Ringing silence reigned throughout the scene! No one knew what to say!

Yuan Shuo was yet to become an exalted emperor, but here Jadelight Sword had already severed her dao. What if he failed? Did she want to become a wandering cultivator?

Jadelight Sword flew through the air; her sword dao shot toward the heavens!

The dao domain of the five elements spontaneously appeared and obscured the skies, enveloping Jadelight Sword.

“My dao welcomes only one person! The rest of you don’t need to bother looking. You’re not worthy!” Yuan Shuo roared with laughter.

“......” Eye rolls abounded in the crowd. Hah!

Who wants to abandon a fifth rank dao universe and go to whatever the hell you’re cooking up? Heh, who cares about you? Who wants what you have? You’re not even an exalted emperor yet. Sit down and be quiet!

Li Hao was equally wordless. My teacher... is no spring chicken. But look at this crazy PDA in front of everyone! This is a battlefield! What are you doing??

He took a look around.

Oh. shit.

Hou Xiaochen had just emerged from the fray not too far away and was looking around blankly. Yu Luocha’s woeful, trusting, and ardent gaze immediately locked onto him.

He shifted uncomfortably, then looked at Yuan Shuo and barely repressed an audible curse!

Fucking hell!

That old thing was really annoying. Could just anyone establish a dao domain? Would everyone who tried find success?

Even if they did... Okay seriously, the process is really troublesome. I’ve never thought about creating a dao domain and think it’s too hard. I don’t think it’s likely that I’ll succeed. It’s really annoying that you came up with this show!

Not far in the distance, Liu Yan looked hopefully at Liu Long. She quickly retracted her gaze. Forget it. That ole block of wood would never think of doing this. I’m not gonna have any hopes for him.

Liu Long stared helplessly back at his wife. You think right! I’ll probably never be able to establish a dao domain in this lifetime. Setting foot into exalted emperor is already thanks to Li Hao’s blessing. Creating a dao domain by myself? That won’t happen no matter how long you look at me.

They were an old married couple, he didn’t care about keeping up appearances like these anymore. It was pointless to expect this from him. I’m not Hou Xiaochen, someone who likes to waste his free time on romantic things. Look at him caught between a rock and a hard place right now! Let’s see what Sickly will come up with to respond to this!

He should just keep on pretending to be sick!

Light Sword was looking around even further away. Her gaze swept past Li Hao to settle on Void. Void had a dao domain as well, and it was one of six extreme daos. One of them was the attribute of light, which was the best for the Light Sword method...

Void shook when he realized that Light Sword was looking at him and he hastily turned toward Li Hao. Heavens above! What’s wrong with your Silver Moon cultivators? Why is she looking at me? My dao domain will not welcome anyone else!

“Alright, that’s enough, teacher!” Li Hao couldn’t take it anymore either and quickly called out to Yuan Shuo. “Is focusing on the mundane the style appropriate of a martial master traveling the martial world?

“Absorb those worlds immediately and verify your dao. The daos of the five worlds and domain of the five elements will probably result in a chaos tribulation. I will dismiss the world of concealment, so you’ll have to face it yourself!”

“......” Yuan Shuo stared at his student. Kid, I’m just putting on a bit of a show. Why are you guys all looking at me that way?

Fine, I'll take on the tribulation alone. It’s just a tribulation, what’s there to be afraid of?

A dao domain of the five elements was a unique dao domain. Verifying one’s dao was always accompanied by a chaos tribulation, yet Yuan Shuo was not afraid. He was just becoming an exalted emperor, so even if a chaos tribulation arrived, it would be second or third rank at most. He would be a third rank if he succeeded!

If not a third rank tribulation, then a fourth rank!

“I’ll meet that tribulation head-on!” Yuan Shuo didn’t mind at all. He glanced at Jadelight Sword and roared with laughter. “When I verify my dao, you can incorporate your sword dao into the dao domain. My domain will tolerate only you, so you can absorb as much dao strength as you want.

“I don’t cultivate sword dao, so in the future, I’ll focus on the five elements in my domain and you can...”

The five worlds shattered before he could finish!

Immense energy of the five elements surged into the old man’s dao domain. Many people looked at Li Hao and nodded approvingly. Well done!

Li Hao, we’ll support you this time if you want to turn on your master and kill him! Old Demon Yuan is such a piece of shit!

A calm Li Hao had crumbled the five worlds without a second word. That had put an end to his teacher’s grandiose rambling. He didn’t even want to bother with dismantling the dao nets. If he did... who knew how much longer his teacher would keep talking for!

That was enough already!

This was enough public affection for someone so old! Who was he trying to show off to, huh?

Five currents of world strength rushed into the dao domain. Yuan Shuo quickly operated his cultivation method and roared, focusing all of his attention on the task at hand.

Boom!

His body strengthened at a furious pace and the dao domain continually absorbed dao strength. A certain might developed from the divine spirits of Five Styles behind him.

“Lend me a ray of Eternal Sword intent!” he howled.

Li Hao raised a brow and summoned sword intent from his churning river. It assimilated into the dao domain. Yuan Shuo laughed heartily and reached out toward it. Although it turned his arm into a bloody mess, he didn’t care. He firmly closed his hand around it and brought it under control!

Sword intent permeated the dao domain!

The crowd was starting to look at him with shock. All people saw was that he furiously compressed the sword intent and turned it into a star. It sparkled in the center of the dao domain and became a dao star—the only star in the domain!

“My demonic eye shall open!”

A third eye opened in the center of his forehead; the star fell into it. Even Jadelight Sword gaped as her sword dao became part of the star in his third eye.

“You are within my forehead. If I die, you die. If I live, you live!”

Jadelight Sword stared, at a complete loss. She suddenly felt that there wasn’t anything much to fear even from the destruction of a world. Yuan Shuo was a fiend and a true cultivator of demonic dao. He dared to do whatever he said he would do!

He’d made Jadelight Sword’s dao part of his domain and incorporated it into the third eye in his forehead. His domain of the five elements had become a sword domain of the five elements!

You are strong if I am strong. You die if I die! If I am alive, no one will be able to break my third eye.

Onlookers nearly crushed their teeth from grinding them so hard. Lin Hongyu glanced at Li Hao; the young man pretended to not see it. He quickly looked up at the sky and frowned slightly, as if contemplating something.

Secretary Yu looked at Hou Xiaochen with tenderness, love, and envy.

The men were gnashing their teeth to pieces and the women... were nearly mad with envy. The old demon was such a fine man!

Yu Luocha looked at Hou Xiaochen with expressive eyes. Will I... ever see such a day?

Hou Xiaochen could barely stay on his feet! You guys are all crazy! We’re killing enemies here and conducting proper business! Have the ladies all lost their minds?!

“Cough cough cough....” I feel like I’m coughing my lungs out. Why does the chaos stink so much? I can’t keep it down anymore.

Meanwhile, sinner Yuan Shuo didn’t pay attention to the carnage in his wake. The sword domain of the five elements expanded furiously. Everywhere it touched seemed to be his world.

There was only sword dao and the five elements beneath the heavens!

But those five elements seemed to contain all daos. The spirit of the Five Styles grew so much stronger that it seemed to be a demon descended upon the world behind it. It combined the five auras and five animals, presenting an extremely savage sight.

Yuan Shuo really did seem to be a demon now.

“Success!” Yuan Shuo yelled before swallowing the dao domain and the strength of the five worlds. A patch of clouds appeared beneath the heavens. They turned into thunderclouds and lightning crackled among them.

A chaos tribulation!

It wasn’t that strong; Li Hao could tell with one glance that it was just third rank. However, it was his teacher’s first time experiencing one. Could he successfully endure it?

Just as these thoughts passed through his mind, Yuan Shuo howled and opened his third eye. Sword light rushed to the firmament!

“How dare you be so cocky when I am verifying my dao?!”

Bam!

He shot toward the thunder and lightning, ready to meet it in battle. The old demon was being outrageously arrogant as his sword intent raced toward the heavens. The five elements suppressed and encircled the thunderbolts, as if wanting to refine the chaos tribulation!

Yuan Shuo was truly a ruthless person!

He’d been too weak before and constantly restrained himself. Today, he let loose with abandon as he verified his dao. No one could keep him in check anymore!

Behind him, a smear of jade sword light illuminated the world!

There was only one person in his dao domain. She was the only one who could jointly stand against the chaos tribulation with Yuan Shuo. Sword light rushed for the heavens, but only unbounded love was in her eyes...

This.

Stinks!

I can actually smell something gross in the chaos!

Cultivators in the surroundings jerked their heads to the side. Even Number Two covered its eyes with its claws. Yuck yuck yuck. Li Hao’s master stinks!

There was a man and a woman in the sky. The man was tyrannical and the woman tender. In this part of the chaos, where corpses littered the void, a great love story of the ages was playing out.

Li Hao and the rest heaved huge sighs. So this was all there was to the Old Demon of the Five Styles. He met his end at the hands of a woman after all. He would never amount to much in this life.

What a pity.

Boom!

The thunder tribulation broke apart, but the five elements sword domain continued to expand. Sword intent blazed out of the third eye again and shattered the tribulation clouds. A powerful presence rose from Yuan Shuo, one that dominated even recently ascended exalted emperors.

It would take a group of mid ranks to stand against him.

Yuan Shuo lifted his chin arrogantly and scanned the premises. He finally settled on Hong Yitang. “The next one I’ll surpass is you! Give me some time. There is only one hero among the Thirty-Six. The others are thirty-five pieces of trash!”

“......” Hong Yitang possessed a good temper and couldn’t be bothered to respond. He was used to this kind of nonsense from Yuan Shuo.