Chapter 923 — The Primordial Creators
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
These reliefs depicted prehistoric giants ruling over a boundless continent. Their bodies were colossal; they could pluck stars and seize the moon, and their strength was terrifying. The continent itself was inconceivably vast.
The giants lived in different places, forming different races and tribes; the environment there was harsh and full of supremely powerful prehistoric beasts. The giants fought the beasts, and they also fought one another over territory and people, killing back and forth.
"The prehistoric giants in these reliefs do not have three eyes! " Shen Mu looked closely.
The giants in the reliefs had no rhombic crystals in their brows either.
These reliefs recorded scenes of hunting and battle. Shen Mu took them all in: the prehistoric giants understood no Dao arts and cultivated no divine powers; they fought with brute force and powerful bodies, at most holding great bone clubs or simple bronze weapons. To a grand master of Dao arts and supernatural powers like Shen Mu, those battle scenes were naturally beneath notice.
But as he walked deeper into the open-air hall, the reliefs gradually grew more interesting.
Shen Mu stopped before one panel.
It showed a burly prehistoric giant pinching a rhombic crystal between his thumb and forefinger and holding it up toward the sunlight.
"The crystal in this carving is almost exactly the same as the ones set into the brows of the corpses outside! " His heart stirred slightly, and he moved to the next relief. This panel showed the same giant, except that he had now set the rhombic crystal he had found into the middle of his own brow. The other giants knelt before him, prostrating and kowtowing in fearful reverence.
This giant's build appeared far more imposing than the others'. In one hand he held a golden scepter, on his head he wore a horned helmet, and his other hand was raised, pointing forward.
The crystal at his brow emitted a pattern of light. Shen Mu thought for a moment but could not quite understand what it meant.
Qi Jiuyi and the others came over to look at the reliefs. "Sect Master Shen, these are all savage, primitive natives. What is there worth seeing?
" Qi Jiuyi was quite puzzled.
Shen Mu walked to the next relief and said, "It was precisely these primitive natives who created that strange Heavenly Lord and nearly destroyed the Red Emperor's Phoenix Ship. " Qi Jiuyi snorted. Shen Mu gave a soft exclamation as he studied the relief in front of him, a look of surprise on his face.
This panel showed the giant grown even more colossal, and many other giants, just like him, had found the same rhombic crystals from who knows where and set them into their foreheads.
The strange thing in this relief was that the giants with the rhombic crystals all had glowing crystal eyes at their brows. Not only that—Shen Mu saw all kinds of bizarre things within the light!
In some glows there was a prehistoric beast, in others a platter of food, and in still others knives, spears, clubs, staves, and the like. In the third-eye light of some giants there was even a beautiful woman!
"This is.
. .
" Shen Mu stood stunned. Then he took out the crystal he had collected, but it was far too large to place against his brow.
"Sister Yan'er, are you versed in spatial arts?
Can you shrink this crystal?
" Yan'er looked it over and said, "Spatial arts can only make it look smaller. In truth, they compress the space around it and hide it within a mustard seed; they do not truly shrink it. If you wanted to set it into your brow and the spatial art failed, it would burst your head apart!
" Shen Mu laughed. "I only want to hold it in front of my brow and see whether something marvelous happens. " After all, Yan'er had trained under the Moon Heavenly Venerable for many years, and before long she reduced the rhombic crystal to about an inch in length.