Chapter 1376: The Wise Man Appears as the Fool? (IV)

Despite everything that had happened, it was still of no loss to Li Hao. It was just that since the queen possessed the heavenly will... he now needed to get rid of her too. But for now, the Moon God was the primary target!

It didn’t matter that someone else had seized the first mover advantage after all of his scheming. Such was the outcome of plans sometimes, things didn’t always proceed according to expectation.

One could only say, the queen’s bad luck was fake. It was good luck to her. It looked like Li Hao had truly underestimated this party. Her good luck was another’s bad luck, now that was the blessing of the heavenly will! The heavenly will had no better options at hand! Choosing the queen was the best outcome because she was strong, possessed great potential, and held more advantages than anyone.

Li Hao struck with his sword and shattered the world! The river encircled everything.

The Moon God looked on with an unpleasant expression and the void abruptly broke overhead. The entrance to the immaterial dao universe descended. Clearly, the Moon God wanted to run away. She was certain that Li Hao wouldn’t dare enter the immaterial dao universe.

See, the young man didn’t dare do anything even when the dao universe was yet to arrive and half step emperors were prevented from walking through the world.

The young man raised an eyebrow, having anticipated this development beforehand. It wasn’t important that his quarry was getting away again.

Just as the thought passed through his mind, a massive sun appeared in the sky again. The fleeing queen had returned—heavenly will rippled over the sun!

Mountains toppled and seas churned!

Devastation roiled in all directions and the heavenly will shifted. Misfortune was at hand!

The entrance to the dao universe veered ever so slightly and the queen snorted, “Go to hell, you old bat! Who are you trying to control? Is this queen so easy to bully?”

Kaboom!

The sun began crumbling away and blew a hole in the world. The result left the heavenly will collected in a massive face, looking down with surprise at its chosen one. Meanwhile, the queen gnashed her teeth and continued down her course of action.

Realizing what was happening, the heavenly will started struggling violently! It was trapped inside the half shattered moon!

“Li Hao, go ahead and kill the heavenly will!” shouted the queen. “That old witch is mine!”

Li Hao really was taken aback and could scarcely believe his eyes. He looked blankly at his target as he rushed forward with his sword. The heavenly will was still struggling furiously and suddenly projected, “Why?”

I bestowed you strength from within and helped you succeed, so why... why did you abandon me?

The queen didn’t say a word.

Why? Because I want to live! Because I want to break free from everything!

She sped toward the Moon God. Once she swallowed the latter and abandoned the heavenly will, her strength would rise again. The heavenly will would die to Li Hao and she could avoid the young man’s pursuit, the Moon God’s manipulations, and the heavenly will’s control...

Why?

Because she wanted to set herself free!

No one in the world can control me!

𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

As expected, the surprised Li Hao suddenly broke into laughter. His longsword erupted with a domineering presence as he slashed down at the heavenly will. The river of chaos surrounded the broken sun!

The queen threw herself at the Moon God. A surge of overwhelming power exploded and the scepter smashed the Moon God to pieces. A complete lack of her usual stupidity was to be found—the queen started eating the Moon God alive!

She swallowed half of the moon in one gulp and furiously laid around with her scepter.

“How dare you...” The furious Moon God struggled to free herself.

“Idiot!” sneered the queen and smashed the god’s head in with an even more powerful surge of strength. “Is a Moon God worth anything? Are divine spirits supposed to be impressive?”

I’m not afraid of you! I’ll eat you whole! I’ll eat the complete you that doesn’t come with traps, unlike the broken half of the moon before!”

BAM!

Another explosion rang out as Li Hao landed stroke after stroke. The heavenly will howled and the world shook.

A small sword collected in the mouth of the heavenly will’s projected face. It looked at the queen instead of Li Hao. “You had a hope of becoming the master of Silver Moon... but you... damned... idiot...”

Everyone called her an idiot, but the queen sneered with contempt.

I’m an idiot? You guys are all idiots!

BAM!

The Moon God was nearly completely in pieces. The queen opened her mouth and swallowed all of the lunar strength in sight. In the distance, the man with a sword on his back seemed about to set foot into the world, but the queen didn’t care!

A bright moon materialized over her head!

“Today... this queen is the real god!” She tilted her head back at the sky, magnifying her moon so that it enveloped the Moon God. Explosions rang without stop!

The heavenly will raged, but it was impotent as Li Hao was methodically dismantling it. Not only that, but the river of chaos and the river of time were madly washing over the world. Death was slated for the heavenly will today!

Silver Moon’s firmament was under so much strain that it buckled and threatened to outright explode!

After an indeterminate period of time—

KABOOM!!

A gigantic explosion rang through the world.

RUMBLE!!

A faint shower of blood drifted through the sky before the skies opened up and started pouring in earnest. This wasn’t a result of Li Hao killing the heavenly will, but of a dao star in the immaterial dao universe having suddenly detonated!

The Moon God was dead!

Li Daoheng tilted his head, shaken and baffled. The Moon God’s personal dao star was in the dao universe, so logically speaking, only her physical body would die if she was killed. How could her primary body be completely dead?

Not even the heavenly will was fully dead yet! Li Hao was yet to kill it, but the Moon God fell to the queen first!

Having emerged victorious, the queen gorged herself on endless lunar strength. She looked around arrogantly, quite full. In this moment, she seemed to revert to the foolish, conceited queen of Divine Nation that everyone was familiar with.

“This world needs only one divine spirit!” she brayed with laughter. “This queen has swallowed her and taken control of the Moon God’s meridian to self-detonate her dao star. I am her, she is me. She has spent so many years infiltrating me with her power that our strength has long stemmed from the same source.

“Li Daoheng, did this not occur to you? You treated me as a replica, so I took the primary body’s place instead!”

BOOM!

Her body shook as she vomited blood, clearly the aftereffects of blowing up her own dao star. However, her smug laughter grew instead!

I won!

A brilliant moon took to the air and dashed into the depths of the world.

“Li Hao, I don’t owe you anything!” The queen’s voice came back on the wind. “I killed the Moon God, you killed the heavenly will. We each took from this what we needed. From henceforth, I am the real Moon God, the only god!”

BOOM!

The heavenly will collapsed, the little sword snapped, and endless power swept through the land to be swallowed by Li Hao’s river!

The world seemed to be falling apart as heavy rainfall of bloody water drenched the land. It brimmed with energy and sorrow. The heavenly will... had died due to the machinations of a stupid woman!

All of the rest were just the heavenly will’s pawns; only the queen was its true partner. The heavenly will really had wanted to ally with her and become one.

In the end... the queen abandoned it, devoured the tattered moon, and did not choose to meld with the heavenly will.

......

“What a show!” applauded Celestial Pole in the north. He grabbed the Great Li king and gave him a knucklehead sandwich. “What an impressive character!”

“She broke the tattered moon, threw away the heavenly will, curried favor with Li Hao, eliminated Li Daoheng’s contingency, killed the Moon God, and replaced her as the only god in this world!” His eyes danced with excitement. “This idiot woman... No, this slightly impressive woman has turned the tables all of a sudden. You’re left as the dumbest of the bunch!”

Even Celestial Pole was flabbergasted by the queen’s plot, much less a shell-shocked Great Li king.

“Isn’t... she... going to form a death feud with Li Daoheng this way?” he murmured.

Bam!

“You idiot! They were arch rivals to begin with!” Grinding his teeth together, Celestial Pole smacked the king’s head. “He treats her as a tool to gather the heavenly will with, the Moon God treats her as an energy storage container. But today, the pawn upends the chessboard! How do you not get it?!

“All she needs to do now is stay on good terms with Li Hao. She tossed him the heavenly will and took the Moon God—the kid won’t make a peep! In fact, he’ll compliment her for a job well done. You’re the only one who’s thinking of who she’s offended!”

The king came back to his senses and nodded. “Isn’t she... supposed to be really dumb?” he murmured. But she’d changed everything today!

I seem to be the only one who hasn’t turned the tables!

......

As the blood rain continued, a large number of dao stars continued to assimilate with each other in Li Hao’s mental world. The young man directed part of the dead heavenly will into the mental world for the three Saints to absorb. Another portion was directed into the river of chaos for Hong Yitang to devour.

Li Hao looked into the distance, at where a brilliant moon was making a fast getaway.

“I’ve underestimated the minor characters of the world!” he murmured.

He’d always viewed the queen as a bumbling fool, but she was the first to win her true freedom. Had she been acting all along?

“Is the heavenly will fully dead?” Hong Yitang’s voice rang in his ear. Given the bloody rain, it appeared to be completely dead.

“No,” Li Hao answered to the contrary. “It is not fully extinguished since the world still exists, there’s a chance for it to come back. But since its main force has been destroyed, it won’t really have a chance to regain control. Who would’ve thought that the queen would engineer its downfall!”

As he always thought, those who worked with the queen were doomed to die!