Chapter 13 Devouring the World
The surrounding dust drifted away like smoke.
The scroll hanging in mid-air quickly turned black, wrinkled, and decayed, but one could still faintly see the words full of hatred left by the White Cloud Loose Man in the blank space of the scroll.
In the blink of an eye, the scroll vanished into smoke and clouds.
Yet, the figure of the Purple Robe Taoist with Green Beard and those double pupils remained etched in Wang Ba's memory, unable to be erased.
It was a kind of heaviness never felt before:
"After all this time... this demon path is still alive..."
"Yes, Senior Jiang Yi suspected he was a Tribulation Crossing practitioner... only a Tribulation Crossing practitioner could possibly live so long..."
Wang Ba stood firmly in the rapidly dissipating house, but his heart could not calm down for a long time.
In his mind, he couldn't help but recall the scene of seeing the Purple-robed Taoist in the Pearl Dungeon of Wanfa Peak earlier.
Previously, he doubted it was an illusion, but now seeing the words of White Cloud Loose Man, he finally understood it was not an illusion at all, but this Purple-robed Taoist had indeed appeared in the Pearl Dungeon.
"Why did he appear twice, and what for?"
Countless thoughts rose and fell in Wang Ba's mind:
"White Cloud Loose Man said he bewitched people's hearts, and previously the most powerful group in the Guantao Realm was deceived away by him. Now the demon path appears in the Little Cang World, could it be to deceive us too?"
"But what could he gain by deceiving us? And a Tribulation Crossing practitioner, if he really wanted to do something, would he need to achieve it through deception?"
"Unless... he is not a Tribulation Crossing practitioner and cannot achieve his goals by force... But looking at this situation, at least tens of thousands of years have passed, maybe even longer, could a cultivator who hasn't reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm really live so long? Or perhaps, he is under some kind of limitation?"
Anything is possible, but nothing can be certain.
The information left by White Cloud Loose Man is too fragmented and too scarce to piece together the whole truth.
Even Wang Ba suspects that White Cloud Loose Man himself may not truly understand the real situation of this demon path.
Swish—
Tang Ji cautiously fluttered down outside the house that had turned into blue smoke and softly spoke to Wang Ba:
"Deputy Sect Master, how are you?"
Hearing Tang Ji's voice, Wang Ba immediately came back to his senses, glancing back at the desk that had also turned to blue smoke with the splitting of the paperweight, his heart quickly pulled away from the previous shock, confusion, and worry.
His gaze quickly became calm and indifferent, and his mind rapidly thought through countermeasures.
Soon, he had an answer:
"Go, inform the others, we are leaving this realm immediately!"
Tang Ji and the other cultivators were momentarily stunned upon hearing this.
But the prestige Wang Ba established during the great calamity allowed no one to question him, and they also noticed the cold, stern look on his face. Without any unnecessary words, everyone divided clearly, with a part leaving swiftly to find others.
The other part directly followed Wang Ba, leaving this Spark Sect.
As they walked out of the stone gate.
The ruins of a sect preserved underground for countless millennia quickly collapsed...
All traces related to the cultivators here completely disappeared at this moment.
The crowd did not linger and quickly left this underground area.
Flying directly out from the tunnel, they saw that cultivators in the Immortal Ascension realm who received the news had already transformed into streams of light and rushed over.
This world was ultimately too small, only slightly larger than Jin, and a full-speed flight of an Immortal Ascension cultivator could traverse it east to west in no time.
"It's a pity there were some spirit plants and minerals here..."
Following behind Wang Ba, Tang Ji looked below with a slightly regretful expression.
Hearing this, Wang Ba slightly shook his head.
Seeing that everyone had already flown over.
He hesitated not at all, immediately drawing the Skyfall Blade and silently slashing toward the sky dome!
Swish!
To the astonished gaze of Ji Ying, Tang Ji, Liang Wuji, and others.
The sky was instantly sliced in two by a snowy wave!
Yet they happened to see the menacing, gaping face of Fanming and the Little Cang World devouring the Chaos Origin Substance beyond the realm.
The cultivators and Fanming were utterly perplexed, not knowing why Wang Ba suddenly cleaved this domain apart.
Wang Ba's voice was cold and solemn:
"This realm is not far from death. Rather than letting it perish, it's better to lend a hand to the beings of the Little Cang World!"
With that, the Yellow Dao Domain around him unfolded, like a gigantic hand covering the sky, crashing down toward the land below!
As everyone looked on in shock, this Yellow Hand that covered the sky actually grabbed the continent below with great force!
Then, accompanied by a huge sound from deep within the domain, the continent was forcibly lifted by this Yellow Hand!
Stones fell, and on the continent being lifted, countless lives were bewildered and at a loss.
"This, this..."
Liang Wuji and others were terrified.
Even though they had seen Wang Ba slash the Mystic Tortoise to support the sky and sacrifice the Four Spirits to mend the heavens, witnessing him seize mountains and capture the sun and moon still left their hearts shaking with awe!
Ji Ying felt it even more profoundly, having specialized in the Earth path, he especially understood the difficulty of seizing an entire continent, and now seeing Wang Ba effortlessly lifting the land in this world and severing the continent's connection with the Domain, he was particularly shocked.
While Wang Ba lifted the continent, he didn't pause, quickly flying away from the Guantao Realm.
Without the support of the land, the entire Guantao Realm was like a deflated balloon, quickly beginning to collapse.
Everyone hurriedly flew out.
And from afar, the Little Cang World seemed to sense something as well and suddenly opened a gateway.