Wang Baole shook his head and looked at the images formed by the emperor's memories again. His expression was still complicated.
In the images, the first life born in this great universe had cultivated for countless years alone in this great universe. Fortunately, the parrot's appearance had allowed these two lives to accompany each other.
In the following years, as the emperor cultivated, when his cultivation reached a certain level, the laws of this universe also correspondingly became comprehensive, until other life forms were born one after another.
In the beginning, the emperor watched curiously as those life forms appeared. He did not disturb them often, nor did he interfere too much. However, his occasional appearance still had an impact on these life forms.
His totem was slowly outlined in the embryonic civilization formed by these life forms. He … was gradually called a god …
As more and more life forms appeared, more and more civilizations formed. Legends about gods were passed down from generation to generation … At the same time, under the emperor's occasional guidance, cultivation methods slowly spread like seeds in more and more civilizations.
At some point in time, the civilizations of this great universe began to cultivate.
Time passed slowly. To the emperor, seeing the number of life forms in this universe gradually increase and a large number of cultivators appear one after another, he was very happy.
This made him feel that he was not so lonely anymore.
Finally, one day, an expert was born in one of the civilizations. He walked out of his civilization and stepped into the starry sky. This seemed to have started a certain cycle. In the following years, one expert after another was born in different civilizations.
Just like that, the first person who tried to challenge the gods appeared.
His inheritance did not come from the emperor, but from the parrot that rarely appeared in the world.
His name was Xuan Chen.
Xuan Chen's challenge failed, but he chose to follow the emperor and became his subordinate.
In the following years, those who could reach the limit and challenge the gods gradually appeared one after another, but in the end, no one succeeded. One after another, they became the emperor's subordinates.
If the timeline of this great universe was divided into three parts, then in the early days of the great universe, the emperor was indeed a god-like existence.
He had already walked his path to the limit.
Under his command, any one of the 108 generals was enough to suppress an era. Each of them had their own story, including the stunning Luo in the later period and the ill-fated Gu.
If time continued like this, then with the emperor's control as a god, he should still be able to control the middle and late periods of this great universe.
However, at this time, the emperor recovered some of his memories.
Although the recovery this time did not make him remember who he was, his mission, and his origins, it made him remember the scene when he was buried in the coffin when he died.
Or to be more precise, this recovered memory came from the coffin's perception of the outside world.
It was also at this time that the emperor realized that the reason why his memories could not be recovered was because … he was not complete.
In the coffin that had fused with the corpse of his previous life, there was another remnant soul.
After the emperor's previous life died, his corpse and shattered soul were sealed in the coffin. According to some ancient ritual that he could not remember the details of, but he had a faint impression of, he would be resurrected one day.
Unfortunately, before this ancient ritual was completely over, the coffin that carried the corpse of his previous life encountered this special great universe.
This Great Cosmos was indeed very special.
The black wooden coffin had drifted through the starry sky for a very long time, and had encountered many Multiverse. However, none of them had been able to fuse with it. Only this Multiverse … was different. It had actually fused with the coffin, turning it into a Wood Essence. That accident had led to the Emperor's resurrection, but not complete.
If he wanted to be complete … he needed to retrieve the other remnant soul that existed in the black wooden coffin that had turned into the wood path and fuse it with himself. He would be completely complete so that the unexpected ritual would return to its original trajectory.
Therefore, the relationship between Wang Baole and the emperor was not a clone as he had once guessed. To be more precise, he was like the emperor, a life form that had split from the origin.
However, due to the laws of this great universe that were complete and comprehensive, as well as its uniqueness, the emperor was bound here and could not forcibly plunder it. Unless he could wait for this great universe to reach the later stages, when it dried up, then he could truly retrieve the remnant soul and make himself complete.
However … the emperor could not wait that long.
Therefore, he thought of a way.
He wanted to deceive this great universe and make it feel dangerous, so that a calamity of destruction would descend. And the strongest calamity of this great universe was … the first law of the universe's birth.
The wood path origin.
The images ended there. Wang Baole withdrew his gaze and stood there silently for a long time.
Outsiders said that the emperor was arrogant in the end and tried to replace the will of this great universe, so he had to endure the wood element calamity. However, through these memories, Wang Baole had already understood …
It was not that the emperor was arrogant. All of this was deliberate. He did not want to replace this great universe. From the beginning to the end, there was only one thing he wanted, and that was … the wood path origin.
Back then, this great universe had seized the black wooden coffin and forcefully transformed it into the universe's own wood path origin. Then … the emperor used this method to try to lure it out and take it back.
That was the truth.
Wang Baole stood there for a long time and sighed softly.
The more he understood, the more confused he felt. At that moment, he raised his head and looked at the familiar first level of the world that appeared in front of him after the emperor's memories disappeared.
Slowly, his gaze became deeper and deeper.
"There are still three more stages … and three more memories." Wang Baole took a deep breath and walked forward. He wanted to pass the three stages as soon as possible and finish reading the three remaining memories of the emperor.
The moment Wang Baole walked over, everything in the world turned into food, and every type of food exuded an aura that made one crave for it.
It was the law of appetite.
If that was all there was to it, the manifestation of the nomological laws wouldn't be eerie enough. What was truly eerie was that Wang Baole suddenly had the feeling that … every part of his body seemed to have become a delicacy at that moment.
He had to do his best to restrain himself to suppress the crazy appetite in his body.
This was because … if he could not suppress it, under the influence of the law of appetite, he would not be able to control himself and would eat his body bit by bit until there was nothing left.
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
That was the law of appetite.
As the first law of desire that Wang Baole mastered after entering the Origin Universe Dao Kong, it could be said that his understanding of it was the deepest among all the laws of desire.
After all, whether it was the desire to listen, the desire to see, or the final desire, the time and energy that Wang Baole spent on them were very short.
Only the law of appetite was something that he had come into contact with from the very beginning. He had slowly accumulated and exploded until he stepped into the level of the Gluttony Lord, so he had a very deep understanding of it.
He clearly knew that the origin of the law of appetite was the desire for food, and the aura produced by this desire was the best nourishment for cultivating the law of appetite.
For example, the Gluttony Festival in the City of Appetite was a feast where the Gluttony Lord and the Gluttony Lord divided up the gluttony aura of all the cultivators in the city.
With that understanding, Wang Baole's breathing quickened, but the look in his eyes remained resolute. In reality, with his current level of cultivation and attainments, the Law of Appetite alone wouldn't have been able to affect him to such an extent.
What made the law of appetite so powerful was actually … the superposition of desire.
This stage seemed to be the law of appetite, but whether it was the sight of the eyes, the omnipresent aroma, or the sound of food being cooked, all these desires fused together, causing the law of appetite to reach an unimaginable level.
Even if Wang Baole had become a part of desire, he would still be affected.
As for this effect itself … after going through the previous stages, Wang Baole had an answer.
"A battle between desire and reason!" Wang Baole muttered. Although his six desires were complete and turned into desire, desire was not everything to him. To a certain extent, it could be said that he was controlling his own desire.
And this stage caused Wang Baole's desire to erupt greatly, as if it was resisting and suppressing his reason. It caused Wang Baole to be controlled by desire and lose his reason.
This was something he could not allow.
In Wang Baole's understanding, desire … was like a primordial ferocious beast, and reason was a cage that imprisoned the beast. The lock of the cage was also formed by reason.
Once the lock was opened, he would lose himself.
For example, at this moment, under the eruption of the law of appetite, the cage of desire in Wang Baole's body began to shake. However, he was no ordinary person. Whether it was his experience in the Federation or the scenes in the world of stone tablets, Wang Baole's perseverance was also one of the cornerstones of his journey, even though luck played a part in his journey in the world of stone tablets!
He was ruthless to others, but even more ruthless to himself.
This was his personality. Hence, at this moment, a cold glint flashed in his eyes. He raised his right hand, and just like in the previous stage, he slowly drew a line of blood between his eyebrows.
However, the difference was that this line of blood was very deep, as if it was carved into his skull between his eyebrows. A scratching sound could be heard, and it was enough to make one's hair stand on end.
The piercing pain, coupled with the enhancement of the desire to touch, instantly suppressed all desire. Wang Baole's eyes shone brightly as he walked forward step by step.
All the food lost its allure in front of him. No matter how exquisite the food was, no matter how fragrant the food was, and no matter how tempting the sound was, everything lost its effect under the piercing pain of the desire to touch.
Wang Baole's expression became calmer as he took the fourth step, the fifth step, the sixth step, and the moment he took the seventh step, Wang Baole was prepared. He raised his head and saw a figure.
It was the woman with the umbrella who had appeared in the previous stage.
An appetite that was many times stronger than before suddenly erupted, causing Wang Baole's eyes to turn red. He had the urge to eat the woman in front of him.
"This is only the fourth stage … and it's already at the point where I can't control myself anymore. What about the fifth stage, the desire to touch, and the sixth stage, the will to desire …?" Wang Baole was silent for a long time before he finally suppressed the madness in his body. Ignoring the woman, he took a step forward and stepped into the world of the statue.
As he did so, all of his previous senses vanished, and what appeared before his eyes was what he had been hoping for … the image from the Emperor's memories.
The image seemed to be connected to what he had seen in the stage of the desire to see the desire.
The Emperor, who had thought of a way to deliberately lure the Heavenly Tribulation, had made all the necessary preparations, and faced the Heavenly Tribulation head-on.
In the image, the entire starry sky rumbled. Above Genesis and Dao Kong, the starry sky transformed into a gigantic vortex, and an aura that caused the entire Multiverse to tremble erupted from within the vortex.
Soon, a gigantic black piece of wood slowly appeared from within the vortex. It radiated an ancient aura and carried with it the marks of countless years as it descended toward Genesis and Dao Kong!
As it descended, the black piece of wood slowly shrank. When it finally pierced into Genesis and Dao Kong, it turned into a black wooden spike. It carried with it a boundless power, a light of destruction, and an aura that could shake the universe as it headed … toward the depths of Genesis and Dao Kong, where a figure sat cross-legged atop a mountain peak!
That figure had long hair, and wore a long purple robe. His gaze was profound, and his appearance … was exactly the same as Wang Baole's.
However, his expression was even colder, and his eyes were cold, as if he didn't care about anything. When he looked at the incoming black wooden spike, ripples of emotion appeared in his eyes.
It was an intense desire that reached the pinnacle, as well as a deep sense of anticipation!
Clearly, he had been waiting for this moment for a very, very long time. In fact, in order to receive it as soon as possible, the Imperial Emperor stood up from his cross-legged position and roared at the sky.
In the next instant, a dazzling black light shone. The black wooden spike appeared in front of the Imperial Emperor with a howl. It touched the center of his brows and broke through his skin and skull, as if it wanted to pierce through.
However, the Imperial Emperor's cultivation base also erupted with a monstrous power at that instant, causing the black wooden spike to not be able to pierce through completely. It only managed to pierce seventy percent of the way through before it was stuck between the Imperial Emperor's brows.
Even though it was only seventy percent, the impact and the eruption of aura caused the Imperial Emperor to cough up blood. His body was sent crashing into the ground, and the entire Genesis and Dao Kong trembled as if it was about to collapse.
Deep in the ground, cracks appeared on the Imperial Emperor's body. They spread all over his body, as if they were about to tear him apart. However, the Imperial Emperor was well-prepared. The moment he was about to fail, auras gathered from all directions. They were all his war generals, and at that moment, they gave him a chance of survival.
They caused the Imperial Emperor's body to rapidly heal, and he gradually reached a certain equilibrium!
"Now, it's time to fuse!
"Once the fusion is complete, I … will recover all my memories. I will remember who I am, and my mission …." The Imperial Emperor sat down cross-legged deep in the ground, murmuring softly to himself as he closed his eyes.
The images of his memories stopped there. They shattered into countless fragments that vanished before Wang Baole's eyes.
As he looked at the fragments, Wang Baole's thoughts ran wild. He suddenly wanted to know what the Imperial Emperor would say when he passed the Six Desires stage and saw his true body.
Clearly, something unexpected had happened in the Imperial Emperor's plan.
"The uniqueness of this Cosmos …." Wang Baole thought. He suddenly thought of … the Immortal's legacy.
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