Chapter 983 — The Carefree Land of the Void
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
"I clearly walked into the central house, and yet I arrived here by walking out of it. How strange.
" He could not help but marvel at the wonder of the Creators, that they could visualize such a marvelous house — this was no less remarkable than Heaven Venerable Moon's art of space! "So this is the Carefree Land.
" Shen Mu sensed that this heaven and earth was filled with an exceedingly dense divine consciousness; it must be a world fashioned by the Creators.
But this place had not suffered the dreadful devastation of the Great Void, nor did it possess the Great Void's uncanny terror. It could be called incomparably peaceful. At the slightest stir of his thought, a cup of fine wine appeared in his hand.
Shen Mu drank the wine, tossed away the cup, and the cup vanished into thin air.
"What a strange place.
I did not employ the Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness, nor did I use much divine consciousness at all — I merely thought of it, and fine wine appeared. This place is truly incredible!
" Shen Mu could not help but exclaim in admiration, thinking, "Would the people living here not need to labor at all? With a single stir of thought, fine wine and delicate dishes would appear? With a single thought, jade palaces and jeweled towers?
If that were truly so, then this place could well be called the Carefree Land! " That said, to reach the level where whatever one visualized came into being still required a certain attainment in divine consciousness.
Shen Mu's case was chiefly because his cultivation in divine consciousness was too powerful; at a single stir of his thought, the divine consciousness he summoned was already exceedingly formidable, beyond the match of ordinary divine power users. He turned back and closed the door, sat down at the top of the waterfall, and said to himself, "My brother told me to wait here, and Father and Mother will soon arrive.
So I will wait here, and I will absolutely not let my curiosity drive me to wander about! " He set his eyes upon his nose and his nose upon his heart, like an old monk entering meditation. Suddenly a thought surfaced: "Since this place has everything one could wish for, why did Mother say the Carefree Land was incomparably perilous and forbid me to go there?
And the scholar celestial master Yan Yunxi — she too did not want to tell me the whereabouts of the Carefree Land, did not want me to return. " "Just now my brother said that after coming to the Carefree Land he fought every day and ate gods and demons every day. Could the Carefree Land have gone to war with the Creators here? " "Kaihuang came here bearing Heaven Venerable Yun's Geographic Map.
Given the friendship between Heaven Venerable Yun and the Creators, those Creators ought to spare the Carefree Land for Heaven Venerable Yun's sake. So why would they still go to war with the Carefree Land?
" . . .
Thoughts of every kind welled up in his mind, and at once he could no longer hold his meditation.
Just then, he heard a rumbling, booming sound of footsteps. Shen Mu rose at once to look, and suddenly saw an enormous head thrust up from below the waterfall.
The giant's face was turned straight toward him, and the breath from its nostrils formed two gales that set his clothes flapping. Shen Mu's heart tightened. Set into the giant's forehead was an upright diamond-shaped crystal, like a vertical eye at the center of its brow.
This was a Creator! A Creator of such colossal stature must possess unfathomable strength!
"Motu—" The giant spoke, and its voice was like ten thousand thunderclaps exploding at Shen Mu's ear, leaving his ears ringing.
The Creator's face showed anger; it raised a palm the size of a thousand mu of land and made to slap it down upon him!
The two lids at Shen Mu's brow parted left and right, revealing his pupil.