A World Worth Protecting

eard words that rendered her speechless.
A sense of exasperation and powerlessness fell over her.
She sighed.

“As long as you’re happy…”

Wang Baole ignored Little Missy’s sarcastic comments and got to his feet.
He puffed his chest out and placed his hands behind his back.
Brimming with pride and arrogance, he glanced sideways at the last sealed palace.
The look in his eyes turned sharp.
The aura of a powerful cultivator erupted from his person moments later, rumbling.

It was an aura that surpassed that of a Core Formation realm cultivator.
It belonged to a cultivator at the Nascent Soul realm.
A storm howled around him, and starlight sparkled, fading in and out inside the storm.
The strength of this howling spirit energy grew as Wang Baole unleashed his full cultivation.
His Spirit Qi intensified and finally materialized as an illusory shadow of Wang Baole’s Nascent Soul.

The appearance of this mere illusion sent the heavens and earth quaking.
Fierce winds started howling as the storm around Wang Baole gained strength.
An intense light flashed in Wang Baole’s eyes.
He yelled, then charged forward with a sudden burst of speed.

He broke the sound barrier instantly, forming afterimages of his person in his wake as he headed straight for the third palace.
Upon approaching, he roared and sent his fist flying while unleashing the Divine Armament arm.

“Shatter!”

A deafening thunder rippled through the air.
Then… following it, a cry of pain.
Wang Baole was flung backwards, his body curled outwards as he flew through the air and crashed into the ground.
The land shook upon impact, a crater forming from his crash.

Silence descended.
Wang Baole took a while before he finally crawled out of the crater.
He looked in a sorry state.
He stared miserably at the third palace, which was unaffected by his earlier blow.
He rotated his aching wrists and sighed.

I was too full of myself…

Wang Baole rubbed his wrists and stared at the third palace resentfully.
It would be a great loss if he simply left.
His gains from the last two palaces had been too attractive.
The prize to be won from entering the third palace was likely as or more attractive.

How do I get myself inside… I’m not qualified enough… A considering look appeared in Wang Baole’s eyes.
He had been able to enter the first palace because he had been qualified, while he had managed to get into the second palace by making use of the bones of Li Wuchen’s previous incarnation.

So, even a Dao Disciple isn’t qualified to enter the palace.
Only someone whose rank is higher than a Dao Disciple’s can meet the requirements for entry? Wang Baole thought.
Based on his understanding of the Vast Expanse Dao Palace, only an elder was higher in rank than a Dao Disciple.
But it was obvious that possessing an ordinary elder’s rank wasn’t going to get him through the doors.
What he needed was a Grand Elder or even a Grand Supreme Elder, that would be perfect.

Where am I to find such things? Wang Baole sighed, exasperated.
He had half a mind to give up.
Then, something flickered in his eyes, and they started to shine fiercely.
The gears in his head began spinning furiously as countless images flooded his brain.
The last image that lingered was that of a gigantic corpse lying in a sea of blood, emanating incredible power, invulnerable even to the spatial tears around it!

That was what Wang Baole had seen the first time he had used the Immortal Platform, the sight that had sent him reeling back with shock.
He suspected then that the corpse must have belonged to someone really important.

Wang Baole’s heart stuttered at the thought of the corpse.
He soon came to a decision.

I’ll find the corpse and retrieve a bit of its flesh.
It’d be better if I could get its blood as well.
The aura emanating from that might be able to help me unlock the third palace! At that thought, Wang Baole turned around and immediately rushed off in search of the Immortal Platform!

The Vast Expanse Dao Palace on the ancient sword was vast, and numerous Immortal Platforms could be found in the region.
Some might have been destroyed when the heavens and earth had collapsed, but many more still existed in the sword tip.
Wang Baole soon located one after a brief search.
After some shameless pleading from Wang Baole, a resigned Little Missy taught him how to operate the Immortal Platform.
It didn’t take long before the Immortal Platform began to tremble.
Smoke rose to the skies as Wang Baole melded with the smoke and rose to the heavens!

He remembered vaguely where the corpse had been found.
Now that he could operate the Immortal Platform with greater control, it didn’t take him very long—only half a day—before the smoke that he was traveling in arrived at… a sea of blood!

Blood Qi rose from the sea of blood below him, red lightning bolts streaked the skies as thunder roared, and a gigantic corpse floated in the middle of the sea of blood, awe-inspiring and imposing like a god.

It might be dead, but its powerful aura still remained.
It was powerful and far-reaching, casting an oppressive weight over the spatial tears and distortions around it!

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