đź“– Chapter 1340 - Qing Yangzi!
Wang Baole’s voice was ice cold. It wasn’t just Cheng Lingzi who was shocked, but everyone else in Tongue’s Desire City as well. Even Tuo Lingzi, who was already attacking, had his expression change drastically.
Zhou Huo and the other Gluttony Lords also narrowed their eyes.
However, everything happened too quickly, and Tuo Lingzi didn’t even have time to react. The next moment, Wang Baole swung his hand around to block Tuo Lingzi’s giant hand with Cheng Lingzi’s body.
Tuo Lingzi’s eyes instantly turned bloodshot, but there was nothing he could do. Despite his attempts to pull back the giant hand, it still made contact with his beloved son.
In an instant, half of Cheng Lingzi’s body collapsed into chunks of flesh and blood. No screams of agony came out as Wang Baole’s right hand around his throat choked out any sound Cheng Lingzi could possible make. Thus, only the violent trembling of his body could display the pain he was currently in.
Ignoring Tuo Lingzi’s ugly expression, Wang Baole clenched his right hand. What little remained of Cheng Lingzi’s body exploded in an instant.
In a single breath, a major portion of Cheng Lingzi’s law of tongue’s desire was swallowed up by Wang Baole. However, Cheng Lingzi was a veteran mincemeat acolyte, after all, and he had numerous trump cards. At that moment, just as Wang Baole swallowed his power of law, his body suddenly burned away into ashes.
An instant later, the void distorted next to the vortex, and Cheng Lingzi’s figure appeared again. He no longer looked like a teenager, but rather an adult, and his body… had become even skinnier.
His complexion was deathly pale, and his aura was feeble as well. As he looked at Wang Baole, there was unprecedented terror in his eyes.
“Eh?” Wang Baole was a little surprised and looked over at Cheng Lingzi near the vortex. Suddenly, his body disappeared without a trace, and when he reappeared, he was already at Cheng Lingzi’s location.
But after barely surviving, Cheng Lingzi was as alert as a startled rabbit. By the time Wang Baole arrived, his figure had already disappeared from the spot and appeared inside the swirling vortex!
He didn’t dare to run toward his father. There wasn’t enough time. Cheng Lingzi had the feeling that if Wang Baole made a move, his father wouldn’t be able to save his life. He… would definitely die.
Moreover, he didn’t think he would be given the chance to use his life-saving method a second time. Thus, his only shot at survival was to hurry into the vortex and hide away in the world inside.
Indeed, at this moment, Nightmares of Desire suddenly emerged from the void between Wang Baole and the altar in Tongue’s Desire City, forming a blockade. If Cheng Lingzi had tried escaping in that direction, he would have been intercepted by these Nightmares of Desire.
“Interesting. As it happens, I also like playing hide-and-seek, so I hope you hide carefully.” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes.
Actually, if he used his power of the outside world, he could have easily slaughtered Cheng Lingzi with a flip of his hand. Thus, he didn’t really care too much that the man had escaped. As he moved toward the vortex, most of his attention was placed on the altar behind him, where Tuo Lingzi was glaring at him with eyes full of killing intent.
After the first attack, Tuo Lingzi didn’t make another move. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to, but rather… a wave of pressure from the Desire Lord of Tongue’s Desire City had just swept over his body.
Because of this pressure, Tuo Lingzi was unable to do anything. As his killing intent boiled over to no avail, he felt like he was about to go crazy.
Wang Baole narrowed his eyes and looked at the imposing lump of meat on the altar.
“Become a Gluttony Lord, and I’ll forget about all of this. Fail, and I will confiscate your law of tongue’s desire.” The Desire Lord looked at Wang Baole and slowly spoke.
With these words, the sky changed color, and the wind and clouds churned. The whole world seemed to shake under the power of the Desire Lord’s voice.
Wang Baole obviously couldn’t disregard this Desire Lord, whose cultivation base was at the same realm as his true body. Pondering for a moment, he nodded, then turned around and went straight into the vortex. In an instant, his figure disappeared inside.
It was only after Wang Baole disappeared that the other mincemeat acolytes finally entered the vortex with reluctance. As the last one bitterly stepped inside, the Desire Lord on the altar waved a hand again, and the gigantic vortex in the sky slowly faded away.
Originally, abundance eaters and stomach fillers were supposed to participate as well, but the Desire Lord had evidently changed their mind. At this moment, looking at the gradually disappearing vortex, a smile appeared on that flabby face.
“Is it him…”
… …
Beneath the second layer of Source Universe Dao Void was an endless expanse of red mist. Below this mist was the first layer of the world, also known as the Buried Realm.
Here, all the universes of Source Universe Dao Void were laid to rest, and countless living dead had piled up over innumerable epochs.
The living dead were called so because their consciousnesses were sleeping. However, they still moved, driven by various kinds of desire.
“The Desire Lord of Tongue’s Desire City… knew my identity.” At the moment, in this Buried Realm, Wang Baole stood in midair.
Scanning the ground with his gaze, all he could see was a boundless expanse of pitch-black soil. Here, the aura of death was so thick it was almost tangible, giving birth to a gloomy cold that seemed able to freeze anything.
Nevertheless… Wang Baole could feel that deep underground, there were countless aura fluctuations.
There were strong and weak fluctuations among them. The weakest seemed about as powerful as regular mortals, but as for the stronger ones… Wang Baole’s eyes narrowed slightly. Because of his true self’s caliber of existence, his sensitivity was on par with a cultivator in the fifth step. Thus, extending his perception to the deepest parts of the earth, he could faintly sense… around ninety auras which were similar to the Protector who had chased him previously.
Thanks to this, Wang Baole finally understood where exactly the 108 figures that surrounded the Emperor in Source Universe Dao Void had gone.
In silence, Wang Baole raised his head again and looked at the roiling red mist above him.
“The number of auras down there doesn’t add up to 108, but what if… I add in the Lords of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires…” Wang Baole pondered for a while, then took a deep breath.
“In that case, the Desire Lord of Tongue’s Desire City is one of the 108 generals?”
This conclusion was inconsistent with Wang Baole’s previous guess. Originally, he had thought that the lords were manifestations of the Emperor’s seven emotions and six desires, making them relatively independent clones. But now…
“The waters in Source Universe Dao Void… run very, very deep indeed.” Narrowing his eyes, Wang Baole suddenly raised his right hand and grabbed toward the void, and a strand of black hair appeared out of nothingness. It seemed that it had wanted to silently wrap around Wang Baole, but now that he had noticed, there was no chance for it to succeed.
Grabbing the hair tightly, Wang Baole pulled, and a huge amount of black hair suddenly appeared from the void. It was like a flood of ink filling the air.
In the end, the source of all this black hair was finally dragged out of the void. It was… the head of a woman, glaring daggers at Wang Baole.
Her eyes were filled with boundless hatred!
"Qing Yangzi, you are Qing Yangzi!!"