Chapter 994: Successful Creation (IV)

Thousands of Battle Heaven soldiers abruptly popped into existence at Rift Canyon in Silver Moon, startling the Night Watchers on duty.

“Vengeance will smite those who have killed the director general of Security at Battle Heaven!” A Gold Armor’s voice echoed through the world. “We are certain to execute the traitors who betrayed New Martial! The eight main cities share a common hatred for the same enemy, you are on your own!”

𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Rumble!

The army mobilized and rushed for Skystar City, leaving uneasy ruins at Silver Moon province in its wake. The director general of Security at Battle Heaven had been killed? Did the changes of the world have something to do with his death? The key was, how had the director general left the ruins? Where had he died!

The one who’d appeared just now seemed to have been the formidable general Li Daozong of Battle Heaven. He’d killed an uncountable number of enemies in his time and his Eternal Sword was the complete Li family heritage. Even though the world still restricted them at present, his replica was invincible among his peers!

The general of unmatched prowess had led troops out of Battle Heaven!

Far off in White Moon City, Director General Zhao’s jaw dropped. This was bad! What was going on?? Battle Heaven had outright sent out its troops!

The ancient city had been sealed for countless years, but now mobilized thousands of dead soldiers with its commander. They were out in the world proper! This was most incredible of all. How were these soldiers able to retain their sentience after leaving the city?

......

The immensely suffering Director General Wang had no idea any of this was happening. He only had one thought in mind—

end me!

Indescribable pain crawled through him, and this was just the beginning. His core origin dao stretched toward the Hao Cosmos. Within the dao universe, Li Hao swayed with anguish as well. The passageway was so unstable!

What should he do about it?

Director General Wang could puncture the barrier, but how to stabilize the result was a big problem.

The Hao Cosmos started shaking as well, possibly due to Li Hao traveling through it. That seemed to cause certain discomfort that made it reject Li Hao and want to squeeze core origin dao out of it.

After some thought, the young man set his jaw and left his sun behind. He grunted and grabbed the core origin dao, shoving it right into the sun.

Whatever! Everything could wait until after he stabilized the passageway!

BOOM!

Multiple radiant figures appeared on the ‘dao’ sun as it shook violently. Li Hao was thrown back and forth, but now was not the time to pay attention to his discomfort. He needed to get back; this was not a place to linger for too long!

What a pity that he couldn’t go through the director general’s tunnel. How nice would that be!

When all those thoughts ran through his mind, Li Hao left his dao sun on the spot and transformed into a tiger of fiery sparks. He disappeared from the locale and threaded through the void.

After an indeterminate period of time, the tiger snarled and punched the air. A small sword came flying toward it and Li Hao followed the passageway it created out of the Hao Cosmos.

When the young man reemerged, the director general had been pulled out of the machine. He looked like death and was completely numbed by pain.

I’m dead! No one disturb me!

Li Hao smiled after he took a quick glance. He saw traces of his own presence on the director general. It was the presence of the dao star. The passageway had been stabilized!

The presence that Director General Wang exuded quickly shifted from core origin dao to that of the Hao Cosmos. The man came back to his senses and murmured when he saw Li Hao, “Father...”

“......” Not only did Li Hao blink, but the director general immediately jerked awake.

“What did you do to me?? Why do I feel like I’m seeing my old man when I see you?!”

The fuck?!

What had Li Hao done to him? This was intolerable!!

“I left the dao star there to be your connection point,” Li Hao answered after some thought. “Therefore, you’re temporarily anchored to my dao character. I’ll remove it after your connection is stable. So... for a period of time... you’ll feel... very close to me!”

Director General Wang paused, then threw his head back with a howl.

Fuck this existence! no wonder! I wondered why it felt like I was seeing my father when I saw Li Hao! This is why!

Zhang An looked strangely at Li Hao from his position in the void. This conversion of great dao... was a strange process. Li Hao was also a very bold person to leave behind even his dao character.

Meanwhile, the rest didn’t care about this. They began cheering one after another.

“We succeeded!”

It could be done! Core origin dao really had traversed the Hao Cosmos. Even the plant spirits were tempted by the possibilities.

What if we connected our core origin dao to the Hao Cosmos?

It was at this time that Director General Wang’s physical body cracked. He looked down at the cracks spreading over him, then at Li Hao.

“I think... this is it for this body...”

“That’s to be expected.” Li Hao nodded. “This body isn’t that strong, but your core origin dao has created a bigger passageway than expected, so the amount of energy we’ve infused in you is a bit too much. That’s why it’s so hard to bear. But no worries, this was just the first time. We’ll craft more bodies of different compositions for you to try...”

Director General Wang suddenly wished that he

had

died in the first attempt. This... was just the beginning.

......

The Skystar ruins.

Body creation continued. There wasn’t much to be gleaned from one physical body. Li Hao and the rest needed more data points.

.......

At the same time.

Two groups of people charged toward the central region. One was the replica of the Ninth Division leader who’d set out from Battle Heaven. The other was more than a dozen formidable core origin replicas. All of them tested the limits of what the world currently tolerated—they were initial Apex.

The world could absolutely support Apexes at present. The second group had severed core origin to create replicas, making for blurred features. They seemed to come from the north and headed to the central region to kill Li Hao.

Li Hao of Skystar City was quite strong as he was reportedly a seventh element Arcanus. And yet, seven elements was only just initial Apex of modern times. Just one of the people from the second group was sufficient to eliminate the young man.

But in the interest of caution, they’d sent out a dozen replicas to ensure successful attainment of their goals. Some of them guessed that Li Hao was the reason for the changes of the world. Even if he wasn’t, all geniuses of this age must be killed! Even those Silver Moon martial masters must die, not just the young man.

The two groups of people did not take the same path. Their routes were slightly different as they sped toward Skystar City.

......

The dozen in the second group flew so quickly that weaklings couldn’t even catch sight of them. They could break through the void if that was a possibility, but the void was so unstable at the moment that they only ripped through the most shallow layer.

In order to avoid trouble, they stayed away from piercing through all of the void to travel five hundred kilometers at once.

“Li Hao’s group is at Skystar City in the central region. We need to keep our level of disturbance down on this trip. We can find and kill Li Hao directly on the spot! Kill anyone who resists or sees us! We need to be fast and raise as little a fuss as possible...” Their leader’s voice was muffled as he gave his orders.

Around him, the other heavyweights voiced their assent.

“In addition, Stellaris is in Li Hao’s hands. Seize the sword and if possible, strip the boy of his bloodline!”

“Understood!”

“Sir, was that Li Daozong of Battle Heaven just now? He said that someone killed Wang Ye... what does he mean by that?”

“Did Wang Ye’s replica die? Battle Heaven has deep ties to Li Hao and has responded in kind to the boy helping them revitalize. Apparently Li Hao is a division leader there. Has something happened in Skystar Town, leading to the death of Wang Ye’s replica?”

“That’s possible... we also have another mission for this trip—to reestablish communications with Skystar Town! The bramble rose has been preventing our people from gaining entrance all this time. If possible, we should take stock of their strength. If weak, we’ll outright kill the plant spirit!”

“That might be difficult! Sun Xin has not been able to dispel it... The rose might be a Saint by now!”

“If it’s a Saint, then we’ll enter from the other entrances. The other plant spirits might still remember us and won’t dare not let us through. We’ll ally with the other plant spirits and Sun Xin to kill the bramble rose!”

“I wonder if that great one has awakened yet?”

“I’m not sure... Another lord said a few days ago that there were ripples of core origin to be detected. He suspected that something had gone wrong with the great one’s core origin...”

“Core origin? Was it true core origin or fake? Do they still have core origin left?”

“That is uncertain, so this is a speculation.”

“Understood!”

“......” The group traveled at a fast pace and chatted as they flew. They soon crossed the North Sea and entered the central region.

There were many teams traveling through the central region—ones of supernaturals and ones of martial masters from the regions. The dozen plus in the sky saw someone familiar.

Upon checking the face against a list and pictures, one asked, “That one down below is a Silver Moon martial master known as Southern Fist He Yong. Do we kill him?”

“Don’t alarm them ahead of time. It will be troublesome if Li Hao learns of our presence and takes shelter in a ruin! We’ll take care of Li Hao first and clean up these minor characters later. Any we don’t have time for can be left to the three great organizations!”

“Understood!” The group quickly flew over He Yong’s head.