đź“– Chapter 1279 - Battle in Reincarnation Begins!
The stele world couldn’t withstand Wang Baole’s full power, let alone his battle with the Emperor’s clone. Although Wang Baole didn’t know how the Emperor’s clone could enter the stele world without causing it to collapse, he suspected that it was due to some unique secret art.
At the same time, it was most likely related to the stele world’s original form… one of the myriad Never-Ending Dao Domains.
After all, when it came down to it, the Never-Ending Dao Domain that went to war with the Vast Expanse Dao Domain back then was formed from one of the hundred thousand wills the Emperor had sent out into the universe.
Thus, even though Ancient had fled into the battlefield and All sacrificed his right hand to seal this place into a stele… In the final analysis, the stele world’s origin was still from the Emperor.
Perhaps this was the core reason why the Emperor’s clone could exist here without causing the world to collapse.
But the truth behind this matter was no longer important to Wang Baole. In any case, his battle with the Emperor’s clone couldn’t take place in the real world.
Wang Baole didn’t want the stele world to collapse, so he could only turn this battle into one between souls. Although this sort of battle was illusory, it could actually be considered a battle taking place in the cycle of reincarnation.
Open up a world inside an illusion, create a cycle of reincarnation inside that world, and use the battle within reincarnation to decide everything. This… was the power Wang Baole obtained after completing his five elements.
This was only possible for extremely powerful Almighties like All and Ancient. Back then, they had fought over countless years through reincarnation, which led to Ancient losing in the end and having to flee.
And at this moment, Wang Baole was doing the same thing. With a wave of his hand, the Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Daos erupted, causing a massive vortex to cover the void. This vortex engulfed everything in an instant, including… Wang Baole himself, as well as the red-robed Emperor’s clone.
In fact, the Emperor’s clone didn’t want to fight Wang Baole in the cycle of reincarnation. He would much rather allow the stele world to be destroyed; that way, Wang Baole would be left without a foundation and would eventually waste away, ultimately becoming unable to interfere with the true Emperor’s recovery.
However… he had already missed his opportunity and was no longer at his peak. Thus, the red-robed young man could only allow himself to be sucked into Wang Baole’s cycle of reincarnation.
And the red-robed young man’s current helplessness was closely tied to Chen Qingzi’s decision to leave the stele world in advance. If not for Chen Qingzi sacrificing his life to inflict a grievous injury, then maybe the current situation would be vastly different.
But nobody cared to think of maybes. At this moment, all living beings in the stele world only felt ceaseless rumbling in their minds. Even the Xie Family ancestor and the others were the same, as if their souls had been stolen away.
Although the true Emperor’s gaze had now been dragged into the vortex of reincarnation, just the fact that it had appeared for a short time seemed to cause the entire stele world to grind to a halt.
All natural and magical laws froze, and everything in existence stilled.
Only the Moon Star Sect ancestor and Little Missy Wang Yiyi, who had originally come from outside, were barely able to maintain their consciousness. Both of them closely observed the battle taking place in the void.
Naturally, they couldn’t see the exact details of the fight. All they could see was a vortex slowly rotating, the aura of blood and the five elements waxing and waning within it as thunder and lightning flickered about. However, from these changes they were still able to judge the general direction of the battle.
Right now, the bloody aura was obviously muted, and the aura of the five elements spread freely through the vortex. The Dao Seeds of the five elements shone brightly in the void, suppressing all creation. At this moment, the teardrop that formed Wang Baole’s water seed was emitting bright light that far surpassed the other four.
Its manifestation, a woman’s blurry face, could faintly be seen.
This was because… the mechanism of Five Elements Into Reincarnation was to create five different worlds, with each world being formed by one of the five elements.
These worlds were both illusions and not illusions.
And right now, the first world was the Water World.
The world in this reincarnation was one giant ocean, and endless expanse of water that spread infinitely into the distance. Terrifying waves crashed about on its surface, and a gigantic statue could be seen standing in the middle of it.
This statue was of a human, and it seemed infinitely large. Its feet rested on the ocean floor, and its upper half towered above the water surface. The statue’s arms were raised; it was tightly grasping an enormous, writhing centipede.
As for the face, the eyes of which were tightly closed… it actually looked exactly like Wang Baole! However, this statue had a sense of majesty that didn’t exist in reality. At this moment, thunder was rumbling in the heavens, and the furious ocean waves churned. The centipede in the statue’s hand let out a string of heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roars.
As it roared, violent force erupted from its body, and its countless legs wrapped scratched at the statue like sharp blades. Scraping sounds echoed out as white marks were left on the statue’s arms.
But the statue remained indifferent. It didn’t care that more and more white marks appeared on its arms, nor did it mind that some of the scratches were even showing signs of cracking. Completely expressionless, it clenched its hands around the centipede’s body and slowly began moving them outward, as if it intended to rip the centipede in half!
“Wang Baole!!” Sever pain wracked the centipede’s body, making it roar more and more madly. As it thrashed about, huge masses of crimson fog spewed in all directions. The seawater turned the color of blood, and even the statue itself began to corrode.
But in the end… the blood-colored centipede was too slow. Just as it unleashed its divine ability and turned the surroundings into a sea of blood, before the statue could be completely corroded… the statue’s hands fully pulled apart, and the centipede’s midsection suddenly collapsed.
A shrill scream echoed out as the centipede was ripped in two. In this moment of crisis, it finally showed its true power; as soon as its body separated into two halves, those two halves exploded on their own and turned into numerous smaller centipedes which instantly dispersed into the surroundings. Some sank to the bottom of the ocean, while others fled into the void.
A moment later, the smaller centipedes split into yet more, even smaller centipedes, and continued to spread outward. These even smaller centipedes also split into smaller centipedes, and so on and so forth. It didn’t take long before the number of centipedes in the Water World reached a truly unimaginable number, covering a vast range.
By now, the statute had been almost fully corroded and seemed to have lost its vitality. It gradually became still, then began sinking slowly into the sea.
But just as the statue’s head was about to disappear beneath the waves… its eyes, which had remained shut this entire time, suddenly opened!
In an instant, heaven and earth changed color!
In an instant, the wind and clouds tumbled in reverse!
In an instant, the starry sky rumbled!
In an instant, the whole world shook!
All of this was because… of the opening of those eyes, as well as the voice echoing out from the statue’s mouth. Indifferent words reverberated throughout the entire Water World.
“You cannot escape.”