Chapter 1842 — Everything Returns to the Origin
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
The battle of Guixu had consequences of immense reach. The Great Abyss of Guixu was utterly destroyed, leaving only the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel forged of chaos stone standing upon the Sea of Chaos in the sky, while Old Man Wuya and Young Master Wuji were each gravely wounded, and the Third and Fourth Young Masters failed to finish their work and destroy them. And in the battle for the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, three powers fought bitterly, with grievous death and injury on all sides.
When Shen Mu marched on the Jade Capital City, Young Master Zixiao and Young Master Lingxiao, who were then hunting Old Man Wuya and Young Master Wuji, had no choice but to abandon the two men and return to the Jade Capital.
They had the strength to slay Old Man Wuya and Young Master Wuji, but had they done so, the power of the Jade Capital City would in turn have been uprooted by Shen Mu. To preserve the Jade Capital City, they were forced to give up that splendid chance.
Shen Mu led the mighty ones of Jingping out of the Jade Capital City, and at the same time reached out to shield the retreat of the forces under Old Man Wuya, to the utter astonishment of those mighty ones. "If you die, you will only profit the Third and Fourth Young Masters of the Miluo Palace.
" Kaihuang joined Shen Mu and the others in holding the rear, explaining to those men, "Taishi can dissolve the blood sacrifice, but only part of its power.
If you die, the Third and Fourth Young Masters will gather still more energy to ease their descent. So you cannot yet die.
When Taishi can wholly dissolve the sacrificial energy, then you may die.
" The mighty ones under Old Man Wuya had felt some gratitude at first, but at these words even the last shred of it vanished. "Old Seven! " Young Master Lingxiao knew he could not detain them, and at once ordered the pursuit halted. Facing Shen Mu from afar, he said coldly, "Second Sister Wuji has been released after all.
Even if you destroyed the Great Abyss of Guixu, sooner or later she will return to her peak.
Then it will be calamity for all living beings!
That evil fruit must be counted upon your head! " Shen Mu summoned back the Universe Hong Bell and hung it before the Chaos Hall, standing against him from afar. "Old Three, the descent of the Miluo Palace will shatter all heavens and myriad worlds and plunge the Seventeenth Era Universe straight into collapse and ruin, with countless lives perishing. Upon whose head should that evil fruit be counted?
The Teacher's command was for each of you to return to the universe that gave you birth, yet you defy the Teacher's command. How shall that be reckoned? " Young Master Lingxiao leaned upon his spear and gave a cold snort. "The Teacher betrayed his own ideals. As disciples, we must take up his ideals and carry them onward, and only so are we his true heirs!
Of the Seven Young Masters of the Miluo Palace, only Zixiao and I inherit his ideals. The rest, like you, like Wuji, like Taishang, are all betrayers! " Shen Mu burst into laughter and led his host away. Young Master Lingxiao watched him go into the distance, then led his own host back to the Miluo Palace, yet he did not see Young Master Zixiao.
"The Fourth Young Master has gone back to the past.
" The Attainer whose mortal body the Fourth Young Master had seized had now regained control of his flesh, and said, "When he left, I felt fierce grief and longing within his Dao heart.
" Young Master Lingxiao fell silent, knowing that Zixiao had been moved to longing for his dead wife by his own act of striking down Moon Tianzun and breaking off the Zixiao Enlightenment Song.
"Fellow Daoist Hao, this mortal body of yours passed through the great war of Guixu and was shattered time and again, and later was pierced between the brows by Old Seven's sword, yet it took no wound. It is most strange.