Chapter 1845 — Trampling Wuyai Underfoot
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
The Ancestral Court.
Jiang Baigui and the others gazed out from afar, and saw that the myriad heavens and worlds were swelling, while the Ancestral Court was shrinking.
Over these three billion five hundred million years, the Ancestral Court had dwindled to a mere one hundredth of its former size; seen from afar, it looked more and more like a great cauldron — and of course, even at a hundredth of its former size, that cauldron was vast beyond imagining. The group hurried forward, when suddenly a colossal beast wreathed in blazing fire came flying from the surface of the Ancestral Court; from afar it seemed tiny, but the nearer it came, the larger it grew. It was a dragon qilin, and only when it reached the front of the group did it gradually alter its form, becoming a man with the head of a qilin and the body of a human.
He saluted them and said, "Forgive me, gentlemen. I was a little lazy and did not go to the Yuan World to join you.
" "There is no need for such courtesy, Lord of the Beast World. " Xu Shenghua asked, "The Ancestral Court is shrinking — has that had no effect on the Beast World? " The dragon qilin walked shoulder to shoulder with him and said, "The effect has been considerable.
In recent years the Ancestral Court has grown stranger and stranger: the earth, the mountains and rivers have all become incomparably hard and firm; the rivers, lakes and seas have turned peculiar; even the wind and rain in the sky have changed, as though they were some kind of treasure, or the veins of some great Dao.
On the whole my beast race can still survive, but to be safe I have already ordered them to migrate from the Ancestral Court and move to other territories of the Beast World.
Here in the Ancestral Court, I alone remain, guarding it and awaiting the final showdown. " He gave a sheepish smile and said, "I suppose I am a little impatient — not so unhurried as you. " Lan Yutian asked, "Lord of the Beast World, you are well versed in every kind of Dao art and divine ability — have you noticed anything unusual? " The dragon qilin hesitated, then nodded. "The Ancestral Court is bound and permeated by a mighty force; it has essentially been completely refined. These past days I have observed everything on the outer reaches of the Ancestral Court and discovered something very telling.
The fundamental structure of all matter within the Ancestral Court is changing — even the smallest thing is filled with Hongmeng runes.
" As they drew near the Ancestral Court, the dragon qilin reached out and plucked a cloud drifting above the continent of the Ancestral Court, pinched a drop of water from it, and said, "Look, everyone.
" Everyone looked at that drop of water, and the dragon qilin suddenly spread his hands apart; the drop became immeasurably vast, like a star hung in the sky! The dragon qilin then took a drop of water from that now-immeasurably-vast droplet, while the droplet that had just been enlarged fell back toward the Ancestral Court, quickly shrank, turned back into a drop of water, and was absorbed by the cloud vapor in the Ancestral Court's sky. The dragon qilin spread the droplet in his hand apart again, and it became immeasurably huge once more; again he took a drop from it and spread it apart again, and so on over and over, more than a hundred times. At last everyone saw the structure of Dao chains hidden within that single drop of water, and their hearts were deeply shaken.
The dragon qilin continued to divide it, and after several dozen more divisions, the Dao-chain structure within the droplet gave way to reveal the structure of Dao patterns, and then the structure of runes. He kept dividing, and the rune structure was still further subdivided; runes of every shape kept changing, split into ever finer and more minute forms.
At last the drop of water was divided to the point where it could be divided no further, and what appeared before everyone was an incomparably tiny rune. A Hongmeng rune.