📖 Chapter 1335 - Origin

16 May, 2024

Tongue’s Desire City held a Gluttony Festival once every month. From the founding of the city until the current day, this was one thing that had never changed.

This was both because of tradition and also in order to attract more people to the city. More importantly, it was to meet the needs of the powerhouses cultivating the law of tongue’s desire.

Although most of the aura of tongue’s desire would be sucked away by the Desire Lord, the remaining aura was still a great supplement for the Gluttony Lords and mincemeat acolytes.

Naturally, this supplement wasn’t available to just anyone. Only those with a certain level of status were permitted to absorb it. This obviously included the eight Gluttony Lords, as well as a select number of mincemeat acolytes.

In Tongue’s Desire City, the stomach fillers and abundance eaters could actually be considered expendable. Unless too many of them died at once, it didn’t really matter.

Although these people appeared to be of middling status, they were really all part of the lower class.

Aside from the Desire Lord, the only ones who could be considered important in Tongue’s Desire City were the Gluttony Lords and the mincemeat acolytes. The former were few in number but extremely high in status, while the latter were formidable in themselves and also had the potential for further growth.

Because of this, the Gluttony Lords’ attitudes toward the mincemeat acolytes could be summarized as “entreat and suppress”. They would entreat those who were willing to be roped in, and suppress those who came under other Gluttony Lords.

Although it was unlikely for a mincemeat acolyte to become a Gluttony Lord, the possibility wasn’t zero. After all, the eight Gluttony Lords had all arrived at their current positions like this. Thus, befriending mincemeat acolytes could be considered a kind of investment.

Right now, it had already been too many years since the last time a new Gluttony Lord appeared in Tongue’s Desire City.

These were the reasons behind Zhou Huo’s decision to take action. After all, Wang Baole was a brand new mincemeat acolyte. Although his origin was unknown and his rise to power had been unnaturally fast, Tongue’s Desire City didn’t care about any of that. The only thing that mattered was how deeply he had cultivated the law of tongue’s desire.

Moreover, Wang Baole had done a good job sending the thousand bottles of Ice Spirit Water. Although these things weren’t too valuable to a Gluttony Lord like Zhou Huo, they were enough to express Wang Baole’s attitude.

And so, Zhou Huo had sent an invitation.

He invited Wang Baole to join his faction and share the aura of tongue’s desire.

If Wang Baole agreed, he would be tied to Zhou Huo.

Wang Baole didn’t intend on refusing this invitation. Actually, this was all part of his plan.

In order to truly integrate into any force, a person needed to occupy an important position. Currently, he hadn’t been able to achieve that; although he was now a mincemeat acolyte, he could only be considered to have just begun his integration into Tongue’s Desire City.

However, Wang Baole was extremely interested in the law of tongue’s desire. As a matter of fact, he had discovered that… when it came to the seven emotions and six desires, he had extraordinary aptitude.

Whether it was the law of joy in the past or the law of tongue’s desire now, he had been able to reach a high degree of mastery very quickly.

“Is it related to my true body’s realm?” Wang Baole had considered this phenomenon thoroughly. The fact that his true body was at the fifth step was only one of the possibilities.

As for the other possibilities… Wang Baole narrowed his eyes, and a bizarre light flickered through them.

Just like that, after responding to Zhou Huo’s invitation, three days passed. The Gluttony Festival arrived once more.

This was Wang Baole’s fourth Gluttony Festival since coming to Tongue’s Desire City. The first festival was the day he arrived at the city, and he had personally walked among the crowd. But for the following two, he hadn’t even left the shop.

Now, in this fourth festival, he would participate in a way completely unlike before. With the arrival of morning and the beginning of the festival, the entire city began cheering. The eight mountain-like Gluttony Lords were carried out of their residents by their subordinates, starting the march toward the center of the city.

As eight processions followed predetermined routes, various figures walked out of seclusion and disappeared in a flash, reappearing among the ranks of the Gluttony Lords.

These figures were all mincemeat acolytes, walking along with the Gluttony Lords they aligned themselves with. At the same time, the abundance eaters also arrived and joined their respective processions.

Cheering echoed through the streets, and more and more cultivators crowded around the processions. Just like that, as the festival became rowdier and rowdier, Wang Baole also walked out of his shop. In an instant, he appeared in the midst of Zhou Huo’s procession.

Gluttony Lord Zhou Huo immediately noticed Wang Baole’s arrival. His mountainous body shifted slightly as he turned his head to look at Wang Baole.

Wang Baole also took this chance to take a look at Zhou Huo. The latter’s massive body was like a giant furnace, radiating shocking waves of heat^[1]. This gave Wang Baole a new understanding of the ways a person could manifest the law of tongue’s desire, and he cupped his fists and bowed deeply.

Zhou Huo smiled and nodded without a word.

At the same time, four gazes fell on Wang Baole’s body from all around him. Glancing around, Wang Baole found that these four gazes came from four cultivators whose auras were similar to his own.

Of these four people, one was an old man and the other three were middle-aged. All of them gave off powerful fluctuations of tongue’s desire, clearly marking them as mincemeat acolytes. After making eye contact with Wang Baole, they all nodded slightly.

Obviously, these people were all wary of this new mincemeat acolyte, who had become famous by crushing one of their fellows. Wang Baole wasn’t someone who made enemies lightly, so he nodded politely in response.

With the two sides exchanging casual greetings, the procession continued.

As the festivities continued and the crowds behind the processions grew larger and larger, the most important moment of the Gluttony Festival arrived. Once all the Gluttony Lords gathered at the central altar… the Desire Lord descended.

Rumbling echoed out, and the astonishing lump of meat appeared on the altar once again. Standing behind Zhou Huo, Wang Baole looked up at the altar. When he came here the first time, he had only been able to look from a distance, but now… in terms of proximity, he was second only to the Gluttony Lords.

From this position, he could clearly feel the intensity of the law of tongue’s desire emanating from that lump of meat. Indeed, this was the sourcepoint and pinnacle of tongue’s desire; the lump’s aura easily enveloped the entire city, and in truth, it was still restraining itself.

Wang Baole could tell that if the lump didn’t hold itself back, it could instantaneously turn the entire World Realm into a world of tongue’s desire.

However, the other Desire Lords had obviously reached similar heights in their respective laws, and would never allow such a thing to happen.

‘As long as the Desire Lord still lives, the pinnacle of the law of tongue’s desire will forever be inaccessible.

‘Source Universe Dao Void really is incredible. In this one world… there are actually several Almighties at this level.’ Wang Baole narrowed his eyes as he looked at the lump of meat in front of him.

That figure was a powerhouse at the fifth step, a heaven-shaking expert who could even match up against his true body.

‘But, how did the laws of the seven emotions and six desires appear here? Or rather… where did they come from…’ Wang Baole pondered silently. He already had an answer in his heart.

‘The Emperor.’