Chapter 1184 — The Ebony's Rings of Years
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 3
" Hum— Layer upon layer the canopy of the Azure Heaven Canopy unfurled, and heaven upon heaven swelled outward in turn, soon covering ring after ring of black mountains, until all sixteen rings of black mountains lay wholly within its twenty-eight heavens. Having secured his domain, he at once opened the vertical eye between his brows, visualized creation, and brought forth a palace complex.
Just then Dragon Qilin's voice came: "Sect Master, this great black mountain has growth rings too!
" Shen Mu's heart stirred slightly, and he walked over, only to find Little Earth Lord lying on the ground counting the rings of the great black peak one by one, and already he had counted up to several thousand.
"These. .
.
really are growth rings!
" Shen Mu was astonished: little Earth Lord had already counted to three thousand, yet had moved barely two paces. And the whole great black peak measured several hundred li in length and breadth; who knew how long it would take to finish counting!
Shen Mu was profoundly shaken.
He stared blankly at the grain of the great black peak, thunderstruck: "This black tree is only sixteen years old, but its sixteen years, by what are they counted.
. .
How long is one year for this tree?
" Dragon Qilin, meanwhile, paced off the length of the great black peak, reckoning how many growth rings fell within a single step, taking the average, then multiplying by the number of steps, and laughed.
"Sect Master, if this great black peak were a tree, it would be thirty billion years old!
"