Chapter 576 — The Primeval War Talisman
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
The white-haired elder's blue robe had been washed to a faded near-white; he set down the fishing net in his hands. Shen Mu felt something nudge and stir against his chest, and then the Jade Register of the Heavenly Emperor turned into a small dragon and wriggled out through his collar. At the sight of that little dragon, Jiang Miao could not help but revert to his original form; he too became a small dragon and hid behind Shen Mu, reverent and fearful at once, and said in a low voice, "Maha—" This little dragon was the Lord of the Divine Dragons.
It opened its small mouth in a yawn, then slowly crawled out of Shen Mu's collar, swam onto the white-haired elder's hand, coiled itself into a ball, and narrowed its eyes, drowsy and half asleep. Presently many young men and women came out of that little village and surrounded Shen Mu and Jiang Miao in their midst.
A sturdy young man asked, "Old Ancestor, has someone come to make trouble? " The white-haired elder laughed. "No.
Don't frighten them; these two both have some bond of fate with our village. " Only then did the young men and women let go of their hostility, and they eyed Shen Mu and the little dragon Jiang Miao behind him with curiosity. A chill of awe ran through Shen Mu's heart.
Every one of these young men and women brimmed with vital essence, each of them concealing depths beyond the surface; yet when they had closed in just now, he had heard, from within the youngest girl among them, seven bursts as her divine treasuries opened — clearly she was an expert of the Divine Bridge realm!
And this girl was surely the weakest in the village, for the others had placed her at the center, shielding her!
In this village that seemed so small, even the weakest villager was of the Divine Bridge realm! Shen Mu had once thought Yincan Village was the mightiest village in the Desolate Ruins; now it seemed the Desolate Ruins truly was a place where dragons lurked and tigers crouched. "Besides the Jade Register of the Heavenly Emperor, you also carry the Divine Dragon's Lair on you.
" The white-haired elder was all the more astonished, his gaze falling on Shen Mu's waist.
Shen Mu took the Taotie Pouch from his waist, drew out the Divine Dragon's Lair, and laid it respectfully before the white-haired elder, saying, "Please have a look, Senior.
" At once the Lord of the Divine Dragons in the white-haired elder's hand perked up and swam into the Divine Dragon's Lair. Seeing the Divine Dragon's Lair, the other villagers likewise roused themselves, eager and restless, as though they too wished to burrow into the lair just as that little dragon had.
But they held themselves back.
"Could it be that the villagers here are not human at all, but of the dragon race? Is this a village made up of dragons? " Watching all this, Shen Mu formed a guess in his heart, and explained to the white-haired elder: "The Ling family's Jade Register of the Heavenly Emperor was stolen by my Cripple Grandpa and given to me.
As for the Divine Dragon's Lair, it was forged by Lord Dragonkeeper of Heaven; I subdued Lord Dragonkeeper, and the Lair fell into my hands as well.
Senior, are you the divine one who forged the Jade Register of the Heavenly Emperor? " The white-haired elder's gaze rested on the dragon lair, and he said with a half-smile, "In those years I forged the Lord of the Divine Dragons into the Jade Register of the Heavenly Emperor and went into the Central Land to seek an heir.
I met a young man of quite extraordinary talent and understanding; this young man was the founding ancestor of the Ling family.
I saw that he had the aura of a divine dragon, so I gave him the Jade Register and taught him the dragon tongue and the arts recorded upon it.