Chapter 1526 — Alone He Probes the Ore Veins, Slaying Evil Spirits in the Cold Night
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The two of them were beings of the Imperial Throne realm. Arriving there, they saw that the whole vein had burst open, revealing an abyss of unfathomable depth, within which divine light rolled and surged, sealing off the bottom.
Wei Suifeng and Crown Prince Youming felt their hearts lurch, and at once they roused their heavenly palaces and descended cautiously. From the deepest part of the vein came the peculiar aura of the Great Dao belonging to a prehistoric mighty one — a Dao that did not belong to the present universe: ancient, uncanny.
Plainly a battle had been fought here. The two of them had no choice but to proceed with care, lest some prehistoric monster escape and wound them.
They passed through the dense afterwash of divine abilities, the divine light darting wildly about them, giving them a faint stinging sense upon their skin and their primordial spirits.
Plainly, the prehistoric being trapped in the tree roots had seized the chance afforded by Shen Mu's plundering of the treasure — the breaking of the roots — to force his way out of them, and had then fought a savage battle with Shen Mu! "Second Brother grows less steady by the day!
" Wei Suifeng frowned deeply.
Below, the divine light still surged upward, so that the two could not see far.
Yet as they went deeper, they glimpsed, vaguely, at the very bottom of the mining district, before roots vast as mountain ranges, a towering god-devil standing with hunched body and many heads and many arms. That god-devil gave off a heaven-flooding divine majesty; the majesty and the light wove behind him into strange floating ribbons, and within those ribbons Wei Suifeng and Crown Prince Youming beheld, hazy and indistinct, a divine city floating!
The Jade Capital City!
Both hearts jumped; they exchanged a glance, and Wei Suifeng said in a low voice, "It is the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City! This mighty one of the past universe cultivated the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City — not our heavenly palace system of cultivation, but the Jade Capital system. " In recent days Crown Prince Youming had also heard Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun speak of the Jade Capital trap, and his heart held only a deep dread, and wonder at the vast divine powers and far-reaching designs of the master of the Miluo Palace.
Yet now they saw that a mighty one of the past universe had actually cultivated the Jade Capital system, which left them both somewhat doubtful. "It seems the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City is not merely a trap," said Crown Prince Youming, musing.
"I fear the master of the Miluo Palace had a deeper purpose.
Otherwise, no being of the past universe could possibly have cultivated the Jade Capital system. " What that purpose was, however, was not for them to fathom.
The two came cautiously to the valley floor of the mining district, each rousing a divine ability to guard the body. This was the subterranean space blasted out by the eruption of divine abilities; even the roots of the Great Black Wood bore wound after wound, which showed how dreadful the fighting here had been.
Yet to their astonishment, the hunchbacked god-devil stood there motionless, frozen in the posture of a pouncing strike.
Only then did the two notice that a great hole had been torn in the chest of this god-devil, mighty as a Heavenly Venerable, and that on the thick root behind him there appeared a huge imprint of cupped hands.
The two came before that towering god-devil.
Crown Prince Youming made the gesture of cupped hands and pushed forward, musing, "This is the Heavenly Venerable Mu's divine ability — 'Primordial One Qi, Roaming the Dao as One', I believe.
The twenty-sixth heaven of his Dao-entering divine ability! " Wei Suifeng, meanwhile, went behind the hunchbacked god-devil and examined the traces left by the cupped-hand push upon the root.
He saw threads and wisps of chaos qi drifting down from the wound in the root, and said, "It is that divine ability.