Tales of Herding Gods

There was an ancient peach tree at the source of Yongjiang River.

This peach tree was very strange. Although it was very old, it was still alive. It seemed that time could not leave any trace on it.

What was even stranger was that when you looked at it, it existed and stood there.

When you did not look at it, it disappeared as if it did not exist.

It was between existence and non-existence at the same time. The only way to determine if it existed depended on whether you observed it or not.

It was Ling Tianzun’s hairpin.

Ling Tianzun’s peach wood hairpin was planted here. It took root and sprouted. Forty thousand years had passed. Winter passed and spring came. The Peach Tree revived, grew branches and leaves, and blossomed peach flowers. When summer came, peaches would hang on it. At the end of summer.., the peaches were fully ripe and emitted a fragrance.

A woman in Green would come under the tree and pluck peaches to taste them.

Once, founding emperor had dredged the surging river here and pluck a few peaches under the peach trees to quench his thirst. He had stopped here a few times as if he was looking for someone, but whether he had found anyone or not was not something that outsiders could know.

Ling Tianzun was the same as her hairpin, between existence and non-existence.

The situation between her and the hairpin was even more complicated.

She was in the non-easy material that was formed from the cross section of the Heavenly River by the non-easy divine art, but at the same time, she was in reality.

In the non-easy material, she was in a state of life or death. After waiting for forty thousand years, Qin Mu would come into contact with the non-easy divine art and save her.

After saving her, she would return to forty thousand years ago, when the era of high emperor had ended and the era of founding emperor had yet to begin. She would experience the Battle of Dao practitioners.

At that time, she would send Qin Mu, founding emperor, heavenly venerate Xiao, heavenly venerate hao, goddess Tai Su, and the others to forty thousand years later. Then, she would experience forty thousand years of time alone, waiting for the future.

At the same time, she would also exist in the substance that wasn’t easy, which formed two of her strange phenomena.

At that time, she was still alive in the outside world, but the prerequisite for being alive was that someone had to observe her. If no one could observe her, she would be in an unknown state of life or death.

Only when Qin Mu came to crack the difficult divine arts would she be able to get out of this wondrous state.

All these years, heavenly venerate Ling had been studying the two heaven and Earth Mirrors Qin Mu had given her, studying the dao patterns of Miluo Palace.

She was a quiet woman who could calm her heart down to do research and ignore the changes in the outside world.

However, she would still come out and move around occasionally, but the range of her movements wasn’t wide. She only moved around the source of surging river.

Even though the distance was short, the time she traveled was very long.

She executed the divine art of not easy more than once at the source of surging river and traveled back in time. She saw founding Emperor Qin ye when he was young. He transformed into a fog and brought the young founding emperor back to the early years of Dragon Han.

Founding Emperor met Qin Mu and Niu Sanduo there and also became heavenly venerate Qin there. After that, founding emperor had a few miraculous experiences of returning to the past, but he didn’t mention it to anyone. Even his best friend, Woodcutter’s heaven-smelling pavilion, asked about them, founding Emperor also didn’t say what he had encountered.

Heavenly Venerate Ling stayed at the source of surging river while she was still waiting for someone. The arrival of this person would unlock her state of life or death and unlock the state of existence she had observed.

This person gave her the Hong Meng runes and the Dao patterns of the Miluo Palace. He was waiting for her to go and decide the universe in one fell swoop. He needed her to save him.

She waited and waited. The material in the surroundings was constantly changing. She sat and watched the old and new mountains rise. She sat and watched the birth and death of generations after generations. She sat and watched the rise and fall of the founding emperor era. She sat and watched the vicissitudes of the world, she sat and watched the rise and fall of the dynasty, the joys and sorrows of the human world, and the changing of the King’s flag on the top of the God and Devil City.

She sat and watched the flourishing primordial world turn into great ruins.

She had never waited for Qin Mu. When she had waited bitterly, she had searched for traces of Qin Mu in history, and she had arrived at the era of high emperor. She had waited for nearly forty thousand years, but she had never been able to find Qin Mu. She thought that Qin Mu might be even older than founding emperor, or he might be someone from the era of high emperor, or he might have been tens of thousands of years old during the Battle of great overarching heaven.

On this day, when she was searching, she suddenly felt her peach wood hairpin disappear. Someone had used her hairpin.

She went to check and found that it was Wei Suifeng, the disciple of heavenly teacher who was beside founding emperor.

She didn’t ask further.

On another day, she felt someone calling out to her with a hairpin. She looked at that person through the sky of history and couldn’t help becoming excited.

That was heavenly venerate mu!

He used the hairpin to execute the divine art of not easy in an attempt to find her!

“Heavenly venerate mu? Is That You? Heavenly venerate mu!”

She called out in delight, “So you aren’t in the era of high emperor. Wait for me to come and find you --”

She had many things to say, but Qin Mu’s magic power had already been exhausted and disappeared. (see Chapter 802 for details)

She waited for many more years.

During this year, she saw a dragon lady dressed in white walking past the source of surging river to avoid the pursuit of the heaven. The pursuers of the heaven called her high emperor sword god Bai Qu'er.

She saw the shadow of Celestial Venerable Mu’s sword skills from the sword skills of High Emperor Sword god Bai Qu'er.

Her curiosity was piqued, and she traced Bai Qu'er’s history back to the desert where the Battle of Celestial Venerable had taken place forty thousand years ago.

It was a desert where the history of the era of high emperor was buried by sand and wind.

Back then, she had executed the divine art of not easy and sent her divine sense to great overarching heaven forty thousand years later. The heavens had originally been destroyed by the Battle of heavenly venerate, but they were restored by her divine art of not easy.

Her divine art of not easy had left a deep mark here. Every time the sun and Moon changed, the divine art of not easy would bring the time and space back to ancient times.

She saw Qin Mu when he was young. He was riding a chest, and it was running in the desert, avoiding the pursuit of the enemy.

She was very excited, but she didn’t show herself. Qin Mu couldn’t see her at this time.

She saw Qin Mu awaken the gods and devils of High Emperor Era who had died in battle in the desert. He asked them for directions and buried the soldiers who had died in battle.

She watched Qin Mu walk into the darkness and enter the final Twilight Song of High Emperor Era, Hundred Dragons city.

There, Qin Mu met Bai Qu'er, a lively and cute girl from White Dragon Clan.

“Mu, you’re finally close.”

Heavenly Venerate Ling revealed a smile and returned to the source of surging river to continue observing the girl who had fought side by side with Qin Mu for the entire night. At that moment, darkness descended and the stars in the sky were blocked by huge shadows.

Surging river was deep, and dense Youdu Devil Qi rose up. A woman held a bamboo basket and fought her way out of Youdu with all her might.

She fought with all her might and tried her best to protect the basket, but the cries of a baby could be heard from the basket, making one’s heart break.

It was as if the baby in the basket had also sensed his ill-fated fate and was crying for his future.

Ling Tianzun was stunned. He looked at Bai Qu'er, the sword god of the Upper Emperor, who was hiding from the heavenly court. Then, he looked at the girl who was holding the basket and fighting in the surging river. For a moment, he was in a daze.

The Devil Qi in the surging river surged, and the black water surged into the sky.

“The reeds are tall, and the reeds are long. It’s a game of hide-and-seek in the reeds. There are so many famous and wealthy people who were cowherds in the past.

“The reeds are tall, and the reeds are long. They look at each other across the mountains and rivers. This side of the reeds is my hometown, and the other side of the reeds is the vast ocean.

“The reeds are tall, and the reeds are long. The reeds are busy weaving on the side of the reeds. They are woven into my bag and will accompany me on my long voyage.

“The reeds are tall, and the reeds are long. The sound of the reeds’flute is melodious.

“The Shepherd Boy is far away, making me miss my father and mother...”

..

The surging river was shrouded in fog. Ping ‘er, who was carrying a basket, rushed into the fog. She passed through the fog, and when the fog dispersed, it was already daytime. Ping ‘er didn’t have time to think about why it was still night just now. Passing Through the mist was daytime because she saw Bai Qu ‘er, who had black hair like a waterfall, washing her sword and washing the divine blood off it. (see Chapter 868 for details)

At this moment, Bai Qu ‘er saw Ping ‘er staggering over with the basket in her hand.

It was heavenly venerate Ling who had guided Bai Qu ‘er to find Ping ‘er with the basket in her hand. He had also guided Ping ‘er to find Bai Qu ‘er.

A sword light rose, and a white dragon danced in the air. It was a sword that could topple cities, and it shone brightly in the nine prefectures.

Bai Qu ‘er escorted Ping ‘er and the baby in the basket forward until Ping ‘er had exhausted all of her life force and fell into the water.

She still did not let go. She still held the baby in the basket, determined to entrust him to someone worthy.

Ling Tianzun watched as Bai Qu ‘er and Ping ‘er, who had turned into a corpse, descended with the waves. The sky gradually turned dark, and the basket drifted along the river all the way to a small mountain village by the river.

The mountain village was guarded by four stone statues. In the darkness of the night, they emitted a faint divine light, protecting the peace of the area.

“Listen, there’s the sound of a child crying outside!”

Ling tianzun retracted his gaze and smiled.

“I’ve finally waited for you! Tianzun Mu, you’re really lucky. Not long after you were born, there were three women who sacrificed their lives to protect you,”she said in a low voice.

Material changes caused the illusion of time passing by. However, in the illusion, the baby gradually grew up along with the material changes.

On this day, the baby in the basket had already grown into a strong teenager. He was troubled by his own background and wanted to find his parents.

He left the place where he grew up and came to the source of surging river.

Heavenly venerate Ling looked at this clever and strange youth searching at the source of surging river. She gave him a fog and let him see founding emperor of the past era.

Later on, this youth came to the source of surging river once again and avoided the pursuit of the enemy in the night.

Heavenly venerate Ling looked at him walking into the heavens of the Battle of heavenly venerate and saw the skeletons of the army of the northern falling sect of the upper emperor of the south. (see Chapter 485 for details)

She then watched Qin Mu travel back to ancient times and arrive at the end of High Emperor era. He entered hundred dragons city and met Bai Qu'er.

After Qin Mu returned, she waited quietly again.

She was waiting for this youth to grow to the appearance she was familiar with.

Finally, the day came. Qin Mu and Niu Sanduo walked on the surface of surging river and prepared to rush to Heavenly Yin world.

Heavenly Venerate Ling cast a spell, and the fog on the surface of the river surged over and drowned them.

She sent them back to the past, to the early years of Dragon Han, to the Jade Lake Banquet.

Heavenly venerate mu should complete heavenly venerate Mu’s mission!

There, he would meet founding emperor, heavenly venerate royal, heavenly venerate vast heaven, heavenly venerate fire, and the rest. He would also meet his own self in a daze, and he would need someone to encourage him to continue moving forward.

There, Qin Mu would change his name to Mu Qing and become the heavenly venerate mu who would influence the future generations for a million years. He would become a monument to the human race and influence countless people in the future generations! (for details, see chapters 731,732, and others)

After heavenly venerate Ling finished all of this, she waited quietly. She had witnessed the change of great ruins, the eruption of eternal peace tribulation, and the painful wails of the youth. There was no way to go up to heaven or enter the Earth, but she was still waiting, she was waiting for heavenly venerate Mu’s return.

All these years, she had comprehended the dao patterns of Miluo Palace, and her achievements were getting higher and higher.

In fact, at this step, she could already completely rely on her own strength to resolve the state of her being influenced by the Divine Arts. She had already solved most of the mysteries of Primordial Chaos Runes and the dao patterns of Miluo Palace.

She began to comprehend the changes in the dao patterns, and her comprehension of the conservation of quality and energy also became deeper and deeper.

On this day, she saw Qin Mu coming to surging river once again. At that moment, he was sitting on a golden ship. It was the golden ship that had brought her out of divine consciousness great overarching heaven.

Heavenly Venerate Ling stood up. She knew that when Qin Mu executed her hairpin and entered the fog, it would be the day she would be freed. It would also be the day Qin Mu, founding emperor, and the rest returned from forty thousand years ago.

With the appearance of heavenly venerate clear sky, goddess Tai Su, and heavenly venerate Xiao, they entered surging river fog one after another and vanished. This Day had finally arrived!

Heavenly Venerate Ling raised her head, and the sky split open. Divine consciousness great overarching heaven appeared in the ultimate void!

It was the middle of the Moon, and she was asking for a monthly pass for the most important girl in Qin Mu’s life! Tears welled up in her eyes