đź“– Chapter 1174 - A Woman?
“So… it came from a wooden nail!” Wang Baole fell silent. After a while, he sighed with emotion. Now that he’d seen what he had wanted to see all this time, he couldn’t help but feel a little complicated.
This complicated feeling came from… the truth of his origin.
“I’m a nail?” Wang Baole felt his head start to hurt. But soon, he suppressed this headache-inducing thought and recalled the 108 figures he had seen in the illusion.
“Each and every one of them had a cultivation base beyond my imagination… I can’t even begin to guess what kind of realm they reached. And they all had worlds in their bodies…” That gigantic figure that sat above those 108 unfathomable experts suddenly appeared in Wang Baole’s mind. That figure was so powerful that he seemed to suppress all of heaven and earth just by existing.
Wang Baole could already guess the figure’s identity from his imperial aura and domineering Dao Intent.
“The Emperor…” A profound light flickered in Wang Baole’s eyes. He was pretty much certain that the regal figure was none other than the legendary Emperor. Moreover, the place he had seen, with the 108 figures sitting below, was most likely… the true Never-Ending Dao Domain.
“This stele world is just a secondary Never-Ending Dao Domain that houses a clone of The Emperor. If not for Allheaven sacrificing a hand to seal Ancient-Immortal, then perhaps it would have returned to the true Never-Ending Dao Domain long ago.”
It was exactly because of the seal formed by Allheaven’s hand that this Never-Ending Dao Domain became separated from the true one. Moreover, with the Underworld Sect carrying out Allheaven’s will, the world was reset again and again, causing the connection with the true Never-Ending to grow weaker and weaker.
As long as Allheaven continued existing, the Never-Ending Clan in the stele world would never be able to recover. Although Allheaven’s true purpose was to seal Ancient-Immortal, not to mess with The Emperor… there would still be some degree of karmic involvement due to this.
Wang Baole didn’t know who was stronger between Allheaven and The Emperor, but any comparison was already meaningless since Allheaven was dead. Thus, he cared more about the black wooden nail embedded between The Emperor’s brows!
“Where did it come from, and why was the Never-Ending Dao Domain able to summon it during the war against the Vast Expanse…”
Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. After thinking things through, a bold guess emerged in his mind.
“Could it be that the reason The Emperor dispersed his divine will into countless clones and created innumerable Never-Ending Dao Domains… was to combat the black wooden nail between his brows? That’s why it appeared in the secondary Dao Domain’s summoning. Perhaps this is a form of self-preservation?” Wang Baole felt his head hurting. He had too little information, so all his guesses could only be guesses. There was no way to confirm them.
But even so, it was enough for him.
He could sense that all the secrets of this world, this universe, and even the true Never-Ending Dao Domain were slowly becoming clear.
If he continued walking this path, if his Dao came to fruition, then one day, he would find the truth and discover… his own origin!
“My origin is important, but… living my life the way I want is even more important!” Wang Baole’s eyes shone brightly. After suppressing all his scattered thoughts, he calmed down and sensed the benefits he had gained.
His divine soul had reached the absolute pinnacle of the Eternal Star Realm. Just like his fleshly body, it had walked all one hundred steps of the stairway of the great circle!
Two out of his fleshly body, cultivation base, and divine soul had reached the true pinnacle of the Eternal Star Realm. Geniuses with such a deep foundation were vanishingly rare throughout the history of the entire Never-Ending Dao Domain.
As for achieving the pinnacle with all three aspects… such a thing had never happened before.
After all, reaching the pinnacle in one aspect was enough to be listed as the top of the top-tier Chosen. Reaching it in two could be considered an utter miracle. If the news of such a person spread, the entire Never-Ending Dao Domain would go into a frenzy.
And reaching it with all three… was absolutely the stuff of legend!
Sensing that his divine soul could break through at any time, Wang Baole’s turbulent heart grew serene. Although his cultivation base hadn’t changed much, with the divine soul and fleshly body pulling it along, he knew that it would take less than ten years to reach the breakthrough point even if he didn’t cultivate at all.
“But… it’s still a little slow.” Wang Baole’s eyes gleamed with determination as he stood up and looked around him.
The first thing he saw was the red statue full of cracks. A strange expression appeared on his face, and he couldn’t help but feel emotional. If not for this red-clothed imbecile going all out, then he wouldn’t have been able to learn all these truths.
At the same time, he also saw the wooden puppets that the red-clothed imbecile had ignored. They were the Underworld Sect cultivators who had entered before him, but not all of them were here.
Around five or six of the Star Domain Realm Almighties were missing. Although they might have died, there was also the possibility that they had used some unknown methods to pass the red-clothed woman and enter the next part of the temple.
As for the pseudo-Underworld Children, most of them were lying here as wooden puppets. Wang Baole glanced at them and saw that their vitality and consciousness were gradually returning.
He was about to withdraw his gaze and move on, but his eyes suddenly flickered and he took another look at the pseudo-Underworld Children. He saw the young man who had provoked him earlier, and he also saw… a figure wearing a mask on their face!
“This guy’s also here?” Wang Baole was a little surprised. After all, the masked figure was the strongest among the pseudo-Underworld Children. Wang Baole had assumed that he would have had some method to avoid being trapped here.
Soon, Wang Baole’s eyes narrowed. He discovered that there were two pseudo-Underworld Children missing from this place…
One was the woman who had been hiding her strength!
And the other… was someone Wang Baole hadn’t paid much attention to. Even when he thought back carefully, he didn’t have a strong impression of this other missing pseudo-Underworld Child. He only vaguely remembered that they seemed to be a middle-aged man.
“Hm?” Wang Baole made a noise of surprise. After thinking a bit more, he walked over to the masked puppet who was about to wake up. Seeing the puppet’s wooden body rapidly turning to flesh, Wang Baole suddenly took off the pseudo-Underworld Child’s mask and looked at their face.
“A woman?” Wang Baole was stunned. He never expected that the premier candidate for Underworld Child, who had won the approval of everyone in the Underworld Sect, was actually not a man as they appeared to be on the outside.
The face in front of him… was that of a gentle-looking woman.
“No way, maybe he’s just got an effeminate face?” Wang Baole was curious, very curious… Lowering his head, he looked at the body of the unmasked cultivator.
He couldn’t help but lean forward and observe carefully. He didn’t do anything untoward, but… he was able to confirm that they were indeed a woman. It was just hard to see at first glance.
“No way…” Wang Baole frowned. Numerous speculations instantly bubbled up in his heart. For example, this person might just be a cover, and the true recognized Underworld Child was someone else.
Or maybe this person wasn’t even the person he had seen outside, and instead got switched somehow after entering the temple.
Another possibility was that the red-clothed imbecile’s divine ability that turned people into puppets had ended up changing some of the cultivators here… All sorts of thoughts flashed through Wang Baole’s mind, but he ignored them. Placing the mask back on the woman’s face, he walked over to the entrance next to the red statue.
“No need to think too much. Right now, all I need to do is retrieve the Underworld Emperor’s remains for Senior Brother as soon as possible!” Eyes shining brightly, Wang Baole decisively stepped into the entrance.