Chapter 1019 — Identity Exposed
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
"This altar is an altar of the Creators," Shen Mu mused, "but the strange thing is, why should the Creators have visualized an egg? The Ancient God Heavenly Lord was hatched from an egg, yet surely the Creators ought to have visualized a living being directly. There is no reason for them to visualize an egg first and then hatch the Ancient God Heavenly Lord out of it. .
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" Misgivings filled Shen Mu's mind. An inexplicable strangeness hung over the birth of the Ancient God Heavenly Lord. Judging by the Heavenly Lord's birthplace, the egg must have come first; then the Creator race, having somehow obtained this egg and sensed the life within it, built an altar.
Day and night they offered sacrifices, and the mighty power of their offerings poured into the egg, bringing the life inside it into the world.
Yet the Ancient God Heavenly Lord's coming also brought about the decline and decay of the Creator race, until it withered away and was even forced to open up another void and take refuge in the Great Void. Many mysteries in this conjecture remained unsolved.
Where had the egg come from?
How could a being as mighty as the Ancient God Heavenly Lord be born from within it?
And why had the Creator race gathered so many of its members to hatch him?
Shen Mu vaguely felt that this imitation of the Heavenly Lord's body could not hold out much longer, so he had to fall back to ease the pressure.
"That cracked eggshell should be extremely useful.
I wonder if I can take it away.
" His eyes flickered as he tried to marshal the power within the Heavenly Lord's fleshly body and remove the shell that had split in two. Yet although that fleshly body possessed strength surpassing the Imperial Throne realm, the magical power it sent surging forth was still ground to nothing by the purple Great Dao glow of the birthplace.
Shen Mu frowned. The eggshell lay right there, and the Ten Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court had not taken it away in all these years — which said enough about how difficult it must be.
He could call upon the power of this body, but the body could not withstand the Dao pressure of the birthplace and could never reach that altar. "If I had the true body of the Heavenly Lord, I could take the shell, but the true body is trapped within Heavenly Venerable Ling's divine ability.
Come to think of it, even when the true body of the Heavenly Lord was still alive, the Ten Heavenly Venerables never took the shell either. Could it be they feared it would fall into other hands? " Since the Ancient God Heavenly Lord died, the Heavenly Alliance had ceased to be a single whole, its various forces checking one another, so it was hardly surprising that even while they controlled the Heavenly Lord they had not been able to take the shell.
"All divine arts and dharma methods in the world fail to hold here. Even a supreme divine-sense domain cannot cope with the pressure of this birthplace.
Yet there is one divine power that can deal with the purple glow of the Great Dao! " Shen Mu's eyes glinted. He took out Heavenly Venerable Ling's peach-wood hairpin.
Only Ling's divine power of Immutable Matter could bring the purple Great Dao glow and the vapors here to a standstill.
Steering the Heavenly Lord's fleshly body, he channeled the power within it, activated the peach-wood hairpin, and gave a light wave.
Instantly, the streams of light flowing toward the eggshell ahead froze, utterly motionless! Overjoyed, Shen Mu stepped forward into the purple glow.
But the moment his foot touched that light, a stabbing pain shot through the Heavenly Lord's fleshly body. Whenever this body came into contact with that glow and those vapors, it could not resist them in the least, and was eaten away into countless wounds.
Shen Mu frowned.
He now had to draw upon the power of the Heavenly Lord's body to sustain the Immutable Matter ability, and no surplus power remained to call upon. "Can my own primal qi and divine sense reach the altar?