đź“– Chapter 1304 - Ninth Bridge
At this moment, the starry sky outside the Immortal Astral Continent was filled with an endlessly large net. In fact, the entire Great Universe seemed to be enveloped in the range of this boundless net.
This net was a net of natural laws.
The threads that comprised it came in all sizes, but each and every one of them was a natural law.
At the same time, the piece of black wood hovering above the Immortal Astral Continent was extremely clear at this moment. Even the grain of the wood seemed visible with the naked eye. The pressure coming from the black wood was such that everyone who saw it felt their minds rumble.
Compared to the black wood, the threads of law in the surroundings seemed insignificant. It was like they were an accessory to make the black wood seem even more shocking.
Now, the piece of black wood was slowly sinking amid horrifying rumbles. Closer and closer it drew, as if it was going to fall on the Immortal Astral Continent.
This scene caused everyone watching to tremble violently. Even the almighty beings who represented the suns of the Immortal Astral Continent were no different.
In their eyes, the piece of black wood that had appeared above the Immortal Astral Continent was very real, and the way it was falling toward them made it seem even more real. They even felt that, once this piece of black wood really fell, the Immortal Astral Continent might actually be destroyed, casting everything into darkness.
“This…!”
“Stop the wood from falling!”
Shock and horror swept through the Immortal Astral Continent at this moment. Even Situ, who had played go with Wang Baole before, suddenly appeared at Father Wang’s side with a grim expression.
At the same time, the two existences whose suns were more dazzling than Wang Baole’s own both walked out of their respective cave abodes. They looked at the sky solemnly, feeling greatly pressured.
To them, the piece of wood in the sky was extremely threatening, and the Immortal Astral Continent wouldn’t be able to escape heavy damage if it fell. Right now, across the entire Immortal Astral Continent, there were only two people whose minds were clear. One of them was Father Wang.
He stared calmly at the black wood above him. After a while, he murmured softly.
“Unfortunately… it’s still incomplete.”
“Incomplete?” Next to Father Wang, Situ was completely stunned. He looked at Father Wang, then at the black wood again. Even with his cultivation base, he couldn’t sense anything off. The black wood in the sky definitely seemed whole and complete to him.
“Yes, it’s nothing more than a very realistic illusory projection.” Father Wang replied softly.
“A projection…” Situ felt even more shocked. At the same time, Wang Baole, standing in the void between the seventh and eight bridges, sighed softly to himself.
The black wood outside the Immortal Astral Continent was formed from his wood essence, so he obviously knew that it wasn’t real. Thus, he wasn’t particularly worried. His mind was clear and his expression was unchanged.
However, Wang Baole could only detect this because of his inseparable connection with the black wood, while Father Wang was different. Looking at things this way, it was obvious just how terrifying of an existence Father Wang was.
“If that thing is just a projection, then just where… is the real black wood?” Situ suddenly spoke up. Eyes flickering with thought, he looked up at the vault of heaven. His gaze seemed to penetrate the starry sky as he looked in a certain direction.
“It’s there.” Father Wang said calmly. At the same time, Wang Baole suddenly turned his head and looked into the distance.
The place he was looking at was an infinite distance away, and it was suffused with a seemingly endless red mist. This mist churned and roiled, and it seemed to have not had a moment of rest since the beginning of time.
One hundred and eight figures sat within this mist, all with heaven-shaking cultivation. Within each figure was a different starry sky.
Moreover, these 108 figures seemed to be arranged in a certain pattern. If someone were to look at them from on high, they would see that this pattern… was in the shape of a human body.
At the center of this pattern, where a person’s dantian would be located, was… the core of the red mist, where the mist was so thick that neither sight nor divine sense could penetrate it. It was an area completely isolated from everything else.
And within this isolated area, there was actually… a 109th figure!
This figure was sitting cross-legged in meditation, and his features couldn’t be made out. His whole body was shrouded in dense red mist, with only the center of his brows being slightly more visible. Embedded there at the center of his brows was… a black wooden nail!
The power of the black wooden nail distorted everything around it, forcing the red mist away and revealing the figure’s brow. However, the red mist seemed unwilling to be forced like this, so it continuously roiled and churned in an attempt to cover the nail.
Perhaps… this was the reason behind the endless churning of the infinite expanse of mist outside.
“The location of my real original form!” Back at the Heaven Trampling Bridge, Wang Baole withdrew his gaze. After a few breaths of silence, he raised his head with a determined look in his eyes. Staring at the later bridges, he firmly lifted his foot to take a step.
As he lifted his foot, the projection of the black wood up above him began falling even faster. As his raised foot descended to the ground, so too did the black wood completely descend, slamming down on the Immortal Astral Continent, the Heaven Trampling Bridge, and Wang Baole’s head!
There were no tremors in the earth, nor was the world torn asunder as some had imagined. Amid the horrified screams of countless living beings, as soon as the piece of black wood touched Wang Baole, it… silently fused into his body!
In comparison to this piece of black wood that was as large as the entire Immortal Astral Continent, Wang Baole’s body was tiny and insignificant. But at that moment, in a manner that left people questioning their senses, the massive piece of black wood instantly disappeared, having completely entered Wang Baole’s body.
And an instant later, Wang Baole’s foot finally landed.
That one step took him across the void between the seventh and eighth bridges, across the eighth bridge itself, and even across the void between the eighth and ninth bridges. With that step, he crossed an entire bridge, and landed on…
The ninth bridge!
Moreover, he wasn’t at the beginning of the ninth bridge, but rather at the end!
As Wang Baole’s figure appeared at the end of the ninth bridge, the whole world seemed to explode into an uproar.
“The… ninth bridge!!”
“One step… took him across a whole bridge!”
“It’s not just a whole bridge. He had only just passed the seventh bridge before, and now he’s at the end of the ninth!”
Despite the astonishment of the people below, Wang Baole himself was actually feeling somewhat regretful. In the end, he could only summon a mere projection of the black wood, and thus couldn’t make it to the eleventh bridge. He could only stop here at the end of the ninth.
Now, although he was only a tiny distance away from stepping off of the ninth bridge, Wang Baole could feel a heavy pressure weighing down on him that made it impossible for him to continue walking forward.
“Dad, is he… going to stop here?” In front of the first bridge, Wang Yiyi softly spoke.
Father Wang’s expression was calm.
“I haven’t given him my gift yet, so of course he won’t stop here.”