đź“– Chapter 1288 - No Complaints, No Regrets
There are no gods three chi above my head.
In the three cun of my palm is the human world.
Wang Baole raised his head and looked upward for a while before lowering it to stare at the world within his grasp. His gaze fell on every corner and every creature hidden in his palm.
The entire stele world fell into his eyes, including numerous familiar figures. His family, his master, his lovers, his friends, even his former enemies…
He saw their pasts, and even saw… their futures, to a limited extent. However, when it came down to it, all of this was just words in a book.
Nothing more than words, but they were at least true words.
Perhaps even the Book of Heaven’s Mandate, bearing the truth of the past and future of the former stele world, was just a book inside an even larger book. But that wasn’t important. The important thing was… the feelings contained in the book, and the memories of his life.
These memories flashed through his mind like a series of pictures. From his birth until now, all his emotions, all his battles, all his struggling… all his memories.
In the end, the pictures paused on the scene of an airship. Inside a restaurant on the airship, a little fatty was holding a chicken drumstick and munching on it happily.
In those days, losing weight was his fondest hope.
In those days, becoming Federation President was his ultimate dream.
In those days, the high officials’ autobiographies held his rules for life.
At some point, he had no longer needed to lose weight.
At some point, he had stopped thinking about his dream.
At some point, the high officials’ autobiographies had accumulated dust inside his storage pouch.
“At some point, I… was no longer me?” Wang Baole murmured softly. Sighing, he lifted his right hand and waved it gently.
With this wave, the scenes in his mind dispersed.
With this wave, his memories blurred.
With this wave, his past was buried.
At the same time, this wave dispelled the fog in front of him. The sound of a trumpet seemed to echo through the void.
With this wave, a new hope was planted. Wang Baole had buried the fiery passion of his youth, but just like a phoenix, it would surely arise again in nirvana.
He burned his wings away voluntarily, because as long as he willed it, he could still fly high in the sky!
This was what it meant to be fetterless!
Wang Baole raised his head again and waved his hand. The void around him disappeared, and the black wooden nail also disappeared. Now, what lay before Wang Baole’s eyes was that which he had been yearning for… the Great Universe.
The true world!
A universe that would allow him to be reborn and seek higher heights!
The starry sky was deep and mysterious, with bright starlight shining everywhere. Countless natural and magical laws permeated every corner of this universe. Compared to the stele world, the laws here were more solid. The Dao… was more complete.
Wang Baole took a deep breath. What he breathed in was not air, but… the Dao marks of this Great Universe. Dao marks formed from natural and magical laws poured into Wang Baole, seemingly resonating with the Dao within his own body.
In an instant, the Dao of the Five Elements within him lit up brilliantly, becoming more and more complete. Faintly, an enormous vortex sprang into existence all around him.
This vortex rotated slowly, becoming grander and more magnificent with every passing moment. Inside, Wang Baole’s heart was firm as he freely welcomed everything!
At this moment, the place Wang Baole was located seemed to have turned into a huge spiritual sea. Within this spiritual sea, Wang Yiyi stood silently, staring at Wang Baole. Beside her, the Moon Star Sect ancestor, the old ape, and the little fox were all watching as well.
Unlike the others, the little fox had a hint of fear in her eyes.
None of them spoke. The little fox didn’t dare, while the old ape seemed almost asleep. The Moon Star Sect ancestor had a complicated look in his eyes, and as for Little Missy… she couldn’t help but hesitate. This was her first meeting with Wang Baole since their separation back then.
In the end, she didn’t know what to say and could only remain quiet.
Thus, silence reigned in the area covered by the vortex. Just outside, the figure in the solitary boat tensed with nervousness. Although he was a Paragon, although he was even a pinnacle figure among Paragons, although a cold snort from him could shatter a starry sky… he was a father, after all.
In order to save his daughter, he had come here and waited for countless years. And now… was the moment everything would come to fruition. Thus, even he couldn’t help but fret and worry like an ordinary mortal.
He knew that the critical moment had arrived.
His long wait was about to come to an end. At this moment, the passage of time seemed to have become agonizingly slow.
Just like that, half an incense stick’s worth of time passed slowly. Then, at the center of the silently rotating vortex, Wang Baole firmly raised his head.
The aura coming from his body turned erratic at this moment. It didn’t erupt outward, nor did it shrink and conceal itself. Instead… it was fleeting like the clouds, unspeakably carefree as it drifted through the hearts of the onlookers.
As for Wang Baole’s Dao of the Five Elements, it had undergone an astonishing transformation after fusing with the Dao marks of the Great Universe, and seemed to be heading toward a perfect sublimation.
The stele world’s Dao had been incomplete. Although Wang Baole had peered into the outside world in his past life, making his Dao more complete than anyone else’s… compared to the true Dao out in the Great Universe, he still had some flaws.
But right now, these flaws were all being perfected, and any deficiencies were being filled in. Wang Baole no longer needed to suppress his cultivation base. As a vast pressure spread out from his body, his cultivation base expanded rapidly.
This expansion wasn’t at the upper end, but at the foundation.
With the five elements as the basis, Wang Baole’s foundation became deeper and deeper.
And this indescribably deep foundation reflected itself in his Extreme Past and Extreme Future. Both became much more powerful in an instant.
The same was true for his Extreme Yin and Extreme Yang!
All in all, although Wang Baole had completed six and a half Daos on the surface, in reality it was already eight and a half.
More importantly, though, the aura of fetterlessness on Wang Baole’s body became more and more obvious at this moment.
This fetterless aura was, in truth… the aura of the Immortal.
Because of the deepening of his foundation, the eruption of his power was naturally more shocking than in the past. As his Immortal’s aura spread through the air, Wang Baole’s hair fluttered without wind. With his elegant white robe added to that, his demeanor gradually gave onlookers a transcendent feeling.
It was as if he was… not human.
“Not human indeed…” Muttering, Wang Baole lifted his head.
After a long silence, he turned and looked at Little Missy… the woman who had accompanied him throughout this life and the past ones.
Seeing Wang Yiyi’s hesitance and the complexity in her eyes, Wang Baole smiled.
His teeth were sparkling white, and his long hair draped over his pristine white robe. His smile was as warm and gentle as the sun’s rays.
“Now, let me help you.”
After speaking, Wang Baole raised his right hand. He looked at it gently, and prepared… to give.
To give away his past.
To give away his future.
To give away… his fate.
This was the deal he had made with Father Wang. There was no hint of unwillingness in his actions.
He had no complaints.
He had no regrets.