Chapter 393 — The Spring of the Blazing Sun
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Shen Mu, with the dragons, Snow Fox, and Si Yunxiang, had jumped into the Dragon Nest; overhead countless flying swords flashed past. Snow Fox ducked her head in panic, and a few strands of her hair were sliced away; the Dragon Qilin hastily drew back its tail, and a sword light swept past behind it, and two dragon scales fell. The group was still shaken when the jade-like star vanished without a trace, gone into thin air. Suddenly, five-colored flying swords streaked across the sky above the Dragon Nest like a rain of many-hued meteors, clashing together with a ringing clang, and then became once more a jade-like star, drifting away with the Star River into the distance.
"What a huge sword pellet!
" Snow Fox stared, eyes fixed. The Dragon Qilin murmured, "Bigger than the Sect Master's sword pellet. .
.
"
Shen Mu was likewise dumbstruck.
That such a colossal sword pellet could exist in this world! He had thought his own sword pellet already very large; only upon seeing this one did he know himself a small sorcerer before a great one. "Could it be a god's treasure?
"
They flew out of the Dragon Nest again.
Shen Mu still had the flood dragons form the Divine Dragon Shroud, and set one flood dragon to carry the Dragon Nest, growing ever more cautious. The Divine Dragon Shroud came from the Ling family's divine ability, the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Shroud — originally an offensive, refining art, which Shen Mu controlled through nine flood dragons and deployed as a formation.
In his heart, the wonder of application lay in the mind alone; there had never been so many rules and bounds. Some thought his thinking wild and unbridled, others thought him a rebel against orthodoxy — but he did not care.
The chaotic Star River sent stars crashing at them from time to time. Even though the Divine Dragon Shroud was formed of nine flood dragons of immense strength, the dragons were battered until bones broke and sinews snapped. Shen Mu ceaselessly refined elixirs and wonder drugs to heal the injured dragons, sending others to take their place, keeping the Divine Dragon Shroud unbroken.
After countless hardships along the way, they finally reached the core of this silver river, not far from the two divine wells. Here it was fairly calm. The stars revolved around the Dawnspring and the Soulspring; here the stars were few and scattered, not many in number. Si Yunxiang let out a breath of relief, then said doubtfully, "Sect Master, this place is so perilous. With a dozen or more flood dragons guarding us, we still have to hide in the Dragon Nest from time to time to escape danger — how did that Sun Warden ever get here?
"
Shen Mu looked up. From the Dawnspring and the Soulspring too a thick pillar of light shot upward, and above them were two great round holes, like the mouths of wells.
"Since they are Sunherds, of course they came here piloting the Dawn Ark. And the Sun Warden's strength is exceedingly high — a being like a deity. "
Si Yunxiang was startled.
A being like a deity? Shen Mu did not explain.
The flood dragons swam, heads swaying and tails wagging, carrying them up toward the pillar of light above. Suddenly Shen Mu looked down and was struck still: that great Dawnspring was stuffed full of enormous orbs of light, like so many suns!
Of course, these suns were not large; they must be treasures refined from god-made things.
But so many suns crammed into a deep well still shook him deeply! "The suns on the Dawn Ark have gone out — why don't they fish up an unextinguished sun from the Dawnspring? "
No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than from above them came the clatter of a chain shaking, and a black iron chain, immensely thick, dropped down from the mouth of the Dawnspring, lowering steadily, drawing near the suns in the well. Snow Fox said in surprise, "Young Master, are the Sunherds fishing for suns?
"
Shen Mu was astonished too.