📖 Chapter 1193 - Dao Aura Fills the Void!

21 Dec, 2023

Time passed, and it was soon late at night.

Perhaps it was because Wang Baole hadn’t been home in so many years, but after reuniting with his parents, his mood couldn’t remain calm. Coupled with his current cultivation base, even if he tried his best to suppress it, his fluctuating emotions still had a certain influence on his surroundings.

In terms of life level, Wang Baole surpassed more than 90% of the cultivators in the world. To a certain extent, his current self could be considered not too far from a Heavenly Dao.

After all, his fleshly body had already become a Dao Body, and his divine soul had reached the true pinnacle of the Eternal Star Realm. As for his cultivation base, of the ten thousand Special Stars contained in his Star-Sealing Art, more than 70% had already turned into Eternal Stars. Using the Federation’s terminology, Wang Baole’s body contained the radiation of over 7,000 Eternal Stars.

This radiation not only turned his body superhuman, but also emanated outward as violent force. The force of his radiation alone could destroy any celestial body within the range of his divine sense.

That wasn’t even taking into account his intrinsic scabbard, which could affect the Vast Expanse Dao Palace’s Universe Realm ancient bronze sword and even swallow the power of the Heavenly Dao. The intrinsic scabbard could be called the very core of Wang Baole’s cultivation, as it was a major part of how he advanced so rapidly.

In fact… a normal person’s body would be unable to bear all of this. If Wang Baole’s essential self wasn’t the unfathomable black wooden board, then he might have already collapsed long ago. It wouldn’t be like now, where he was able to prance about without trouble.

Thus, no matter how careful he was, his existence itself inevitably impacted his parents, whose cultivation bases were merely at the Core Formation Realm. Even if this impact was reduced countless times over, it still wasn’t long before his parents instinctually needed to rest and recover.

Seeing their eyelids flutter, Wang Baole waved a hand and put them to sleep. After gently carrying his parents back to their room, he sat down and released his cultivation base. A tiny bit of his own essence seeped out and fused into his parents’ bodies.

This amount of essence was almost nothing to him, not even a millionth of the whole. It wasn’t that Wang Baole didn’t want to give any more, but rather that this tiny bit of essence was the maximum his parents could absorb.

After that, Wang Baole walked over to the room that had been prepared for him. Although he had never lived in this room, all the furniture and decorations, be they the posters on the wall or the children’s toys, were exactly the same as in his memories of his childhood. Seeing all this, Wang Baole’s gaze became gentle and filled with reminiscence.

“Home…” Murmuring, Wang Baole touched the bed in the room. It was perfectly clean. Obviously, his parents often came in and cleaned the bed, looking forward to the day their son returned.

Sitting down cross-legged on the bed, Wang Baole looked up at the bright moon outside the window. His whole body gradually turned serene, and the aura of Dao involuntarily emanated from his body, lingering within the house and spreading further beyond, unnoticeably causing all of Ethereal City to enter a strange state.

The density of spirit energy here instantly rose, and all the herbs seemed to be cheering as they swayed without wind. Moreover, they experienced a marked increase in growth rate.

As for the animals and insects, all of them trembled abruptly. Looking at the house where Wang Baole was meditating, they bowed in worship, seemingly enlightened by the Dao aura emanating from that house.

All throughout the city, mundane objects which were originally the most ordinary of mortal items suddenly seemed to become extraordinary, emitting spirit energy of their own and uplifting the entire city as a result.

And the aura of Dao emanating from Wang Baole didn’t stop there. It continued spreading rapidly, soon covering the territory of the Ethereal Dao College. All the students in the college experienced a sudden boost of their cultivation base that night, and the roars and calls of countless birds and beasts all fell silent.

On one of the college’s islands floating high in the sky, a giant diamond ape who had originally been sleeping suddenly opened its eyes. It looked at the distant Ethereal City with a bewildered gaze.

Beneath Junior Scholar Lake, countless large fish were swimming around in excitement. Even deeper… a giant snake a hundred zhang long, which had been hidden here for many years already, also opened its eyes and looked toward Ethereal City.

The Dao aura continued to spread.

It spread past the Ethereal Dao College and into the wilderness, then into the sea full of vicious beasts. The beast kings deep in the sea all lowered their heads in fear and awe.

There was also the Trilunaris Corporation, the several prominent sects, the other Dao Colleges, the other cities, the palace of the president… everywhere on Earth, things were changing rapidly.

However, although the different factions on Earth were aware of the changes, they almost seemed to be ignoring them. No doubts or thoughts regarding the changes to the environment appeared in their minds.

It was as if… their instincts were telling them that all these extraordinary changes should be considered normal. Whether it was the Planet Realm patriarch of the Trilunaris Corporation’s Jin Family, Wu Mengling or the other powerhouses of the Federation in the presidential palace, or the rest of the cultivators on Earth including Li Xingwen, no one registered anything out of the ordinary at all.

It didn’t take long for Wang Baole’s Dao aura to cover the entire Earth. From a distance, the planet looked hazy, almost dream-like. But the Dao aura didn’t stop there. At a rate visible to the naked eye, the Dao aura continued spreading throughout the starry sky.

Lin You on Mars, Daoist Osmanthus on Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn… the entire solar system was swiftly enveloped by Wang Baole’s Dao aura.

Mysterious phenomena appeared all over the solar system. At the same time, it seemed that Wang Baole himself fused deeply with the solar system.

He sensed the vitality of all the celestial bodies, as well as how they cheered at his arrival. He sensed the intimacy of the Divine Eye Civilization’s Eternal Star, the joy that the Sun felt, and how all creation was blossoming and growing as the Federation transformed rapidly.

He could see the secluded Divine Sovereign Justice Patriarch, as well as the recuperating elders of the Vast Expanse Dao Palace.

All of this emerged in Wang Baole’s heart. At the same time, as the feeling of having become one with the solar system grew stronger and stronger, Wang Baole also sensed three points of incongruity in the solar system.

One was on Earth, one was on Pluto, and the last… was on Jupiter.

Rather than calling them ‘points’, perhaps it would be more accurate to label them ‘gates’.

Indeed, there were three gates that didn’t fit in with the solar system. These gates were both entrances and exits. Before today, Wang Baole didn’t know much about these strange places in the Federation, but as the whole solar system filled with his Dao aura, everything about them was extremely clear in his mind.

First, he took a look at the point of incongruity on Jupiter. This point was a tiny vortex in a cloud of fog that was almost impossible to detect. Suddenly, Wang Baole’s divine will converged on this location, forming a Dao clone that stood outside the fog. A cold light shone in his eyes as he stared at the vortex.

He waved his right hand, and a trace of his intrinsic scabbard’s sword qi appeared. Turning into a bolt of gray lightning, the trace of sword qi instantly drilled into the vortex. The place it appeared in after entering the vortex was a location Wang Baole had seen before, but had never been to in person.

It was a place filled with the ruins of countless civilizations throughout history, like a giant garbage dump of the universe. In the depths of the countless ruins, there was a woman sitting cross-legged. Her eyes opened abruptly, revealing shock and horror as a bolt of gray lightning suddenly struck toward the center of her brows.

Rumbling sounds rang out, and the woman’s expression changed drastically as she immediately backed away, swiftly forming hand seals. Countless phantom images appeared in front of her, joining together to barely resist the gray lightning. But after the lightning faded, a voice rang out – a message from Wang Baole, speaking from Jupiter an endless distance away.

“Scram!”

“Wang Baole?! Impossible!!” The woman’s pupils contracted as terror shone in her eyes. The vortex she left behind in the Federation was something that even a Star Domain Realm cultivator should have found nearly impossible to detect. It was one of her trump cards, but now, it had been used to expose her location.

She instinctively tried to cut off her connection with the vortex, but to no avail. The vortex on Jupiter had already been grabbed by Wang Baole, sealed, and tossed into his storage pouch.

“Zi Yue…” Wang Baole’s eyes narrowed, and he let out a cold snort. He had just returned to the Federation and didn’t want to leave so soon, which was why he didn’t go attack Zi Yue right away. However, he had already locked on to her using the gray lightning.

Then, Wang Baole’s figure on Jupiter disappeared. A moment later, he reappeared on Pluto, in front of… a well.

Powerful fluctuations of deathly aura were coming from the well. Wang Baole fell silent for a moment, then lifted his right hand and pressed down. A boom rang out, and the well began to collapse. At the same time, a furious voice roared out from inside.

“Who dares destroy my Underworld Sect’s eye to the outside world!? Tell me your name, my Underworld Sect-”

“Wang Baole.” Wang Baole calmly stated his name.

As soon as he spoke, the collapsing well became deathly silent.