Chapter 1691 — Lord of the Temple

Offending the Seventh Young Master! Offend him, and you have poked a hornet's nest—a lifetime of bad luck! After he returns to the past, he will certainly torment the descenders in every way.

I, at least, am honest and chose to descend to your place.

However, I will not confront the Seventh Young Master head-on.

You understand the reason.

" Emperor Hao was furious inwardly: "Not confront the Shepherd Tianzun head-on? Have I not invited a lofty lord to come and lord it over me? " Though angry in his heart, he said with utmost respect: "The Hall Master worries that after the Seventh Young Master returns to the past, he will make things difficult for the Hall Master.

After all, the Hall Master and the Seventh Young Master lived together in the Miluo Palace for several cosmic epochs. " The Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall laughed heartily: "You are an amusing fellow. I am beginning to like you! The Seventh Young Master does not abide by the rules and is restless besides. In the Miluo Palace, apart from the First Young Master, who has not suffered at his hands? It is only because he is the Seventh Young Master and the Master dotes on him that we do not take him to task. He relies on the Master's indulgence to do as he pleases—who is afraid of him?

" Emperor Hao felt much more at ease hearing this: "Though this Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall is a crude man, his assessment of the Shepherd Tianzun is quite accurate. At least we have something in common; getting along in the future should not be difficult.

" Venerable Xu transported the four great heavens over and began the sacrifice, though the sacrifice of these four heavens would take some years. In the short term, the Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall's Dao Tree could not descend. Emperor Hao took his leave: "Rest easy, Dao Brother.

If four heavens are not enough, I will have my dear Minister Xu sacrifice a few more. " With that, he left the Nether Capital. "Dao Brother Lingguan, in your previous life, why did you only cultivate a Dao Flower and not a Dao Fruit? " Venerable Xu asked. The Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall glanced at her, and after a moment said: "Time was short.

Spiritual power was insufficient. " Venerable Xu was puzzled by his meaning. The Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall said: "In the Sixteenth Epoch, there were too many stowaways, causing spiritual power to be displaced into the calamity of destruction of the Fifteenth Epoch.

The Sixteenth Epoch's universe was very small in scale, and the Ultimate Void could not be expanded. The entire Ultimate Void was filled with Daluo Heavens everywhere.

" Venerable Xu's eyes widened, unable to imagine such a state. "In the Sixteenth Epoch, there was only one Ancestral Court Continent, along with the various heavens of those who had attained the Dao.

There was nothing else.

" The Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall said: "Throughout the entire Sixteenth Epoch, the universe was pitifully small, and spiritual power was far from abundant—terribly congested.

Not just me; others too could not form Dao Fruits in such a place.

I managed to cultivate a Dao Flower, which was considered remarkable. Some senior brothers could not even cultivate a Dao Flower. The Sixteenth Epoch universe lasted only six hundred million years before it collapsed with a thunderous roar into the great calamity of destruction.

" He laughed with a chuckle: "In those six hundred million years, only one native attained the Dao.

Do you know how he did it? " Venerable Xu shook her head.

"He attained the Dao through slaughter! " The Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall said: "That fellow—heh heh—was truly a ruthless character, and a talent of unmatched brilliance beyond imagination! He knew the universe would be destroyed, that spiritual power was insufficient, that he could not attain the Dao and would surely die—so he fell into the Dao of Slaughter. He slaughtered the heavens of many Dao-attainers one after another, and ambushed and killed a Dao-attainer. Finally, before the universe's destruction, he attained the Dao, entered the Ultimate Void, imprinted the Dao of Slaughter, and achieved a Daluo Heaven!

" He clicked his tongue in admiration: "His Dao Tree and Dao Fruits had just been formed when the Ultimate Void was crushed by him.

The Ultimate Void could not bear so many Daluo Heavens to begin with.

His attainment of the Dao crushed the Ultimate Void and brought about the destruction of the Sixteenth Epoch.

" Venerable Xu was stunned: "Did no one stop him? " The Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall shook his head: "Someone had intended to stop him, but was held back by the Master. The Master said we owe the living beings of this universe a debt and should not interfere, so no one stopped him. " He shook his head, clearly somewhat disapproving of the Miluo Palace Master's conduct. Venerable Xu felt a chill in her heart: "If all those who attained the Dao from the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court were to descend, how long could our universe hold out?

" "This ruthless character who attained the Dao through slaughter was named Lord Shang. Later he still aroused public wrath. Amid the catastrophe he still did not know to stop, hunting and killing other Dao-attainers undergoing tribulation, slaughtering countless people, hoping to advance further.

" The Lord of the Spirit Officer Hall said calmly: "The more he killed, the higher Lord Shang's cultivation became.

In the end the First Young Master could not hold back and suppressed him, sealing him together with some terrifying beings. Whether he is alive or dead now is unknown.

Heh heh, in the great calamity of birth and destruction, he most likely will not last to this epoch.

. .

" Though he said this, a worried look still crossed his face. Clearly, Lord Shang's strength was not so simple. In the abandoned lands of the Ultimate Void, that gateway drifted alone in this squalid place.

The world behind the gate was vast beyond measure, yet nothing in this void—no uncanny "treasure"—dared intrude here. On the contrary, these uncanny "treasures" avoided the world behind the gate as if it were the plague. Shen Mu sniffed, and suddenly caught the smell of blood and rust filling his nasal passages, making him feel as though he were holding a piece of salted fish and a rusted iron shard in his mouth. This smell made him very uncomfortable.