đź“– Chapter 1050 - A Hand!
“Ah, my head…! Don’t talk, let me have some peace and quiet…” Wang Baole raised his right hand and struck his head vigorously. However, his younger brother’s voice didn’t stop.
“The high envoy is about to arrive. Big brother, in your current state, do you think you can pass the examination?
“Just let me out, let me relieve your headache. I’ll bear all the pain. You always say that this world is fake, so… what does it matter if you let me out of here?
“Haven’t I always been kind to you? Look, didn’t I help you kill our father, who had entered the period of divine decay? And then I borrowed your body to slaughter all living beings on this planet, using them to activate our Burning Torch Godling Race’s ultimate bloodline. Big brother, I want to help relieve you of your pain, so why do you resist? I’m just trying to help you.
“Big brother, don’t resist anymore. Let me out. Let me bear everything in your place!”
“Shut up!!” Wang Baole roared, causing a sound wave to rumble outward in all directions. In an instant, the temple collapsed as everything in the sound wave’s path instantly disintegrated.
And with the disappearance of the temple, the outside world was exposed. It was… pitch black!
There were no buildings, no mountains, no plants, and no life, only a dense aura of death enveloping the entire planet. The deathly aura was so thick that it turned into heavy black clouds shrouding everything between heaven and earth. However, there seemed to be some sort of pressure weighing down on the clouds from outside, causing bolts of lightning to flash across the sky.
And under the illumination of these lightning bolts, the scene of the dead planet came into view!
Back then, lush greenery could be found all over, and the planet was filled with thousands of races. But now… everything was in ruins!
Endless dust, debris, and skeletons… All life had long returned to nothing. Mountains upon mountains of dried corpses and white bones were littered all over!
This was a dead planet!
Even the temple that had been destroyed by Wang Baole’s roar was built on a hill of white bones. At that moment, Wang Baole stood atop the bones, wearing a suit of heavy armor. His face was distorted, and the single horn above his head was shining with a black glow. His hands constantly pounded at his head.
“Ah, my head hurts, it hurts!!”
“Big brother, since it’s so painful, how about you just give me your body! After all, yours is the strongest body that my Burning Torch Godling Race has given birth to in countless years. As long as you hand it over to me, I can lead the Burning Torch Godling Race back into the ranks of the greater godling races! So… Give it to me!!”
The voice coming from the light source erupted with an unprecedented ferocity, seemingly turning into an impact that crushed toward Wang Baole’s mind. But at that moment, a vicious expression appeared on Wang Baole’s face, and he clenched his right hand tightly. The light source was immediately pulled into his grasp.
“Shut up! I’ll kill you!”
“Kill me?” Mocking laughter rang out from the light source. As it continued, Wang Baole’s head began hurting more and more, and the veins on his forehead throbbed with pain. He seemed on the verge of going completely insane, but at that moment, a bolt of lightning suddenly fell from the sky. The rumbling of thunder echoed all around him.
Then, more and more lightning bolts fell, and the clouds in the sky churned like mad. Finally, they parted, revealing the previously hidden vault of heaven, as well as… the face of a giant looming above the sky!
The giant’s body was unimaginably huge, so huge that its face alone completely filled the sky.
“Burning Torch, do you know your crimes?!” Killing intent flashed in the giant’s eyes as it spoke in a booming voice.
“It hurts!” Wang Baole growled with bloodshot eyes. His body was shaking like never before.
“According to the laws of the godling races, those who have Fallen shall be destroyed in body and soul, completely erased from existence…” The giant in the sky shook its head and raised its palm to grab Wang Baole. However, before it could finish speaking, Wang Baole on the ground suddenly looked up, eyes glowing with a monstrous red light. Muffled booms rang out from his body, and his mouth let out a roar even louder than heavenly thunder.
“Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! I told you to shut the hell up!!!” Wang Baole roared and suddenly jumped up. His figure was like a shooting star as he headed straight into the sky, smashing into the palm that was already descending on his body.
With a boom, the giant’s palm suddenly collapsed, revealing a shocked and disbelieving expression on the face in the sky. A moment later, Wang Baole turned into a long arc of light that rushed out into the starry sky and crashed into the spot between the giant’s brows.
A deafening rumble shook the starry sky. The giant who had seemed so majestic just now trembled violently, and its head suddenly collapsed. As for the headless body… it could no longer remain standing in the starry sky and fell down, disappearing into the distance.
“Finally quiet…” Wang Baole, standing out in the starry sky, muttered after killing the giant. But soon, endless rays of light shot over from afar, and furious howls echoed through the starry sky.
“Burning Torch, you’ve gone crazy!”
These roars made Wang Baole’s head start hurting again, and his eyes reddened with madness once more. He immediately rushed in the direction of the noise.
The proceeding slaughter… was carried out in a haze of chaotic memory fragments.
Wang Baole’s head hurt more and more, but he couldn’t remember much. He only remembered killing, killing, and killing some more. Wherever he heard the slightest sound, he rushed over to kill.
He didn’t know how long he spent killing, nor how many people he killed. But in the end…
A hand suddenly stretched out from the void, gently touching the center of his brows. A calm voice that sounded familiar yet unfamiliar echoed out.
“Next time, I’ll decide on you!”
With this touch, Wang Baole’s body suddenly trembled. Cracks appeared at the center of his brows and spread rapidly across his whole body, causing it to instantly start to collapse. As his body collapsed, he found that his head… finally stopped hurting.
And with the lack of pain, certain memories appeared in his mind. He saw that while he was killing, he sometimes spoke to thin air. Back when he was in the temple, he had spoken to the space at his feet.
But in these memories, there was no light source at his feet. There was… nothing.
Then, he saw the memory of himself sitting on the shoulder of his father. Back then, his body was still small. As his father walked across the lands, the young Wang Baole had raised his head to stare at the light source.
But on the other shoulder of the giant, there was nothing. From beginning to end, his younger brother… had never existed!
“Am I crazy…” Wang Baole muttered. Everything in front of him suddenly turned black, and when he reopened his eyes, he was sitting in a thirty-meter-wide clearing. Past the boundary of thirty meters was endless white fog…
Wang Baole stared blankly at the fog in front of him before slowly lowering his head. His mind was in chaos. He couldn’t remember who he was, and he couldn’t remember why he was here… His chest rose and fell for a long time as his eyes filled with struggle.
After a few breaths of time, Wang Baole suddenly raised his head. There seemed to be the sound of glass shattering in his mind, and his eyes finally became clear.
"I am... Wang Baole!"
As soon as he spoke, vitality that seemed to have been hidden away suddenly erupted from his body. The bead given to him by Reverend Heaven-Learned also erupted with astonishing vitality, which Wang Baole absorbed at a crazy pace.
His fleshly body suddenly began strengthening itself at an incredible speed, and a towering power of qi and blood converged on him.
However, even with the help of the bead, Wang Baole was unable to achieve the full strength of his past life. In the end, the vitality in Wang Baole’s body was only one ten-thousandth of his past life’s strength.
But even so, his fleshly body was already infinitely close to the power of the Eternal Star Realm!
And the rise in vitality was far from all he gained. His greatest gain was the experience of the innumerable battles that his past life had gone through, as well as his mastery of the previous universe’s natural laws. Although the previous universe’s laws were different from the current ones, the similarities would benefit him greatly when he comprehended laws in the future. Moreover, there was also… the instinctive muscle memory of his past life’s fleshly body!
Every move he made came from the instincts developed after endless massacres, making his body no different from a divine weapon!
Wang Baole’s cultivation hadn’t increased much, and he was still in the middle stage of the Planet Realm. However, when it came to killing power… he was over ten times stronger than before!
But Wang Baole wasn’t concerned about his improvement in battle prowess at that moment. Instead, what he cared about the most was the hand that had appeared at the very end, as well as the words it had spoken!
“That hand… that sentence… what did it mean?!”