Chapter 1247 — The Yin Lord's Art of Reincarnation
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Seen from the Youdu, all the mountains and waters of the Great Void turned hazy, veiled in a layer of grey.
Lonely ghosts and wild spirits hid in the dark and covertly took his measure; they were the gods and devils and wielders of divine powers who had died in battle.
Besides them there were fragments of soul as well, the shattered souls and spirits of gods and devils and divine-power wielders, which became gusts of black wind; and when the black wind gathered, it turned into tornadoes of great scale, howling and sweeping away all things. Wherever the black wind passed, even the primordial spirits of gods and devils could scarcely escape, and were often drawn into the tornadoes and torn to pieces.
That black wind was the Black Sand of Souls.
Other black winds burrowed into the corpses of the gods and devils who had died in battle in the Youdu of the Great Void, gnawed away flesh and blood until only a skin remained, and became corpse-ghouls that wandered everywhere devouring people, devouring even the black wind itself.
The corpse-ghouls grew stronger and stronger.
Shen Mu frowned. This was plainly the Yin Son of Heaven's deliberate work, his plan to turn this place into another Realm of Heavenly Yin, or another Barren Ruins. "When it grows dark, do not go out. In those years the Barren Ruins and the Realm of Heavenly Yin were the Yin Son of Heaven's doing.
Many men underestimated the Yin Son of Heaven, thinking he rose only by flattering the Heavenly Venerable Hao, that he took the Black Emperor's throne by fawning. Yet the Yin Son of Heaven is deeply versed in the Way and divine arts of the Realm of Heavenly Yin, and he has developed the Way and divine arts of the Youdu greatly as well.
His strength may be called second only to the Ten Heavenly Venerables among postnatal beings. " Shen Mu surveyed his surroundings. Corpse-ghouls of every monstrous shape flitted through the grey mist; spying the primordial spirit of some god or devil, they swarmed upon it and devoured it.
"In those years the Barren Ruins came to look as it did because at nightfall the Black Sand of Souls poured in from the Realm of Heavenly Yin and the other heavens, and at daybreak returned to those worlds — like a funnel, forever turning. There are such funnels in the Realm of Heavenly Yin too; they are the Yin Son of Heaven's tools for controlling the black sand. And besides them, there is the Soul-Snatching Bell.
" Shen Mu thought, "The Yin Son of Heaven may pit his Way and divine arts of the Youdu against my brother's, but he should not be my brother's match; my brother, after all, is the divine child of the Youdu, another Tubo.
Yet once this place is made into a Realm of Heavenly Yin or a Barren Ruins, and the Black Sand of Souls becomes the Nether Sea, then my brother will be no match for him. " His gaze flickered; he halted his steps and studied closely the changes in the Youdu of the Great Void.
He and Di Yiyue had studied the Nether Capital Heavenly Gate together, and he had some understanding of the Yin Son of Heaven's Way and divine arts; the most important thing in the Nether Capital Heavenly Gate was the Way of Reincarnation. "Yet judging by the changes in the Youdu of the Great Void, the Way of Reincarnation within the Nether Capital Heavenly Gate is not the complete Way of Reincarnation. The Yin Son of Heaven's Way of Reincarnation should be the transformation between the three souls and seven spirits and the Black Sand of Souls, together with the Way of Creation used to alter the structure of the flesh. In other words, the Great Way of the Youdu, the Great Way of Heavenly Yin, and the Way of Creation combine into the Yin Son of Heaven's Way of Reincarnation!
" Shen Mu closed his eyes.