📖 Chapter 1104 - Condescending and Arrogant!

02 Oct, 2023

The chaotic situation outside Planet Heaven’s Mandate was quickly resolved. Although everyone was utterly astonished, they had no choice but to accept that the person in front of them was Wang Baole. When they looked at him again, it was with different gazes than before.

Although his Dao Protectors from the Raging Flame Galaxy had always shown him respect, that was mostly due to the Flame Patriarch. But now, it was different. Wang Baole had used his own imposing aura and battle prowess to awe these Eternal Star Realm cultivators into submission.

None of them had ever seen a Planet Realm cultivator with such horrifying power, and moreover… the way they hadn’t been able to see him before he revealed himself made all the Eternal Star Realm cultivators on the battleship thoughtful.

Generally speaking, such a situation would only occur when the gap between two parties was extremely large. For example, divine spirits were known to be impossible to look at directly. That was because divine spirits were too strong, so the natural laws around them would twist and distort. Those with insufficient strength were unable to bear the twisted natural laws, so when they looked at a divine spirit, their minds would automatically filter out the divine spirit’s existence. If they didn’t do so, they would easily collapse.

And this was more or less what was happening with the current Wang Baole. Although it wasn’t as exaggerated as a mortal looking at a divine spirit, it was still similar. Thus, the Eternal Star Realm cultivators were all deeply shocked.

Xie Haiyang was also surprised, but he quickly rebounded, vowing to serve Wang Baole even more enthusiastically from now on. However, this time, there was someone else working even harder to please Wang Baole.

This person was Chen Han. He recovered almost as quickly as Xie Haiyang and quickly ran over to Wang Baole, affectionately calling out “Daddy” over and over. Although his Dao Protectors looked at him strangely and Xie Haiyang frowned with dissatisfaction, he didn’t care at all.

Wang Baole didn’t pay much attention to all of this. Instead, after stepping onto the battleship, he kept thinking about a certain question.

‘Where should I go from here?’

According to his original plan, after attending the birthday celebration, he would go back to the Raging Flame Galaxy and resume his life there. He also wanted to make a return trip to the Federation and see his family and friends.

But now, after learning the truth of his past lives, Wang Baole’s thoughts had changed. He felt a sense of crisis, especially since… he’d barely avoided being possessed.

Although he knew that his original self was a slab of black wood that came from a mysterious origin, and that he obtained spirituality after accompanying Sun De through all those lives, Wang Baole didn’t doubt that he was vulnerable to possession.

Plus, there was another guess deep in his heart.

‘I am the black wooden board, but the black wooden board… is not necessarily me!

‘The black wooden board can be reincarnated again and again, undying and inextinguishable, but that’s not necessarily the case for me myself… In other words, I’m nothing more than a spirit born from it. I can be erased, just like the artifact spirit of any magical artifact.

‘When the artifact spirit is erased, it has little impact on the magical artifact as a whole. You just have to replace it with a different artifact spirit and slowly make some adjustments. Or even if you don’t replace it, as long as the artifact is nurtured in a special environment, it can still give birth to a new artifact spirit…

‘And the new artifact spirit would be me, but it would also not be me.’ Wang Baole became pensive. Perhaps it was because he had been involved in artifact refinement from the very beginning of his cultivation journey that he had his own unique thoughts and logic regarding the subject.

He could sense the extreme degree of the blood-colored centipede’s greed toward him. Perhaps, not far in the future, the centipede would appear again and successfully possess him. Then, the black wooden board would remain the black wooden board, but its artifact spirit would no longer be Wang Baole, but… the blood-colored centipede!

‘But if the black wooden board is regarded as a magical artifact, and my past life is considered its artifact spirit, then… there’s a problem here. If I really am the artifact spirit, then I should be able to display the might of the three chi of black wood!

‘With just three chi, all living things in the Vast Expanse Dao Domain were suppressed…’ Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. He understood this point, but he also knew that… right now, he was unable to control the black wooden board to that extent.

There were two reasons for this. One was that this was the only life in which he had been able to fuse with the memories of all his past lives. Previously, whether it was in his life as the zombie, the devil blade, or the little white deer, he had never been able to accomplish this.

Thus, this life was the first time he had really tried to control the black wooden board.

Another reason was that although his spirituality had existed for several lives already, compared to the endlessly ancient black wooden board, he was probably not even old enough to be considered a baby.

That was why it was extremely difficult for him to exert control over the black wooden board.

And so… right now, his two biggest priorities were learning how to control the black wooden board and figuring out how to avoid being possessed by the blood-colored centipede. After thinking for a while, Wang Baole concluded that the only thing he could do was improve his cultivation base!

Only by becoming stronger would he be able to resolve any issues.

‘Reaching the Eternal Star Realm is no longer difficult for me. If I wanted, I could break through right away… but although that would increase my strength a little, it’s still not enough.’ Wang Baole’s eyes flickered with thought. His desired path to the Eternal Star Realm involved ten thousand stars shining to support his Eternal Star.

To do this, he needed more Planets!

He needed Special Planets!

‘In the end, I still have to make a trip… to the Starfall Realm!’ After coming to this conclusion, Wang Baole decisively transmitted his divine will to Xie Haiyang, sending him coordinates to a certain location in the starry sky.

These coordinates corresponded to the entrance to the Starfall Realm that Wang Baole had gone through back then.

Once there, Wang Baole believed that the paper human cutouts of the Starfall Realm would sense him and let him in even without a token. After all, when Wang Baole left the Federation back then, he had handed the token to Zhao Yameng to serve as a foundational force.

As soon as he received Wang Baole’s divine will, Xie Haiyang passed down his orders and the fleet of battleships outside Planet Heaven’s Mandate roared into motion. They headed straight toward the coordinates given by Wang Baole, gradually leaving the range of the Heaven’s Mandate Star System.

At the same time, Wang Baole continued to think. This time, what he was thinking about was… All!

“‘I like this universe of the second loop. It’s mine…’” Wang Baole murmured, repeating the words All had said. It was hard for him to imagine that that almighty being whose eyes were so indifferent and emotionless… could actually speak the word “like”.

However, when he thought back to that scene, he could clearly sense that All was telling the truth.

Wang Baole fell silent, thinking about the stories that Wang Yiyi’s father had told Sun De. The Devil, the Demon, the Half-God Half-Immortal… at the end of each of those stories, the main character cut off a finger of Allheaven. But that Allheaven was just a clone. Later, they joined up with each other and killed the original Allheaven, whom Ancient had known as All!

These stories obviously took place after the first life of the universe that Wang Baole had seen.

‘Moreover, the way All sealed the black wooden board… in the beginning, he only used an ordinary sealing technique, then he sacrificed a finger to seal it. In the end, he sacrificed his entire left arm…

‘Why would he do that? Was he afraid of the black wooden board, or… was it to protect the world that he liked?’ Wang Baole couldn’t figure it out. Then, he thought of All’s final question, seemingly muttering to himself…

“Do you know how it feels to like something?”

Just as Wang Baole’s brows furrowed, Little Missy’s voice suddenly echoed in his head.

“Fatty, you’re overthinking things. Liking something often means keeping it in your possession.

“If you like butterflies, would you rather watch one fly freely, or pin it into a book as a specimen?”

Wang Baole was shocked. After carefully mulling over Little Missy’s words, he whispered softly.

“Neither. I don’t like butterflies, I like you.”

“Damn fatty, I’m trying to have a serious conversation with you!” Little Missy snorted.

“I am being very serious!” Wang Baole blinked and cleared his throat. He found that Little Missy was the best medicine for a morose mood. But just as he wanted to continue chatting lightly with her, the fleet of battleships finally left the Heaven’s Mandate Star System, and…

At that moment, a sense of crisis appeared in Wang Baole’s heart. He instantly raised his head and looked into the distance, and what he saw was… not too far away, there was a stationary asteroid that seemed to have been fixed in place by some great power. Meditating on top of the asteroid was a middle-aged man in black clothes holding a long sword in his hands.

Powerful fluctuations rolled off of his body. At that moment, he opened his eyes and looked at the fleet of battleships, particular the chief battleship where Wang Baole was. The smile on his lips was completely condescending, and his words and voice were aloof and arrogant.

“Wang Baole, good job keeping your head safe for so long. Now, it’s time for you to hand it over to me.”