Chapter 1864 — The Youth, Tiandu, and Tai Yi
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Tiandu wept bitterly in the Chaos.
The Master of Miluo Palace came with Tai Shang to console him, with the air of fellow sufferers commiserating together. At that moment they saw Shen Mu and his daughter bustling back and forth in the Calamity of Destruction, and that girl called Shen Lingyun busy drawing on the power of the calamity. Tiandu was furious and made to go up and argue it out, but Miluo stopped him, saying, "He comes from the future; there are some things that cannot be said.
" "To know and not speak, what use is returning?
" Tiandu still could not calm his anger. Miluo pursed his lips, and Tiandu saw the abandoned ground and the chaotic space within the Calamity of Destruction; the father and daughter were moving certain things born of the Chaos into those two places. "You cannot beat him," said Miluo. "Even I cannot see through his abilities. " Tiandu fell silent.
"Chaos, how is the future?
" the Master of Miluo Palace asked Shen Mu again. "The future is very good.
" Tiandu sneered.
Yet in the Fourth Epoch, Shen Mu came running over again, and Tiandu neither reproached him nor had the leisure to pay him heed. Tiandu had a great undertaking: he meant to beat the Master of Miluo Palace to it and take the Innate Five Great Primes of the Fourth Epoch under his command.
He would prove that his ideals were better than his Master's, that his magnanimity and breadth of mind were greater than his Master's too. Tiandu City grew strong; he had many followers, and the divine powers and Dao arts of Tiandu City gradually formed a system of their own, growing ever more different from those of Miluo Palace.
Tai Shang was somewhat displeased, for Tiandu City proclaimed abroad that Miluo Palace was not the orthodoxy, that Tiandu City alone was orthodox.
He went to argue and was beaten by the crowd of Tiandu City, and returned to complain to the Master of Miluo Palace. The Master of Miluo Palace said, "He and I both strive to ferry the world across; what difference does it make who is orthodox?
" Some years later, Tai Shang said to Miluo, "Old Seven is making trouble again!
The people's resentment is immense; many have come to complain, saying he has done no end of evil!
" The Master of Miluo Palace examined Shen Mu's deeds and laughed: "They are all trivial matters, harmless to the greater scheme.
Tai Shang, broaden your heart.
" Some years afterward, the Old Man of No Bounds came to see the Master of Miluo Palace, saying that Tiandu did evil and was a blasphemer of the Dao: "Fellow Daoist, they mean to ruin your Dao lineage!
" The Master of Miluo Palace laughed: "The saying that all Dao arts under heaven come from Miluo may be somewhat biased.
Fellow Daoist, perhaps they are the orthodox ones. " The Old Man of No Bounds had no choice but to let it be. When the Calamity of Destruction of the Fourth Epoch arrived, the people of Tiandu City said to Tiandu, "That father and daughter have run off!
" Tiandu said, "Pay them no mind.
We face the catastrophe head-on! " "Father, what are we doing here?
" Shen Lingyun asked in confusion, flustered, when she saw Shen Mu bring her to the place where the catastrophe erupted.
"Waiting for a person! " Shen Mu stared fixedly at the place where the Calamity of Destruction erupted, where the qi of Chaos swirled and surged, linking into a long river; soon the Calamity of Destruction would spread through the entire universe, sweeping over all the heavens. Suddenly a man fell from the long river of Chaos into the river.
It was a giant, his body vast, an enormous axe in hand. Just as he was about to fall out of the Calamity of Destruction into the Fourth Epoch, he mustered his magic power and strove to leap free of the calamity!
At that very moment, Shen Mu reached out and grabbed. His palm fell into the calamity and transformed into countless white bones that seized the giant in a death grip and dragged him into the calamity.