Chapter 1185 — Thirty Billion Years Old
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Arriving at the Great Black Peak, he at once mobilized the Azure Heaven Canopy and sent out the Void Beast he had subdued and tamed, stationing it outside the Black Wood to stand guard beyond the Twenty-Eight Heavens.
Shen Mu raised his head to the sky and waited quietly—yet neither the heavens nor the void showed any sign of movement.
He waited half a day, still with no movement, and felt somewhat reassured. Taking out the Taishi Egg, he focused his mind on studying the Taishi runes.
He had already deciphered the first Taishi rune—one could say he had found his way in. Once past the threshold, studying the subsequent Taishi runes would be much easier.
Thus more than ten days passed in peace. The Void Beasts never laid siege to this place, and Shen Mu's heart settled. He thought: "The longer I can stall, the better. So long as the other Heavenly Venerables wish to leave this place, they must come seek me out. By then, even if the Qiang Heavenly Consort wants to kill me, she cannot—and I shall be safe."
He could not help muttering: "Earning that ten percent of divine stones from the Palace Heavenly Venerable is truly hard..."
Meanwhile, the Qiang Heavenly Consort, clothes in disarray and covered in wounds, fled in wretched disorder from the Nüxin Clan's mineral vein. Her face was mottled with bruises—plainly she had been beaten savagely—and behind her the Palace Heavenly Venerable pursued, intent on killing her.
The Qiang Heavenly Consort was furious. In a fit of rage she cried: "The only ones who know my identity are Taichu and that wretch Shen Mu! Taichu and I exist in a state of balance—if he exposes me, I can expose him in turn. So it could never be him who sold my identity. Then it can only be that wretch Shen Mu!"
"You truly seek death! Time and again you dare pluck at this tiger's whiskers!"
Her divine consciousness erupted, and at once the Void Mother Beast dwelling in the Nineteenth Void seemed to receive a command. With a thunderous roar it rose to its feet, shaking its immeasurably vast body.
In that instant, all the Heavenly Venerables within the Ancestral Court sensed the tremor coming from deep within the void, and one after another they emerged from their palaces, lifting their heads to gaze upward.
There, suddenly, a colossal eyelid surfaced in the sky, hundreds of li in length. The eyelid slid open, and a massive eyeball appeared, rolling and swiveling.
Then the sky rang with a pop-pop-pop sound, and one giant eye after another drilled forth from the heavens—fendish beyond measure, like mushrooms sprouting after rain, swiftly crowding the entire sky!
Beyond that, upon the earth, in rivers, lakes, and seas, countless more eyeballs surfaced as well!
The Heavenly Venerables each sneered coldly, paying it no mind.
Though the Void Beasts were fierce and powerful, compared to these Heavenly Venerables they were far, far inferior. Even the Void Mother Beast they did not fear in the slightest.
They too were resolved to destroy the Void Mother Beast—only that this beast hid within the Nineteenth Void, and their divine consciousness was not strong enough. Unlike the Creators, they had not cultivated their divine consciousness specifically.
They could not traverse the void in their physical bodies, and if their primordial spirits entered the Nineteenth Void, it would be far too perilous.
Yet so long as the Void Mother Beast poked its head out, they could easily destroy it.
In the sky, on the ground, in rivers, lakes, and seas, countless Void Beasts emerged. The Void Beasts in the sky beat the fleshy wings between their six limbs and flew through the heavens, while on the ground, Void Beasts raced on six legs!
Beyond that, gigantic Void Beasts also shuttled through the void, and nearly all the Void Beasts set forth at this moment, charging madly in the same direction!
And that direction was precisely the north of the Ancestral Court!