đź“– Chapter 988 - Old Ghost, Who Did You Just Call an Ant?
The entire Federation was worked up into a tizzy. Many cultivators flew up into the sky and looked at the long arc of light leaving the atmosphere. As countless people watched on through the solar system’s great spell formation, Wang Baole left Earth in an instant and stepped into the starry sky. Chasing after the beam of light carrying De Yunzi’s divine soul, he quickly approached the ancient bronze sword.
Seeing his pursuer nearly catch up, De Yunzi’s divine soul trembled, and his eyes revealed panic and horror as he let out a terrified scream.
"Senior Brother, save me!!"
As soon as his words rang out and Wang Baole caught up to the beam of light, a crack suddenly appeared in the void beside him and a large hand stretched out. Although this hand was still illusory, it was extremely fast. The power contained within it was that of the Planet Realm, but not the middle stage like De Yunzi. Instead, it was a power at the great circle of the Planet Realm!
As soon as it appeared, the large hand grabbed toward Wang Baole!
“Ha, I was just wondering if there was really only one who woke up!” Wang Baole sneered and jabbed out with a finger. Mist suddenly rolled in from thin air, forming the shape of a large finger in front of him. This was none other than the Misty Cloud Finger, and as it pressed down on the large hand, a loud boom rang out. Violent ripples spread all around, and once they subsided, a person walked out from the crack in the void.
This person was a middle-aged man wearing a gloomy expression on his face. As soon as he stepped out, he waved his hand, causing a Planet to appear behind him. Then he rapidly formed hand seals with both hands and a paper talisman appeared, instantly swelling to a great extent and falling directly toward Wang Baole!
At the same time, De Yunzi gritted his teeth. Instead of continuing his escape, he rushed out of the beam of light and let out a roar as his divine soul formed hand seals.
“Seal!”
An illusory paper talisman appeared in front of his divine soul, superimposing together with his senior brother’s paper talisman and heading straight toward Wang Baole.
Wang Baole’s expression didn’t change at all as he faced the two’s combined attack, but his eyes did narrow a bit. He ignored the two paper talismans and suddenly turned around, taking his right hand and slamming it toward the empty void behind him.
In an instant, the illusory figures of the nine Ancient Planets rumbled into existence behind him, shining with the light of their nine laws. Nine rays of light appeared, shooting directly toward that seemingly empty expanse of space!
At the same time, Wang Baole’s body suddenly exploded into fog, instantly scattering in all directions. He was clearly trying to avoid the two paper talismans as well as take the chance to leave the area.
That was because when the nine rays of light bombarded that empty spot just now, there were fluctuations of an aura that shocked him to the core. Wang Baole was clear that this aura wasn’t something that a Planet Realm cultivator could possess. It was the aura of… the Eternal Star Realm!
All of this happened in the blink of an eye. Just as Wang Baole’s body turned into fog and fled in all directions, a crack appeared in the starry sky where the nine rays of light had struck, and a black gourd suddenly flew out of the crack!
As soon as the gourd appeared, its mouth automatically opened. A powerful suction force broke out from inside, and an aged voice faintly echoed from within the crack in the void.
“Absorb!”
As soon as that voice rang out, the light originating from the nine Ancient Planets was directly sucked into the gourd without the slightest hint of resistance. At the same time, the suction force coming from the gourd spread out in all directions, causing countless ripples to appear in the starry sky. Even the fog that Wang Baole’s clone had transformed into suddenly froze, unable to continue escaping. Then, it began rolling back toward the gourd, as if being devoured!
Although the fog formed from Wang Baole’s clone struggled mightily, this gourd was extraordinary. Its power suddenly spiked, and the fog was unable to resist anymore. A moment later, the fog that Wang Baole’s clone had turned into suddenly… vanished into the gourd!
As soon as Wang Baole’s clone was sucked into the gourd, his true self, meditating inside the faraway Divine Eye Civilization’s Eternal Star, suddenly opened his eyes!
The Divine Eye Civilization’s Eternal Star immediately blazed, and bolts of lightning streaked across the starry sky. A cold light flashed through Wang Baole’s eyes, and terrifying fluctuations suddenly erupted from his body. His Dao Planet appeared behind him, and the original bodies of the nine Ancient Planets faintly revealed themselves. Inside the heaven-shaking momentum of the Eternal Star, Wang Baole let out a cold snort.
“A seriously wounded Eternal Star Realm cultivator…” Wang Baole’s true self suddenly formed a hand seal. In an instant, the Divine Eye Civilization’s Eternal Star blazed brighter, and its fire completely engulfed Wang Baole. The power of teleportation spread out, and when the flames receded… Wang Baole’s true self had completely disappeared!
Meanwhile, in the solar system, Wang Baole’s clone had just been sucked into the gourd. At that moment, a boy suddenly walked out of the crack beside the gourd!
This boy was wearing brocade robes and looked to be 13 or 14 years old. However, his hair and eyebrows were a snowy white, and his demeanor carried the vicissitudes of life. As he stepped out, he raised his right hand and retrieved the gourd. With eyes shining like stars, he turned to look at De Yunzi and the middle-aged man.
The two trembled and immediately bowed down to the boy.
"Greetings, Master!"
This boy was the two’s master, as well as the only Eternal Star Realm patriarch on the Vast Expanse Dao Palace’s ancient bronze sword!!
Indeed, De Yunzi hadn’t been the only one to wake up back then. His senior brother had also awakened, as did this Eternal Star Realm patriarch of the Vast Expanse Dao Palace. However, the Eternal Star Realm Almighty had been too injured, and his cultivation base had almost scattered. It was only through the offerings of his two disciples that a tiny part of his cultivation base had barely recovered.
However, to be able to survive the Never-Ending Clan’s purge of the Vast Expanse Dao Palace, it was obvious that this Eternal Star Realm cultivator had once been an extremely powerful and imposing figure.
This point could also be seen from the fact that De Yunzi and his senior brother both bowed down the moment this Eternal Star Realm cultivator appeared. The two disciples even took the initiative to admit their mistakes as they bowed…
“It’s just a newly advanced aboriginal ant causing trouble. I’m ashamed that such a trivial matter disturbed Master’s cultivation. Please punish me!”
“Master, please punish me!” The two disciples were currently extremely nervous. They were extremely familiar with their master, so they knew that he was temperamental and didn’t hesitate to kill. During the war back then, just because a few disciples were unwilling to obey his orders, he personally massacred more than a thousand fellow sect members. In front of such a person, De Yunzi and his senior brother hardly dared to breathe.
The boy narrowed his eyes and looked down at the gourd in his hand, and a hint of doubt flashed through them. He could vaguely sense that there was something off about that person just now. However, because not even a tenth of his cultivation base had recovered at that moment, there were many divine abilities that he couldn’t use. Thus, he was unable to figure out what was giving him this strange feeling.
He intended to bring the gourd back to the Vast Expanse Dao Palace and use some aids to refine it. During the refinement, perhaps he could figure out what was giving him that strange feeling. Thus, he didn’t punish his two disciples immediately, and after sweeping his gaze over them, he opened his mouth to speak.
“This isn’t an ordinary ant. This ant…”
Before the boy could finish speaking, his expression suddenly changed, and he whipped his head up to look into the distance. There, a sea of light suddenly appeared in the starry sky, pouring toward him with an unimaginably terrifying momentum!
This sea of light had nine colors!
The nine colors represented nine laws, and the sea of light erupted froth with no intention of concealing itself. The starry sky trembled, and what made the boy even more shocked was that within the nine-colored sea of light, there was a tenth natural law that seemed to reign supreme, with the power of topple mountains and overturn seas. The sea of light seemed to exude a pressure that terrified all living beings as it swept toward the master and disciple trio!
“This natural law… this is… a Dao Planet?!!” The boy’s expression changed drastically, and his eyes were full of disbelief. At the same time, the gourd in his hand suddenly trembled violently. It didn’t even take two breaths of time – as soon as the sea of light swallowed the trio, the gourd suddenly exploded, and the fog formed from Wang Baole’s clone instantly fused into the sea of light. At the same time, a cold voice echoed in the ears of the master and his two disciples!
“Old ghost, who were you just calling an ant?”