Even as the words left Wang Baole's mouth, the Underworld River began to spread out, descending from the sky toward the area where the burly man was sealed. In the blink of an eye, it pierced through the protective shield, wrapped around the boat, and shot toward the burly man!
Before this, the burly man with the centipede seemed to be in a hurry. His pupils constricted, and he looked as if he were about to fall back. However, as the Underworld River pierced through the protective shield and Wang Baole's boat closed in, the burly man's eyes shone with a ferocious light, and he let out a roar.
"Get on your ass!!" He roared. He waved his hands, causing numerous flying swords to shoot up from the ground in an area of three hundred meters around him, forming a sword formation!
Things weren't over yet. Within the sword formation, bright beams of light shot out from the ground, interweaving together to form a spell formation diagram. The power of the spell formation suddenly exploded out.
In addition, numerous figures that looked exactly like the burly man appeared in the blink of an eye. They spread out in all directions, making it impossible to tell which was which. At the same time, an ear-piercing shriek echoed out, as if it could pierce through metal and shatter stone!
The ground split open, and an enormous, vicious centipede burrowed out. It lunged toward Wang Baole as if it wanted to swallow him whole. The terrifying shape of its mandibles was clearly visible, and there was no need to mention the countless razor-sharp legs that grew out of its body. It was a terrifying sight to behold.
All of this preparation, and the sudden eruption of power, took some time to describe, but actually happened as soon as Wang Baole entered the protective shield!
It moved as fast as lightning, with incomparable speed!
However … all of the preparations, all of the techniques, all of the flying swords, all of the magical items, even the vicious centipede, were useless in the face of the Underworld Artifact. There was no need to even mention the fact that Wang Baole knew that the burly man was the leader. Therefore, when he attacked, he unleashed all of the remaining power of the Underworld Artifact, as well as the techniques of the Underworld Sect!
The boat continued to move forward, and the Underworld River continued to surge forward. However, Wang Baole suddenly began to sing a strange song, as if it contained some bizarre power!
"When heaven and earth separate, the cycle of fate stops …"
The moment the ballad was sung, the entire Dark Vessel began to tremble. A power whose source could not be sensed appeared abruptly. That power did not come from the void, nor did it come from any other place. Instead … it was formed directly here!
More accurately speaking, it was formed by this ballad. As it echoed, the large amount of flying swords instantly stopped moving. The Enchanted Treasures and Formations also calmed down. Even the giant and ferocious centipede remained motionless in its charging posture.
It was as if everything here had been frozen!!
As for the burly man's numerous clones, they all popped like bubbles. Only the one closest to Wang Baole didn't, and his eyes were filled with astonishment and disbelief.
"This is impossible. Time Stop … This is absolutely impossible. This is a Willpower Dao Technique that only peak Celestial Domain-Grade Almighties can use!" The burly man's entire body was trembling like a sieve. He couldn't help but cry out in alarm as he retreated rapidly. Even though he felt that the scene before him was too unimaginable and that it was absolutely impossible, he still retreated without hesitation.
He didn't dare to fight anymore. The only thought in his mind was to escape. Everything here was so strange that it made his scalp go numb. However, the moment he retreated, the burly man suddenly stopped. Even more astonishment and fear appeared in his eyes. He was even stunned for a moment as he stared at … his own body in front of him!!
There was a body in front of him. It stood there motionless, and there was even an expression of terror on its face, as if it had been frozen for an eternity.
The burly man stared at the body in front of him, then lowered his trembling head to look at himself. What he saw … was a translucent soul!!
"This isn't Time Stop …" The burly man's soul trembled as he continued to retreat. In an instant, he passed through the protective light screen as if he wanted to escape. However, at that moment, a second verse of the ballad rang out in his ears.
"If you want to know the cause of your past life, the one who will suffer in this life is …" As the ballad echoed out, the burly man's soul trembled. He saw Wang Baole wearing a black robe and standing on a lone boat. He didn't sail towards him as the Nether River swept him away. Instead, he sailed off into the distance.
However, he didn't know why, but he didn't feel any sense of escape. Instead, he felt as if a great disaster was about to befall him. He couldn't help but retreat again. He flew far, far away until he couldn't see Wang Baole anymore. However, he trembled when he realized that everything around him was still pitch black.
If it was just pitch black, it wouldn't have been a big deal. However, there were also some blurry soul shadows in the darkness. They were just like the soul shadows he had seen in the first level of the underground world.
"Impossible. This is impossible …." The burly man's soul trembled, and his eyes filled with despair. Then, Wang Baole's ballad once again rang out in his ears. It floated there and then, slowly, and unhurriedly.
"If you want to know the cause of your future life, the one who will suffer in this life is …."
The voice echoed out in his soul for a long time. Eventually, the burly man's consciousness began to grow blurry. In that moment, it was as if he were experiencing terminal lucidity. At long last, the burly man was able to see clearly why everything around him was pitch black.
He saw it … when he still had a physical body, the black river of souls beneath Wang Baole's lone boat. He saw the countless souls in the river of souls, and he saw his own soul shadow amidst the multitude of souls …
After realizing all of this, his consciousness began to fade away.
As it faded away, the river of souls he was in slowly flowed down from the sky to the ground. Then, along with the lone boat in it, it gradually disappeared.
When the lone boat appeared again, it was back in the third level of the underground world. It was in the square where Wang Baole had been the first to leave. Countless corpses and ferocious beasts were still kneeling in the square. They were trembling in fear. Wang Baole's face was slightly pale, and a trickle of blood seeped out of the corner of his mouth. The lone boat beneath his feet, the black robe on his body, and the lantern oar in his hand began to blur. Eventually, they seemed powerless to materialize. When they faded away, they turned into the figures of three Vessel Spirits.
One was a burly man, one was an old man, and one was a young boy. After the three Vessel Spirits appeared, they quickly knelt before Wang Baole.
Wang Baole closed his eyes and calmed the roiling Qi and blood in his body. The previous three battles seemed easy, but in truth, he had used the power of the Dark Artifact. However, even though the Dark Artifact was broken, with Wang Baole's cultivation base, it was still difficult for him to control the Dark Artifact.
This was especially true of the three battles. They were different from all the battles he had experienced before. Based on the inheritance and perception he had obtained from the Dark Dream, he could faintly sense that the reason why a high-grade Divine Artifact could shake the heavens and earth was because it could erupt with supernatural abilities that resembled the power of rules!
"It's a pity that my cultivation base isn't high enough. Also, this Dark Artifact is broken and can't be shrunk. Otherwise, if I could carry it with me, then when I go out … I can say that I'm the President of the Federation. If anyone dares to shake their head, I'll give them a soul ballad!" When Wang Baole thought of this, he felt both excited and depressed. His thoughts intertwined, and in the end, he sighed.
"I'm getting a bit carried away …. I need to keep a low profile." Wang Baole patted his belly, suppressing the roiling Qi and blood in his body. Instead of immediately healing his wounds, he quickly took out the spoils of his three battles. In truth, in the first and second battles, the two Yuanying Cultivators had used up quite a few magical items. It wasn't that Wang Baole didn't want to stop them, but rather that although he seemed to have won easily, in truth, the indifference on his face had been an act.
The truth was that in the two battles, when he saw all the magical items shatter, he was about to go crazy. In his mind, he already considered all of the items of the three Cultivators his own.
But he couldn't control the power of the Dark Artifact to such a degree that he could only destroy the Cultivators and not the magical items!
Sighing, Wang Baole opened the three bags of holding in front of him. After looking through them, his eyes widened and his breathing grew ragged.
Although many of the three Cultivators' magical items had been destroyed, there were still more than ten of them, including a tri-colored flying sword that could summon a large number of flying swords to form a sword formation!
There was also the ribbon of the horse-faced Cultivator, the scales of the square-faced Cultivator, and the scattered magical items that hadn't been used by the three Cultivators. Because of the difference between the cultivation civilization of the Federation and that of the Yuanying Cultivators, Wang Baole couldn't tell what grade the magical items were. However, he had a feeling that anything used by the Yuanying Cultivators was definitely a precious treasure. His heart was burning with excitement!
"I've struck gold!!"
In addition, there were also a large number of crystals that looked like Spirit Stones, as well as jade slips. The jade slips were filled with characters that he couldn't understand. There were also more than thirty medicinal pill bottles, two sets of fine scale armor, and a centipede that had been suppressed and sealed by the power of the Dark Artifact!!
That was nothing. Soon, Wang Baole's flesh began to tremble. He stared blankly at the storage bag in the leader's storage bag, at the sleeping black jellyfish and the pile of glowing rocks that piled up like a mountain peak!
"Is this … a Sea Centipede?
And these stones … are Astral Sources!!! " Wang Baole's eyes went wide as he stared blankly at everything. His mind was reeling as he noticed that in the Cultivator's bag of holding, there was … a black stone box!!
This stone box was also made of Astral Sources, and in terms of quality, it was far superior to ordinary Astral Sources!
It also emanated an ancient aura, as if it had existed in the world for far, far too long, and emanated an aura of endless time!
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