📖 Chapter 1092 - Scene of the Future!

15 Sep, 2023

“Damn fatty, don’t call me Yiyi. You think we’re that close?” Little Missy’s disgruntled voice that Wang Baole hadn’t heard for a long time echoed in his mind.

Wang Baole laughed happily when he heard that. All of a sudden, the world seemed to become more vivid in his eyes.

“Then, how about I call you Little Sweetie?”

“Shameless!” Wang Yiyi snorted and stopped talking, but Wang Baole’s mood had already become much lighter. Raising his head again, he looked at Reverend Heaven-Learned.

Reverend Heaven-Learned was also looking at him. The elderly man’s eyes contained a profound meaning.

Soon, they looked away from each other, and the banquet continued. Heavenly music and birthday congratulations continuously rang out on Planet Heaven’s Mandate, and when the moon was rising in the sky, Reverend Heaven-Learned began to preach about the Dao of fate.

Everyone in the surroundings was listening closely… except for Wang Baole. Instead, Wang Baole was conversing with Little Missy, who had spoken up again after a period of silence.

This time, her voice seemed more solemn.

“Fatty, have you really thought it through?”

"I have." Wang Baole replied.

“I didn’t even explain what I’m asking about, and you say you’ve already thought it through? Tsk, how insincere!”

“I have too many fetters and my head is full of distracting thoughts all the time. I can’t become a divine spirit indifferent to the world.” Wang Baole smiled. His eyes were extremely clear and determined, just like when he had been the little white deer.

“Why?” Little Missy asked.

“For myself. And for you.” Wang Baole said in a soft voice.

Little Missy was silent for a while. Then, some quiet words that Wang Baole could barely hear came out.

"Thank you."

Wang Baole didn’t reply. Before he knew it, Reverend Heaven-Learned’s sermon had come to an end, and the sun began rising on the horizon. Unknowingly, the night had passed, and with its end… began the final stage of the birthday celebration.

“Little friends, please open the Book of Heaven’s Mandate and view the scenes of your futures!” The old servant beside Reverend Heaven-Learned stepped forward and looked at Wang Baole and the others.

But when his gaze swept over Wang Baole, it subconsciously slid away. Obviously, when he mentioned “little friends”, he wasn’t referring to Wang Baole. As a devoted follower of Reverend Heaven-Learned, he had long sensed that… Reverend Heaven-Learned’s attitude toward Wang Baole was a little different.

Rather than having positions of superior and inferior between them, he seemed to treat him as an equal.

And it was this attitude that made the old servant instinctively exclude Wang Baole when he said the words “little friend”.

The moment his words echoed out, the ninth disciple of Divine Emperor Kiga and the seventh Dao Child of the Nine Provinces Dao both looked over with excited expressions. Xie Haiyang and Xing Jingzi did the same.

For them, although their enlightenment of their past lives had been quite rewarding, the chance to see scenes of their futures was obviously more important. After all, the past couldn’t be changed, but the future was something that could be grasped in their hands!

All four of them looked at Reverend Heaven-Learned with burning gazes.

Only Wang Baole’s expression didn’t change at all. He already knew about the Book of Heaven’s Mandate, and knew that the so-called scene of the future was nothing more than a deduction based on the fated trajectories of the living beings recorded in the book.

Saying it was real wasn’t wrong, and saying it was false was also valid. It was just that the vast majority of people weren’t qualified to deviate from their fated trajectories, so the scenes of the future that they saw would turn out to be true.

Wang Baole’s different viewpoint allowed him to remain calm. Looking at the excitement of the other four trial passers, he just smiled and didn’t speak. Soon, the ninth disciple of Divine Emperor Kiga, Ling Lan, was the first to be called forth. He stood up and appeared in front of Reverend Heaven-Learned in a flash.

Excitement visible on his face, Ling Lan bowed to the smiling reverend before taking a deep breath. Reverend Heaven-Learned waved his hand, and the Book of Heaven’s Mandate, exuding an ancient aura and boundless might, appeared in front of Ling Lan, who then lifted his hand and pressed down on the book!

Almost as soon as he did so, he trembled violently, and his eyes filled with disbelief and horror. Within three breaths, Ling Lan could bear it no more and suddenly pulled back. He only stopped after retreating a full ten meters away, still trembling. With a terrified expression on his face, he abruptly turned to look at Wang Baole!

“You…” Ling Lan looked at Wang Baole as if he had seen a ghost. An uproar immediately broke out when the surrounding crowd saw this scene, and Wang Baole, who was originally uninterested in the proceedings, narrowed his eyes.

But Ling Lan regretfully didn’t continue speaking. Instead, he took a deep breath and cupped his fists toward Reverend Heaven-Learned before taking out a golden talisman paper and ripping it without hesitation. In an instant, the torn paper emitted a mist that enveloped his body, and he disappeared!

The surrounding crowd was even more shocked to see such a scene.

“What’s going on?!”

“He left?”

“Why did he look at Wang Baole like that?!”

“Silence!” The clamor was instantly suppressed by the old servant’s low shout. But although the crowd no longer spoke, all of their gazes gathered on Wang Baole.

Wang Baole frowned slightly, feeling something amiss. The future that Ling Lan saw seemed to be related to him, but… there was also another possibility.

‘Could it be that he’s purposefully trying to trick me?’ While Wang Baole was thinking, the seventh Dao Child of the Nine Provinces Dao took a deep breath and stepped forward. After cupping his fists to Reverend Heaven-Learned, he pressed his hand on the Book of Heaven’s Mandate.

Like Ling Lan before him, he too lasted less than three breaths before withdrawing. His complexion was utterly pale and his body trembled as he turned to look at Wang Baole. This time, before he could say anything, Wang Baole spoke up.

"What did you see?"

The Dao Child was silent for a few breaths of time before replying in a hoarse voice.

“I saw myself dying in your hands…” After he finished speaking, he turned and left without looking back, directly flying into the sky. Everyone was completely shocked, and their eyes were filled with a bizarre light as they looked at Wang Baole.

Wang Baole frowned and didn’t speak. Meanwhile, Xing Jingzi stood up and pressed his hand on the Book of Heaven’s Mandate. Unlike the previous two, he lasted five breaths of time.

After five breaths, he calmly lifted his hand and looked at the sky for a while, deep in thought. Then, he touched the devil blade on his back and glanced at Wang Baole. After hesitating for a moment, he didn’t speak. In the end, he cupped his fists and bowed toward Reverend Heaven-Learned, then did the same toward Wang Baole before turning and leaving.

By now, Wang Baole was truly surprised. He could disregard the actions of Ling Lan and the Dao Child as fake, but there was no reason for Xing Jingzi to act like this.

Pondering, Wang Baole turned and looked at Xie Haiyang.

Xie Haiyang was also curious about what was going on. Nodding to Wang Baole, he went over and pressed his hand on the Book of Heaven’s Mandate. Unlike Xing Jingzi, Xie Haiyang lasted only two breaths before stepping back with a strange light in his eyes. As the crowd watched on, he also looked at Wang Baole, sending a message via divine will.

“Sect Uncle Baole, something is wrong… I don’t know how to describe it. Rather than a scene of the future, it was more like a flash of understanding. It seems that some day in the future, you… will no longer be you.”

“Interesting…” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. Suddenly, he stood up and walked over to the Book of Heaven’s Mandate. However, instead of immediately pressing his hand on it, he instead turned to look at Reverend Heaven-Learned. After cupping his fists and bowing, he opened his mouth with a solemn tone.

“Reverend, what did they see?”

“I don’t know either.” Reverend Heaven-Learned shook his head. He wasn’t lying; he truly didn’t know what they had seen.

“Is that so…” Wang Baole pondered for a while. Eyes shining brightly, he raised his right hand and pressed down on the Book of Heaven’s Mandate. However, at the moment he pressed down, an illusory black wooden board momentarily appeared in his right hand.

Bam!

For the first time in history, the Book of Heaven’s Mandate trembled as if it couldn’t bear the pressure. Waves of ripples spread out centered on Wang Baole, covering all of Planet Heaven’s Mandate in an instant!

And at that moment, a scene of the future appeared in front of Wang Baole’s eyes!