Chapter 1077 — I Must Not Perish
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Within the nineteenth void, the void beasts that had been hunting them halted one after another, unwilling to come in, and instead peered in from the eighteenth void, their roars drifting faintly to their ears. Luo Xiao let out a breath of relief: "It seems those void beasts cannot enter this place.
We have escaped disaster. How are you all?
Are you unharmed? " Shen Mu drove his divine consciousness to resist the assimilation of the nineteenth void, and at the same time his divine consciousness still sheltered Yan'er, Long Qilin and the others; without his protection, Long Qilin and the rest would have no way at all to withstand the assimilating force of the void. Even so, their physical bodies could no longer be seen, and their spirits were growing more and more indistinct.
As for Dahong and Gu Xiao, the two of them were naturally safe and sound.
"Brother Luo, the void beast you control can enter this place — why can no other void beast enter the nineteenth void?
" Shen Mu asked. Luo Xiao was startled for a moment, then said, "Could it be that the void beast I subdued is too strong, the mightiest of all these void beasts?
" "I fear that is not the reason. " Shen Mu looked toward the nineteenth void, and his expression changed drastically: the nineteenth void was filled everywhere with white radiance, and that radiance took the form of round, plump shapes, like eggs more than ten zhang tall, arranged neatly in the void.
The nineteenth void of the Ancestral Court actually held millions upon millions of white eggs, perhaps even more!
These eggs gave off white light, and within each egg one could faintly make out a single great eye, and a slender body curled up. Long Qilin said in alarm, "Sect Master, these eggs. .
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" Shen Mu lowered his voice: "They should be the eggs of the void beasts. The void beasts must treat this place as a nest for breeding their young.
We have blundered into the nest of the void beasts' offspring, and that is why those adult void beasts outside dare not pursue us further — they must be afraid we will destroy their young.
" "Sect Master, what I mean is, these eggs are laid out so neatly — who laid them? " Long Qilin said. A chill rose in Shen Mu's heart. Long Qilin had asked the crux of the matter: no other void beast dared set foot in the nineteenth void, so who had come into the nineteenth void to lay so many void eggs?
He had just thought this when abruptly, at the rear of the nineteenth void, it was as if a great canyon were slowly splitting upward and downward, and an unimaginably huge eye blotted out the entire nineteenth void!
When that eye opened, they felt the void instantly turn upside down; the owner of the eye was too vast — merely opening its eye had overturned the nineteenth void of the Ancestral Court! "The Void Mother Beast. .
. " Dahong raised his head, gazing at that incomparably gigantic eye, and murmured.
"Run! " All of Luo Xiao's divine consciousness erupted and poured into the mind of the void beast he had subdued, and he screamed.
That void beast, overawed by the Void Mother Beast, crouched low and dared not move.
Luo Xiao was furious, and was about to drive his divine consciousness again, when abruptly the void beast rose to its feet, leaped up, and sprang from the nineteenth void into the eighteenth void, bounding like the wind, rushing from the void toward the outside!
In the nineteenth void, the enormous Void Mother Beast finally awoke, and an incomparably piercing sound stabbed out from the depths of the void; Luo Xiao's divine consciousness instantly fell into disorder, and the void beast staggered like a drunkard, reeling east and west.
Even Shen Mu's divine consciousness collapsed at once, and he could no longer protect Yan'er and the others. Fortunately, the cry of the Void Mother Beast also shook the void beasts charging at them into a stupor, and only thus did they keep their lives.