đź“– Chapter 1321 - Fusing Dao
In the World Realm, Wang Baole suddenly lifted his head and looked toward the vault of heaven. His heart palpitated as he felt his blood run cold.
Looking up, he could see no particular abnormalities in the sky. Although there were cracks and distortions, these were caused by his movement as well as that of the Emperor Spirits chasing him.
However, the pounding of his heart was extremely powerful. Squinting his eyes, Wang Baole channeled his cultivation base, and the sky that appeared above him instantly changed.
There seemed to be a storm descending upon him. After sensing it carefully, Wang Baole’s pupils contracted, because this incoming storm was like a giant hand.
The pressure this hand exuded was absolutely horrifying, even for him.
“This isn’t the fifth step!” Wang Baole instantly thought about the legend he had heard in the Joy Branch village.
According to the great elder of the village, it was rumored that above the six Lords of Desire, there was someone called the Protector.
This Protector guarded the slumbering god of this world…
“This aura… is vaguely familiar, but it’s different from the Emperor’s aura. Given that it’s so strong, it can only belong to… the Protector!
“The Protector’s cultivation base is in the sixth step…” Wang Baole sighed internally. However, he didn’t regret his choice. With the Dao Seed of Ear’s Desire, integrating into this world would become much easier.
Right now, there was no time to think too much. His body suddenly blurred, and the river of time appeared in front of him. He stepped inside without hesitation.
Using the power of the outside world was dangerous, but he was being hunted by Emperor Spirits at the moment anyway, so it didn’t really matter.
In an instant, his body disappeared into the river of time. Wang Baole continued moving through this World Realm, but his figure constantly flickered in between different time periods.
The Emperor Spirits were far weaker than him, and their only hope of victory was overwhelming him with sheer numbers. Thus, if Wang Baole ignored them and escaped at full speed, the Emperor Spirits’ shortcomings were clearly exposed.
They couldn’t catch up with Wang Baole.
Just like that, as he flickered through the river of time, Wang Baole quickly shook off the Emperor Spirits completely.
However… he couldn’t shake off the giant hand of the black-robed man from the Slumber Realm. No matter how Wang Baole moved throughout time, the hand still existed in all time periods, pursuing him constantly.
After jumping past dozens of time periods, Wang Baole’s expression turned gloomy. Looking up at the sky, he saw that the giant hand was still reaching down to grab him.
“Even if you’re in the sixth step, you want to rely on a single hand to suppress me?” Originally, Wang Baole hadn’t intended to fight back; the thought of exposing too much of his power made him feel uneasy.
But this hand was chasing him relentlessly, and it seemed futile for him to keep running away. If he wanted to escape, he needed to destroy this hand and conceal himself before the Protector could send down another one.
When his train of thought reached this point, Wang Baole’s eyes gleamed with decisiveness and he stopped running. As the giant hand descended, battle intent erupted from his body. He raised his hand and activated the Eight Extremes Dao, causing a silver ingot, a teardrop, a rune of fire, and a stele to suddenly appear in the air.
Each of these manifestations was heaven-shaking and earth-shattering, but Wang Baole’s wood manifestation was notably missing. Here in Source Universe Dao Void, Wang Baole was extremely leery of using any kind of wood power.
But even though one of the five elements was missing, there was also the duality of yin and yang. The aura of death erupted outward, and an illusory figure that was similar yet different from the Heaven Trampling Bridge appeared. With all of this gathered on Wang Baole, his battle prowess instantly reached an astonishing height.
Using this as a foundation, he even drew on the power of the myriad Daos of the universe to create his own net of laws. These laws meshed together and turned into a massive figure that towered into the sky.
Naturally, this figure looked exactly like Wang Baole.
As the giant hand from the Slumber Realm reached down, Wang Baole’s Dao Body instantly punched out!
This punch contained the full might of the fifth step. When it smashed into the giant hand, even the river of time couldn’t bear it and abruptly exploded into countless fragments.
The giant hand also collapsed, as did Wang Baole’s Dao Body.
All three broke apart simultaneously.
At the same time, in the Slumber Realm, the man in the black robe sitting cross-legged on the parrot statue suddenly stood up. Red light flashing in his eyes, he leaned forward and looked down at the ground.
As he did so, Wang Baole’s figure appeared in one of the countless fragments of the shattered river of time. He flashed out of the past and into the present, appearing in another location in the World Realm.
There was an unimaginable distance between this place and the mountain where he had previously been located.
After leaving the river of time, Wang Baole’s complexion was pale, but his eyes were completely calm. He quickly unleashed the power of joy to its fullest extent, filling every corner of his body and covering up the laws of the outside world.
However, the sense of crisis coming from the vault of heaven didn’t dissipate. Thus, Wang Baole unhesitatingly took out the Dao Seed of Ear’s Desire and pressed it between his brows, allowing it to fuse into his body.
Rumbling spread throughout his body in an instant, but Wang Baole’s expression didn’t change at all. A moment later, he disappeared on the spot, having escaped deep into the earth beneath his feet.
There, surrounded by soil, Wang Baole sat down cross-legged. Like a corpse, he was completely motionless, with no signs of life. At the same time, the laws of joy and ear’s desire were incompatible with each other, like fire and water, and immediately started to fight within his body.
During their fight, all traces of the outside world in Wang Baole’s body were cleanly erased.
If the giant hand had remained locked on to him, then even if Wang Baole managed to do this, it would still be able to track him down. But now that the hand had been destroyed, Wang Baole had obtained an opportunity.
While the laws of joy and ear’s desire were fighting inside Wang Baole’s body, a massive face slowly emerged in the sky of the World Realm.
This face contained an indescribable majesty. Its red eyes were cold and passionless, but at the same time, seemed to contain a monstrous storm. Despite this contradiction, no incongruity could be seen in the face.
As soon as it appeared, all the experts of the World Realm trembled. Lifting their heads, they stared at the face in the sky in awe, then lowered their heads again with deep gazes.
Since he wanted to conceal himself, Wang Baole didn’t dare to look at this face. For the strong, seeing each other was already a form of karma; thus, if he didn’t want to expose himself, he had to refrain from looking at the face.
However, even without looking, he already knew who it was.
“The one whose dream I entered with my Dream Dao… as well as the Protector… the Black Earth Emperor.”
Indeed, the face that had appeared in the sky… belonged to the Black Earth Emperor.