đź“– Chapter 1291 - Immortal Astral
“Me?” Wang Yiyi’s father smiled.
“Take a guess.”
Wang Baole’s expression was a little strange. He hadn’t expected that Father Wang, who had always seemed deadly serious, would also have such a side. After hesitating for a moment, he spoke uncertainly.
“Flip the table?”
When she heard Wang Baole’s words, Wang Yiyi immediately shot him a glare. As for her father, he just laughed. It seemed that Wang Yiyi’s recovery had put him in much higher spirits than before. Now, as he laughed, he turned back around and no longer looked at the two juniors behind him. However, his voice still reverberated in Wang Baole and Wang Yiyi’s ears.
“If you couldn’t heal Yiyi, and flipping the table could, then… this Wang would naturally flip the table without hesitation, killing whoever dared get in my way!
“Even if the Emperor at his peak wanted to stop me… This Wang has never fought with him, but that doesn’t mean I can’t kill him.
“My Dao… lies only in affection.”
Wang Baole fell silent, staring deeply at the back of the figure in front of him. That answer made him fall into deep thought, and his heart was filled with turbulence. Right now, he was thinking… what about himself?
“Slaughter all who stand in the way of my fetterlessness.” Wang Baole murmured, eyes shining with bright light. To a certain extent, his choice was the same as Father Wang’s. He didn’t care whether the table existed or not, nor did he seek to own it.
What he cared about was his own freedom, to be free and at ease.
And to Wang Baole, the Emperor’s very existence was a fetter restricting his freedom. He and the Emperor were already destined to fight each other.
Even if Wang Baole didn’t want to fight, the Emperor would definitely come knocking eventually. After all, Wang Baole’s original form… was the black wooden nail stopping the Emperor from breaking through.
From the moment the Emperor decided to become the Great Universe and the wood tribulation descended, inextricable karma had been sown between the two of them.
This karma hadn’t faded in the slightest even after countless years. On the contrary, it had become thicker and thicker with time, because throughout these countless years, the confrontation between the Emperor and the black wooden nail had never stopped for even a moment.
Whether it was the Emperor’s true self or his hundred thousand divine wills, it was all the same.
“If I don’t kill the Emperor, I can’t become fetterless.” Wang Baole’s eyes narrowed. Gradually, the sharpness in them receded, and in the end, he closed them completely.
At the side, Wang Yiyi still couldn’t understand the conversation between her father and Wang Baole. She knew very individual word they spoke, but when those words were strung together, they formed extremely profound sentences that made her feel at a loss even as she listened.
This wasn’t her first time feeling like this. In fact, she remembered feeling this way countless times when she was with her parents. However, back then, there was no one to compare to, so she didn’t feel that it was strange. Although what her parents talked about was too profound for her, she comforted herself by thinking that no one else would be able to understand either.
But now… things were a little different.
Wang Yiyi’s pride couldn’t stand it as she saw Wang Baole closing his eyes. Thus, she plastered a look of comprehension on her face as she, too, closed her eyes.
However, Wang Baole was meditating and digesting the Dao contained in Father Wang’s words, while Wang Yiyi… didn’t even know what to be thinking about with her eyes closed…
Father Wang could naturally sense all of this. He sighed internally, and a doting look of helplessness appeared on his face.
Just like that, as countless illusory images flashed past the boat, the movement of the universe reached a level where time itself seemed to warp. Wang Baole couldn’t tell if he’d been on the boat for a second or a century.
In this Great Universe, innumerable small universes and starry skies flashed by, and in the end… the world finally slowed down and returned to normal. Father Wang’s voice echoed in Wang Baole’s ears.
“We’re here.”
As soon as he heard this voice, Wang Baole opened his eyes and looked out into the void beyond the boat. Even with his current cultivation base and concentration, he couldn’t help but be shocked when he saw what was in front of him.
Planets and stars weren’t the only things floating in the starry sky.
Reflected in Wang Baole’s eyes at this moment was… an indescribably vast continent.
This continent was absolutely enormous, more than ten thousand times the size of the entire stele world. Moreover, it wasn’t stationary; even now, it was moving through the starry sky at unbelievable speed, causing its edges to blur.
Countless stars of all sizes could be seen orbiting the continent. Obviously, they had been caught in the continent’s gravity as it drifted through the universe over the long years.
At the same time, an indescribably majestic vitality spread forth from the continent, illuminating the universe like a torch in the dark night. Wang Baole could feel his mind buzzing just from the impact of a single glance.
If that was all, then the current Wang Baole wouldn’t have been too shocked. However, he couldn’t help but gape as he caught sight of nine extremely unique stars floating above the vast continent. They were like suns, but also beyond suns, and they suppressed all the other stars in the sky as their light scattered down.
Each and every one of them seemed on par with Wang Baole himself, and two of them even gave him a sense of deadly crisis.
And at the center of these nine suns was a gigantic statue, reaching from the ground of the continent all the way up into the starry sky. The person depicted by this statue was… Father Wang!
All of this shocked Wang Baole, but what shocked him the most… was what was in front of the gigantic statue. In that place… there were eleven enormous bridges!
Each one was longer and higher than the last.
They were rooted in nothingness but existed in reality. From a distance, they were like an immense and magnificent stairway.
These eleven bridges exuded the aura of ancient times, as if they had existed from the beginning of the universe. The passing of the ages left no signs of decay, and the shining starlight filtered through without a trace.
This set of bridges had a name that resounded throughout the entire Great Universe, a name that echoed in the ears of all living beings.
“This is the Heaven-Trampling Bridge.
“Many years ago, it collapsed, and I later repaired it. Originally, there were only nine bridges, but now there are eleven. The ninth bridge symbolizes Heaven Trampling.
“Every additional bridge beyond the ninth represents the advancement of another step in cultivation!” Father Wang’s voice seemed to tug on the natural laws as it echoed in all directions. The eleven bridges instantly lit up, as if welcoming his return.
As the Heaven-Trampling Bridge shone with dazzling light, Wang Baole’s mind rumbled. At his side, Wang Yiyi softly spoke.
“Damn fatty, welcome to… my hometown, the Immortal Astral Continent.”