Chapter 1688 — Founding the Seventh Era
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
After a while, Shen Mu spat out the chaos stone. He had assumed there must be chaos qi within it — back when he first discovered Tai Yi's chaos vein, he had found chaos qi stored inside chaos stones.
When he took out Tai Yi's eggshell, the entire chaos vein had collapsed, the chaos stones had shattered, and the chaos qi within them had spilled out and become the chaos sea of the Ancestral Court. From this one could see that chaos stones were not especially hard; it was only that the cold, silent wind of the Ultimate Void could not dissolve them.
That was why he had believed the obelisk carved from chaos stone must likewise hide chaos qi within it. Yet only after swallowing it did he find that there was not the slightest trace of chaos qi in this stone!
The chaos qi inside it had already been taken away by someone! "I chewed down a slab of rock for nothing.
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. The writing on the obelisk — it is the Primordial Dao words of the Eldest Young Master of Miluo Palace, written in Primordial runes, used to suppress his enemies.
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Standing beneath the stele, Shen Mu mused, "Judging by these Primordial Dao words, the Eldest Young Master's mastery of Primordial runes was exceedingly high; he could be called the foremost man beneath the Master of Miluo Palace. So how was the seal he left behind broken open? "
Judging from the door plank and the obelisk that had flown out of the forbidden zone, the seal had been broken in part.
With such transcendent craft, the seal the Eldest Young Master left must have been exceedingly hard to break; the power of the Ultimate Void alone could hardly have brought his seal to the verge of collapse and ruin.
So who had caused the seal to break? "Chaos stones are hard to find. To make this one obelisk, the amount of stone required is already an unimaginable number — and according to Lan Yutian, the obelisks he saw within that gateway were beyond counting.
Where did the Eldest Young Master find the materials for them all? "
His expression turned a little strange as he guessed at the source of the chaos stones. There was only one place with so many chaos stones: the chaos veins of the Ancestral Court, the ones capable of birthing a Tai Yi.
But a single chaos vein could not refine so many obelisks; several veins would be needed.
In other words, the Eldest Young Master of Miluo Palace had likely scoured the chaos veins of several universes to suppress this "enemy of Miluo Palace"!
Shen Mu pondered a moment, then tried to take the obelisk into his divine treasury. The Nascent Embryo divine treasury lay between his brows, but the obelisk was far too long. When he put it in, he found that its tip pierced through between his brows and stuck out, as though he had grown a horn there.
Helpless, he gave it up.
"Imperial Brother says this abandoned place holds many strange things. Since I cannot take the obelisk away, perhaps I can find some other treasure here!
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A gleam of excitement in his eyes, he abandoned the obelisk and "stood" on the door plank, flying deeper into the abandoned land.
Before long Shen Mu halted the plank and looked ahead in astonishment and doubt. There, in the void before him, a huge head had suddenly emerged!
The head was unimaginably vast.
Flesh had already grown upon it, though it had no skin, and it flew through this abandoned land, its mouth wide open, devouring treasures cast away here. The head was swallowing a tattered book, a book shining with golden light that turned its own pages with a rustling clatter; golden characters rose from the book and imprinted themselves one after another upon the head, striking its flesh and blood until they flew apart!
Yet plainly the tattered book was no match for the monstrous head, and it was swallowed whole. The flesh upon the head writhed and grew anew, becoming a little more complete.