Chapter 983 — The Carefree Land of the Void
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Shen Mu opened the door on the right for the second time. Again he opened it, and the scene within the room shifted once more — a murky darkness in which nothing whatsoever could be seen.
Suddenly the darkness split wide, and a gigantic eye filled the entire room!
Shen Mu slammed the door shut at once, his heart pounding wildly. "Opening the rooms at the end of the Void Bridge really is a thrill," he thought.
"Every single time it scares the wits out of me! " He opened the door again, and within was an erupting black hole that made his blood run cold; he hurriedly shut it.
After trying several times in succession, Shen Mu finally found the room in which a single lotus blossom appeared.
Shen Fengqing was again listening with his ear inclined, evidently being instructed by someone at his side. "Now then," he said, "left two, right one, center five, right three, center one, right two, left four, center seven.
. . " He seemed to be reciting some strange cipher.
Shen Mu listened carefully and committed his words to memory, and could not help but be appalled: if this were the order in which the doors must be opened, then it truly would be impossible to find the Carefree Land!
An ordinary person who came here would simply step through a door, and would never think to open and close them in experiment. And once one entered a door, one would fall into the trap of the Creators, trapped just as Heaven Venerable Fire and Heaven Venerable Xu had been.
Even if one could escape, without knowing the order for closing the doors, there would be nothing to be done. More crucially still, the opening and closing of the doors was divided into many stages, which required ceaseless experimentation; and each time a door was opened, what lay behind it was a place of incomparable peril — the rear palace of the Heavenly Emperor, the presence of Tubo, the foot of the Primordial Tree, and all manner of dangerous realms. The slightest carelessness might see one cut down by whatever existence dwelt behind the door! Of course, when the Creators of the Great Void fashioned this strange heaven and earth and these three houses, Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign was still alive; but now she was dead, and so opening the door to the Primordial Tree of the Origin World held no great danger — at most a host of divine beings guarding the gate would come charging over.
To unravel the secret of the door-opening sequence in a short time was all but impossible; far more likely was it that, through opening the doors so many times, one would be annihilated with a wave of the hand by some dreadful existence behind them. "These Creators of the Great Void really are formidable. How did Kaihuang come to know the order for opening the doors?
" Shen Mu pondered carefully for a moment, and a conjecture formed in his mind. On that Geographic Map of the Great Void which Heaven Venerable Yun had given to Kaihuang, there was most likely the order for opening the doors.
Heaven Venerable Yun had joined forces with the Creators of the Great Void to set a trap and strike down the Great Emperor in secret, which showed that his relations with the Creators of the Great Void were exceedingly good.
Perhaps, when those Creators departed the Great Void, they had told him the order for opening the doors.
Shen Fengqing recited the order once through, then said with the utmost gravity, "You must remember the order clearly; there can be no mistake, or you will not be able to open the door into the Carefree Land.
Also, once you enter the Carefree Land, do not wander about. Father and Mother say they have already prepared a boat, and once they have fought their way out of the encirclement they will come to fetch you. " Shen Mu nodded.
Shen Fengqing's phantom figure dispersed, his voice growing ever more distant: ". . . Remember, you must not wander about.
Those delectable Creators are very savage.
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