A World Worth Protecting

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The bald youth was dumbfounded and froze on the spot. It seemed that he could not accept what he had just seen, and his eyes were full of blankness. He muttered while in a trance, “He… ate my Illusory Armament?”

“Yea, of course I ate it. I can show you if you don’t believe me,” Wang Baole said after hearing the youth. He opened his mouth and showed to the bald youth that he really had eaten it.

Even Lu Zihao, who had constantly been paying close attention to the battle, had an odd look after seeing this. He looked at the bald youth and then at Wang Baole. Even though he really disliked the former, he still could not help but curse Wang Baole.

“Bastard, that’s such a low blow! Where does he come from? The Dharmic Armament Pavilion or the Gourmand Pavilion? Isn’t he afraid of dying because of this?”

While Lu Zihao was muttering, the purple-armored cultivator was also dumbstruck and frightened by what Wang Baole had just done.

As for the bald youth, he seemed to have been struck dumb with amazement and could not accept all of this. He actually looked at Wang Baole’s mouth and started to tremble.

“You… you really ate it,” the bald youth murmured, and his breathing started to hasten. He seemed to gradually accept this fact, and his brain was buzzing at this moment.

There were seemingly thousands of lightning bolts exploding in his brain continuously. They became increasingly powerful and finally led to endless echoes that shocked his mind and soul, causing him to tremble uncontrollably. After which, he raised his head suddenly and started to roar with eyes full of dense blood streaks.

“Wang Baole!” he yelled to the sky, and he was driven completely mad. With hastened breath, unprecedented madness and a sense of absurdity seemed to cause his blood vessels to explode. He even spurted a mouthful of blood because of the rage.

“You… you really ate it!” the bald youth howled. He intended to kill Wang Baole, but because of the setback, his eyes dulled, and his steps staggered just after moving a few steps. He felt that the whole world in front of him was spinning.

Luckily, the purple-armored cultivator beside him walked up quickly and held onto him so that he did not fall down. However, his eyes had already turned red like blood, and if eyes could be used as weapons, Wang Baole would certainly have been stabbed to death with his body riddled with holes.

“Wang Baole, spit it out! Return my Illusory Armament, that’s mine… I refined it with my tears and blood, how can you eat it?” the bald youth screamed. He held the purple-armored cultivator’s arms and barely steadied himself. He could not help but start to cry and scream.

After seeing him overreacting, Wang Baole moved a few steps back instinctively with vigilance. He blinked and lightly cough. He felt that he was bullying the bald youth and had even made him cry. Thus, he waved his hand and took out a Golden Bell Shield Bead. He threw it to the Youth and then said, “It’s just a droplet. This is your compensation.”

“You’re still humiliating me! What is this? I used Spirit Blood to refine it. Spirit Blood, do you understand?” the bald youth roared even louder than before. He swung his sleeve and knocked the bead away.

“Are you trying to racketeer? Blackmail me?” Wang Baole stared at him. Just before he spoke, his expression had changed abruptly as he realized the water droplet that he had just swallowed had started to change strangely.

In fact, the reason Wang Baole dared to swallow the water droplet was because he had refined it out of nothing and turned it into the Spirit Kernel. There was also his seal inside it, which caused him to think naturally that his body could coalesce with this thing.

That is why he had swallowed it. At first, it was in his stomach and did not change at all. However, at this moment, there was a wisp of blood coming out from the water droplet!

This wisp of blood was exactly the same as the one seen by Wang Baole in the world of the water droplet. The moment when it appeared, it started to release Spirit force and accelerate suddenly. It even wrapped the water drip and tried to rush out of Wang Baole’s body!

At the same time, the furious bald youth realized this, and his eyes were filled with excitement.

“It’s still there!” he said and sat cross-legged at once. He activated the hand seals and pointed toward his brows. With his body trembling, an unknown spell was conjured, which caused the wisp of blood to expand rapidly. Wang Baole was frightened and wanted to spit it out.

But at that moment, the vortex of Wang Baole’s devouring seed in his dantian suddenly rotated. An amazing suction force started to leak outside his body and disappeared instantly.

Although it only burst out in a flash, the powerful suction force sucked the wisp of blood back immediately.

This wisp of blood seemed to have been grabbed by an invisible hand. It resisted in vain and was dragged forcibly into the devouring seed, as if it had been pulverized and absorbed by the devouring seed.

Everything happened instantaneously. Wang Baole’s devouring seed had already devoured the wisp of blood even before he could react. As for the water droplet, it had been ignored as if the devouring seed despised it.

Wang Baole was taken aback, and his expression changed. After his devouring seed devoured the wisp of blood, it seemed to digest the blood, and an amazing wave of Spirit Qi burst out from his dantian!

The Spirit Qi was extremely powerful and dense. It even exceeded the total amount of Spirit Qi absorbed by Wang Baole until that moment. After the devouring seed burst, the Spirit Qi started to explode in Wang Baole’s body like an avalanche!

The extremely dense Spirit Qi crazily spread and accumulated in Wang Baole’s body, as if he had become a balloon that was inflated consistently. When Wang Baole saw his body, which was going to explode, his face drained, and he let out a tragic cry.

“What is happening? This is too abrupt!” Wang Baole held his breath and instinctively started to use the Cloud Ethereal Art to absorb the Spirit Qi at once.

With the circulation of Cloud Ethereal Art, tremendous amounts of Spirit Qi were absorbed into his meridians. After circulating around his body, his cultivation level also started to advance. In the blink of an eye, he had reached the middle of first level of the True Breath realm!

But he had no time to be pleasantly surprised—he could not care about other matters in such precarious circumstances. He activated his skills crazily, and soon, he had reached the peak of first level of the True Breath realm!

This speed of enhancement was extremely rapid, as if he had eaten a legendary immortal pill!

However, Wang Baole still cried out as he found that the Spirit Qi in his body was too dense and far beyond his imagination. Even though he had circulated the Cloud Ethereal Art and used his perfect spirit meridians to absorb it, this only prevented him from exploding.

As for the Spirit Qi that could not be absorbed within a short period of time, it all accumulated automatically in Wang Baole’s organs, flesh, and blood and turned into spirit fat, even after he tried hopelessly to stop it.

The spirit fat thickened consistently, and Wang Baole’s body rapidly inflated. In the blink of an eye, his whole body had turned into a ball, which stunned everyone.

“I… I…” Wang Baole stammered in anger. He tried to lower his head to look at his body but found himself unable to do it. This familiar feeling caused him to cry out even more hopelessly.

<em>How did I become fat again? I’ve tried so hard to lose weight. My slim body, my handsome face, no…</em>

<em>Don’t be fatter. I was at fault. I shouldn’t overeat. I haven’t become the Federation President; I don’t want to die of obesity!</em>

The angry Wang Baole did not even care that his cultivation level had broken through the peak of the first level to the second level of the True Breath realm. His tragic cries, which contained hate and regret, spread everywhere…

At that moment, every disciple on Upper Academy Island who saw this scene through the screens felt their mind and heart quake. Everyone was dumbfounded and kept sucking in deep breaths.

Many of them had seen the whole battle between Wang Baole and the bald youth. Although they did not really understand, Wang Baole’s mighty figure in the end had caught their eyes for a long while. However, following that, things had become really unexpected. It was fine for Wang Baole to swallow the water droplet—they also could understand that he had become such a ‘fatty’—but they could not accept that his cultivation level had also broken through in front of him.

“This is a major competition of Combat Faculty Pavilion. Yet, he… he has broken through!”

“What kind of luck is this! I also want to break through. If I can break through, so what if I became a ‘fatty’!”

“Spirit Blood, what is Spirit Blood?”

When there was an uproar and sounds of discussion exploded forth in Upper Academy Island, on the sky platform of the arena, the military, officials from the Federation, and the upper echelons of the Ethereal Dao College were all stunned with eyes widening, staring at the meatball—Wang Baole.

“I always felt that this Wang Baole is very aggressive. He dared to swallow the Illusory Armament…”

“It’s no wonder this Li Wuchen could own an Illusory Armament at the True Breath level. Spirit Blood was actually used to refine it. The Spirit Blood is extracted from the blood of rare alien animals in the Ancient Sword, and it is extremely precious. The way Li Xingwen treats his disciple is way too extravagant!”

When everyone was stunned, General Zhou became even more curious and smiled, as if he was completely satisfied with Wang Baole. As for the upper echelons of the Ethereal Dao College, everyone had odd looks on their faces at this moment. After a while, some people started to whisper.

“Eh… Grand Supreme Elder hasn’t come back, right?”

“He has quite a bad temper…”

While the upper echelons of the Ethereal Dao College were having a headache and the middle-aged man in red robes did not know whether to laugh or cry, at the highest point of the world where they could not feel and sense, there seemed to be a layer of water. Above the water surface, an elder sat cross-legged under the white clouds and the blue sky.

This elder was hoary-haired and looked sage-like. He was the Grand Supreme Elder of Ethereal Dao College, the master of the bald youth.

At this moment, he lowered his head and stared downward at the rotund Wang Baole, who was at the gathering point in the mountains. After a while, he seemed to hear Wang Baole’s cries, and the elder’s expression became astonished. He could not help but started to laugh.

“This fatty, isn’t he afraid of dying from overeating?”

While he was saying that, he raised up his hands and pointed downward!

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