Chapter 1044 — The Sacred Emperor and the Four Directional God-Kings
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Six heavenly dragons drew the treasure chariot onward. The Northern Pole Heaven was somewhat cold and gloomy; thunderclouds spread across the sky, sun and moon rarely seen, and fierce astral winds blew shrill. Amid the wind and clouds, thousand-winged soaring serpents wove through the layers of cloud.
The great serpents spread their wings, shifting and transforming, fierce and battle-ready.
Shen Mu looked down and saw that the geography of the Northern Pole Heaven was not a single contiguous continent, but a vast marsh. The celestial river gathered here into a great marsh, and within the marsh were many divine turtles, with dragon heads, ghost-god bodies, and crocodile tails, of immense and towering size, each bearing a continent upon its back as it swam through the celestial river marsh, their roars like thunder.
Those dark turtles opened their mouths and spat out thunder-light; the thunder-light gathered and surged, rising higher and higher, while the soaring serpents that wove through the air opened their mouths and spat out glistening pearls, which met the thunder-light and burst forth in peal after peal of thunder.
The Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot passed through wind and thunder, and the soaring serpents and dark turtles, whenever they glanced their way, would transform into young men and women, standing either in the air or upon the great marsh, casting aside the lands upon their backs.
Then again, young men and women might descend from the sky or rise from the great marsh, embrace in the air, and upon landing transform into Black Tortoises—strange demigods of turtle and serpent intertwined.
Or they might take human form, monstrous beings with turtle shells coiled about by serpents.
Shen Mu clicked his tongue in wonder. He had long heard of the North Emperor Black Tortoise, and had once even met him face to face.
In the years just before the Jingping Calamity erupted, a divine artifact had descended from the heavens—the Five Thunder Gourd—falling upon Jingping. That Five Thunder Gourd was the treasure of the North Emperor Black Tortoise; besides the Five Thunder Gourd, there were also the weapons of the other ancient gods' Four Emperors.
Shen Mu had revived Di Yiyue, and Di Yiyue had dispelled that great calamity of celestial phenomena. Only then did Shen Mu learn that Di Yiyue had once taken the ancient gods' Four Emperors as her masters, and had deep ties with them.
Aboard the ghost ship, Shen Mu had also once stolen the power of the North Emperor Black Tortoise to break open the ghost ship. At the time he had been caught, and from afar he had glimpsed the North Emperor once.
The Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot traveled deep into the Northern Pole Heaven, and Shen Mu saw another divine artifact, the Heavenly Worthy Regent. He halted the chariot and stepped down to observe.
This Heavenly Worthy Regent's physique was likewise immensely towering, its face bearing a smile that somehow seemed rather bewitching, with a vital vigor steaming behind it, quite capable of melting away the cold gloom of the Northern Pole Heaven.
"So Blue Yutian can be charming and alluring too. I wonder which female Heavenly Worthy's divine artifact this is?" Shen Mu could not help but laugh.