Chapter 968 — The Supreme Domain of Divine Consciousness
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
It was tormented by its inability to speak, unable to tell Shen Mu and the others that Yue Tingge was not mad at all—that this Taixu land truly was a living thing, watching and listening to them.
Before long, the dragon saw the blue sky above their heads suddenly turn into an enormous eyeball; but it no longer had the courage to warn Shen Mu and the others, and only said, in a voice drained of spirit, "Maha..."
It also saw a great tree turn into a great ear, and could only say, faintly, "Maha."
Shen Mu and the others followed Yue Tingge, who was cautious and wary. "You may think this place is all peace and quiet," he said, "but it is in truth deadly. That I have survived at all is thanks to my quick wits. Good brother..."
He gently stroked the beast's leg, roasted golden and dripping with fat, and said tenderly, "Good brother, here there is only you and me. We shall be brothers for life... Who are you?"
He suddenly caught sight of Shen Mu, Luo Wushuang, and the divine dragon following behind him, and his face turned wary.
Shen Mu cleared his throat and said, "Celestial Master Yue, we are..."
"I remember you now!"
Light dawned on Yue Tingge. He tossed the beast's leg aside and laughed. "Heavenly Venerable Mu, and One Hand. Of course I remember you. Heh heh, we are on our way to that place. Be careful. Let me tell you a secret—the Taixu land is alive..."
The beast's leg hit the ground with a loud thud. Yue Tingge glanced at it warily and sneered, "Tempting me with a roasted beast's leg? Do you take me for a three-year-old child? Let us hurry. They are watching us! We must find Heavenly Venerable Huo and Heavenly Venerable Xu as quickly as we can—that fellow Kaihuang is about to arrive!"
Shen Mu's scalp prickled; inwardly he wanted to beat a retreat. But hearing that Kaihuang was about to arrive, he had no choice but to steel himself and follow.
Yue Tingge continued to lead the way. As they walked, Shen Mu suddenly noticed that Yue Tingge's head had turned perfectly square, as though it had become a box, and on that box grew perfectly square eyes, perfectly square ears, nose, and mouth!
The Celestial Master's neck, body, legs, and arms had likewise become perfectly square blocks, and every finger and every joint had become linked blocks as well!
Shen Mu and Luo Wushuang were startled, and then discovered that they too had become block-people just like Yue Tingge!
Shen Mu turned to look at the divine dragon, and the dragon had actually become a bizarre creature made of a heap of blocks joined together!
The trees around them were blocks, the leaves were blocks, the mountains were blocks; even the water flowing in the river was a swarm of blocks flowing along the riverbed!
"This place is... a strange divine ability visualized into being by the divine consciousness of the Taixu Creators! Or rather, they have created another consciousness illusion within the Taixu land, and the rules of the great Dao in this consciousness illusion are utterly different from those outside!"
Shen Mu looked up and saw perfectly square clouds in the sky and a perfectly square sun. He took out his sword pellet, and the sword pellet had actually become a block as well!
He channeled his mana, and the sword pellet became a treasured sword—and the sword was actually composed of a heap of blocks!
Shen Mu opened the vertical eye in his brow. That eye, at least, was still normal; it had not become a block.
He roused his divine consciousness and poured it into the Primordial Stone, shouting, "Break!"
His divine consciousness was exceedingly powerful; yet now, when he drove it through the Primordial Stone, amplified by the Stone, and it burst out from his vertical eye, it had become blocks of consciousness that flew dancing through the air in all directions.
Shen Mu's eyes went wide, and he was somewhat baffled.
This did not seem like an illusion at all; rather, it seemed like a real and true world.