Chapter 1900: Wolves on All Sides (II) |
“That senior of ours is always so thoughtful,” Li Hao grinned. “Although Silver Moon’s taken the fall for him a few times, I have to say, the Human King is a constant source of surprise!”
The young man paused, then smiled. “In that case… let us do something major! I happen to owe him a seventh rank dao universe. Mmhmm, this will do!”
Li Hao smirked at Cloud Dust major world.
“Let’s get to work and wrap up Cloud Dust major world. Everyone is to enter the world of faith. Mm… okay, they might have a hard time putting their faith in the queen. Those who can will be accepted, those who can’t… we’ll think of something later.
“Silence the rest and pack up the world to go…” Li Hao glanced at the shocked Cloud Dust. “How unfortunate, I’m going to be busy soon, so I don’t have time to keep you company.”
The exalted emperor’s eyes widened with fear!
“You guys…”
A sword flashed through the air and took off his head! The dao universe rippled with significant disturbance, but who was paying attention to that?
Six immense presences surged out from nearby. A surprise dao universe rippled with action as it prepared to defend itself. There was nothing strange about this particular reaction.
Cloud Dust didn’t cultivate that special of a dao. Li Hao took brief stock of it while Cloud Dust roared, “You can’t kill me! Chaos Sky will learn of it and everything that happened here as soon as I am dead…”
“Does Chaos Sky know who I am?” Li Hao chuckled. “Even if he does, he won’t care about me soon enough. Even eighth ranks can die in a place like this, and one from Reincarnation major world at that. Do you think that anyone will care about your demise then?”
Cloud Dust started, what did that mean? Did the young man mean that Drifting Life would die? But how would he?
There was no time to think before Li Hao barreled into the dao origin of the universe and peeled the dao star apart. One tremble and massive rumble later saw the entire seventh rank dao origin dismantled!
The dao universe shook madly and Cloud Dust’s shadow appeared. He shouted with terror, “I… I can surrender! I am a seventh rank world master…”
He was a premier existence!
However, his declaration only resulted in a headache on Li Hao’s side. I already have too many powerhouses joining my side, so many that I’m having issues managing them. I don’t want anymore, and particularly strangers at that!
Fog Mountain, Thunder master, Void, and Orchid Forest were all people that he’d worked with all along or observed for a period of time. They shared a similar consensus on things.
I share no consensus with some guy who wants to kill me!
Boom!
The shadow collapsed with a flourish of his sword.
All of the exalted emperors within Cloud Dust quickly sensed the demise of their dao universe. The world’s great dao shook madly and the world itself quaked. This was when Void and the rest made their moves!
It was all too easy for a group of seventh and eighth ranks to eliminate a group without high ranks. The queen got to work as well.
This time, she faced a group of people who did not believe in her. However, she was now a fourth rank. Although her target was a major world that was relatively stable before, making it further difficult to sway the population’s heart, what did that matter?
She manifested her form of a silver moon, ready to beguile the general population. Any that she could turn to her side would be good.
A divine nation hovered into view, as if a world that was a blissful utopia. Believers would automatically stream toward it. But today, a hell also opened beneath it—one that resembled Lin Hongyu’s hell of death.
“Those who put their faith in me can enter the divine nation! Those who do not will be thrust into hell and suffer through eternal purgatory!”
All manner of torture and hideous demons abounded in the hell. There even seemed to be a demoness rising from the depths. If one studied it closely, they would find that the figure slightly resembled Lin Hongyu.
Li Hao’s face twitched when he saw this upon walking out of the dao universe. For one, he was stunned that the queen had created yet another zone within the divine nation. For another, he was startled by the form it took.
You want to pick a fight, don’t you? Why does the demon of your hell… look like Lin Hongyu?
Lin Hongyu wasn’t with the group at the moment. She’d entered Great Li World to comprehend life and death, to build her own hell of death. But here you are, creating a hell in which she’s the demon in it.
Won’t she have your head for it once she sees it? You’re just creating trouble for yourself!
Li Hao couldn’t be bothered to intervene. He entered the world and snapped countless dao rules with a clench of his hand. The young man swiftly compressed the world, prompting countless living beings to flee for their lives.
Some entered the divine nation, others were absorbed by the hell. A portion wanted to flee off world, but were spontaneously silenced before they could reach the void!
They did not encounter death in this silencing, they could be revitalized.
Void was silencing everything from above. He would not permit anyone to escape and bring word of these happenings to anyone else. The silenced living beings likewise entered the queen’s hell.
And so, countless living beings within a vast seventh rank world were transported in the blink of an eye and vanished.
The world itself was furiously compressed. A seventh rank world was utterly gigantic in its full form. But in Li Hao’s hand, it gradually shrank smaller and smaller.
As for whether or not the disappearance of a seventh rank world would be noticed in this area…
It would, under normal conditions. But not today.
What does anything happening today have to do with me? The Human King did it!
The New Martial Human King is a ruthless, brutal fiend who got annoyed at a seventh rank major world standing in his way. He just outright smashed it to bits with his blade!
That’s what happened, yeah?
Who would care about a seventh rank, even if they were Chaos Sky’s subordinate? It might be some other eighth rank world who wanted to fish in muddied waters and eliminate one of Chaos Sky’s scouts. There were certain to be more than one or two worlds out there that had this in mind.
Li Hao’s brilliant grin stretched from ear to ear.
After a while, the world landed in his hand like a small ball. He didn’t need to carry around any of the life forms inside anymore. Although seventh rank worlds were usually massively enormous, there was no need for Li Hao to suffer through such trouble.
He tossed the world to Number Two with a smile. “I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble Senior Number Two to hold it for a while. I’m going to use it to pay off a debt.”
Pay off who?
The Human King.
The young man looked into the distance, able to sense some presence where he looked. “We have a good show to watch this time. It’s likely that everyone is watching the show. So c’mon, let’s go to the stage that is Gemini!”
“Are you not going to converse dao with others anymore?” Void laughed.
“They want to kill me, what are we conversing about?” Li Hao laughed as well before disappearing, heading for the eighth layer.
Gemini was an eighth rank world with six seventh ranks. It was strong, and the exalted emperors would be stronger still when they fought on home territory.
Li Hao wasn’t concerned for his side, but it would be a challenge to quickly overcome the enemy. Neither the Thunder master nor Orchid Forest was with him. Their chances of a swift victory would be vastly increased if these two were by his side.
Despite the numerous thoughts that rose in his mind, Li Hao did not go back for them. He said swiftly, “Senior Fog Mountain, they know you. Number Two, they should be familiar with the Ash Emperor as well. The two of you should hang back…
“I’ll pretend to be Cloud Dust responding to some changes in the situation. They’ve probably sensed something as well. Heh, this is a perfect opportunity. The heavens are definitely on my side!
“No, it’s the Human King on my side. Well, no, this is how he always is. Whatever, this is great!”
Li Hao threw his head back with laughter. Was it the heavens assisting him?
No, it was the Human King.
And was the Human King doing this on purpose?
No, it was because the man wanted to attend to his own business. This was splendid. A personality like the Human King’s was a headache indeed, but also quite pleasing. With him present, one never needed to worry about a place being so tranquil or quiet that one did not have any place to demonstrate their talent.
With the Human King, there were always troubled waters to fish in. This was a rare opportunity that Li Hao needed to make full use of. Others might start reacting if he was any slower.
Li Hao hurtled through the void at the fastest speed he could bring to bear. He even set foot on the river of time to travel faster.
……
Gemini soon appeared in front of them. Although the chaos was split into nine layers, there were no noticeable barriers between each layer. Apart from there being a slightly more dense layer of chaos strength between the layers, all of them existed in the same plane.
Hence, Earth Yang had sensed some of the disturbance. The chase between Ironeater and the rest had taken place close to Gemini. Just as the eighth rank frowned with consideration, a certain presence traveled in from outside.
Earth Yang’s frown deepened. Cloud Dust had left not long ago, what was he doing back here?
The man disappeared and reappeared near the world gate. Cloud Dust’s present was unsteady and he panted for breath.
“Senior Earth Yang, great news!” Cloud Dust was overjoyed.
What? Earth Yang blinked.
“Does the senior sense that?” Li Hao pointed into the distance.
Earth Yang focused before saying, “I think I sense something… some ripples? What’s going on? Do you know?”
“Drifting Life of Reincarnation is chasing Ironeater of the four regions…”
I see! And here I thought it was something important.
“Is there a need for such fanfare just for a seventh rank?” Earth Yang didn’t really care. Don’t tell me there’s ulterior motives in play here.
Do they want to intimidate the chaos? Or is this in preparation for something else?
“The senior might be unaware that Ironeater and the New Martial Human King have already reached a secret agreement,” Li Hao quickly said while Earth Yang sank into deep thought. “This means that the Human King is preparing to ambush Drifting Life!”
“Eh?” Earth Yang stared at Li Hao.
“This is our chance, Senior Earth Yang! Our goal was to eliminate New Martial, they’re presenting themselves on a silver platter!
“The New Martial Human King is certain to be arrogant without bounds now that he’s an eighth rank. That’s why he dares ambush a Reincarnation eighth rank! This is our chance to profit handsomely while they fight each other!
“Since they’re preparing to attack, they must be confident in their chances. However, Reincarnation is not a faction to provoke lightly either. It will be a gain for us no matter who dies. Senior, we should summon our people now and quickly set up an ambush.
“They won’t believe that someone will have another plan in motion at a time like this. The Human King might think that no one is the wiser as to what he’s doing, but Chaos Sky’s intelligence network is vast and we received word of his intentions long ago…”
The look in Earth Yang’s eyes shifted. He glared coldly into the void. The Human King? New Martial! He’d been sent fleeing from the four regions after New Martial defeated him and nearly died there. He hated New Martial!
The Dragon master was the enemy for killing his brother, whereas New Martial was the enemy for humiliating him!
Neither of the two could be permitted to live!