A World Worth Protecting

things had settled down, but now, it had returned to him.
Wang Baole assessed the inventory after receiving the bracelet, then nodded at Feng Qiuran.
Without any delay, they immediately sped into the distance.

They were quite a distance away from the main Vast Expanse Dao Palace island.
It should have taken them two weeks to reach the island if they journeyed at a normal pace.
However, with Wang Baole’s knowledge of the Immortal Platform, long distances and traveling time were no longer a problem.

He led Feng Qiuran away and quickly found them an Immortal Platform.
They melded with the traveling mist and raced towards the main island on the sword handle.
Feng Qiuran was no stranger to the Immortal Platform.
However, she didn’t have the access rights to activate one, nor the knowledge to operate one.
Even during the Dao Palace’s glory days, the Immortal Platform could only be used by personal disciples.

Feng Qiuran had witnessed Wang Baole operating the Immortal Platform with the ease of the experienced, and while she knew he was a true adopted disciple, that didn’t prevent doubts from rising in her mind.
She could tell that Wang Baole had achieved a breakthrough in cultivation.
He must have come across some unimaginably rare opportunity.
It likely involved the Vast Expanse Dao Palace’s patriarchs, who appeared to be in slumber.

Wang Baole was keeping quiet about everything, though.
Feng Qiuran had her guesses, but she kept them to herself.
She knew that Wang Baole’s only concern now was in returning to the Federation.
He was more anxious about this than she was, and he was certainly more anxious about the ongoing war than she was.

If he wasn’t saying anything, then it simply meant that the opportunity he had come across and any information he had acquired were of no use to the war.
That was indeed the case.
Wang Baole had only just found out that Daoist You Ran still lived.
He had wanted to return to the third palace and try to request the patriarchs to come out of their slumber and aid the war effort!

However, he had decided against doing that in the end!

No one could guarantee that anything good would come out of the endeavor.
There was a great chance that summoning tigers to drive away wolves… might lead to a backlash.
They might themselves be devoured by tigers in the end!

The current Federation lacked both a strong foundation as well as experience as a cultivation civilization.
Ideally, they would resolve the current problem themselves and grow stronger with this experience.
Furthermore, should an adverse fate appear insurmountable, Wang Baole would rather choose to rely on his senior brother instead of the Vast Expanse Dao Palace elders, whose loyalties remained uncertain.

The Vast Expanse Dao Palace is an outsider, after all… Wang Baole narrowed his eyes.
He remained on guard even against Feng Qiuran.
He had hidden his caution very well, though.
It remained undiscovered as he and Feng Qiuran raced towards the main Vast Expanse Dao Palace island.

Time passed in a blur.
Two days went by!

The environment and weather in the sword handle were a lot less hostile than that in the sword body.
The traveling mist’s speed picked up considerably.
Wang Baole and Feng Qiuran finally arrived at the main Vast Expanse Dao Palace island after two days.
By then, Feng Qiuran’s cultivation had been mostly restored.

The main island was nearly emptied of people, only a few cultivators remaining on the island.
There were only a few Never-Ending Clan members left to stand guard as a precautionary measure.
They were no match for Wang Baole and Feng Qiuran at all.
The pair immediately unleashed an attack without mercy.

The entire battle took only half an hour.
The seven to eight Never-Ending Clan members left on the island were killed.
Wang Baole and Feng Qiuran’s return remained a secret; no alarm was sounded, and no news was leaked.
Wang Baole and Feng Qiuran went to the teleportation array formation.
They inspected the array formation, ensured that everything was in order, and activated the teleportation.

Light roared to life and rose to the heavens.
The earth rumbled.
Wang Baole and Feng Qiuran exchanged a look.

“Elder Qiuran, we should stay together instead of splitting up after we reappear.
Follow my lead… we’ll fight our way out!”

“Can’t we wait another day? I just need one day to fully restore my cultivation.
I’m barely at the Soul Conduit realm now.” Feng Qiuran was silent for a few moments before she asked Wang Baole.

Wang Baole didn’t speak.
Instead, he turned towards Feng Qiuran and bowed deeply.

Feng Qiuran looked at Wang Baole.
She could sense the weight on his shoulders.
She sighed and didn’t say a single word, simply activating her cultivation.
A Soul Conduit realm cultivation erupted from her person as she stepped into the teleportation array formation.

Wang Baole took a deep breath.
Blood red meridians materialized over his body, crackling as they morphed into the crimson Thearch Armor.
A towering figure, fearsome and emanating battle lust, reappeared.
He took a step into the teleportation array formation.

The teleportation array formation activated instantly.
Blinding light roared to the skies as ring-like waves of spirit energy surged outwards.
The heavens and earth shook.
Winds howled and the clouds boiled.
Then, the two of them… vanished!

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