Chapter 883 — Gathering the Milky Way Before the Moon Palace
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Bai Qu'er suddenly flew with him, a fleeting gleam, rising upward at unimaginable speed, and pointed in a direction. "Look over there!
" she laughed. Shen Mu looked where she pointed and saw the heavens, one after another, like gems inlaid beyond the Yuan Realm, and within those enormous gems were suns, moons, and stars, like bright points set in the gems, flickering in and out of being.
They flew past these enormous gems, and the world barriers, like invisible membranes, gently repelled them as they drew near. Bai Qu'er borrowed force from the world barriers to quicken her pace, and roamed the void with Shen Mu.
They flew away from that true sun, and Shen Mu looked up and saw another sun, dim, giving off a dark red light; then above this sun he saw yet another dark red sun.
"That is where Kaihuang's Thirty-Three Heavens once were. " Bai Qu'er roamed with him.
"Kaihuang built thirty-three worlds here, but those heavens have already perished, ruined. " She led Shen Mu past the first extinguished sun, and circling this sun, they saw an enormous galaxy.
"That is the eye of Heaven Lord; he should be able to see us!
" Bai Qu'er waved excitedly at the mass of stars.
Shen Mu waved excitedly at the galaxy too, so stirred that his face flushed red. On the Shenzi Continent, the Heaven Lord's clone gave a snort and said to Molten Lava Tubo, "I see the boy, and he is mightily pleased with himself.
" Molten Lava Tubo, watching Xiao Tubo excitedly thrust his great head into the Life-Slaying Cauldron with his backside sticking out, said, "As pleased as he is? " Shen Fengqing was inside the cauldron counting his spoils one by one, and did not hear what they were discussing. The Great Sun Star Lord spread his wings and rose, crouching over the Shenzi Continent, three claws gripping the vault of heaven like a great bat sprawled on a rooftop, greedily gazing at the world outside through Shen Mu's sight.
"That brightest sun just now is where I was born. The one and only divine sun of Yuandu!
" The Great Sun Star Lord murmured, "The place of my birth, the first and brightest cry of the crow.
. . I still remember pulling the sun as I ran across the sky.
.
. " Suddenly darkness fell before his eyes: Shen Mu had taken out the willow leaf and covered his own third eye, so that he could no longer see the scene outside.
"Bastard! Uncover it, uncover it at once!
" the Great Sun Star Lord cried.
"I want to see my homeland!
" Chi Huang Siwei pulled him down. "They are out there courting and making love; what business have you to make a fuss?
We have barely won a foothold, lodging here on sufferance; do not ask for more. " The Great Sun Star Lord shrank back his head.
"You are a lodger; I am a prisoner.
We are not the same. Tell me, what are they doing now, that they will not let us watch?
"