Chapter 1865 — The Youth, Lingxiao, and Zixiao
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"A lanky one-eyed freak? " (The lanky freak has one eye, not three; the earlier text was in error and has been corrected.
) Tai Yi pondered a moment, then ventured, "The lanky freak you speak of, the one clinging to the roots of the World Tree, waiting to enter the Seventeenth Epoch? The one with a single eye in the center of his brow, a very large eye, who dwells upon the twelfth ring of the World Tree? " Shen Mu nodded. "I do not know him.
He was a divine being of the Twelfth Epoch; it is now the Fourth Epoch, and the Twelfth is still far off.
" Tai Yi said, "When the Twelfth Epoch comes, I will find him for you. What happened after I left the Great Black Mountain?
" Shen Mu said mildly, "Only trifles. " Tai Yi looked at the white hair at his temples and said abruptly, "How many years did you endure before you returned here?
You have suffered much, have you not?
" Shen Mu stroked Shen Lingyun's little head gently, his gaze soft, utterly calm: "Not long. Merely three and a half billion years.
And my daughter and I, returning to the past, have already lived through more than two hundred billion years. " "That is why, when I saw you, I knew you were the Seventh Young Master, Chaos, and not Mu the Heavenly Venerable. Mu the Heavenly Venerable bears no such weight of years as you.
" Tai Yi gazed far off at the Divine City of Tiandu amid the Calamity of Destruction, where his past-life self was contending with a host of fellow Daoists against that calamity. He already knew the outcome of that struggle, knew that many Daoists would die within it, and that those who did not often met their end in the Calamity of Creation.
It was precisely this outcome that had resolved him to create a perfect world! And that would come to pass in the Seventh Epoch! Tiandu's Opening of Heaven!
That had been a feat to set the heart surging.
Apart from Shen Mu, who as one of the Heaven-Openers took no part in it and merely lingered at the margins to make his face familiar, everyone else had joined in that Opening of Heaven!
Afterward, he would die at the hands of the Master of Miluo Palace, be saved by Ling, and be sent in the form of a primal spirit to the future Sixteenth Epoch.
"Young Master Chaos, you say this is the Master of Miluo Palace's compensation to me? That he lets me begin again from the Fourth Epoch? " Tai Yi was somewhat at a loss.
He looked toward Miluo Palace amid the Calamity of Destruction and shook his head. "He would not be so kind-hearted.
" He received no answer from Shen Mu; turning his head, he found that Shen Mu and the little girl had vanished without a trace.
The Fifth Epoch arrived.
Tai Yi watched Tiandu go in search of the Five Tai of that epoch, and strangely enough, visitors from the future had pursued him into this epoch as well and begun hunting Tai Yi down.
Those were the powers of Miluo Palace from the future Sixteenth Epoch, crossing one long River of Chaos after another to reach the Fifth Epoch, returning into the bodies they each possessed in this age, frantically searching for his whereabouts.
Foremost among them was Young Master Taishang, who led hall-master-level existences of Miluo Palace in hunting him everywhere. He had no choice but to hide wherever he could, changing his identity at every turn.
In the Fifth Epoch, Miluo Palace and Tiandu City had become two great holy lands, each on a grand scale. Miluo Palace already showed the rudiments of its later form; Taishang had already cultivated the Taishang Hall and was revered by many Dao Achievers as a Young Master, for he was the First Young Master of Miluo Palace.
As for Wuji, though she had joined Miluo Palace in the same period as Taishang, she had not become a Young Master.
On the contrary, she kept a low profile within Miluo Palace, never able to attain the Dao, her strength inferior even to that of other Dao Achievers.