Chapter 439 — Dying in Another's Stead
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Then the sky and the earth were both blasted open into a great hole, and on the other side of that hole appeared another world. " At that time they were in the midst of bitter fighting; the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping's desperate strike frightened them all out of their wits — yet the upheaval in the God-Severing Mountains let them all escape that calamity. They had no time to examine the other world before they were plunged into bitter fighting again. Lord Hua and Lord Yanxing were too strong, with none to match them; Lord Hua went to attack the Sunlight Boat, meaning to kill Yan Jingjing, and the situation was desperate. Granny Zhu saw that things were ill, gathered them all, and laid out the Great Luo Heaven Star formation, forcing the Great Luo Heaven Star Grand Formation into motion and pulling all their primordial spirits out of their bodies in one sweep, meaning to do battle as pure spirits. "And then we entered a strange world. " The Deaf Elder stared blankly and said, "Beneath the God-Severing Mountains there is a strange world — it should be, it should be.
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" The Kun King, a man of wide experience, said, "The inner world of a divine-and-demonic great artifact! " The Deaf Elder nodded and said, "In that place we were all trapped, yet still we fought on without cease, and in the end several of us were struck down. After we died, we sensed a strange power invading that world, and then we saw a bird-headed deity come flying on beating wings, who led us to Fengdu, saying we were to meet an old acquaintance.
We had only just seen the Village Head when Shen'er pulled us back. " "The Village Head is in Fengdu?
" Shen Mu was astonished; then a pang struck his heart, and he clenched his fists: "Village Head, I will surely go to Fengdu and rescue you!
" What was more astonishing still was that some nameless power beneath the God-Severing Mountains had blocked the Zhen Cauldron's might — and moreover had drawn their primordial spirits into itself. What on earth was this great artifact?
Why was it buried here?
Who had made it, and who had buried it? "By that reckoning, what the demon-god stone statues of the alien realm are searching for must be that great artifact! Granny Zhu and the others, and the primordial spirits of the gods of High Heaven, are still within it! " He had scarce thought this when the earth suddenly quaked, rocks flew up in the distance, and a stone statue, spinning, broke through the earth and rose slowly — the demon-god stone statue of the alien realm had searched its way here from beneath the ground. At the same moment, tremors came from the darkness.
Shen Mu peered intently and saw, in the mist, stone statues walking toward them, one after another.
"They have found that great artifact! " Shen Mu's face changed drastically.