Chapter 774 — The Ugly-Faced Youth
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
Shen Mu called out several times, but Shen Fengqing gave no answer at all; the big-headed baby had actually fallen asleep at this critical juncture, with a thumb still stuffed in his mouth. Shen Mu pulled the thumb out of his mouth and wiped it on his clothes; the thumb Shen Fengqing had been sucking was his own finger.
He had three heads and six arms; of these, one head and its two arms were under Shen Fengqing's control, while the other two heads and four arms were his own to command, and in battle Shen Mu could also wield all six arms.
Earlier, when Shen Fengqing slept, he would drag Shen Mu's hand over and stuff the thumb into his mouth. With nothing in his mouth, Shen Fengqing slept less soundly; he smacked his lips and mumbled a few words.
Shen Mu lifted Shen Fengqing's left hand and put the thumb into his mouth, and only then did he settle down.
"Is he the elder brother, or am I?
" Shen Mu shook his head and roamed through the darkness of the Life-Slaying Cauldron, searching for a way out; yet though he flew on and on, he could never find its edge.
The Life-Slaying Cauldron looked small enough, but the space within it seemed boundless, without end.
Shen Mu unleashed his teleportation divine ability, yet even that could not carry him out of the great cauldron. After a long while, he finally gave up searching for the cauldron's rim and turned to fly upward.
The Life-Slaying Cauldron had been forged by Tubo, and Tubo's powers were vast beyond measure; mighty as Shen Fengqing was, he was still immeasurably far from Tubo's level.
Thus the Heaven-Blending Net was in fact the best route of escape.
He came to the firmament, and before he had even drawn near, he saw countless starlights wheeling through the heavens, the star-river shifting and coiling like dragons as it surged toward him. Shen Mu raised a hand to block it, his mana forming a rampart, and the star-river crashed against that rampart at once. Boom— A violent tremor swept through him; his rampart of mana collapsed with a thunderous crash, and the star-river struck his very flesh, hurling him shrieking down from the heights!
In but a moment, countless stars had smashed into his body, and searing pain followed.
Shen Mu forced himself to withstand the blows, then bellowed, and from his mouth rolled the vast and mighty demon tongue of Youdu: "Where my body stands, there is Youdu!
" Below, the demonic qi within the Life-Slaying Cauldron swarmed upward, gathering beneath his feet into a dark continent; then the demonic qi of Youdu soared to the heavens and surged against the star-river above!
Shen Mu discovered that he could actually command the power of the Life-Slaying Cauldron, and was both startled and delighted. The star-river that came crashing at him was scattered by the demonic qi of Youdu; treading the continent of Youdu, he rose higher and higher, straight into the star-river itself.
The star-river churned, growing ever more violent, and suddenly the starlight of countless stars hummed and linked together, becoming a densely woven net of starlight, crisscrossing in all directions, descending from the sky, slicing through the demonic qi of Youdu as it fell. Startled, Shen Mu summoned the demonic qi of Youdu; the raging qi gathered in his hand into a long saber, and he hacked at the falling net of starlight! Crosswise and lengthwise, a vast single line of sky!
The blade-light swept one way and the other, tearing the net of starlight open. Shen Mu drew a long breath, his body swelling joint by joint into a giant ten thousand zhang tall, and his four arms hammered madly at the sky; in an instant countless fists had shattered the star-river!