📖 Chapter 1209 - Zi Yue’s Great Disaster!

06 Jan, 2024

In the Never-Ending Dao Domain, there was a certain location that couldn’t be found by any but the most powerful Almighties. Wang Baole and Chen Qingzi’s gazes both fell on this place, looking at a figure sitting cross-legged in meditation.

This figure was a beautiful woman. Obviously, she was Zi Yue!

However, her body was extremely blurry and seemed to contain countless souls. Each soul seemed like it was the main soul, and as they wandered around in her body, her face and form changed rapidly.

Sometimes she was a young man, sometimes a little girl, sometimes a wizened elder, sometimes a middle-aged man… from beginning to end, there was no repetition in her features, as if the number of souls in her body was infinite.

But no matter what form she assumed, her expression was always full of alertness. In the end, she returned to her original face of a beautiful woman, and her eyes shone brightly as she quickly formed hand seals. She seemed to be deducing something.

If someone were to look around her, they would see that Zi Yue’s location was a place empty of stars, with only endless ruins floating around in the void. Most of the ruins emanated an ancient aura, and it could be seen from some of the more complete ones that their architecture didn’t conform to the style of this current epoch.

These ruins spanned an extremely wide range, and if they were in the outside world, they would easily form a galaxy. However, this galaxy wasn’t the full extent of the ruins; there were layers upon layers of rings all around it.

And within each ring were countless more ruins belonging to different epochs.

All the ruins were completely devoid of life, as if everything here was merely traces of history past. From a distance, this place looked like a massive, unmoving vortex.

This place… did not exist within the normal Never-Ending Dao Domain, nor the Land of the Underworld. It was an abyss that consigned all unneeded history to oblivion, a garbage dump for the rest of the world.

Whenever the epoch changed, anything that wasn’t permitted by the new natural and magical laws was sent here. Over time, this garbage dump was filled with endless chaotic fluctuations.

Once these fluctuations reach a certain extent, they would turn into an apocalyptic storm, destroying the ruins and turning them into their most basic essence. This basic essence would then be scattered across the starry sky of the Never-Ending Dao Domain, turning into nascent stars and forming the foundation for the production of spiritual energy.

It could be said that this place was a crucial mechanism for the stele world’s smooth operation.

Even before the apocalyptic storm arrived, this was still not a place people could dare to approach. If someone inadvertently entered, they would be driven insane by the chaotic fluctuations and die, entering their eternal rest in this place.

Even Star Domain Realm Almighties were no exception. Only those at the great circle of the realm could enter for short periods of time, and even then they would have to rely on special methods to do so.

Of course, those in the Universe Realm could come and go freely, but the chaos in this place would still have a certain degree of influence on them. The longer they stayed, the more they would be affected.

Therefore, no one would think to go in here and look around, making it an ideal hiding spot. Of course... this ‘ideal’ was only for certain souls!

Due to the chaotic fluctuations here, this place was not only not dangerous to certain unique souls, but it could even be considered a holy land. For example, this was the case for Zi Yue!

This place had almost no effect on her at all. At the same time, she could take advantage of the chaotic fluctuations here to further her perfection of the Star-Seeding Dao. This was why, after recovering some memories of her past life and leaving the Federation, she came here to these forgotten ruins. As her cultivation base rose higher and higher, the seeds she had scattered allowed her to indirectly influence the outside world.

At the same time, this place provided her with a nigh-perfect degree of safety. After all, as long as she managed to keep hiding for a certain period of time, even a Divine Emperor would have to give up on their pursuit.

Over the years, Zi Yue had seeded many cultivators in countless factions across the three holy regions and drawn quite a bit of attention and hostility, but thanks to hiding in this place, she was able to remain free.

Even after being warned by Chen Qingzi back then, Zi Yue actually wasn’t too afraid. After regaining her past memories, there had been only three instances where she felt true fear.

The first was when Wang Baole used the Book of Heaven’s Mandate to search for her. The second was when Wang Baole found the backdoor she left in the Federation and locked onto her with his Dao aura.

Although Zi Yue had immediately changed her location and made countless preparations… Still, a sense of crisis broke out again, and her body shuddered in fear for a third time. This was why she had suddenly become alert and started her deduction.

After a while, Zi Yue’s fingers stopped moving, and she lifted her head. There was a hint of viciousness in her expression as she murmured to herself.

“Great disaster?!”

Narrowing her eyes, she formed another hand seal and made a slashing motion. Her body trembled, and she suddenly split into three identical figures. One remained sitting cross-legged where she was, while the other two swiftly ran in opposite directions. Of those two, one turned into a speck of dust a certain distance away, and the other just kept going, eventually disappearing into the void.

At the same time, Wang Baole’s true body opened his eyes inside the Sun. Standing up from his meditative position, a profound light flickered through his eyes as he stepped forward calmly.

As he did so, ripples appeared in the void beneath his foot. Layer upon layer of ripples spread out, as if the starry sky was being peeled away to reveal… a certain image. It was the location of the land of ruins.

Through the two previous incidents, Wang Baole had already figured out the approximate coordinates of Zi Yue’s hiding spot. Now that he’d decided to finally capture her, he stepped into the ripples without hesitation.

As he stepped down, Wang Baole’s figure disappeared in an instant.

Meanwhile, the Flame Patriarch was walking around in a mortal city on Earth, marveling at the splendor of the Federation. Beside him was Wang Baole’s clone, First Senior Sister, Second Senior Brother, and the old ox, who had transformed into a burly man. The group was also accompanied by Zhao Yameng and Zhou Xiaoya.

When it came to these two, the Flame Patriarch looked at them as if evaluating potential daughters-in-law. The more he looked, the more satisfied he became. Along the way, First Senior Sister would occasionally chat with them about Wang Baole, and the atmosphere grew more and more harmonious. It was as if they were on a family outing, with the old ancestor Flame Patriarch being shown around by his juniors. He occasionally gave Zhou Xiaoya and Zhao Yameng tips on cultivation, and overall, the air was filled with joy and laughter.

Moreover, the Flame Patriarch was someone with countless treasures, and he gave them away freely. Soon, Zhao Yameng and Zhou Xiaoya’s bodies were laden with dozens of new magical treasures. At the side, Wang Baole was smiling and laughing, but almost as soon as his true body departed, the Flame Patriarch at the front of the group suddenly stopped. He looked in the direction of the Sun, then at Wang Baole’s clone.

“You went out?”

“Just taking care of a minor matter.” Wang Baole replied with a smile.

“Your clone doesn’t have to stay here and accompany me.” Concern was apparent on the Flame Patriarch’s face.

“It’s alright, Master. You don’t have to worry.” Wang Baole bowed gently, then continued showing his master around this mortal city. The group blended in with the bustling crowds, but no one seemed to notice them. There shouldn’t have been anyone in the Federation who didn’t recognize Wang Baole, and yet the group was able to walk around freely without trouble. It was as if the Wang Baole reflected in everyone else’s eyes was someone completely different.

Meanwhile, outside the land of ruins, ripples suddenly appeared, and Wang Baole’s true body stepped out of the void.

As soon as he arrived, the resonance of his Great Dao caused all the natural and magical laws here to fluctuate, giving rise to shocking rumbles in an instant. Countless bolts of lightning burst forth in the surroundings, and even the rings of ages past began rotating slowly. It seemed that Wang Baole’s arrival had set the entirety of the land of ruins into motion!