Chapter 1806 — The Eve of the Sealing
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
"No need." Kaihuang Shen Ye glanced back and said: "Now that the Ancestral Court is sealed, the blood sacrifice is confined within the Ancestral Court. The energy of the blood sacrifice here can come from only two sources: one, what has accumulated through history; two, the powerhouses who die in the Ancestral Court in the battles to come. Most of the blood-sacrifice energy accumulated through history was used up by Old Man Wuya; the blood-sacrifice power Miluo Palace can command is not much, and the number of powerhouses they can bring down should likewise have a limit. To break past that limit, they have only two paths."
He pressed his lips together and said: "To kill us — that is the first path. To destroy the World Tree and slay the powerhouses beneath Old Man Wuya's banner — that is the second path."
Xu Shenghua pondered for a moment. If Shen Mu's sealing were completed, these were indeed the only two choices left to Miluo Palace.
Even if Miluo Palace killed them, that would not suffice for all of Miluo Palace's powerhouses to descend; they would have to deal with Old Man Wuya's forces before they could ensure that every Dao-attainer descended into the Seventeenth Era.
In other words, by sealing the Ancestral Court, Shen Mu had turned the Ancestral Court into a three-way death struggle!
The Ancestral Court was a vast beast cage; whether Miluo Palace, Old Man Wuya, or themselves, all were savage beasts within the cage, and only the final victor could leave this place alive!
"The Jade Capital City is fraught with peril; there is no need for us to storm it. Storming the Jade Capital City cannot dispel the blood-sacrifice energy, and would only cost us grievous losses," Kaihuang Shen Ye said. "On the contrary, we should leave the Jade Capital City and no longer keep watch here. When the Dao-attainers of Miluo Palace descend, they will surely seek out Old Man Wuya; a death struggle between the two sides is inevitable. But before that, we must block the Dao-attainers of the Jade Capital City from leaving the Ancestral Court, until the Seventh Young Master's sealing is complete! Should anyone leave the Ancestral Court, they will only re-establish blood-sacrifice altars in the outside world!"
Emperor Xuan's heart stirred slightly, and he asked: "Shen Ye, did the Seventh Young Master tell you this?"
Kaihuang nodded.
Emperor Wu was greatly heartened and pressed: "What else did the Seventh Young Master tell you?"
Kaihuang Shen Ye shook his head: "He told me only this, and said nothing of anything else."
Lang Wan said suddenly: "Fellow Daoist, when did Heavenly Venerable Mu become the Seventh Young Master?"
Kaihuang shook his head: "I do not know."
Lan Yutian said: "How did my brother return to the past?"
"I do not know."
The crowd itched unbearably, wishing they could tear open his mouth and make him spill everything he knew; but Kaihuang would not speak, and there was nothing they could do.
In the south of the Ancestral Court, the earth suddenly heaved upward, and the fourth heavenly wall grew without cease — though its growth was far slower than that of the other walls. Clearly, Shen Mu, having folded three sides of the Ancestral Court in succession, had suffered grave damage to his vital essence and was no longer what he had been.
When Granny Zhu, Ling Yuxiu, the Village Chief and the others hurried there, the southern heavenly wall of the Ancestral Court had already risen to the very vault of heaven. Seen dimly, the Ancestral Court now resembled a great cauldron floating at the center of the universe.
Seen from outside, the four walls of the cauldron were ringed with sun, moon and stars; mountain ranges rolled on without end, rivers and lands stretched ten thousand li, and giant beasts dwelt and lived upon the cauldron's walls.
There, giant beasts roamed in herds, and there were magnificent palaces; Long Qilin and Yan'er were flying among the clouds, patrolling their domain.