đź“– Chapter 1354 - Treacherous Bastard!
Wang Baole’s expression changed, and he pushed himself to move at full speed. Fortunately, he managed to escape the shadow of the hand just as it slammed down on his previous location; however, the windstorm formed by the hand’s violent force still swept over him. His body staggered for an instant, but he immediately recovered and sped off without looking back.
Meanwhile, the finger chasing after him stopped for a moment, sticking itself in the position of the hand’s missing finger and gradually merging into it.
Wang Baole forced himself to accelerate even further as he watched the ensuing scene. After the fifth finger joined the hand, all five fingers slowly curled into a fist, touching each other as if communicating. Then, the hand opened up and rushed toward Wang Baole even faster than before.
“You’re going too far!” Wang Baole felt extremely depressed. He was strong enough to fight a single finger, but against five fingers plus a palm, it was impossible for him to win unless his original body arrived.
In fact, if this gigantic hand caught up with him, it might not be long before Wang Baole himself was devoured and absorbed instead. However, he didn’t feel any regret toward his greed earlier.
After all, wealth was gained amid danger. If not for his previous efforts, how could his Desire Body have grown to a height of more than 500 zhang?
That was why he didn’t linger on his feeling of depression. Wang Baole continued fleeing at full speed, turning into a long arc of light that flashed past Cheng Lingzi and the others.
Cheng Lingzi’s group stared blankly at the gigantic hand furiously chasing after Wang Baole. All of their faces turned pale as they looked at each other in shock. Although Wang Baole’s previous show of strength had been terrifying, they couldn’t help but think that… this new Gluttony Lord was about to die…
Even Cheng Lingzi, who had always been fully confident in Wang Baole, felt that confidence waver. He opened his mouth to say something, but as he looked at Wang Baole’s disheveled figure in the distance, he fell silent.
As for Wang Baole himself, he felt a headache coming on. Although he was fast, the hand chasing him was no slower. Whether amid the mist or below it, the hand pursued him relentlessly, as if it would never stop.
There were even a few times when the hand used some unknown method to suddenly accelerate and grab at Wang Baole. Although he dodged every time, it still made him feel like he was going crazy.
“I can’t keep going like this. The longer this goes on, the more dangerous it’ll be…” Feeling anxious, Wang Baole suddenly lowered his head to look at the ground. He seemed to struggle for a moment, but soon, his eyes gleamed with determination.
His body flickered as he changed directions. Suddenly, he headed straight down to the ground.
Since flying through the sky couldn’t let him escape from the hand behind him, there was only one way out for Wang Baole – the underground!
“Let’s see if this hand can match up to the sea of chaotic wills underground!” Wang Baole moved with astonishing speed. In an instant, he had already appeared above the ground, and he charged downward into the soil without hesitation.
Naturally, the gigantic hand followed him. A bang rang out as it penetrated the ground, chasing Wang Baole through the soil while annihilating everything in its way.
Soon, Wang Baole reached a spot more than two thousand zhang underground. The chaotic wills here were already very powerful, but Wang Baole didn’t slow down at all. With the giant hand still pursuing him, he continued to descend.
When he was more than four thousand zhang deep, Wang Baole could clearly sense that he was doing much better than his previous attempt. At the same time, he noticed that the hand behind him had slowed down a tiny bit under the bombardment of the sea of wills. Its five fingers seemed to be slightly uncoordinated.
This scene instantly enlivened Wang Baole, and he continued rushing downward. Just like that, he reached the area five thousand zhang below ground, and a faint cry once more echoed in his ears.
“Help me… help me…”
This cry for help seemed to contain some sort of magical power. As soon as he heard it, Wang Baole’s law of tongue’s desire began fluctuating violently.
At this depth, Wang Baole was already feeling uncomfortable. But when he saw that the five fingers of the hand seemed about to split off, he gritted his teeth and continued charging in the direction of the cry.
By now, he was already near the depth where he had been forced to retreat last time. He had entered from a different location, but that didn’t matter. With the cry for help as his guide, Wang Baole headed closer and closer to the cave he had seen before.
An incense stick’s worth of time later, the cry for help had become much louder, making Wang Baole feel like his mind was buzzing. Fortunately, his law of tongue’s desire was effective in offsetting the voice, allowing him to maintain his mental clarity. At the same time, perhaps because of the endless sea of chaotic wills, the hand behind him suddenly rumbled as its five fingers separated from the palm.
In an instant, the five fingers and the palm flew backward in six different directions, allowing Wang Baole to finally breathe a sigh of relief. A vicious look on his face, he noted down the direction that the finger he’d previously been absorbing went.
“Just you wait!” Muttering to himself, Wang Baole thought for a moment before deciding not to leave. Instead, he continued rushing downward, following the cry for help.
Looking in on the cave was something he would eventually do anyway. Since he was already here, there was no reason not to keep going.
After an incense stick’s worth of time, Wang Baole reached his limit. But it was also at this moment that the soil in front of him disappeared, revealing a dark cave.
Inside the cave, a figure was floating in midair, covered in countless tentacles. These tentacles penetrated deep into the figure’s body, constantly transferring the figure’s vitality and soul power to some unknown location.
Here, the chaotic wills were extremely violent. Wang Baole forcibly endured the agonizing pain and looked at the floating figure with bloodshot eyes.
“Help me…”
Now that he was this close, Wang Baole could see that the floating figure was a man. His body was withered like a corpse, but the pressure radiating out from him was comparable to Wang Baole’s original body’s full strength.
At this moment, the man seemed to be aware of Wang Baole’s presence. His closed eyes slowly opened, revealing doubled pupils as he looked at Wang Baole.
But as soon as he caught sight of Wang Baole’s appearance, his eyes flew completely open. The ground shook as his whole body trembled violently, and monstrous hatred erupted from him as he roared.
“Emperor, you treacherous bastard! Despicable villain!!”