Chapter 1385 — South of the Ancestral Court's Heavenly Gate
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Upon the altar, all who heard these words unleashed their divine consciousness, and the power of their summoned divine abilities erupted. A blinding radiance shot straight into the heavens, and then they vanished from the Ancestral Court.
Their consciousness was linked to Shen Mu's, and together with that dazzling light they arrived in another world.
The reverse side of the Ancestral Court.
In that world, all things were immeasurably vast, the mountains lush and the waters clear, brimming with a vitality far exceeding that of the Ancestral Court's front face.
Only a few years past, the front face of the Ancestral Court had been as desolate as a barren waste, until the Ten Heavenly Venerables each carved out their own domains within it and the Void Beasts were brought under the Dragon Qilin's control—only then did vegetation begin to grow.
After the Earth Mother Yuanjun came to the Ancestral Court, her power caused its plants to grow with astonishing speed, and only then did the Ancestral Court gradually gain a little green.
Yet compared to the reverse side, it was still vastly inferior.
The front face of the Ancestral Court had been gnawed too clean by the Void Beasts. Countless rare herbs and precious trees native to the Ancestral Court had been driven to extinction by them. Only perilous places the Void Beasts could not enter—such as the Five Great Mineral Veins and the Great Black Wood—still preserved some incomparably precious spirit medicines and forests.
But the reverse side of the Ancestral Court had never suffered the Void Beasts' ravages!
As the consciousness of the others followed Shen Mu across the magnificent rivers and mountains of the Ancestral Court's reverse side, they saw no end of spirit medicines erupting with terrifying spiritual power.
There was a great flower taller than a man, of unknowable age, its blossom chamber deep, and from within that chamber a fountain of spiritual power gushed outward—the spirit medicine had accumulated too much energy and was forced to release the excess from its body!
This spirit medicine's age must surely be frighteningly ancient!
Then they saw a sea of spirit medicines like a vast ocean, tens of thousands of them erupting spiritual fountains in unison—a spectacle of incomparable grandeur!
Such a scene could truly be called magnificent beyond compare!
The consciousness of the others grew unsteady, deeply shaken by this sight. Such a spectacle existed nowhere among the myriad heavens and worlds, and even in the Ancestral Court it had never been seen!
The reverse side of the Ancestral Court held such a profusion of spirit medicines, in such numbers, as could be found nowhere since ancient times!
"If an alchemist were to see this, would he not go mad?" Grandmother Zhu murmured.
At that moment, Shen Mu's consciousness carried theirs in swift flight, incomparably fast. Shen Mu had taken out an object Shu Jun once wore, and by means of this personal article he sought Shu Jun's soul.
This was another usage of the Soul-Pulling Guide.
He had said that the wonder of employing divine abilities lies wholly in the mind, and these were no idle boasts—in his hands, divine abilities were wielded with such ingenious and astonishing variations that onlookers were left dumbstruck.
The consciousness of the others swept howling across the skies above the Ancestral Court's reverse side, as though stirring up a great wind, following the trail of Shu Jun's soul.
Their consciousness then beheld an even more startling sight: ahead, great luminous pearls, each like a moon drifting in the air, every one roughly a hundred li in size, dazzling in brilliance.
And beneath those luminous pearls lay a beach, and upon that beach, enormous sea clams gaped open their shells.
These were another kind of primordial beast.