Chapter 927 — Blood Light Surges, a Demon Is Born
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The stone had grown immeasurably vast, crowding out a great portion of the continent's heart; it sat embedded in an abyss, and around it strands of divine consciousness joined it to the land like white-hot chains, binding the Creation Divine Stone fast. Tu Bo's horn had become the iris of his third eye, and the Creation Divine Stone its pupil.
When his primordial qi and divine consciousness reached this place, they moved like cloud across the Shen Continent, setting the winds and clouds of its sky churning.
Such a change Shen Mu had never anticipated, and Wei Suifeng, who had left him the Creation Divine Stone, could have anticipated it even less.
"Is this change for good or for ill?
" A hidden worry stirred in him.
His divine consciousness searched about, and he saw his blood and qi come flooding in, only to be swallowed by the Creation Divine Stone.
"Is it this stone that steals my blood and qi?
" With a thought Shen Mu sent his divine consciousness flying into the crystal.
Red light filled the crystal, and within it no direction could be told; his divine consciousness flew a long while through that red glow and still found no end to it.
He halted abruptly and quietly sensed the flow of his own blood and qi, then followed that current onward. After who knew how long, his divine consciousness stopped: in the red light stood a vast altar, and upon the altar flesh writhed, like some enormous monster. "It is not the third eye that steals my blood and qi, nor the Creation Divine Stone.
Something is hidden inside the stone, meaning to be reborn through my blood and qi! " Shen Mu's heart lurched.
He advanced slowly, and the mass of flesh on the altar seemed to sense him and stopped its writhing.
Shen Mu narrowed his eyes.
Suddenly the flesh parted, revealing a scarlet eye that swept its gaze all around. At once Shen Mu dispersed his divine consciousness, evading the monster's sweep; the flesh closed again, covering the scarlet eye, and went on devouring his blood and qi.
Before the mirror in the ship's cabin, Shen Mu's face was grave.
Some demon lurked within the Creation Divine Stone Wei Suifeng had left him; hidden inside the stone, it stole his blood and qi. "There is an altar in there too, and I know that kind of altar.
It is the sort of prehistoric altar found in the Blood Rust Zone. Its purpose is to steal my blood and qi while borrowing my divine consciousness to remake a body for itself! Then the thing hidden in the Creation Divine Stone must be a prehistoric Creator!
" Shen Mu made his blood and qi flow perfectly calm, lest he alarm the thing inside the stone, and thought: "The Blood Rust Zone is the battlefield where the ancient gods wiped out the prehistoric Creators. This Creator was slain there by the ancient gods, yet he did not wholly die; he must have hidden himself, with the last of his strength, in a shattered fragment of the Creation Divine Stone. " He paced back and forth, pondering deeply: "Eldest Senior Brother obtained this crystal, but Eldest Senior Brother was too strong; the thing dared not stir up trouble, and let him believe the stone held no danger, so that he left it to me. My cultivation is weaker, so when I tested the Creation Divine Stone, it tried to seize my blood and qi and be reborn, and my third eye blocked it, and it failed.