Chapter 1173 — The Primordial Chaos Ore Belt
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Lift up your foot and put it in your mouth and lick it - then it will be fine. " Little Tu Bo nodded eagerly, opened his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and made a licking gesture. Tears streaming down his face, Long Qilin tremblingly raised his leg and foot; he wanted to lick it but could not swallow his pride.
Fortunately, Shen Mu noticed that he had been injured, took out a jade bottle, and pressed it into his hand.
"It's the Sect Leader who treats me best!
What wife?
What godson? None of them can compare to the Sect Leader!
" Long Qilin said, moved to tears of gratitude.
The vein was exceedingly deep and very spacious; walking through it was like walking in an underground world. Enormous skeletons lay everywhere along the way.
They were all Creators, but of low rank - most likely slaves.
Creator miners were usually slaves captured by large tribes when they attacked other tribes, used solely for mining. Yet even as slaves, their strength was by no means ordinary; nevertheless, when the sudden calamity struck, these Creators had not the slightest power to resist and died in this vein!
The vein grew ever deeper, and the chaos qi, heavy as it was, all sank toward the depths. At the very bottom of the vein, the chaos qi seemed to condense into a solid, forming a calm and unruffled sea of chaos.
Even with the twenty-eight heavens of the Lapis Azure-Sky Banner thrusting the surrounding chaos qi apart, Shen Mu felt every step was a struggle. The terrain gradually leveled out.
Massive pillars, thick at the top and bottom and slender in the middle, supported a vast underground world. This should be the center of the vein.
The chaos stretched away, boundless and dim.
Shen Mu strained his eyes to the utmost, even opening the vertical eye at his brow, yet he could not see very far, could not see very clearly.
"Stay close to me.
Don't get lost.
" He transmitted through his divine consciousness: "Step beyond the protection of the Lapis Azure-Sky Banner, and death is certain!
" Long Qilin's leg had not yet recovered, and he limped to keep up with him. All at once, the vein trembled again.
Even Shen Mu could not help but shudder with dread and hurriedly came to a stop.
Fortunately, the trembling did not last long; only loose rocks rained down, yet it was quite hair-raising. With the Lapis Azure-Sky Banner driving back the chaos qi around them, they searched this underground world for a long time but found nothing. Shen Mu was just about to leave when he suddenly saw a massive chaos stone towering in the chaos qi ahead.
That chaos stone appeared to have been carved into the shape of an altar, extremely tall and imposing.
Around the altar there were also shattered bones. The chaos qi was so heavy that the Creators who had mined this far had been crushed to powder.
With axe and chisel they had quarried chaos stone and gathered divine stone, coming all the way here, and then they encountered something they had never seen before. They hacked and chiseled along the thing with the utmost care, and in the end they carved out an altar.
By the time they had fully chiseled the thing free, a calamitous change erupted - chaos qi gushed out, and every Creator in the vein died to the last one; not a single soul escaped!
Shen Mu composed himself, shifted the ever-heavier Lapis Azure-Sky Banner, and carefully mounted the altar. The chaos qi was far too heavy; even shifting the banner was incredibly strenuous.
He had no choice but to activate the Mystic Body Three-Core Art, drive the vertical eye in his brow, and erupt with his full power before he could lift the banner.
After a long while, they finally mounted the altar. Shen Mu heaved a sigh of relief. What met his eyes was the smooth platform of the altar.
Clearly, the Creators who had excavated this place had chiseled with great care, meticulous in every particular.