Chapter 759 — Ten Thousand Ages of Time Return to Dust
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Nor are the rumors of these past days conjured out of air—the Heavenly Emperor, and the Empress and her sister, all had a hand in it. The conflict between the demigods and our acquired races has begun to raise its head. As leaders of the acquired beings, we cannot fail to make ready in advance.
" Heavenly Venerable Yun, at his side, said, "Heavenly Venerable Mu has spread the divine path by which Heavenly Venerable Yu attained godhood; the rise of the acquired races is now inevitable.
The two of us have talked it over, and we see only perils before us, terrors beyond counting on every side.
So we can no longer remain a heap of loose sand—we must organize an alliance, and plan a future for the human race and for the rest of the acquired beings! " Something stirred in Heavenly Venerable Ling's heart: "The Heavenly Alliance? " The two were startled and said hurriedly, "Heavenly Venerable Ling, you have had the same thought? You too mean to found an alliance?
Did you choose the name 'Heavenly Alliance'?
" Heavenly Venerable Ling shook her head. "It was Heavenly Venerable Mu who chose it, and Heavenly Venerable Shen is in the Heavenly Alliance as well. This time I mean to seek out Heavenly Venerable You and Heavenly Venerable Huo, and draw him in too. " Heavenly Venerable Yun said hastily, "Heavenly Venerable You is one thing, but Heavenly Venerable Huo has a violent temper and no gate on his mouth, and he keeps close company with Heavenly Venerable Hao. He is unfit for the Heavenly Alliance.
" "Where are Heavenly Venerable Shen and Heavenly Venerable Mu? " asked Heavenly Venerable Yue. Heavenly Venerable Ling smiled, and said unhurriedly, "They are waiting for us in the future. When that day comes, we shall meet them, and be reunited.
Let us go and find Heavenly Venerable You.
" The three walked on toward the Yaochi Lodge, and Heavenly Venerable Yun mused, "We must set down a constitution. The Heavenly Alliance must consider the safety of the acquired races; only those of peerless talent may be admitted, and their character must be examined as well, lest disaster rise from within.
" "The constitution must be well made," said Heavenly Venerable Yue. "We must not be too kind to the wicked, nor too harsh to the good; to the good, kinder still, and to the wicked, harsher.
Only thus can the Heavenly Alliance endure. " Heavenly Venerable Ling said, "What the Heavenly Alliance takes as its aim must also be settled.
But first let us find Heavenly Venerable You.
This age is one of flourishing prosperity, yet disorder has already shown itself—we must prepare early. " .
. . The darkness fell, and to Kai Huang's eyes it showed a sight unlike what Heavenly Venerable Ling and the Southern Emperor Zhu Que'er beheld.
What he saw was himself still standing where he stood; it was matter that changed. Heavenly Venerable Ling and the Southern Emperor Zhu Que'er dispersed like black sand blown away on the wind, and that vast and magnificent Heavenly Court scattered like a sand painting.
The recession of matter was not the advance of time. "Heavenly Venerable Ling was right.
" Sunlight poured down; all darkness vanished; and the place he stood in was no longer the Heavenly Court of old but a desolate desert, with the Yongjiang rushing unceasing in the distance.
This was the Desolate Ruins, relic of the Shanghuang era, and the Ruins were full of strange and unfathomable happenings; many who had survived from the Shanghuang era lived within the Ruins, and others lived in the outer world, clinging to life through great hardship.
Kai Huang stared at the scene in a daze, steadied himself, and strode off toward the Yongjiang, thinking, "Heavenly Venerable Mu, we shall meet again, shall we not? Yes—and I too must forge a sword like that one.
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" In the distance many divine-arts practitioners were searching along the Yongjiang, and someone caught sight of Kai Huang far off and cried out in delight, "Shen Ye is there! " The crowd hurried to meet him.