Chapter 1678 — The Defiled Land of the Void
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" He could no longer see where the wind had blown the skull, but what had just happened seemed to show that there was still spirituality in the skull, that something dwelled within it, and that through that trace of flesh from the tower it was trying to revive a physical body!
"The Ultimate Void was formed when the universe was opened up; one could say it has existed since the origin of the universe.
Could it be that some prehistoric monster is hidden here? " Lan Yutian had just thought this when the tower of flesh and blood jolted again.
He hurriedly looked out and saw the pagoda had struck a stone wall of incomparable smoothness.
It should have been a stone wall formed of a single block of Chaos stone, smooth as a mirror, without the slightest flaw! Lan Yutian tried to control Shen Mu's eyeballs to look upward, and saw that this stone wall was neat and tidy, of unknown length, its cut face even, but its width limited - like a long, narrow stone stele, standing alone in the Ultimate Void!
The wind of cold silence blew, and the pagoda struck the great stele twice before being blown away. Lan Yutian turned Shen Mu's eyes toward the back of the stele.
On the back was written a line of characters, arranged vertically, dripping with blood; but those characters were clearly not any writing of the present age, and he did not know their meaning. "What a strange place! " Lan Yutian's heart gave a lurch: "Where has the wind of cold silence carried us?
Why hasn't Brother woken yet? Is it really so hard to comprehend the Hongmeng primordial qi?
" He frowned and thought: "I've passed on to him all that I should. It shouldn't be too hard for him to comprehend.
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. If only Xu Shenghua were here! I'm not very good at teaching; he's more skilled at it.
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. " Just then, the tower of flesh and blood struck something else - a broken ship with only half remaining, its broken edges jagged, some parts extremely sharp, nearly piercing through the pagoda.
The pagoda's surface flesh was pierced, and it hung upon the broken ship.
Lan Yutian suddenly saw a white skeleton embedded in the ship's wall. That should have been a Dao-attainer, whose remains had not been voidified by the Ultimate Void!
The Dao-attainer had clearly been killed by someone; his breastbone was split open, his chest pierced through by a rust-covered weapon. Crack.
The skeleton's skull suddenly twisted around, its hollow eye sockets gazing toward the pagoda, as if it could see through everything within. Lan Yutian was startled and hurriedly covered his eyes.
After a moment, he peeked out through the gaps between his fingers.
Seeing this, Dutian Demon King thought: "Lord Lan still has a child's temper, to be frightened like this! What on earth gave him such a scare.
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Ah!
" He too saw the scene outside, and the hair on all four of his heads stood on end like a hedgehog's quills.
"It's dead! " Lan Yutian lowered his hands and said with a laugh: "Don't worry, it's dead!
Just now the wind moved his head, which made me think he was still alive.
Strange - when the universe was opened up, these things should all have been destroyed in the creation of heaven and earth.
How could they have been preserved? " He was utterly baffled, and murmured: "Could the wood of this ship be made from the material of the World Tree? " He was eager to try, wanting very much to leave Shen Mu's eyeballs and examine that broken ship; but even if he could get out, he could not leave the tower of flesh and blood.
He did not have that strength.
And once outside, he could not withstand the wind of cold silence of the Ultimate Void! Though Shen Mu had some gaps in his understanding of Dao arts and divine powers, his cultivation and strength far surpassed his own.
If Shen Mu revived, with his strength, he could go out and explore, and uncover the strangeness of this place.