Chapter 1834 — Breaking Into the Jade Capital a Second Time
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The World Tree and the Guixu were mutually counteracting, diametrically opposed; Old Man Wuya was the World Tree that in the fullness of time had become a sage, while Young Master Wuji was the Guixu Goddess born of the Guixu abyss. The two were born deadly rivals to each other, and so had never once looked upon one another with favor. Old Man Wuya had even once believed that Young Master Wuji was someone the master of the Miluo Palace, wary of him, had deliberately cultivated for the sole purpose of restraining him; and so he had never stinted in making life hard for her. "Wuji, you are suppressed and bullied by that Seventh Brother of yours, and I am pressed down by the Miluo Palace.
In truth you and I are the two great unchanging substances of the universe. We are not like them.
They are mayfly creatures, born and dying with the universes; but to us the birth and death of a universe is a single year. They find it hard enough to live out a year, while we have endless longevity. " Old Man Wuya said, curbing his patience: "You may destroy the cosmos of a universe, but you cannot destroy me. I may prop up the void, but I cannot assimilate you.
There is in truth no reason for you and me to keep fighting. On the contrary, that ancient and sacred beings such as we should be pressed down by these mayflies is more than can be endured. " Something stirred in Young Master Wuji's heart. There was no little sense in Old Man Wuya's words; if the two of them joined hands, they could indeed break the deadlock in which both were now suppressed and pressed down.
"If you and I join hands, the benefits are many. " Old Man Wuya's voice came, neither hurried nor slow: "Because of the Dao Tree, I have mastered nearly every Dao art and divine power of the Miluo Palace.
The Red Rope Knot Seal may be a power the master of the Miluo Palace created in his later years, but with my foundations, unraveling the Red Rope Knot is no great trouble.
I can help you break free. " Young Master Wuji smiled. "And the Seventh Young Master sealed the Ancestral Court, using the Guixu abyss to lock down the void, so that none of the mighty under your banner can imprint the ultimate void and attain the Dao. If they cannot attain the Dao, you cannot recover your peak strength.
But I am the Guixu Goddess; I can break open the Seventh Young Master's seal, and let the mighty under your banner imprint the ultimate void and cultivate the Dao Tree anew. " Old Man Wuya laughed. "In that way, you break free and I recover my peak strength, the best of both worlds. Wuji, your dealings with the Kaitian Host, your playing along with the Seventh Young Master, all of that is petty skirmishing.
Only in joining hands with me can you have what you desire! " His voice rumbled and shook, coming from above the Guixu of sixteen Cosmic Epochs: "You would destroy the cosmos of a universe and open a new epoch. Everyone else will stand in your way, but I alone will not.
I too would borrow the birth and death of universes to grow myself; I would rather be glad to see it done! You and I can find no reason at all to be enemies! " He spoke in a way that stirred the heart greatly; yet in truth both knew full well that they might join hands, but that they would remain absolute enemies, and could never go on joined forever. For their powers were born to counteract one another, to press each other down, to destroy each other!
Young Master Wuji's eyes rolled. She smiled.
"Since we are to join hands, then Old Ghost Wu.
. .
Old Man Wuya, you must show some sincerity, and let me see whether you can unravel the Red Rope Knot Seal.
" "Good! " Old Man Wuya said, with fine readiness.
"But you too must show some sincerity.
I need to see one of the mighty under my banner attain the Dao in the ultimate void!
" "Naturally!