Chapter 1076 — Ancient Gods and the Sarcophagus
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
" Luo Xiao felt a faint unease and cried, "If we sink deeper into the void, it will assimilate flesh and primordial spirit!
" The void beast leapt into the seventh void, and upon the altar Shen Mu, Yan Er and the others at once felt the void assimilating primordial spirit and flesh, which only divine consciousness could withstand!
Shen Mu still plied his divine consciousness against that void beast in an effort to master it, and he too felt the voiding of flesh and primordial spirit, though fortunately the voiding of the sixth void was not yet so fierce, and he could still endure.
That void beast could scarcely resist his Da Luo Unsurpassed Divine Consciousness any longer and was about to fall under his control.
Luo Xiao drove the beast into the seventh void, many void beasts following in pursuit, and the flesh of the company could hardly bear it.
At that very moment Shen Mu finally mastered that void beast, abruptly withdrawing his divine consciousness to shroud Long Qilin, Yan Er and the six heavenly dragons. The pressure upon Long Qilin, Yan Er and the others greatly eased.
Luo Xiao kept driving his void beast ever deeper through the void in crossing after crossing, while Shen Mu did not make the beast he had tamed follow, but let it slip out of the void. Borrowing the eyes of that void beast he surveyed the world of the Ancestral Court, and under his control the beast ran onward, soaring into the sky, boring into the earth, diving into the sea.
He studied the lay of the Ancestral Court, yet the more he saw the more alarmed Shen Mu grew.
The Ancestral Court held no other living beings, every species exterminated, leaving only Void Beasts beyond counting!
All was desolate here, without any other life, without even a plant to be seen, leaving only vast relics of battlefields, abandoned Creator cities, ruined tribes, with bones scattered everywhere.
Their party was perhaps the only living beings to set foot in the world of the Ancestral Court in countless years.
Just then, through the void beast's eyes Shen Mu caught a touch of green. It was a lode stretching thousands of miles, with grasses and flowers among the ore, yet suffused with a strange rosy radiance in dazzling hues.
Shen Mu drove the void beast to that lode, where it suddenly halted, and no matter how he urged it the colossus would not set foot within.
Only then did Shen Mu notice that around this lode there lay heaped the bones of countless void beasts!
He looked ahead and beheld a still more dreadful sight, for beneath the plants of the lode lay white bones beyond counting, each forehead inlaid with a Taichu divine stone!
Shen Mu's heart started as his gaze sank deeper and the skeletons of colossi came into view. Those eight giants were reduced to bone alone, their bones suffused with Dao light, standing amid the mountains in the posture of striding forward, a huge golden coffin borne upon their shoulders, as if they had died on the way while walking toward the deepest heart of the lode!
"Those are.
.
.
eight ancient gods!
" Shen Mu's heart quaked: "Who lies buried in the golden coffin?
" Abruptly he felt his body drawn sharply upward, an illusion of sight wrought by entering a deeper level of the void.
Luo Xiao had driven their beast with them into the nineteenth void, where Shen Mu could scarcely control his own void beast, and that beast he had mastered, freed from his divine driving, shook its huge head and stared at that lode with terror in its eyes, then turned and fled, vanishing without a trace in an instant.