Chapter 773 — This Flavor Really Is Not Bad
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The other three Jiedushi stood at her side, studying the faces of these ancient beings, quietly on their guard. Within the cauldron, Shen Mu and those three primal spirits of the Lingxiao realm fell in almost at the same instant, and the light of the Heaven-Blending Net dispersed. All around was darkness.
Shen Mu looked up and saw a blaze of stars, a river of stars coiled above their heads.
He looked down and saw darkness beyond measure, and in that darkness floated face after face, some the faces of men, some the faces of gods and demons. They seemed made of the thinnest paper, with no thickness at all, floating thus in the dark, appearing and vanishing.
These were the powerhouses who had died in this cauldron; refined by the Life-Slaying Cauldron, they had become brands one by one within it, adding to the great cauldron's power.
"The Heaven-Blending Net! " One of the primal spirits showed despair and cried in a shrill, desolate voice: "The Heaven-Blending Net we forged with our own hands, that little beast Lu Li has turned it against us!
" "And the Life-Slaying Cauldron!
" The other two ancient beings' primal spirits showed deep dread and said in hoarse voices: "The Life-Slaying Cauldron forged from Tubo's reincarnated body, Youdu's foremost treasure, its foremost weapon of slaughter!
" "In the Longhan Era, Tubo went on a great slaughter, and with this cauldron refined the souls and scattered the spirits of ancient gods and demigods beyond counting!
" "We are finished! " "Let us out!
" The three primal spirits shot up and flew toward the river of stars above.
Shen Mu looked up, and suddenly saw the river of stars and the host of stars begin to turn; the three primal spirits of the Lingxiao realm rushed into the star river, were struck down at once, fell into the darkness, and there burst apart, their radiance slowly dying. "A pity, I did not get to eat them.
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Shen Mu looked about him, his face grave.
He saw the faces of those three ancient beings appear in the darkness and become three more brands. Those refined to death here were exceedingly mighty, yet under the power of the Life-Slaying Cauldron they had been annihilated outright, with scarcely any strength to resist!
In those years Tubo, bearing hatred for the death of his wife and daughter, had killed living things and been mastered by his demonic nature, and only thus did he forge Youdu's foremost weapon of slaughter!
At that moment his rancor and demonic nature reached their utmost, to the point of breaking free of the rule of Youdu; the Life-Slaying Cauldron forged then carried his strongest demonic nature and his hatred.
One may well imagine how dreadful this cauldron is!
"For now this cauldron has not attacked us. " Shen Mu looked at the faces drifting to and fro on every side, and a chill ran through him: "Is Tubo himself controlling this cauldron? No. After his great slaughter in the Longhan Era, Tubo felt the weight of his sins, and so confined his own reincarnated body in Yusuo Pass to suffer the torment of the karma fire.
This cauldron must have been cast aside by him, or else taken up by the Heavenly Court and given into the keeping of Lu Li and the other Jiedushi.
Which is to say, the reason this cauldron has not yet loosed its deadliest power of slaughter is likely that no one outside is rousing it.
" He steadied himself.
The three primal spirits just now had been struck down by the Heaven-Blending Net and had stirred the power of the Life-Slaying Cauldron, and had been annihilated on the spot, which showed that the cauldron's power could be triggered, but that so long as it was not triggered there was no great harm. Unless, that is, Lu Li and the others roused the cauldron's might directly.
"Tubo forged the Life-Slaying Cauldron in the Longhan Era; that being so, his attainments in the arts of calculation cannot have been high.