Chapter 856: Vacuum Homeland

Chapter 856: The Vacuum Hometown

Then Li Huowang recounted everything that had transpired to them.

One was an official of the Astronomical Bureau, the other a White Lotus Saintess; sooner or later, they would have to know.

Moreover, Li Sui could pass this message to Gao Zhijian.

Such a grave threat warranted informing the upper echelons of this strand of history, to prepare them. If they truly did arrive and clash with the White Lotus in a cataclysmic struggle, that would be no small matter.

“From what they said, it seems they’ve had a feud with the White Lotus in the past. Since that path’s a dead end, the White Lotus side might hold clues to that Jade Hand.”

“Jade Hand? Father, do they have a grudge against the White Lotus, or against the Unborn Mother?” Li Sui pinpointed the crux of the question.

At these words, Bai Lingmiao’s heart skipped a beat. She suddenly recalled something.

“Isn’t it the same? Help me search—from all these scattered books, first find every past enemy of the White Lotus, then eliminate them one by one.”

“I... I think I know who they are.” Bai Lingmiao spoke up.

“You know?” Startled by her words, Li Huowang stared at her in disbelief.

Miaomiao had never come into contact with the people of that strand of history; she’d only pieced it together from his account. How could she know so quickly? It seemed too fast.

“Do these books really record it? So who are they? What’s the origin of that Jade Hand?”

Bai Lingmiao didn’t know how to explain. She swept her gaze over the scattered books, deftly picked one up, and handed it to Li Huowang.

Hesitantly, Li Huowang glanced at her, took the book, opened it, and began to skim through swiftly.

The Unborn Mother is the ancient, birthless, deathless Buddha of the heavens! She can deliver us mortals of the dust world back to the Vacuum Hometown, sparing us from calamity!

All things in this world should belong to the Unborn Mother! Every inch of every sky was once the Vacuum Hometown.

We were born, grew, and aged under the Unborn Mother’s protection—until someone betrayed her! Those were the most trusted imperial scions by her side!

When those armies of the Unspeakable grew forth from the Unborn Mother’s dantian, a faction of imperial scions turned traitor.

They conspired with the Unspeakable armies to betray the Unborn Mother! They slew the imperial scions who refused to betray, and stripped the Unborn Mother of everything!

They cast away what they didn’t need, devoured what they desired, and together shamelessly took the place the Unborn Mother should have occupied!

These apostates, fearing their infamy would be exposed, altered the history books—altered the history in everyone’s hearts.

But not us—our history forever belongs to the Unborn Mother. We will always remember, waiting for the moment the Unborn Mother returns!

The Unborn Mother, being birthless, is deathless; though she seems stripped of all things, this also means the Unborn Mother can never lose anything more.

When a man is covered in wounds, he can bear no new ones. When an existence is stripped of everything, it can no longer be deprived!

The Unborn Mother ceaselessly tries—by day and night, through man and woman, through yin and yang.

Those perfidious rebels watch, trembling in fear, forever obstructing the Unborn Mother who dwells with us.

They may send their minions to hinder us endlessly, but it matters not. If we succeed but once, the Unborn Mother shall ride on six ceramic horses, openly and gloriously returning to her rightful place!

“No matter how long, I will wait. As the sole surviving imperial scion, even if I am slain, the son who crawls from my corpse will continue to wait.”

Should my son die, my grandson shall carry on. Generation after generation, we will wait forever!! Unborn Mother, Vacuum Hometown!!

Reading these words, Li Huowang uncovered more and more. Connecting it to everything before, he suddenly grasped the truth of it all.

“So...” With profound shock, he tore his gaze from the page. “So the people of that strand of history are the imperial scions who once betrayed the Unborn Mother?!”

At this, many of Li Huowang’s earlier confusions were instantly resolved.

Why they bore a grudge against the Unborn Mother. Why, when the Unborn Mother returned, they came to slay the White Lotus Saintess.

Gripping astonishment, Li Huowang lowered his head to the book again.

They conspired with the Unspeakable armies to betray the Unborn Mother! They slew the imperial scions who refused to betray, and stripped the Unborn Mother of everything!

They cast away what they didn’t need, devoured what they desired, and together shamelessly took the place the Unborn Mother should have occupied!

“If all this is true, then it means that strand of history was once called the Vacuum Hometown—that it was originally the Unborn Mother’s domain?!”

Li Huowang jerked his head up, staring at Bai Lingmiao before him. He gasped in astonishment—they had actually waited long enough for this.

No wonder that Jade Hand could shift the reality he had forged! Those imperial scions had seized the Heavenly Dao from the Unborn Mother and claimed it for themselves.

Though the five strands of history took different paths, from what he could see now, this strand was vastly different from the rest.

Mortals had dared to snatch the Heavenly Dao from the Divine Mandate itself—no wonder their power was so fearsome! This was hardly good news; it meant the foes ahead were perilous.

Frowning deeply, Li Huowang continued reading the text, analyzing every word.

When those armies of the Unspeakable grew forth from the Unborn Mother’s dantian, a faction of imperial scions turned traitor.

“They conspired with the Unspeakable armies to betray the Unborn Mother! They slew the imperial scions who refused to betray, and stripped the Unborn Mother of everything!”

“The Unspeakable armies?” Li Huowang murmured the name, pondering it.

This Unspeakable force was key. Had they not allied with the imperial scions, mere mortals could never have stripped the Unborn Mother of the Heavenly Dao.

The enemies he faced were not only the imperial scions within the Vacuum Hometown but also the Unspeakable armies recorded here.

The Unspeakable armies certainly didn’t refer to Ji Zai—he knew how Ji Zai came to be; it could never have crawled from the Unborn Mother’s dantian.

And Ji Zai’s name was a literal “unspeakable,” whereas this so-called Unspeakable army must be different.

The only clue was the suffix “army,” suggesting a multitude.

“If that’s the case, then the jade hand that emerged from that cave—was it part of the Unspeakable army or one of the imperial scions?”