Chapter 791 — Antecedents and Roots
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Those two strands of baleful aura were this heavenly palace's God-Slaying Mystic Blade, and the donkey Brandished them like two great dragons, splitting the God-Slaying Platform with a crack!
The God-Slaying Platform broke in two, and at once fresh blood gushed from the divine mountain, countless streams of gore pouring out, and in a few breaths it had become a vast ocean of blood, cutting off the road ahead!
"Shen Fengqing, this is not a place you can enter. Go back!"
The scholar's voice came from ahead. "If you were not so clever, I might have taken you on a tour. But you are too clever—so turn back the way you came!"
Shen Mu looked ahead. The sea of blood grew ever wider, and all over it were shattered baleful auras forming layer upon layer of monstrous apparitions, impossible to set foot upon!
Shen Mu also possessed a God-Slaying Mystic Blade, and he knew the origin of the God-Slaying Platform: it had been forged in imitation of the one in the Dragon Han Heavenly Court, absorbing the qi-blood of gods and demons. Anyone who took even a slight wound on the God-Slaying Platform would have all his qi-blood stripped away, absorbed by the divine blade and the divine mountain.
And Chixi had once said that the age of the Supreme Emperor was the most savage of all, that countless gods and demons had been beheaded on the God-Slaying Platform. One could imagine how frightful the baleful aura here must be!
"But to block my way is no easy thing!"
Shen Mu reached into his Taotie Pouch and drew out a small box, and with a click he opened it.
The box opened, and with a clatter of bone membrane the jade throne-head inside grew wildly excited, frantically drawing in the baleful aura of the sea of blood!
Shen Mu held the box aloft on his primordial qi, floating it before him, and sent it into the sea of blood.
The Heavenly Worthy of Imperial Heaven hastily urged the water qilin after him, and saw Shen Mu's little box swallow the baleful aura of the sea of blood like a whale, blood qi growing ever denser, the bone membrane turning red as blood, the baleful aura in the jade skull's eyes growing ever stronger.
The dragon qilin was frightened out of its wits, again and again lifting its head to eye the little box. The water qilin said quietly: "Brother, why do you keep watching that box?"
The dragon qilin said, trembling: "I am watching to see when that box will eat its fill. You have never eaten a spirit pill, so you do not know that eating too much stuffs you—I have stuffed myself before. Once it has eaten its fill, it will eat no more..."
Even as he spoke, a sound of belching came from inside the little box.
Click—the little box snapped shut.
The dragon qilin shuddered with dread and cried: "We are done for!"
The blood-colored baleful aura surged toward them over the sea. Countless formation glyphs appeared around Shen Mu, and he was about to rouse the teleportation formation when the blood-colored baleful aura suddenly subsided, and from deep within the sea of blood a voice came: "Honored guest, the Earth Mother invites you. Please follow me!"