Chapter 1794 — It Was I Who Did It
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
When Shang Jun had finished the milling cutters, he went to resign. The factory's overseer was most reluctant to let him go and urged him to stay, but Shang Jun said, "Celestial Venerable Mu has asked me to go and kill Dao-attaining ones.
" Hearing this tale, the overseer suddenly recalled a certain person and hastily settled his wages.
Shang Jun departed. Xing An thought it over, then left together with him, saying, "Sect Master Shen still owes me a coffin.
And besides, this head is not much use.
" Shen Fengqing's head flew away, laughing.
"If it is no use, then I will take it back. When you see my little brother, tell him the forty-two years are nearly upon us, and I mean to see that person!
" "The forty-two years are nearly upon us? What does that mean?
" Xing An was baffled.
The Squalid Field of the Void.
After nearly a month of travel, the Golden Ship of Salvation finally came to this abandoned place. Shen Mu frowned slightly. "From the Ancestral Court to here should not take so long; twenty days at most would bring us here. Can it be that after the Old Man of the Boundless appeared, the World Tree's rapid growth has made the ultimate void larger than it was before? " A vague unease stirred in his heart.
If the ultimate void were growing, it would inevitably drive the myriad heavens and worlds to grow along with it; the universe's expansion was gradually speeding up.
"I do not know whether my judgment is right, or whether the ultimate void's growth has left the myriad heavens and worlds untouched. Hmm, this will require my father-in-law, the Star Official, to measure the great heavens and primordial worlds.
" He steadied himself. The growth of the myriad heavens and worlds, their becoming larger than before, looked like a good thing — but in truth it meant the universe was ceaselessly turning to void! As the Golden Ship of Salvation entered the Squalid Field of the Void, Shen Mu set the matter aside for the moment and said softly, "The Forest of Obelisks is a place of seals left behind by the First Young Master, Taishang.
Last time I was able to enter it because one obelisk of the forest had been thrown out of it by Taiyi, and of those two gates, one was missing. But when I left, the First Young Master Taishang appeared, put that obelisk back, and repaired the gate.
To get in this time, I will have to break open the gate and shatter the forest's suppressive power. . . " Divine light flickered in his eyes. "Do I have such strength? " The Golden Ship of Salvation threaded through the Squalid Field, avoiding one uncanny place after another, when suddenly a head covered in flesh and blood, with not a scrap of facial skin, came flying toward them; from it hair grew in every direction like steel wire. Shen Mu narrowed his eyes, and his aura abruptly erupted.
Feeling his momentum, the strange head turned and fled at once, vanishing into the darkness of the Squalid Field.
"I am strong enough. " Shen Mu clenched his fist and said in a low voice, "After the Old Man of the Boundless's tutelage, I am already strong enough. I can cleave open even the First Young Master's Hall of Taishang, let alone the Forest of Obelisks.
" He gave a low shout, and the primordial qi of Hongmeng burst from his body; purple flames blazed all around him, and the golden ship's speed leaped at once, roaring as it plunged into the Squalid Field! Wherever the golden ship passed, all the field's uncanny things fell still and calm, cowed by his blazing aura.
Shen Mu barreled straight through.
Ahead, coffin after coffin blocked the way. Those coffins were things the Dao-attaining ones had transformed from their own Dao Trees; they had hidden themselves within the coffins, hoping to survive the tribulation of destruction and the tribulation of creation. In the end these Dao-attaining ones had been sealed by someone, unable to escape their coffins, doomed to wander that abandoned place forever.