The ancient voice seemed to have reached its limit. It was as if a very weak person was using his last bit of strength to speak. It passed through the endless universe, through the endless years, and sank into the cycle of reincarnation. It echoed in the pitch-black void and filled Wang Baole's ears.
It seemed to have touched his soul, causing fluctuations to appear in Wang Baole's consciousness. The fluctuations were weak at first, but as the echoes came, the fluctuations in his consciousness gradually became stronger. In the end, Wang Baole's body shook violently. His consciousness awakened, and his eyes …
He opened them.
What he saw was not the Star of Destiny, nor was it the Book of Destiny, nor was it the Heavenly Dharma Esteemed Being. It was … a starry sky!
Resplendent starlight, countless stars, and in the distance, the countless stars that had fallen into this place countless years ago, converged into a … boundless galaxy that seemed to stretch beyond the limits of one's eyes.
None of this seemed to be too extraordinary. Even if it was extremely beautiful, Wang Baole had seen a similar starry sky when he was speeding through the starry sky in the Never-Ending Dao Domain.
But … it seemed to be slightly different. Even though the starry sky here was even more muddy, it was even vaster. Everything here was filled with an indescribable ancient aura. It was as if when one looked at this starry sky, one would naturally have the grand feeling of time passing by in an instant, and one would even have the misconception that one was tiny and insignificant like a speck of dust.
Wang Baole looked at all this with a blank look in his eyes. His consciousness had been awakened by the echoes of the voice, but his memories had not fully emerged. He only remembered that he had sunk into his comprehension of his previous life with the help of the Heavenly Dharma Esteemed Being. It seemed that the entire process had happened in an instant. One moment, he had sunk into it, and the next moment, he opened his eyes and saw this starry sky.
However, even as Wang Baole was in a daze, the memories of the previous seventy-eight lives appeared in his mind. The memories of each life were like a bolt of lightning that exploded in his mind, transforming into a vast amount of information and images that filled his mind.
Over and over again … until the memories of all seventy-eight lives appeared. Wang Baole's body trembled, and his expression was one of pain. This pain did not come from his emotions, but from the sudden influx of memories. It was as if his mind was about to explode, and his mind was about to be torn apart.
"Sun De!"
"Sun De!!"
"Sun De!!!" Wang Baole roared, repeating this name over and over again. This was the only person who had appeared in his seventy-eight lives!
In these seventy-eight lifetimes, to be precise, other than Wang Baole himself, there was only Sun De. He was the one who had evolved one life after another, constantly experiencing different lifetimes from Sun De. It was as if he was searching for a direction and an opportunity.
Instinctively, the opportunity to awaken the remnant soul … Wang Baole pressed on his throbbing glabella. Blood vessels appeared in his eyes due to the large amount of memories surfacing. However, as he merged all the memories together, as he absorbed and digested them, his rationality slowly returned. His eyes gradually narrowed, and a glow appeared in them.
Everything was now completely clear!
Sun De, the discarnate soul of the Ancient One, had been trying to awaken from his second life. Unfortunately, by the time he reached his seventy-ninth life, the opportunity had not appeared. Although Wang Yiyi and her father had appeared, the discarnate soul had not awakened. Instead, it had vanished from the world for all eternity.
Sun De's endless cycles of reincarnation had come to an end.
After that, this world should have been plunged into darkness, devoid of life. It would have been a deathly stillness. However, all of this had changed because of Wang Yiyi's injuries and the arrival of her father and daughter.
Therefore, in the eightieth life of this universe, Wang Baole had used Xu Yinling's enlightenment to see the bubbles of dream after dream. Now that he thought about it, perhaps it was the earliest birth of life.
The words, pictures, butterflies, and other things that came after were the process of life growing and enriching itself ….
"The last ten lives of this universe were created by Wang Yiyi and her father …." Wang Baole murmured. He thought of a saying, "God is watching you from three feet above." At this moment, he understood.
Wang Yiyi's father's goal was also known to Wang Baole. It was to heal Wang Yiyi's injuries. The reason why this pair of father and daughter could create life in this universe … had something to do with the words Sun De had said before he died in his seventy-ninth life.
He had promised Wang Yiyi's father that he would help him save his daughter.
As for Wang Baole himself, as the memories from his second life all the way to his eighty-ninth life fused together, he knew that in the end, he owed Sun De a favor.
In his seventy-ninth life, Sun De's discarnate soul had passed down some sort of legacy to him. Perhaps Meng Hao would still be a black plank floating in the starry sky. Although he had developed instincts, he would not have possessed true life.
As for the origin of the blood-colored centipede, Wang Baole had two guesses. Although he wasn't sure which one was correct, the truth … lay within them.
"The first possibility is that when Luo and Gu were fighting over the Immortal position, they fought over countless lives and Karma. In the end, Luo won, but Gu escaped with his discarnate soul, causing Luo's Immortal position to be incomplete. What Gu didn't know was that his discarnate soul … still contained a strand of Luo's will. That will … for some unknown reason, gave birth to sentience.
"As for the second possibility …." Wang Baole thought. As he organized his thoughts, he thought back to his second life, and how he had suppressed his instincts, and how the blood-colored thread had let out a roar.
"You dare to suppress an Immortal …." Wang Baole murmured. That was the source of the second possibility.
"The second possibility is that … the blood-colored thread is not a strand of Luo's will. It is … the Immortal position that Luo and Gu fought over for an entire ring …. Perhaps the Immortal position itself has a spirit, or perhaps it doesn't. But in this place, under certain special circumstances, it gave birth to sentience. As for the centipede I saw, that wasn't its true form. It was just a symbol!!"
Wang Baole fell silent. Both of his guesses could be correct, and they made sense logically as well. Therefore, Wang Baole couldn't make a judgment. Just as he was about to think about the details in detail, suddenly … he felt his heart palpitate. When he raised his head, he saw a sea of light in the distance in the murky cosmos.
The light covered a boundless area, and emanated an intense, domineering aura. It whistled through the starry sky, and if you looked closely, you could see that within that sea of light was a universe!
That universe was boundlessly large, and contained innumerable heavenly bodies. Shocking ripples emanated out from it, and as Wang Baole looked back, he saw an enormous, pale-white beast materializing in the starry sky behind him, howling.
It looked like a whale, and was about the same size as the sphere of light. If you looked closely, you would see that there was a continent inside of it. Countless cultivators flew out from the continent to transform into flesh and blood on the enormous beast, giving it the power to shake Gods.
In the blink of an eye, the enormous beast and the sea of light slammed into each other, and a huge battle erupted in front of Wang Baole. It was at this point that he realized what he was seeing in his first life!
It was … a war of extermination between the first and second universes that had been born in the beginning of the Second Ring. It was … a war between the Never-Ending Dao Domain and the Vast Expanse Dao Domain, a war that had taken place countless years ago!
Wang Baole, who was on the battlefield, watched the war between the two vast universes with his own eyes. He saw countless deaths, saw madness, and witnessed the entire process of the war.
Both the Vast Expanse Dao Domain and the Never-Ending Dao Domain displayed ultimate power. They were so powerful that Wang Baole's heart trembled violently. That was because he remembered the secret that Wang Yiyi's father had told the Ancient God discarnate soul.
This Never-Ending was not the true Never-Ending!
As those words echoed in Wang Baole's mind, he saw that within the pale-white beast, which was at a disadvantage, all of the cultivators on the land mass were kowtowing. They were offering sacrifices!
And the object of their sacrifice was a statue!
The statue of an old man!
That was … the first cultivator born in the Vast Expanse Dao Domain. He was the most powerful will in the entire Vast Expanse Dao Domain. He had no name, only a title.
Laozu of the Vast Expanse!
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