Chapter 1134 — The Human Emperor and the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping
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Though her cultivation was exceedingly high, she had achieved nothing in the divine arts of fire; her arts excelled in the Way of Space, and she was well versed in the numerology of the Daoist sect and the Buddhist dharma. In those years, to evade death, in one lifetime she had gone to the Daoist sect and taken refuge under the Dao Ancestor as a Daoist nun, and in another lifetime she had taken refuge under the Great Brahma Heavenly King Buddha as a Bodhisattva.
Though she was not skilled in the arts of fire, the Vermilion Bird sacred fire was quite intimate with her, which stirred her curiosity. The Vermilion Bird plume feather had been given to her by Venerable Yue, who said it had to do with her origins; yet Bai Yuqiong could already recall the memories of one hundred and ninety-seven lifetimes, and in the memories of the ninety-nine lifetimes before that, Venerable Yue had each time handed her the Vermilion Bird plume feather, speaking the same words.
Her memory could even be traced back to remote antiquity, and Bai Yuqiong no longer wished to trace it further. Still, she clung to a thread of curiosity.
Just as she hesitated over whether to enter the spirit-energy transfer bridge, the other her in the Qionghua Heavenly Palace had already ordered the great army of the Westfall Sect to set out for Taixu. In the Westfall Sect's main camp, ranks of gods and demons clustered around the West Emperor's divine artifact—a divine artifact forged in the likeness of the White Tiger, the West Emperor, whose fleshly body was vast and possessed boundless fighting power! Amid the countless gods and demons, a middle-aged monk and a middle-aged Daoist were quite conspicuous, passing by the spirit-energy transfer bridge. Bai Yuqiong called the two of them to a halt and said, "Daoist Baiyu, Monk Lingyue, come here.
There is a matter on which I would seek the counsel of you two fellow Daoists.
" The Daoist Baiyu and the monk Lingyue stepped forward and saluted.
"What business does the Heavenly Master have? " These two were disciples of the Daoist and Buddhist sects who had come to throw in their lot with Bai Yuqiong.
Though she saw that their station was low, their wisdom and courage were exceptional, and they daily devised strategies for her; both were rare talents, and so she thought highly of them. Bai Yuqiong's wisdom had been tempered by a hundred lifetimes of narrow escapes from death, while these two possessed great wisdom by nature; thus when Bai Yuqiong met with difficulties she often sought their counsel.
This mission of escorting the divine artifact to Taixu had likewise been entrusted to them. Bai Yuqiong laid out her worries, and Daoist Baiyu and Monk Lingyue exchanged a glance.
Monk Lingyue smiled and said, "Is the Heavenly Master afraid that in drawing too close to Venerable Mu she will be seized upon by the other Venerables? Or is she afraid that Venerable Mu means to harm her, to avenge Emperor Yunluo?
" Bai Yuqiong said, "Both.
" Monk Lingyue laughed. "If Venerable Mu wished to harm the Heavenly Master, why not harm her back in the Longhan years? He need only have refrained from saving you, and the Heavenly Master would have died at Yin Tianzi's hands, never to be reborn through all eternity.
Why go to such trouble? " Bai Yuqiong understood his meaning at once, and her heart settled.
She smiled and said, "I will go and find him.
The matter of conveying the divine artifact to Taixu I leave to you two fellow Daoists. In intelligence and ability you are no less than I; you must support one another on the road and be doubly cautious. That rebel Kaihuang, Shen Ye, has no end of capable men and extraordinary talents beneath him, and he too has four Heavenly Masters. " She paused, then said, "The Fisherman Heavenly Master and the Martial Arts Heavenly Master are not worth worrying about; it is the Woodcutter Heavenly Master and the Scholar Heavenly Master against whom you must be doubly on guard.