Chapter 2072: The Mayhem of Battle (I)

I’ve finally landed on part of the true meaning of time. Li Hao celebrated. Why must time be time?

War... perhaps I finally understand your original intentions in creating time. Your dao comprehension is seriously strong.

The dao rules continued to change. The rules were no longer applicable and order could no longer be maintained. Endless strength of order fell apart!

A shadow appeared deep within the world of order. Chaos Sky looked at Li Hao and shook his head. “Order is absolute, there is only one will. Li Hao, the freedom you speak of is affecting your dao. Being carefree and undisciplined is not true order!”

“You’re wrong!” Li Hao shook his head, but didn’t want to engage in a debate. Neither of them could convince the other. At their level, it wasn’t words that would sway another person’s opinion.

This is the root of dao!

Five thousand dao rules became a sword that landed in Li Hao’s hands. It flashed forward without a trace, intangible and untraceable.

Sword intent, blade intent, spear intent...

Countless weapon intents flared!

Heaven’s Stratagem trembled. Spring Autumn also smiled at the development and erupted with the dao of withering and flourishing. It came down on the four sides, cutting off escape for the treasure!

The sword struck!

Heaven’s Stratagem began shattering after a crunch. Chaos Sky’s shadow faded away. There was no bitterness in his tones, just a hint of regret. “We cannot share the same path since we do not pursue the same goals. You will become my enemy after I kill Disorder!”

Li Hao, I gave you a chance because you cultivate time.

You and I could’ve commanded order together. You could’ve even been the master of order and I would support you. But you destroyed that with your own hands.

I thought we were the same kind of person.

Spring Autumn is obsessed, the Human King is too tyrannical, Long Zhan is the same as Spring Autumn. Only you... I thought we could walk together!

“What’s forced is never sweet,” Li Hao grinned. “I thank Fellow Daoist Chaos Sky for your kind intentions!”

The sword completed its swing, marking Heaven’s Stratagem’s demise!

Keening rose and Spring Autumn smiled at him. “You and I... can walk together until we enter the source of the chaos!”

After that, to each their own.

She turned to Chaos Sky major world in front of them. “You and I should take his world while he kills Disorder! Let’s fully shatter order!”

The old order should be demolished!

......

Li Hao had shattered Heaven’s Stratagem and the will of the chaos. While Chaos Sky painted a pretty picture, saying that they could jointly share order... that Li Hao would be the master of order and he would be the support...

What kind of support occupied the master’s dao river?

It was just empty words not to be taken seriously. Li Hao would be a real fool if he really believed them. It was just as he thought, once the power of faith grew too strong, it would brainwash the cultivator into becoming a dao puppet.

What Chaos Sky had in mind was to turn Li Hao into the puppet of order. The young man would become the heavenly dao that maintained order!

Indeed, heavenly dao.

Just as a world needed administrators, law enforcers, and protectors, this kind of outcome would save Chaos Sky a lot of trouble and hassle. If Li Hao really came under his control and became the puppet of order, he would have to fight to the death with Spring Autumn today.

Chaos Sky had been willing to invest quite a great deal to achieve his goal. He’d even paid the price of the Heaven’s Stratagem.

Endless strength of order flooded into Li Hao’s river of dao, but they were quickly transformed into other dao strength.

Spring Autumn assessed the young man with an increasingly bizarre look. Li Hao was the one assimilating the power of order! It wasn’t order assimilating Li Hao!

The young man had turned the tables, and not through a unique ability. This indicated... that among the daos that Li Hao grasped... one of them was superior to order.

Time?

Perhaps. Only through time could order grow stronger!

“Is time the strongest?” Li Hao seemed to guess some of Spring Autumn’s thoughts. “Is there really one singular dao that is the strongest?”

There wasn’t, was there?

Which great dao would dare say that about itself?

Li Hao had pursued time in the past, seeking to replicate it. But today, he had a new comprehension that perhaps... he hadn’t been pursuing time all along.

Maybe he’d been searching for the permutations of dao and its fickleness.

The great dao did not leave any traces!

There was no dao that was invincible or unparalleled. Its only immutable truth was that it was constantly changing!

Everything changed, including time and order. All great daos were this way. Viewing them through an old lens was to make a mistake.

Nothing remained constant forever, even time. It was constantly flowing and changing.

In the distance.

Chaos Sky major world.

Eight rank presences manifested, each of them humming with tension. They could sense the collapse of order!

Li Hao!

Spring Autumn!

They saw two people who’d been fighting each other suddenly stop. Li Hao had improved at a terrifying rate. He’d barely managed to kill Reincarnation on a prior occasion, but could now go toe-to-toe with Spring Autumn today!

Peng Cheng shifted uncomfortably in his position at the world gates. The vice captain of the Nine Layer Guard surfaced behind him, equally grave. Spring Autumn was the overlord of the south and Li Hao was the cultivator of time.

The Heaven’s Stratagem... had been shattered!

This shook some of the western region’s foundation.

They hadn’t thought that someone could break the treasure. It was the source of order in the west. Now that it was broken in the dao master’s absence, Chaos Sky major world was in grave danger!

The presence of order permeating the western region even began to collapse!

Just as Spring Autumn was about to attack the world, a strong surge of order emitted from Li Hao and filled the void. The swaying currents of power in the west immediately stabilized.

Spring Autumn tilted her head at the young man, shock snapping through her expression.

“Li Hao!” she snapped. Why had he helped the west??

“It is the people who suffer whether a world flourishes or declines,” Li Hao answered calmly. “Although there are flaws in the order of the west, at least it’s a peaceful dao for now. It can be employed to maintain peace in the western region...

“The times now are not what they were before,” continued the young man when Spring Autumn sought to interrupt him. “Battle occurs only between the powerhouses. The weaklings simply need to obey. I have no desire to break this temporary and slightly hypocritical peace of the western region...

“There is no need for anyone to panic!” Li Hao smiled and sent his voice toward the world. “All you need to do is hand over your reserves of dao strength and extract your world strength. I will leave after that!”

“Destroying Chaos Sky major world is the key to breaking Chaos Sky’s rule!” Spring Autumn muttered with a dark expression. “If he kills Disorder and seizes that strength, Li Hao, he might be beyond the capabilities of a ninth rank! He’ll have consolidated the two extremes of disorder and order then!”

Had Li Hao ultimately fallen to influence from the power of order?

The young man didn’t say a word.

What was order?

He didn’t care.

Attacking someone, ambushing them, seizing their world strength and dao strength, demanding them deliver it to him before backing away...

And then wanting to preserve peace in the western region after all that.

Was that hypocritical on his behalf?

Probably.

Did Li Hao care?

Nope.

He wasn’t even looking to justify his actions anymore. At his heights, taking whatever action suited him and following the wishes of his heart was what he pursued.

He just wanted inner peace. Not someone else’s, but his own.

When my heart is at peace, so are the skies blue.

No one is a good person in the chaos, not Chaos Sky, Spring Autumn, Human King, or Long Zhan.

I’m not either.

There are no good people and there are no absolutely evil people.

Philosophy, heritage, supremacy, desire...

That is what changes people and gives us meaning in life.

Spring Autumn scowled. She’d come to shatter the order in Chaos Sky Region and destroy Chaos Sky’s foundation. She wasn’t Li Hao. The young man wanted to do whatever he wanted, she had goals in mind.

“Li Hao!”

The young man looked at her. Spring Autumn appeared to be a little girl, yet she was anything but. She was a true old monster, which was just a fact, not an insult. She was so strong that he might not rival her, despite commanding five thousand dao rules.

However, he wasn’t scared of her.

When it came to dao rules, the gap between different numbers of them was limited below nine thousand. It came down to a question of spirit. Dao rules with spirit would be a bit stronger. When it came to spirit... Li Hao fully matched anyone he faced off against.

“Did you want to take Chaos Sky with this operation?” He looked at Spring Autumn. “That’ll be hard. He’s not depending on the power of mere order in this area to maintain his strength.”

Spring Autumn quickly ran through some calculations. Li Hao might turn on her if she insisted on killing everyone on Chaos Sky major world right now. He was someone who changed his mind like flipping pages of a book.

The young man looked easy to talk to, but he wasn’t that at all. Meanwhile, the Human King looked difficult to get along with, but he was actually simple to deal with so long as one went along with him.

In the distance.

Chaos Sky powerhouses watched the exchange with both trepidation and anticipation. They wanted the two to start fighting each other, but were also nervous that their alliance would hold and the two would turn their attention toward the major world instead.

Although they had a lot of eighth ranks, they would find it very difficult to stand against their enemies! These were two overlords. The Chaos Sky heavyweights could only pray that they could delay things long enough for their dao master to return. There would be nothing to worry about then.

Clearly, Li Hao wasn’t going to give them that breathing space. He set foot through the void, walking past Spring Autumn.