Chapter 1076 — Ancient Gods and the Sarcophagus
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" If Da Hong and Gu Xiao were to fight, the peril would likely surpass even the Void Beasts! He was uneasy in his heart, for the Ancestral Court was plainly a place sealed jointly by the ancient gods, and sealed with the backs of Youdu, Xuandu, Yuandu, the Heavenly Court, Guixu, the Four Polar Heavens and other worlds, a seal too mighty to imagine.
Whether snuffing the lamp within the Ancestral Court could bring them back to the ghost ship, he truly had no confidence.
Da Hong and Gu Xiao faced each other, one with hands tucked in his sleeves, the other holding a file and trimming his nails, both wearing smiles as warm as a spring breeze.
"Roar!
" Heaven and earth shook violently as one colossal Void Beast after another either drifted slowly up out of the earth, or passed through mountain rock, or emerged from the sky. These immensely huge things seemed to have no true form at all and could pass through anything!
More cold sweat gathered on Shen Mu's brow as he said in a low voice, "Luo Xiao, have you linked your divine consciousness with your forebears?
If you have, we leave at once!
" Luo Xiao's divine consciousness pierced through layer upon layer of the Ancestral Court's void, seeking the consciousness of his forebears, while bewilderment spread across his face, and he murmured, "No consciousness, there is no consciousness here at all. .
. " He abruptly grew utterly dejected and laughed hollowly: "Brother Mu, there is no consciousness of our Creator forebears in the Ancestral Court, I cannot find them.
Their consciousness was most likely devoured by the Void Beasts, so how am I to return and answer to the clan chief.
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" He slumped to the ground in a daze, the faith that had sustained him collapsing.
In the age of the Creators there was no talk of a Dao heart, for the Dao heart only came after the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system was established, and his cultivation of mind was poor, far inferior to Shen Mu and the others. More Void Beasts surfaced, and those in the sky had already begun to spread their vast membranes, beating them as they flew toward them from above!
Shen Mu suddenly bellowed, "If I die, none of us can ever leave the Ancestral Court!
" Upon the altar Gu Xiao and Da Hong each looked away, and Gu Xiao stretched his frame and smiled: "Since we all mean to see that lode, why not go together. What does Brother Hong think?
" Da Hong chuckled: "That is exactly what I had in mind.
" Shen Mu seized Luo Xiao and hauled him up, shouting, "The ancestral spirits of your forebears are most likely hidden in a higher void where the void beasts cannot reach, so stop wallowing in self-pity. Drive your void beast and carry us away from here!
" Upon the earth countless void beasts rushed toward them like a tide, and the colossi had closed the ring!
Luo Xiao rallied his spirits: "Right! The cultivation of our ancestral spirits is far more profound than mine, they must have entrusted their divine consciousness to a higher void!
It must be so! " Shen Mu's magic erupted and swept up the altar, whistling into the air, and the altar landed upon the head of the void beast Luo Xiao had subdued, wedged fast by a mountain of bone.
Luo Xiao at once bent his whole mind to driving the beast at a gallop, and with its six legs striding its speed grew ever greater, until with a sudden leap, just before the other Void Beasts could fall upon it, it sprang into the void!
The space around them turned strange and shifting, and upon the altar the bodies of Shen Mu and the others gradually turned transparent, so that Shen Mu raised his palm and could see through his skin the veins and the grain of muscle. Of all present, only the flesh and workings of Gu Xiao and Da Hong suffered no change at all.
The void beast leapt into the first void to escape the slaughter of the other Void Beasts, when suddenly a sharp claw thrust out of the void and swept toward the beast and the people upon the altar!