Chapter 1427 — The Chance to Grasp the Dao
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
The Demon King Dutian roused his magic power and first moved the divine ability practitioners and gods that dwelt within the Hutian Bottle out of it. The divine ability practitioners and gods of Jingping had brought with them many spiritual herbs and seeds of grain, and thereupon they flew to and fro among the black mountains, scattering the seeds. The practitioners wielded the divine ability of Creation, making the seeds grow swiftly.
A hundred thousand black mountains, though every one were planted with crops, could not sustain a population of hundreds of millions; for this Great Black Wood to support ten million would already be straining the heavens.
And besides grain, there was livestock to be raised as well. In the Ancestral Court the ancient giant beasts could be tamed, and powerful giant beasts hunted; but that too required powerful divine ability practitioners and gods to break new ground.
On the front side of the Ancestral Court the ancient giant beasts summoned by the Earth Mother Yuanjun still bred and multiplied, growing stronger by the day; on the back side Long Xiao had likewise left behind many giant beasts, which had not migrated with the rest into the Beast Realm.
The ancient giant beasts were exceedingly fierce and terrible; to say nothing of the naturally frail human race, even gods and demons, facing an ancient giant beast, seemed utterly insignificant in both strength and physique. "We must also expand our territory and build greater divine cities.
" The Demon King Dutian marshaled the divine ability practitioners and gods of Jingping, moved more people out of the Hutian Bottle, and said to Yan'er, "Our present territory cannot hold so many people, and the several hundred divine cities of Jingping are all too small in scale. Against one giant beast it would be well enough, but two or three giant beasts could bring a city down.
" Yan'er was building a bird's nest; hearing this she laughed and said, "Lan Yutian has many giant beast disciples under his command. We can have them lend a hand.
" "Giant beast disciples?
" The Demon King Dutian was dumbfounded; it was hard to picture giant beasts sitting beneath Lan Yutian listening to lectures. "Giant beasts can understand Sage Lan's lessons? " Yan'er carried over several dragon sparrow eggs and set them in the nest. These eggs were strange of appearance; the veins that surfaced on their shells were not wholly those of the dragon sparrow, but bore qilin markings as well.
The surface of the shells was rough, and from the outside they looked like qilin eggs.
Qilin eggs were rather coarse, whereas dragon sparrow eggs bore exceedingly fine veins.
Yan'er wove garlands and slipped them over the eggs, painted a few smiling faces on them, and said, "The young master says that the heads of giant beasts are big, but they are not clever. Yet if they can cultivate under Lan Yutian and have their wisdom opened, in time they may well found a civilization of giant beasts.
Some giant beasts have already learned to use divine abilities! My husband went with Long Xiao, the head of the Beast Realm, to the Beast Realm to make preparations for that very matter, this civilization of giant beasts.
The Cult Master says Long Xiao is a man without foresight and cannot found a giant beast civilization, and so he had my husband make the preparations.
" The Demon King Dutian looked over these dragon sparrow eggs, when he saw Yan'er bring over a huge Void Beast egg and set it in the center, then transform into a great dragon sparrow and sit upon it. "That fat dragon actually took a wife before the Cult Master did. " Dutian thought to himself, "When did he marry? He never even told his old friend. Ah, that is it, they anticipated the marriage; the deed was done before the wedding. And what will hatch from the child of a dragon sparrow and a dragon qilin?