Chapter 1161 — The Ancestral Court Is Flung Open
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 3
"For the sake of their own private ambitions, they would drag every human life down with them. I have asked the people of the lands under my rule — they all live very well, and not one of them wishes to rebel! Those who walk different paths cannot take counsel together. Even if they were once my dearest friends, I will never show them mercy and let them trample my human race! " Celestial Master Xu glanced at him. "So that is why you were also the most eager for this expedition to Taixu — the first to come here to kill Celestial Master Shen and destroy the Land of No Sorrow.
" Flames blazed behind Celestial Master Huo's head, turning into a wheel of light. "He fishes for fame and buys praise. I cannot let him drag my human race into a place of eternal doom! His alliance with the ancient gods is a road of no return; he will only become a dog kept by the ancient gods! If he succeeds, the human race will be dogs for the ancient gods just as he is, and can never have the life they have now!
I warned him, but he would not be swayed. Since that is so, then let me put an end to his sinful life, lest he commit yet greater wrongs! " Celestial Master Xu could not help saying, "And what of Celestial Master Mu? " Celestial Master Huo was puzzled. "When Celestial Master Mu went up to the Heavenly Court, in the Jade Pool three Celestial Masters secretly protected him.
You were among them, were you not? " Celestial Master Xu sneered.
"You are one thing to a man's face and another behind his back. " Celestial Master Huo shook his head. "Then you are wrong. Of the ten Celestial Masters, the one who can least tolerate him is me. I cannot bear the smallest grain of sand in my eye! " He clasped his hands behind his back. "Celestial Master Mu is a greater scourge than Shen Ye; his words are far more seductive.
If he were to rise, the human race would suffer not merely eternal doom!
For the human race's future, I would of course be the first to kill him.
Moreover, Hao and I are the closest of friends — how could I betray Hao to save him? Among the three Celestial Masters who saved him that day, I was not one.
" He shook his head.
"If the human race is to survive, these traitors and rebels must be rooted out, not one left alive! Whenever I see people like Jingping bewitched by such rebels and rising in revolt alongside them, my heart twists with agony.
Is it not good to be alive? A pity that back in the land of Taixu I once had a chance to kill him, and in a moment of foolishness — because he had saved me, freeing me two hundred years early from the realm of supreme divine consciousness — I did not strike him down. " He said indifferently, "But in the Southern Pole Heaven he too played the fool, and cut the hem of his robe to sever our friendship. Next time I kill him, I shall have no such scruples. " "You are loyal enough," Celestial Master Xu said with a smile, "only far too harsh upon your own people.
" Suddenly her expression changed. She raised a hand and halted the great army of the Heavenly Court, then sneered, "Youdu has actually been built here! Outrageous — a mere child dares to play Earth Earl here! What does that make me? Come out! "