Chapter 1690 — Seeking the Gate's Trail in the Abandoned Land
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
"The things in the Abandoned Land conceal many undead. " The more Shen Mu saw, the more certain he became of his guess: certain beings who had not died in the Great Kalpa of Birth and Destruction hid within various treasures, awaiting the moment of their revival. They were undead, whom even the Ultimate Void could not erase. The Abandoned Land was a natural cage, imprisoning them here, leaving them no way to escape.
To carry these treasures away would instead be to grant them their wish! The two-year term gradually drew near. Shen Mu's state of mind shifted from agitation to calm.
The door plank came to rest upon a massive coffin; Shen Mu sat upon the plank, and from within the coffin came thumping knocks, as though a living person were suppressed inside.
The door plank was very heavy, enough to suppress whatever was in the coffin. Shen Mu rapped on the plank and laughed.
"Brother inside, I am only hitching a ride. Why so restless?
" From the coffin came a muffled roar, and the thumping grew more urgent, as though some monster were butting its head against the coffin lid.
Shen Mu laughed aloud and looked up ahead. Ahead were rows upon rows of coffins bound in chains, head to tail, drifting toward the darkness in the distance. Shen Mu meant to rest his feet on these coffins for a while; as for what was buried among them, he had no wish at all to know.
These years of long travel had worn him down somewhat; his legs had still not fully recovered, and he needed to stop and rest.
Just then, the smile on Shen Mu's face slowly faded, and he rose to his feet.
He saw that the foremost coffin was turning, veering away from its appointed course, and ahead of the coffins stood a door frame without a door plank! Within that frame, one could faintly make out huge obelisks, one after another!
Exceedingly smooth, like countless flawless bright mirrors!
The giant steles stood in a forest, towering in the world beyond the gate.
Those obelisks mirrored the void, mirrored these coffins drifting past before the gate, and dimly, Shen Mu even saw that upon the surface of the obelisks, the things within the coffins could actually be reflected!
These coffins were filled with dao blood, and soaking in the dao blood were one shaggy monster after another, half corpse, half zombie, with long teeth and sharp nails, frantically clawing at the coffin walls! The corpses of these prehistoric Dao Achievers, soaked in the dao blood of the coffins, had become a strange and uncanny form of life!
Shen Mu was startled, then gradually set his heart at ease.
These coffins must belong to another faction of Dao Achievers besides Miluo Palace and the Heavenly Capital, one that walked a different path from Miluo Palace and the Heavenly Capital. These Dao Achievers were weaker than those of Miluo Palace and the Heavenly Capital, so they carved coffins from the wood of the world tree, and then locked themselves inside.
In the end the Great Kalpa of Birth and Destruction erupted.
With the coffins refined from the world tree, they survived the Kalpa of Destruction, but they did not survive the Kalpa of Creation.
In the great kalpa of the cosmos's creation, they dissolved into blood and water, their corpses soaking in the blood they themselves had become, turning into corpse demons.
"The blood may not have been their own. More likely they killed other Dao Achievers and used their dao blood as a vessel, lying within it in the hope of surviving the Great Kalpa of Birth and Destruction.
" Shen Mu seized the door plank, leaped up, and trod from coffin to coffin straight toward the door frame. Beneath his feet, threatening roars rose from the coffins; clearly the things inside were not docile.
"But after the kalpa of birth and destruction passed, why could they not come out?
" Shen Mu blinked and smiled.