đź“– Chapter 974 - Ready for Battle!
Listening to the threatening voice, Wang Baole subconsciously clenched his fists. His expression darkened, and although he didn’t say a word, the icy aura emanating from his body caused the starry sky around the boat to show signs of freezing over.
Although Wang Baole wasn’t at the level of overturning the world with a thought, the fluctuations of his fury still caused his surroundings to vibrate. Moreover, the Dao Planet in his body reacted to his emotions and began spinning rapidly.
As a result, nine illusory Ancient Planets appeared around Wang Baole. The natural laws within them also manifested, causing nine colors to shine from Wang Baole’s body. A terrifying pressure gradually spread out.
Muffled booms reverberated in the surroundings, and a swirling vortex appeared around him. The vortex grew larger and larger until it seemed big enough to swallow the desolate planet whole. At that point, Wang Baole slowly closed his eyes.
“I made a mistake…” Wang Baole murmured. He felt that he had been overly cautious and shouldn’t have left Zhao Yameng and the others here.
If he had just brought them with him, he wouldn’t be in such a passive position right now, and their lives wouldn’t be at risk.
“Violet Gold Civilization…” When Wang Baole’s eyes reopened, they were filled with decisiveness. He wasn’t the type of person to leave others behind in order to secure his own safety. Furthermore, right now, he was already barely suppressing a boundless killing intent.
Ever since he arrived at the Divine Eye Civilization, his cultivation seemed to have gone smoothly. But in reality, there were many times dangerous situations he’d had to navigate through. Now that he was in the Planet Realm, Wang Baole didn’t intend to hold himself back any longer. Falling silent, his eyes grew colder and colder. Finally, half an incense stick’s worth of time later, Wang Baole cupped his fists and bowed deeply to the paper human cutout at the head of the Starfall Boat.
“I’ll have to ask Senior to send me back… to the Divine Eye Civilization!”
The paper human cutout gave Wang Baole a deep look. It didn’t immediately start moving; instead, it opened its mouth and spoke for the first time on this return trip.
“Due to the agreement and some inviolable laws, I can’t leave the boat, and I can’t start a fight. However, as long as you remain inside the boat, I can keep you safe and bring you wherever you want to go!”
Wang Baole’s heart filled with gratitude, and he bowed deeply to the paper human cutout again.
“Senior won’t need to take action. This junior can deal with it myself!”
The paper human cutout nodded and didn’t continue speaking. With a wave of the paper oar, the Starfall Boat silently fused into the starry sky and sped toward the Divine Eye Civilization.
During the journey, the starry sky seemed to turn into a flowing river. At first glance, everything was a blur, but looking closely, the world seemed to be rushing by like a current of water. This was an illusion caused by the Starfall Boat’s unimaginable speed.
As he watched the starry sky rush by, Wang Baole’s mind was extremely calm. However, the coldness and killing intent in his heart grew more and more intense as the boat sped forward. He felt that after arriving in the Divine Eye Civilization, although he’d garnered some fame for himself, he had still been too low-profile.
“Forget it. All in all, I was being too cautious. There are other ways to do things.” Wang Baole lifted his head and fell silent, staring in a certain direction.
As he stared into the distance, the Starfall Boat became faster and faster. At its current speed, it wouldn’t take long to reach the Divine Eye Civilization. Indeed, less than an hour later… as the Starfall Boat slowed down, the Divine Eye Civilization appeared in Wang Baole’s vision!
Wang Baole’s gaze didn’t turn to the Divine Eye Civilization immediately. He continued staring in another direction, far, far away, and nobody aside from himself knew what exactly he was looking at.
According to his memory of the Underworld Dream, that direction was where the Underworld Sect was located. It was also the place his master had lived!
A long while later, Wang Baole seemed to have made a decision. He knelt down toward that direction and bowed silently.
When he stood up, killing intent was blazing in his eyes. The paper human cutout rowing the boat could sense the fluctuations of Wang Baole’s emotions. With a flick of the paper oar, the boat rumbled and shot forward, easily slipping through the barrier that protected the Divine Eye Civilization. In a flash, it reappeared at the exact spot Wang Baole had boarded from!
As soon as it appeared, a heaven-shaking aura swept out from within the Divine Eye Civilization, along with a sealing force that covered the entire region. At the same time, enormous rune-filled crystal plates appeared from the void all around the Divine Eye Civilization.
Each plate was comparable in size to a planet, and it was impossible to even begin counting how many there were. The moment they appeared, countless crystal plates linked together. From a distance, the crystal plates were like a great barricade surrounding the Divine Eye Civilization, and it was impossible to see anything beyond them.
In fact, if a person were to look at the Divine Eye Civilization from the outside… it now looked like a giant crystal sphere, one the size of an entire galaxy!
At the moment that the crystal sphere formed, all the Artificial Eternal Stars of the faraway Violet Gold Civilization suddenly shone. These stars had been obtained through conquering other civilizations, and under the control of the Violet Gold Civilization’s ancestor, their power was somehow transmitted to the enormous crystal sphere surrounding the Divine Eye Civilization!
As a result, the crystal sphere lit up with dazzling rays of light, as if it had become a galaxy-sized Eternal Star. Everything inside was completely blocked off from the outside world.
Naturally, all of this was for the sake of Wang Baole’s Dao Planet. The Violet Gold Civilization was confident that Wang Baole wouldn’t be able to escape, and even if someone tried to divine his whereabouts, they wouldn’t be able to do so in the short term.
This gave them time and opportunity!
As soon as Wang Baole appeared and the crystal sphere surrounded the Divine Eye Civilization, ripples spread in the starry sky. In an instant, the figures of cultivators revealed themselves all around the Starfall Boat!
The number of cultivators who appeared was truly astonishing. They were arrayed into rings, blocking off the boat from all directions, and the outermost ring had nearly a million soldiers.
At the same time, the aura of the Planet Realm erupted. Aside from the Divine Sovereign Justice Patriarch, the New Dao Patriarch, and the Violet Gold Civilization’s Heavenly Spirit Ancestor, there were six more whom Wang Baole was unfamiliar with. There were both male and female among them, and all of them exuded the fluctuations of the Planet Realm.
At that moment, a total of nine Planet Realm cultivators had appeared, all looking coldly at the Starfall Boat’s sole passenger… Wang Baole!
Aside from these nine, there was also a middle-aged man with an even more terrifying aura. Just standing there, endless ripples spread off of him, as if he could suppress the world with a flip of his hand. This man was the one who had tried to stop Wang Baole from boarding the ship, and he was an Eternal Star Realm Almighty!
And he wasn’t the only Eternal Star Realm cultivator here. Behind Wang Baole, the void suddenly distorted, and an old man in a black robe stepped out. A blazing aura erupted all around him, clearly displaying the mighty power of an Eternal Star.
“Nine in the Planet Realm, and two in the Eternal Star Realm!” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. At that moment, he noticed a huge bubble floating outside the enemy’s encirclement. Runes shone on the bubble, but they were transparent, allowing Wang Baole to see inside. Within the bubble were the unconscious Zhao Yameng, Little Donkey, and Little Fifth!
Wang Baole didn’t care about hiding anymore. A Planet instantly appeared behind him – the fifth of the nine Ancient Planets, Blue Cloud!
Clouds were fleeting and contained endless transformations. The law of cloud could be considered part of the Dao of illusions, so Wang Baole could instantly tell that the ones inside the bubble were real. Although Zhao Yameng and the others were unconscious, they weren’t in any danger of dying.
This let him finally heave a sigh of relief. In fact, he had already expected this to be the case. After all, the Violet Gold Civilization had done everything just to bring him over. Zhao Yameng and the others were their bargaining chips, so they wouldn’t kill them off right away.
Once Wang Baole confirmed his friends’ safety, he relaxed slightly. At that moment, the middle-aged Eternal Star Realm cultivator in front of him let out a low roar, eyes flashing with cold light.
"Long Nanzi!"