Chapter 2077: The Skies Change (II)

The remaining eighth ranks that belonged to the ninth rank factions looked at each other... Even the remaining four of the elemental envoys were both grief-stricken and resigned. Finally, Golden Sun, the metal attribute cultivator, sighed.

“We are... willing to surrender!”

Would they die now, or in the future?

When Flamefire died, he said that they could bet on Chaos Sky’s future! Clearly, he’d meant for them to surrender.

If they didn’t, then they really would be dead.

Chaos Sky greeted the capitulation with calm composure. Whether these people surrendered or not, it wouldn’t affect the greater picture. Apart from the ninth ranks, there weren’t many people left in the chaos worthy of his attention.

Even the fleeing Disorder was much more important than them. That was a ninth rank, after all!

While he’d decisively sacrificed part of himself, his thoughts were hardly disorganized despite the dao he cultivated. This was not someone to underestimate.

“Withdrawal, you take care of them!” Chaos Sky assessed the eight cultivators.

The captain of the Nine Layer Guard chuckled, “I will do that well, dao master.”

“Mmhmm.” Chaos Sky turned to the west, then flew toward the collapsing Five Elements major world. Yuan Shuo... was just a minor character.

However, he had a disciple who was not. On the contrary, Li Hao was far more difficult to handle than he’d anticipated. The young man had been able to escape from Chaos Sky’s scheming and walk out of the Heaven’s Stratagem’s encirclement.

He’s besieged Chaos Sky major world, but not killed my people. Is he... waiting for me?

Perhaps!

How much is your master worth, Li Hao?

......

The western region.

Chaos Sky major world.

Sword in hand, Li Hao ran through the old man who was the vice captain of the Nine Layer Guard, but did not kill him. He then whirled around and stomped on the great roc that was Peng Cheng.

The young man had broken both of the chaos beast’s wings. The other four eighth ranks were also imprisoned by five thousand dao rules and suppressed at the bottom of the river of dao.

He’d defeated six eighth ranks in almost the blink of an eye.

Around them, endless chaos strength, dao strength, and energy from the dao of order surged into his body. Li Hao chose to strengthen his pre-existing worlds rather than creating new ones. His strength was still growing, but it didn’t increase as quickly as it had before when he established new worlds.

All the same, the young man didn’t opt for new worlds.

Spring Autumn had quenched the raging fire of her heart after eradicating one eighth rank world and noticing that Disorder was not yet dead. She sat down bare foot in the void, in a much better mood than before. She swung her feet around and giggled as she saw Li Hao bring pressure down to bear on the eighth ranks.

“Chaos Sky’s coming back! Li Hao, why don’t we try fighting together and taking him on for size? Maybe he’s not as strong as we think he is. He doesn’t have the Heaven’s Stratagem anymore and he didn’t manage to kill Disorder...”

Li Hao didn’t say anything.

A massive chain bound all of the six eighth ranks together. He furiously drained the dao strength from their bodies and sank them to the bottom of his river.

The young man took large strides to the center of the world, properly entering Chaos Sky major world for the first time.

It was massive!

Armored exalted emperors hovered out of the surroundings. Although they were shaking with fear, powerhouses continued to appear to keep Li Hao outside.

“Have them withdraw.” The young man turned back and looked at the suppressed eighth ranks, particularly the vice guard captain. “I’m just coming in for a look and have no intention of destroying Chaos Sky major world. But if they continue to annoy me, I’ll start killing!”

The old man was aware of the situation and knew that Disorder had been defeated. He was overjoyed and also knew that preserving their strength was the best course of action for the moment.

“Everyone, retreat!” he shouted. They would have nothing to fear after the dao master returned. Li Hao and Spring Autumn’s alliance wouldn’t matter then. The dao master was invincible in the chaos!

At least, in the current chaos.

The exalted emperors outside were highly trained. Although reluctant, they quickly backed away in an orderly fashion. Li Hao ignored them, even though there were many seventh ranks that were part of the crowd.

He walked toward the gigantic hall in the void. This was the Hall of Order!

It was operating, even now.

Spring Autumn quickly followed behind him. She walked through Chaos Sky major world with bare feet. Her eyes darted around, wanting to destroy it. This was a very, very strong world!

Chaos Sky might not lose too much strength if his world was destroyed, but his powerhouses would definitely be affected.

As he walked ahead of the little girl, Li Hao ignored whatever Spring Autumn might be considering. He entered the rather empty hall. Compared to the raucous scene that’d filled it before, the hall was now empty because all of the personnel were on guard against him.

Countless mirrors hovered in the hall. Spring Autumn snorted when she saw them.

“The views of the heavens. There is no privacy to speak of as the entire western region is under Chaos Sky’s supervision. Such are the nine layers of the chaos!”

“Setting aside the morals of this arrangement, this is beneficial for resolving conflicts.” Li Hao inclined his head. “If we ignore whether this is right or not, it’s actually a form of protection for weaklings. It also imposes some restraint on powerhouses...”

Being a powerhouse, Spring Autumn naturally didn’t like this kind of construct. It was the same for Li Hao, he was also a powerhouse and didn’t like to be kept under watch. But for many weaklings, this kind of invasive scrutiny might protect them.

Those of different statuses would have different thoughts about this surveillance. This was not a clear cut issue.

Spring Autumn waved a hand, wanting to destroy all of the mirrors. Li Hao, however, lifted his and stopped her once more.

The little girl turned beet red with indignation and the look in her eyes chilled. She wasn’t afraid of Li Hao and had been showing the young man face! However, he’d interfered with her on multiple occasions now and stopped her from doing what she wanted to do.

It was infuriating. She was a monster spirit!

Chaos Sky might be returning soon. What else were they waiting for, if they didn’t destroy his foundations now? She hated Li Hao for stopping her again and again!

“This is a nice thing that was hard to build...” Li Hao trailed off as he studied the nine layers through the mirror. Although only a quarter of the chaos was pictured here, it was still worthy of contemplation.

He’d guessed a while ago that the divisions of worlds between the nine layers wasn’t just based off world strength, but also dao!

This was a setup that used worlds as chess pieces, much like how he did, but the creator was more decisive than him because it utilized real worlds for dao.

Li Hao had entered Chaos Sky major world because he wanted to look around. This would help his efforts in establishing his own chaos. Perhaps he needed to study how the Order master had once laid out the worlds amid the chaos.

So while this area was just a portion of the west, it would supplement his knowledge of the east and his travel through the north. Only the south was unknown to him...

He might find some inspiration to borrow after perusing the hall of mirrors.

“You need to hurry up and get rid of all of these people!” Spring Autumn grew more irritated when she saw how the young man was ignoring her. “Do you think you can stand against Chaos Sky after he comes back? He even forced Disorder to relinquish his ninth rank dao spirit!

“Do you think you’ll be able to match him with just eight thousand dao rules? You and I combined might not be able to take him, not to mention that he’ll certainly have gained something from this battle and will be stronger than before!”

Did Li Hao understand or not?! Or was he placing his hopes in the Human King and New Martial? Who knew what the Human King was doing at present!

As for Long Zhan... the cicada did know a thing or two. The dragon was currently in the south. He hadn’t dared visit Spring Autumn major world, but had run off to the other worlds to liberate his so-called people.

Long Zhan was taking in a large number of chaos beasts. Clearly, none of them could come here right this very moment. If they didn’t, just her and Li Hao wouldn’t be able to fight Chaos Sky. It would be better to kill the eighth ranks now, destroy the world, and go on the run.

It’d be too late once Chaos Sky returned. Even if he wanted to take revenge for their actions, he would first have to see if he had the chance to do so.

Li Hao didn’t say anything. He just looked at the mirrors and watched each of the worlds within. So this was how everything was set up? The Order master... had been a very impressive individual. What a pity he’d fallen to the scheme by Skyward and the others.

If not, he might’ve had a chance to surpass Skyward if he’d succeeded in establishing real order. He would rival Skyward at the very least. It wouldn’t be a scene of Skyward alone being the greatest.

Li Hao came to these conclusions without a flicker of change in his expression. The river of dao flowed as usual. No changes were evident in it.

Blood thundered within his body, however, as flesh and blood constantly reconstructed itself. The young man was making preparations for the challenges to come and being ready for the future. Whether it was the river of dao, time, or order...

His river was strong, but also a mess of a lot of things. A lot of his ideas were materialized within the river. It was much stronger than before and could enable him to fight against cultivators of eight thousand daos.

This was the sum of Li Hao’s accumulation over the years.

He’d killed people for their treasures, slain mighty enemies, ambushed worlds, and commenced robberies through the chaos...

It’d taken him bit by bit to forge the dao river into what it was today, but he’d always kept his original intentions in mind. The dao river... was too miscellaneous and a mess. He wasn’t the one to craft the core of his river.

The core had always been time, which did not belong to him. And now, it contained a large amount of order, faith, and responsibility...

None of which were what he wanted.

Everyone felt that Li Hao wanted to establish another chaos so that he could become a ninth rank and the master of time. That would enable him to become the dao master of time and wield the dao that the War Sovereign had left behind...

But the young man had never wished to do so.

I am not the master of time.

I am not the dao master of time.

I... am not one who seeks time.

Maybe other people will think that about me, but I know that I don’t think so.

The human body, martial masters, blood qi, dao meridians, organs, aura, spirit, and methods... Those might be the martial world and freedom that I seek.