đź“– Chapter 1210 - Still Not Awake?
The land of ruins was a vast celestial body made up of dozens of rings, with each ring being made up of endless dust scattered among innumerable ruins. A purplish-red light shone out from the depths of the place, a harsh light that could cause someone’s eyes to collapse just by looking at it.
That was because although this light seemed purplish-red, in reality, it was a color beyond the spectrum of normality. At the same time, there was infinite information contained in the light, such that even a Star Domain Realm cultivator would feel their minds tremble upon seeing it.
However, it had no effect on Wang Baole. Narrowing his eyes, he just stood still and scanned the endless ruins for anything suspicious.
At the same time, in the purplish-red region at the center of the land of ruins, Zi Yue’s pupils suddenly contracted. A look of horror uncontrollably rose up on her face.
Wang Baole’s cultivation base shocked her. She had never imagined that he would advance so quickly, and this caused her to feel an unprecedented sense of crisis.
And even more shocking was the fact that Wang Baole’s arrival caused the land of ruins to react. It had to be known that such a commotion usually only appeared in the land of ruins when the apocalyptic storm took place. At other times, this forgotten location was deathly silent.
But now… the chaotic fluctuations seemed to have gone completely out of control. All of this was because Wang Baole had come.
“What kind of cultivation base does Wang Baole have? Has… has he recalled the memories of his past lives?” Zi Yue’s entire body trembled. She hadn’t remembered everything about her past lives, but in the memories she did have, there was a scene that she would never forget.
It was… in her earliest life, when she was trying to catch a spirit fish by a river. At that time, a pair of eyes had suddenly gazed upon her from the void. Even to this day, the fear she felt in that moment remained engraved in her soul.
After regaining this memory, she had pondered over it for a long time, even executing some special methods to analyze it. In the end, she had the vague feeling that the owner of the eyes was Wang Baole.
That was why she sent Chong Yizi to test things out, but unfortunately, she was unable to confirm it. It wasn’t until Wang Baole’s Dao aura locked on to her later that she became more suspicious.
And now, seeing Wang Baole with her own eyes, Zi Yue was completely certain. Her complexion immediately turned pale, and she even felt that her triple self technique wasn’t enough. Thus, her body flickered and she was about to retreat.
But at that moment… Wang Baole, who was just outside the land of ruins, calmly spoke.
"Too noisy!"
As soon as he spoke, endless echoes reverberated in the land of ruins!
In each and every ring, shocking illusory phantoms emerged. Most of these phantoms were black wooden boards, but there were a few… which took the form of Wang Baole’s other past lives!
There was the godling, the devil blade, the resentful cultivator, the zombie, and the little white deer… As they appeared, these figures all repeated Wang Baole’s words. The rotating rings of the land of ruins, the chaotic fluctuations that filled them, and the discordant natural and magical laws… all stopped. It was as if Wang Baole’s presence alone was enough to quell all the chaos here!
Because Wang Baole’s Dao was the Dao of Freedom! Because nothing could constrain him!
Because Wang Baole’s soul had persisted through all lives of the universe! Because his spirit was incomparably solid!
Because from the beginning of the universe until now, Wang Baole’s figure had always been there!
In the face of his eternal presence, all things were suppressed. In the face of his endless years, all creation was shaken. In the face of his grand Dao, all chaos was forcibly quelled!
In the outside world, the natural and magical laws of the Heavenly Dao excluded things unnecessary for the current epoch and sent them here. But the Heavenly Dao was unable to exclude Wang Baole’s Dao and incapable of erasing Wang Baole’s existence. Thus, in this place, he was a supreme and absolute being!
No matter how chaotic this place was, all things had to submit in front of him. This was because of a difference in caliber, as well as the pressure of a divine spirit!
With Wang Baole’s words, the land of ruins fell silent in an instant. As his aura filled the entire place, Wang Baole immediately sensed some fluctuations, the only fluctuations in the entire land of ruins!
These fluctuations didn’t come from the fleshly body, but from the mind. They came from the very center of the land of ruins, a place where Wang Baole also sensed a lock from his divine will.
“Found you.” Smiling lightly, Wang Baole took a step forward. The vast distance seemed to shrink limitlessly, and he crossed all the rings in an instant. By the time he set his foot down, he was already in front of Zi Yue.
As soon as he appeared, Zi Yue let out a shriek. Stumbling backward, she rapidly formed hand seals, and numerous threads suddenly appeared out of the void and converged on Wang Baole.
There were hundreds of thousands of threads, packed densely and covering all directions like a net over the sky!
Illusory stars suddenly appeared at the end of each thread. At this moment, in the three holy regions, hundreds of thousands of cultivators scattered across the various factions suddenly trembled.
No matter what they were doing, all of them sat down cross-legged in an instant. Their complexions reddened as they began resonating with Zi Yue. Indeed, they… were all star seeds!
There were also some threads that didn’t connect to the three regions outside. Instead, they connected to ruins in different rings of the land of ruins!
Right now, Zi Yue was going all out. As she unleashed her Star Seeding Dao, Wang Baole seemed to be facing hundreds of thousands of people at once. At the same time, the endless threads entangling him contained innumerable laws from both this epoch as well as the past ones. It could be said that these laws held the power of more than half of the Daos that had ever existed in this universe since its inception.
To a certain extent, within the confines of this incomplete stele world, Zi Yue’s Dao could be considered relatively perfect, surpassing the power of the Star Domain Realm. Although it wasn’t enough to match up with a true Divine Emperor, even a Divine Emperor would be somewhat wary.
Now, as she attacked with all her might, even Wang Baole’s pupils contracted slightly… but only slightly.
If they were fighting in some other location, Wang Baole might have to call back his clone and go all out in order to defeat Zi Yue.
But here, there was no need.
Although this place was ideal for Zi Yue, it was even more ideal for Wang Baole!
That was because when it came to history in the stele world, Wang Baole preceded Zi Yue, and in this place… history was tantamount to authority!
“Seal!” Wang Baole spoke lightly and pressed his palm forward. The land of ruins instantly rumbled again, and Wang Baole’s past lives also simultaneously pressed down.
Behind Wang Baole, the illusory figure of the black wooden board appeared. It was shockingly vast and majestic, and as Wang Baole’s palm fell, the board also crushed down.
In an instant, Zi Yue let out a miserable wail. The hundreds of thousands of threads collapsed, and as they did, the stars at their ends were destroyed. In the outside world, many of her star seeds suddenly coughed up blood, burning up and turning to ash.
In fact, they had been dead all along. It was just that Zi Yue’s Star Seeding Dao had kept them around, making them nothing more than puppets.
As for those that didn’t turn to ash, they withered up into lifeless husks as Zi Yue forcibly retrieved all their vitality. A ferocious look appeared on Zi Yue’s face, and a violet aura erupted from her body. If Wang Baole’s palm had become her heavens, then she was rising up to defy the heavens!
But… she failed!
Wang Baole’s palm continued its descent unimpeded, and as more and more threads collapsed, Zi Yue’s screams became more and more miserable. She was clearly standing on empty space, but the void beneath her seemed to have turned solid and indestructible, leaving her body to bear the brunt of the inexorable force. Slowly, she showed signs of collapsing altogether.
The faces of the countless souls within her body appeared, but they died instantly one after another. In the end, when all of the hundreds of thousands of threads collapsed, when Zi Yue’s aura became enfeebled to the extreme, when her eyes became completely filled with panic and terror… Wang Baole’s palm came to a stop just above her head.
“Still not awake, little fox?”
Zi Yue’s body shuddered, and she slowly lifted her head and looked at Wang Baole. At this moment, the Wang Baole in her eyes was slightly blurry. Endless mysteries of the Great Dao seemed to fill his body, as if he was a majestic overlord unparalleled throughout heaven and earth. She couldn’t make out the details of his face. All she could see was a pair of eyes that was exactly the same as in her memory.
The terror from her past life re-emerged, and Zi Yue felt as if her head was about to explode. Memories of a past life gradually appeared in her mind. In these memories… she located on a shelf in a little girl’s room. She stared curiously as the little girl spent her days doodling on a piece of paper.
One day, she saw a tiny person fly out of the paper. The little girl picked up the tiny person and brought it to the door. Feeling curious, she shook herself so that she fell off the shelf and bumped the little girl on the head.
In that instant, she clearly saw the appearance of that tiny person.
In that instant, she seemed to have entered the real world.