Free Web NovelChapter 1876: Time is Difficult to Repair (IV)
“Li Hao, Fang Ping...” murmured the Dragon master. Fang Ping was yet to set New Martial aside. After he created an internal world, however, he didn’t seem to value Yin and Yang as much as before.
As for Li Hao... the young man just outright bypassed a dao universe and created one for himself...
These humans were weaker and younger than him, but they were all quite daring and resolute. His decision to leave his world behind might be due to their influence.
It was in this moment that the Dragon master truly chose to set aside his world and his obsession with the dao universe. He started to craft his own domain within his body.
Dao rules descended, each incorporating a bit of chaos dao and crafting a tiny world...
One thousand daos, two thousand daos, three thousand daos, four thousand daos...
The laws of great dao continuously gathered. The Dragon master stopped when he reached six thousand daos.
According to the layout of the dao chess, six thousand daos was only sixth rank exalted emperor. In reality, it was incredibly rare to build a dao domain of six thousand daos, if based only off of one’s own knowledge!
Li Hao was a sixth rank, but he’d only built world domains of one thousand daos thus far. The Sword Sovereign and other’s dao domains were weak. They had three to four thousand daos at most.
A dao domain was the manifestation of one’s cultivation level, not of one’s strength. Building a dao domain indicated that one had the right to enter seventh rank. But for these people, seventh rank was only the beginning. It was a new start!
Anyone who could craft a dao domain was a genius and had the right to set their sights on ninth rank!
The Dragon master was even finding that Dragon major world and chaos universe were sharpening into focus. It was like he was looking at a new expanse of territory. He considered Thunder Region in the distance.
“How many dao rules comprise of that dao domain?”
Does it have to take more than nine thousand daos to become a ninth rank? If that’s the case, then I’m greatly lacking. If that Exalted Chaos Sky Emperor isn’t stronger than me, he won’t be able to kill me that easily. Maybe he’s not really a true nine rank.
Perhaps only someone like the Skyward master is a true ninth rank?
“Six thousand daos...” the Dragon master murmured thoughtfully and scanned elsewhere in the four regions. Perhaps it’s time for me to comprehend more dao rules and not just seek an increase in strength. There is always a limit to the benefit supplied by pure strength.
......
At the same time.
The star of time illuminated the world—a thousand rays connected to a thousand pillars. Li Hao appeared over every single pillar. He opened his eyes to take in the sights around him. It was as if he was seeing the thunder tribulations and Thunder Region for the first time!
“9,300 pillars...” muttered the young man. That was a lot more than he’d anticipated. So there were more than nine thousand pillars in the region!
The creator of Thunder Region was a powerhouse that’d integrated more than nine thousand daos into themselves. They were the heavyweight of the age and the king of calamity!
And... they were likely not the Skyward master.
So that meant there was more than one ninth rank in the chaos.
“That’s right... when I reversed time, Coiling Dragon and Flamefire said that the Skyward master once summoned many ninth ranks for a meeting. Ninth rank might be the master of great dao in their eyes!
“And many of them... which means that the master of calamity might have been part of them!”
The young man could clearly see various avenues of great dao running through Thunder Region. They meandered through the region, coming together, and giving birth to chaos tribulations!
It was also his first time fully seeing how chaos tribulations were structured.
Having one thousand copies of him view the area and comprehend dao at the same time was a very unique experience.
“So dao is ever-changing... There are strong ones, weak ones, they are born and die, they grow and fade. Constant change is not the key to the success of dao masters...”
A variety of thoughts surged into Li Hao’s mind. Countless thoughts crystallized in one thousand Li Haos.
The strength of calamity!
The thunder tribulations here were only one part of chaos tribulations. They weren’t the heart and core of chaos tribulations. The strength of a myriad daos filled the entire chaos, so chaos tribulations could appear anywhere!
“Chaos tribulations come and go without a trace... not because they come from a certain place, but because they are created on the spot!” Li Hao finally understood!
Why were thunder tribulations all pervasive? Why did cultivators encounter them no matter where they went?
It was because any place with the strength of chaos would instantly become a place with the strength of a myriad daos once a certain mechanism was triggered. It transformed the strength of the chaos in a certain area into tribulation lightning!
“So this means that time and space are the same! The power of space that the dao chess uses to transport through the universe is simply a way of changing the form of chaos strength. It makes it so that spatial power surrounds the destination coordinates...
“Is that the same for time? Whether it’s reversing time or going with the flow, so long as I change the chaos strength within a certain area, that will bring forth images of the past...” ƒreewebɳovel.com
Li Hao grew rather excited. As he exercised control over one thousand copies of himself, he could suddenly forced a halt in the energy transfer of some thunder pillars. That caused endless thunderbolts to careen out of control.
Fog Mountain and the Thunder master grunted with pain. Void furiously deployed the power of revitalization!
Number Two and the Exalted Blood Emperor manipulated the star of time with extreme difficulty, suppressing the four corners. They were confused as to why the thunder tribulations had suddenly raged out of control, but quickly cursed to themselves when they understood why.
You madman! What are you doing now?
Li Hao had some new thoughts and reflections from his experiment. Lightning sparked atop one thousand pillars and a sword abruptly appeared in the void—the Firmament Sword!
The sword shuddered with dread. An incredible surge of energy collected out of the thunder pillars and congregated in the weapon. It nearly burst from the infusion of strength! Even though it was a sixth rank weapon, it still found itself incredibly weak!
A sword manifested—the sword of destruction. Or rather, half a sword of calamity!
It swung toward the firmament.
BOOM!
The chaos split open, like the worlds themselves were exploding. That one blow could destroy everything!
Li Hao had borrowed some strength from the pillars and used his own dao to gather a sword to tribulation. Just that single blow made eighth rank Fog Mountain and the Thunder master pale with dread!
Don’t play around like that! We’ll be severely injured if you hit us with that thing!
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“Ai, what a pity...” Li Hao’s voice traveled out of a pillar. “Such a shame that I can’t dig up these pillars and take them with me...”
The group shuddered with horror when they heard the sigh. This isn’t something to joke around about!
......
At the same time, the depths of the chaos.
In that place that had become tangible from an interweaving of endless dao nets, a statue abruptly opened its eyes. Worlds seem to fall in the eyes. Thunder and lightning danced in a mad frenzy, like the chaos was falling apart!
The scene gradually solidified into a section of Thunder Region.
“Skyward!” The statue sent out a mental ripple.
“What is it?” The statue that’d opened its eyes a few times came to life again.
“Someone is assimilating my dao net in the four regions and attempting to imitate the tribulation within Thunder Region.”
“Oh, really?”
“What are you waiting for?”
“The master of time!”
“Can someone really cultivate time and become its master?”
“I don’t know...”
“This is a waste of our time...”
“You don’t have to wait here!”
“......” The statue that boomed like a clap of thunder chose to shut its mouth and gradually close its eyes. “I can see time there as well, an incomparably weak dao of time. But even he did not perfect time back in the day. Can this junior really do so?
“If the first generation can not do so, then I think the second generation... is just an empty dream!”
“Then we keep waiting,” the other statue said after a long pause. “We wait until the end of existence and the destruction of the chaos!”
The master of calamity couldn’t be bothered with further conversation and sank back into sleep.
Was time really that hard to cultivate? Was it out of reach for even Skyward? Was there anyone in the chaos who could perfect the dao of time?
......
Li Hao was part of the thunder pillars to comprehend the dao of calamity. Although he wasn’t fully part of them and couldn’t fully integrate all of the daos present—all 9300 of them, his feat was still incredibly astonishing.
The two eighth ranks were stunned by the young man’s blow. It was strong, very strong!
Of course, it was so strong because it borrowed from the thunder pillars. Otherwise, Li Hao’s own blow of a thousand daos wasn’t all that strong. It was beyond flabbergasting that one of his attacks could previously wound an eighth rank.
Li Hao was now thinking that if he gathered the thunder pillars together, wouldn’t that be a reorganization of the body?
Thousands of pillars started trembling, like they wanted to uproot themselves!
“The owner of these pillars might still be alive!” The Exalted Blood Emperor couldn’t help but issue a warning. “Do not brashly attempt to move them. Forcing the assimilation of another’s dao can easily lead to trouble!”
He looked around them with a faint frown. There was a sense that someone was watching them!
The Exalted Blood Emperor wasn’t the only one. Li Hao could also sense it too. The two eighth ranks also detected the same feeling, but they didn’t make a sound.
The same sensation had once appeared in the past—in Skyward!
There were many secrets in the four regions. The Skyward master was likely still alive and if there was a master of calamity in Thunder Region, they were likely still alive as well. That already made for two known ninth ranks in the four regions.
Li Hao started to disengage himself from the pillars and hovered in Thunder Region.
“This is just a trial,” a thousand people laughed at the same time. “If they’re really still alive... Alright, they probably are. Why do they not return?”
