Chapter 677 — The Underworld's Register of Life and Death
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Daoist Master Lin Xuan and the others arrived and hurriedly reinforced the altar as well. Everyone worked without pause, yet the altar continued to tremble.
The energy surging from Jingping grew ever more vast, spilling across the sky.
At this moment the sun went dark; Taihuang Heaven had reached night, yet the sky was brighter than ever before, lit by the radiance of the spiritual energy transmigrating from Jingping! That strange star faded bit by bit.
Suddenly the Primordial Ancestor soared into the air, flying up to the strange star, and only then did its movement slow slightly. Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief and redoubled his efforts to reinforce the altar.
Luofu Heaven. Majestic altars stood in this already ruined world.
Upon the altars, Huangxu god-men stood guard, protecting them.
For the past two years they had been stationed here, repelling countless waves of attacks from the demon race. On this day, before one of the altars, space suddenly split open, and three demon-gods stepped out; they were none other than Lou Yunqu, Fu Yanqi and Kui Qingpei. "On the demon race's land, how many heroes and champions were born, and how many were buried upon this soil?
" Lou Yunqu was filled with emotion. He took out the Book of Life and Death and gently unrolled it, saying leisurely: "The long years have sent away too many figures worthy of song and tears.
Are you still there?
" His voice suddenly rang out loud and clear: "By the command of the Black Emperor of Youdu, I bid you wake, and fight for me! " The Book of Life and Death floated in the air, blazing with light, like a mirror casting incomparably brilliant radiance from its pages, shining downward.
Whoosh — the Book of Life and Death flew through the skies of Luofu Heaven.
Wherever its light shone, names immediately surfaced on its pages, countless names leaping and shifting upon the Book's pages! The book flew back and forth across Luofu Heaven at a speed invisible to the naked eye, illuminating every inch of Luofu Heaven!
The Huangxu god-man on that altar felt a chill in his heart.
His gaze turned toward Lou Yunqu and the other two, and he said in a deep voice: "Who are you, stirring up trouble here? " Lou Yunqu and the other two stood quietly with their hands tucked into their sleeves, paying him no heed.
Suddenly the ground split open.
A white-boned skeleton clad in scrap metal and rusted iron burrowed out from underground and stood up, ghostly fire burning in its eye sockets, standing motionless. Clatter, clatter, the sound of bones knocking together spread.
Every inch of Luofu Heaven's soil churned, and countless dry bones burrowed out of the earth and rose to their feet.
A demon-god still in the process of rotting crawled out from underground. It suddenly opened its massive mouth and spewed thick demonic qi, as if roaring soundlessly at Lou Yunqu and the others.
The violent demonic qi struck so hard that the three men's faces creased, their hair and robes streaming backward, their faces smeared with foul saliva, painted in livid greens and purples. Before long, tens of millions of corpse bones formed an army whose end could not be seen at a glance.
The demonic qi seemed to press down and collapse the cracked firmament, dreadfully gloomy. The Huangxu god-man on that altar turned pale with fright and gripped his divine weapon tightly. Lou Yunqu raised his hand, and the Book of Life and Death came whistling back. He smiled and said: "Junior Brothers, guess how long it will take to capture these altars and eliminate the remaining scoundrels of Kaihuang upon them?
" Boom — countless corpse bones surged like a tide toward the altars. In just a few breaths, the sky-covering mass of corpses submerged the altars!
Kui Qingpei laughed: "Shorter than I imagined.
" One altar after another fell. The Huangxu god-men guarding them could hardly resist such attacks, torn to shreds by the surging demon-god corpses!