📖 Chapter 1234 - Water Births Wood!

31 Jan, 2024

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He didn’t know when it happened, but Wang Baole had changed. At some point, he became calmer and calmer. Perhaps… it was after he comprehended his Dao of Freedom.

Or perhaps it was when he entered the Star Domain Realm. Although he could still sense shackles on himself, he also saw the hope of breaking free in the future.

Or perhaps it was because, after cultivating for so long, he understood the profundity of the term “no doubts”.

Wang Baole didn’t know whether this transformation was good or bad, but at least he knew… that when it came to the people he cared about, he had never changed.

However… when it came to those he didn’t know, he had become more and more indifferent. These two extremes meant that outsiders often perceived Wang Baole as cold and unfeeling.

And now… as Wang Baole stepped toward the Nine Provinces Dao’s spell formation, as soon as his foot touched down, the entire formation rumbled. Inside, the manifestations of the five sects’ great Daos all vibrated.

These vibrations spread throughout the entire Nine Provinces Galaxy, causing all the cultivators and celestial bodies within to tremble violently. Many cultivators of the five sects spat out blood, and their gazes all burned with hatred.

Wang Baole could feel their gazes, but he remained silent. The five major sects’ attempt to disrupt his breakthrough, as well as their attitude in the following days under the incitement of the Never-Ending Clan, had already determined their fate.

However, Wang Baole still had his own principles. Thus, when he took his second step, he didn’t spread his power wantonly to harm the disciples of the five sects. Instead, he focused all his might on the spell formation that contained the five Dao manifestations.

In an instant, the entire starry sky trembled. The asteroid shattered, the cauldron was ripped apart, and the battle ax and giant both blew up. The last thing to be destroyed were the nine chains from the Nine Provinces Dao.

As the five Dao manifestations collapsed, the spell formation also showed signs of falling apart. A massive crack split open in it, one that it couldn’t heal immediately. Through the crack, Wang Baole saw the inside of the Nine Provinces Galaxy, and the countless cultivators of the five sects powering the formation.

All of this was after merely three breaths of time!

Wang Baole’s face was expressionless as he took his third step and walked in through the gap. Now… he was standing inside the starry sky of the Nine Provinces Galaxy. As soon as he stepped inside, the spell formation behind him closed up, and the five Dao manifestations formed again through their respective sects’ full effort. The moment they reformed, the Dao manifestations slammed into each other, merging together into the giant hand that had once appeared outside the solar system.

The boundlessly large and powerful hand reached down from the heavens and grabbed toward Wang Baole. At the same time, rumbles split the starry sky, and more than twenty Star Domain Realm cultivators from the five sects appeared around him. Each of them burned their cultivation bases and unleashed their greatest trump cards as they attacked Wang Baole.

Looking from a distance, it was a heart-pounding scene. More than twenty experts in the Star Domain Realm, as well as a hand formed by the fusion of five sects’ Dao manifestations, all surrounded Wang Baole in what seemed to be a carefully-prepared slaughter formation. If that were all… perhaps a quasi-Universe Realm cultivator would be in danger, but a true Divine Emperor would never fall to it. However… it was clear that the killing move prepared by the five major sects wasn’t limited to this.

In an instant, behind the twenty-over Star Domain Realm powerhouses, five old men suddenly appeared, each exuding a powerful sense of ancientness. Four of them were the patriarchs of the four non-Nine Provinces Dao major sects. Although they weren’t at the level of the quasi-Universe Realm, they were all eminent figures among the Star Domain Realm. Moreover, each of them had brought out their respective sects’ reserve powers, radiating horrifying levels of killing intent.

As for the fifth old man, he was a corpse puppet refined by the Nine Provinces Dao. No one knew his origins, but his power was clearly just as astonishing as the other four. These five old men formed a second wave behind the initial killing formation, and Wang Baole in the middle of all this seemed all but doomed to die.

But even so… the Nine Provinces Dao didn’t stop. It still had even more preparations arranged. At this moment, the countless cultivators of the five sects all sat down cross-legged and began reciting a strange incantation.

This incantation contained a feeling of transcendence. It seemed to speak of rebirth, but in fact… it was an incantation of death. This was one of the Nine Provinces Dao’s secret arts. It could create a power similar to burning incense and use it to kill people through thoughts.

The principle was to gather everyone’s killing intent and turn it into faith, which could then be used to slay all things. As the cultivators of the five sects chanted, wisps of gray fog gathered from all directions, turning Wang Baole’s location into a huge vortex of endless gray fog.

As rumbling continued to spread throughout the starry sky, Patriarch Nine Daos stood high above the battlefield. The droplet mark between his brows glittered as he looked down at the besieged Wang Baole. Eyes narrowing, he raised his right hand, causing a huge amount of water to appear from thin air. As soon as it appeared, this water spun and formed an ice spear!

The clear blue ice that composed the spear contained all the might of Patriarch Nine Daos’ cultivation base as well as his Dao. Although it hadn’t yet been thrown, judging from the fluctuations rolling off of it, it would definitely be terrifyingly powerful. If Demon Eye were to face it, she wouldn’t be able to resist unless she put her life on the line.

After all… here in the Nine Provinces Dao’s headquarters, Patriarch Nine Daos was a Universe Realm cultivator!

Right now, he had only gathered the ice spear and hadn’t launched it. But the more this was the case, the greater the deterrence formed by the spear. At this moment, Patriarch Nine Daos had locked onto Wang Baole’s aura, and was just waiting for an opportunity to land a devastating blow!

Ten breaths of time had passed since the start of the battle, and a crisis of life and death was about to break out. But suddenly… in the center of everything, a cold light flashed through Wang Baole’s eyes, and he activated the power of the wood seed in his body. In an instant, among the innumerable cultivators in the surroundings, at least 70% suddenly trembled violently.

All of them had the power of the Wood Dao in their bodies. Among them, about 20% were affected most heavily, unhesitatingly turning and striking their fellows. These 20% included numerous regular disciples, four Star Domain Realm cultivators, and even one of the patriarch-level figures.

Their sudden defection was unexpected and inconceivable, but at this moment, it was as if their minds and bodies were no longer under their control. Rumbling sounds spread in all directions, and the starry sky in everyone’s perception also suddenly turned into darkness.

“Sundered Night!” Patriarch Nine Daos had been wary of this killing move all along. Without hesitation, he flung the ice spear forward with all his strength, and sonic booms rumbled through the starry sky. The ice spear turned into a beam of blue light that contained the power of the Universe Realm, shooting toward Wang Baole with mighty force that could pierce all things.

As the ice spear pierced into the darkness swamping the starry sky, a rising sun appeared over Wang Baole, giving birth to endless radiance that exploded out in all directions.

The giant hand formed by the five Dao manifestations instantly collapsed. In the chaos of battle, the twenty-over Star Domain cultivators all spat out blood, and six of them even died directly under the infinite brilliance.

As for the patriarch-level figures, one defected and one died. The other three spat out blood and retreated crazily. The same was true for the innumerable cultivators chanting the death incantation; under the sea of light spreading forth from Wang Baole, everyone felt like the apocalypse had come.

Only the ice spear that had turned into a blue beam of light remained unabated, piercing through the darkness with monstrous killing intent as it shot toward Wang Baole.

This… was precisely the opportunity Patriarch Nine Daos had been waiting for. Everything else was just to force Wang Baole to unleash som trump cards first and create an opening for his own attack.

“Water births wood! Water is the mother of wood. Wang Baole, although you have the Wood Dao, this old man would like to see how you kill me and take my treasure!” Patriarch Nine Daos laughed triumphantly, eyes blazing with towering killing intent. He had been waiting for this chance to kill Wang Baole for a long time already.

In fact, he could feel that if he really did kill Wang Baole and devour his Dao… he would advance to the true Universe Realm! Whether inside or outside the sect, he would wield the full power of a Divine Emperor!

Moreover, his power in the realm would definitely be extraordinary!