đź“– Chapter 1355 - Returning
The man’s voice formed a powerful impact, causing Wang Baole’s mind to rumble as he involuntarily took a few steps backward. Fortunately, with his current law of tongue’s desire as well as his original body’s caliber of existence, he could still remain standing.
But upon hearing the man’s words and stumbling backward from the impact, Wang Baole’s eyes turned completely bloodshot. Staring intently at that floating figure, he spoke in a hoarse voice.
“Look again carefully. I am the Emperor?”
The eyes of the man floating in midair were just as bloodshot as he stared at Wang Baole with an expression full of agony. But after a moment, a trace of clarity emerged on his face, and he gradually began to laugh.
“You’re not. Hahaha, you’re not… Interesting, how interesting!”
“Speak clearly!” Gritting his teeth, Wang Baole spoke while enduring the bombardment of chaotic wills.
“Come closer and I’ll tell you.” The man looked at Wang Baole with a distorted expression, eventually squeezing out a smile.
Wang Baole felt like his head was about to explode. After taking a careful look at the man floating in front of him, he let out a cold snort and turned to leave.
But as soon as he did so, the man floating in midair suddenly roared and chased after him. However, after rushing out only a couple zhang, the tentacles on the man’s body tightened, preventing him from moving any further. All he could do was struggle in the midst of the chain-like tentacles, roaring viciously at Wang Baole.
“Treacherous and despicable!!”
Wang Baole suddenly paused in his steps and looked back at the struggling figure. He could faintly sense that deeper down, there were dozens or even hundreds of caves similar to this one. Moreover, he had a certain guess about the people trapped in them.
After taking one last look at the man in the cave, Wang Baole left without turning back. Because the sea of wills weakened the further up he went, it wasn’t long before he finally broke ground.
Once again standing in the air of the Buried Realm, Wang Baole lowered his head and looked at the ground below with a profound light shining in his eyes.
“The Emperor Spirits look exactly the same as my original body. And that guy actually called me the Emperor… This is interesting…” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. After falling silent for a while, he suddenly sneered.
“Well, putting that madman’s words aside, the state of his body was quite interesting. He obviously didn’t have much rationality left, and he was even sealed… almost as if he’s being used as a source of nutrients.” A term from the Federation suddenly appeared in Wang Baole’s mind.
“Battery!”
From Wang Baole’s point of view, the madman’s current state was just like a battery, with the tentacles on his body extracting his power at all times. Since that was the case, it was likely that the other caves deeper underground also had similar experts, and these experts… had probably also become batteries.
It wasn’t difficult to guess where all their power went – the slumbering Emperor.
“He sealed the 108 Almighties under his command and turned them into batteries, allowing his body to continuously receive nutrients from them as he fights against the black wooden nail…
“That is the truth behind Source Universe Dao Void’s current layout.
“In that case, if these batteries can no longer provide power, will the Emperor’s recovery stop?” Wang Baole thought about it for a moment, but in the end, he decided not to go through with that plan for the time being.
After all, doing so was likely to awaken the Emperor ahead of time. Moreover, there was another cause of uncertainty, that being the madman’s attitude toward him.
If it was just the one madman, that would be fine. But it was possible that all the other Almighties would be the same, because there was something even he himself wasn’t sure about at the moment.
“What relationship does the Emperor have with me? Am I… the Emperor?” Wang Baole fell silent. No matter how he thought about it, this idea didn’t seem feasible.
Participating in this Great Hunt had allowed Wang Baole to learn much more about this world. However, it also left him with many questions.
A while later, Wang Baole shook his head and buried all his thoughts in his heart. He didn’t have enough clues to come to a conclusion right now. Thus, looking around at his surroundings, his body flickered, and he flew into the horizon.
Soon, he found Cheng Lingzi’s group again. As for the escaped finger, Wang Baole had wanted to hunt it down, but his tracking imprint had disappeared the moment the finger joined the hand.
Thus, looking for it now was like looking for a needle in a haystack, leaving him with no choice but to give up. After joining up with Cheng Lingzi and the others, Wang Baole took a deep breath and unleashed the power of his law of tongue’s desire, turning it into Dao Intent and sending it into the sky.
This was the method to leave the Buried Realm and return to Tongue’s Desire City. Although every mincemeat acolyte could learn this method, it was only usable by those at the level of a Gluttony Lord.
If no Gluttony Lord appeared, they have had to wait for Tongue’s Desire City to open up a passage from the other end.
At that moment, as Wang Baole’s law of tongue’s desire converged in the sky, the red mist began to churn. Deafening rumbles reverberated throughout heaven and earth as the mists lowly rotated, forming a gigantic vortex.
The outline of Tongue’s Desire City could vaguely be made out on the other side of the vortex.
As this outline gradually turned clear, a suction force also appeared from the vortex. This suction force resonated with Wang Baole’s law of tongue’s desire and also attracted the law of tongue’s desire of the other mincemeat acolytes, causing their bodies to involuntarily float up from the ground.
With the appearance of the vortex, eight people turned into eight long arcs of light that shot straight into the sky, entering the vortex in an instant. Rumbling sounded out as the vortex slowly began to close. Just as it was about to disappear completely, the black soil below suddenly bulged out, and faces silently appeared on the ground.
There were dozens of faces there, none of them saying a word as they stared up at the vortex in the sky. Suddenly, Wang Baole seemed to notice something and lowered his head, making eye contact with the dozens of faces on the ground.
His pupils immediately contracted and he wanted to take a closer look, but the vortex completely closed at that moment. Along with the vortex, Wang Baole’s body disappeared from the sky of the Buried Realm.
When he reappeared… he was already in the World Realm, floating in midair above Tongue’s Desire City!
As soon as Wang Baole appeared, the auras of Gluttony Lords could be felt in the surroundings. At the same time, there was an even more powerful aura far surpassing that of the Gluttony Lords rising into the sky.
“Welcome back, ninth Gluttony Lord!” A muffled voice like heavenly thunder boomed in all directions as the world in front of Wang Baole turned clear. Tuo Lingzi glared at him with an unsightly expression, while Zhou Huo’s eyes were full of shock.
The other Gluttony Lords seemed to have their own thoughts, and of course… there was also the gargantuan lump of meat that was the Desire Lord. At this moment, Wang Baole looked past the Gluttony Lords and stared at that lump of meat, then cupped his fists and bowed deeply.
“Greetings, Desire Lord!”