Chapter 1026 — The Holy Emperor's Sword, the Youth's Tongue
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The bronze coffin and the white-boned divine demons suddenly halted. The bronze lid flew up with a howl, and from the coffin flew a tall figure, richly dressed, though after so many years the robes were tattered, streaming in the wind and shrouding the sky!
The figure that flew from the coffin was countless times larger than the bronze coffin; the robes draped down, and the coffin was not even a thousandth of his size!
His aura blazed to the heavens; behind him, layer upon layer of heavenly palaces flew out, palace upon palace, terrifying beyond measure! It was the corpse of a Heavenly Venerable, who had stolen earth qi and yin qi at Heavenly Venerable Ridge, feeding on earth qi and yin qi for forty thousand years, long since transformed into a corpse demon.
His eyes were like two moons in the sky, serene and spectral; his gaze was incomparably cold, making snow drift from the sky and moisture condense into frost. For a moment Shen Mu saw all things wither, grass and trees blighted; even the Yong River froze, the Heavenly River turning to ice, spreading swiftly into the distance.
"Shen Ye, we meet again! " The Heavenly Venerable's corpse opened its mouth and roared, its dreadful spiritual consciousness sweeping in all directions: "In the days of Kaihuang, you entered Heavenly Venerable Ridge time and again, seeking my treasures, and several times nearly died at my hands.
Now you have appeared again!
" Kaihuang drew his sword. Shen Mu saw the Wuyou Sword become a sky full of sword light darting about, forming thirty-four heavens crisscrossing in all directions. "Long time no see. " Kaihuang Shen Ye returned the sword to its sheath; the Wuyou Sword gave a light ring.
The middle-aged man crossed his arms over his chest, as if feeling a little cold, and continued on.
Above him, the Heavenly Venerable's corpse slowly split apart, cut into countless pieces; the massive corpse collapsed and fell from the sky.
In the distance, the surging Yong River suddenly halted, and the flying stone coffin abruptly stopped.
Shen Ye saw the stone coffin from afar and looked puzzled, shaking his head. "Heavenly Venerable Mu boasts of how well he has built Jingping, so why is the Yuan Realm so full of demons and monsters?
" He could not help shaking his head. The stone coffin suddenly fell to the ground and with a thud thrust into the earth; from the earth countless tentacle-like roots surged out, swiftly wrapping the coffin and then withdrawing deep into the ground.
Shen Ye took the sword from his waist and flung it down together with its sheath; the Wuyou Sword sank half a chi into the ground.
Violent tremors came from underground; ravines crisscrossed, for the sword qi had pierced deep into the earth, carving out sheer cliffs and ramparts! On the faces of those cliffs, cross-sections of enormous roots appeared, still flowing with divine blood, turning into rivers of blood in the ravines—a sight to strike terror into the heart! "A fast runner.
" The middle-aged man frowned, hugged his arms, and continued east; the Wuyou Sword flew up and returned to his waist.
In the distance on the Yong River, Shen Mu closed the vertical eye in his brow. Suddenly the Yong River's waters spread wide, and countless severed roots flew out, bursting from the surface; the roots interwove and trapped the Heavenly Dragon Treasure Carriage within.
Those roots still flowed with fresh blood, dyeing the Yong River red!
The Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign's voice came from beneath the water, in uncontrollable fury: "Heavenly Venerable Mu! " Shen Mu hastily stood up in the carriage and called out loudly, "It has nothing to do with me!
" "Bullshit! " The Earth Mother's voice grew angrier still, sharp and fierce: "Nothing to do with you? Do you take me for a three-year-old child?
Sending me to block the Great Emperor was one thing, but you laid an ambush with Shen Ye waiting for me!