đź“– Chapter 1102 - Three Chi of Black Wood!
Wang Baole saw with his own eyes that as countless cultivators offered worship to the statue of the old man inside the whale that was the Vast Expanse Dao Domain, the statue changed into flesh and blood at a rate visible to the naked eye. And then… the old man who was formerly a statue… opened his eyes.
At the same time, powerful fluctuations rippled out from the sea of light that was the Never-Ending Dao Domain, along with a resonance that made Wang Baole’s heart palpitate!
“This feeling…!” Wang Baole swiftly turned his head. He saw that inside the sea of light, countless cultivators of the Never-Ending Dao Domain were also kneeling down in worship!
What they were worshiping was… a vortex!
The vortex clearly connected to some unknown location. As the people of the Never-Ending Dao Domain offered their worship, as the transformed statue of the Vast Expanse Progenitor looked over from within the pallid giant whale, something appeared from within the vortex.
It was… a piece of black wood!
The appearance of this black wood made all the cultivators of the Never-Ending Dao Domain cry out in excitement. The most powerful Almighties among them were even more fanatical and excited than the others!
The wood looked almost like a piece of a black coffin. At the moment, what protruded from the vortex was only one and a half chi[2] of the coffin… and that alone made the continent inside the Vast Expanse Dao Domain tremble. The giant whale howled in pain, apparently on the verge of collapse, and even the Vast Expanse Progenitor within shuddered, coughing up blood.
And then… another one and a half chi of the coffin emerged from the vortex. This time… the giant whale directly collapsed, its miserable howls reverberating throughout the starry sky. The Vast Expanse Continent within was exposed, all its cultivators roaring with madness. The Vast Expanse cultivators all rushed out with reddened eyes, as if they wanted to die together with their enemies.
Meanwhile, the countless cultivators of the Never-Ending Dao Domain who offered their worship to the coffin weren’t having a good time either. Although their eyes still shone with fanaticism, the fires of their lives had obviously dimmed. It seemed that the black wooden coffin was powered by the vitality of these countless cultivators.
And at that moment, they reached their limit. They could no longer continue calling the black wooden coffin. After three chi of black wood protruded from the vortex, the Never-Ending Dao Domain had no choice but to stop their worship.
With that, the vortex disappeared, and the three chi of black wood that was clearly just a small part of the whole coffin instantly fell down into the starry sky.
As it fell, all its power seemed to disperse, leaving behind only a bit of reluctance at having parted with the unknown location beyond the vortex. Gradually, it became as ordinary as mortal wood.
But Wang Baole’s whole body trembled as he stared at that slab of ordinary black wood three chi long. Then, he slowly raised his head to look at the spot where the vortex had been, and countless claps of heavenly thunder seemed to explode in his mind. As his entire consciousness shook, from deep within his soul came… a feeling of reluctance.
Meanwhile, the war entered its final stages as the crazed cultivators of the Vast Expanse Dao Domain launched a desperate attack. Both sides instantly collided, viciously killing and slaughtering each other as the battlefield became like a grinder of flesh and blood…
Finally, everyone in the Vast Expanse Dao Domain perished, and the Vast Expanse Progenitor became a shattered statue. After collapsing several times, a remnant fragment of the Vast Expanse Continent drifted into the depths of the starry sky like a resentful ghost.
The war had ended.
Although the Never-Ending Dao Domain came out victorious, it was a tragic victory. Their sea of light had been ripped apart, and the universe hidden within was in ruins. But as long as enough time passed, the Never-Ending Dao Domain would be able to absorb all the resources of the Vast Expanse Dao Domain and become much stronger.
However, while the Never-Ending Dao Domain was pursuing the final escaping piece of the Vast Expanse Dao Domain… an accident occurred!
This accident was the appearance of a ray of light, a dim, purple ray of light surrounded by shades of black and red!
After appearing in the distance, it approached at incredible speed. Although Wang Baole was still immersed in sensing the reluctance of the black wood, he still noticed the blurry figure inside the light.
That figure… looked exactly the same as Sun De!
Before Wang Baole could take a second look, the light had already rushed into the Never-Ending Dao Domain. It seemed to already have a clear direction, and just before it completely dimmed and faded away, it rushed toward… the three chi of the black wooden coffin that had fallen out of the vortex!
In the blink of an eye, it sank into the slab of black wood and disappeared.
Wang Baole’s heart pounded with shock. A moment later, the starry sky in the direction that the purple light had come from suddenly collapsed, and an enormous figure walked out step by step.
This figure was extremely tall, and his facial features were impossible to make out. It was as if his face was a universe in itself, with only his eyes able to be seen clearly. Those eyes were cold and emotionless, filled with absolute indifference.
Aside from that, his most notable feature was the length of his arms. Although he looked human, his arms were much longer than a normal person’s. Even standing up straight, the tips of his fingers reached past his knees!
After stepping out of the collapsed starry sky, that aloof figure looked coldly at the Never-Ending Dao Domain as if looking at an ant nest. But when his gaze fell on the three chi of black wood, those eyes that seemed indifferent to all the world actually… narrowed!
At that moment, his eyes contained confusion, shock, and even disbelief. He stood motionless for a long, long time… and then lifted his hand, as if to grab the black wood from the starry sky. But after lifting his hand, his gaze flickered with hesitation, and he gradually lowered it.
After a long silence, he lifted his hand again. This time, it wasn’t in a grasping motion. Pointing at the Never-Ending Dao Domain in its entirety, a deep voice issued forth from his mouth.
“Seal!”
The moment the figure spoke, Wang Baole saw ripples silently appear around the entire Never-Ending Dao Domain. The ripples seemed to form a bubble that completely covered the Never-Ending Dao Domain. Then, it gradually blurred, as if entering the passage of time to be sealed for all eternity.
But that tall figure seemed uneasy as he looked at the sealing bubble. He lifted his left hand and pointed again.
“With a finger of my left hand, seal!” His left index finger instantly shattered into specks of gray light that shot toward the bubble, fusing into it in an instant. The entire bubble became dark and turbid, as if it had turned into a ball of dirt.
However, the tall figure didn’t leave. After pondering for a moment, he spoke again.
“With a second finger…” The tall figure lifted his left hand again. But after falling silent for a moment, a decisive light gleamed in his eyes. Changing his sentence, he slowly spoke in a deep voice that seemed to reverberate through the endless passing of years.
“With my left hand, seal!” With those words, the figure’s entire left hand disappeared in an instant, turning into a boundless gray light that seemed capable of suppressing the entire starry sky. That light immediately fused into the sealed Never-Ending Dao Domain, causing the ball of dirt to rapidly change form. By the time all the gray light had disappeared, the ball of dirt had become… an enormous stele!
Huge waves surged in Wang Baole’s heart. He watched as the stele exuding terrifying pressure slowly fell down in the starry sky, falling and falling, as if sinking into an endless abyss…
As the tall figure who had lost his left arm watched the stele gradually disappear, a deep loneliness appeared in his eyes. He slowly turned and walked away, but just as his figure disappeared into the depths of the starry sky, Wang Baole… heard him speak.
“I like this universe of the second loop. It’s mine.
“Do you know… how it feels to like something?”
After the tall figure spoke those two sentences, he disappeared. Now, in the entire starry sky, there was only Wang Baole left. Standing there, he looked in the direction of the falling stele, and then looked in the direction where All had departed. He was silent for a long, long time before murmuring to himself.
“Just where… did I come from?”
As his murmurs echoed, the starry sky in front of his eyes slowly blurred. Eventually, it completely disappeared, replaced by the scenery of Planet Heaven’s Mandate.
The Book of Heaven’s Mandate was in front of him, as was… the exhausted figure of Reverend Heaven-Learned.
“I thought you were never coming back.”