Chapter 998 — Fleeing Helter-Skelter (Second Update!)
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
Yet their wings were hardly uniform: some large, some small, some long, some short; some had many pairs of wings, and some had visualized their wings in a riot of colors. The nature of the wings differed as well: some were of the thunder attribute, some of wind and fire, and some, at a single flap, brought down torrential rain and flooded everything around. And that was still not what left Shen Mu most speechless. What left him most speechless was that the Creators of the various tribes marched in utter chaos, straggling and dawdling—not like an army come to overawe the Land of No Sorrow, but like refugees fleeing disaster!
Shen Mu was so angry his hands trembled. He drew several deep breaths and said in a low voice, "Even if we brought in the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping to whip these fellows into shape, it would probably take more than ten years before they'd obey military orders and move as one, before they'd become a usable army. With rabble like this, how could we ever scare a great sovereign of Kaihuang's generation so badly he wets himself?
" He knew well how mighty the Kaihuang Heavenly Court was. In both formation arts and the art of war, the Kaihuang Heavenly Court had already forged a powerful civilization, and the battle-hardened gods and demons there had a command of the battlefield far beyond that of the Creators.
In single combat, the Creators were far too strong; but in large-scale clashes on the battlefield, the Kaihuang Heavenly Court's strength far surpassed the Creators'!
After all, within the Kaihuang Heavenly Court there was a terrifying being like the Celestial Master Zixi, Yan Yunxi! The scholar Zixi—that is, Yan Yunxi—was the supreme master of formation arts, a being who dared all alone to plot against two Earth Mother Primordial Sovereigns and to stand firm against a Throne-tier powerhouse like the Martial Celestial Master Zhuo Cha! What was more, the teleportation formation and the teleportation power were products of the Kaihuang era, representing the highest attainment in the arts of calculation of that age!
The Divine King Langwan said, "The Holy Infant need not worry. You need only use your consciousness to commune with the Creators, and you can marshal and array them at your ease, and make them move as one.
" Shen Mu shook his head. "Moving as one is still not enough to make an army that takes every objective and wins every battle.
We also need the Creators to form all kinds of battle formations, their leaders to master every art of war, and the different formations to combine into different killing arrays. The divine weapons in each Creator's hand, their powers—all of it must become part of the battle array. Right now it's far too chaotic. . .
" He sighed. "If we go to the Land of No Sorrow in this noisy rabble, Kaihuang will laugh at us. That won't be an army at his gates—it'll be a public humiliation. For now we can only have them try to form up in order along the way.
But my consciousness isn't strong enough to reach every Creator.
" The Divine King Langwan said, "You may use my consciousness to reach them all—to move troops and dispatch generals, to array and deploy them.
" Shen Mu sighed. "Then that's the only way.
" His consciousness joined with the Divine King Langwan's, and at once he felt how vast and deep this woman's consciousness was—like an ocean stretching boundless to the horizon!
At a single movement of their consciousness, Shen Mu felt his field of vision stretch out madly, flying out farther than he could reckon! Not only that, he could clearly touch every single Creator, and every Creator's thoughts and consciousness were clearly reflected in his mind!
Such powerful consciousness was truly unfathomable!