Chapter 1019 — Identity Exposed
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" With that thought, his primal qi and divine sense surged out, vast and mighty, straight for the altar.
The altar did not look far off, but the actual distance was immense, and it was far larger than it appeared; the eggshell split in two was unimaginably huge as well!
His primal qi and divine sense merged, moving with the utmost agility, and at last arrived at the altar, where he tried to lift the shell. But the half that still held the egg white was so dense and heavy that it could not be moved in the slightest.
He turned instead to drag the other half, and this one swayed a little.
Joy welled up in Shen Mu's heart.
He roused his primal qi and divine sense, tugging with all his might, and shifted this half of the shell bit by bit until it reached the edge of the altar.
The shell fell from the altar and came to rest upon the frozen purple glow as if floating on water. His heart pounding wildly, Shen Mu drew it closer.
The nearer it came, the more he felt its towering vastness; by the time it was before him, the half-shell stood higher than the Heavenly Lord's body, so tall that he had to crane his neck to look up! In alarm, Shen Mu did not pause to examine the runic marks on the shell; straining with effort, he sent it into the Shen-character continent.
Boom! A violent tremor shook the Shen-character continent.
The shell fell from the sky, yet did not land completely; it hung inverted in the sky above that continent, covering nearly half the land! At once Shen Mu found his third eye's vision growing hazy; he could see only countless flickering runes and nothing of the outside world.
That was because his third eye was a most peculiar thing: it used the Shen-character continent, transformed from Tubo's horn, as its iris, and the Primal Origin Stone as its pupil.
The Heavenly Lord's eggshell had fallen precisely over his pupil. "I have no other treasure in which to keep this colossus; I can only leave it in the Shen-character continent. Still, it will not do for the shell to block my sight.
" A thought stirred in Shen Mu's mind: "There is nothing on the far side of the Shen-character continent. I wonder if I can move the shell over there?
" He did not act at once. He put away the peach-wood hairpin and retreated slowly, not stopping until the Heavenly Lord's body could once more withstand the Dao pressure here. Then he drove the Heavenly Lord's power into his third eye, shifted the shell, and sent this enormous half-shell to the far side of the Shen-character continent, where it hung inverted at its center.
In that moment, the shell seemed to become the vitreous body of his third eye. Light entered from outside, passed through the Primal Origin Stone at the center of the Shen-character continent, and fell upon the inner wall of the shell, illuminating the countless runic marks upon it.
Then something marvelous happened. Shen Mu found that when he looked about him with this eye, everything was utterly different.
He could see the microscopic structure of anything, even the fine structure of the purple glow, with perfect clarity! The composition of the Great Dao radiance and the vapors, and even the subtlest intricacies of his own divine sense, were all reflected in his third eye with incomparable distinctness!
He looked down at the Heavenly Lord's fleshly body, and the structure of that body, which had been indiscernible before, was now clearly reflected in his pupil! He could even see every arcane structure within this imitation body, and see through the mysteries of the art of Creation itself!
He turned his gaze to the altar amid the purple glow, and his sight pierced the glow, revealing the altar with perfect clarity! "This eggshell is of enormous use. If only I could get my hands on the other half as well.
. .
" Shen Mu shook his head. As things stood, he did not have the strength to drag that other half.
"Time is short. After all, I am only borrowing this Heavenly Lord's body.