Chapter 1717 — Death to the Oathbreaker
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
To remain within was still more frightful: the palace was crumbling, and the tumbling, toppling great halls often crushed the behemoths beneath them, body shattered and bones ground to powder!
Long Qilin rose, wiped away his tears, and from his throat sent forth a low, strange roar. Outside the Divine Sense Cage, an enormous Void-Mother Beast thrust her head out of the void, swept her sharp claws, and tore the cage asunder.
Long Qilin, leading Tiny Tu Bo and his own sons and daughters, walked out of the cage and climbed onto the head of that measureless Void-Mother Beast; then, with a single shake of his body, he revealed his true form and became a colossal creature a thousand li in length, with the head of a qilin and the tail of a dragon, roaring up at the heavens in a dragon's cry that rang without cease! Across the lands of the Beast Realm, countless behemoths suddenly reared up on their hind legs, their bodies quaking, transforming into towering giants with beast heads and human bodies that propped up heaven and earth!
From within their bodies came thundering reports - peng, peng, peng - as though door after door was opening in their flesh; those were the layers of Divine Treasures within them! Treading auspicious clouds, these primeval behemoth adepts of divine power soared into the air and flew toward the falling Heavenly Palace, and giant after giant took that plummeting beast-race palace upon their hands and shoulders, slowing its fall until it fell no more.
At last the Heavenly Palace ceased to descend and rose instead, ever upward.
Many of these beast-race adepts had come from the school of Lan Yutian - non-human creatures cultivating the Dao.
Those beast-cultivators had later left the Ancestral Court at Great Dark Mountain and followed Long Qilin into the Beast Realm. Here, Long Qilin had led them in fusing the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace cultivation system with the particular traits and talents of the beast race, founding a civilization that belonged to the beasts alone. Over the years, he had achieved no mean success!
The beast-race Heavenly Palace returned to its former place, and Long Qilin stood amid its cloud-wreathed halls with the massive corpse of Long Xiao behind him.
In the ruins of the beast race's Heavenly Palace, behemoth after behemoth shook its body, flinging off rubble and beams; these were the sovereigns of the many races of the Beast Realm, holding power second only to Celestial Venerable Long Xiao, each ruling over its own kind.
One by one the colossal kings of beasts advanced, came before the Void-Mother Beast, and looked up at Long Qilin standing atop her head. Suddenly, one Primeval Beast King bent its forelegs and knelt prostrate upon the ground.
Behind it, one after another, the Primeval Beast Kings bowed their heads and knelt.
Long Qilin loosed a long dragon's cry, bright and weighty, ringing across the wilderness and the hills. The Primeval Beast Kings lifted their heads and answered with deep, drawn-out roars and bellows that shook the mountains and the stars.
On this day, the old lord of the Beast Realm passed away, and a new lord was born.