đź“– Chapter 970 - Nine Planets, Nine Laws!
For a cultivator to break through to the Planet Realm, they had to fuse with a Planet. Although different sects and families had different methods, the overall process of fusion was basically the same. There were only slight differences in the minutiae, and each method had its own advantages.
Generally speaking, for a Mortal or Spirit Planet, the fusion process wouldn’t take too long, and it was also very safe. For an Immortal Planet, it would take a little longer, and the cultivator would have to find a quiet place to seclude themselves for their breakthrough.
Overall, breaking through with an Immortal Planet or below wasn’t a difficult process. However, fusing with a Special Planet was completely different. It was much more difficult and also carried increased risks. Not only did such a breakthrough have stringent requirement for the cultivation base, it also necessitated a powerful divine soul.
The more powerful the cultivator’s divine soul was, the higher their chances of success would be. As for the exact process, it was a little different from fusing with a Mortal, Spirit, or Immortal Planet. It required a complete and perfect fusion with the Special Planet. To a certain extent, the cultivator would become an embryo, and the Special Planet would become a nurturing womb. By the time the cultivator absorbed all the nutrients – the Special Planet’s natural laws – they would fuse with the Special Planet and break through to the Planet Realm!
This process carried the risk of failure, as well as a certain degree of danger. Of course, in the Starfall Realm, that danger was greatly reduced. At that moment, the little fatty, the masked woman, and the others were all inside their respective Planets, slowly and peacefully fusing with the natural laws.
As for the method of breaking through with a Dao Planet, nobody knew. That was because, throughout all of recorded history, only one person had ever fused with a Dao Planet. Furthermore, that person had done so far too long ago, so it was naturally not widespread information.
Thus, Wang Baole himself had no clue how to go about breaking through. However… when the nine-colored Dao Planet rushed between his brows, he suddenly understood.
To be exact, it wasn’t that he understood the method to break through, but rather that he sensed it. He didn’t need to do anything special, just rely on this sensation to slowly climb the stairs to the Planet Realm and comprehend his Dao Planet’s natural laws.
“I have to climb…” Wang Baole closed his eyes and felt the power of natural law emanating from the Dao Planet in his body. As all the onlookers stared at him intently, his eyes slowly opened. Then, with the enlightenment flickering through his eyes, he took a step toward the sky!
This was the first step.
As soon as his foot fell, the illusory figure of a Planet appeared beneath Wang Baole’s feet!
This Planet was a scarlet red and seemed to be soaked with blood. From a distance, it didn’t even look like a Planet at all, but rather a bloody sphere. As it appeared, a powerful aura of blood surged in all directions, and looking carefully, a red halo had appeared around the blood-colored Planet!
“First of the nine Planets, Red Blood!” Wang Baole muttered. A bloody aura immediately wafted from his body. This Planet was one of the nine Ancient Planets that had fused into the Dao Planet. The natural law that it contained was the law of blood, an eerie and sinister law!
As he spoke, the bloody aura coming from his body grew thicker. Wang Baole finished comprehending this Planet’s natural law in an instant, engraving it into his mind and soul. At that moment, within this clone that lacked a physical body… blood appeared. With the appearance of this blood, his cultivation base exploded, and his aura surged!
“Second of the nine Planets, Orange Music!” Wang Baole’s eyes flashed, and he took another step upward, causing the second Planet to appear beneath his feet. This Planet gave off rays of dazzling orange light, and mystical music seemed to ring out from Wang Baole’s body. This music spread in all directions, echoing in the minds of all living beings.
It was as if heaven and earth were ringing and all things were singing. This was the second of the Dao Planet’s advanced natural laws, the law of music!
An orange halo appeared outside the Planet, which shone brightly along with the red halo of Red Blood. Wang Baole’s cultivation base surged again like a tidal wave, clearly several times stronger than before!
It wasn’t over. As his cultivation base rose, Wang Baole continued climbing toward the sky, taking the third and fourth steps.
“Third of the nine Planets, Yellow Flame!
“Fourth of the nine Planets, Green Flora!”
He was climbing higher and higher. With each footfall, another Planet appeared, and yellow and green halos expanded in all directions.
His aura continued to rise, spreading across the world. The cultivation fluctuations rolling off of him were already ten times greater than before. When Yellow Flame’s law of fire appeared, the blazing halo seemed to raise the temperature of the entire world. Green Flora’s law of plants was even stranger, as an illusory phenomenon of thousands of flowers blooming appeared around Wang Baole in the sky!
This scene shocked everyone who saw it. At the same time, Wang Baole took the fifth step, then the sixth, then the seventh… By then, he had truly stepped into the vault of heaven and stood among the rest of the Planets. As the fifth, sixth, and seventh Planets appeared beneath his feet, his voice spread in all directions.
“Fifth of the nine Planets, Blue Cloud!
“Sixth of the nine Planets, Indigo Wind!
“Seventh of the nine Planets, Violet Devourer!”
The law of cloud was ephemeral and ever-changing. It could manifest illusions and allow its user to turn their body into fog. As soon as it appeared, Wang Baole’s body turned blurry, and his eyes shone with enlightenment. Henceforth, unless a Dao Planet whose unique natural law was the law of cloud appeared, Wang Baole would be unparalleled among all cloud cultivators in the Planet Realm!
The law of wind focused on swiftness and intangibility. When it appeared, the storm around Wang Baole grew more violent. Combined with the law of cloud, its power was utterly horrifying!
The last one was the devouring law of Purple Devourer!
This law was capable of devouring everything. Whether it was heaven and earth, the entire universe, or all of existence, the law of devouring swallowed everything up. When it appeared, Wang Baole’s body seemed to turn into a black hole that could devour all things!
Wang Baole knew that once this law of devouring combined with the power of his devouring seed, it would certainly reach a terrifying level of strength. He even had a faint speculation that perhaps the devouring seed itself… had once been a Dao Planet!
But now wasn’t the time to think about such things. Suppressing his speculations, Wang Baole’s cultivation base continued to climb like mad. His hair fluttered in the wind, and his robe billowed. By now, his battle prowess was already dozens of times stronger than when he had first come to the Starfall Realm, and it was still increasing crazily!
High in the sky among the countless shining Planets, Wang Baole took his eighth step!
“Eighth of the nine Planets, White Light!”
The eighth Planet appeared, emitting a bright white light. As the white halo spread, it outshone everything else in the world. That was because… its law was light!
Looking up from below, the vault of heaven was a sea of white light. Wang Baole’s aura rose again, and his entire person was like a divine being. As his aura surged boundlessly, he took the ninth step, infinitely approaching the end of the sky!
“Ninth of the nine Planets, Black Death!”
Black Death’s law, the law of death, was similar to that of the Underworld Sect, but it was actually completely different. The Underworld Sect focused more on reincarnation, while this Black Death’s law… represented only death!
With its appearance, Wang Baole instantly shuddered. The pupils of both his eyes turned pitch-black, and his whole body emitted an endless death aura. At that moment, the fluctuations of his cultivation base grew even more, climbing to a new pinnacle and causing the world to shake under its might. Up near the end of the sky, Wang Baole’s eyes revealed enlightenment.
“In the future, I’ll use the nine natural laws to create nine great divine abilities!” As he muttered, Wang Baole looked down at the ground. Then he raised his head again and looked beyond the end of the sky. After a long while, as the nine Planets beneath his feet shone, Wang Baole took another step toward the end of the sky…
Tenth step!!
Ten steps to ascend to the heavens!
As his tenth step fell, the nine Planets trembled violently. They shot into the sky simultaneously and merged into Wang Baole’s body. Then, within his body, they fused into a nine-colored Dao Planet!
The nine halos also flew over, imprinting themselves between the center of his brows and forming a nine-ringed mark!
Finally, his cultivation base erupted crazily. The sound a something shattering echoed in Wang Baole’s ears, and his cultivation base… suddenly broke through!!
He had stepped into the Planet Realm!
In an instant, this piece of heaven and earth seemed to transform in his eyes. The sky, the ground, the wind, the clouds, everything… seemed to have a veil lifted off of them, revealing their essence. As he stared at all of this, Wang Baole finally understood the unique natural law that had been born from his Dao Planet!
“What a domineering law!” Wang Baole muttered. With a flip of his right hand, he grabbed a wisp of cloud. At a rate visible to the naked eye, that cloud actually turned into a piece of paper!
This Dao Planet, which had gained the approval of even a paragon from beyond the Dao Domain, obviously didn’t bear the unique natural law of paper. Looking at the piece of paper in his hand, Wang Baole suddenly laughed and turned it back into a cloud with a single thought. The light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter, and he whispered softly in a voice that only he could hear.
“The law of duplication… can duplicate the myriad laws of the universe. With the power of my Dao Planet, even if the law being duplicated is the unique natural law of a Dao Planet, it can still be copied. And the duplicated copy won’t necessarily be inferior to the original!”