Chapter 436 — Encounter in Another World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
This mountain range must have appeared after the Kaihuang Kingdom fell and became the Wasteland. Shen Mu had once heard it said that a god had created the Divine Severance Mountains here to separate the Wasteland from Jingping, lest the people of the Wasteland escape.
When the mountains were being raised, upon reaching Mount Sumeru, because there were people above at the Great Thunder Roar Temple, the range was made to skirt around Mount Sumeru. Perhaps the god who raised the mountains buried many stone statues within them. "Young Master, could this stone statue be one of those that burrowed out in Jingping?
" Xue Hu'er asked. Shen Mu was slightly startled. Xue Hu'er said, "Perhaps there were already deity statues near the Divine Severance Mountains. Because many gods of heaven and other powerful beings died in battle here, and the statues used them as blood sacrifices, they came to life. But the sacrifices were not enough, so they cannot fully revive — they can only barely walk.
" "That is also possible.
" Shen Mu said doubtfully, "If that is so, then what are the stone statues searching for? " "Surely it is the Quake Cauldron that shattered the Divine Severance Mountains!
" Xue Hu'er said as a matter of course. "The Quake Cauldron is their weapon. They need to find it and fully release the earthquake within to destroy the world. When the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping shattered the Divine Severance Mountains, he certainly did not unleash the Quake Cauldron's full power. " "Ling'er is so clever!
" Shen Mu praised.
The little fox was smug.
"But if the stone statues can walk, why do they not search for other celestial phenomenon weapons?
" Shen Mu shook his head. "Searching for other celestial phenomenon weapons would be easier for the statues. Moreover, this place is still trembling — clearly the Quake Cauldron is still unleashing its power. The statues should have no difficulty finding the Quake Cauldron by the vibrations.
So your guess is probably wrong; the Flood Dragon King Deity's conjecture is more reasonable.
" Xue Hu'er's smugness vanished into thin air.
Suddenly Shen Mu stopped and once more dropped to the ground feigning death.
From ahead came footsteps of immense weight — a tall stone statue was walking toward them. Shen Mu stealthily cracked open one eye and saw that the statue's back was bristling with flags, the flags themselves petrified. Yet each flag bore a massive eye — most eerie. Wisps of black qi flew in, swiftly sinking into the flags on the statue's back. On one of the flags, an eye gradually evolved from stone, then turned to flesh and blood, the pupil and the white slowly becoming a true eye.
The eye rolled about in the flag, dull and sluggish — clearly lacking energy, unable to fully liberate itself from petrification.
"A demon eye! The stone statue is of the demon race! " Shen Mu's scalp went numb and he nearly leaped up. If it was of the demon race, then these stone statues could not possibly be the statues from beneath the Divine Severance Mountains. In the darkness of the Wasteland, it was the monsters of the demon race that ran rampant.
They did not fear the strangeness of the Wasteland's darkness, because they were the strangeness itself! Shen Mu had once encountered a demon god in the darkness. That demon god had lured him forward, making him mistake the outskirts of Fengdu for the Carefree Land, and the village chief had even crossed blades with that demon god!
"No, no — if these statues are demon race demon gods, why have they turned to stone? The demon gods I have seen before were all lively and vigorous, dragons fierce and tigers mighty!
" Various thoughts leaped up in his mind, and suddenly a possibility struck him: the world these stone statues belonged to did not overlap with either the Wasteland or Jingping.