Chapter 1725: Returning Home With Riches (I)

Li Hao clapped Wang Ming’s shoulder with a soft laugh. “Why have you changed what you call me, random junior brother of mine?”

Wang Ming looked back awkwardly. When he was young and ignorant, he loved to go around saying that he was Li Hao’s junior brother. In reality, Yuan Shuo had simply mentioned it in passing and never truly treated them as disciples.

But neither Li Hao nor Yuan Shuo cared when he made the claim. After five hundred years, it was sometimes quite a nostalgic walk down memory lane when Wang Ming thought of the past. Li Hao clapping his shoulder brought the man back to the days of his youth.

He suddenly wanted to cry and ducked his head. He might be five hundred years old, but still possessed some of his youthful frivolity

“Perhaps... I should’ve left with you guys five hundred years ago. Even though I was very weak then and might’ve died outside, at the very least, I know we would’ve resided in the same space and time...”

Although they’d known that Li Hao and the rest were outside all this time, it was like they’d been in another dimension or universe.

The young man didn’t say anything.

“There is no need to be thus,” said the Sword Sovereign. “I left Silver Moon for only fifty years, but it turned out that one hundred thousand years passed in the world and even the old Li family was no more...”

He wanted to comfort Li Hao and those with Wang Ming. The latter looked quizzically at the unknown man.

“This is the New Martial Sword Sovereign!” Li Hao introduced with a smile.

Everyone jerked with astonishment!

So this was the New Martial Sword Sovereign?! This legendary figure’s name was well known to them all!

Li Hao had recovered his calm by now. He addressed the sky full of cultivators with a laugh. “Everyone, go home! Prepare yourselves over the next couple of days. I will be staying for a while with this return and bring with me a series of great changes to Silver Moon in the days to come! The world will be strengthened, the great dao will be strengthened, and the dao universe will be presented to you!

“The great dao is in front of us and those of Silver Moon will not be isolated forever! It is only a matter of time before we walk out of our home and world!

“It is very dangerous outside, but also very exciting! There are battles and deaths of exalted emperors, as well as destruction of worlds. Worlds such as Silver Moon can be casually destroyed. Once they break and the world domain collapses, tens to hundreds of billions of living beings are thus extinct...

“As a denizen of Silver Moon, there is no need for us to fear anything. However, we can not be blissfully ignorant!”

These words seemed aimed at the crowd and for Li Hao himself. It also seemed to be for youngsters such as Liu Yin.

The newly recovered Liu Yin was rapidly growing more nervous. Blissfully ignorant? An exalted emperor? The Silver Moon marquis! Just... how old was he?

He couldn’t help himself, even with his father glaring at him. “Marquis of Silver Moon, I...”

That earned him Li Hao’s undivided attention. Liu Yin swallowed hard.

“I am... Liu Long’s son...” Liu Yin’s hands grew clammy with sweat.

“I know,” smiled Li Hao, prompting the other to relax a bit with relief.

“I’d... I’d like to ask just what... is an exalted emperor like?” He’d sensed some of thiscultivation level, but not in great detail. He desired a more direct understanding!

Just what was an exalted emperor like? What kind of cultivator was an exalted emperor?

In this moment, Li Hao suddenly sensed general confusion. What was an exalted emperor?

There were many new people after five hundred years and while there’d been battles between exalted emperors back in the day, there were none to be observed now. There were barely even any fights between Fused Dao.

So what was an exalted emperor like?

“Would you like to know?” Li Hao smiled. He seemed to be looking at everyone in the world. All the billions of souls in Silver Moon could feel that the Silver Moon marquis was looking at them.

Some were nervous, others expectant. And some... were skeptical.

How strong was an exalted emperor? How much stronger was it than Fused Dao? What made for an exalted emperor?

Li Hao smiled; they were blissfully ignorant. The foresight of Silver Moon denizens did seem to be lacking compared to yesteryear, even though they were much stronger than Li Hao when he came into his power.

But back then, the young man had seen the Sword Sovereign’s shadow, seen the Exalted Blood Emperor section Silver Moon with one blade stroke, and witnessed the Human King massacre the battlefield.

Thus, he’d known when he was very young that there was always a higher mountain. He’d always known much of the world, but modern Silver Moon inhabitants did not.

He smiled, in a mood to disseminate knowledge or perhaps show off. These people lacked sufficient knowledge, so it was time to add to it.

“Someone has asked me what constitutes an exalted emperor?” His voice rang throughout the world. “I shall show everyone today what an exalted emperor is like!”

He suddenly transformed into a towering giant and grew until he covered the skies with one hand. The entire world was filled by his hand!

Silver Moon was massive, particularly after it became a mid world. But in this moment, the massive hand blotted out the sun and continued to grow. It gradually extended from this end of the Star Gate to the other end. The lines on it were clearly noticeable, as if the great dao had transformed into lines on a palm.

Countless people tilted their heads up at the sky and dropped their jaws with amazement! They could only see that the sky had suddenly been covered!

A universe seemed to appear the next second, one with a minuscule star in it. The giant was next to the star and stretched out its hold to hold it completely.

“Silver Moon is a mid world!” boomed Li Hao. “Billions upon billions call it home, yet it is bottom tier when it comes to mid worlds! As an exalted emperor, I can easily hold it in the palm of my hand.

“I can envelop the entire world with my dao domain and decide its survival with a single thought!”

He waved several dozen stars into existence around Silver Moon. Each of them rivaled Silver Moon in size.

“These are other worlds, some minor worlds that are the same size as Silver Moon. Our rate of ascension was out of the norm. There are mid worlds bigger than Silver Moon!

“These worlds can be found everywhere in the chaos and can be casually destroyed anytime! They are the spoils we received from annihilating four major worlds!”

Boom!

Li Hao clenched his hand and detonated one of the worlds. He swiftly collected all of its world strength and integrated it into Silver Moon. The world spontaneously grew bigger, expanding in both size and world domain...

The general population was so flabbergasted that they could simply stare dumbly. Li Hao looked at Liu Yin right in front of him and chuckled softly, “This is what it means to be an exalted emperor!”

The exalted emperors behind him had no idea what to say.

Screw you, man! Are you trying to scare kids? That is an exalted emperor, true enough, but you need to add a caveat that this is an exalted emperor that can rival a peak sixth rank! This is an exalted emperor equipped with a dao domain and can extinguish a mid world by themselves!

How can a first rank grab a mid world with one hand?? Who are you kidding?!

Li Hao always likes to scare people like this!

It wasn’t just the youngsters that were scared out of their wits now, it was also the older generation. They’d seen exalted emperors before, especially when Li Hao fought Bone Eclipse. The disturbance had been enormous and exalted emperors were so strong that they could destroy a city with one hit!

But what was a city worth?

A province was the next level after a city and there were dozens of cities in a province. More than one hundred provinces constituted Silver Moon’s continents. The people had seen exalted emperors demolish cities before, such as Silver City, but never had they seen one take an entire world into their hands!

It was like the world would pop if Li Hao simply tightened his hand!

Liu Yin was completely dazed and he tilted his head at his father.

Kill us with one breath?

Father, you... overestimate us, don’t you? Do we even require a breath?

The marquis doesn’t need a breath! Is this what it means to be an exalted emperor?!

His father being at ninth level Fused Dao was already terrifying enough in his eyes and incredibly strong, but what... what... what was this?!

His father would die to one breath from an exalted emperor, wouldn’t he?

His father had even said that the Silver Moon marquis had fought and killed an exalted emperor when he was a ninth level Fused Dao. No way!

Was his father’s memory mistaken and the Silver Moon marquis had been

ninety-nine

level Fused Dao, not ninth?

The world was silent for a moment before cheers reverberated through the land.

“The marquis is invincible!”

“Your Lordship is unparalleled!”

“......” The cheers built up from ten million people to one hundred million, then one billion, ten billion...

All of Silver Moon raged with sound. Some were cries of shock, others were yelps of fear. There were roars of excitement and shouts of passion...

So this was what an exalted emperor was??

Liu Yin shifted from shock to amazement to cowed reverence, then was excited and fearful. Caught up in the sweeping cheers, he also murmured, “The marquis is invincible...”

Liu Long looked over, at a loss for words. This son of his was a handful normally. He was impossible to discipline and stubbornly proud. He thought himself invincible beneath the heavens and completely unrivaled.

And hadn’t he just been skeptical if the Silver Moon marquis really was that impressive? Look at his about-face now!

You’re an embarrassing sight and dishonor the family!

On the other hand, Liu Long was also astonished. What level had Li Hao reached now? The young man wasn’t an ordinary exalted emperor, that was for sure!

They weren’t unaware of Li Hao’s status when he first set foot into the exalted emperor level. Although they didn’t participate in the battle between exalted emperors, they’d once spectated it and seen Gan Wuliang become involved as well.

They hadn’t been that terrifying then!

Casually crushing a world? That was out of the question!

Bone Eclipse hadn’t even been able to destroy a pre-ascended Silver Moon. Exalted emperors weren’t that strong!