Star Gate

“So I’ll walk life and death one time.” Li Hao smiled at the two doors of life and death in front of him. “If I make it out alive and the fellow daoist is also alive... then you can take a walk in my river of a myriad daos. Is that fair?”

“Very fair!” Reincarnation nodded.

The Thunder Emperor and others were exceedingly nervous. Li Hao turned to address them. “I will enter his dao to take a look at life and death. You guys can stay here to keep an eye on Peng Cheng and the rest. None of those guys can be trusted and neither are they worthy of being trusted!

“It’s three versus three, we’re a bit shorter on seventh ranks. As strong as they are, you won’t immediately fall in battle either. You’ll be able to hold out for a while since they’re not that much stronger. These are the opponents that I’m leaving for you!”

The young man took a step forward with a laugh. He liked this kind of battle. Such was what was meant by being a martial master. Group fights did not permit them to demonstrate their character.

Granted, Li Hao wasn’t fully fighting by himself. There were plenty of people in his river, but he was weaker than his opponent as a whole. That made things fair.

“Which door would you like, Li Hao?”

“The door of death!” Li Hao looked at the relevant door and smiled. “I’d like to see what death is to you!”

“After you!”

The door of life disappeared, leaving only the door of life. There seemed to be countless souls drifting around it. A sinister wind kicked up.

The Thunder Emperor and the rest were truly anxious. Li Hao... sometimes thought so far outside the box that they couldn’t begin to see where the box was. He was actually preparing to enter his opponent’s door of dao!

Li Hao also cultivated the daos of life and death, but his were different from his opponent’s. He only walked life and death, benefiting from more lives than the rest. Reincarnation, on the other hand, had verified his dao through life and death. It was why he called himself Reincarnation.

The others wanted to give voice to their worries, but stopped themselves. They didn’t know what to say at this point. They could only say that Reincarnation knew what he was doing. He seemed to have read Li Hao’s mind and even let the young man kill Earth Spirit, just so they could have this exchange.

Li Hao might not have agreed otherwise.

Was this Li Hao’s weakness?

They couldn’t tell and didn’t have more wisdom to offer on the subject. They looked at Yuan Shuo, who’d fallen out of his world. The old man was coolly composed and grinned when he noticed the others looking at him. “He can do as he wishes!”

That was very normal.

Silver Moon martial masters were always this way. If the opponent was willing to meet one in single combat and the two sides were evenly matched, then this was an honorable occasion for joy. Why would anyone refuse?

“No one is to interfere in this spar of life and death!” Yuan Shuo even instructed. “It is Li Hao’s fate if he dies here! No one at all is allowed to get involved in this fight. Such are the rules!”

The eighth ranks rolled their eyes. What bullshit rules? What kind of rules were there in the chaos?

Li Hao also nodded with a smile.

“My teacher is right! Such are the rules! They’re applicable to you at the same time...” He turned to Reincarnation. “If Peng Cheng and the others dare intervene, then don’t blame me for disregarding the rules and killing them, fellow daoist. That would be an end to our spar!”

“Naturally!” Reincarnation seemed to understand this well. “Having made our way here, this might be my only chance to kill you. If I don’t understand even that, then I would’ve wasted the last million years of my life!”

“Then let us... begin!” Li Hao headed into the door of death with a smile.

The door promptly vanished after the young man entered it. Reincarnation took a cross-legged position in the void and mentally disengaged from the scene. He was fully immersed in his own dao.

Peng Cheng and his brethren looked on gravely. They were stronger than the three they faced, but just as Li Hao had said, they were only a tiny bit stronger. They weren’t able to instantly eliminate their opponents on the spot.

They would be embroiled in the fight for a while if they engaged the others one-on-one. In that case, it was better to await the results of the match between Li Hao and Reincarnation.

If Reincarnation won, then none of the rest would be a concern with Li Hao’s death.

An eerie silence settled over this part of the battlefield. The exalted emperors watching from the shadows gingerly probed their surroundings. What was going on with these people?

Since there wasn’t fighting, they cast their attention on the New Martial battlefield. The fires of war burned hotly there. The Human King led his people in a truly vicious charge. Every punch connected with a body and every blade saw blood!

Two eighth ranks had already fallen—ones from Arctic Frost. Only the Arctic Frost master was left of his world’s upper echelon of power.

Blood qi soared from the Human King while the supreme and rest furiously tried to stop other exalted emperors from joining the fight. Even the Light master was dragged into the action. His punches shook the worlds and battle cries rang in the heavens.

There was really a show to be had over there, at least for those watching from the shadows.

Second to that was the action taking place in the four regions. Countless thunder tribulations swarmed that territory. As Long Zhan returned with the chaos beasts, Feng Yan attracted all of them like a lightning rod.

Long Zhan broke through all of them in maddened succession. Dao strength swept over the entire four regions.

......

Back to Li Hao.

Countless wraiths filled his line of sight the moment he set foot through the door of death. It was like he’d entered a world for dead spirits. A blanket of death qi reared at the young man.

Reincarnation’s figure appeared in the sky, like he was the king of the dead. Hordes of dead spirits crawled behind him.

“Li Hao!” His voice rang in the air. “This is the door of death! This seat quite admires that you dare enter it! You are in my world now and I make the rules!”

Rules!

“You make the rules?” Li Hao jerked his head upward. “You won’t do, not yet. This is just a half formed world of rules. Do you really think I haven’t seen much of existence?”

He considered Reincarnation, then looked at the end of the horizon and saw something that resembled a heart. “Your dao will break once I shatter that! Here I go, Reincarnation!”

The young man rose into the air, summoning his great dao to shake the world. However, endless wraiths charged in response. They were fearless as they mobbed the young man, instantly recovering even if they were killed.

The heart in the distance was akin to the source of a river. The spirits instantly recovered within it and walked back out. There was no end to them!

Reincarnation sat in the middle of the world. He didn’t need to move. All he needed to do was send forth infinite spirits to attack the young man. There was no end to them!

This was death and also new birth. Killing one, resurrecting one. Killing one, resurrecting one...

One spirit alone wasn’t a threat. Countless spirits in a never-ending charge would deplete even an eighth rank.

“Suppress!” Li Hao’s supernatural character came down on the spirits and imprisoned them on the spot. He ceased killing them for the moment. However, the spirits exploded the next second and resurrected within the heart for another charge.

There was no end to this cycle!

Such was the reincarnation of life and death.

This time, many of Li Hao’s previously vanquished opponents appeared. The newly defeated Hornet and three exalted emperors from Reincarnation were among them. There was also Earth Yang and Ying Hongyue!

They’d all died at the young man’s hands and were now back to life.

“Li Hao!”

“Li Hao!!”

“Give me my life back!”

“Kill him!”

“......” All of these spirits seemed to come back to life. Reincarnation smirked in midair.

“The more you’ve killed, and in particular powerhouses, the more danger you’ll face here!”

How many eighth ranks had Li Hao killed thus far?

The three Reincarnation exalted emperors all counted under Li Hao, even if they’d actually died to the Thunder Emperor and others. Their resentment was billed to the young man’s tab. There was also Sun Moon, Earth Yang, Earth Fissure, Hornet, Earth Spirit...

As well as seventh ranks such as Phoenix, White Tiger, Elephant...

There were too many and all of them seemed to have come back to life in this moment.

Li Hao simply looked at the beating heart in the distance and chuckled softly. “Unlimited revivals... but each instance depletes your energy, doesn’t it? It’s not like they’re really undying!”

“That’s right. There are limitations to the reincarnation of life and death at the end of the death, but I am very satisfied with my accomplishment.” Reincarnation readily admitted to it with a smile. “You might’ve had an easier time had you chosen the door of life. It is death that is more dangerous when it comes to reincarnation. Living people that’ve left a deep impression on you would’ve been the ones to appear in the other door...”

The ones here were all people who’d died.

“And these are just your enemies for now,” Reincarnation continued. “Soon enough, those you care about will also resurrect here. How do you find my world of the dead, Li Hao?”

“It’s not bad, but I don’t like it!”

The river of dao materialized. While the seventh and eighth ranks weren't as strong as they’d been in life, they were still forces to be reckoned with. Hatred burning in their eyes, they charged Li Hao.

The young man cut through one with a swing of his sword, but that person immediately resurrected in the distance. This was the horror of the cycle of life and death.

Li Hao would not have been in such danger under normal conditions, had he not entered the doors of life and death. Reincarnation would have used this method early on if he could do so easily. This dao world was not yet mature.

So he’d permitted Li Hao to kill Earth Spirit in order to have the young man agree to enter this world and fight him here. Here, Reincarnation held an absolute advantage.

His resource depletion was great, but large numbers of powerhouses were mobbing Li Hao. All he needed to do was to continuously revive them.

Wounds started to mark Li Hao’s body as the fight dragged on. Worlds in his river began to wither when they were depleted of energy and the river itself started to dry up.

Endless death qi flooded Li Hao’s world of life and death, strengthening it to no avail. Even Lin Hongyu furiously absorbing the qi did nothing. It was a drop in the bucket compared to what was coming in!

This wasn’t enough!

She was extremely anxious, but there was nothing she could do. She was only a fourth rank. Being able to devour some death qi was already the limit of what she could reach.

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