Chapter 923 — The Primordial Creators
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Shen Mu plucked off another rhombic crystal. It was about as tall as he was, and when he stood behind it and looked out, the world appeared different from usual—but that was only because of the crystal's refraction. "A world seen through a crystal as an eye is different from one seen through the fleshly eye.
But this crystal can't be limited to only this, can it? " He touched the center of his brow, where a small lump bulged.
During the catastrophe of the Yuan World, he had gouged out his third eye and cast it into the Netherworld, and when the wound at his brow healed it had left behind a tiny, fleshy bump.
"In the past, my third sacred eye was for contacting the Netherworld; with that eye I invoked the Netherworld's great Dao powers. Did the prehistoric giants set crystals into their brows because they too wanted to work some divine power?
" No matter how he racked his brains, he could not puzzle it out. He went to the center of the altar and looked at the pool of light fluid. It flowed like water, gradually condensing.
Just now the Red Emperor, Qi Xiayu, had driven the Phoenix Ship, shattering that bizarre 'Heavenly Lord' and draining the light fluid almost entirely, but now the fluid was gathering again. If this altar filled with that strange light fluid, most likely another 'Heavenly Lord' would condense to guard the place.
"And what is this light fluid? " Shen Mu carefully scooped up a clump of it.
Divine light swirled in his eyes as he scrutinized it closely, but the fluid contained no runes or Dao principles; it seemed to have nothing unique about it. "Why can this kind of light fluid form a Heavenly Lord spirit body of such fearsome power?
" Carefully he sent his primordial qi into contact with the fluid.
Suddenly the clump condensed and transformed into a tiny Heavenly Lord only five or six inches tall, which drove a fist at him. Caught completely off guard, Shen Mu grunted as his chest gave off the sound of bones snapping, and his whole body flew backward, smashing through one withered prehistoric giant skeleton after another with heavy thuds. The next instant he was slammed against an ancient structure.
The colossal force behind that tiny Heavenly Lord's punch cracked the building behind him.
The force kept surging, vast and irresistible, pressing him onward until it blasted him straight through the building! Qi Jiuyi cried sharply, "On guard!
Protect my second brother! " The nine divine beings stood guard around Long Qilin, on full alert as if facing a great enemy.
On the altar, the tiny Heavenly Lord, five or six inches tall, sprang up. His palms hollowed and his hands turned inward, forming the shape of the glyph 'mao'.
Shen Mu landed, his ten fingers moving in a blur as he set his broken bones back into place.
When he looked up, the tiny Heavenly Lord was striking with both hands, and Shen Mu's expression changed drastically as he blurted, "The fourth Heavenly Dao—the Heaven Seal?
" It was the fourth of the Heavenly Daos.
Yan Qiling had once said that the Dao Ancestor had organized the great Daos of heaven and earth for the Heavenly Court, sorting them into different orders; and among them, from the Dao runes on the Heavenly Lord's body, the Dao Ancestor had derived forty-nine Heavenly Daos. Shen Mu had acquired the Ancient God's Dao-rune jade slip from the Pavilion of Hidden Archives, so he knew these forty-nine Heavenly Daos; the fourth was called the Heaven Seal.