š Chapter 1088 - End of the Trial!
Wang Baoleās expression instantly changed. With the newfound power surging in his body, his mind seemed to have suddenly grown sharper, butā¦ no matter how sharp he was, no matter how quickly his thoughts spun, when he tried to recall the memories of his tenth life, heā¦ couldnāt find the slightest hint of a time without Sun De!
It was as ifā¦ from the very first moment the black wooden board came into being, it was already in Sun Deās hands!
Wang Baole could think of two possible answers for this matter. The first was that perhaps his self in that life was truly too ordinary, so he had no memories of before the black wooden board developed an artifact spirit.
As for the other possibilityā¦
āBetween me and Sun Deā¦ no, to be more precise, there was some sort of karma between me and Ancientās remnant soul? This would also explain why Sun De disappeared, while Iā¦ inherited Ancientās unspoken obsession!ā When Wang Baoleās thoughts reached this point, huge waves broke out in his heart. He didnāt know what the true answer was, but his surging cultivation base meant that he couldnāt continue to be distracted.
Bolstered by the power of his past life, his cultivation base was skyrocketing. With a boom, it reachedā¦ the peak of the great circle of the Planet Realm!
This was the real pinnacle of the Planet Realm, only a single step away from the Eternal Star Realm. As long as he found a direction, performed a ritual, and obtained the necessary items for advancement, Wang Baole would be able to break through and become an Eternal Star Realm Almighty!
In the Never-Ending Dao Domain, although the Planet Realm was strong, it was only relatively so. Only those who had reached the Eternal Star Realm could be called true powerhouses. In fact, in many places, Eternal Star Realm cultivation was already sufficient to found a new civilization and become its old ancestor.
The Violet Gold Civilization that had targeted Wang Baole back then had been the number one force in the great domain containing Earth, and even they only had three Eternal Star Realm cultivators.
Moreover, once Wang Baole broke throughā¦ with his Dao Planet as well as his near-perfect resonance with the nine natural laws, his battle prowess wouldnāt pale even in front of veteran Eternal Star Realm Almighties!
As for Star Domain Realm Almightiesā¦ any one in the Star Domain Realm was famous throughout the Never-Ending Dao Domain, and any one of them could make the Violet Gold Civilization bow its head in terror. Even if he broke through, Wang Baole wouldnāt be able to match them.
But the increase in cultivation base wasnāt the end. Wang Baoleās Star-Sealing Art circulated autonomously, instantly breaking through from the second layer to the third. Not only that, he directly reached the great circle of the third layer, just a tiny distance away from entering the fourth!
With the third layer of the Star-Sealing Art, he could seal Immortal Planets. The divine ox phantom formed by ten thousand Immortal Planets would definitely be unbelievably powerful, butā¦ Wang Baoleās experiences in this trial were too miraculous. Even the third layer of the Star-Sealing Art wasnāt enough to get him excited anymore. Instead, he was looking forward to the power ofā¦ the fourth layer!
The fourth layer of the Star-Sealing Art was said to illuminate the path to the Eternal Star Realm. Moreover, although the Star-Sealing Art was theoretically unable to seal Special Planets, Wang Baole was the owner of a Dao Planet. Thus, whether he would be able to seal Special Planets or not was still unknown.
This was also one of the reasons why the Flame Patriarch had given Wang Baole the Star-Sealing Art.
And if Wang Baole truly succeeded in sealing ten thousand Special Planets, thenā¦ even he himself couldnāt imagine how powerful his divine ox phantom would become!
At the same time, Wang Baole had long found a direction for his path to the Eternal Star Realm. He planned to use a large number of Special Planets as support in order to allow his Dao Planet toā¦ advance from a Planet to an Eternal Star!
He wanted to turn it into an Eternal Dao Star!
Due to the rarity of Dao Planets, aside from the founding ancestor of the Never-Ending Clan, no one had done such a thing throughout all of history. Previously, Wang Baole had only held ambition without being very optimistic. But nowā¦ after gaining enlightenment of his past lives, he suddenly felt that it might not be impossible after all!
As for the Special Planets he would requireā¦ with his relationship with the Starfall Realm, it wouldnāt be difficult to gather ten thousand Special Planets.
When his thoughts reached this point, bright light flashed in Wang Baoleās eyes. Despite not knowing how he had met Sun De in his tenth past life, despite the fact that learning the truth of the world had only filled him with more and more questions, there was a firm belief that he held onto strongly in his heart.
āStrength is the foundation of everything. Only by constantly improving my strength can I continue living in this world. My past lives, my next lives, none of that matters. This life that Iām living right now is the most important thing. Whether or not a next life really existsā¦ I donāt care!ā
Wang Baoleās eyes lit up, and the domineering aura that the Star-Sealing Art cultivated burst out.
āSo what if heaven and earth are all fake? So what if the universe is a stele? So what if this Never-Ending Dao Domain isnāt the real one? It has nothing to do with me!
āI was an artifact spirit, I was a white deer, I was a resentful soul, I was a devil blade, I was a zombie, I was a godling, butā¦ I amā¦ Wang Baole!ā
His thoughts seemed to receive the approval of heaven and earth. Rumbling echoed across Planet Heavenās Mandate and even the starry sky far above.
Countless cultivators in Planet Heavenās Mandate were startled by the sudden booms. On the island above the crater, Reverend Heaven-Learned suddenly opened his eyes, a surprised and gratified smile appearing on his lips.
Wang Baole didnāt know about anything going on in the outside world. He only knew that his determined thoughts made his troubled heart instantly clear, causing his momentum to increase explosively. With the increase in his cultivation base and the improvement in his Star-Sealing Art, another one of his divine abilities also benefited greatly!
It was the Flame Patriarchās foundational techniqueā¦ the Flame Spirit Curse!
Previously, Wang Baole could only barely be considered to have reached minor completion in the Flame Spirit Curse. Whenever he used it, he had to hold himself back in order to preserve his vitality. But nowā¦ with the power he brought back from his past lives, he finally made up for this shortcoming. Now that his vitality was sufficient to use the curse without fear, he had truly achieved minor completion of the Flame Spirit Curse!
Sure, it was only minor completion, but it had to be known that even the Flame Patriarch hadnāt reached great completion in the Flame Spirit Curse. He could only be considered at the border of great completion, and once he went all out, the curse would consume all his vitality.
Thus, even though it was merely minor completion, this alone was a trump card that could be considered unparalleled in the Planet Realm. That was becauseā¦ Wang Baoleās Flame Spirit Curse had no bounds on cultivation, for either himself or his enemy!
Even if he was a mortal, he could curse a god so long as he could pay the price!
This price was vitality, as well as feelings of indignation. Although Wang Baole didnāt have too much of the latter, in regards to the formerā¦ he had more than enough!
And this was where the true horror of this divine ability lay. It was also the foundation of the Flame Patriarchās renown!
It could be said that Wang Baoleās overall battle prowess was already at the level of the Eternal Star Realm. No, even an average early-stage Eternal Star Realm Almighty might not be a match for him. Although achieving such a feat as a mere Planet Realm cultivator wasnāt completely unheard of in the Never-Ending Dao Domain, it was still vanishingly rare!
But Wang Baole was not surprised at all by his strength. His past lives had all gone through extraordinary events, so how could this life be any less?
āObsession driven, the Devil forgoes reincarnationā¦ In his obsession, that senior walked from death to life. Then I too can go from nobodyā¦ to somebody! Itās definitely possible!ā Wang Baoleās eyes shone, and he abruptly stood up from his seated position. And the moment he stood upā¦ exactly 24 hours had passed since the beginning of the tenth day.
The world suddenly rumbled, and the surrounding fog began to churn violently. It seemed that it was being sucked away by something. The whole process took only seven or eight breaths of time as the boundless fog of the trial landā¦ disappeared into the mouth of a gourd. And that gourd was in the hands of Reverend Heaven-Learned!
As the fog disappeared, the trial land shrank rapidly. As everything cleared up, as the giant beasts in the surroundings rose, the crowd looked into the sky, the volcano below them rumbled, and the eighty-nine Almighty projections lifted their head, there in midairā¦
Wang Baole appeared, along with the other Chosen who had obtained enlightenment of their tenth past life!
āCongratulations to the five fellow Daoists who successfully obtained the qualifications. Please take your seats. The birthday celebration shall nowā¦ begin!ā The old servant next to Reverend Heaven-Learned looked at Wang Baole and the other four with a profound light in his eyes as he spoke.
Indeed, the number of successful participants was not the initially-stated ten, but five!