Chapter 1690 — Seeking the Gate's Trail in the Abandoned Land
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Shen Mu drifted through the Abandoned Land. This foul dumping ground of the Ultimate Void was vast beyond measure, as though everything that had survived sixteen cosmic eras without being destroyed had been cast away here.
He passed a withered dao tree, utterly dead, yet from it Shen Mu still sensed a faint thread of consciousness. He wished to examine it closely, but that consciousness was exceedingly crude and dull, giving him no response at all, as though sunk in a state of chaos, offering him no information whatsoever.
"This Dao Achiever's consciousness must have been beaten into a chaotic state during the Kalpa of Destruction," Shen Mu thought. The consciousness hiding within the dao tree could no longer survive; it could never awaken again.
Shen Mu left.
The things in the Abandoned Land of the Ultimate Void were not fixed; they drifted at all times, and his wish to find that gate which hid the obelisks was no different from fishing a needle from the sea.
Moreover, divine sense could not be used here; it would be dissolved by the Ultimate Void into nothingness. He could only search with his eyes.
Day after day passed. Shen Mu encountered no end of inconceivable things, and even came upon the ruins of the Heavenly Capital several more times, yet still he could not find that gate.
In these days his legs gradually grew, until they were about as tall as before, though still somewhat thin and weak. His primordial spirit likewise grew steadily stronger, though of course restoring it to its peak would require far longer and harder cultivation.
At his peak, his primordial spirit had been vast; pushed to its utmost, it could cover an entire heaven. Though it could not compare to the terror of You Tianzun's primordial spirit, it was by no means a small thing. Now his primordial spirit stood only some ten zhang tall, not even equal to a divine ability user of the Life-Death realm or the Heavenly River realm.
Even so, he remained one of the most powerful beings in the world today! His body and primordial spirit were both forged from Primordial qi, following the path of the Master of Miluo Palace, while his path of cultivation secretly accorded with that of the Lord of the Heavenly Capital, combining the strengths of both houses.
"I will search two more years.
If I cannot find that gate within two years, I will return to Jingping!
" Shen Mu endured loneliness alone, searching bitterly through the Abandoned Land. He saw a head impaled upon a banner, and a woman combing her hair in a bronze mirror, and a broken divine weapon that bled without cease.
He also saw a dao fruit that endlessly grew human heads, only for them to be endlessly dissolved away by the cold, silent wind.
Beyond that, he came upon a host of coffins, whole swaths of them bound by chains, linked into rows, drifting through the boundless void. This Abandoned Land was filled with strange and bizarre things. Earlier Shen Mu had intended to collect some treasures from the Abandoned Land, but after seeing these bizarre things, he abandoned the notion.
These things were filth to him as well; not only useless, but exceedingly dangerous.
Several times he had been hunted by monstrous heads and broken ships. When he tried to take that mottled bronze mirror, he had nearly been dragged into the mirror by the hair-combing woman, and as for the head hung upon the banner, it had already grown together with the banner, inseparable!
More terrifying still, everything here concealed hidden mysteries.
They were trapped in the Abandoned Land, buffeted by the cold, silent wind, unable to leave. If Shen Mu were to carry them out of the Abandoned Land, he would likely be doing these things a favor, bringing immense calamity upon the world!