Chapter 800 — Runaway Magnetic Surge
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" Feng Qiuyun stood dazed, for the voice below was the Earth Mother left with only a remnant soul and a heart, yet wielding the most vital body of the Earth Mother, the roots of the Primordial Tree. The roots were anchored in the Primordial World, inconceivably vast, none knew how far or deep they ran, and their magic power was mighty beyond imagining.
Upon the ground, beneath that Primordial Tree, the other Earth Mother Yuanjun possessed a flesh body and drove the tree, and the towering tree that pierced beyond the sky blazed with light, rosy radiance washing outward, streamers of light spinning and dancing as they struck down into the earth.
As the arts of the two Earth Mothers erupted, the former Jade Capital City had long vanished, and there remained only a storm formed of geomagnetic power, a storm that twisted space!
Shen Mu had seen his chance early and so was still secure, but even he could not withstand such monstrous magnetism, and he decisively urged a teleport art, sweeping up the company and carrying them away.
In the next instant they appeared a thousand miles off. Suddenly the magnetism beneath their feet erupted, savage magnetic divine light crisscrossing through the air like dazzling rosy beams, and wherever the light passed, mighty gods, devils, and practitioners fell upon it beyond control, their bodies shattered to pieces!
Seen from afar, it was as if those mighty beings hurled themselves willingly upon the magnetic light!
It was sheer slaughter!
Yet this was merely the Earth Mother Yuanjun above ground contending with the Earth Mother Yuanjun below, and the others caught in the crossfire.
Neither of the two Earth Mothers struck at these gods and devils, their strength was too dreadful, each commanding the power of magnetism, and when they clashed the magnetism ran wild and the innocent suffered. Magnetic divine power is the most fundamental force in the world, the most primal and the most terrible, and the Earth Mother, as the incarnation of that power, was so strong she could no longer be measured by such realms as Lingxiao or the Imperial Throne.
Ancient gods have no realms, only the strength of the Dao they command, and cannot be weighed by realms.
Shen Mu urged his teleport art again and again to flee outward, and in a few blinks escaped ten thousand miles.
His cultivation was much depleted, and he had to stop driving the teleport art and let the Dragon Qilin run outward at full strength.
Here the magnetism was still wildly violent, but the threat to them was greatly lessened, and the Dragon Qilin's cultivation and strength stood even above Shen Mu's, enough to cope with the raging magnetism.
He looked back to see that at the place where the two Earth Mothers clashed, the two dread beings could no longer be seen, only dancing Primordial Tree divine light and countless roots boring out from the earth. Besides that, one mighty one after another darted among the roots and branches of the two ancient gods, fleeing outward, and from time to time someone was struck and burst in midair into an outward-billowing cloud of blood mist.
All who could escape from there were the strong, their power far from common.
Suddenly Feng Qiuyun's eyes brightened as she saw a nine-headed phoenix beat its wings to slice through thick branches and roots, plucking its strings so that the music of the zither severed streaks of magnetic light, and broke free of that battlefield.
"Wretched Qi Xiayu!
" Feng Qiuyun raged, springing from the Dragon Qilin's head and turning into a fire phoenix that beat away.
"Sister Qiuyun, no!
" Shen Mu shouted aloud: "Come back quickly and guard me, I am about to cultivate into the Life and Death realm! " Feng Qiuyun was extremely swift and vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving two streaks of colored light in the sky, one the trail of Qi Xiayu's flight and the other the trail left by Feng Qiuyun.