đź“– Chapter 1297 - Completed Dao
Father Wang, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the Heaven Trampling Bridge, slowly opened both eyes. After glancing at Wang Baole calmly, he nodded. However, he didn’t move from his spot, only raising his right hand and casually waving it toward the Heaven Trampling Bridge behind him.
In an instant, the sky dimmed, the sea of clouds boiled, and rumbling sounds spread in all directions. At the same time, the first Heaven Trampling Bridge lit up with dazzling rays of light. A stele appeared beside the bridge, rapidly turning from illusion to reality.
The ancient aura grew thicker, and the sense of time became clearer than ever. As rumbling thundered outward, a vortex suddenly appeared in the surroundings.
This immense vortex seemed to cover even the vault of heaven. However… across the Immortal Astral Continent at this moment, those raising their heads to look at the sky would find that nothing had changed.
It was as if everything was just an illusion.
At the center of this vortex that no one could see was Wang Baole. The sudden rumbling and the appearance of the vortex had surprised him, but he quickly collected himself and looked at the stele that had appeared next to the bridge. Scrawling writing gradually appeared on the stele.
It was words of an unknown language that Wang Baole had never seen. However, as he looked at these words, their meaning instinctively appeared in his mind.
“Heaven Trampling Bridge, Void Extermination Dao, Imperishable Soul, Worshiped by All Creation.”
Each of these twelve words held a supremely authoritative intent that shook Wang Baole’s very soul. The wind blowing all around him suddenly seemed to pick up, the vortex seemed to rotate more rapidly, and the aura of time became stronger and stronger.
As Wang Baole’s attention was on these twelve words, heaven and earth suddenly shook. Next to the first stele, a second one suddenly appeared. Its size was no different from the first, but the divine might gathered on it was even greater. The moment it appeared, the entire Immortal Astral Continent seemed to tremble.
Just like the first, this second stele also had twelve words engraved on it.
“Paragon’s Intent, Reincarnation Trembles, Spirit of the Universe, Myriad Daos Bow Down!”
As he looked at the twelve words on the second stele, Wang Baole’s heart shook. Vaguely, he seemed to see the scene of a familiar figure in front of this bridge countless years ago. That figure absorbed a strange power from the universe and created this stele, then pointed his finger and inscribed these twelve words.
In this scene, each word made the starry sky tremble as it was written into the stele. Once all twelve words were written, dazzling light erupted in the starry sky, and the whole universe seemed to boil. At the same time, that peerless figure turned around, revealing the face of… Father Wang!
With that, the scene disappeared from Wang Baole’s eyes. His breathing hastened, and he instantly looked over at the side, where Father Wang was calmly sitting in a cross-legged position. At this moment, Wang Baole recalled the words that Father Wang had told him a few years ago, when he first arrived at the Immortal Astral Continent and saw the eleven bridges in the sky.
“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.”
After a long time, Wang Baole withdrew his gaze. As he looked at the first of the eleven bridges again, his eyes shone brightly. Without a word, he burst into motion and walked toward the bridge.
Wang Baole didn’t seem to move very fast, but it only took him six steps to reach the bridge. His seventh step brought his foot directly on the first bridge.
The moment he stepped onto the bridge, Wang Baole’s eyes flickered. He could clearly sense that at this moment, his body and soul seemed to be sublimated. Laws of heaven and earth and the music of all Daos gathered from all directions, coming from the universe, descending from the starry sky, and even erupting from the bridge itself.
All these things rushed into Wang Baole’s body. He had never experienced anything like this before. It felt like a storm was exploding in his mind.
Amid this storm, his comprehension of all sorts of laws rose at a shocking speed. The power of the five elements in his body became more complete, and his aura fluctuated wildly. Countless different Dao chimes collided within him and fused into his five elements.
Heat spread all throughout his body, sweeping through all the tiny cold spots that he’d never noticed before, making him feel like he was being bathed in the warm rays of the sun.
It was just like before; he had thought he was complete, but there were actually some hidden deficiencies in his body and soul. And now, these deficiencies were being filled in rapidly.
Because of all of this, as soon as Wang Baole took his first step onto the first bridge, he had to close his eyes and stand motionless.
A full incense stick’s worth of time passed before Wang Baole gradually adapted to the influx of laws and Dao chimes. As he opened his eyes, the shadow of the starry sky seemed to appear in them, and the aura emanating from his body also skyrocketed. It became countless times stronger!
Although he had only taken a single step, Wang Baole already felt like a completely different person compared to the him who had not yet stepped onto the bridge.
Before that one step, although he was strong, he still had limits.
But now, after comprehending innumerable laws and fusing with countless Dao tones, he felt like his limits had shattered, making him… stronger!
This made Wang Baole lower his head and look at the Heaven Trampling Bridge beneath him with a heated gaze.
“This is… the Heaven Trampling Bridge?” Bright light flashed in Wang Baole’s eyes as he took another step. On the first Heaven Trampling Bridge, he walked forward step by step.
With every step he took, his comprehension became deeper, his body became more relaxed, and most importantly, his soul became clearer and clearer.
Just like that, his steps became faster and faster, and his aura became more and more shocking.
Finally, by the time he reached the end of the first bridge, the aura coming from his body had become overwhelmingly powerful. Everything around him was sent into a stir, and the invisible vortex rotated faster and faster.
This was because the blessing of the first bridge – the manifestation of the laws of heaven and earth and the music of endless Daos – had been indelibly engraved in Wang Baole’s mind.
More importantly, at this moment, Wang Baole’s body seemed to be perfectly complete!
This was the Heaven Trampling Bridge’s first bridge!
Its function was to allow the traverser to sense all the laws in the universe and every kind of Dao chime. Although it was just a quick glance, it was enough to enhance a cultivator’s Dao intent and turn the limited into limitless.
For Wang Baole in particular, this first bridge also gave him another blessing – completing Dao!
After all, Wang Baole came from the stele world, where the Dao was inherently incomplete. Although he had achieved the maximum level of completeness possible and supplemented his Dao with the laws of the Great Universe, he had lived his entire life under that incomplete Dao. Thus, there had still been some imperfections that he had been unable to fill in.
But now, as he reached the end of the first bridge, his body became a Dao Body, and his soul became a Dao Soul.
Everything about him had been perfected!
Wang Baole trembled. Standing at the end of the first bridge, he raised his head and looked into the distance. He could see the second bridge in front of him, as well as the shocking bridges behind it that arced through the sky like rainbows.
Taking a deep breath, Wang Baole stepped off the first bridge and flew toward the second one!