📖 Chapter 998 - Good and Evil are Difficult to Determine!

13 Jun, 2023

“A rotting whale, a temple, and… ‘sea-suppressing’?” Wang Baole narrowed his eyes and mentally checked through all the myths and legends that he knew. In the end, he concluded that although there were some legends that spoke of somewhat similar existences, the three ruins were still different from anything he knew.

Indeed, not only did the Federation have no records of these three ruins, but even the ancient myths and legends held no mention of them at all.

“Interesting…” Wang Baole murmured. He vanished from where he was, and when he reappeared, he was already next to the rotting whale at the bottom of the ocean. As soon as he appeared, absolute darkness swamped his vision. The dense death qi made the surrounding seawater seem full of a strange corrosive force.

Not only was it impossible for sea creatures to approach, even Wang Baole himself felt a little uncomfortable. Although he was just a clone, he was still a Planet Realm cultivator! Moreover, thanks to the power of the Dao Planet, his current body wasn’t even that much weaker than his true self.

Even if he was facing a late-stage Planet Realm cultivator who had fused with an Immortal Planet or weaker, he would still be able to put up a fight. However, he could sense that if he didn’t put up any countermeasures, the strange force in the seawater would end up corroding his essence body once enough time passed.

From this, it could be seen that the force in this strange place was astonishingly strong. If it were anyone else, even another Planet Realm cultivator, the slightest hesitation might cause them to end up dying here.

“This rotting whale…” Wang Baole’s eyes flashed, and the nine Ancient Planets whirred to life behind him. The Dao Planet appeared, and a bright nine-colored light spread out from his body. Here on the pitch-black seabed, the place Wang Baole stood instantly became extremely conspicuous, like a torch in the dark night. At the same time, the light of his Planets illuminated the surroundings, causing all the details of the enormous rotting whale to be reflected in Wang Baole’s eyes.

The exposed bones were all engraved with runes, and there were countless maggots that seemed to be sleeping inside the rotting flesh. These maggots appeared to be formed from death qi, and there were so many of them that… it was enough to disgust anyone.

Most Planet Realm cultivators would probably flinch when they saw this scene. Even Chosen who had fused with Special Planets and wielded the power of law wouldn’t remain unmoved. Their first reaction would probably be to step back and leave, then think about it afterward.

But for Wang Baole, all that happened was that his expression turned a little strange. He narrowed his eyes, and eight of the nine colors shining from his body instantly dimmed, causing only a black light to remain. Behind Wang Baole, the black Ancient Planet shone brightly.

This Ancient Planet was Black Death!

At the same time, as the Underworld Child, Wang Baole didn’t fear ghosts, ghouls, or any other sort of undead creature. Along with his mastery over the black law of death, Wang Baole could basically ignore any negative effect from the death qi. He instantly approached the rotting whale’s carcass, and without any hesitation, directly entered it through a gap in its ribs.

The rotting whale seemed to be a kind of organic battleship; within it was another world completely different from outside. As Wang Baole looked around, he even saw cabins scattered about; however, most had decayed with the passage of time. And inside these cabins, Wang Baole found… corpses!

The number of these corpses wasn’t small, probably in the thousands. Although all of them had decayed with the passage of time, and many had missing limbs or other body parts, from what Wang Baole could tell, they… weren’t human.

This made Wang Baole frown. According to Lin You, the Moon Star Sect came from Earth, so they should be made up of humans. However, the people here weren’t human at all, causing Wang Baole’s brows to furrow. He stopped inside a cabin and looked down at one of the corpses. After staring at it carefully, his expression became thoughtful.

“There’s no trace of any struggle. Everyone inside the whale must have died in an instant… or maybe they just lost the ability to resist?” After thinking for a while, Wang Baole’s eyes suddenly flashed with cold light. His cultivation base immediately erupted, and countless threads of blood suddenly appeared beneath his feet. Suddenly, the place Wang Baole was standing was inundated with blood threads.

They collided with the cultivation fluctuations erupting from his body, and booms rang out constantly.

Then, more blood threads appeared, shooting toward Wang Baole crazily. Wang Baole could sense that the blood threads contained a strange supernatural power that seemed able to restrain all activity. Once they touched him, he would instantly lose the ability to move.

“Petty tricks!” Wang Baole let out a cold snort. Ignoring the approaching blood threads, he clenched his fist, and Red Blood rotated behind him. The natural law of blood turned into a blood ring that instantly rippled outward, and the incoming blood threads all trembled violently. They seemed to distort, then showed signs of retreating. However, Wang Baole snorted coldly again. The blood threads’ retreat seemed to be disrupted, and they were force to converge on Wang Baole once again. But this time, they ended up gathering in his palm.

In an instant, all the blood threads had turned into a wriggling ball of blood in Wang Baole’s palm. Suddenly, the wriggling blood ball turned into a tiny humanoid figure. Struggling to escape his grasp, it roared soundlessly at Wang Baole, as if trying to attack his divine soul.

“An artifact spirit?” With Wang Baole’s attainments in artifact refining, he could tell what this tiny person was at a glance. At that moment, he held the blood person tightly in his right hand and pressed his left hand against the rotting whale’s fleshy inner wall. A cold and gloomy voice echoed from his mouth.

“How bold. Ghosts and ghouls are all under my dominion!

“Arise!”

As Wang Baole’s words echoed and the black law of death spread out, the rotting whale’s body suddenly trembled violently. A bizarre force erupted from the black Ancient Planet and spread throughout the entire rotting whale. Its eyes had already rotted away, leaving empty sockets like black holes. But within those sockets, balls of ghostly fire suddenly winked into existence, and the whole carcass trembled violently. It was as if the rotting whale… came back to life!

Although most of its body was buried under mud, as soon as it came alive, rumbling echoed out. The rotting whale’s tail and fins shook, and it actually heaved itself out of the mud, revealing countless blood threads attached to its belly!

And on the other side of the blood threads, at the bottom of the deep abyss exposed by the whale pulling itself out of the mud, was… a huge spell formation!

The blood threads connected to the rotting whale came from the formation, and there were even more connected to the tiny blood person in Wang Baole’s hand. The tiny blood person who had been roaring was suddenly shocked still, then its body trembled. Now, as it looked at Wang Baole, its eyes were filled with uncontrollable horror.

Ignoring the terrified tiny person, Wang Baole vanished and reappeared outside the rotting whale. Lowering his head, he looked down at the spell formation in the seabed to find that it was similar to the ones he’d seen in the other ruins. All of them were clearly teleportation formations, but at the same time, he could tell there was something different about this one.

The spell formations in the other ruins were all in a miserable state. Even if there were some fluctuations coming from them, they were extremely weak. Obviously, they had gone without replenishment for too many years and couldn’t remain active all the time, like a laptop on low-power mode.

But this spell formation was completely different. It was fully active, like a high-end computer with a full battery. All of this allowed Wang Baole to vaguely guess at what was going on.

This whale was indeed an organic battleship, but it didn’t belong to the Moon Star Sect. Instead, it had been captured by the sect, or possibly obtained in some other way, and was forcibly attached to the spell formation as a battery. This was why the teleportation formation was still active and ready to be used at any moment, and also why it had even been able to produce an artifact spirit. Well, technically speaking, it was more appropriate to call it a formation spirit.

While Wang Baole was thinking about all of this, the spell formation suddenly began to glow. It seemed that, after being stimulated by the awakening of the whale, it was going to activate all on its own.

Wang Baole’s eyes flashed, and he suddenly stomped down with his right foot. With a bang, the shining spell formation suddenly trembled. Cracking sounds rang out, and a moment later, the formation shattered into pieces. The light of teleportation that had been about to reach a peak also slowly dimmed.

As for the tiny blood person in Wang Baole’s hand, it let out a miserable scream and instantly withered. Wang Baole sealed it up and put it away. Then, without wasting time, he put away the rotting whale as well. After that, he turned and left this area of the sea. A moment later… he was already in another spot at the bottom of the ocean. In front of him was a place covered in seaweed, and there was a stone statue standing with a stone sword on its back. Behind it was… the temple!

Almost as soon as Wang Baole appeared, the stone statue suddenly trembled. Sword qi instantly rose from the stone sword behind it and took aim at Wang Baole!