Star Gate

"Li Hao!" Zheng Yu grunted. His replica flew toward the seal and headed for the young man, numerous Saints behind him. "You've got quite some nerve!" he said harshly. "Do you think you can still enter the dao universe now?"

The Saints attacked at the same time, ripping through the firmament. Li Hao turned and fled in the face of overwhelming energy that surged toward him.

Since Zhang An had entered the seal, he didn't want to go inside anymore.

He didn't run around randomly either. Rather, he shot straight up. Saints chased after him, but the young man continued to climb in altitude. He broke through the void and smashed through strong gusts in upper airspace.

Behind him, Zheng Yu frowned. If they continued at this rate, they would reach the world barrier. Li Hao might truly be trapped then. Was the young man choosing a dead-end in his panic?

......

At the same time.

Upon the silver moon in the sky.

The man with a sword on his back quietly looked down on everything happening below. The world was undergoing vast changes today!

Zhang An had forced his entry into the seal with the ancient city. Li Hao was flying over the firmament with the Barren wasteland. Over at Divine Nation, Lin Hongyu led the student puppets in slaughtering the general population. She was actually receiving some heavenly favor for it. The heavenly will had no one to choose from, so it could only bless Lin Hongyu.

Four ancient cities were absorbing energy from all directions and rocking their corner with disturbance, throwing the heavenly will off balance.

And now, Zheng Yu led large sums of Saints against Li Hao, chasing the young man to the end of the world.

"Zhang An... has entered the seal!" The Moon God sculpture shimmered with light. This was not a good development!

Someone like Zhang An probably wouldn't enter the seal to destroy it. In that case... he was likely here to raise a hand against her. The Moon God was rather resigned. Nothing was going smoothly today. These people were bold! There was an exalted emperor over there, did everyone think he was dead?

"I know." The man glanced below them, at the swiftly approaching Li Hao. "It looks like Li Hao really has guessed the truth."

The young man was coming straight for them, probably to lure Zheng Yu into fighting the man.

Well, not probably, but certainly.

How would Zheng Yu react if he discovered the moon in the sky wasn't a projection, but the real moon? It'd always been common knowledge in Silver Moon that the lunar body everyone saw in the sky was a projection from the silver moon near the Star Gate.

"But... will he be able to discover the truth?" the man chuckled softly as the moon started turning indistinct.

The firmament split open in the next instant and the moon disappeared in a streak of silver light. It left behind some vestiges, like it was a real moon.

The massive moon itself had vanished from the world. Still approaching it from a distance, Li Hao's eyes widened.

The dao universe!

As he thought! The enemy had shifted the moon into the dao universe—the immaterial dimension! There really were two sides to the dao universe!

Li Daoheng had control of the over side. The moon that was left behind now was the true projection.

"I've finally confirmed it!" Li Hao mumbled to himself. He turned back to see an irate Zheng Yu still chasing after him with his people.

Since the young man had the Barren wasteland with him, he wasn't at liberty to enter the dao universe. Panther hadn't stabilized the two sides yet. Four ancient cities approached the group from various directions. It was the Saints in residence at those cities that'd come to reinforce Li Hao.

Zheng Yu seemed to have made up his mind to resolve the problem that was the young man. As for Zhang An, he couldn't do anything about that side. Zhang An was already inside the seal!

When it came to Li Hao, however, none of the ten Saints that'd followed Ying Hongyue outside had returned. Each Saint represented a prodigious family investment to Zheng Yu. These losses were too heavy to bear! Even if he didn't kill Li Hao, he needed to force the young man to relinquish his hold over the Barren wasteland!

He was a half step emperor, after all, he could glean what was truly happening here. Li Hao wanted to devour part of the world! Although it wasn't a large part and it was the descendent of the Monster Spirit Envoy that was devouring the world, Zheng Yu wouldn't give him the chance to all the same!

"Hand over the Barren wasteland, Li Hao! Flee into the dao universe, that's the only way you can survive today!" Zheng Yu's replica demanded coldly. The world trembled at his palm strike. A tangible image of a palm appeared behind Li Hao.

The redwood tree and old turtle reached out to stop it at the same time, but they were rebuffed so soundly that they almost started collapsing from the impact.

Zheng Yu's replica was incomparably powerful!

Li Hao suddenly turned back with a grin. "Zheng Yu, you really are unafraid of death!"

Zheng Yu blinked. What other tricks could the young man have up his sleeve now?

"Panth, detonate the will of heaven and chaos!" Li Hao reverted to a coolly uncaring self. He transmitted to Lin Hongyu through the armor, "Lin Hongyu, self-detonate your great dao! Leave one major dao untouched and detonate the rest!"

Lin Hongyu blinked with surprise, but did as she was told without hesitation. Not only that, but countless supernatural characters appeared in front of Li Hao. All of them shattered in the next instant and turned into massive dragons of dao.

The dragons broke apart!

Thirty-six unattributed dao meridians appeared at the same time. It took only the blink of an eye for half of them to explode.

All of the energy released melded into the Silver Moon martial masters present. Apart from Director General Zhao and the other seventh level Suns and Moons, the remaining obtained a large sum of energy and dao power.

Li Hao also forced an opening into the dao universe and shoved the old turtle and redwood inside. "Don't go anywhere, I'll be right there!" he laughed softly.

The young man's presence plunged from Fused Dao to Sun and Moon. Ninth level, eighth level, seventh level...

At the same time, Panther keened shrilly.RUMBLE!Its power of devouring erupted as two wills blew through everything. Countless energy swept through the world and crashed into heaven and earth. The Barren wasteland was shredded from the impact!

Zheng Yu finally understood what the young man was doing. He stared dumbly at Li Hao.

Li Hao grinned radiantly back at him, beaming as brilliantly as the sun. "This world and great dao have not been stabilized yet! I am the upper limit of the world, do you understand?

"If my cultivation level decreases, so will the world compress, get it? Zheng Yu, what gave you the courage to bring so many Saints after me?"

Rumble!

The world split apart! All of life seemed to be screaming in agony.

The four main cities swiftly swallowed endless quantities of energy. All of the energy in the world was instantly depleted and the part of the heavenly will itself broke off. The Barren wasteland outright crumbled away. In Divine Nation, Lin Hongyu crushed a large amount of heavenly will and scattered it through the sky.

Those blessed by the heavenly will spontaneously dealt grievous blows to it. All of Silver Moon shook violently and ambient energy faded immensely.

A world that could originally support Saints suddenly started compressing. Harrowing void fissures appeared in the air in a bid to protect the world and stabilize itself.

Zheng Yu's face slackened with dismay!

"Retreat to Galewind!"

Galewind hastily rose in the distance, shooting for the firmament. Zheng Yu led the Saints in a frenetic dash back to the ancient city!

Countless cracks split the void, each of them thick enough to swallow a person whole. They sliced through anything in their way.

Anyone who was a Saint was sliced to pieces.

"Ahhh!!" Ghastly screams echoed in the air.

Li Hao had paid the price of severing his own great dao and the decline of his cultivation to revert the world back to its previous state. Everything returned to what it was before. The world could no longer tolerate the presence of powerhouses.

People who were too strong would cause the world to collapse. All of Silver Moon was compressing at the moment; mountain ranges crumbled away as everything fell apart by the seams!

One spatial fissure alone wasn't concerning, but one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand... Saints and even an Empyrean King would be sliced to pieces!

Crunch!

Rumble!

Another Saint exploded from the onslaught. Their avenue of great dao manifested, but even that was shredded by the void. Galewind continued to defy the pressure bearing down on it and flew upward.

Everything would be fine once they returned to the ancient city!

"Hurry!" roared Zheng Yu's replica.

RUMBLE!

More Saints shrieked, wafting energy into the air when they exploded. This energy was promptly swallowed by Li Hao's side. The four ancient cities drew near—another possible candidate for Zheng Yu to run to.

Therefore, the four cities quickly drew back after receiving Li Hao's orders. They fled far away.

Void fissures did not target the weak. There was no problem so long as one did not exceed the upper limits of the world. The stronger one was, the more heavily one would be targeted!

In the distance, Ying Hongyue and the other two watched, aghast. The fleeing queen was also horrified!

All of these people were Saints, but the world did not permit Saints to exist among it anymore.

......

In the upper sky.

Li Hao's presence continued to decline and his body crumbled away. He watched as Saint after Saint died, grinning broadly at each death. His grin widened when he saw how shellshocked Director General Zhao and the rest were. "Do you find this interesting? Is it so interesting that you've forgotten to absorb energy for cultivation?

"What are you all looking at??" Li Hao yelled angrily. "Have you lost your minds? Hurry up and absorb energy, or the world is going to devour it all to repair itself!"

Everyone jerked out of their stupefaction While they remained dumbly unaware, they began absorbing energy at a furious pace. There was so much to partake in—too much!

"Cultivators of the new dao, cultivate with us and devour the world's energy!" Li Hao's voice echoed in the surroundings. Even if their cultivation lasted for only one second, that was sufficient for them to absorb some high quality energy.

Li Hao's presence continued to free fall. He'd almost fallen through seventh level Sun and Moon before his cultivation level stabilized.

Nearby, Zheng Yu's replica snarled with fury and smashed through numerous void fissures. He made it back to Galewind with roughly eighth Saints. The remaining Saints all exploded from being cut into pieces by the void!

Even their great dao was hacked apart!