đź“– Chapter 1228 - A Point of Ebbing Time!
Outside the Underworld River in the Never-Ending Holy Region, the armies of the Underworld Sect and the Never-Ending Clan allied forces were fighting fiercely. Innumerable spells flew back and forth, and the fluctuations of divine abilities spread in all directions as countless people perished.
At this moment, Imperial Mountain, Sheep Daoist, and the Demon Eye Ancestor from the Never-Ending Clan, as well as Buried Spirit from the Underworld Sect, all simultaneously turned in the same direction.
Compared to the three from the Never-Ending Clan, Buried Spirit felt even more shaken, because… his original body was a Buried Spirit Tree, which belonged to the Dao of Wood.
Even though Wang Baole only held total control over the Wood Dao in the Left Dao Holy Region, his aura still made Buried Spirit feel a powerful sense of suppression.
Nevertheless, Buried Spirit wasn’t too surprised. He… was one of the few who noticed something during Wang Baole’s clash with Mystic Blossom.
The reason the other Divine Emperor-level cultivators couldn’t see anything was because they didn’t cultivate the Wood Dao. However, Buried Spirit keenly sensed the reason Mystic Blossom had immediately entered seclusion upon his return.
It was because… Mystic Blossom, too, cultivated the Wood Dao!
No matter how strange the fifteen-petaled black lotus was, no matter how it transformed, it was difficult to stray from its essence…
Thus, even though Mystic Blossom was a Universe Realm cultivator, his essence was still shaken as soon as he touched Wang Baole. The mental shock that resulted wasn’t something outsiders could sense, nor was it something they would be able to understand.
Buried Spirit knew all of this, so he didn’t hesitate at all. As soon as Wang Baole’s aura appeared, he instantly fled, his every instinct screaming at him not to get close.
In his view, Wang Baole seemed to be a giant vortex. The moment he got close, he would be swallowed up by this aura that seemed to be the sourcepoint of his Dao.
This kind of natural suppression made him feel completely powerless. Unless he could achieve Rebellion Against the Dao or Wang Baole died, this suppression would continue to exist and only become stronger and stronger.
“Mystic Blossom must have felt the same way!”
Buried Spirit fled right away. Meanwhile, killing intent roiled in Imperial Mountain’s eyes as he looked at a certain spot in the starry sky. There, ripples distorted the void, and Wang Baole stepped out, dressed in a white robe. At first his figure was blurry, but he soon turned solid as he appeared amid the battlefield.
As soon as he appeared, his aura swept across the entire battlefield. Although the cultivators of the Underworld Sect and Never-Ending Clan cultivated under different Heavenly Daos, the five elements were still foundational and present in all of them. Thus, all the cultivators on each side flinched and fell back one after another.
The sense of suppression Buried Spirit felt grew even stronger. He even felt the urge to bow down and offer worship. Fortunately, with his deep cultivation base and the power of the Underworld Sect’s Heavenly Dao, he was able to suppress this urge and continue retreating rapidly.
This scene caused Imperial Mountain to narrow his eyes slightly. As for Sheep Daoist and the Demon Eye Ancestor, both of their pupils contracted. Although the way Wang Baole had appeared wasn’t too strange, for him to cause such a commotion with just his appearance… this was something the two of them wouldn’t be able to imitate.
What shocked them and everyone else nearby the most, though, was that a single breath after Wang Baole stepped out, the starry sky suddenly rippled again. As a furious roar resounded in all directions, the void distorted, and a huge golden beetle suddenly appeared. Unparalleled might rolled off of it, along with fluctuations that caused the divine souls of all living beings to shiver!
This beetle… was none other than the Never-Ending Heavenly Dao.
It had appeared in response to Wang Baole’s arrival. Madness gleamed in its eyes as it roared with overwhelming hatred. It hated Wang Baole, abhorred him for wresting away authority over the wood element!
“Noisy!” Wang Baole was completely expressionless. In the face of the roaring Heavenly Dao, he simply lifted a hand and pointed at it.
This Heavenly Dao, which was like a god in the eyes of the others, was nothing more than a pet in front of Wang Baole. Because he had formed the wood seed, Wang Baole’s existential caliber had reached an extremely high level. Thus, with the point of a finger, a powerful suppression swept outward that forced the Never-Ending Heavenly Dao to retreat rapidly. Although it continued to roar in fury, its eyes already held hints of fear.
Seeing this, the cultivators of both sides felt horror, especially Sheep Daoist and the Demon Eye Ancestor, whose hearts were trembling with unprecedented shock. They just didn’t understand why… even quasi-Divine Emperors like them felt terrified just looking at Wang Baole.
It had to be said that such a feeling never appeared even when they were in front of Imperial Mountain. Throughout the entire Never-Ending Dao Domain, the only times they felt similar fear was when they were faced with Chen Qingzi or Patriarch Never-Ending.
At the same time, Imperial Mountain’s killing intent finally erupted. He took a step forward, disappearing on the spot. When he reappeared a moment later, he was already in front of Wang Baole, hand lifted high in the air. Then, he pressed his palm down toward Wang Baole.
As soon as he did so, a towering mountain appeared behind him, and the Dao Intent of the Universe Realm spread in all directions as he activated his cultivation base. The area of the starry sky around him and Wang Baole instantly became enveloped in a certain aura that bolstered Imperial Mountain’s Dao and suppressed that of others.
“Ignorant young fool!!”
Wang Baole’s expression remained calm. Faced with this Universe-level blow, he didn’t dodge and instead waved his right hand. The power of the Wood Dao within him swept outward, and the hundreds of thousands of cultivators in the battlefield around him all trembled as green threads snaked out from their bodies.
These threads were all laws of wood. Because the five elements were so foundational, most cultivators had come into contact with the Wood Dao at some point in their lives. And once they came into contact with it, traces of the Wood Dao would inevitably be inscribed on their bodies and souls. None of the people here had an almighty being to sever the threads of law for them, so their traces of wood became power for Wang Baole.
With a wave of his hand, the green threads emanating from the hundreds of thousands of cultivators all charged toward Wang Baole, creating a vortex that sent rumbles echoing in every direction. At the same time, the threads wrapped around Imperial Mountain’s palm and the giant mountain behind him.
Under these restraints, Imperial Mountain snorted coldly, and the mountain behind him suddenly crumbled. But just as he was about to attack again, Wang Baole suddenly disappeared.
In an instant, Sheep Daoist and the Demon Eye Ancestor’s expressions changed drastically. The two immediately retreated, but… they were still too late. When Wang Baole reappeared, he was pointing a finger at… Sheep Daoist’s former position. Although there was no one there, it was at that moment that two words rang out from Wang Baole’s mouth and echoed in all directions.
“Ebbing Time.”
With those words, Sheep Daoist’s complexion turned completely pale. Although his cultivation base was sky-high, all that cultivation seemed to be of little worth at this moment. Time distorted around his body, and he was dragged through space in an instant, ending up back where he had been a dozen breaths of time ago!
This place… was precisely the target of Wang Baole’s finger, which now landed directly between Sheep Daoist’s brows!
Boom!