đź“– Chapter 1292 - Two Years
Unfamiliar stars, an unfamiliar sky.
Unfamiliar lands, an unfamiliar world.
Nine huge suns hung in the vault of heaven, but this didn’t make the continent overly hot. The four seasons rotated normally.
This was because the Immortal Astral Continent really was too big.
It was so big that the nine bright suns didn’t affect it in the slightest. Compared to the suns, it seemed like the continent itself was the truly eternal existence, and it was the suns revolving around the earth here.
This was completely contrary to what Wang Baole knew from the stele world.
Soon, he learned about the divisions of this vast continent. The Immortal Astral Continent had seventy-two domains, and each domain had eight thousand territories.
These territories came in various sizes. The large ones were bigger than the stele world, and even the smaller ones were at least half a stele world in size. Calling them starry skies in and of themselves wasn’t much of an exaggeration.
At the same time, there were hundreds of major cities in each territory. These major cities were shaped like giant beasts, and they were extremely lifelike. In fact, they seemed to truly be alive, just slumbering. Judging from their appearances, though, they would certainly be shockingly powerful if they woke up.
According to legend, each of these cities really was a living giant beast. These giant beasts had been captured by powerful experts of the Immortal Astral Continent and then sealed into the continent to become cities.
And an astonishingly vast continent obviously contained a huge number of living things. Although the lifeforms on the continent weren’t truly infinite, they were numerous to the extent that it was nigh impossible to count them.
The sheer population, along with the density of spiritual energy, meant that cultivators were extremely common here. Of course, with so many cultivators, it was only natural that some of them would achieve shocking heights.
Over the years, it wasn’t just one or two such Almighties who appeared.
This was best displayed by… the nine round suns in the sky.
“Nine titled Grand Empyreans…” Wang Baole’s whispering voice rang out from a solitary mountain peak in the first city of the first domain’s eight thousandth territory.
Two years had passed since he’d arrived in the Immortal Astral Continent.
Two years ago, he came to this continent with Wang Yiyi and her father. Afterward, he had been invited to Wang Yiyi’s residence. The place she lived was a simple cave abode at the top of an ordinary-looking mountain.
This cave abode contained a world, which was Wang Yiyi’s home.
There, Wang Baole met Wang Yiyi’s mother – a very gentle woman whose soft eyes seemed to be able to speak. She was always kind to Wang Baole, and when her gaze fell on him and Wang Yiyi, it became even softer.
There, Wang Baole learned that Wang Yiyi also had an older brother. Her older brother was out to gain experience and hadn’t returned home for many years already.
All of this made Wang Baole think about his own parents and sister.
Fortunately, they were still with him, safe inside the world in his palm.
After living in Wang Yiyi’s home for a while, Wang Baole declined Mother Wang’s offer to stay longer and left by himself. He was going to find a suitable place for his senior brother to reincarnate.
At the same time, he also wanted to walk around and see more of this unfamiliar world.
He still remembered what Father Wang had told him before he left.
“Although your current self has the qualifications to trample the heavens and your battle prowess is already in Heaven Trampling… your Dao Heart is still not perfected. Once you’re ready, come to me, and I will open the path to Heaven Trampling for you.”
At that time, Wang Baole had bowed deeply and said his goodbyes to the mountain, the cave, and the Wang family.
He then wandered the world, but… the Immortal Astral Continent was just too big. Even with Wang Baole’s current cultivation base, understanding the whole continent in detail in just two years was impossible. Thus, he just passed through casually. Ten months ago, he had chosen this place as the spot to reincarnate his senior brother.
Here, he personally painted the Corpse Face of his senior brother’s next life and sent the soul into reincarnation. His senior brother’s soul was reincarnated in a city at the foot of the mountain.
Due to the mysteries of the womb, his senior brother’s memories of the past life would only be able to be recovered after cultivating to a certain level. But Wang Baole wasn’t in a hurry. Every day, he sat on this mountain peak, thoughts wandering idly. However, his divine sense was always paying attention to the city, or to be specific, the place a moderately wealthy family lived.
As he sensed his senior brother’s reincarnation growing in the womb, Wang Baole’s aura became steady and stable. Over the past few months, doing this had already become a habit.
At the same time, he was constantly gaining insights into the Dao ubiquitous throughout the Immortal Astral Continent.
In Wang Baole’s eyes, there were dozens of shocking vortexes in this vast Immortal Astral Continent. Among these, nine extraordinarily powerful ones hung high in the sky – the nine suns. Each of these nine suns contained the power of Heaven Trampling, and even the current Wang Baole felt extreme danger from two of them.
As for the other vortexes, they were scattered all across the continent. The owners of these land-bound vortexes didn’t seem to be in the fourth step, but they were at least at the peak of the third step, with some already in the quasi-fourth step.
However, there was an exception to this rule. Wang Baole could see, in the northern part of the Immortal Astral Continent, there was a vortex that wasn’t weaker than the strongest among the suns in the sky. Clearly, this person… had also reached the fourth step.
“A tenth…?” Wang Baole lifted his head and looked at the nine suns in the sky.
Obviously, these people were the supreme beings of the Immortal Astral Continent. Astonishing volumes of Dao marks surrounded them, as if the process of their cultivation absorbed all the Dao in the universe. Incidentally, this behavior was the truth behind the vortexes.
Now, Wang Baole had long understood that the stele world’s Universe Realm was merely equivalent to the third step in the Immortal Astral Continent.
And here on this continent, there were quite a few people with such cultivation.
Wang Baole stared at the nine balls of light in the vault of heaven. They looked like suns, but he knew that they were actually cultivators. Furthermore, he knew that in the eyes of these supreme beings, he himself looked like a vortex!
After all, in some sense, his current cultivation base could already be considered the fourth step, and it could even be said that he had traversed some distance in this fourth step. He was just lacking the universe’s blessing.
When a cultivator walked to the end of their Dao and became a sourcepoint, that was the fourth step.
The so-called blessing was actually a kind of amplification. In this Great Universe, such amplification could empower those below the sixth step.
There were many ways to obtain this blessing. The Heaven-Trampling Bridge was one of them.
Wang Baole knew very well that if he walked across the Heaven-Trampling Bridge, his cultivation base would definitely increase, and his battle prowess would also skyrocket.
However, he also knew that Father Wang’s words were right. His Dao heart was still incomplete.
He still wanted to walk along the path of life with his senior brother.
He still wanted to accompany his parents in the world within his palm and make them happy.
There was also Zhao Yameng, and Zhou Xiaoya, and Li Wan’er…
And… Little Missy.
These were all obsessions that prevented his Dao heart from being complete.
But now that he was in the Immortal Astral Continent, where he could feel a sense of stability, it was possible for him to slowly fulfill all of these.
Moreover, the people here didn’t discriminate against him as an outsider. On the one hand, he was Father Wang’s guest, and on the other, he had saved Wang Yiyi’s life. Thus, many powerhouses of the continent were full of appreciation toward him.
Over the past two years, Wang Yiyi had visited Wang Baole quite frequently. At the same time, numerous experts, including suns, had met with him as well. Their eyes were usually full of curiosity, but also a deeper meaning.
It was as if… they were looking at a prospective son-in-law.
One of them in particular had visited many times, always accompanied by wind and rain…
For example, at this moment… the sky had been clear, but clouds suddenly gathered, and rain began pouring down.
Laughter echoed from afar, and a courageous voice rang out amid the falling rain.
“Damn Immortal Astral Heavenly Dao. Didn’t your daddy here just scold you a little back then? After all these years, every time I come out, you just have to rain on my parade, huh?”