đź“– Chapter 964 - Also a Planet!
Rather than talking to the Dao Planet, these words were more like Wang Baole urging himself. After beating the Heavenspan Drum ten times and calling down the Dao Planet, most everyone believed that this trip to the Starfall Realm was coming to an end.
But Wang Baole didn’t agree. He still had many cards left to play. Originally, he had been planning to use these trump cards to obtain the Dao Planet.
But now, the Dao Planet’s arrogance made Wang Baole feel annoyed.
“What an arrogant Planet. But I’m arrogant, too!” Wang Baole’s heart was filled with dissatisfaction. Just as the Dao Planet shone brightly, about to select the bell girl, a paper slip suddenly appeared in Wang Baole’s hands!
When the paper slip appeared, all the paper human cutouts in the plaza trembled. They all felt a mysterious feeling coming from the paper slip, as if it was inextricably linked to them!
This paper slip was the gift that the Starfall Emperor had given Wang Baole. Once it was burned, the wielder would obtain the blessing of the Starfall Empire’s kismet, which would allow them to attract a Special Planet. At that moment, with a wave of Wang Baole’s left hand, the paper slip immediately burned up. As its ashes spread into the air, all the paper human cutouts across the entire Starfall Empire trembled. An invisible aura radiated off of them and wafted straight to the palace from various spots in the Starfall Empire. Not even the Starfall Emperor was an exception.
It was as if the burning of the paper slip was some sort of order. A moment later, countless auras arrived from all directions, gathering at the plaza. As they arrived, there seemed to be a rumbling that echoed from the space between heaven and earth, causing ripples to appear in the vault of heaven.
The ripples bounced off each other and spawned more ripples, becoming denser and denser until a loud rumble sounded out. From the densely-packed ripples, an illusory paper qilin was born. As everyone watched in astonishment, with even the Dao Planet seeming slightly surprised, the paper qilin roared up to the sky, then charged… straight toward Wang Baole.
In an instant, it fused into Wang Baole’s body, causing him to tremble violently. Waves of a majestic force spread throughout his body, causing his dried-up divine soul and exhausted cultivation base to immediately recover. But the majestic force wasn’t able to be contained fully in his body, and could only… burst out!
“The eleventh strike!” Wang Baole’s eyes were bright as his body rushed straight toward the Heavenspan Drum. Under the shocked gazes of countless people, the drumstick in his hand emitted bright light as it fell on the Heavenspan Drum. An instant later, what reverberated through the world was… the eleventh beat of the drum, which had never appeared in the history of the Starfall Realm!
BOOM!!
The majestic reverberation of the eleventh beat caused the earth to quake and the sky to shake. A storm of sound waves erupted from the Heavenspan Drum and swept out in all directions, causing distortions to ripple throughout the world. The most astonishing thing was that the Dao Planet high in the sky actually seemed to be pulled down. It was as if the sound of the drum represented an attractive force that it couldn’t refuse, causing it to descend!
Originally, it had already shown itself a bit due to the bell girl’s promise. However, that was descending of its own initiative. Now… it seemed that it was being forced to descend!
Because of this, the Dao Planet, which clearly possessed intelligence, became enraged. It immediately broke free from the attractive force, but the moment it did… Wang Baole’s eyes revealed a domineering light, and he struck the Heavenspan Drum again!
“The twelfth strike!!”
The heaven-shaking and earth-shattering boom of the drum replaced all other sounds in the world. The storm of sound waves that this twelfth beat set off was even more violent than before, even seeming to take physical form as it swept across the Starfall Realm. The attractive force pulling on the Dao Planet soared, and all living things in the Starfall Empire felt the boom of the drum fill their minds, scattering even their thoughts.
Panting heavily, Wang Baole didn’t wait and immediately waved his drumstick again. Using all the power of the blessing of kismet that remained in his body, he beat the drum… a thirteenth time!
When he struck the thirteenth beat, the vault of heaven rumbled, and illusory threads that no one had seen before suddenly appeared around the Dao Planet. It was as if there was a large net forcibly pulling the Dao Planet down from its lofty perch.
To a certain extent, this could be considered a huge insult to the Dao Planet. Within the net, the Dao Planet struggled crazily, constantly releasing fluctuations that revealed its fury.
As it struggled, it gave off blindingly bright light that seemed able to turn night into day. The paper human cutouts across the Starfall Empire finally recovered at that moment. What followed was a monstrous uproar.
“Thirteen strikes! This is unprecedented!!”
“What happened just now? Why did I feel like I was helping him pull down the Dao Planet?!”
“This is a true peerless Chosen!! I can feel the Dao Planet’s anger. Heavens, he’s not trying to gain the Dao Planet’s approval, he’s… hunting it!!”
An overwhelming clamor broke out in the crowd, and even the Starfall Emperor’s eyes revealed a strange light. This had definitely surpassed its expectations, but after thinking about it carefully, something like beating the Heavenspan Drum thirteen times wasn’t out of the question for someone with this Xie Dalu’s background. Nevertheless, it was still extremely shocked.
Even the Starfall Emperor was shocked, so the rest could only be even more shocked. The scholarly cultivator and young man in black looked at Wang Baole as if they had seen a ghost. From their point of view, it wasn’t even an exaggeration to describe this Xie Dalu as a god incarnate.
The bell girl trembled violently, and her eyes were filled with madness and hatred. She wanted to rush out and stop Wang Baole, but she had no energy left. Thus, she was forced to watch helplessly as Wang Baole beat the Heavenspan Drum, leaving the Dao Planet writhing in fury in the vault of heaven.
“Hmph, it’s no different from chasing girls. Instead of letting you ignore me, it’s better to make you angry at me!” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes and finally threw caution to the wind. He no longer cared about the preciousness of a Dao Planet or whatever. When he saw that thirteen strikes didn’t seem to be enough, that the infuriated Dao Planet was about to struggle free from that illusory net, a bright glow appeared in Wang Baole’s eyes.
“Not done yet!” Wang Baole decided to release the power of his Planetary Nascent Soul that hadn’t been used yet. With the boost granted by the Planetary Nascent Soul, he would be able to beat the drum again, but just as he was about to release it…
The sense of gratitude he had felt from the world ever since leaving the black paper sea suddenly intensified!
A sea of gratitude surged out from everywhere in the Starfall Realm. The earth, the sky, the white paper mountains and rivers, the paper plants… no matter what it was or whether it was living or not, everything in the Starfall Realm exuded a powerful gratitude!
This gratitude converged in an instant and seemed to give birth to a consciousness. This consciousness wasn’t the just the consciousness of all living beings, but also… the consciousness of the Starfall Realm itself. Even the Starfall Empire was but a part of the Starfall Realm. At that moment, the essence of the very world… gathered on Wang Baole!
This was the gratitude of the entire world!
At that moment, describing Wang Baole as the disciple of destiny or the chosen child of heaven couldn’t be more appropriate. Even Wang Baole himself was astonished as his body floated up involuntarily and a boundless consciousness fused with his own. His vision blurred for a moment, and he felt as if he had become the sky, the earth, all things, all living beings, and… the world itself!
Wang Baole stared up at the vault of heaven. Although he saw that there was still only the Dao Planet shining up there, he also saw the Dao Planet tremble slightly. It seemed that the Dao Planet had never even considered that such fortune could gather on the person it looked down on!
But it wasn’t over yet. When Wang Baole regained his wits, the Planetary Nascent Soul in his body activated. Wang Baole’s mind rumbled, and his vision seemed to change, allowing him to see the rest of the Planets hiding in the vault of heaven. All the Planets, with not a single one missing, appeared in his eyes, including all thirty-seven of the first-grade Special Planets.
What’s more… there were nine Planets in particular that exuded a sense of ancientness. Their light exceeded that of all the other Planets, second only to the Dao Planet!
Wang Baole knew instantly that they were… the Ancient Planets that the Starfall Emperor had spoken of!
And as he observed the Ancient Planets, the Ancient Planets… were also observing him!
What was strange was that although Wang Baole was clearly at a lower altitude, his gaze as he looked at the Planets seemed to be looking downward. The nine Ancient Planets were clearly higher, but when they looked at Wang Baole, they seemed to be gazing upward!
As if… he was also a Planet!