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Chapter 900 — Supreme of the Yuan Realm

The Herdsman of the Wasteland Page 2 of 3

Everywhere he looked was devastation. The Heavenly Court army brought by Heavenly Venerable Hao, piloting towering ships and great vessels, began to eradicate the forces within the Yuan Realm, razing the nations built by the demigod races that dwelt there, burning, killing, and plundering.

The Yuan Realm had now become a completely chaotic world. Demons and monsters ran rampant, the sky was foul and murky, gods and devils battled in the clouds and mist, and from time to time heads the size of mountains fell from the sky. Whoosh—

Above his head, a massive demon god flew past, fleeing in panic, followed closely by hundreds of divine weapons that split the sky and slew the demon god.

Shen Mu had not gone far when he saw rivers of blood.

The corpse of that demon god lay across his path, like a great mountain blocking his way.

A squad of Heavenly Court gods arrived from behind. Someone laughed: "Hoist the corpse up—it still has its uses!

"

Shen Mu hid in the shadows, watching them carry away the demon god's corpse.

Only after they left did he emerge from the darkness.

He walked through this chaotic world filled with slaughter, and saw terrifying heavenly gods uproot mountains and press them down upon the nations of the demigod races, crushing imperial cities to powder, countless demigods ground to dust. He also saw the dragon race among the demigods being flayed. The gods of the Heavenly Court hung the divine dragons on mountains, wantonly summoning heavenly fire to roast them. He walked in a daze through this boundless battlefield.

Everywhere were heavenly gods burning, killing, and plundering.

The divine kingdom built by the Phoenix race had been conquered by the Heavenly Court's army, and who knew how many handsome phoenix men and women had become slaves in the army, used by those heavenly gods to sate their bestial lust. He saw deities hung before the mountain gates of a heaven, while that heaven of the Yuan Realm had been smashed to pieces.

Countless demigod slaves, their bodies pierced through, trudged forward under heavy loads, driven by the whips of heavenly gods.

The Yuan Realm was aflame with war everywhere.

The Heavenly Court's army used the corpses of gods and demons to build towering altars reaching into the clouds, conducting blood sacrifices.

The sky was filled with dazzling blood light.

Endlessly, the Heavenly Court's armies of gods and demons, riding towering ships and great vessels, entered the Yuan Realm through the blood sacrifices, attacking even more colossal forces. More and more towering ships appeared in the sky, and more and more heavenly gods as well. "Where is the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor?

"

Shen Mu murmured: "Have you descended to the lower realm? I have already given you the chance to act. .

.

The human race—how fares the human race in the Wild Wastes? "

This war was spreading, and would soon reach Jingping.

"The Divine Son of Youdu? "

Suddenly, a heavenly god spotted him, unrolled a scroll, and laughed heartily: "Worn through iron shoes in search, yet found without any effort at all!

The Divine Son of Youdu is here!

"

Shen Mu was indifferent, manifesting three heads and six arms, his body growing taller and larger. His third head was that of a big-headed doll.

"Where my body stands, there is Youdu! "

The big-headed doll looked bewilderedly at the devastated, chaotic world: "But this place is even more terrifying than Youdu. "

In the South Sea, a foreign star collapsed, plunging into the South Sea trailing a long flame, stirring up towering waves.

On the surface of the South Sea, in the heavenly palace of the remnant Chiming clans, countless Chiming gods fought against the Heavenly Court's army of heavenly gods. Chixi led the resistance, holding off the attack to buy time for his people to retreat.

The comrades by his side grew fewer and fewer, until at last he alone stood upon the God-Slaying Platform, roaring and fighting, until he was drowned in the ocean of gods and demons. "Come, let us journey together! "

He let out a final roar: "Sacrifice! "

His vital blood was devoured by the God-Slaying Platform.

This God-Slaying Platform of a Throne Realm powerhouse seemed to come alive, awakening from slumber, its power erupting. Blood-colored tide surged, devouring the vital blood of countless heavenly gods around it. The heavenly gods who surged onto the God-Slaying Platform rapidly became dried corpses in a thousand postures.

The god Chixi had no breath left; his eyes gradually grew dim. "The Divine Son of Chiming should have led our people to migrate far away by now, right?

And my disciple—I wonder if he is well. .

.

"

Before his final death, he saw that in the destroyed Chiming Heavenly Palace, the Great Venerable was hiding here and there like an old rabbit.

The god Chixi revealed a final smile: "He really runs fast. .

.

"

Ban Gongcuo fled in panic from the Chiming Heavenly Palace, escaping to Jingping under the pursuit of hundreds of heavenly gods.

After all, he had been honored by Shen Mu as the number one at fleeing for his life. Several hundred heavenly gods could not stop him; even when he encountered ambushes from existences at the Yaochi and Yujing realms along the way, he still escaped.

The sky was dark and gloomy, sun and moon obscured. The heavenly chart was torn apart by war and set alight by divine fire, like a burning scroll.

Ban Gongcuo fled beneath this scroll, finally reaching the continent.

His whole body was covered in wounds, yet he revealed a faint smile: "No one in this world can kill me, no one! Sect Master Shen cannot, and others even less so!

"

Just then, he saw gods battling ahead.

Jingping's fleet of towering ships was carrying countless mortals northward, yet one ship after another was falling under the divine abilities of gods and demons. "Not my concern. "

He was about to go around and find a place to settle, when his gaze froze, falling upon the figure resisting the Heavenly Court's gods, unable to look away.

That was the First Ancestor Human Emperor, desperately guarding those towering ships under the siege of dozens of Heavenly Court divine generals, so that the divine ability users on the ships could carry these mortals away. The flames of war illuminated the faces on those ships—faces filled with panic and unease, women and children among them.

"Not my concern.

I have never done a good deed in my life.

For ten thousand years, I have done every evil deed there is. . . "

Ban Gongcuo chuckled and fled far away.

Just then, the First Ancestor Human Emperor's body crashed down from the sky, sliding for dozens of li before stopping at his feet.

An existence at the Yujing Realm descended from the heavens, a sword thrusting toward the First Ancestor's chest. Without a moment's thought, Ban Gongcuo's form turned into black smoke, sweeping up the First Ancestor Human Emperor and fleeing far away.

"Stop! "

The First Ancestor's body shook, dispersing the black smoke.

He did not look at Ban Gongcuo, but stared at the Heavenly Court powerhouses pursuing them: "Escort those people away!

"

He charged toward those heavenly gods again, without looking back. Ban Gongcuo was stunned, then silently flew up and landed on a towering ship. The ship sped northward. Behind them, in the darkness, the figures of the First Ancestor Human Emperor and those heavenly gods flickered in and out of view.

The aftershocks of their divine abilities struck here, and ship after ship creaked and groaned, ready to break apart at any moment. "Lower the ships.

We walk from here. "

Ban Gongcuo said with a smile to those despairing divine ability users: "I have fled my whole life. I guarantee I can lead you out alive!

"

The ships descended, and the people filed down. "Once we reach Lanjiang Academy, all will be well.

"

Ban Gongcuo led them forward, comforting the crowd: "Once we reach Lanjiang Academy, the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping has built a teleportation platform there.