Chapter 240 — A Brand-New Dawn
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The Dutian Demon King leapt down from the cliff — with a thud, he landed steady on the sheer rock wall, his body perpendicular to Shen Mu's, and walked to and fro upon it, saying, "The seals here are more complex than I imagined. They are formed of cubes, sealing Wuyou Township within, and controlling the geomagnetic prime force of this place. Walk over and see for yourselves."
Shen Mu cautiously put out a foot, and suddenly felt a pulling force rise from beneath his sole. He set that foot down, lifted the other, and found that he too was standing on the rock wall, feeling no discomfort at all.
Not only that: in his own sight he seemed to be standing at the edge of the cliff, while Granny Zhu, Elder Huo, and the rest stood perpendicular on the wall, and he and the Dutian Demon King stood on level ground.
He looked in all directions, and his heart quivered. On the opposite side he saw another forest, perpendicular to the ground.
Besides that, in the skies of every other direction hung vast tracts of forest.
It was as though blocks of land had enclosed Wuyou Township, fitting together into an enormous hollow sphere.
Yet geographically it did not seem to be a simple hollow sphere either; rather, it looked as though a thousand cubes of differing heights had been assembled into a huge hollow sphere, and at the center of that sphere lay Wuyou Township.
Each cube was a forest-space folded out of a thousand and more li, and every face of each cube was a front.
Such divine power was already at a height he could not imagine; even a being like the Imperial Preceptor Jingping, he feared, could not conceive that such a power existed in the world.
"The geomagnetic prime force here has been altered."
The Blind Elder had come over too. Sensing the pull, he said, "This great divine power is no small matter; it shrouds the whole of Wuyou Township. The only exit, I fear, is the road by which we came."
"Countless seals, all for the sake of keeping the people of Wuyou Township from walking out."
Granny Zhu had come over as well. Raising her head to gaze upward, at shattered Wuyou Township floating silently still a great distance away, she said, "The Village Head and the Patriarch have vast power. They must have entered that place, no?"
The Dutian Demon King looked up, then walked back along the road they had come, and shook his head. "There are no few prohibitions in the air; it would be very hard to fly past the divine prohibitions in avoidance. I need to calculate for a time before I can work out a living path. Roughly three to five decades, perhaps. If my true body were here, it could be faster — but even then it would take a year or two. The god-demon who left these seals behind is too strong; it is not something you could handle. If they tried to fly into Wuyou Township, then in all likelihood they are already dead..."
He muttered to himself, "The whole Desolate Ruins is a cursed land; strange rules shroud it, and living in such a world is truly hard. Sect Master Shen, you asked me to come to this world — I will not come again. This world is too perverse!"
The Blind Elder murmured, "The Village Head is sure to survive. That old fellow never takes anything seriously, but once he does take something seriously, he is certain to accomplish it... Wait — look at the shape of Wuyou Township. Doesn't it look like a ship?"
One after another they raised their heads to look. Wuyou Township was immense beyond measure; shattered though it was, the splendor and grandeur of its former days could still be made out, and a sun on the verge of sinking into darkness hung there.
Yet if those shattered mountain peaks, those enormous machines, and that ruined city were fitted together, the shape did truly resemble an inconceivably vast and magnificent ship!
Beside it, the Sun Boat and the Soul Boat amounted to nothing at all.
"Wuyou Township is a ship?"