Chapter 602 — Blood Sacrifice to Luofu
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
At the same time, light flickered in the divine city as a teleportation array appeared. Before the people within could collect themselves, Shen Mu had already activated the teleportation flags again. The light had barely faded before it blazed once more, sending them out of the city.
He activated the teleportation arrays again and again, and after several repetitions, they finally escaped four or five hundred li away.
Shen Mu's magical power was exhausted. He waved his sleeve and put away the teleportation flags, saying, "I can only teleport us this far."
Snow Fox said, "I know—it's because Dragon Fatty is too heavy!"
The dragon-qilin lowered its head in shame.
Everyone hurried toward Li City, and along the way they each focused their gaze toward the sky, but they still could not see clearly.
Yet in the Blind Elder's eyes, he could see that the lands and mountains, the lakes and seas of Luofu Heaven were all collapsing. Mountain after mountain crumbled, the seas evaporated, and the rivers of Luofu Heaven twisted like writhing snakes, squirming and struggling in midair!
This scene was absolutely horrifying!
A blood sacrifice of an entire world—it made one feel both awe at its grandeur and desolation at its tragedy.
At that moment, they heard a resonant sound from the sky like the mournful cry of a great whale in the ocean—unendingly long, like the death cry of another dying world. Though it carried no human emotion to the ear, it made one unable to hold back tears.
That world, though it was the world of demons, was still the mother of all who dwelt within it. Hearing a mother's death cry, one could not help but feel it as one's own.
"Luofu Heaven has not actually been drawn closer."
Granny Zhu suddenly understood. As she flew with the others toward Li City, she said in a low voice, "Luofu Heaven is still in its original place. It is this blood sacrifice's power that has opened a passage through space between Luofu Heaven and Taihuang Heaven, making Luofu Heaven appear as though it were directly overhead."
Varahi's heart was ice-cold. He looked up at Luofu Heaven, the world that had raised him. Even as Shen Mu fled, even as the Star Prison attacked and killed a true demon and wreaked havoc in the demon camp, he did not spare a single glance.
The demons' Luofu Heaven was being transformed into pure streams of energy through the blood sacrifice, surging toward Taihuang Heaven.
The Woodcutter Sage had succeeded.
He was exceptionally clever and naturally knew who had done this.
After the gambling duel at Li City, the Woodcutter Sage had disappeared for some time and had not shown himself since. It must have been that he intended to pull the firewood from under the cauldron—to enter the demons' lair, Luofu Heaven, and set up the altars needed for the blood sacrifice of Luofu!
And now, the Woodcutter Sage already possessed the means to perform the blood sacrifice of Luofu!
Lu Li, however, had long since ceased to find such things strange. After all, destroying world after world was commonplace in her eyes. Within the Nether Capital were countless destroyed worlds forming Tubo's Nine-Bend Horn, and innumerable remnant souls wailed and howled within those sunken worlds.
"Capturing that brat surnamed Shen is what matters!"
She made her decision on the spot and strode in the direction Shen Mu and the others had teleported. Just then, the blood sacrifice upon Luofu Heaven, which had fallen into destruction in the sky, suddenly stopped. A voice came from another world: "Varahi, do you wish to cease hostilities, or do you wish Luofu Heaven to be annihilated?"