Chapter 1428 — Yao Pool Reappears
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Strange, though, was that the seaward face of these terraces was sheer, a wall of jade, and beneath the jade wall curious veins joined the mountain ranges upon the seabed, and those ranges were themselves range upon range of jade mountains. The ranges ran straight to the heart of the seafloor, eight ranges joining eight tiers of jade terrace, and beneath the sea the eight jade ranges joined as one. Fronting the sea, each tier of jade terrace covered a great expanse, even the topmost stretching several hundred li.
This must have been where the primeval creators offered sacrifice to the sea, the creators of the primeval age were towering in frame, and here a tribe of hundreds of thousands of creators could be contained!
Shen Mu glanced at the place in the midst of the Yao Sea where the eight jade ranges met, then at the Yao Terrace, a puzzled look crossing his face.
"Terrace and sea should be one body. In the primeval age some natural great Dao must have emerged here, turning this place into a natural holy land, which is why the creators worshipped here. What upheaval could have scattered the great Dao of pool and sea? " He examined it closely, then started again.
He saw that all eight jade ranges were broken!
Shen Mu flew over, and saw the breaks all lay at the same point. The eight ranges were like dragons, tails in the heart of the Yao Sea and heads beneath the Yao Terrace, with branching spurs like limbs, each leg bearing five dragon claws.
And the severance lay at the waist of the dragon veins, cut clean through at the middle, the fracture smooth.
Besides the breaks, gods under Langxuan Divine Emperor were quarrying the jade mountains, gathering fine jade.
Shen Mu stared, torn between laughter and tears. Instead of thinking how to mend the jade mountains, the gods under Langxuan Divine Emperor were thinking to exploit the breaks to mine the jade!
He flew over and saw the fracture faces smooth, yet eerily the force that sundered the jade mountains had not come from without but from beneath the earth, as if some power within the jade mountains had erupted and snapped them apart!
The gods mining the ore saw him and hastily stopped, all staring toward him. These gods were ragged, wearing fetters with chains, plainly criminals who for grave offenses had been degraded to mine slaves. "It is Mu Tianzun!
" An overseer recognized Shen Mu, his face turning ashen, inwardly wailing: "Misery!
How has this devil come here?
Last time he came to the Langxuan Divine Palace he conjured a Yuan wood and smashed the palace flat, stripping it clean!
He nearly slew all the disciples of the Divine Emperor in the palace, and even scared off Chang Xiting, an existence of the Imperial Throne realm! Can he have come this time to tear down the Yao Pool of the Ancestral Court?
" "How could the Yao Pool withstand his ravages?
Then again, why has the Divine Emperor's supreme treasure not blasted this fellow to death?
" They trembled, ashen-faced, daring neither to strike at Shen Mu, and when one sought to slip away to carry word, Shen Mu's gaze swept past him almost idly, and the man collapsed to the ground, not daring to move.
Shen Mu beckoned, and the overseers looked as if bereaved, yet dared not come forward.
Shen Mu's face darkened, and he beckoned again. The overseers moved as if mounting the god-execution platform for beheading, dragging their steps toward him with difficulty.
Shen Mu softened his expression, striving for kindness, smiling as he said: "How much jade ore have you mined?
Bring it all out. .
.
" Thump, thump. Suddenly the overseers knelt in a mass, and one cried: "Mu Tianzun, we do not fear death! But we have aged parents above and young children below, spare our lives, we beg! Quick, quick!
Carry all the jade ore out for the Tianzun!