Chapter 781 — The Strange Guest Lurking in the Shadows
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Shen Mu said in surprise, "Brother Yutian, do you recognize these characters?
" Yutian Tianzun was still dazed. "When I see these characters, they feel familiar," he said.
"I feel this is how they should be read. " The others were astonished. Everyone knew that Shen Mu was erudite and talented, proficient in many languages: the divine tongue, the demonic tongue, the Youdu tongue; he had even dabbled in the scripts and languages of the ancient and primordial eras.
Yet no one had expected that a script even Shen Mu could not recognize would be recognized by the young man beside him. The others did not dwell on it, however; their gazes were drawn to the scene before them.
The Desolate Ruins were still expanding.
Many of the original mountains had been pushed to extremely distant places, yet no mountain-building movement had occurred within the Ruins. Had it been mountain-building, there would surely have been earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and magma everywhere. But though the Desolate Ruins were expanding, they were relatively calm; the land, mountains, and hills seemed to emerge from space itself.
Thus the expansion had not greatly affected the living beings who dwelt there. Yet the land that surged forth was too vast, far exceeding the original Ruins.
Shen Mu searched for the nearest mountain; the mountain closest to them had already receded to forty times its former distance. In other words, the Ruins had now increased in length and width by at least forty times.
Their area had likely grown sixteen hundred times.
Taihuang Heaven was inserted into the Desolate Ruins, spanning north and south, but now it seemed like a wall erected within the Ruins, no longer as awe-inspiring as before. When Taihuang Heaven had been thrust into the center of the Ruins, it had been profoundly shocking; now that the Ruins had expanded, that shock was much diminished. Shen Mu looked around.
The road that the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping had once laid down was now fragmented, broken into segments.
Even more alarming, the newly added mountains and terrain were wreathed in multicolored auroras; in some places, radiance gushed forth.
They even saw ancient city ruins and broken colossal statues of giants standing between heaven and earth. "This upheaval is like sealed land being released," True God Pang Yu murmured.
Venerable God Sang Ye asked, "Was the Desolate Ruins like this before? " True God Pang Yu was rather ancient.
He shook his head and said, "No. The Desolate Ruins of the Kaihuang era were different from those of today, but on the whole they were still similar.
The Kaihuang Heavenly Court smashed down and broke through the heavens, falling here, and many relics of the Heavenly Court appeared within the Ruins. At that time the Kaihuang era had not yet fully ended, and many gods still remained here. " Granny Zhu asked, "What about before the Shanghuang era? What were the Desolate Ruins like in the Shanghuang era?
" True God Pang Yu smiled bitterly. "How would I know about the Shanghuang era?
" Granny Zhu mused, "The land that has emerged this time should be the Earth Mother Prime Realm, which was suppressed beneath the Desolate Ruins.
Just now I used my primordial magnetic divine ability and disturbed the sealed Earth Mother Prime Realm, causing it to be released. But why was this Earth Mother Prime Realm suppressed beneath the Desolate Ruins? " Everyone turned to True God Pang Yu, waiting for his answer. True God Pang Yu glared, his eyes already large and now even larger. Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, he said, "How would I know such things? Do not look at me; even if you look, I still do not know!
The Woodcutter Celestial Master knows much. Go ask him.
" "The Woodcutter Sage is over in Jingping, working with the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping to promote reforms in various places.