📖 Chapter 1138 - Fishing!

07 Nov, 2023

Little Donkey’s head suddenly appeared from Wang Baole’s storage pouch. Its eyes were still closed, but its nose was twitching rapidly. It suddenly lunged forward at alarming speed, abruptly chomping down on the void behind Wang Baole!

However, the moment it bit down, Little Donkey’s teeth shattered, and half of its body directly collapsed. It let out a miserable scream and instantly returned to the storage pouch.

Hearing Little Donkey’s scream, Wang Baole suddenly opened his eyes and disappeared on the spot. A moment later, he reappeared far off in the distance, scanning his surroundings with a look of suspicion on his face. He even spread out his divine sense, but he didn’t discover anything off.

“What’s going on here…” Wang Baole frowned. Still absorbing the green wisps, he quickly sent his divine sense into his storage pouch and saw little donkey, who only had half a body left.

“This guy’s still sleeping? His stomach is about to explode, but he still isn’t waking up…”

But within Little Donkey’s body, Wang Baole saw an energy that seemed to be a mixture of black and green swimming around. This energy seemed to be repairing Little Donkey’s damaged body as well as transforming it, changing it in some mysterious manner.

As for Little Fifth… like Little Donkey, he was still asleep at the moment. There didn’t seem to be any abnormalities with his body.

“What did this little donkey swallow? It seems like deathly aura, but also like the green wisps…” Wang Baole furrowed his brows in puzzlement. However, there were still wisps of the Never-Ending Heavenly Dao outside, so he couldn’t afford to observe the storage pouch for too long. Soon, he withdrew his divine sense and focused on absorbing the green wisps to strengthen his fleshly body.

But as soon as he withdrew his divine sense, the sleeping Little Fifth suddenly opened his eyes. Little Donkey also opened its eyes. One man and one donkey looked at each other within the storage pouch.

“Look, isn’t the technique I taught you useful? By the way, did that fish outside taste good?” Little Fifth touched his stomach and whispered.

“Hee-haw!” Little Donkey responded lazily. It didn’t care about the damage it had suffered, stretching out its tongue and licking its lips.

‘This guy really isn’t afraid of anything, is he… He can even eat the Heavenly Dao? What the hell…’ Little Fifth fell silent. He looked at the donkey’s burst belly, then at the way it licked its lips. He couldn’t help but rub his own stomach again…

He was also hungry.

‘Is it really the Heavenly Dao? But if it’s edible…’ After a while, Little Fifth glanced at the outside world. His gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the storage pouch and see a blurry figure zooming off into the distance. He licked his lips.

Right where Little Fifth was looking, there was a black fish that was screaming and speeding through the starry sky. Looking closely, there was a bit of its tail missing…

“What kind of freaking thing was that? It can see me? It can bite me? Isn’t it afraid of dying?” The black fish seemed like it was about to cry. It quickly returned to the central furnace and flew over to the black mist. After wailing for a while with no response from Chen Qingzi, its feelings of grief and indignation reached a pinnacle. But facing the unresponsive black mist, it had no choice but to leave and go find Wang Baole again.

But this time, it didn’t dare to get too close. On the one hand, it was fearful of the one who had just bitten it, and on the other, it seemed to vaguely sense a hungry gaze coming from Wang Baole’s location.

Thus, it only dared to devour the green wisps a little further away. The black fish swallowed the green wisps with incredible fury, as if it wanted to vent all its anger and frustration. Soon, all the green wisps had been swallowed.

“Next spot!” Wang Baole seemed to be in high spirits as he sped off into the distance, but his mind was actually full of vigilance. The events just now led him to believe that someone might be hiding near him.

‘It seems that the myriad factions’ Chosen can’t be underestimated… I should be more careful when absorbing deathly aura. It won’t be good if I’m seen.’ While thinking, Wang Baole increased his speed even further.

Just like that, over the next several hours, Wang Baole appeared in front of one giant vortex after another. Wherever he appeared, he would drive away any cultivators inside the vortexes and even kill them if convenient. It didn’t take long for the escaped cultivators to spread news of him, and his identity was soon revealed by one of the Chosen from the Left Dao Holy Region.

“Wang Baole?!”

“That freak! That lunatic! His Dao Planet has become an Eternal Dao Star, and he even beat someone like Chong Yizi to death. Why would he come here to bully us little people!?”

“He keeps saying that these vortexes are his. Humph, why doesn’t he just say that the Divine Emperor is his master, or that Chen Qingzi is his senior brother!”

“Damn it, he’s here! Everyone, run!”

Wang Baole’s rampage sent the entire gray region into complete chaos. Every giant vortex he came across was fully devoured, and each time, a huge amount of green wisps was absorbed into his body. However, although Wang Baole seemed to be acting impulsively, he was actually still cautious when it came to the matter of absorbing the green wisps.

With his cultivation base, it wasn’t difficult to conceal everything from the second-class Chosen in this place. However, there were still cultivators such as the giant turtle and the paradoxical man who were able to find some clues.

Wang Baole didn’t pay too much attention to this, though. In the first place, keeping his ability to absorb the green wisps secret was too difficult, and the current situation was a rare opportunity. Plus, with Chen Qingzi as his backer, Wang Baole wasn’t particularly worried.

Rather than restraining himself due to worry, it was better to absorb as much as he could. It would be best if his fleshly body broke through the boundaries of the Eternal Star Realm and reached the level of the Star Domain Realm!

Furthermore, as his notoriety spread, it would often be the case that the people inside a giant vortex would immediately leave the moment Wang Baole approached. This meant that his speed of absorption only became faster.

Thus, the power of Wang Baole’s fleshly body rapidly improved, already infinitely close to the great circle of the Eternal Star Realm.

Anyone else might have already broken through a long time ago, but Wang Baole’s Star Marking Art meant that his process of cultivation was different. Each and every star was almost like a clone of himself, so the rate of improvement of his fleshly body was naturally far slower than others. However, that also meant that every improvement made a huge degree of difference when it came to battle prowess.

As for the deathly aura, Wang Baole really did try to hold back. But he couldn’t help but swallow some from time to time. This made his divine soul feel refreshed, and it also drove the black fish even more crazy.

But Wang Baole’s greatest gain wasn’t the strengthening of his fleshly body or divine soul. Instead, it was… his intrinsic scabbard. The scabbard was no longer red; after breaking through a certain pinnacle, it began shining in a purplish-black color instead.

The aura it exuded made even Wang Baole feel a little frightened. It clearly held astonishing power.

Meanwhile… Wang Baole had also noticed that Little Donkey and Little Fifth were awake. In fact, while he was absorbing the vortexes, those two argued so loudly inside his storage pouch that he would have to be deaf not to notice them.

“Stupid donkey, stop eating so much! If you don’t restrain yourself, it won’t dare to come over!”

“Hee-haw!”

“What ‘hee-haw’, restrain yourself, restrain yourself I say! You’re scaring it off!”

Listening to the conversation between the two, Wang Baole sensed that they were also discreetly absorbing green wisps. However, he didn’t care. After all, he had forgotten that they even existed and left them starving in his storage pouch for so long, so he would just let them absorb the green wisps to make up for it. In any case, there were too many green wisps for him to absorb all by himself.

But what caught his attention was the so-called ‘it’ that these two were talking about. He couldn’t help but speak up.

“What are you two doing? Who are you talking about?”

As soon as Wang Baole spoke, Little Donkey and Little Fifth instantly froze. After a moment, Little Donkey cautiously opened its mouth.

"Hee-haw."

“A delicious fish?” Wang Baole blinked and looked over at Little Fifth. Little Fifth’s body trembled and a flattering look appeared on his face as he spoke fawningly.

“Daddy, we’re fishing…”

Wang Baole narrowed his eyes in thought. He remembered the sudden appearance of Little Donkey, and how its belly had exploded.

‘Don’t tell me that a fish has been following me all this time? Trying to scheme against me?’

“Do you need my help?” Wang Baole suddenly said.

“Daddy, please absorb more deathly aura. That stupid fish will definitely freak out.” Little Fifth looked surprised and quickly responded.

"Hee-haw!" Little Donkey's eyes gleamed as it nodded in agreement.

“After you catch the fish, each of you will get 10%. The remaining 80% will be a token of your filial piety!” Wang Baole immediately said in a firm and decisive tone.

Little Fifth and Little Donkey fell silent. After a while, they nodded reluctantly.

Wang Baole narrowed his eyes, wondering what kind of fish was so bold as to follow him all this way and even plot harm against him. At the same time, he realized why the number of green wisps seemed to decrease faster than he devoured them. He had thought that they just dissipated normally, but looking at things now… they must have been eaten by this mysterious fish.

“It dares swallow my good fortune?!” Wang Baole was extremely unhappy. But since he was fishing, he couldn’t be too obvious, so he pretended not to notice. Instead, he kept wandering around the gray region, absorbing vortexes and strengthening himself continuously. The giant vortexes in this gray region disappeared one after another, and eventually, Wang Baole was unable to find any more even after searching for a long time. At this point, he opened his mouth like someone who was choking on food and needed to get some water and took a huge gulp. In an instant, all the deathly aura in the surroundings rushed toward him!