Chapter 1150 — Can I Devour You?
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Their primordial spirits had been pierced by arts of souls and spirits, and the lofty deities standing on high with divine whips oversaw the slaves as they mined. At the slightest mistake, the whips would lash down, making the souls wail horribly.
The Yin Heavenly Emperor belonged to the lineage of Lord Haotian.
Although half of Lord Haotian's blood was human, he had never regarded himself as human; and though the Yin Heavenly Emperor was human, he likewise did not regard himself as one.
Shen Mu was filled with many emotions.
Sometimes the ones who were cruelest to the human race were not necessarily the demigods—they could also be humans.
Shen Mu could not bear to look anymore. He had originally wanted to see the outside world beyond the Heavenly Court and the Origin Realm, but the more he saw, the harder it became to endure. He wanted to go on a slaughter, but relying on his own strength alone he could hardly change anything.
"Fire Heavenly Venerable, what have you actually changed? " He could not help but laugh wryly.
Even the present Heavenly Court had many human elites; leaving aside Xiao Heavenly Venerable, Fire Heavenly Venerable was a true human Heavenly Venerable!
Fire Heavenly Venerable, the Yin Heavenly Emperor, the Dao Ancestor, the Great Brahma Heavenly King Buddha, and the Heavenly Master Bai Yuqiong—their strength was not weak.
Beyond them, there were also existences like Kaihuang, yet the human race always lived in the lowest depths. Fire Heavenly Venerable had painted himself in a lofty light, and Shen Mu very much wanted to go see for himself how the humans under his command actually lived.
So he left the Northern Heavens and traveled to the Southern Heavens.
The Southern Heaven was governed by the Red Emperor Qi Xiayu.
Nominally, the Red Emperor Qi Xiayu was the ruler of the Southern Heavens, but in truth, it was Fire Heavenly Venerable who ruled the Southern Heaven. Every generation of Red Emperor had been a puppet propped up by Fire Heavenly Venerable.
From ancient times to the present, the Red Emperor of the Southern Heaven had been replaced countless times, yet the true controller remained him. It was precisely because Fire Heavenly Venerable was the actual ruler of the Southern Heaven that he had a feud with the Southern Emperor Zhuque.
The Southern Emperor Zhuque ruled the Southern Pole Heaven, at the edge of the universe, on the fringes of the Southern Heavens, and the territory he occupied was not very large. Even so, Fire Heavenly Venerable had spent hundreds of thousands of years infiltrating the Southern Pole Heaven, so that when he rode the divine weapon Imperial Heavenly Venerable and fought his way into it, the Southern Emperor Zhuque had no troops to mobilize.
Shen Mu walked out of the spirit-energy translocation bridge of the Red Emperor's Celestial Palace and looked around.
All the Southern Heavens stretched in a dense array before him, centered on the Red Emperor's Celestial Palace and hanging against the celestial dome. Red stars large and small twinkled, dazzling to the eye.
Shen Mu did not go directly into the Red Emperor's Celestial Palace. Instead he wandered around, and saw that the common folk of the Southern Heaven continent lived and worked in peace and contentment, joyful and harmonious, with everything in good order.
In the sky, a rainbow-colored phoenix fluttered past, letting out a clear, resonant cry like a song of the Dao.
Shen Mu walked to the water's edge. In a mountain stream, he spotted a divine dragon lurking in the clear depths, coiled around the bottom.
It opened its great maw and spat out a dark-water dragon pearl, drawing in the essence of the sun and moon. From the mountain forest came the rustling sound of leaves, and a qilin stepped out of the woods, came to the stream to drink, glanced at them from afar, then lowered its head to drink again.