đź“– Chapter 1224 - Wood Seed!
“Black wood, appear!” Eyes glittering, Wang Baole waved his right hand, and the black wooden ruler appeared behind his body.
This black wooden ruler was illusory, but there was a heavy ancientness to it. With a thought, Wang Baole moved it in front of him. Although the black wooden ruler was only the size of a palm, its aura alone still caused the laws of the universe to distort.
However, as he looked at the wooden ruler in front of him, Wang Baole’s brows slowly wrinkled.
“This is just the shadow of a past life… How can I bring out my original form and turn it into a Dao Seed?” Frowning, Wang Baole grabbed the illusory black wooden ruler with his right hand and waved it toward the center of his brows, trying to shake his divine soul and make the black wooden nail appear.
As soon as the illusory black wooden ruler touched the center of his brows, Wang Baole’s whole body trembled violently. Overlapping shadows gathered on him, as if some essential part of him was about to appear to the world.
At the same time, the vault of heaven covering Mars churned violently, and the ground quaked. The countless living things inhabiting the planet were all shaken as they lifted their heads and turned to the sky.
Liu Daobin, Lin You, and the other cultivators of the Federation living on Mars all looked up simultaneously. High above the vault of heaven, they suddenly saw… an apparition.
This apparition was a long rectangular strip. It looked exactly like the wooden ruler in a storyteller’s hand, just magnified countless times over and hanging high in the starry sky. The waves of pressure radiating off of it seemed powerful enough to push Mars out of orbit, causing everyone who saw it to tremble regardless of their cultivation base.
At the same time, on Earth as well as the other planets of the solar system, all cultivators simultaneously turned to look in the direction of Mars. They seemed to see a giant piece of wood in the starry sky, falling toward Mars.
Before anyone could react, the apparition above Mars abruptly disappeared. The terrifying pressure also dissipated as if it had never been there in the first place, leaving everyone dazed and confused. Meanwhile, in his place of seclusion, Wang Baole’s complexion had turned pale and his body was trembling.
The overlapping shadows on his body faded, and the illusory black wooden ruler actually passed through his body, appearing behind his head.
Wang Baole fell silent. His brows furrowed again, but after a moment of thought, he laughed.
“I was focusing too much on appearances. The black wooden nail is me, and I am the black wooden nail. Since that’s the case… what need is there to make it appear?” Shaking his head, Wang Baole adjusted his mindset.
“I’ll use myself as the foundation to form the Extreme Wood Dao Seed!” As he spoke, he swiftly formed hand seals in accordance with the refining method he had comprehended from the jade slip. In an instant, a seal script took form, floating outside his body.
Wang Baole’s hands moved faster and faster, and more and more seal scripts appeared. In the end, his hands were moving so fast that they turned into a blur, leaving afterimages behind as hundreds of thousands of seal scripts appeared all around him.
But it wasn’t over; Wang Baole’s hands grew even faster. If someone were to look at his hands at this moment, they wouldn’t see any afterimages, nor the slightest blur. Instead, they would see that Wang Baole’s hands weren’t moving at all. This was what happened after surpassing a certain limit of speed.
The number of seal scripts quickly passed one million, then three million, five million, eight million… In the end, ten million seal scripts hovered around Wang Baole’s body. If he weren’t suppressing them with all his strength, they would have covered a lesser half of the entirety of Mars. Now, all of this was compressed into Wang Baole’s small place of seclusion. There were many areas where thousands of seal scripts overlapped on the same spot.
Sweat dripped down Wang Baole’s forehead in spite of his cultivation base, but his eyes were shining brightly. He didn’t know how others refined Dao Seeds for the Eight Extremes Dao, but refining himself as the Dao Seed was probably something unique to him.
Wang Baole could feel an intense sense of crisis. After all… refining a Dao Seed was similar to refining a magical artifact. If he failed… the artifact would naturally suffer damage.
However, Wang Baole was betting that his original form couldn’t be damaged. Thus, he firmed his resolve. But what he didn’t notice was that at this moment, throughout the entire solar system, all plants, all things attributed to the wood element, and even the cultivators and beasts cultivating the Wood Dao… all of them trembled simultaneously.
The plants swayed without wind, seemingly paying respects. The cultivators who cultivated the power of wood felt their cultivation bases fluctuate, and they couldn’t help but turn to face Mars. It was as if there was something there demanding their worship.
The one who was affected most deeply was Daoist Osmanthus. At this moment, he prostrated himself completely, shaking in awe. His cultivation base allowed him to sense an indescribable aura rising on Mars, an aura that seemed like the source of all wood.
But in the next moment, to the shock of all wood-related beings, the aura that compelled their worship suddenly vanished.
The plants no longer swayed, and the wood-aligned cultivators were left puzzled and bewildered. In his place of seclusion on Mars, Wang Baole’s body suddenly trembled, and the ball of seal scripts around him abruptly collapsed.
All ten million seal scripts turned to nothingness, revealing Wang Baole. His complexion was pale, and his divine soul was unstable. Only after a long time passed did he gradually recover. Upon sensing his current state, he found that his divine soul was merely exhausted, nothing more. He narrowed his eyes.
“As expected. Because my original form is shocking beyond imagination, even if the refinement fails, it won’t leave any lasting damage. Since that’s the case, no matter how difficult refining a Dao Seed is, it doesn’t matter. I can just try again and again until I succeed!
“However… forming the first Dao Seed is already so difficult. In the future, I still need to find ultimate treasures for the other parts of the Eight Extremes Dao, and I then need to succeed in condensing Dao Seeds from them as well…
“After the Dao Seed is formed, the following process of cultivating the Dao to the extreme shouldn’t be too difficult… but if all eight extremes are like this, then…” Wang Baole thought things over as he rested. He quickly formed a plan of action.
“I’ll do the Wood Dao by myself. When it comes to the other Daos… I’ll gather all of the solar system’s refinement masters for help.”
After his divine soul recovered to its peak condition, Wang Baole quickly began forming hand seals again.
Just like that, three months flew by. During these three months, the vast aura that compelled the worship of all wood-aligned cultivators appeared and disappeared again and again. Eventually, they realized it was because the Federation Patriarch was cultivating something. Although it was still shocking whenever it happened, the wood-aligned cultivators weren’t quite so out of sorts as they got more accustomed to it.
Over these three months, Wang Baole tried and failed to condense the Dao Seed at least a hundred times. But today, after the power of wood emanating from him permeated the entire solar system, it didn’t vanish. Instead, it continued spreading, reaching out to the Left Dao Holy Region at large.
Wherever it passed, regardless of whether it was a star, a planet, or a living thing, anything related to the wood element trembled in horror.
In a short period of time, it swept across the entire Left Dao Holy Region, causing uproars to break out in countless factions.
All of the herbs in their herb gardens were bending in the same direction, pointing toward the solar system.
At the same time, all their wood-aligned cultivators, regardless of the level of their cultivation base, felt their hearts shake, and a strange will appeared in their minds. This will seemed to be sourcepoint of all things wood-related, causing all of them, no matter where they came from, to involuntarily kneel down in the direction of the solar system.
Even the natural and magical laws of the Left Dao Holy Region were affected. As the laws twisted and distorted, the Never-Ending Heavenly Dao also manifested, roaring madly. There was anger and fear in its eyes, because it could feel that… part of its authority was being stripped away!
This process lasted a full eight days!
Over the past eight days, even the war between the Never-Ending Clan and the Underworld Sect came to a halt. Both sides turned to look at the solar system.
On the end of the eighth day, as all plants and wood-aligned cultivators bowed in worship, an unprecedentedly astonishing aura erupted in the solar system!
A vortex seemed to sweep the entire Left Dao Holy Region. At this moment, all the wood-aligned cultivators’ bodies trembled violently, and they clearly sensed… far in the distance, an existence akin to the source of their cultivation appeared!
At this moment, all the plants in the Left Dao Holy Region danced, as if giving praise to the birth of a new god!
At this moment, the Never-Ending Heavenly Dao let out a shrill screech, and a shattering sound rang out. Among the natural and magical laws on its body, those corresponding to the Left Dao Holy Region’s wood element… disappeared!
At this moment, the wood element in the Left Dao Holy Region belonged to one person!
It belonged to Wang Baole!
This was merely after the Dao Seed had just been formed. Once Wang Baole truly reached the level of extreme wood, then whether it was in the Unorthodox Holy Region or the Never-Ending Holy Region… the element of wood would belong to him and him alone!