Chapter 1288 — From the Azure Heavens Above to the Yellow Springs Below
The Herdsman of the Wasteland Page 2 of 2
The next moment he appeared within the Nether Capital of the Great Void, crashing to the ground with a great booming roar, tumbling and rolling, like a straw man flung down and bouncing up, flung down and bouncing up again, rolling who knew how far. He had turned the Innate One Qi into the Dao of the Nether Capital, hiding himself within the Nether Capital to evade Shen Mu's killing move. Bang, bang, bang!
As he rolled, his fleshly body burst open again and again; he desperately scattered the surplus energy within him.
Even if it meant crippling a portion of his cultivation, so long as he escaped with his life from Shen Mu's hands, he would count it worth the price!
He need only flee into Yin Tianzi's territory, and Shen Mu could do nothing to him; Yin Tianzi was of one breath and one branch with him, and for a million years it had been he who looked after Yin Tianzi — Yin Tianzi would surely shield him from all harm! Yet the sky above the Nether Capital of the Great Void suddenly split open, and with a rumble one dark pillar after another rose from the earth.
These pillars rising from the ground were wreathed in thick black smoke, trailed by firelight, and the firelight flowed over the pillars, bringing dense Nether Capital Dao runes to the surface. "Brother Hao, the Nether Capital is no territory of Yin Tianzi — it is my territory!
" Shen Mu's vast, towering frame descended from the sky, and by the time he landed he had become a demon god with an ox's head, a man's body, and a tiger's face, like an ancient god born the moment the first life died, holding dominion over all souls. Upon those black pillars wreathed in firelight, veins surfaced, growing ever clearer, and became face after face of Tubo. Tubo had three eyes, and they rolled and swiveled, fixed all the while upon the tumbling Heavenly Venerable Hao.
Hum!
All the pillars blazed with light, and from the three eyes of Tubo upon every pillar shot ray after ray of demonic light, interweaving and crisscrossing, sealing off a thousand li in every direction!