Chapter 888 — One Petal, One World

The Milky Way had clearly been severed, yet when he arrived it appeared again. In the dry riverbed in the sky, the Milky Way came surging down from the heavens and poured into Guixu.

Strangely, mist came rushing from the Milky Way and swept Wei Suifeng into it.

Within the mist he met Ling Tianzun, and when he walked out of the mist, he had returned to the Longhan Era and become a member of that magnificent age, seated as commander of the Yulin Guard of the Longhan Heavenly Court, in charge of the most powerful army of gods and demons beneath the Heavenly Emperor. Shen Mu examined the geographical map closely. On the Ghost Ship, Wei Suifeng had kept a notebook, and in that notebook there was also a route map of Guixu.

It differed somewhat from the map in Shen Mu's hands, clearly drawn in a different period. Yet the general shape of Guixu had not changed.

"What our senior brother left behind is hidden in Guixu. " Shen Mu's expression turned strange.

He looked at the map, then at the Great Abyss of Guixu, and felt somewhat dizzy. The place marked on the map as the hiding place of Wei Suifeng's things was the Great Abyss! "Can one go into the Great Abyss? " He was rather doubtful.

The Great Abyss could swallow even the Milky Way, and it was exceedingly strange, seeming able to devour souls; one careless step and a man might well find no burial ground.

Dragon Qilin chose a great boulder and hurled it into the abyss. The stone fell, vanished into the darkness, and for a long time no sound of it striking bottom came back.

"Must one jump in?

" Shen Mu frowned.

Using the Heavenly Demon Art of Creation, he sealed his own soul and suppressed it within his body, so that the Great Abyss could not drag his soul out.

He was just about to leap into the abyss when suddenly a rain of meteors fell from the sky.

Great stones came crashing down from above; a shattered planet had at some unknown time drifted above the Great Abyss of Guixu and been caught by its gravity.

The fragments of the planet plunged madly into the abyss. Those mountain-sized fragments streaked through the air with trails of fire, faster and faster, and fell into the abyss one after another, vanishing without a trace.

And in the sky, the planet, though already broken, was still immense beyond measure. Now this planet too was caught by the abyss.

It shifted once in the air, could not escape the abyss's gravity, and was dragged toward it.

As it moved, the broken planet was crushed and split again and again; fire blazed across its surface, tens of thousands of volcanoes erupted, and soon the whole surface had become a sea of molten rock and flame! Then the planet was torn apart by a terrifying force, stretched thinner and longer like dough pulled by a cook of Jingping.

Under the terrified gazes of Shen Mu and the others, the planet was drawn into a single streak of fire and fell into the abyss! Deep within the abyss, the firelight flared bright for a moment, then gradually dimmed. Shen Mu wiped the cold sweat from his brow and said in a hoarse voice, "Fat Dragon, we can leave this place by way of the Milky Way's riverbed.

. .

" Before he could finish, firelight began to rise again from deep within the abyss, brighter and brighter. Shen Mu was stunned. The light grew brighter and brighter still, and then suddenly a tremendous roar came, as though heaven had collapsed and earth had split apart.

The Great Abyss of Guixu erupted! "The dark currents of Guixu have burst forth?

" Shen Mu's heart lurched. From the whole of the Great Abyss of Guixu, a flood surged upward from below, bursting outward at an unimaginably terrifying speed.

So powerful was the flood that it shattered the sky outright!

Earlier they had seen light within Guixu, yet the flood that burst from the Great Abyss of Guixu was dark and sunken, without the slightest gleam!

This Great Abyss of Guixu was like the mouth of an immense monster that, having devoured a planet, gave a great belch! There was no color at all in the sky.

It had been dim here to begin with, and now it grew darker still, with no light of sun or sky.

The seawater beyond Guixu turned blacker yet. The sky seemed to melt away under the spray of the dark currents, and a rain of ash began to drift down.

Those black, flake-like things looked like the traces left when the sky was burned to ash; they dissolved the moment they fell into one's hand, vanishing like smoke.

"This is not the ash of the sky, but the ash of that planet just now. .

. " Shen Mu looked up at the surging dark flood and nearly cursed aloud: "This cursed place is no place for the living!

The Great Abyss of Guixu refines planets with ease; who could ever enter it? Senior Brother, you hid your things too well!

" Just then, the surging dark current gradually slowed, and the light rose higher and higher from within Guixu; it was clearly the firelight from before the dark current had burst forth. Shen Mu was stunned. The darkness hung almost motionless in the air, like a dark Milky Way flowing with extreme slowness.

And within the dark current, the light drew nearer and nearer. At last, the light appeared before them.

It was a flower, an immense flower.

It was a single plant, yet two blossoms grew together upon it, like two lotuses growing from a shared stem, one to the left and one to the right. One was the color of cinnabar, the other the color of darkness; the black blossom, mingled in the black current, was almost impossible to see. Shen Mu's heart stirred slightly, and suddenly he laughed aloud: "So that is it!

Our senior brother was clever indeed! Now that Guixu is calm and there is no gravity at all, one can enter the flowers and pass through these two blossoms into the abyss to obtain what he left behind!

" "Cult Leader, are you certain you want to go in?

" Dragon Qilin was somewhat unnerved.

Shen Mu had already stepped into the dark Milky Way and was flying toward the two great flowers.

Yan'er stood on his shoulder and looked back, saying, "Fat Dragon, hurry up! " Dragon Qilin did not want to go in, but he looked around and saw only gloom and darkness, and faintly heard shrill and mournful cries. He could not tell whether it was the sound of the dark currents of Guixu scraping against space, or whether some monster had truly been spewed out.

He had no choice but to rush in panic into the dark Milky Way and follow Shen Mu. "Cult Leader, what if these two flowers shrink back into the abyss? Won't we be trapped in there to die?

" he whispered.

Just then, the two great flowers trembled slightly, and the dark Milky Way began to flow backward! Shen Mu shot him a vicious glare and sped toward the two great flowers!

"Fat Dragon, were you a crow in your past life? " Yan'er asked curiously.