new techniques, adapt to circumstance, and bring forth the new from the old, likely only these two. "Your Highness, after this blow, do not wake again! " Lan Yutian could not quite bear it, and said, "Within the samsara you may enjoy the joys of family in peace.
If you come out, you.
. .
" Behind Xu Shenghua the Six Paths of Samsara suddenly appeared; six different Daos of Samsara took the form of six heavenly wheels and invaded the Empress's flesh, stripping away her primordial spirit and her consciousness together and casting them down into samsara.
Her Highness the Empress's flesh stood hollow and rigid, motionless.
Xu Shenghua let out a breath, roused the World Tree, and said in a low voice, "After this battle, the Empress will be no more. Lan Yutian, you should not cling to a woman's mercy.
" Lan Yutian roused his own World Tree, and together the two unleashed the might of the Ancestral Court's Dao Domain, destroying the Guixu domain. "She is one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables; in this life she can never step outside of that.
I understand this. " Lan Yutian said bleakly, "But I want to give her a chance.
Once, she gave you and me a chance.
" Xu Shenghua fell silent.
Lan Yutian returned to the Heavenly Venerable Yu, awakening memories of his that had scattered; in his mind was the scene of himself comprehending the Dao beneath the tree. At that time he was only an unremarkable youth of the human race, and before Longhan the human race had stood at the very bottom of the ten thousand races.
He was comprehending the Dao beneath the tree when Her Highness the Empress's carriage passed by; the Empress ordered the gods to halt, lifted the pearl curtain, and watched him in silence, without disturbing his comprehension.
In that comprehension he fathomed the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, solving the problem that no acquired living being, not even a demigod, could cultivate. That day, the world was changed.
And the tree beneath which he had comprehended the Dao later became the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven.
That day the Empress halted her carriage for him; when he woke, she gladly invited him aboard, and the two talked long, knee to knee, her carriage carrying him roaming over the Great Wilderness of the Yuan Realm, until he lingered and could not bear to leave.
From that time he and the Empress had a friendship.
Later, when the Ancient Gods bestowed their blessing upon him, the Empress too lent her aid, persuading the gods on high and the Heavenly Emperor Taichu.
The Empress's favor toward him raised the standing of the human race; though it remained hard, it was far better than before, so much so that the Seven Heavenly Venerables of Longhan came to be.
This was the grace the Empress had shown him.
But what Xu Shenghua recalled was another scene. It was when Shen Mu sent him to the Taishi Vein of the Ancestral Court to see the Empress and return the Taiji Primordial Liquid to the Taiji Ancient God.
The Empress was still Consort Yan then, and they talked together with great pleasure; at first there had been desire in the Empress's eyes, but afterward only appreciation remained.
The Empress did not make things difficult for him, and in the end let him go.
As an enemy, Xu Shenghua felt only admiration for the Empress in his heart; as for hatred, there was none to speak of.
He was different from Shen Mu. Shen Mu had never regarded himself as a god, but as a mortal, and judged the deeds of the Ten Heavenly Venerables from a mortal's vantage; hence hatred was born in him, and he wished to overthrow them.