Chapter 1198: Ascending to Fused Dao (II)

“Dao meridians are just a connection point. In its place, we have core origin dao. It does not conflict with the new dao. We just need to traverse the dao universe and stabilize the passageway. When it comes to a celestial body of the new dao, we can create any random star at will and shove it into the river of stars. Whatever dao you wish for, whatever dao you can have!” Capsize Sea didn’t mind the New Martial lack of dao meridians.

As the child of an exalted emperor and hailing from a family with two exalted emperors, the golden cow was not one of the youngsters of Evenround Martial University. It was the Sea Pacification Envoy. There were so many monster spirits in the world—being able to secure this position for itself meant that it was quite talented!

“Take the fire attribute, for example. Just traverse the fire sector with your core origin dao and create a star of fire.” Capsize Sea was also widely read and immensely experienced. “The dao universe is newly born and doesn’t exclude newcomers too strongly for now. After your star operates for a while, you will naturally grasp the dao of fire!

“We won’t have a chance to do this when the dao universe grows stronger. It will expel foreign objects then...” The golden cow thought of an example at this point. “If we look at a turtle and shove a ball into its butt when it’s young and weak, it will think this is the natural order of things as it grows and develops. But once it’s mature, it’ll bite you to death if you try to shove a ball up its butt!” [1]

“......” The old turtle did not dignify that example with a response.

Seriously, that was uncalled for. I haven’t done anything to you! Your example wasn’t worth cow shit!

The old turtle was of a long tenure, but so was the golden cow. With two exalted emperors in its family and itself possibly being a third in the future... this was an entity that the old turtle could not afford to offend! How could a weapon soul contend against the Sea Pacification Envoy?

Hence, the old turtle had to hold its nose with a pained look.

“We’re Saints, and strong ones at that,” Capsize Sea said to the rest. “Our dao is strong, we can force it into the dao universe! When the great dao grows stronger after a period of time, we will not be able to do so anymore.

“By then, we will only be able to craft new bodies and become humans of the new age. We would have to start from scratch. While we would cultivate much faster than others, we would have to reach the next level after Sun and Moon to become Saints again. How much time do you think that will waste?”

The group sank into deep thought.

“What a bunch of inexperienced younglings,” murmured a merry Capsize Sea. “No wonder you can only be minions in Silver Moon world...”

They repressed the urge to roll their eyes at the golden cow.

“The senior... is also in Silver Moon world!” Li Daozong muttered without fear.

“It’s not the same!” chuckled Capsize Sea. “Of course, I’m also not including your Li family in what I speak of. I came to Silver Moon with a different goal in mind. I wasn’t exiled here or came to the end of my road. I’m here because there were many opportunities in the new world—I wanted to become the king of monster spirits here!

“I would aid and abet the Sword Sovereign—he would be the master of the world, I would be the king of monster spirits. I would’ve been happy with being a false emperor. Sadly, he didn’t devour the world and I didn’t get anything for my efforts. This decision was such a huge misstep.

“Do you people know what we had to do to get this position in the first place?” the cow asked the group with a great deal of resignation. “The two exalted emperors of my family personally asked for an audience with the Human King, Green Emperor, Supreme Zhang, the Southern Emperor,

and

others to ask for this bequeathment.

“We even gave the Sword Sovereign a large quantity of resources! Otherwise, he was almost on death’s door with how he was starving! But in the end, we didn’t get anything for our investment. What a huge loss it was!

“But thankfully, there’s another chance now!” The cow grinned widely.

Li Daozong blinked—

you spent money? How come I didn’t know about it?

Granted, this had been a transaction between exalted emperors. It was normal for the Ninth Division leader to be unaware.

Who would’ve thought!

People typically didn’t like to move to bleak and desolate locales, but the water cow family had sent people to request such a favor from the Human King, Green Emperor, and the supreme. This was... quite unusual.

Even the Human King would have had to show Capsize Sea face.

The golden cow was extremely arrogant, but it had the qualification to be so.

“The opportunity is staring at you in the face, but you hesitate instead of firmly grasping it in hand,” it said when the rest of the group continued to remain silent. “How will you ever amount to anything?

“Fools—whether it is the core origin dao or the dao of an internal world, or whether it is a new dao, old dao, New Martial, or Initial Martial... what does it matter? Even if you cultivate Red Moon’s dao, the Human King will compliment you for a job well done all the same if you deal a painful blow to them at a critical moment!

“There were Initial Martial powerhouses during New Martial. Among the core origin heavyweights, the Sword Sovereign was even more of an anomaly. He didn’t train any dao and viewed all of them as one. What would you say about that?”

“The dao of the Lis is still of core origin...” Li Daozong raised an eyebrow.

“Bullshit!” Capsize Sea answered brusquely. He demonstrated a complete lack of respect to this junior because there was no need to show any. The occasion called for outright cursing. “The Sword Sovereign cultivated core origin dao my ass. He swallowed the great dao early on in his cultivation, as well as the three gates and one bridge. There is only the Eternal Sword in the world!

“He found his own unique dao a long time ago and contained all of his own mighty strength together. It might be a new dao universe, it might be his own universe. Why did the Sword Sovereign refuse to devour Silver Moon world? Perhaps he thought there wasn’t a need to, that he could nurture the universe within his own body. Do you understand me?”

Li Daozong blinked; the others froze as well. How was that possible?

Nurturing the universe in his own body? But that was impossible.

Capsize Sea couldn’t be bothered to explain itself further. It swiveled its head to look at the plant spirits flopped over the ground and suddenly asked, “Ah, little redwood, do you have any other thoughts?”

“We will abide by the marquis’ orders!” the redwood promptly answered, as if a gut reaction.

Oh go to hell! You’re better at flattery than I am! ...you’ve got a bright future ahead of you!

Capsize Sea didn’t want to engage in further conversation and closed its eyes to rest. It quickly healed its injuries as it contemplated changing to the new dao as soon as possible. It needed to take advantage of when there were few people in the dao universe and consider which sector it wished to lay claim to.

It had a keen eye for assessment!

There weren’t many great daos in the river of great dao at the moment. Capsize Sea was determined to choose an area in which it could be the boss.

When it came to the five elements... it wanted the water attribute, but that had likely gone to someone close to Li Hao. Then that wouldn’t do. If it insisted on taking the water sector, it might have to share it with someone else in the future and be restrained from taking the lion’s share.

For the areas of blade, spear, sword, and halberd... none of those were its forte. It wasn’t skilled in wind, thunder, light, or darkness either. There were people under Li Hao who specialized in each of these as well.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind as the golden cow scanned the various sectors again, then refocused on the great river.

You know, it doesn’t matter which sector Li Hao has claimed. Someone like him won’t monopolize a sector, he’ll just organize it.

For the monster spirits and for Capsize Sea itself, it might not be smooth sailing if it chose to cultivate an attribute it wasn’t skilled in.

What about the physical body?

That’s right, body dao!

The golden cow disappeared and reappeared in a tiny sector. There were very few people cultivating body dao, just a few of Li Hao’s direct subordinates. In the long river of great dao, there were only a few milky-white eddies and very few celestial bodies in the physical body sector.

All of the stars were very small. The only one slightly bigger belonged to Li Hao himself. The remaining were very weak.

This sector was far weaker than the five elements and other attributes. It didn’t even measure up to the blade and sword sectors. However, a delighted light danced in Capsize Sea’s eyes. This was a great spot for monster spirits!

The physical body was destined to be a mainstream dao in the future. While not all cultivators would make strengthening their bodies the ultimate goal, everyone would care about the durability of their bodies.

If the golden cow claimed the physical body sector and became its heavyweight... Now that was a true opportunity!

It looked around furtively—probably none of those idiots had thought as deeply as it had. That little Li boy frowning over there had likely traded his brains for sword dao. There weren’t many other thoughts in his head, and the only new ones that popped up had to do with sword dao.

Sword dao was not a weak dao. In fact, it was very strong. But there were too many that walked this path and plenty under Li Hao’s banner alone. Few were those who would fight Capsize Sea for body dao at present.

Then this place is mine!

Capsize Sea collected some dao power and freely drifting milky-white energy—strength of the body. It began crafting its own dao star. Although it was yet to switch to a new dao, certain preparations needed to be undertaken first.

It would volunteer to change to a new dao as soon as Li Hao emerged from seclusion. With all of the preparations complete, the golden cow would be able to spontaneously switch to a new dao, connect to its dao star, and complete the graft of its previous cultivation to the new dao.

Opportunities were awarded to the monster spirits that were ready.

As it busily worked away, someone—or some spirit, appeared in a sector of dense life energy. The redwood looked at the cow beside it, then took human form to ask humbly, “Master Sea Pacification Envoy, what do you think about me choosing the life sector?”

The golden cow sighed to itself. What a promising talent of the plant spirits! General Pagoda wasn’t as sharp-witted as this one!

What a waste of your ancestor following the Pagoda King!

“It’s a good choice since the dao of life is exceedingly important in an age. Think about it though, will anyone fight you for it and can you beat off all challengers?”

The redwood turned over the question in its mind, looking at the imperial guard single-mindedly toiling away in the distance. That fellow was so young and inexperienced that it was a bit dumb.

However, it was the first ancient powerhouse to support Li Hao.

The young man may not care if the redwood seized the life sector, but he might also let the imperial guard take root in the same sector. They would have to share it in the future, which meant greatly diminished gains for the redwood!

For plant spirits, they would either opt for life dao or wood dao, but there were too many that cultivated the five elements. Life dao... seemed underutilized at the moment.

The redwood swayed, conflicted and hesitant. It could most likely come out on top if it vied with the imperial guard, but other problems might develop as a result.

“Senior... could you give me a pointer or two? There have never been powerhouses among plant spirits. As a fellow monster spirit, I hope that the senior can show us the way. Humans have always been the legitimate rule beneath the heavens, so we monster spirits do not fight them for it. But if we are stronger, we will have more of a say in our destiny as well...”

1. Okay big gold cow, wtf. ☜