📖 Chapter 1343 - Fishing!

18 May, 2024

In response to Wang Baole’s words, the hill beast burst forth with its full power.

At this moment, the bizarre quality of the hill beast was fully displayed; it actually blocked the sea of wills for a moment. Unfortunately, it wasn’t strong enough, so a moment later, its tunnel-like proboscis could no longer bear the exertion and began to collapse.

However, this single moment held great significance for Wang Baole. With it, he was able to shuttle through the collapsing tunnel and escape out of the underground. Flying high into the air, Wang Baole resisted the pain in his soul and grabbed at the hill beast, pulling it off the ground with a bang.

Although the hill beast lacked intelligence, it had been quite useful to him this time. Moreover, he could still use it later, so Wang Baole decided to save its life.

Just before the hill beast was swallowed up by the sea of wills, it was dragged into the air. In the place it had just been, a monstrous noise echoed out from the ground, like the howls of all living beings converging on one spot.

Suddenly, a bulge appeared in the ground, turning into a giant face that let out a ferocious roar. Looking from a distance, the earth was like a giant net, sealing some sort of devil god within. The face at this moment was the face of that devil god, trying to force its way through the net and escape its seal.

However… looking past the deafening roar, and staring carefully at the face’s mouth, it could be seen that the shape of its lips didn’t match the sound of the roar.

Its mouth was clearly speaking two words, over and over again.

“Save me… save me… save me…”

Carrying the hill beast in the sky, a pale-faced Wang Baole looked down at the ground with a complicated expression. After a moment, his body flickered, and he flew away into the distance.

On the ground, the bulging face roared for a long time before slowly calming down. Gradually falling silent, it retracted into the ground, allowing the earth to return to calm.

After a long time, Wang Baole finally released the hill beast. However, he left an imprint on it, as well as some nourishing food from Tongue’s Desire City to heal its injuries. Then, he found a withered treetop and sat down cross-legged in meditation as he recovered.

Two hours later, Wang Baole opened his eyes. His physical injuries were nothing, but the damage to his divine soul still lingered, making his eyes bloodshot. Worst of all, his law of tongue’s desire had become incredibly feeble.

It was like a dim candle flame about to go out.

After examining his current state, Wang Baole smiled bitterly.

“I can’t tell if I made a profit, a loss, or came out even…” A sigh escaping his mouth, Wang Baole grew thoughtful. When he rushed nearly six thousand zhang into the ground just now, he had only been able to take a single glance before being forced to retreat by the overwhelming sea of wills.

However… this single glance still led to him seeing something strange.

He had seen a cave, and there was a person in that cave.

Wang Baole hadn’t seen that person’s appearance clearly, and he didn’t know whether they were a man or a woman. However, he had sensed that the aura radiating from them seemed to be… similar to his true body.

In other words, the person he had seen was at least an Almighty in the fifth step.

That person hadn’t been seated cross-legged as might be expected, but rather floating in midair inside the cave. Hundreds of black tentacles had been stretching out of their body, and those tentacles, aside from their color… were exactly the same as the golden tentacles in Tongue’s Desire City.

Moreover, rather than growing naturally from their body, it seemed that the tentacles had been forcibly planted on the floating person by an outsider. Each tentacle had one end buried in the person’s body, while the other end stabbed deep into the soil around the cave. Wang Baole didn’t know just how far they went.

These tentacles weren’t inert, but rather squirmed from time to time, as if absorbing something. Obviously, they were constantly extracting some sort of power from that Almighty’s body and sending it to an unknown location.

And the moment Wang Baole had seen all of this, he had also seen… that Almighty suddenly open their mouth and speak. It was impossible to tell from their voice whether they were a man or a woman, but their agony was clear.

“Save me…”

Wang Baole closed his eyes as these words continued echoing in his mind. It was because of this voice that his divine will had been taxed so much.

“Too bad my true body isn’t here…” After a while, Wang Baole opened his eyes again. He had a lot of speculations about what he had seen, but he couldn’t make any accurate judgments. If he wanted to know the truth…

“I’ll have to take another look!” Wang Baole’s eyes flashed with bright light. Lowering his head, he fell into deep thought, and when he lifted his head again, the light in his eyes had turned sharp.

“I have to replenish my law of tongue’s desire as quickly as possible. Otherwise, I won’t be able to resist the sea of chaotic wills underground.” Narrowing his eyes, Wang Baole thought of Cheng Lingzi, who apparently liked playing hide-and-seek.

Cheng Lingzi was too naive. He had no idea that Wang Baole had silently marked him with a wisp of divine will before he escaped into the vortex.

Originally, Wang Baole hadn’t planned to go seek Cheng Lingzi out so soon, but since he now needed to replenish his law of tongue’s desire, it was time for this game of hide-and-seek to come to an end.

Thinking to this point, Wang Baole’s figure on the treetop suddenly turned to dust and disappeared.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Buried Realm, a little fish was lying motionless deep beneath the surface in a pond of turbid water.

There was only this one single fish in the entire pond. It didn’t move at all and its vitality was suppressed to the limit, so most people glancing over wouldn’t notice a thing.

This fish was Cheng Lingzi.

Wang Baole had given him a great scare along with heavy injuries, so he didn’t dare to move around freely in the Buried Realm. Instead, he found this pond, jumped in, and used a special bloodline ability to turn into this little fish. Lying motionless in the depths, he continuously cursed Wang Baole in his mind.

‘Bastard, just you wait. When this Great Hunt is over, I’m going to make you beg for death!!’ Cheng Lingzi’s hatred for Wang Baole was absolutely irreconcilable. Because of Wang Baole, he had lost any chance of becoming a Gluttony Lord this time, and was even facing a crisis of life and death.

Cheng Lingzi knew very well that Wang Baole wasn’t his only enemy. Here in the Buried Realm, any of the other mincemeat acolytes could have nefarious intentions toward him. After all, although his father was a Gluttony Lord, he was incredibly weak at the moment. It was hard to believe that others could resist the allure of his powerful law of tongue’s desire once they saw him.

‘Master Icespirit, as long as I survive this calamity, I’ll definitely return the harm you did to me a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times!!’ Just as Cheng Lingzi, who had turned into a little fish, was cursing with all his might, suddenly… a thread appeared in front of him.

This thread dropped down from the water surface above him and landed right next to his mouth.

Cheng Lingzi’s body instantly stiffened.