Star Gate

The ninth ranks didn’t give Calamity a chance to explain himself. Their presences abruptly built and dao strength slammed deep into the depths of the chaos.

“Control your dao spirit, Calamity!” one of them yelled. “Once it breaks through chaos dao and starts interfering with the source of life, we’ll have no choice but to kill your primary body!”

“......” Calamity brooded and set his jaw. “This is just a dao spirit coalesced by my replica. It might not be able to break through. Give me some time, I’ll be able to get it under control again!”

Who would give him that time?

No one!

Countless exalted emperors made their moves together, eliciting a huge roar from their daos!

Countless dao rules erupted!

Rumble!

A monstrous beast in the distance pounced on the origin of the chaos, like the beast had gone crazy. Shadowy figures appeared in the voids and rushed it!

BOOM!

A massive collision rang through the world. Calamity trembled, then gnashed his teeth with extreme fury!

Damn it!

These bastards!

“Li Hao has mastered the dao spirit of desire, we need to kill him!” he couldn’t help but shout. Give me some time!

I can get it back under control!

Li Hao is just an eighth rank, not a ninth rank. I can suppress him. It won’t be too late for you guys to take action after I kill him!

But no one paid attention to him. Even the Skyward master next to him kept his eyes closed, as if he was still asleep. You were the one who rushed to get out and offended everyone with your eagerness. And now you’ve given them a mistake to take advantage of. Not to mention, Li Hao’s dao spirit is with you.

Since they’re going to eliminate the disturbance, they may as well kill everything involved with it. Who has the time to take you alive, split you guys up, and determine who’s who?

Blasting both of you out of existence will take care of the problem once and for all!

“It’s just part of your dao spirit, but it’s all of Li Hao’s,” someone comforted Calamity. “This will completely eradicate his newly born dao spirit and prevent him from taking another step forward in his cultivation. He’ll only be a normal eighth rank after his dao spirit ceases to exist. We’ll have nothing to be concerned about with him then!”

That did make some sense.

But to Calamity, his losses would be too great. Not only would he lose a portion of his dao spirit, but his replica might also be done for. All of the people he’d sent back were dead and his dao strength had been immensely impacted...

This was a level of loss that even he wanted to cry about for a while. Hence, he wanted to fight to preserve his replica if possible!

But countless dao rules exploded the next second. KABOOM!!

The charging beast was pulverized!

Calamity grunted and blood dribbled out of the corner of his lip. He was ashen as one of the countless dao rules stabilizing the origin of the chaos keened. It’d been gravely injured!

The great dao possessed spirit. Although the dao spirit that’d just been exterminated was only part of the spirit of calamity, it’d been destroyed all the same!

Damnation!

Calamity raged. No, perhaps I still have a chance. The dao spirit has been destroyed, but my replica is still there. It still possesses the strength of a premier eighth rank, whereas Li Hao...

At the same time.

Li Hao furrowed his brows as he grunted as well. Calamity’s replica in front of him swayed from discomfort. It lost some of its previous sense of mystery and might. It now appeared the same as any regular eighth rank.

This had been a pyrrhic victory!

An overjoyed Chaos Sky paused in his mad rush over. Li Hao had killed Calamity’s dao spirit so easily? The replica would be nothing without spirit! It would simply command only seven or eight thousand dao rules.

The Calamity master was utterly livid and said coldly, “We have both suffered greatly from this! But I am just a replica and you are the primary body. You’ve traded your dao spirit for a portion of mine. Li Hao, you’re a fool!”

Do you think this was all of my spirit?

You’re wrong and deserve death!

He ignored everything else and charged at Li Hao, thrusting his palm out. Thunder and lightning exploded, which were met by the powerhouses next to Li Hao. None of their previous fear could be found. Instead, they were extremely excited!

As strong as Calamity was, he gave them the same feeling as someone of Long Zhan’s level. He was no longer as invincible as before.

Hence, they dared attack this Calamity!

Not to mention, Chaos Sky was about to arrive. It was almost a foregone conclusion that they would be able to kill Calamity’s replica with him in the mix.

“Isn’t it nice to slide down from peak condition and experience the other ninth ranks jointly bashing your dao spirit out of existence?” Li Hao was still smiling.

The Calamity master snorted and beat back the Thunder Emperor with a palm strike.

“You’re worse off than me,” he sniffed. “What do you have to laugh about? Li Hao, you’re an idiot through and through. You’ve just ended your own future and completely lost the chance to fully grasp time...”

So what if you manage to get away from this encounter? You have no future to speak of!

Fool!

Spirit is such a difficult to control existence and a necessity for entering ninth rank! But you chose to sacrifice it just to take out my replica!

For many, they would rather die than lose their spirit. A powerhouse with no future to speak of might as well be dead. They were worse off than dead!

But Li Hao didn’t care about any of this.

Did he have more spirit?

Nope!

But...

This had been part of the plan. It wasn’t out of the question to nurture the ferocious tiger into being again. And he was also thinking about what the Human King had said. Why did something like the dao spirit have to be an external entity?

If all daos are me, then... am I not the dao spirit?

Isn’t it stronger for me to nurture dao, than for me to nurture spirit?

If it’s not needed, why bother with it? What a waste of time.

Li Hao walked into his river of dao and nearly saw his body split apart as endless dao strength surged into him. His presence rose dramatically.

Nurture my spirit! I cultivate the supernatural characters. They are me and I am aura!

I’m going to use this opportunity to fully excise the external spirit. The ferocious tiger is also me, but the current me is me as well. If the aura and mind are present, then spirit exists!

That was the Human King’s dao. Li Hao was collecting the strong suits of everyone he knew!

I’ll consider the Human King’s dao if it’s useful. I’ll do the same for Long Zhan’s dao. I’ll study everyone’s dao if they prove helpful. There’s no need to be stuck to one dao or insist on one unknown dao.

I will nurture the spirit with myself!

It was like Li Hao had suddenly returned to Silver Moon, back when he was the world’s heavenly will. Wasn’t that also a form of dao spirit?

Probably, right?

Then... I might...

The young man smiled at chaos dao. The chaos seemed to lack a pillar of support these days as its spirit was gone. If it still existed, it was very weak.

Then if I assimilate with chaos dao now, can I take it over and become the spirit of the chaos myself?

He didn’t know, but it was worth a try!

Li Hao was promptly battered by endless chaos strength when he set foot into chaos dao. It promptly refilled his previous resource consumption.

His aura rose! Sword intent flared to life!

He was the spirit, and a myriad of daos nurtured the spirit.

The chaos dao was all-encompassing and tolerant of all.

Li Hao ignored everyone else, focusing on his own efforts. A handful of eighth ranks could hold off Calamity for a while. Chaos Sky had arrived as well, but he suddenly stopped!

“There’s no need for the senior to pay attention to me,” Li Hao’s voice drifted over to him. “Go to Skyward major world...”

“You...” Chaos Sky’s expression shifted as he identified something. His face twitched before he suddenly disappeared.

Li Hao... really didn’t seem to need his help.

......

The young man was currently situated within chaos dao and peering through something. “So the ninth ranks... are all residing within the depths of this great dao? Are these ordered daos your place of sanctuary within chaos dao? I’ve... found you guys!”

So the ninth ranks were all located within the deepest part of chaos dao! Although he’d expected it, Li Hao was both saddened and delighted to confirm this point.

He was delighted to know where they were hiding. He was saddened that they would be his greatest obstacle in reviving the people he cared about.

How was he supposed to reverse time to the past in the core of chaos and strip out the source of life for his parents and Little Yuan, if he didn’t defeat them?

But it was more than just one or two people he’d have to defeat, but all of the ninth ranks!

Endless dao strength surged toward him and battered Li Hao. Countless worlds were saturated and his energy reserves replenished. This was the key to the ninth ranks maintaining peak battle condition.

Li Hao had exercised a great deal of restraint before and didn’t furiously pull on chaos dao’s energy. But now, he threw all that to the wind.

Dao strength flooded through him. He absorbed everything, no matter what it was. In return, chaos dao... trembled with some resistance. The young man seemed to be attempting to... integrate into him!

Fully integrate into him!

This wasn't deprivation or wresting by force, but an assimilation. He seemed ready to turn himself into a dao spirit!

Chaos dao trembled and imperial notes echoed from its depths. “You have a death wish!”

Li Hao was trying to steal chaos dao!

He’d completely lost his mind and was overestimating himself.

“I’m not crazy. On the contrary, I’m very normal,” Li Hao smiled. “And in fact, you guys are the ones who will die! You obstruct my great dao and halt my future. Let’s see how much longer you guys can prance around for!”

Li Hao whirled around and left, walking out of chaos dao. Countless yells of fury echoed behind him. Madman!

He was treating a bunch of ninth ranks, the brazen fellow! If it wasn’t for the spirit of the chaos being too weak to descend upon them, there was nothing they wanted more than to rush out this very second and kill Li Hao.

How dare he threaten ninth ranks—and not just one or two, but many of them!

No one in history had ever been this cocky. Even the former Order master hadn’t been this arrogant when he sought to establish order. The Order master was long dead, and Li Hao was soon to follow in his footsteps!

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