📖 Chapter 1339 - You Like Playing Hide and Seek?

16 May, 2024

Almost as soon as the Desire Lord’s voice echoed out, all throughout Tongue’s Desire City, cultivators sitting in meditation suddenly opened their eyes. Their eyes held all manner of feelings; anxiety, excitement, anticipation… In a flash, these people all stood up and turned into long arcs of light, heading straight toward the vortex in the sky.

Their appearance instantly attracted the attention of the crowd below the altar, and sounds of discussion quickly echoed out.

"It's Shen Ludao!"

"And Feng Di!"

"That’s Cheng Lingzi!"

Voices spread in all directions. Among the figures of the mincemeat acolytes flying toward the vortex, there were four who attracted the most attention.

One was a tall and burly bald man. He was clearly different from the mountainous Gluttony Lords, but his silhouette still gave off a sense of overwhelming might.

Dressed in a long yellow robe and carrying boundless momentum, he was none other than Shen Ludao.

It seemed like there was a furnace^[1] in his body. As he moved through the sky, it seemed as if all of heaven was on fire. Most of the other mincemeat acolytes seemed unable to take the heat and showed grimaces on their faces.

Only the three other attention-grabbers could remain unfazed in front of this power. One of them was a man who was like a mountain of meat, not too dissimilar from the Gluttony Lords themselves.

This mountain of meat was dressed in a white robe, and he exuded a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering aura. Domineering pressure radiated out from his body, and there was a massive halo made up of countless complicated runes behind him.

Although he didn’t emit any heat waves like Shen Ludao, a shocking power of qi and blood erupted from his body, triggering the feeling of tongue’s desire in all the onlookers.

This man was the one who had suddenly risen to prominence… the mincemeat acolyte known as Feng Di.

As for the other two attention-grabbers, one looked like a teenager. Unlike his compatriots, he was deathly skinny, looking almost like one of the starving ghosts. There was an eerie smile on his face that seemed as if it would never fade. When he looked at the other mincemeat acolytes flying through the sky, he licked his lips, as if he could barely contain his hunger.

The last one was, of course, Wang Baole.

Compared to the others, his appearance was very ordinary. He wasn’t too fat, nor too thin. There was no halo behind him, nor did he have a divine furnace burning within his body. He seemed normal in every respect, except for… an icy coldness that was usually hidden deep within. As he flew out at this moment, this coldness gradually rose to the surface.

This coldness was such that it seemed to freeze the furnace, suppress the qi and blood, and overrule all creation.

Aside from these four people, the other mincemeat acolytes were clearly inferior. They were like stars next to the bright moon; although they shone, they were dim in comparison.

However, participation in the Great Hunt was mandatory. Thus, these mincemeat acolytes could only grit their teeth and fly toward the vortex. As they did so, most of them gravitated toward people they were close with. After all, even though the no-kill rule was abolished during the Great Hunt, there were times when allying together would give them the best chance at survival.

Just like that, all the mincemeat acolytes in Tongue’s Desire City flew toward the vortex. Soon, Shen Ludao became the first to arrive. Looking back at the people behind him, especially at Feng Di and Wang Baole, he laughed in a sinister manner and stepped into the vortex without hesitation.

Feng Di was next. Face expressionless, he completely ignored Shen Ludao’s glance. The halo behind him shone brightly, and the power of qi and blood radiating from his body fluctuated violently as he flew straight into the vortex without slowing down.

Next was Wang Baole, as well as the emaciated Cheng Lingzi. Both of them approached the vortex at almost the same time, and as they did so Cheng Lingzi smiled at Wang Baole.

“My dad asked me to eat you once we’re in there, but I like playing hide and seek. So… you better hide well.” Cheng Lingzi licked his lips as he spoke.

His voice echoed into the surroundings, making the other mincemeat acolytes shy away slightly. The people in the crowd below all felt that Cheng Lingzi was eerie and bizarre.

As for the eight Gluttony Lords, they were mostly expressionless. However, Tuo Lingzi, who had been blocked by Zhou Huo when he wanted to take action against Wang Baole previously, smiled.

He was famous for his overprotectiveness, and Cheng Lingzi was the most outstanding among his progeny. Thus, he believed that even if Cheng Lingzi didn’t manage to become a Gluttony Lord this time, no one would dare to kill him.

Even the new Gluttony Lord would have to be wary of Tuo Lingzi’s revenge.

‘As for this Master Icespirit, he might be strong, but I know my son well. He won’t be a problem.’

However, as Cheng Lingzi’s voice echoed in everyone’s ears, Wang Baole suddenly paused his motion of stepping into the vortex. Instead, raising his eyebrows, his body suddenly blurred, and he appeared behind Cheng Lingzi in an instant.

As Cheng Lingzi’s expression changed drastically, Wang Baole reached out with his right hand.

“Bold! You haven’t even entered the battlefield, and you still dare to make a move? You’re courting death!” A cold light flashed through Tuo Lingzi’s eyes. He suddenly moved his hand and made a grasping motion toward the sky.

A gigantic hand appeared with a bang and flew straight into the sky. On the side, Zhou Huo frowned and wanted to stop it, but at that moment, a powerful force erupted from the number one Gluttony Lord. Zhou Huo’s body shook, and he missed the opportunity to block Tuo Lingzi’s attack.

As Zhou Huo’s expression changed, Tuo Lingzi’s giant hand shot into the sky toward Wang Baole. However, Wang Baole didn’t even look at the encroaching hand. Instead, he continued to grab at Cheng Lingzi.

“Idiot!” Cheng Lingzi laughed savagely as his law of tongue’s desire exploded outward. His body suddenly expanded to more than eighty zhang tall, and rather than dodging, he opened his mouth as if to swallow Wang Baole. His mouth expanded rapidly, seemingly becoming big enough to devour Wang Baole whole in just an instant.

A brutal gleam shone in his eyes. After all, right now, Wang Baole had Tuo Lingzi’s hand behind him and Cheng Lingzi’s mouth in front. In Cheng Lingzi’s eyes, Wang Baole would definitely be heavily injured if not killed, and Cheng Lingzi himself would be able to obtain some of his power of law.

‘He’s delivered himself right to my doorstep!’ Full of pride and arrogance, the gleam in Cheng Lingzi’s shone even brighter, but… in the next moment, his whole body trembled, and his eyes almost popped out of his head.

That was because… a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering law of tongue’s desire suddenly erupted from Wang Baole.

Wang Baole’s body instantly ballooned, growing to thirty zhang, fifty zhang, seventy zhang, ninety zhang…

In an instant, he reached ninety-nine zhang, standing between heaven and earth like a giant upholding the sky. The right hand that was reaching out also grew, carrying inexorable momentum as it directly grabbed Cheng Lingzi’s neck. Cheng Lingzi was completely dumbfounded, eyes bulging out as Wang Baole calmly spoke.

“You like playing hide and seek?”