Chapter 400 — The Supreme Divine Pupil
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Shen Mu stared blankly, lost in thought. This Tianyu World had collided and overlapped with the world in which the Ruin lay; the sky of the Tianyu World was the Ruin itself — a spectacle of truly extraordinary grandeur.
A pity that it could probably no longer be seen now.
In those days the Tianyu World must have been a subordinate world of the ancient Kaihuang Kingdom; later, when the Kaihuang Calamity broke out, the Kaihuang Kingdom lost its control over and protection of the Tianyu World, so that the many-bodied demon god found its way there and assimilated every last one of the Tianyu folk in that world. The Kaihuang Calamity had occurred exactly twenty thousand years ago. It was then, too, that this place had become the Ruin.
"The Kaihuang Kingdom's domain was not only the Ruin — there were other worlds as well.
" He could not help letting his fancy wander: in that age the Kaihuang Kingdom's territory had already reached into other worlds, ruling over race after wondrous race like the Tianyu folk; to have lived in such a time, amid such a myriad of living beings, must have been a marvelous thing.
"I have heard that in those years this place was called the Heavenly Court," Yu Zhaoqing said.
"The emperor was the sovereign who ruled all the heavens. " At once Shen Mu recalled how he had escorted Xiong Xiyu and her daughter through the Ruin, past the ruins of the Western Heaven Palace. That stretch of ruins was called the Western Heaven Palace: a vast expanse of land thrust slantwise into the wreckage, towering edifices reduced to broken walls and crumbling ramparts, pillars toppled every which way, fragments of giant machinery hidden among the rocks.
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He steadied himself and wiped the strange thoughts from his mind. "The many-bodied demon god is dead, so you may count yourselves safe now. What are your plans, Chief Yu? " "To rebuild our ancient nation and return to our native land.
" The garments on Yu Zhaoqing's body gave off a faint humming, and swiftly became a suit of armor; her fighting spirit blazed, her killing intent flooded the heavens. "I will lead my people back to the Tianyu World and take back our world!
Many demon clans remain there — the wings of the many-bodied demon god — occupying the treasured lands of my Tianyu folk.
We must take them back, slaughter every foe, and rebuild our homeland! " "There are still demon clans in the Tianyu World? " Shen Mu was startled. He calculated for a moment.
"The Tianyu folk number only a few million now.
Do you truly have the strength to retake the Tianyu World? " Yu Zhaoqing was full of confidence.
"With the many-bodied demon god dead, the rest of my people in the Tianyu World will regain their senses as well. We Tianyu folk communicate through spiritual fluctuations; in battle we move as one body, as easily as a man moves his own arm. Retaking the Tianyu World will not be difficult.
" Shen Mu mused. "Chief Yu, the arts of the Dao and divine powers are not what they once were. You have been under the many-bodied demon god's control for so many years that I fear you no longer understand this age. On a battlefield, linking with your kin through spiritual fluctuations is all too easily disrupted. And after controlling you for so long, your enemies must have studied you through and through; in their eyes you are lambs waiting for the slaughter.
" His vital essence burst forth, and he performed a divine art. His vital essence turned into all manner of strange runes, which joined together into the form of a great cauldron, overturned and descending.
The runes quivered without cease, giving off vibrations that ordinary people could scarcely hear; yet to Yu Zhaoqing's ears they were like a mighty bell and a great bronze chime tolling on and on, disrupting her spiritual thoughts, deafening her so that she could hear no sound at all and could not link with her kin. Shen Mu dispersed the divine art. "Chief Yu, I think you should take things slowly and not rush.