đź“– Chapter 1342 - Take a Look
With the caliber of Wang Baole’s true body, although beasts that could ignore his pressure did exist, they were vanishingly rare.
Moreover, such a beast would have already developed intelligence. There was no way it would have chosen to attack Wang Baole unless it was absolutely forced to.
Thus, although he as a clone wasn’t as strong as his true body, it was only logical for Wang Baole to borrow some of his true body’s pressure to suppress this strange hill beast.
“My true body went to sleep and created me to do all these troublesome things for him. Since that’s the case, he can’t complain about me borrowing his pressure.” Snorting coldly, Wang Baole lowered his head to look at the hill beast below him, an icy chill flickering through his eyes.
The hill beast instantly began to tremble. Perhaps it once had some intelligence, but after many years of slumber, it had forgotten all that and now acted mostly on instinct.
In the face of a life and death crisis, subconscious instincts would become much more pronounced. Thus, the hill beast’s whole body softened in an instant. It drooped to the ground, having transformed from a hill into a massive mound of flesh.
“Get up. Use all your strength to get me to the underground.” Frowning slightly, Wang Baole calmly spoke.
His voice was like a divine order to the terrified hill beast. It immediately trembled, and its long proboscis stabbed deep into the ground.
Wang Baole checked with his divine will and could see that the hill beast was working hard. Its proboscis was completely straight, but even so, it only reached about one thousand zhang deep. However, the hill beast was obviously terrified of being thought of as useless. Thus, through some unknown method, its body suddenly shrank, and in exchange, its proboscis continuously lengthened. In the end, its tunnel-like proboscis reached a depth of two thousand zhang.
This came as a surprise to Wang Baole. His body flickered, and he traveled through the hill beast’s proboscis to appear two thousand zhang underground. However, as soon as he exited the tunnel and truly stepped into the underground, countless scattered wills came crashing toward him from all directions.
Any single one of these scattered wills had essentially zero offensive power. But with so many coming all at once, the roaring wave of wills seemed capable of annihilating all kinds of souls. As soon as Wang Baole exited the tunnel, his whole body shuddered.
His mind seemed to have instantaneously received countless thoughts and memories, but none of them were complete. Everything came in vague fragments that constantly bombarded his divine soul.
For a moment, his mind went blank despite his formidable cultivation base.
Nevertheless, he quickly recovered and successfully withstood the first wave. The law of tongue’s desire then circulated in his body, distorting his surroundings and blocking the incoming chaotic wills.
“How many living things have been buried here…” Wang Baole’s complexion was dark. The number of wills charging at him from all directions was already countless times greater than the number of living things in the stele world.
And he was only two thousand zhang underground. Wang Baole could sense that the further down he went, the greater the concentration of scattered wills would be.
“I don’t even know how deep it goes…” Narrowing his eyes, Wang Baole didn’t rashly try to go deeper. Instead, he remained where he was, circulating his law of tongue’s desire at full power. Eventually, a sort of equilibrium was reached, and he no longer felt the sensation of drowning in the sea of wills.
As he sighed in relief, Wang Baole discovered a peculiarity of the law of tongue’s desire. When used against people, this law seemed to affect the fleshly body, stirring up feelings of hunger. But in reality… its true use was against the soul.
The reason the law of tongue’s desire could resist the surging sea of wills was because whenever it touched them, they would collapse. These scattered wills seemed to have zero resistance against it, like encountering a natural enemy. They couldn’t make any progress at all against the law of tongue’s desire no matter how great their numbers were.
After reaching an equilibrium here, Wang Baole fell into deep thought. A moment later, he suddenly began descending deeper through the soil. His speed couldn’t be considered fast at all, moving merely ten zhang at a time.
Just like that, he continued descending. After traveling seven hundred zhang, bringing him to a total depth of 2,700 zhang underground, Wang Baole finally felt a little troubled.
Here, the equilibrium brought about by his law of tongue’s desire was showing signs of collapse. This was because the chaotic wills here were far more violent than his previous location, and there were also even more of them.
But most importantly, since some time ago… the wills of fourth step cultivators had started to appear.
These fourth step wills didn’t contain any emotions, but they were still leagues above the other wills. Moreover… there wasn’t just one or two of them. Many fourth step wills bombarded Wang Baole, making him feel slightly hesitant.
“Should I leave, or… should I rush in to take a look?” In the face of this increasingly terrifying sea of wills, Wang Baole inevitably had thoughts of retreating. But soon, determination flashed through his eyes.
“I’ve come this far, so how can I just leave? Those almighty beings of Source Universe Dao Void are slumbering deep below the earth. I might as well take a risk and see what secrets are hidden here!”
At this moment, the law of tongue’s desire in Wang Baole’s body exploded with power, and he instantly rushed downward.
He crossed three thousand zhang with a single movement!
A moment later, Wang Baole appeared 5,700 zhang below the ground. This… was his limit. If he went any further, it wouldn’t be taking a risk, but rather committing suicide.
And even though he wasn’t committing suicide just yet, the furious sea of wills at this depth made Wang Baole’s mind go blank as soon as he appeared here.
Fortunately, his true body’s caliber meant that he was able to barely recover his consciousness. He quickly looked around, and as shock appeared in his eyes, immediately started to retreat.
Although Wang Baole retreated without hesitation, he was already deep in the sea of wills. Chaotic wills bombarded him constantly as he moved upward, as if the sea of wills wanted to assimilate him completely. No matter how fast he retreated, he couldn’t get away.
Finally, just as Wang Baole’s consciousness was about to disappear, he managed to return to the spot two thousand zhang underground, where the tunnel-like proboscis of the hill beast was waiting. As soon as he entered the tunnel, the sea of wills surged madly toward him.
“Block it!” Wang Baole growled.