đź“– Chapter 1049 - Burning Torch Godling Race!
As soon as those words echoed in his mind, Wang Baole immediately saw the white light outside his body flickered, and his head suddenly filled with deafening rumbles.
An indescribable feeling of dizziness assaulted him, as if the whole world was spinning around him, faster and faster. A few breaths of time later, Wang Baole forced himself to open his eyes. He saw that the fog all around him had turned into a vortex, and he himself was sinking into the center of that vortex!
Although the ground wasn’t actually changing at all, the feeling that he was sinking grew stronger and stronger.
“This is… because of the light of guidance? It’s guiding me into my past life?” Wang Baole touched his storage pouch, and a formation disk appeared in his hand.
This formation disk was one of the items that his senior brothers and sisters had given him, containing a defensive spell formation. Although the fog would likely have some effect on the spell formation’s power, it should still be sufficient for his purposes.
Thus, Wang Baole endured his dizziness and immediately activated the formation disk without hesitation. In an instant, a barrier of light appeared around his body, flickering once before fading away.
After that, Wang Baole could no longer withstand the intense dizziness. Taking a deep breath, he stopped resisting and allowed the feeling of sinking to completely overtake him. However… just when the sinking feeling reached its pinnacle, just as Wang Baole’s consciousness was about to fade out…
On his right side, the fog that in reality wasn’t swirling at all suddenly churned. A black shadow could be seen flashing through the fog, and it passed by the place where Wang Baole was seated. As if having noticed something, it suddenly changed direction and circled back toward Wang Baole.
A strong sense of crisis emerged in Wang Baole’s heart, but he had already crossed the point of no return. Although he sensed danger, his mind was filled with rumbling, and he completely lost consciousness.
And just as he lost consciousness, the black shadow rushed out of the fog and appeared in the clearing where Wang Baole was. Without any hesitation, it raised its right hand, which was flickering with black light. Eyes full of greed, it reached toward Wang Baole’s forehead.
“I met a big fish, how lucky!” The black shadow’s form was blurry and it couldn’t be seen clearly. As it laughed, its palm closed in on Wang Baole. However, when it was still a meter away, a barrier of light suddenly appeared around Wang Baole.
A boom rang out, and the black shadow was struck by a heavy rebound. It instantly collapsed, turning into countless specks of black light that flew backward before merging back together. With a muffled grunt, the black shadow rushed into the fog and fled without looking back.
At the same time, there were hundreds of others in the fog world who encountered similar black shadows. However, at least half of them lacked sufficient defenses. Thus, just as they felt themselves sinking into a vortex, their bodies would suddenly suffer from heavy injuries. They would cough up blood and fall unconscious. As for their light of guidance, it would suddenly disappear, taken away by the shadow!
These incidents didn’t cause too much commotion. As for those outside the fog, they couldn’t see inside, so they didn’t even notice. Only Reverend Heaven-Learned and his elderly servant seemed to notice. The elderly servant opened his mouth to speak, but after glancing at the reverend, he closed it again and sighed.
That was because although the cultivators who were robbed of their light of guidance were seriously injured and had fallen unconscious… they weren’t dead!
From this, along with the mastermind’s grasp of timing, it could be seen that the one who had orchestrated the attacks had been prepared ahead of time. Moreover, they were clearly an extraordinary individual in themselves.
Wang Baole didn’t know anything about any of this. At that moment, he had lost consciousness. To be more precise, he didn’t even know who he was anymore. That was because his current self was… a giant!
The sky was purple and the earth was white. There was no sun nor moon. The only thing in the vault of heaven was an enormous light source, held in the hands of a giant as it slowly walked across the land. As the giant moved, the light source illuminated its surroundings, and everywhere outside of its range gradually returned to darkness.
This giant was bare-chested and had a curved horn on top of his head. His skin was purple, and crude totems could be seen all over his body. Although he didn’t release any fluctuations of cultivation, the vitality of his qi and blood was astonishingly dense. He gave Wang Baole the feeling that he was unbelievably powerful.
As for Wang Baole himself, he was sitting on the giant’s left shoulder. As the giant walked forward, Wang Baole looked out at the world around him. He also saw that on the giant’s right shoulder, there was another small giant similar to himself. At that moment, both small giants’ eyes were filled with reverence as he looked at the light source up above.
“Both of you must remember this route clearly. When you grow up, you will follow this route and walk across the entire world.
“This is the mission of our Burning Torch Godling Race!”
As the giant’s rumbling voice fell into Wang Baole’s ears, a series of memories suddenly surfaced in his mind.
He was one of only three remaining Burning Torch Godling Race members on this planet. The mission of their race was to deliver light to the other myriad races on the planet, allowing everyone to bathe in divine light.
Among the nine thousand godling bloodlines in heaven and earth, the Burning Torch Godling Race was considered very weak. Although they weren’t quite at the bottom, they were classified as a lesser godling race. Unlike the greater godling races that ruled the universe, members of lesser godling races had no special divine powers. They could only become vehicles for divine light. Thus, the Burning Torch Godling Race was sent to this planet and took on the mission of carrying light from generation to generation.
Although their status among godling races wasn’t high, their status on this planet was transcendent. The countless races of the planet worshiped them as divine spirits.
“The Godling Universe…” Wang Baole murmured. Raising his head, he looked at the light source being held high by the giant. He felt a slight pain in his head, so he furrowed his brows and began to think. However, he didn’t know what he wanted to think about. It was just an instinctive desire to think about… something… but the more he thought, the more his head hurt.
While he was thinking, his consciousness gradually grew turbulent. It was as if there was a rejection force originating from heaven and earth, gathering on his body and causing it to tremble violently. He felt like the world itself was trying to expel him, and his headache grew stronger and stronger.
He couldn’t resist at all, and the torturous pain in his head made his whole body shake. But at that moment, a warm and gentle current suddenly flowed through Wang Baole’s body. He suddenly recovered from the feeling of rejection, his headache going away as if it had never been there in the first place.
And as soon as he recovered… a voice suddenly echoed in his ears.
“Big brother, the high envoy is coming soon! Are you still sleeping?!” Wang Baole’s mind suddenly shook when he heard these words, and he lifted his head as if he’d just woken up. The scene in front of him had changed; he was no longer sitting on the shoulder of a giant walking across the lands. Instead, he was inside a huge palace. His body was no longer as small as before, either. He was now thousands of meters tall, and exuded a terrifying power of qi and blood from his entire body. Even taking a breath would result in thunderous rumbles echoing through the air.
With all this power of qi and blood, Wang Baole felt as if he could break open the sky with a single punch. At the same time, he noticed that there was a bead hanging on his chest. This bead seemed extremely familiar, but he couldn’t quite remember what it was.
As for the source of the voice that had called him brother… it was currently at his feet.
It was a light source full of infinite light and heat, exuding the boundless power of a divine spirit. There were innumerable figures within the light source, all wailing silently. It was as if they were undergoing constant torture, and their pain was the battery that allowed the light source to shine.
The one who had spoken was one of the countless figures inside the light source!
This person was his younger brother, who had been sitting on their father’s other shoulder back then. They had grown up together, but countless years ago, Wang Baole had killed him with his own hands.
“Little brother…” Wang Baole muttered. He was about to say something, but he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head again. The pain was much stronger than before, causing Wang Baole to let out a low roar as he spasmed violently.