📖 Chapter 1069 - Dream!

24 Aug, 2023

This cold was like lying down naked in the middle of a blizzard. As an endless chill swirled around him, his whole body and even his soul seemed to slowly lose vitality. Although Wang Baole was nothing more than a consciousness at the moment, the vivid cold still seemed to chill him to the bone.

And along with the icy cold came loneliness, loneliness that originated from the infinite expanse of darkness around him. Wang Baole retained his awareness, but that just made the feeling of loneliness even stronger.

There was no sound, no light, no… nothing. It was as if Wang Baole was the only thing in existence inside the void.

A day passed. Then a month. A year, a century, a millennium… It was still cold. It was still dark. And it was still lonely.

At some point, Wang Baole didn’t even know how much time had passed. Or maybe… the concept of time itself didn’t exist in this place. There was nothing he could change, and nothing he could control. All he could do was keep waiting.

Just like that, before he knew it Wang Baole’s thoughts slowly came to a standstill. It was as if his whole person had really… stopped. Stopped moving, stopped thinking, stopped everything, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

One day, a powerful force of attraction suddenly came from beyond the darkness. It turned into a vortex and instantly sucked Wang Baole’s consciousness over.

His mind shook, and he suddenly awakened from his deep sleep. Opening his eyes, he saw… endless white fog in the surroundings, his own clones sitting guardedly around him, and Chen Han’s floating head not far away, shining with the light of guidance.

This was… Planet Heaven’s Mandate’s trial land.

Wang Baole’s eyes shone with a strange light. Recalling what had happened previously, his brows slowly furrowed. His sixth life had truly been strange. He was surrounded by darkness, and his consciousness had been very clear. All of that seemed to suggest… that he didn’t enter the sixth life after all.

“Could it be that… I don’t have a sixth past life?”

Wang Baole’s expression slowly became doubtful. He couldn’t figure out why this had happened. According to his knowledge, it was impossible for him to be lacking a sixth life. In that case, there was another explanation…

“Could it be that my light of guidance wasn’t enough?” Wang Baole looked down at his own body. He could see that his light of guidance was several folds brighter than Chen Han’s.

Thus, that probably wasn’t the case.

“Then there’s one more explanation. The further you go, the more difficult it is to gain enlightenment. Don’t tell me… my limit is the sixth life?” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. This was somewhat unbelievable to him, but there weren’t enough clues to conclude anything else. Quickly calming himself down, he looked at Chen Han with a strange light in his eyes.

He thought of the Underworld Dream divine ability that he had seen in the Underworld Sect. This divine ability was able to pull others into a dream that was the same as reality, but the current Wang Baole was completely unable to use it. After all, it involved constructing an entire dreamscape and grasping all the profound natural laws within.

However, if he didn’t try to construct a dreamscape by himself and only used it to look into someone’s mind, then… with Wang Baole’s current cultivation base along with his Dao Planet’s unique natural law, it was still possible to use the technique to enter someone’s dream. If it were any other person, then Wang Baole might have needed to use some extra effort, but with Chen Han… Chen Han’s sea of consciousness carried Wang Baole’s brand.

As he looked at Chen Han, Wang Baole’s mind became more and more determined to try it out. In the end, he raised his hands and quickly formed hand seals. The Underworld Fire burst out from his body and coiled around him. Finally, with a point of his finger, it converged into a dao thread and shot straight toward Chen Han. Chen Han’s head was instantly enveloped in Underworld Fire.

“Dream…” A deep voice echoed from Wang Baole’s mouth, and in the next moment, his body began to adjust itself. This adjustment wasn’t just on the surface, but even down to the soul. And it wasn’t a transformation, but rather a sort of imitation. To be precise, it was duplication!

What he was duplicating wasn’t a natural law, but… Chen Han’s soul!

It was as if a veil had been placed over his soul that made him seem exactly like Chen Han. Thus, Wang Baole managed to form a resonance and connection with Chen Han’s soul.

This was his first time using the Dao Planet and the Underworld Law together. Although the process was slow and he failed several times, on the seventh try, Wang Baole’s mind suddenly rumbled.

And in the next moment… Wang Baole’s world suddenly changed. He saw an expanse of verdant green. Chen Han… was climbing along on the verdant land, deep growls coming from his mouth.

“Mate! Mate! Mate! Mate!!”

Wang Baole instantly felt strange. However, he could only see things from Chen Han’s perspective, so he didn’t know what kind of being Chen Han had become. He could only look at the verdant land ahead of him and use it to calculate Chen Han’s speed.

But after his calculation, Wang Baole felt a headache coming on.

“What the hell is Chen Han in this life? Why is he crawling so slowly? Why is he calling out to mate…”

Soon, the green land suddenly trembled violently, as if it had been tossed into a violent sea. Strong winds howled, and a moment later… the ground flipped over. Chen Han screamed and was swept up by the wind, falling into the distance.

In his panic, Chen Han didn’t pay any attention to the world around him as he fell. But Wang Baole saw clearly that… the ‘verdant land’ was no land at all. It was… an enormous leaf!

This leaf was at least a hundred feet long^[1], and the tree that it was connected to could only be described as towering into the heavens. There was no end in sight, as if it reached right up into the sky.

As for the sky itself… it was too far away, so Wang Baole couldn’t see it clearly. He could only see an overflowing radiance above him.

There were also countless other enormous plants and trees in the surroundings. But the ground wasn’t made of soil; instead, it was an expanse of void.

It was as if this was a strange jungle floating in the starry sky.

As for Chen Han’s appearance, Wang Baole was able to see his reflection in a huge drop of dew. He was… a caterpillar!

If he were brightly colored, then at least he would have been a poisonous caterpillar. But the caterpillar that was Chen Han was a dull greenish yellow. He looked disgusting, and he was also incomparably weak.

“Were all of Chen Han’s past lives so ‘special’…?” Wang Baole was taken aback. Recalling his own past lives, he suddenly felt a twinge of sympathy for Chen Han.

And maybe his sympathy brought good luck. Rather than continuing to fall and going splat on the ground, Chen Han managed to land on another leaf. He quickly continued clambering along, letting out mating calls with all his might…

Wang Baole continued observing. Honestly, it was… really boring. But he was unwilling to leave, so he just waited patiently and watched Chen Han go about his life as a caterpillar. Finally, after crawling around and eating for a long time, Chen Han started spouting silk and turned himself into a chrysalis.

This rekindled Wang Baole’s interest, but unfortunately… chrysalises didn’t do much. After observing for quite a while, when Wang Baole’s remaining patience was about to dissipate, the chrysalis finally burst open. A beautiful butterfly flew out from inside, flapping its wings with all its strength.

This seemed to be a pivotal moment. As soon as Chen Han flew out, a swarm of other butterflies also flew into the surroundings. There were probably tens of millions of them, making the whole world seem to light up with their beauty!

The scene was wonderful beyond compare!

Each of the butterflies shone in various colors, and they all emitted halos of blue light. After entering the swarm, the butterfly that was Chen Han began shouting in excitement.

“Mate, mate, mate!!” Together with the swarm, Chen Han fluttered over the leaves and soared into the sky. Although Wang Baole was slightly disgusted, he still concentrated and prepared to use Chen Han to see the rest of the world. But suddenly… a familiar voice echoed out from above.

"Daddy, these butterflies are so beautiful!"