Chapter 1324 — The Firmament Draws Nigh
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Xiu Hongsu and the white cat waited until wind and wave had stilled, and were about to head back into the mine, when of a sudden, from deep within it, that uncanny radiance erupted once more!
"Mu Tianzun!
That wretch is still alive?
" Xiu Hongsu ground her teeth, yet there was nothing she could do. In the Great Beginning lode she had already come off the worse three times, and was long since a bird that starts at the twang of a bow; now, with the eruption so violent, even a being of her Emperor's Throne realm who ventured in would find nothing but death!
"How did he live through it?
" Hatred and doubt warred in her heart. Twice the mine had erupted, each time more violent than the last; even by her strength she could not withstand it, and at the heart of the eruption she would surely be assimilated, with not so much as a chance of escape — so how had Shen Mu survived it? Suddenly the white cat said, "Can it be that Mu Tianzun truly found the primordial stone?
" Xiu Hongsu's heart went cold.
Of the primordial stone she knew little; she had seen it three times, but each time, scarce had she laid eyes on it and felt greed stir than she found herself on the verge of assimilation, and had no choice but to flee for her life.
Whether the primordial stone could hold back the mine's eruptions was, to her, no more than conjecture. Before long the second eruption at last subsided, and Xiu Hongsu bit lightly at her lower lip with pearl-white teeth: "Surely Mu Tianzun will settle down this time.
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. " BOOM — the mine erupted a third time, a pillar of light rushing straight to the heavens, shining even beyond the Ancestral Court.
They saw, too, many void beasts sprawled upon the canopy of the sky, hanging upside down there, peering curiously at the great hole torn open in the heavens.
One curious void beast poked its head out, thrusting it into the mine's pillar of light; shhk — the void beast drew its head back, and the head was gone, nothing at all sitting atop its thick neck. The other void beasts fled in terror.
Yet the headless void beast did not die; it fled along with the other titans, which only threw the rest into greater panic, so that they scrambled and tumbled, scattering in every direction. "God-King, you are one I have never quite understood, never quite seen through.
" Heavenly Consort Yan and Ancestral God-King searched for the whereabouts of Earth Mother Yuanjun while chatting and laughing as they went, and Heavenly Consort Yan's gaze flickered as she said, "As the most ancient of God-Kings, the leader of the demigods, it is only natural that you should wish to rid yourself of the Heavenly Lord and take his place.
Yet the Heavenly Lord is, after all, your father. Can you truly bring yourself to strike him down?
Not only can I not understand you, cannot see through you — I fear even Hao Tianzun cannot understand you or see through you.
" Ancestral God-King waved a hand, and the stars of the sky twinkled like countless eyes aiding him in watching the movements of the Ancestral Court, and in a flat, indifferent tone he said, "Hao Tianzun? He is gravely wounded, and can scarcely fend for himself now. " Heavenly Consort Yan had heard this news as well: Hao Tianzun and the Great Emperor had done battle, shattering the Great Void, and Shen Mu had seized the moment to strike a killing blow, pursuing him six hundred thousand li, until Hao Tianzun fled in wretched disarray and escaped with his life. Though the matter had not been openly spread, no wall in the world is proof against wind, and it had reached her ears. "How powerful is Hao Tianzun, after all?
" With the ghost of a smile she said, "You surely do not suppose that Hao Tianzun has been broken by this, never to rise again? " "Of course not.