Free Web NovelChapter 1114: Chapter 599: The War Alliance’s Foundations
The bells that were supposed to sway according to the trajectories of the All Heaven Stars were now eerily swinging in perfect unison, like strings on a zither plucked by an invisible hand.
Zi Ling seemed to sense something; the bronze sword tucked in her hair suddenly slid three inches out of its sheath.
The seven star acupoints on the Bronze Sword lit up at the same time, laying down the Beidou Sword Formation in the Void.
Only then did Jiang Shu discover that the Jade Pendant at her waist concealed a space-time coordinate, actually producing a subtle resonance with the Time Sand of the Piaomiao Star Alliance.
This Zi Ling’s comprehension on the Great Dao was actually in no way inferior to his!
One could only say, worthy of the War Alliance indeed?
A figure who, in any external force, could have been hailed as a Supreme Wind Cloud Pride, and might very well have been a powerhouse of some great outer faction, turned out to be merely a Maid.
Although this Maid was the personal Maid of the publicly acknowledged number one figure in the War Alliance, it was still enough to shock people.
"Young master, please have some tea."
As Zi Ling’s fair hand poured the tea, Jiang Shu noticed near-transparent threads coiling around her wrist.
They carried faint fluctuations of Space Law; if she could take another step forward, she would clearly be able to step into the Venerable Realm as well.
The tea leaves rising and sinking in the tea soup vaguely formed the shape of a Star Map, exuding Dao Rhyme.
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The tea was exquisite, the person a beauty; it should have been a highly sensual, fragrant scene.
Yet Jiang Shu’s thoughts were fixed on that shadow he had just seen.
He wanted to ask, but a moment ago this Zi Ling had clearly seen that shadow as well, and yet she pretended not to; Jiang Shu would not press her. After all, within the War Alliance, there naturally would not be too many unexpected incidents.
He closed his eyes slightly. Strands of the Law Path faintly appeared on his body as he savored this Dao Tea that could be called a treasure.
That night, Jiang Shu took his leave of the Wind Cloud Pride.
He returned to his own exclusive closed-door Cultivation Dao Field to Cultivate.
Within the Dao Field, a mural of the War God Atlas recording the illustrious achievements of the War Alliance ancestors suddenly seeped with dark red blood.
The face of the halberd-wielding War God in the painting actually looked seventy percent similar to the Mechanical Mother he had seen in the Deep Space Sea, dreamlike and illusory; with a blink, it reverted to its original appearance.
Jiang Shu frowned. Before he could reach out to touch the mural, he felt a piercing warning coming from the Heart of Space within his Dantian.
One must know, for him at this moment, even if a Venerable descended, it might not trigger such a great sense of crisis.
"Hoo!"
A howling sound rang out as rifts in space formed before Jiang Shu, composing a Space Array.
Jiang Shu gripped the Desolate Star Halberd, the Chaos Thunder Pool hovering above his head, more than a dozen Law phantoms behind him, fully on guard.
It was not that he was overly cautious; it was simply that this scene was too strange, forcing him to raise his Spirit to the utmost.
Outside the door, Zi Ling’s voice sounded at the same time.
"Young master, has something happened?"
She had been keeping watch not far away. Sensing the shocking Dao Rhyme fluctuations erupting from the palace where Jiang Shu resided, she immediately inquired. freewёbnoνel.com
Were it not for knowing Jiang Shu’s abilities, and moreover that Jiang Shu was an honored guest whose secrets could not be probed too much,
she would already have stepped into the Dao Field.
That fluctuation just now had been extremely eerie.
Even she had felt a faint palpitation.
Listening to Zi Ling’s voice outside the door, Jiang Shu shook his head and let out a breath.
"It’s nothing, merely that my Cultivation has made slight progress."
There was something strange within the War Alliance, which made Jiang Shu unwilling to tell Zi Ling what had just transpired.
Seeing that Jiang Shu was unharmed, Zi Ling did not ask further. She bowed and left, leaving only Jiang Shu sitting cross-legged outside the palace, staring fixedly at the mural.
Why would the visage of the Mechanical Mother appear here?
One must know, the Human Clan had always believed in man triumphing over heaven, a concept completely different from the Mechanical Clan’s idea of mechanical ascension. Yet, for many reasons, the two clans had maintained a surface calm. Thus, the image of the Mechanical Mother should absolutely not appear within the War Alliance.
This made Jiang Shu recall how, upon the Bronze Ancient Road, some unknown existence had siphoned away his battle memories, among which was the battle scene between himself and the Mechanical Mother.
But how could that appear here?
It was truly unfathomable.
This War Alliance did not seem as tranquil as what he had seen; undercurrents surged within, making one’s heart uneasy.
Facing the mural, Jiang Shu sat cross-legged on the ground. Only after confirming that it showed no further movement did he begin Cultivation.
The next morning at dawn, an ancient horn suddenly resounded throughout the entire War Alliance.
Jiang Shu walked out of the Dao Field and saw nine crimson stars forming a Battle Formation in the sky, each star’s surface bearing a figure with a terrifying aura.
The white-haired elder at the very center merely swept his gaze over, and Jiang Shu’s Taichu Dao Rhyme within his body automatically circulated in defense.
"Those are the nine Supreme Elders of the War Alliance."
Zi Ling, who had appeared behind him at some unknown time, explained softly,
"Each one is a Peak Venerable who has lived for tens of thousands of years."
As she spoke, she pointed to the star at the very edge and continued,
"That Elder Qingya is the very one who suppressed the Asura War Venerable back in the day."
In this era when no Saint emerged, a Venerable Peak was among the most powerful beings in the Cosmic, and now nine appeared together. Even though it was unknown how many of them had personally arrived, it was enough to show the might of the War Alliance and the importance they attached to Jiang Shu.
On the way to the banquet, Jiang Shu noticed that the ground beneath his feet was not paved with ordinary stone slabs, but with Star Core Bricks Refined from stellar cores.
Each brick recorded some famous battle. When he stepped onto a brick depicting the "War of Saint’s Fall," a chorus of roars and killing shouts from countless cultivators suddenly rang in his ears.
The killing shouts shook the heavens and flooded his hearing.
For cultivators with a fragile Dao Heart and timid disposition, this would make them tremble in fear, utterly terrified. But for someone like Jiang Shu, whose Dao Heart was firm, these killing shouts allowed him to glimpse a trace of the ferocious slaughter of the Human Clan forebears back then, and from a certain aspect, to sense some surging of the Laws.
