đź“– Chapter 1040 - Absurd Theory!
In the Never-Ending Dao Domain, there was a certain special region that was like an illusory sea, full of gorgeous rays of light.
In the depths of the sea, there was a sphere of light floating along.
And inside the sphere of light, there was a gaunt figure wearing a rainbow-colored dress, sitting in a cross-legged position. Although this figure was extremely withered, it could still be seen that it was a woman. Just as Xu Yinling resolved herself, the unbelievably emaciated woman suddenly… opened her eyes!
“That’s right…” A hoarse voice voice came out of her mouth, and her eyes flickered with a profound light.
At the same time, long arcs of light pierced through the atmosphere of Planet Heaven’s Mandate one after another. Wang Baole, Xie Haiyang, the Scorching Spirit Ancestor, and the others had flown out first, so they were also the first to arrive. As soon as they entered Planet Heaven’s Mandate, Wang Baole saw countless bubbles floating around in the air!
Most of these bubbles were translucent, and on the surface of each bubble was an expressionless face. As soon as Wang Baole saw them, ten bubbles instantly flew toward his party.
“Sect Uncle, this is the law of Planet Heaven’s Mandate. The only way to enter the central area of the planet is to be carried there by these bubbles.” Xie Haiyang quickly said. Wang Baole nodded slightly. Although he circulated his cultivation base, he didn’t resist and allowed a bubble to envelop him.
After the group of bubbles enveloped Wang Baole and the others, a mysterious force seemed to pull them, causing the bubbles to drift toward the center of Planet Heaven’s Mandate. At the same time, Wang Baole saw that the other cultivators who had arrived on Planet Heaven’s Mandate were also being enveloped by bubbles.
Looking up from below, the countless bubbles in the sky were like dandelions drifting in the wind. Inside his bubble, Wang Baole found that he didn’t need to circulate his cultivation base at all; standing in the bubble was just like standing on solid ground. Thus, he simply sat down cross-legged and watched the scenery go by.
The environment of Planet Heaven’s Mandate was rather different compared to the Federation. The ground was made up of not soil, but red sand, making it seem like the planet was stained in blood.
Even the plants were red, and their shapes were all bizarre. There were human-shaped plants, as well as plants that were just giant spheres. There were also some trees with thin trunks but enormous crowns, giving off a sense of incongruity.
Moreover, there were some aboriginal tribes on the ground. These tribes seemed like primitive savages, and they also had strange appearances. There were some one-eyed peoples, and some who walked around on four legs.
As for the sky, its color was the blue that Wang Baole was so familiar with, but its clouds were all black. These clouds were different from Earth’s storm clouds; they were completely pitch black. They gave off a heavy and oppressive feeling as they dotted the sky.
There were also some bat-like flying beasts that appeared from time to time. Each one was extremely fast, and at first glance, they might be mistaken for black lightning.
However, these black bat-like flying beasts seemed to be extremely fearful of the bubbles. As soon as they saw one, they would change directions.
If that were all, it wouldn’t have been too surprising. But as the bubble Wang Baole was in floated along in the sky, he saw a scaled hand suddenly stretch out of a cloud, grabbing one of the bat-like flying beasts and dragging it into the cloud amid shrill shrieks. Soon, the sound of chewing echoed out from within the cloud.
When he saw this scene, Wang Baole’s pupils contracted. Although the bat-like flying beasts, weren’t too strong, the hand that shot out from the cloud was different. Wang Baole vaguely felt that… it had surpassed the Eternal Star Realm!
This scene caused Wang Baole to become more and more awed by Planet Heaven’s Mandate, but it also gave him a bizarre feeling. After floating along in his bubble for several days and seeing a herd of enormous vicious beasts, this feeling grew stronger and stronger.
These vicious beasts were similar to elephants, but their noses were short and stubby. As they lay on the ground, they constantly roared to the sky. Their roars were actually more like wails, and as they wailed, bubbles streamed out from their nostrils, floating into the sky and spreading in all directions.
Wang Baole blinked. Those bubbles seemed extremely similar to the bubble he was currently in…
At the same time, he also saw what was making the vicious beasts wail so miserably. There were black spots on their bodies that sometimes shrank and sometimes grew.
Looking carefully, it could be seen that each black spot was composed of countless tiny bugs. The vicious beasts were wailing because of the bugs’ constant biting.
Wang Baole’s eyes slowly narrowed, but he didn’t speak. As for the others, they were inside different bubbles and thus he couldn’t hear any noise from them. Most of them had already heard about the peculiarity of Planet Heaven’s Mandate, so they weren’t too surprised. However, there were also some people coming here for the first time like Wang Baole. Of those people, their expressions all changed to varying degrees.
Two days later, the color of the ground below finally changed, the sand becoming golden rather than red. And at the border between the two colors, Wang Baole saw an even stranger scene.
The border between the red and gold sand wasn’t fixed, but fluctuated constantly. Sometimes, there would be more red than gold, while at other times, the gold would suppress the red, like waves crashing against the shore. Looking closely, there was obviously no ocean here, though. Instead, everything was sand, and even more astonishingly, each grain of sand had hands and feet! The red sand and gold sand fought each other in an endless battle!
If the red sand had the upper hand, it would push further and invade the territory of the gold sand, and vice versa. It was clear that the battle here would never end, like an eternal tug-of-war…
“So this is Planet Heaven’s Mandate…” Wang Baole murmured. His bubble flew over the golden ground, and soon, he saw a giant slithering snake on the horizon!
This snake was hundreds of thousands of meters long, and its body was astonishingly wide. In fact, it was almost like a chunk of a giant continent. There were rolling plains, mountain peaks, and even small lakes on its back. Moreover, many pavilions could be found on it.
There were also many cultivators on the back of the giant snake. When the bubbles arrived above the snake, those cultivators all looked up to stare at the newcomers.
In mid-air, Wang Baole lowered his head. His pupils suddenly contracted. Among the many cultivators on the back of the giant snake, he saw the familiar figure of a woman!
This woman wore a blue dress, and there was a mask concealing her face. As Wang Baole looked down at her, she, too, looked up at him!
And as soon as their gazes met, all the bubbles suddenly accelerated, shooting straight toward the giant snake. In the blink of an eye, they made contact with the snake and burst open, causing the cultivators within to land on the snake’s back!
The moment the bubble burst, Wang Baole’s body flickered and he reappeared on top of a mountain peak. Xie Haiyang followed close behind, quickly sending over a sound transmission.
“Sect Uncle, we were in the bubbles before, so I couldn’t transmit any messages to you. This giant snake is named Calamity Scale, and it’s an existence on the same level as the Raging Flame Galaxy’s divine ox. It’s one of the thirty-nine great desolate beasts of Planet Heaven’s Mandate, and we’ll be residing on its back for the rest of the trip while it takes us to the location of Reverend Heaven-Learned’s birthday banquet.
“The banquet will start the day that the snake arrives. According to previous celebrations, that should be around half a month from now.”
When he heard this, Wang Baole inhaled sharply. As the giant snake slithered forward, he sensed the fluctuations coming from it again, and he couldn’t hide his astonishment.
“On the same level as the divine ox? And there are thirty-nine of them here? If Reverend Heaven-Learned is really the artifact spirit of the Book of Heaven’s Mandate, then… what exactly is the Book of Heaven’s Mandate?”
“Actually, there is a certain theory found in my Xie Family’s ancient records. I thought it was too absurd to believe, and even my Xie Family’s old ancestor was skeptical…” Xie Haiyang hesitated for a moment before moving closer to Wang Baole and quickly sending a sound transmission.
“That theory states that everything in our universe actually already happened in the past and was recorded in the Book of Heaven’s Mandate. This includes everything that happened under the current Never-Ending Clan’s rule, and even what happened back when the Underworld Sect was in charge.
“In other words… all the things around us, and even we ourselves… don’t exist. Don’t you think it’s absurd?” Xie Haiyang shook his head.