📖 Chapter 1113 - Great Supplement!

11 Oct, 2023

Wang Baole’s expression changed as he looked at the enormous lightning finger above him. His heart pounded rapidly as he sensed imminent death.

Technically speaking, Wang Baole’s original body, the black wooden board, was undying and inextinguishable. The lightning finger wouldn’t be able to harm it at all.

However… just because the black wooden board couldn’t be harmed didn’t mean that the consciousness born from it couldn’t be harmed!

These were two completely different concepts. The sense of crisis that Wang Baole was feeling at the moment clearly told him that… this lightning finger was fully capable of erasing his ‘self’!

Once his ‘self’ was erased, perhaps the black wooden board would give birth to a new consciousness after some years. And perhaps that consciousness would still be Wang Baole, but… to a certain extent, it would also no longer be Wang Baole.

Sweat dripped down Wang Baole’s forehead. Had he been too arrogant just now? Otherwise, why would such an unprecedented lightning tribulation appear for his breakthrough to the Eternal Star Realm?

‘Could it be related to the wishing bottle…’ Wang Baole recalled that he had made a wish back on Planet Heaven’s Mandate. The side effect of that wish never seemed to appear, so he couldn’t help but have some speculations.

But the more likely guess was that this was because of his Dao Planet’s advancement. Even throughout the entire Never-Ending Dao Domain, Eternal Dao Stars were things of legend. The founding ancestor of the Never-Ending Clan was known to have one, but Wang Baole felt that his own Eternal Dao Star was different. After all, before breaking through, Wang Baole had shattered all one million barricades!

In the first place, breaking past even just 70,000 barricades had only been possible due to the accumulation of several past lives. To a certain extent, this was already the limit for living beings.

Even someone with more opportunities than Wang Baole wouldn’t be able to surpass 100,000 barricades. The only reason Wang Baole had been able to break all of them was because the black wooden board’s standard of existence was horrifyingly high.

Thus, Wang Baole judged that he might be the only person in this stele world to ever obtain an Eternal Dao Star after breaking through all one million barricades!

‘Perhaps that force caused a crack to appear in the stele, and the side effect of the wishing bottle fanned the flames… That’s why this lightning tribulation has reached such an extent!’ Wang Baole breathed heavily as his thoughts whirled. He no longer cared about maintaining the demeanor of an expert and immediately called out in his heart.

“Little Missy, save me!!”

His body flickered backward, and he also shouted to the paper human cutouts on the ground.

“Founding emperor, please buy me some time!!” As he shouted, Wang Baole started silently reciting the Dao Scripture.

Right now, all the paper human cutouts had horrified expressions under the light of that astonishing finger. The two Starfall Emperors both had extremely grim looks on their faces.

Given Wang Baole’s relationship with the Starfall Realm, it was impossible for them to just watch him die. And even if the paper human cutouts didn’t want to help, the will of the Starfall Realm had already made the decision for them. All the power of the world converged, reinforcing the spell formation to guard against the giant finger.

But be it the founding emperor or current emperor, both of them knew that the moment they got involved, the whole Starfall Realm would be implicated in Wang Baole’s karma. At that point, the lightning tribulation would begin to target everything in their land.

Thus, neither of them wanted to get involved unless they really had no other choice. However, it was impossible for them to not render Wang Baole any aid at the moment… In their anxiousness, the founding emperor’s eyes suddenly flashed. He quickly opened his mouth and shouted.

“Baole, the paper sea! Go to the vortex under the sea!!”

Just as the founding emperor spoke, the spell formation resisting the lightning finger finally failed. Rumbling thunder echoing everywhere, the finger descended, taking up almost the entire sky as it crushed down on Wang Baole.

In this moment of crisis, Wang Baole had no time to think. As he continued reciting the Dao Scripture, he changed directions and flew straight into the paper sea, disappearing beneath the paper waves almost instantaneously.

At the same time, as Wang Baole sank beneath the paper sea, the enormous finger descending from the sky shrank rapidly. Its speed didn’t decrease at all, but its size converged to a hundred zhang long. No traces of lightning could be sensed from it, as if it was a genuine finger. Then, the hundred-zhang-long finger accelerated again and rushed into the paper sea!

As soon as it touched the waves, arcs of lightning streaked across the sea, and a deafening boom rang out. It seemed that the entire paper sea was about to burst into flames.

Looking from a distance, the paper sea churned and heaven and earth seemed to dim. All the paper human cutouts watched on in horror, not daring to get close. Meanwhile, Wang Baole sensed the power of thunder and lightning coming from behind him. His body trembled, and his cultivation base circulated even faster as he accelerated his descent.

But… although he was fast, the finger chasing him was even faster. It rapidly closed the distance as the two sank deeper and deeper into the paper sea.

Three hundred zhang, one hundred zhang, fifty zhang… when it was only thirty zhang away, Wang Baole’s heart felt like it was about to beat out of his chest. He had recited quite a bit of the Dao Scripture, but Wang Yiyi’s father had yet to appear.

Wang Baole’s anxiety reached a peak. But fortunately, he was already near the mirror-like seal at the bottom of the paper sea. He could see the female corpse there, as well as the vortex underneath the seal!

“There must be a reason why the founding emperor told me to come here!” Wang Baole gritted his teeth. The finger behind him was only ten zhang away, and he could already practically feel the scorching lightning on his back. Letting out a roar, Wang Baole accelerated again, closing the remaining distance and appearing above… the mirror seal at the bottom of the sea!

As soon as he arrived, he abruptly turned and looked behind him. A huge finger of lightning replaced everything in his eyes, closing in on him in an instant.

Without pausing in the slightest, the finger entered the range of the mirror seal and continued straight on toward Wang Baole!

But just as the finger was about to make contact with Wang Baole… a huge suction force suddenly erupted from the vortex beneath the seal. The suction force was so strong that it even penetrated the seal to affect the outside world.

The approaching finger suddenly trembled and distorted. A huge amount of lightning was involuntarily sucked out of the finger, quickly drilling into the seal and entering the vortex underneath!

It was almost as if the finger was dust being swept away by the wind!

Wang Baole’s eyes widened as he saw the terrifying finger being drained away at a rate visible to the naked eye. His heart rate suddenly accelerated as a thought occurred to him.

“Wealth is sought in danger!!” Wang Baole’s eyes instantly turned red, and he formed hand seals that caused the black hole Eternal Star to appear behind him. It immediately exuded a similar suction force.

Rumbles suddenly sounded out as a portion of the finger’s lightning diverted, no longer going into the seal but rather Wang Baole’s Eternal Dao Star!

Tribulation lightning contained an endless power of law as well as the essence of heaven and earth. After absorbing just a trace, Wang Baole trembled violently. He instantly put even more effort into sucking it away, and thus… under the absorption of both Wang Baole and the vortex under the mirror seal, the lightning finger shrank rapidly. It lasted for about ten breaths of time before it faded, turning into ashes and vanishing completely!

Wang Baole had only been able to absorb less than 10% of the lightning in the finger. But this alone still allowed him to bypass the initial period of stabilization that came with a breakthrough, allowing him to stand firmly in the early stage of the Eternal Star Realm!

“What a great supplement!” Wang Baole was absolutely ecstatic. Now that his crisis had been resolved, he was about to leave, but at that moment… an unexpected event occurred!

A formidable aura suddenly appeared from the vortex beneath the seal. It seemed to form a pair of cold eyes that gazed directly at Wang Baole!

Under this gaze, Wang Baole’s whole body instantly shook.