Chapter 1147 — Once, I Was Human

"I am only a human, an ordinary human. To shed the human tribe and become the Heaven Lord is to be human no longer. Heaven Lord, in truth you too could restrain the ancient gods, make them stop feasting on blood sacrifice, stop coveting their offerings. " The Heaven Lord sighed.

"I will try to restrain them. I will tell them to give you and your people the respect you are due.

But I will not force them — that would go against the Dao of Heaven.

" Shen Mu nodded.

He continued to rouse the Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Gate, sensing the power of the Earth Lord. The Earth Lord too sensed his divine art and lent him his strength. "Why has the Earth Lord not stopped me from borrowing your power to resurrect this one small mortal?

" Shen Mu asked, "I killed the ancient gods of the Nine Provinces and of the Three Pillars Heaven and scattered their souls to the winds. As the ancient gods' Great Master of Myriad Kalpas Without Extinction, I did not resurrect them, but instead resurrect a trivial mortal. Is the Earth Lord not angry?

Not suspicious?

" "Perhaps because I was once human.

" The Earth Lord spoke indifferently.

"Once, as Achou, I was of the human race — the child of an old mother, the husband of a wife.

They did not disdain me. From that time on, I felt that within the consciousness born of the Dao in me, there had come to be a different kind of feeling. " His voice was vast, his tone still seeming to hold not the slightest emotion. "I think I have been tainted by humanity, and am no longer a pure god born of the Dao.

That is why I can understand you.

But this little bit of humanity is also where I fall short of the Heaven Lord. " "I understand. " Shen Mu bowed, and continued to rouse his divine art, remaking the little girl's soul. In that moment, the Earth Lord felt a thread of his power, so slight as to be negligible, go missing; the Heaven Lord felt his own power change not at all.

And the little girl had already slowly come back to herself, and opened her eyes.