Chapter 1146 — Every Wish Is Answered
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 3
One was the Shanghuang Sword God, who, holding to the creed that a single human life outweighs the heavens, had alone taken up the burden of guarding the remnants of Shanghuang, seeking a way to live on in the darkness; and it was likewise because of what had befallen her on the night of the Shanghuang Tribulation that a single meeting had ruined her life, and she had waited bitterly for Shen Mu for forty thousand years.
And the other was his childhood sweetheart, kept from him by the simple fact that one had become emperor and the other the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping.
These three women had all come for the weakness in his dao-heart; they were born of the tenderness within his breast! Langwan was no longer heartless; Bai Qu'er could forsake everything; Ling Yuxiu had returned to the girl she once was.
It was as though, if only he would stay, every wish of his would come true, and he could be with these three women forever.
"All of it false, all illusion.
. .
" Shen Mu's divine consciousness was in chaos, yet Ling Yuxiu's palm had already come to rest lightly upon it, sending a shudder through it.
The Mu Heavenly Venerable, who had dominated Longhan and stirred up storms in the Heavenly Court, was no omnipotent deity untouched by emotion; from first to last he was a man, a man with tenderness in his heart. His divine consciousness could not help taking on the form of his body, feeling the caress of his lover.
Ling Yuxiu's face became Bai Qu'er's, nestled against his breast; Bai Qu'er raised her head, and her face became the God King Langwan again, Langwan in her maiden years, tenderness like water.
"You may stay.
You need not carry everything on your shoulders.
Let us spend a lifetime together.
" Her breath was sweet as orchids.
Bang.
Shen Mu's divine consciousness burst apart and was annihilated.
He had destroyed his own divine consciousness of his own accord, lest he sink into the Ancient God Egg. The moment he opened his eyes was the very moment the Third Pillar Ancient God died.
"Remarkable!
" Shen Mu's gaze shifted from the Ancient God Egg in the vault of heaven, and he said silently in his heart: "This ancient god has not even been born, and yet it can turn into anything with form and substance; it can even become any person at all! "