Chapter 684 — The Fall of Taihuang Heaven
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The Wilderness Ruins. " The company was stunned. If Taihuang Heaven crashed down upon the Wilderness Ruins, it would surely bring on another catastrophe!
Li Zheng sighed.
"The people of the Nether Capital do things too ruthlessly.
They leave no room at all!
Let us hurry.
We must enter the Wilderness Ruins before Taihuang Heaven falls into it, or we will die with no place to be buried!
" "Follow me!
" Shen Mu shouted at the top of his voice and led the company toward the broken space. The others followed one after another, and along the way many odd and lively skeletons ran up, stretching out their hands to beg for clothes. Those who had spare garments gave them to the skeletons, and the skeletons that received them ran wild with joy.
There was even one tall skeleton, who in life must have been a man, wearing a woman's garments and parading about gaily, a most eye-catching sight.
After all this commotion, they came before the broken space and looked down. The abyss too was full of fragments of space, exceedingly perilous, yet compared with the road by which Taihuang Heaven had entered Taiming Heaven, it was far more stable.
The fragments of space here were not dense, and through them the scenery of the Wilderness Ruins could dimly be seen. Last time, Shen Mu had come here and used the God-Slaying Mystic Blade to cleave apart those fragments of space, entering the Wilderness Ruins without mishap.
But now, looking down, he was surprised to see that the broken space already possessed a stable passage. Someone had cut the fragments of space apart with an axe, leaving a channel a li or more in width.
Around this channel there was not the slightest fragment of space! "This must be the work of the Woodcutter Sage! " Shen Mu was relieved.
The Woodcutter Sage had plainly arrived here a step ahead, built the bridge along the way, and cleared the passage; no doubt he had already reached the Wilderness Ruins.
Yet what puzzled Shen Mu was this: why had the Woodcutter Sage not come looking for them, but instead gone on ahead? "With the Woodcutter Sage's strength, he should be able to pass through the fragments of space alone. Why, then, did he take such pains to calculate the path of life? Why build the bridge, why clear the passage?
" Shen Mu was somewhat bewildered.
The company rose into the air and leapt down one after another into the broken space.
And once through that broken space, below them stood the most towering ancient structure in all the Wilderness Ruins. The Southern Heavenly Gate! The Southern Heavenly Gate of the Kaihuang Celestial Court! On that day, above the Southern Heavenly Gate, tens of thousands of figures descended from the sky, landing one after another.
Shen Mu raised his head and looked at the sky. The entrance to Taiming Heaven in the heavens was almost impossible to discern.
Yet faintly, above the Southern Heavenly Gate, one patch of space could be seen glowing orange-red.
That was Taihuang Heaven! "Everyone, leave as quickly as you can.
Do not linger here.
Get to the nearest city!
" Shen Mu stood on high ground and shouted, "Follow me!
" The company strove to keep up with him, and that streak of orange-red in the sky grew steadily clearer.
It was Taihuang Heaven, tilting, rearing upright, falling along the Broken Cliff into the Wilderness Ruins! Although Shen Mu could not see the fall of Taihuang Heaven deep in the reaches of space, he could well imagine that it must be a scene of incomparable terror and magnificence!
What was falling was not Taihuang Heaven alone, but also that Luofu Heaven lodged in the place of Licheng in Taihuang Heaven!
Rolling magma, two heavens plunging down, would surely tear apart the vault of heaven above the Wilderness Ruins and smash into it.
They hurried at flying speed to the nearest city of the Wilderness Ruins. Scarcely had they entered when Shen Mu came face to face with a man with three faces, and his hair stood on end.