Wang Baole didn't think about what his senior brother wanted him to retrieve from the Nether River. At that moment, he was walking through the Dark Sect. Even though there were many Restrictive Spells here, the familiar feeling still made him recall everything that had happened in the Dark Dream.
He walked past palace after palace, stream after stream, and cliff after cliff. He stared at the image of reincarnation formed between heaven and earth in the distance and savored the Dao that permeated the place. Unknowingly, Wang Baole seemed to vaguely see figures of the past.
Those figures were all his fellow disciples in the Dark Dream. Even though they wore the Dark Sect's Daoist robes and looked solemn, most of them were smiling. Some went out to guide souls on behalf of the heavens, while others returned to send souls into reincarnation.
As the cycle repeated, even more of his fellow disciples maintained the operation of the Heavenly Dao while they were cultivating. They checked the past lives of the deceased and sketched the faces of those who were about to be reincarnated.
"The Dark Sect …" Wang Baole muttered. Before he knew it, he had walked to the top of a cliff. He stared at the heavens and earth in the distance. He seemed to see his master, his senior brother from all those years ago, talking to him about the little secret of becoming a Dao companion in the future.
"Even though it was just a dream, it was fused into my soul." Wang Baole sighed softly. When he turned his head, he saw that his surroundings were empty. There was no one around. If there was anyone, they were just a few unfamiliar disciples who were looking at him warily from afar. Their gazes were filled with hostility.
It was normal for them to be hostile. However, they didn't know that the identity of the Dark Child that they cared about was nothing to Wang Baole.
"If it weren't for Master and senior brother, what would the Dark Sect … have to do with me?" Wang Baole shook his head gently. He already had some thoughts in his heart, but they were entangled with his emotions. He couldn't let go of them for the time being. In the end, he sighed and looked into the depths of the Dark Sect …
There was a gaze there. It was a Qi that had been fixed on him since the moment he entered the Nether Planet and stepped into the Dark Sect.
Wang Baole didn't know who the owner of that gaze was, but he could sense the dense waves of Dark Fire that surged into the sky from that person's body. Those waves … far surpassed his own in terms of quantity and quality.
The only thing missing was perhaps a kind of … recognition.
It wasn't his senior apprentice-brother Chen Qing's approval, as Wang Baole could sense his senior apprentice-brother's approval in the waves of the netherworld fire. What he lacked was the approval of the Dark Child Tablet in the Underworld Sect, as well as the approval of the nine great elders like Wang Baole's master.
'He doesn't seem to be very old … Could he be the Dark Child that everyone in the Dark Sect had chosen before I appeared?' Wang Baole retracted his gaze. Realization dawned on him as he walked deeper into the Dark Sect.
The place they were heading to was none other than the one he had stayed in in the Underworld Dream … a side hall beside the Hall of the Dark Child.
Years ago, he hadn't lived in the Underworld Child's Main Palace. That was his Elder Brother's residence in the Underworld Dream, and he had lived in a side palace. Now, on the Underworld Planet, Wang Baole was doing the same. He walked all the way to the side palace.
All the restrictive spells along the way were easily dispelled by him with just a few hand seals. It wasn't that Wang Baole's cultivation base had reached an inconceivable level. It was just that … these restrictive spells were exactly the same as those in the Underworld Dream.
Perhaps it was because of these similarities that Wang Baole found the Underworld Sect both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.
What was familiar was that everything in front of him was unfamiliar … because in the end, it was just a dream. His senior apprentice-brother … didn't seem to be the same as before. All of these changes seemed to have happened very quickly, but in reality … perhaps this had all been part of his senior apprentice-brother's plan all along.
"Fusion of the Heavens Dao, Underworld Revival Sect." Wang Baole was silent as he stepped into the side palace. He looked around at the familiar decorations, then sat down quietly and closed his eyes.
Time passed slowly. Soon, seven days had gone by.
During those seven days, Wang Baole didn't leave the side palace. He didn't meet with any of the Underworld Sect cultivators. Instead, he immersed himself in the Underworld Dream, immersing himself in gaining enlightenment of the Underworld Magic.
Similarly, no one from the Underworld Sect came to see him. Although … after he and Master Chen Qing had arrived, and after his identity had been revealed, all of the Underworld Sect cultivators on the Underworld Planet knew who he was.
A few more days passed. Finally, the first Underworld Sect cultivator came to Wang Baole's side palace. It was a young man dressed in an Underworld robe. He looked extraordinarily cold, and the ripples of the Underworld Magic emanated from him. That was especially true of his forehead, where half of … the mark of Underworld Flame could be seen!
That mark indicated that within the Underworld Sect, this person had been designated as a quasi-Underworld Child. According to the rules of the Underworld Sect, every generation of Underworld Child would have several quasi-Underworld Children under their command.
Their relationship with the Underworld Children was one of subordination, but there was also competition. That was because the Underworld Sect had nine Grand Elders, which meant that they were divided into nine bloodlines. Each bloodline had its own Underworld Child, and these nine Underworld Children had to compete with each other. In the end, the Dao of the Heavens would approve of the Underworld Child, and the one whose name was engraved on the Underworld Stele would be the true Underworld Child. In other words … the next Underworld Lord.
It was for this reason that Wang Baole's arrival was rejected by the Underworld Sect. To them, Wang Baole was an outsider who wasn't of the orthodox Underworld Tribe. And yet, he had been designated as a Underworld Child. This caused the Underworld Children of the Underworld Sect, who had recovered some of their former glory, to be very displeased.
However, they didn't dare to complain to Chen Qing. After all, Chen Qing used to have a very high status, and could be said to have acted on behalf of the Underworld Lord. He had personally restored the shattered Underworld Sect bit by bit.
And now, Chen Qing had merged with the Dao of the Heavens, which made him even more supreme. However … they didn't dare to complain to Chen Qing. Instead, they were dissatisfied with Wang Baole, and at the same time, wanted to provoke him.
The young man who had just arrived was doing exactly that. He stood outside the side hall and looked on coldly for a long time. Then, he suddenly spoke.
"I am Kun Lingzi, a cultivator from the Realm of Life. Since Fellow Daoist is from the Realm of Life, I hope you'll fight with me. Let me see how strong the people of the outside world are now!"
Wang Baole sat cross-legged in meditation, his expression the same as ever. However, when he opened his eyes, he seemed to be able to see the young man in the outside world. This person's cultivation base was extraordinary. He was already at the great circle of the Stellar Realm, and his aura was stable. If he were in the outside world, he wouldn't be considered in the first echelon, but he would definitely be at the top of the second echelon.
"Not interested," Wang Baole said coolly, then closed his eyes again.
"Hmm?" When the young man from the Underworld Sect heard this, his eyes flickered with a mysterious light.
"Are you not interested, or are you afraid? With such a temperament, I'm afraid you don't deserve to be the current Underworld Child of the Underworld Sect. Since that's the case, I'm going to test you out. " With a cold laugh, the young man stepped forward toward the door of the side hall. Just as he was about to reach it, he lifted his right hand as if to push it open. It was at that point that he heard a calm voice coming from inside the side hall.
"Whichever part of your body you use to push my door open, I'll take it away."
The words weren't cold, but when they reached the young man's ears, he couldn't help but tremble. His intuition told him that this person … could actually do that. Therefore, he stopped in his tracks and began to hesitate.
While he was hesitating, seven or eight Divine Senses suddenly descended from the void behind him. Each Divine Sense contained the fluctuations of a Star Domain, causing the young man's spirits to rise. Once again, a cold smile appeared at the corners of his lips. He lifted his right hand and waved it. Immediately, the door to the side hall was forcefully pushed open, and he saw Wang Baole meditating inside.
Wang Baole frowned slightly and sighed softly in his heart. He could naturally sense the seven or eight Divine Senses outside the side hall. At the same time, he could also sense the other four or five people who were hiding outside. They had Underworld Fire auras that were about the same as this young man's.
Obviously, these people were the quasi Underworld Children of the Underworld Sect.
Besides them, there were even more gazes coming from within the Underworld Sect. Most of them were gathered here. Wang Baole could vaguely sense three incredibly powerful Divine Senses that were about the same as his master, Lieyan Laozu. They were ancient, and they were also locked onto this place.
Another thing was … the gaze he had sensed when he first stepped into the Underworld Sect seemed to have opened its eyes in the depths of the Underworld Sect and was looking at him. There was a faint hint of greed in that gaze. It wasn't completely under control, and it spread out. However, it was quickly retracted.
Wang Baole fell silent. In his heart, he disliked the Underworld Sect even more.
"Let's wait and see. Let's wait and see," Wang Baole murmured softly.
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I'll return one chapter today. I still owe three chapters. I'll try to finish them all next week!
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