Chapter 983 — The Carefree Land of the Void
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
" His phantom vanished. Shen Mu let out a breath of foul air, walked to the door on the left, and said with a smile, "Brother Luo, come and look at this.
" Luo Wushuang, suspecting nothing, stepped forward. Shen Mu pushed the door open, and behind it was the Primordial Tree of the Origin World. At once the divine beings guarding the heavenly palace in the tree's crown roused their divine powers, summoned their divine weapons, and came charging with earth-shaking shouts.
Shen Mu gave Luo Wushuang a hard shove from behind, pushing him through the doorway, and said with a smile, "Brother Luo, you go back to the Origin World first. In a few days I will return to see you.
" Shoved by him, Luo Wushuang tumbled helplessly into the Origin World, and was met head-on by thousands upon thousands of divine beings charging at him. His scalp went numb; he cursed furiously and looked back, only to see that the doorway had already closed.
He had no choice but to brace himself and meet these gods and demons, thinking, "This is the domain of that Heaven Venerable, a heavenly palace built in the Origin World. If I kill the divine beings stationed here, I fear I will have offended that Heaven Venerable. . . Among the Ten Heaven Venerables, I have already offended Empress Yuanmu and Heaven Venerable Xu, and Heaven Venerable Hao will certainly not let me off either.
I have offended four Heaven Venerables; offending one more makes no difference! " His vital essence gathered and transformed into a divine blade, and he met the divine beings guarding the heavenly palace, striking to kill without mercy, thinking, "If I do not strike to kill, it will be very hard to fight my way out of here alive!
" "Brother Luo seems to have cursed me once.
" Shen Mu opened the doorway twice in succession, then walked to the house on the right and opened a doorway once, then came to the house in the center, thinking, "That fellow has offended so many Heaven Venerables and heard so many secrets. He has nearly offended every one of the Heavenly Court's Ten Heaven Venerables. And now he has offended me, the Mu Heaven Venerable as well. Hmph.
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" It was not that he did not trust Luo Wushuang, but that the Carefree Land was a matter of grave importance, and the fewer people who knew its whereabouts the better. That was why he had sent Luo Wushuang away first.
Following the order Shen Fengqing had given, he opened and closed the doorways one by one. After a long while he finally finished it all, then came before the central house and pulled open its two doors with both hands.
Beyond the door, bright sunlight shone in, and he could not help but narrow his eyes, raising a hand to shade his brow, lowering it only once his eyes had grown used to the light. Before him, trees grew dense into a forest, and those towering trees pierced the clouds.
Great birds and beasts flew in the sky, and birds with six wings sailed past a beautiful divine mountain.
The divine mountains rolled on in unbroken succession, one after another, of varying heights, and white clouds drifted among them like a sea.
Those great six-winged birds flew over the peaks and plunged into the sea of clouds, and from within the clouds came shrill, soaring cries. Shen Mu stepped through the doorway and drew a long breath.
The air here was incomparably fresh, carrying a faint moisture.
He heard the sound of water and looked back, and saw the three houses behind him. The houses at the end of the Void Bridge, it turned out, were built upon the summit of a mountain. The three houses stood behind Shen Mu, and beside them was a waterfall. The water flowed down the cliff past the houses and struck a great boulder jutting from the mountainside, whereupon the waterfall split in two and came pouring down, scattering jade and spilling pearls.
Shen Mu looked down from above and saw two rainbows hanging at the mountainside.