Chapter 1241 — Carrying the Coffin Around the City
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 3
" She took out a mirror and shone it over the ground, making a circuit of inspection, when suddenly the lake before them split open, its waters flowing off to either side, and the whole lake became one enormous eye. The great eye rolled once, and then its pupil shrank and fixed upon those women.
The woman shone her bright mirror at the eye.
The huge eyeball revolved, strange void runes surfacing one after another in its pupil, and then the eye rose slowly and became a colossal creature towering into the clouds, which shook the mountain of bone upon its back with all its strength. A void beast! This void beast was the very one that the ancient spirit Luo Xiao had brought out of the Ancestral Court.
Luo Xiao believed he had subdued the void beast, never reckoning that the one who had subdued it was not he, but the Great Emperor.
In those years the Cloud Heavenly Venerable took this void beast for Luo Xiao's mount, and so brought it into the Great Void, and it was through this that the Great Emperor learned the remnant clans of the Creators had hidden themselves here. That void beast's body merged into the void; from afar it was hard to make out.
"Take us to the Great Emperor," said the woman, putting away her bright mirror, her voice low and heavy. The void beast's body grew fainter and fainter as it stepped out toward the Realm of Supreme Divine Consciousness.
The hundred and more women, all alike in grey-green palace robes, followed the void beast at a brisk pace, and one of them glanced at the beast whose body merged with the void and said softly, "Lady Xue, is it not a little rash for us to enter this place without informing the two Heavenly Venerables?
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