Chapter 398 — Making Connections
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The old chieftain and the elders changed color, abandoned the three many-bodied demons, and rushed over. But those three demons immediately flew after them and held them back, preventing them from saving Shen Mu.
“You got close only because I let you.
” Shen Mu stared straight into the demon’s eye, his gaze blazing.
“I will use your assimilation to find out where your true body is hidden! ”
The many-bodied demon’s eye light shone into Shen Mu’s eyes, and countless voices flooded into his mind.
In a flash, he seemed to see countless figures emerge in a dark forest, each one a many-bodied demon. Everything in his sight vanished, leaving only a forest formed of many-bodied demons’ forms. The forest grew wider and wider, its reach larger and larger, as tens of thousands, millions of demonic figures surged forth and spread outward.
The thoughts and consciousness of these demons merged into a rolling torrent, pouring into his mind, seeking to assimilate him.
Shen Mu activated the Mystic Body Three-Elixir Art, fusing his spirit embryo with his soul. Instantly a great sun appeared in his mind, circling the spirit embryo, guarding his spirit platform, and burning every incoming thought and consciousness to ash.
The figures in the darkness grew ever more numerous, and even he felt dread. So many many-bodied demons, their thoughts converging, were about to drown his spirit platform. If the spirit platform fell, the spirit embryo would not hold out much longer before being assimilated by the many-bodied demons.
He had to find the demon god’s true position before the spirit platform was broken. At that moment, his gaze seemed to pass over layer upon layer of mountains and rivers and fall upon a demon god sprawling among the landscape. It was a many-bodied demon god, crouched between two great mountains, its four limbs gripping the ridges on either side.
Between the mountains ran a river, swift and surging.
Behind it stood a massive gateway. From that gateway, many-bodied demons poured out like a flood, ceaselessly streaming toward this place.
Countless many-bodied demons raced across the river or flew above it, devouring one another and becoming towering demons one after another. The instant Shen Mu “saw” this demon god, the demon god also “saw” him.
It raised its head, and its enormous eye showed a confused look, as though puzzled. Then the demon god lying across the mountains saw light appear in the darkness, brighter and brighter.
A mass of light was flying toward it, growing larger and faster until it became a giant sun, slanting down from above and appearing over the river. Wherever the giant sun passed, the river evaporated in an instant, and every many-bodied demon along the way was burned to ash and vaporized.
The giant sun warped the space around it, shaking the mountains violently, making them look like giants dancing in grotesque postures. From the long mouth of the many-bodied demon god came demonic words, transmitted through rippling thought into Shen Mu’s mind: “Little child, you only know how to smash recklessly…
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Its body shook violently.
The bone wings on its back clattered and then flew off one by one. Each bone wing was a demon-god weapon, shaped like the broken halberd on the Dawn Ark, and they shot toward the great sun.
Shish-shish-shish. One halberd after another pierced into the great sun.
The great sun slowed, slower and slower, until at last it crashed into the river valley, skidding forward more than a thousand zhang before it stopped. Crack. The Dawn Ark’s sun split apart, breaking into two halves.
A smile crept across the demon god’s long face.
But at that moment, a solar jade eye rolled out from the split sun.
The jade eye was several zhang tall; it rolled once, and suddenly its pupil stood vertical, shooting a blazing beam that sliced into the demon god’s great eyeball. The demon god screamed, a sound that shook heaven and earth, and hurriedly turned its head to dodge.