📖 Chapter 1359 - Promise

18 Sep, 2024

‘Original body, that damn coward! If he had any guts, I wouldn’t be dealing with this woman right now!’ As soon as the woman’s gaze locked on to him, Wang Baole felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

His whole body trembled, and as he backed up repeatedly, anger rose up in his heart. He couldn’t help but curse his original body as cowardly.

As Wang Baole retreated, the woman’s face showed a morbid sneer. She was about to rush toward him, but at that moment…

Sounds of impact suddenly resounded from the giant bronze cauldron at the center of Tongue’s Desire City. In an instant, the cauldron moved on its own, disappearing on the spot. When it reappeared, it was in front of the mass of distortions, blocking the woman’s line of sight.

Waves of rich aroma spread in all directions, and a pale hand that seemed to have been boiled for countless years slowly stretched out from the cauldron’s lid…

“Hurley, you were cursed by our god and turned into his favorite food, doomed to boil for all eternity. Now, for the sake of a mere outsider, you’re actually trying to resist your curse?

“Don’t you know that this will only make you lose more of your humanity? You… you’re crazy!!” Seeing the pale arm reaching out from the giant cauldron, the expression on the woman’s face changed drastically.

She seemed extremely fearful of this pale hand. The mass of distortions quickly retreated, simultaneously releasing fluctuations as if to summon the Emperor Spirits and Protector.

But before these fluctuations could spread very far, the pale hand reaching out from the cauldron waved toward the sky.

Huge cracks appeared in the void in all directions, instantaneously covering Tongue’s Desire City and its surroundings. It was as if this piece of heaven and earth had been completely isolated from the outside.

“Bitch, I’ve tolerated that face of yours for a long time already!” A hoarse voice came out from the giant cauldron, and the pale hand made a grabbing motion. Suddenly, a mysterious force enveloped the mass of distortions that contained the woman’s face, causing it to be pulled toward the giant cauldron bit by bit.

“Hurley, you’ve really gone mad!” Amid the mass of distortions, the woman’s face revealed dark malice. As her law of ear’s desire spread out, the sounds of nature, the voices of all living beings, and the music of all creation spread in an instant, causing the barrier isolating this place to show signs of collapse.

The isolating barrier was about to disappear, but at that moment, booming laughter rang out from the giant cauldron.

"Here is my answer."

It seemed like an abrupt sentence, but Wang Baole heard it loud and clear. His eyes shone with a bright light as he watched the pale hand suddenly break off and fly out of the cauldron. Seemingly having ignited itself, the hand burst forth with unimaginable speed, and as the face of the woman in the mass of distortions twisted with disbelief, it pierced directly through the center of her brows.

In an instant, a shrill scream echoed in all directions. Whether it was the sounds of nature, the voices of all living beings, or the music of all creation, everything was cut off, and the mass of distortions abruptly collapsed. The woman’s face inside fell apart and exploded as well.

Upon seeing this scene, the expressions of the Ear’s Desire City cultivators on the battlefield drastically changed. Their fighting spirit instantly disappeared, and they quickly called a retreat.

At the same time, Wang Baole finally killed the scholarly figure, blowing his body to bits with a single punch. As he absorbed the scholar’s law of ear’s desire, a voice echoed in his mind.

“The Ear’s Desire Lord has three main bodies, and that was just one of them. Now that it’s been destroyed, the other two bodies will need to slumber to recuperate…

“Master Icespirit, I’ve sacrificed an arm to help you, so now you must give me hope for the future. You aren’t losing out in this deal!

“This place will remain isolated for half an incense stick’s worth of time. The Emperor Spirits and the Protector will be coming soon. If you don’t leave now, you won’t have a chance to get away!”

After listening to the hoarse voice echoing in his mind, Wang Baole took a deep breath. He shot the giant cauldron a deep look, then turned around and disappeared on the spot.

Meanwhile, a massacre ensued on the battlefield. Although some Ear’s Desire City cultivators managed to escape, the majority of them were killed.

Half an incense stick’s worth of time passed quickly, and the isolating barrier around Tongue’s Desire City disappeared. In an instant, the vault of heaven rumbled, and figures wearing white masks suddenly descended from the sky.

Their bodies gave off waves of pressure that enveloped the entire city. All the cultivators, even the Gluttony Lords, looked up in fear, hearts trembling.

Along with the masked figures, a giant, expressionless face also appeared in the sky. This face’s eyes swept across the ground and finally settled on the giant cauldron.

The giant cauldron didn’t move, but laughter rang out from within.

“Been a while, huh?”

In response, a cold voice came from the face in the sky.

“Curse!”

Instantaneously, the boiling sound in the giant cauldron grew louder, as if the heat had been increased a hundredfold. This all-consuming heat turned the outside of the cauldron red, and it was obvious that the Tongue’s Desire Lord was suffering unimaginable torture inside.

However, laughter continued ringing out from the giant cauldron. Although this laughter was tinged with agony, it seemed that the power of hope allowed the Desire Lord to continue laughing and avoid screaming in pain.

“If you can be so unyielding, then why did you give in back then…”

These sudden words from the face in the sky seemed to heavily affect the Desire Lord inside the cauldron. His laughter stopped, and a furious voice rang out.

"Black Earth!! You…"

It seemed that to the Tongue’s Desire Lord, all the pain of being boiled was nothing compared to the face’s words. But before he could finish speaking, the face in the sky let out a cold snort, and a heaven-shaking force of suppression descended on the cauldron. With a bang, the cauldron slammed into the ground, then broke through the soil and sank even deeper. Only after the cauldron was embedded deep underground did the force disappear.

“Light that appears in the midst of darkness is the most precious of all. Since you want to have hope, await it in darkness.”

Only the Desire Lord in the giant cauldron could hear the face’s calm words. A moment later, the face disappeared from the sky.

At the same time, the numerous Emperor Spirits which had descended in the surroundings all turned into long arcs of light and returned whence they came.

On the ground, everything was silent. The common residents of Tongue’s Desire City were still reeling in shock, with only the Gluttony Lords looking at each other and shaking their heads with complicated expressions. Amid the former battlefield outside the city, Cheng Lingzi seemed lost and forlorn as he looked into the distance, seemingly searching for a certain figure.

At the same time, some distance away from Tongue’s Desire City, Wang Baole was flying close to the ground, having already changed his appearance. The destination of his flight was… the desert where his original body was hiding!

“Tongue’s Desire Lord, I will definitely fulfill my promise!”