📖 Chapter 1073 - Hero!

28 Aug, 2023

As Wang Baole’s voice echoed out, the wishing bottle in his hand suddenly heated up. It was rare for the wishing bottle to successfully activate in one go, and if it were any other time, Wang Baole would have been delighted.

But right now, his consciousness had already faded. He didn’t even know that his wish had been successful. To him, Wang Yiyi’s father’s single glance was undoubtedly a great calamity.

The gap between them… was too big!

Fortunately, the wishing bottle was a miraculous item. Waves of pressure immediately erupted from the bottle, covering the entire clearing before rapidly contracting with Wang Baole as the center.

This pressure seemed to contain a power that could resist the might of Wang Yiyi’s father. The whole area seemed to be filled with suppressive force, and the tiny blood people that had been scattering in all directions were forced to retreat toward Wang Baole.

In an instant, they turned back into drops of blood and returned to his mouth. At the same time, the fleshy tendrils coming from Wang Baole’s body shrank rapidly and were forced back under his skin.

His limbs, internal organs, and flesh and blood were also affected by the suppressive force, and they gradually stopped trying to separate. He was like a stone golem on the verge of collapse, only to find itself pressured on all sides by an outside force. Thus, he was unable to crumble and eventually healed instead.

As the final fleshy tendrils disappeared and Wang Baole’s body returned to normal, the wishing bottle quickly cooled, and the suppressive force also faded. Wang Baole trembled and slowly opened his eyes. At first, his expression was dazed, but soon lingering fear appeared on his face. He quickly scanned his body before breathing a sigh of relief.

“Barely survived…” Wang Baole murmured. His heart was pounding rapidly, and his fear toward Wang Yiyi’s father grew even deeper.

“The one who created the Dao Scripture…” Wang Baole fell silent. Suddenly, he turned and looked at Chen Han with a vicious gaze. Chen Han’s eyes were wide open and completely blank, as if his soul had left him.

In fact, by the time Wang Baole made his wish, Chen Han had already woken up. However, his enlightenment of his past life this time was different from before, so his consciousness was still muddled and there was still a dazed expression on his face.

Looking at Chen Han’s dopey face, Wang Baole felt his teeth itch. If this guy hadn’t suddenly jumped out and started clamoring about marrying Wang Yiyi, thereby attracting the attention of Wang Yiyi’s father, then there might have been a chance for Wang Baole to leave through the gap in the sky and check out the world outside.

Well… honestly, even if Chen Han hadn’t done anything, Wang Yiyi’s father still would have arrived. Plus, the reason Chen Han was like that in the first place was because of Wang Baole. He had wanted to see if he could really change the events of a past life, so he’d experimented by trying to hypnotize Chen Han.

He originally thought that it would be a failure, but judging from the final result, it seemed to be… a great success.

But even though Wang Baole could be said to be somewhat at fault, he still felt annoyed when he looked at Chen Han.

At that moment, Chen Han’s body suddenly trembled, and as soon as he regained awareness, he noticed Wang Baole’s unkind gaze.

“Daddy?”

“Tell me what you were in this past life.” Wang Baole put away his glare and spoke calmly. He planned to see if he had really succeeded in changing the past, as well as if Chen Han’s memories had been wiped like last time.

But the calmer he was, the more nervous Chen Han became. Chen Han had just woken up was was still immersed in the glorious memories of his past life. Now that Wang Baole was asking him a question, he blinked in confusion. However, he soon thought to himself that Wang Baole was a shameless pervert who liked intruding on other people’s privacy.

Thus, he opened his mouth and spoke in a cautious manner.

“Daddy, my seventh past life was… um, don’t be too unhappy when I say it… Daddy, you were there too, right? I don’t know if you’ve heard of the legendary hero…?” Chen Han was scared of making Wang Baole mad, but he couldn’t help his desire to show off. According to his analysis, Wang Baole must have been there in the mushroom world too, so he must have heard about the legends of the mushroom hero.

Wang Baole’s face twitched when he heard the word “hero”.

‘This guy was probably one of the later-generation mushrooms…’ Chen Han’s imagination went wild as he observed Wang Baole’s expression. After noticing the slight twitch in Wang Baole’s face, he became even more smug.

“Daddy, my seventh past life was… ahem, it can be generally described in a single sentence – Marry the witch, replace God-Immortal, and reach the pinnacle of sagely life!”

When Wang Baole heard this, the flames of fury that he’d forced down began to rage uncontrollably again. But Chen Han, who was immersed in his pride, didn’t notice at all.

“This was my mission. I was different from others the from the moment I was born. Everyone loved me and supported me at all time. In my heart, there was a voice that continuously told me that I was born with a great fate. I was destined to lead my people to cross the sea of suffering and achieve ultimate supremacy!”

The flames of fury in Wang Baole’s heart were immediately doused a bit. His complexion darkened, because the voice that Chen Han was talking about belonged to none other than himself.

“For the sake of this goal, I put in tons of effort, and finally, when the end of the world arrived, my voice moved heaven and earth. Although I failed to marry the witch in the end, I still became the eternal hero of my people, and reached the pinnacle of sagely life!!”

“You mean the pinnacle of mushroom life!” Wang Baole replied angrily. But as soon as he did, Chen Han burst out laughing.

“Daddy, you were indeed a mushroom. I was just thinking that there was nothing in that life aside from mushrooms. Haha, you must have heard of me, right? Come, come, tell me who you were. Were you Little Yellow? Or Little Red? Or maybe Little Blue? Little Purple? Little Green?”

Wang Baole coldly snorted and suddenly raised his right hand. Chen Han’s laughter stopped abruptly as Wang Baole’s claw-like fingers grabbed his head, and he immediately started begging for mercy.

“What did you say I was?” Wang Baole asked impassively.

“Daddy, I was wrong! You were God-Immortal, God-Immortal!”

"God-Immortal?" Wang Baole narrowed his eyes and spoke with an inquisitive tone.

“God-Immortal was the witch’s elder. Daddy, didn’t you see it? Later on, God-Immortal entered our mushroom world to look for something. Soon after that, another God-Immortal came. They fought, and then… the world collapsed.”

Chen Han hurriedly explained while observing Wang Baole’s face. When he saw Wang Baole’s pensive expression, he thought to himself that this Wang Baole must have been a short-lived mushroom who died early, so he didn’t know what happened later on. There was obviously a huge difference compared to himself, the undying hero of the mushroom people. Thinking about it this way, Chen Han immediately felt his ego inflate.

‘Hmph, it’s just because my luck in this life is a little poor. If we were in my past life, I could easily make this Little Le kneel down and call me Daddy.’

Wang Baole pondered, unaware of Chen Han’s thoughts. Although some of Chen Han’s memories seemed to have been removed, they were mostly unchanged. As for the thing Wang Yiyi’s father was looking for… Wang Baole thought that it might be himself, or maybe it was the wishing bottle.

But that seemed a little illogical.

As for the arrival of the other God-Immortal, and the fight causing the world to collapse, all of that made Wang Baole think of the “very fierce uncle” that Wang Yiyi had mentioned.

Silence reigned. Eventually, Wang Baole took out the broken mask and called out in his heart.

“Little Missy, are you there?”

No response.

After a long time, Wang Baole silently put away the broken mask and thought of another issue.

‘I couldn’t find the other fragments of the mask even after searching the entire Federation. Could this… also be a clue?’

But a moment later, Wang Baole buried all his doubts in his heart. In fact, he seemed to be only one step away from the answer, but at that moment, he suddenly remembered a sentence from the high officials’ autobiographies…

For some matters, when you think that you have seen through everything… it is in fact just what others want you to see!

Thus, he couldn’t draw conclusions lightly. He had to go at issues from many different angles, confirming his theories again and again. That was the only way to ensure that the truth he found in the end really was the truth!

With these thoughts in mind, Wang Baole took a deep breath and slowly calmed himself down. Then, he began to recall his insights into… the Flowing Time spell!

‘Compared to doubting the world, it’s better to believe in... my own strength!’