Star Gate

“There should be a ranking in the chaos!” laughed Fang Ping. “One sky canopy can be dedicated to the ranking! For example, the Human King is first, Silver Moon king is second, Skyward is third... We’ll be able to borrow the Skyward master’s name to make mine known!

“Of course, this will also mean that no one will believe the ranking. We should exclude the ninth ranks at first so that the chaos knows who they should follow for a bright future. The ranking might not be real, but what do fellows who know nothing of the universe understand?

“Does everyone know that Skyward is stronger than me? Not necessarily! What did you know when you first left Silver Moon? Did you know who was strong? But once you see a ranking that’s available to all saying that Li Hao is number one, will you believe it? Even if you don’t, you’ll know that Li Hao is number one.

“That will benefit plans of conquest! You have your Allheaven Hall, but do not know how to make the best use of it. It’s a damned shame. If it was up to me, I would have the chaos know about it sooner rather than later. I alone am invincible in the chaos! Following me is the true way forward!

“They say that whoever has the hearts of the people takes the entire world. See how much stronger you grew when you gathered the ten thousand mental entities. Why is that? It’s because of Allheaven Hall. Where would you get so many imperial spirits in ordinary times?

“Such is fame in the chaos!”

Li Hao truly did see the Human King in a different light this time! He nodded after a long pause. “I understand. Thank you for your tutelage!”

The Human King was an irreverent fellow who did things as he would. While he was still a bit flippant when he took things seriously, one had to say that some of his thoughts were very correct.

Establishing the sky canopy system was likely catering to his desire to strut around in front of the chaos. Everything else he’d said was just secondary. But to Li Hao, the sky canopy system was indeed useful. It’d been a handy tool in Silver Moon.

And now if they were to put certain fights on repeated broadcast in Allheaven Hall... It made sense. Some materials needed to be demonstrated in a practical manner when it came to discussing dao!

It didn’t matter who the leading character was. The Human King’s desire to paint himself in a heroic light was negligible.

The ranking was an interesting notion, but there wasn’t much meaning to it. The Human King was once again doing it to showcase his might. However, since it might lure some people out of hiding, then it might be somewhat useful.

Take those ninth rank worlds, for example. Would they outright come knocking once they saw the ranking after their revitalization?

If that happened, then it would turn into another source of income for Li Hao.

Various ideas came to mind as the young man reviewed the Human King’s suggestions. Some were very nice, with the caveat of needing to exclude the Human King’s own thoughts. The man’s only motivation was to show off in front of the crowds. Everything else was of secondary importance.

This was a powerhouse... so confident that he knew nothing else.

“Alright, it’s enough for you to understand what I’m saying. If you do, I’ll have Divine Forge send you some upgraded sky canopies. The old version won’t work in the chaos, you have to use the new ones!” chuckled the Human King. “I’ll let you in on a secret. Divine Forge spent several hundred years creating these. Many of the resources that New Martial seized have been invested in them...”

Li Hao barely refrained from rolling his eyes. Was there a need to waste resources like that?? I’ve got no words for you... you old... man!

There will be no peace in the chaos so long as the Human King is alive. The wicked really do live the longest!

“I’ll be off now...” Li Hao turned to leave.

“Remember, it’s fine if you forget everything else, but you’ve got to put this as first priority!” said the Human King before the young man disappeared. “You need to set them up as quickly as possible, before the ninth ranks have returned! Let me know whatever you’re short on and make sure to work as fast as possible...”

“......” Li Hao was truly out of polite responses. He left with his people.

Alright alright, I’m scared of you, okay? This old man... eh, I guess I should be more polite. Senior Human King really is a child at heart.

......

The Ninth City of the alliance of mid worlds, Allheaven Hall.

Various exalted emperors were immensely excited when their minds returned to the secret realm. In fact, they were highly agitated. While some mental spirits had broken on this venture, most of them had returned safely.

Who cared about those who hadn’t made it back?

They were so excited that it felt like they were on stimulants!

They’d participated in the killing of Calamity, the life and death envoys, forcing the elemental envoys into a corner, making Long Zhan and Chaos Sky back down, attacking Skyward...

They’d seen all of these legendary figures today. Damn, it felt good!

It was all so thrilling!

A loud hubbub erupted, so boisterous that it was like Allheaven Hall was a marketplace. The exalted emperors’ mental spirits whooped and hollered like they were fighting for discounts at a stall. Heated discussions and rapturous recounting broke out.

They’d all been part of the fighting, but each of them were speaking of their experiences like none of the others had been present!

Li Hao suddenly smiled when he looked at how lively and animated the crowd was. Perhaps... the Human King was right. The chaos was very boring, but once interesting people made the chaos fun, then the chaos became interesting.

Like now, for example!

These exalted emperors normally held themself with bearing appropriate to someone of their station. And now?

Whether it was seventh or eighth ranks, all of them yelled and gestured wildly at each other. Some were flushed with emotion and others literally acted out what they’d seen. Even those who’d been present for the fights raptly took in the stories.

Was this... real cultivation?

Cultivation didn’t need to be quiet and secluded. It could also be dynamic and passionate!

Everything was dao!

Dynamic and passionate was dao, quiet and secluded was dao. What wasn’t dao? A commotion was dao, tranquility was dao, silence was also dao.

There weren’t many in the chaos now who could talk to Li Hao like this. And even if they had the right to, they might not necessarily choose to. The Human King was an interesting and intriguing person!

“All things are dao and all things can be dao...” Li Hao disappeared after a quiet murmur.

A hundred million great daos? The Human King really dared dream big. But upon further thought, that was such a riveting idea!

Every blade of grass and every branch could be dao! Pissing on the ground was dao. Actually, farting really was dao—the dao of ingress!

The more Li Hao thought about it, the more sense everything made. How fascinating.

......

The Ninth City of the alliance of mid worlds.

Exalted emperors quickly appeared. Some were hurt, others were excited. Quiet discussions flourished among them and a couple focused on tabulating their spoils.

Silver Moon had reaped quite a rich harvest. General fervor kicked up a notch when they saw Li Hao come to them.

“Your Lordship!”

“The marquis is unparalleled and invincible throughout the land. You cut down a ninth rank with one stroke!” Hu Qingfeng immediately started sprouting flattery, not caring what the occasion was.

“......” Li Hao couldn’t help but laugh. This, too, was dao. It really was dao. He waved for the man to sit down and shut up. “How much did we gain this time?”

“In response to milord, we killed six eighth ranks of Thunder Region!” Gan Wuliang shot to his feet. “There are also sixteen seventh ranks, but a lot of their energy was extracted, so not that much is left.

“In addition, there are the bodies of the life and death envoys, as well as seven corpses of Skyward seventh ranks!

“We also claimed seventeen of Skyward’s seventh rank worlds. There would’ve been more, but New Martial took a portion of them!

“We gave life qi from the life envoy to New Martial and death qi from the death envoy to Governor General Lin...” Gan Wuliang reeled off their inventory. It was quite the haul!

There was also energy that the Calamity master had left behind. Since Li Hao had taken that for himself, Gan Wuliang hadn’t counted that.

“We’ve taken in another few billion humans...” the pale queen said weakly. She was quite resigned by her circumstances. “There’s too many humans out there and Headmaster Hong is taking in even more. I... the divine nation can’t hold them all!”

Stop coming!

Hong Yitang hadn’t done anything but briefly participate in Thunder Region during the last fight. When he saw that he wasn’t needed, he ran off to the four regions again to collect more people.

There were now so many people in the divine nation that the queen couldn’t count them anymore. There were too many! There were so many that... she despaired.

There was also another point. Li Hao had kept something back in the previous encounter.

Many of the hundreds of billions of humans in the divine nation were also cultivating supernatural characters. He’d extracted supernatural characters from Silver Moon’s cultivators, but not this other group.

Hence, Li Hao did still have some tricks up his sleeves, he’d just refrained from exposing them all. After all, who didn’t have some trump cards in reserve at this day and age?

Well, alright, perhaps the Human King didn’t.

The gains from the previous battle were so incredibly enormous! Just the number of seventh rank worlds had been a rich harvest. That was mostly due to their powerhouses running away from the massive battle in the four regions. Now, they had no room for regret.

Granted, they might have died had they not run off!

“Nice haul!” Li Hao nodded approvingly. “So I’m going to be selfish for once. Give me all of the world strength from the major worlds. I’m going to saturate my fourth set of one thousand worlds! As for five thousand...

“I came face-to-face with all of my inadequacies in this fight!” the young man sighed with emotion. “Of all the notables in the chaos, I probably rank the weakest when it comes to actual strength. Five thousand dao rules... is an embarrassment to speak of!

“The Human King benefited immensely from this venture. He should be seven thousand dao rules at least by now! He was infinitely close to nine thousand when he absorbed New Martial...

“Long Zhan’s currently demonstrated strength stands at close to eight thousand. As for Chaos Sky... Spring Autumn might not be all that weaker than him!”

So seriously, he was the weakest at the end of the day!

He was pathetically weak.

Five thousand dao rules... placed him only on the same level as the envoys of life and death, or light and darkness. They were even stronger than him when they worked with their corresponding partner. If it wasn’t for the strength borrowed from the ten thousand mental entities, he wouldn’t have been able to kill a ninth rank’s replica at all.

That kind of opportunity to borrow from others wouldn’t come around all the time either. He needed to strike while the iron was hot!

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