Chapter 321 — The Entanglement of Right and Wrong

"Naikui, even if you flee into the Wastes, what good will it do you?

" The youth, hands clasped behind his back, watched the other divine ability practitioners of the True Heaven Palace attack the woman shielding the little girl. His expression was calm as he said, "You have already lost. The True Heaven Palace now bears the surname Yu. Do not blame me for being merciless. There is a saying in the Central Plains: if you cut the grass without pulling out the roots, the spring wind will blow it back to life. The True Heaven Palace no longer belongs to your Xiong family.

" This place was the ruins of the Western Heaven Palace in the Wastes. The experts of the True Heaven Palace had to use their divine abilities with the utmost care here. What their True Heaven Palace cultivated was the principle that all things have spirits and all things have gods; everything has a spirit. Mountains have mountain spirits, stones have stone spirits, water has water spirits, and plants, trees, and wild beasts all have spirits; all could be transformed into their divine abilities. Their perception of nature was incomparably keen, yet in the ruins of the Western Heaven Palace in the Wastes they sensed danger. Everything here contained immense power, as if one ancient and unfathomable deity after another lay sleeping here!

Their spells and divine abilities could make all things of heaven and earth fight for them, but if they awakened the deities of this place, they feared it would bring tremendous disaster. The power in the ruins of the Western Heaven Palace was not a power they could control. Therefore they had to be cautious and avoid disturbing that slumbering, magnificent force as much as possible. Fortunately, they had all cultivated their own primordial arms.

These divine ability practitioners' primordial arms were also different from those of the practitioners of Jingping Kingdom. Most primordial arms took the forms of plants, trees, mountains, stones, flowing water, and white clouds. There were also strange beasts refined into primordial arms; once primordial qi activated them, the small strange beast's body would suddenly swell thousands upon thousands of times and devour living people.

It was very peculiar.

Even if they could not use their divine abilities, with only their primordial arms they could easily dispose of these few people. Of the two sika deer, one was dead and the other gravely wounded. The woman had to protect the child and could not move to evade their attacks; she could only stand and take the blows, extremely passive! The woman spat blood and fell to the ground, yet struggled to her feet again and continued to shield the little girl. "Traitor! " The man transformed from the stag flew up, suddenly revealed his original form, and became a giant stag that met the crowd's attacks. He said sternly, "The palace master treated you not poorly.

You took advantage of the palace master's death to rebel and stir up chaos. Where is your conscience? Why must you hunt us down and kill us all? " Bang, bang, bang - in a single instant countless attacks landed on him.

The giant stag was killed in midair, but before dying he exhausted all his strength to send his massive antlers flying toward the youth! The strength of these two deer was extremely high, not inferior to the Dragon Qilin, but unfortunately the other side had greater numbers, and in the end they could only swallow their hatred and perish.

More than ten divine ability practitioners immediately flew up and seized the branches of the antlers.

These ten-odd people landed on their feet, but they still could not withstand the force transmitted through the antlers and were forced back again and again. Mud and rocks flew beneath their feet as the antlers pushed them onward, still crashing toward the youth. The youth did not move in the slightest. He sneered, "The Xiong family has dominated the True Heaven Palace for so many years. It is time to yield the position of palace master.

To kill a man one must draw blood; to cut grass one must pull out the roots.

If your Xiong family is not utterly exterminated, we of the Yu family will still have to worry about your counterattack. " Before him, a strange beast the size of a cloth doll suddenly swelled in body. It beat its chest with both fists and let out a world-shaking roar, then grabbed the incoming antlers with both hands.

The antlers abruptly stopped. Thud.

The corpse of the giant stag in the air fell and lay motionless beside the doe. The youth laughed loudly and said, "Kill Naikui and the little princess, then go back and report! " The divine ability practitioners of the True Heaven Palace stepped forward. One primordial arm after another flew up. The woman showed an expression of unbearable sorrow, turned, and held the little girl in her arms.

She said softly, "Nannan, it will be quick. . . " "Mother, will we see Grandfather and Grandmother?

" The woman's heart trembled. "Yes. .

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" "And Father?

" the little girl asked, her eyes bright.

The woman shed tears. "You will see him. .

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" The little girl was calm and comforted the young woman, saying, "Mother, I am not afraid anymore.

Do not cry either.

I miss Grandfather and Grandmother.

Father looked so frightening when he died, covered in blood. He scared me into crying, but when I see him later, he should. . . he should smile.

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. " Whoosh - one primordial arm after another transformed. Spirit trees and strange beasts flew into the air and pounced toward them. Just as these primordial arms were about to fall upon them, a flash of light suddenly passed, and Shen Mu appeared before the mother and daughter. He spread both arms, and the brocade robe on his body flew off automatically, shooting forward.

The youth struck out with a palm, landing on the brocade robe. Shen Mu's arms rotated, and the brocade robe whirled with a whistle, growing larger and larger. In an instant it became a great robe more than ten zhang across. The primordial arms of the True Heaven Palace experts bombarded the brocade robe, but the robe caught them all, and together with those primordial arms it vanished! Then, some hundred zhang away from them, countless sword lights blazed.

Eight thousand swords moved at once, chopping the brocade robe and the primordial arms within it to pieces! The divine ability practitioners of the True Heaven Palace were startled and immediately felt they had lost their connection to their primordial arms. Among them were not a few experts at the Heaven-Man realm.

The primordial arms of Heaven-Man realm experts were extremely powerful, yet even those were cut apart. The crowd was about to attack when the youth hurriedly raised his hand to stop them. He probed, "Fellow Daoist, this is a family matter of our True Heaven Palace. " Now the brocade robe, along with the primordial arms of these True Heaven Palace experts, had been destroyed by his own Sword Treads Mountains and Rivers.

How could his heart not ache as if cut by a knife? "I knew long ago that doing good deeds brings no good.

I have lost greatly. .

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" Shen Mu squeezed a smile onto his face and said with a smile, "What is this young brother called?

" "Yu Bochuan of the Yu family of the True Heaven Palace.

" The youth's face was full of smiles, making one feel as if bathed in a spring breeze. He said, "Fellow Daoist, you probably saw them, a widow and orphan, and felt pity, so you wished to save them. But you do not know that this mother and daughter have done much evil and killed countless people in ordinary times. Our Western Earth True Heaven Palace, in the interest of great righteousness, ordered me to lead a group here to exterminate them. " Shen Mu said solemnly, "So that is how it is. I was impetuous.

Please forgive me, Brother Yu. " The youth Yu Bochuan said with a smile, "The ignorant are not to blame.