Chapter 800 — Runaway Magnetic Surge
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The voice came from underground, roaming and drifting beneath the earth, elusive and unfixed, sneering coldly: "You felled my Primordial Tree, cut my heart with a sword, seized my flesh to nourish a false spirit. Pity that once felled, the Primordial Tree becomes a rootless tree, and you, born of rootless wood, can never become the new Earth Mother. What is false is false, and never can become true!
" Hearing this, Shen Mu at once slapped the Dragon Qilin on the head and barked in a low voice: "Fat Dragon, turn and run--" The Dragon Qilin reacted swiftly, wheeling about at the word and bolting, while the Water Qilin, still kneeling on the ground and holding the rope, was dragged tumbling end over end, yet still would not let go.
Yu Tianzun cried in haste: "Ah Shui, run with us.
" The Water Qilin came to himself, hastily loosed the rope, shook his body to reveal his true form, and chased after the Dragon Qilin.
Feng Qiuyun said hurriedly: "That voice underground is the Earth Mother, why run?
Stop, I still have to deal with that little wretch Qi Xiayu!
" She had just spoken when the earth shook with a thunderous roar, and the voice from the depths burst into great laughter, shrill with grief and resentment: "You have no idea why I am called Earth Mother! The power of the Earth Mother comes not from the trunk and crown above the ground, but from the roots!
" The Dragon Qilin, in full flight, suddenly saw the earth beneath his feet split open, countless enormously thick roots writhing and darting through the underworld like huge black-brown dragons.
The whole of Jade Capital City abruptly collapsed and sank into the earth, and many demigods, gods, and devils who had been kneeling prostrate were caught off guard, tumbling into great fissures, only to be seized and devoured by the writhing roots and vanish underground. Fire clouds bloomed beneath the Dragon Qilin's feet as he bore the company on his back and strained upward with all his might.
"The world thinks only that the Primordial Tree is vast, never knowing the tree is but the part above ground, and what is truly vast are the roots, the primordial roots a hundred times vaster than the tree!
" The voice from below grew ever more furious, Jade Capital City was utterly buried, and more than that, the entire Heavenly Palace buckled in the turmoil and fell into the earth.
From below, fire and smoke suddenly gushed straight to the clouds, and huge pillars of magma thicker than mountain ranges spun madly.
Feng Qiuyun stared blankly at the sight, watching countless demigods, gods, and devils fly and weave between those massive pillars of fire, each displaying divine arts in a bid to escape.
The Dragon Qilin and the Water Qilin reached the limit of speed, yet all at once the primordial magnetism fell into chaos, and their bodies in an instant grew incomparably heavy and hard to keep aloft!
In the sky, whether gods and devils or Qi Practitioners, of whatever race, all came crackling down!
The falling was uncanny, for they did not drop straight to the ground but fell toward places where the magnetism was aberrant, some falling upward into the sky, some falling downward, some falling sideways.
Suddenly a god and devil dropped past them and landed in midair, and with a sharp crack the god smashed upon a mighty magnetic art, blood bursting forth and flesh parting from bone, bone and muscle ground to powder, the heavy sinking below and the light floating above, a death too hideous to behold!
That god had plainly fallen in empty air, yet it was as if he had slammed into the hardest wall of bronze and iron! All around them, countless gods, devils, and practitioners tumbled this way and that, none reaching the ground, but all smashing upon the five-phases magnetic arts and bursting with sharp cracks around them, turning into blossoms woven of blood, desolate and strangely beautiful.
Shen Mu said in a deep voice: "Sister Qiuyun, now you know why we run?