Chapter 1202 — The Peculiar Ore Lode
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Yet the commotion of these ten warships was frightening: they drove straight out of the seals of the Eight Celestial Venerables and descended into the sky above the Ancestral Court, and the gods, demons, and soldiers aboard stirred their various divine weapons all in unison, while layer upon layer of rune shields blazed up around the great ships, dazzling beyond compare, guarding the ten vessels so that they were unbreakable. What was more, Emperor Throne powerhouses sat upon the tower ships, releasing imperial might to overawe the giant void beasts.
Yet strangely enough, the void beasts in this void realm seemed to have vanished into thin air, gone without a trace; even with such a commotion, they did not appear.
This was impossible.
The moment a void beast sighted a living creature, it would rush straight at it and devour it, scrambling to be first; when there was nothing to eat, it would gnaw grass and trees down to nothing. When starving, it would even run up into the sky to eat the sun and the moon. But now the void beasts made no move at all.
Shen Mu and his company had been here the longest, and they had not once met a void beast on the attack, which made the Ancestral Court unspeakably eerie.
"The Void Mother Beast has given birth. " Aboard the swift boat, Shen Mu's expression was grave.
He scanned the sky, his gaze probing deep into layer after layer of the void.
His eyes could not see through the void as divine consciousness could, reaching deep into its depths, and so he caught no trace of the void beasts.
Several more days passed, and the swift boat arrived at last at the Great Black Wood.
Gazing at the Hundred Thousand Great Black Mountains, everyone aboard was struck dull. This place was too vast, too wide; broader and more boundless than the Wasteland Ruins of old!
To mine divine ore here, who knew how long it would take.
What amazed them even more was the strange treasure, the Azure Heaven Banner of Lapis Lazuli, which had formed twenty-eight layers of heavens, like worlds upon worlds encircling this place, guarding this blessed land.
Such a feat was truly appalling!
Only the Divine King Shujun, beholding this expanse of a hundred thousand Great Black Mountains, changed color sharply and seemed to want to speak, yet held back.
The swift boat sailed into the twenty-eight heavens, and the Silent Artisan hurriedly bade Shen Mu stop the boat.
He leaped from the deck, strode quickly to the foot of the black mountains on the outer edge of the Great Black Wood, brushed aside the soil, and dug a stone out of the earth.
Shen Mu brought the swift boat down to the ground, and everyone disembarked to look. In the Silent Artisan's hand was a stubborn stone, plain and unadorned, as though scoured for countless years in a riverbed, worn somewhat flat and smooth.
The Silent Artisan opened his box, reached in, and drew out a great hammer.
Everyone peered into the box, but there was nothing inside save some silver pellets, and nothing else at all.
Shen Mu smiled slightly.
Once, he too had been as curious as these young people about what was in that box, and the Silent Artisan had often done such conjuring tricks for him.
The Silent Artisan raised the hammer, meaning to smash the stone open, then suddenly halted, his face grave. "Shen'er, how sturdy is this twenty-eight-fold heaven of yours?
" Shen Mu said, "Not bad.
It can withstand the attacks of Jade Capital and Lingxiao powerhouses, and it will not be broken any time soon.
" The Silent Artisan let out a breath of relief, swung the hammer high, and brought it down savagely upon the stone, saying in a low voice, "Good!
If what is inside this stone gets out, catching it again will be hard! " Clang, a great noise rang out, buzzing in everyone's ears, so that for a long while they could hear nothing else.