📖 Chapter 1290 - About Dao

26 Mar, 2024

Wang Baole’s voice was trembling, filled with indescribable emotion as boundless gratitude welled up in his heart.

Throughout his lifetime, Wang Baole had met many people, but only a few had been able to move him deeply. And his senior brother… was certainly one of those who had the greatest impact on him.

From their first meeting, to their experiences along the way, to their conflict in later years, and their resolution in the end… The relationship between the senior and junior brother was already embedded deeply in both their hearts.

They were fellow disciples, and they were also fellow Daoists.

They were friends who had once walked the same path.

Thus, Wang Baole was extremely shocked by Wang Yiyi’s father’s words. The hope of regaining what had once been lost swept through him like a storm. His heart, which had become calm after losing his past and future, suddenly beat rapidly.

It was like a still lake giving birth to ripples, or the melting of a frozen mountain.

As Wang Baole bowed, Father Wang waved his hand. A bead containing a soul flew out, shining with brilliant light as it floated in front of Wang Baole.

Under this light, Wang Baole stared at the bead. His gaze seemed to pierce into the river of time.

The glittering bead was filled with smoke of seven colors. However, this colorful smoke couldn’t obscure Chen Qingzi’s soul, sitting cross-legged at the very center of the bead.

His eyes were closed, as if he was sleeping, and the seven-colored smoke seemed to be nourishing him. Every time a wisp of smoke entered his soul, he would become visibly more solid.

This sort of bead wasn’t unfamiliar to Wang Baole; a similar bead had housed Wang Yiyi’s soul before. Obviously, this thing must be a priceless supreme treasure. Otherwise, there was no way it could keep an already-dissipating soul alive and even provide it nourishment. Such an act was completely heaven-defying.

As for the seven-colored smoke inside, with Wang Baole’s current cultivation base, he could already tell that each and every wisp contained the power of law, along with… a boundless vitality.

To be precise, the seven colors of smoke were actually… seven Daos.

Seven Daos had been extracted from the universe just to nourish Chen Qingzi’s soul.

Such extravagance made it clear how much importance Father Wang placed on this.

After staring blankly for a long time, Wang Baole stretched out his right hand. He gently grabbed the bead containing Chen Qingzi’s soul and had it enter his world. Then, raising his head, Wang Baole looked at Father Wang and bowed deeply again.

“Your stele world is incomplete. If you want to make it truly complete, it will still take many years. If you reincarnate your senior brother’s soul in the stele world, he will have limited achievements. However, that senior brother of yours… has astonishing talent. His future is unlimited.” Father Wang glanced at Wang Baole and slowly spoke.

“He needs a more complete world with more comprehensive laws, such as… my hometown.” After speaking, Father Wang turned and walked over to his solitary boat. The old ape, little fox, and Moon Star Sect ancestor all followed. Only Wang Yiyi remained, looking at Wang Baole as if she wanted to say something.

"Yiyi."

Before she could open her mouth, her father’s voice echoed again.

Wang Yiyi was silent. Lowering her head, she turned and walked to the boat. But after boarding, she seemed to finally muster up her courage and suddenly lifted her head to look at Wang Baole.

“Damn fatty, are you coming or not!?”

The way she addressed him made Wang Baole feel a little dazed. It had been a long time since he’d heard Little Missy call him that. After a few moments of silence, he broke out into laughter.

“Is there enough room on the boat?”

That said, he quickly walked over to the solitary boat and hopped on.

As ripples spread in the starry sky, the solitary boat drifted into motion, sailing into the distance. It didn’t seem to move fast, but as it traveled, the void all around it twisted. Illusory images flashed past, allowing the people on the boat to see stars, galaxies and universes everywhere.

“This is the Great Universe…” Sitting on the solitary boat, Wang Baole looked at the passing scenery with a bright light in his eyes. He knew that despite appearances, the boat definitely wasn’t moving slowly. It was just that when an object’s speed surpassed imagination, it was impossible to distinguish between fast and slow.

This was because speed wasn’t determined by the self, but… the point of reference.

Father Wang seemed to sense Wang Baole’s thoughts. He didn’t turn around, but his voice rang out from his spot at the bow of the boat.

“You’ve only comprehended a part of it. Try to think about what’s really moving…”

Blinking, Wang Yiyi suppressed the complicated feelings in her heart and looked at the starry sky beyond the boat with a thoughtful gaze. As for Wang Baole, after staring outside for a while, he actually turned his gaze back to the boat itself. Staring at the boat, his eyes gradually filled with astonishment.

He discovered that from beginning to end, the boat hadn’t moved at all.

“What’s moving… isn’t the boat, but… the universe!!” As he muttered, Wang Baole suddenly lifted his head and stared at Wang Yiyi’s father’s back, feeling extremely shocked.

‘Just what kind of realm has he reached? He can actually… force the universe to move for his sake, achieving an indescribable pinnacle of speed!’

“The speed of a cultivator has its limits. But as long as you can leap up and view the issue from a higher level, you will discover that… cultivation is actually very simple.” Father Wang’s voice echoed again in Wang Yiyi and Wang Baole’s ears.

Wang Yiyi seemed confused, as if she didn’t quite understand what he was talking about. But when it came to Wang Baole… his eyes instantly burst out with bright light. It was as if a door had opened in his mind.

Wang Baole’s heart trembled, and his Dao of the Five Elements erupted with light. Although his past and future were now empty, they also turned into Daos that shone with black and white light, illuminating his body.

Five elements? Unimportant.

Past and future? Inconsequential.

Underworld Yin and Sacred Yang were also both insignificant.

Focusing on these sorts of things was a sign of narrow-mindedness. True cultivation was…

“All of existence is mine to use!” Wang Baole suddenly raised his head and spoke.

“Heaven-Trampling sets the foundation for becoming a sourcepoint. When you fully comprehend your words just now and can put them into practice, you will have reached the fifth step of cultivation.” Father Wang glanced at Wang Yiyi’s confused expression and sighed in his heart, then turned to look at Wang Baole with admiration.

"What about the sixth step?" Wang Baole immediately asked.

"The sixth step?" Father Wang looked into the distant void with a profound gaze.

“Every Almighty who has reached the fifth step has a different sixth step. There was one who created a universe and decided his sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth steps based on the dimensions. But that way of doing things is too gaudy; I don’t like it.

“There was one who turned into a world and used his will to protect as his Dao Heart. Only he alone disappeared from the cycles of life and death, but as long as his story is passed down, he will always exist, cultivating endlessly in the past.

“There was one who used extermination as his ideal. As long as there exist things which haven’t been exterminated, his Dao remains incomplete, and the more incomplete it is, the more he has to reincarnate and resurrect. This endless pursuit carries him farther and farther.

“There was also one who entered myths using karma. Opposite to the past, he lives in the future without beginning or end.”

"What about the Emperor?" Wang Baole asked after thinking for a while.

"The Emperor?" Father Wang smiled.

“If our Great Universe, which contains countless smaller universes, is compared to a table, then of the people I just talked about… one studies how to create this table, one aims to occupy the past of this table, one is thinking about how to destroy this table, and the last wants to occupy the future of this table.

“As for the Emperor… he wants to become the table. He wants to make it so that the researcher can’t study it, the exterminator can’t destroy it, and the ones occupying its past and future will be driven away. At the same time… he wants to swallow all these people and make them part of himself.”

Wang Baole’s pupils contracted. After a moment of silence, he couldn’t hold himself back and asked another question.

“Then, Senior… what about you?”