Chapter 532 — The Braided Girl and the Shadow Boy
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The long-braided girl's face fell. "After you disappeared, our city was breached. So many died. Father saved us and brought us back, to this Mingyi City..."
She rushed forward; Shen Mu hurried after her. "When I disappeared last time, it was just as night turned to day. The demon race of your Taihuang Heaven didn't vanish with it?"
The long-braided girl was baffled. "Why would they vanish?"
Shen Mu was taken aback.
He had assumed the Taihuang Heaven was like the Wasteland, subject to the same phenomenon of invading darkness. Last time he had walked in the darkness; when the darkness receded, he had left the Taihuang Heaven with it. Now it seemed the Taihuang Heaven was not the same as the Wasteland—those of the demon race did not vanish with the turning of day and night, but could remain in this world all along.
"It seems the Demon King Dutian was right. The barrier between the Taihuang Heaven and the demon race's world has been crushed."
A chill ran through Shen Mu. "The Demon King Dutian's guess was entirely correct—which means his other guess is most likely correct as well. Once the demon race conquers the Taihuang Heaven, they will offer it up in a blood sacrifice, causing the demon world to collide with the Jingping world! How can it be stopped?"
The long-braided girl charged toward the altar ahead, speaking rapidly. "You've been fighting for a long time. Go rest in Mingyi City. I still have to fight with the army."
"These wounds of mine are nothing serious."
Shen Mu quickened his pace to keep up with her. "I'm an alchemist too—somewhat well known in the other world. I've already given myself a rough treatment. I came this time seeking stronger methods. In my world, many methods have been lost."
The altar, shaped like a hill, had already been seized by the demon host. The demon commander who had blasted Shen Mu more than ten li away had led his troops to occupy the high ground, and hundreds of demons were locked in a savage battle with the Taihuang Heaven divine ability users storming the altar.
The demon commander stood at the very top of the altar, working his arts and unleashing divine abilities. Clumps of sixteen-foot yin thunder rolled down from the sky, careening across the ground. Wherever these rolling thunderbolts passed, the bodies of the Taihuang Heaven divine ability users were dissolved outright, leaving running skeletons in their wake.
Shen Mu narrowed his eyes. The ferocity and uncanniness of the demon race's divine abilities surpassed even the many divine ability users of the Dark Demon Cult who had devoted themselves to cultivating demonic arts!
The braided girl rushed up the altar. "My father and I saw it while watching the battle from Mingyi City. You're formidable—your mana is absurdly powerful, your divine abilities are exquisitely refined, your rune structures are ingenious, and your attainments in divine abilities are very high. But there seems to be something wrong with your cultivation method—you have no true god-level method. Father says your civilization has a gap in it."
She met a demon head-on—an Asura, immensely powerful, with a mighty body and lightning-fast attacks. Suddenly it quivered, and rune marks surfaced all over its body, as though carved into its skin.
But the braided girl's body was absurdly powerful as well. The two traded blow for blow at blinding speed, divine abilities hidden in their fingers and palms, and in an instant the battle was decided, life and death settled.
The braided girl shattered its chest and pressed a finger to its brow. The Asura's skull burst open from behind; its corpse toppled and rolled down the altar steps.
Shen Mu's eye twitched, but he quickly saw that the braided girl's divine abilities were no more refined than his own—crude, even—yet her cultivation method truly had something extraordinary about it.