Chapter 397 — The Savage Crown Prince
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
It seemed the old clan chief of the Sunherds had spoken truly: if the Sunherds were wiped out, and the demon gods of the Ruins burst forth from the Ruins, the outer world too would be wiped out! Suddenly the faces in the sky faded and vanished.
The old clan chief said hurriedly, "Your Highness, we beg you to command the Dawn Ark and lend us your aid!
" Shen Mu at once sped to the row of pillars and reached out to touch one.
The instant his palm met the pillar, the immeasurably vast power within the Dawn Ark surged into him; his fleshly body swelled joint by joint, his aura climbing madly, crossing in one leap the Seven Stars, the Heaven-Man, Life-and-Death, and the Spirit Bridge, and entering an unknowable realm!
Boom— The explosions within his body joined into a single line—the sound of his divine vaults opening one after another; so swiftly did they open that it seemed there was only one great roar! Wave after wave of divine might burst from his body in all directions, briefly twisting space, so that space trembled along with the ripples that outburst wrought. "So powerful!
" The voice that came from Shen Mu's mouth was earth-shaking.
At this moment he and the Dawn Ark were one; the power the Dawn Ark poured into him was even more colossal than that of the Soul Ark.
The moon of the Soul Ark had gone out, all but shattered, but the sun of the Dawn Ark had been kindled by Shen Mu, greatly raising the energy stored within the ship as well! This power must be pure yang energy, ferocious beyond measure, filling his heart with the desire to destroy.
Two more arms grew from beneath his armpits and seized two other pillars.
Shen Mu felt the power within him still climbing madly—when just then came a soft put-put sound; Shen Mu turned his head in surprise to look at his backside: from his tailbone a thick, sturdy leg had grown out! "Ah—will Sister Jing grow a third leg too? " he thought to himself.
Standing on three legs, rock-steady and balanced, Shen Mu's confidence swelled at once, and he raised his head to look at the canopy.
The canopy was eerily still; then with a sudden, thunderous bang a long chin pierced through the rampart of Dawnspring, the mouth at the chin's tip opened, and at once countless grotesque Doubles came flying out of that enormous mouth. The Doubles flying from that great mouth were like countless insects, a black mass, and soon they were the size of clouds; the clouds grew madly, becoming a black sea of cloud.
The sea of cloud surged, sweeping down at the Dawn Ark below.
Ling Yuxiu, Si Yunxiang, and the others looked up, their scalps going numb: the countless Doubles rippled like ocean waves, and such was the number of Doubles pouring down that they could likely drown the Dawn Ark in a single encounter!
And the long mouth thrusting into the canopy from outside was still spewing out more and more Doubles. Ling Yuxiu and Si Yunxiang had both been on battlefields; they had been tempered in the war against the kingdom of Langjuxu.
The scale of that war had indeed been grand—legions by the tens of thousands clashing on the wastelands, divine power wielders, giant beasts, tower ships; in a single instant of collision, flesh and blood flew.
Yet compared with the scene before them now, the battlefield of Langjuxu was a small sorcerer before a great one, not worth mentioning. "Kill!