Chapter 1864 — The Youth, Tiandu, and Tai Yi
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
Later, Tai Shang did indeed go to Guixu to have a look, and carelessly slipped and fell into the great abyss of Guixu of the Second Epoch, nearly dying within. The Master of Miluo Palace rushed over upon hearing the news and pulled him up, only to find the honest Tai Shang holding one in each arm, a pair of identical girls, the clever and quick-witted Guixu goddesses.
"Who told you to go down there? " the Master of Miluo Palace rebuked him.
"How perilous it is in there!
With your present strength, descending would cost you your little life!
" Tai Shang set the Guixu goddesses down, lowered his head in admission of fault, and said, "It was Seventh Brother who told me to come and look. Seventh Brother and his daughter were here just a moment ago.
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" He looked around, but Shen Mu and his daughter were long since gone from sight. "Could I have been tricked? " Tai Shang scratched his head.
The Master of Miluo Palace's expression darkened, and he said with earnest gravity, "Though this Seventh Brother of yours is genuine, I perceive a certain wickedness in him; he does not seem like a good man.
You may yet meet him again in days to come, and you must keep your distance from him. " Tai Shang, having escaped death, nodded again and again in assent. The Master of Miluo Palace turned to the pair of Guixu goddesses and at once perceived their extraordinary nature. He said, "You two are in truth one person: one mind in two bodies, one Dao with two functions.
Never take yourselves for two people.
Take yourselves for two, and disorder is certain to arise.
From now on, you shall cultivate under me.
" The two girls, their hearts suddenly enlightened, bowed low and said, "Pray, Master, bestow names upon us.
" "One lives, one perishes; the Dao and its law are boundless. You shall be called Wuji," said the Master of Miluo Palace. "You must beware of your Seventh Brother, Chaos, and not let him swindle you.
" The two girls exchanged a smile: "Master, we are clever and quick-witted. Who could possibly swindle us? " The Master of Miluo Palace shook his head, somewhat uneasy, and at the same time felt a peculiar strangeness in his heart: "How could the future me have taken such a disciple?
He acts with reckless abandon; he must be given some guidance. " He went to seek out Shen Mu, who was sleeping soundly in the starry sky of the Second Epoch, dream after dream emanating from the Chaos, the Chaos transforming into miniature universes one after another, while Chaos's daughter flitted through those universes, playing joyfully. The Master of Miluo Palace stood before this expanse of dreams, when suddenly a Dao Achiever Shen Mu poked his head out from one of the universes.
The Master of Miluo Palace smiled and nodded in greeting, only to see that this Dao Achiever Shen Mu was speaking in a language no one could understand, crying out to him with an anxious face. The Master of Miluo Palace could not understand, when all at once he saw that miniature universe perish, the Calamity of Destruction erupting, every Shen Mu in that entire universe turned to ash of tribulation, leaving only a stretch of Chaos.
And that Dao Achiever Shen Mu likewise became ash of tribulation, yet fragments of Daluo Heaven and a withered Dao Tree remained; then the Calamity of Creation erupted, and the fragments of Daluo Heaven and the withered Dao Tree were annihilated with it, existing no more. The Master of Miluo Palace fell into thought, turned back the way he had come, and from then on Miluo Palace had this rule: none were permitted to disturb the sleep of Seventh Young Master Chaos. He took precautions, and in the stage when the Second Epoch was still growing, he began preparing to contend with the Calamity of Destruction.