A World Worth Protecting

Wang Baole didn’t think about what items his senior brother would need him to retrieve from the Dark River. He was walking in the dark sect. Even though there were many restrictions in the place, the familiar feeling.., everything that had happened in the dark dream appeared before his eyes.

He walked through the halls, streams, and cliffs. He stared at the shadows of reincarnation that had formed in the distance, savoring the dao charm that pervaded the area. Unknowingly, Wang Baole could vaguely see.., it was as if he could see figures from the past.

Those figures were his fellow disciples from the Dark Dream. They all wore dark sect Daoist robes and looked solemn, but their expressions were filled with joy. Some went out to lead souls on behalf of the heavens, while others returned to send their souls into the wheel.

As the cycle repeated itself, more of his fellow disciples continued to cultivate on their own while maintaining the circulation of the Heavenly Dao. They checked on the past lives of the deceased souls and sketched out the corpse faces of those who were about to reincarnate.

“Dark sect...”Wang Baole muttered. Without realizing it, he walked to a cliff and looked at the world in the distance. He felt as if he was looking at his master and his senior brother from the past, who was facing him, he started talking about the little secret of his dao partner from the next life.

“It’s just a dream, but it’s integrated into my soul.”Wang baole sighed softly. When he turned his head, there was no one around him. If there was, it was just some unfamiliar disciples who were looking at him warily from afar, there was hostility in their eyes.

It was normal for them to be hostile. However, they didn’t know that the identity of the dark child that they cared about was nothing to Wang Baole.

“Without my master and senior brother, what does the dark sect... have to do with me?”Wang baole shook his head gently. He already had some thoughts in his mind. However, these thoughts were entangled with his emotions. He couldn’t let go of them for a moment. Eventually, they turned into a sigh, he looked into the depths of the dark sect..

There was a gaze that had been fixed on him from the moment he had entered the dark star to the moment he had stepped into the dark sect.

Wang Baole didn’t know who the owner of that gaze was, but he could sense the intense dark fire waves emanating from the other party. Those waves... were much stronger than his in terms of quantity and quality.

The only thing missing was perhaps... recognition.

It wasn’t recognition from his senior brother, Chen Qingzi. Wang Baole could sense the recognition from his senior brother’s dark fire waves. What was missing was recognition from the dark child monolith of the dark sect, it was recognition from the nine great elders, just like Wang Baole’s master.

He doesn’t seem to be very old... could he be the dark child that everyone in the dark sect had chosen before I appeared? Wang baole retracted his gaze. He had an epiphany as he walked deeper into the dark sect.

He was heading towards the place where he had stayed in the dark dream... A side hall beside the dark child hall.

Back then, he hadn’t stayed in the main hall of the Dark Child Hall. That place was in the dark dream... It was where his senior brother lived. He had stayed in the side hall. It was the same for Wang Baole on the Dark Planet. He walked all the way to the side hall.

All the restrictive spells on the way were dispelled by a few hand seals before him. It wasn’t that Wang Baole’s cultivation had reached an unbelievable level. It was that... these restrictive spells were exactly the same as the ones in the dark dream.

Perhaps it was exactly the same that made Wang Baole feel both familiar and unfamiliar with the dark sect.

What he was familiar with was everything before him. What he was unfamiliar with was that... the dream was only a dream. His senior brother... didn’t seem to be the same as before. Everything seemed to be changing very quickly, but in reality... perhaps.., this had always been his senior brother’s plan, step by step.

“Fuse with the Heavenly Dao, return to the dark sect.”Wang Baole was silent. He stepped into the side hall and looked at the familiar decorations around him. He sat down silently, his eyes closed.

Time passed slowly. Seven days passed very quickly.

During these seven days, Wang Baole didn’t leave the side hall. He didn’t meet any dark sect cultivators. Instead, he was immersed in his dark dream, immersed in his understanding of the dark art.

Similarly, no one from the dark sect came to see him. Even though... with the arrival of him and Chen Qingzi, and the revelation of his identity, all the dark sect cultivators on the dark planet now knew about him, everyone knew about him.

A few days later, the first dark sect cultivator finally arrived at the side chamber where Wang Baole was. He was a young man dressed in a dark robe. He looked extremely cold and stern, and the dark art fluctuations on his body were extremely strong, there was even a half... dark fire mark between his brows!

This mark meant that this person was designated as a quasi-dark child in the dark sect. According to the rules of the dark sect, each generation of dark children would have several such quasi-dark children under them.

They had a subordinate relationship with the dark children, but there was also competition. The dark sect had nine grand elders, which meant that they were divided into nine branches. Each branch had its own dark children. The nine dark children would compete with each other and eventually be recognized by the Heavenly Dao, the one inscribed on the dark tablet would be the true dark child, which would be... the next dark lord.

That was why the dark sect had rejected Wang Baole’s arrival. To them, Wang Baole was an outsider, and he didn’t come from the Orthodox dark clan. However, he had been designated as the dark child, which had caused the remaining dark children of the nine branches to be displeased, the dark sect, which had regained some of its former glory, was displeased.

However, they didn’t dare tell Chen Qingzi about it. After all, Chen Qingzi used to have a high status. He was acting on behalf of the Dark Lord, and he had personally revived the shattered dark sect bit by bit.

Now that Chen Qingzi had merged with the Heavenly Dao, he was even more supreme. However... They didn’t dare tell Chen Qingzi about it. They were displeased with Wang Baole, but they also felt that he was provoking them.

That was how the young man arrived. He stood outside the side hall and stared coldly for a long while. Then, he suddenly spoke.

“I am Kun Lingzi. I haven’t seen a cultivator from the living world for a long time. Since you are from the Living World, fellow Daoist, I hope that you will fight with me. Let me see how powerful the living outside are now!”

Wang Baole sat cross-legged and meditated. His expression was the same as ever. He opened his eyes and seemed to be able to see the young man in the outside world. His cultivation was extraordinary. He was already at the perfected stellar realm, and his aura was stable. If he was placed outside.., he might not be in the first tier, but he seemed to be at the top of the second tier.

“I’m not interested,”Wang Baole said flatly and closed his eyes again.

“HMM?”The dark sect youth outside heard him, and a dark light flashed in his eyes.

“Are you not interested, or are you afraid? With such a temperament, I’m afraid you’re not worthy of becoming the dark child of the dark sect. If that’s the case, I’ll have to see what you’re capable of.”The youth laughed coldly, he actually took a step forward and walked toward the door of the side hall. Just as he was about to get close, he lifted his right hand, as if he wanted to push open the door. At that moment, he heard a calm voice coming from the side hall.

“I’ll take away whatever part of your body you push open the door of my hall.”

The voice was not cold, but when it fell into the young man’s ears, his body could not help but tremble. His intuition told him that... the other party really seemed to be able to do this. Therefore, he stopped in his tracks and instinctively hesitated.

As he hesitated, seven or eight divine senses descended from the void behind him. Each divine sense contained the ripples of the galaxy. The young man perked up, and a cold smile appeared on his lips once again, he raised his right hand and waved it violently. The door to the side hall was pushed open forcefully. He saw Wang Baole, who was meditating, within.

Wang baole frowned slightly and sighed softly in his heart. He naturally sensed the seven or eight divine senses from the galaxy outside. At the same time, he also sensed the other four or five people who were hiding in the outside world, the dark fire aura on their bodies was similar to that of the young man’s.

It was obvious that these people were the dark children in the dark sect,

other than that, there were even more gazes that spread out from the dark sect. Most of them gathered in this place. Wang baole could vaguely sense three extremely powerful divine senses that were similar to his master, the blazing flame ancestor, in the distance, they were ancient and locked onto the area.

Furthermore... the gaze that he had sensed when he had first stepped into the dark sect was now deep within the dark sect. It seemed to have opened its eyes and was looking at him. There was a faint hint of greed that wasn’t completely under its control, there was a hint of greed, but it was retracted in the next instant.

Wang Baole was silent. Deep down, he was even more displeased with the dark sect.

“Let’s wait and see, let’s wait and see,”Wang Baole murmured softly.

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He had to pay back one chapter today, and he still owed three chapters. He wanted to finish them all next week!