Chapter 1868 — The One Who Shepherds the Gods
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 5 of 7
Again a strange tremor came from the universe. Young Master Taishang and Taiyi said nothing. Only Lan Yutian spoke: "Young Master Wuji, that old rival, has evaporated in the void. Of all the holy lands in this world, only Jade Capital and Jingping remain."
Jingping lived within the Ancestral Court's Primordial Cauldron. Jade Capital was the supreme treasure forged by the master of Miro Palace and the various Young Masters. These two great holy lands became the universe's last refuges, still able to sustain life and let it multiply.
Yet even the Dao Achievers of these two holy lands felt their own great Daos gradually voidifying.
Sooner or later, their Daos too would crumble piece by piece. They too would become mortals, and like other mortals, become void.
After Young Master Wuji evaporated, the Ancestral Court's Primordial Cauldron and Jade Capital began to split and expand, filling all with boundless despair.
They looked out and saw only darkness in the universe.
The sky had gone dark.
"Has the Chaotic Space still not bloomed?" Xu Shenghua, white-haired, had begun to age as well.
The void Filth Field Shen Mu had left behind had vanished completely. Of the present universe, besides Jade Capital and the Primordial Cauldron, only the Chaotic Space remained.
Countless years after Young Master Wuji's death, Ling Tianzun and Yue Tianzun returned.
"Matter and Energy Unchanged cannot alter the void. My cultivation is voidifying as well."
Ling Tianzun said: "I can use divine ability to sustain Jade Capital and the Primordial Cauldron, but how long I can hold out, I cannot say."
Ling Tianzun's arrival slowed the void's evolution for a long while, yet it was all in vain.
After six hundred billion years, her divine ability failed. The Primordial Cauldron and Jade Capital began to decompose. The great Dao gradually turned to void.
And the Chaotic Space still had not bloomed.
After Ling Tianzun's divine ability failed, Matter and Energy Unchanged became utterly useless. The divine ability had lost all its power.
Just then, Chaos qi surged in the void. The mighty Long River of Chaos came rolling in, injecting one final measure of energy into the universe.
Shen Lingyun, bearing Zhanji, trod the Long River of Chaos to the side of the shattered Primordial Cauldron and said: "My father told me—sacrificing the past sixteen universes can delay the Great Silence."
Young Master Taishang sighed. The Daughter of Chaos had come after all.
He understood another thing now: why Chaos had insisted that the pregnant Ling Yuxiu cross the sixteen Long Rivers of Chaos. Shen Lingyun had been born within the Calamity of Destruction, drawing upon the power of sixteen Calamities of Destruction.
Her one year was one year. She had grown within the Calamities of Destruction. Only she could draw the sixteen Long Rivers of Chaos to inject one final measure of energy into the Seventeenth Epoch.
Yet the sixteen cosmic epochs would likely be destroyed along with it.
He understood another thing too: why the master of Miro Palace had insisted they return to their own universes, that they not attempt to go to the Seventeenth Epoch.
It was because the master of Miro Palace had likely seen this future as well!
If they returned to their own universes, then the Silence would be delayed somewhat.
Only...
Taishang suddenly shuddered: "Only—if Teacher saw this scene, does it not mean the future never changed? All the efforts of the Seventeenth Epoch, all of Chaos's efforts—Teacher saw them all? The future never changed!"
He despaired, returned to Jade Capital, and entered extinction.
At last, like the master of Miro Palace, his Dao heart died. Only no one mocked him anymore for imitating his teacher.
Taishang's funeral was simple. Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua attended. Taiyi wept there until heaven and earth went dark. His rival of two lifetimes had still died in despair.