Chapter 1817 — The Young Man's Bloodline
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Third Young Master Lingxiao could not bring himself to decide.
If he pulled the sixth red rope, he would release Second Young Master Wuji. In the past he had known little of the Master of Miluo Palace's Red Rope Knot Seal, but Shen Mu had once used that seal against him, sealing away a portion of his power and consciousness for eight full years, and so he had come to know this seal art deeply. In those eight years, he had comprehended every variation of the Red Rope Knot that Shen Mu had deployed.
After all, he too was an heir of the Master of Miluo Palace; once he understood the variations of the Red Rope Knot Seal that Shen Mu commanded, he could reason by analogy and discern still more profundity and mystery in the Master of Miluo Palace's Red Rope Knot Seal.
The greatest mystery the Master of Miluo Palace had left behind was the sixth red rope. Second Young Master Wuji might not understand the mystery of the sixth red rope; long ago she had abandoned the Daoist arts and divine powers of Miluo Palace and turned to study the Daoist arts of Guixu. But Third Young Master could see the mystery of the sixth red rope.
This was the thread of life the Master of Miluo Palace had left for Second Young Master.
The Master of Miluo Palace was merciful; even facing the strongest enemy, he would leave a thread of life, let alone for his own disciple. "As long as the sixth red rope is pulled, the Red Rope Knot Seal will turn to flying ash, and Wuji will be released.
Old Seven grows harder and harder to deal with; the only one who can restrain him is Senior Sister Wuji.
Yet to release Senior Sister Wuji.
. .
" A sudden chill ran through him. To release Second Young Master Wuji might be even more dangerous than Shen Mu! Shen Mu only wanted to prevent Miluo Palace from descending upon the Seventeenth Epoch; if Miluo Palace did not descend, he could not be bothered to provoke it.
But Second Young Master Wuji was different.
If she were released, she would likely destroy the world, annihilate everything--Miluo Palace, the World Tree, even the Seventeenth Epoch, all of it! Wuji was extreme in her actions; during the Sixteenth Epoch, she had already begun to strike at those who had achieved the Dao in Miluo Palace, and at other Dao-attainers as well!
Outsiders, even some hall masters, thought it was Lord Shang who had slaughtered the Dao-attainers, but no one had expected that the one who had done the killing was Second Young Master.
The Dao-attainers who died by Lord Shang's hand were not even a fraction of those who had died by Second Young Master's! Yet if Shen Mu's child were allowed to be born, it would likely add to Miluo Palace a powerful enemy--an enemy that could bring about Miluo Palace's destruction!
Third Young Master descended upon the Red Rope Knot Seal, his voice entering Guixu: "Senior Sister, your junior brother has come to pay his respects. " Within Guixu all was silent.
After a long while, Second Young Master Wuji's voice came, giggling: "So it's Old Third. Lingxiao, what have you come to see me for? Ah, yes--you haven't yet descended into the Seventeenth Epoch.
You were blocked by Old Seven, so you came to see me, wanting to use my passage to enter the Seventeenth Epoch, isn't that right? Come down here--" Her voice turned uncanny and unfathomable: "You should know that in this world there are only two immutable substances: one is the World Tree, the other is Guixu.
The people of the world are foolish; they only think of smuggling through the World Tree, never imagining that smuggling through Guixu is the simplest of all.