Chapter 398 — Making Connections
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
They had lived aboard this ship since childhood and breathed nothing but its pure yang qi, giving them an extremely high resistance to true fire. Xue Hu’er, Ling Yuxiu, and Si Yunxiang, meanwhile, were fighting in midair alongside the flood dragons and the dragon qilin. The true fire had not swept over that quarter. The little fox stood atop the black flood dragon, wild with excitement, shouting at the top of her lungs, yet she could contribute little.
Compared with the flood-dragon host, her strength was insignificant. Shen Mu burned countless many-bodied demons to death, but the three abnormally towering many-bodied demons on the ship were not burned. They crawled swiftly through the fire, then suddenly sprang into the air.
The bone wings on their backs beat as they shot toward Shen Mu at the center of the Dawn Ark. One of them dove down, reached out, and tore free the demon-god war halberd stuck in a great hall, and demonic might exploded at once. “Don’t smash with the sun!
” the old chieftain shouted hurriedly, seeing Shen Mu about to swing the sun.
“Smash again and you really will break it! Let us old bones hold them off! ”
“Troublesome!
”
Shen Mu stopped, scanned the area, and searched for the many-bodied demon god’s true body. The old chieftain gave a shout and summoned several elders to meet the three towering many-bodied demons.
These three were incomparably massive and ferocious; even against the old chieftain and the elders, they did not fall behind.
The old chieftain seized a bronze bell and struck it again and again, clang after clang. It was no mortal treasure.
Layer upon layer of runic marks surfaced on the bell’s walls, and whenever it rang, they revolved around the bell, sending two sun-shaped fireballs flying out to blast the enemy.
But the broken halberd was a demon-god weapon, able to cleave through every divine art the bronze bell unleashed, and it was supremely dangerous.
Shen Mu swept his gaze about. The darkness of the Ruins was deep and heavy, and he could not tell where the many-bodied demon god’s true body was hidden. Suddenly, solid, heavy footsteps boomed from the darkness, thudding so hard the earth trembled without cease.
The footsteps came from every direction, faster and faster, until they abruptly vanished and became the sound of splitting air. The sound was piercingly sharp, and Shen Mu’s heart sank as he watched one enormous many-bodied demon after another fly out of the darkness, straight for the Dawn Ark. “So it really was not his true body!
”
Shen Mu’s mind stirred.
The Sorrowless Sword shot from its sheath and hung motionless in the air.
On the Dawn Ark, the great sun hung high. The Sunherd warriors gripped their weapons, frantic with dread, and looked up.
Huge demon monstrosities one after another blotted out the great sun’s light and came to hover over the great ship, casting shadows so vast and wide that the heart froze. At that instant, sword light burst forth.
The center of the Dawn Ark seemed to gain a silver sun, and terrifying sword intent and sword energy shot outward like sunlight in every direction!
In that fleeting moment, the Sorrowless Sword’s divine might swept across the sky, and a black rain began to fall.
Countless severed limbs and broken arms came crashing down, almost burying the Dawn Ark. But one demon in the air dodged all the sword light. It flew straight to the four divine pillars, passed between two of them, and rushed at Shen Mu.
Humm—
The great eye at the center of that many-bodied demon’s face flickered with black light, shining straight into Shen Mu’s face. Its four claws seized Shen Mu’s chest and sank deep into his flesh.
The black light in its demonic eye grew even darker, a light that seemed able to devour all things, so that even a soul caught within it would sink endlessly. Everyone on the ship cried out.