📖 Chapter 1240 - Reconciliation!

08 Feb, 2024

Imperial Mountain was proud, and thus extremely unwilling to fall here. In his eyes, Wang Baole was just a junior of the younger generation, and even more so a mere cultivator of the Star Domain Realm.

As a Divine Emperor, he was aware of many secrets of this stele world and knew that Wang Baole’s Dao was different from others. But even still, he couldn’t accept this loss.

Thanks to the supreme treasure given by the patriarch of the Never-Ending Clan, Imperial Mountain’s fleshly body had been reshaped, his Dao had become more perfect, and his cultivation base had risen higher than ever before. Moreover, fusing with the supreme treasure seemed to have opened up a road for his future, allowing him to sense hope of breaking through even further.

But now… everything had turned to dust, because Wang Baole had grown too quickly. In the previous battle, Imperial Mountain was still able to put up a fight, but this time… he was dead from a single blow!

The palm formed from the Wood Dao held boundless and unending power. Even if his own Mountain Dao allowed him to resist for a while, he couldn’t hold on for long.

Thus, although he was unwilling to die, his heart was also filled with deep bitterness.

“Not fated…!” Imperial Mountain smiled miserably. At this moment, there was no longer any madness in his eyes. In its place was dim despair. For a moment, the Divine Emperor seemed to have given up on resisting.

Because he understood that the gap between himself and Wang Baole… was already uncrossable.

But this despair only occupied his thoughts for a few moments before being forcibly dispelled. This was because he saw earthen-yellow motes of light disseminated from his almost shattered body, floating into the starry sky all around him. They were different from the radiance of stars, but just as bright.

Just like his life!

It wasn’t a perfect life, but it was a marvelous one nonetheless!

Since that was the case… what was so bad about dying?

The dimness in Imperial Mountain’s eye disappeared. He laughed toward the sky, and his body suddenly burst into flames. Powered by the ignition of his entire life, he rushed out toward Wang Baole, just like a moth flying into the flame!

Standing in the starry sky, Wang Baole stared at the incoming Imperial Mountain. Watching all along, he had seen both the dimness in the other party’s eyes as well as the subsequent revival of light. He also felt… Imperial Mountain’s current desire to die.

But at that moment, a furious roar rang out from the distant void.

“Wang Baole, if you dare to kill my Divine Emperor, I will annihilate your Federation!”

As the words reverberated, the power of the Underworld Dao suddenly fluctuated, as if Chen Qingzi was making a move. Although no rumbling sounded out, Patriarch Never-Ending’s voice came again, ringing in all directions.

“Chen Qingzi, if Imperial Mountain dies, the final war will start right away!”

“I don’t care!” In response to Patriarch Never-Ending’s words came Chen Qingzi’s calm voice. Then, endless fluctuations broke out in the void, rippling in all directions and shaking the entire Never-Ending Clan.

Wang Baole fell silent and looked at Imperial Mountain, who was shooting toward him like a falling star. Suddenly, he took a step, bringing him across the starry sky and instantly appearing right in front of Imperial Mountain. Before the latter could do anything, Wang Baole had already raised his right hand and pointed a finger at him.

“Ebbing Time!”

It wasn’t Reflected Time, but Ebbing Time.

Rather than himself stepping into the river of time, it was Imperial Mountain who was dragged dozens of seconds backward in time!

As Ebbing Time was unleashed, mysteries of Dao filled the starry sky as Imperial Mountain’s body involuntarily moved backwards. It was as if everything in the area was turning back, everything except for… Wang Baole.

Rather than moving backward, Wang Baole took another step forward, appearing in front of an Imperial Mountain who had yet to ignite himself and fly toward the flame. Pushing his right hand forward, Wang Baole instantly stabbed through Imperial Mountain’s chest and clenched hard.

With that, the earthen-yellow motes of light emanating from Imperial Mountain’s body all flickered. At this moment, Wang Baole’s right hand embedded in Imperial Mountain’s chest seemed to have turned into a black hole, rapidly sucking in all the motes of light.

At the same time, the source of all the lights was absorbed… All of this takes a long time to describe, but actually happened in an instant. A moment later, Wang Baole had already withdrawn his right hand.

As soon as he withdrew his hand, Imperial Mountain’s body suddenly withered like a deflated balloon before turning to ash. Only his divine soul remained, looking at Wang Baole’s right hand with an extremely complicated expression.

Wang Baole’s right hand wasn’t empty, tightly grasping a certain item.

It was a yellow chunk of stone the size of a palm!

Vast fluctuations rolled off of this stone chunk. Looking at it was like looking at the world, heaven and earth, and the entire starry sky all at once!

It also seemed to contain an aura that shared a common source with the universe itself. Sensing this aura, Wang Baole’s pupils contracted involuntarily.

The moment he touched it, he already knew the origin of this object, and this origin… was far beyond his expectations. Previously, he had said that he wanted to establish prestige, but his real goal… was this stone chunk.

Everything up until now had been part of his plan. This plan had started when Wang Baole critically wounded Imperial Mountain outside the Underworld River. Imperial Mountain was a Divine Emperor with sharp wits and astonishing natural talent, so it was obvious that Patriarch Never-Ending would provide some help after his fleshly body was destroyed. And since the Mountain Dao and Earth Dao shared a common source, it was highly likely that the earth element supreme treasure that Wang Baole had previously sensed would be taken out.

Then, riding the momentum of his recent breakthrough, Wang Baole came here and attacked Imperial Mountain, snatching away the earth element supreme treasure. But what he never expected was that the earth element supreme treasure was even more extraordinary than he’d imagined.

There was only one thing that could resonate with this universe itself and contain such an unparalleled vastness… the stele!

The stele sealing this world!

Indeed, this object was made out of the same material as the stele. To be precise, it was… a piece of the stele!

Wang Baole didn’t know how the Never-Ending Clan had obtained such an object. However, he couldn’t help holding it a little more tightly as his mind rippled. Raising his head, he glanced at Imperial Mountain, who was looking back at him with a complicated expression.

“Why didn’t you kill me?”

Wang Baole didn’t reply. Instead, he turned his head to glance toward the void in the distance. Perhaps it was because he appreciated Imperial Mountain, or perhaps it was because of Chen Qingzi, but in any case… he chose to leave the Divine Emperor alive in the end.

‘Chen Qingzi, just what… are you thinking?’Wang Baole sighed internally, then slowly spoke.

“Senior Never-Ending, this Wang is here not to establish prestige, but to obtain compensation for your Never-Ending Clan’s unprovoked invasion of my Federation as well as your attempts to prevent me from unifying Left Dao.

“This object is enough to serve as my compensation. If you cannot accept it, then please come find me in the Left Dao Holy Region. For the time being… I shall remain neutral.” After speaking, Wang Baole cupped his fists, bowed toward the starry sky, and walked away. When Wang Baole disappeared from the Never-Ending Clan, the aura of the Underworld Dao also slowly faded, and the figure of Patriarch Never-Ending gradually appeared in the starry sky.

“Chen Qingzi… Wang Baole…” Killing intent flashed in his eyes, but he forcefully suppressed it.

“The time is not yet ripe… soon… soon!” After a while, Patriarch Never-Ending closed his eyes. Sending away Imperial Mountain’s dim divine soul with a flick of his sleeve, he disappeared.

In the Unorthodox Holy Region, the Seven Spirits Dao’s ancestor sighed. He had been ready to move out, but in the end didn’t take a single step. At the same time, Wang Baole had also been completely tense and ready to fight, only loosening up once he returned to the Left Dao Holy Region. Turning to look in the direction of the Never-Ending Clan, he muttered under his breath.

“Patriarch Never-Ending… just what are you waiting for?” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes and remained silent for a long time. Then, he turned his head to look in a different direction… the location of the Underworld Sect.

“Chen Qingzi… in this life, will I again have the chance to call you… senior brother…?” Wang Baole’s heart was full of complicated feelings. Due to the matter with Ming Kunzi, their mutual master, he had parted ways with Chen Qingzi.

But now, Chen Qingzi had already helped him several times, and Wang Baole wasn’t completely heartless, after all. How could he have no thoughts at all toward reconciliation?

After a while, Wang Baole sighed softly and returned to the solar system. Meanwhile, at the entrance to the Underworld Sect, Chen Qingzi appeared from the void, dressed in a black robe and holding a wooden sword, along with a jug of wine.

Standing there, he stared… in the direction of the Left Dao Holy Region.

Gradually, a warm smile appeared on his cold face.

“He has grown up, and can now protect himself. I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Next… is my turn!” Chen Qingzi murmured softly. Turning his head, he looked at the Never-Ending Clan. His smile disappeared, and an icy chill filled the air!