📖 Chapter 1045 - Projections of Almighties!

06 Aug, 2023

As the friendly voice echoed out from the sphere of light, Wang Baole stepped back in contentment, thinking that his birthday greetings were definitely the best. However, he didn’t expect that seven or eight people immediately stepped out after him, and each of their words were more exaggerated than the last.

There was one of his acquaintances among them. When that person opened their mouth, they actually spoke for a full incense stick’s worth of time and didn’t repeat a single phrase. In the end, even Kun Lingzi couldn’t bear it any longer. He interrupted them with a cough and quickly informed everyone of the time of tomorrow’s banquet, then fell silent.

The formidable person who had driven Kun Lingzi to such measures was none other than the little fatty…

‘This kid’s got some skills!’ Wang Baole narrowed his eyes and glanced at the little fatty, who was sitting on a mountain peak on the back of the giant turtle that alternated between blue and black. Sensing Wang Baole’s gaze, the little fatty also glanced over, but he immediately averted his eyes. Obviously, the shadow Wang Baole had left over his heart wouldn’t fade away anytime soon.

Seeing this, Wang Baole withdrew his gaze and sat down cross-legged to wait in silence. Time passed, and soon it was late at night. Although the starry sky of Planet Heaven’s Mandate was bright and picturesque, the sound of hustle and bustle could occasionally be heard drifting on the wind. Thus, there was a hint of vulgarity infecting the elegant atmosphere.

It wasn’t until late at night that all the commotion subsided. As his surroundings slowly fell utterly silent, Wang Baole looked up at the starry sky with a pondering gaze. What he was pondering was, of course, still his doubts about the trial.

But as he was lost in thought, Wang Baole’s expression abruptly changed. An aged voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

“Your master has bought you an opportunity.”

As soon as he heard these words, Wang Baole’s eyes widened, and he immediately looked around. Soon, he saw innumerable gray dots of light appear next to him. There was originally nothing there, but as these dots of light converged together, a bead suddenly appeared!

“This opportunity is divided into two parts. Take this bead and keep it well. It will allow you to better fuse with your past lives, and it’s also the key to unlocking the second part of the opportunity.”

As the voice reverberated in Wang Baole’s mind, the pearl flew over. It exuded a soft glow as it floated there in front of him, completely motionless.

“Greetings, Reverend! Many thanks, Reverend!” Wang Baole’s breathing hastened. He instantly knew the identity of the person speaking to him and quickly stood up to offer a deep bow.

“There’s no need to bow to me, nor do you need to thank me. If you want to thank someone… just thank your master.” The voice didn’t fluctuate in the slightest. It echoed in Wang Baole’s mind, growing weaker and weaker before finally fading completely.

This gave Wang Baole the feeling that the other party was gradually walking away. A long time later, Wang Baole finally raised his head. After a moment of silence, he took the bead in front of him and examined it carefully.

There was nothing out of the ordinary about the bead in terms of appearance. However, its surface was as smooth and delicate as a pearl, and it exuded waves of a fragrant aroma. When Wang Baole inhaled this fragrance, he became slightly dazed. However, the daze disappeared quickly.

“This bead…” Wang Baole didn’t see what was so special about this thing, but he still put it away carefully. Meanwhile, inside the huge sphere of light above the crater, a figure suddenly appeared unnoticed on the topmost floor of the altar carried by four giants.

This figure seemed to be flickering between illusion and reality. It was sometimes clear and sometimes blurry, but it could be seen that the figure was an old man wearing a gray robe. The old man’s hair was also gray, and it hung down from the top of his head all the way to his calves. There was also a gray beard on his chin that hung down to his abdomen.

At a glance, this person seemed extremely old, but looking closely, the skin on his face was smooth and rosy, just like a baby’s, and full of vitality. But his eyes were like ancient wells, completely still and without the slightest sparkle of life. They were just like the eyes of a dead person.

However… only at the moments where his body flickered from illusion to reality and reality to illusion could the true depths of his eyes be seen. It was as if a veil was being lifted, revealing starry eyes filled with boundless wisdom.

“We’re at this juncture again… what will be the result this time?” The old man murmured softly. Sitting down cross-legged on the top floor of the altar, he slowly raised his head and looked upward.

At first glance, he seemed to be looking into the vault of heaven, the starry sky, and the endless expanse beyond. However, if someone was qualified to approach him at this moment, then they might be able to sense that… the place he was looking wasn’t the vault of heaven, nor the starry sky, nor the endless expanse. Instead, it was the spot… three feet above his head!

Even though there was nothing there, his gaze was still fixed on the place three feet above his head. It was as if his eyes could see a world that others could not. Similarly, he was clearly sitting on the altar there, but no matter whether it was Wang Baole or any of the other cultivators on the giant beasts, even if someone looked over at the altar, they would only see empty space.

This old man was naturally the master of Planet Heaven’s Mandate, the one who was rumored to be the Book of Heaven’s Mandate’s artifact spirit… Reverend Heaven-Learned!

He sat there until dawn… And when daybreak arrived, with the tolling of the bell, rumbling sounds echoed from the vault of heaven. The earth trembled, and clouds and mist rolled in all directions. On the back of the thirty-nine giant beasts, all the cultivators including Wang Baole looked over at the sphere of light floating above the crater. At the same time, waves of laughter rang out from the void.

“Fellow Daoist Heaven-Learned, I hope you can enjoy the Immortal Dao for many more years!”

“Fellow Daoist Heaven-Learned, I came all the way from the Hyperborean Star Domain to wish you happy birthday. You must have prepared some good wine, right?”

“A hundred million years have passed in the blink of an eye. Fellow Daoist Heaven-Learned, I trust that you’ve been well.”

As laughing voices echoed through the air, waves of pressure suddenly descended, and the entirety of Planet Heaven’s Mandate was instantly enveloped in a terrifying storm of divine sense.

As the storm spread, rumbling sounds echoed in all directions. Long arcs of light suddenly descended from the sky, going straight into the sphere of light where the altar was located!

Each arc of light landed on a different island. As soon as they landed, the arcs of light instantly merged with the islands that they landed on, forming huge godlike Dharma Idols that floated there with endless majesty.

Some of them had wings and eagle heads. Some of them had immense bodies and looked like mountains of flesh. Some of them were made up of countless piles of white bones. Some of them were filled with Daoist magic, giving off brilliant and awe-inspiring auras of righteousness.

There were also some that were as ethereal as immortals, and immortal music filled the area when they made their appearance…

There were a total of ninety-nine islands around the altar. At that moment, more and more arcs of light shot over and landed on the empty islands one after another. In the end, of the ninety-nine islands, eighty-nine fused with an arc of light and turned into a Dharma Idol. There were only ten empty islands remaining.

And Wang Baole and the others were all shocked by these Dharma Idols. They could tell that even the weakest was still an Almighty in the Star Domain Realm!

Although these were obviously just projections, not their real bodies, they still gave off heaven-shaking, earth-shattering auras. At that moment, Xie Haiyang was breathing heavily and rapidly spoke to Wang Baole via sound transmission.

“It appeared again!!

“This is the bizarre scene that appears every time Reverend Heaven-Learned celebrates his birthday. Look at all these Star Domain Realm Almighties… each one of them is incredibly powerful, but their identities are completely unknown. They can’t be found in any records!

“In other words… no one has ever seen these Almighties outside of this place. At the same time, the places they speak of can’t be found anywhere in the Never-Ending Dao Domain. For example, that one mentioned coming from the Hyperborean Star Domain. But be it the Left Dao Holy Region, the Unorthodox Holy Region, or anywhere else in the Never-Ending Dao Domain, such a place… doesn’t exist at all!

“Moreover, according to countless investigations done by my Xie Family and other forces, these people always appear extremely abruptly. When they leave, it’s just as abrupt, as if they disappear into thin air. Actually, back in the day, there was a Divine Emperor from the Never-Ending Clan who personally made a move, but it was useless. He couldn’t touch them, he couldn’t communicate with them, and they seemed to not even see him!

“Thus, we came to the conclusion that they either don’t exist, or perhaps they existed countless years ago, back before there was even the Underworld Sect!

“At the same time, it was precisely because of what happened with that Divine Emperor that Reverend Heaven-Learned instated a new rule for his birthday celebration: Cultivators up to the Eternal Star Realm are allowed, but those above it are forbidden from attending!”