📖 Chapter 1017 - Invite Him Over!

13 Jul, 2023

On the Raging Flame Chief Planet, Fifteenth was lying on the rock that was Fourteenth Senior Brother, hands behind his head and humming a little tune. But at the moment that Wang Baole’s divine ox phantom appeared and roared to the heavens, he suddenly sat up and looked at the Scorching Spirit Civilization in the distance.

His expression was completely different from before. The corners of his lips quirked up in a smile, and his eyes showed satisfaction and relief. It was as if an elderly soul had appeared in this young man’s body!

It wasn’t just him, either. A face appeared on the rock beneath his butt, and its expression was the exact same as Fifteenth’s. There was also the giant tree that Thirteenth transformed into, the elegant and gentle Twelfth Senior Sister, the domineering Eleventh Senior Sister, etc.… All of them had the exact same expression!

Whether it was the Seventh Senior Brother whose face had been beaten into a pig’s head, the Third Senior Brother taking a bath in magma, the First Senior Sister playing go in Second Senior Brother’s tower, or even the old ox snoring with its eyes closed… For a moment, every single one of them looked up with the same smile!

That smile held satisfaction, gentleness, and expectation.

“That kid has finally started cultivating his momentum.” In Second Senior Brother’s pagoda, First Senior Sister spoke with a smile and placed a go stone on the board.

“Yes, the Star-Sealing Art Master picked out for him is completely in line with his natural talents.” Second Senior Brother also raised his head and spoke gently. He was clear that a cultivation technique in line with a cultivator’s natural talents was of paramount importance. This was even more so when it came to a supreme cultivation technique like the Star-Sealing Art, which could let people reach the heavens in a single step.

After all, in the Raging Flame Galaxy, this was the technique that was the best at cultivating momentum!

“Master went out and personally asked Reverend Heavenlearned to deduce the past and present Heavenly Dao using a strand of Junior Brother’s hair in order to modify the Star-Sealing Art so that it would be perfectly suitable to his natural talents. Master, you must have paid a heavy price for this…” Second Senior Brother said softly. Opposite him, First Senior Sister laughed.

“Indeed, but it was worth it. As cultivators, if we want to walk the path of the true Great Dao, cultivation techniques are important, natural talent is important, good fortune is important, and magical treasures are important… but in fact, all of these are secondary. The thing we should place first and foremost is none other than momentum!

“From the Planet Realm, we must constantly accumulate… a dauntless momentum!

“Only with such momentum can we continue charging forward, heedless of the obstacles of heaven and earth, and even trampling over this universe’s myriad laws and Heavenly Dao!

“So long as our momentum is not extinguished, we are destined to reach the pinnacle, becoming invincible in the world!” First Senior Sister looked up to the sky and laughed. But a moment later, she muttered to herself in a voice that only she could hear.

“All disciples of the Raging Flame Galaxy walk this path, but the ruthless Heavenly Dao killed them off one after another… But I believe that as long as we persevere, cultivating momentum will prove itself to be the path of the Great Dao!”

At that moment, outside the Scorching Spirit Civilization’s Eternal Star, Wang Baole sat inside the Dao Planet between the eyebrows of the divine ox. He slowly opened his eyes, within which the aura of a hegemon was gradually rising!

“Looking at it now, the Planet Realm… is just a transition!” Wang Baole sensed the fluctuations of his cultivation base. Although he was still only in the middle stage of the Planet Realm, there were already only a few Planet Realm cultivators who would be able to defeat him if he went all-out. And if they wanted to kill him… Throughout the entire Never-Ending Dao Domain, such people were certainly vanishingly rare, if they existed at all.

“The Dao Planet’s unique natural law of duplication, the natural laws of the nine Ancient Planets, the Nightmare Eye Art’s killing power, and the Star-Sealing Art’s explosive might…” Wang Baole murmured. The aura of a hegemon contained in his eyes grew stronger and stronger. His body and the divine ox phantom seemed to be guided by an invisible force, fusing together and carrying a surging momentum that continuously intensified.

The surrounding natural laws were trembled under this towering momentum, causing the starry sky to twist and distort. Rumbling sounds echoed outward, and the Eternal Star Realm cultivators of all the nearby civilizations prostrated themselves in worship.

With a wave of his right hand, Wang Baole took out the hundred Mortal Planets offered up by the Violet Gold Civilization. These Mortal Planets had all been processed and sealed already, so they looked like fist-sized orbs of different colors.

But once their seals were released, they would instantly turn back into Planets, shining in the starry sky.

“Although I’ve only reached the great circle of the Star-Sealing Art’s first layer… I think that I can already try sealing these Mortal Planets!” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. His Dao Planet spun, and the entire divine ox star chart suddenly filled with its light. Although the power of the star chart barely changed, it was now borrowing the quintessence of the Dao Planet – in other words, its level of existence instantly changed.

At the same time, Wang Baole formed a series of hand seals, and the divine ox phantom roared once again. It opened its mouth and inhaled violently toward the hundred orbs of light transformed from Mortal Planets.

The hundred Mortal Planets were instantly absorbed by the divine ox and scattered across the star chart, each fusing with a different asteroid. It didn’t take too long, only about a dozen breaths or so, before the fusion was complete. Wang Baole waved his arm again, and the enormous divine ox phantom roared once more.

This time, its momentum was even greater. That was because inside the divine ox star chart, there were a hundred points of light that held not just asteroids, but Mortal Planets!

Although these hundred Mortal Planets made up only one percent of the whole, they still brought a significant improvement to the divine ox phantom’s might, making Wang Baole’s eyes shine brightly.

‘Sure enough, with the power of my Dao Planet, I can seal Mortal Planets even at the first layer of the Star-Sealing Art!

‘In that case, once I reach the second layer, I’ll probably be able to seal Spirit and Immortal Planets in advance. And sealing Special Planets once I reach the third layer… should be possible!

‘If I seal ten thousand Special Planets one day to form the divine ox phantom, how powerful will it be?” Wang Baole’s heart pounded. He couldn’t even imagine it, but a certain expectation rooted itself deeply in his heart.

‘The Dao Planet is like adding an extra layer to the Star-Sealing Art. My first layer is other people’s second layer, my second layer is other people’s third layer… So once I reach the fourth layer, to a certain extent, it can be considered an unprecedented fifth layer!

‘In that case… perhaps when I break through to the Eternal Star Realm, it won’t be by fusing with an Eternal Star…’ A bold idea suddenly emerged in Wang Baole’s mind.

‘Is it possible that the Star-Sealing Art can allow my Dao Planet to break through? Changing from a Planet… to an Eternal Star! Once that happens, my cultivation base will also naturally reach the Eternal Star Realm!’ Wang Baole’s eyes shone. He knew that there were many ways to break through from the Planet Realm to the Eternal Star Realm. Since the Eternal Star Realm represented a fundamental change in a person’s level of life, there was no fixed method of breaking through.

However, no matter which method a person used, success couldn’t be guaranteed. Furthermore, the probability of failure was often very high. It wasn’t that there weren’t any methods of guaranteed success, but those methods all required an unimaginable amount of either time, resources, or luck. For example, if a civilization had no Eternal Star, then as long as the civilization managed to advance somehow, its inhabitants would be blessed, and the strongest cultivator would directly step into the Eternal Star Realm. But how could a civilization without an Eternal Star possibly advance?

Wang Baole didn’t continue thinking about it. After all, there was still quite a distance to go before he reached even the great circle of the Planet Realm. Right now, he had only just achieved initial success in the Star-Sealing Art, so his priority was to obtain more Mortal Planets and fill in the rest of the star chart.

When his thoughts reached this point, Wang Baole lifted his head. His mind moved, and the domineering divine ox phantom immediately retracted into the Dao Planet and returned to his body. After that, Wang Baole took a step, and he instantly appeared in front of the Eternal Star Realm cultivators who had come to guard him from the nearby civilizations.

“Greetings, Young Master!” These Eternal Star Realm cultivators all bowed their heads and offered greetings with the utmost respect.

“Many thanks!” Although his status was high and he could decide the life and death of countless beings with a single word, Wang Baole was aware that all of this was only due to his master’s strength, not his own. Thus, he remained polite as he thanked the Eternal Star Realm cultivators for standing guard. He was about to leave and return to the Raging Flame Chief Planet, but the Scorching Spirit Civilization’s Eternal Star Realm patriarch suddenly spoke in a hesitant voice.

“Young Master, there is a cultivator waiting outside who claims to be your old friend. He’s called Xie Haiyang…”

"Xie Haiyang?" Wang Baole was taken aback for a moment, then blinked. Pleasant surprise flashed through his eyes. He had just been worrying about how he could get more Mortal Planets… Clearing his throat, he immediately smiled and spoke.

“Invite him over!”