Chapter 770 — The Life-Devouring Cauldron, the Heaven-Net of a Chaotic Age
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The Divine Son of Youdu fought and fled as he went, and found it all the easier to work his tricks. " She could not help laughing: "Now those old things will not be so concerned with saving face.
We camp here and block the Jade Lock Pass of Youdu so that he cannot fly out even with wings; add to that so many powers of the Lingxiao and Imperial Throne realms attacking together, and his life and death are no longer his to decide! And what is more. .
. " She looked toward the camp. At the center of it, a host of demon-gods and monsters stood guard over a huge divine weapon.
It resembled a great cauldron; its four outer walls were branded with every kind of rune, forming the patterns of earth, water, wind, fire, mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, and with every manner of demigod shape — dragon head on a human body, phoenix head on a human body, tiger head on a human body, and so on.
Upon the inner walls of the great cauldron were the sun, the moon, and the stars; upon its base, countless seals. Lu Li smiled: "This cauldron is the supreme treasure for refining him. Forged when Tu Bo was in his reincarnation, the Youdu Life-Slaying Cauldron — in its day it killed more ancient gods and demigods than can be counted, and became the strongest demon-god weapon in all of Youdu!
The Youdu Life-Slaying Cauldron can trap him, but the crucial thing is still this.
" She drew out a four-sided lid, branded with the patterns of round heaven and square earth. Round heaven, and within the round, Xuandu; square earth, and within the square, Youdu. "All we must do is wait until the Divine Son of Youdu joins battle with them, then take the Divine Son of Youdu into the Youdu Life-Slaying Cauldron and seal it with the God-Suppressing Chaos-Heaven Net, and he will have no say in the matter! " Just then the gates of Jade Lock Pass swung wide, and the sound of horns came, du, du, du, together with war drums that set the chest humming.
Countless gazes swung as one toward the opened gate, and out from beneath the gate arch came a god of three heads and six arms, striding steadily.
"The Divine Son of Youdu!
" From every encampment the demon-god officers and men raised a jumbled clamor. The place had been steeped in an oppressive, murderous stillness; now a shuddering dread spread through the countless demon-gods.
Dread. Once, no one had looked upon the Divine Son of Youdu with any regard.
But in that savage battle twenty-two years ago, from the Corner of Nine Bends to the demon-god battlefield behind them, far too many beings of name and face had died, devoured by the Divine Son of Youdu, their souls and primordial spirits digested along with them! How many mighty beings of Youdu the Divine Son of Youdu had erased utterly from this world!
Such was his ferocity that even after twenty-two years of exile, the most vicious demon-gods dared not speak his name.
Shen Mu walked step by step out of the gate, and behind him the heavy gate of Jade Lock Pass slowly closed. Suddenly his gaze caught, within the camp inside the pass, a deity in the shape of a tree-man.
Shen Mu froze.
The gate boomed shut, and a blast of air came rushing out. "Brother, I think I just saw Father," he said softly. "Father?
" The big-headed baby at his neck was still sulking, and he huffed: "Father likes you better too, doesn't he?
If Father saw me, and then saw you, he would certainly pick you up and kiss you.
He would never kiss me. Hmph.
Father, so unfair.
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" Shen Mu laughed despite himself, looking ahead at rank upon rank of demon-god formations, far beyond sight, only broken banners fluttering and, in the air, battered tower-ships. "Brother, how do you use that ah-ah-ah divine power of yours? " he asked, smiling.
The big-headed baby folded his arms across his chest and sneered: "What ah-ah-ah? " Shen Mu thought for a moment.
"It should be sss, sss, sss.
Inhaling — drawing souls and primordial spirits in with a breath, and swallowing them.