Chapter 1849 — Storming the Jade Capital Imperial City
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Young Master Lingxiao and Young Master Zixiao wore calm expressions, showing no sign of panic or alarm; clearly they had long anticipated this turn in the Ancestral Court, which left Shen Mu somewhat disappointed. "Seventh Brother, no matter how solidly you refine the Ancestral Court, it still cannot pass through the Tribulation of Destruction and the Tribulation of Creation.
But the Jade Capital City can. " Young Master Lingxiao warned, "To think you can refine the Ancestral Court into a supreme treasure to suppress the Jade Capital City is nothing but a fool's dream.
" There was reason in his words.
The Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court had not been built in a single day; this divine city could be said to have been first refined by the master of Miluo Palace in the Second Epoch, only to fail in the Tribulation of Destruction of that epoch. When Shen Mu first visited Miluo Palace, he had even seen the ruins of the Jade Capital City. In every epoch thereafter, Miluo Palace would attempt to refine the Jade Capital City anew upon those ruins, hoping that it might carry all living beings safely through the Tribulation of Destruction and the Tribulation of Creation into the next epoch.
Yet in every epoch that followed, Miluo Palace met with failure, until at last, in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Epochs, the design of the Jade Capital City was settled, and this divine city could finally withstand the Tribulation of Destruction and the Tribulation of Creation. The only regret was that although the divine city could endure the great tribulations of destruction and creation, the people within it could not withstand the Tribulation of Creation; faced with it, they would still suffer grievous casualties.
Thus the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court remained, in the end, a failed creation. Even so, the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court was still the greatest of creations.
Shen Mu had refined the Ancestral Court into the mightiest divine artifact of the Seventeenth Epoch, yet compared with the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, it was still far inferior. Shen Mu smiled. "The Jade Capital City was refined to survive tribulation; its nature is aimed at the two great tribulations of destruction and creation.
This divine city is not made for attack. The Chaos Cauldron of the Ancestral Court, which I refined, was made for attack and sealing.
Each craft has its specialty; the two serve different purposes, so naturally their might differs as well. " Young Master Zixiao said indifferently, "Seventh Brother, do you know why we agreed last time to wait quietly while you disposed of Wuya and Second Sister? Precisely because we know everything about you. That you sealed the Ancestral Court and refined it into a treasure, how could we not know?
Yet once the Jade Capital City descends, all your efforts will be utterly wasted, all of them labor in vain. Your seal, your Chaos Cauldron of the Ancestral Court, the thousands of Dao-attainers under your command, Miluo Palace has never cared about any of them. " He raised his head to the vault of heaven, then looked to the four walls of the Chaos Cauldron of the Ancestral Court, and said leisurely, "Once the Jade Capital City descends, every effort of yours will become utterly laughable. Your seal will be easily pierced by the Jade Capital City; your Chaos Cauldron will be smashed to pieces by it; your Six Paths Heaven Wheel and Cosmic Bell will be just as powerless before it. The Jade Capital City spans sixteen cosmic epochs, spans sixteen long rivers of chaos.
What it carries is not us, but the history and civilization of the past sixteen cosmic epochs, a trillion years in the making. " He withdrew his gaze, his eyelids lowering. "Its weight is beyond your imagining. " Shen Mu gave a dry laugh. "Did my two senior brothers invite me here merely to boast of the grandeur and splendor of the Jade Capital City? " Young Master Lingxiao shook his head.
"Of course not.