📖 Chapter 957 - Struggle Between Planets!

30 Apr, 2023

Outside his residential hall, Wang Baole stared up at the vault of heaven for a long, long time. Recalling the scene he saw when he arrived at the Starfall Realm, an ardent flame began to burn in his eyes. The name of this flame was… ambition.

In the past, when he heard about the Planet Realm from Zhao Yameng, he had joked that he would definitely advance using a Dao Planet. However, at that time, he had considered it nothing more than a joke.

Originally, he had come to the Starfall Realm expecting to obtain an Immortal Planet, or maybe a Special Planet if he got lucky. But now, his expectations had changed.

“This might be the first time that someone’s really had a shot at getting the Starfall Realm’s Dao Planet…” Wang Baole muttered. After a while, he retracted his gaze and returned to his residence. Sitting down cross-legged, he closed his eyes and calmed his mind, circulating his cultivation base and keeping himself in peak condition.

That night, Wang Baole’s wasn’t the only heart in which the flame of ambition began to burn. The same ambition arose in the heart of the scholarly young man from the Heretical Dao’s mightiest sect. Originally, he was certain of obtaining a Special Planet and only had vague hopes for the Dao Planet. But now that the Dao Planet had appeared, for some reason, he had the feeling that… he was fated to obtain it!

This was a strange feeling, and he didn’t tell anyone, but it made waves of anticipation surge in his heart.

However… If the Chosen who had obtained the qualification to summon Planets communicated with each other openly and honestly, they would realize that there was a problem.

It wasn’t only the scholarly young man who felt fated with the Dao Planet. The masked woman, the young man in black, the bell girl… It could be said that aside from Wang Baole, every single one of the remaining nine drumstick-holders suddenly felt the pull of destiny the moment they saw the Dao Planet.

“The Dao Planet is fated with me. I’m about to obtain a Dao Planet!” The bell girl was extremely excited. Although she didn’t know what had happened in the Starfall Empire, she could sense that a major event had occurred. However, that wasn’t important to her. The most important thing was that the Dao Planet had appeared.

“Dao Planet… If you choose me, I will take you on a massacre across the entire starry sky. I won’t fail the reputation of a Dao Planet!” In another room, the black-clothed young man with the large sword on his back narrowed his eyes. His icy expression flickered with baleful aura as he muttered.

At the same time, the little girl who knew the Underworld Law seemed to be in a dilemma. She sat by the window of her room and looked up at the night sky, habitually twirling a few strands of hair and bringing them to her mouth to chew.

“Ah, why does this Dao Planet have to be fated with me? We’re not a good match. All I want is the Underworld Planet… When will this end? It isn’t fun at all. I still have to go find Uncle, too.” The little girl sighed. Then, as if she had suddenly thought of something, she abruptly turned her head and looked toward Wang Baole’s former room. Although there was no one inside, she still stared at it for a long time.

“That Xie Dalu guy… His body has traces of the Underworld Sect’s aura. Don’t tell me he came into contact with that uncle who I haven’t even seen yet?”

As the little girl pondered, the others, such as Brother Expert or the little fatty, were all feeling extremely excited. However, they all tried their best to act normal and not expose the fact that the Dao Planet was fated with them. All of them thought that they were the only one fated with the Dao Planet.

They couldn’t be blamed for feeling this way. When the Dao Planet appeared, the feeling it gave off was just too strong. The only one who didn’t feel it was Wang Baole, who had been in the middle of reciting the Dao Scripture at the time.

As for the appearance of the Dao Planet giving the other nine Chosen a sense of fatedness… It wasn’t just the Outer Domain Chosen. The moment the Dao Planet appeared, that same feeling of destiny appeared in the hearts of every Starfall Empire cultivator in the great circle of the Spirit Immortal Realm!

“The Dao Planet has moved…” This generation’s Starfall Emperor, the red-lined paper human cutout, was standing atop a spire on his majestic palace. Staring up at the vault of heaven, he muttered softly.

“Everyone who feels fated with the Dao Planet has been deceived. It isn’t necessarily true fate, but... After so many years, does the Dao Planet finally want to descend? Perhaps it’s been provoked…” The red-lined paper human cutout shook its head slightly, heart full of emotions.

He was clear that the source of that feeling of destiny was because the Dao Planet itself had taken the initiative to cause all qualified persons to feel a fated relationship with it. However, whether the Dao Planet would really descend, and whom it would choose if it did… even the red-lined paper human cutout didn’t know.

“Who will obtain this opportunity…” The red-lined paper human cutout retracted its gaze from the vault of heaven and looked down at the vast Starfall City. After thinking for a bit, it quickly formed hand seals with both hands. Soon, illusory seals appeared in the air in front of it, overlapping until they gradually resembled the starry sky. A moment later, as the seal sky shined, the paper human cutout’s eyes glowed with an uncanny light and it threw both hands up toward the real vault of heaven!

“Let me see just who is it that you’ve chosen!”

In an instant, the seal sky shot upward. Each point of light within seemed to merge with a star in the night sky, until the seal sky had completely fused with the real sky. Others wouldn’t be able to see anything from this, but new scenes appeared in the red-lined paper human cutout’s vision.

Up in the vault of heaven, there were innumerable Planets. Among them, there was one that floated higher than the others, loftily looking down on all the other Planets like an emperor. Under its splendor, even the Special Planets were forced to dim.

Among the Special Planets were nine Planets that seemed second only to the Dao Planet, struggling to emit light. However, the difference in level between them and the Dao Planet was such that all their struggles seemed pointless!

Under the Dao Planet’s suppression, there was only one point of light in the night sky. However, this light given off by the Dao Planet split into dozens of rays that fell into Starfall City. Each ray of light from the Dao Planet fell on a person who thought they were fated!

Nine fell in the inn that the Starfall Empire had provided for the Outer Domain’s Chosen, while the rest were scattered around Starfall City, falling onto the Starfall Empire’s own prodigies and geniuses. However, it was clear from the brightness that the rays of light falling on the native geniuses were far weaker than those on the Outer Domain’s Chosen.

Similarly, the nine rays of light falling on the Outer Domain’s Chosen were also divided into strong and weak. Two of them outshone the others, and to a certain extent, it could be said that those two were the brightest lights in the dark night.

Out of curiosity, the red-lined paper human cutout narrowed its eyes and looked more carefully. Immediately, two people sitting cross-legged in their rooms appeared in its vision!

These two people were a man and a woman. If Wang Baole saw them, he would be able to recognize them at a glance. The man wasn’t the scholarly cultivator, but rather the young man in black who had a big sword on his back and exuded a horrifying baleful aura!

As for the woman, she was… the bell girl!!

The intensity of the light on these two people seemed to be gradually increasing with the passage of time. As for the others, their light remained the same, neither brightening nor dimming.

“Those two…” The red-lined paper human cutout narrowed its eyes. After a moment, it turned its head to look at Wang Baole’s residential hall in the palace. When it looked, it saw… no light at all!

“Not fated…” The red-lined paper human cutout sighed softly. Although it wanted to help Wang Baole, even it was unable to do anything about this. Moreover, in its current state where it had merged with the vault of heaven, it was vaguely able to sense the reason why the Dao Planet had no fate with this person who had saved the Starfall Realm.

“It’s because of that divine ability which even caused the old ancestor to lose consciousness. The will of the foreign Paragon that was drawn over stimulated the Dao Planet’s pride, and now it wants to come down to prove its glory… In that case, it naturally won’t choose the one who summoned that will. No, there’s even a hint of… disdain?” The red-lined paper human cutout fell silent. After a while, it shook its head regretfully and was about to dispel its technique. But at that moment, it suddenly made a noise of surprise, and a strange light appeared in its eyes.

That was because it saw that those nine Special Planets which were second only to the Dao Planet, the only Planets in the night sky still struggling to shine… managed to give out rays of light^[1]. One after another, breaking through the suppression of the Dao Planet, those nine Planets’ light fell to the ground, landing… in Wang Baole’s residential hall!!

“This is… a struggle between Planets?” The red-lined paper human cutout’s body trembled, and a bright light shone in its eyes. From this scene, it seemed to sense the nine Special Stars making a declaration.

“Your disdain shall be our light!”