Chapter 1859 — We Shall Meet Again
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
" His gaze was deep and quiet. "I also did not kill Old Man Wuya, nor did I kill Second Sister Wuji. If the entire universe should grow without limit, perhaps they have means to halt the trend toward void. " Taishang looked at him, then said abruptly, "You mean to return? " Shen Mu nodded, smiling.
"I mean to return, to see our Teacher, to become Old Seven of Miluo Palace, to seek my daughter. I will still do a great many things in the past, even far more than I did in the Seventeenth Epoch. I will seek the possibility of averting the future Great Silence. " Eldest Young Master Taishang's expression turned strange. "You will indeed do a great many things when you return to the past. The things you do are incomprehensible. I, at the very least, have never once understood them.
Your reputation will not be good. " "I am used to it!
" Shen Mu clambered shakily to his feet, stretched himself, and laughed. "Seventh Young Master Chaos, if a man could be seen through at a glance, would he still deserve the title of Chaos?
" Eldest Young Master Taishang rose to his feet and said, "You say I tried to imitate our Teacher, and could never imitate him well, that I tried to enter annihilation and transform into the Dao and die as he did, and made a mess of even that. I think it is likely that I was never as despairing of the future as our Teacher.
I did not know whence that hope came; now I know.
That sliver of hope must have come from you. " His gaze was deep and quiet. "After you return to the past, I will come to the Seventeenth Epoch to transform into the Dao, to return to the universe the spiritual energy and spiritual power it was robbed of. But I will not die; I will be reborn, and I will wait for you in the Seventeenth Epoch.
" Shen Mu nodded. Eldest Young Master Taishang looked back at the Obelisk Forest and said, "Taiyi and the Heaven Openers, I will send them back before I transform into the Dao. When you return to the Sixteenth Epoch, you will encounter them.
" Shen Mu was startled a moment, then his face broke into a smile.
"Then, Senior Brother, we meet again in the future! " Eldest Young Master Taishang smiled faintly.
"We meet again in the past. "