📖 Chapter 1358 - Ear’s Desire Draws Near
This melody’s appearance was sudden, but it reverberated in the ears of every city-dweller in an instant, causing most of the residents to fall into a trance.
A moment later, the strongest Gluttony Lord in Tongue’s Desire City suddenly let out a thunderous roar. But what reverberated out from his location wasn’t sound waves, but rather the power of tongue’s desire.
He used tongue’s desire to fight ear’s desire.
Although the two laws were on the same level, the people using them were different. Thus, although many cultivators of Tongue’s Desire City managed to break free of their trance, some of them were still lost in the melancholy melody. Wearing eerie smiles on their faces, they lifted their hands and killed themselves with a single smack to their brows.
At the same time, Wang Baole opened his eyes from meditation and coldly looked at the world outside Tongue’s Desire City.
There, tens of thousands of cultivators in white robes floated in the sky. All of these cultivators were in illusory states, sometimes turning into musical notes and sometimes returning to human form.
On the ground, there were twelve tall figures slowly walking forward. Each of these figures was full of eeriness, and just like the blue-clothed woman from before, they all had their own complete songs, supported by an orchestra of surrounding cultivators.
Even further away, there was a giant mass of distortions on the horizon.
As soon as Wang Baole caught sight of this mass of distortions, his mind filled with laughter, weepings, screaming, and many more voices originating from the myriad living beings. All kinds of sounds related to the ear’s desire were contained in that mass of distortions.
Obviously, these newcomers were from Ear’s Desire City.
And the identity of the huge mass of distortions could also be guessed, They were… the Desire Lord of Ear’s Desire City!
The people of Tongue’s Desire City quickly reacted. Eight gigantic mountains of meat appeared and rose into the sky – the eight Gluttony Lords aside from Wang Baole. Although the number of mincemeat acolytes had suffered a sharp decline due to the Great Hunt, there were still throngs of tongue’s desire cultivators in the city letting out roars one after another. Their eyes were completely bloodshot, and they exuded a powerful aura of hunger.
Above the altar that overlapped with the City Lord Mansion, the gigantic cauldron slowly appeared. Sitting cross-legged on top of it was… the Desire Lord of Tongue’s Desire City.
“Tongue’s Desire, I can sense the aura of the outsider. Hand them over, you and I can share the reward!” As Wang Baole narrowed his eyes, a voice like the sound of all living beings converging together echoed out from the mass of distortions.
“Share? You think you deserve it?” The Tongue’s Desire Lord’s contemptuous voice rang out in response.
These words seemed to enrage the mass of distortions, and a sharp sound instantly rang out. A moment later, the army of Ear’s Desire cultivators outside Tongue’s Desire City charged forward.
In exchange, cultivators of Tongue’s Desire City flew into the sky one after another, and a mass battle instantly broke out. The battles among lower-level cultivators were one thing, but when it came to the tall figures with completed songs, Gluttony Lords had to come out to stop them.
Zhou Huo, Tuo Lingzi, and the other six original Gluttony Lords all rushed out. Among them, the strongest Gluttony Lord even took on three tall figures at once. Sounds of battle resounded outside the city walls.
As for Wang Baole… he didn’t move. He was waiting.
Waiting for the Tongue’s Desire Lord’s answer.
And he didn’t have to wait long. As the battle between the two sides continued, the mass of distortions directly entered Tongue’s Desire City and headed toward the giant cauldron in the center.
The lump of meat that was the Tongue’s Desire Lord leaped up and collided with the mass of distortions. In an instant, a devastating boom rumbled out as the power of two opposing laws caused a huge explosion.
Seeing this scene, Wang Baole’s body blurred and he disappeared on the spot. When he reappeared, he was outside the city, standing in front of a tall figure who looked like a scholar. This scholar was surrounded by an entourage of other scholarly cultivators, and his song that was almost like a scripture contained a shocking sealing power as it echoed in all directions.
Upon noticing Wang Baole, the scholar immediately waved a hand, and the sound of the scripture rose to deafening levels. However, Wang Baole just sneered. His body suddenly expanded to more than 500 zhang, and his fist flew out in an instant!
A shock wave erupted in all directions, and the expressions of the scholar’s entourage suddenly changed. Their faces twisted in ferocity, as if they had starved for many days, and they immediately turned on the scholar, madly biting at him like they wanted to devour his flesh and blood.
Meanwhile, Wang Baole didn’t slow down at all as he rushed forward. His Desire Body more than 500 zhang tall suddenly turned into a gigantic vortex that sent waves of suction force out at the scholar.
Seeing this, the scholar’s expression changed drastically. It wasn’t like he had never fought against Gluttony Lords before, but this unknown Gluttony Lord in front of him seemed different and more savage than the others. Thus, he didn’t hesitate at all; his body immediately turned into ethereal music that retreated rapidly.
A moment later, the vortex that was Wang Baole appeared right where the scholar had just been, and the void in the surroundings was instantaneously devoured.
“Want to run?” Wang Baole’s face suddenly appeared in the vortex. A wicked light flashed through his eyes as he licked his lips.
Although the scholar had managed to escape instant death, Wang Baole had still managed to devour some of his opponent’s aura of ear’s desire, and was pleasantly surprised to find that his own law of tongue’s desire improved greatly due to this.
Thus, he didn’t hesitate to continue chasing after the scholar.
Similar things were happening everywhere on the battlefield. In some places, the tongue’s desire cultivators had the upper hand, while in others, the ear’s desire cultivators were winning. But no matter what, the winner devouring the loser’s law and augmenting their own was a phenomenon not unique to Wang Baole.
This was the rule of these laws. One person couldn’t have two laws of different desires, so the moment a second law appeared, it would be devoured by the stronger one.
It was precisely because of this that the fighting was intense from the very beginning. At the same time, terrifying booms had never stopped rumbling out from the battle between the two Desire Lords in the sky.
However, the lump of meat that was the Desire Lord of Tongue’s Desire City was nothing more than a clone. Thus, just as Wang Baole caught up with the scholar again, a roar reverberated from the sky, and the lump of meat facing the mass of distortions suddenly collapsed.
This sudden collapse caused everyone in Tongue’s Desire City to feel shocked. Wang Baole, too, narrowed his eyes, and a powerful sense of crisis erupted in his heart.
At that moment… the face of a beautiful woman emerged from the mass of distortions in the sky. As soon as she appeared, she swept her gaze across the city, then the battlefield outside. In the end, her eyes focused in on Wang Baole.
“Found you!”