Chapter 691 — The Broken Stele of the Yin Realm

Shen Mu was proficient in many scripts and languages: the divine tongue, the demon tongue, the Youdu tongue, the dragon tongue, and the Sanskrit of the Buddhist realm. Not only could he read them without difficulty, but he had also deeply studied the principles contained within each. But the writing on the stele was an entirely new language.

'What script is this? ' He thought for a moment, then removed the willow leaf from his brow and said softly: 'Brother, Heavenly Lord, Crimson Emperor, do you recognize the writing on this?

' In his third eye, another pupil appeared within the pupil and took a look. 'Don't recognize it. ' Shen Fengqing's voice came: 'Little brother, let me out.

I won't eat you.

' Another pupil squeezed over, pushing Shen Fengqing's pupil aside.

It should be the Heavenly Lord's clone. Last time when passing through Xuandu, the Heavenly Lord's clone had not managed to escape in time.

'The writing on it says three words: Tianyin Realm.

' The Heavenly Lord's voice came faintly: 'The Tianyin Realm is a world beneath Xuandu.

Though I shine brightly and can illuminate the many heavens great and small around me, there are places my light cannot reach, and that is beneath my feet.

The place beneath my feet is the Tianyin Realm. Strange, how could there be a boundary stele of the Tianyin Realm here? By rights, it should not appear in this place.

' Shen Mu asked in confusion: 'Shouldn't Youdu be beneath the Heavenly Lord's feet?

' 'Youdu is the place where the dead return. The Tianyin Realm is a place of gloom and obscurity. They are not the same. ' The Heavenly Lord's clone was about to say more when Shen Fengqing's angry voice suddenly cut in: 'Shut up, old thief! If you explain everything so clearly, how am I supposed to trick him into letting me out to eat him? ' From Shen Mu's third eye came the sound of someone beating an old man. After a moment, the Crimson Emperor's voice came: 'I didn't even speak.

Why hit me.

. .

Little brat, do you think I'm afraid of you? I am the dignified Heavenly Emperor of the Chiming Era. .

. ' 'Boy of the Shen family, your brother has torn us to pieces and is trying to escape to eat you. Hurry and put the willow leaf back! ' 'Little brother, don't believe them.

We're brothers. Brothers should help each other.

I won't eat you. . .

Shut up, old man!

If I eat him, I can let you all out!

' Shen Mu hurriedly put the willow leaf back, and his eye finally settled down. 'The Tianyin Realm? Could the dark matter originate from here?

' Shen Mu calculated for a moment, then stepped back and returned to the deity's human skin. He shone the lantern on it and saw that the deity had indeed inflated again, just as he had expected. Shen Mu set down the lantern, took out the Book of Life and Death, and shone it again.

The deity once more opened its mouth and let out a shrill scream.

Black smoke billowed from its eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and it rapidly deflated!

Shen Mu pondered. 'Could this black smoke be the dark matter? ' He raised his hand and grasped a handful of darkness.

To others, darkness could not be touched, but to him it was like touching sand, only extremely faint, almost imperceptible. 'Is the Tianyin Realm entirely made of this dark matter?

Why does this dark matter seep into the Wilderness Ruins, into the heavens of the celestial courts of past dynasties? ' He steadied himself, put away the Book of Life and Death, and picked up the lantern.

After thinking for a moment, he did not carry it, but instead placed it into the Taotie Pouch. If the Tianyin Realm was entirely made of this dark matter, then carrying a lantern through it would be like carrying a lantern in a latrine—utterly pointless.

He walked around the Tianyin Realm's boundary stele. Before his eyes was a hazy gray, and he arrived in a world of extremely bizarre gray tones.