Chapter 1692 — Village Pig-Slaughter Feast

Shen Mu walked toward the first forest of obelisks. Here there was not only a strange smell of blood-rust, but also an exceedingly heavy aura of slaughter; and what discomforted him most of all was the suppressive force emanating from these obelisks.

These obelisks had been forged by the Eldest Young Master of Miluo Palace to suppress his enemies.

This force suppressed his primordial spirit, preventing the power of his primordial spirit from being unleashed; and not only that, the suppressive force had also locked away his divine treasury! The Eldest Young Master's cultivation was exceedingly high, and the obelisk forest he had left behind gradually acted upon the Dao Shen Mu had cultivated, scattering and silencing his Daoist arts and divine powers!

The power of the Dao was manifested in divine powers; if Daoist arts and divine powers could not function, then one's strength could not be brought to bear! Such was the situation Shen Mu now faced.

"The Eldest Young Master cultivated the Primordial Qi of the Lord of Miluo Palace, and the Primordial Qi is the foundation of all his Daoist arts and divine powers.

If the obelisk forest can even suppress the Primordial Qi, then he himself would be suppressed here by the obelisk forest he himself refined!

" Shen Mu halted. He was still on the outer periphery of the obelisk forest, and at this rate, he likely would not get far before all his cultivation and strength, even his Daoist arts and divine powers, were utterly suppressed. Even if Tai Yi were suppressed here, he would have no power to rescue him; therefore he had to devise a countermeasure.

"That is to say, the Primordial Qi can evade the suppressive force of the obelisk forest. However, I need to know the rune sequence used in the Eldest Young Master's Primordial rune seal!

" He stopped to carefully study the obelisk.

As for the runes contained within the door panel, he already had some understanding; these past few years he had been studying the Primordial runes and divine powers contained within the door panel. But a door panel was a door panel, and a stone stele was a stone stele; the Primordial divine powers contained in the two things were certainly not quite the same.

Just then, Shen Mu suddenly froze, staring at the ground. On the ground, besides his own footprints, there were the footprints of another person!

He examined them closely and saw that among the footprints on the ground, some came in from outside, and some went out from within; judging by their size, they should be the footprints of the same person.

"This person, after entering the world behind the door, stopped here, then immediately turned around and left this place!

" Shen Mu showed an expression of surprise.

From the footprints, this person was clearly not the Eldest Young Master of Miluo Palace. This person had intruded into the world behind the door with an exceedingly powerful momentum; his footprints were deeply imprinted on the ground of the world behind the door!

He came with an invincible momentum, and in a few steps arrived before the first obelisk!

Shen Mu raised his foot and stamped down heavily, yet left only a shallow footprint on the ground. Compared with the footprints that person had left, his strength was clearly far inferior.

"Stronger than me!

" He stood before the first obelisk. That obelisk had already vanished without a trace, leaving only a large pit.

Clearly, this obelisk had been directly uprooted by that person!

"Yet his footsteps stopped abruptly here. After he uprooted this obelisk, it was as if he had encountered something that even he found extremely terrifying.

" Shen Mu stood on the footprints before the stele and looked into the obelisk forest, but could see nothing amiss. Suddenly his eyes lit up: he saw that another door panel, broken in two, was actually scattered within the obelisk forest.

"This door panel?

" Shen Mu was startled, then came to a realization: "This gateway has two doors.

That person must have burst in from outside and blasted one of the doors away with a single punch!

That door was forged by the Second Young Master, incomparably hard, and he shattered it with one punch; his strength is indeed far above mine. The broken door was blasted away by him and fell into the obelisk forest! " "He burst through the door with momentum, but after walking here and uprooting the first one, he immediately sensed an unparalleled peril, turned around and left; therefore the footprints he left upon departure became very light and faint.

" Shen Mu turned his head and looked at the other door of the gateway. The departing footprints were very light and faint; upon reaching the door, to vent his anger, he blasted the remaining door away with a single punch.

"But his momentum had already dissipated; he could not blast this door into two halves, only sent it flying into the abandoned land. " Shen Mu turned around again and eyed the obelisk forest suspiciously: "Then what exactly was the peril that this great expert sensed?

Was it this aura of slaughter?

" He shook his head. Though the aura of slaughter was intense, it was not so intense as to frighten away an existence of that caliber.

"Was it the suppressive force of the obelisk forest?

No, that's not right either. He could uproot the first obelisk, which shows he did not fear the Eldest Young Master's arrangements; he came to break the formation with ample confidence.

Then what frightened him away.

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" Shen Mu frowned deeply. He had several conjectures in mind, but could not be certain of any.

"Never mind. As long as I enter and take a look, I will know what exactly frightened away such a great expert!

" He walked toward the next obelisk. The stele was like a mirror, its surface incomparably smooth, even reflecting his internal organs and his divine treasury.

If one looked closely, one could even see the composition of Shen Mu's Dao, see the structure of every particle that composed Shen Mu, even see his brain, and the currents in his neural plexus caused when his brain's thoughts changed!

If one had a profound understanding of a person's thoughts, then through the mirror surface of this stele, one could see through all of that person's thoughts!

"From the surface of the stele, it seems impossible that there could be any runes at all, but this is precisely the marvel of the Lord of Miluo Palace's Primordial runes!

" Shen Mu stood before the stele, full of confidence.

Because he knew that Primordial runes possessed infinite detail!

When he had studied the Dao patterns of Miluo Palace, he had discovered this. The Dao patterns of Miluo Palace possessed infinite detail, and the root of this infinite detail came from the Primordial runes.

Therefore, though this obelisk seemed to have no flaw and could reflect infinite detail, he could still see through its composition!

Because the infinite detail reflected by the stele's mirror surface was in fact the Primordial runes, when reflecting the person or thing before the stele's mirror surface, displaying the infinite detail of the Primordial runes through the structure of the person or thing!

Primordial runes encompass all phenomena; they can transform into all Daoist arts and divine powers, and can evolve all persons or things. Shen Mu stood before the stele's mirror surface.

It seemed he was looking into a mirror, but in truth the Primordial runes within the stele were reconstructing another him in the mirror.

"The simplest way to make the Primordial rune array that the Eldest Young Master hid within the stele reveal itself is to let it shine upon nothing at all! " Shen Mu released the last remaining Primordial Qi within him, transforming it into four mirror surfaces that stood around the stele!

His Primordial Qi transformed into a rune state, each rune incomparably fine, so that this stele could no longer reflect anything else.