Chapter 028 Shaolin

The next morning, Wang Bo woke from his dreams and saw Li Qiushui lying in his arms. Recalling her wildness and eager compliance the night before, he couldn't help but smile.

To be honest, Wang Bo hadn't expected Li Qiushui to offer herself to him.

But since she had come, he couldn't very well refuse her.

After all, Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing had been cultivating in the Time Villa for days, and Wang Bo had long gone without the taste of flesh. When a seductive woman came to him of her own accord, he naturally wouldn't turn her away.

Then, with a flicker of his form, Wang Bo appeared on the floor. He raised his hand, and the clothes hanging on the rack flew back to him, draping themselves over his body.

He pushed open the door and stepped out, only to see Odin's daughter, the first heir to the throne of Asgard.

The Goddess of Death, Hela.

"Good morning, Goddess," Wang Bo greeted Hela, who was strolling in the courtyard.

Hela saw Wang Bo and frowned almost imperceptibly, for she sensed that his aura now bore a resemblance to the sun in the sky, which displeased her.

As the Goddess of Death, Hela had no fondness for the sun, and her goodwill toward Wang Bo diminished accordingly.

Wang Bo's gaze was sharp; Hela's slight frown did not escape him. Seeing her goodwill toward him suddenly wane, he found it baffling.

What was going on? He hadn't done anything.

Could it be that she had learned of his tryst with Li Qiushui last night?

And that was why she was angry.

Wang Bo hadn't forgotten that Hela had once mistakenly thought he was pursuing her. Even though he had explained the reason, matters of the heart rarely follow logic.

Putting himself in her shoes, if Wang Bo had misunderstood a woman's intentions toward him, even after realizing the mistake and knowing it was a misunderstanding, seeing that woman soon with another man—

He would feel somewhat uncomfortable, and his impression of her would drop.

That was only human.

But Wang Bo believed Hela would adjust her mindset. After all, she was a goddess, not an ordinary woman.

Unfortunately, he had no idea that what he thought was completely different from what Hela was thinking.

"When do you plan to leave this world?" Hela suppressed her irritation, stopped walking, and turned her head to say to Wang Bo.

Wang Bo said slowly, "You want to leave this world?"

"Yes."

Hela nodded. Though this world had treasures like the Jade Exquisite, overall it was a world without gods, a mortal world.

In this world, Hela could find no treasures to enhance her power.

As for martial arts like the Northern Dark Divine Art, Hela held them in no regard.

Frankly speaking, even if a mortal practiced the Northern Dark Divine Art for a hundred years, they would still be no match for her. Hela could kill such a mortal with a single finger.

Thus she longed to leave this world for a grander one.

Wang Bo thought for a moment and said, "Let me find a few more martial arts, and then we'll leave this world."

Hela said displeasedly, "With your strength, do you still need such mortal means?"

"Don't underestimate these martial arts," Wang Bo cautioned. "As far as I know, in some worlds, martial arts can rival gods and demons after cultivation, and in some worlds, they were even created by gods and demons."

Special mention goes to Nuwa's Heaven's Treasure Manual, the Great Demon's Demon Art, the Heaven Demon's Heaven Demon Slaying God Technique, and Sakyamuni's Tathagata Palm.

Compared to these divine-level martial arts, the Nine Yang Divine Art created by Wang Chongyang is nothing. And the Sun Divine Art Wang Bo had created based on the Nine Yang Divine Art was likewise insignificant.

That was why Wang Bo wanted to use his body as a furnace, absorbing the essence of all martial arts under heaven to create a supreme technique that best suited him and could rival gods and demons.

Perhaps the martial arts of one world were insufficient, but combined with those of other worlds, it might be possible.

If one day he could transform his body into a great sun, he would have some hope of advancing to the realm of the multiverse.

Of course, this would surely be a long process.

But did Wang Bo lack time?

Hela paid no heed to Wang Bo's warning. She was born a goddess and naturally cared little for so-called divine-level martial arts. As long as she kept improving herself and surpassing Odin, even divine-level martial arts would not impress her.

Nevertheless, she did not urge Wang Bo to leave this world again. Instead, she turned and walked away. Having been trapped by Odin in that godforsaken place for eons, Hela was greedy for the outside air.

…

Wang Bo stayed at the Horizon Pavilion for a few days, perusing all the manuals there and incorporating their essence into his Sun Divine Art. Then he planned to leave.

His next stop was Shaolin Temple.

His targets were the Seventy-Two Ultimate Techniques of Shaolin and the temple's two great classics.

The Yijin Jing and the Xisui Jing!

Before leaving the Horizon Pavilion, Wang Bo moved the World-Transcending Gate to the underground chamber, forbidding anyone but Li Qiushui from entering.

Li Qiushui did not refuse; on the contrary, she was very pleased.

Originally, she had wanted to accompany Wang Bo to Shaolin, but he refused. Hela, uninterested in martial arts, stayed at the Horizon Pavilion, waiting for Wang Bo to return so they could leave this world together.

After leaving the Horizon Pavilion, Wang Bo set out for Shaolin Temple.

Traveling with lightning speed, he soon arrived at Shaolin.

In the original plot, after the calamity at the Quanzhen Sect, Shaolin was soon raided by Ding Chunqiu, whose Dissolving Technique turned the abbot's bones to mush.

But since Wang Bo entered this world, the original plot had gone awry.

Ding Chunqiu had long been crippled by Su Xinghe, his martial arts wasted, and his fate unknown—though even if alive, he was likely worse off than dead.

Thus Shaolin had escaped disaster, never becoming a branch of the Star Sect, and its incense offerings had only grown.

When Wang Bo arrived at Shaolin, the temple gates were wide open, bells echoing across the mountaintop. The temple was thronged with pilgrims, incense smoke thick, the thousand-year-old sanctuary like a paradise on earth.

Wang Bo did not alert the Shaolin monks. Instead, he turned and made his way to the Sutra Library, moving like a ghost, unseen by anyone.

Entering the Sutra Library, he found it empty.

He found a spot, sat down comfortably, and began perusing Shaolin's supreme techniques. Unbeknownst to him, a day passed.

Wang Bo finished reading all of Shaolin's Seventy-Two Ultimate Techniques and finally found the Yijin Jing!