What shocked and terrified them wasn’t the aura of the Dao Domain emanating from the young man’s body, but rather, the fact that he had actually blocked the attack from the Saint Heart treasure with his flesh?!
What kind of monster is this!!
“Kneel!”
The young man slowly uttered a word.
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Instantly, his Five-layer Dao Domain released a crushing pressure, and with a loud bang, the several hundred meters of void in front of him completely collapsed, the ground trembling fiercely as if something had forcefully pushed it down.
Dragon Absolute God and Feng Lingxiao didn’t even have time to react. The Dao Domain unfolded by the opponent was too fast, faster than their reactions. Just as they started to respond, they frantically tried to erect their own Dao Domains to defend, but what horrified them happened yet again.
Their own Dao Domains were sealed within their bodies, unable to display even a hint of their power!
Without their Dao Domains to resist, the overwhelming might within the young man’s domain took effect on them instantly. With two thuds, the two top leaders of the demonic forces fell straight down, heavily smashing onto the ground.
Their entire bodies, from head to toe, even their hair strands, were enveloped and suppressed by a force, rendering them completely immobile!
The force was vast and mighty, beyond their imagination, and beyond their resistance. It could easily kill them, as simple as crushing an insect.
The terror in Dragon Absolute God and Feng Lingxiao’s hearts had reached an indescribable level, their eyes nearly bursting. For thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, they had never been so lost and fearful. The turn of events was too abrupt, and the young man’s appearance, too sudden!
Previously, they hadn’t even seen the young man, but in an instant, he had traversed beyond the limits of their senses and appeared before them. Such speed was simply inconceivable!
Li Hao looked down at the two demons on the ground, unable to move under the suppression. The flames in his eyes didn’t dissipate, but the raging anger in his heart kept him from ending their lives so easily.
He turned around, with his back to the entire city, and a force emerged, gently catching Li Muxiu’s body.
Gazing at the old man with broken arms and a body slashed diagonally in a tragic state, Li Hao’s eyes filled with rage grew slightly wet.
Seeing Li Hao’s turned face, Li Muxiu’s slowly widening eyes also suddenly bulged to the extreme.
The face was somewhat different from his memory, but those eyes, the emotions within them, instantly convinced him. This was the child who had made him shed tears numerous times.
The child who had fished with him by the lake.
The child who had eaten barbeque in the Listening Rain Tower with him.
His body trembling, he rasped, “Is it you, Hao Er? Am I going blind, or can I barely recognize you…”
After remaking his body with Heaven and Earth Power from the abyss, Li Hao’s appearance and voice had changed somewhat, but those most familiar with him could still see the shadows of his past self.
“It’s me, Second Uncle.”
Li Hao held his broken body, lowered his head and clenched his teeth, sadness in his voice, “I’m too late!”
Youzhou was quite close to Liangzhou. When he first set out from the Li Family in the snowy weather, it took him five days to reach Heavenly Gate Pass in Liangzhou.
Now, returning from Youzhou through Liangzhou, with Candle Flame God sprinting at full speed, the journey still took half a day.
Since entering Qingzhou, Li Hao had seen the ravaged cities and land, many city walls had been occupied by demons. He immediately knew Qingzhou City was on the brink of danger. Otherwise, with the military strength of the Li Family, they would never abandon these cities and their people unless they were helpless.
Therefore, he didn’t even take the time to rescue the cities occupied by demons, allowing Candle Flame God to unleash Unwithering Strength, sprinting at full speed. Only then did he barely make it in time.
Fortunately, he had the Flight Attribute, which allowed his attacks to cover double the distance. Just now, with the Nine-layer Dao Domain erupting at the same time, he pushed his power to the limit, continuously striking the limit of the attack range through air displacement, essentially experiencing a series of teleportations at his maximum capacity. And it was in this extreme situation that he blocked those two lethal attacks.
When Li Muxiu heard Li Hao’s words, he finally confirmed that this was the child he had longed for and could never forget from his memories.
“Do you still wish to call me Second Uncle…”
Li Muxiu’s eyes brimmed with tears, “But Second Uncle failed to protect you, and you’ve suffered too much. I’m so useless…”
Li Hao knew what he was referring to. Images rapidly flashed through his mind, but he slightly shook his head, his grief subsiding as he took a deep breath and said,
“Second Uncle, rest now, heal your body. Xiyan, take care of Second Uncle for me.”
“Mm-hm, your Second Uncle is my Second Uncle too.”
Xiyan obediently agreed, extending from Li Hao’s wrist to the ground beside them. Then a red tendril stretched out like a soft little hand, gently touching Li Muxiu’s wound, infusing him with power.
Li Muxiu sensed that this was a demon, but he wasn’t afraid and allowed it to heal him.
Just then, Candle Flame God’s figure came galloping. Li Hao’s extreme burst of speed to block the attacks for Li Muxiu had far outpaced Candle Flame God.
Seeing Candle Flame God, Li Muxiu’s pupils contracted slightly. Although the ruler of the Great Void Realm had ascended and rarely showed himself for a thousand years, others may not recognize him, but he did. He recognized at a glance, this was the Sovereign of the Great Void Realm!
“Second Uncle, don’t be afraid.”
Li Hao said, placing Li Muxiu onto the back of Candle Flame God.
Li Muxiu was stunned, immediately feeling that Candle Flame God seemed to hold great reverence for Li Hao. Could it be that he had already been tamed by Li Hao?
Thinking of this, his heart trembled, for this was the master of the Great Void Realm…
After placing the old man on the Candle Flame God, Li Hao turned around, facing the vast expanse of the city.
His surging aura was not retracted, like a deity ablaze with flames, his gaze icy cold, showing a domineering air that seemed to regard heaven and earth as his alone.
At that moment, standing outside the city, he became the only luminescence that drew the attention of the world.
Inside the city, aside from the Demon Tide that continued to assault the walls, the battling elders from the two factions, all stopped in shock, looking fearfully at the youth.
Just a moment ago, with a single word from the youth, he had suppressed two Great Demon leaders, shattering their understanding and sending chills down their spines!
Apart from these Demon Kings, others within the city such as He Jianlan, Li Hongzhuang, and the rest, were all staring dumbfounded at the youth.
The youth’s face, handsome like a deity, his brows however were as cold as frost, laden with a heavy killing intent.
That face seemed familiar to them, yet they dared not recognize him, but the youth’s actions toward Li Muxiu were such that only that child would have behaved; it gave them a feeling as though they were witnessing a miracle.
Could it be, he really wasn’t dead?
“Who is that?”
“He doesn’t carry the aura of my Li Family, but he is incredibly strong, unimaginably so!”
“Dao Domain, and he has cultivated more than one, his physical body can actually withstand the Saint Heart Heavenly Treasure, is this for real?”
In mid-air, numerous heroic spirits of the Li family ancestors were also taken aback by the youth that had suddenly arrived on the battlefield, all displaying shocked expressions, a mix of astonishment, joy, but mostly confusion.
When had the Dayu Divine Dynasty nurtured such a monstrously talented individual?
“Who is that, our Li family has made an acquaintance with such a person, had we known earlier, there would have been no need for us to step out of the ancestral shrine.”
One of the Li family’s remnant spirit ancestors couldn’t help but ask.
Beside him was a chubby youth, who stared blankly at that golden figure, saying,
“That should be… Hao.”
“Hao?”
This remnant spirit ancestor couldn’t help but look at this chubby boy; they seemed so familiar with each other, could they know each other?
But aside from their age, their cultivation levels appeared to be drastically different; how could they be acquainted?
“It’s him, it can’t be wrong, he is calling out to Elder Brother Two, it must be him…”
Beside, Li Wushuang murmured, looking at the youth. Although his face had changed, his imposing manner and his reddish-gold body had not, she knew, that person had returned!
Warm tears began to roll down from her eyes; he was not dead, he had come back!
“Is that him, he isn’t dead, I knew it, that Chong Er really is him…”
High in the sky, Song Yufeng also saw the youth, his eyes lighting up with excitement.
News from the Li family had even arranged a funeral for the youth, something that couldn’t possibly be a lie. It had made him doubt for a time whether what he had seen before, Chong Er, was a mistake and not Li Hao.
After all, once a person is dead, they would be removed from the Merit List.
Yet, Chong Er’s name was still there on the Merit List.
However, the Li family wouldn’t joke about such a thing.
Amongst such contradictions, it made him question everything, but now, he felt like laughing with joy.
Without a doubt, the Merit List wouldn’t make a mistake, it’s not controlled by mortals, and people can err, clearly, the Li family had made a mistake; the child hadn’t died, perhaps what they saw was merely an illusion of the youth’s death!
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“It seems he has entered the Dao Domain already, what a little monster…” After his surprise, Song Yufeng couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.
Not far from him, the Water Qilin stopped, her aqua blue eyes almost brimming as she gazed intently at the figure.
“Who is that…”
Ji Qingqing looked from afar, feeling somewhat familiar, yet mostly alien.
At this time, Li Hao’s eyes had already scanned the entire city, his Divine Thought enveloping it, covering the whole Qingzhou City.
After all, the city stretched no more than a hundred miles, although it’s an enormous metropolis, even an ordinary Four Stands Realm cultivator could span it with a single thought, let alone him.
His gaze swept over familiar figures within, seeing some familiar faces still alive, which quietly relieved Li Hao. He briefly locked eyes with the blue-bodied Water Qilin, and gave her a faint smile.
Then, his gaze landed on those golden spirits. These remnants fluttered like feathered garments over the Li family people, reminding him of scenes from Dragon City Mo River, suddenly understanding in his heart.
At this moment, those Demon King elders appeared to be deterred and did not act rashly.
However, the swarming Demons throughout the city continued their desperate assault, attacking the city. Some had already breached through gaps in the defensive lines and were chasing civilians, wreaking havoc wherever they went.
Li Hao’s eyes grew frosty, as he raised his hand, drawing forth the geo-pulse which rapidly gathered the Heaven and Earth Power from a one-mile radius into his palm, like a whale drawing water.
This force continuously condensed, forming a sword Qi tens of meters long, dazzling and piercing, as if reaching through to Heaven’s Gate, making the world lose its color.
As the sword Qi coalesced in Li Hao’s palm, more sword Qi split from it, swirling above Qingzhou City, densely arranged in the sky, instantly forming a canopy of swords.
The grand scale of this canopy, the sheer number of them, left all the Demon Kings and Demons within the city rigid with fear.
Among them was a Demon from Liangzhou, Monarch Bai.
At this moment, he had finally regained his senses, though his appearance had changed, the feeling was unmistakable.
That youth… It was the terrifying youth from Liangzhou!
“It’s Haotian, the Haotian General!!”
Monarch Bai’s eyes revealed fear, but more so, they reflected despair.
During the battle in Liangzhou, he had experienced the youth’s power from outside the gates, and choosing not to join in the final battle to gang up on the youth had saved his life.
But now, the youth had returned, and he had become even more terrifying; his growth was beyond imagination!
Their Palace Master had been suppressed, as had the Dragon God of Gragon Gate.
Furthermore, Monarch Bai had recognized the Candle Flame God, the master of the Great Void Realm, obediently standing by the youth’s side, seemingly having submitted to him.
“Run!!”
Driven by a strong will to survive, Monarch Bai screamed in desperation, turning to escape without caring about any other demons or his status as an elder of the Holy Palace. He just wanted to flee.
To escape from this place, from Qingzhou, from Dayu!
Monarch Bai’s cries of horror and despair also brought other Demon Kings back to their senses, all of them deeply shaken.
Haotian!
Since the battle in Liangzhou, among the demons, this name was as startling as thunder!
It was practically a reflex!
It was that Haotian of the Human Race, that monstrously powerful War God youth!
“He, he was supposed to be dead…”
Some Demon Kings, staring at the gathering Sword Qi filling the skies, feeling the immense Qi Force vast as an abyss, seemed to lose even the courage to flee.
The news of the youth’s demise had long been spread by the Li Family, and they were well aware.
But how could they explain this scene before them, as if bewitched?
There was no answer.
Only the increasingly dense Sword Qi seemed to be countless eyes coldly looking down upon the numerous Demons.
As the Demon Kings fled, the Sword Qi also instantly flew down, chasing them with unbelievable speed.
The Sword Qi flew like rain, forming into dragons and launching an assault on the escaping Demon Kings.
Monarch Bai knew Li Hao’s attacks were tricky; he did not dare to resist physically. Roaring, he exerted all his strength, revealed his true body, and used Demon Art to try to destroy these Sword Qi.
But the Sword Qi formed into a sword dragon, its demeanor far fiercer than any he had faced in Liangzhou; with the sword dragon’s long fangs and claws roaring towards him, it immediately shredded his Demon Art, striking him directly.
Monarch Bai’s pupils constricted as he suddenly realized a terrifying fact: the youth’s attacks were extremely tricky and untouchable, but now the youth had stepped into the Four Stands Realm and the Grand Tao of Peace Realm, naturally mastering the Daoist Charm of Tao Heart Realm.
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Unless he could break the Daoist Charm!
But obviously, although he was capable of doing so, it was a huge drain of energy. Once or twice was manageable, but these Sword Qi were too numerous to count and impossible to block entirely!
Most importantly, within this vast battlefield, within this torrent of Sword Qi, the youth could actually make every Sword Qi coerce the Daoist Charm, how terrifying was that Divine Thought?!
Boom!
The Sword Qi struck on the body like raindrops, Monarch Bai screamed in rage, the Sword Qi tore his flesh, not yet deadly, but his struggling and screaming did not last long before it felt as if someone suddenly yanked his spine away.
As if the Soul was hooked away, the strength in his body rapidly faded away.
“I…”
Monarch Bai’s eyes widened, losing their luster, filled with intense unwillingness and fear. Once again, he experienced the terror from that young man’s attack.
But he no longer had a chance to defy his fate.
With a splash!
As Monarch Bai’s body fell, the situations of other Demon Kings were mostly the same. In mid-air, chased by a dragon composed of Sword Qi, they soon plummeted to their deaths, devoid of breath.
The elders of the two demonic forces, for whom the entire Li Family, including their ancestors, had once fought at the cost of burning their souls, were now like panicked flies, scrambling to escape but falling one by one. No one could escape the reach of that young man’s attack. Approaching the edges of the city only welcomed fiercer assaults!
These previously supreme Demon Kings were now screaming in agony as they fell. Some directly pleaded with Li Hao, willing to submit under his command, serving Li Hao like slaves, but still, they could not escape being slain.
A rain of swords, a bloodbath, left all those who had fought for their cause utterly stunned.
The names called by these Demon Kings were also thunderous to them.
Some who had been unsure before were now completely certain of that young man’s identity.
“Hao Er…” He Jianlan and others teared up, eyes moistening.
Never had they expected that Li Hao would return to rescue them at their most dire moment.
The youth who had once left the Li Family had now, with his own strength, saved the entire city of Qingzhou.
At this moment, outside the city, the Demon Tide continued its relentless attack. The demons at the front were paralyzed with fear, but those at the back, not sensing as far, still obeyed orders to charge.
Li Hao’s eyes swept across calmly, and then, with the Sword Qi that he condensed in his hand, he swung it towards the distance.
It seemed like a casual flick, but the Sword Qi was vast and dominant, pulled by the Daoist Charm, and turned into a sky-high sword gleam that cut down into the massive Demon Tide waiting outside the city.
This sword seemed like a finger pressed down by a Heavenly God, the Demon Tide like ants, instantly pressed into a trench. The ground cracked, and where the Sword Qi swept through, numerous demons were slaughtered, some entirely annihilated.
The released Sword Qi didn’t dissipate but turned into countless sword lights that shot into the Demon Tide, swiftly traversing.
Boom, boom, boom…
The figures of demons, not having time to react, were penetrated by the Sword Qi, their Divine Souls obliterated.
This Demon Tide, spanning dozens of miles, visibly collapsed under these flying sword lights.
Li Hao then withdrew his hand, his gaze landing on the two demon leaders lying prostrate on the ground in front of him.
“Don’t, don’t kill me, I can serve as your mount too!”
Feng Lingxiao hurriedly said.
The Dao Domain suppressing him made him feel like a chick on a chopping block, powerless to resist.
The Dragon Absolute God, however, clenched his teeth. As a Dragon God who had cultivated for ten thousand years, he had an extreme desire for life, but his Dragon Clan’s dignity did not permit him to degrade himself.
“Even if you kill me, my Tianyuan Dragon Clan will never let you go.”
The Dragon Absolute God stared at Li Hao, knowing that begging would at best earn him a fate similar to a mount. Rather than living a lingering life in agony, he preferred to die with his head held high.
Not all beings could bow and scrape before death.
“You’re plotting against the Dayu Divine Dynasty; someone must be behind this.”
Li Hao looked down at them, his eyes cold and devoid of emotion, saying, “Who gave you the courage to take such a desperate gamble?”
Feng Lingxiao hurriedly said, “I’ll tell you, it was the Three Desolate God forcing us to do this. Our Holy Palace was originally at peace with the Dayu Divine Dynasty, having an agreement with the previous Emperor thousands of years ago to not invade each other’s territory. We were forced.”
“The Three Desolate God?”
Li Hao’s eyes flickered slightly. When he had spread his Dao Domain earlier, he had caught a trace of an odd power in the air, a genuine Dao Power, which he had felt before on a person from the Ji Family in the Tao Comprehension Realm.
To manipulate these top demon forces, and to render a True Person from the Gan Tao Palace as still as death, they surely must also be in the Tao Comprehension Realm.
Li Hao continued to question Feng Lingxiao. He hadn’t killed them instantly in his anger before because he wanted to understand the various schemes behind these demons.
He felt that the techniques the demons were using against the Dayu Divine Dynasty were far from limited to what he had currently seen.
And the Dayu Divine Dynasty was not as simple as it appeared to him.
“Hmm?”
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This fluctuation was silent and approached almost instantaneously, touching his Dao Domain.
When he struck out in anger, he directly used the Five-layer Dao Domain to suppress the two Great Demon Kings, and his Dao Domain also covered himself, but at this moment, his Dao Domain was torn apart, a sharp force like a sharp blade, quickly slashed through the Dao Domain heading straight for him.
The attack was abrupt and extremely fast. Li Hao’s expression changed slightly, and then rage surged in his eyes.
With a hum, the Dao Domain continuously extended from his body, the sixth layer, the seventh layer!
As the two additional layers of Dao Domain enveloped and overlapped, the strength of the Dao Domain rapidly increased, and the attack that was tearing through the Dao Domain soon slowed down. When the Seven-layer Dao Domain overlapped, the attack was completely suppressed by the Dao Domain, hanging several meters in front of Li Hao, which was a stream of pulsating purple lightning.
This purple lightning twisted violently, seeming to break free from the binds of the Dao Domain, and at its core was a strand of silver-like substance.
Li Hao could feel that this silver-like force was Dao Power!
True Dao Power!
This was not something easily bound by rules, it even felt indestructible and unbreakable.
A cold light flashed in Li Hao’s eyes as he looked towards the void outside Qingzhou City.
He saw there stood two figures, yet they revealed not a hint of aura. If not for the naked eye catching them, one would not notice two people standing there at all.
One was a woman with a graceful figure and snow-white legs, the other a youth dressed in a black robe.
As Li Hao looked towards them, they were also sizing up Li Hao, seeing that Li Hao was actually able to suppress that Dao Power attack, a hint of shock flashed in their eyes, which then became colder.
Revealing themselves had been because they saw Li Hao display strength that was terrifyingly monstrous, not expecting that they couldn’t even kill him in one strike!
From the cries of the fleeing Demon Kings, they had also learned the identity of this youth, the one who emerged from Liangzhou and disrupted their plans.
But the prior intelligence indicated that he was only fifteen years old, at the Three Immortal Realms.
And now, already at the Grand Tao of Peace Realm?
Breaking through to the Four Stands Realm within a year, they could still barely accept, given Li Hao’s previously shown monstrous talent; this was not impossible.
But within a year to establish a Dao Heart and cultivate to the Grand Tao of Peace Realm, that was a bit exaggerated.
Even the Saint Heir could not do this, it was somewhat abnormal!
They now began to suspect whether there was some presence of a Saint Realm, sensing something, and using the fetus of the Li Family to disrupt their plans?
“Desolate God!”
Feng Lingxiao and Dragon Absolute God followed Li Hao’s gaze and also saw the graceful woman. Their faces changed immediately, not expecting that two of the Three Desolate Gods had come!
Was the remaining one still waiting in the Imperial Capital for that True Person to make a mistake?
Feng Lingxiao’s expression turned ugly, shocked that these two Desolate Gods would actually take the field themselves.
Previously, when discussing with these demon leaders, they kept saying they were inconvenient to appear too early, as it could easily attract unexpected calamities. They did not elaborate on the specific reasons, but they could understand, there must be something that the Three Desolate Gods feared; thus, they had not attacked directly.
After all, there was only one True Person, but three Desolate Gods. If they were not apprehensive of something, they would have long since forcefully attacked the Imperial Capital.
But now, they had appeared.
Was it because the young man in front of them was too monstrous, making them no longer dare to give him any more time to grow?
Feng Lingxiao and Dragon Absolute God felt bitter inside but also understood, especially since they had thoroughly investigated the young man’s identity after the battle in Liangzhou.
Plus, being from the Divine General Mansion and personally named by Emperor Yu, known throughout the world, it was difficult to conceal.
Fifteen years old achieving such feats, not yet sixteen, and having cultivated to the Grand Tao of Peace Realm, moreover to an incredibly exaggerated degree, anyone would dare not let such a monster continue to grow.
Dragon Absolute God looked at Feng Lingxiao with a mocking expression in his eyes, having told you earlier that you were too soft, now you can’t even regret it.
Feng Lingxiao also realized this, his face pale.
“Are you the ones manipulating behind them, or are you also puppets?”
Li Hao stared at the two intensely and asked icily.
The graceful woman indifferently said, “The dead don’t need to know too much. Now that you have seen us, you should already be dead!”
As she spoke, the purple lines on her cheeks seemed to come alive, suddenly retracting into the neckline of her neck, then her body abruptly lunged forward, clearly bursting with power yet still without revealing any aura.
Like teleporting, the woman’s body directly disappeared, reappearing outside Li Hao’s Dao Domain, but she directly raised her hand, silver light bursting from her fingertips, violently tearing open Li Hao’s Dao Domain!
The Seven-layer Dao Domain, terrifyingly powerful, capable of easily suppressing hundreds of beings at the Grand Tao of Peace Realm like Dragon Absolute God, yet under those slender palms, it was like slightly stiff paper, barely a hindrance before it was torn apart!
Li Hao’s eyes narrowed, then the murderous intent in his eyes intensified, and he strode meteorically towards the opponent.
