Chapter 781 — The Strange Guest Lurking in the Shadows
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
If they want to rush here, I fear it will take them as much as forty times longer than usual. " Shen Mu was still staring at the distant mountains. That peak was continuing to recede. "It will not be long before it is fifty times," he said. "The Earth Mother Prime Realm.
. . is it the world where Earth Mother Yuanjun was born? " No one could answer him. Suddenly, the sound of waves came.
A massive fissure appeared before them, filled with azure water. Then the fissure split to both sides, and more and more water poured out, quickly forming a hundred-li lake. Yet the lake kept growing, gradually turning into an ocean.
The ocean grew wider and vaster, stretching without end. Shen Mu was greatly shaken. He hurried through the Taihuang Heaven tunnel and came to the Eastern Desolate Ruins.
Xu Shenghua's heart stirred; she brought Yutian Tianzun and followed him, and the others ran after them as well.
Shen Mu looked east. The mountains stretched vast and boundless. He flew upward along the surface of Taihuang Heaven, rising higher and higher, his vision reaching farther and farther. At last, Shen Mu saw a vast sea hundreds of thousands of li away.
True God Pang Yu blurted out, "That is the Eastern Sea of the Kaihuang era!
That Eastern Sea vanished long ago.
How has it appeared again today? " The Eastern Sea was azure, its waves surging.
Such a vast amount of seawater had suddenly emerged from nowhere, its surface spanning tens of thousands of li.
That place had originally been a basin, not a large one; to the north was Mount Sumeru of the Great Thunder Sound Temple, to the east the Shenduan Mountains, and to the south Mishui Pass, where the Yong River flowed through. Now, in the direction of Mount Sumeru, clouds and mist coiled, and faintly visible was a heavenly pillar thrusting beyond the sky, its top unseen. Shen Mu looked toward the Shenduan Mountains, but the towering, unbroken range was no longer visible.
As for the Yong River, he did not recognize it at all now; he could only see a great river eight hundred li wide, surging eastward, its length even more inconceivable. "Lord Huanlong has profited greatly.
" Shen Mu murmured, "I regret making him Dragon Emperor of the Yong River. Yet the covenant I made with him was the Earth Lord's Covenant, so it is not easy to go back on it.
. . " He peeled the willow leaf from between his brows and sent his spiritual consciousness into the Shen-character continent within the seal, asking, "Heavenly Lord, Earth Lord, can you sense the changes in the Desolate Ruins?
" Heavenly Lord and Earth Lord looked out through his third eye. Both bodies trembled.
The two ancient beings exchanged a glance, their expressions grave. Great Sun Star Lord also looked out and blurted, "The Primordial Prime Capital!
The birthplace of Earth Mother Yuanjun! " Shen Mu asked curiously, "Is it not the Earth Mother Prime Realm? Why does the Star Lord call it the Primordial Prime Capital?
" "The name Earth Mother Prime Realm came after the Heavenly Court was established.
It was formerly called the Prime Capital, and it was Earth Mother Yuanjun's domain. Later, when the Heavenly Court was established, it was built above the Primordial Prime Capital.
" Great Sun Star Lord continued, "The gods mined the divine gold of the Prime Capital to forge the Heavenly Court. Earth Mother Yuanjun was somewhat displeased, feeling that many treasures had been taken and that the Heavenly Court had stolen the Prime Capital's fortune. Later still, when the Heavenly Court built its thirty-six heavenly palaces and seventy-two treasure halls, they came again to mine divine gold.
Earth Mother Yuanjun was even more unhappy, so she changed the name to Earth Mother Prime Realm and declared this place her territory. Among the Nine Tianzuns, Cloud Tianzun later rebelled and founded the Xiaohan Heavenly Court, which was built here.
Back then, when I was attacking the Xiaohan Heavenly Court, I took an arrow in the back. .