Chapter 1402: A Callous Person (III)

Lin Hongyu had cut down the exalted emperor with one stroke in the last possible second! Now she continued to wield the Firmament Sword, the one that’d swallowed the other eight heritage weapons.

Although death qi still flared from her body, the rest knew that Lin Hongyu was alive. They even wondered if Li Hao had sent Lin Hongyu to cut down the exalted emperor in preparation for this moment. With the young man’s personality, he was certain to have contingencies up his sleeves.

Lin Hongyu was the only one at present who could stand against half step emperors. One possible opponent for her was Celestial Pole...

Li Hao may not care what happened after his death, but he wouldn’t want the dao universe to fall into someone else’s hand. His family, teacher, and friends were there. His hopes resided there.

All Silver Moon martial masters looked at Lin Hongyu. Close by, the redwood tree also took human form.

“The marquis will definitely be able to return,” it said. “Just as Director General Zhao said, we ask that the marquise take over the helm for the moment. The changes in the world have deeply unsettled the people. My plant spirit army will continue to carry out His Lordship’s orders and respect your command!”

The plant spirit army was a force to contend with now. With this evolution of Silver Moon world, there would be others who broke through. Given the numerous Immortals and Apexes in the plant spirit army, there may soon be Saints and Fused Dao among them.

Lin Hongyu finally came back to her senses. She tilted her head at the group, the light of death in her eyes shaking their hearts. Even Gan Wuliang shuddered and briefly wondered if... Lin Hongyu was actually dead or not.

That was one question. The second was, what level of strength was she right now? And third, where was her dao?

Her personal dao star had been removed and then melded into her body. What did that count for? Was she an existence that’d detached from the great dao, or was there something else entirely in play?

No one understood or could see through her. Although her last blow had executed an exalted emperor, everyone knew that the Exalted Bone Eclipse Emperor had been less than a regular half step emperor in his final moments of life. Could she bring another such blow to bear?

In addition, everyone deeply cared about whether or not Li Hao could be resurrected. Before confirmation of his complete demise was obtained, even the most highly ambitious would set their desires aside unless they thought they were stronger or smarter than Li Daoheng, Zheng Yu, and Bone Eclipse.

Li Hao could take out even those characters, much less anyone weaker and less sharp.

Gan Wuliang didn’t say anything. He nursed ambitions, but those ambitions were very targeted. If Li Hao was truly dead, then none of these people could keep him in check. He didn’t want to risk his life for them, it wasn’t worth it!

But if there was a chance for Li Hao to come back to life, even much weakened and with Gan Wuliang as the master of immaterial dao... He didn’t dare defy Li Hao. He hadn’t dared from the very beginning and never said a word otherwise no matter how difficult the request was.

Gan Wuliang had suspected that having him become the dao master had been Li Hao’s goal all along when the young man sent him into the immaterial dao universe. Whether it was Zheng Yu being in control or Li Daoheng, it was all the same to Li Hao.

Those two, and the young man, were destined to have an ultimate showdown!

In the end, the mix of characters served to benefit Gan Wuliang instead. Zheng Yu thought this would ruin Li Hao’s plans, which was a reasonable assumption. But as it turned out, the young man had accounted for Gan Wuliang becoming the master of immaterial dao.

If not, the young man would’ve taken more of an interest in Gan Wuliang’s visit to this dao universe, but he hadn’t. He hadn’t even set any missions. It was like he’d forgotten about his own order, but was that possible?

How would Li Hao ever let someone rest without extracting every last bit of value from the person?

Thus, Gan Wuliang didn’t nearly champ at the bit like the rest thought he was. He didn’t itch to exert control over the world. For one, his own strength hadn’t reached that step. Celestial Pole, Zhang An, the Great Li king, and the queen all respected Li Hao.

Who the hell was Gan Wuliang?

If he dared step forward and say that he wanted to replace Li Hao, the world would promptly dissolve into pandemonium. Heavyweights such as Celestial Pole that were accustomed to staying on the sidelines might move against him then. They might do so out of consideration for Li Hao.

Hence, Gan Wuliang was no idiot. He wouldn’t think of attempting anything at this moment.

“Resurrection?” The light of death flared in Lin Hongyu’s eyes as she swept a glance over the crowd. She considered each powerhouse, then ultimately looked at Celestial Pole. “He chose to extinguish the light of time, permit the collapse of the heavenly will, and send all vitality into my body at the last possible second. He has been completely eradicated. Does the senior think that there is still a chance?”

“I’m not sure...” Celestial Pole said upon meeting her eyes. “I know almost nothing about the new dao and the power of time!

“Also, I don’t want to oversee anything having to do with Silver Moon. It has nothing to do with me anyway! My primary body is still in New Martial and my goal here was to revive Number Two. Now that it is alive again, my only thought is to open the Star Gate if possible, leave, and return to New Martial!

“If the Star Gate cannot be opened...” Celestial Pole paused. “Then I will wait. The Ash Emperor knows that Number Two is alive again, as should have my primary body sensed something. If Silver Moon is not far from New Martial, then my primary body will visit before long and open the Star Gate from the outside. He will bring me and Number Two out of here!”

People started from his words.

“In addition, if Bei Wu wishes to expand Great Li and bring prosperity to it, it also has nothing to do with me. Great Li is actually the legacy of the Boxing God’s descendants. This god was one of the premier powerhouses of Initial Martial. He fought the Human King to preserve Initial Martial, but ultimately lost the battle.

“The Human King did not hate them, he revered the Initial Martial gods instead. He respected that they would fight for their legacy, their race, and their time. Thus, he did not erase their legacy!

𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

“I originally came to Great Li simply to rest, to find a place for shelter. When the Boxing God’s descendant learned that I’d come to resurrect Number Two, he had other ideas in mind after the Star Gate closed.

“I killed him and turned him into the skeleton of the Forbidden Sea. That one is Bei Wu’s forefather, the one that he absorbed...”

The Great Li king blinked and looked dumbly at Celestial Pole.

“What are you looking at me for?” The latter wore a coolly composed expression. “This is the truth. The first generation Initial Martial god of Great Li is not me, but I was the one who posed as the Sun God!”

No one expected that ancient history would suddenly be revealed at this juncture.

“But... Great Li borrowed the Tyrant Sovereign’s name early on and proclaimed that to be their god. So the descendent of the Boxing God pretended he was the Tyrant Sovereign...”

“That’s normal!” Celestial Pole laughed. “It’s not actually fraud, is it? When the Tyrant Sovereign swept through Initial Martial, the Boxing God somewhat counted as one of his teachers. He gave the sovereign many pointers. The god’s descendant borrowed another’s majesty in order to preserve his own heritage.

“The Tyrant Sovereign was already dead then and his reincarnated self, the Hard-Headed Emperor, was a gentle and kind soul. He wouldn’t take a nameless junior to account for this. If that descendent really had any skill to his name, he would pretend to be the Sun God!”

In other words, that Boxing God descendent hadn’t been worth much because he only dared pose as the dead Tyrant Sovereign. The sovereign’s reincarnated self was a simple, honest soul who wouldn’t care about that.

Meanwhile, the Sun God was alive. It would take real courage to pose as that one!

Of course, the caveat was that the Star Gate was closed. If it was open, not even the Western Emperor would dare pose as the Sun God, so say nothing of his son Celestial Pole.

If they were taken to task for it, all they needed to say was that they wanted to raise the Sun God’s attention in hopes that he would find Silver Moon. What would the god say to that?

In this moment, Celestial Pole quickly distanced himself from the Great Li king.

You guys can solve your own hegemony issues.

He didn’t want to be involved.

Even though this world had evolved to a mid world, it had nothing to do with him. So what if there were a few more exalted emperors walking around?

I myself am one and am pretty strong. I’m known throughout New Martial, so I can’t be bothered with these people.

Additionally, he wasn’t sure if Li Hao could be brought back to life. The young man had a plethora of methods at his command at such a young age. It was really difficult to determine if he was fully dead or not.

Perhaps he had died simply to filter through his people one more time, just to see who would be the first to step forward. It wasn’t the first time that he’d done something like this, and it wouldn’t be the last. Many overlords of their time had done similar.

Meanwhile, the Great Li king wordlessly digested what he’d just learned.

So... I absorbed my ancestor? He died to this one?

I...

Well, alright, he didn’t feel much for his ancestor. It had all happened one hundred thousand years ago, what did it have to do with him? Although the skeleton was his ancestor, there were no ties there whatsoever after one hundred thousand years.

If all of Great Li counted as that one’s descendants, then they’d been fighting and slaughtering their own during their civil discord over the years.

He was resigned that his ancestor of one hundred thousand years ago had fallen to Celestial Pole, but didn’t think twice about it.

Celestial Pole’s words fully depicted his stance. He could be considered the strongest in the world now, so it was a burden lifted off of everyone’s shoulders when he said that he wouldn’t be involved. Otherwise, who could stand against him if he thought otherwise?

His strength may be less than an exalted emperor, but he could still cut down regular half step emperors with one swing.

Zheng Yu and Li Daoheng hadn’t been regular half step emperors, they’d been infinitely close to exalted emperor. That was why Celestial Pole appeared weaker in comparison. That he’d so easily chopped down Bone Eclipse’s replica was proof that that exalted emperor was very mediocre.

“If we are in agreement, then we will concentrate our next efforts on reviving the marquis.” A light flashed through Lin Hongyu’s eyes. “Do we not mind even if we have to pay an enormous price or sacrifice the dao universes?”

“I received this dao universe by chance,” Gan Wuliang hastily said when he saw that Lin Hongyu was looking at him. “If the marquise needs it to revive the marquis, then take it anytime!”

Hong Yitang looked at her and was silent for a while before saying, “I have no objection if it’s to revive him, but that is all the corporeal dao universe can be used for. There are many things inside mine that cannot be relinquished. You understand!”

Lin Hongyu looked meaningfully back at him and nodded. She did, very much so!

There were the dao stars that belonged to Yuan Shuo and the others. They might or might not exist, but they were even more important than Li Hao coming back to life.

Could the young man be brought back to life?

She didn’t know!

But she knew that there was hope because Li Hao had given her his last vestiges of vitality and that thinnest sliver of time in the last possible second.

There didn’t seem to be the power of time left in Silver Moon anymore, so how were they to revive Li Hao? But there was a tiny scrap in her body, left over from when Li Hao reversed her time and resurrected her. Not even the chaos tribulation had been able to eradicate it.

So at the moment, she was wondering if Li Hao had done all of this accidentally or on purpose?