Chapter 396 — The Cage of Heaven and Earth
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Ling Yuxiu and the others were struck with a shock beyond words. More and more Sunherds came forward, dropping to one knee, and again and again the words "Your Highness" rang out.
By now nearly every Sunherd had gathered here; looking out, there were close to a hundred thousand of them below, all on one knee, heads bowed low. Among the Sunherds there was no emperor, and Shen Mu was certainly no Sunherd—so whose highness were they speaking of, and of what place?
"Is the cowherd a highness of the Ruins? Or a highness of Carefree Land?
Is the cowherd the crown prince of the Ruins? " Ling Yuxiu was rather bewildered.
The cowherd boy had a background like this?
And how was he able to command this Dawn Ark, to wield the power of the Dawn Ark?
Snow Fox, for her part, was somewhat disappointed: "So the young master isn't a male fox who's become a spirit?
" Shen Mu opened his hand, and his body gradually returned to normal; the two arms that had burst forth withdrew back into him. He hastily helped the old clan chief to his feet and said, "Clan Chief, please have your people rise.
" "Thank you, Your Highness.
" The old clan chief rose and said with solemn gravity, "We did not know Your Highness's identity before, and we gave offense in many ways. We beg Your Highness to forgive us.
" He turned, raised his arms high, and cried out loudly to the Sunherds below: "People of the Sunherd clan, guardians of the Dawnspring! The Highness of Carefree Land has come! Carefree Land has not forgotten us! Twenty thousand years of waiting, twenty thousand years of toil—we have waited, and he is here!
Dawnspring shall not fall! The Sunherds shall not be extinguished! " One after another, the simple, artless faces of the Sunherds lit with wild joy.
They cheered and laughed; the torment of these days, the oppression born of the war's cruelty, all vanished into thin air. The invasion of the otherworldly demon gods had draped the Sunherds around Dawnspring in a cloud of annihilation; every member of the clan fought and struggled for the future of their race, yet they had no assurance of surviving this calamity. The pressure mounted, and the clan grew ever more stifled. But now, with Shen Mu's arrival, their vanished hope had returned!
It was a revel.
Everywhere there were giants running and cheering; some wept for joy, some sang and danced, some went to tell the wounded warriors and the dying elders, and some burned incense before the ancestral tablets and offered prayers. "Clan Chief, have you perhaps misunderstood? " Shen Mu looked at the reveling crowd below, somewhat perplexed, and said to the old clan chief, "I am not your highness.
.
. " The old clan chief shook his head.
"One who is not a Sunherd, yet can command the Dawn Ark—there is only one possibility: the imperial clan! In those years Zi Qing, by imperial command, forged the Dawn Ark. Apart from being steered by a Sun Warden of pure-yang constitution, the Dawn Ark can also be commanded by the imperial clan. Your Highness is no Sunherd, so you must be of the imperial clan of Carefree Land! " Shen Mu shook his head.
"I am an Overlord Body.
It may be that the Overlord Body is also a pure-yang constitution.
" "Overlord Body? What Overlord Body?
" The clan chief was at a loss. The revel below swelled, clamorous beyond measure.
He ventured, "Your Highness, is 'Overlord Body' the name for the imperial bloodline?
" Shen Mu could not help but feel doubt. Could it be that Overlord Body really was the name for the imperial clan?
Something seemed not quite right.
If Overlord Body were the name for the imperial clan, then was Xu Shenghua also of the imperial clan?
And if Xu Shenghua were also of the imperial clan, what then of the true and false Overlord Bodies the headman had spoken of?
Could there be such a thing as a false imperial bloodline? And if the Overlord Body was not the imperial clan, then was the Overlord Body a pure-yang constitution?