đź“– Chapter 1072 - I Wish!
“No way! If there’s anyone in this world who can really learn Flowing Time and Sundered Night, then it has to be me, Wang Yiyi!” Beyond the sky, Wang Yiyi continued trying and failing. Eventually, she gritted her teeth fiercely as her eyes shone with determination.
“I’ll keep practicing tomorrow!”
As she spoke, she put the curtain back over the sky, and the mushroom world was once again plunged into darkness. When Wang Yiyi disappeared from their sight, relieved voices echoed out all over.
“The witch is finally gone!”
“How terrifying, how terrifying! I have to record this down. On a certain day of a certain year, the mushroom-eating witch descended. With a wave of her hand, she devoured countless of our brethren!”
“Doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter. I believe that a hero will definitely appear in our mushroom race, a hero who will replace God-Immortal, marry the witch, and reach the pinnacle of mushroom life!”
“Ahem, ahem. It’s a little embarrassing, but since everyone thinks I can do it, then I, Little Yellow, will certainly try my best!” The mushroom Chen Han laughed loudly and spoke up in a proud voice. However, there were many mushrooms who spoke similar words, so soon… the group of mushrooms started arguing about who the hero would be.
Wang Baole didn’t pay them any attention. In fact, he wasn’t paying attention to anything in the outside world. At that moment, he was completely immersed in his enlightenment of the law of time.
Although the fluctuations around him were weak, they continued to linger for a long time, allowing him to continue gaining enlightenment. However… since Wang Yiyi had left, there was no direct source for him to observe, and so his progress slowed considerably.
His Dao Planet’s law of duplication helped a little, but in the face of the law of time, even the law of duplication wasn’t as effective as usual.
Thus, Wang Baole soon had no choice but to end his enlightenment and wait for Little Missy to reappear.
But… he ended up having to wait for a long time. It was as if Wang Yiyi had forgotten her promise to come and practice the next day. Even when all the mushrooms around Chen Han grew old and died, and a new batch of mushrooms rose up from the ground, Wang Yiyi still didn’t come.
As for Chen Han himself… Wang Baole didn’t know what his original fate was, but it seemed that due to Wang Baole gaining insights into the law of time, Chen Han didn’t age like the other mushrooms.
This made Wang Baole’s heart shake. If this was really due to him, then it meant that… the law of time could actually change what occurred in a person’s past life!
He wasn’t sure what exactly this represented, but he did understand one thing… Time was a power that could move the whole world.
Now, Wang Baole was even more eager for Wang Yiyi to come back. Finally, after several generations of mushrooms passed, Wang Yiyi returned at last.
As for Chen Han… he had become a well-known figure among the mushrooms due to his reputation of being undying. Many praised him as a hero, and even he himself thought so…
Over the years, he gradually came to hear some mysterious whispers in his heart. And due to these whispers, when the curtain over the sky was lifted once more… although Chen Han instinctively stilled, he also opened his eye and looked up at the place beyond the sky.
And Wang Baole quickly used Chen Han’s vision to look at Wang Yiyi!
However, Wang Yiyi apparently wasn’t in the mood to practice the Flowing Time spell today. Instead, she stared blankly at the mushroom world with red-rimmed eyes. After a while, she murmured softly.
“A very fierce uncle came here a few days ago and had an argument with Daddy. I overheard them, and he said that he didn’t understand some of Daddy’s actions…
“He said that he wanted to kill you all…
“But Daddy chased him away. Don’t worry, I will protect you!” Wang Yiyi gritted her teeth as she spoke. Then she turned around and walked over to her pile of toys, as if she was looking for something.
Wang Baole’s heart shook violently. The mushrooms didn’t understand Wang Yiyi’s words, and if the last past life was anything to go by, they would even lose their memories of her words entirely. Thus, it didn’t really matter whether or not they heard her.
But Wang Baole was different. He could faintly sense some hidden meanings behind Wang Yiyi’s words, meanings that seemed contrary to his initial thoughts about this place.
“What the hell is going on with this world!?” Wang Baole felt his mind trembled. Meanwhile, Wang Yiyi seemed to have found the item she was looking for, and quickly appeared back above the sky. There was a small bottle in her hand.
Wang Baole had been paying attention to her all along. As soon as he saw the item in her hand, huge waves of shock battered his heart.
“That’s…” Wang Baole felt his mind reeling. That bottle was extremely familiar to him, but its appearance here was so shocking that even though he recognized it immediately, he still couldn’t believe his eyes.
That small bottle… In the present day, it was located in Wang Baole’s storage pouch. It was… the wishing bottle!
Just as Wang Baole was reeling in shock, a resolute light flashed in Wang Yiyi’s eyes. She seemed to have come to a certain decision.
“This is a gift from a very handsome uncle. Back then, he told me that I could use it to make a wish, so I’m making a wish now… I wish for all of you to be safe, and for no one to be able to hurt you!” As Wang Yiyi lifted her hand, a gap seemed to open up in the sky!
And through that gap, she threw the wishing bottle into the mushroom world!
As the gap opened in the sky, a stream of energy from the outside world flowed in, causing the mushroom world to instantly tremble. At the same time, the wishing bottle rapidly shrank down and turned into a long arc of light that sank into the world.
As for Wang Baole, although everything he’d seen and heard caused his mind to tremble… when the gap in the sky opened and the energy of the outside world entered, he instinctively moved to send his consciousness out of the gap, wanting to take a look at the world outside.
However… things didn’t work out as expected. At that same moment, Chen Han suddenly raised his head. Perhaps he had really been brainwashed by the mushrooms into thinking he was some legendary hero, because he immediately roared to Wang Yiyi.
“Witch, marry me! I am the hero of the mushroom race! I am destined to marry you, replace God-Immortal, and reach the pinnacle of mushroom life…”
Chen Han’s voice instantly caused the mushrooms all around to grow excited, and even Wang Baole was stunned. As for Wang Yiyi beyond the sky, she seemed utterly flabbergasted, looking at Chen Han like she was looking at an imbecile.
But there was no time for anyone to react, because suddenly… Wang Yiyi’s father, the white-haired middle-aged man, appeared beside her. He seemed to have sensed the gap in the world and the activation of the wishing bottle.
He saw the wishing bottle falling into the mushroom world, he saw Chen Han who was still shouting noisily, and he even saw… Wang Baole, hidden within Chen Han’s soul.
“It’s you again!” As Wang Yiyi’s father spoke, an invisible force gathered in an instant. A wind that seemed capable of erasing all existence swept toward Wang Baole.
If Wang Baole had a body at the moment, he was sure that all his hairs would be standing upright. An intense sensation of deadly crisis filled him, and his consciousness even started to collapse. At the moment of life and death, Wang Baole could only use the last bit of his divine will to broadcast a message.
“Enlightened…
“Prisoner of the dao of heaven…
“All sentient beings must endure immeasurable calamities…
“It takes but a thought to leave the deep prison…
“Await the path of cultivation!”
It was the Dao Scripture!
And the moment the Dao Scripture sounded out, the deadly wind closing in on Wang Baole suddenly paused. Thanks to that, Wang Baole was able to escape death, and he immediately severed the connection between himself and Chen Han without hesitation. The next moment… in the trial land on Planet Heaven’s Mandate, Wang Baole’s body shuddered violently.
He suddenly spewed out a mouthful of blood, and his cultivation base seemed on the verge of collapse. Even his body itself was beginning to split apart. His hands, feet, and even his internal organs all seemed to have obtained their own consciousnesses, struggling to separate from his body!
Countless fleshy tendrils extended from his body completely without his control!
And the blood he’d spewed out also turned into innumerable tiny blood people that fled in all directions.
This was the first time Wang Baole had ever encountered such a thing. However, he knew that the white-haired middle-aged man hadn’t really done anything in the end. All of this was simply due to him shooting Wang Baole a simple glance, a glance that originated in Chen Han’s sixth past life innumerable years ago.
And Wang Baole was completely unable to bear the effects of this one glance. He knew that no medicinal pills could save him right now, so on the verge of life and death, Wang Baole didn’t hesitate to pull out the wishing bottle.
“I wish for my injuries to be healed!!” With his last bit of consciousness forcefully keeping his body together, Wang Baole shouted.