Within the chaos.

Chaos beast exalted emperors were being slaughtered one after another. Silver Moon martial masters were bathed in blood and completely berserk. They didn’t care about their injuries or anything else. None of that mattered. They’d been biding their time and keeping their heads down for too long.

They just wanted to let loose and eradicate all of their enemies today!

A broadsword cut through the worlds, a long blade howled through the void. Fists dominated the rivers and mountains, a leg kicked at the chaos. Might flared from these domineering martial masters and they seemed to be utterly crazy.

We’ve been keeping it in for too long!

Void was shaken in the distance. These exalted emperors were nothing in his eyes, just a bunch of dependents relying on Li Hao that’d barely made it to the imperial level. They were incredibly weak and didn’t possess much ability.

But now... their auras were on full display and each of them leaping valiantly into battle. They feverishly cut down exalted emperors. Everything about them seemed to be ascending in the battle, but why was that?

Void did not understand.

This battle didn’t even need his or Li Hao’s participation. The two of them simply needed to seal off the vicinity, conceal the energy ripples, and prevent powerhouse from escaping.

The two sides had once partnered with each other in Orchid Forest, but the two dao masters had given a very mediocre showing then. They were completely different today.

Was it because they’d encountered weaker enemies? Or had they grown stronger?

Or perhaps it was because Li Hao was not part of this battle, so they did everything they could to bring their skills into play? They wished to prove to Li Hao that they were not useless, that they were still there!

“Southern Fist He Yong, executor of exalted emperors!” He Yong’s fists dripped with blood as he obliterated a chaos beast with one punch. He was in fine fettle as he threw his head back with a roar. Even his beard seemed to be guzzling blood. The martial master that everyone in Silver Moon liked to make fun with was as if an envoy from hell. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

“He Yong, imperial slayer!” he yelled.

No one paid attention to him. This was how He Yong always was. He’d simply killed a first rank chaos beast, who wasn’t doing that on the premises? What was he hollering about? Was that anything to be proud of?

How dull, boring, and shameless!

Nonetheless, it spurred the rest onto more effort. Sky Sword’s weapon bore down on the enemies, towering like a mountain. It rumbled with a stately presence. A chaos beast was outright crushed into two.

When the edge of the sword arrived, it beheaded the chaos beast with a boom!

While Silver Moon martial masters showed off in grandeur on one side, the oft-mocked Hu Qingfeng bounced around irreverently. He grinned madly and hummed, “In the beginning there was the marquis, then came the heavens. His Lordship existed before the chaos. When milord materializes, the chaos eliminates itself!”

Another Li Hao appeared beneath the heavens...

The real Li Hao scowled when he saw it!

The reproduction truly seemed invincible and dispersed the chaos with a wave. It immediately suppressed the chaos beast and snapped its great dao. With that, an exalted emperor was dead!

Jaws dropped around Hu Qingfeng and everyone stared at him. What??

Even Void paused and looked at Li Hao. Did you... lend him your strength?

Li Hao frowned slightly without a word. Hells no! Why would I? This is such an uncanny dao! Those not in the know would actually think that I’ve descended in person to help him. The hell kinda dao has Hu Qingfeng cultivated?

It really... does have some bite to it, to say nothing of anything else.

The man’s dao produced a phenomenon that was similar to Li Hao descending in person. Even though it wasn’t really equipped with the young man’s abilities, Li Hao was truly invincible in Hu Qingfeng’s eyes. He could shatter worlds with one move and freely travel through the chaos.

It was very normal for an exalted emperor to fall from one of Li Hao’s punches.

“Please return, Your Lordship!” Hu Qingfeng sang out.

The reproduction vanished, as if nothing had happened at all. However, there was a newly dead exalted emperor in front of Hu Qingfang. The chaos beast had died in a fit of annoyance that the human leader had dared assassinate it!

Fucking what?!

That was right, it thought that Li Hao had taken the field. That powerful human was either fifth or sixth rank, but he was so shameless as to ambush a first rank! Damn, humans are really the lowest of low!

Li Hao himself could feel the chaos beast’s resentment. He grew all the more resigned for it! Aw come on! It’s not me, really. Do I need to do all that if I wanted to kill you?

If Hu Qingfeng summons a reproduction of me wherever he goes... I’ll be like his old man! The hell??

As Hu Qingfeng put the uniqueness of his dao on full display, the normally quiet Lin Hongyu was in full throttle. She wielded curved blades and summoned life and death to her. Death was decided by a single thought!

She killed an exalted emperor with one blow, then promptly revived them. The reanimated exalted emperor followed Lin Hongyu around to join her fights!

Dressed in long robes dyed by blood, Lin Hongyu was as if a bonafide master of the dead spirits. More more exalted emperors readily returned to life behind her and joined her entourage. Swathes of exalted emperors fell to her curved blade!

Lin Hongyu didn’t make a single sound as she plowed through the enemy, there was only killing intent in her eyes. Death qi wrapped around a fourth rank while the dead exalted emperors behind her self-detonated. Their explosions filled the world while death qi extended in all directions.

The fourth rank was spontaneously eroded and shrieked with agony. The third rank Lin Hongyu beheaded it the next moment!

Moments after, the fourth rank stumbled back to its feet and protected Lin Hongyu like a deathsworn. It followed her in a brutal slaughter mode of its own.

Off to the side, the western queen illuminated the worlds in the form of the moon. She suddenly sensed a ray of killing intent. Above the moon, the lofty queen’s hazy form solidified and she peered at Lin Hongyu. The queen was noble, lofty, and incomparably precious!

Death qi billowed from Lin Hongyu—she was the mistress of hell.

One of them was pure and sacred, a god in the skies. The other brimmed with death qi and seemed to have just crawled out of the underworld. The two locked eyes, then looked away.

The queen, however, did so with her heart in her mouth. She abruptly summoned the divine nation, showing it off beneath the heavens.

Countless humans prayed fervently in it.

The moon expanded with a grunt; endless chaos strength and power of faith intersected. That propelled the queen to second rank!

Lin Hongyu growled in response. The death qi around her churned into her body from all directions. Her vitality was greatly suppressed! But she didn’t seem to mind and permitted death qi to circulate her body. Many more shadows appeared behind her, ghostly and indistinct. They surrounded her as if guards protecting their liege!

Both Void and Li Hao’s jaws sagged. The hell was wrong with all of these people??

The queen was as if a real sky god; the faith placed in her was skyrocketing to the point where she’d broken through to second rank. Meanwhile, Lin Hongyu was a true master of death. She killed exalted emperors, but they resurrected to become her guards.

Li Hao was familiar with this capability since Lin Hongyu had mentioned it last time. But back then, she only said that those she killed could be temporarily revived to self-detonate. How were they sticking around to become her guards?

Were these revitalized exalted emperors still exalted emperors?

This was all very strange!

Void couldn’t help himself and transmitted, “Brother Hao Moon, this isn’t looking too good! The two female exalted emperors... one of them has become a god and the other... a demon? Or an emperor of death? They are natural rivals!”

One was pure and holy, the other was immoral and depraved.

Although they weren’t two extremes in the true meaning of the concept, they could more or less be considered so. They were similar to light and darkness. Wouldn’t fighting be a prolonged conclusion whenever they encountered each other?

One was a third rank who was still absorbing death qi. It looked like she wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to set foot into fourth rank.

The other was a second rank, but had melded her dao into the chaos and was pulling from chaos dao. Her improvement was bound to be fast given all of the faith she was gathering. It was only a matter of time before she became a premier powerhouse.

Can my brother withstand both of them? Can he maintain his position over them? Women are so scary! And can the dao of death even be used like this?

He and Li Hao both cultivated life and death, but everyone’s dao was different. If the daos were the same, then they could also revive their defeated as guards. Then Waterpeak could’ve been their seventh rank bodyguard guard!

Now that was a terrifying thought.

These people appeared perfectly ordinary in normal times, but today, they were each stranger than the next!

There’d been nearly fifty world masters gathered here, some of them mid rank. But now, they’d been pretty much massacred by a similar number of enemies!

Logically speaking, chaos beasts should be stronger in individual combat. Li Hao and Void were simply keeping the situation contained and preventing the disturbance from leaking. They hadn’t interfered!

But now, the results wildly exceeded their expectations. These madmen and women had nearly slaughtered all of the chaos beasts without their help!

The two powerhouses on the sidelines suddenly felt completely useless. What a... weird set of circumstances!

Li Hao tilted his head to look to the side. He’d been keeping an eye on it, but temporarily set it aside when distracted with what was happening with the two women. Now that he turned his attention back to the person in question, he raised an eyebrow and grinned.

Yuan Shuo had turned into a massive bear and deployed a domain of the five elements. It shifted continuously, like a dao domain. An exalted emperor was enveloped within and thought it furiously pummeled the domain, the domain didn’t budge at all.

“Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth! Five elements and five daos!” Yuan Shuo shook violently and howled at the sky. “Heaven and earth stabilize the five elements and the five elements form heaven and earth! My dao becomes a domain!”

The power of the five elements surged out of the chaos and wove into a domain! It further transformed into a dao domain when the five elements became one. Five extremely thick avenues of dao materialized and fused together as a rainbow!

The rainbow enshrouded the first rank while Yuan Shuo transformed into the rest of the Five Styles. He howled like a tiger, roared like a bear, sniffed as a deer, chirped as a bird, and hooted like a monkey!

The Five Styles were one!

A monster hovered in the sky, one with wings, a tail, tiger claws, and an indomitable body that could call on momentary bounds of weightlessness...