đź“– Chapter 1283 - Reversal of Cause and Effect!
The Earth World wasn’t enough to fully suppress the red-robed young man. Wang Baole knew this very well, and he didn’t intend to accomplish everything at once from the very beginning.
What he wanted to do was to force the Emperor’s gaze to use up its power. The moment the Emperor’s gaze reached its weakest extent was the moment the red-robed young man would die.
“I can win.” Murmuring softly, Wang Baole waved his hand, and the gigantic hand of sand slammed into the blood-colored vortex with a deafening boom.
Heaven-shaking rumbles reverberated through the void, and the blood-colored vortex instantly flickered. However, the red-robed young man was obviously unwilling to let things end like this; a moment later, a roar echoed out as the crimson vortex exploded with power. The gaze of the Emperor within also became extremely intense as it turned toward Wang Baole.
With that glance, the whole world shook, and the earth hand collapsed in an instant. All the grains of sand that composed it instantly turned to ashes.
Now that the massive hand had been annihilated, the Emperor’s gaze fell directly on Wang Baole.
Wang Baole’s whole body shook, and two different images appeared before his eyes. One image showed him a dark place, where a gigantic figure was sitting cross-legged. This figure exuded a horrifyingly powerful pressure, and at this moment, he looked in Wang Baole’s direction with cold eyes that seemed to swallow the entire universe.
His gaze was icy, and his body was like that of a god!
The other image was of the maddened red-robed young man who had transformed into the blood-red vortex. His hair was disheveled and his eyes were filled with ferocity. These two images fell into Wang Baole’s left and right eyes, and in an instant, fused into one.
The moment they did so, Wang Baole felt rumbling sweep his whole body, and an indescribable force struck his mind. His divine soul almost collapsed under this impact, and at the same time, the Earth World seemed about to fall apart.
Seeing that the world was on the verge of destruction, the red-robed young man became even fiercer. The vortex expanded rapidly, as if it wanted to completely break free of this collapsing world.
At that moment, Wang Baole suddenly waved his left hand and spoke in a low voice.
“Essence Bodies!”
With that, the void around Wang Baole distorted, and figures who looked exactly like him appeared instantaneously. They were the clones he had previously created to suppress his cultivation base.
As soon as these clones appeared, they all erupted with dazzling light, shining brilliantly as they rushed toward the rapidly-expanding bloody-colored vortex.
Rumbling sounds rang out in short order. Faced with the bombardment of Wang Baole’s numerous clones, the red-robed youth instantly felt his expression change. In order to fight Wang Baole, he had used a forbidden technique to increase the power of his true self’s gaze, all for the sake of overturning the situation in a single go. Right now, he couldn’t afford to divide his attention at all.
Thus, the attacks of these pesky clones were extremely troublesome.
If it was just the clones, then the red-robed young man could just bear with it for a while and keep his true self’s gaze locked on Wang Baole. In the end, Wang Baole would be unable to bear the brunt of the true Emperor’s gaze, and his divine soul would collapse.
However… the moment Wang Baole released his clones, his cultivation base also skyrocketed. After all, these clones were what he had used to seal himself before. Now, the seals were fully opened, and Wang Baole’s body immediately erupted with an indescribably brilliant light. This light seemed to outshine all of creation, as if it was the sole source of all light in the world.
Under the blinding light and the bombardment of the clones, the red-robed young man finally lost focus, causing his true self’s gaze to flicker for a moment.
And this moment allowed Wang Baole to compose himself. Although his divine soul was still shaking with lingering fear, that only made the killing intent in his eyes even stronger. He raised his right hand and waved it violently.
“Five elements… Metal!”
With the reverberation of his words, the surroundings instantly… didn’t change. It was still the Earth World, and it was still collapsing under the power of the Emperor’s gaze. This caused the red-robed young man’s eyes to shine, and the blood-colored vortex instantly erupted with even more power.
“Wang Baole, it seems that your metal element is unable to withstand this seat’s existence!” The red-robed young man’s triumphant voice rang out as the blood-colored vortex expanded with a bang, knocking away all of Wang Baole’s clones. In an instant, the true Emperor’s gaze coming from the vortex redoubled in power, unleashing horrific pressure.
The Earth World’s collapse accelerated. It seemed that it would fall apart at any moment.
“You… just don’t understand what my Metal Dao is.” Facing the collapse of the Earth World and the red-robed young man’s words, Wang Baole simply lowered his right hand with a calm expression.
Obviously, he hadn’t moved much, and there was no aggression to his movements, but as soon as his right hand fell…
The red-robed young man’s expression instantaneously changed.
"This is-"
Before he could finish speaking, rays of silver light erupted from the void and shot toward the blood-colored vortex. These silver lights seemed infinite in number, flying over from all directions toward the two faces of the vortex. In the end, they fused together and took the shape of an enormous silver sword.
To be exact, half of them turned into a sword hilt, and the other half a sword tip, with the vortex in between. It was possible to see that, at exactly the spots where the vortex connected to the hilt and tip of the sword, cracks appeared.
These cracks grew bigger and bigger as more and more rays of silver light arrived. As they gathered continuously, they formed… the sword body!
And the moment the sword body formed, the blood-colored vortex rumbled and… split in half!
It didn’t end there. As the vortex was cleaved in two, the fully formed silver sword suddenly turned and shot straight toward Wang Baole. As it pierced through the void, it became smaller and smaller, and by the time it arrived in front of Wang Baole a moment later, it was already the size of an ordinary sword.
Wang Baole reached out and took the sword into his hand. As he lifted it to the heavens, it suddenly turned into countless rays of silver light and dissipated into the surroundings…
If anyone saw this scene, they would be utterly shocked.
What had happened was beyond comprehension. However, the truly shocking thing was the fact that… if viewed in reverse, everything made perfect sense!
Raising a hand and summoning a sword, sending it to cleave the vortex in two, then allowing it to disperse…
This Metal World was unique.
“This is my Metal World. You can think of it as… cause and effect.” Wang Baole lowered his head and looked at the blood-colored vortex which had been split in two. A profound light flickered through his eyes.