Chapter 1175 — Journeying Without You
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Outside the mine, the Ancestor God King stood wreathed in a blaze of divine light, its brilliance rivaling the heavens: forty-nine beams joining sky to earth, each shimmering with a luster of its own, like a peacock spreading its tail. "This treasure ground is no trifling matter.
" Light shifted in the Ancestor God King's eyes.
He was the son of the Lord of Heaven, heir to the Lord of Heaven's bloodline, the loftiest of bloodlines, the celebrated Du Ling Physique; to cultivate any divine ability or dharma art came to him as easily as turning his palm. He gazed at the chaos qi drifting through the ore vein. Chaos qi was no trifling thing, and that it seeped from this vein meant the vein was surely a treasure ground of the first order, which meant the treasures within were even more terrifying than the chaos qi itself.
"Quite apart from anything else, though chaos qi and chaos stone are terribly hard to refine into treasures, they are extraordinary treasures all the same. Carve a divine image from chaos stone and use it to suppress the heavens - who could stand against it? " He stepped into the vein and murmured, "Even if there is nothing else in this vein, these two mountains of chaos stone can be forged into weapons - a pair of whips - and once I swing them, they will serve all the better for beating my old father to death!
" He had barely finished the thought when the earth convulsed, mountains and rivers heaving. The Ancestor God King gaped.
The two mountain ranges formed of chaos stone were swaying, and beginning to collapse! Chaos stone came crashing down, a din that truly shook heaven and earth; even he could not help but feel a twinge of dread. The power of the chaos mountains was too frightful - it was less a collapse than a total disintegration.
The Ancestor God King hurriedly fell back, and in the space of a few breaths the chaos ranges were reduced to nothing, shattered into countless boulders, the dense chaos stone pressing the entire vein down into the earth.
With the chaos mountains broken, the chaos qi hidden within the stone was at once released, a vast and boundless stream of air like surging mist, battering in all directions. Wherever that savage current passed, the earth sank ever lower, and the divine mountains of solid divine gold were crushed ever smaller; even those Void Beasts that flew the skies and burrowed the earth were ground to powder in an instant, with no time even to flee.
His heart pounding, the Ancestor God King withstood the impact of the chaos qi and looked toward the two chaos ranges and the vein, only to find that they had become two great chasms sunk into the earth.
"What in the world has happened?
" he wondered, alarmed and uncertain. Just then a rumbling and a hoarse, heavy panting rose from underground, and the Ancestor God King was startled again: "Can some dreadful demon beast still live down here?
Did that monster bring down the vein? " In the mist, chaos stones flew up on every side, flung high, like stars crashing into the earth, splitting the ground open into one bottomless pit after another.
The boundless chaos qi obscured his sight, and he could not see what manner of monster had emerged. That 'monster' seemed to have been buried in the mine and was now digging a road out. The Ancestor God King grew more cautious still, heavenly palaces floating one after another behind him, utterly unlike the reckless, crude manner he usually displayed.
Anyone who had lived through the eras of Longhan, Chiming, Shanghuang, and Kaihuang, lived on to this day, and become a Heavenly Venerable, was no fool; Heavenly Venerable though he was, he was prudent and wary, and in the face of a perilous place like the Ancestral Court he did not dare to be careless. After a while, the 'monster' stopped flinging out chaos stones and walked outward instead, and a voice came to him, delighted: "Out at last!
Pi, Yan'er, you can come out now.