The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1443

Chapter 1443: Chapter 1439: Astronomical Bureau Chapter 1443: Chapter 1439: Astronomical Bureau The baby's voice trailed off, the woman's eyes brightened with two pools of blood light, and as she was about to chase after the dispersing crowd while holding the baby, she suddenly heard a thunderous roar from within the belly of the magical beast.

Following that, a sword light tore open the beast's abdomen, and a clump of crimson flames gushed forth.

The magical beast let out a harrowing scream from its mouth, followed by a string of explosive sounds inside its belly, as countless shadows of sticks emerged from it, instantly enlarging the slashed opening made by the Pure Yang Flying Sword by a hundred times, and blood rained everywhere for a moment.

In the next instant, the catfish demon beast's body exploded with a loud bang.

Shen Luo shot straight out from the exploded flesh and quickly arrived in front of the woman, swinging down the Profound Yellow Staff in his hand toward the baby she was holding.

The woman had no time to dodge and could only turn sharply to shield the baby in her arms.

The Profound Yellow Staff shone brightly and with a “bang,” it heavily smashed onto the woman's back, immediately followed by the sound of cracking bones.

The woman knelt on both knees, her hands still firmly holding the baby, while the ground around her had already cracked open.

At this moment, a bizarre scene unfolded!

The woman's back visibly caved in, her flesh and blood rapidly contracted, and in the blink of an eye, it shriveled up like a dried-up orange peel.

However, the baby in her arms visibly grew twice as big at an observable speed, turned into a pitch-black naked toddler, and shot out from her arms, directly pouncing toward the fleeing crowd around.

The people of Chang'an screamed and dodged in panic, all except an old man with white hair who stood there with a dazed look, motionless.

The baby flashed past the old man's head, wrapped his arms around his neck, and clung to his back.

With eyes full of resentment, he fiercely glared at Shen Luo and suddenly bit into the old man's neck, quickly sucking away.

Like the woman before him, the white-haired old man did not resist at all, allowing his flesh and blood to be “gulp gulp” devoured, and his body quickly withered into a skeleton.

Shen Luo, holding the long stick in one hand, chased after them, and covertly hooked his fingers behind his back with the other hand, causing the Pure Yang Flying Sword wrapped in flames to shoot directly from behind the baby, aiming at his heart.

After feasting on the old man's flesh, the baby transformed again, growing two sharp ears and two pairs of flesh wings.

Although he couldn't see behind him, he suddenly shuddered his wings and surged upwards, performing a backflip to dodge the flying sword and instead dashed towards Shen Luo at high speed.

Observing this, Shen Luo stepped into mid-air, lightly tapped on the incoming flying sword with his toes, leapt up in the air, and clasping the Profound Yellow Staff with both hands, he violently smashed it down at the baby.

At that moment, the baby suddenly let out a piercing screech, emitting visible sound waves in a fan-shaped spread outward.

As Shen Luo charged into the sound wave area, his Sea of Knowledge violently trembled, his vision flickered, and he was suddenly faced with seven or eight layers of afterimages, unable to clearly see where the baby was.

But almost at the same time, the Suppressing God Technique was already in motion, releasing a strong divine soul that instantly calmed the tumult in the Sea of Knowledge, and his vision returned to normal.

“It's impossible…” Seeing that Shen Luo had almost instantly dispelled his divine soul disruption, the baby was greatly shocked.

Confident in his secret technique, he had already regarded Shen Luo as an easy prey and hadn't altered his trajectory at all, continuing straight towards Shen Luo.

“Slaughter Iron Rod!” Shen Luo bellowed.

Upon his Profound Yellow Staff, a layer of crimson light suddenly enveloped, exuding a murderous intent as it smashed down toward the baby.

The baby, seeing no way to dodge, suddenly turned blood-red all over its skin.

With a loud “bang!”,

The Profound Yellow Staff heavily struck the baby, immediately bursting into a spray of blood and flesh.

At that moment, Shen Luo's gaze sharpened, but he suddenly saw something the size of a fist burst out from the cloud of blood, propelled by the force of the explosion, shooting towards the distance.

Without any hesitation, he immediately waved his hand to grab the Pure Yang Flying Sword and surged towards it with his escape light.

From afar, he could see a three-inch-long blood-colored worm writhing in the air, fleeing in a manner indescribable, its speed not slowing down at all.

In just a few breaths, the worm had crossed over a palace wall and shot inside, soon disappearing from sight.

Shen Luo, seeing that the direction of its escape was the Astronomical Bureau, couldn't help but frown slightly as he relentlessly pursued.

The location of the Astronomical Bureau was indeed adjacent to the northwest of the Imperial Palace, positioned at the highest terrain of the entire Imperial City–the vast expanse was mostly devoid of tall trees and buildings obstructing the view, making it an ideal place for stargazing at night.

Shen Luo passed through several palace walls, along the way he could see many traces of fierce battles and numerous remains of Feathered Spirit Guards and Magical Beasts.

The closer he got to the Astronomical Bureau, the more people he found killed in the battle, which clearly indicated it was a key target of these evil demons' attack.

After crossing another yellow palace wall, a vast white square appeared ahead.

In the square, positioned towards the southeast, northwest, and southwest, were several large stone and copper instruments, among them Shen Luo recognized a stone sundial and a copper seismoscope.

However, the others, he guessed, were likely astronomical instruments used for observing celestial phenomena like armillary spheres.

Beneath these instruments on the ground, a massive Zhou Tian star chart was engraved.

Clearly, a fierce slaughter had taken place on this square, as it was littered with a large number of dead bodies of evil demons and Feathered Spirit Guards.

Additionally, many bodies of monks dressed in robes similar to Taoist robes, all embroidered with star patterns on their cuffs, likely the uniform of the Astronomical Bureau's disciples, lay dead.

In comparison to the Feathered Spirit Guards, their bodies, almost without exception, were all lying before these precious astronomical instruments, seemingly having died in their defense.

Thanks to their protection, these instruments, although impacted, were not severely damaged.

“Boom”

Not lingering to look further, Shen Luo heard a booming sound from the other side of the square.

Looking towards that direction from afar, he saw behind a great hall a towering light pillar extending deep into the skydome, connecting with the Four Symbols Heaven-Time Array.

Shen Luo glanced towards the Great Tang Dynasty Government, seeing the towering true form of the Peach Blossom giant tree, which was countering the array above, preventing it from descending.

He withdrew his gaze, his escape light flashed, and he shot towards that great hall.