📖 Chapter 1082 - This Sun!

06 Sep, 2023

The feeling of cold water being splashed all over you needs no description. The contrast between hot and cold instantly caused Xu Yinling to yelp, and she immediately sobered up.

Trembling all over, she didn’t care about the water dripping from her hair. She looked at Wang Baole with an extremely complicated gaze, unable to speak for a long time.

“If you’re awake now, then hurry up and adjust your breathing. The tenth day is about to start.” Wang Baole said in an indifferent tone. Xu Yinling dared not disobey, immediately bowing her head in acquiescence.

When Wang Baole dropped water on her, he also partially released some of the restrictions on her body. Although she wasn’t completely free, the remaining restrictions wouldn’t have any effect on her ability to enter her past life.

The place the two were located was soon swamped by silence. Xu Yinling didn’t dare to make a sound, and Wang Baole was immersed in his thoughts. Although he was unable to hear the centipede face’s final words due to the little fox’s interruption, the words it had spoken before that still revealed a lot of information.

‘There are two possibilities… The first is that although I was bewitched by the centipede, the sequence of my past lives is still correct. It was because of the experiences in my ninth life that the centipede turned into a hand and spoke those words in the first life as a godling…

‘And the second possibility… is that the centipede face interfered with all cause and effect, forcibly distorting my memories. It made me think that it incarnated into the hand and uttered those words, but in fact… in that life, there was originally something else!’

Wang Baole couldn’t figure out the truth. Both of the two possibilities were equally plausible. But compared to all of that, what Wang Baole cared most about was the first sentence that the centipede had uttered.

‘I have it? Have what? Was it talking about… Little Missy? Or maybe the wishing bottle? Or something else that I’m not aware of…’ No matter how hard Wang Baole thought, he couldn’t come to a conclusion.

But in any case, thanks to tagging along with Xu Yinling’s past life, he had finally taken a step forward. He felt like the veil in front of him that concealed the truth of the world was about to be fully lifted.

‘One more chance…’ Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. He had known all along that the trial would eventually come to an end. Now, there was only the tenth life left.

Perhaps he had the eleventh, twelfth, and all the way to eighty-ninth past lives, but this trial wouldn’t give him the chance to look into them. To a certain extent, this tenth life might really be his last chance.

When his thoughts reached this point, Wang Baole lowered his head and looked down at his right hand. There was a crystal in his palm, a crystal… given to him by Reverend Heaven-Learned. It was the so-called opportunity that his master, the Flame Patriarch, had bought for him.

‘Perhaps it isn’t the last chance after all…’ Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. The restrictions in the fog had given him a pass after he called out to the old ape earlier, making him suddenly feel that the opportunity ‘purchased’ by his master… might have been deliberately given by Reverend Heaven-Learned.

‘The old ape is Reverend Heaven-Learned, and the fox is Zi Yue. Then, who’s the little tiger?’ Wang Baole went through several candidates in his heart, but he wasn’t sure. He would have to verify it later.

At this point, Wang Baole took a deep breath and pushed down all his random thoughts. Closing his eyes, he slowly circulated his cultivation base to remain at his peak state, silently waiting for the arrival of the next day.

Just like that, two hours later… that aged voice that had appeared so many times once again rang out in the minds of the few remaining trial takers.

"Tenth day, tenth life!"

As the voice rang out, the fog in Wang Baole’s surroundings… didn’t change. This time, he didn’t even sense any sort of sinking feeling. However, at the side, Xu Yinling’s whole body lit up with the light of guidance, apparently smoothly entering her tenth past life.

“She did it, so why can’t I?” Wang Baole frowned. But enlightenment into past lives couldn’t be forced, so he could only remain silent and watch the light of guidance on his body gradually dim. Sighing, he formed some hand seals and was about to use the Underworld Dream to enter Xu Yinling’s past life again.

But at that moment… the crystal gifted by Reverend Heaven-Learned suddenly shone with light. Its light seemed to give the dimming light of guidance a new life, and brilliant rays exploded from Wang Baole’s body. A veritable sea of light instantly enveloped Wang Baole, causing his mind to tremble. He saw the fog in his surroundings finally turn into a vortex, and the sinking feeling… finally arrived!

This time, the sinking feeling was much, much stronger than any time before. A boom immediately rang out in Wang Baole’s mind, and his consciousness… disappeared.

There was no cold.

There was no darkness.

There was no excruciating pain.

Instead, the sun was shining and a cool breeze gently blew the willows by the river, causing their branches to sway over the surface of the water. Ripples spread out from the spots where the branches touched the water, soon colliding with the ripples coming from boats in the distance and causing tiny waves in the river.

Loud and clear singing voices echoed over the river. Even if a person didn’t listen to the lyrics, the melody alone conveyed the joy of the fishermen. The song blended in with the bustling noises of the crowds coming and going on both sides of the river.

Merchants hawked their wares, performers yelled for audiences, men and women laughed along with each other as roosters crowed and dogs barked. All of these sounds fused together like the starting number of a musical, opening the curtains on a beautiful and bustling world.

There was a young man dressed as a scholar lying on a table in a teahouse by the shore. He yawned as he awakened from his afternoon nap.

The young man was skinny and not particularly handsome, but his eyes were filled with liveliness. After stretching luxuriously, he knocked the black wooden board in his hand against the table, and a crisp bam sounded out.

“Waiter, is everyone here?” The young man pretended to ask. The semi-open teahouse wasn’t large, and it was easy to see the whole place at a glance. The young man already knew that there were almost no empty seats at the moment, but he still asked with a smile on his face.

“Yes, everyone’s here. Mr. Sun, you’re finally awake. All of us have already been waiting for a long time, but we didn’t dare to disturb you.” The waiter in this teahouse was a clever-looking youth. Carrying a towel and a large teapot, he quickly ran over and wiped the young man’s table a few times, filling a cup and presenting it to the young man with an obsequious smile on his face.

The crowd around the table also burst out into smiles after seeing the young man wake up.

“Mr. Sun, we’ve been waiting so long for you to wake up. Come on, aren’t you gonna continue telling us that story?”

“Mr. Sun, tell us!”

“That’s right. Last time, you mentioned that there were two all-middies fighting for the Immortal Throne. After I went back, I spent the whole time hungry for the next part.”

The crowd spoke up one after another, making the teahouse even more bustling. Seeing this, the young man coughed dryly and pointed at the person who had just spoken.

“What ‘al-middies’? I said they were Almighties!”

“Right, right, Almighties. Mr. Sun, come on, hurry up and start!”

The young man glanced all around him and couldn’t help feeling a little smug. He knocked the black wooden board in his hand on the table heavily, and after a crisp bam rang out, he shook his head and started speaking.

“Yesterday, we were talking about the time 90 million kalpas before the destruction of the Vast Expanse Dao Domain. Beyond heaven and earth, in the depths of an endless and unknown starry sky, there were two Almighties who had existed since time immemorial battling it out for the position of the Immortal!

“You should know that the Dao has its karmic principles, the universe has its universal edicts, and the starry sky has its own laws. Thus, be it the Immortal, the God, the Devil, the Demon, or the Ghost, only one can reign venerable. And among them… the Immortal ranks first, capable of suppressing all the others!

“And so…

“The battle between these two Almighties could be described as heaven-shaking and earth-shattering, and the universe itself trembled in their wake!

“Innumerable starry skies were destroyed, and innumerable laws collapsed. They battled up to the 90 million heavens and down to the 90 million earths, destroying and recreating everything in their paths again and again!”

The young man shook his head and spoke of legends that no one had ever heard of. His voice seemed to have some special quality, and along with the rhythmic knocking of the black wooden board, the legends seemed to come to life, drawing a vivid picture that people couldn’t help but immerse themselves in. Before they knew it, dusk had arrived.

“...And then the one who called himself All used a technique to transform the void into a prison. But the other one actually used an even more profound method, condemning 90 million Heavenly Daos and sending them to attack All…”

When he reached this point, the young man looked at the intoxicated expressions of the people all around him and proudly knocked the black wooden board against the table.

“If you want to know what happens next, I’ll tell you about it next time. Everyone, this Sun is hungry, so I’ll take my leave now. I hope to see you all here again at noon tomorrow.” With that, the young man laughed and stood up, receiving the silver taels that the waiter had collected. With helpless expressions, everyone cupped their fists to him, and he exited the teahouse with a spring in his step, humming a little tune.

His song drifted outside the teahouse, spreading into the air farther and farther away.

"Obsession driven, the Devil forgoes reincarnation; fate bound, the Demon seals the heavens between the mountains and seas; the Eternal Will arises from parts unknown; Half-God Half-Immortal reverses heaven and earth!"