📖 Chapter 1171 - Why Don’t You Keep Pulling?
“Who!?” Horror rose up in Wang Baole’s heart, and he quickly ran away. However, it was useless; after a few breaths of time, the pulling appeared again. Wang Baole’s eyes suddenly widened, and he shouted in a loud voice.
“There you are! Hmph, so it was you!”
Boom!
The pull disappeared, then came again!
“Despicable, shameless! Come out if you’ve got the guts! Daddy here’s gonna beat your ass!”
Boom! Boom!
More pulling…
Wang Baole felt like he was going crazy. In this short period of time, the tugging sensation had came and gone more than twenty times already. Moreover, cracks were appearing in the world all around him, causing the Wang Baole who was completely immersed in this illusion to become extremely frightened.
Meanwhile, in the temple under the Underworld River, the red-clothed woman was gritting her teeth fiercely. She was holding Wang Baole’s body with one hand and pulling hard with the other, growling incomprehensible words under her breath. Exerting all her strength, she pulled and pulled. Ten times, twenty times…
Finally, with the twenty-seventh pull, Wang Baole’s head… didn’t come off. However, the wooden puppet that he had transformed into seemed to break free of its previous state. Following some unknown natural law beyond the control of the red-clothed woman, he slowly began walking and returned to his initial position. Then, his body trembled, and his eyes opened.
Wang Baole was awake.
All his memories returned in an instant, and his expression immediately changed drastically as he realized that he’d been trapped in some strange illusion. He instantly backed up several steps, but after checking his body’s condition, he became suspicious.
It seemed that… aside from his neck aching a little, nothing had happened. Thus, he lifted his head to look around. As soon as he did, he saw the red-clothed woman glaring at him, blood vessels bulging in her singular eye.
She seemed absolutely furious, but more than that, intensely unwilling.
Wang Baole was full of alarm as he took a few more steps backward. The intrinsic scabbard in his body moved slightly as he prepared to recite the Dao Scripture. However, a bizarre glow suddenly appeared in the red-clothed woman’s eyes, and Wang Baole’s body stiffened again. Confusion filled his eyes as he turned back into a wooden puppet. But this time, he didn’t line up with the other puppets. Instead, the red-clothed woman seemed to be paying special attention to him, as she brought him to stand right in front of her.
Right now, the red-clothed woman didn’t care about any of the other puppets. Even if they emitted rays of light, she didn’t spare them a second glance. All of her attention was focused on Wang Baole.
As she waited for him to light up, Wang Baole had fallen into another illusion, this time in the Divine Eye Galaxy. Behind him was a fleet of battleships, and at their head was the Black Dragon Legion Commander. Her eyes glittered with killing intent as she raced toward Wang Baole.
Wang Baole was muddled for a split second, but reacted almost instantly and fled as fast as he could. However, the distance between him and the battleships was shrinking rapidly.
“Damn thieves, it was clearly my loot first!” Wang Baole was completely immersed in the illusion. Just as he grumbled resentfully, the starry sky suddenly shook. A powerful force descended all around him and converged on his neck. It was as if two giant hands were grabbing him and trying to pluck his neck off his body!
The tugging sensation was extremely strong, but… nothing really happened. Wang Baole was stunned.
“This seems a bit familiar…”
Meanwhile, in the temple under the Underworld River, the giant red-clothed woman looked up to the sky and roared in madness. Her eye was even more bloodshot, and she even rose to her feet to get better leverage. She used all her strength as she tried to wrench Wang Baole’s head off his neck.
But no matter how hard she pulled, no matter how mad she was, the shadow of the black wooden board that was overlapping with Wang Baole thwarted all her attempts. In fact… if her divine ability didn’t connect to the essential self of a cultivator and only affected their divine soul, then Wang Baole would long have been decapitated. But when it came to the essential self…
Even after the Underworld River was long gone, the black wooden board would still exist. Of course, the divine soul of Wang Baole who had been born from it would have dissipated by then.
As the red-clothed woman pulled frantically, Wang Baole in the illusion felt the tugging again and again. Each time, he would feel shocked and alarmed, but soon become dazed and confused again. After repeating this cycle several times, a trace of struggle appeared in his eyes. The struggle grew stronger and stronger, culminating in the appearance of… clearmindedness!
“Wha?” Wang Baole suddenly whipped his head around to survey his surroundings. At that moment, he remembered everything. He remembered that he had entered the Underworld River, entered the temple, and seen a giant red-clothed woman.
“Then, my current situation…” Wang Baole’s eyes flickered brightly, but before he could think too much, an extraordinary force erupted. His neck hurt slightly, and the world suddenly collapsed.
The pain wasn’t too bad, about the same as slapping a mosquito. However, the world of the illusion seemed unable to bear it and shattered in an instant. As soon as Wang Baole’s consciousness returned to his body, he retreated several steps. He saw that the red-clothed woman’s eye was already completely bloodshot.
At the same time, he saw more than a dozen wooden puppets all around him. He didn’t know how long they’d been there, but they seemed to have been ignored… Wang Baole’s expression turned strange. But a moment later, the red-clothed woman’s eyes glittered, and Wang Baole’s vision blurred again. When the world came back into focus, he was in the Starfall Realm.
He was on the Illusory Planet with the rest of the Chosen, running away from the figures of those they had killed. But after moving a few steps, Wang Baole suddenly paused. Struggle appeared in his eyes, and he recovered clarity in just a few moments.
Perhaps it was because of his previous two experiences that he was able to awaken so easily. A moment after Wang Baole woke up, the pulling force came again, but he just ignored it. Scratching his neck idly, he looked around as his eyes flickered with a ponderous light.
“This red-clothed woman doesn’t seem all that smart…
“Her illusion technique is just average and can’t affect me too much. But… the nature of it is quite interesting. It can show me scenes from my memory and also pull out my past lives. In that case… could it show me scenes of my past lives as well?
“If so… then perhaps I can experience my past lives again. I might be able to see memories that I didn’t catch before!” In fact, Wang Baole wasn’t sure whether this guess of his was a real possibility or just wishful thinking. However, he was somewhat hopeful, so he walked around the illusion full of anticipation. Tugging force came and went as he sighed with emotion.
Wang Baole quickly got used to it. Every time he felt a tug, he would stretch his neck and use the force to make himself more comfortable. Just like that, after more than thirty times, the world collapsed with a bang.
This time, Wang Baole didn’t retreat after regaining consciousness. Instead, he stood still, looking expectantly at the red-clothed woman who was glaring at him with her bloodshot eye.
In an instant, as if provoked by Wang Baole, the red-clothed woman became furious. Roaring, she activated her divine ability again, causing Wang Baole to enter the world of illusion again. This time, he was in the gray region with Chen Qingzi…
Soon, he awakened again, but only for a moment. The red-clothed woman sent him back into… his past life as a godling…
After that came the lives as the zombie, the devil blade, the resentful cultivator, the little deer…
Each time, Wang Baole quickly regained consciousness. He was more and more shocked by this idiot in red’s divine ability, and at the same time, his anticipation grew stronger and stronger.
“It really is possible!”
Wang Baole was filled with excitement. When his consciousness returned to his body, he looked passionately at the panting red-clothed woman.
“Let’s go! Again!”
The clearly exhausted red-clothed woman looked up to the sky and roared viciously. She raised her right hand as if about to cast her divine ability again, but instinctively hesitated. And her hesitation made Wang Baole extremely anxious.
Wang Baole instantly rolled his eyes and plastered a scornful expression on his face before slowly walking into the distance. He moved extremely deliberately and looked like he was about to leave this place.
Seeing this, a fierce light instantly erupted in the red-clothed woman’s eyes, and she cast her divine ability again. Smirking with satisfaction, Wang Baole… entered the world of illusion once more.