Chapter 516 — The Girl in the Shadows
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Shen Mu's heart shook: "Even an omnipotent god or demon cannot touch me!"
Suddenly the city fell into panic. The dark deity set the shadow girl down and at once soared into the air, heading for the city gate.
Shen Mu hurried after the shadow girl. The two ran to high ground, and saw the space beyond the city quiver; one black opening after another suddenly appeared, and monstrous demon gods of immense, hideous bulk were crawling out of those openings, leading countless demons in a surge toward these magnificent cities.
A great battle erupted.
Before long the city was breached, and countless demon creatures poured in like a tide, fighting and slaughtering in the streets and alleys.
Shen Mu followed the shadow girl in dodging this way and that. The city was in utter chaos: everywhere divine arts and primal weapons burst forth with power, everywhere houses and palaces were collapsing.
The night was exceedingly long. Then suddenly the crowing of a rooster came to his ears; Shen Mu's heart gave a small jolt, and he saw the darkness surge, and the city surge with it, while the demon gods and their demon hordes retreated in frenzy, burrowing into the spatial openings one by one and vanishing.
Shen Mu's body was jolted by the surging darkness. He was just about to seize the shadow girl beside him when she, like the city, turned into streams of black vapor and receded with the darkness, vanishing from sight!
A ray of sunlight spilled down and lit his surroundings. Shen Mu looked around: this was a stretch of high mountains and steep ridges, and no city could possibly have appeared here.
"Hierarch! Hierarch!"
Long Qilin's call came. Shen Mu followed the sound and at last found the ruins where they had rested the night before. Seeing him, Long Qilin hurried over with a washbasin in its jaws, set the basin down, wagged its tail, and said with an apologetic smile, "Hierarch, it's time for breakfast. You're already quite late..."
Shen Mu turned and looked around. All that he had seen and heard the night before seemed like a dream.
"This Waste is too strange. Could I really have entered another world last night?"