Alright… Li Hao nodded, then immediately looked at the illusory map floating above the Ksitigarbha Buddha’s head, on which there were golden light points.
“Which one should we pick?”
Wang Yongzhi also came back to his senses, looked at the map, and suddenly thought of something, laughing cheerfully,
“I just remembered, I’m free right now, I’ll accompany you on this trip.”
“Family Head, I’m also free, I’ll go and help out too.”
“I miss Uncle Zhendong, I haven’t seen him in a long time, I want to go and see him.”
The others were also quick to respond, each offering their assistance, only two elders, one Wang Zhenfeng and one Wang Zhenping, remained silent.
But Wang Zhenfeng was all smiles, his face full of mirth, looking at these usually steady fellows now playing the fool, which was a form of entertainment in its own right.
Whereas Wang Zhenping was silent, seemingly a bit heavily struck.
“You guys…”
Wang Yongzhi glared at them, then immediately turned to Li Hao, “Haotian Divine General, you don’t mind, do you?”
“Not at all.”
Li Hao shook his head slightly.
Wang Yongzhi let out a sigh of relief and then a Gold Paper appeared in his palm, on which was recorded a dense array of messages—reports of his participation in the destructions of various Mo Rivers.
Li Hao glanced at it; although the amount of Merit was only over five thousand, much less than his own, the number of events he participated in was extensive. This Merit had been accumulated bit by bit.
The others also took out their Gold Papers, and Wang Yongzhi pointed out the golden light on the map to Li Hao,
“Here, just sense it with your Divine Thought.”
Li Hao did as instructed, and quickly, his consciousness seemed to be sucked into the golden light.
With his Dao Domain instinctively covering his body, he immediately felt his body lift off, following the golden light into another world.
After the disorienting sensation of transit faded, Li Hao could see clearly—he had appeared in a dilapidated small town.
The town was silent, with banners fluttering, but the buildings on both sides of the streets were in ruins.
There were also charred corpses lying by the road, motionless, with their backs to Li Hao. The whining wind stirred, and the entire town appeared dead and eerie.
Before long, golden light began to appear around Li Hao, and Wang Yongzhi, among others, gradually entered the Mo River.
“Is this the place?”
Li Hao asked.
Wang Yongzhi glanced around and nodded, “That’s right, this is the Mo River. Let’s see where Uncle Zhendong is.”
As he spoke, his Divine Soul suddenly emerged from the soles of his feet, plunging into the ground, but quickly, his Divine Soul burst forth from the ground again. He looked surprised and said,
“What’s going on, why do I feel the strength of the rules in this Mo River has increased?”
In the Netherworld Level Mo River, simple rules already existed.
Before coming in, Wang Yongzhi had already shared information about this Mo River with Li Hao.
Rule: Hands and feet reversed.
In simple terms, if you wanted to use your feet, you had to think of using your hands, treating hands as feet and feet as hands, to maintain normal walking.
But after all, it was only a Netherworld Level Mo River; the restrictiveness of the rules wasn’t that strong, limited only to the body. But now, Wang Yongzhi found that even his Divine Soul was affected.
He intended for his Divine Soul to rise into the air, but instead, he unexpectedly plunged into the ground.
“Huh?”
Li Hao frowned slightly. Feng’s remnant soul was here, and he did not wish for any accidents to occur.
“Be careful everyone, it seems like some kind of change has happened here.”
Wang Yongzhi’s face was tense, his eyes extremely solemn. According to past experience, changes in the Mo River were often not good.
Soon, his divine soul soared into the sky and found a figure on the edge of the town. He immediately said, “I found Uncle Zhendong, follow me.”
While he spoke, his body seemed to pause for a moment, then he stepped backward before realizing, and then slowly walked forward, but his movements were somewhat uncoordinated.
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When the others heard his words, although they were prepared, many of them still retreated in unison at the beginning.
“It’s not just the limbs that are reversed, it seems like everything is reversed. To move forward, you have to step back!”
Wang Yongzhi immediately reminded everyone.
The others had already realized what was happening, their expressions turning solemn. The Mo River’s rules were strengthening, which could likely mean an anomaly, an upgrade of the Mo River!
Could it be that this Ming Domain Level Mo River was transforming into a Youdu Level?
After a momentary stiffness, everyone slowly got used to the situation, but they could only manage to walk with great difficulty. In the midst of fierce conflict, they would quickly become confused and distracted by their usual way of thinking.
Seeing them struggle even to walk, Li Hao simply extended his Dao Domain, enveloping them within it.
Before long, the group was continually stepping back, taking several steps before realizing what was happening.
“Let me take you there,”
Li Hao said.
His expression was grave; his divine thought had already covered the entire town. He had seen Wang Zhendong, whom Wang Yongzhi mentioned, but what concerned him more was a pitch-black rift outside the town, slowly advancing toward it.
His divine thought couldn’t penetrate that darkness, and as he approached, he felt a coldness that seemed to pierce to the bone, instinctively sensing danger.
“Dao Domain…”
Feeling Li Hao’s extending Dao Domain, the Wang Family members felt some envy. That was the Grand Tao of Peace Realm for you, utterly unreasonable.
Whatever the rule, it was blocked out.
Soon, Li Hao led the group to the edge of the town.
There, four figures sat: an old man who looked robust, with a face like a chiseled stone, his eyes fierce, surrounded by three others—a young man and a young woman, and another middle-aged person.
“Uncle Zhendong,”
Wang Yongzhi, seeing the elder, became extremely respectful. This was the current pillar of the Wang Family.
The old man’s face was very ugly as he said, “Why have so many people come!”
“Uncle Zhendong, what’s the situation here?”
Wang Yongzhi hurriedly asked. One dared not joke in the Mo River.
“This Mo River is about to be fused!”
Wang Zhendong’s expression was grim, his gaze fixed on them. He had noticed them as soon as they arrived, and now his eyes turned dark and angry:
“Who allowed all of you to come in? Do you all wish to die?”
Wang Yongzhi and the others’ faces changed drastically. They rarely saw Uncle Zhendong so out of control and angry.
“Fusion? Has it collided with a Youdu Level Mo River?” Wang Yongzhi couldn’t help but say, “But there aren’t any other Mo Rivers next to this one, are there?”
“It’s one that stretched over here not long ago, not a Mo River visible in this world…”
Wang Zhendong’s gaze slowly swept over them: “It’s a Hell-Level Mo River!”
Hell-Level Mo River!
As these five words were spoken, Wang Yongzhi and the others all felt their hearts jolt violently, their faces turning pale with shock.
A Hell-Level Mo River? That was the most terrifying kind, where even someone from the Grand Tao of Peace Realm could easily perish. It was classified at the highest level and deemed taboo.
This Netherworld Domain Level Mo River had actually collided with a Hell-Level Mo River and was about to be fused. No wonder the rules here had become so much more intensified!
Wang Yongzhi felt his entire body’s hair stand on end; including himself, everyone else who had followed in felt the same, shuddering all over.
Being part of the Wang Family, they knew too well how terrifying a Hell-Level Mo River was. Its name alone implied that upon contact, one would almost certainly face death and fall into hell!
“How can this be?”
“Quick, let’s get out of here.”
“The exit is gone, and my Mie River Register can’t summon it.”
The people from the Wang Family who had followed Li Hao inside quickly tried to figure it out, growing increasingly nervous, not just out of fear of death, but because many of them held real power within the Wang Family. If all of them were to perish here, it would deal a tremendous blow to the Wang Family.
The merging of the Mie River was an incredibly rare event, yet they had encountered it, almost as if they had seen a ghost!
“Uncle Zhendong, why aren’t you leaving?”
Wang Yongzhi had also tried calling the Mie River Register but to no avail, so he turned to Wang Zhendong.
The presence of the Sea-Calming Divine Needle from the Wang Family still provided them a sense of security.
“Of course I want to leave, but I plan to observe here a bit longer to see the merging situation of this Mie River and that Hell Ming River…”
Wang Zhendong frowned, “This is a rare opportunity that comes once in a thousand years. If we leave now, and come back next time, this place might have been completely merged by the Hell Ming River. By then, without the simpler rules of the Netherworld Level Mo River protecting us, being directly in Hell, even I might die. This is a rare chance to understand closely the Hell Level Ming Rivers.”
“And look at you all, rushing in with so many people.”
Saying this, his glance at Wang Yongzhi carried some dissatisfaction.
Wang Yongzhi immediately understood Uncle Zhendong’s thoughts; now with the two Ming Rivers merging, although they were suppressed by the rules of the Netherworld Level Mo River, this river was also resisting the Hell Level Ming River, thus the rules actually protected them.
Otherwise, the Hell Level rules would dominate, and that would be extremely terrifying, possibly unstoppable even by the Dao Domain.
“Uncle Zhendong, then do you know how to leave?”
Wang Yongzhi quickly asked.
He had planned to come see how Li Hao would solve the Netherworld Ming River and to take the opportunity to strengthen relations.
Tying them all together in the Netherworld Level Mo River was supposed to be a casual trip, but now it felt like they had just stepped outside and been caught in a violent hailstorm.
Seeing their nervous expressions, Wang Zhendong snorted coldly, knowing this wasn’t the time to blame them, “Now the rules here are reversing, the original path out has disappeared, and you all have tokens on you, right? I will take you there.”
Hearing there was a way out, Wang Yongzhi sighed in relief and regained his composure, at least outwardly.
“We do.”
Wang Yongzhi nodded. He had long been familiar with the Netherworld Ming River and had prepared tokens on his person to ensure they could leave at any moment.
He turned to Li Hao, “Haotian Divine General, you’ve heard the situation. It’s going to become very dangerous here quickly; we need to leave as soon as possible.”
Before Li Hao could respond, Wang Zhendong suddenly raised his eyebrows, “What did you call him?”
He had previously ignored Li Hao, but also recognized Li Hao’s status. So young and yet controlling the Dao Domain, there was only one such youth in the entire Dayu domain, the Haotian General from Liangzhou.
This time he had come personally on the Emperor’s secret command to handle this task for that General, aiming to clear this Netherworld Ming River.
Understanding the Emperor’s high regard for him, he could comprehend it, as any Divine General Mansion would be envious and regretful of not having such a son.
But General and Divine General were vastly different; one must not misaddress.
“Haotian…”
The two young juniors beside Wang Zhendong were stunned, then stared outright at Li Hao.
Wang Yongzhi, seeing Uncle Zhendong’s displeasure with their rash journey and worried that he would vent his anger on Li Hao, quickly sent a message to explain.
“What?”
Wang Zhendong, hearing Wang Yongzhi’s message, initially frowned deeply, then looked in shock and immediately turned towards Li Hao.
Chong Er?
The Chong Er who topped the Merit List by a wide margin?
The one who established three provinces and had unparalleled achievements, who also founded the Merit Treasure Vault?
Wang Zhendong was slightly dazed, staring at that young face, somewhat in disbelief.
But soon, he realized why Wang Yongzhi and the others had come so recklessly; they must have wanted to see if this Chong Er had any special tricks to clear the river.
His anger towards Wang Yongzhi and the others dissipated somewhat; putting himself in their shoes, he felt he probably would have wanted to come in and see as well.
“So young, yet so capable…”
Wang Zhendong sighed softly, but seemed much cheered, and got up, saying,
“Let’s get you out of here first, it’s dangerous.”
As they talked, Li Hao’s Divine Soul was continuously paying attention to the dark fault outside the town, sensing its approaching speed, which was very slow, similar to an ant crawling, but it was steadily moving closer. According to its current pace, it would touch the town’s buildings in a dozen more two-hour periods.
Considering the Mo River’s increasing decay, the merging speed might accelerate.
There wasn’t much time left.
Li Hao looked at the Wang Family members preparing to move, and said to Wang Zhendong,
“Elder, do you have any clues or strategies for clearing this Ming River?”
“You still want to clear it?”
Wang Zhendong’s expression changed slightly as he stared at Li Hao, “Impossible now. There might have been a way before, but now that the Ming River is merged, the Hell-level laws will interfere, making it very difficult!”
“I want to try.”
Li Hao looked at him seriously, “But I will send you all out first, I will try on my own.”
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Wang Yongzhi and the others also looked shocked, not expecting Li Hao to be so determined. Could it be that the Thief Saint was a relative of Li Hao?
“Haotian Divine General, you are still young, and the future holds great hope for you; there’s no need for you to take risks here,” Wang Yongzhi solemnly advised.
Li Hao glanced at him and gently shook his head:
“It’s two separate matters.”
Wang Yongzhi slightly opened his mouth but then suddenly fell silent.
Indeed, it was two separate matters. Achieving personal success did not conflict with helping others, but those who had succeeded often were not willing to sacrifice again and return to the mire.
Wang Zhendong looked deeply at Li Hao, then glanced at the dark, dense fog approaching the edge of the town and said in a low voice:
“Let’s first get them out, then I will take you to find a solution.”
“Uncle Zhendong…”
“Let’s go, stop dawdling!”
Wang Zhendong acted as soon as he spoke. The Dao Domain quickly enveloped everyone, but when it touched Li Hao’s Dao Domain, he immediately felt a great resistance and could not cover it.
His heart chilled; this young man’s Dao Domain was incredibly powerful.
He was not aware of the details of Li Hao’s slaying of the Buddha Lord, but in the battle of Qingzhou City, Li Hao had publicly slain two Great Demons before everyone. Now, feeling it firsthand, he knew the well-known saying held true: there were no false reputations under great renown.
Seeing Li Hao about to speak, Wang Zhendong immediately said, “Don’t feel like you will burden me; I also want to carefully observe the strangeness of this Hell Ming River.”
A Hell Level Ming River, according to their conjecture, could yield tens of thousands of Merit even if destroyed.
If successfully navigated, possibly millions!
Although this was the Wang Family’s conjecture and no one could confirm it, it was highly probable.
And the Hell Ming River was also extremely terrifying; all of the Hell Ming Rivers that had appeared within the territory were forbidden areas without exception.
You see, the Dragon City Mo River was only at a Youdu Level and had caused the territory to concede and evade; around a Hell Level Ming River, within a thousand miles, all was a forbidden zone.
“Thank you.”
Seeing the extent to which the other party had spoken, Li Hao also didn’t prolong the conversation.
Under Wang Zhendong’s guidance, they quickly flew toward the edge behind the small town.
Here, the black fog churned, already nearing the edge of the town.
“Hurry, you guys go first.”
Wang Zhendong immediately said.
Wang Yongzhi and the others also knew that at this moment they had become a burden; staying here would only cause more trouble.
He immediately took out the Netherworld Ming River’s token, a black wooden tablet, which they had collected extensively from the Ming River’s ancestral hall.
For ordinary people, just entering the ancestral hall to collect tokens was extremely dangerous, as many mutated demon remnants would attack.
But for the Wang Family, experts had already cleared the dangers inside; they just needed to think about how to navigate through.
At that moment, Wang Yongzhi passed a piece to Li Hao, then immediately summoned his own Ming River Register.
Gold Paper emerged.
The gold light emitted from the Gold Paper seemed to tug at them, partially covering their bodies, and another part landed on the black wooden tablet.
But the next moment, under the cover of the gold light, the wooden tablet suddenly turned into fine powder.
“Hmm?!”
Wang Zhendong’s complexion drastically changed.
Not just Wang Yongzhi, the other people’s dozens of wooden tablets also shattered under the touch of the gold light.
“This…”
Wang Yongzhi and the others’ pupils contracted, showing shock in their eyes.
“The Ming River fused, the rules changed, and the tokens changed too!”
Wang Zhendong’s composed expression also turned somewhat pale at this moment.
The previously nearly certain escape route had unexpectedly changed without them realizing.
Li Hao’s face also changed slightly; the Netherworld Ming River’s tokens had actually become ineffective. He quickly summoned his own Ming River Register, and Gold Paper flew out.
Before long, Li Hao looked at the messages on the Gold Paper, but still saw “Qing Town Wood Tablet” listed as the exit token.
But as he mentally activated the tracking, the gold light scattered from the Gold Paper pointed toward the darkness outside the town.
Li Hao froze; the token hadn’t changed, yet it seemed it had.
Wang Zhendong also witnessed this, and as he saw the gold light being drawn into the black, dense fog, his complexion turned ashen.
Wang Yongzhi and the others also knew what this meant. They had been able to keep their composure, but now they all started to tremble.
“A token in the Hell Mo River, doesn’t this mean our retreat is cut off?!”
“How could this happen…”
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Wang Yongzhi’s face turned ghastly pale. He had thought it would be a joyful trip, but it had turned into a collective desperate situation, a miscalculation on his part as the Family Head.
“You guys wait here, I’ll give it a try.”
Uncle Zhendong spoke solemnly, no longer caring about delaying. He reduced his Dao Domain to only cover himself, his eyes becoming sharp,
“It doesn’t look too deep, the Hell Mo River, I want to see if the Dao Domain can hold up!”
As he spoke, he rushed toward the thick fog outside the small town.
As he approached the boundary between the small town and the dense fog, the dark forces outside seemed to sense something, with black power stretching out like tentacles, wrapping around and pulling at Uncle Zhendong’s body.
Uncle Zhendong’s whole body erupted with energy, concentrating his Dao Domain on his body, enhancing the intensity of the Dao Domain to counter the rules of the Hell Mo River.
Quickly, he stepped forward, entering the edge of the dark Hell Mo River.
The surrounding dark energy seemed to make way, actually being pushed back by his presence.
But soon, more dark power swarmed up, enveloping and entwining his body like countless sharp claws ripping through his Dao Domain.
With a roar, Uncle Zhendong’s power exploded, his Dao Domain’s rules fiercely fought, combating the rules of the Mo River, but the Dao Domain was increasingly compressed.
Suddenly, a black vapor transformed into a sharp spear-like force stabbing toward Uncle Zhendong’s back.
His Dao Domain was immediately torn, black vapor swiftly rushing in, causing Uncle Zhendong’s body to convulse, the purplish veins on his face bulging.
His heart shook fiercely. Is this the rule of Hell? Relying on the Dao Domain could only last a brief moment, less than two breaths’ time.
And this was still only at the edge of the Hell Mo River!
Whoosh!
He hurriedly tried to retreat, attempting to withdraw, but the surrounding dark forces seemed to foresee his intention, swiftly enveloping him, wrapping around his limbs. Although his mind was racing to retreat, his body instead surged forward, unobstructed, plunging deeper by several dozen meters.
The rules of the Netherworld Mo River had also been assimilated and manifested in this Hell Mo River.
Uncle Zhendong’s pupils shrank, immediately realizing the terror of the Hell Mo River.
It was not just one rule, but… many!
Other unknown rules were yet to be discerned, but he knew the rules of the Netherworld Mo River. At the moment, he could only control his thoughts, holding on to the belief “to rush forward.”
But this time, his body truly sprinted forward, not retreating in the reverse direction!
The rules had changed again!
Uncle Zhendong’s heart went cold; not only were there multiple rules, but also the rules alternated, continuously changing? Didn’t that mean, in the Hell Mo River, it was impossible to predict its rules, only to resist forcefully?
As he was shocked, the dark power spread and permeated, Uncle Zhendong felt his strength and vitality rapidly draining away.
He seemed to hear the anxious shouts of Wang Yongzhi and the others.
He wanted to turn his head, but his head wouldn’t move, his body constantly fluctuating between reversing and not reversing.
Uncle Zhendong felt as if in the Hell Mo River, there seemed to be a life manipulating these rules.
Just as he was deeply trapped, suddenly, a vast force swept from behind him.
The previous dark forces suddenly melted away like snow, rapidly pushed back.
The forces exerted on the Dao were instantly released.
A slender, strong hand grabbed his arm.
Uncle Zhendong turned to look, and saw layers of Dao Domains covering, enveloping his body.
One layer, two layers, three layers, four layers…
These overlapping layers of Dao Domains emitted a terrifying force.
But the rules of the Dao Domain were not acting on him, but were protecting his body instead.
The surrounding dark forces slammed into the outermost Dao Domain, continuously trying to penetrate, but were kept out.
Uncle Zhendong counted, there were at least ten layers!
“Let’s go.”
Li Hao pulled him behind, flinging him towards the small town behind them, “I’ll go seek it out, take care of them, wait for me.”
As he spoke, he stepped forward, surpassing Uncle Zhendong, and dived into the dark dense fog.
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In just a brief moment, he had struggled on the brink of life and death, almost unleashing his ultimate moves. He felt a profound relief as though he had survived a great disaster, his heart pounding wildly.
When he saw the youth swallowed by the dark aura, he snapped back to reality, his face changing instantly as he stepped forward.
But reason stopped him in his tracks, knowing that going forward in his current state would be of no help and would only add to the chaos.
As the mainstay of the Wang Family, who had explored the Mo River for over a century, he had always been the family’s backbone. Yet today, a sixteen-year-old boy he had just met pulled him back and shielded him from all dangers.
Wang Zhendong stared blankly at the dark aura, his heart filled with an indescribable and complex emotion.
Wang Yongzhi and others also noticed and quickly gathered around Wang Zhendong.
“Uncle Zhendong, are you alright?”
“I’m fine, but he…”
“The Haotian Divine General should be fine, right? I heard he easily defeated the Dragon Absolute God and Feng Lingxiao from the Grand Tao of Peace Realm.”
Wang Yongzhi hurriedly consoled, but despite his words, his face showed a mix of fear and worry.
Uncle Zhendong was an extremely powerful being, and he had almost encountered trouble; they did not know if the young man known as a Divine General could withstand this.
Everyone gazed at the town outside enveloped in dark aura, which even the Divine Thought and Divine Soul couldn’t pierce through, and saw no sign of movement.
These powerful beings, who could instill fear with a simple stomp of the foot, now stood helpless like villagers, unable to do anything but wait.
If the young man could not retrieve the totem, most of them were likely to die here.
Wang Zhendong clenched his fists slightly, his eyes intent.
Wang Yongzhi held his breath, wishing he could see through the darkness.
Outside the town, within the dark aura, Li Hao’s Dao Domain stood up, resisting the invasive rules of the Mo River while following the Gold Paper’s directions forward.
With ten layers of Dao Domain stacked, the rules were kept outside, but they were still slowly infiltrating, unable to hold forever.
Soon, Li Hao arrived at a place where damaged flags fluttered. Raising his head, he saw the words “Qing Town” on the flag.
Li Hao froze for a moment; behind the flag was another small town!
Moreover, this town was strangely similar to the one he had just been in. Having previously enveloped the town with his Divine Thought and seen the overall picture, he immediately recognized it—this Hell Level Mo River was like a duplicate of the town!
Such a bizarre sight caused Li Hao to pause slightly. Currently, knowledge about the Hell Level Mo River was scarce, even the Wang Family knew very little, their information paid for with lives.
Li Hao’s expression grew solemn; beneath the damaged flags, a string of wooden plaques hung, tied with red strings and fluttering in the wind.
These wooden plaques looked similar to the totem Wang Yongzhi had handed him but seemed a shade darker, possibly due to the surrounding dark aura.
The higher the level of the Mo River, the larger its range… Li Hao recalled some basic knowledge about the Mo River, though there were exceptions, they were very rare.
Clearly, this Hell Level Mo River could not be confined to just one town, it might only be a part, transformed and merged into the semblance of a town.
No wonder the totem had been replaced; the two Mo Rivers had silently merged, the Hell Level Mo River already affecting the town, causing the town’s totem to be invalidated, and here, an identical totem emerged to replace it.
Fortunately, possibly due to initial merging, this totem was not inside the town’s ancestral hall but hung outside.
Li Hao didn’t pause; he rushed towards the Qing Town wooden totem.
The Hell-Level Mo River was too strange. Although the Wang Family estimated that passing seemed to reward with a million Merit, he dared not think he could clear one after another.
Just as he picked the totem, suddenly, the surrounding dark aura surged, roaring out from the fog, dark figures like fierce ghosts and evil spirits, with extremely swift movements, rushed towards Li Hao.
Li Hao’s Dao Domain pressed down; those creatures exploded into a mess of dark liquid within the Domain. Yet as the Domain contracted, they slowly re-formed.
Li Hao’s eyes narrowed, sensing a shred of Great Tao True Force inside these creatures, indelible.
They had already integrated with the Mo River’s very strength.
Roar!
As more creatures burst out of the fog, angered perhaps by Li Hao taking the totem, they charged relentlessly and roared ferociously.
Li Hao didn’t linger nor did he engage these creatures to the death. Using his Dao Domain to suppress, he crushed a path through them and rushed outward.
Those creatures, once out of the Dao Domain, quickly pulled themselves together from the scattered liquid and regrouped to chase after Li Hao.
Surrounded from both sides, in a blink, Li Hao found himself amidst these ghost-like creatures.
They all fearlessly broke into the Dao Domain, attacking ferociously, comparable to a full-force attack from the Ultimate Study Realm, and were fearless of death.
Moreover, as they crowded into the Dao Domain, they also extended the Mo River’s rules into it, making Li Hao feel like his Dao Domain was being rapidly invaded.
Li Hao’s expression shifted slightly, suddenly realizing these creatures might be the physical manifestation of the Hell-Level Mo River’s power.
“Scram!”
Li Hao quickly threw punches, driving all the creatures out of his Domain. Their bodies harbored indelible Great Tao True Force, leaving him no option but to drive them out.
As Li Hao was enveloped by the swarm of creatures, Wang Zhendong and the others outside were also anxiously watching, filled with nervous anticipation.
“Hell Level Mo River; an ancestor once summoned a True Person to intervene, but it’s said that even he was injured in the Mo River and never entered it again after that.”
Wang Zhendong’s gaze was grave; his Dao Domain had been eroded within two breaths, yet Li Hao had now been inside for dozens of breaths.
“He couldn’t have already…”
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Wang Yongzhi’s heart clenched spasmodically; as the Family Head, if he led everyone to annihilation, even death could not ease his restlessness.
Moreover, this incident implicated the death of the Haotian Divine General here, that sixteen-year-old boy, who held potential of reaching an Ask Sage level—a burden too heavy to bear!
Just as their minds were in turmoil, suddenly, the black omens outside the small town surged up like raging waves.
Immediately after, the dark glow seemed to be pushed upward, and in an instant, a dazzling silver light burst forth, followed by a glow bright as a torn fish belly, shining ten thousand feet of heroic light!
Bang!!
It was a Sword Qi, piercingly cold, tearing through the dark forces, splitting the Hell Mo River with a hard-forged crack!
The fierce airwave spread, giving everyone in the town a sensation as if their hair was flying.
Illuminated by the sword light, they saw Li Hao in the crack, clutching a bunch of wooden cards with red cords, rushing out swiftly.
But on the ground around him, a sticky, dark liquid gathered, forming horrifying figures, twisted in shape, rushing madly towards Li Hao.
These figures emitted strange, malevolent, ancient whiffs, as if they were very old evil spirits.
Yet when they touched Li Hao’s Dao Domain, they were completely isolated.
“Ah, my eyes!”
Suddenly, someone clutched at their eyes, letting out a scream of agony.
Blood spurted from his eye sockets followed swiftly by streaks of black liquid crawling from the corners of his eyes, quickly solidifying into the frightful figures everyone saw.
Wang Zhendong snapped to his senses and urgently said, “Quick, close your eyes!”
He quickly unleashed his Dao Domain, enveloping everyone within. The rules of his Dao Domain attacked the black shadows, but he felt a strong resistance; the rules of his Dao Domain could not destroy them, managing only to retrain their movements!
Wang Zhendong was startled; what in the world was this?
At the same time, he felt an itchy and swelling sensation in his own eyes as though something was about to burst from his sockets.
Other than the one who had just screamed in agony, more continuosly cried out painfully, the twisted black liquid-formed figures drilling out from their eye sockets, rapidly suppressed by Wang Zhendong within his Dao Domain.
With over a hundred experiences in the Mo River, Wang Zhendong quickly realized and urgently said,
“Don’t look at those things; they possess a ‘mirror’ rule!”
“They can directly drill out from our eyes!”
Everyone quickly covered their eyes, but in the blink of an eye, four or five had already crawled out; Wang Zhendong’s Dao Domain was barely containing them when suddenly, a Sword Qi swept across unfettered, cutting open his Dao Domain, and severing those four or five entities.
The chopped entities did not disperse but twisted and gathered, still intent on re-forming, indelible.
The one who had acted was Li Hao; his body, like instantaneous movement, suddenly flashed over.
This capability, not drawn by Daoist Charm, but rather a crucial ability used when he killed the Buddha Lord, also the limit state of the Fifteen Li Realm, Returning Ruins!
Able to instantaneously move within a five-kilometer radius with Returning Ruin Instantaneous Movement!
No premonition, no pull, but a true instantaneous movement, the mind follows the intent!
The range of instantaneous movement would increase as his Divine Soul grew; never underestimate just five kilometers, without the pull of Daoist Charm, it was utterly unpredictable, a frontal instantaneous strike came, defenseless!
At this moment, the rules of the Mo River here severely interfered; within his own Dao Domain, he could still isolate the rules, but outside his Dao Domain, he could not sense Daoist Charm, hence, warriors in the Four Stands Realm encountering many dangers here without the instantaneous movement pulled by Daoist Charm.
But the Returning Ruins Extreme Realm was unrestricted.
Li Hao instantaneously moved in front of everyone following the path cut by two sword-fingers, his Qi Force rapidly enveloping, containing the monsters formed by Mo River’s rules, then flung them towards the Hell Mo River.
“Let’s go!”
Li Hao threw out the wooden cards in his hand, distributing them according to the number of people.
But as he did, he saw that amongst the people of the Wang Family, there was one extra person.
“Seeking death!”
Li Hao’s eyes burned with Divine Flame; his Divine Soul merged, his true eyes blazing, and he immediately spotted one person shrouded in black mist, a fake manifested by a soul from the Netherworld Domain.
He suppressed it with a thought, tearing it apart directly.
The destroyed soul vanished with a scream; others also came back to their senses in shock.
Some people had their eyeballs mangled and bloody, but most on the scene were of the Three Immortal Realms; they quickly swallowed pills, tapping into their self-healing abilities to speed up the recovery.
Some, at the peak of the Three Immortal Realms or in the Unwithering Realm, directly utilized Unwithering Strength and healed almost immediately.
At the same time, something was tearing within Wang Zhendong’s eyeball; when he had seen the monsters from Hell earlier, they had occupied his sight, turning his eyeballs pitch black.
Now, a black liquid was slowly seeping from his eye sockets. Although his Dao Domain vehemently suppressed it, it still couldn’t be stopped.
Seeing others also struggling to block it, covering their eyes, Li Hao quickly enveloped them with his Dao Domain, not bothering to communicate with Wang Zhendong, directly suppressing his Dao Domain, forcing it back into his body, and simultaneously stripping away the black liquid crawling from his eye sockets, confining it within his own Dao Domain.
The mirrored power of the Mo River vanished from Wang Zhendong’s eye sockets; Li Hao did the same to other people, stripping away the monsters mirrored in their eye sockets, restraining them with his Dao Domain, then flinging them outside the town back into the Mo River.
