Chapter 888 — One Petal, One World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" Shen Mu worked out the problem the founding patriarch had left, and paced back and forth on the astrological platform, muttering to himself, "What he left behind is a set of spatial dimensional data. But for a spatial dimension, one needs a center point before one can know where that dimension lies. If the astrological platform is taken as the center point to fix that spatial dimension. . . " His expression turned strange, and all at once arms sprouted from beneath his ribs; he bent his fingers and began to calculate.
"This spatial dimension is not in the same space as the Yuan World!
" Shen Mu's expression grew stranger still. Judging by the dimensional data Wei Suifeng had left, Guixu was indeed not in the Yuan World; it belonged to another world. This kind of dimensional architecture was like that of Youdu in relation to the Yuan World. Youdu overlapped with the Yuan World, overlapped with all the myriad heavens and worlds, and yet it was not on the same dimension.
So it was with Guixu as well.
"Relying on teleportation divine abilities alone, it would be very hard to enter this dimension.
" Shen Mu immediately branded runes upon the astrological platform. To enter the dimension Wei Suifeng had marked, only the teleportation formation of the Great Star could possibly send one there.
Dragon Qilin helped as well, and two days later they finally constructed the teleportation formation.
Yan'er transformed into a blue sparrow and perched on Shen Mu's shoulder.
Dragon Qilin also came to the center of the astrological platform.
Shen Mu activated the formation, and the teleportation light shot up into the sky.
When the light receded, they had vanished from Longbo! When Shen Mu's feet touched solid ground, he saw that all around was dim and indistinct.
Low-hanging planets filled the sky, each pierced with great holes; near the broken places of those planets, scattered fragments hung quietly in the heavens.
Beneath their feet lay a dark, sunken ring of mountains; beside them stood a stretch of resplendent golden palaces; and around the ring of mountains spread a vast, boundless dark ocean. And at the center of the ring of mountains was a bottomless abyss!
The ring of mountains was immense, its circumference beyond reckoning. It seemed that even if the Twenty Heavens of Mount Sumeru were moved here, they could not fill the abyss at its center. This abyss was the Great Abyss of Guixu!
The Milky Way began in the Heavenly Court and ended in Guixu. Yet Shen Mu did not see the Milky Way flowing here.
He looked up into the sky and could faintly make out the riverbed the Milky Way had left behind.
That riverbed was a spatial trace pressed out by the weight of the Milky Way. But the Milky Way had been severed.
In the final years of the Shanghuang Era, Ling Tianzun had unleashed a divine ability in the Shanghuang Heavenly Court at Yuandu, cutting off the Milky Way and using his own body to replace the substance of the river, performing a divine ability that shook heaven and earth and ran through past, present, and future.
From that time on, the Milky Way no longer flowed toward Guixu, but poured instead into the Eastern Sea.
When the Yuan World was sealed, the Milky Way became the Yong River. The Milky Way had been cut off and no longer poured into Guixu.
The shattered planets in the sky must be the stars that had once revolved around the Milky Way; only because of a great war had so many of them been broken.
Shen Mu and the others stood before the Guixu Annex Palace and looked into Guixu.
At once their heads swam and their souls reeled, as though their spirits would be drawn into that abyss; they hurriedly looked away. "The geographical map of our senior brother points to this place.
" Shen Mu took a scroll of geographical maps from his Taotie Pouch, spread it out flat, and examined it closely.