đź“– Chapter 1077 - Implication!
What Wang Baole saw when he turned his head was not Wang Yiyi’s room. Instead, it was… an enormous coffin!
This coffin was made out of not wood, but translucent crystal. It emitted brilliant rays of light that shone like a star in the dark void.
Perhaps it was because of that dazzling light, but when Wang Baole looked at it, he was unable to see who exactly was inside the coffin. He could only be sure… that there was indeed someone in there!
He couldn’t see whether they were a man or a woman, nor could he make out any other facets of their appearance. But as he looked at the coffin, waves of shock that seemed to tower into the sky battered at his heart.
When he left the room, he thought that he would see the true world, but he didn’t expect that he would find nothing but void. When he left the world of the book, he thought he saw Wang Yiyi’s room, but in reality, he had been looking at… the inside of a coffin!
The impact all of this had on Wang Baole was too great. His consciousness showed signs of collapse as his divine will fluctuated with all the sudden thoughts and speculations.
But the sight in front of his eyes didn’t remain stagnant. Suddenly, ripples appeared in the void behind the coffin, and a blood-colored centipede thousands of meters long silently slithered out. It leaped up onto the lid of the coffin.
Its countless ferocious legs reared up into the air, and the antennae on its head swayed as its dim yellow eyes looked straight at Wang Baole.
As soon as Wang Baole’s gaze turned to the enormous blood-colored centipede, a boom rang out in his mind. The centipede’s gargantuan body suddenly collapsed, turning into innumerable tiny centipedes that swarmed the entire coffin. Then, the tiny centipedes gathered up again, turning into… a person’s face!
This face was both handsome and bewitching, and it was impossible to tell if it was male or female. It gave Wang Baole an extremely strange feeling, but he also seemed to feel an indescribable familiarity in the depths of his soul. Looking at him, the face… smiled meaningfully.
“This… this…!” Wang Baole’s heart was trembling, and his thoughts were spinning so fast that he thought his consciousness was about to collapse. But at that moment, a soft sigh echoed in his mind.
“Baole, what you see… is not necessarily the truth…” This voice didn’t come from Wang Yiyi’s father, nor from the gentle woman from earlier. Nor did it originate from the strange face formed by centipedes in front of him. It was the voice of… Little Missy, who lived inside the broken mask.
In other words… the grown up Wang Yiyi!
And the sound of her voice was like a miraculous panacea, instantly stabilizing Wang Baole’s mind and allowing his consciousness to recover slightly. But before he could ask her anything, the conflicting natural laws that he’d been forcibly suppressing finally broke out. There was no need for anyone to do anything else; a powerful suction force erupted from the coffin, instantly dragging Wang Baole’s consciousness back inside.
Wang Baole was completely unable to resist, and disappeared back within the coffin in an instant. When he got near, the coffin changed back into Wang Yiyi’s room, and in the blink of an eye, his consciousness returned to the page of the book lying open on the ground.
As he merged back into the world of the page, Wang Baole found himself unable to hold on any longer. His consciousness… slowly disappeared.
He didn’t know how much time passed, but by the time Wang Baole regained his senses and opened his eyes, he was no longer in the world of the page. Instead, he had returned to the trial land of Planet Heaven’s Mandate.
The familiar fog in front of him, along with Chen Han’s head floating at his side, caused the confusion in his eyes to gradually fade. Wang Baole gradually recovered from his dazed state.
After sobering up, Wang Baole’s body slowly trembled as he recalled everything he’d seen. Right now, he was really and truly at a loss.
Each time he entered a new past life, including the ones where he’d tagged along with Chen Han’s soul, he felt that he was about to find the answer. But each time, just when he thought he had figured things out, more mysteries would suddenly appear.
He thought that the world was real, but all clues pointed to it being inside a book.
He thought that the universe was all inside a book, but he soon discovered that the book was located inside a child’s room.
He thought that when he reached the room, he would be in the real world, but the room was covered in restrictions that sealed it off.
He thought that he would be able to see the truth after leaving the room, but what he saw was an empty void.
He thought that there was nothing but void, but when he turned around, he found that the place he had come out from was a coffin.
He thought that the coffin was the final answer, but a blood-colored centipede suddenly appeared, turning into that strange face!
He had been forced to reevaluate everything he knew again and again, and even at the very end, Little Missy seemed to be suggesting that everything he saw… wasn’t completely true.
“What the hell… is going on!?
“Also… when I flew out of the room, the whole process seemed too smooth… so smooth that it’s suspicious! It’s as if someone deliberately allowed me to see all those things!
“And that final scene… didn’t seem to be the truth, but more like… some kind of implication!!
“What did the void represent? What did the coffin represent? What was the blood-colored centipede, and what was up with that strange human face at the end…’ Wang Baole fell silent. After a long while, he looked around him, doubts emerging in his eyes.
He was even suspicious of this so-called past life trial. In the end, he took out the broken mask and stared at it with a complicated gaze.
“Little Missy, can’t you give me an explanation?”
This time, Little Missy didn’t remain silent. She hesitated for a moment, but in the end, she sighed softly and spoke.
“I’m missing a large portion of my memory, but I’m certain that… you’ll have a chance to learn part of the truth in sixty-eight years!”
“Sixty-eight years?” Wang Baole was stunned. Sixty-eight years from now… was the date of his appointment with the old ancestor of Li Wan’er’s Moon Star Sect.
"But…"
“Don’t ask! Baole, please, don’t ask any more… my head hurts…” Wang Baole was about to continue asking, but Little Missy’s pained voice made his heart tremble.
He thought of the little girl when he was the white deer, the girl in the white dress when he was the devil blade, and the companion who looked at the sky with him when he was a zombie… Finally, Wang Baole sighed softly and fell silent. He didn’t continue asking any questions.
Instead, he closed his eyes and meditated, carefully recalling everything he had seen. Finally, after a long time passed…
He opened his eyes again. They shone with a firm and decisive light!
“So what if it’s true? So what if it’s all fake? And that whatever implication… What, am I supposed to go crazy and commit suicide after learning all these things? Or should I lose all motivation and resign myself to a decadent life?
“No! No matter what, my core thoughts remain the same.
“My cultivation is too weak, my arms are too skinny, and my strength is not enough, so… for huge matters like this that are related to the entire Dao Domain, I’ll just leave it to those almighty figures. I myself am just an insignificant little Planet Realm cultivator, so I can’t care so much. In any case, I couldn’t do anything about that implication or whatever even if I knew more.
“No matter whether what I saw is real or fake, if it’s related to me or not, it doesn’t matter. None of that is within my control.
“It’s better to just steadily increase my strength instead of growing worried and turning crazy. Only in this way… will I be able to stand tall and walk further along my path. As for what will happen in the future… who knows?”
Wang Baole’s eyes filled with determination. Although his cultivation base hadn’t increased after going through this eighth past life, the determination in his heart meant that his body was able to gather even more power than before.
He also felt that his Ebbing Time spell seemed to have improved, as if this life’s enlightenment was of great benefit to his law of time. Wang Baole quickly tried it out and confirmed that his feeling was correct.
Originally, Ebbing Time had only been able to turn back ten breaths of time. But now, that number had increased to twenty breaths!
And it was also at that moment that Chen Han… woke up.