📖 Chapter 1004 - Raging Flame Galaxy!

20 Jun, 2023

“Be honest?” Wang Baole was stunned.

“Yes!” The old ox nodded confidently as it galloped through the starry sky.

“Must not lie?” Wang Baole asked uncertainly, sounding bewildered.

"That's right!" The old ox cleared its throat and nodded again.

"He hates flattery?" After a moment of hesitation, Wang Baole couldn’t help but ask again.

“Indeed!” The old ox’s response was still a nod. It seemed unusually patient.

With all these assurances, Wang Baole finally started to believe, but there was still some doubt in his heart. In his uncertainty, the old ox became faster and faster.

Half a month later, after passing countless big and small civilizations, Wang Baole saw a region of red appear in the distance!

“Little Le, we’re here!” The old ox let out a long laugh. With a snort, two streams of air blew out of its nostrils, kicking up a storm in the surrounding starry sky. Wang Baole’s thoughts were interrupted by the old ox’s voice, and he stopped thinking about the Flame Patriarch’s personality. In any case, if the Flame Patriarch was indeed like the old ox had said, then it would be a good thing for Wang Baole. He would be able to feel at ease in the future.

Thus, when he saw the red region in front of him, his spirits were lifted.

This red region was like an enormous ball of flames that danced about, causing endless wisps of a smoky substance to billow outward into the surrounding starry sky.

To Wang Baole’s eyes, these flames seemed eternal and indestructible. The old ox accelerated even more, and as space cracked around him, Wang Baole found himself closer and closer to the flaming region.

When he neared the boundary, Wang Baole could no longer see the complete shape of the flames. All he could see was an endless sea of fire in front of him.

Waves of heat rolled outward, distorting the starry sky. The closer he got, the greater the distortion became. Wang Baole was shocked and also a little terrified. He soon discovered that in addition to space, even time and the natural laws were affected by this distortion!

Outside the flames, time seemed to elongate, slowing down considerably. At the same time, aside from the law of fire, all natural laws were completely suppressed.

Obviously, even the laws of the starry sky were subject to the domination of these flames.

‘The Flame Patriarch was actually so strong!’ Wang Baole was utterly astounded. Although he knew that the Flame Patriarch was a powerful figure, he had previously looked down on him as being weaker than his Senior Brother Chen Qingzi. But now, he realized that his previous thoughts were both right and wrong!

They were right because the Flame Patriarch really was weaker than Chen Qingzi. But they were also wrong, because… it wasn’t that the Flame Patriarch was weak, but that Senior Brother Chen Qingzi was just freakishly strong, causing the Flame Patriarch to seem less formidable in comparison.

‘A different frame of reference…’

With such thoughts tumbling around in his mind, Wang Baole watched as the old ox roared to the heavens. As the roar echoed in all directions, the sea of flames in front of them parted, revealing a straight path.

The old ox didn’t slow down, directly rushing into the path and stepping into the blazing galaxy. But once it entered, it seemed to become overly excited; it ignored the rest of the path and directly jumped into the sea of flames.

Wang Baole nearly had a heart attack, and he quickly gripped the hair on the old ox’s back even tighter. All he could see was a sea of flames, and a terrifyingly high temperature as well as a heavy pressure that made his heart tremble. If he was thrown off, then even with the power of the law of fire that his Ancient Planet granted him, he wouldn’t be able to last too long in the sea of fire. He would probably be wiped out of existence within moments.

Fortunately, the old ox was fast, so Wang Baole’s terror didn’t have to last too long. From the edge of the Raging Flame Galaxy to the center, it only took about two hours.

Soon, the pale-face Wang Baole saw an enormous planet appear from within the sea of flames. This planet alone was already as big as the entire solar system, and it was shaped like a huge furnace…

It was the Chief Planet of the Raging Flame Galaxy!

Surrounding the Raging Flame Chief Planet were hundreds of Eternal Stars!

These Eternal Stars revolved around the Raging Flame Chief Planet like planets revolving around the Sun. Wang Baole also saw varying numbers of planets orbiting each Eternal Star.

However, in comparison to the gargantuan Chief Planet, the other planets obviously didn’t seem like much. But when Wang Baole calmed himself down and took a closer look, his mind rumbled uncontrollably.

“Hundreds of Eternal Stars, thousands of planets, all surrounding the Raging Flame Chief Planet… So this is the Raging Flame Galaxy… In comparison, my solar system’s Federation is unbelievably insignificant…”

“Surprised? Let me tell you, Little Le, this is still the esteemed lord being low-key. Here in the Never-Ending Dao Domain, anyone on the same level as the esteemed lord usually has at least ten thousand Eternal Stars to their name… There are even people who have a hundred thousand or even a million.

“And there are plenty of people who are far inferior to the esteemed lord but own galaxies on a far larger scale than our Raging Flame Galaxy. It can’t be helped, our great esteemed lord is just too humble and unpretentious.” The old ox sighed loudly. The sound of its sigh rippled outward, spreading over a huge area.

“Even if the size is ordinary, here in the Left Dao Holy Region, my Raging Flame Galaxy has a unique and transcendent status. It’s known as a holy ground, and those of us belonging to it can do basically whatever we want. Even if we go to the Unorthodox Holy Region, we have our own degree of status!”

As he listened to the old ox’s words, Wang Baole’s spirits lifted. When he was chatting with the old ox on the way here, the old ox hadn’t been willing to say things outright, but he’d still obtained some information. For example, he knew that although the Raging Flame Galaxy was nominally part of the Left Dao Holy Region, due to its transcendent status, it was more like a feudal lord. Even the great sects of the Left Dao Holy Region didn’t dare to mess with it lightly.

Now that he saw the galaxy with his own eyes and heard the old ox finally speak plainly, he felt deep awe.

“Alright, let’s not talk about this anymore. Little Le, hold on tight. We’re going to enter the Chief Planet now. You’ll be able to personally experience the benefits of the Raging Flame Galaxy’s status when you go out for experience later!” With that, the old ox’s body turned into a long arc of light that shot past one Eternal Star after another as it headed straight toward the enormous furnace-shaped Raging Flame Chief Planet.

Wang Baole’s vision blurred from the extreme speed, and a moment later… what appeared before his eyes was no longer a starry sky, but the heaven and earth of a planet. The figure of the old ox had stepped into the atmosphere of the Raging Flame Chief Planet, floating loftily high in the sky!

Here, the sky was completely red, and there was a layer of transparent film that prevented the flames outside from surging into the planet. However, due to this, the pressure that the vault of heaven gave off became even stronger.

The ground was different. There was no sea of flames, but rather a majestic expanse containing ranges of mountains, countless herbs, and oceans upon oceans.

From time to time, some birds and beasts could be seen prancing about, and there were also some dragon-like creatures in the ocean that occasionally raised their heads above the water surface.

As for the spirit qi… Wang Baole had never seen a place with such rich spirit qi. It was so dense that clouds of spirit qi formed between heaven and earth. He didn’t need to do anything at all – the endless spirit qi automatically seeped into his body on its own. It was very comfortable.

To the southeast, there was an enormous pagoda ten thousand meters high, grandiose and magnificent. It was surrounded by splendid sculptures of auspicious beasts, and occupied a vast area. The pagoda, which seemed to reach into the heavens, contained an astonishing aura that seemed capable of suppressing the entire starry sky!

In the pagoda’s surroundings, there were sixteen smaller pagodas of the same shape. The pagoda that reached into the heavens belonged to the Flame Patriarch, and the smaller ones belonged to his disciples.

In other sects, the masters and disciples were usually situated far apart from each other. But here on the Raging Flame Chief Planet, the Flame Patriarch and his disciples all lived close together. Compared to the entire Raging Flame Chief Planet, the area occupied by the seventeen pagodas was probably not even one billionth!

While Wang Baole was in deep thought, a figure suddenly flew out of the fifteenth pagoda and headed straight for the old ox and Wang Baole, who were floating in mid-air.

Before the figure arrived, its voice rang out first!

“Junior Fifteenth greets the mighty, wise, and incomparably powerful Senior Ox!”