Chapter 1319 — Father and Son of Different Surnames
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
" Shen Mu fled with the egg of Taishi from the second layer of the void into the third, into the fourth, but root tendrils danced across the whole sky, weaving and crossing about him and attacking him madly.
Upon the root tendrils, one Earth Mother Yuanjun after another suddenly grew — some sprouting atop the tendrils, some hanging upside down beneath them — striking at Shen Mu from every direction.
Shen Mu moved with a light and unhurried grace, calmly evading the attacks that came from all sides, pursued the whole way by Earth Mother Yuanjun deeper into one layer of the void after another. He entered the void in his own flesh, and his whole being seemed to merge with the void, suffering not the least rejection from it.
Earth Mother Yuanjun had no such skill; she could only pit her matchless dharma power forcibly against the void's rejection.
Shen Mu was therefore wholly confident that he could make Earth Mother Yuanjun withdraw in the face of difficulty. "Earth Mother, you most likely do not know that Yantianfei has already arrived at the Ancestral Court. " Shen Mu laughed, "It seems Long Xiao spoke the truth — the blood malevolence that clings to you has indeed clouded your wisdom.
Summoning Long Xiao and so many giant beasts, raising such a commotion, you can hardly hide it from Yantianfei. If you still do not leave now, are you waiting to die at Yantianfei's hands?
" Earth Mother Yuanjun was startled, and all the root hairs that had pierced into the void swiftly withdrew; her true body too sank at once back toward the altar! Suddenly a great Guixu abyss appeared above the altar, seized the countless root tendrils that were retracting through the void, and dragged them down into the abyss!
This was Yantianfei's Guixu divine art: catching hold of Earth Mother's root tendrils, it pinned the Earth Mother Yuanjun beneath the ground and dragged her forcibly up toward the surface!
Because Earth Mother Yuanjun's hatred for Shen Mu ran so deep, she had this time pursued him with the full strength of her root hairs; now that those roots were swallowed into the Guixu abyss, even she could hardly escape.
Just as Earth Mother Yuanjun was about to be hauled out of the ground, tendril after tendril snapped apart with a crack — Earth Mother Yuanjun, knowing well that she was no match for Yantianfei, had severed her roots to save her life. The Guixu abyss devoured and ground away those severed tendrils, and Yantianfei's figure emerged; she shook out her sleeves, clasped her hands behind her back, and looked down into the earth, watching the direction in which Earth Mother Yuanjun fled.
Her aura was majestic, like an empress ruling the universe, holding all power under heaven, holding the power of life and death.
Suddenly the giant beasts summoned by Earth Mother Yuanjun roared and charged at Yantianfei, hideous and ferocious. Yantianfei gave a cold snort, drew back her gaze, and swept her beautiful eyes over those primeval giant beasts. Wherever her gaze fell, Guixu abysses appeared one after another, drawing those primeval giant beasts into them in turn.
In those abysses, blood plasma gushed like fountains; the beasts that seemed so mighty could not escape her gaze at all, and one after another they were ground to ash.
She suddenly raised her head and looked deep into the void.
Shen Mu's heart lurched, thinking she meant to strike at him, and he at once put away the egg of Taishi — but just then he suddenly saw a big-headed youth appear in the sixteenth layer of the void, observing the goings-on in the Ancestral Court.
The big-headed youth had not expected Yantianfei's gaze to be so terrible; before he could make any move, a Guixu abyss had already appeared in the sixteenth layer of the void, sucking him up and plunging him down into the abyss! He had thought that hiding in the sixteenth layer of the void was quite safe enough, but Yantianfei's gaze could pierce layer upon layer of the void and reach him directly!