Chapter 1304 — Unearthing the Primordial
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Behind the First Ancestor Human Sovereign a celestial palace surfaced, and at once heaven tilted and earth slanted around him, space spun, and one divine light after another was destroyed amid the collapsing of heaven and earth. Yan'er, for her part, held up her lantern; before those streaming lights could come near her, the lantern's glow fell upon them, and they were sent off to who knew where.
Of them all, she was the most at ease.
The deeper they went, the closer they came to the source of that divine light, and the more ferociously the lights flowing through the air assailed them.
Shen Mu's Sword Heaven Palace could no longer hold, and he was forced to summon his eighteen celestial palaces, even calling up the great daos of Xuandu, Youdu, Yuandu and the Four Poles Heaven in full, to withstand the onslaught of the divine lights.
Yet still many divine lights broke into his Divine Treasury Domain and came striking at his very person.
He stood firm upon the Ancestral Court; the vertical eye in his brow opened, and wherever his gaze fell, divine lights that flew swift past burst apart with a bang and scattered as wisps of yin and yang qi.
Silent Craftsman, Blind Elder and the Alchemist watched with their hearts in their throats, and resolved to hide meekly inside Taiyi's eggshells and not poke their heads out again. The First Ancestor Human Sovereign's Heaven-Earth Heart Sacred Art too could barely hold; he had no choice but to unleash his divine powers and pit himself head-on against the divine lights, and when he could hold no longer he lifted up the egg of Taishi to bear their brunt, drawing a furious curse from within the egg.
And Yan'er was still the one most at ease.
Moon Tianzun's lantern truly defied heaven; once its light shone, no art could touch her, and those divine lights could not come near at all. "No wonder Moon Tianzun is one of the few Tianzuns to have lived from the Longhan era to this day," Shen Mu marveled, eyeing Moon Tianzun's arts and divine powers with no small envy.
At last they passed through layer upon layer of divine light and came before that divine bow.
They raised their heads to look up, and every one of them was dazzled and shaken. There stood a long bow, some thousand zhang in length, blazing gold all over, with countless filaments of radiance spilling from it and bursting in every direction!
Beside the long bow lay a mass of mountain like a black dragon.
Shen Mu saw that this dragon-like mass must be a root of the Great Black Wood, only so enormously thick that its original form as a root could no longer be told.
And yet between the root and the long bow there was, astonishingly, a skeletal arm! That bony arm stretched out from the root of the Great Black Wood, clutching the back of the bow in a death grip!
It was as though the arm of dry bone had grown out of the Great Black Wood itself!
"Where did this arm come from?
" They were dumbfounded.
Shen Mu stepped forward, meaning to tear the divine bow down by force, when suddenly the bowstring quivered, and with a twang a shaft of sword-light flew at Shen Mu's brow! A broken sword appeared in Shen Mu's hand; he swept it upward and knocked the arrow aside.
The arrow-light grazed past the top of his head and shot away, and where it went it punched a great hole through the Azure Glazed Heaven Canopy; brilliant beyond measure and trailing fire, a full ten thousand li long, it scored a dazzling straight line across the sky of the Ancestral Court!
On the other side, the First Ancestor Human Sovereign stepped forward and, rousing the Heaven-Earth Heart Sacred Art, pressed his hand lightly upon the bow's body.
The bowstring was about to quiver again, but with his palm pressing the bow's body it could not draw back, and gave only a hum.