Chapter 1076 — Ancient Gods and the Sarcophagus
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The claw of the Void Beast actually gleamed with the cold light of a divine weapon, and where it passed even the first void was torn apart.
Luo Xiao hastily drove his beast aside, and the huge claw scraped past above their heads, leaving slit after slit of riven void. More void beast claws appeared in the void, clawing wildly on every side, and Luo Xiao, handling such a primeval colossus for the first time, failed to dodge in time, so that his beast gave a piercing scream and bore many wounds upon its body.
With a rush, one Void Beast after another burst into that first void, excitement in their great eyes as they lunged at them.
As these void beasts pounced their eyelids lifted and their huge mouths gaped to take up more than half their heads, while their pupils were squeezed into a straight line.
Luo Xiao hurriedly drove his beast, which abruptly shrank its body and slipped out of the encirclement of the many Void Beasts, then leapt again into the second void.
In the second void the company could already see their own skeletons, like transparent shrimp in the sea, their entrails starkly visible within. Yet the many void beasts came flying and likewise forced their way into the second void.
These void beasts could be great or small, shifting their bulk with matchless agility.
Shen Mu's divine consciousness bloomed and poured into the brow of the nearest void beast, seeking to control a Void Beast.
Though that colossus had shrunk its form it was still immensely towering, and once invaded by Shen Mu's divine consciousness it let out a piercing shriek.
Shen Mu's mind suddenly darkened, for the cry of the void beast could pierce his divine consciousness and disorder his thoughts, catching him off guard.
That cry was no true cry, but spikes formed from the void beast's own divine consciousness once it sensed danger, stabbing into its foe's consciousness to disrupt its actions.
Plainly the void beasts had learned a thing or two in battle with the Creator race.
"Da Luo Unsurpassed Divine Consciousness! " Shen Mu's divine consciousness shifted into heaven upon heaven to block the beast's cry, and then his Da Luo Unsurpassed Divine Consciousness branded itself toward the void beast's mind.
That void beast was fiercely strong, actually holding his Da Luo Unsurpassed Divine Consciousness at bay with its cry alone, attacking and defending in good order, so that Shen Mu could not defeat its consciousness in a short time.
"My attainment in divine consciousness is much like Luo Xiao's, and even if he is stronger than I, it is not by much.
I have obtained the Tai Emperor's Da Luo Unsurpassed Divine Consciousness, and my arts of consciousness surpass his by I know not how much, so how did he subdue that void beast so quickly? " A chill crept through Shen Mu, for Luo Xiao had subdued that void beast too fast, and could it be that the one who subdued it was not Luo Xiao at all, but someone else?
Luo Xiao drove the void beast onward in crossing after crossing, leaping into the third void, the fourth, the fifth. By the sixth void the company could basically see only their own primordial spirits, their flesh no longer visible.
The sole exception was the vertical eye at Shen Mu's brow, which had not been assimilated by the void but still floated before his primordial spirit. Of course the flesh of Gu Xiao and Da Hong still showed no change whatever.
"Gu Xiao and Da Hong are indeed the Heavenly Emperor and the Tai Emperor! " Shen Mu thought sternly.
Behind them countless Void Beasts still pursued without pause, though some of the younger beasts could not plunge so deep into the void and were stopped at the fifth.
Shen Mu was still trying whether he could control that void beast, yet it kept warding off his Da Luo consciousness with its keen howling.
Shen Mu raised an eyebrow.
"The one controlling the void beast is by no means Luo Xiao, but the Tai Emperor!