📖 Chapter 1222 - Paths to Divine Emperor!

24 Jan, 2024

Seeking Dao.

Wang Baole’s meeting with Wang Yiyi’s father through the river of time could be summarized with these two words. Moreover, this was also his original intention.

Indeed, he had wanted to use Reflected Time and Mirror Flower in order to ask for help from Wang Yiyi’s father, a Paragon from the outside world.

Although there was still a road forward after reaching his current level, Wang Baole couldn’t help but feel…

That the path of cultivation of the stele world was no longer suitable for him.

His Star Domain Realm was different from others. As Little Fifth had said, his Dao was more complete. Since that was the case… his future direction was extremely important. Although his Dao of Freedom was already engraved in his soul, it was precisely because of this that he needed to become stronger. Without strength, how could he be free?

Only by becoming stronger would his life be fully in his own hands!

Thus, he needed to seek Dao.

Here in the stele world, perhaps the founding ancestor of the Never-Ending Clan could help him, but he obviously couldn’t just go and ask. There was also his senior brother Chen Qingzi, but the two of them were already walking different paths. Furthermore, Chen Qingzi’s Dao was the Underworld Sect’s Heavenly Dao. Just like the night sky of this stele world, it was incomplete.

Wang Baole’s master, the Flame Patriarch, had reached the pinnacle of the Curse Dao. If not for the incomplete Dao in the stele world, as well as certain other reasons, perhaps the Flame Patriarch would have reached the Universe Realm a long time ago.

But as things stood, he was only in the great circle of the Star Domain Realm. Only at the moment he unleashed his curse and fully achieved his Dao would he truly be in the Universe Realm!

Thus, after thinking things through, Wang Baole chose to seek help from Wang Yiyi’s father. In the first place, the two had made an agreement in his past life, creating karmic cause. Throughout the next several lives, Wang Baole’s fate had been linked to Wang Yiyi through a karmic connection. In the future, the fruit of this karma would be Wang Yiyi’s condition being cured.

Until that happened, Wang Yiyi’s father, a Paragon of the outside world, would be Wang Baole’s greatest ally!

“Even if I didn’t go to him, perhaps that senior would have come to visit me… Because advancing to the Universe Realm in this stele world comes at a huge price.” Wang Baole murmured thoughtfully. Nobody had told him this; the Flame Patriarch most likely wasn’t even aware of this, and even the few true Universe Realm powerhouses might not understand it very well.

Only Wang Baole, because his Dao was complete, could faintly feel it.

“There should be three methods of advancing to the Universe Realm…

“The first is similar to making a grand wish. After the galaxy you live in reaches a certain limit, and you gather a certain amount of kismet onto yourself, you can use it to break through into the Universe Realm.

“This limit is probably at least the size of a full star domain. As for the principle behind it… it shares similarities with Second Senior Brother’s Dao of Burning Incense!

“Patriarch Nine Daos of the Nine Provinces Dao and Dao Mozi of the Seven Spirits Dao must have used this method to break through. However, the latter’s breakthrough obviously went more perfectly. Although the Unorthodox Holy Region is a mix of dragons and fishes^[1], there must be something strange about it that results in the kismet being divided among relatively fewer people. Thus, Dao Mozi was able to successfully break through to the Universe Realm.

“But that isn’t the case here in the Left Dao Holy Region. Master is here, and Chen Qingzi was also active here for many years. There might be some other reasons, too, but in the final analysis, Patriarch Nine Daos failed to gather enough kismet. That is why he can only reach the Universe Realm inside his sect headquarters, and also why… the Nine Provinces Dao was anxious to the point of expending almost all their strength in order to stop me from breaking through.

“Most likely, my breakthrough has completely erased Patriarch Nine Daos’ hopes for advancement, leaving him stuck in his current state forever.

“As for Master, his hometown has been destroyed. He can’t advance to the Universe Realm through the method of gathering kismet.

“However, breaking through like this also has great drawbacks. It prevents you from ever leaving the stele world. If Dao Mozi, for example, were to try and leave… it would be equivalent to allowing the fruit of his Dao to wither, and his cultivation base would fall until he became a mortal.

“Aside from advancing through kismet, there’s also a second method, which involves becoming a slave of the Heavenly Dao and borrowing the endless natural and magical laws of the Heavenly Dao in order to advance to the Universe Realm. This method seems simple, but there is a limited number of spots… moreover, becoming a slave of the Heavenly Dao means giving up control over your own life and death, and even your thoughts will no longer be your own.

“The Never-Ending Clan’s Divine Emperors must have advanced through this method… but it’s not completely mutually exclusive with the first method. If you already have a great deal of kismet when you borrow the power of the Heavenly Dao, then your breakthrough will go more smoothly. At the same time, those who advanced using this second method have greater battle prowess compared to those who used kismet alone, and if their Heavenly Dao manages to leave the stele world, they will also be able to leave.

“As for the third method… it is also the most powerful method in today’s stele world. It involves… becoming the Heavenly Dao!” Wang Baole’s eyes shone brightly as he muttered to himself.

“Naturally, the Heavenly Dao itself won’t be limited by anything. This is the method used by Chen Qingzi, and… thinking about it now, the founding ancestor of the Never-Ending Clan must also have used this method to advance. The beetle-like Never-Ending Heavenly Dao I saw before may have been just a clone!

“But in any case, the path I need to take is a fourth method!

“I’ll cultivate the true Dao of the outside world inside this stele world, and then… confirm my Dao outside the stele world! By stepping into the Universe Realm in this way, I’ll truly become aloof and unfettered!”

Wang Baole was silent for a while, then suddenly laughed. He no longer pondered these matters, and instead took out the jade slip Wang Yiyi’s father had given him. He resumed his seclusion, this time to study the Eight Extremes Dao and Sundered Night.

The former would direct him on his future path, and the latter would become his trump card during battle.

As Wang Baole immersed himself in research, a year passed by unknowingly.

The war between the Never-Ending Clan and the Underworld Sect continued heating up. The flames of war had spread across almost all of the Never-Ending Holy Region, and there were even several battles involving Divine Emperors.

Although these battles were nothing more than skirmishes, they were a sure sign that the intensity of the war was increasing rapidly. More importantly… it was in these battles that the Underworld Sect’s Divine Emperor-level fighters were finally revealed!

A total of three Divine Emperor-level powerhouses had appeared on the Underworld Sect’s side. They weren’t cultivators of the Underworld Sect, but rather spirits of the dead from the Underworld River. Obviously, Chen Qingzi had used some special technique in order to revive them and grant them their powerful cultivation bases. Although the price he had to pay was certain to be extremely high, the effect they brought to the battlefront was equally shocking.

These three spirits all had honorific titles. One was named Nether Saint, and another was known as Bone Emperor. As for the last one, his original body was a Buried Spirit Tree. When he took human form, he was an old man who called himself Buried Spirit.

But this alone wasn’t too surprising. What truly caused waves of shock to sweep across the entire Never-Ending Dao Domain was the battle between Nether Saint and the Never-Ending Clan’s Divine Emperor Radiant Light. At the end of their battle, Radiant Light had actually cried out a certain name.

“Divine Emperor Vast Moon!!”

Divine Emperor Vast Moon… had been slain by Chen Qingzi 30,000 years ago!

Looking at things now, it was obvious that Chen Qingzi had been plotting for this war for a long time already. Many people recalled the numerous Divine Emperors of the Never-Ending Clan who had died over the years, wondering if they were also being controlled by Chen Qingzi. It was a frightening thought.

Fortunately, this didn’t end up being the case for Bone Emperor and Buried Spirit, allowing the Never-Ending Clan to feel slightly relieved. However, speculation about their true identities never stopped for even a moment after they appeared.

After all… it was impossible for so many new Divine Emperors to appear so quickly. Thus, each of the Underworld Sect’s new powerhouses had to have appeared at some point in history!

Although the battles between Divine Emperors didn’t spread to the Left Dao Holy Region, there were countless small civilizations passing information to the Federation in hopes of joining. At the same time, under the Flame Patriarch’s orders, the Federation had also sent a group over to the Never-Ending Holy Region. They weren’t there to participate in the war, but rather to act as eyes and allow the Federation to quickly react to any changes in the battlefront.

Wang Baole’s clone was also active in the Federation, so he naturally knew about all of this. However, he didn’t spare any of it a single thought. All his attention was focused on researching the information in the jade slip!

Soon, he achieved some success. Not in the Eight Extremes Dao, but… Sundered Night!