š Chapter 1087 - Regaining Consciousness!
Time passed, and Wang Baoleās consciousness didnāt awaken. He seemed to have been asleep for a long, long timeā¦. But in fact, less than a day had passed on Planet Heavenās Mandate.
Of the 24 hours of the tenth day, 22 had already gone by. The end of the trial was now less than two hours away.
Among the other trial takers, several had already successfully awakened from their tenth lives. However, due to Wang Baole remaining immersed in his past life, the trial didnāt end, and the fog in the surroundings didnāt dissipate.
Wang Baole was the only one in the entire trial who had yet to wake up.
Xu Yinling, who was sitting in front of him, had unprecedented astonishment clear on her face. Everything she had seen in the past 22 hours had caused her to go from surprised, to shocked, to horrified. And now, she was trembling in terror.
Although she successfully entered her past life, she was soon ejected, having failed to gain any insights. Thus, she was able to clearly see the process of Wang Baoleās enlightenment. What she sawā¦ werenāt the scenes of his past life, but the changes in Wang Baoleās aura as he sat there cross-legged!
In the beginning, the fluctuations coming from Wang Baoleās body were extremely weak, almost non-existent. Xu Yinling even had the illusion that the Wang Baole sitting there was not a living person, but a corpse.
No, even describing him as a corpse wasnāt completely correct. It would be more accurate to describe his aura as that of an inanimate object.
Indeed, the Wang Baole sitting in front of her seemed to have become an inanimate object. This feeling was so strong that even Xu Yinling herself was surprised.
She didnāt know what Wang Baoleās tenth past life was, so she couldnāt help but come up with countless guesses. But before long, a new change occurred to the aura coming from Wang Baoleās body.
Although this change was slight, it was extremely clear. It was as if an inanimate object had given birth to a spiritual nature that turned into dazzling rays of light. As brilliance appeared on Wang Baoleās body, the fog in the surroundings rumbled like thunder, and it even started to swirl into a vortex. Looking carefully, it could be seen that the center of the vortex was none other than Wang Baole.
This brilliance seemed to affect not only the entire trial land, but all of Planet Heavenās Mandate. Xu Yinling didnāt know any of that, but she clearly felt the ground tremble!
This made Xu Yinling go from surprise to shock. She had no idea what kind of past life would lead to such incredible transformations. But her shock didnāt last long; with the next change in Wang Baoleās aura, huge waves rose in her mind, and her shock turned into horror.
That was becauseā¦ the aura coming from Wang Baoleās body suddenly became more and more intense. The fog in the surroundings and even the world itself seemed to tremble, and Wang Baoleās expression suddenly distorted in unbearable pain.
But that wasnāt the main point. The main point was that as his expression distorted, Xu Yinling saw that a web of cracks was suddenly emerging on Wang Baoleās body at a rate visible to the naked eye.
It was as ifā¦ his body was being clutched by an indescribably powerful hand, about to be crushed completely!
As the cracks spread, the aura coming from Wang Baoleās body became more and more intense. Soon, he seemed to have turned into an enormous light source, and Xu Yinlingās eyes stung as she looked at him.
As more and more cracks appeared on his body, as the brilliance radiating off of him became more and more dazzling, Wang Baoleās aura underwentā¦ a new transformation!
A horrifying fluctuation that caused Xu Yinlingās whole body to tremble suddenly burst out from Wang Baoleās body. In an instant, Xu Yinlingās mind went blank, and her consciousness faded. All that was left was an ethereal emptiness in her gaze.
She instinctively bowed in worship, just like a mortal encountering a god!
It had to be known that Xu Yinling had fused with a Dao Planet. Not just anyone could make her kneel like this. From this, it could be seen that Wang Baoleās aura had reached an indescribable level!
Fortunately, this didnāt last too long. After an incense stickās worth of time, the horrifying aura gradually retracted back into Wang Baoleās body, and everything went back to normal. Even the cracks that had been spreading all over his body disappeared.
Xu Yinling gradually awakened from her ethereal state, but as soon as she did, her scalp tingled so much that she felt like it was about to explode. Her body trembled uncontrollably as she realized that at some point in time, she had unknowingly knelt down in front of Wang Baole.
āThisā¦ thisā¦ā Xu Yinling shuddered. She didnāt even dare to think about what was going on. Her intuition told her that everything she had just seen and felt had to be buried deep in her heart.
In terms of existence levels, the rank of a Dao Planet was very high. Even if Wang Baoleās Dao Planet was superior to hers, it was impossible for its level of existence to be too much higher. But the Wang Baole from just nowā¦ had completely suppressed her. Not in terms of cultivation base or battle prowess, but in terms of existence itself, he had reached a level unimaginably higher than her. She even had the feeling that the will of the entire world was bowing its head to him.
This feeling was extremely strange. There was no basis for it beside intuition, but it still startled her to the point of terror. Just now, it was as if she was looking atā¦ the center of the universe!
āI canāt think about it, I donāt dare to think about itā¦ā Xu Yinling murmured. The trembling of her body reached an extreme, and it was also at that moment thatā¦
Wang Baole woke up.
He had felt the universe shatter, and felt himself falling into an empty void before losing consciousness. And now, after an unknown amount of time passedā¦ his consciousness returned, and he opened his eyes.
His expression was blank. He didnāt seem to see the fog in front of him, nor the terrified Xu Yinling. Instead, he was looking atā¦ the life of the storyteller, Sun De, as well asā¦ that endless dark void.
The scenes that Wang Baole saw werenāt from Sun Deās perspective, but from the perspective of the black wooden board that accompanied him all his life.
He saw the hand holding him, he saw the young Sun Deās smug expression, he heard the crisp bam that rang out when he was picked up and knocked against the table, the sound that accompanied the entire story of All and Ancientā¦
He saw Sun Deās broken legs, he saw the tears streaking down his face, he heard his miserable howls in the wind and rainā¦
He watched as Sun De became a lunatic who thought he was still a storyteller, he saw that final bit of decency the old beggar allowed himselfā¦
He watched the father and daughter appear, he listened as the father told the real follow-up stories, he sawā¦ his body being crushed, as well asā¦ Ancientās remnant soul failing to awaken and dissipatingā¦
And at the moment of Sun Deās death, the shattered board that was Wang Baole seemed to have inherited somethingā¦
Wang Baole remained silent for a long time. Finally, after exhaling a deep breath, his eyes slowly cleared.
āWhat I inherited is Ancientās unwillingness and regret, as well as his obsession that could not be expressedā¦ 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.ā Wang Baole murmured internally. It wasnāt until the moment he awakened that he realized the identity of his tenth past life. He wasnāt Sun De, butā¦ the black wooden board in the storytellerās hand.
At the same time, he understood that whether this world was true or false didnāt matter. Whether it was inside a book or something else was also of no importance. In fact, the whole worldā¦ was nothing more than an ancient stele.
He even knew that this Never-Ending Dao Domain was not the real Never-Ending Dao Domain.
Although he had learned many truths, there were even more new questions. For example, where was the real Never-Ending Dao Domain? Was his entanglement with Wang Yiyi in the next past lives because of that encounter in the tenth life?
In the end, what was that blood-colored centipedeā¦
And what aboutā¦ his own future?
All of this caused Wang Baole to fall silent, and his heart was full of complicated emotions. These emotions were in part due to learning the truth about the world, and in part due to the identity of his past life.
āA black wooden boardā¦ā Wang Baole laughed at himself for a bit. It seemed thatā¦ perhaps, he was nothing more than an artifact spirit that had coincidentally been born from the black wooden board. He wasnāt the son of destiny that he once believed himself to be.
āBut so what!ā After a while, Wang Baoleās eyes lit up. He wouldnāt concern himself with his past lives. He only cared about this life, the life ofā¦ Wang Baole!
The moment this thought appeared in his mind, it seemed to resonate with his body and soul and stirred his cultivation base into action. Rumbles echoed out as the power of his past life surged within his body!
But at that moment, Wang Baole suddenly realized something else!
āNo, thereās something wrong!
āHow comeā¦ I canāt remember the moment I ended up in Sun Deās hands!?ā